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Patent Details for Tuesday, June 21, 2016
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| US 09370304 | Cao 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) | Yue Cao (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Peng Wang (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Reza Farjam (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Physiological imaging-defined subvolumes of tissues/disease are identified to yield spatially-defined prognostic and/or predictive indicators and/or focal therapy targets within such tissues, in particular tumors, for evaluation over time, for example, prior to and after a therapy treatment. Medical image data is analyzed to delineate subvolumes of tissue based upon multiple physiological, metabolic, and biological imaging properties, where those subvolumes are extracted and analyzed in a probabilistic manner to associate with one or more abnormal or disease phenotype conditions. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/911913 |
| ART UNIT | 2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0033 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0016 (20130101) G06T 2207/10096 (20130101) G06T 2207/10104 (20130101) G06T 2207/10108 (20130101) G06T 2207/20076 (20130101) G06T 2207/30016 (20130101) |
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| US 09370316 | Ewing et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James R. Ewing (Royal Oak, Michigan); Hassan Bagher-Ebadian (Dearborn, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Ewing (Royal Oak, Michigan); Hassan Bagher-Ebadian (Dearborn, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention comprises systems, methods, and apparatus to correlate changes in MRI data with CA concentration, using an adaptive neural network In MRI techniques, CAs are used to estimate vascular properties such as blood flow, blood volume, and transfer constant of tissue microvessels However, the relationship between the contrast in the MRI image and the contrast agent concentration is not linear, instead depending on factors such as the nature of the sequence, the nature of the tissue, and the tissue concentration of contrast agent, and thus limiting the reliability of vascular properties using MRI. |
| FILED | Monday, May 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/600750 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/055 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/7267 (20130101) |
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| US 09370328 | Eary et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington Through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Janet F. Eary (Seattle, Washington); Todd L. Richards (Kenmore, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are methods and systems for determining tumor boundary characteristics. One example method involves (a) receiving imaging data, wherein the imaging data indicates a tumor and one or more tissues that surround the tumor; (b) determining one or more radial segments that extend from the tumor to the one or more surrounding tissues based on the imaging data, wherein the one or more radial segments each comprise one or more respective data points indicating signal intensity; (c) determining one or more respective tumor boundary parameters for each of the one or more radial segments based on at least the one or more respective data points indicating signal intensity; (d) determining a tumor margin based on the one or more determined tumor boundary parameters; and (e) causing a graphical representation of the determined tumor margin to be displayed on a graphical display. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/091124 |
| ART UNIT | 2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/743 (20130101) A61B 5/4887 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) G06T 7/0083 (20130101) G06T 2207/10088 (20130101) G06T 2207/30096 (20130101) |
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| US 09370497 | Soliven |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Betty C. Soliven (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to the field of inflammatory diseases of the peripheral nervous system. More particularly, it concerns methods for treating inflammatory diseases of the peripheral nervous system by modulating sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor activity. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method of treating a subject with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) or other autoimmune neuropathies comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of FTY720. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 05, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/818534 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/56 (20130101) A61K 31/56 (20130101) A61K 31/133 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/133 (20130101) A61K 31/137 (20130101) A61K 31/138 (20130101) A61K 31/138 (20130101) A61K 31/661 (20130101) A61K 31/661 (20130101) A61K 31/4245 (20130101) A61K 31/4245 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09370506 | Mochly-Rosen 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) | Daria Mochly-Rosen (Menlo Park, California); Che-Hong Chen (Fremont, California); Wenjin Yang (Foster City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides compounds that function as modulators of aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) enzymatic activity, as well as compositions and formulations comprising the compounds. The present disclosure provides therapeutic methods involving administering a subject compound, or a subject pharmaceutical composition. |
| FILED | Friday, May 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/286619 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/55 (20130101) A61K 31/422 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/497 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 31/4025 (20130101) A61K 31/4188 (20130101) A61K 31/4439 (20130101) A61K 31/4965 (20130101) A61K 31/5025 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 233/29 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 241/18 (20130101) C07D 241/20 (20130101) C07D 261/08 (20130101) C07D 261/14 (20130101) C07D 317/58 (20130101) C07D 317/60 (20130101) C07D 401/12 (20130101) C07D 405/04 (20130101) C07D 405/06 (20130101) C07D 405/12 (20130101) C07D 409/12 (20130101) C07D 413/12 (20130101) C07D 413/14 (20130101) C07D 487/04 (20130101) C07D 491/052 (20130101) |
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| US 09370515 | Goodfellow et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFIA BIO, INC. (San Diego, California); UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFIA BIO, INC. (San Diego, California); UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Val S. Goodfellow (Encinitas, California); Thong X. Nguyen (San Diego, California); Satheesh B. Ravula (San Diego, California); Harris A. Gelbard (Pittsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are imidazopyridine compounds having an inhibitory effect on mixed lineage kinases (MLKs), methods of their synthesis, and methods of their therapeutic. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds and methods of using the compounds and pharmaceutical compositions. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/201673 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/427 (20130101) A61K 31/427 (20130101) A61K 31/513 (20130101) A61K 31/536 (20130101) A61K 31/536 (20130101) A61K 31/4402 (20130101) A61K 31/4402 (20130101) A61K 31/5025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/5025 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 487/04 (20130101) C07D 513/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09370527 | Simpson 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) | Robert U. Simpson (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Peter D. R. Higgins (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Laura A. Johnson (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of treating patients with inflammatory bowel disease, intestinal fibrosis, or Crohn's disease involve administering a therapeutic amount of CARD-024 or related compound. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/134587 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/59 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09370529 | Kraus et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa); Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa); Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George A. Kraus (Ames, Iowa); Wendy Maury (Coralville, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method to prevent or treat HIV-infection with synthetic tannins, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising synthetic tannins. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 18, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/828907 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/22 (20130101) A61K 31/70 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/365 (20130101) A61K 31/366 (20130101) |
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| US 09370547 | Bix |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Bix (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | The presently-disclosed subject matter provides methods for preventing ischemia in a cell, treating ischemia in a subject, and preventing an infarction in a subject that utilize α5β1 integrin inhibitor. In some instances, α5β1 integrin inhibitor is administered to a subject prior to, during, or after the onset of ischemia to treat the ischemia and/or prevent infarction. In some instances the present methods prevent the occurrence of an infarction. In some instances the present methods restores perfusion to organs and tissues. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 11, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/620013 |
| 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 38/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/39 (20130101) |
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| US 09370549 | Hawiger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jack J. Hawiger (Nashville, Tennessee); Ruth Ann Veach (Brentwood, Tennessee); Jozef Zienkiewicz (Nashville, Tennessee); Yan Liu (Nashville, Tennessee); Robert D. Collins (Nashville, Tennessee); Amy S. Major (Brentwood, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for treating diseases associated with dyslipidemia, including hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia, steatohepatitis, atherosclerosis, obesity, hyperglycemia, metabolic syndrome, and related aspects of and conditions associated with metabolic syndrome. The compositions and methods disclosed herein are useful for regulating the lipid balance (lipid homeostasis) in a subject. Compositions and methods including a Nuclear Transport Modifier may be administered to a subject to modulate the transport of transcription factors, mediated by nuclear import adaptors, into the nucleus of a cell resulting in a decrease in cholesterol and triglyceride levels in the blood and liver, a decrease in atherosclerotic lesion size, a decrease in body weight and in hyperglycemia, a reduction of fatty liver inflammation, and an improvement in liver function. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/705121 |
| 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 31/397 (20130101) A61K 38/08 (20130101) A61K 38/12 (20130101) A61K 38/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09370551 | Cong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Le Cong (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ann Marie Egloff (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Levi A. Garraway (Newton, Massachusetts); Jennifer Rubin Grandis (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Eric S. Lander (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Nicholas Stransky (Boston, Massachusetts); Aaron D. Tward (Boston, Massachusetts); Feng Zhang (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Broad Institute, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (Boston, Massachusetts); Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); University of Pittsburgh-Of The Commonwealth of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Instituto Carlos Slim de la Salud, A.C. (Mexico City, Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Le Cong (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ann Marie Egloff (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Levi A. Garraway (Newton, Massachusetts); Jennifer Rubin Grandis (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Eric S. Lander (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Nicholas Stransky (Boston, Massachusetts); Aaron D. Tward (Boston, Massachusetts); Feng Zhang (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods related to the treatment of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) and its associated premalignant lesions. In particular, the invention features methods which may specifically target HNSCC-associated genes and alter gene expression to treat or alleviate a symptom of HNSCC, or its related premalignant lesions. These methods may involve decreasing the function of an HNSCC-associated gene with aberrant gain-of-function; or increasing the function of an HNSCC-associated gene with aberrant loss-of-function. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 25, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/557988 |
| 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 38/164 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/465 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 48/005 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/4703 (20130101) C07K 14/4705 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/70 (20130101) C07K 2319/71 (20130101) C07K 2319/80 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/22 (20130101) C12N 15/907 (20130101) C12N 2710/20011 (20130101) C12N 2800/22 (20130101) C12N 2999/007 (20130101) |
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| US 09370555 | Whitsett et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey A. Whitsett (Cincinnati, Ohio); Machiko Ikegami (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Surfactant protein D (SP-D) is a 43-kDa member of the collectin family of collagenous lectin domain-containing proteins that is expressed in epithelial cells of the lung. Described herein are methods and compositions for the treatment of disorders associated with lung injury, including methods and compositions for the treatment of bronchopulmonary disorder (BPD) using recombinant human surfactant protein D and surfactant formulations. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/572421 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/12 (20130101) A61K 38/17 (20130101) A61K 38/395 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 14/785 (20130101) |
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| US 09370558 | Ali et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Omar Abdel-Rahman Ali (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Glenn Dranoff (Lexington, Massachusetts); David J. Mooney (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention comprises compositions, methods, and devices for creating an stimulating an antigen-specific dendritic cell immune response. Devices and methods provide prophylactic and therapeutic immunity to subjects against cancer and infectious agents. |
| FILED | Monday, January 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/741271 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 38/193 (20130101) A61K 39/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 39/0011 (20130101) A61K 39/385 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2039/6093 (20130101) A61K 2039/55522 (20130101) A61K 2039/55561 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09370559 | Schlom et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Heath Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Schlom (Potomac, Maryland); Kwong-Yok Tsang (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel MUC-1 epitopes outside the VNTR region are identified. In addition, the first agonist epitope of MUC-1 is described. The employment of agonist epitopes in peptide, protein and vector-based vaccine may well aid in the development of effective vaccines for a range of human cancers. |
| FILED | Monday, July 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/941705 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0011 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/5154 (20130101) A61K 2039/5156 (20130101) A61K 2039/5158 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/4727 (20130101) C07K 14/70596 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/85 (20130101) |
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| US 09370565 | Pardoll et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Drew M. Pardoll (Baltimore, Maryland); Haruo Tsuchiya (Ishikawa, Japan); Kevin S. Gorski (Thousand Oaks, California); Su-Yi Tseng (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel costimulatory protein molecule, B7-DC, which is a member of the B7 family, is described as is DNA coding therefor and expression vectors comprising this DNA. B7-DC protein, fragments, fusion polypeptides/proteins and other functional derivatives, and transformed cells expressing B7-DC are useful in vaccine compositions and methods. Compositions and methods are disclosed for inducing potent T cell mediated responses that can be harnessed for anti-tumor and anti-viral immunity. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 31, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/068966 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 39/39558 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/57 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) A61K 2039/5152 (20130101) A61K 2039/5156 (20130101) A61K 2039/5158 (20130101) A61K 2039/55516 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/70532 (20130101) C07K 16/2827 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/30 (20130101) |
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| US 09370626 | Sarntinoranont et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Malisa Sarntinoranont (Gainesville, Florida); Chris Batich (Gainesville, Florida); Brad Willenberg (Gainesville, Florida); Erik Hagel (Stockholm, Sweden); Louis C. Vazquez (Brandon, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Malisa Sarntinoranont (Gainesville, Florida); Chris Batich (Gainesville, Florida); Brad Willenberg (Gainesville, Florida); Erik Hagel (Stockholm, Sweden); Louis C. Vazquez (Brandon, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods for blocking needle tracts are disclosed. In some embodiments, the needle tracts are blocked by using a needle that includes an elongated shaft that defines an outer surface, and a polymer coating applied to the outer surface of the shaft, the coating being adapted to block the tract formed by insertion of the needle into an object. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/503778 |
| ART UNIT | 3763 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 2017/00898 (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 31/10 (20130101) A61L 31/10 (20130101) A61L 31/10 (20130101) A61L 31/16 (20130101) A61L 2300/606 (20130101) Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 5/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61M 25/0045 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 29/04 (20130101) C08L 71/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09370629 | Damani et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ALEXZA PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramesh Damani (Sunnyvale, California); Ron L. Hale (Sandia Park, New Mexico); Daniel J. Myers (Mountain View, California); Reynaldo J. Quintana (Redwood City, California); Dennis W. Solas (San Francisco, California); Soonho Song (Seoul, South Korea); Pravin Soni (Sunnyvale, California); Curtis Tom (San Mateo, California); Krishnamohan Sharma (Milpitas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Heating units, drug supply units and drug delivery articles capable of rapid heating are disclosed. Heating units comprising a substrate and a solid fuel capable of undergoing an exothermic metal oxidation reaction disposed within the substrate are disclosed. These heating units can be actuated by electrical resistance, by optical ignition or by percussion. Drug supply units and drug delivery articles wherein a solid fuel is configured to heat a substrate to a temperature sufficient to rapidly thermally vaporize a drug disposed thereon are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 31, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/675275 |
| ART UNIT | 3749 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 11/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61M 11/041 (20130101) A61M 11/042 (20140204) A61M 11/047 (20140204) A61M 11/048 (20140204) A61M 15/06 (20130101) A61M 2016/0021 (20130101) A61M 2016/0027 (20130101) A61M 2202/064 (20130101) A61M 2205/36 (20130101) A61M 2205/364 (20130101) A61M 2205/3653 (20130101) A61M 2205/8268 (20130101) Boiling; Boiling Apparatus B01B 1/005 (20130101) Explosives or Thermic Compositions; Manufacture Thereof; Use of Single Substances as Explosives C06B 33/00 (20130101) C06B 45/14 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 5/18 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Combustion Using Only Solid Fuel F23B 2900/00003 (20130101) Methods or apparatus for combustion using fluid fuel or Solid Fuel Suspended In Air F23C 2900/99008 (20130101) Producing or Use of Heat Not Otherwise Provided For F24J 1/00 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 20/346 (20130101) |
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| US 09371265 | Pericle et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | EP PHARMA, INC. (El Paso, Texas) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Federica Pericle (El Paso, Texas); Jeremy A. Ross (El Paso, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments are directed to JAK kinase inhibiting prodrug compounds of Formula Ib, containing a promoiety that results in alcohol derivative of the parent compound upon removal and methods of using an effective amount of said prodrug compounds in the treatment of a JAK-mediated disease or disorder in a subject. Preferred promoieties include phosphate, phosphonate, phosphate salt, sulfate, or sulfate salt. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/387890 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/6615 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 59/82 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 2101/20 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 9/09 (20130101) |
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| US 09371277 | Silverman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard B. Silverman (Winnetka, Illinois); Hua Wang (Evanston, Illinois); Mohammad Khanfar (Evanston, Illinois); Aleksey G. Kazantsev (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Benzamide compounds and derivatives thereof, as can be used for selective inhibition of the SIRT2 enzyme and/or therapeutic use in the treatment of Huntington's disease. |
| FILED | Monday, December 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/139763 |
| ART UNIT | 1613 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | General Methods of Organic Chemistry; Apparatus Therefor C07B 2200/07 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 235/60 (20130101) C07C 255/60 (20130101) C07C 257/18 (20130101) C07C 311/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 311/21 (20130101) C07C 311/29 (20130101) C07C 311/46 (20130101) C07C 311/47 (20130101) C07C 317/22 (20130101) C07C 317/34 (20130101) C07C 317/40 (20130101) C07C 317/44 (20130101) C07C 317/48 (20130101) C07C 323/20 (20130101) C07C 323/42 (20130101) C07C 323/49 (20130101) C07C 323/62 (20130101) C07C 2101/02 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/16 (20130101) C07D 213/75 (20130101) C07D 213/76 (20130101) C07D 213/80 (20130101) C07D 213/81 (20130101) C07D 213/82 (20130101) C07D 213/85 (20130101) C07D 217/04 (20130101) C07D 223/04 (20130101) C07D 237/20 (20130101) C07D 239/42 (20130101) C07D 261/14 (20130101) C07D 271/113 (20130101) C07D 277/46 (20130101) C07D 295/26 (20130101) C07D 305/06 (20130101) C07D 311/16 (20130101) C07D 403/12 (20130101) C07D 413/12 (20130101) C07D 417/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09371307 | Freire et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ernesto Freire (Baltimore, Maryland); Patrick C. Ross (College Park, Maryland); Rogelio Siles (Cockeysville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ernesto Freire (Baltimore, Maryland); Patrick C. Ross (College Park, Maryland); Rogelio Siles (Cockeysville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Potent low molecular weight, highly selective, competitive non-peptidic serine protease inhibitors and their use in treating serine protease-associated diseases are disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/344450 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/18 (20130101) A61K 31/381 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 311/13 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 333/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09371337 | Shoichet et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Universita' Degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (Modena, Italy) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Universita' degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (Modena, Italy) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian K. Shoichet (San Francisco, California); Fabio Prati (Reggio Emilia, Italy); Emilia Caselli (Sassuolo, Italy); Chiara Romagnoli (Modena, Italy); Oliv Eidam (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein inter alia are Boron containing compounds and methods for treating infections related to antibiotic resistant microorganisms. |
| FILED | Monday, April 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/252347 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/43 (20130101) A61K 31/43 (20130101) A61K 31/431 (20130101) A61K 31/431 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09371352 | Porcelli et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vaccinex, Inc. (Rochester, New York); Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Inc. (Bronx, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | VACCINEX, INC. (Rochester, New York); ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, INC. (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven A. Porcelli (Hartsdale, New York); Maurice Zauderer (Pittsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to compositions and methods related to proteins that are physically associated with ceramide-like glycolipids for use as activators of NKT cells. The compositions and methods of the present invention are useful for the prevention and treatment of diseases. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/803972 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/4833 (20130101) Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 15/10 (20130101) C07H 15/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09371357 | Sandrock et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Integratech Proteomics, LLC (Salt Lake City, Utah); The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Integratech Proteomics, LLC (Salt Lake City, Utah); National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tanya Sandrock (Salt Lake City, Utah); Robert Craigie (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are compositions and methods for inhibiting HIV integrase activity. Also described are methods of identifying agents that inhibit HIV integrase for use in treating or preventing HIV. Also disclosed are methods of identifying agents that inhibit HIV viral mutants that are resistant to integrase inhibitors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/197016 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/03 (20130101) A61K 38/10 (20130101) A61K 39/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 1/00 (20130101) C07K 4/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 7/02 (20130101) C07K 7/08 (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 1/68 (20130101) C12Q 1/70 (20130101) Combinatorial Chemistry; Libraries, e.g Chemical Libraries C40B 30/04 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/573 (20130101) G01N 2333/15 (20130101) G01N 2500/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09371360 | Pomper et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin Gilbert Pomper (Baltimore, Maryland); Sangeeta Ray (Ellicott City, Maryland); Ronnie C. Mease (Fairfax, Virginia); Hassan Shallal (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides bivalent and multivalent ligands with a view to improving the affinity and pharmacokinetic properties of a urea class of PSMA inhibitors. The compounds and their synthesis can be generalized to multivalent compounds of other target antigens. Because they present multiple copies of the pharmacophore, multivalent ligands can bind to receptors with high avidity and affinity, thereby serving as powerful inhibitors. The modular multivalent scaffolds of the present invention, in one or more embodiments, contains a lysine-based (α-, ε-)dialkyne residue for incorporating two or more antigen binding moieties, such as PSMA binding Lys-Glu urea moieties, exploiting click chemistry and one or more additional lysine residues for subsequent modification with an imaging and/or therapeutic nuclides or a cytotoxic ligands for tumor cell killing. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/362011 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/06 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 51/088 (20130101) A61K 51/0482 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 249/04 (20130101) Peptides C07K 5/0217 (20130101) C07K 5/0815 (20130101) C07K 5/0821 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09371365 | Lambris et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John D. Lambris (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Hongchang Qu (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds comprising peptides capable of binding C3 protein and inhibiting complement activation are disclosed. These compounds display greatly improved complement activation-inhibitory activity as compared with currently available compounds. The compounds comprise compstatin analogs having a constrained backbone at position 8 (glycine) and, optionally, specific substitutions for threonine at position 13. |
| FILED | Monday, February 02, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/611742 |
| 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 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/12 (20130101) A61K 47/48023 (20130101) A61K 47/48246 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/08 (20130101) C07K 9/006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09371366 | Garcia-Sastre et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adolfo Garcia-Sastre (New York, New York); Peter Palese (Leonia, New Jersey); Florian Krammer (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are chimeric influenza hemagglutinin (HA) polypeptides, compositions comprising the same, vaccines comprising the same, and methods of their use. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/109358 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/145 (20130101) A61K 2039/54 (20130101) A61K 2039/55 (20130101) A61K 2039/521 (20130101) A61K 2039/543 (20130101) A61K 2039/545 (20130101) A61K 2039/5252 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2760/16123 (20130101) C12N 2760/16134 (20130101) C12N 2760/16223 (20130101) C12N 2760/16234 (20130101) |
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| US 09371368 | 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 | 14/567382 |
| 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 09371369 | Schellenberger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Amunix Operating Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Amunix Operating Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Volker Schellenberger (Palo Alto, California); Joshua Silverman (Sunnyvale, California); Chia-Wei Wang (Milpitas, California); Benjamin Spink (San Carlos, California); Willem P. Stemmer (Los Gatos, California); Nathan Geething (Santa Clara, California); Wayne To (Fremont, California); Jeffrey L. Cleland (San Carlos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions comprising biologically active proteins linked to extended recombinant polypeptide (XTEN), isolated nucleic acids encoding the compositions and vectors and host cells containing the same, and methods of using such compositions in treatment of glucose-related diseases, metabolic diseases, coagulation disorders, and growth hormone-related disorders and conditions. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/168973 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/001 (20130101) C07K 14/47 (20130101) C07K 14/61 (20130101) C07K 14/545 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/605 (20130101) C07K 14/745 (20130101) C07K 2319/31 (20130101) C07K 2319/35 (20130101) |
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| US 09371386 | Vallera et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel A. Vallera (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Jeff Lion (Fresno, California) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel A. Vallera (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Jeff Lion (Fresno, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and composition involving genetically engineered targeting conjugates with reversed orientation of VL and VH chains are provided. For example, in certain aspects targeting conjugates comprising VL and VH chains of anti-CD22 and anti-CD19 are described. In a further aspect, the invention provides methods and targeting conjugates comprising therapeutic agents or diagnostic agents for delivery to B cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/256812 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/19 (20130101) A61K 38/164 (20130101) A61K 47/48476 (20130101) A61K 47/48561 (20130101) A61K 47/48569 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/2803 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/73 (20130101) C07K 2317/565 (20130101) C07K 2319/55 (20130101) |
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| US 09371455 | Messersmith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip B. Messersmith (Clarendon Hills, Illinois); Haeshin Lee (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a surface-independent surface-modifying multifunctional biocoating and methods of application thereof. The method comprises contacting at least a portion of a substrate with an alkaline solution comprising a surface-modifying agent (SMA) such as dopamine so as to modify the substrate surface to include at least one reactive moiety. In another version of the invention, a secondary reactive moiety is applied to the SMA-treated substrate to yield a surface-modified substrate having a specific functionality. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 04, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/638303 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 5/00 (20130101) B05D 7/5483 (20130101) Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/281 (20130101) C02F 1/285 (20130101) C02F 1/288 (20130101) C02F 2101/20 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 5/1662 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09371513 | Goldman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven A. Goldman (Webster, New York); Neeta Singh Roy (New York, New York); Martha Windrem (West Henrietta, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven A. Goldman (Webster, New York); Neeta Singh Roy (New York, New York); Martha Windrem (West Henrietta, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | One form of the present invention is directed to a method of remyelinating demyelinated axons by treating the demyelinated axons with oligodendrocyte progenitor cells under conditions which permit remyelination of the axons. Another aspect of the present invention relates to a method of treating a subject having a condition mediated by a loss of myelin or a loss of oligodendrocytes by administering to the subject oligodendrocyte progenitor cells under conditions effective to treat the condition mediated by a loss of myelin or a loss of oligodendrocytes. A further aspect of the present invention relates to an in vitro method of identifying and separating oligodendrocyte progenitor cells from a mixed population containing other mammalian brain or spinal cord cell types. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/527099 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/12 (20130101) A61K 35/30 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0618 (20130101) C12N 5/0619 (20130101) C12N 5/0622 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 5/0623 (20130101) C12N 2510/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09371514 | Rothstein et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas L. Rothstein (Port Washington, New York); Daniel O. Griffin (Port Washington, New York); Nichol E. Holodick (Roslyn Heights, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research (Manhassett, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas L. Rothstein (Port Washington, New York); Daniel O. Griffin (Port Washington, New York); Nichol E. Holodick (Roslyn Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to isolated populations of human natural immunoglobulin-producing B1 lymphocytes, wherein the B1 lymphocytes display surface biomarkers CD20, CD43 and CD27 and are either CD11b+ or GD11b−. The present invention is also directed to a method of isolating human natural immunoglobulin-producing B1 lymphocytes from a blood sample comprising isolating B lymphocytes from the sample that express surface biomarkers CD20, CD43 and CD27, and, optionally, CD11b. In addition, the present invention is directed to a methods for diagnosing a B1 cell disorder in a patient, determining the prognosis of a patient having a B1 cell disorder, and treating a patient having a B1 cell disorder. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/825375 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/17 (20130101) A61K 39/3955 (20130101) A61K 2035/124 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0635 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/564 (20130101) G01N 33/6893 (20130101) G01N 33/56972 (20130101) G01N 33/57426 (20130101) G01N 2333/70507 (20130101) G01N 2333/70553 (20130101) |
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| US 09371521 | Raines et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Thaddeus Raines (Madison, Wisconsin); John C. Lukesh, III (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Substituted dithiol pyrazine compounds useful as reducing agents in biologically relevant media having formula: where variables are defined herein and corresponding oxidized pyrazine dithianes. Reducing agents useful to reduce disulfide bonds, particularly in proteins, or to prevent the formation of disulfide bonds, particularly in proteins, and other biological molecules. Reducing agents useful to regulate protein function in proteins in which a sulfhydryl group is associated with biological activity. Reducing agents useful and suitable for application in a variety of biological applications, particularly as research and synthetic reagents. S-acylated dithiol pyrazine compounds, where R3 is an acyl group, are selectively activated as reducing agents by removal of the S-acyl groups enzymatically or chemically. Dithiol pyrazine reducing agents and corresponding S-acylated dithiol pyrazines, immobilized on surfaces or conjugated to other chemical species, are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/319972 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 241/12 (20130101) C07D 495/04 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/63 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 9/1223 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 207/03002 (20130101) C12Y 304/22002 (20130101) |
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| US 09371522 | Camire |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rodney M. Camire (Sicklerville, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Factor X/Xa variants and methods of use thereof are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, October 01, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/348854 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/36 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/6432 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Enzymes C12Y 304/21006 (20130101) |
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| US 09371527 | Thornton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York); University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainsville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles A. Thornton (Rochester, New York); Thurman Wheeler (Rochester, New York); Krzysztof Sobczak (Poznan, Poland); Robert Osborne (Essex, United Kingdom); Jill Miller (Rockport, New York); Maurice Scott Swanson (Gainsville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods related to the interaction of polyCUG and polyCCUG repeat RNA and proteins that bind to these repetitive RNA sequences. Also disclosed are methods of treating DM1 or DM2 comprising inhibiting the interaction of poly(CUG)exp or poly(CCUG)exp RNA with muscleblind proteins, or by causing improvement of spliceopathy in myotonic dystrophy. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/297137 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/5375 (20130101) A61K 31/7036 (20130101) A61K 47/48046 (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 2310/11 (20130101) C12N 2310/3233 (20130101) C12N 2310/3515 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 207/11001 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5008 (20130101) G01N 33/6872 (20130101) G01N 33/6887 (20130101) G01N 33/6893 (20130101) G01N 2500/02 (20130101) G01N 2800/2878 (20130101) |
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| US 09371532 | Court et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald L. Court (Frederick, Maryland); Simanti Datta (Kolkata, India); Nina Costantino (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Lambda phages that can be used to introduce recombineering functions into host cells are disclosed. Also disclosed are plasmids that can be used to confer recombineering functions to a variety of strains of E. coli and to other bacteria, including Salmonella, Pseudomonas, Cyanobacteria, Spirochaetes. These plasmids and phages can be isolated in vitro and can be used to transform bacterial cells, such as gram negative bacteria. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 09, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/481795 |
| 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 7/00 (20130101) C12N 15/70 (20130101) C12N 15/73 (20130101) C12N 15/74 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2795/10321 (20130101) C12N 2795/10343 (20130101) |
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| US 09371560 | Choudhary et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Asuragen, Inc (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Asuragen, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ashish Choudhary (Austin, Texas); Gary Latham (Austin, Texas); Sachin Sah (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods for the automated reconstruction of a genotype of a gene, fragment, or genomic region using exhaustive enumeration. The methods can be used to reconstruct the genotype of any GC-rich sequence, such as the CGG repeat region in the 5′ UTR of FMR1 or the CCG repeat region in the 5′ UTR of FMR2. Also disclosed is an apparatus for use in conducting automated genotype reconstruction, as well as methods of diagnosis and treatment using exhaustive enumeration methods to reconstruct and identify genotypes associated with a disease or disorder. |
| FILED | Friday, July 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/946544 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | 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 1/6844 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/18 (20130101) |
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| US 09371567 | Han et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Haiyong Han (Chandler, Arizona); Daniel Von Hoff (Scottsdale, Arizona); Caroline Huynh Diep (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Hongwei Yin (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Translational Genomics Research Institute (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Haiyong Han (Chandler, Arizona); Daniel Von Hoff (Scottsdale, Arizona); Caroline Huynh Diep (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Hongwei Yin (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of tests that assess the expression of DPC4 (SMAD4) to identify subjects with pancreatic cancer that are likely or unlikely to respond to treatment with BTK inhibitors; methods of treating subjects based on identification of the subjects as likely to respond to treatment with BTK inhibitors; therapeutic targets for cancers, particularly cancers with inactivated DPC4 gene or protein; methods of screening of new therapeutic agents using the target; pharmaceutical composition comprising BTK inhibitors, such as PCI-32765 or derivatives thereof, for cancer treatment; and kits that facilitate the performance of the methods are disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/642430 |
| 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 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/106 (20130101) C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) |
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| US 09371598 | Chee |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark S. Chee (Encinitas, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Prognosys Biosciences, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark S. Chee (Encinitas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides assays and assay systems for use in spatially encoded biological assays. The invention provides an assay system comprising an assay capable of high levels of multiplexing where reagents are provided to a biological sample in defined spatial patterns; instrumentation capable of controlled delivery of reagents according to the spatial patterns; and a decoding scheme providing a readout that is digital in nature. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/080616 |
| 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 1/6809 (20130101) C12Q 1/6809 (20130101) C12Q 1/6834 (20130101) C12Q 1/6834 (20130101) C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) C12Q 1/6841 (20130101) C12Q 1/6841 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 2535/122 (20130101) C12Q 2535/122 (20130101) C12Q 2535/122 (20130101) C12Q 2535/122 (20130101) C12Q 2543/10 (20130101) C12Q 2543/10 (20130101) C12Q 2543/10 (20130101) C12Q 2543/10 (20130101) C12Q 2563/179 (20130101) C12Q 2563/179 (20130101) C12Q 2563/179 (20130101) C12Q 2563/179 (20130101) C12Q 2565/515 (20130101) Combinatorial Chemistry; Libraries, e.g Chemical Libraries C40B 30/04 (20130101) C40B 60/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6845 (20130101) G01N 2458/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09372142 | Abbott et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas L. Abbott (Madison, Wisconsin); Lie Na Tan (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for assaying the effectiveness of a cleaning composition in removing a protein or a biofilm from a surface are disclosed. Such methods include the steps of providing one or more proteins at an interface between an aqueous phase and a liquid crystal phase or at the surface of a liquid crystal, contacting the interface or liquid crystal surface with a cleaning composition, and observing the orientational ordering of the liquid crystal at the interface or liquid crystal surface. A continuous change in the orientational ordering of the liquid crystal at the interface or liquid crystal surface indicates that the proteins are being removed from the interface, and the rate of change in orientational ordering, the extent of the change in orientational ordering, or both, are correlated with the effectiveness of the cleaning composition. Because the ability of cleaning agents to remove proteins from the interface or liquid crystal surface is correlated with the state and concentration of the protein that is being removed, similar methods and devices can be used to assay the effectiveness of a putative protein stabilizing agent or to assay the optimal concentration of a protein for preventing the unfolding of the protein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/778564 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 2/28 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 19/22 (20130101) C09K 19/24 (20130101) C09K 19/26 (20130101) C09K 19/28 (20130101) C09K 19/062 (20130101) C09K 19/2014 (20130101) C09K 19/3458 (20130101) C09K 2019/122 (20130101) C09K 2019/2042 (20130101) C09K 2019/2078 (20130101) C09K 2019/3083 (20130101) C09K 2219/17 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 13/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 13/02 (20130101) G01N 21/23 (20130101) G01N 21/77 (20130101) G01N 2013/0275 (20130101) |
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| US 09372186 | Furuta et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, A BODY CORPORATE (Denver, Colorado); THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, A BODY CORPORATE (Denver, Colorado); THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glenn T. Furuta (Aurora, Colorado); Steven J. Ackerman (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The methods and apparatus of the present invention allow the evaluation of inflammation of the esophagus. Measurements may be utilized, for example, to diagnose a disease of the esophagus, to monitor inflammation of the esophagus, or to access the treatment of a disease of the esophagus. In one embodiment, the invention comprises a method for measuring esophageal inflammation comprising deploying a device into the esophagus of a subject, removing the device after a predetermined period of time, analyzing the device for a diagnostic indicator of esophageal inflammation and evaluating the diagnostic indicator to diagnose esophageal inflammation. |
| FILED | Friday, December 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/136811 |
| 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 | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/437 (20130101) A61K 31/4375 (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 1/6883 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5308 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09372245 | Singh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvani (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anup Singh (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Kejia Cai (Elkins Park, Pennsylvania); Mohammad Haris (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Hari Hariharan (Mount Laurel, New Jersey); Ravinder Reddy (Gladwyne, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An endogenous source of magnetic resonance image contrast of biological tissues is provided by modeling a conventional magnetization transfer (CMT) spectrum using z-spectral data and generating magnetization transfer ratio maps from the magnetization transfer spectrum at a frequency of interest. A contribution by the CMT spectrum from the z-spectral data is removed and a direct water saturation component is modeled using the z-spectral data with removed CMT spectrum (z-spectral). When this modeled direct water saturation component contribution is removed from the z-spectral, then the remaining z-spectra reflects new contrast due to chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) and magnetization transfer/exchange effect from aliphatic protons probably associated with labile proteins, peptides and lipids, named as novel magnetization transfer (NMT). This technique can be used to illustrate subtle changes in biological tissue as a result of diseases states, provide better visibility of brain white matter plaques, provide improved CEST contrast, provide better visualization of proteins, peptides, and lipids in biological tissue using NMT contrast, improve segmentation of white matter and gray matter in brain images, and the like. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/683483 |
| ART UNIT | 2852 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/20 (20130101) G01R 33/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 33/5605 (20130101) |
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| US 09372267 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongdi Li (Pearland, Texas); Wai-Hoi Wong (Houston, Texas); Yuxuan Zhang (Pearland, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods comprising a positron emission tomography detector having a first rectangular cross-section crystal block positioned between a first pentagonal cross-section crystal block and a second pentagonal cross-section crystal block. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/085246 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 6/037 (20130101) Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/1644 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09372397 | Mirkin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Fengwei Huo (Evanston, Illinois); Zijian Zheng (Hong Kong, China PRC); Gengfeng Zheng (Ambler, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Fengwei Huo (Evanston, Illinois); Zijian Zheng (Hong Kong, China PRC); Gengfeng Zheng (Ambler, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure relates to methods of printing indicia on a substrate using a tip array comprised of elastomeric, compressible polymers. The tip array can be prepared using conventional photolithographic methods and can be tailored to have any desired number and/or arrangement of tips. Numerous copies (e.g., greater than 15,000, or greater than 11 million) of a pattern can be made in a parallel fashion in as little as 40 minutes. |
| FILED | Saturday, April 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/989279 |
| ART UNIT | 2854 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/0002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09372962 | Wang 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) | Wei Wang (La Jolla, California); Rui Chang (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain embodiments of the invention may include systems and methods for identifying drug targets using biological networks. According to an example embodiment of the invention, a method is provided for predicting the effects of drug targets on treating a disease. The method can include constructing a structure of a Bayesian network based at least in part on knowledge of drug inhibiting effects on a disease; associating a set of parameters with the constructed Bayesian network; determining values of a joint probability distribution of the Bayesian network via an automatic procedure; deriving a mean Bayesian network with one or more averaged parameters based at least in part on the joint probability values; and calculating a quantitative prediction based at least in part on the mean Bayesian network. |
| FILED | Monday, March 16, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/658341 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/12 (20130101) G06F 19/18 (20130101) G06F 19/707 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 5/02 (20130101) G06N 7/005 (20130101) G06N 99/005 (20130101) |
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| US 09373088 | Nuyujukian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Nuyujukian (Stanford, California); Jonathan C. Kao (Stanford, California); Krishna V Shenoy (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A brain machine interface for control of prosthetic devices is provided. In its control, the interface utilizes parallel control of a continuous decoder and a discrete action state decoder. In the discrete decoding, we not only learn states affiliated with the task, but also states related to the velocity of the prosthetic device and the engagement of the user. Moreover, we not only learn the distributions of the neural signals in these states, but we also learn the interactions/transitions between the states, which is crucial to enabling a relatively higher level of performance of the prosthetic device. Embodiments according to this parallel control system enable us to reliably decode not just task-related states, but any “discrete action state,” in parallel with a neural prosthetic “continuous decoder,” to achieve new state-of-the-art levels of performance in brain-machine interfaces. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/025100 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/00 (20130101) G06N 99/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 901/03 (20130101) Y10S 901/27 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY (Loma Linda, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Loma Linda University (Loma Linda, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph S. Kurti, Jr. (Phelan, California); Christopher C. Perry (Loma Linda, California); Theodore Sabir (Upland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for producing triblock copolymer-coated metallic nanoparticle seeds which increases the size and shape homogeneity of the triblock copolymer-coated metallic nanoparticle seeds. A quantity of triblock copolymer-coated metallic nanoparticle seeds. A method for producing triblock copolymer-coated metallic nanoparticles which increases the size and shape homogeneity of the triblock copolymer-coated metallic nanoparticles. A quantity of triblock copolymer-coated metallic nanoparticles. A method for producing modified metallic nanoparticles which increases the size and shape homogeneity of the modified metallic nanoparticles. A quantity of modified metallic nanoparticles. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/364274 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 9/5192 (20130101) A61K 33/24 (20130101) A61K 33/26 (20130101) A61K 33/30 (20130101) A61K 33/34 (20130101) A61K 33/38 (20130101) A61K 33/245 (20130101) A61K 47/48215 (20130101) A61K 47/48861 (20130101) A61K 47/48884 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 13/22 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09370560 | Peoples et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George E. Peoples (Fulton, Maryland); Sathibalan Ponniah (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features methods to induce and maintain a protective cytotoxic T-lymphocyte response to a peptide of the HER2/neu oncogene, E75, with the effect of inducing and maintaining protective or therapeutic immunity against breast cancer in a patient in clinical remission. The methods comprise administering to the patient an effective amount of a vaccine composition comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, an adjuvant such as recombinant human GM-CSF, and the E75 peptide at an optimized dose and schedule. The methods further comprise administering an annual or semi-annual booster vaccine dose due to declining E75-specific T cell immunity. The invention also features vaccine compositions for use in the methods. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 09, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/327224 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/179 (20130101) A61K 38/193 (20130101) A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 39/0011 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 39/39 (20130101) A61K 2039/545 (20130101) A61K 2039/55522 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/71 (20130101) |
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| US 09371038 | Gregory, Jr. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Research Laboratory (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard R. Gregory, Jr. (Mount Airy, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention are directed to removable payload containment systems for platforms, installation methods thereof and payload integration kits for platforms. The removable payload containment system may include: a housing having internal space for components, the housing including at least one connector configured to couple with at least one corresponding connector of the platform when the system is installed in or on the platform; and a latch mechanism that couples to a member of the platform and is configured to maintain the system into substantially non-moving engagement with the platform when engaged therewith, and permit removal of the system from the platform when released. The latch mechanism may be configured to limit movement of the housing with respect to platform in substantially only one direction when one connector couples and uncouples, and is mated, with a corresponding connector of the platform when installing or removing the system from the platform. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/905215 |
| ART UNIT | 3782 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, or Vehicle Parts, Not Otherwise Provided for B60R 7/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/53 (20150115) Y10T 29/49826 (20150115) |
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| US 09371258 | Harvey |
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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) | Benjamin G. Harvey (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for producing high density fuels from isoprene which can be produced via biosynthetic routes using biomass sugars as feedstock. This allows for the production of isoprene and isoprene-derived fuels from abundant waste materials with the potential to significantly reduce DoD carbon emissions. Embodiments of the invention describe a method for conversion of isoprene to full performance jet and diesel fuels. Isoprene can be selectively oligomerized to generate a distribution of branched chain hydrocarbons. Combination of an oligomerization catalyst with a metathesis catalyst allows for the synthesis of high density cyclic fuels with performance advantages (increased density and volumetric net heat of combustion) over conventional petroleum-based fuels. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/314829 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 2/42 (20130101) C07C 2/52 (20130101) C07C 5/02 (20130101) C07C 5/321 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 2523/42 (20130101) C07C 2523/44 (20130101) C07C 2523/86 (20130101) C07C 2525/02 (20130101) C07C 2529/70 (20130101) C07C 2531/14 (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 1/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09371448 | Hutt et al. |
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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) | Johnathon T. Hutt (Bloomington, Indiana); Zachary David Aron (Bloomington, Indiana); Dongwhan Lee (Bloomington, Indiana); Junyong Jo (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A fluorophore and methods of detecting cations and hydrophobic environments using the fluorophore are disclosed. The fluorophore includes an imidazo[1,5-a]pyridinium ion core and has the formula where R1, R2, R3 and X− are as defined in the specification, and n is an integer from 1 to 4. |
| FILED | Monday, March 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/784150 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic Dyes or Closely-related Compounds for Producing Dyes; Mordants; Lakes C09B 57/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09371451 | Mount et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Clemson University Research Foundation (Clemson, South Carolina); University of Dayton (Dayton, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Clemson University Research Foundation (Clemson, South Carolina); University of Dayton (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew S. Mount (Mountain Rest, South Carolina); Neeraj V. Gohad (Clemson, South Carolina); Douglas C. Hansen (Dayton, Ohio); Karolyn Mueller Hansen (Dayton, Ohio); Mary Beth Johnstone (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are articles comprising layered nanocrystalline calcite and methods for forming nanocrystalline calcite layers and compositions comprising nanocrystalline calcite layers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/894636 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| 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 2310/00946 (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 27/306 (20130101) A61L 27/3804 (20130101) A61L 2400/12 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 1/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24917 (20150115) Y10T 428/24926 (20150115) Y10T 428/24997 (20150401) |
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| US 09371739 | Robinson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brendan H Robinson (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); John K Yook (Fullerton, California); John H Steele (Palos Verdes Estate, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A power-producing device, such as a ram air turbine, includes a controller that is used to control operation of a turbine of the power-producing device. The controller uses an input based on an airspeed of the aircraft as part of a control mechanism in the controller for controlling the turbine. For example controller may be used to control backpressure of the turbine, for example by controlling the angle of doors of that are used to adjust backpressure of the turbine. The control mechanism may include a PID controller, with the gain of one or more of the values of the PID controller being a function of the airspeed of the aircraft. In addition the control mechanism may include manipulating a setpoint as a function of load on the power-producing device. The power-producing device may be part of a detachable pod that is installed on the aircraft. |
| FILED | Friday, January 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/734236 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 41/007 (20130101) Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 17/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09371991 | Mastanduno et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard Mastanduno (Milford, Connecticut); David Spence (Beacon Falls, Connecticut); Subir Roychoudhury (Madison, Connecticut); Bruce Crowder (North Haven, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PRECISION COMBUSTION, INC. (North Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Mastanduno (Milford, Connecticut); David Spence (Beacon Falls, Connecticut); Subir Roychoudhury (Madison, Connecticut); Bruce Crowder (North Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and process for vaporizing and, optionally, igniting a liquid fuel, preferably, a distillate fuel. The apparatus includes the following components: a heat-conductive reticulated screen positioned within a chamber; a first inlet path into the chamber for delivering a liquid fuel onto the screen; a second inlet path into the chamber for contacting an oxidant with the screen and fuel; a means for heating the screen to a temperature sufficient to vaporize and, optionally, ignite the liquid fuel; and a recuperator in fluid communication with the chamber for transferring heat from the chamber to the second inlet path. The apparatus is suitably employed in compact and portable oxidation reactors, for example, in external combustion engines, catalytic partial oxidation reformers, and hybrid combustors operating in flame and/or catalytic modes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/996688 |
| ART UNIT | 3743 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 3/386 (20130101) C01B 2203/0261 (20130101) C01B 2203/1288 (20130101) Methods or apparatus for combustion using fluid fuel or Solid Fuel Suspended In Air F23C 13/02 (20130101) Burners F23D 11/441 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F23D 11/443 (20130101) F23D 11/448 (20130101) Supplying Air or Non-combustible Liquids or Gases to Combustion Apparatus in General; Valves or Dampers Specially Adapted for Controlling Air Supply or Draught in Combustion Apparatus; Inducing Draught in Combustion Apparatus; Tops for Chimneys or Ventilating Shafts; Terminals for Flues F23L 15/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09372052 | McGeehan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Timothy P. McGeehan (Virginia Beach, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy P. McGeehan (Virginia Beach, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | System and method for determining which decoys should not be deployed based on the locations of the nearby high value units and other considerations. The system and method can visualize and manage the employment of decoys in a multi-platform environment by plotting the predicted path of decoys relative to high value unit (HVU) motion, and highlighting any situations that exist where the decoys (both air-drifting and self-propelled) launched from a platform can direct an incoming threat towards a high value unit. The system and method can develop, display, and automatically transmit a recommendation to launch or not launch a specific decoy. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 09, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/326545 |
| ART UNIT | 3667 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Weapon Sights; Aiming F41G 7/007 (20130101) F41G 7/224 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Targets; Target Ranges; Bullet Catchers F41J 9/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09372055 | Won et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ben YoungSon Won (Hungtington Beach, California); Marvin Luke (La Mirada, California); Daniel Madrid Ortega (Huntington Beach, California); Creed E. Blevins (Aliso Viegjo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A temporary control fin stop system employs a housing coupled to a vehicle. At least one tang is coupled to the housing and positioned to engage a trailing edge of a fin. The tang is ablatively erodible at a predetermined temperature induced by a flight profile of the vehicle to allow unconstrained motion of the fin. |
| FILED | Friday, January 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/170143 |
| ART UNIT | 3647 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 10/04 (20130101) F42B 10/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F42B 10/64 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49826 (20150115) |
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| US 09372151 | Brown et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lisa V. Brown (Houston, Texas); Ke Zhao (Houston, Texas); Nancy J. Halas (Houston, Texas); Peter J. Nordlander (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lisa V. Brown (Houston, Texas); Ke Zhao (Houston, Texas); Nancy J. Halas (Houston, Texas); Peter J. Nordlander (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for Surface Enhanced Infrared Absorption (SEIRA) that includes at least one pair of metallic antennas deposited on a substrate, wherein the pair of metallic antennas are collinear. The length, width, and height of the metallic antenna determines an infrared absorption of the pair of metallic antennas. The device also includes a gap located between the pair of metallic antennas. A chemical moiety is disposed on at least a portion of the metallic antennas such that the infrared absorption of the chemical moiety is enhanced by the at least one pair of metallic antennas. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/209310 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/35 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/553 (20130101) |
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| US 09372231 | Maliuk 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) | Dzmitry S. Maliuk (Addison, Texas); Franco Stellari (Waldwick, New Jersey); Alan J. Weger (Mohegan Lake, New York); Peilin Song (Lagrangeville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A scan chain latch circuit, a method of operating a latch circuit in a scan chain, and a computer-readable medium having stored thereon a data structure defining a scan chain latch circuit for instantiation on a semiconductor die are disclosed. In an embodiment, the scan chain latch circuit comprises a first latch for holding one data value, a second latch for holding another data value, and a multiplexor. The one data value is applied to a first data input of the multiplexor and the another data value is applied to a second data input of the multiplexor. An alternating clock signal is applied to a select input of the multiplexor to control the output of the multiplexor, wherein the output of the multiplexor toggles between the two data values held in the two latches at a defined frequency. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 31, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/985681 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 31/3177 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 31/31727 (20130101) G01R 31/318516 (20130101) G01R 31/318541 (20130101) |
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| US 09372398 | Nealey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul Franklin Nealey (Madison, Wisconsin); Shengxiang Ji (Changchun, China PRC) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Franklin Nealey (Madison, Wisconsin); Shengxiang Ji (Changchun, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are block copolymer thin film structures and methods of fabrication. The methods involve directing the assembly of ABA triblock copolymers such that desired features are formed by domains of the assembled ABA triblock copolymer. In some embodiments, an ABA triblock copolymer is directed to assemble by a chemical pattern. Chemical patterns with periods much different than the natural period of the ABA triblock copolymer may be used to direct assembly of the ABA triblock copolymer. |
| FILED | Friday, July 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/543667 |
| ART UNIT | 1785 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00031 (20130101) B81C 2201/0149 (20130101) Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/0002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24851 (20150115) |
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| US 09372915 | Long et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Binghamton, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Binghamton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bo Long (Palo Alto, California); Zhongfei Mark Zhang (Vestal, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Relational clustering has attracted more and more attention due to its phenomenal impact in various important applications which involve multi-type interrelated data objects, such as Web mining, search marketing, bioinformatics, citation analysis, and epidemiology. A probabilistic model is presented for relational clustering, which also provides a principal framework to unify various important clustering tasks including traditional attributes-based clustering, semi-supervised clustering, co-clustering and graph clustering. The model seeks to identify cluster structures for each type of data objects and interaction patterns between different types of objects. Under this model, parametric hard and soft relational clustering algorithms are provided under a large number of exponential family distributions. The algorithms are applicable to relational data of various structures and at the same time unify a number of state-of-the-art clustering algorithms: co-clustering algorithms, the k-partite graph clustering, and semi-supervised clustering based on hidden Markov random fields. |
| FILED | Monday, March 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/672430 |
| ART UNIT | 2167 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30598 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 7/005 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09372929 | Krause et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lee S. Krause (Indialantic, Florida); James B. Schneider (Melbourne, Florida); Bruce R. McQueary (Indialantic, Florida); Craig T. Hagan (Melbourne Beach, Florida); Sean K. Thornton (Orlando, Florida); Peter M. LaMonica (Rome, New York); Craig S. Anken (Rome, New York); Carlos Guestrin (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Securboration, Inc. (Melbourne, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lee S. Krause (Indialantic, Florida); James B. Schneider (Melbourne, Florida); Bruce R. McQueary (Indialantic, Florida); Craig T. Hagan (Melbourne Beach, Florida); Sean K. Thornton (Orlando, Florida); Peter M. LaMonica (Rome, New York); Craig S. Anken (Rome, New York); Carlos Guestrin (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for node and link detection in social network analysis. Interactive noise reduction allows reduction of the data set under analysis to enable substantially real time detection of links and nodes. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/221251 |
| ART UNIT | 2155 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/3064 (20130101) G06F 17/30648 (20130101) G06F 17/30867 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09373023 | Stoker |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Stoker (Burlingame, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI INTERNATIONAL (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Stoker (Burlingame, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for standoff facial and ocular acquisition. Embodiments of the invention address the problems of atmospheric turbulence, defocus, and field of view in a way that minimizes the need for additional hardware. One embodiment of a system for acquiring an image of a facial feature of a subject includes a single wide field of view sensor configured to acquire a plurality of images over a large depth of field containing the subject and a post processor coupled to the single sensor and configured to synthesize the image of the facial feature from the plurality of images. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/402038 |
| ART UNIT | 2488 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00255 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 13/0239 (20130101) |
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| US 09373033 | Chan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael T. Chan (Bedford, Massachusetts); Jason R. Thornton (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Aaron Z. Yahr (Somerville, Massachusetts); Heather Zwahlen (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented image processing method includes accessing image data representing a plurality of images of a plurality of vehicles and reading a data model representing a predefined vehicle attribute. The method further includes processing a portion of the image data to detect a vehicle feature of at least one of the vehicles represented in at least one of the images based on the predefined vehicle attribute, and processing the portion of the image data to generate vehicle data representing the detected vehicle feature. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/800186 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00536 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Traffic Control Systems G08G 1/015 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09373058 | Andreopoulos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Andreopoulos (San Jose, California); Rathinakumar Appuswamy (San Jose, California); Pallab Datta (San Jose, California); Steven K. Esser (San Jose, California); Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention provide a method for scene understanding based on a sequence of image frames. The method comprises converting each pixel of each image frame to neural spikes, and extracting features from the sequence of image frames by processing neural spikes corresponding to pixels of the sequence of image frames. The method further comprises encoding the extracted features as neural spikes, and classifying the extracted features. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/289890 |
| 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 9/46 (20130101) G06K 9/52 (20130101) G06K 9/6256 (20130101) G06K 9/6267 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 19/136 (20141101) |
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| US 09373073 | Arthur 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) | John V. Arthur (Mountain View, California); Bernard V. Brezzo (Somers, New York); Leland Chang (New York, New York); Daniel J. Friedman (Sleepy Hollow, New York); Paul A. Merolla (Palo Alto, California); Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, California); Robert K. Montoye (Rochester, Minnesota); Jae-sun Seo (White Plains, New York); Jose A. Tierno (Stamford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention relate to a time-division multiplexed neurosynaptic module with implicit memory addressing for implementing a universal substrate of adaptation. One embodiment comprises a neurosynaptic device including a memory device that maintains neuron attributes for multiple neurons. The module further includes multiple bit maps that maintain incoming firing events for different periods of delay and a multi-way processor. The processor includes a memory array that maintains a plurality of synaptic weights. The processor integrates incoming firing events in a time-division multiplexing manner. Incoming firing events are integrated based on the neuron attributes and the synaptic weights maintained. |
| FILED | Friday, December 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/725463 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06N 3/049 (20130101) G06N 3/063 (20130101) G06N 3/0454 (20130101) |
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| US 09373088 | Nuyujukian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Nuyujukian (Stanford, California); Jonathan C. Kao (Stanford, California); Krishna V Shenoy (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A brain machine interface for control of prosthetic devices is provided. In its control, the interface utilizes parallel control of a continuous decoder and a discrete action state decoder. In the discrete decoding, we not only learn states affiliated with the task, but also states related to the velocity of the prosthetic device and the engagement of the user. Moreover, we not only learn the distributions of the neural signals in these states, but we also learn the interactions/transitions between the states, which is crucial to enabling a relatively higher level of performance of the prosthetic device. Embodiments according to this parallel control system enable us to reliably decode not just task-related states, but any “discrete action state,” in parallel with a neural prosthetic “continuous decoder,” to achieve new state-of-the-art levels of performance in brain-machine interfaces. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/025100 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/00 (20130101) G06N 99/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 901/03 (20130101) Y10S 901/27 (20130101) |
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| US 09373174 | Blasch et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik P. Blasch (Rome, New York); Kui Liu (Germantown, Maryland); Bingwei Liu (Vestal, New York); Dan Shen (Germantown, Maryland); Genshe Chen (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for detecting and tracking multiple moving targets from airborne video within the framework of a cloud computing infrastructure. The invention simultaneously utilizes information from an optical flow generator and an active-learning histogram matcher in a complimentary manner so as to rule out erroneous data that may otherwise, separately, yield false target information. The invention utilizes user-based voice-to-text color feature description for track matching with hue features from image pixels. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/519248 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/003 (20130101) G06T 7/204 (20130101) G06T 7/408 (20130101) G06T 7/2066 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2207/10016 (20130101) G06T 2207/10024 (20130101) G06T 2207/20036 (20130101) G06T 2207/20072 (20130101) |
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| US 09373666 | Forrest et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen R. Forrest (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Xin Xu (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Christopher Kyle Renshaw (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen R. Forrest (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Xin Xu (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Christopher Kyle Renshaw (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods including bonding two or more separately formed circuit layers are provided using, for example, cold welding techniques. Processing techniques may be provided for combining inorganic and/or organic semiconductor devices in apparatus including, for example, microchips, optoelectronic devices, such as solar cells, photodetectors and organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), and other apparatus with multi-layer circuitry. Methods of bonding preformed circuit layers may include the use of stamping and pressure bonding contacts of two or more circuit layers together. Such methods may find applicability, for example, in bonding circuitry to shaped substrates, including various rounded and irregular shapes, and may be used to combine devices with different structural properties, e.g. from different materials systems. |
| FILED | Friday, February 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/034776 |
| ART UNIT | 2847 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/307 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 27/3253 (20130101) H01L 27/14609 (20130101) H01L 27/14692 (20130101) H01L 51/0022 (20130101) H01L 51/0097 (20130101) H01L 2251/5338 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 13/046 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/4913 (20150115) |
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| US 09373827 | Teas |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul Teas (California, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Teas (California, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A battery compartment insert for use with a battery holder that utilizes an assembly of two cells sealed in shrink wrap, thus replacing the need for use of the battery assembly. The insert includes a battery compartment lid for holding two separate lithium bromide battery cells and four electrical contacts. There are two electrical contacts corresponding to each battery cell. The battery compartment lid includes two diodes each corresponding to one of the battery cells and guide posts such that each individual battery cell can be taken out and replaced. The battery compartment lid corresponds to the battery holder such that two electrical contacts are each able to electrically communicate with a corresponding battery cell such that a device may be powered by the battery cells. |
| FILED | Monday, July 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/336199 |
| 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 2/105 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09373898 | Sovel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James E. Sovel (Panama City Beach, Florida); Jacob Cornman (Panama City Beach, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James E. Sovel (Panama City Beach, Florida); Jacob Cornman (Panama City Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A swaged-on fitting, for anchoring exterior wires to a cable, includes an outer ring and a split inner ring. The inner ring has an inside grooved pattern, which is substantially an angled cross-hatching of shallow grooves. The two grooved halves of the inner ring are placed under the bare ends of the wires and pressed on either side of the cable jacket such that the pattern contacts the jacket. The outer ring is slid over the wires, so it overlaps the inner halves. The fitting is swaged-on, locking in the wires between the rings and embossing the jacket with the cross-hatching pattern of the inner ring, without puncturing the jacket. The grooves on the inner ring thus grip the cable jacket, preventing rotational and translational movement of the wires on the jacket while maintaining the structural integrity of the jacket. |
| FILED | Monday, April 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/862602 |
| ART UNIT | 2847 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrically-conductive Connections; Structural Associations of a Plurality of Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting Elements; Coupling Devices; Current Collectors H01R 4/203 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01R 43/048 (20130101) |
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| US 09373934 | Lin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Oracle International Corporation (Redwood City, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shiyun Lin (San Diego, California); Stevan S. Djordjevic (San Diego, California); John E. Cunningham (San Diego, California); Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California); Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A hybrid optical source includes a substrate with an optical amplifier (such as a III-V semiconductor optical amplifier). The substrate is coupled at an angle (such as an angle between 0 and 90°) to a silicon-on-insulator chip. In particular, the substrate may be optically coupled to the silicon-on-insulator chip by an optical coupler (such as a diffraction grating or a mirror) that efficiently couples (i.e., with low optical loss) an optical signal into a sub-micron silicon-on-insulator optical waveguide. Moreover, the silicon-on-insulator optical waveguide optically couples the light to a reflector to complete the hybrid optical source. |
| FILED | Monday, January 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/165132 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| 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 3/105 (20130101) H01S 5/026 (20130101) H01S 5/141 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 5/1014 (20130101) H01S 5/2018 (20130101) H01S 5/02252 (20130101) H01S 5/4062 (20130101) H01S 5/4087 (20130101) |
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| US 09374076 | Klug, Jr. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert R. Klug, Jr. (Fredericksburg, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | McQ Inc. (Fredericksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert R. Klug, Jr. (Fredericksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A solid state relay and method for enabling and disabling power to a load are disclosed. A fast turn-on circuit and fast turn-off circuit receive control signals in an isolated manner. The control signals allow only one of the fast turn-on circuit and fast turn-off circuit to be enabled at a time. A power switching circuit that enables power to be supplied to a load when the fast turn-on circuit is enabled and the fast turn-off circuit is disabled state, and disables the power from being supplied to the load when the fast turn-on circuit is disabled and the fast turn-off circuit is enabled. A power supply circuit provides isolated power used by the fast turn-on and fast turn-off circuits to drive or discharge a gate in the power switching circuit. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/413424 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse Technique H03K 17/78 (20130101) H03K 17/04123 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03K 2217/0081 (20130101) |
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| US 09374111 | Harjani et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramesh Harjani (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Bodhisatwa Sadhu (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Martin D. Sturm (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Sachin Kalia (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Satwik Patnaik (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A linear transform can be performed using a passive analog multi-stage charge re-use linear transform circuit. The passive analog multi-stage charge re-use linear transform circuit transforms an input analog circuit to generate a transformed analog output signal. The passive analog multi-stage charge re-use linear transform circuit may be included in a software defined radio (SDR), where the transformed analog output signal may be output to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) of the SDR device so as to enable the ADC to perform wideband spectrum sensing. The passive analog multi-stage charge re-use linear transform circuit may also be included in a beamforming device so as to enable the device to perform spectral shifting and spatial shifting of signals. This passive analog multi-stage charge re-use linear transform circuit may promote reduced power consumption in comparison to other circuits while also supporting wideband applications at high sampling rates. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/859476 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 1/001 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 7/086 (20130101) H04B 7/0837 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 27/0006 (20130101) |
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| US 09374143 | Giannakis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Georgios B. Giannakis (Minnetonka, Minnesota); Xiaoli Ma (Norcross, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are described for carrier frequency offset (CFO) and channel estimation of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmissions over multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) frequency-selective fading channels. A wireless transmitter forms blocks of symbols by inserting training symbols within two or more blocks of information-bearing symbols. The transmitter applies a hopping code to each of the blocks of symbols to insert a null subcarrier at a different position within each of the blocks of symbols, and a modulator outputs a wireless signal in accordance with the blocks of symbols. A receiver receives the wireless signal and estimates the CFO, and outputs a stream of estimated symbols based on the estimated CFO. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/289294 |
| ART UNIT | 2633 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 7/046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 7/066 (20130101) H04B 7/0413 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 25/0202 (20130101) H04L 25/0206 (20130101) H04L 25/0228 (20130101) H04L 25/0242 (20130101) H04L 27/2613 (20130101) H04L 27/2626 (20130101) H04L 27/2657 (20130101) H04L 27/2671 (20130101) H04L 27/2672 (20130101) H04L 27/2675 (20130101) H04L 27/2692 (20130101) |
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| US 09374158 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Guifang Li (Oviedo, Florida); Inwoong Kim (Allen, Texas); Xiaobo Xie (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guifang Li (Oviedo, Florida); Inwoong Kim (Allen, Texas); Xiaobo Xie (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods of electronic wavefront correction are disclosed. An example method receiving an optical signal representing a wavefront traveling along a plurality of propagation paths, and electronically correcting distortion in the wavefront. An example apparatus includes an receiver and an electronic wavefront corrector. The receiver is configured to coherently receive an optical signal representing a wavefront traveling along a plurality of propagation paths. The electronic wavefront corrector is configured to correct phase distortion in the wavefront. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/239522 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 10/64 (20130101) H04B 10/1121 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 10/6161 (20130101) H04B 10/6165 (20130101) |
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| US 09374292 | Tetteh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Nii Tetteh (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Christophe Jean-Claude Merlin (Malden, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of a system and method for providing frequency assignment with managed transceiver resources. A frequency assignment protocol manages transceiver resources in making channel assignment decisions based on a number of links and state of transceivers. Long-term traffic patterns are captured and transceiver resource decisions are made based on an analysis of the captured long-term traffic patterns to increase a selected metric, such as connectivity, capacity or any other measurable quantity. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/803124 |
| ART UNIT | 2413 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 45/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Wireless Communication Networks H04W 24/02 (20130101) H04W 28/16 (20130101) H04W 88/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09374415 | Pangan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Pangan (Cerritos, California); Andrew J. Meredith (Lakewood, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for remote peripheral control are presented. Network access protocols are detected for accessing a network from a server device. An application program is activated on the server device in response to an application activation command from a peripheral device. The application program is interfaced with server application commands from the peripheral device using the network access protocols. A remote server interface control module is interfaced with the server device via the network access protocols. The application program on the server device is activated with the application activation command. The application program is controlled with the server application commands using the network access protocols, and a custom user interface configured to the application program is provided for a user to control the application program without configuring network access to the server device. |
| FILED | Monday, September 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/028488 |
| ART UNIT | 2448 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30719 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 67/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dacheng Ren (Syracuse, New York); Geetika S Choudhary (Syracuse, New York); Xiangyu Yao (Liverpool, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Syracuse University (Syracuse, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dacheng Ren (Syracuse, New York); Geetika S Choudhary (Syracuse, New York); Xiangyu Yao (Liverpool, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to host immune factors and antibiotics and, more particularly, to a system and method for controlling and reducing the antibiotic tolerance of bacterial persister cells with host immune factors. |
| FILED | Monday, May 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/897842 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| 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 63/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/65 (20130101) A61K 31/65 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/7036 (20130101) A61K 31/7036 (20130101) A61K 38/51 (20130101) A61K 38/51 (20130101) A61K 38/193 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (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 1/18 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 402/02003 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2333/52 (20130101) G01N 2333/535 (20130101) |
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| US 09370200 | Gibbons et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Prairie Aqua Tech (Brookings, South Dakota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Prairie Aquatech (Brookings, South Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William R Gibbons (Brookings, South Dakota); Michael L Brown (Volga, South Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes a bio-based process to produce high quality protein concentrate (HQPC) by converting plant derived celluloses into bioavailable protein via aerobic incubation, including the use of such HQPC so produced as a nutrient, including use as a fish meal replacement in aquaculture diets. |
| FILED | Sunday, December 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/691843 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Protein Compositions for Foodstuffs; Working-up Proteins for Foodstuffs; Phosphatide Compositions for Foodstuffs A23J 1/00 (20130101) A23J 1/14 (20130101) A23J 1/125 (20130101) Fodder A23K 1/003 (20130101) A23K 1/188 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A23K 1/1631 (20130101) A23K 1/1656 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel H. Gellman (Madison, Wisconsin); Michael A. Gelman (New York, New York); Bernard Weisblum (Madison, Wisconsin); David M. Lynn (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Pharmaceutical compositions containing biocidal co-polymers of poly(styrenes), poly(acrylates), poly(acrylamides), and poly(C1-C6)alkylene glycols are disclosed, along with methods of using the compositions to treat microbial infections in mammals. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 15, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/687191 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/74 (20130101) A61K 31/785 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 257/02 (20130101) C08F 265/04 (20130101) C08F 265/10 (20130101) C08F 283/06 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 65/04 (20130101) C08G 65/329 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 25/04 (20130101) C08L 25/04 (20130101) C08L 33/08 (20130101) C08L 33/08 (20130101) C08L 33/26 (20130101) C08L 33/26 (20130101) C08L 35/06 (20130101) C08L 51/003 (20130101) C08L 51/003 (20130101) C08L 55/00 (20130101) C08L 55/00 (20130101) C08L 59/04 (20130101) C08L 59/04 (20130101) C08L 2666/02 (20130101) C08L 2666/02 (20130101) C08L 2666/04 (20130101) C08L 2666/04 (20130101) C08L 2666/04 (20130101) C08L 2666/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09370579 | Jin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hyoung-Joon Jin (Seoul, South Korea); Jae-Hyung Park (Decatur, Georgia); Regina Valluzzi (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the present invention relates to a method of preparing a fibrous protein smectic hydrogel by way of a solvent templating process, comprising the steps of pouring an aqueous fibrous protein solution into a container comprising a solvent that is not miscible with water; sealing the container and allowing it to age at about room temperature; and collecting the resulting fibrous protein smectic hydrogel and allowing it to dry. Another aspect of the present invention relates to a method of obtaining predominantly one enantiomer from a racemic mixture, comprising the steps of pouring an aqueous fibrous protein solution into a container comprising a solvent that is not miscible with water; sealing the container and allowing it to age at about room temperature; allowing the enantiomers of racemic mixture to diffuse selectively into the smectic hydrogel in solution; removing the smectic hydrogel from the solution; rinsing predominantly one enantiomer from the surface of the smectic hydrogel; and extracting predominantly one enantiomer from the interior of the smectic hydrogel. The present invention also relates to a smectic hydrogel prepared according to an aforementioned method. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/078113 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/42 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 14/43586 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/25375 (20150115) |
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| US 09370881 | Fourkas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John T. Fourkas (Bethesda, Maryland); Christopher Lafratta (Revere, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. Fourkas (Bethesda, Maryland); Christopher Lafratta (Revere, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features a method for producing replicas of a desired structure, a master and a mold obtained from it for use in such a method. The master includes a desired structure (200) to be reproduced and an additional structure (206, 208) that assists in removal of the master from a mold, e.g. by permitting portions of the mold on opposite sides of the additional structure to flex away from one another when the master is removed from the mold. The method includes immersing the master comprising the desired structure (200) and the additional structure (206, 208) in a molding material (142), solidifying the molding material (142) to make a mold, removing the master from the mold and using the mold to produce replicas of the desired structure (200). For example, the desired structure of the master may include a loop that defines a fluid flow pathway, and the additional structure includes a membrane configured to prevent the molding material from completely passing through the loop when the mold is made from the master. |
| FILED | Monday, February 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/816257 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 33/48 (20130101) B29C 33/3878 (20130101) B29C 39/026 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B29C 39/36 (20130101) B29C 41/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09371347 | Bernskoetter et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BROWN UNIVERSITY (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wesley Hans Bernskoetter (Warwick, Rhode Island); Dong Jin (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of β-hydride elimination and subsequent 2,1-insertion from a transient nickel(II) acrylate hydride intermediate (Structure I). Also addressed is treatment of (dppe)Ni(CH(CH3)CO2BArf3) with a nitrogen containing base to produce a diphosphine nickel(0) η2-acryl borate adduct. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/768591 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 57/04 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 15/04 (20130101) C07F 17/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07F 19/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09371354 | Kim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jin-Woo Kim (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Russell Jerry Deaton (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Jeong-Hwan Kim (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jin-Woo Kim (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Russell Jerry Deaton (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Jeong-Hwan Kim (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing a nanoparticle assembly. The method includes attaching a first DNA molecule to a bead to form a first DNA-bead complex; and combining a nanoparticle with the first DNA-bead complex to form a nanoparticle-DNA-bead complex having one DNA molecule attached to the nanoparticle. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/690305 |
| 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 | Nanostructures Formed by Manipulation of Individual Atoms, Molecules, or Limited Collections of Atoms or Molecules as Discrete Units; Manufacture or Treatment Thereof B82B 3/0033 (20130101) B82B 3/0057 (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) Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 21/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/774 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2991 (20150115) |
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| US 09371559 | Bazan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Guillermo C. Bazan (Santa Barbara, California); Brent S. Gaylord (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guillermo C. Bazan (Santa Barbara, California); Brent S. Gaylord (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, compositions and articles of manufacture for assaying a sample for a target polynucleotide are provided. A sample suspected of containing the target polynucleotide is contacted with a polycationic multichromophore and a sensor PNA complementary to the target polynucleotide. The sensor PNA comprises a signaling chromophore to absorb energy from the excited multichromophore and emit light in the presence of the target polynucleotide. The methods can be used in multiplex form. Kits comprising reagents for performing such methods are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, January 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/356500 |
| 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 | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (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 1/6818 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6818 (20130101) C12Q 1/6818 (20130101) C12Q 2525/107 (20130101) C12Q 2525/107 (20130101) C12Q 2527/125 (20130101) C12Q 2565/107 (20130101) |
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| US 09372111 | Hall et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents, the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neal A. Hall (Austin, Texas); Michael L. Kuntzman (Austin, Texas); Donghwan Kim (Austin, Texas); Nishshanka Hewa-Kasakarage (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of designing and manufacturing an acoustic sensor having a high degree of directivity is disclosed. The sensor includes a rotatable plate that is attached to a substrate with mounts. In one aspect the mounts are freely rotatable and the torque on the plate is measured using detectors disposed on springs that provide a resistance to rotation of the plate. In another aspect the plate is mounted to the substrate with mounts that torsionally deform during rotation of the plate. These detectors measure the torque on the plate according to the torsional deformation of the mounts. Methods of improving the signal to noise ratio of acoustic sensors having multiple detectors are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, August 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/965057 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Mechanical Vibrations or Ultrasonic, Sonic or Infrasonic Waves G01H 5/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01H 11/06 (20130101) Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups or Like Acoustic Electromechanical Transducers; Deaf-aid Sets; Public Address Systems H04R 17/02 (20130101) H04R 31/00 (20130101) H04R 2201/003 (20130101) |
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| US 09372142 | Abbott et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas L. Abbott (Madison, Wisconsin); Lie Na Tan (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for assaying the effectiveness of a cleaning composition in removing a protein or a biofilm from a surface are disclosed. Such methods include the steps of providing one or more proteins at an interface between an aqueous phase and a liquid crystal phase or at the surface of a liquid crystal, contacting the interface or liquid crystal surface with a cleaning composition, and observing the orientational ordering of the liquid crystal at the interface or liquid crystal surface. A continuous change in the orientational ordering of the liquid crystal at the interface or liquid crystal surface indicates that the proteins are being removed from the interface, and the rate of change in orientational ordering, the extent of the change in orientational ordering, or both, are correlated with the effectiveness of the cleaning composition. Because the ability of cleaning agents to remove proteins from the interface or liquid crystal surface is correlated with the state and concentration of the protein that is being removed, similar methods and devices can be used to assay the effectiveness of a putative protein stabilizing agent or to assay the optimal concentration of a protein for preventing the unfolding of the protein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/778564 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 2/28 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 19/22 (20130101) C09K 19/24 (20130101) C09K 19/26 (20130101) C09K 19/28 (20130101) C09K 19/062 (20130101) C09K 19/2014 (20130101) C09K 19/3458 (20130101) C09K 2019/122 (20130101) C09K 2019/2042 (20130101) C09K 2019/2078 (20130101) C09K 2019/3083 (20130101) C09K 2219/17 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 13/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 13/02 (20130101) G01N 21/23 (20130101) G01N 21/77 (20130101) G01N 2013/0275 (20130101) |
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| US 09372151 | Brown et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lisa V. Brown (Houston, Texas); Ke Zhao (Houston, Texas); Nancy J. Halas (Houston, Texas); Peter J. Nordlander (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lisa V. Brown (Houston, Texas); Ke Zhao (Houston, Texas); Nancy J. Halas (Houston, Texas); Peter J. Nordlander (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for Surface Enhanced Infrared Absorption (SEIRA) that includes at least one pair of metallic antennas deposited on a substrate, wherein the pair of metallic antennas are collinear. The length, width, and height of the metallic antenna determines an infrared absorption of the pair of metallic antennas. The device also includes a gap located between the pair of metallic antennas. A chemical moiety is disposed on at least a portion of the metallic antennas such that the infrared absorption of the chemical moiety is enhanced by the at least one pair of metallic antennas. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/209310 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/35 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/553 (20130101) |
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| US 09372397 | Mirkin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Fengwei Huo (Evanston, Illinois); Zijian Zheng (Hong Kong, China PRC); Gengfeng Zheng (Ambler, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Fengwei Huo (Evanston, Illinois); Zijian Zheng (Hong Kong, China PRC); Gengfeng Zheng (Ambler, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure relates to methods of printing indicia on a substrate using a tip array comprised of elastomeric, compressible polymers. The tip array can be prepared using conventional photolithographic methods and can be tailored to have any desired number and/or arrangement of tips. Numerous copies (e.g., greater than 15,000, or greater than 11 million) of a pattern can be made in a parallel fashion in as little as 40 minutes. |
| FILED | Saturday, April 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/989279 |
| ART UNIT | 2854 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/0002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09372398 | Nealey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul Franklin Nealey (Madison, Wisconsin); Shengxiang Ji (Changchun, China PRC) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Franklin Nealey (Madison, Wisconsin); Shengxiang Ji (Changchun, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are block copolymer thin film structures and methods of fabrication. The methods involve directing the assembly of ABA triblock copolymers such that desired features are formed by domains of the assembled ABA triblock copolymer. In some embodiments, an ABA triblock copolymer is directed to assemble by a chemical pattern. Chemical patterns with periods much different than the natural period of the ABA triblock copolymer may be used to direct assembly of the ABA triblock copolymer. |
| FILED | Friday, July 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/543667 |
| ART UNIT | 1785 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00031 (20130101) B81C 2201/0149 (20130101) Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/0002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24851 (20150115) |
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| US 09372726 | Gopalan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Binghamton, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Binghamton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kartik Gopalan (Vestal, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Datacenter clusters often employ live virtual machine (VM) migration to efficiently utilize cluster-wide resources. Gang migration refers to the simultaneous live migration of multiple VMs from one set of physical machines to another in response to events such as load spikes and imminent failures. Gang migration generates a large volume of network traffic and can overload the core network links and switches in a data center. The present technology reduces the network overhead of gang migration using global deduplication (GMGD). GMGD identifies and eliminates the retransmission of duplicate memory pages among VMs running on multiple physical machines in the cluster. A prototype GMGD reduces the network traffic on core links by up to 51% and the total migration time of VMs by up to 39% when compared to the default migration technique in QEMU/KVM, with reduced adverse performance impact on network-bound applications. |
| FILED | Friday, December 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/137131 |
| ART UNIT | 2196 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/4856 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09372915 | Long et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Binghamton, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Binghamton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bo Long (Palo Alto, California); Zhongfei Mark Zhang (Vestal, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Relational clustering has attracted more and more attention due to its phenomenal impact in various important applications which involve multi-type interrelated data objects, such as Web mining, search marketing, bioinformatics, citation analysis, and epidemiology. A probabilistic model is presented for relational clustering, which also provides a principal framework to unify various important clustering tasks including traditional attributes-based clustering, semi-supervised clustering, co-clustering and graph clustering. The model seeks to identify cluster structures for each type of data objects and interaction patterns between different types of objects. Under this model, parametric hard and soft relational clustering algorithms are provided under a large number of exponential family distributions. The algorithms are applicable to relational data of various structures and at the same time unify a number of state-of-the-art clustering algorithms: co-clustering algorithms, the k-partite graph clustering, and semi-supervised clustering based on hidden Markov random fields. |
| FILED | Monday, March 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/672430 |
| ART UNIT | 2167 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30598 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 7/005 (20130101) |
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| US 09373082 | Gobert et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Janice D. Gobert (Stow, Massachusetts); Ryan S. Baker (Tarrytown, New York); Michael A. Sao Pedro (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An assessment engine includes a definition of inquiry skills being assessed. Assessment models are used to infer skill demonstration as one or more students engage in inquiry within computerized simulations and/or microworlds. A pedagogical agent and/or help system provides real-time feedback to one or more students based on the assessment model outputs, and/or based on additional models that track one or more students developing proficiency across inquiry tasks over time. A pedagogical agent and/or help system for science inquiry tutoring responds in real-time on the basis of knowledge-engineered and data-mined assessment and/or tracking models. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/167215 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 5/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Educational or Demonstration Appliances; Appliances for Teaching, or Communicating With, the Blind, Deaf or Mute; Models; Planetaria; Globes; Maps; Diagrams G09B 5/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09373088 | Nuyujukian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Nuyujukian (Stanford, California); Jonathan C. Kao (Stanford, California); Krishna V Shenoy (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A brain machine interface for control of prosthetic devices is provided. In its control, the interface utilizes parallel control of a continuous decoder and a discrete action state decoder. In the discrete decoding, we not only learn states affiliated with the task, but also states related to the velocity of the prosthetic device and the engagement of the user. Moreover, we not only learn the distributions of the neural signals in these states, but we also learn the interactions/transitions between the states, which is crucial to enabling a relatively higher level of performance of the prosthetic device. Embodiments according to this parallel control system enable us to reliably decode not just task-related states, but any “discrete action state,” in parallel with a neural prosthetic “continuous decoder,” to achieve new state-of-the-art levels of performance in brain-machine interfaces. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/025100 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/00 (20130101) G06N 99/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 901/03 (20130101) Y10S 901/27 (20130101) |
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| US 09373547 | Han et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sang M. Han (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Talid R. Sinno (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sang M. Han (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Talid R. Sinno (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is a method for forming a two-dimensional array of semiconductor quantum confined structures. The method includes providing a layer that has first atoms and second atoms, the first atoms having a different size than the second atoms; providing an indenter template that includes at least one indenter structure extending from a surface of the indenter template; contacting the layer and the at least one indenter structure together with a pressure sufficient to generate an elastic deformation in the layer but without generating plastic deformation of the layer; annealing the layer; and forming at least one quantum confined structure in a region of the layer in a region of the layer not pressed by the at least one indenter structure. |
| FILED | Friday, August 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/827084 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/02532 (20130101) H01L 21/02546 (20130101) H01L 21/3245 (20130101) H01L 21/823493 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09373742 | Liang 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) | Xiaogan Liang (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Hongsuk Nam (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Sungjin Wi (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Mikai Chen (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Plasma-assisted techniques are provided for fabricating semiconductor devices. In one aspect, a plasma is applied to a substrate before exfoliating layers of a multi-layer structure of atomically thin two-dimensional sheets onto the substrate. The exfoliated layers serve as the basis for constructing a semiconductor device. In another aspect, a p-n junction is formed by applying a plasma to top layers of a multi-layer structure of atomically thin two-dimensional sheets and then exfoliating a portion of the multi-layer structure onto a bottom electrode. |
| FILED | Friday, March 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/640194 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| 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 59/02 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/467 (20130101) H01L 29/1606 (20130101) H01L 31/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/032 (20130101) H01L 31/1884 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/521 (20151101) |
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| US 09373749 | Tu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang-Ching Tu (Seattle, Washington); Guozhong Cao (Seattle, Washington); Lih Y. Lin (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Phosphors formed using silicon nanoparticles are provided. The phosphors exhibit bright fluorescence and high quantum yield, making them ideal for lighting applications. Methods for making the silicon phosphors are also provided, along with lighting devices that incorporate the silicon phosphors. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 05, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/933547 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 33/002 (20130101) H01L 33/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 33/50 (20130101) H01L 33/0054 (20130101) H01L 33/56 (20130101) |
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09373931 — Red, green, and blue lasing enabled by single-exciton gain in colloidal quantum dot films
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BROWN UNIVERSITY (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arto V. Nurmikko (Providence, Rhode Island); Cuong Dang (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | The methods and materials described herein contemplate the use films of colloidal quantum dots as a gain medium in a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser. The present disclosure demonstrates a laser with single-exciton gain in the red, green, and blue wavelengths. Leveraging this nanocomposite gain, the results realize a significant step toward full-color single-material lasers. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/391557 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/169 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 3/0627 (20130101) H01S 3/094038 (20130101) H01S 5/183 (20130101) H01S 5/347 (20130101) H01S 5/1067 (20130101) |
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| US 09374143 | Giannakis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Georgios B. Giannakis (Minnetonka, Minnesota); Xiaoli Ma (Norcross, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are described for carrier frequency offset (CFO) and channel estimation of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmissions over multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) frequency-selective fading channels. A wireless transmitter forms blocks of symbols by inserting training symbols within two or more blocks of information-bearing symbols. The transmitter applies a hopping code to each of the blocks of symbols to insert a null subcarrier at a different position within each of the blocks of symbols, and a modulator outputs a wireless signal in accordance with the blocks of symbols. A receiver receives the wireless signal and estimates the CFO, and outputs a stream of estimated symbols based on the estimated CFO. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/289294 |
| ART UNIT | 2633 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 7/046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 7/066 (20130101) H04B 7/0413 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 25/0202 (20130101) H04L 25/0206 (20130101) H04L 25/0228 (20130101) H04L 25/0242 (20130101) H04L 27/2613 (20130101) H04L 27/2626 (20130101) H04L 27/2657 (20130101) H04L 27/2671 (20130101) H04L 27/2672 (20130101) H04L 27/2675 (20130101) H04L 27/2692 (20130101) |
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| US 09370749 | Addleman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raymond S. Addleman (Benton City, Washington); Wilaiwan Chouyyok (Richland, Washington); Xiaohong S. Li (Richland, Washington); Anthony D. Cinson (Richland, Washington); Aleksandr A. Gerasimenko (Sunderland, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond S. Addleman (Benton City, Washington); Wilaiwan Chouyyok (Richland, Washington); Xiaohong S. Li (Richland, Washington); Anthony D. Cinson (Richland, Washington); Aleksandr A. Gerasimenko (Sunderland, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and porous multi-component material for the capture, separation or chemical reaction of a species of interest is disclosed. The porous multi-component material includes a substrate and a composite thin film. The composite thin film is formed by combining a porous polymer with a nanostructured material. The nanostructured material may include a surface chemistry for the capture of chemicals or particles. The composite thin film is coupled to the support or device surface. The method and material provides a simple, fast, and chemically and physically benign way to integrate nanostructured materials into devices while preserving their chemical activity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/869217 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/228 (20130101) B01D 67/0079 (20130101) B01D 69/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 69/125 (20130101) B01D 2323/00 (20130101) B01D 2323/26 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 7/26 (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 127/18 (20130101) C09D 127/18 (20130101) C09D 127/22 (20130101) C09D 177/00 (20130101) C09D 183/04 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/249953 (20150401) |
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| US 09370765 | Haaland |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BlackPak, Inc. (San Francisco, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BLACKPAK, INC. (San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Haaland (Fraser, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Solid sorbents, systems, and methods for pumping, storage, and purification of gases are disclosed. They derive from the dynamics of porous and free convection for specific gas/sorbent combinations and use space filling polyhedral microliths with facial aplanarities to produce sorbent arrays with interpenetrating interstitial manifolds of voids. |
| FILED | Friday, October 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/506405 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/02 (20130101) B01D 2256/16 (20130101) B01D 2256/24 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/12 (20130101) B01J 20/16 (20130101) B01J 20/226 (20130101) B01J 20/28042 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Vessels for Containing or Storing Compressed, Liquefied or Solidified Gases; Fixed-capacity Gas-holders; Filling Vessels With, or Discharging From Vessels, Compressed, Liquefied, or Solidified Gases F17C 11/005 (20130101) F17C 11/007 (20130101) F17C 13/04 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2982 (20150115) |
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| US 09370773 | Masel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dioxide Materials, Inc. (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dioxide Materials, Inc. (Boca Raton, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard L. Masel (Boca Raton, Florida); Qingmei Chen (Savoy, Illinois); Zengcai Liu (Savoy, Illinois); Robert Kutz (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An ion conducting polymeric composition mixture comprises a copolymer of styrene and vinylbenzyl-Rs. Rs is selected from the group consisting of imidazoliums and pyridiniums. The composition contains 10%-90% by weight of vinylbenzyl-Rs. The composition can further comprise a polyolefin comprising substituted polyolefins, a polymer comprising cyclic amine groups, a polymer comprising at least one of a phenylene group and a phenyl group, a polyamide, and/or the reaction product of a constituent having two carbon-carbon double bonds. The composition can be in the form of a membrane. In a preferred embodiment, the membrane is a Helper Membrane that increases the faradaic efficiency of an electrochemical cell into which the membrane is incorporated, and also allows product formation at lower voltages than in cells without the Helper Membrane. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 05, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/704935 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 41/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Processes for the Production of Compounds or Non-metals; Apparatus Therefor C25B 13/08 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/1023 (20130101) H01M 8/1044 (20130101) H01M 2300/0082 (20130101) |
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| US 09371226 | Fox et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert V. Fox (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Fengyan Zhang (Pocatello, Idaho); Rene G. Rodriguez (Pocatello, Idaho); Joshua J. Pak (Pocatello, Idaho); Chivin Sun (Staten Island, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert V. Fox (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Fengyan Zhang (Pocatello, Idaho); Rene G. Rodriguez (Pocatello, Idaho); Joshua J. Pak (Pocatello, Idaho); Chivin Sun (Staten Island, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Single source precursors or pre-copolymers of single source precursors are subjected to microwave radiation to form particles of a I-III-VI2 material. Such particles may be formed in a wurtzite phase and may be converted to a chalcopyrite phase by, for example, exposure to heat. The particles in the wurtzite phase may have a substantially hexagonal shape that enables stacking into ordered layers. The particles in the wurtzite phase may be mixed with particles in the chalcopyrite phase (i.e., chalcopyrite nanoparticles) that may fill voids within the ordered layers of the particles in the wurtzite phase thus produce films with good coverage. In some embodiments, the methods are used to form layers of semiconductor materials comprising a I-III-VI2 material. Devices such as, for example, thin-film solar cells may be fabricated using such methods. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/019879 |
| ART UNIT | 1758 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 15/006 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/72 (20130101) C01P 2002/84 (20130101) C01P 2004/62 (20130101) C01P 2004/64 (20130101) C01P 2006/40 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/0322 (20130101) H01L 31/0749 (20130101) H01L 31/03923 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/541 (20130101) |
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| US 09371486 | Coates et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ralph L. Coates (Salt Lake City, Utah); L. Douglas Smoot (Provo, Utah); Kent E. Hatfield (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | COATES ENGINEERING, LLC (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph L. Coates (Salt Lake City, Utah); L. Douglas Smoot (Provo, Utah); Kent E. Hatfield (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for achieving improved throughput capacity of indirectly heated rotary kilns used to produce pyrolysis products such as shale oils or coal oils that are susceptible to decomposition by high kiln wall temperatures is disclosed. High throughput is achieved by firing the kiln such that optimum wall temperatures are maintained beginning at the point where the materials enter the heating section of the kiln and extending to the point where the materials leave the heated section. Multiple high velocity burners are arranged such that combustion products directly impact on the area of the kiln wall covered internally by the solid material being heated. Firing rates for the burners are controlled to maintain optimum wall temperatures. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/565664 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Destructive Distillation of Carbonageous Materials for Production of Gas, Coke, Tar, or Similar Materials C10B 1/10 (20130101) C10B 47/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10B 53/06 (20130101) Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens, or Retorts in General; Open Sintering or Like Apparatus F27B 7/08 (20130101) F27B 7/33 (20130101) F27B 7/3205 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/145 (20151101) |
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09371551 — Methods for enhancing the degradation of cellulosic material with chitin binding proteins
| US 09371551 | Xu |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Feng Xu (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for degrading or converting a cellulosic material and for producing substances from the cellulosic material. |
| FILED | Friday, July 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/796451 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/32 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/22 (20130101) C12N 9/2442 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/04 (20130101) C12P 7/10 (20130101) C12P 7/14 (20130101) C12P 19/02 (20130101) C12P 19/04 (20130101) C12P 19/12 (20130101) C12P 19/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Enzymes C12Y 302/01014 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/16 (20130101) Y02E 50/17 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/52 (20151101) |
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| US 09371997 | LeBegue et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Scott LeBegue (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Patrick Benedict Melton (Horse Shoe, North Carolina); James Harold Westmoreland, III (Greer, South Carolina); James Scott Flanagan (Simpsonville, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A combustor includes an end cover having an outer side and an inner side, an outer barrel having a forward end that is adjacent to the inner side of the end cover and an aft end that is axially spaced from the forward end. An inner barrel is at least partially disposed concentrically within the outer barrel and is fixedly connected to the outer barrel. A fluid conduit extends downstream from the end cover. A first bundled tube fuel injector segment is disposed concentrically within the inner barrel. The bundled tube fuel injector segment includes a fuel plenum that is in fluid communication with the fluid conduit and a plurality of parallel tubes that extend axially through the fuel plenum. The bundled tube fuel injector segment is fixedly connected to the inner barrel. |
| FILED | Monday, July 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/932301 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — 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 3/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F23R 3/283 (20130101) F23R 3/286 (20130101) F23R 2900/00017 (20130101) |
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| US 09372135 | Benner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | W. Henry Benner (Danville, California); John M. Dzenitis (Danville, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | W. Henry Benner (Danville, California); John M. Dzenitis (Danville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are fluidics platforms and related methods for performing integrated sample collection and solid-phase extraction of a target component of the sample all in one tube. The fluidics platform comprises a pump, particles for solid-phase extraction and a particle-holding means. The method comprises contacting the sample with one or more reagents in a pump, coupling a particle-holding means to the pump and expelling the waste out of the pump while the particle-holding means retains the particles inside the pump. The fluidics platform and methods herein described allow solid-phase extraction without pipetting and centrifugation. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/228370 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/5027 (20130101) B01L 3/50273 (20130101) B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 2200/0631 (20130101) B01L 2200/0647 (20130101) B01L 2200/0668 (20130101) B01L 2400/0475 (20130101) B01L 2400/0478 (20130101) B01L 2400/0605 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/40 (20130101) G01N 1/405 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 35/0098 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09373433 | Johnson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Francis Johnson (Clifton Park, New York); Robert Edgar Colborn (Niskayuna, New York); Judson Sloan Marte (Wynantskill, New York); Peter John Bonitatibus, Jr. (Saratoga Springs, New York); Binil Itty Ipe Kandapallil (Mechanicville, New York); Mohammed Haouaoui (Niskayuna, New York); Christina Chen (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis Johnson (Clifton Park, New York); Robert Edgar Colborn (Niskayuna, New York); Judson Sloan Marte (Wynantskill, New York); Peter John Bonitatibus, Jr. (Saratoga Springs, New York); Binil Itty Ipe Kandapallil (Mechanicville, New York); Mohammed Haouaoui (Niskayuna, New York); Christina Chen (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a nanocomposite permanent magnet is provided. The method comprises applying an extreme shear deformation to hard magnetic phase nanoparticles and soft magnetic phase nanoparticles to align at least a portion of the hard phase magnetic particles and to produce a nanocomposite permanent magnet. |
| FILED | Friday, June 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/538229 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Alloys C22C 1/02 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 1/10 (20130101) H01F 1/068 (20130101) H01F 1/0576 (20130101) H01F 1/0579 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01F 41/0273 (20130101) |
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| US 09373479 | Reed et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryan W. Reed (Livermore, California); William J. Dehope (Pleasanton, California); Glenn Huete (Tracy, California); Thomas B. LaGrange (Brentwood, California); Richard M. Shuttlesworth (Brentwood, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electron microscope is disclosed which has a laser-driven photocathode and an arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) laser system (“laser”). The laser produces a train of temporally-shaped laser pulses of a predefined pulse duration and waveform, and directs the laser pulses to the laser-driven photocathode to produce a train of electron pulses. An image sensor is used along with a deflector subsystem. The deflector subsystem is arranged downstream of the target but upstream of the image sensor, and has two pairs of plates arranged perpendicular to one another. A control system controls the laser and a plurality of switching components synchronized with the laser, to independently control excitation of each one of the deflector plates. This allows each electron pulse to be directed to a different portion of the image sensor, as well as to be provided with an independently set duration and independently set inter-pulse spacings. |
| FILED | Friday, September 11, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/851692 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 37/22 (20130101) H01J 37/26 (20130101) H01J 37/075 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 37/244 (20130101) H01J 37/265 (20130101) H01J 37/1472 (20130101) H01J 2237/15 (20130101) H01J 2237/151 (20130101) H01J 2237/0432 (20130101) H01J 2237/2447 (20130101) H01J 2237/2449 (20130101) H01J 2237/06333 (20130101) H01J 2237/24455 (20130101) H01J 2237/24495 (20130101) |
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| US 09373492 | Ramsey |
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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) | John Michael Ramsey (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Mass spectrometry systems or assemblies therefore include an ionizer that includes at least one planar conductor, a mass analyzer with a planar electrode assembly, and a detector comprising at least one planar conductor. The ionizer, the mass analyzer and the detector are attached together in a compact stack assembly. The stack assembly has a perimeter that bounds an area that is between about 0.01 mm2 to about 25 cm2 and the stack assembly has a thickness that is between about 0.1 mm to about 25 mm. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/804911 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/0022 (20130101) H01J 49/424 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49117 (20150115) |
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| US 09373908 | Hatch |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, LLC (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, LLC (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen McGarry Hatch (Blue Springs, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A contact assembly includes a base and a pair of electrical contacts supported by the base. A first end of the first electrical contact corresponds to a first end of the base and is configured to engage a first external conductive circuit element. A first end of the second electrical contact also corresponds to the first end of the base and is configured to engage a second external conductive circuit element. The first contact and the second contact are electrically isolated from one another and configured to compress when engaging an external connector element. The base includes an aperture positioned on a second end of the base outboard of a second end of the first and second electrical contacts. The aperture presents a narrowing shape with a wide mouth distal the electrical contacts and a narrow internal through-hole proximate the electrical contacts. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/539763 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 1/0416 (20130101) G01R 27/02 (20130101) Electrically-conductive Connections; Structural Associations of a Plurality of Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting Elements; Coupling Devices; Current Collectors H01R 13/514 (20130101) H01R 13/2421 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01R 2201/20 (20130101) |
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| US 09373923 | Bobbitt, III |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solution, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SAVANNAH RIVER NUCLEAR SOLUTIONS, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. Bobbitt, III (Evans, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A process of producing electrically conductive pathways within additively manufactured parts and similar parts made by plastic extrusion nozzles. The process allows for a three-dimensional part having both conductive and non-conductive portions and allows for such parts to be manufactured in a single production step. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/675434 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — 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 67/0055 (20130101) B29C 67/0059 (20130101) B29C 67/0062 (20130101) B29C 67/0066 (20130101) B29C 67/0077 (20130101) B29C 67/0081 (20130101) B29C 70/885 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Electrically-conductive Connections; Structural Associations of a Plurality of Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting Elements; Coupling Devices; Current Collectors H01R 43/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 3/12 (20130101) H05K 3/0014 (20130101) H05K 3/125 (20130101) H05K 2203/013 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/734 (20130101) Y10S 977/742 (20130101) |
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| US 09373928 | Sridharan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arun K. Sridharan (Fremont, California); Paul H. Pax (Livermore, California); John E. Heebner (Livermore, California); Derrek R. Drachenberg (Livermore, California); James P. Armstrong (Livermore, California); Jay W. Dawson (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Spatial mode conversion modules are described, with the capability of efficiently transforming a given optical beam profile, at one plane in space into another well-defined optical beam profile at a different plane in space, whose detailed spatial features and symmetry properties can, in general, differ significantly. The modules are comprised of passive, high-efficiency, low-loss diffractive optical elements, combined with Fourier transform optics. Design rules are described that employ phase retrieval techniques and associated algorithms to determine the necessary profiles of the diffractive optical components. System augmentations are described that utilize real-time adaptive optical techniques for enhanced performance as well as power scaling. |
| FILED | Friday, July 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/797003 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/1814 (20130101) Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/005 (20130101) H01S 3/0085 (20130101) H01S 3/1307 (20130101) H01S 3/2333 (20130101) H01S 3/2383 (20130101) H01S 3/06729 (20130101) H01S 3/10007 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 3/10015 (20130101) H01S 3/10023 (20130101) H01S 3/10053 (20130101) |
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09373931 — Red, green, and blue lasing enabled by single-exciton gain in colloidal quantum dot films
| US 09373931 | Nurmikko et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BROWN UNIVERSITY (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arto V. Nurmikko (Providence, Rhode Island); Cuong Dang (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | The methods and materials described herein contemplate the use films of colloidal quantum dots as a gain medium in a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser. The present disclosure demonstrates a laser with single-exciton gain in the red, green, and blue wavelengths. Leveraging this nanocomposite gain, the results realize a significant step toward full-color single-material lasers. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/391557 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/169 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 3/0627 (20130101) H01S 3/094038 (20130101) H01S 5/183 (20130101) H01S 5/347 (20130101) H01S 5/1067 (20130101) |
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| US 09373984 | De Bock et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hendrik Pieter Jacobus De Bock (Clifton Park, New York); James Pellegrino Alexander (Ballston Lake, New York); Ayman Mohamed Fawzi El-Refaie (Niskayuna, New York); William Dwight Gerstler (Niskayuna, New York); Manoj Ramprasad Shah (Latham, New York); Xiaochun Shen (Cohoes, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hendrik Pieter Jacobus De Bock (Clifton Park, New York); James Pellegrino Alexander (Ballston Lake, New York); Ayman Mohamed Fawzi El-Refaie (Niskayuna, New York); William Dwight Gerstler (Niskayuna, New York); Manoj Ramprasad Shah (Latham, New York); Xiaochun Shen (Cohoes, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus, such as an electrical machine, is provided. The apparatus can include a rotor defining a rotor bore and a conduit disposed in and extending axially along the rotor bore. The conduit can have an annular conduit body defining a plurality of orifices disposed axially along the conduit and extending through the conduit body. The rotor can have an inner wall that at least partially defines the rotor bore. The orifices can extend through the conduit body along respective orifice directions, and the rotor and conduit can be configured to provide a line of sight along the orifice direction from the respective orifices to the inner wall. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/171583 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamo-electric Machines H02K 1/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H02K 5/20 (20130101) H02K 9/19 (20130101) H02K 9/197 (20130101) |
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| US 09374314 | Greene et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER INCORPORATED (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel H. Greene (Sunnyvale, California); Lara S. Crawford (Los Altos, California); John Hanley (Emerald Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for balancing loads between two physical resources. During operation, for each physical resource, the system establishes resource-usage models for a plurality of jobs that share the physical resource, identifies quality-of-service (QoS) levels associated with the jobs, and computes a QoS balance point for the physical resource based on the resource-usage models and the QoS ratings. The QoS balance point indicates a rating of QoS, above which substantial resource provisioning is required. In response to detecting a difference between a first QoS balance point associated with a first physical resource and a second QoS balance point associated with a second physical resource, the system identifies one or more jobs to be moved between the first and second physical resources such that the difference between the first and the second QoS balance points is reduced. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/688035 |
| ART UNIT | 2458 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/4893 (20130101) G06F 9/5083 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 47/76 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 60/144 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09374380 | Neil 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) | Joshua Charles Neil (Jemez Springs, New Mexico); Alexander Kent (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Curtis Lee Hash, Jr. (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Non-harmful data mimicking computer network attacks may be inserted in a computer network. Anomalous real network connections may be generated between a plurality of computing systems in the network. Data mimicking an attack may also be generated. The generated data may be transmitted between the plurality of computing systems using the real network connections and measured to determine whether an attack is detected. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/826736 |
| ART UNIT | 2496 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/577 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 1/002 (20130101) H04L 63/1408 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 63/1425 (20130101) H04L 63/1433 (20130101) H04L 2463/144 (20130101) |
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| US 09374414 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dong Chen (Croton On Hudson, New York); Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown, New York); Noel A. Eisley (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alan Gara (Mount Kisco, New York); Philip Heidelberger (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Robert M. Senger (Tarrytown, New York); Valentina Salapura (Chappaqua, New York); Burkhard Steinmacher-Burow (Esslingen, Germany); Yutaka Sugawara (White Plains, New York); Todd E. Takken (Mount Kisco, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system and computer program product for embedding a global barrier and global interrupt network in a parallel computer system organized as a torus network. The computer system includes a multitude of nodes. In one embodiment, the method comprises taking inputs from a set of receivers of the nodes, dividing the inputs from the receivers into a plurality of classes, combining the inputs of each of the classes to obtain a result, and sending said result to a set of senders of the nodes. Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system and computer program product for embedding a collective network in a parallel computer system organized as a torus network. In one embodiment, the method comprises adding to a torus network a central collective logic to route messages among at least a group of nodes in a tree structure. |
| FILED | Monday, August 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/975943 |
| ART UNIT | 2185 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/30145 (20130101) G06F 11/348 (20130101) G06F 11/3024 (20130101) G06F 11/3409 (20130101) G06F 15/17362 (20130101) G06F 15/17381 (20130101) G06F 15/17393 (20130101) G06F 2201/88 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 67/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09374887 | Warne et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Larry K. Warne (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Lorena I. Basilio (Albuquerque, New Mexico); William L. Langston (Albuquerque, New Mexico); William A. Johnson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jon Ihlefeld (Albuquerque, New Mexico); James C. Ginn, III (Oviedo, Florida); Paul G. Clem (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Michael B. Sinclair (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry K. Warne (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Lorena I. Basilio (Albuquerque, New Mexico); William L. Langston (Albuquerque, New Mexico); William A. Johnson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jon Ihlefeld (Albuquerque, New Mexico); James C. Ginn, III (Oviedo, Florida); Paul G. Clem (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Michael B. Sinclair (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Resonances can be tuned in dielectric resonators in order to construct single-resonator, negative-index metamaterials. For example, high-contrast inclusions in the form of metallic dipoles can be used to shift the first electric resonance down (in frequency) to the first magnetic resonance, or alternatively, air splits can be used to shift the first magnetic resonance up (in frequency) near the first electric resonance. Degenerate dielectric designs become especially useful in infrared- or visible-frequency applications where the resonator sizes associated with the lack of high-permittivity materials can become of sufficient size to enable propagation of higher-order lattice modes in the resulting medium. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/618997 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Waveguides; Resonators, Lines, or Other Devices of the Waveguide Type H01P 1/2005 (20130101) H01P 7/10 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 1/024 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09374923 | Krueger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, LLC (Kansas City, Missouri); Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, LLC (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel S. Krueger (Liberty, Missouri); Kenneth A. Peterson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Dave Stockdale (Lee's Summit, Missouri); James Brent Duncan (Pleasant Hill, Missouri); Bristen Riggs (Belton, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for forming a monolithic seal frame and lid for use with a substrate and electronic circuitry comprises the steps of forming a mandrel from a ceramic and glass based material, forming a seal frame and lid block from a ceramic and glass based material, creating a seal frame and lid by forming a compartment and a plurality of sidewalls in the seal frame and lid block, placing the seal frame and lid on the mandrel such that the mandrel fits within the compartment, and cofiring the seal frame and lid block. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/091578 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 5/03 (20130101) H05K 5/0004 (20130101) H05K 5/069 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05K 13/0015 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 09370579 | Jin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hyoung-Joon Jin (Seoul, South Korea); Jae-Hyung Park (Decatur, Georgia); Regina Valluzzi (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the present invention relates to a method of preparing a fibrous protein smectic hydrogel by way of a solvent templating process, comprising the steps of pouring an aqueous fibrous protein solution into a container comprising a solvent that is not miscible with water; sealing the container and allowing it to age at about room temperature; and collecting the resulting fibrous protein smectic hydrogel and allowing it to dry. Another aspect of the present invention relates to a method of obtaining predominantly one enantiomer from a racemic mixture, comprising the steps of pouring an aqueous fibrous protein solution into a container comprising a solvent that is not miscible with water; sealing the container and allowing it to age at about room temperature; allowing the enantiomers of racemic mixture to diffuse selectively into the smectic hydrogel in solution; removing the smectic hydrogel from the solution; rinsing predominantly one enantiomer from the surface of the smectic hydrogel; and extracting predominantly one enantiomer from the interior of the smectic hydrogel. The present invention also relates to a smectic hydrogel prepared according to an aforementioned method. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/078113 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/42 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 14/43586 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/25375 (20150115) |
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| US 09370902 | Barnell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cornerstone Research Group, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Comerstone Research Group, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J. Barnell (Dayton, Ohio); Michael D. Rauscher (Beavercreek, Ohio); Rick D. Stienecker (Troy, Ohio); David M. Nickerson (Columbus, Ohio); Tat H. Tong (Bellbrook, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Method embodiments for producing a fiber-reinforced epoxy composite comprise providing a mold defining a shape for a composite, applying a fiber reinforcement over the mold, covering the mold and fiber reinforcement thereon in a vacuum enclosure, performing a vacuum on the vacuum enclosure to produce a pressure gradient, insulating at least a portion of the vacuum enclosure with thermal insulation, infusing the fiber reinforcement with a reactive mixture of uncured epoxy resin and curing agent under vacuum conditions, wherein the reactive mixture of uncured epoxy resin and curing agent generates exothermic heat, and producing the fiber-reinforced epoxy composite having a glass transition temperature of at least about 100° C. by curing the fiber reinforcement infused with the reactive mixture of uncured epoxy resin and curing agent by utilizing the exothermically generated heat, wherein the curing is conducted inside the thermally insulated vacuum enclosure without utilization of an external heat source or an external radiation source. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/045400 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| 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 37/0067 (20130101) B29C 37/0075 (20130101) B29C 70/443 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B29C 2035/0822 (20130101) B29C 2035/0827 (20130101) B29C 2035/0877 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29B, B29C or B29D, Relating to Moulding Materials or to Materials for Reinforcements, Fillers or Preformed Parts, e.g Inserts B29K 2063/00 (20130101) B29K 2301/00 (20130101) B29K 2901/00 (20130101) B29K 2905/00 (20130101) B29K 2907/04 (20130101) B29K 2909/02 (20130101) B29K 2909/08 (20130101) B29K 2911/14 (20130101) B29K 2995/0012 (20130101) B29K 2995/0013 (20130101) |
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| US 09370918 | Smeltzer, III et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley S. Smeltzer, III (Smithfield, Virginia); Eric C. Lundgren (Hermosa Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods, and apparatus for increasing durability of adhesively bonded joints in a sandwich structure. Such systems, methods, and apparatus includes an first face sheet and an second face sheet as well as an insert structure, the insert structure having a first insert face sheet, a second insert face sheet, and an insert core material. In addition, sandwich core material is arranged between the first face sheet and the second face sheet. A primary bondline may be coupled to the face sheet(s) and the splice. Further, systems, methods, and apparatus of the present disclosure advantageously reduce the load, provide a redundant path, reduce structural fatigue, and/or increase fatigue life. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/200708 |
| ART UNIT | 1781 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 37/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B32B 37/12 (20130101) Cosmonautics; Vehicles or Equipment Therefor B64G 1/002 (20130101) B64G 1/66 (20130101) Devices for Fastening or Securing Constructional Elements or Machine Parts Together, e.g Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips, Wedges, Joints or Jointing F16B 11/006 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 156/10 (20150115) Y10T 428/17 (20150115) Y10T 428/18 (20150115) Y10T 428/19 (20150115) Y10T 428/183 (20150115) Y10T 428/192 (20150115) Y10T 428/24025 (20150115) |
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| US 09371140 | Johnson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Walter W Johnson (Santa Clara, California); Joel B. Lachter (Mountain View, California); Vernol Battiste (San Jose, California); Robert W Koteskey (Danville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for providing information to a crew of the aircraft while in-flight. The system includes a module having: a receiver for receiving a message while in-flight; a filter having a set of screening parameters and operative to filter the message based on the set of screening parameters; and a converter for converting the message into an audible message. The message includes a pilot report having at least one of weather information, separation information, congestion information, flight deviation information and destination information. The message is sent to the aircraft by another aircraft or an air traffic controller. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 26, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/191246 |
| ART UNIT | 2689 — Signal Processing and Control Processing in Disk Drives |
| CURRENT CPC | Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 45/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09371855 | Voellmer |
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| APPLICANT(S) | George M. Voellmer (Takoma Park, Maryland) |
| 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) | George M. Voellmer (Takoma Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A flexure based linear bearing includes top and bottom parallel rigid plates; first and second flexures connecting the top and bottom plates and constraining exactly four degrees of freedom of relative motion of the plates, the four degrees of freedom being X and Y axis translation and rotation about the X and Y axes; and a strut connecting the top and bottom plates and further constraining exactly one degree of freedom of the plates, the one degree of freedom being one of Z axis translation and rotation about the Z axis. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/860830 |
| ART UNIT | 3679 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Shafts; Flexible Shafts; Elements or Crankshaft Mechanisms; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing Elements; Bearings F16C 32/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 403/45 (20150115) |
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| US 09372157 | Todd et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul W. Todd (Greenville, Indiana); Alan Jones (Campellsburg, Indiana); Nathan A. Thomas (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Techshot, Inc. (Greenville, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul W. Todd (Greenville, Indiana); Alan Jones (Campellsburg, Indiana); Nathan A. Thomas (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for non-invasively determining a chemical property of an aqueous solution is provided. The method provides the steps of providing a colored solute having a light absorbance spectrum and transmitting light through the colored solute at two different wavelengths. The method further provides the steps of measuring light absorbance of the colored solute at the two different transmitted light wavelengths, and comparing the light absorbance of the colored solute at the two different wavelengths to determine a chemical property of an aqueous solution. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/174124 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/80 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/255 (20130101) G01N 21/314 (20130101) G01N 2201/0642 (20130101) |
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| US 09372299 | Yi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of NASA (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) | Lin Yi (Monterey Park, California); Robert L. Tjoelker (La Crescenta, California); Eric A. Burt (Sierra Madre, California); Shouhua Huang (Arcadia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Hollow-core capillary discharge lamps on the mm or sub-mm scale are provided. The hollow-core capillary discharge lamps achieve an increased light intensity ratio between 194 mm (useful) and 254 mm (useless) light than conventional lamps. The capillary discharge lamps may include a cone to increase light output. Hollow-core photonic crystal fiber (HCPCF) may also be used. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 18, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/624682 |
| ART UNIT | 2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 3/0087 (20130101) G02B 6/0006 (20130101) G02B 6/0008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/10 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 65/042 (20130101) Plasma Technique; Production of Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles or of Neutrons; Production or Acceleration of Neutral Molecular or Atomic Beams H05H 1/46 (20130101) H05H 2001/4652 (20130101) |
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| US 09373838 | Yushin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gleb Yushin (Atlanta, Georgia); Oleksandr Magazynskyy (Atlanta, Georgia); Patrick Dixon (Dunwoody, Georgia); Benjamin Hertzberg (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia); Sila Nanotechnologies, Inc. (Alameda, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gleb Yushin (Atlanta, Georgia); Oleksandr Magazynskyy (Atlanta, Georgia); Patrick Dixon (Dunwoody, Georgia); Benjamin Hertzberg (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are improved composite anodes and lithium-ion batteries made therefrom. Further described are methods of making and using the improved anodes and batteries. In general, the anodes include a porous composite having a plurality of agglomerated nanocomposites. At least one of the plurality of agglomerated nanocomposites is formed from a dendritic particle, which is a three-dimensional, randomly-ordered assembly of nanoparticles of an electrically conducting material and a plurality of discrete non-porous nanoparticles of a non-carbon Group 4A element or mixture thereof disposed on a surface of the dendritic particle. At least one nanocomposite of the plurality of agglomerated nanocomposites has at least a portion of its dendritic particle in electrical communication with at least a portion of a dendritic particle of an adjacent nanocomposite in the plurality of agglomerated nanocomposites. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/498529 |
| ART UNIT | 1729 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/38 (20130101) H01M 4/133 (20130101) H01M 4/137 (20130101) H01M 4/366 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/386 (20130101) H01M 4/387 (20130101) H01M 4/587 (20130101) H01M 4/602 (20130101) H01M 4/625 (20130101) H01M 4/1393 (20130101) H01M 4/1395 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/12 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/7011 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/773 (20130101) |
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| US 09373891 | Bennett et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland); The United States of America, As Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland); The United States of America, As Represented by the Administration of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles L. Bennett (Baltimore, Maryland); Lingzhen Zeng (Baltimore, Maryland); Edward J. Wollack (Clarksville, Maryland); David T. Chuss (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for at least one of receiving and transmitting electromagnetic radiation includes a feedhorn having a substantially smooth, electrically conducting inner surface extending from an open end to a feed end, the inner surface being substantially rotationally symmetrical about a longitudinal axis, wherein an orthogonal distance from a point on the longitudinal axis to the substantially smooth, electrically conducting inner surface increases monotonically as the point on the longitudinal axis is selected at successively greater distances from the feed end of the feedhorn towards the open end of the feedhorn such that a profile of the substantially smooth, electrically conducting inner surface of the feedhorn is monotonically increasing. The feedhorn has an operating bandwidth and the feedhorn provides a maximum of −30 dB cross polarization response over at least 15% of the operating bandwidth. A method of producing a feedhorn for receiving or transmitting electromagnetic radiation includes determining a profile of an inner surface of the feedhorn based on constraints required to achieve a plurality of operating parameters, providing a pre-machined feedhorn having an initial inner surface, and machining the initial inner surface of the pre-machined feedhorn to substantially match the profile determined to achieve the plurality of operating parameters for the feedhorn. The determining the profile includes a constraint for the profile to be a monotonically increasing profile relative to a rotational symmetry axis of the inner surface of the feedhorn going from a narrow end to a wide end of the feedhorn. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/820514 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 13/02 (20130101) H01Q 13/0283 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49016 (20150115) Y10T 29/49018 (20150115) |
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| US 09370172 | Amy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education on behalf of the Univeristy of Nevada (Las Vegas, Nevada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education on Behalf of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (Las Vegas, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Penny S. Amy (Henderson, Nevada); Diane Gerda Yost (Las Vegas, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | Materials and Methods for lysing a strain of Paenibacillus larvae that is not P. larvae 2605, including methods for providing to an environment of a bee hive infected with the strain of P. larvae a lysing phage that also lyses with P. larvae 2605. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/162638 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 51/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09371536 | Dardick et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher D. Dardick (Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia); Ann M. Callahan (Shepherdstown, West Virginia); Ralph Scorza (Shepherdstown, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a novel gene that controls the branching angle of a tree wherein either silencing or overexpressing PpeTAC1 controls the architecture of transformed to the tree. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/243118 |
| ART UNIT | 1662 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | New Plants or Processes for Obtaining Them; Plant Reproduction by Tissue Culture Techniques A01H 1/04 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/415 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/8218 (20130101) C12N 15/8261 (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 1/6895 (20130101) C12Q 2600/13 (20130101) |
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| US 09371539 | Han et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kyung-Hwan Han (Okemos, Michigan); Jae-Heung Ko (Lansing, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kyung-Hwan Han (Okemos, Michigan); Jae-Heung Ko (Lansing, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present inventions relate to compositions and methods for providing stress tolerant transgenic plants comprising a RING domain zinc-finger motif transcription factor protein. More particularly, the invention relates to compositions and methods comprising a RING-H2 domain transcription factor protein for providing drought and salt tolerant plants, in particular comprising a recombinant XERICO gene and protein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/180953 |
| ART UNIT | 1663 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/415 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/8273 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09371562 | Khatib |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hasan Khatib (Fitchburg, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hasan Khatib (Fitchburg, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An isolated nucleic acid molecule comprising a polymorphic site selected from the group consisting of positions 164, 269, 284, 407 and 989 of SEQ ID NO: 1, an array or a kit comprising the same. Also provided are a method for detecting single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in bovine proteinase inhibitor (PI) gene, a method for haplotyping a bovine cell, a method for progeny testing of cattle based on said haplotyping, a method for selectively breeding of cattle based on haplotyping a parent animal. The present invention further provides a method for testing a dairy cattle for its milk production trait, comprising haplotyping its cells, wherein a cattle having haplotypes 1, 3, 4 or 5 indicates that the cattle has desirable milk production trait. Haplotype 1 indicates that the cattle has the most desirable milk production trait. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/981529 |
| 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 | Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 21/04 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6876 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US PP26840 | Ruter |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. Ruter (Bishop, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A new Thuja plant named ‘RutThu#1’ is very compact with dark green foliage. |
| FILED | Monday, November 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/121982 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/213 |
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Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09370515 | Goodfellow et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFIA BIO, INC. (San Diego, California); UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFIA BIO, INC. (San Diego, California); UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Val S. Goodfellow (Encinitas, California); Thong X. Nguyen (San Diego, California); Satheesh B. Ravula (San Diego, California); Harris A. Gelbard (Pittsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are imidazopyridine compounds having an inhibitory effect on mixed lineage kinases (MLKs), methods of their synthesis, and methods of their therapeutic. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds and methods of using the compounds and pharmaceutical compositions. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/201673 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/427 (20130101) A61K 31/427 (20130101) A61K 31/513 (20130101) A61K 31/536 (20130101) A61K 31/536 (20130101) A61K 31/4402 (20130101) A61K 31/4402 (20130101) A61K 31/5025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/5025 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 487/04 (20130101) C07D 513/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09371369 | Schellenberger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Amunix Operating Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Amunix Operating Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Volker Schellenberger (Palo Alto, California); Joshua Silverman (Sunnyvale, California); Chia-Wei Wang (Milpitas, California); Benjamin Spink (San Carlos, California); Willem P. Stemmer (Los Gatos, California); Nathan Geething (Santa Clara, California); Wayne To (Fremont, California); Jeffrey L. Cleland (San Carlos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions comprising biologically active proteins linked to extended recombinant polypeptide (XTEN), isolated nucleic acids encoding the compositions and vectors and host cells containing the same, and methods of using such compositions in treatment of glucose-related diseases, metabolic diseases, coagulation disorders, and growth hormone-related disorders and conditions. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/168973 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/001 (20130101) C07K 14/47 (20130101) C07K 14/61 (20130101) C07K 14/545 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/605 (20130101) C07K 14/745 (20130101) C07K 2319/31 (20130101) C07K 2319/35 (20130101) |
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| US 09373838 | Yushin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gleb Yushin (Atlanta, Georgia); Oleksandr Magazynskyy (Atlanta, Georgia); Patrick Dixon (Dunwoody, Georgia); Benjamin Hertzberg (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia); Sila Nanotechnologies, Inc. (Alameda, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gleb Yushin (Atlanta, Georgia); Oleksandr Magazynskyy (Atlanta, Georgia); Patrick Dixon (Dunwoody, Georgia); Benjamin Hertzberg (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are improved composite anodes and lithium-ion batteries made therefrom. Further described are methods of making and using the improved anodes and batteries. In general, the anodes include a porous composite having a plurality of agglomerated nanocomposites. At least one of the plurality of agglomerated nanocomposites is formed from a dendritic particle, which is a three-dimensional, randomly-ordered assembly of nanoparticles of an electrically conducting material and a plurality of discrete non-porous nanoparticles of a non-carbon Group 4A element or mixture thereof disposed on a surface of the dendritic particle. At least one nanocomposite of the plurality of agglomerated nanocomposites has at least a portion of its dendritic particle in electrical communication with at least a portion of a dendritic particle of an adjacent nanocomposite in the plurality of agglomerated nanocomposites. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/498529 |
| ART UNIT | 1729 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/38 (20130101) H01M 4/133 (20130101) H01M 4/137 (20130101) H01M 4/366 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/386 (20130101) H01M 4/387 (20130101) H01M 4/587 (20130101) H01M 4/602 (20130101) H01M 4/625 (20130101) H01M 4/1393 (20130101) H01M 4/1395 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/12 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/7011 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/773 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09374076 | Klug, Jr. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert R. Klug, Jr. (Fredericksburg, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | McQ Inc. (Fredericksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert R. Klug, Jr. (Fredericksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A solid state relay and method for enabling and disabling power to a load are disclosed. A fast turn-on circuit and fast turn-off circuit receive control signals in an isolated manner. The control signals allow only one of the fast turn-on circuit and fast turn-off circuit to be enabled at a time. A power switching circuit that enables power to be supplied to a load when the fast turn-on circuit is enabled and the fast turn-off circuit is disabled state, and disables the power from being supplied to the load when the fast turn-on circuit is disabled and the fast turn-off circuit is enabled. A power supply circuit provides isolated power used by the fast turn-on and fast turn-off circuits to drive or discharge a gate in the power switching circuit. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/413424 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse Technique H03K 17/78 (20130101) H03K 17/04123 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03K 2217/0081 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Classified Government Agency
| US 09372115 | Oskotsky et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark L. Oskotsky (Mamaroneck, New York); Daniel Engheben (Roslyn Heights, New York); John J. MacEachin (Massapequa, New York); Jacinto E. Malabuyoc (Holbrook, New York); Shawn C. Reven (Greenlawn, New York); Michael J. Russo, Jr. (Roslyn, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An airborne hyperspectral scanning system with a reflective telecentric relay including a system housing fore-optics, mounted in the housing, an imaging spectrometer mounted in the housing, the imaging spectrometer comprising a spectrometer slit, the spectrometer slit having an exit side and an entrance side, a focal plane array, a fold mirror, and at least three spectrometer mirrors, ordered sequentially, and in optical alignment with each other, and a reflective telecentric relay, mounted in the housing between the fore-optics and the imaging spectrometer, the reflective telecentric relay comprising a collimator module, a scanning mirror module, and an objective module, the objective module being situated to receive intermediate image from the fore-optics and reflect a collimated beam to the scanning mirror image between the collimator module and the objective module, wherein the objective module is situated to form a telecentric image at the entrance of the spectrometer slit. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/451545 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — 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 3/04 (20130101) G01J 3/0205 (20130101) G01J 3/2823 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 09372157 | Todd et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul W. Todd (Greenville, Indiana); Alan Jones (Campellsburg, Indiana); Nathan A. Thomas (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Techshot, Inc. (Greenville, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul W. Todd (Greenville, Indiana); Alan Jones (Campellsburg, Indiana); Nathan A. Thomas (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for non-invasively determining a chemical property of an aqueous solution is provided. The method provides the steps of providing a colored solute having a light absorbance spectrum and transmitting light through the colored solute at two different wavelengths. The method further provides the steps of measuring light absorbance of the colored solute at the two different transmitted light wavelengths, and comparing the light absorbance of the colored solute at the two different wavelengths to determine a chemical property of an aqueous solution. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/174124 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/80 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/255 (20130101) G01N 21/314 (20130101) G01N 2201/0642 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 09372231 | Maliuk 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) | Dzmitry S. Maliuk (Addison, Texas); Franco Stellari (Waldwick, New Jersey); Alan J. Weger (Mohegan Lake, New York); Peilin Song (Lagrangeville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A scan chain latch circuit, a method of operating a latch circuit in a scan chain, and a computer-readable medium having stored thereon a data structure defining a scan chain latch circuit for instantiation on a semiconductor die are disclosed. In an embodiment, the scan chain latch circuit comprises a first latch for holding one data value, a second latch for holding another data value, and a multiplexor. The one data value is applied to a first data input of the multiplexor and the another data value is applied to a second data input of the multiplexor. An alternating clock signal is applied to a select input of the multiplexor to control the output of the multiplexor, wherein the output of the multiplexor toggles between the two data values held in the two latches at a defined frequency. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 31, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/985681 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 31/3177 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 31/31727 (20130101) G01R 31/318516 (20130101) G01R 31/318541 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
| US 09373023 | Stoker |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Stoker (Burlingame, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI INTERNATIONAL (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Stoker (Burlingame, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for standoff facial and ocular acquisition. Embodiments of the invention address the problems of atmospheric turbulence, defocus, and field of view in a way that minimizes the need for additional hardware. One embodiment of a system for acquiring an image of a facial feature of a subject includes a single wide field of view sensor configured to acquire a plurality of images over a large depth of field containing the subject and a post processor coupled to the single sensor and configured to synthesize the image of the facial feature from the plurality of images. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/402038 |
| ART UNIT | 2488 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00255 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 13/0239 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 09371222 | Shaw et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gordon A. Shaw (Plymouth, Minnesota); Daniel Baseman (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Chris Finn (Maple Lake, Minnesota); Jim G. Hunter (Robbinsdale, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Microstructure plating systems and methods are described herein. One method includes depositing a plating-resistant material between a microstructure and a bonding layer, wherein the microstructure comprises a plating process base material and immersing the microstructure in a plating solution. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/839923 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Microstructural Devices or Systems, e.g Micromechanical Devices B81B 2201/0292 (20130101) Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/0015 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B81C 2201/0197 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09372546 | Yin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Binghamton, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Binghamton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lijun Yin (Vestal, New York); Shaun Canavan (Vestal, New York); Kaoning Hu (Vestal, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Hand pointing has been an intuitive gesture for human interaction with computers. A hand pointing estimation system is provided, based on two regular cameras, which includes hand region detection, hand finger estimation, two views' feature detection, and 3D pointing direction estimation. The technique may employ a polar coordinate system to represent the hand region, and tests show a good result in terms of the robustness to hand orientation variation. To estimate the pointing direction, Active Appearance Models are employed to detect and track, e.g., 14 feature points along the hand contour from a top view and a side view. Combining two views of the hand features, the 3D pointing direction is estimated. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 03, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/844815 |
| ART UNIT | 2667 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/017 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 3/0304 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/52 (20130101) G06K 9/00335 (20130101) G06K 9/00355 (20130101) G06K 9/00375 (20130101) G06K 9/621 (20130101) G06K 9/00624 (20130101) G06K 9/4614 (20130101) G06K 9/4652 (20130101) G06K 2009/4666 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0042 (20130101) G06T 7/0097 (20130101) G06T 2207/20144 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09373881 | Thompson, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Basil W. Thompson, Jr. (Hooksett, New Hampshire); Robert D. Smith (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Almer M. Garnett (Hudson, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Basil W. Thompson, Jr. (Hooksett, New Hampshire); Robert D. Smith (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Almer M. Garnett (Hudson, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A low RCS array panel employs a number of linkable support segments. Each support segment has several junctions spaced along it, and the support segments are designed to connect with each other at the junctions to create a support grid. The segments can connect orthogonally, and the junctions can be spaced according to the frequency performance requirements for the antenna the array panel is designed to support. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/569754 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 1/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01Q 21/061 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49016 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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