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| US 09375151 | Hopenfeld et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ANGEL MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC. (Fair Haven, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Angel Medical Systems, Inc. (Fair Haven, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Hopenfeld (Salt Lake City, Utah); Steven R. Johnson (Fair Haven, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for detecting acute ischemia is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of determining ST segment deviations and storing the results in heart rate based histograms. The histogram data is periodically analyzed to estimate a true range of ST deviation for a particular heart rate range. A current threshold for a heart rate range is set by estimating the true range of ST deviations within that bin, determining the median value of ST deviations within the range, and basing thresholds on the range and median value. The true range for a particular heart rate bin is estimated by locating ST deviation values between which reside a predetermined percentage of all ST deviation values collected for that bin. |
| FILED | Friday, September 25, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/865141 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0022 (20130101) A61B 5/742 (20130101) A61B 5/746 (20130101) A61B 5/02028 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09375156 | Narayan 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); THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanjiv Narayan (La Jolla, California); Wouter-Jan Rappel (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system to detect a cause of a complex rhythm disorder in a human heart includes a plurality of sensors disposed spatially in relation to the heart, where the signals generated by the sensors are associated with activations of the heart. A processor collects and analyzes the signals to identify a region of the heart having an activation trail that is rotational or radially emanating, where the activation trail is indicative of the complex rhythm disorder and is based on activation times associated with the activations of the heart. |
| FILED | Monday, April 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/257939 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/02 (20130101) A61B 5/04 (20130101) A61B 5/044 (20130101) A61B 5/046 (20130101) A61B 5/0245 (20130101) A61B 5/0402 (20130101) A61B 5/0452 (20130101) A61B 5/0464 (20130101) A61B 5/726 (20130101) A61B 5/02405 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/04011 (20130101) A61B 5/04012 (20130101) A61B 5/4836 (20130101) A61B 5/7203 (20130101) A61B 18/1206 (20130101) A61B 18/1492 (20130101) A61B 2018/00214 (20130101) A61B 2018/00357 (20130101) A61B 2018/00839 (20130101) A61B 2018/1435 (20130101) |
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| US 09375158 | Vakoc et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Benjamin J. Vakoc (Arlington, Massachusetts); Guillermo J. Tearney (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Brett E. Bouma (Quincy, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin J. Vakoc (Arlington, Massachusetts); Guillermo J. Tearney (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Brett E. Bouma (Quincy, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An exemplary apparatus and/or an exemplary method can be provided using which, it is possible (e.g., with at least one first arrangement) to measure an amplitude and/or a phase of at least one electromagnetic radiation provided from a particular portion of a sample. Further, it is possible (e.g., using at least one second arrangement) to scan a location of the particular portion along a path from a first point of the sample to a second point of the sample. In addition, it is possible to control the scan (e.g., with the second arrangement) such that the scan may comprise at least one first segment having a positive velocity and at least one segment having a negative velocity. A first distance of the first segment and/or the second segment can be smaller than a second distance between the first and second points. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/183630 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0066 (20130101) A61B 5/0073 (20130101) A61B 5/0261 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09375160 | Parlikar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tushar A. Parlikar (Somerville, Massachusetts); Gireeja V. Ranade (Berkeley, California); Thomas Heldt (Cambridge, Massachusetts); George C. Verghese (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tushar A. Parlikar (Somerville, Massachusetts); Gireeja V. Ranade (Berkeley, California); Thomas Heldt (Cambridge, Massachusetts); George C. Verghese (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The methods and systems for estimating cardiac output and total peripheral resistance include observing arterial blood pressure waveforms to determine intra-beat and inter-beat variability in arterial blood pressure and estimating from the variability a time constant for a lumped parameter beat-to-beat averaged Windkessel model of the arterial tree. Uncalibrated cardiac output and uncalibrated total peripheral resistance may then be calculated from the time constant. Calibrated cardiac output and calibrated total peripheral resistance may be computed using calibration data, assuming an arterial compliance that is either constant or dependent on mean arterial blood pressure. The parameters of the arterial compliance may be estimated in a least-squares manner. |
| FILED | Monday, September 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/607924 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/021 (20130101) A61B 5/029 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/02007 (20130101) A61B 5/02405 (20130101) |
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| US 09375161 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peng-Sheng Chen (Indianapolis, Indiana); Shien-Fong Lin (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INDIANA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH and TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peng-Sheng Chen (Indianapolis, Indiana); Shien-Fong Lin (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method has been developed that detects cardiac arrhythmia from intrinsic cardiac nerve signals obtained from a heart in a patient. The method includes sampling intrinsic cardiac nerve activity at a high sample rate, filtering the sampled signal with a high pass filter, comparing the filtered signal to a predetermined threshold, and initiating a therapeutic action in response to the filtered signal exceeding the predetermined threshold. The intrinsic cardiac nerve activity may be received through an electrode implanted on the heart or from an electrode inserted into the venous structure of the heart. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/127617 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/04001 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/6846 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/395 (20130101) A61N 1/3624 (20130101) |
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| US 09375184 | Boettger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Siemens Corporation (Iselin, New Jersey); Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (Munich, Germany); Siemens plc (Camberley, United Kingdom); University of Iowa (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Technische Universität München (München, Germany); Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (München, Germany); Siemens Corporation (Iselin, New Jersey); Siemens Healthcare GmbH (Erlangen, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Boettger (Erlangen, Germany); Francois Carnis (Antony, France); Dorin Comaniciu (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Jerome Declerck (Oxford, United Kingdom); Bernhard Fuerst (Angerberg, Austria); Ali Kamen (Skillman, New Jersey); Tommaso Mansi (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Jingdan Zhang (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for prediction of respiratory motion from 3D thoracic images is disclosed. A patient-specific anatomical model of the respiratory system is generated from 3D thoracic images of a patient. The patient-specific anatomical model of the respiratory system is deformed using a biomechanical model. The biomechanical model is personalized for the patient by estimating a patient-specific thoracic pressure force field to drive the biomechanical model. Respiratory motion of the patient is predicted using the personalized biomechanical model driven by the patient-specific thoracic pressure force field. |
| FILED | Monday, August 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/467246 |
| ART UNIT | 2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/113 (20130101) A61B 5/1128 (20130101) A61B 5/7275 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/3437 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/2046 (20130101) G06T 2207/10072 (20130101) G06T 2207/30061 (20130101) |
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| US 09375424 | Su et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xin-zhuan Su (Potomac, Maryland); Jing Yuan (Rockville, Maryland); Dipak Raj (Providence, Rhode Island); Sittiporn Pattaradilokrat (Rockville, Maryland); Ron Johnson (Derwood, Maryland); Ruili Huang (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Dept. of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xin-zhuan Su (Potomac, Maryland); Jing Yuan (Rockville, Maryland); Dipak Raj (Providence, Rhode Island); Sittiporn Pattaradilokrat (Rockville, Maryland); Ron Johnson (Derwood, Maryland); Ruili Huang (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and compounds for the treatment and prevention of malaria infection and transmission in a mammal by administering compounds of the invention to a mammal having or suspected of having a malaria infection. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions that can kill or arrest the growth of Plasmodium organisms, and especially Plasmodium falciparum, thereby preventing or blocking transmission of malaria as well as treating malaria infection. |
| FILED | Friday, August 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/392668 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 8/4973 (20130101) A61K 31/4535 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/4535 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09375438 | Simard |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland); The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland); The United States of America as Represented by the Dept. of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Marc Simard (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are provided that are utilized for treatment and/or prevention of intraventricular hemorrhage or progressive hemorrhagic necrosis (PHN), particularly following spinal cord injury. In particular, the methods and compositions are inhibitors of a particular NCca-ATP channel and include, for example, inhibitors of SURI and/or inhibitors of TRPM4. Kits for treatment and/or prevention of intraventricular hemorrhage or progressive hemorrhagic necrosis (PHN), particularly following spinal cord injury, are also provided. The present invention also concerns treatment and/or prevention of intraventricular hemorrhage in infants, including premature infants utilizing one or more inhibitors of the channel is provided to the infant, for example to brain cells of the infant. |
| FILED | Friday, September 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/040104 |
| ART UNIT | 1613 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/00 (20130101) A61K 31/64 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/64 (20130101) A61K 31/195 (20130101) A61K 31/198 (20130101) A61K 31/451 (20130101) A61K 31/454 (20130101) A61K 31/4453 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09375474 | Fatatis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alessandro Fatatis (Penn Valley, Pennsylvania); Joseph M. Salvino (Chester Springs, Pennsylvania); Olimpia Meucci (Penn Valley, Pennsylvania); Whitney L. Gladney (Glenolden, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Alliance Discovery, Inc. (Doylestown, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alessandro Fatatis (Penn Valley, Pennsylvania); Joseph M. Salvino (Chester Springs, Pennsylvania); Olimpia Meucci (Penn Valley, Pennsylvania); Whitney L. Gladney (Glenolden, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes compositions that are useful in preventing or treating metastasis in a subject diagnosed with cancer. The present invention also includes methods of preventing or treating metastasis in a subject diagnosed with cancer, wherein the method comprises administering to the subject in need thereof an effective amount of a pharmaceutical formulation comprising at least one pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and at least one CX3CR1 or fractalkine antagonist. |
| FILED | Monday, February 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/776220 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/451 (20130101) A61K 31/453 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 39/3955 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 403/04 (20130101) C07D 487/04 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/28 (20130101) |
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| US 09375484 | Hoye et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas R. Hoye (St. Paul, Minnesota); Adam Wohl (St. Paul, Minnesota); Christopher W. Macosko (St. Paul, Minnesota); Jayanth Panyam (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas R. Hoye (St. Paul, Minnesota); Adam Wohl (St. Paul, Minnesota); Christopher W. Macosko (St. Paul, Minnesota); Jayanth Panyam (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides silicate prodrugs comprising a therapeutic agent linked to one or more groups of formula (I): —Si(OR)3 (I); wherein each R independently has any of the values defined herein, as well as nanoparticles comprising such compounds. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/123448 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 9/19 (20130101) A61K 9/5153 (20130101) A61K 31/695 (20130101) A61K 47/48023 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 7/045 (20130101) |
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| US 09375491 | Boye et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanford Leon Boye (Gainesville, Florida); Frank Markus Dyka (Gainesville, Florida); William W. Hauswirth (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention concerns materials and methods for providing for cone cell specific expression of a polynucleotide in a human or animal. One aspect of the invention concerns a polynucleotide promoter sequence that directs expression of an operably linked polynucleotide in cone cells. In one embodiment, a polynucleotide of the invention comprises a nucleotide sequence of an interphotoreceptor retinoid-binding protein (IRBP) gene that is positioned upstream of a promoter nucleotide sequence of a cone transducin alpha-subunit (GNAT2) gene. Another aspect of the subject invention concerns methods for expressing a selected polynucleotide in cone cells. The selected polynucleotide can be provided in a polynucleotide of the invention wherein the selected polynucleotide is operably linked to a polynucleotide promoter sequence of the invention. In one embodiment, the selected polynucleotide sequence is provided in a polynucleotide vector of the invention. The vector comprising the selected polynucleotide is then introduced into a cell. The selected polynucleotide is expressed only in cone cells, with very little, if any, expression in rods or other cells. A selected polynucleotide can be one that encodes, for example, a therapeutic protein or a functional protein that is defective or underexpressed in the targeted cone cells. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/354471 |
| 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 48/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 2750/14143 (20130101) C12N 2830/008 (20130101) C12N 2830/85 (20130101) |
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| US 09375496 | Andersen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada); British Columbia Cancer Agency Branch (Vancouver, Canada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | British Columbia Cancer Agency Branch (, Canada); The University of British Columbia (, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond John Andersen (Vancouver, Canada); Carmen Adriana Banuelos (Richmond, Canada); Javier Garcia Fernandez (Colunga, Spain); Yusuke Imamura (Chiba, Japan); Jian Kunzhong (Vancouver, Canada); Nasrin R. Mawji (Burnaby, Canada); Marianne Dorothy Sadar (West Vancouver, Canada); Jun Wang (Surrey, Canada); Amy (Hsing Chen) Tien (Vancouver, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds having a structure of Formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, tautomer or stereoisomer thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, X1, X2, X3 and X4 are as defined herein, and wherein the compound comprises at least one F, Cl, Br, I or 123I moiety, are provided. Uses of such compounds for imaging diagnostics in cancer and therapeutics methods for treatment of subjects in need thereof, including prostate cancer as well as methods and intermediates for preparing such compounds are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 09, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/481727 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/09 (20130101) A61K 31/09 (20130101) A61K 31/167 (20130101) A61K 31/167 (20130101) A61K 31/225 (20130101) A61K 31/225 (20130101) A61K 31/275 (20130101) A61K 31/275 (20130101) A61K 31/4166 (20130101) A61K 31/4166 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 51/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) General Methods of Organic Chemistry; Apparatus Therefor C07B 59/001 (20130101) C07B 2200/05 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 43/23 (20130101) C07C 57/58 (20130101) C07C 69/63 (20130101) |
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| US 09375516 | Thomopoulos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stavros Thomopoulos (St. Louis, Missouri); Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert (St. Louis, Missouri); Matthew Silva (St. Louis, Missouri); Richard Gelberman (St. Louis, Missouri); Younan Xia (St. Louis, Missouri); Andrea Schwartz (St. Louis, Missouri); Jingwei Xie (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | A growth factor delivery scaffold combines a heparin/fibrin-based delivery system (HBDS) with a backbone based on polymer nanofibers for tissue (e.g., tendon and ligament) repair. The scaffold has improved surgical handling properties compared to the gelatinous consistency of the prior art HBDS system and retains the capability for delivering mesenchymal cells and controlling the release of growth factors. One application for the scaffold is mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) therapy for flexor tendon repair. The scaffold can deliver growth factors in a sustained manner, can be implanted for flexor tendon repair, is biocompatible, and is not cytotoxic. The growth factor delivery scaffold may also be used in the surgical repair of an injury to bone, muscle, cartilage, or other tissues. |
| FILED | Friday, January 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/158011 |
| 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 | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2002/30766 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/18 (20130101) A61L 27/26 (20130101) A61L 27/54 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101) C07K 14/75 (20130101) C07K 14/475 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/6429 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 156/10 (20150115) |
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| US 09375684 | Bhattacharyya et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dibakar Bhattacharyya (Lexington, Kentucky); Vasile Smuleac (Lexington, Kentucky); Rajender S. Varma (Cincinnati, Ohio); Subhas K. Sikdar (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dibakar Bhattacharyya (Lexington, Kentucky); Vasile Smuleac (Lexington, Kentucky); Rajender S. Varma (Cincinnati, Ohio); Subhas K. Sikdar (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanocomposite membrane includes a macroporous polymer membrane having a plurality of pores. A plurality of metal nanoparticles are synthesized and immobilized within those plurality of pores. The nanoparticles are reduced and capped with a green reducing and capping agent such as green tea extract. |
| FILED | Monday, April 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/459315 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 67/0079 (20130101) B01D 67/0088 (20130101) B01D 67/0093 (20130101) B01D 69/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 71/022 (20130101) B01D 71/34 (20130101) B01D 71/40 (20130101) B01D 71/44 (20130101) B01D 2323/30 (20130101) B01D 2323/40 (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) Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/001 (20130101) C02F 1/70 (20130101) |
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| US 09375873 | Gracias et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David H. Gracias (Baltimore, Maryland); Mustapha Jamal (Clarksville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David H. Gracias (Baltimore, Maryland); Mustapha Jamal (Clarksville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing curved, folded or reconfigurable structures includes providing a polymer film, exposing the polymer film to at least one of patterned radiation or patterned chemical contact, and conditioning the polymer film subsequent to the exposing. The polymer film includes a polymer that is active to cross-linking of polymer chains in response to the exposing. The exposing is performed such that at least one exposed region of the polymer film develops a gradient in an amount of cross-linking of polymer chains along a cross-sectional direction of the polymer film, and the conditioning of the polymer film removes uncross-linked polymer chains to provide a curved, folded or reconfigurable structure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/880321 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502707 (20130101) B01L 2200/10 (20130101) B01L 2200/12 (20130101) B01L 2300/123 (20130101) Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 59/005 (20130101) B29C 59/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00007 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 3/245 (20130101) Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 1/38 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24628 (20150115) Y10T 428/24802 (20150115) |
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| US 09376311 | Rahmanian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Omid Rahmanian (Washington, District of Columbia); Chien-Fu Chen (Kaohsiung, Taiwan); Donald Lad Devoe (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A new process enabling rapid and efficient desktop manufacturing of microfluidic devices fabricated from thermoplastic substrates utilizing the selective irreversible swelling of thermoplastic polymer when exposed to suitable solvent makes it possible to produce micro- or nano-fluidic devices with outstanding bonding and collapse free micro- or nano-structures. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/109711 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Microstructural Devices or Systems, e.g Micromechanical Devices B81B 2201/058 (20130101) Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00119 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B81C 3/001 (20130101) B81C 2203/032 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24331 (20150115) |
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| US 09376383 | Stock et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeffry B. Stock (Princeton, New Jersey); Maxwell Stock (Rocky Hill, New Jersey); Keshava Rapole (Edison, New Jersey); Seung-Yub Lee (Princeton, New Jersey); Michael Voronkov (Pennington, New Jersey); Eduardo Perez (Somerset, New Jersey); Joel Gordon (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Shuyi Chen (Somerset, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SIGNUM BIOSCIENCES, INC. (Monmouth Junction, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffry B. Stock (Princeton, New Jersey); Maxwell Stock (Rocky Hill, New Jersey); Keshava Rapole (Edison, New Jersey); Seung-Yub Lee (Princeton, New Jersey); Michael Voronkov (Pennington, New Jersey); Eduardo Perez (Somerset, New Jersey); Joel Gordon (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Shuyi Chen (Somerset, New Jersey); Jinglong Chen (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | Among other things, the present invention provides novel isoprenyl compounds capable of effectively modulating inflammatory responses and pharmaceutical, cosmetic, cosmeceutical and topical compositions comprising these isoprenyl compounds. Anti-inflammatory compounds of the present invention are useful in treating or preventing diseases or conditions associated with inflammation. Proinflammatory compounds of the present invention are useful in treating or preventing diseases or conditions associated with suppression of inflammatory responses. Thus, the present invention also provides methods useful in the treatment or prevention of diseases or conditions associated with inflammation as well as methods useful in the treatment or prevention of diseases or conditions associated with suppression of inflammatory responses. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/760627 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 321/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 323/59 (20130101) C07C 335/08 (20130101) C07C 2101/02 (20130101) C07C 2101/14 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/16 (20130101) C07D 209/18 (20130101) C07D 209/48 (20130101) C07D 217/26 (20130101) C07D 243/34 (20130101) C07D 295/145 (20130101) C07D 307/54 (20130101) C07D 333/24 (20130101) |
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| US 09376406 | Meroueh |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Samy Meroueh (Carmel, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samy Meroueh (Carmel, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention described herein pertains to compounds, compositions and formulations comprising the compounds, and methods for use of the compounds, compositions and/or formulations in the treatment of diseases responsive to the inhibition of uPAR-uPA interactions, such as cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, March 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/002814 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 261/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 413/04 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5008 (20130101) |
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| US 09376421 | Zimmerman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven C. Zimmerman (Champaign, Illinois); Long M. Luu (Urbana, Illinois); Lien T. T. Nguyen (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides rationally designed multi-targeting therapeutic agents for myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), an incurable neuromuscular disease that originates in an abnormal expansion of CTG repeats (CTGexp) in the DMPK gene. The rationally designed small molecules target the DM1 pathobiology in three distinct ways: (1) binding the expanded trinucleotide repeat, CTGexp, and inhibiting its transcription to the toxic CUGexp RNA, (2) binding the CUGexp RNA and releasing sequestered muscleblind-like protein (MBNL1), and (3) cleaving the toxic CUGexp in an RNase-like manner. Importantly, the compounds can reduce the levels of CUGexp in DM1 model cells and reverse two separate CUGexp-induced phenotypes of DM1. |
| FILED | Monday, August 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/822796 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 401/12 (20130101) C07D 401/14 (20130101) C07D 403/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09376430 | Hoffman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul S. Hoffman (Charlottesville, Virginia); Richard L. Guerrant (Charlottesville, Virginia); Timothy L. Macdonald (Charlottesville, Virginia); Thomas Eric Ballard, Jr. (Middletown, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PATENT FOUNDATION (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul S. Hoffman (Charlottesville, Virginia); Richard L. Guerrant (Charlottesville, Virginia); Timothy L. Macdonald (Charlottesville, Virginia); Thomas Eric Ballard, Jr. (Middletown, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides novel antimicrobial chemical entities based on a nitrothiazolide backbone that exhibit antibacterial and antiparasitic action against a wide range of human pathogens. The new classes of compounds show extended action against Gram positive bacteria including MRSA drug resistant pathogens. In the Gram-positive organisms, they specifically target and functionally inhibit microbial attachment to surfaces and biofilm formation. In Gram-negative bacteria, including enteroaggregative E. coli strains, these compounds function as pilicides by inhibiting the assembly of pilin subunits into adhesive filaments. Several of these compounds show potent antimicrobial action against Gram positive bacteria, perhaps involving novel targets. Many of the benzothiophene derivatives exhibit antimicrobial activity in the low micrograms per ml range and in blocking biofilm formation in the nanomolar range; ranges considered are well within the range of utility as therapeutics. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/446793 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/381 (20130101) A61K 31/426 (20130101) A61K 31/427 (20130101) A61K 31/4439 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 277/54 (20130101) C07D 277/58 (20130101) C07D 333/42 (20130101) C07D 333/44 (20130101) C07D 409/12 (20130101) C07D 417/12 (20130101) C07D 417/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09376452 | Wandinger-Ness et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico); UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ST. UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Angela Wandinger-Ness (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Larry Sklar (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jacob Agola (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Zurab Surviladze (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jeffrey Aube (Lawrence, Kansas); Jennifer Golden (Olathe, Kansas); Chad E. Schroeder (Lawrence, Kansas); Denise S. Simpson (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to compounds and their use as inhibitors or activators of Rab7 GTPase to treat or prevent the onset of Rab 7 GTPase-associated disorders such as neuropathies, cancer, metabolic diseases of bone and lipid storage. The invention is also applicable to infectious diseases where Rab7 is inactivated or its protein-protein interactions are modulated to facilitate intracellular survival of pathogens. The compound described acts as a competitive inhibitor of nucleotide binding and as such also has utility as a scaffold for targeting other small GTPases. In one aspect, methods of treatment of the invention are used to treat or prevent the onset of hereditary sensory neuropathies such as Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 2B disease. Related pharmaceutical compositions, assays, and drug screens are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/278468 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/381 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 495/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09376454 | Burns et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | VenatoRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Malvern, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | VENATORX PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (Malvern, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher J. Burns (Malvern, Pennsylvania); Denis Daigle (Havre de Grace, Maryland); Bin Liu (Dayton, New Jersey); Daniel McGarry (Exton, Pennsylvania); Daniel C. Pevear (Downingtown, Pennsylvania); Robert E. Lee Trout (Collegeville, Pennsylvania); Randy W. Jackson (Livingston, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are compounds and compositions that modulate the activity of beta-lactamases. In some embodiments, the compounds described herein inhibit beta-lactamase. In certain embodiments, the compounds described herein are useful in the treatment of bacterial infections. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/693318 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/69 (20130101) A61K 31/407 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/546 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (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 09376465 | McInnes et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Campbell McInnes (Irmo, South Carolina); Shu Liu (West Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Structural and functional analysis of peptide inhibitor binding to the cyclin D and cyclin A groove has been investigated and used to design peptides that provide the basis for structure-activity relationships, have improved binding and have potential for development as chemical biology probes, as potential diagnostics and as therapeutics in the treatment of proliferative diseases including cancer and inflammation. |
| FILED | Monday, September 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/492753 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/07 (20130101) Peptides C07K 5/101 (20130101) C07K 5/0202 (20130101) C07K 5/0821 (20130101) C07K 5/1016 (20130101) C07K 5/1019 (20130101) C07K 5/1024 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 5/06095 (20130101) C07K 5/06139 (20130101) C07K 14/4738 (20130101) |
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| US 09376466 | Troy |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the city of New York (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carol M. Troy (Hastings-on-Hudson, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions, including membrane permeable complexes, comprising a Caspase 2 activation inhibitory peptide having the amino acid sequence AFDAFC as well as methods of using the same for the treatment of neurodegenerative conditions associated with apoptosis in the central nervous system, such as Alzheimer's Disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Parkinson's Disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Huntington's chorea, and Creutzfeld-Jacob disease. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/201132 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09376469 | Arora et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paramjit S. Arora (Huntington, New York); Anupam Patgiri (New York, New York); Stephen Joy (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to peptidomimetics having a stable, internally constrained protein secondary structure, where the peptidomimetics contain a hydrogen bond surrogate in the internal constraint, and at least one beta amino acid. Methods for promoting cell death using peptidomimetics that inhibit p53/hDM2 are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, December 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/724887 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/02 (20130101) A61K 38/31 (20130101) Peptides C07K 2/00 (20130101) C07K 4/00 (20130101) C07K 7/50 (20130101) C07K 7/54 (20130101) C07K 7/56 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09376472 | Marconi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY (Richmond, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard T. Marconi (Midlothian, Virginia); Christopher Earnhart (Williamsburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A chimeric polyvalent recombinant protein for use as a vaccine and diagnostic for Lyme disease is provided. The chimeric protein comprises epitopes of the loop 5 region and/or the alpha helix 5 region of outer surface protein C (OspC) types. The OspC types may be associated with mammalian Borrelia infections. |
| FILED | Monday, June 09, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/299211 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 39/0225 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2319/40 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2333/20 (20130101) |
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| US 09376481 | Gonias et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven L. Gonias (San Diego, California); Travis Stiles (La Jolla, California); Alban Gaultier (Charlottesville, Virginia); Wendy M. Campana (La Jolla, California); Katerina Akassoglou (San Francisco, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); J. David Gladsone Institutes (San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven L. Gonias (San Diego, California); Travis Stiles (La Jolla, California); Alban Gaultier (Charlottesville, Virginia); Wendy M. Campana (La Jolla, California); Katerina Akassoglou (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods for promoting and/or restoring neurite outgrowth and neuronal regeneration by contacting an injured neuron with an inhibitor of low density lipoprotein receptor-related protein-1 (LRP-1). |
| FILED | Thursday, April 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/113626 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/18 (20130101) A61K 38/18 (20130101) A61K 38/177 (20130101) A61K 38/177 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/705 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/28 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 15/1138 (20130101) |
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| US 09376485 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick C. S. Wang (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Mark H. Fogg (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are compositions, methods, and uses relating to an EBV-neutralizing antibody. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/380978 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/42 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/085 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2316/96 (20130101) C07K 2317/24 (20130101) C07K 2317/56 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) |
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| US 09376499 | Kuliopulos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tufts Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tufts Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Athan Kuliopulos (Winchester, Massachusetts); Georgios Koukos (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Matrix metalloproteases (MMPs) play many important roles in normal and pathological remodeling processes including atherothrombotic disease, inflammation, angiogenesis and cancer. This invention relates to the activation of protease-activated receptor-1 (PAR-1) by endogenous platelet MMP-1 collagenase on the surface of platelets. Exposure of platelets to fibrillar collagen converts the surface-bound pro-MMP-1 zymogen to active MMP-1, which promotes aggregation through PAR-1. MMP-1 is shown to cleave the PAR-1 extracellular domain at a novel site, which then strongly activates Rho-GTP signaling pathways, cell shape change and motility, and MAPK signaling. Blockade of MMP-PAR1 suppresses thrombogenesis under arterial flow conditions and inhibited thrombosis in animals. These studies provide a link between matrix-dependent activation of metalloproteases and platelet-G protein signaling and identify MMP-1/PAR-1 as a new target for the treatment and prevention of arterial thrombosis and other thrombotic diseases. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/460353 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/00 (20130101) A61K 31/65 (20130101) A61K 38/08 (20130101) A61K 38/10 (20130101) A61K 39/3955 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (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 17/005 (20130101) A61L 27/54 (20130101) A61L 29/16 (20130101) A61L 31/16 (20130101) A61L 2300/42 (20130101) A61L 2300/434 (20130101) A61L 2300/436 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/76 (20130101) |
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| US 09376662 | Stampfer 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) | Martha R. Stampfer (Oakland, California); James C. Garbe (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Cell culture media formulations for culturing human epithelial cells are herein described. Also described are methods of increasing population doublings in a cell culture of finite life span human epithelial cells and prolonging the life span of human cell cultures. Using the cell culture media disclosed alone and in combination with addition to the cell culture of a compound associated with anti-stress activity achieves extended growth of pre-stasis cells and increased population doublings and life span in human epithelial cell cultures. |
| FILED | Friday, February 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/627888 |
| 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 5/0631 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2500/90 (20130101) C12N 2500/99 (20130101) C12N 2501/30 (20130101) C12N 2501/31 (20130101) C12N 2501/80 (20130101) |
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| US 09376663 | Littman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dan R. Littman (New York, New York); Sang-Won Kim (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan R. Littman (New York, New York); Sang-Won Kim (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to in vitro methods for promoting expression of G-protein coupled receptor 15 (GPR15) on T cells, GPR15+ enriched populations of T cells generated using these methods and compositions thereof, as well as methods of using these T cell populations for therapeutic purposes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/243290 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 67/0271 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0636 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 5/0637 (20130101) |
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| US 09376672 | 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); Willem P. Stemmer (Los Gatos, California); Nathan C. Geething (Santa Clara, California); Wayne To (Fremont, California); Joshua Silverman (Sunnyvale, California); Chia-wei Wang (Milpitas, California); Benjamin Spink (San Carlos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions comprising factor IX coagulation factors linked to extended recombinant polypeptide (XTEN), isolated nucleic acids encoding the compositions and vectors and host cells containing the same, and methods of making and using such compositions in treatment of coagulation factor-related diseases, disorders, and conditions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/710077 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 2319/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/50 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/644 (20130101) C12N 9/6437 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Enzymes C12Y 304/21022 (20130101) |
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| US 09376686 | Campos-Neto et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Antonio Campos-Neto (Westborough, Massachusetts); Mark Cayabyab (San Jose, California); Margaret Duncan (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Forsyth Dental Infirmary for Children (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Antonio Campos-Neto (Westborough, Massachusetts); Mark Cayabyab (San Jose, California); Margaret Duncan (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a new vaccine delivery system. In particular, the present invention includes compositions and methods of integrally transformed non-pathogenic, commensal bacteria that can express a nucleic acid molecule of a foreign polypeptide, wherein the nucleic acid molecule that encodes the foreign polypeptide is stably integrated into genomic DNA of the bacteria. The foreign polypeptide includes a vaccine antigen that elicits an immunogenic response, an inhibitor of a pathogen, or an immune booster or modulator. |
| FILED | Friday, September 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/624146 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/00 (20130101) C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 14/35 (20130101) C07K 14/155 (20130101) C07K 14/162 (20130101) C07K 14/315 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/74 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2740/15022 (20130101) C12N 2740/15033 (20130101) C12N 2740/16033 (20130101) C12N 2740/16122 (20130101) |
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| US 09376690 | Mirkin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); David A. Giljohann (Chicago, Illinois); Weston L. Daniel (Evanston, Illinois); Joshua I. Cutler (Evanston, Illinois); Ke Zhang (Chicago, Illinois); Dan Zheng (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); David A. Giljohann (Chicago, Illinois); Weston L. Daniel (Evanston, Illinois); Joshua I. Cutler (Evanston, Illinois); Ke Zhang (Chicago, Illinois); Dan Zheng (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure is directed to compositions comprising templated nanoconjugates and methods of their use. |
| FILED | Monday, November 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/504842 |
| 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 47/48861 (20130101) A61K 49/0002 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) B82Y 15/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/88 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/588 (20130101) |
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| US 09376696 | Smolke et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christina D. Smolke (Menlo Park, California); Kristy M. Hawkins (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to host cells that produce compounds that are characterized as benzylisoquinolines, as well as select precursors and intermediates thereof. The host cells comprise one, two or more heterologous coding sequences wherein each of the heterologous coding sequences encodes an enzyme involved in the metabolic pathway of a benzylisoquinoline, or its precursors or intermediates from a starting compound. The invention also relates to methods of producing the benzylisoquinoline, as well as select precursors and intermediates thereof by culturing the host cells under culture conditions that promote expression of the enzymes that produce the benzylisoquinoline or precursors or intermediates thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, December 07, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/961662 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/0022 (20130101) C12N 9/0059 (20130101) C12N 9/88 (20130101) C12N 9/1007 (20130101) C12N 9/1096 (20130101) C12N 15/81 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/24 (20130101) C12P 13/001 (20130101) C12P 17/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 17/182 (20130101) |
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| US 09376700 | Petersson |
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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, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | E. James Petersson (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes a selective method of modifying the N-terminus of a protein using an aminoacyl tRNA transferase. In certain embodiments, the method comprises contacting a solution of the protein or peptide with a transferase and a derivative of a molecule, whereby the N-terminus of the protein or peptide is derivatized with the molecule. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/406864 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 247/16 (20130101) C07C 255/03 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 311/08 (20130101) C07D 473/34 (20130101) Peptides C07K 1/13 (20130101) C07K 1/026 (20130101) C07K 1/113 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 21/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09376717 | Gao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON THROUGH ITS CENTER FOR COMMERCIALIZATION (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaohu Gao (Seattle, Massachusetts); Pavel Zrazhevskiy (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are compositions and methods for identifying or quantitating one or more analytes in sample. The composition can comprise an affinity molecule reversibly conjugated to a label moiety via a double-stranded nucleic acid linker or via an adaptor molecule. The affinity molecule and the label moiety can be linked to different strands of the double-stranded nucleic acid linker. Compositions can be used in any biological assays for detection, identification and/or quantification of target molecules or analytes, including multiplex staining for molecular profiling of individual cells or cellular populations. For example, the compositions can be adapted for use in immunofluorescence, fluorescence in situ hybridization, immunohistochemistry, western blot, and the like. |
| FILED | Friday, December 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/577507 |
| 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 1/6804 (20130101) C12Q 1/6804 (20130101) C12Q 1/6841 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2563/155 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/587 (20130101) G01N 33/588 (20130101) G01N 2458/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09377422 | Fiering et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jason O. Fiering (Boston, Massachusetts); Dale Larson (Waban, Massachusetts); Gregory Kowalski (Beverly, Massachusetts); Mehmet Sen (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason O. Fiering (Boston, Massachusetts); Dale Larson (Waban, Massachusetts); Gregory Kowalski (Beverly, Massachusetts); Mehmet Sen (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are disclosed herein for a microfluidic calorimeter apparatus. A microfluidic calorimeter system includes a calorimetry apparatus and a processor in connection with the apparatus. The apparatus includes a microfluidic laminar flow channel connected to two inlets for flowing fluid into the laminar flow channel. Below the laminar flow channel is a plurality of microscale temperature sensors at known positions in the channel. The processor is in connection with the discrete temperature sensors and determines a calorimetry measurement based on local temperatures derived from data output by the microscale temperature sensors and the respective positions of the sensors in the channel. |
| FILED | Friday, January 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/350022 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) Measuring Temperature; Measuring Quantity of Heat; Thermally-sensitive Elements Not Otherwise Provided for G01K 17/006 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/05 (20130101) G01N 21/554 (20130101) G01N 25/482 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 25/4873 (20130101) G01N 2021/0346 (20130101) |
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| US 09377455 | Sista et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Advanced Liquid Logic, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ADVANCED LIQUID LOGIC, INC (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramakrishna Sista (Cary, North Carolina); Vamsee K. Pamula (Cary, North Carolina); Vijay Srinivasan (Cary, North Carolina); Michael G. Pollack (Durham, North Carolina); Allen Eckhardt (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method of circulating magnetically responsive beads within a droplet in a droplet actuator. The invention also provides methods for splitting droplets. The invention, in one embodiment, makes use of a droplet actuator with top and bottom substrates, a plurality of magnetic fields respectively present proximate the top and bottom substrates, wherein at least one of the magnet fields is selectively alterable, and a plurality of droplet operations electrodes positioned along at least one of the top and bottom surfaces. A droplet is positioned between the top and bottom surfaces and at least one of the magnetic fields is selectively altered. |
| FILED | Monday, June 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/746276 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Mixing, e.g Dissolving, Emulsifying, Dispersing B01F 11/0071 (20130101) B01F 13/0071 (20130101) B01F 13/0076 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 3/502792 (20130101) B01L 7/52 (20130101) B01L 7/525 (20130101) B01L 2200/027 (20130101) B01L 2200/0647 (20130101) B01L 2300/089 (20130101) B01L 2300/0654 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0861 (20130101) B01L 2300/0864 (20130101) B01L 2300/0867 (20130101) B01L 2300/1827 (20130101) B01L 2400/043 (20130101) B01L 2400/0406 (20130101) B01L 2400/0415 (20130101) B01L 2400/0421 (20130101) B01L 2400/0424 (20130101) B01L 2400/0427 (20130101) B01L 2400/0436 (20130101) B01L 2400/0442 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/38 (20130101) G01N 33/54326 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2035/1046 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/11 (20150115) Y10T 436/25 (20150115) Y10T 436/2575 (20150115) Y10T 436/25625 (20150115) |
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| US RE46042 | Whitehead et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Government of The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen S. Whitehead (Montgomery Village, Maryland); Joseph E. Blaney (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania); Brian R. Murphy (Bethesda, Maryland); Ching-Juh Lai (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is related to a dengue virus or chimeric dengue virus that contains a mutation in the 3′ untranslated region (3′-UTR) comprising a Δ30 mutation that removes the TL-2 homologous structure in each of the dengue virus serotypes 1, 2, 3, and 4, and nucleotides additional to the Δ30 mutation deleted from the 3′-UTR that removes sequence in the 5′ direction as far as the 5′ boundary of the TL-3 homologous structure in each of the dengue virus serotypes 1, 2, 3, and 4, or a replacement of the 3′-UTR of a dengue virus of a first serotype with the 3′-UTR of a dengue virus of a second serotype, optionally containing the Δ30 mutation and nucleotides additional to the Δ30 mutation deleted from the 3′-UTR; and immunogenic compositions, methods of inducing an immune response, and methods of producing a dengue virus or chimeric dengue virus. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/895908 |
| ART UNIT | 3991 — Central Reexamination Unit (Chemical) |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/5254 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 14/1825 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 7/045 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2770/24122 (20130101) C12N 2770/24162 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gary A. Rockwood (Baltimore, Maryland); Ilona Petrikovics (Huntsville, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sam Houston State University (Huntsville, Texas); U.S. Army, Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary A. Rockwood (Baltimore, Maryland); Ilona Petrikovics (Huntsville, Texas); Steven I. Baskin (Huntsville, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Dimethyl trisulfide (DMTS) antidote compositions may be used to as a cyanide poisoning antidote. |
| FILED | Monday, April 13, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/685008 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/105 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09375474 | Fatatis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alessandro Fatatis (Penn Valley, Pennsylvania); Joseph M. Salvino (Chester Springs, Pennsylvania); Olimpia Meucci (Penn Valley, Pennsylvania); Whitney L. Gladney (Glenolden, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Alliance Discovery, Inc. (Doylestown, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alessandro Fatatis (Penn Valley, Pennsylvania); Joseph M. Salvino (Chester Springs, Pennsylvania); Olimpia Meucci (Penn Valley, Pennsylvania); Whitney L. Gladney (Glenolden, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes compositions that are useful in preventing or treating metastasis in a subject diagnosed with cancer. The present invention also includes methods of preventing or treating metastasis in a subject diagnosed with cancer, wherein the method comprises administering to the subject in need thereof an effective amount of a pharmaceutical formulation comprising at least one pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and at least one CX3CR1 or fractalkine antagonist. |
| FILED | Monday, February 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/776220 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/451 (20130101) A61K 31/453 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 39/3955 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 403/04 (20130101) C07D 487/04 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/28 (20130101) |
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| US 09375783 | Karg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Karin M. Karg (Waltham, Massachusetts); Justin Andreas Neutra (Marlborough, New Hampshire); Jeff Parnell (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); James Gorman (Boxborough, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Triton Systems, Inc. (Chelmsford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karin M. Karg (Waltham, Massachusetts); Justin Andreas Neutra (Marlborough, New Hampshire); Jeff Parnell (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); James Gorman (Boxborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Discontinuous fiber preforms, fiber-reinforced metal matrix composites, and methods of making same are disclosed. A fiber preform includes a milled fiber material having a weighted average fiber length of about 0.03 mm to 0.12 mm and/or a percent fiber volume fraction of the fiber preform of about 15% to about 55%. The milled fiber material is at least substantially free of a binder material. A fiber-reinforced MMC includes a milled fiber material having a weighted-average fiber length of about 0.03 mm to 0.12 mm and/or a percent fiber volume fraction of the fiber preform of about 15% to about 55%. The fiber-reinforced MMC further includes a metal infiltrated into the milled fiber material. The milled fiber material is at least substantially free of a binder material. The milled fiber can be substantially uniformly oriented and/or randomly oriented in the fiber preform and/or the fiber-reinforced MMC. |
| FILED | Friday, June 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/153145 |
| ART UNIT | 1786 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Casting of Metals; Casting of Other Substances by the Same Processes or Devices B22D 19/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Alloys C22C 32/0089 (20130101) C22C 47/06 (20130101) C22C 47/08 (20130101) C22C 49/06 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2913 (20150115) |
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| US 09376102 | Shukla et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Oshkosh Defense, LLC (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oshkosh Defense, LLC (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Deepak Shukla (Oshkosh, Wisconsin); Rongjun Zhang (Oshkosh, Wisconsin); Nader Nasr (Neenah, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A vehicle drive includes a first gear set and a second gear set, a first motor/generator coupled to a sun gear of the first gear set, a second motor/generator selectively coupled to at least one of (a) a planetary gear carrier of the first gear set and (b) a ring gear of the first gear set, an engine coupled to the ring gear of the first gear set and selectively coupled to the second motor/generator, and a clutch configured to selectively engage the second motor/generator to the engine. The first motor/generator and the second motor/generator are electrically coupled without an energy storage device configured to at least one of (a) provide electrical energy to the first motor/generator or the second motor/generator to power the first motor/generator or the second motor/generator and (b) be charged by electrical energy from the first motor/generator or the second motor/generator. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 29, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/813032 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Conjoint Control of Vehicle Sub-units of Different Type or Different Function; Control Systems Specially Adapted for Hybrid Vehicles; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems for Purposes Not Related to the Control of a Particular Sub-unit B60W 10/02 (20130101) B60W 10/06 (20130101) B60W 10/08 (20130101) B60W 20/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B60W 2510/06 (20130101) B60W 2510/08 (20130101) B60W 2710/06 (20130101) B60W 2710/08 (20130101) Gearing F16H 3/728 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 903/93 (20130101) |
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| US 09376171 | Bagwell |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brandon R. Bagwell (Chesapeake, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brandon R. Bagwell (Chesapeake, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A mooring cleat with open design for restraining a line and for attaching a free end of the line, the mooring cleat having an overlapping horn design with an angled slot that allows a line/rope into the device at any desired position along the line, wherein the cleat restrains the line against static pull in nearly any three-dimensional direction. |
| FILED | Monday, December 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/107019 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships or Other Waterborne Vessels; Equipment for Shipping B63B 21/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B63B 21/045 (20130101) |
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| US 09376175 | Karafiath et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gabor Karafiath (Silver Spring, Maryland); John Fishback (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of The Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabor Karafiath (Silver Spring, Maryland); John Fishback (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for transferring assets to and from a water vessel. A water vessel having an integrated buoyancy bulb and stern ramp for transferring, launching and recovering assets such as wheeled or tracked amphibious vehicles. The integrated buoyancy bulb and stern ramp is configurable into different orientations to accommodate for different operational requirements, such as ship-to-water transfers, ship-to-ship transfers, or ship-to-dock transfers. The integrated buoyancy bulb and stern ramp is also configurable into a stowage orientation in which the ramp is folded and stored when not deployed. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 01, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/267025 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships or Other Waterborne Vessels; Equipment for Shipping B63B 25/008 (20130101) B63B 27/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B63B 27/143 (20130101) |
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| US 09376222 | Jaeger |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NOVAWURKS, INC. (Los Alamitos, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NOVAWURKS, INC. (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Talbot Jaeger (Los Alamitos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of cooling spacecraft electronics by transferring fuel between two or more satlets is provided. Each satlet's electronics is thermally coupled to the satlet's fuel tank. A controller connected to a temperature sensor determines that a temperature of a first satlet's electronics is reaching, has reached, or exceeds a predetermined threshold. The controller connected to a second temperature sensor determines that a temperature of a second satlet's propellant is lower than the temperature of the first satlet's electronics. The controller then directs the flow of propellant from the second satlet's fuel tank to the first satlet's fuel tank to cool the first satlet's electronics. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/538090 |
| ART UNIT | 3647 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Cosmonautics; Vehicles or Equipment Therefor B64G 1/40 (20130101) B64G 1/66 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09376311 | Rahmanian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Omid Rahmanian (Washington, District of Columbia); Chien-Fu Chen (Kaohsiung, Taiwan); Donald Lad Devoe (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A new process enabling rapid and efficient desktop manufacturing of microfluidic devices fabricated from thermoplastic substrates utilizing the selective irreversible swelling of thermoplastic polymer when exposed to suitable solvent makes it possible to produce micro- or nano-fluidic devices with outstanding bonding and collapse free micro- or nano-structures. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/109711 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Microstructural Devices or Systems, e.g Micromechanical Devices B81B 2201/058 (20130101) Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00119 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B81C 3/001 (20130101) B81C 2203/032 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24331 (20150115) |
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| US 09376411 | Dumesic et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Dumesic (Verona, Wisconsin); Stephanie G. Wettstein (Madison, Wisconsin); David Martin Alonso (Madison, Wisconsin); Elif Ispir Gurbuz (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to produce levulinic acid (LA) and gamma-valerolactone (GVL) from biomass-derived cellulose or lignocellulose by selective extraction of LA using GVL and optionally converting the LA so isolated into GVL, with no purifications steps required to yield the GVL. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/596357 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 51/48 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 307/33 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09376573 | Sherman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mesocoat, Inc. (Euclid, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MesoCoat Inc. (Euclid, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Sherman (Kirkland Hills, Ohio); Curt Glasgow (Euclid, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A heterogeneous composite body that is spall resistant and comprises a substantially discontinuous cermet phase in a substantially continuous metal rich matrix phase. The heterogeneous composite body is typically bonded to a substrate to form a hardfacing on the substrate. The heterogeneous composite body exhibits ductile phase toughening with a strain to failure of at least about 2 percent, a modulus of elasticity of less than about 35 million pounds per square inch, and a density of less than about 7 grams per cubic centimeter. The metal rich matrix phase between the ceramic rich regions in the heterogeneous composite body has an average minimum span of about 0.5 to 8 microns to allow ductility in the heterogeneous composite body. The heterogeneous composite body has a Vicker's hardness number of greater than approximately 500. The ceramic rich regions exhibit high hardness as compared with the matrix phase. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/799648 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 7/08 (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 Alloys C22C 29/00 (20130101) C22C 29/02 (20130101) Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 4/067 (20160101) C23C 14/223 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/12486 (20150115) |
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| US 09376690 | Mirkin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); David A. Giljohann (Chicago, Illinois); Weston L. Daniel (Evanston, Illinois); Joshua I. Cutler (Evanston, Illinois); Ke Zhang (Chicago, Illinois); Dan Zheng (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); David A. Giljohann (Chicago, Illinois); Weston L. Daniel (Evanston, Illinois); Joshua I. Cutler (Evanston, Illinois); Ke Zhang (Chicago, Illinois); Dan Zheng (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure is directed to compositions comprising templated nanoconjugates and methods of their use. |
| FILED | Monday, November 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/504842 |
| 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 47/48861 (20130101) A61K 49/0002 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) B82Y 15/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/88 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/588 (20130101) |
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| US 09376717 | Gao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON THROUGH ITS CENTER FOR COMMERCIALIZATION (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaohu Gao (Seattle, Massachusetts); Pavel Zrazhevskiy (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are compositions and methods for identifying or quantitating one or more analytes in sample. The composition can comprise an affinity molecule reversibly conjugated to a label moiety via a double-stranded nucleic acid linker or via an adaptor molecule. The affinity molecule and the label moiety can be linked to different strands of the double-stranded nucleic acid linker. Compositions can be used in any biological assays for detection, identification and/or quantification of target molecules or analytes, including multiplex staining for molecular profiling of individual cells or cellular populations. For example, the compositions can be adapted for use in immunofluorescence, fluorescence in situ hybridization, immunohistochemistry, western blot, and the like. |
| FILED | Friday, December 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/577507 |
| 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 1/6804 (20130101) C12Q 1/6804 (20130101) C12Q 1/6841 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2563/155 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/587 (20130101) G01N 33/588 (20130101) G01N 2458/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09377002 | Singleton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel R. Singleton (El Segundo, California); Martin A. Gundersen (San Gabriel, California); Jason M. Sanders (Los Angeles, California); Andras Kuthi (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel R. Singleton (El Segundo, California); Martin A. Gundersen (San Gabriel, California); Jason M. Sanders (Los Angeles, California); Andras Kuthi (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for providing ignition of a fuel-air mixture using a transient plasma discharge is provided. The device includes an anode coupled to receive a voltage; and a cathode disposed in proximity to the anode and coupled to a ground, wherein at least one of the anode and the cathode includes a protrusion that enhances an electric field formed between the anode and the cathode, the protrusion forming a sharp edge defining a plurality of points, each point forming a path of shortest distance between the anode and the cathode. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/185729 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Ignition, Other Than Compression Ignition, for Internal-combustion Engines; Testing of Ignition Timing in Compression-ignition Engines F02P 15/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F02P 15/08 (20130101) F02P 15/10 (20130101) F02P 23/04 (20130101) Spark Gaps; Overvoltage Arresters Using Spark Gaps; Sparking Plugs; Corona Devices; Generating Ions to be Introduced into Non-enclosed Gases H01T 13/20 (20130101) H01T 13/24 (20130101) H01T 13/50 (20130101) Plasma Technique; Production of Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles or of Neutrons; Production or Acceleration of Neutral Molecular or Atomic Beams H05H 1/48 (20130101) H05H 2001/483 (20130101) |
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| US 09377046 | Lackey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Infinite Technologies, Inc. (Folsom, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Infinite Technologies, Inc. (Folsom, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clint J. Lackey (Carson City, Nevada); Casey Aaron Talbot (South Jordan, Utah); Robert Brian Spencer (Highland, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A fastener assembly is provided that includes a female insert having a head and a sleeve which extends from the head. The head of the female insert abuts a first panel, with the sleeve extending through a first preformed hole in the first panel. The distal end of the sleeve thus protrudes from the first preformed hole of the first panel and is then crimped around a washer to mechanically connect the female insert to the first panel. The female insert may also include one or more adhesive receptacles to further adhere the female insert to the first panel. A second panel with a second preformed hole is aligned with the first panel, and a male fastener having a base and a shank that extends from the base is inserted through the second preformed hole and into the female insert to connect the first panel and the second panel. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/522174 |
| ART UNIT | 3677 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 38/00 (20130101) B32B 2038/0052 (20130101) Devices for Fastening or Securing Constructional Elements or Machine Parts Together, e.g Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips, Wedges, Joints or Jointing F16B 37/122 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09377080 | DeFelice |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthew DeFelice (Jackson, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew DeFelice (Jackson, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for terminating a rope sliding a socket over the rope which includes unlaying the outer strands of the rope, sliding a wedge onto the core such that the outer strands surround the wedge, the wedge includes a central bore axially aligned with the socket, further sliding the wedge such that the core enters the central bore and is terminated by the wedge, pressing the outer strands of the rope against the wedge, sliding the socket over the wedge such that the outer strands are captured between the wedge and the socket, and swaging the socket such that the outer strands are secured. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/528565 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Belts, Cables, or Ropes, Predominantly Used for Driving Purposes; Chains; Fittings Predominantly Used Therefor F16G 11/02 (20130101) F16G 11/04 (20130101) F16G 11/05 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F16G 11/12 (20130101) F16G 11/025 (20130101) F16G 11/044 (20130101) F16G 11/046 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/4989 (20150115) Y10T 29/49913 (20150115) |
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| US 09377310 | Stipes et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason A. Stipes (Ellicott City, Maryland); John C. Humphreys (Woodbine, Maryland); Richard A. Startt (Taneytown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A mapping and positioning apparatus may include an IMU module for monitoring movement through an environment, a scanner module, and a control unit. The IMU module is configured to monitor movement on the basis of detecting steps taken by a transporter. The scanner module may be configured to employ laser scanning to determine distances to objects or boundaries in the environment as the transporter moves the apparatus through the environment. The control unit may be configured to receive data from at least the IMU module and the scanner module and make an environmental determination to classify the environment. The control unit may be configured to generate map data based on the data received from the IMU module and the scanner module. The control unit may be configured to adaptively adjust processing of the data received from the IMU module and the scanner module based on a classification of the environment. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 01, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/266858 |
| ART UNIT | 3667 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 21/32 (20130101) G01C 21/165 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01C 21/206 (20130101) G01C 22/006 (20130101) |
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| US 09377409 | Hu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Min Hu (Sunnyvale, California); Zhiyong Li (Foster City, California); Fung Suong Ou (Palo Alto, California); Ansoon Kim (Mountain View, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Min Hu (Sunnyvale, California); Zhiyong Li (Foster City, California); Fung Suong Ou (Palo Alto, California); Ansoon Kim (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In a method of fabricating an apparatus for use in a sensing application, a plurality of nano-fingers are formed on a substrate and a Raman-active material nano-particle is formed on respective tips of the nano-fingers. In addition, the Raman-active material nano-particles on the tips of adjacent ones of the nano-fingers are caused to come into contact with the Raman-active material nano-particle on the tip of at least another one of the plurality of nano-fingers to form respective clusters and the clusters of Raman-active material nano-particles are transferred to a component layer from the plurality of nano-fingers while maintaining a spatial relationship between the contacting Raman-active material nano-particles. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/194556 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/0256 (20130101) G01J 3/4412 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/658 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2201/06113 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/954 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49 (20150115) |
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| US 09377447 | Mershin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andreas Mershin (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Asmamaw Wassie (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Yael Maguire (Boston, Massachusetts); David Kong (Lexington, Massachusetts); Shuguang Zhang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Patrick Moran (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Karolina Corin (Johannesburg, South Africa) |
| ABSTRACT | In exemplary implementations of this invention, an electronic olfactor determines whether a scent being tested matches the scent of a positive control. The electronic olfactor can perform this scent matching even in a changing olfactory environment, and even if the positive control scent is a combination of hundreds or thousands of different odorants. No prior training is needed, and no attempt is made to identify a single odorant that is unambiguously responsible for a scent. Instead, a computer compares the total scent pattern of a positive control sample with the total scent pattern of a test sample, across a sweep of many permutations of electrical inputs to scent sensors, to try to find any condition under which the total scent patterns do not match. If such a condition cannot be found, then the computer declares a match between the test and target scents. |
| FILED | Friday, July 31, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/815574 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/00 (20130101) G01N 33/0031 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09377784 | Kowalski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jacob Kowalski (Glen Mills, Pennsylvania); Ivan Grill (Media, Pennsylvania); Robert T. Seminole (Wayne, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for displaying to a tilt rotor aircraft pilot an optimum nacelle position and/or automatically controlling movement of the nacelles for the pilot. An automatic nacelle conversion function employs an active flight director speed mode to provide a current desired speed and a final speed. When the automatic nacelle conversion function is in a passive (uncoupled) mode of operation, the pilot follows visual cues, manually achieving the commanded nacelle position by rotating a thumbwheel. When in an active (coupled) mode of operation, the automatic nacelle conversion function provides a fully automatic nacelle controller requiring no pilot input. This automatic nacelle controller provides a variable nacelle rate along with several angle versus speed schedules tailored for different guidance speed modes and a wide range of aircraft configurations. The automatic nacelle conversion function is improved though the inclusion of altitude, rate of climb, and deceleration rate commands. |
| FILED | Friday, July 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/341582 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 29/0033 (20130101) Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 23/005 (20130101) Measuring Linear or Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, or Shock; Indicating Presence, Absence, or Direction, of Movement G01P 5/18 (20130101) Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 1/0808 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09377806 | Bandyopadhyay |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Promode Bandyopadhyay (Middletown, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Promode Bandyopadhyay (Middletown, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A small hemispherical drive apparatus actuates the cilia to undergo the limit cycle oscillations. Electromagnets are positioned on a housing of the apparatus. A gimbal with shaft is also attached to the housing. The shaft has a first end within the housing that is proximally separated and remains separated from the electromagnets as the shaft rotates. Generated signals excite electromagnets in sequence to produce an electromagnetic track for the shaft. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 11, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/041161 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Control Devices or Systems Insofar as Characterised by Mechanical Features Only G05G 9/047 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G05G 2009/04755 (20130101) |
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| US 09378285 | Marchisio et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | VCVC III LLC (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | VCVC III LLC (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Giovanni B. Marchisio (Kirkland, Washington); Navdeep S. Dhillon (Seattle, Washington); Carsten Tusk (Seattle, Washington); Krzysztof Koperski (Seattle, Washington); Jisheng Liang (Bellevue, Washington); Thien Nguyen (Edmonds, Washington); Matthew E. Brown (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for extending keyword searching techniques to syntactically and semantically annotated data are provided. Example embodiments provide a Syntactic Query Engine (“SQE”) that parses, indexes, and stores a data set as an enhanced document index with document terms as well as information pertaining to the grammatical roles of the terms and ontological and other semantic information. In one embodiment, the enhanced document index is a form of term-clause index, that indexes terms and syntactic and semantic annotations at the clause level. The enhanced document index permits the use of a traditional keyword search engine to process relationship queries as well as to process standard document level keyword searches. This abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an abstract, and it is submitted with the intention that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. |
| FILED | Friday, September 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/479094 |
| ART UNIT | 2167 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30011 (20130101) G06F 17/30684 (20130101) G06F 17/30731 (20130101) G06F 17/30864 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09378542 | Meyers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Research Laboratory (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald E. Meyers (Columbia, Maryland); Keith S. Deacon (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | According to some embodiments, system and methods for image improvement comprise: receiving a plurality of frames of a given region of interest, the frames comprised of a plurality of pixels; determining, based on a quantum property of the frames, a normalized pixel intensity value for each pixel of each of the plurality of frames; and generating an improved image of the given region of interest based on the plurality of frames and the corresponding normalized pixel intensity values for the frames, the order of the image being two. Also embodiments for generating an image of a target illuminated by quantum entangled particles, such as, photons, are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 16, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/800755 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 5/008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 5/50 (20130101) G06T 7/0081 (20130101) G06T 2207/10024 (20130101) G06T 2207/10032 (20130101) G06T 2207/20016 (20130101) G06T 2207/20024 (20130101) G06T 2207/20182 (20130101) G06T 2207/20208 (20130101) G06T 2207/20216 (20130101) G06T 2207/20224 (20130101) |
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| US 09378880 | Gangopadhyay et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Palash Gangopadhyay (Tucson, Arizona); Alejandra Lopez-Santiago (Zapopan, Mexico); Robert A. Norwood (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are disclosed for synthesizing nanocomposite materials including ferromagnetic nanoparticles with polymer shells formed by controlled surface polymerization. The polymer shells prevent the nanoparticles from forming agglomerates and preserve the size dispersion of the nanoparticles. The nanocomposite particles can be further networked in suitable polymer hosts to tune mechanical, optical, and thermal properties of the final composite polymer system. An exemplary method includes forming a polymer shell on a nanoparticle surface by adding molecules of at least one monomer and optionally of at least one tethering agent to the nanoparticles, and then exposing to electromagnetic radiation at a wavelength selected to induce bonding between the nanoparticle and the molecules, to form a polymer shell bonded to the particle and optionally to a polymer host matrix. The nanocomposite materials can be used in various magneto-optic applications. |
| FILED | Monday, March 16, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/659338 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 33/12 (20130101) C08L 2205/025 (20130101) C08L 2207/53 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/0322 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 1/42 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01F 1/0063 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/84 (20130101) Y10S 977/90 (20130101) Y10S 977/773 (20130101) Y10S 977/777 (20130101) Y10S 977/778 (20130101) Y10S 977/779 (20130101) Y10S 977/783 (20130101) Y10S 977/896 (20130101) Y10S 977/907 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2982 (20150115) Y10T 428/2991 (20150115) Y10T 428/2998 (20150115) Y10T 428/31678 (20150401) Y10T 428/31692 (20150401) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ravisekhar Nadimpalli Raju (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravisekhar Nadimpalli Raju (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-phase electronic power transformer includes a set of primary windings, wherein each primary winding is configured to couple with an input voltage. The transformer includes a pair of primary switching devices that includes a first primary switching device coupled to a first end of each primary winding and a second primary switching device coupled to a second end of each primary winding distinct from the first end of each primary winding. The transformer includes a set of secondary windings, wherein each secondary winding is configured to inductively couple with a respective primary winding and to output a voltage. The transformer includes a pair of secondary switching devices that includes a first secondary switching device coupled to a first end of each secondary winding and a second secondary switching device coupled to a second end of each secondary winding distinct from the first end of the each secondary winding. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/335660 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 29/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Control or Regulation of Electric Motors, Electric Generators or Dynamo-electric Converters; Controlling Transformers, Reactors or Choke Coils H02P 13/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09378949 | Brown et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HRL LABORATORIES LLC (Malibu, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David F. Brown (Woodland Hills, California); Keisuke Shinohara (Thousand Oaks, California); Miroslav Micovic (Thousand Oaks, California); Andrea Corrion (Oak Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A monolithically integrated device includes a substrate, a first set of Group III nitride epitaxial layers grown for a first HFET on a first region of the substrate, and a second set of Group III nitride epitaxial layers for a second HFET grown on a second region of the substrate. |
| FILED | Monday, June 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/312518 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0254 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/265 (20130101) H01L 21/02664 (20130101) H01L 21/3081 (20130101) H01L 21/8252 (20130101) H01L 21/30612 (20130101) H01L 27/0883 (20130101) H01L 29/205 (20130101) H01L 29/2003 (20130101) H01L 29/7783 (20130101) H01L 29/66462 (20130101) Amplifiers H03F 3/211 (20130101) H03F 2200/372 (20130101) |
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| US 09379271 | Shen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Research Laboratory (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Shen (North Potomac, Maryland); Lee Ellen Rodak (Montgomery Village, Maryland); Chad Stephen Gallinat (Washington, District of Columbia); Anand Venktesh Sampath (Montgomery Village, Maryland); Michael Wraback (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making and a photodetector comprising a substrate; a p-type or n-type layer; first and second region each having polarizations, a first interface therebetween, the magnitudes and directions of the first and second polarizations being such that a scalar projection of second polarization on the growth direction relative to the scalar projection of the first polarization projected onto the growth direction is sufficient to create a first interface charge; and a third region suitable for forming one of an n-metal or p-metal contact thereon having a third polarization, a second interface between the second and third regions, the third polarization having a scalar projection on the growth direction that, relative to scalar projection of the second polarization onto the growth direction, is sufficient to create a second interface charge; the first and second interface charges creating an electrostatic potential barrier to carriers defining a predetermined wavelength range. |
| FILED | Friday, May 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/285964 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/18 (20130101) H01L 31/0296 (20130101) H01L 31/0336 (20130101) H01L 31/1075 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/03044 (20130101) H01L 31/03529 (20130101) H01L 31/022408 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/521 (20151101) |
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| US 09379274 | Richards et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Emcore Solar Power, Inc. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SolAero Technologies Corp. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin C. Richards (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Charles F. Sarver (Tijeras, New Mexico); Maria Naidenkova (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | According to an aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided a solar cell panel and a method for manufacturing the same. The solar cell panel comprises: a solar cell for generating electric power from sunlight; a coverglass for covering the solar cell; transparent shims, which are disposed between the solar cell and the coverglass at the points where the distance between the solar cell and the coverglass needs to be controlled, and form a space between the solar cell and the coverglass; and adhesive layer, which fills the space between the solar cell and the coverglass and has the thickness the same as that of the transparent shims. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/224212 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/048 (20130101) |
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| US 09379328 | Baca et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alfred J. Baca (Ridgecrest, California); William W. Lai (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for making electronic devices based on derivatized ladder polymer poly(benzo-isimidazobenzophenanthroline) (BBL) including photovoltaic modules and simple thin film transistors in planar and mechanically flexible and stretchable constructs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 09, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/019562 |
| ART UNIT | 2897 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/00 (20130101) H01L 21/44 (20130101) H01L 27/28 (20130101) H01L 51/004 (20130101) H01L 51/0035 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/0036 (20130101) H01L 51/0046 (20130101) H01L 51/0048 (20130101) H01L 51/052 (20130101) H01L 51/055 (20130101) H01L 51/0094 (20130101) H01L 51/102 (20130101) H01L 51/105 (20130101) H01L 51/0545 (20130101) H01L 51/0558 (20130101) H01L 2251/301 (20130101) H01L 2251/303 (20130101) |
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| US 09379823 | Chang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Oracle International Corporation (Redwood City, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Y. Chang (San Mateo, California); Elad Alon (El Cerrito, California); Frankie Y. Liu (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical receiver includes a feedback circuit that applies a feedback signal to a front-end circuit prior to the front-end circuit converting an optical signal into an analog electrical signal. In particular, the optical receiver includes a digital slicer that determines a digital electrical signal from the analog electrical signal based on a reference voltage that specifies a decision threshold and a clock that specifies sampling times. The feedback circuit determines the feedback signal at least one previous bit preceding a current bit in the analog electrical signal that is provided by the digital slicer and an impulse response of a communication channel. Moreover, the feedback signal has a pulse width that is less than a bit time of the clock. In this way, the optical receiver can cancel post-cursors of the current bit, even when the communication channel includes a low-pass filter. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/516285 |
| ART UNIT | 2636 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 10/616 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 10/6971 (20130101) |
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| US 09380221 | Marwah et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kshitij Marwah (Rajouri Garden, India); Gordon Wetzstein (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ramesh Raskar (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kshitij Marwah (Rajouri Garden, India); Gordon Wetzstein (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ramesh Raskar (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In exemplary implementations of this invention, a light field camera uses a light field dictionary to reconstruct a 4D light field from a single photograph. The light field includes both angular and spatial information and has a spatial resolution equal to the spatial resolution of the imaging sensor. Light from a scene passes through a coded spatial light modulator (SLM) before reaching an imaging sensor. Computer processors reconstruct a light field. This reconstruction includes computing a sparse or compressible coefficient vector using a light field dictionary matrix. Each column vector of the dictionary matrix is a light field atom. These light field atoms each, respectively, comprise information about a small 4D region of a light field. Reconstruction quality may be improved by using an SLM that is as orthogonal as possible to the dictionary. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/192800 |
| ART UNIT | 2661 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/2254 (20130101) H04N 5/2621 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09380703 | Glidden, IV et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RAYTHEON COMPANY (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert M. Glidden, IV (Torrance, California); Clay Johnson (Annaheim Hills, California); Michael H. Mikasa (Diamond Bar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronics system includes a main circuit board; main circuitry located on the main circuit board; a carrier board located on top of the main circuit board; an integrated circuit (IC) located on the carrier board, wherein the IC is electrically connected to the main circuitry on the main circuit board; and a layer of adhesive located between the carrier board and the main circuit board. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/771239 |
| ART UNIT | 2848 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 1/141 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05K 1/0204 (20130101) H05K 3/0061 (20130101) H05K 2201/049 (20130101) H05K 2201/09072 (20130101) H05K 2201/10356 (20130101) H05K 2201/10409 (20130101) |
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| US 09375894 | Weisberg |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew H. Weisberg (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An article of manufacture according to one embodiment includes a plurality of plies in a stacked configuration, where each ply includes a plurality of tape winds having edges. A distance between the edges of adjacent tape winds in the same ply is about constant along a length of the wind. Each tape wind comprises elongated fibers and a matrix, axes of the fibers being oriented about parallel to a longitudinal axis of the tape wind. Additional systems, methods and articles of manufacture are also presented. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/014190 |
| ART UNIT | 1786 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| 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 70/32 (20130101) Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 3/263 (20130101) B32B 5/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24074 (20150115) Y10T 428/24132 (20150115) Y10T 428/24488 (20150115) Y10T 428/249922 (20150401) Y10T 428/249924 (20150401) |
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| US 09376411 | Dumesic et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Dumesic (Verona, Wisconsin); Stephanie G. Wettstein (Madison, Wisconsin); David Martin Alonso (Madison, Wisconsin); Elif Ispir Gurbuz (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to produce levulinic acid (LA) and gamma-valerolactone (GVL) from biomass-derived cellulose or lignocellulose by selective extraction of LA using GVL and optionally converting the LA so isolated into GVL, with no purifications steps required to yield the GVL. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/596357 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 51/48 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 307/33 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09376413 | Coates et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey W. Coates (Lansing, New York); John M. Rowley (Houghton, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Catalysts and methods for the double carbonylation of epoxides are disclosed. Each epoxide molecule reacts with two molecules of carbon monoxide to produce a succinic anhydride. The reaction is facilitated by catalysts combining a Lewis acidic species with a transition metal carbonyl complex. The double carbonylation is achieved in single process by using reaction conditions under which both carbonylation reactions occur without the necessity of isolating or purifying the product of the first carbonylation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/552825 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 307/60 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09376451 | Huber et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George W. Huber (Middleton, Wisconsin); Fei Cao (Nanjing, China PRC); James A. Dumesic (Verona, Wisconsin); Thomas J. Schwartz (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to produce 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) is described in which a reactant including cellulose, lignocellulose, or a combination thereof, in a reaction mixture of a polar, aprotic solvent and an acid is reacted for a time, at a temperature, and at a hydrogen ion concentration wherein at least a portion of the cellulose or lignocellulose present in the reactant is converted to HMF. The reaction mixture is initially substantially devoid of water. As the reaction proceeds, dehydration of intermediates causes the water concentration in the reaction mixture to rise to no more than about 2.0 wt % water. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/588178 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 493/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09376589 | Maghsoodi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Enki Technology, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Enki Technology, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sina Maghsoodi (San Jose, California); Brenor L. Brophy (San Jose, California); Thomas E. Colson (Sunnyvale, California); Peter R. Gonsalves (Santa Clara, California); Ze'ev R. Abrams (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are single layer transparent coatings with an anti-reflective property, a hydrophobic property, and that are highly abrasion resistant. The single layer transparent coatings contain a plurality of oblate voids. At least 1% of the oblate voids are open to a surface of the single layer transparent coatings. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/799479 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical Composition of Glasses, Glazes or Vitreous Enamels; Surface Treatment of Glass; Surface Treatment of Fibres or Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals or Slags; Joining Glass to Glass or Other Materials C03C 2217/20 (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 5/006 (20130101) C09D 173/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 1/11 (20130101) |
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| US 09376593 | Maghsoodi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Enki Technology, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Enki Technology, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sina Maghsoodi (San Jose, California); Brenor L. Brophy (San Jose, California); Ze'ev R. Abrams (New York, New York); Peter R. Gonsalves (Santa Clara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are coating materials and methods for applying a top-layer coating that is durable, abrasion resistant, highly transparent, hydrophobic, low-friction, moisture-sealing, anti-soiling, and self-cleaning to an existing conventional high temperature anti-reflective coating. The top coat imparts superior durability performance and new properties to the under-laying conventional high temperature anti-reflective coating without reducing the anti-reflectiveness of the coating. Methods and data for optimizing the relative thickness of the under-layer high temperature anti-reflective coating and the top-layer thickness for optimizing optical performance are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 17, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/856601 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical Composition of Glasses, Glazes or Vitreous Enamels; Surface Treatment of Glass; Surface Treatment of Fibres or Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals or Slags; Joining Glass to Glass or Other Materials C03C 17/007 (20130101) C03C 17/3405 (20130101) C03C 2203/27 (20130101) C03C 2217/73 (20130101) C03C 2217/76 (20130101) C03C 2217/78 (20130101) C03C 2217/425 (20130101) C03C 2217/732 (20130101) C03C 2218/113 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 77/24 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 3/36 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 5/006 (20130101) C09D 5/1662 (20130101) C09D 7/1216 (20130101) C09D 183/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C09D 183/08 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/265 (20150115) Y10T 428/31612 (20150401) |
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| US 09376662 | Stampfer 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) | Martha R. Stampfer (Oakland, California); James C. Garbe (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Cell culture media formulations for culturing human epithelial cells are herein described. Also described are methods of increasing population doublings in a cell culture of finite life span human epithelial cells and prolonging the life span of human cell cultures. Using the cell culture media disclosed alone and in combination with addition to the cell culture of a compound associated with anti-stress activity achieves extended growth of pre-stasis cells and increased population doublings and life span in human epithelial cell cultures. |
| FILED | Friday, February 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/627888 |
| 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 5/0631 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2500/90 (20130101) C12N 2500/99 (20130101) C12N 2501/30 (20130101) C12N 2501/31 (20130101) C12N 2501/80 (20130101) |
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| US 09376670 | Spodsberg |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Novozymes Inc. (Davis, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nikolaj Spodsberg (Bagsvaerd, Denmark) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellobiohydrolase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/277231 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/2437 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/14 (20130101) C12P 19/02 (20130101) C12P 19/14 (20130101) C12P 2203/00 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 302/01091 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/52 (20151101) |
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| US 09376691 | Peralta-Yahya 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) | Pamela P. Peralta-Yahya (Atlanta, Georgia); Jay D. Keasling (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a modified host cell comprising a heterologous pinene synthase (PS), or enzymatically active fragment or variant thereof, and optionally a geranyl pyrophosphate synthase (GPPS), or enzymatically active fragment or variant thereof, or a fusion protein comprising: (a) a PS and (b) a GPPS linked by a linker. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/091818 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/20 (20130101) C12N 1/22 (20130101) C12N 9/88 (20130101) C12N 9/1085 (20130101) C12N 15/52 (20130101) C12N 15/62 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 5/002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 5/007 (20130101) C12P 2203/00 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/52 (20151101) |
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| US 09376728 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tao Zhang (Richmond, California); Supratim Datta (Berkeley, California); Blake A. Simmons (San Francisco, California); Edward M. Rubin (Berkeley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tao Zhang (Richmond, California); Supratim Datta (Berkeley, California); Blake A. Simmons (San Francisco, California); Edward M. Rubin (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for an isolated or recombinant polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence having at least 70% identity with the amino acid sequence of a Halorhabdus utahensis cellulase, such as Hu-CBH1, wherein said amino acid sequence has a halophilic thermostable and/or thermophilic cellobiohydrolase (CBH) activity. In some embodiments, the polypeptide has a CBH activity that is resistant to up to about 20% of ionic liquids. The present invention also provides for compositions comprising and methods using the isolated or recombinant polypeptide. |
| FILED | Monday, June 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/493938 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/2437 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/02 (20130101) C12P 19/14 (20130101) C12P 2203/00 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 302/01091 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/52 (20151101) |
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| US 09376741 | Rakowski |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ATI Properties, Inc (Albany, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ATI PROPERTIES, INC. (Albany, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Rakowski (Allison Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An article of manufacture comprises a ferritic stainless steel that includes a near-surface region depleted of silicon relative to a remainder of the ferritic stainless steel. The article has a reduced tendency to form an electrically resistive silica layer including silicon derived from the steel when the article is subjected to high temperature oxidizing conditions. The ferritic stainless steel is selected from the group comprising AISI Type 430 stainless steel, AISI Type 439 stainless steel, AISI Type 441 stainless steel, AISI Type 444 stainless steel, and E-BRITE® alloy, also known as UNS 44627 stainless steel. In certain embodiments, the article of manufacture is a fuel cell interconnect for a solid oxide fuel cell. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/873270 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Modifying the Physical Structure of Ferrous Metals; General Devices for Heat Treatment of Ferrous or Non-ferrous Metals or Alloys; Making Metal Malleable, e.g by Decarburisation or Tempering C21D 1/74 (20130101) C21D 3/02 (20130101) C21D 6/002 (20130101) C21D 6/008 (20130101) Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 8/08 (20130101) C23C 8/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/02 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/00 (20130101) H01M 8/021 (20130101) H01M 8/0228 (20130101) H01M 2008/1293 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/50 (20130101) Y02E 60/525 (20130101) |
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| US 09376955 | Reitz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rolf Deneys Reitz (Madison, Wisconsin); Reed M. Hanson (Madison, Wisconsin); Derek A. Splitter (Madison, Wisconsin); Sage L. Kokjohn (Fitchburg, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A compression ignition engine uses two or more fuel charges having two or more reactivities to control the timing and duration of combustion. In a preferred implementation, a lower-reactivity fuel charge is injected or otherwise introduced into the combustion chamber, preferably sufficiently early that it becomes at least substantially homogeneously dispersed within the chamber before a subsequent injection is made. One or more subsequent injections of higher-reactivity fuel charges are then made, and these preferably distribute the higher-reactivity matter within the lower-reactivity chamber space such that combustion begins in the higher-reactivity regions, and with the lower-reactivity regions following thereafter. By appropriately choosing the reactivities of the charges, their relative amounts, and their timing, combustion can be tailored to achieve optimal power output (and thus fuel efficiency), at controlled temperatures (and thus controlled NOx), and with controlled equivalence ratios (and thus controlled soot). |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/748730 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion Piston Engines; Combustion Engines in General F02B 1/12 (20130101) F02B 17/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F02B 23/06 (20130101) F02B 23/0669 (20130101) F02B 23/0672 (20130101) F02B 2275/14 (20130101) Controlling Combustion Engines F02D 19/061 (20130101) F02D 19/081 (20130101) F02D 19/0649 (20130101) F02D 19/0689 (20130101) F02D 19/0692 (20130101) F02D 41/0025 (20130101) F02D 41/402 (20130101) F02D 41/3047 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/36 (20130101) Y02T 10/123 (20130101) Y02T 10/125 (20130101) |
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| US 09376979 | Jade et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany); The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shyam Jade (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Erik Hellstrom (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Anna Stefanopoulou (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Li Jiang (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for controlling combustion performance of an engine are provided. A desired fuel quantity for a first combustion cycle is determined. One or more engine actuator settings are identified that would be required during a subsequent combustion cycle to cause the engine to approach a target combustion phasing. If the identified actuator settings are within a defined acceptable operating range, the desired fuel quantity is injected during the first combustion cycle. If not, an attenuated fuel quantity is determined and the attenuated fuel quantity is injected during the first combustion cycle. |
| FILED | Monday, September 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/621425 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Controlling Combustion Engines F02D 35/023 (20130101) F02D 35/028 (20130101) F02D 41/40 (20130101) F02D 41/2451 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F02D 41/2464 (20130101) F02D 41/3035 (20130101) F02D 2041/141 (20130101) F02D 2041/1412 (20130101) F02D 2041/1416 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/44 (20130101) Y02T 10/128 (20130101) |
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| US 09377245 | Holcomb et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David E. Holcomb (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Govindarajan Muralidharan (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of in-situ reconditioning a heat exchanger includes the steps of: providing an in-service heat exchanger comprising a precipitate-strengthened alloy wherein at least one mechanical property of the heat exchanger is degraded by coarsening of the precipitate, the in-service heat exchanger containing a molten salt working heat exchange fluid; deactivating the heat exchanger from service in-situ; in a solution-annealing step, in-situ heating the heat exchanger and molten salt working heat exchange fluid contained therein to a temperature and for a time period sufficient to dissolve the coarsened precipitate; in a quenching step, flowing the molten salt working heat-exchange fluid through the heat exchanger in-situ to cool the alloy and retain a supersaturated solid solution while preventing formation of large precipitates; and in an aging step, further varying the temperature of the flowing molten salt working heat-exchange fluid to re-precipitate the dissolved precipitate. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/833357 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Changing the Physical Structure of Non-ferrous Metals and Non-ferrous Alloys C22F 1/00 (20130101) C22F 1/10 (20130101) Heat-exchange Apparatus, Not Provided for in Another Subclass, in Which the Heat-exchange Media Do Not Come into Direct Contact F28D 7/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Details of Heat-exchange and Heat-transfer Apparatus, of General Application F28F 2225/02 (20130101) F28F 2245/00 (20130101) F28F 2265/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09377389 | Parrington |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Josef R. Parrington (Rexford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is an impaction densitometer having a chamber configured to receive a particle; a beam generator configured to emit a beam; a detector configured to receive the beam and convert a change in intensity of the received beam into an electrical signal corresponding to a particle volume; an impact sensor positioned a known distance from the beam and configured to measure a particle momentum as a function of an impact energy transferred from the particle to the impact sensor; a velocity calculator configured to calculate a particle velocity based on a time it takes the particle to pass through the beam and strike the impact sensor; a mass calculator configured to calculate a particle mass as a function of the particle momentum and velocity; and a density calculator configured to calculate a particle density as a function of the particle mass and volume. |
| FILED | Friday, February 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/186057 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 9/00 (20130101) G01N 9/02 (20130101) G01N 15/10 (20130101) G01N 15/1463 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2009/022 (20130101) G01N 2015/1493 (20130101) G01N 2015/1497 (20130101) |
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| US 09377399 | Bond 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) | Tiziana C Bond (Livermore, California); Garrett Cole (Vienna, Austria); Lynford Goddard (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Configurations for in-situ gas detection are provided, and include miniaturized photonic devices, low-optical-loss, guided-wave structures and state-selective adsorption coatings. High quality factor semiconductor resonators have been demonstrated in different configurations, such as micro-disks, micro-rings, micro-toroids, and photonic crystals with the properties of very narrow NIR transmission bands and sensitivity up to 10−9 (change in complex refractive index). The devices are therefore highly sensitive to changes in optical properties to the device parameters and can be tunable to the absorption of the chemical species of interest. Appropriate coatings applied to the device enhance state-specific molecular detection. |
| FILED | Monday, November 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/674839 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/39 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/774 (20130101) G01N 2021/396 (20130101) G01N 2021/399 (20130101) G01N 2201/068 (20130101) G01N 2201/06113 (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 3/1053 (20130101) H01S 3/1055 (20130101) H01S 3/08059 (20130101) H01S 5/10 (20130101) H01S 5/0028 (20130101) H01S 5/18366 (20130101) H01S 2302/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09377464 | Wong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE OF UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanislaus Wong (Stony Brook, New York); Fen Zhang (Syosset, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of producing a crystalline rare earth phosphate nanostructure. The method comprising: providing a rare earth metal precursor solution and providing a phosphate precursor solution; placing a porous membrane between the metal precursor solution and the phosphate precursor solution, wherein metal cations of the metal precursor solution and phosphate ions of the phosphate precursor solution react, thereby producing a crystalline rare earth metal phosphate nanostructure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/243418 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 17/20 (20130101) C01B 25/37 (20130101) Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 3/12 (20130101) C01G 9/08 (20130101) C01G 11/02 (20130101) C01G 21/21 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/72 (20130101) C01P 2004/03 (20130101) C01P 2004/04 (20130101) C01P 2004/13 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/582 (20130101) C09K 11/661 (20130101) C09K 11/0811 (20130101) C09K 11/7777 (20130101) Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 7/14 (20130101) C30B 29/14 (20130101) C30B 29/46 (20130101) C30B 29/50 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/58 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09377536 | Bobbitt, III et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. Bobbitt, III (Evans, Georgia); David M. Immel (Augusta, Georgia); Matthew D. Folsom (Aiken, South Carolina); Jean R. Plummer (Aiken, South Carolina); Michael G. Serrato (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A radiation imaging system includes a casing and a camera disposed inside the casing. A first field of view through the casing exposes the camera to light from outside of the casing. An image plate is disposed inside the casing, and a second field of view through the casing to the image plate exposes the image plate to high-energy particles produced by a radioisotope outside of the casing. An optical reflector that is substantially transparent to the high-energy particles produced by the radioisotope is disposed with respect to the camera and the image plate to reflect light to the camera and to allow the high-energy particles produced by the radioisotope to pass through the optical reflector to the image plate. |
| FILED | Friday, February 12, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/042185 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09377954 | Loh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel Loh (Bellevue, Washington); Mitesh Meswani (Austin, Texas); Michael Ignatowski (Austin, Texas); Mark Nutter (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for memory allocation in a multiclass memory system includes a processor coupleable to a plurality of memories sharing a unified memory address space, and a library store to store a library of software functions. The processor identifies a type of a data structure in response to a memory allocation function call to the library for allocating memory to the data structure. Using the library, the processor allocates portions of the data structure among multiple memories of the multiclass memory system based on the type of the data structure. |
| FILED | Friday, May 09, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/273751 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/0608 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 3/0631 (20130101) G06F 3/0685 (20130101) |
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| US 09378256 | Alkadi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nasr E. Alkadi (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Michael R. Starke (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An industrial analytic system processes industrial data. A database engine provides access to a plurality of database management systems that serve energy consumption and product sales data. An input filter that selectively passes the filtered data streams that comprise energy sales data, location data, and a business classification code data in datasets by removing selected datasets that do not include energy information. A standard deviation filter removes datasets from the filtered data streams that fall outside of a predetermined variation from an average value. A computation module analyzes the correlation between electrical energy consumption within a standard industrial classification code represented in the datasets and a programmable criterion. |
| FILED | Friday, November 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/081802 |
| ART UNIT | 2168 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30563 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/00 (20130101) G06Q 50/06 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 60/188 (20130101) |
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| US 09378310 | Vanderheyden et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William Brian Vanderheyden (Katy, Texas); Duan Zhang (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico); BP Corporation North America Inc. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Brian Vanderheyden (Katy, Texas); Duan Zhang (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer system and method of simulating the behavior of an oil and gas reservoir including changes in the margins of frangible solids. A system of equations including state equations such as momentum, and conservation laws such as mass conservation and volume fraction continuity, are defined and discretized for at least two phases in a modeled volume, one of which corresponds to frangible material. A material point model technique for numerically solving the system of discretized equations, to derive fluid flow at each of a plurality of mesh nodes in the modeled volume, and the velocity of at each of a plurality of particles representing the frangible material in the modeled volume. A time-splitting technique improves the computational efficiency of the simulation while maintaining accuracy on the deformation scale. The method can be applied to derive accurate upscaled model equations for larger volume scale simulations. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/649655 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Earth Drilling, e.g Deep Drilling; Obtaining Oil, Gas, Water, Soluble or Meltable Materials or a Slurry of Minerals From Wells E21B 43/00 (20130101) E21B 43/20 (20130101) E21B 43/26 (20130101) Geophysics; Gravitational Measurements; Detecting Masses or Objects; Tags G01V 1/00 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/5009 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09379231 | Briere et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Rectifier Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Briere (Scottsdale, Arizona); Naresh Thapar (San Diego, California); Reenu Garg (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A transistor includes a source finger electrode having a source finger electrode beginning and a source finger electrode end. The transistor also includes a drain finger electrode with a curved drain finger electrode end having an increased radius of curvature. The resulting decreased electric field at the curved drain finger electrode end allows for an increased breakdown voltage and a more robust and reliable transistor. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/749477 |
| ART UNIT | 2896 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/78 (20130101) H01L 29/7787 (20130101) H01L 29/7788 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/41758 (20130101) H01L 29/42316 (20130101) |
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| US 09379346 | Forrest 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) | Stephen Forrest (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Xiangfei Qi (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Michael Slootsky (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to efficient organic light emitting devices (OLEDs). More specifically, the present invention relates to white-emitting OLEDs, or WOLEDs. The devices of the present invention employ three emissive sub-elements, typically emitting red, green and blue, to sufficiently cover the visible spectrum. The sub-elements are separated by charge generating layers. |
| FILED | Monday, June 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/746571 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/3206 (20130101) H01L 27/3209 (20130101) H01L 27/3211 (20130101) H01L 51/504 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/5016 (20130101) H01L 51/5036 (20130101) H01L 51/5278 (20130101) H01L 2251/303 (20130101) |
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| US 09379393 | Jang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio); Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Jiusheng Guo (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio); Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Jiusheng Guo (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a carbon-cladded composite composition for use as a fuel cell flow field plate or bipolar plate. In one preferred embodiment, the composition comprises a core composite layer sandwiched between two clad layers, wherein (a) the clad layer comprises a conductive carbon or graphite material (e.g., carbon nano-tubes, nano-scaled graphene plates, graphitic nano-fibers, and fine graphite particles); (b) the core composite layer comprises a matrix resin and a conductive filler present in a sufficient quantity to render the composite layer electrically conductive with an electrical conductivity no less than 1 S/cm (preferably no less than 100 S/cm); and (c) the composition has a planar outer surface on each clad side having formed therein a fluid flow channel. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/644122 |
| ART UNIT | 1729 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/0206 (20130101) H01M 8/0213 (20130101) H01M 8/0221 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/0228 (20130101) H01M 8/0267 (20130101) H01M 2008/1095 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09379660 | Al-Haddad et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia); Radiance Solar, LLC (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia); Radiance Solar, LLC (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tristan Farris Al-Haddad (Clarkson, Georgia); Andrés Cavieres (Atlanta, Georgia); Russell Gentry (Decatur, Georgia); Joseph Goodman (Atlanta, Georgia); Wade Nolan (Birmingham, Alabama); Taylor Pitelka (Atlanta, Georgia); Keyan Rahimzadeh (Atlanta, Georgia); Bradley Brooks (Atlanta, Georgia); Joshua Lohr (Atlanta, Georgia); Ryan Crooks (Atlanta, Georgia); Jamie Porges (Atlanta, Georgia); Daniel Rubin (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a solar panel truss mounting system comprising a base and a truss assembly coupled to the base. The truss assembly comprises a first panel rail mount, second panel rail mount parallel to the first panel rail mount, base rail mount parallel to the first and second panel rail mounts, and a plurality of support members. A first portion of the plurality of support members extends between the first and second panel rail mounts. A second portion of the plurality of support members extends between the first panel rail mount and the base rail mount. A third portion of the plurality of support members extends between the second panel rail mount and the base rail mount. The system can further comprise a plurality of connectors for coupling a plurality of photovoltaic solar panels to the truss assembly. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/849835 |
| ART UNIT | 3633 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Kitchen Equipment; Coffee Mills; Spice Mills; Apparatus for Making Beverages A47J 47/16 (20130101) General Building Constructions; Walls, e.g Partitions; Roofs; Floors; Ceilings; Insulation or Other Protection of Buildings E04B 1/19 (20130101) E04B 2001/193 (20130101) E04B 2001/1957 (20130101) Structural Elements; Building Materials E04C 3/02 (20130101) Producing or Use of Heat Not Otherwise Provided For F24J 2/523 (20130101) F24J 2/525 (20130101) F24J 2/526 (20130101) Generation of Electric Power by Conversion of Infra-red Radiation, Visible Light or Ultraviolet Light, e.g Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules H02S 20/00 (20130101) H02S 20/10 (20141201) Original (OR) Class H02S 20/30 (20141201) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/47 (20130101) Y02E 10/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09380695 | Dolgashev |
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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) | Valery A. Dolgashev (San Carlos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A high power RF traveling wave accelerator structure includes a symmetric RF feed, an input matching cell coupled to the symmetric RF feed, a sequence of regular accelerating cavities coupled to the input matching cell at an input beam pipe end of the sequence, one or more waveguides parallel to and coupled to the sequence of regular accelerating cavities, an output matching cell coupled to the sequence of regular accelerating cavities at an output beam pipe end of the sequence, and output waveguide circuit or RF loads coupled to the output matching cell. Each of the regular accelerating cavities has a nose cone that cuts off field propagating into the beam pipe and therefore all power flows in a traveling wave along the structure in the waveguide. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 04, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/730883 |
| ART UNIT | 2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Plasma Technique; Production of Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles or of Neutrons; Production or Acceleration of Neutral Molecular or Atomic Beams H05H 7/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05H 9/02 (20130101) H05H 2007/025 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rodrigo E. Teixeira (Madison, Alabama) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Rodrigo E. Teixeira (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A probabilistic digital signal processor for medical function is described. Initial probability distribution functions are input to a dynamic state-space model, which operates on state and/or model probability distribution functions to generate a prior probability distribution function, which is input to a probabilistic updater. The probabilistic updater integrates sensor data with the prior to generate a posterior probability distribution function passed to a probabilistic sampler, which estimates one or more parameters using the posterior, which is output or re-sampled in an iterative algorithm. For example, the probabilistic processor operates using a physical model on data from a medical meter, where the medical meter uses a first physical parameter, such as blood oxygen saturation levels from a pulse oximeter, to generate a second physical parameter not output by the medical meter, such as a heart stroke volume, a cardiac output flow rate, and/or a blood pressure. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/096876 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0075 (20130101) A61B 5/0205 (20130101) A61B 5/441 (20130101) A61B 5/7275 (20130101) A61B 5/14551 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09375873 | Gracias et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David H. Gracias (Baltimore, Maryland); Mustapha Jamal (Clarksville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David H. Gracias (Baltimore, Maryland); Mustapha Jamal (Clarksville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing curved, folded or reconfigurable structures includes providing a polymer film, exposing the polymer film to at least one of patterned radiation or patterned chemical contact, and conditioning the polymer film subsequent to the exposing. The polymer film includes a polymer that is active to cross-linking of polymer chains in response to the exposing. The exposing is performed such that at least one exposed region of the polymer film develops a gradient in an amount of cross-linking of polymer chains along a cross-sectional direction of the polymer film, and the conditioning of the polymer film removes uncross-linked polymer chains to provide a curved, folded or reconfigurable structure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/880321 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502707 (20130101) B01L 2200/10 (20130101) B01L 2200/12 (20130101) B01L 2300/123 (20130101) Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 59/005 (20130101) B29C 59/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00007 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 3/245 (20130101) Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 1/38 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24628 (20150115) Y10T 428/24802 (20150115) |
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| US 09376385 | Carlson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianpolis, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erin C. Carlson (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Darci Trader (Jupiter, Florida); Ashley Sidebottom (Saint Louis Park, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to solid-phase azide supports, methods for making solid-state azide supports, and methods for capturing alkynes using the same. The present disclosure also relates to kits for solid-phase azide supports. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/630183 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 273/00 (20130101) C07D 273/01 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 8/30 (20130101) C08F 8/30 (20130101) C08F 8/42 (20130101) C08F 8/42 (20130101) C08F 112/08 (20130101) C08F 112/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09376413 | Coates et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey W. Coates (Lansing, New York); John M. Rowley (Houghton, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Catalysts and methods for the double carbonylation of epoxides are disclosed. Each epoxide molecule reacts with two molecules of carbon monoxide to produce a succinic anhydride. The reaction is facilitated by catalysts combining a Lewis acidic species with a transition metal carbonyl complex. The double carbonylation is achieved in single process by using reaction conditions under which both carbonylation reactions occur without the necessity of isolating or purifying the product of the first carbonylation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/552825 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 307/60 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09376452 | Wandinger-Ness et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico); UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ST. UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Angela Wandinger-Ness (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Larry Sklar (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jacob Agola (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Zurab Surviladze (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jeffrey Aube (Lawrence, Kansas); Jennifer Golden (Olathe, Kansas); Chad E. Schroeder (Lawrence, Kansas); Denise S. Simpson (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to compounds and their use as inhibitors or activators of Rab7 GTPase to treat or prevent the onset of Rab 7 GTPase-associated disorders such as neuropathies, cancer, metabolic diseases of bone and lipid storage. The invention is also applicable to infectious diseases where Rab7 is inactivated or its protein-protein interactions are modulated to facilitate intracellular survival of pathogens. The compound described acts as a competitive inhibitor of nucleotide binding and as such also has utility as a scaffold for targeting other small GTPases. In one aspect, methods of treatment of the invention are used to treat or prevent the onset of hereditary sensory neuropathies such as Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 2B disease. Related pharmaceutical compositions, assays, and drug screens are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/278468 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/381 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 495/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09376523 | Mahanthappa et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mahesh Kalyana Mahanthappa (Madison, Wisconsin); Corinne Elizabeth Lipscomb (St. Paul, Minnesota); Milton Repollet-Pedrosa (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mahesh Kalyana Mahanthappa (Madison, Wisconsin); Corinne Elizabeth Lipscomb (St. Paul, Minnesota); Milton Repollet-Pedrosa (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Copolymers comprising a block of polyvinyl alcohol) and a block of a polyvinyl ester. Copolymers comprising a block of polyvinyl haloalkanoate) and a block of a polyvinyl ester). Methods of making copolymers comprising a block of polyvinyl alcohol) and a block of a polyvinyl ester. Methods of making copolymers comprising a block of polyvinyl haloalkanoate) and a block of a polyvinyl ester). The copolymers may be incorporated into aqueous dispersions to form micelles or hydrogels. Some copolymers are biodegradable and have surfactant properties. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/638464 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 293/005 (20130101) C08F 299/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08F 299/0407 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 5/05 (20130101) C08K 5/20 (20130101) C08K 5/41 (20130101) C08K 5/3415 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 53/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09376623 | Swager et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Timothy M. Swager (Newton, Massachusetts); Johan T. V. Hoogboom (Deventer, Netherlands) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy M. Swager (Newton, Massachusetts); Johan T. V. Hoogboom (Deventer, Netherlands) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions, devices and methods related to the alignment of materials including polymers. In some cases, the present invention comprises the assembly of molecules (e.g., polymers) via intermolecular interactions to produce extended networks, which may have enhanced properties relative to the individual molecules. Such networks may be advantageous for use in electronics, photovoltaics, sensor applications, and the like. In some embodiments, the present invention may enhance the performance of certain optical devices, such as liquid crystal displays (e.g., color liquid crystal displays) by providing enhanced contrast ratio, faster response times, and/or lower operating voltage. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/312259 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 81/00 (20130101) C08G 2261/148 (20130101) C08G 2261/3422 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 65/00 (20130101) C08L 101/12 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 19/542 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 2001/13345 (20130101) |
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| US 09376641 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Banglin Chen (San Antonio, Texas); Zhiyong Guo (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Banglin Chen (San Antonio, Texas); Zhiyong Guo (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A 3D porous metal-organic framework and method of making are described. In some embodiments, a 3D porous metal-organic framework may be based on a trinodal (3,3,4) net of zyg topology by the self-assembly of the nonlinear hexacarboxylate (BHB) with the paddle-wheel Cu2(COO)4 cluster. Although its porosity and surface area are moderate, the open copper sites and optimal pore spaces enable the pore spaces to be fully utilized for methane storage, resulting in a high methane storage density and high absolute volumetric methane storage at room temperature and 35 bar. By the immobilization of high density open metal sites and the deliberate control of the pore space for their efficient methane storage, this porous MOF functions as an efficient media for methane and natural gas storage. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/984724 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/226 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 63/331 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 1/08 (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 3/003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10L 3/10 (20130101) 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) |
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| US 09376700 | Petersson |
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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, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | E. James Petersson (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes a selective method of modifying the N-terminus of a protein using an aminoacyl tRNA transferase. In certain embodiments, the method comprises contacting a solution of the protein or peptide with a transferase and a derivative of a molecule, whereby the N-terminus of the protein or peptide is derivatized with the molecule. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/406864 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 247/16 (20130101) C07C 255/03 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 311/08 (20130101) C07D 473/34 (20130101) Peptides C07K 1/13 (20130101) C07K 1/026 (20130101) C07K 1/113 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 21/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09376713 | Bashir et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rashid Bashir (Champaign, Illinois); Yi-Shao Liu (Champaign, Illinois); Eric Salm (Champaign, Illinois); Woo-Jin Chang (Urbana, Illinois); Nicholas N. Watkins (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rashid Bashir (Champaign, Illinois); Yi-Shao Liu (Champaign, Illinois); Eric Salm (Champaign, Illinois); Woo-Jin Chang (Urbana, Illinois); Nicholas N. Watkins (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods and devices for label-free detection of nucleic acids that are amplified by polymerase chain reaction. A solution containing the components necessary for a PCR is introduced to a microfluidic amplification chamber and an electric field applied to a confined region in which PCR occurs. PCR product generated in the confined region is detected by measuring an electrical parameter that is, for example, solution impedance. The devices and methods provided herein are used, for example, in assays to detect one or more pathogens or for point-of-care tests. In an aspect, the PCR product is confined to droplets and the assay relates to detecting an electrical parameter of a flowing droplet, thereby detecting PCR product without a label. In an aspect, the PCR occurs in the droplet. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/888917 |
| 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 | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/0241 (20130101) B01L 3/5027 (20130101) B01L 3/502746 (20130101) B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 3/502784 (20130101) B01L 7/52 (20130101) B01L 2200/10 (20130101) B01L 2200/143 (20130101) B01L 2200/147 (20130101) B01L 2200/0668 (20130101) B01L 2300/0645 (20130101) B01L 2300/0681 (20130101) B01L 2300/0867 (20130101) B01L 2300/1822 (20130101) B01L 2300/1827 (20130101) B01L 2400/084 (20130101) B01L 2400/0418 (20130101) B01L 2400/0424 (20130101) Magnetic or Electrostatic Separation of Solid Materials From Solid Materials or Fluids; Separation by High-voltage Electric Fields B03C 5/026 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6825 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09376717 | Gao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON THROUGH ITS CENTER FOR COMMERCIALIZATION (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaohu Gao (Seattle, Massachusetts); Pavel Zrazhevskiy (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are compositions and methods for identifying or quantitating one or more analytes in sample. The composition can comprise an affinity molecule reversibly conjugated to a label moiety via a double-stranded nucleic acid linker or via an adaptor molecule. The affinity molecule and the label moiety can be linked to different strands of the double-stranded nucleic acid linker. Compositions can be used in any biological assays for detection, identification and/or quantification of target molecules or analytes, including multiplex staining for molecular profiling of individual cells or cellular populations. For example, the compositions can be adapted for use in immunofluorescence, fluorescence in situ hybridization, immunohistochemistry, western blot, and the like. |
| FILED | Friday, December 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/577507 |
| 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 1/6804 (20130101) C12Q 1/6804 (20130101) C12Q 1/6841 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2563/155 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/587 (20130101) G01N 33/588 (20130101) G01N 2458/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09377362 | Kozlov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Microtech Instruments, Inc. (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MICROTECH INSTRUMENTS, INC. (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir G. Kozlov (Eugene, Oregon); Patrick F. Tekavec (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A terahertz image beam is upconverted by a nonlinear optical process (e.g., sum- or difference-frequency generation with a near IR upconverting beam). The upconverted image is acquired by a near IR image detector. The terahertz image beam and upconverting beam comprise trains of picosecond pulses. The bandwidths and center wavelengths of the terahertz image beam and the upconverting beam are such that wavelength filtering can be employed to permit an upconverted image beam to reach the detector while blocking or substantially attenuating the upconverting beam. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/561141 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 5/0803 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01J 5/0806 (20130101) G01J 9/00 (20130101) G01J 2005/0077 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/636 (20130101) G01N 21/3581 (20130101) Geophysics; Gravitational Measurements; Detecting Masses or Objects; Tags G01V 8/005 (20130101) |
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| US 09377464 | Wong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE OF UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanislaus Wong (Stony Brook, New York); Fen Zhang (Syosset, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of producing a crystalline rare earth phosphate nanostructure. The method comprising: providing a rare earth metal precursor solution and providing a phosphate precursor solution; placing a porous membrane between the metal precursor solution and the phosphate precursor solution, wherein metal cations of the metal precursor solution and phosphate ions of the phosphate precursor solution react, thereby producing a crystalline rare earth metal phosphate nanostructure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/243418 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 17/20 (20130101) C01B 25/37 (20130101) Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 3/12 (20130101) C01G 9/08 (20130101) C01G 11/02 (20130101) C01G 21/21 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/72 (20130101) C01P 2004/03 (20130101) C01P 2004/04 (20130101) C01P 2004/13 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/582 (20130101) C09K 11/661 (20130101) C09K 11/0811 (20130101) C09K 11/7777 (20130101) Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 7/14 (20130101) C30B 29/14 (20130101) C30B 29/46 (20130101) C30B 29/50 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/58 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09379162 | Bandyopadhyay et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Supriyo Bandyopadhyay (Glen Allen, Virginia); Jayasimha Atulasimha (Glen Allen, Virginia); Ayan Kumar Biswas (Richmond, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Memory cells, non-volatile logic gates, and combinations thereof have magneto-tunneling junctions (MTJs) which are switched using potential differences across a piezoelectric layer in elastic contact with a magnetostrictive nanomagnet of an MTJ. One or more pairs of electrodes are arranged about the MTJ for supplying voltage across the piezoelectric layer for switching. A permanent magnetic field may be employed to change the positions of the stable magnetic orientations of the magnetostrictive nanomagnet. Exemplary memory cells and universal non-volatile logic gates show dramatically improved performance characteristics, particularly with respect to energy dissipation and error-resilience, over existing methods and architectures for switching MTJs such as spin transfer torque (STT) techniques. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/546393 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 11/16 (20130101) G11C 11/1675 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/222 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 41/047 (20130101) H01L 41/0805 (20130101) H01L 43/02 (20130101) H01L 43/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09379232 | Kelber et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of North Texas (Denton, Texas); Quantum Devices, LLC (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | QUANTUM DEVICES, LLC (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffry A. Kelber (Plano, Texas); Christian Binek (Lincoln, Nebraska); Peter Arnold Bowden (Crete, Nebraska); Kirill Belashchenko (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a magneto-electric spin-FET including a gate film of chromia and a thin film of a conductive channel material which may be graphene, InP, GaAs, GaSb, PbS, MoS2, WS2, MoSe2, WSe2 and mixtures thereof. The chromia, or other magneto-electric, and conduction channel material are in intimate contact along an interface there between. The resulting magneto-electric device may be voltage-controlled and provide non-volatile memory. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/182521 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Static Stores G11C 11/161 (20130101) G11C 11/5607 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 10/002 (20130101) H01F 10/3268 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/78 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/517 (20130101) H01L 29/1606 (20130101) H01L 29/66984 (20130101) |
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| US 09379422 | Li 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) | Yat Li (Santa Cruz, California); Gongming Wang (Santa Cruz, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of electrode hydrogenation for photoelectrochemical (PEC) water oxidation is provided that includes annealing a PEC electrode in air, and annealing the PEC electrode in hydrogen to form a hydrogenated-PEC electrode, where PEC performance is improved by enhancing charge transfer and transport in the hydrogenated-PEC electrode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/915487 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 3/04 (20130101) B05D 3/0209 (20130101) B05D 5/12 (20130101) B05D 2202/30 (20130101) Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Processes for the Production of Compounds or Non-metals; Apparatus Therefor C25B 1/003 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/324 (20130101) H01L 31/0224 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 14/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/368 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/135 (20151101) |
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| US 09379640 | Mazumder |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sudip K. Mazumder (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sudip K. Mazumder (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of the invention is a scalable single stage differential power converter. The inverter can be implemented in signal, split and multi-phases. A multiphase converter can be achieved with only three modules. Integrated magnetics used in preferred embodiments of the invention mitigate the DC component of the steady-state dynamics and can be extended to AC ripple mitigation. Control architectures in preferred embodiments can mitigate higher order harmonics in steady state dynamics. Embodiments of the invention also provide scalability for voltage and current source topologies. |
| FILED | Friday, June 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/128844 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus for Conversion Between AC and AC, Between AC and DC, or Between DC and DC, and for Use With Mains or Similar Power Supply Systems; Conversion of DC or AC Input Power into Surge Output Power; Control or Regulation Thereof H02M 1/12 (20130101) H02M 3/005 (20130101) H02M 7/48 (20130101) H02M 7/537 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H02M 7/4807 (20130101) |
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| US 09380221 | Marwah et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kshitij Marwah (Rajouri Garden, India); Gordon Wetzstein (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ramesh Raskar (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kshitij Marwah (Rajouri Garden, India); Gordon Wetzstein (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ramesh Raskar (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In exemplary implementations of this invention, a light field camera uses a light field dictionary to reconstruct a 4D light field from a single photograph. The light field includes both angular and spatial information and has a spatial resolution equal to the spatial resolution of the imaging sensor. Light from a scene passes through a coded spatial light modulator (SLM) before reaching an imaging sensor. Computer processors reconstruct a light field. This reconstruction includes computing a sparse or compressible coefficient vector using a light field dictionary matrix. Each column vector of the dictionary matrix is a light field atom. These light field atoms each, respectively, comprise information about a small 4D region of a light field. Reconstruction quality may be improved by using an SLM that is as orthogonal as possible to the dictionary. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/192800 |
| ART UNIT | 2661 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/2254 (20130101) H04N 5/2621 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09380286 | Cohen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Adobe Systems Incorporated (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Adobe Systems Incorporated (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott D. Cohen (Sunnyvale, California); Brian L. Price (San Jose, California); Bryan Stuart Morse (Mapleton, Utah); Joel A. Howard (Provo, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Stereoscopic target region filling techniques are described. Techniques are described in which stereo consistency is promoted between target regions, such as by sharing information during computation. Techniques are also described in which target regions of respective disparity maps are completed to promote consistency between the disparity maps. This estimated disparity may then be used as a guide to completion of a missing texture in the target region. Techniques are further described in which cross-image searching and matching is employed by leveraging a plurality of images. This may including giving preference to matches with cross-image consistency to promote consistency, thereby enforcing stereo consistency between stereo images when applicable. |
| FILED | Friday, April 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/866632 |
| ART UNIT | 2619 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 13/0011 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09374950 | Upadhyaya 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) | Shrinivasa K. Upadhyaya (Davis, California); Rajveer Dhillon (Davis, California); Jedediah Roach (Sacramento, California); Francisco Rojo (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and system for monitoring plant leaves to determine plant water needs and an automated variable-rate irrigation management system which can implement precision irrigation by taking into account specific plant water status is presented. Single or networked sensor platforms have a suite of sensors including a leaf temperature sensor for measuring leaf temperatures over time; an air temperature sensor; a relative humidity sensor for measuring relative humidity surrounding a leaf; a wind speed sensor for measuring wind speed surrounding a leaf; and an ambient light sensor for measuring solar radiation on the leaf. One platform has diffuser dome, leaf retainer and wind barrier structures. The sensor platform may have a computer processor and programming for obtaining and recording sensor measurements and determining plant water status in response to sensor measurements. The system may have a central control computer and communications link for communications with the platforms. |
| FILED | Friday, May 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/268880 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Horticulture; Cultivation of Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops or Seaweed; Forestry; Watering A01G 1/001 (20130101) A01G 25/167 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/246 (20130101) |
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| US 09375467 | Lawrence et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark L. Lawrence (Starkville, Mississippi); Attila Karsi (Starkville, Mississippi) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mississippi State University (Mississippi State, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark L. Lawrence (Starkville, Mississippi); Attila Karsi (Starkville, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A high throughput bioluminescence mutant screening procedure is disclosed. This procedure utilizes robotics, and bacterial luciferase to allow real-time monitoring of mutant viability. The procedure was used to decelop a live attenuated vaccine for a catfish against E. ictaluri, which is further claimed herein. Additionally, genes from other bacterial species are disclosed which may also be used to create vaccines. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/940125 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/522 (20130101) A61K 2039/552 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/102 (20130101) |
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| US 09376668 | Obendorf et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph L. Obendorf (Ithaca, New York); Takashi Ueda (Fort Myers, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to an isolated DNA molecule encoding a fagopyritol synthase. A method for producing a fagopyritol, an insulin mediator, an insulin mediator analogue, an insulin mediator homologue, or an insulin mediator inhibitor is also described. The method includes providing a fagopyritol synthase, providing a substrate comprising a galactosy donor and a galactosy acceptor, and combining the fagopyritol synthase with the substrate under conditions effective produce a fagopyritol, an insulin mediator, an insulin mediator analogue, an insulin mediator homologue, or an insulin mediator inhibitor. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/104788 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 21/04 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/1051 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/26 (20130101) C12P 19/46 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/52 (20151101) |
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| US 09376713 | Bashir et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rashid Bashir (Champaign, Illinois); Yi-Shao Liu (Champaign, Illinois); Eric Salm (Champaign, Illinois); Woo-Jin Chang (Urbana, Illinois); Nicholas N. Watkins (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rashid Bashir (Champaign, Illinois); Yi-Shao Liu (Champaign, Illinois); Eric Salm (Champaign, Illinois); Woo-Jin Chang (Urbana, Illinois); Nicholas N. Watkins (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods and devices for label-free detection of nucleic acids that are amplified by polymerase chain reaction. A solution containing the components necessary for a PCR is introduced to a microfluidic amplification chamber and an electric field applied to a confined region in which PCR occurs. PCR product generated in the confined region is detected by measuring an electrical parameter that is, for example, solution impedance. The devices and methods provided herein are used, for example, in assays to detect one or more pathogens or for point-of-care tests. In an aspect, the PCR product is confined to droplets and the assay relates to detecting an electrical parameter of a flowing droplet, thereby detecting PCR product without a label. In an aspect, the PCR occurs in the droplet. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/888917 |
| 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 | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/0241 (20130101) B01L 3/5027 (20130101) B01L 3/502746 (20130101) B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 3/502784 (20130101) B01L 7/52 (20130101) B01L 2200/10 (20130101) B01L 2200/143 (20130101) B01L 2200/147 (20130101) B01L 2200/0668 (20130101) B01L 2300/0645 (20130101) B01L 2300/0681 (20130101) B01L 2300/0867 (20130101) B01L 2300/1822 (20130101) B01L 2300/1827 (20130101) B01L 2400/084 (20130101) B01L 2400/0418 (20130101) B01L 2400/0424 (20130101) Magnetic or Electrostatic Separation of Solid Materials From Solid Materials or Fluids; Separation by High-voltage Electric Fields B03C 5/026 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6825 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US PP26883 | Pounders et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); Capstone Plants Inc. (Grand Saline, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Capstone Plants, Inc. (Grand Saline, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cecil T Pounders (Poplarville, Mississippi); James B Berry (Mineola, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A new cultivar of hybrid Azalea named ‘AZ 56’ that is characterized by its upright, compact, densely branched plant habit, its pink flowers with deep purple flecks on the upper surface of the petals, its two distinct bloom cycles with a strong bloom period early to mid-April followed by a seconding bloom period in early fall in Mississippi, its disease-free, mature foliage that is dark green in color and retained during the winter when it takes on a purple blush, its high tolerance to seasonal temperature fluctuations from 38° C. (100° F.) in the summer to as low as −10° C. (14° F.) in the winter, and its ease of propagation by softwood stem cuttings. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/121951 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/239 |
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 09375160 | Parlikar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tushar A. Parlikar (Somerville, Massachusetts); Gireeja V. Ranade (Berkeley, California); Thomas Heldt (Cambridge, Massachusetts); George C. Verghese (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tushar A. Parlikar (Somerville, Massachusetts); Gireeja V. Ranade (Berkeley, California); Thomas Heldt (Cambridge, Massachusetts); George C. Verghese (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The methods and systems for estimating cardiac output and total peripheral resistance include observing arterial blood pressure waveforms to determine intra-beat and inter-beat variability in arterial blood pressure and estimating from the variability a time constant for a lumped parameter beat-to-beat averaged Windkessel model of the arterial tree. Uncalibrated cardiac output and uncalibrated total peripheral resistance may then be calculated from the time constant. Calibrated cardiac output and calibrated total peripheral resistance may be computed using calibration data, assuming an arterial compliance that is either constant or dependent on mean arterial blood pressure. The parameters of the arterial compliance may be estimated in a least-squares manner. |
| FILED | Monday, September 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/607924 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/021 (20130101) A61B 5/029 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/02007 (20130101) A61B 5/02405 (20130101) |
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| US 09377107 | Daniels et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of Akron (Akron, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Akron (Akron, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Daniels (Akron, Ohio); Nicholas Garafolo (Akron, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A sealing construct for a space environment includes a seal-bearing object, a seal on the seal-bearing object, and a seal-engaging object. The seal includes a seal body having a sealing surface, and a textured pattern at the sealing surface, the textured pattern defining at least one shaded channel surface. The seal-engaging object is selectively engaged with the seal-bearing object through the seal. The seal-engaging object has a sealing surface, wherein, when the seal-engaging object is selectively engaged with the seal-bearing object, the sealing surface of the seal-engaging object engages the sealing surface of the seal, and the seal is compressed between the seal-bearing object and the seal-engaging object such that at least one shaded channel surface engages the sealing surface of the seal-engaging object. |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/352194 |
| ART UNIT | 3675 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Cosmonautics; Vehicles or Equipment Therefor B64G 1/646 (20130101) Pistons; Cylinders; Sealings F16J 15/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F16J 15/024 (20130101) |
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| US 09377481 | Greenberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul S Greenberg (Cleve. Hts., Ohio); David G Fischer (Richfield, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul S Greenberg (Cleve. Hts., Ohio); David G Fischer (Richfield, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, detectors and systems detect particles and/or measure particle properties. According to one embodiment, a detector for detecting particles comprises: a sensor for receiving radiation scattered by an ensemble of particles; and a processor for determining a physical parameter for the detector, or an optimal detection angle or a bound for an optimal detection angle, for measuring at least one moment or integrated moment of the ensemble of particles, the physical parameter, or detection angle, or detection angle bound being determined based on one or more of properties (a) and/or (b) and/or (c) and/or (d) or ranges for one or more of properties (a) and/or (b) and/or (c) and/or (d), wherein (a)-(d) are the following: (a) is a wavelength of light incident on the particles, (b) is a count median diameter or other characteristic size parameter of the particle size distribution, (c) is a standard deviation or other characteristic width parameter of the particle size distribution, and (d) is a refractive index of particles. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/134959 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2021/513 (20130101) Measuring Linear or Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, or Shock; Indicating Presence, Absence, or Direction, of Movement G01P 5/001 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09379274 | Richards et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Emcore Solar Power, Inc. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SolAero Technologies Corp. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin C. Richards (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Charles F. Sarver (Tijeras, New Mexico); Maria Naidenkova (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | According to an aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided a solar cell panel and a method for manufacturing the same. The solar cell panel comprises: a solar cell for generating electric power from sunlight; a coverglass for covering the solar cell; transparent shims, which are disposed between the solar cell and the coverglass at the points where the distance between the solar cell and the coverglass needs to be controlled, and form a space between the solar cell and the coverglass; and adhesive layer, which fills the space between the solar cell and the coverglass and has the thickness the same as that of the transparent shims. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/224212 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/048 (20130101) |
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Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09376383 | Stock et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeffry B. Stock (Princeton, New Jersey); Maxwell Stock (Rocky Hill, New Jersey); Keshava Rapole (Edison, New Jersey); Seung-Yub Lee (Princeton, New Jersey); Michael Voronkov (Pennington, New Jersey); Eduardo Perez (Somerset, New Jersey); Joel Gordon (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Shuyi Chen (Somerset, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SIGNUM BIOSCIENCES, INC. (Monmouth Junction, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffry B. Stock (Princeton, New Jersey); Maxwell Stock (Rocky Hill, New Jersey); Keshava Rapole (Edison, New Jersey); Seung-Yub Lee (Princeton, New Jersey); Michael Voronkov (Pennington, New Jersey); Eduardo Perez (Somerset, New Jersey); Joel Gordon (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Shuyi Chen (Somerset, New Jersey); Jinglong Chen (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | Among other things, the present invention provides novel isoprenyl compounds capable of effectively modulating inflammatory responses and pharmaceutical, cosmetic, cosmeceutical and topical compositions comprising these isoprenyl compounds. Anti-inflammatory compounds of the present invention are useful in treating or preventing diseases or conditions associated with inflammation. Proinflammatory compounds of the present invention are useful in treating or preventing diseases or conditions associated with suppression of inflammatory responses. Thus, the present invention also provides methods useful in the treatment or prevention of diseases or conditions associated with inflammation as well as methods useful in the treatment or prevention of diseases or conditions associated with suppression of inflammatory responses. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/760627 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 321/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 323/59 (20130101) C07C 335/08 (20130101) C07C 2101/02 (20130101) C07C 2101/14 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/16 (20130101) C07D 209/18 (20130101) C07D 209/48 (20130101) C07D 217/26 (20130101) C07D 243/34 (20130101) C07D 295/145 (20130101) C07D 307/54 (20130101) C07D 333/24 (20130101) |
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| US 09376672 | 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); Willem P. Stemmer (Los Gatos, California); Nathan C. Geething (Santa Clara, California); Wayne To (Fremont, California); Joshua Silverman (Sunnyvale, California); Chia-wei Wang (Milpitas, California); Benjamin Spink (San Carlos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions comprising factor IX coagulation factors linked to extended recombinant polypeptide (XTEN), isolated nucleic acids encoding the compositions and vectors and host cells containing the same, and methods of making and using such compositions in treatment of coagulation factor-related diseases, disorders, and conditions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/710077 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 2319/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/50 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/644 (20130101) C12N 9/6437 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Enzymes C12Y 304/21022 (20130101) |
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| US 09377362 | Kozlov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Microtech Instruments, Inc. (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MICROTECH INSTRUMENTS, INC. (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir G. Kozlov (Eugene, Oregon); Patrick F. Tekavec (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A terahertz image beam is upconverted by a nonlinear optical process (e.g., sum- or difference-frequency generation with a near IR upconverting beam). The upconverted image is acquired by a near IR image detector. The terahertz image beam and upconverting beam comprise trains of picosecond pulses. The bandwidths and center wavelengths of the terahertz image beam and the upconverting beam are such that wavelength filtering can be employed to permit an upconverted image beam to reach the detector while blocking or substantially attenuating the upconverting beam. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/561141 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 5/0803 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01J 5/0806 (20130101) G01J 9/00 (20130101) G01J 2005/0077 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/636 (20130101) G01N 21/3581 (20130101) Geophysics; Gravitational Measurements; Detecting Masses or Objects; Tags G01V 8/005 (20130101) |
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| US 09379393 | Jang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio); Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Jiusheng Guo (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio); Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Jiusheng Guo (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a carbon-cladded composite composition for use as a fuel cell flow field plate or bipolar plate. In one preferred embodiment, the composition comprises a core composite layer sandwiched between two clad layers, wherein (a) the clad layer comprises a conductive carbon or graphite material (e.g., carbon nano-tubes, nano-scaled graphene plates, graphitic nano-fibers, and fine graphite particles); (b) the core composite layer comprises a matrix resin and a conductive filler present in a sufficient quantity to render the composite layer electrically conductive with an electrical conductivity no less than 1 S/cm (preferably no less than 100 S/cm); and (c) the composition has a planar outer surface on each clad side having formed therein a fluid flow channel. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/644122 |
| ART UNIT | 1729 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/0206 (20130101) H01M 8/0213 (20130101) H01M 8/0221 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/0228 (20130101) H01M 8/0267 (20130101) H01M 2008/1095 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/50 (20130101) |
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Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 09375156 | Narayan 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); THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanjiv Narayan (La Jolla, California); Wouter-Jan Rappel (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system to detect a cause of a complex rhythm disorder in a human heart includes a plurality of sensors disposed spatially in relation to the heart, where the signals generated by the sensors are associated with activations of the heart. A processor collects and analyzes the signals to identify a region of the heart having an activation trail that is rotational or radially emanating, where the activation trail is indicative of the complex rhythm disorder and is based on activation times associated with the activations of the heart. |
| FILED | Monday, April 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/257939 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/02 (20130101) A61B 5/04 (20130101) A61B 5/044 (20130101) A61B 5/046 (20130101) A61B 5/0245 (20130101) A61B 5/0402 (20130101) A61B 5/0452 (20130101) A61B 5/0464 (20130101) A61B 5/726 (20130101) A61B 5/02405 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/04011 (20130101) A61B 5/04012 (20130101) A61B 5/4836 (20130101) A61B 5/7203 (20130101) A61B 18/1206 (20130101) A61B 18/1492 (20130101) A61B 2018/00214 (20130101) A61B 2018/00357 (20130101) A61B 2018/00839 (20130101) A61B 2018/1435 (20130101) |
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| US 09375438 | Simard |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland); The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland); The United States of America as Represented by the Dept. of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Marc Simard (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are provided that are utilized for treatment and/or prevention of intraventricular hemorrhage or progressive hemorrhagic necrosis (PHN), particularly following spinal cord injury. In particular, the methods and compositions are inhibitors of a particular NCca-ATP channel and include, for example, inhibitors of SURI and/or inhibitors of TRPM4. Kits for treatment and/or prevention of intraventricular hemorrhage or progressive hemorrhagic necrosis (PHN), particularly following spinal cord injury, are also provided. The present invention also concerns treatment and/or prevention of intraventricular hemorrhage in infants, including premature infants utilizing one or more inhibitors of the channel is provided to the infant, for example to brain cells of the infant. |
| FILED | Friday, September 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/040104 |
| ART UNIT | 1613 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/00 (20130101) A61K 31/64 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/64 (20130101) A61K 31/195 (20130101) A61K 31/198 (20130101) A61K 31/451 (20130101) A61K 31/454 (20130101) A61K 31/4453 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09375568 | Pitts et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida); The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Teresa Elizabeth Pitts (Gainesville, Florida); Donald Clementz Bolser (Gainesville, Florida); Warren E. Dixon (Gainesville, Florida); Sean Conrad McCoy (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | To protect an airway of a patient, it is important for the patient to be able to swallow and cough effectively. To promote an effective cough or swallow, electrodes are positioned upon skin of the neck of the patient, the electrodes configured for both capturing electromyographic (EMG) information, and for transmitting a stimulating electrical signal to the body. A microphone is positioned upon or near the neck to capture audio information emanating from the body of the patient. Software analyzes the EMG and audio information to identify an attempted or needed cough or swallow, and causes the electrodes to apply an electrical stimulus to the neck of the patient to produce a more efficacious cough or swallow. An additional microphone can be positioned to capture ambient noise, so that such noise can be reduced in the audio information of the first microphone. |
| FILED | Friday, August 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/424551 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0488 (20130101) A61B 5/0823 (20130101) A61B 5/4205 (20130101) A61B 5/4836 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0452 (20130101) A61N 1/3601 (20130101) A61N 1/36003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/36014 (20130101) |
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United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 09376275 | Houston et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward F. Houston (Bristow, Virginia); Juan A. Roman (Fairfax, Virginia); William P. McConnell (Woodstock, Maryland); Robert E. Hume (Woodstock, Maryland); Thomas A. Hillerich (Louisville, Kentucky); Darin Dickey (Owings Mills, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An automatic stack feeder having a moveable stack or product guide is disclosed. The automatic stack feeder may be configured to receive a stack of articles and a container enclosing a stack of articles. To ensure the stack of articles is properly supported following unloading from the container, the stack guide is moveable between a first and a second position, wherein the stack guide is in contact with the stack of articles while in the first position, and not in contact with the stack when in the second position. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/797698 |
| ART UNIT | 3652 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Postal Sorting; Sorting Individual Articles, or Bulk Material Fit to be Sorted Piece-meal, e.g by Picking B07C 1/025 (20130101) Handling Thin or Filamentary Material, e.g Sheets, Webs, Cables B65H 1/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B65H 1/30 (20130101) B65H 1/263 (20130101) B65H 7/02 (20130101) B65H 2220/01 (20130101) B65H 2220/01 (20130101) B65H 2220/02 (20130101) B65H 2220/11 (20130101) B65H 2220/11 (20130101) B65H 2220/11 (20130101) B65H 2301/422542 (20130101) B65H 2301/422544 (20130101) B65H 2405/214 (20130101) B65H 2511/51 (20130101) B65H 2511/51 (20130101) B65H 2511/515 (20130101) B65H 2511/515 (20130101) B65H 2513/41 (20130101) B65H 2513/41 (20130101) B65H 2701/1916 (20130101) |
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| US 09377312 | Bonnell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clayton C. Bonnell (Fairfax, Virginia); Gary C. Reblin (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for generating a location identifier using a location code and a grid coordinate. The location code corresponds to a defined geographical area, such as a postal code or an area code. A grid coordinate can be determined based on destination location information, such as an address, a GPS-determined position, or other reference to a specific physical location. The location identifier is combined with the location code to generate a location identifier, which can be encoded in a computer readable format and placed on items for use in a distribution network. The location identifier can be used to facilitate domestic or international distribution of items using a common format or addressing scheme. The domestic and foreign distribution networks read and interpret location identifiers in order to deliver items. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/497018 |
| ART UNIT | 2876 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 21/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Wireless Communication Networks H04W 4/02 (20130101) |
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Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 09377528 | Birken et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ralf Birken (Somerville, Massachusetts); Ming-Liang Wang (Melrose, Massachusetts); Carey M. Rappaport (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Sara Wadia-Fascetti (Winchester, Massachusetts); J. Gregory McDaniel (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralf Birken (Somerville, Massachusetts); Ming-Liang Wang (Melrose, Massachusetts); Carey M. Rappaport (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Sara Wadia-Fascetti (Winchester, Massachusetts); J. Gregory McDaniel (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A roaming sensor system collects data on the condition of roads and bridge decks and identifies and maps defects, including cracks, potholes, debonding, tracking, delamination, surface ice, surface water, and rebar corrosion. Data are collected by a vehicle or a fleet of vehicles driven at normal traffic speeds. The vehicle is outfitted with sensors that collect data using acoustic surface waves, ground penetrating radar, mm wave surface radar, and/or video images. The data are transmitted to a control center for analysis and distribution. |
| FILED | Monday, March 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/636112 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 11/2513 (20130101) Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 13/00 (20130101) G01S 13/89 (20130101) G01S 13/885 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01S 15/89 (20130101) Geophysics; Gravitational Measurements; Detecting Masses or Objects; Tags G01V 3/12 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 09377438 | Young et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hokpins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles C. Young (Mount Airy, Maryland); Alex J. Proescher (Perry Hall, Maryland); Emily E. Smith (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A kit for separating and concentrating nucleic acid and protein targets includes labeled reagents which affect simultaneous co-purification and concentration of a nucleic acid and a protein, a gel isotachophoresis separation unit to which a sample comprising the nucleic acid and the protein is added, a detection unit for the detection of the presence of the nucleic acid and the protein, and instructions for use. The gel electrophoresis includes a gel box having a negative electrode side and a positive electrode side, the negative electrode side being filled with a first buffer comprising 2-Hydroxy-N-(tris(hydroxymethyl)methyl)-3-aminopropanesulfonic acid buffer and the positive electrode side being filled with a second buffer being different than the first buffer. The gel isotachophoresis separation is configured to subject the sample to isotachophoresis using a voltage. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/446379 |
| 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 | Peptides C07K 1/26 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/44717 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 27/44721 (20130101) G01N 33/559 (20130101) G01N 2030/8827 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 435/973 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 09379449 | Cetiner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Utah State University (North Logan, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Utah State University (North Logan, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bedri Cetiner (Logan, Utah); Daniel Rodrigo (Montcada, Spain); Luis Jofre (Barcelona, Spain) |
| ABSTRACT | Reconfigurable antennas utilizing parasitic layers are disclosed herein. In certain embodiments, a reconfigurable antenna may include an active driven antenna element. The active driven antenna may be a patch antenna element. A parasitic element may be disposed over the active antenna element and be configured to couple with electromagnetic energy emitted from the active antenna element via electromagnetic mutual coupling. The parasitic element may include an array of selectively reconfigurable pixels interconnected via microelectromechanical switches. By selectively reconfiguring the geometry of the array, the reconfigurable antenna may be configured to operate in multiple operating modes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/654209 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 3/01 (20130101) H01Q 9/0414 (20130101) H01Q 9/0442 (20130101) H01Q 19/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 09376573 | Sherman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mesocoat, Inc. (Euclid, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MesoCoat Inc. (Euclid, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Sherman (Kirkland Hills, Ohio); Curt Glasgow (Euclid, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A heterogeneous composite body that is spall resistant and comprises a substantially discontinuous cermet phase in a substantially continuous metal rich matrix phase. The heterogeneous composite body is typically bonded to a substrate to form a hardfacing on the substrate. The heterogeneous composite body exhibits ductile phase toughening with a strain to failure of at least about 2 percent, a modulus of elasticity of less than about 35 million pounds per square inch, and a density of less than about 7 grams per cubic centimeter. The metal rich matrix phase between the ceramic rich regions in the heterogeneous composite body has an average minimum span of about 0.5 to 8 microns to allow ductility in the heterogeneous composite body. The heterogeneous composite body has a Vicker's hardness number of greater than approximately 500. The ceramic rich regions exhibit high hardness as compared with the matrix phase. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/799648 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 7/08 (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 Alloys C22C 29/00 (20130101) C22C 29/02 (20130101) Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 4/067 (20160101) C23C 14/223 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/12486 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 09376369 | Chatterjee |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Subroto Chatterjee (Columbia, Maryland) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Subroto Chatterjee (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel compounds with hypocholesteremic activity from crude Embilica officinialis (EO) extracts and methods of use. The invention also provides nutraceuticals. |
| FILED | Friday, July 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/946558 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Foods, Foodstuffs, or Non-alcoholic Beverages, Not Covered by Subclasses A23B - A23J; Their Preparation or Treatment, e.g Cooking, Modification of Nutritive Qualities, Physical Treatment; Preservation of Foods or Foodstuffs, in General A23L 1/3002 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Foods, Foodstuffs or Non-alcoholic Beverages A23V 2002/00 (20130101) A23V 2002/00 (20130101) A23V 2200/3262 (20130101) A23V 2250/21 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/235 (20130101) A61K 31/7024 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 69/84 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 13/08 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09378420 | Mundhenk et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terrell N. Mundhenk (Calabasas, California); A. Arturo Flores (San Diego, California); Shinko Y Cheng (Cupertino, California); Howard Neely, III (Santa Monica, California); Michael J. Daily (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a system for detecting an object of interest in a scene. The system operates by receiving an image frame of a scene and extracting features from the image frame, the features being descriptors. The descriptors are quantized to generate PHOW features. A sliding window protocol is implemented to slide a window over the image and analyze the PHOW features that fall inside the window. Finally, the system determines if the PHOW features represent the object of interest and, if so, then designates the window as a location in the image with a detected object of interest. |
| FILED | Friday, May 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/292416 |
| 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 9/00624 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09378861 | Zinn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alfred A. Zinn (Palo Alto, California); Paul P. Lu (Playa Vista, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating copper nanoparticles includes heating a copper salt solution that includes a copper salt, an N,N′-dialkylethylenediamine, and a C6-C18 alkylamine in an organic solvent to a temperature between about 30° C. to about 50° C.; heating a reducing agent solution that includes a reducing agent, an N,N′-dialkylethylenediamine, and a C6-C18 alkylamine in an organic solvent to a temperature between about 30° C. to about 50° C.; and adding the heated copper salt solution to the heated reducing agent solution, thereby producing copper nanoparticles. A composition includes copper nanoparticles, a C6-C18 alkylamine and an N,N′-dialkylethylenediamine ligand. Such copper nanoparticles in this composition have a fusion temperature between about 100° C. to about 200° C. A surfactant system for the stabilizing copper nanoparticles includes an N,N′-dialkylethylenediamine and a C6-C18 alkylamine. |
| FILED | Monday, June 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/919929 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 1/0018 (20130101) B22F 9/24 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Production and Refining of Metals; Pretreatment of Raw Materials C22B 15/0089 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2991 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09379195 | Khalil et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sameh G. Khalil (Calabasas, California); Karim S. Boutros (Moorpark, California); Keisuke Shinohara (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sameh G. Khalil (Calabasas, California); Karim S. Boutros (Moorpark, California); Keisuke Shinohara (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A high electron mobility field effect transistor (HEMT) having a substrate, a channel layer on the substrate and a barrier layer on the channel layer includes a stress inducing layer on the barrier layer, the stress inducing layer varying the piezo-electric effect in the barrier layer in a drift region between a gate and a drain. A two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) has a non-uniform lateral distribution in the drift region between the gate and the drain. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/478609 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/06 (20130101) H01L 29/2003 (20130101) H01L 29/4236 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/7787 (20130101) H01L 29/66462 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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