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| US 09386790 | Longo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Valter D. Longo (Playa Del Rey, California); Chia-Wei Cheng (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of alleviating symptoms of, or treating, pancreatic beta-cell damage in a subject includes a step of identifying a subject having pancreatic beta-cell damage. Multiple cycles of a diet protocol are administered to the subject. The diet protocol includes administering of a fasting mimicking diet and a re-feeding diet where the fasting mimicking diet is provided for a first time period and the re-feeding diet is provided for a second time period. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 01, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/320996 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| 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 1/293 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme Relating to Foods, Foodstuffs or Non-alcoholic Beverages A23V 2002/00 (20130101) A23V 2002/00 (20130101) A23V 2200/328 (20130101) |
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| US 09386793 | Blaser et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Martin J. Blaser (New York, New York); Laura Cox (Brooklyn, New York); Ilseung Cho (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin J. Blaser (New York, New York); Laura Cox (Brooklyn, New York); Ilseung Cho (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to characterizing changes in mammalian intestinal microbiota associated with associated with high-fat and low-fat diets and with diets containing hydroxypropylmethylcellulose (HPMC) and related methods for diagnosing, preventing and treating obesity and related conditions such as metabolic syndrome and diabetes mellitus. Therapeutic methods of the invention involve the use of probiotics, and/or prebiotics, and/or narrow spectrum antibiotics/anti-bacterial agents that are capable of restoring healthy mammalian bacterial intestinal microbiota. |
| FILED | Friday, August 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/214034 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| 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 1/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A23L 1/3014 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/741 (20130101) |
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| US 09386965 | Vanderby et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ray Vanderby (Madison, Wisconsin); Mon-Ju Wu (Madison, Wisconsin); Joseph Karls (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); Sarah Kuehl (Madison, Wisconsin); William A. Sethares (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultrasound imaging system combines successive images of a time series to produce high-resolution ultrasound. A piecewise registration process and deemphasizing of high-frequency spatial components may be used to aid in the combination process. A high-definition image may be obtained with or separately from this process by combining different images obtained with different ultrasound frequencies. The images are weighted to accentuate the contribution of high-frequency ultrasound data at the leading edge of imaged structure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/916171 |
| ART UNIT | 2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 8/14 (20130101) A61B 8/463 (20130101) A61B 8/485 (20130101) A61B 8/0891 (20130101) A61B 8/5246 (20130101) A61B 8/5253 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0036 (20130101) G06T 2207/10016 (20130101) G06T 2207/10132 (20130101) G06T 2207/20021 (20130101) G06T 2207/30004 (20130101) |
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| US 09387152 | Yarmush et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Martin L. Yarmush (Newton, Massachusetts); Eric Yang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Tali Konry (Boston, Massachusetts); Erkin Seker (Davis, California); Dhruv Sarin (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Prakash Rai (Quincy, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin L. Yarmush (Newton, Massachusetts); Eric Yang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Tali Konry (Boston, Massachusetts); Erkin Seker (Davis, California); Dhruv Sarin (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Prakash Rai (Quincy, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to blood substitute compositions, and methods of use thereof. Described herein are compositions in which hemoglobin is maintained substantially in the reduced form of hemoglobin as opposed to the oxidized methemoglobin form through inclusion of an oxido-reductase enzyme and reducing agent within a vesicle with the hemoglobin. The vesicles additionally can comprise a dismutase, a catalase, and an electron acceptor, each of which contribute to either the maintenance of hemoglobin in the active oxygen carrying state or provide a benefit not achieved with free hemoglobin. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/805245 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Containers Specially Adapted for Medical or Pharmaceutical Purposes; Devices or Methods Specially Adapted for Bringing Pharmaceutical Products into Particular Physical or Administering Forms; Devices for Administering Food or Medicines Orally; Baby Comforters; Devices for Receiving Spittle A61J 3/07 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0026 (20130101) A61K 9/1271 (20130101) A61K 38/42 (20130101) A61K 38/42 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 106/99 (20130101) C12Y 111/01006 (20130101) C12Y 115/01001 (20130101) |
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| US 09387199 | Guerrant et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard L. Guerrant (Charlottesville, Virginia); Cirle Alcantara Warren (Waynesboro, Virginia); John Hudson Moore, II (Richmond, Virginia); Edward van Opstal (Great Falls, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | C. difficile infection (CDI) is the most common cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhea. Unfortunately, antibiotic therapy remains as the standard treatment for this antibiotic-induced disease and relapses are common. Antibiotic treatment typically is given for 10 to 14 days for initial or second episode of CDI. For recurrent episodes, more prolonged courses are recommended. It is disclosed herein that lower dose or shorter course of the antimicrobial treatment is sufficient to treat the disease and prevent recurrent disease by enabling a good immunologic response to infection, and perhaps also by better preserving normal flora, thus protecting against relapses or reinfection. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/539214 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/426 (20130101) A61K 31/4174 (20130101) A61K 31/4188 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/7028 (20130101) A61K 38/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09387210 | Campbell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin P. Campbell (Iowa City, Iowa); Yvonne M. Kobayashi (Indianapolis, Indiana); Robert W. Crawford (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treating or preventing muscle diseases or the symptoms thereof. The compositions typically include and the methods typically utilize phosphodiesterase type 5A inhibitors. |
| FILED | Friday, September 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/020401 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/53 (20130101) A61K 31/66 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/4985 (20130101) |
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| US 09387211 | Fukuoka et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hidenori Fukuoka (Culver City, California); Shlomo Melmed (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hidenori Fukuoka (Culver City, California); Shlomo Melmed (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods and kits for the treatment of, prevention of, and lowering the chances of developing Cushing's Disease and/or hypercortisolism by the administration of a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, such as gefitinib. |
| FILED | Monday, January 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/576621 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/535 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/485 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/74 (20130101) G01N 2500/10 (20130101) G01N 2800/048 (20130101) |
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| US 09387217 | Hostetler 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) | Karl Y. Hostetler (Del Mar, California); James R. Beadle (San Diego, California); Nadejda Valiaeva (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates, inter alia, to compositions and methods for treating viral diseases and cancer. There are disclosed lipophilic antiviral and anticancer acyclic nucleoside phosphonate diesters, preparation thereof, and methods of using the compounds to treat viral diseases and cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, October 02, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/874027 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/675 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 9/6561 (20130101) C07F 9/65121 (20130101) C07F 9/65583 (20130101) C07F 9/65616 (20130101) |
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| US 09387224 | Gladwin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark T. Gladwin (Washington, District of Columbia); Alan N. Schechter (Bethesda, Maryland); Christian J. Hunter (Boston, Massachusetts); Gordon G. Power (Redlands, California); Daniel B. Kim-Shapiro (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Richard O. Cannon, III (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Loma Linda University (Loma Linda, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark T. Gladwin (Washington, District of Columbia); Alan N. Schechter (Bethesda, Maryland); Christian J. Hunter (Boston, Massachusetts); Gordon G. Power (Redlands, California); Daniel B. Kim-Shapiro (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Richard O. Cannon, III (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | It has been surprisingly discovered that administration of nitrite to subjects causes a reduction in blood pressure and an increase in blood flow to tissues. The effect is particularly beneficial, for example, to tissues in regions of low oxygen tension. This discovery provides useful treatments to regulate a subject's blood pressure and blood flow, for example, by the administration of nitrite salts. Provided herein are methods of administering a pharmaceutically-acceptable nitrite salt to a subject, for treating, preventing or ameliorating a condition selected from: (a) ischemia-reperfusion injury (e.g., hepatic or cardiac or brain ischemia-reperfusion injury); (b) pulmonary hypertension (e.g., neonatal pulmonary hypertension); or (c) cerebral artery vasospasm. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/407118 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 33/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 33/00 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09387230 | Dittmar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Dittmar (Leonia, New Jersey); Rodney J. Rothstein (Maplewood, New Jersey); Robert J. D. Reid (New York, New York); Ramon Parsons (Manhasset, New York); Matthew Maurer (New York, New York); Jacquelyn Shaw (Brooklyn, New York); Xing Du (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods to treat certain types of cancer with cyclophilin inhibitors. |
| FILED | Friday, October 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/057780 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/501 (20130101) A61K 31/501 (20130101) A61K 38/12 (20130101) A61K 38/13 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/13 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09387240 | Palese et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Palese (Leonia, New Jersey); Adolfo Garcia-Sastre (New York, New York); Thomas Muster (Vienna, Austria) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates, in general, to attenuated negative-strand RNA viruses having an impaired ability to antagonize the cellular interferon (IFN) response, and the use of such attenuated viruses in vaccine and pharmaceutical formulations. The invention also relates to the development and use of IFN-deficient systems for selection of such attenuated viruses. In particular, the invention relates to attenuated influenza viruses having modifications to the NS1 gene that diminish or eliminate the ability of the NS1 gene product to antagonize the cellular IFN response. The mutant viruses replicate in vivo but demonstrate reduced pathogenicity, and therefore are well suited for live virus vaccines, and pharmaceutical formulations. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/285339 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/145 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/525 (20130101) A61K 2039/543 (20130101) A61K 2039/585 (20130101) A61K 2039/5254 (20130101) A61K 2039/5256 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 2760/16121 (20130101) C12N 2760/16122 (20130101) C12N 2760/16132 (20130101) C12N 2760/16134 (20130101) C12N 2760/16143 (20130101) C12N 2760/16151 (20130101) C12N 2760/16161 (20130101) C12N 2760/16221 (20130101) C12N 2760/16222 (20130101) C12N 2760/16232 (20130101) C12N 2760/16234 (20130101) C12N 2760/16243 (20130101) C12N 2760/16251 (20130101) |
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| US 09387241 | Galarza et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | TechnoVax, Inc. (Tarrytown, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TechnoVax, Inc. (Tarrytown, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jose M. Galarza (Tarrytown, New York); Demetrius Matassov (Tarrytown, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Influenza virus-like particles (VLPs) comprising influenza antigenic polypeptides are described. Also described are compositions comprising these VLPs as well as methods of making and using these VLPs. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/296095 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/145 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/543 (20130101) A61K 2039/5258 (20130101) A61K 2039/55561 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2760/16122 (20130101) C12N 2760/16123 (20130101) C12N 2760/16134 (20130101) |
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| US 09387245 | Johnson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard J. Johnson (Centennial, Colorado); Miguel A. Lanaspa-Garcia (Denver, Colorado); Takuji Ishimoto (Greenwood Village, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Colorado, A Body Corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard J. Johnson (Centennial, Colorado); Miguel A. Lanaspa-Garcia (Denver, Colorado); Takuji Ishimoto (Greenwood Village, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to the use of isoform-specific fructokinase (ketohexokinase) (KHK) inhibitors alone or in combination with various agents to both prevent and treat a wide variety of diseases including, but not limited to, sugar craving, obesity, features of metabolic syndrome (including insulin resistance, hypertriglyceridemia, hypertension, and fatty liver), polyuria, proximal tubular injury, and diabetic kidney disease. |
| FILED | Monday, August 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/814568 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/415 (20130101) A61K 31/415 (20130101) A61K 31/427 (20130101) A61K 31/427 (20130101) A61K 31/7052 (20130101) A61K 38/005 (20130101) A61K 39/3955 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 39/39533 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/40 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/1205 (20130101) C12N 15/1137 (20130101) |
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| US 09387250 | Uhrich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey); The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey); The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kathryn E. Uhrich (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Dana Graves (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Keisuke Wada (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Joseph P. Fiorellini (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Michelle Morano (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Roselin Rosario-Meléndez (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Sabrina Sachiko Snyder (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Individuals having diabetes are more prone to fractures, periodontitis, and other bone related issues as compared to healthy individuals. Furthermore, bone healing in diabetic patients is prolonged. The invention provides a method for decreasing bone resorption or increasing bone formation or promoting bone healing in diabetic patients. In particular, a biodegradeable polymer, such as a polyanhydride salicylate is administered at or near a bone defect site, and upon hydrolysis of the polymer will releases biologically active salicylic acid. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/218492 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/192 (20130101) A61K 33/00 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/48038 (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 27/58 (20130101) A61L 29/16 (20130101) |
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09387265 — Plectin-1 targeted agents for detection and treatment of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
| US 09387265 | Kelly et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kimberly Kelly (Crozet, Virginia); Ralph Weissleder (Peabody, Massachusetts); Nabeel Bardeesy (Framingham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are compositions and methods for cancer cell biomarkers, such as pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) cell biomarkers, and binding molecules for diagnosis and treatment of cancer, e.g., PDAC. Methods of identifying “accessible” proteomes are disclosed for identifying cancer biomarkers, such as plectin-1, a PDAC biomarker. Additionally, imaging compositions are provided comprising magnetofluorescent nanoparticles conjugated to peptide ligands for identifying PDACs. |
| FILED | Monday, September 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/479558 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 47/48246 (20130101) A61K 49/0002 (20130101) A61K 49/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 49/0032 (20130101) A61K 49/0056 (20130101) A61K 49/1818 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) C07K 16/18 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/531 (20130101) G01N 33/533 (20130101) G01N 33/57438 (20130101) |
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| US 09387324 | Vyas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Neha Vyas (Covina, California); Donald A. Webber (Encino, California); John J. Reinhold (Tarzana, California); Arup Roy (Santa Clarita, California); Richard Agustin Castro (Pasadena, California); Kelly H. McClure (Simi Valley, California); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neha Vyas (Covina, California); Donald A. Webber (Encino, California); John J. Reinhold (Tarzana, California); Arup Roy (Santa Clarita, California); Richard Agustin Castro (Pasadena, California); Kelly H. McClure (Simi Valley, California); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for verifying that proper visual stimulation is applied to the visual prostheses are described. In one of the methods, a retinal stimulation system implanted on a subject is simulated externally. An external testing device is also discussed. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/880010 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/36046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/37247 (20130101) Educational or Demonstration Appliances; Appliances for Teaching, or Communicating With, the Blind, Deaf or Mute; Models; Planetaria; Globes; Maps; Diagrams G09B 21/00 (20130101) G09B 23/28 (20130101) |
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| US 09387344 | Sgouros et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | George Sgouros (Ellicott City, Maryland); Hong Song (Towson, Maryland); Andrew Prideaux (Baltimore, Maryland); Robert Hobbs (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Sgouros (Ellicott City, Maryland); Hong Song (Towson, Maryland); Andrew Prideaux (Baltimore, Maryland); Robert Hobbs (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure discusses methods for determining absorbed dose information. A tomography imaging device generates an anatomy image relating to anatomy of a particular patient. A tomography imaging device also generates multiple radioactivity images regarding radioactivity distribution of an internally administered pharmaceutical over time in the particular patient. The radioactivity images related to the radioactivity distribution over time are registered. Each radioactivity image is combined with each anatomy image to create activity images. A Monte Carlo simulation for each activity image is run to obtain absorbed dose-rate images of the pharmaceutical at multiple times. The absorbed dose-rate images are integrated over time to obtain a total absorbed dose image. The absorbed dose-rate images and the total absorbed dose image are used to obtain a biologically effective dose (BED) image. The BED image is used to obtain an equivalent uniform does (EUD) of BED values for a chosen anatomical region. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/514853 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 6/037 (20130101) A61B 6/5217 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 5/1031 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09387476 | Eltoukhy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ILLUMINA, INC. (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Illumina, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Helmy A. Eltoukhy (Atherton, California); Tarun Khurana (Freemont, California); Behnam Javanmardi (San Jose, California); Poorya Sabounchi (Pleasant Hill, California); Majid Aghababazadeh (Cupertino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A flow cell including inlet and outlet ports in fluid communication with each other through a flow channel that extends therebetween. The flow channel includes a diffuser region and a field region that is located downstream from the diffuser region. The field region of the flow channel directs fluid along reaction sites where desired reactions occur. The fluid flows through the diffuser region in a first flow direction and through the field region in a second flow direction. The first and second flow directions being substantially perpendicular. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 03, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/729809 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502715 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 2200/10 (20130101) B01L 2300/022 (20130101) B01L 2300/0645 (20130101) B01L 2300/0819 (20130101) B01L 2300/0877 (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 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 1/6874 (20130101) |
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09388130 — Retinal derivatives and methods for the use thereof for the treatment of visual disorders
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| APPLICANT(S) | Krzysztof Palczewski (Bay Village, Ohio); Matthew Batten (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Krzysztof Palczewski (Bay Village, Ohio); Matthew Batten (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions of and methods for using synthetic retinal derivatives as retinoid replacements and opsin agonists are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/619887 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/22 (20130101) A61K 31/215 (20130101) General Methods of Organic Chemistry; Apparatus Therefor C07B 2200/09 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 403/10 (20130101) C07C 403/12 (20130101) C07C 403/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 403/20 (20130101) C07C 2101/10 (20130101) C07C 2101/16 (20130101) |
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| US 09388132 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lingjun Li (Madison, Wisconsin); Feng Xiang (Midland, Michigan); Tyler Greer (Middleton, Wisconsin); Dustin Frost (Madison, Wisconsin); Zhidan Liang (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lingjun Li (Madison, Wisconsin); Feng Xiang (Midland, Michigan); Tyler Greer (Middleton, Wisconsin); Dustin Frost (Madison, Wisconsin); Zhidan Liang (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods of tagging peptides and other molecules using novel isobaric tandem mass tagging reagents, including novel N,N-dimethylated amino acid 8-plex and 16-plex isobaric tandem mass tagging reagents. The tagging reagents comprise: a) a reporter group having at least one atom that is optionally isotopically labeled; b) a balancing group, also having at least one atom that is optionally isotopically labeled, and c) an amine reactive group. The tagging reagents disclosed herein serve as attractive alternatives for isobaric tag for relative and absolute quantitation (iTRAQ) and tandem mass tags (TMTs) due to their synthetic simplicity, labeling efficiency and improved fragmentation efficiency. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/619164 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/46 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09388139 | Piazza et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gary A. Piazza (Mobile, Alabama); Ashraf H. Abadi (Cairo, Egypt) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | German University (Cairo, Egypt); Southern Research Institute (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary A. Piazza (Mobile, Alabama); Ashraf H. Abadi (Cairo, Egypt) |
| ABSTRACT | Derivatives of celecoxib that lack cyclooxygenase inhibitory activity but have improved PDE5 inhibitory activity are provided along with pharmaceutical compositions containing them for the treatment or prevention of cancer. Such compounds are expected to have reduced toxicity compared with celecoxib and other cyclooxygenase inhibitors, and greater efficacy compared with conventional PDE5 inhibitors. Derivatives of celecoxib are also suitable for treating chronic inflammatory conditions, erectile dysfunction, pulmonary hypertension, congestive heart failure, and enhancement of cognitive function. |
| FILED | Friday, March 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/005462 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 231/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 231/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09388159 | Jung 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) | Michael E. Jung (Los Angeles, California); Charles L. Sawyers (New York, New York); Samedy Ouk (Los Angeles, California); Chris Tran (New York, New York); John Wongvipat (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides for compounds of the Formula II: wherein A, B, Het, R1, R2 and R3 are as described herein. These compounds are androgen receptor modulators useful for the treatment of androgen receptor-associated conditions. |
| FILED | Friday, June 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/318234 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 401/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09388210 | Covey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Douglas Covey (St. Louis, Missouri); Eva Kudova (Prague, Czech Republic) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas Covey (St. Louis, Missouri); Eva Kudova (Prague, Czech Republic) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure is generally directed to neuroactive 17(20)-Z-vinylcyano-substituted compound of Formula (I) and (II), as referenced herein, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, for use as, for example, an anesthetic, and/or in the treatment of disorders relating to GABA function and activity. The present disclosure is further directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/000519 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Steroids C07J 1/0011 (20130101) C07J 3/00 (20130101) C07J 7/002 (20130101) C07J 13/005 (20130101) C07J 21/008 (20130101) C07J 41/0094 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09388211 | Cushman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana); THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana); NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIH) (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark S. Cushman (West Lafayette, Indiana); Andrew E. Morrell (San Diego, California); Muthukaman Nagarajan (Hyderabad, India); Yves George Pommier (Bethesda, Maryland); Smitha Antony (Silver Springs, Maryland); Keli K. Agama (Germantown, Maryland); Daniel E. Beck (Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | N-Substituted indenoisoquinoline compounds, and pharmaceutical formulations of N-substituted indenoisoquinoline compounds are described. Also described are processes for preparing N-substituted indenoisoquinoline compounds. Also described are methods for treating cancer in mammals using the described N-substituted indenoisoquinoline compounds or pharmaceutical formulations thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 15, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/687530 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/473 (20130101) A61K 31/4741 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 221/18 (20130101) Steroids C07J 73/003 (20130101) C07J 73/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09388213 | Allis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | C. David Allis (Princeton, New Jersey); Peter Lewis (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2) peptide inhibitors and their use for the treatment of cancer and other conditions associated with aberrant PRC2 methyltransferase activity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/023223 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/48246 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 7/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09388217 | Baker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Baker (Seattle, Washington); Timothy A. Whitehead (East Grand Rapids, Michigan); Sarel Fleishman (Ness Ziona, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | Polypeptides that recognize and are strong binders to Influenza A hemagglutinin and can be used, for example, to treat and/or limit development of an influenza infection are disclosed. Isolated nucleic acids encoding the polypeptides of the invention, recombinant expression vectors comprising the nucleic acids encoding the polypeptides of the invention operatively linked to a suitable control sequence, and recombinant host cells comprising the recombinant expression vectors of the invention are disclosed. Antibodies that selectively bind to the polypeptides of the invention, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more polypeptides according to the invention and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier are disclosed. Additionally, methods for treating and/or limiting an influenza infection, methods for diagnosing an influenza infection, or monitoring progression of an influenza infection, methods for identifying candidate influenza vaccines, and methods for identifying candidate compounds for treating, limiting, and/or diagnosing influenza infection are disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/384901 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/08 (20130101) C07K 14/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56983 (20130101) G01N 2333/11 (20130101) |
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| US 09388221 | Schiller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by The Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Dept. of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. Schiller (Kensington, Maryland); Diana V. Pastrana (McLean, Virginia); Richard B. S. Roden (Severna Park, Maryland); Ratish Gambhira (Mandeville, Louisiana); Douglas R. Lowy (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention comprises a method for inducing broadly cross-neutralizing antibodies against cutaneous and mucosal papillomavirus types or against heterologous papillomavirus types in humans comprising administering to a human in need thereof an immunogenic peptide or protein (or polynucleotide encoding therefor), where the immunogenic peptide or protein is: (a) a peptide or protein of at least 10 amino acid residues in length having a sequence corresponding to either a sequence from the N terminal amino acids 1-200 of papillomavirus L2 protein (for cross-neutralizing antibodies against cutaneous and mucosal papillomavirus types) or a sequence from the N terminal amino acids 1-88 of papillomavirus L2 protein (for cross-neutralizing antibodies against heterologous papillomavirus types), (b) a peptide or protein of at least 10 amino acid residues in length with at least 55% identity with the sequence from (a), or (c) a peptide or protein as defined in either (a) or (b) which is conjugated or fused to a protein or peptide other than a papillomavirus L2 protein or peptide. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/772893 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/58 (20130101) A61K 2039/70 (20130101) A61K 2039/5258 (20130101) A61K 2039/55566 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/01 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 2319/23 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2710/20022 (20130101) C12N 2710/20034 (20130101) |
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| US 09388222 | Pastan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. (Little Falls, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Hoffman-La Roche Inc. (Little Falls, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ira H. Pastan (Potomac, Maryland); Ronit Mazor (Rockville, Maryland); Masanori Onda (Rockville, Maryland); Byungkook Lee (Potomac, Maryland); Gerhard Niederfellner (Oberhausen, Germany); Sabine Imhof-Jung (Planegg, Germany); Ulrich Brinkmann (Weilheim, Germany); Guy Georges (Habach, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a Pseudomonas exotoxin A (PE) comprising an amino acid sequence having a substitution of one or more B-cell and/or T-cell epitopes. The invention further provides related chimeric molecules, as well as related nucleic acids, recombinant expression vectors, host cells, populations of cells, and pharmaceutical compositions. Methods of treating or preventing cancer in a mammal, methods of inhibiting the growth of a target cell, methods of producing the PE, and methods of producing the chimeric molecule are further provided by the invention. |
| FILED | Friday, October 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/505590 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 47/48376 (20130101) A61K 47/48484 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/21 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/1214 (20130101) C07K 2319/30 (20130101) C07K 2319/33 (20130101) C07K 2319/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09388224 | Hawiger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jack J. Hawiger (Nashville, Tennessee); Daniel J. Moore (Nashville, Tennessee); Jozef Zienkiewicz (Nashville, Tennessee); Ruth Ann Veach (Brentwood, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Nuclear Transport Modifiers such as cSN50 and cSN50.1, afford in vivo islet protection following a 2-day course of intense treatment in autoimmune diabetes-prone, non-obese diabetic (NOD) mice, a widely used model of Type 1 diabetes (T1D), which resulted in a diabetes-free state for one year without apparent toxicity and the need to use insulin. cSN50 precipitously reduces the accumulation of islet-destructive autoreactive lymphocytes while enhancing activation-induced cell death of T and B lymphocytes derived from NOD mice. cSN50 attenuated pro-inflammatory cytokine and chemokine production in immune cells in this model of human T1D. cSN50 also provides cytoprotection of beta cells, therefore preserving residual insulin-producing capacity. Because intracellular delivery of a Nuclear Transport Modifier peptide such as cSN50 and cSN50.1 can result in lowering of fasting blood glucose levels and may ameliorate (e.g., reduce, eliminate) insulin resistance, the compositions, methods and cells described herein can also be used for treating Type 2 diabetes (T2D). |
| FILED | Friday, January 09, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/593644 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/4702 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2319/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09388228 | Weiss |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Weiss (Moreland Hills, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An insulin analogue comprises a B-chain polypeptide incorporating a halogenated phenylalanine at position B24, B25 or B26. The halogenated phenylalanine may be ortho-monofluoro-phenylalanine, ortho-monobromo-phenylalanine, ortho-monochloro-phenylalanine, or para-monochloro-phenylalanine. The analogue may be of a mammalian insulin, such as human insulin. A nucleic acid encodes such an insulin analogue. The halogenated insulin analogues retain significant activity. A method of treating a patient comprises administering a physiologically effective amount of the insulin analogue or a physiologically acceptable salt thereof to a patient. Halogen substitution-based stabilization of insulin may enhance the treatment of diabetes mellitus in regions of the developing world lacking refrigeration. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/475887 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/28 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/62 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09388238 | Barres et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ben A. Barres (Palo Alto, California); Beth A. Stevens (Milton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | C1q is shown to be expressed in neurons, where it acts as a signal for synapse elimination. Methods are provided for protecting or treating an individual suffering from adverse effects of synapse loss. These findings have broad implications for a variety of clinical conditions, including Alzheimer's disease. |
| FILED | Friday, June 26, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/751849 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/00 (20130101) A61K 31/727 (20130101) A61K 31/727 (20130101) A61K 39/3955 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 48/00 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/76 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/564 (20130101) G01N 33/5058 (20130101) G01N 33/6872 (20130101) G01N 33/6896 (20130101) G01N 2333/4716 (20130101) G01N 2500/04 (20130101) G01N 2800/28 (20130101) G01N 2800/2821 (20130101) |
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| US 09388250 | Buck et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jochen Buck (Old Greenwich, Connecticut); Lonny Levin (New York, New York); Jonathan Zippin (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jochen Buck (Old Greenwich, Connecticut); Lonny Levin (New York, New York); Jonathan Zippin (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Soluble adenylyl cyclase (sAC) is implicated in proliferation of keratinocytes. Inhibitors of sAC are useful for the treatment and/or prevention of psoriasis and other hyperproliferative skin disorders. Assays to identify such compounds are also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/202919 |
| 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 31/427 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09388276 | Song et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jie Song (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Jianwen Xu (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jie Song (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Jianwen Xu (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally relates to functional polymers and hydrogels. More particularly, the invention provides versatile monomers and polymers with well-defined functionalities, e.g., polycarbonates and poly(ester-carbonates), compositions thereof, and methods for making and using the same. The invention also provides cytocompatible poly(ethylene glycol)-co-polycarobonate hydrogels (e.g., crosslinked by copper-free, strain-promoted “click” chemistry). |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/000869 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/18 (20130101) A61L 27/18 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 247/10 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 319/06 (20130101) C07D 405/06 (20130101) C07D 405/14 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 64/18 (20130101) C08G 64/183 (20130101) C08G 64/0208 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 64/0241 (20130101) C08G 64/0291 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 69/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09388406 | Delisa et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthew P. Delisa (Ithaca, New York); Thomas J. Mansell (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew P. Delisa (Ithaca, New York); Thomas J. Mansell (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the present invention relates to a reporter system for detection of protein-protein interactions in the periplasm of a prokaryotic host cell. The reporter system includes a first expression system which has a nucleic acid molecule encoding a first fragment of a reporter protein molecule, a nucleic acid molecule encoding a first signal sequence, and a nucleic acid molecule encoding a first member of a putative binding pair, where the nucleic acid molecule encoding the first fragment, the nucleic acid molecule encoding the first signal sequence, and the nucleic acid molecule encoding the first member of the putative binding pair are operatively coupled to permit their expression in a prokaryotic host cell as a first fusion protein. The reporter system also includes a second expression system which has a nucleic acid molecule encoding a second fragment of the reporter protein molecule, a nucleic acid molecule encoding a second signal sequence, and a nucleic acid molecule encoding a second member of the putative binding pair, where the nucleic acid molecule encoding the second fragment, the nucleic acid molecule encoding the second signal sequence, and the nucleic acid molecule encoding the second member of the putative binding pair are operatively coupled to permit their expression in a prokaryotic host cell as a second fusion protein, where, when expressed in a prokaryotic host cell, at least one of the first and the second fusion proteins are co-translationally transported to the periplasm where, when present, the first and second members of the putative binding pair bind together and the first and second fragments of the reporter protein molecule are reconstituted, thereby producing an active reporter protein. The reporter system may be used to carry out methods of identifying candidate compounds which bind to a target protein, identifying a candidate gene which modulates binding between a first protein and second protein, and identifying a candidate compound which modulates binding between a first protein and second protein. |
| FILED | Monday, November 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/129527 |
| 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 2319/034 (20130101) C07K 2319/61 (20130101) C07K 2319/70 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1055 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09388410 | Harper et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott Harper (Iowa City, Iowa); Beverly L. Davidson (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to nucleic acid molecules containing a loop sequence designed to circumvent exportin-5 mediated export, and methods using these novel molecules. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/192574 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 15/113 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/53 (20130101) C12N 2310/111 (20130101) C12N 2320/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09388412 | Bloch et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth D. Bloch (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Pankaj Arora (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Christopher Newton-Cheh (Lexington, Massachusetts); Thomas J. Wang (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods, kits and compositions to treat hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases in a subject, in particular, a method of treating or preventing a cardiovascular disease in a subject comprising administering to a subject at least one anti-miR agent to miRNA-425. In some embodiments, an anti-miR agent is a small molecule or an oligonucleotide complementary to at least part of the miR-425 of SEQ ID NO: 1, or an anti-miR complementary to at least part of the miRNA seed sequence AUGACA (SEQ ID NO: 2). Another aspect of the present invention relates to methods, kits and compositions to treat low blood pressure in a subject comprising administering a composition comprising a miR-425 agent to decrease ANP levels in the subject. Other aspects of the present invention relates to assays, methods and systems to identify a subject at risk of hypertension, or identifying a subject suitable to administration of an anti-miR-425 agent for treatment of hypertension, the assay comprising assessing if a subject is homozygous or heterozygous for the major (A) allele of rs5068 SNP, and/or assaying for levels of miR-425 and/or assaying for levels of NT-proANP and/or levels of ANP in the plasma of a subject. |
| FILED | Friday, June 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/408189 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 48/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 15/113 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/113 (20130101) C12N 2320/31 (20130101) C12N 2320/34 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) C12Q 2600/106 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) C12Q 2600/178 (20130101) |
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| US 09388413 | Chang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ta-Yuan Chang (Etna, New Hampshire); Catherine C. Y. Chang (Etna, New Hampshire); Yohei Shibuya (West Lebanon, New Hampshire); Zhaoyang Niu (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention features methods for stimulating clearance of misfolded or aggregated proteins or peptides in microglia, and treating neurodegenerative diseases associated with such pathology in brain by selectively inhibiting the expression or activity of Acyl-CoA:Cholesterol Acyltransferase 1, but not Acyl-CoA:Cholesterol Acyltransferase 2. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/289996 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/55 (20130101) A61K 31/70 (20130101) A61K 31/167 (20130101) A61K 31/255 (20130101) A61K 31/395 (20130101) A61K 31/415 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 31/7105 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1137 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/141 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 203/01009 (20130101) |
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| US 09388414 | Chang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ta-Yuan Chang (Etna, New Hampshire); Catherine C. Y. Chang (Etna, New Hampshire); Yohei Shibuya (West Lebanon, New Hampshire); Zhaoyang Niu (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention features methods for stimulating clearance of misfolded or aggregated proteins or peptides in microglia or neurons, and treating neurodegenerative diseases associated with such pathology in brain by selectively inhibiting the expression or activity of Acyl-CoA:Cholesterol Acyltransferase 1, but not Acyl-CoA:Cholesterol Acyltransferase 2. |
| FILED | Friday, November 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/550025 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — 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 9/127 (20130101) A61K 31/44 (20130101) A61K 31/55 (20130101) A61K 31/70 (20130101) A61K 31/167 (20130101) A61K 31/255 (20130101) A61K 31/395 (20130101) A61K 31/415 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 31/7105 (20130101) A61K 35/761 (20130101) A61K 48/00 (20130101) A61K 49/0008 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 15/1137 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/141 (20130101) C12N 2710/10042 (20130101) C12N 2710/10071 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 203/01009 (20130101) |
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| US 09388418 | Rossi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CITY OF HOPE (Duarte, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CITY OF HOPE (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J. Rossi (Alta Loma, California); Maggie Bobbin (Duarte, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An aptamer-mRNA conjugate is provided. The aptamer-mRNA conjugate may include an aptamer component that binds a membrane associated protein on a target cell and an mRNA component that is expressed by the target cell. |
| FILED | Friday, November 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/541639 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/465 (20130101) A61K 47/48092 (20130101) A61K 48/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 15/115 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/1132 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/16 (20130101) C12N 2310/3519 (20130101) C12N 2320/32 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 301/21004 (20130101) |
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| US 09388425 | Collins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James J Collins (Newton Center, Massachusetts); Tara L Deans (Clarksville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James J Collins (Newton Center, Massachusetts); Tara L Deans (Clarksville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally the field of genetics, in particular methods, compositions and systems for controlling the inducible expression of transgenes, while eliminating background expression of transgene expression. The present invention relates to methods of use of the compositions and systems as disclosed herein for controlling the inducible expression of transgenes while eliminating background expression of transgene expression, such as use in, for example, the in generation of transgenic animals, use in therapeutic application and use in assays. In some embodiments, the present invention relates to a system of controlled expression of RNAi molecules which target binding sites in the untranslated regions of transgene, thereby the expression of the transgene is modulated and leakiness is reduced. The compositions and methods of the present invention can be used to for therapy, prophylaxis, research and diagnostics in diseases and disorders which afflict mammalian species, generation of transgenic animals, in the study of biological processes as well as for enhance performance of agricultural crops. |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/446300 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/63 (20130101) C12N 15/85 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2320/30 (20130101) C12N 2800/30 (20130101) C12N 2830/005 (20130101) C12N 2830/006 (20130101) C12N 2830/50 (20130101) C12N 2840/102 (20130101) |
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| US 09388428 | Nasar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Farooq Nasar (Albany, New York); Rodion V. Gorchakov (Houston, Texas); Andrew D. Haddow (Springfield, Missouri); Robert B. Tesh (Galveston, Texas); Hilda Guzman (Galveston, Texas); Scott C. Weaver (Galveston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Farooq Nasar (Albany, New York); Rodion V. Gorchakov (Houston, Texas); Andrew D. Haddow (Springfield, Missouri); Robert B. Tesh (Galveston, Texas); Hilda Guzman (Galveston, Texas); Scott C. Weaver (Galveston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain embodiments are directed to Negevirus and their polynucleotides and polypeptides. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/086533 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/86 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2770/00021 (20130101) C12N 2770/00043 (20130101) |
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| US 09388445 | Hamad-Schifferli et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kimberly S. Hamad-Schifferli (Somerville, Massachusetts); Sunho Park (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are kits and methods suitable for enhancing in vitro translation of a nuclei acid sequence of interest. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/868648 |
| 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 | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (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 C12P 21/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09388450 | Gryczynski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth (Fort Worth, Texas); Texas Christian University (Fort Worth, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER (Fort Worth, Texas); TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY (Fort Worth, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zygmunt Gryczynski (Fort Worth, Texas); Ignacy Gryczynski (Fort Worth, Texas); Rafal Fudala (Fort Worth, Texas); Badri P. Maliwal (Fort Worth, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes compositions and methods for fluorescence-based multiplex probe to simultaneously detect one or more enzymatic activities comprising: a first enzymatic target having a first end and a second end, wherein the first end of the first enzymatic target is attached to a central body and the second end of the first enzymatic target is attached to a first fluorophore; a second enzymatic target having a first end and a second end, wherein the first end of the second enzymatic target is attached to the central body and the second end of the second enzymatic target is attached to a third fluorophore; wherein the central body comprises at least one second fluorophore; wherein the first enzymatic target comprises a specific cleavage site of a first enzyme that cleaves the first enzymatic target; and wherein the second enzymatic target comprises a specific cleavage site of a second enzyme. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/206738 |
| 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 1/37 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09388462 | Eltoukhy |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Helmy Eltoukhy (Woodside, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Helmy Eltoukhy (Woodside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Polymer sequencing is facilitated. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, a polymer sequencing approach is implemented using a multitude of polymer specimens for a particular polymer type is implemented. For each step in a polymer sequencing test, non-idealities are categorized using data obtained from the polymer sequencing test, and in response to the categorized non-idealities, a polymer sequence is identified for a corresponding step of the polymer sequencing test. With this approach, read lengths achieved with a particular polymer sequencing method can be improved. |
| FILED | Monday, May 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/748266 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| 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 1/66 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/76 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/143333 (20150115) Y10T 436/166666 (20150115) |
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| US 09388466 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY (Palo ALto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the Leland Stanford Jr Univ (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang-Zheng Chen (San Francisco, California); Robin Trujillo (Mountain View, California); Sibiao Yue (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Modulation of mRNA activity is achieved with precursor miRNAs (ta-RNAs). ta-RNAs, primarily pre-miRNAs and pri-miRNAs, including truncated and mutated ta-RNAs, are employed for modulation of mRNA expression where it is found that pri- and pre-miRNA have activity independently of the presence of functional mature miRNAs. Modification of at least one of the stem and loop of the ta-RNAs to enhance binding of the ta-RNA to the target mRNA is employed. The modification may be enhanced complementarity between the ta-RNA and the target mRNA and/or improved thermodynamic efficiency in binding of the ta-RNA to the target. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/457656 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0636 (20130101) C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 2310/141 (20130101) C12N 2501/42 (20130101) C12N 2501/515 (20130101) C12N 2506/11 (20130101) C12N 2510/00 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6811 (20130101) C12Q 1/6811 (20130101) C12Q 1/6876 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2525/207 (20130101) C12Q 2600/178 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/143333 (20150115) |
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| US 09388480 | Xia et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Younan Xia (St. Louis, Missouri); Sang-Hyuk Im (Pohang-Shi, South Korea); Yugang Sun (Naperville, Illinois); Yun Tack Lee (Seattle, Washington); Benjamin Wiley (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for producing silver nanostructures with improved dimensional control, yield, purity, monodispersity, and scale of synthesis. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/788519 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 1/0025 (20130101) B22F 9/24 (20130101) B22F 2001/0037 (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 11/04 (20130101) Alloys C22C 5/02 (20130101) C22C 5/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 7/00 (20130101) C30B 29/02 (20130101) C30B 29/60 (20130101) |
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| US 09389182 | Davies et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kelvin J. A. Davies (Pasadena, California); Andrew M. Pickering (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kelvin J. A. Davies (Pasadena, California); Andrew M. Pickering (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of measuring the degradation of intact proteins includes a step of providing a protein substrate having one or more free or exposed carboxyl groups and then reductively attaching 7-amino-4-methylcoumarin (AMC) to the protein substrate with a reducing agent. The protein substrate is contacted in a test solution with one or more proteolytic enzymes that degrade the protein substrate. The amount of AMC attached to the protein substrate is then determined by monitoring the fluorescence of free 7-amino-4-methylcoumarin that is formed during degradation of the protein substrate to protein fragments. |
| FILED | Friday, August 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/600908 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/64 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/6428 (20130101) |
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| US 09389184 | Wang 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) | Thomas D. Wang (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Kenn Oldham (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An endscopic imaging device is described that achieves longitudinal axis (z-axis) scanning into a tissue or sample, using a piezoelectric microactuator. In some configurations, additional lateral (xy-plane) scanning is also achieved, to allow for the creation of full three-dimensional imaging, ex vivo or in vivo. The techniques may be used to image and diagnosis allergic rhinitis and eosinophilic esophagitis in tissue. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/282511 |
| ART UNIT | 2875 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 1/0011 (20130101) A61B 1/00172 (20130101) A61B 1/233 (20130101) A61B 1/2733 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6486 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/4833 (20130101) |
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| US 09389203 | Jiang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jingfeng Jiang (Madison, Wisconsin); Timothy Jon Hall (Madison, Wisconsin); Amy Marie Sommer (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jingfeng Jiang (Madison, Wisconsin); Timothy Jon Hall (Madison, Wisconsin); Amy Marie Sommer (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Image data and E-mode images used in ultrasonic elasticity imaging may be automatically evaluated for quality to provide a single value used as operator feedback or for automatic selection of images for averaging or animation. |
| FILED | Friday, June 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/155950 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 8/08 (20130101) A61B 8/485 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 29/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 29/50 (20130101) G01N 29/265 (20130101) G01N 29/0609 (20130101) G01N 2291/02475 (20130101) G01N 2291/02827 (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 7/5205 (20130101) G01S 7/52042 (20130101) |
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| US 09389222 | Singbartl et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of The Commonwealth System Of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER LEARNING (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kai Singbartl (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); John A. Kellum (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is related to the field of the prevention and treatment of kidney disease. The treatment of kidney disease may be tailored depending upon the need for, or expectation of, long-term dialysis. For example, prediction of long-term dialysis treatment can be determined by monitoring urine biomarkers related to the development of chronic kidney disease. For example, a normalized time course of hyaluronic acid can be used to determine whether a patient having suffered acute kidney injury will require long-term dialysis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 27, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/722576 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 1/14 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/543 (20130101) G01N 33/5308 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2400/40 (20130101) G01N 2800/52 (20130101) G01N 2800/347 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/00 (20150115) Y10T 436/14 (20150115) Y10T 436/142222 (20150115) Y10T 436/143333 (20150115) |
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| US 09389223 | Trepel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jane Trepel (Bethesda, Maryland); Eun Joo Chung (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jane Trepel (Bethesda, Maryland); Eun Joo Chung (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for quickly and easily screening mixed cell samples for a pharmacodynamic effect to a drug or test agent. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/467080 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/34 (20130101) C12Q 1/44 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/537 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/5011 (20130101) G01N 2500/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09389294 | Sveinsson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bragi Sveinsson (Stanford, California); Brian A. Hargreaves (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for 3D magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with slice-direction distortion correction is provided. One or more selective cross-sections with a thickness along a first axis are excited using a RF pulse with a bandwidth, wherein a selective cross-section is either a selective slice or selective slab. A refocusing pulse is applied to form a spin echo. One or more 2D encoded image signals are acquired with readout along a second axis and phase encoding along a third axis, wherein the data long the phase encoded first and third axes is acquired with an under sampling scheme. Slice-direction distortion is corrected by resolving the position by using phase encoding. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/796979 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/561 (20130101) G01R 33/5611 (20130101) G01R 33/56563 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09389342 | Jiang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongrui Jiang (Madison, Wisconsin); Chenhui Li (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A variable-focus lens system that includes a lens assembly having an electrowetting liquid lens that can be wrapped onto a curved surface such as a lens without distorting a chamber holding the electrowetting liquid lens is provided. The lens assembly includes a container body having a cup, in which the chamber is defined, and supports that extend in different directions from the cup. A flexible base substrate is arranged under the container body. Both the container body and flexible base substrate may be made from a soft polymer material and made using low-temperature fabrication processes. The flexible base substrate may be thinner than the container body and provide a relatively large surface area that engages the curved surface such that the stresses associated with wrapping a micro lens assembly onto the curved surface may be primarily absorbed by the flexible base substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/788657 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 3/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 26/005 (20130101) Spectacles; Sunglasses or Goggles Insofar as They Have the Same Features as Spectacles; Contact Lenses G02C 7/04 (20130101) G02C 7/041 (20130101) G02C 7/085 (20130101) |
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| US 09390496 | Banaszak Holl et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Henry Ford Health System (Detroit, Michigan); Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents Of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Henry Ford Health System (Detroit, Michigan); Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark M. Banaszak Holl (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Gary J. Fisher (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Ming Fang (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Clifford M. Les (Birmingham, Michigan); Bradford G. Orr (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Elizabeth Goldstein (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Anthony Turner (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for diagnosing a bone disease or other condition related to collagen in a subject are provided. These include providing a bone sample from the subject and determining a quantitative collagen morphology value of the bone sample. A reference value is provided from a non-affected control subject where the reference value is a quantitative collagen morphology value from the same type of bone sample obtained from a population of non-affected control subjects. The quantitative collagen morphology value of the subject's bone sample is compared to the reference value. If the collagen morphology value is altered versus the reference value, the subject is diagnosed as having a collagen related bone disease. The collagen morphology value can include mean fibril spacings and distributions of the fibril spacings taken from a subject's bone sample. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/436265 |
| 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 9/52 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 7/0042 (20130101) G06T 7/402 (20130101) G06T 2207/10056 (20130101) G06T 2207/30008 (20130101) G06T 2207/30024 (20130101) G06T 2207/30088 (20130101) |
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| US 09391422 | Cable et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thorlabs, Inc. (Newton, New Jersey); Praevium Research, Inc. (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Thorlabs, Inc. (Newton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alex Ezra Cable (Newton, New Jersey); Vijaysekhar Jayaraman (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A tunable source includes a short-cavity laser optimized for performance and reliability in SSOCT imaging systems, spectroscopic detection systems, and other types of detection and sensing systems. A short cavity laser with a large free spectral range cavity, fast tuning response and single transverse, longitudinal and polarization mode operation is disclosed. Methods for obtaining polarization stable operation of the tunable source are presented. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/878640 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/255 (20130101) G01N 21/272 (20130101) G01N 2201/0612 (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 3/105 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 3/10015 (20130101) H01S 3/10061 (20130101) H01S 5/34 (20130101) H01S 5/0071 (20130101) H01S 5/0078 (20130101) H01S 5/183 (20130101) H01S 5/0687 (20130101) H01S 5/1039 (20130101) H01S 5/18311 (20130101) H01S 5/18355 (20130101) H01S 5/18366 (20130101) H01S 5/18372 (20130101) H01S 2301/02 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wendell David Zollinger (Silver Spring, Maryland); Mikhail Donets (North Potomac, Maryland); Deborah Schmiel (Rockville, Maryland); Boris Ionin (Potomac, Maryland); Ryan Marques (Rockville, Maryland); Elizabeth Ellen Moran (Wheaton, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH AND MATERIEL COMMAND (Fort Detrick, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wendell David Zollinger (Silver Spring, Maryland); Mikhail Donets (North Potomac, Maryland); Deborah Schmiel (Rockville, Maryland); Boris Ionin (Potomac, Maryland); Ryan Marques (Rockville, Maryland); Elizabeth Ellen Moran (Wheaton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present technology provides vaccine compositions comprising native outer membrane vesicles (NOMVs) from at least one genetically modified strain of Neisseria which provides protective immunity to meningococcal disease, more preferably subtype B meningococcal disease. The present technology further provides methods of immunizing an animal or human against meningococcal disease comprising administering the vaccine composition of the present invention. |
| FILED | Monday, June 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/995268 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/095 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/522 (20130101) A61K 2039/55505 (20130101) A61K 2039/55561 (20130101) A61K 2039/55572 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/36 (20130101) |
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| US 09387253 | Dresios et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Leidos, Inc. (Reston, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Leidos, Inc. (Reston, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Dresios (Carlsbad, California); Richard Griffey (Vista, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to methods for identifying proteins or peptide motifs of intracellular, extracellular, or extracellular matrix proteins specifically exposed in wound sites, as well as compositions for treating wounds, and methods for their use. |
| FILED | Friday, November 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/934425 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/1271 (20130101) A61K 38/02 (20130101) A61K 47/42 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 16/18 (20130101) |
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| US 09387470 | Song et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chunshan Song (State College, Pennsylvania); James J. Strohm (West Richland, Washington); Jian Zheng (Williamsville, New York); Weidong Gu (Toronto, Canada); Chao Xie (State College, Pennsylvania); Xiaoxing Wang (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chunshan Song (State College, Pennsylvania); James J. Strohm (West Richland, Washington); Jian Zheng (Williamsville, New York); Weidong Gu (Toronto, Canada); Chao Xie (State College, Pennsylvania); Xiaoxing Wang (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to novel bimetallic and trimetallic catalysts, their manufacture and use in both steam reforming and oxidative steam reforming of liquid fuels such as jet fuels, diesel fuels and gasoline to produce synthesis gas and/or hydrogen for fuel cell applications. The invention further relates to manufacture of synthesis gas and/or hydrogen gas for chemicals synthesis and fuel processing. The catalysts have high sulfur tolerance and carbon resistance when used in steam reforming and/or oxidative steam reforming of heavy hydrocarbon fuels. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/007983 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 21/04 (20130101) B01J 23/60 (20130101) B01J 23/62 (20130101) B01J 23/89 (20130101) B01J 23/892 (20130101) B01J 23/894 (20130101) B01J 23/896 (20130101) B01J 23/6525 (20130101) B01J 23/8913 (20130101) B01J 23/8946 (20130101) B01J 37/0009 (20130101) B01J 37/0207 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 37/0236 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 3/38 (20130101) C01B 3/40 (20130101) C01B 3/382 (20130101) C01B 2203/066 (20130101) C01B 2203/0233 (20130101) C01B 2203/0244 (20130101) C01B 2203/1047 (20130101) C01B 2203/1058 (20130101) C01B 2203/1082 (20130101) C01B 2203/1211 (20130101) |
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| US 09387535 | Darling et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Research Laboratory ATTN: RDRL-LOC-I (Adelphi, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kristopher A. Darling (Havre de Grace, Maryland); Micah J. Gallagher (Conestoga, Pennsylvania); Anthony J. Roberts (Chesapeake City, Maryland); Laszlo J. Kecskes (Havre De Grace, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is an apparatus and method for safely depressurizing milling vials. The invention utilizes a machinist vise in communication with a pneumatic air cylinder mounted in a jig inside glove box enclosure. The invention utilizes a method for safely depressurizing milling vials. The milling vials are placed into the machinist vise inside the enclosure. The ram of the pneumatic air cylinder is placed on top of the milling vial and the pneumatic air cylinder is pressed firmly against the cap of the milling vial. Next, the air inside the enclosure is evacuated of atmosphere after which the pressure is slowly released from the pneumatic air cylinder. During this stage of the method the operator is a safe distance from the enclosure. As pressure is removed from the pneumatic air cylinder the ram is retracted and the cap of milling vial is removed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/742380 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Crushing, Pulverising, or Disintegrating in General; Milling Grain B02C 17/18 (20130101) Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 9/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B22F 2009/041 (20130101) Alloys C22C 1/1084 (20130101) |
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| US 09387588 | Blankespoor et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Google Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Google Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Blankespoor (Arlington, Massachusetts); Benjamin Stephens (Somerville, Massachusetts); Marco da Silva (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An example method may include i) detecting a disturbance to a gait of a robot, where the gait includes a swing state and a step down state, the swing state including a target swing trajectory for a foot of the robot, and where the target swing trajectory includes a beginning and an end; and ii) based on the detected disturbance, causing the foot of the robot to enter the step down state before the foot reaches the end of the target swing trajectory. |
| FILED | Monday, August 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/468118 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 9/1628 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 901/01 (20130101) Y10S 901/46 (20130101) Y10S 901/49 (20130101) |
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| US 09387644 | Brennan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kelly Patrick Brennan (Sheridan, Wyoming); Gwynedd Adelaide Thomas (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | KENNON PRODUCTS, INC. (Sheridan, Wyoming) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kelly Patrick Brennan (Sheridan, Wyoming); Gwynedd Adelaide Thomas (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides ballistic resistant armor including a first ballistic resistant layer including non-woven material, a second ballistic resistant layer comprising woven material, the first ballistic resistant layer coupled to the second ballistic resistant layer by stitches, and methods of making the same. |
| FILED | Friday, April 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/446605 |
| ART UNIT | 1786 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Outerwear; Protective Garments; Accessories A41D 31/00 (20130101) Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 5/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B32B 5/022 (20130101) B32B 5/024 (20130101) Sewing D05B 35/107 (20130101) Armour; Armoured Turrets; Armoured or Armed Vehicles; Means of Attack or Defence, e.g Camouflage, in General F41H 1/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09387655 | Balachandra et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anagi Manjula Balachandra (Okemos, Michigan); Parviz Soroushian (Okemos, Michigan); Mohammad Sayyar Bidgoli (Lansing, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | METNA CO. (Lansing, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anagi Manjula Balachandra (Okemos, Michigan); Parviz Soroushian (Okemos, Michigan); Mohammad Sayyar Bidgoli (Lansing, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of joining two articles through a nano-enhanced joining medium is described. Nanomaterials are applied to the surfaces of sheets made of the joining medium via casting or spraying. Said sheets with nanomaterial coatings are then placed between the joining surfaces of the articles, and then application of pressure and heating is used to form a nano-engineered structural joint at the interface of said articles. The distinctly high specific surface area of nanomaterials and the energetic preference of their functionalized surfaces for bonding facilitate the joining process. Nano-engineered structural joints complement high strength levels with desired toughness and the compliance needed for accommodating deformation (e.g. thermal expansion) mismatches of joined articles without generating high stress levels near their interface. The limited quantity (per unit joint surface area) of nanomaterials utilized in nano-engineered joints benefits their economic viability. |
| FILED | Monday, April 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/854182 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 65/00 (20130101) Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 37/06 (20130101) B32B 37/24 (20130101) B32B 37/1284 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B32B 2037/243 (20130101) B32B 2037/1246 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/847 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/12444 (20150115) |
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| US 09387896 | Blankespoor et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Google Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Google Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Blankespoor (Arlington, Massachusetts); Alex Perkins (Arlington, Massachusetts); Marco da Silva (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An example method may include i) determining, by a robot having at least one foot, a representation of a coefficient of friction between the foot and a ground surface; ii) determining, by the robot, a representation of a gradient of the ground surface; iii) based on the determined representations of the coefficient of friction and the gradient, determining a threshold orientation for a target ground reaction force on the foot of the robot during a step; iv) determining the target ground reaction force, where the target ground reaction force comprises a magnitude and an orientation; v) determining an adjusted ground reaction force by adjusting the orientation of the target ground reaction force to be within the determined threshold orientation; and vi) causing the foot of the robot to apply a force on the ground surface equal to and opposing the adjusted ground reaction force during the step. |
| FILED | Monday, August 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/468031 |
| ART UNIT | 3667 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Motor Vehicles; Trailers B62D 57/032 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 901/01 (20130101) Y10S 901/46 (20130101) |
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| US 09388042 | Tse et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen D. Tse (Warren, New Jersey); Nasir K. Memon (Piscataway, New Jersey); Bernard H. Kear (Whitehouse Station, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen D. Tse (Warren, New Jersey); Nasir K. Memon (Piscataway, New Jersey); Bernard H. Kear (Whitehouse Station, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods of use thereof for the production of carbon-based and other nanostructures, as well as fuels and reformed products, are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/984397 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 71/022 (20130101) Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 7/56 (20130101) Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 9/30 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 3/22 (20130101) C01B 3/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C01B 21/0605 (20130101) C01B 31/36 (20130101) C01B 31/0293 (20130101) Burners F23D 14/22 (20130101) F23D 14/32 (20130101) F23D 14/56 (20130101) F23D 14/58 (20130101) F23D 14/78 (20130101) F23D 14/84 (20130101) F23D 91/02 (20150701) F23D 2900/00001 (20130101) F23D 2900/21007 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 20/344 (20130101) |
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| US 09388090 | Joshi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Physical Sciences, Inc. (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Physical Sciences, Inc. (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Prakash B. Joshi (Andover, Massachusetts); Lawrence G. Piper (Reading, Massachusetts); David B. Oakes (Reading, Massachusetts); Justin L. Sabourin (Somerville, Massachusetts); Adam J. Hicks (Melrose, Massachusetts); B. David Green (Methuen, Massachusetts); Anait Tsinberg (Somerville, Massachusetts); Allan Dokhan (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A catalyst free method of igniting an ionic liquid is provided. The method can include mixing a liquid hypergol with a HAN-based ionic liquid to ignite the HAN-based ionic liquid in the absence of a catalyst. The HAN-based ionic liquid and the liquid hypergol can be injected into a combustion chamber. The HAN-based ionic liquid and the liquid hypergol can impinge upon a stagnation plate positioned at top portion of the combustion chamber. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/649803 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Detonating or Priming Devices; Fuses; Chemical Lighters; Pyrophoric Compositions C06C 9/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Means for Generating Smoke or Mist; Gas-attack Compositions; Generation of Gas for Blasting or Propulsion C06D 5/08 (20130101) Jet-propulsion Plants F02K 9/68 (20130101) F02K 9/95 (20130101) |
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| US 09388217 | Baker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Baker (Seattle, Washington); Timothy A. Whitehead (East Grand Rapids, Michigan); Sarel Fleishman (Ness Ziona, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | Polypeptides that recognize and are strong binders to Influenza A hemagglutinin and can be used, for example, to treat and/or limit development of an influenza infection are disclosed. Isolated nucleic acids encoding the polypeptides of the invention, recombinant expression vectors comprising the nucleic acids encoding the polypeptides of the invention operatively linked to a suitable control sequence, and recombinant host cells comprising the recombinant expression vectors of the invention are disclosed. Antibodies that selectively bind to the polypeptides of the invention, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more polypeptides according to the invention and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier are disclosed. Additionally, methods for treating and/or limiting an influenza infection, methods for diagnosing an influenza infection, or monitoring progression of an influenza infection, methods for identifying candidate influenza vaccines, and methods for identifying candidate compounds for treating, limiting, and/or diagnosing influenza infection are disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/384901 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/08 (20130101) C07K 14/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56983 (20130101) G01N 2333/11 (20130101) |
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| US 09388244 | Marks 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) | James D. D. Marks (Kensington, California); Marie Alix Poul (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides novel erbB2-binding internalizing antibodies. The antibodies, designated F5 and C1, specifically bind to c-erbB2 antigen and, upon binding, are readily internalized into the cell bearing the c-erbB2 marker. Chimeric molecules comprising the F5 and/or C1 antibodies attached to one or more effector molecules are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, February 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/627773 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 31/704 (20130101) A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 47/48538 (20130101) A61K 47/48569 (20130101) A61K 47/48584 (20130101) A61K 47/48623 (20130101) A61K 47/48823 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/30 (20130101) C07K 16/32 (20130101) C07K 16/2863 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/2881 (20130101) C07K 16/3053 (20130101) C07K 2317/10 (20130101) C07K 2317/21 (20130101) C07K 2317/77 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) C07K 2317/565 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101) C07K 2317/626 (20130101) C07K 2319/02 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 2795/10043 (20130101) C12N 2810/859 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 424/812 (20130101) |
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| US 09388273 | Emrick et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd Emrick (South Deerfield, Massachusetts); Justin Timmons (Agawam, Massachusetts); Megan Warner Szyndler (Amherst, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a novel platform for minimal- or non-flammable polymers, which is based purely on hydrocarbon systems and does not need additives of any kind A key feature is that the hydrocarbons disclosed herein are characterized by degradation mechanisms that produce few flammable volatiles. For example, 2,4,4′,6-tetrahydroxydeoxybenzoin is employed as a multifunctional cross-linker in conjunction with bis-epoxydeoxybenzoin, affording new resins that combine excellent physical and mechanical properties with low flammability. |
| FILED | Monday, May 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/280901 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 39/14 (20130101) C07C 39/15 (20130101) C07C 49/83 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 303/28 (20130101) C07D 303/30 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 59/063 (20130101) C08G 59/3218 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 65/4012 (20130101) |
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| US 09388480 | Xia et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Younan Xia (St. Louis, Missouri); Sang-Hyuk Im (Pohang-Shi, South Korea); Yugang Sun (Naperville, Illinois); Yun Tack Lee (Seattle, Washington); Benjamin Wiley (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for producing silver nanostructures with improved dimensional control, yield, purity, monodispersity, and scale of synthesis. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/788519 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 1/0025 (20130101) B22F 9/24 (20130101) B22F 2001/0037 (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 11/04 (20130101) Alloys C22C 5/02 (20130101) C22C 5/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 7/00 (20130101) C30B 29/02 (20130101) C30B 29/60 (20130101) |
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| US 09388916 | Akinwande et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Akintunde I. Akinwande (Newton, Massachusetts); Carol Livermore-Clifford (Framingham, Massachusetts); Martin A. Schmidt (Reading, Massachusetts); Aalap S. Dighe (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Luis Fernando Velásquez-García (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Akintunde I. Akinwande (Newton, Massachusetts); Carol Livermore-Clifford (Framingham, Massachusetts); Martin A. Schmidt (Reading, Massachusetts); Aalap S. Dighe (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Luis Fernando Velásquez-García (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A microvalve device is provided that includes a through via located in an island structure supported on a thermally-insulating membrane supported by a frame. The through via is surrounded by a meltable sealing material. A heater element is positioned on the island structure for sealing the material over the through via by heating the sealing material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/307665 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Valves; Taps; Cocks; Actuating-floats; Devices for Venting or Aerating F16K 99/003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F16K 99/0044 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49412 (20150115) Y10T 137/1812 (20150401) |
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| US 09389052 | Conroy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Research Laboratory (Washingon, 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 J. Conroy (Churchville, Maryland); Daniel R. Gubernat (Bridgewater, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A jacketed bullet having a penetrator constructed of a hard material in line with a slug having a lower modulus. At least a portion of both the slug and the penetrator are then encased by a metal jacket. A plurality of circumferentially spaced and axially extending flutes are formed along the slug and possibly the penetrator. These flutes receive deformation of the jacket upon firing of the bullet into a rifled gun bore to thereby reduce friction between the bullet and the gun bore during operation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/029847 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Functional Features or Details Common to Both Smallarms and Ordnance, e.g Cannons; Mountings for Smallarms or Ordnance F41A 21/18 (20130101) Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 12/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F42B 12/74 (20130101) F42B 12/78 (20130101) F42B 30/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09389063 | Wong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of Columbia University In The City Of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chee Wei Wong (Weehawken, New Jersey); Franco N. C. Wong (Lexington, Massachusetts); Dirk R. Englund (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An interferometer module for quantum processing is described including a substrate having two or more input ports and two or more output ports; multiple photonic pathways embedded in the substrate for conveying photons from the two or more input ports and the two or more output ports; and one or more partial beam splitters embedded in the substrate in a photonic pathway for generating spatial and polarization entanglement. |
| FILED | Friday, April 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/245638 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 9/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/126 (20130101) Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/39 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 99/002 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49 (20150115) |
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| US 09389079 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonathan Y. Lee (Rochester, New York); Qiang Lin (Rochester, New York); Oskar J. Painter (Sierra Madre, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York); CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Y. Lee (Rochester, New York); Qiang Lin (Rochester, New York); Oskar J. Painter (Sierra Madre, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated optomechanical disk vibratory gyroscope device includes a mechanical oscillator having a substantially circular structure. The substantially circular structure is supported by a pillar, and mechanically isolated from a surrounding structure by a gap or slot. One or more actuators are coupled to the mechanical oscillator across the gap or slot. Each of the one or more actuators is configured to excite the mechanical oscillator in a driving mode. One or more optomechanical cavities are disposed substantially in a plane defined by the mechanical oscillator. At least one component of the one or more optomechanical cavities is disposed on or in the substantially circular structure. Each of the at least one or more optomechanical cavities configured to measure a displacement of the mechanical oscillator in a sensing mode. A method of manufacture is also described. |
| FILED | Friday, February 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/627485 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 19/661 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09389131 | Wetzel |
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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) | Eric D. Wetzel (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A device, assembly and method for clamping single fibers that utilizes snubbing surfaces simultaneously with magnetic gripping action are described. The device can be fabricated at miniature sizes with very low mass and volume, which are desirable requirements for testing of small fibers in highly sensitive force-transducing load frames. Advantageously, the combined use of snubbing surfaces and magnetic gripping greatly reduces the probability of slippage or fiber failure at the grip during testing. |
| FILED | Friday, March 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/228783 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Tools or Bench Devices Not Otherwise Provided For, for Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging or Holding B25B 11/002 (20130101) Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 5/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 3/04 (20130101) G01N 3/08 (20130101) G01N 2203/028 (20130101) |
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| US 09389139 | Williams 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) | Cyril L. Williams (Newark, Delaware); Daniel R. Scheffler (Belcamp, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for extracting material and mechanical properties of a cylinder subject to expansion cause by an explosion so as to better understand the evolution of damage. The method is directed towards obtaining material and mechanical properties of the cylinder between an undeformed state and a state of deformation prior to total fracture. The method includes the steps of providing: (1) a plurality of cylinders, each of which have the same physical dimensions; (2) a plurality of charges, each of the plurality of charges having a different diameter and hence explosive force; and (3) a fluid having a shock impedance less than a shock impedance of any of the plurality of charges. The method further includes the step of placing the charges in a respective cylinders, tilling the cylinder with the fluid and detonating the charge, and recording the cylinder radial velocity during radial expansion and post-mortem material properties. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/331921 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 35/00 (20130101) F42B 99/00 (20130101) Testing Static or Dynamic Balance of Machines or Structures; Testing of Structures or Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G01M 7/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09389207 | Bae et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mona L. Shannon (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Byunghoon Bae (Champaign, Illinois); Jihyung Kim (Champaign, Illinois); Mark A. Shannon (Urbana, Illinois); Taekyu Kang (Newark, Delaware); Mona L. Shannon (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A portable gas analyzer comprising an integrated micro-flame ionization detector (micro-FID), a micro-gas chromatograph (micro-GC), an electrolyzer, and a flame-shaped electrode are provided. The components of the portable gas analyzer can be integrated into a single “lunchbox” sized housing with all the peripherals required to operate the micro-GC/FID without an external power and gas supply. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/801949 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 30/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 30/68 (20130101) G01N 30/68 (20130101) G01N 30/6095 (20130101) G01N 2030/0095 (20130101) |
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| US 09389217 | Austin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert H. Austin (Princeton, New Jersey); Zhaoning Yu (Princeton, New Jersey); Jonas O. Tegenfeldt (Lund, Sweden); Stephen Y. Chou (Princeton, New Jersey); Han Cao (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanochannel arrays that enable high-throughput macromolecular analysis are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of preparing nanochannel arrays and nanofluidic chips. Methods of analyzing macromolecules, such as entire strands of genomic DNA, are also disclosed, as well as systems for carrying out these methods. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/223589 |
| 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 | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 2219/00274 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502707 (20130101) B01L 2200/12 (20130101) B01L 2200/0663 (20130101) B01L 2300/0627 (20130101) B01L 2300/0861 (20130101) B01L 2300/0896 (20130101) B01L 2400/086 (20130101) B01L 2400/0415 (20130101) Microstructural Devices or Systems, e.g Micromechanical Devices B81B 1/002 (20130101) B81B 2201/058 (20130101) Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00071 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/648 (20130101) G01N 21/6428 (20130101) G01N 33/48721 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/88 (20130101) Y10S 977/704 (20130101) Y10S 977/883 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | P. David Flammer (Golden, Colorado); Jonathan Peltzer (Denver, Colorado); Russell Hollingsworth (Arvada, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado School of Mines (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | P. David Flammer (Golden, Colorado); Jonathan Peltzer (Denver, Colorado); Russell Hollingsworth (Arvada, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A spectroscopic polarimeter and methods of manufacturing the same are provided. The spectroscopic polarimeter is described as being fabricated by etching or patterning grooves into a substrate with a centrally smooth area, laying down an opaque thin layer of metal, etching out a central cavity from the metal, laying down a thin layer of dielectric material, and then laying down metal over the cavity. Optionally, before or after the dielectric layer is laid, a thicker metal barrier at the edge of the design can be laid as well. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/507479 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — 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 4/00 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 5/3058 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Magic Leap, Inc. (Dania Beach, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Magic Leap, Inc. (Dania Beach, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian T. Schowengerdt (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The tiled array of fiber scanners includes multiple fiber scanners arranged in a polygonal pattern determined based on analysis results. Multiple fiber scanners generate multiple component images tiled to form a seamless overall image. A fiber scanner is devised through analysis and includes projector optics, a single-core or multi-core scan fiber disposed within an actuator tube coupled with the projector optics within a housing tube according to analysis results and one or more compensators. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 02, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/677931 |
| ART UNIT | 2422 — Cable and Television |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/08 (20130101) G02B 27/0172 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 2006/0098 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 9/14 (20130101) H04N 9/3179 (20130101) |
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| US 09389511 | Schwartz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Evan L. Schwartz (Vadnais Heights, Minnesota); Wei Min Chan (Ithaca, New York); Jin-Kyun Lee (Incheon, South Korea); Sandip Tiwari (Ithaca, New York); Christopher K. Ober (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Evan L. Schwartz (Vadnais Heights, Minnesota); Wei Min Chan (Ithaca, New York); Jin-Kyun Lee (Incheon, South Korea); Sandip Tiwari (Ithaca, New York); Christopher K. Ober (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for forming patterns of organic polymer materials. The method can be used to form a layer with two patterned organic polymer materials. The photoresist and solvents used in the photoresist deposition and removal steps do not substantially affect the organic polymer materials. |
| FILED | Monday, March 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/005964 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00031 (20130101) B81C 2201/0149 (20130101) Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/0002 (20130101) G03F 7/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G03F 7/038 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/027 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24851 (20150115) |
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| US 09390016 | Koka et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Oracle International Corporation (Redwood City, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pranay Koka (Austin, Texas); Michael O. McCracken (San Diego, California); Herbert D. Schwetman, Jr. (Austin, Texas); Ronald Ho (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosed embodiments provide a system in which a processor chip accesses an off-chip cache via silicon photonic waveguides. The system includes a processor chip and a cache chip that are both coupled to a communications substrate. The cache chip comprises one or more cache banks that receive cache requests from a structure in the processor chip optically via a silicon photonic waveguide. More specifically, the silicon photonic waveguide is comprised of waveguides in the processor chip, the communications substrate, and the cache chip, and forms an optical channel that routes an optical signal directly from the structure to a cache bank in the cache chip via the communications substrate. Transmitting optical signals from the processor chip directly to cache banks on the cache chip facilitates reducing the wire latency of cache accesses and allowing each cache bank on the cache chip to be accessed with uniform latency. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/665826 |
| ART UNIT | 2131 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 12/0848 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 12/0893 (20130101) |
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| US 09390061 | Deeds et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Deeds (Port Tobacco, Maryland); Gregory Kaminski (Waldorf, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Deeds (Port Tobacco, Maryland); Gregory Kaminski (Waldorf, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A movable capacitive sensing component and plural stationary capacitive sensing components are similarly constructed and are located together. The movable capacitive sensing component includes two interdigitated electrode elements at least one of which moves in accordance with displacement of an object. The stationary capacitive sensing components includes two interdigitated electrode elements that do not move, and differ from each other in terms of relative displacement between the fixed electrode elements. The movable capacitive sensing component measures a capacitance value. Another capacitance value is estimated, from the capacitance values measured by the stationary capacitive sensing components, for the displacement indicated by the movable capacitive sensing component's measured capacitance value. The actual displacement of the object is found by subtracting the respective capacitance values and converting this result to displacement, or by converting the respective capacitance values to displacement and subtracting the respective displacement values. |
| FILED | Friday, November 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/694292 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 27/2605 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09390163 | Paxia et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Salvatore Paxia (New York, New York); Bhubaneswar Mishra (Great Neck, New York); Yi Zhou (Shanghai, China PRC) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Salvatore Paxia (New York, New York); Bhubaneswar Mishra (Great Neck, New York); Yi Zhou (Shanghai, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided which can identify and provide local variations in regions of similarity among two or more data sets. These data sets may be represented as sequences such as, e.g., genomic sequences or words in a text. The local variations in similarity levels can be provided by selecting an initial prior distribution relating the data sets, organizing the first data set into windows and the remaining data sets into blocks, using the priors to sample one or more sets of words from the first data set, computing a similarity curve from exact and inexact matches for these words and, if convergence of results is not achieved, computing a new set of priors and repeating the sampling and computation of similarity curves. The computations can be performed using an amount of computational time that is linearly proportional to the size of the data sets. |
| FILED | Monday, April 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/410692 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30675 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 19/12 (20130101) G06F 19/22 (20130101) G06F 19/24 (20130101) G06F 19/26 (20130101) |
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| US 09390309 | Miesak et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward Miesak (Windermere, Florida); V. Edward Gold, Jr. (Belle Isle, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | This document relates to systems and method for latent fingerprint detection using specular reflection (glare). An exemplary system may include a light source alignment portion configured to align a light source at an illumination angle relative to a sample surface such that the light source illuminates a sample surface so that the surface produces specular reflection. The system may also include a specular reflection discriminator that directs the produced specular refection to an optical detector aligned relative to said sample surface at an alignment angle that is substantially equal to an angle of reflection of the produced specular reflection. Preferably, the directed specular reflection does not saturate the optical detector, and the optical detector captures the specular reflection from the sample surface and generates image data using essentially only the specular reflection. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/333720 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/94 (20130101) G01N 21/8851 (20130101) G01N 2201/10 (20130101) G01N 2201/06113 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00013 (20130101) G06K 9/00033 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/2036 (20130101) |
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| US 09390326 | Publicover et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | EYEFLUENCE, INC. (Reno, Nevada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | EYEFLUENCE, INC. (Milpitas, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nelson G. Publicover (Reno, Nevada); William C. Torch (Reno, Nevada); Christopher N. Spitler (Fernley, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | A system mounted within eyewear or headwear to unobtrusively produce and track reference locations on the surface of one or both eyes of an observer is provided to improve the accuracy of gaze tracking. The system utilizes multiple illumination sources and/or multiple cameras to generate and observe glints from multiple directions. The use of multiple illumination sources and cameras can compensate for the complex, three-dimensional geometry of the head and the significant anatomical variations of the head and eye region that occurs among individuals. The system continuously tracks the initial placement and any slippage of eyewear or headwear. In addition, the use of multiple illumination sources and cameras can maintain high-precision, dynamic eye tracking as an eye moves through its full physiological range. Furthermore, illumination sources placed in the normal line-of-sight of the device wearer increase the accuracy of gaze tracking by producing reference vectors that are close to the visual axis of the device wearer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/587991 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 3/024 (20130101) A61B 3/0025 (20130101) A61B 3/113 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 27/0093 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/013 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/0061 (20130101) G06K 9/00604 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/247 (20130101) H04N 5/2256 (20130101) |
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| US 09390368 | Jackson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryan L. Jackson (Fremont, California); Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, California); Norman J. Pass (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a system comprising a neurosynaptic processing device including multiple neurosynaptic core circuits for parallel processing, and a serial processing device including at least one processor core for serial processing. Each neurosynaptic core circuit comprises multiple electronic neurons interconnected with multiple electronic axons via a plurality of synapse devices. The system further comprises an interconnect circuit for coupling the neurosynaptic processing device with the serial processing device. The interconnect circuit enables the exchange of data packets between the neurosynaptic processing device and the serial processing device. |
| FILED | Monday, October 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/059340 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09390370 | Kingsbury |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian E. D. Kingsbury (Cortlandt Manor, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for training a neural network includes receiving labeled training data at a master node, generating, by the master node, partitioned training data from the labeled training data and a held-out set of the labeled training data, determining a plurality of gradients for the partitioned training data, wherein the determination of the gradients is distributed across a plurality of worker nodes, determining a plurality of curvature matrix-vector products over the plurality of samples of the partitioned training data, wherein the determination of the plurality of curvature matrix-vector products is distributed across the plurality of worker nodes, and determining, by the master node, a second-order optimization of the plurality of gradients and the plurality of curvature matrix-vector products, producing a trained neural network configured to perform a structured classification task using a sequence-discriminative criterion. |
| FILED | Monday, March 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/783812 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06N 3/084 (20130101) G06N 3/0454 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09390372 | Modha |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to unsupervised, supervised and reinforced learning via spiking computation. The neural network comprises a plurality of neural modules. Each neural module comprises multiple digital neurons such that each neuron in a neural module has a corresponding neuron in another neural module. An interconnection network comprising a plurality of edges interconnects the plurality of neural modules. Each edge interconnects a first neural module to a second neural module, and each edge comprises a weighted synaptic connection between every neuron in the first neural module and a corresponding neuron in the second neural module. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/494372 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/04 (20130101) G06N 3/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06N 3/049 (20130101) G06N 3/063 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09390528 | Dykes et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James D. Dykes (Slidell, Louisiana); Philip J. Fanguy (Picayune, Mississippi); Thomas Gray (Gulfport, Mississippi) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Alrington, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James D. Dykes (Slidell, Louisiana); Philip J. Fanguy (Picayune, Mississippi); Thomas Gray (Gulfport, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | System and method for providing access to ArcMap netCDF utilities and adding support for observational data to ArcMap including, but not limited to, comparing observational data to model data in a graphical manner, and maintaining the security classifications for each layer in ArcMap so that the highest security classification of the data being viewed is known at all times. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/575621 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/60 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 3/40 (20130101) G06T 11/206 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09390627 | Ott et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Smart Information Flow Technologies LLC (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Smart Information Flow Technologies, LLC (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tammy Elizabeth Ott (Saint Paul, Minnesota); Harry Bromberg Funk (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Jesse Albert Hostetler (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of conditioning a trainee to identify an object is provided. The method includes selecting a visceral response-evoking image for evoking a desired trainee response, wherein the desired trainee response is selected to correspond with the object, displaying a stimulus image depicting the object, wherein the instructions to display the stimulus image are to display the stimulus image within view of a trainee for a first duration that is below conscious awareness of the trainee, and displaying the visceral response-evoking image within view of the trainee after the display of the stimulus image and to display the visceral response-evoking image for a second duration that is below conscious awareness of the trainee in an attempt to link the desired trainee response to the object in a mind of the trainee in a manner characterized by an absence of conscious awareness of the link by the trainee. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/676904 |
| ART UNIT | 3715 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Educational or Demonstration Appliances; Appliances for Teaching, or Communicating With, the Blind, Deaf or Mute; Models; Planetaria; Globes; Maps; Diagrams G09B 5/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09390847 | Tran 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) | Nghia X. Tran (San Diego, California); Hoa V. Phan (San Diego, California); Anhtuan T. Ton (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method may include energizing one or more of a plurality of electromagnets contained within and fixedly distributed about a first region of a structure and de-energizing other of the electromagnets to attract a substance contained and movable within a second region of the structure to the energized electromagnets and change the center of gravity of the structure. The structure may be disposed on a surface or within a liquid, where energizing and de-energizing of the electromagnets causes the structure to move about the surface or within the liquid in a desired fashion. The substance may be a magnetic or magnetizable substance. Energizing and de-energizing the electromagnets may be performed by a controller responsive to a signal received from a sensor or transceiver. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 19, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/626060 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Motor Vehicles; Trailers B62D 57/02 (20130101) Marine Propulsion or Steering B63H 5/02 (20130101) B63H 19/00 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 3/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09390894 | Eden 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) | J. Gary Eden (Champaign, Illinois); Min Hwan Kim (Urbana, Illinois); Jin Hoon Cho (Champaign, Illinois); Sung-Jin Park (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A preferred modular microplasma microchannel reactor device includes a microchannel array arranged with respect to electrodes for generation of plasma and isolated by dielectric from the electrodes. A cover covers a central portion of the microchannel array, while leaving end portions of the microchannel array exposed. A gas inlet and product outlet are arranged to permit flow into, through and out of the microchannel array. Reactor modules of the invention include pluralities of the modular reactor devices. The reactors devices can be arranged by a housing or a frame to be in fluid communication. A system of the invention arranges pluralities of modules. Preferred module housings, frames and reactors include structural features to create alignments and connections. Preferred modules include fans to circulate feedstock and reaction product. Other reactor devices provide plasma actuation for flow. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/495306 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| 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 3/3445 (20130101) A23L 3/34095 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Foods, Foodstuffs or Non-alcoholic Beverages A23V 2002/00 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/0093 (20130101) B01J 2219/0081 (20130101) B01J 2219/0086 (20130101) B01J 2219/0093 (20130101) B01J 2219/00783 (20130101) B01J 2219/00806 (20130101) B01J 2219/00822 (20130101) B01J 2219/00853 (20130101) B01J 2219/00867 (20130101) B01J 2219/00869 (20130101) B01J 2219/00871 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 13/10 (20130101) Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/78 (20130101) C02F 2305/02 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 37/32568 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 37/32798 (20130101) H01J 37/32908 (20130101) H01J 2237/327 (20130101) Plasma Technique; Production of Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles or of Neutrons; Production or Acceleration of Neutral Molecular or Atomic Beams H05H 1/2406 (20130101) H05H 2001/2418 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09391287 | Huang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jinsong Huang (Lincoln, Nebraska); Qingfeng Dong (Lincoln, Nebraska); Rui Dong (Lincoln, Nebraska); Yuchuan Sao (Lincoln, Nebraska); Cheng Bi (Lincoln, Nebraska); Qi Wang (Lincoln, Nebraska); Zhengguo Xiao (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor device and a method for fabrication of the semiconductor device are described that include a perovskite layer formed using a solution process with lead iodine and methylammonium halide. In an implementation, a semiconductor device that employs example techniques in accordance with the present disclosure includes a cathode layer; an anode layer; and an active layer disposed between the cathode layer and the anode layer, where the active layer includes a perovskite layer including an interdiffused and annealed lead iodine (PbI2) film and methylammonium halide (CH3NH3X) film. In implementations, a process for fabricating a continuous-perovskite semiconductor device that employs example techniques in accordance with the present disclosure includes spinning a PbI2 layer onto an ITO-covered glass; spinning an MAI layer onto the PbI2 layer; annealing the PbI2 layer and the MAI layer; spinning a PCBM layer onto a resulting perovskite layer; and depositing an Al layer. |
| FILED | Friday, December 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/576878 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/005 (20130101) H01L 51/0037 (20130101) H01L 51/442 (20130101) H01L 51/4213 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| APPLICANT(S) | RAYTHEON COMPANY (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RAYTHEON COMPANY (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles T. Hansen (Palos Verdes Estates, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for estimating a target direction of a wideband signal received on an electronically steered array includes: applying convolutional or stretch processing to spatial frequency data of the wideband signal; initializing a stabilization direction to a beam pointing direction; stabilizing the spatial frequency data to the stabilization direction; compressing the spatial frequency data to a plurality of frequency range or time bins; selecting range or time bins and forming a covariance matrix; calculating an estimated target direction using the covariance matrix; determining if a stabilization direction accuracy condition is met; recalculating the stabilization direction based on the estimated target direction if the stabilization direction accuracy condition is not met; and iteratively repeating until the stabilization direction accuracy condition is met. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/889144 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 3/32 (20130101) G01S 3/46 (20130101) G01S 7/295 (20130101) G01S 13/02 (20130101) G01S 13/42 (20130101) G01S 13/0209 (20130101) G01S 13/4454 (20130101) Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 3/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09391375 | Bales 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) | Kyle A. Bales (San Diego, California); Christopher J. Meagher (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna array includes a plurality of sub-arrays each having a plurality of linearly polarized antenna elements, with each antenna element having an orthogonal feed orientation with respect to its adjacent antenna elements, and at least two feed lines each connected by at least one sub-feed line to at least two antenna elements having orthogonal feed orientations such that each antenna element is equally and progressively phase rotated. The antenna elements in at least two separate lines of the array, such as array rows or columns, are connected to a separate feed line. The antenna elements may be aperture coupled microstrip patch elements having a single slot fed by one of the sub-feed lines or cross-slot elements fed by two sub-feed lines. The sub-feed lines in a separate row or column are power combined into either one or two feed lines and may be connected to a beamformer. |
| FILED | Friday, September 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/039008 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 3/26 (20130101) H01Q 3/34 (20130101) H01Q 21/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01Q 21/0075 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09391448 | Chesnut et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kay Chesnut (Redondo Beach, California); Robert M. Martinelli (Murrieta, California); Anthony C. Le (Fountain Valley, California); MaryAnne Dooley (Westminster, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A protection circuit includes a first resistive element configured for coupling to a protected circuit. The first resistive element has a particular resistance value. The protection circuit also includes a voltage regulator coupled to the first resistive element. The particular resistance value is selected to enable a magnitude of a bias current provided to the protected circuit to remain within a first operating current range associated with the protected circuit and to remain below a latchup holding current value associated with the protected circuit. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/029618 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements H02H 5/005 (20130101) H02H 9/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H02H 9/046 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09391654 | Wyckoff et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter S. Wyckoff (Scottsdale, Arizona); Philip Dafesh (Manhattan Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are provided for processing a time-domain signal in rectangular coordinates. The signal can include a low power desired signal and a high power, approximately constant envelope interference signal that spectrally overlaps the desired signal. A rectangular to polar converter can obtain magnitude and phase of the time-domain signal in polar coordinates. An interference estimator can estimate a magnitude of the interference signal based on the magnitude of the time-domain signal in polar coordinates. A subtractor can obtain a difference magnitude in polar coordinates based on the magnitude of the time-domain signal and the estimated magnitude of the interference signal in polar coordinates. A polar to rectangular converter can obtain the desired signal with reduced power of the interference signal based on the difference magnitude and phase of the time-domain signal in polar coordinates. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/887848 |
| ART UNIT | 2631 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 1/1018 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 17/005 (20130101) H04B 17/101 (20150115) H04B 17/345 (20150115) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 1/0036 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 52/243 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 60/50 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09392017 | Cui et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ang Cui (New York, New York); Salvatore J. Stolfo (Ridgewood, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and media for inhibiting attacks on embedded devices are provided, in some embodiments, a system for inhibiting on embedded devices is provided, the system comprises a processor that is configured to: identify an embedded device that is configured to provide one or more services to one or more digital processing devices within a communications network; receive a first firmware associated with the embedded device; generate a second firmware that is functionally equivalent to the first firmware by: determining unused code within the first firmware; removing the unused code within the second firmware; and restructuring remaining code portions of the first firmware into memory positions within the second firmware; and inject the second firmware into the embedded device. |
| FILED | Friday, February 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/379166 |
| ART UNIT | 2496 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/64 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/20 (20130101) H04L 63/145 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| APPLICANT(S) | George Sgouros (Ellicott City, Maryland); Hong Song (Towson, Maryland); Andrew Prideaux (Baltimore, Maryland); Robert Hobbs (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Sgouros (Ellicott City, Maryland); Hong Song (Towson, Maryland); Andrew Prideaux (Baltimore, Maryland); Robert Hobbs (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure discusses methods for determining absorbed dose information. A tomography imaging device generates an anatomy image relating to anatomy of a particular patient. A tomography imaging device also generates multiple radioactivity images regarding radioactivity distribution of an internally administered pharmaceutical over time in the particular patient. The radioactivity images related to the radioactivity distribution over time are registered. Each radioactivity image is combined with each anatomy image to create activity images. A Monte Carlo simulation for each activity image is run to obtain absorbed dose-rate images of the pharmaceutical at multiple times. The absorbed dose-rate images are integrated over time to obtain a total absorbed dose image. The absorbed dose-rate images and the total absorbed dose image are used to obtain a biologically effective dose (BED) image. The BED image is used to obtain an equivalent uniform does (EUD) of BED values for a chosen anatomical region. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/514853 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 6/037 (20130101) A61B 6/5217 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 5/1031 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09387444 | Small et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leo J. Small (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Erik David Spoerke (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David R. Wheeler (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A pressure-based chemical etch method is used to shape polymer nanopores into cones. By varying the pressure, the pore tip diameter can be controlled, while the pore base diameter is largely unaffected. The method provides an easy, low-cost approach for conically etching high density nanopores. |
| FILED | Monday, November 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/543298 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 67/0034 (20130101) B01D 67/0093 (20130101) B01D 69/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 71/50 (20130101) B01D 2325/021 (20130101) B01D 2325/42 (20130101) |
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| US 09387486 | Cheng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mengdawn Cheng (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Gerard Michael Ludtka (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Larry R. Avens (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A high-gradient permanent magnet apparatus for capturing paramagnetic particles, the apparatus comprising: (i) at least two permanent magnets positioned with like poles facing each other; (ii) a ferromagnetic spacer separating the like poles; and (iii) a magnetizable porous filling material in close proximity to the at least two permanent magnets. Also described is a method for capturing paramagnetic particles in which a gas or liquid sample containing the paramagnetic particles is contacted with the high-gradient permanent magnet apparatus described above; wherein, during the contacting step, the gas or liquid sample contacts the magnetizable porous filling material of the high-gradient permanent magnet apparatus, and at least a portion of the paramagnetic particles in the gas or liquid sample is captured on the magnetizable porous filling material. |
| FILED | Monday, September 28, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/867768 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Magnetic or Electrostatic Separation of Solid Materials From Solid Materials or Fluids; Separation by High-voltage Electric Fields B03C 1/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B03C 1/025 (20130101) B03C 1/031 (20130101) |
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| US 09388364 | Schmidt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew J. Schmidt (Richland, Washington); Todd R. Hart (Kennewick, Washington); Justin M. Billing (Richland, Washington); Gary D. Maupin (Richland, Washington); Richard T. Hallen (Richland, Washington); Daniel B. Anderson (Pasco, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Liquefaction processes are provided that can include: providing a biomass slurry solution having a temperature of at least 300° C. at a pressure of at least 2000 psig; cooling the solution to a temperature of less than 150° C.; and depressurizing the solution to release carbon dioxide from the solution and form at least part of a bio-oil foam. Liquefaction processes are also provided that can include: filtering the biomass slurry to remove particulates; and cooling and depressurizing the filtered solution to form the bio-oil foam. Liquefaction systems are provided that can include: a heated biomass slurry reaction zone maintained above 300° C. and at least 2000 psig and in continuous fluid communication with a flash cooling/depressurization zone maintained below 150° C. and between about 125 psig and about atmospheric pressure. Liquefaction systems are also provided that can include a foam/liquid separation system. Liquefaction process intermediate compositions are provided that can include a bio-oil foam phase separated from an aqueous biomass solids solution. |
| FILED | Friday, June 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/738563 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/24 (20130101) B01J 2219/24 (20130101) B01J 2219/00051 (20130101) Producing, e.g by Pressing Raw Materials or by Extraction From Waste Materials, Refining or Preserving Fats, Fatty Substances, e.g Lanolin, Fatty Oils or Waxes; Essential Oils; Perfumes C11B 1/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C11B 3/008 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09388392 | Govindarajan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sridhar Govindarajan (Los Altos, California); Yougen Li (Pennington, New Jersey); Der-Ing Liao (Wilmington, Delaware); Daniel P. O'Keefe (Ridley Park, Pennsylvania); Jeremy Stephen Minshull (Los Altos, California); Steven Cary Rothman (Wilmington, Delaware); Alexander Vincent Tobias (Hockessin, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are polypeptides having ketol-acid reductoisomerase activity as well as microbial host cells comprising such polypeptides. Polypeptides provided herein may be used in biosynthetic pathways, including, but not limited to, isobutanol biosynthetic pathways. |
| FILED | Monday, September 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/853108 |
| 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 9/0006 (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 7/16 (20130101) C12P 7/42 (20130101) C12P 7/44 (20130101) C12P 13/02 (20130101) C12P 13/06 (20130101) C12P 13/08 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 101/01086 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/10 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/52 (20151101) |
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| US 09388398 | Thompson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Battelle Energy Allliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David N. Thompson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); David W. Reed (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Vicki S. Thompson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Jeffrey A. Lacey (Idaho Falls, Idaho); William A. Apel (Jackson, Wyoming) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention include methods of altering the enzymatic activity or solubility of an extremophilic enzyme or post-translationally modifying a protein of interest via using isolated or partially purified glycosyltransferases and/or post-translational modification proteins, extracts of cells comprising glycosyltransferases and/or post-translational modification proteins, and/or in cells comprising one or more glycosyltransferases and/or post-translational modification proteins. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 26, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/632770 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/1048 (20130101) C12N 9/1051 (20130101) C12N 9/1288 (20130101) C12N 9/2402 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 9/2437 (20130101) C12N 9/2477 (20130101) C12N 9/2482 (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) C12P 21/005 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 302/01004 (20130101) C12Y 302/01008 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/52 (20151101) |
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| US 09388419 | Lynch et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado); Cargill, Incorporated (Wayzata, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cargill, Incorporated (Wayzata, Minnesota); The Regents of the University of Colorado, a Body Corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. Lynch (Boulder, Colorado); Ryan T. Gill (Denver, Colorado); Tanya E. W. Lipscomb (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to metabolically engineered microorganism strains, such as bacterial strains, in which there is an increased utilization of malonyl-CoA for production of a chemical product, which includes 3-hydroxypropionic acid. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/916534 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 15/24 (20130101) A61L 15/24 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 33/08 (20130101) Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 47/12 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/0008 (20130101) C12N 15/63 (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 7/40 (20130101) C12P 7/42 (20130101) C12P 7/52 (20130101) |
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| US 09388477 | Sun et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yugang Sun (Naperville, Illinois); Yongxing Hu (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method comprises heating an aqueous solution of colloidal silver particles. A soluble noble metal halide salt is added to the aqueous solution which undergoes a redox reaction on a surface of the silver particles to form noble metal/silver halide SPs, noble metal halide/silver halide SPs or noble metal oxide/silver halide SPs on the surface of the silver particles. The heat is maintained for a predetermined time to consume the silver particles and release the noble metal/silver halide SPs, the noble metal halide/silver halide SPs or the noble metal oxide/silver halide SPs into the aqueous solution. The aqueous solution is cooled. The noble metal/silver halide SPs, the noble metal halide/silver halide SPs or noble metal oxide/silver halide SPs are separated from the aqueous solution. The method optionally includes adding a soluble halide salt to the aqueous solution. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/600908 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 23/38 (20130101) B01J 23/42 (20130101) B01J 23/44 (20130101) B01J 23/464 (20130101) B01J 23/468 (20130101) B01J 35/026 (20130101) B01J 35/0033 (20130101) Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 9/24 (20130101) Production and Refining of Metals; Pretreatment of Raw Materials C22B 11/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Alloys C22C 5/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09388478 | Nash |
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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) | Charles A. Nash (North Augusta, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods for recovering technetium from a highly alkaline solution. The highly alkaline solution can be a liquid waste solution from a nuclear waste processing system. Methods can include combining the solution with a reductant capable of reducing technetium at the high pH of the solution and adding to or forming in the solution an adsorbent capable of adsorbing the precipitated technetium at the high pH of the solution. |
| FILED | Friday, December 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/576362 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 15/00 (20130101) Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 99/00 (20130101) Production and Refining of Metals; Pretreatment of Raw Materials C22B 61/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09388499 | Martinson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Lemont, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alex B. Martinson (Naperville, Illinois); Shannon Riha (Park Ridge, Illinois); Peijun Guo (Evanston, Illinois); Jonathan D. Emery (Oak Park, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to provide an article of manufacture of iron oxide on indium tin oxide for solar energy conversion. An atomic layer epitaxy method is used to deposit an uncommon bixbytite-phase iron (III) oxide (β-Fe2O3) which is deposited at low temperatures to provide 99% phase pure β-Fe2O3 thin films on indium tin oxide. Subsequent annealing produces pure α-Fe2O3 with well-defined epitaxy via a topotactic transition. These highly crystalline films in the ultra thin film limit enable high efficiency photoelectrochemical chemical water splitting. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/288998 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 16/406 (20130101) C23C 16/45525 (20130101) Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Processes for the Production of Compounds or Non-metals; Apparatus Therefor C25B 1/003 (20130101) C25B 11/0405 (20130101) C25B 11/0452 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 25/02 (20130101) C30B 25/06 (20130101) C30B 25/10 (20130101) C30B 25/183 (20130101) C30B 29/16 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 9/2027 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/134 (20151101) Y02P 20/135 (20151101) |
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| US 09388667 | Orrego et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yamila Orrego (Houston, Texas); Todd A. Jankowski (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CHEVRON U.S.A. INC. (San Ramon, California); LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC. (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yamila Orrego (Houston, Texas); Todd A. Jankowski (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for heating a production fluid in a wellbore. The method can include heating, using a packer fluid, a working fluid flowing through a first medium disposed in a first section of the wellbore, where the first medium transfers heat from the packer fluid to the working fluid. The method can also include circulating the working fluid into a second section of the wellbore through a second medium, where the second medium transfers heat from the working fluid to the production fluid. The method can further include returning the working fluid to the first section of the wellbore through the first medium. |
| FILED | Friday, June 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/923770 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Earth Drilling, e.g Deep Drilling; Obtaining Oil, Gas, Water, Soluble or Meltable Materials or a Slurry of Minerals From Wells E21B 36/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09388704 | Lohaus et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrew S. Lohaus (Winter Park, Florida); Christian Xavier Campbell (Charlotte, North Carolina); Samuel R. Miller, Jr. (Port St. Lucie, Florida); John J. Marra (Winter Springs, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew S. Lohaus (Winter Park, Florida); Christian Xavier Campbell (Charlotte, North Carolina); Samuel R. Miller, Jr. (Port St. Lucie, Florida); John J. Marra (Winter Springs, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A vane array adapted to be coupled to a vane carrier within a gas turbine engine is provided comprising: a plurality of elongated airfoils comprising at least a first airfoil and a second airfoil located adjacent to one another; a U-ring; first connector structure for coupling a radially inner end section of each of the first and second airfoils to the U-ring; second connector structure for coupling a radially outer end section of each of the first and second airfoils to the vane carrier; a platform extending between the first and second airfoils; and platform connector structure for coupling the platform to one of the U-ring and the vane carrier. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/078599 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/143 (20130101) F01D 5/3053 (20130101) F01D 9/042 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F01D 11/008 (20130101) F01D 25/246 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2240/80 (20130101) |
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| US 09388738 | Wiebe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David J. Wiebe (Orlando, Florida); David A. Little (Chuluota, Florida); Richard C. Charron (West Palm Beach, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SIEMENS ENERGY, INC. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Wiebe (Orlando, Florida); David A. Little (Chuluota, Florida); Richard C. Charron (West Palm Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A casing for a can annular gas turbine engine, including: a compressed air section (40) spanning between a last row of compressor blades (26) and a first row of turbine blades (28), the compressed air section (40) having a plurality of openings (50) there through, wherein a single combustor/advanced duct assembly (64) extends through each opening (50); and one top hat (68) associated with each opening (50) configured to enclose the associated combustor/advanced duct assembly (64) and seal the opening (50). A volume enclosed by the compressed air section (40) is not greater than a volume of a frustum (54) defined at an upstream end (56) by an inner diameter of the casing at the last row of compressor blades (26) and at a downstream end (60) by an inner diameter of the casing at the first row of turbine blades (28). |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/252325 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 9/023 (20130101) Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 3/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Generating Combustion Products of High Pressure or High Velocity, e.g Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers F23R 3/02 (20130101) F23R 3/46 (20130101) |
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| US 09388817 | Wright et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven A. Wright (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Robert L. Fuller (Conifer, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven A. Wright (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Robert L. Fuller (Conifer, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Various technologies pertaining to causing fluid in a supercritical Brayton cycle power generation system to flow in a desired direction at cold startup of the system are described herein. A sensor is positioned at an inlet of a turbine, wherein the sensor is configured to output sensed temperatures of fluid at the inlet of the turbine. If the sensed temperature surpasses a predefined threshold, at least one operating parameter of the power generation system is altered. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/070910 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion Piston Engines; Combustion Engines in General F02B 39/10 (20130101) F02B 39/14 (20130101) Non-positive-displacement Pumps F04D 25/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F04D 29/063 (20130101) |
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| US 09389025 | Lowenstein |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrew Lowenstein (Hopewell, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | AIL RESEARCH INC. (Hopewell, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Lowenstein (Hopewell, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A heat and mass exchanger including a plurality of vertical plates that are spaced apart from one another by gaps so as to allow a first gas to flow between the plates. Each plate includes a front wall that defines a front surface of the plate, a back wall that defines a back surface of the plate, and separate, parallel channels disposed between the front and back walls. The parallel channels include a first set of parallel channels, a first liquid flowing within the first set of channels and over one of the front or back surfaces of the plate, the first liquid having a bulk composition comprising one or more constituents, the first gas having at least one constituent in common with the first liquid, and a second set of parallel channels, a first fluid flowing within the second set of channels. |
| FILED | Friday, June 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/125056 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat-exchange Apparatus, Not Provided for in Another Subclass, in Which the Heat-exchange Media Do Not Come into Direct Contact F28D 5/00 (20130101) F28D 9/0081 (20130101) F28D 21/0015 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Details of Heat-exchange and Heat-transfer Apparatus, of General Application F28F 13/06 (20130101) F28F 21/065 (20130101) |
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| US 09389058 | Barkman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William E. Barkman (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Thomas A. Dow (Raleigh, North Carolina); Kenneth P. Garrard (Raleigh, North Carolina); Zachary Marston (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William E. Barkman (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Thomas A. Dow (Raleigh, North Carolina); Kenneth P. Garrard (Raleigh, North Carolina); Zachary Marston (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for performing on-machine measurements and automatic part alignment, including: a measurement component operable for determining the position of a part on a machine; and an actuation component operable for adjusting the position of the part by contacting the part with a predetermined force responsive to the determined position of the part. The measurement component consists of a transducer. The actuation component consists of a linear actuator. Optionally, the measurement component and the actuation component consist of a single linear actuator operable for contacting the part with a first lighter force for determining the position of the part and with a second harder force for adjusting the position of the part. The actuation component is utilized in a substantially horizontal configuration and the effects of gravitational drop of the part are accounted for in the force applied and the timing of the contact. |
| FILED | Monday, January 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/746201 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 5/00 (20130101) G01B 5/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09389180 | Chilese et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | KLA-Tencor Corporation (Milpitas, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | KLA-Tencor Corporation (Milpitas, California); Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis C. Chilese (San Ramon, California); John R. Torczynski (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Rudy Garcia (Union City, California); Leonard E. Klebanoff (Dublin, California); Gildardo R. Delgado (Livermore, California); Daniel J. Rader (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Anthony S. Geller (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Michail A. Gallis (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for use with extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light comprising A) a duct having a first end opening, a second end opening and an intermediate opening intermediate the first end opening the second end opening, B) an optical component disposed to receive EUV light from the second end opening or to send light through the second end opening, and C) a source of low pressure gas at a first pressure to flow through the duct, the gas having a high transmission of EUV light, fluidly coupled to the intermediate opening. In addition to or rather than gas flow the apparatus may have A) a low pressure gas with a heat control unit thermally coupled to at least one of the duct and the optical component and/or B) a voltage device to generate voltage between a first portion and a second portion of the duet with a grounded insulative portion therebetween. |
| FILED | Monday, February 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/176587 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/59 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/70933 (20130101) |
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| US 09389231 | Edwards et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thayne L. Edwards (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jason C. Harper (Rio Rancho, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention, in part, relates to an apparatus having a single-use, normally-closed fluidic valve that is initially maintained in the closed position by a valve element bonded to an adhesive coating. The valve is opened using a magnetic force. The valve element includes a magnetic material or metal. In some examples, the valve is opened by bringing a magnet in proximity to the valve element to provide a magnetic force that delaminates the valve element from the adhesive coating. In particular, the apparatus can be useful for on-chip amplification and/or detection of various targets, including biological targets and any amplifiable targets. Such apparatuses and methods are useful for in-field or real-time detection of targets, especially in limited resource settings. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/157335 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — 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 3/502738 (20130101) B01L 2300/0663 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0887 (20130101) B01L 2400/0406 (20130101) B01L 2400/0633 (20130101) Valves; Taps; Cocks; Actuating-floats; Devices for Venting or Aerating F16K 31/086 (20130101) F16K 99/003 (20130101) F16K 99/0046 (20130101) F16K 2099/0084 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56911 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 137/87917 (20150401) |
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| US 09389311 | Moya et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mary M. Moya (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mark W. Koch (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments presented herein relate to identifying one or more edges in a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image comprising a plurality of superpixels. Superpixels sharing an edge (or boundary) can be identified and one or more properties of the shared superpixels can be compared to determine whether the superpixels form the same or two different features. Where the superpixels form the same feature the edge is identified as an internal edge. Where the superpixels form two different features, the edge is identified as an external edge. Based upon classification of the superpixels, the external edge can be further determined to form part of a roof, wall, etc. The superpixels can be formed from a speckle-reduced SAR image product formed from a registered stack of SAR images, which is further segmented into a plurality of superpixels. The edge identification process is applied to the SAR image comprising the superpixels and edges. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 29, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/927066 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 13/90 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/6202 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0024 (20130101) G06T 11/60 (20130101) |
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| US 09389613 | Czlapinski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC (Lisle, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC (Lisle, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig Robert Czlapinski (Westchester, Illinois); Ilya Sagalovich (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Turning radius of a tractor-trailer is calculated by certain dimensional relationships in the tractor-trailer and rotational velocities of axle wheel groups. |
| FILED | Friday, November 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/541399 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Motor Vehicles; Trailers B62D 13/00 (20130101) B62D 53/06 (20130101) B62D 53/08 (20130101) Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 1/0212 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G05D 2201/0213 (20130101) |
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| US 09390054 | Davis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kristan D. Davis (Rochester, Minnesota); Daniel A. Faraj (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | In a parallel computer, a largest logical plane from a plurality of logical planes formed of compute nodes of a subcommunicator may be identified by: identifying, by each compute node of the subcommunicator, all logical planes that include the compute node; calculating, by each compute node for each identified logical plane that includes the compute node, an area of the identified logical plane; initiating, by a root node of the subcommunicator, a gather operation; receiving, by the root node from each compute node of the subcommunicator, each node's calculated areas as contribution data to the gather operation; and identifying, by the root node in dependence upon the received calculated areas, a logical plane of the subcommunicator having the greatest area. |
| FILED | Monday, October 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/053171 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 15/17318 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09390901 | Kertesz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vilmos Kertesz (Knoxville, Tennessee); Gary J. Van Berkel (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for sampling a surface includes a surface sampling probe comprising a solvent liquid supply conduit and a distal end, and a sample collector for suspending a sample collection liquid adjacent to the distal end of the probe. A first electrode provides a first voltage to solvent liquid at the distal end of the probe. The first voltage produces a field sufficient to generate electrospray plume at the distal end of the probe. A second electrode provides a second voltage and is positioned to produce a plume-directing field sufficient to direct the electrospray droplets and ions to the suspended sample collection liquid. The second voltage is less than the first voltage in absolute value. A voltage supply system supplies the voltages to the first electrode and the second electrode. The first electrode can apply the first voltage directly to the solvent liquid. A method for sampling for a surface is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/529307 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/04 (20130101) H01J 49/26 (20130101) H01J 49/167 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 49/0431 (20130101) |
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| US 09391220 | Verma et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Naveen Verma (Princeton, New Jersey); Branko Glisic (Princeton, New Jersey); James Sturm (Princeton, New Jersey); Sigurd Wagner (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Naveen Verma (Princeton, New Jersey); Branko Glisic (Princeton, New Jersey); James Sturm (Princeton, New Jersey); Sigurd Wagner (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for interfacing large-area electronics with integrated circuit devices is provided. The system may be implemented in an electronic device including a large area electronic (LAE) device disposed on a substrate. An integrated circuit IC is disposed on the substrate. A non-contact interface is disposed on the substrate and coupled between the LAE device and the IC. The non-contact interface is configured to provide at least one of a data acquisition path or control path between the LAE device and the IC. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/367856 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/03926 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/50 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49124 (20150115) |
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| US 09391223 | Langmaid et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph A Langmaid (Caro, Michigan); James R Keenihan (Midland, Michigan); Michael E Mills (Midland, Michigan); Leonardo C Lopez (Midland, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Midland, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph A Langmaid (Caro, Michigan); James R Keenihan (Midland, Michigan); Michael E Mills (Midland, Michigan); Leonardo C Lopez (Midland, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is premised upon an assembly including at least a photovoltaic sheathing element capable of being affixed on a building structure, the sheathing element including at least: a photovoltaic cell assembly, a body portion attached to one or more portions of the photovoltaic cell assembly; at least a first and a second connector assembly disposed on opposing sides of the sheathing element and capable of directly or indirectly electrically connecting the photovoltaic cell assembly to at least two adjoining devices that are affixed to the building structure and wherein at least one of the connector assemblies includes a flexible portion; one or more connector pockets disposed in the body portion the pockets capable of receiving at least a portion of the connector assembly. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/004444 |
| ART UNIT | 1758 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/05 (20130101) H01L 31/18 (20130101) H01L 31/0483 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Generation of Electric Power by Conversion of Infra-red Radiation, Visible Light or Ultraviolet Light, e.g Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules H02S 20/25 (20141201) H02S 40/36 (20141201) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 10/12 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/50 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49355 (20150115) |
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| US 09391225 | Davids et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Davids (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Douglas Chandler Trotter (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Christopher DeRose (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Avalanche photodiodes (APDs) and single photon avalanche detectors (SPADs) are provided with a lateral multiplication region that provides improved amplification through increased impact ionization. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/915369 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/02 (20130101) G02B 6/10 (20130101) G02B 6/24 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/107 (20130101) H01L 31/1075 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/02027 (20130101) |
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| US 09391319 | Shevchenko et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elena Shevchenko (Riverside, Illinois); Tijana Rajh (Naperville, Illinois); Christopher S. Johnson (Lemont, Illinois); Bonil Koo (Walnut Creek, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A cathode comprises, in its discharged state, a layer of hollow γ-Fe2O3 nanoparticles disposed between two layers of carbon nanotubes, and preferably including a metallic current collector in contact with one of the layers of carbon nanotubes. Individual particles of the hollow γ-Fe2O3 nanoparticles comprise a crystalline shell of γ-Fe2O3 including cation vacancies within the crystal structure of the shell (i.e., iron vacancies of anywhere between 3% to 90%, and preferably 44 to 77% of available octahedral iron sites). Sodium ions are intercalated within at least some of the cation vacancies within the crystalline shell of the hollow γ-Fe2O3 nanoparticles. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/133137 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/364 (20130101) H01M 4/366 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/525 (20130101) H01M 4/587 (20130101) H01M 10/054 (20130101) H01M 10/0568 (20130101) H01M 10/0569 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) |
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| US 09391345 | Dong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jian Dong (Sun Prairie, Wisconsin); Zhengcheng Zhang (Naperville, Illinois); Khalil Amine (Oak Brook, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian Dong (Sun Prairie, Wisconsin); Zhengcheng Zhang (Naperville, Illinois); Khalil Amine (Oak Brook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A electrolyte for a lithium battery includes a silane/siloxane compound represented by SiR4−x−yR′xR″y, by Formula II, or Formula III: where each R is individually an alkenyl, alkynyl, alk(poly)enyl, alk(poly)ynyl, aryl; each R′ is represented by; each R″ is represented by Formula I-B; R1 is an organic spacer; R2 is a bond or an organic spacer; R3 is alkyl or aryl; k is 1-15; m is 1-15; n is 1 or 2; p is 1-3; x′ is 1-2; and y′ is 0-2. |
| FILED | Monday, September 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/245092 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — 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 77/14 (20130101) C08G 77/045 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 83/04 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 9/038 (20130101) H01G 11/58 (20130101) H01G 11/64 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 2/1653 (20130101) H01M 4/133 (20130101) H01M 4/134 (20130101) H01M 6/14 (20130101) H01M 6/164 (20130101) H01M 6/168 (20130101) H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 10/056 (20130101) H01M 10/0565 (20130101) H01M 10/0567 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 10/0569 (20130101) H01M 2300/0017 (20130101) H01M 2300/0025 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/13 (20130101) Y02E 60/122 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/7011 (20130101) Y02T 10/7022 (20130101) |
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| US 09391420 | Wanke |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael C. Wanke (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Rather than down-convert optical frequencies, a QCL laser system directly generates a THz frequency comb in a compact monolithically integrated chip that can be locked to an absolute frequency without the need of a frequency-comb synthesizer. The monolithic, absolute frequency comb can provide a THz frequency reference and tool for high-resolution broad band spectroscopy. |
| FILED | Monday, September 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/859706 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/109 (20130101) H01S 3/08027 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 3/08036 (20130101) H01S 5/026 (20130101) H01S 5/0623 (20130101) H01S 5/3401 (20130101) |
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| US 09391557 | Okandan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Murat Okandan (Edgewood, New Mexico); Gregory N. Nielson (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Solar tracking systems, as well as methods of using such solar tracking systems, are disclosed. More particularly, embodiments of the solar tracking systems include lateral supports horizontally positioned between uprights to support photovoltaic modules. The lateral supports may be raised and lowered along the uprights or translated to cause the photovoltaic modules to track the moving sun. |
| FILED | Friday, October 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/063847 |
| ART UNIT | 1758 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Producing or Use of Heat Not Otherwise Provided For F24J 2/523 (20130101) F24J 2/541 (20130101) F24J 2/5241 (20130101) F24J 2002/5444 (20130101) F24J 2002/5458 (20130101) Generation of Electric Power by Conversion of Infra-red Radiation, Visible Light or Ultraviolet Light, e.g Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules H02S 20/10 (20141201) Original (OR) Class H02S 20/32 (20141201) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/47 (20130101) |
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| US 09387348 | Luan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shuang Luan (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Lijun Ma (Foster City, California); Zhe Chen (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shuang Luan (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Lijun Ma (Foster City, California); Zhe Chen (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Photon-based radiosurgery is widely used for treating local and regional tumors. The key to improving the quality of radiosurgery is to increase the dose falloff rate from high dose regions inside the tumor to low dose regions of nearby healthy tissues and structures. Dynamic photon painting (DPP) further increases dose falloff rate by treating a target by moving a beam source along a dynamic trajectory, where the speed, direction and even dose rate of the beam source change constantly during irradiation. DPP creates dose gradient that rivals proton Bragg Peak and outperforms Gamma Knife® radiosurgery. |
| FILED | Monday, June 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/293621 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 5/10 (20130101) A61N 5/1065 (20130101) A61N 5/1071 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 5/1081 (20130101) A61N 2005/1074 (20130101) |
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| US 09388041 | Fuentes-Fernandez et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas); Texas Micropower, Inc. (Dallas, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas); Texas Micropower Inc. (Dallas, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erika Fuentes-Fernandez (Richardson, Texas); Pradeep Shah (Dallas, Texas); Wardia Mechtaly-Debray (Hsinchu County, Taiwan); Bruce E. Gnade (Lewisville, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The claimed invention is directed to integrated energy-harvesting piezoelectric cantilevers. The cantilevers are fabricated using sol-gel processing using a sacrificial poly-Si seeding layer. Improvements in film microstructure and electrical properties are realized by introducing a poly-Si seeding layer and by optimizing the poling process. |
| FILED | Monday, December 02, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/094590 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00388 (20130101) B81C 1/00539 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 41/332 (20130101) H01L 41/1136 (20130101) Electric Machines Not Otherwise Provided for H02N 2/181 (20130101) H02N 2/186 (20130101) |
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| US 09388042 | Tse et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen D. Tse (Warren, New Jersey); Nasir K. Memon (Piscataway, New Jersey); Bernard H. Kear (Whitehouse Station, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen D. Tse (Warren, New Jersey); Nasir K. Memon (Piscataway, New Jersey); Bernard H. Kear (Whitehouse Station, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods of use thereof for the production of carbon-based and other nanostructures, as well as fuels and reformed products, are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/984397 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 71/022 (20130101) Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 7/56 (20130101) Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 9/30 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 3/22 (20130101) C01B 3/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C01B 21/0605 (20130101) C01B 31/36 (20130101) C01B 31/0293 (20130101) Burners F23D 14/22 (20130101) F23D 14/32 (20130101) F23D 14/56 (20130101) F23D 14/58 (20130101) F23D 14/78 (20130101) F23D 14/84 (20130101) F23D 91/02 (20150701) F23D 2900/00001 (20130101) F23D 2900/21007 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 20/344 (20130101) |
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| US 09388047 | Busnaina et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ahmed Busnaina (Ashland, Massachusetts); Nicol E. McGruer (Dover, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ahmed Busnaina (Ashland, Massachusetts); Nicol E. McGruer (Dover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and tools for directed assembly of nanoelements across a large area using a nanosubstrate. The nanosubstrate has a substrate layer, an adhesive layer, a conductive layer, and an insulating layer that is interrupted by one or more nanotrenches or nanowells having a width of at least 20 nm. The nanosubstrate allows the rapid assembly of linear assemblies and arrays of single walled carbon nanotubes and nanoparticles by DC electrophoresis. The density of nanoelements assembled can be controlled by varying the voltage and trench size. Functionalized nanoparticles can be assembled into arrays useful, e.g., as biosensors. |
| FILED | Friday, December 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/085883 |
| ART UNIT | 1783 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Microstructural Devices or Systems, e.g Micromechanical Devices B81B 2201/0214 (20130101) Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00031 (20130101) B81C 1/00206 (20130101) Nanostructures Formed by Manipulation of Individual Atoms, Molecules, or Limited Collections of Atoms or Molecules as Discrete Units; Manufacture or Treatment Thereof B82B 3/00 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0253 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C01B 2202/34 (20130101) C01B 2202/36 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2462 (20150115) Y10T 428/2918 (20150115) |
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| US 09388048 | Zhou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chongwu Zhou (Arcadia, California); Lewis Gomez De Arco (Los Angeles, California); Yi Zhang (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chongwu Zhou (Arcadia, California); Lewis Gomez De Arco (Los Angeles, California); Yi Zhang (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, materials and apparatus are described for synthesizing a monolayer or few-layers of graphene. Depositing the graphene can include, in some implementations, flowing hydrogen and carbon feedstock over a catalytic layer formed on a substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/576234 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Nanostructures Formed by Manipulation of Individual Atoms, Molecules, or Limited Collections of Atoms or Molecules as Discrete Units; Manufacture or Treatment Thereof B82B 3/0009 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09388131 | Burke 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) | Martin D. Burke (Champaign, Illinois); Junqi Li (Champaign, Illinois); Eric P. Gillis (Wallingford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods for making and using chiral, non-racemic protected organoboronic acids, including pinene-derived iminodiacetic acid (PIDA) boronates, to direct and enable stereoselective synthesis of organic molecules. Also provided are methods for purifying PIDA boronates from solution. Also provided are methods for deprotection of boronic acids from their PIDA ligands. The purification and deprotection methods may be used in conjunction with methods for coupling or otherwise reacting boronic acids. Iterative cycles of deprotection, coupling, and purification can be performed to synthesize chiral, non-racemic compounds. The methods are suitable for use in an automated chemical synthesis process. Also provided is an automated small molecule synthesizer apparatus for performing automated stereoselective synthesis of chiral, non-racemic small molecules using iterative cycles of deprotection, coupling, and purification. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/692088 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 227/32 (20130101) C07C 227/32 (20130101) C07C 229/16 (20130101) C07C 229/24 (20130101) C07C 2101/08 (20130101) C07C 2101/14 (20130101) C07C 2102/42 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/025 (20130101) |
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| US 09388268 | Gopalan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Padma Gopalan (Madison, Wisconsin); Eungnak Han (Hillsboro, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Padma Gopalan (Madison, Wisconsin); Eungnak Han (Hillsboro, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are novel polymer brushes that may be used in underlying buffer or imaging layers for block copolymer lithography. The novel polymer brushes include X-A-b-B and X-A-b-C block copolymer brushes, with X an anchoring group, the A block a lithographically sensitive polymer, and the C block a random copolymer. According to various embodiments, polymer block brushes for neutral and preferential layers are provided; the neutral layers non-preferential to the overlying block copolymer and the preferential layers preferential to a block of the overlying block copolymer. Also provided are novel methods of patterning polymer block brush layers as well as polymer block brush buffer and imaging layers that are directly patternable by e-beam, deep UV, extreme UV, X-ray or other lithographic methods. |
| FILED | Monday, October 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/270044 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 293/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08F 2438/01 (20130101) Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/26 (20130101) G03F 7/165 (20130101) |
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| US 09388434 | San et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ka-Yiu San (Houston, Texas); Songi Han (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to an engineered bacteria for producing short chain fatty acid with the overexpression of a long chain (>C12) acyl-ACP thioesterases (long-TE) and a short chain (≦C12) acyl-ACP thioesterases (short-TE). |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/161456 |
| 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 9/16 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/6409 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Enzymes C12Y 301/02014 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/52 (20151101) |
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| US 09388480 | Xia et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Younan Xia (St. Louis, Missouri); Sang-Hyuk Im (Pohang-Shi, South Korea); Yugang Sun (Naperville, Illinois); Yun Tack Lee (Seattle, Washington); Benjamin Wiley (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for producing silver nanostructures with improved dimensional control, yield, purity, monodispersity, and scale of synthesis. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/788519 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 1/0025 (20130101) B22F 9/24 (20130101) B22F 2001/0037 (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 11/04 (20130101) Alloys C22C 5/02 (20130101) C22C 5/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 7/00 (20130101) C30B 29/02 (20130101) C30B 29/60 (20130101) |
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| US 09388513 | Strachan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Douglas Robert Strachan (Lexington, Kentucky); David Patrick Hunley (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas Robert Strachan (Lexington, Kentucky); David Patrick Hunley (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermal and electrical conducting apparatus includes a few-layer graphene film having a thickness D where D≦1.5 nm and a plurality of carbon nanotubes crystallographically aligned with the few-layer graphene film. |
| FILED | Friday, June 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/538326 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0226 (20130101) Chemical Features in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons; Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture of Carbon Filaments D01F 9/127 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09389244 | Goeckeritz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Applied Nanostructures, Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Nanostructures, Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeremy J. Goeckeritz (San Jose, California); Gary D. Aden (Redwood City, California); Ami Chand (Milpitas, California); Josiah F. Willard (Santa Clara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A scanning probe assembly having a nanometer sensor element defined at a tip apex and its method of fabrication using micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) processing techniques. The assembly comprises a probe body, a cantilever extending outward, and a hollow tip at the end of the cantilever. A first conductive material is disposed on the hollow tip, followed by a dielectric layer thus embedding the conductive layer. A nanometer hole is milled through the tip, first conductor and dielectric materials. A metal sensor element is deposited by means of electrochemical deposition in the through-hole. A second conductor is deposited on a lower layer. The first and second conductors form electrical connections to the sensor element in the tip. The intra-tip metal, in combination with other layers, may form a thermocouple, thermistor, Schottky diode, ultramicroelectrode, or Hall Effect sensor, and used as a precursor to grow spikes such a nanotubes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/271344 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 35/00 (20130101) Scanning-probe Techniques or Apparatus; Applications of Scanning-probe Techniques, e.g Scanning Probe Microscopy [SPM] G01Q 60/58 (20130101) G01Q 70/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01Q 70/16 (20130101) |
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| US 09389266 | Tatcho et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Passinam Tatcho (Tallahassee, Florida); Mischa Steurer (Crawfordville, Florida); Hui Li (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a system to ensure that distributed resources of a power distribution system remain connected to the circuitry of the power distribution system when a fault occurs at a distributed resource node to assist in identifying the location of the fault by continuing to inject current from the distributed resources into the distribution system, wherein at least one of the distributed resources is a microturbine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/962666 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 31/00 (20130101) G01R 31/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 31/40 (20130101) G01R 31/088 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 1/00 (20130101) H02J 2001/002 (20130101) H02J 2001/004 (20130101) H02J 2001/006 (20130101) H02J 2001/008 (20130101) |
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| US 09389267 | Tatcho et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Passinam Tatcho (Tallahassee, Florida); Mischa Steurer (Crawfordville, Florida); Hui Li (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a system to ensure that distributed resources of a power distribution system remain connected to the circuitry of the power distribution system when a fault occurs at a distributed resource node to assist in identifying the location of the fault by continuing to inject current from the distributed resources into the distribution system, wherein at least one of the distributed resources is a wind turbine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/962633 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 31/00 (20130101) G01R 31/40 (20130101) G01R 31/086 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 31/088 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 1/00 (20130101) H02J 2001/002 (20130101) H02J 2001/004 (20130101) H02J 2001/006 (20130101) H02J 2001/008 (20130101) |
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| US 09389268 | Tatcho et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Passinam Tatcho (Tallahassee, Florida); Mischa Steurer (Crawfordville, Florida); Hui Li (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a system to ensure that distributed resources of a power distribution system remain connected to the circuitry of the power distribution system when a fault occurs at a distributed resource node to assist in identifying the location of the fault by continuing to inject current from the distributed resources into the distribution system, wherein at least one of the distributed resources is a DC voltage distributed resource comprising a controllable voltage source converter. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/962792 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 31/00 (20130101) G01R 31/40 (20130101) G01R 31/086 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 31/088 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 1/00 (20130101) H02J 2001/002 (20130101) H02J 2001/004 (20130101) H02J 2001/006 (20130101) H02J 2001/008 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09389269 | Tatcho et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Passinam Tatcho (Tallahassee, Florida); Mischa Steurer (Crawfordville, Florida); Hui Li (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a system to ensure that distributed resources of a power distribution system remain connected to the circuitry of the power distribution system when a fault occurs at a distributed resource node to assist in identifying the location of the fault by continuing to inject a direct current (DC) signal from the controllable voltage source converter of at least one DC voltage distributed resource into the distribution system and modulating an alternating current (AC) signal on top of the direct current (DC) signal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/962810 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 31/00 (20130101) G01R 31/40 (20130101) G01R 31/086 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 31/088 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 1/00 (20130101) H02J 2001/002 (20130101) H02J 2001/004 (20130101) H02J 2001/006 (20130101) H02J 2001/008 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09389270 | Tatcho et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Passinam Tatcho (Tallahassee, Florida); Mischa Steurer (Crawfordville, Florida); Hui Li (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method to ensure that distributed resources of a power distribution system remain connected to the circuitry of the power distribution system when a fault occurs at a distributed resource node to assist in identifying the location of the fault by continuing to inject current from the distributed resources into the distribution system, wherein at least one of the distributed resource comprises a controllable voltage source converter. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/962820 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 31/00 (20130101) G01R 31/40 (20130101) G01R 31/086 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 31/088 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 1/00 (20130101) H02J 2001/002 (20130101) H02J 2001/004 (20130101) H02J 2001/006 (20130101) H02J 2001/008 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09389342 | Jiang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongrui Jiang (Madison, Wisconsin); Chenhui Li (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A variable-focus lens system that includes a lens assembly having an electrowetting liquid lens that can be wrapped onto a curved surface such as a lens without distorting a chamber holding the electrowetting liquid lens is provided. The lens assembly includes a container body having a cup, in which the chamber is defined, and supports that extend in different directions from the cup. A flexible base substrate is arranged under the container body. Both the container body and flexible base substrate may be made from a soft polymer material and made using low-temperature fabrication processes. The flexible base substrate may be thinner than the container body and provide a relatively large surface area that engages the curved surface such that the stresses associated with wrapping a micro lens assembly onto the curved surface may be primarily absorbed by the flexible base substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/788657 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 3/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 26/005 (20130101) Spectacles; Sunglasses or Goggles Insofar as They Have the Same Features as Spectacles; Contact Lenses G02C 7/04 (20130101) G02C 7/041 (20130101) G02C 7/085 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09389685 | Pathirage et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Indika Upashantha Pathirage (Tampa, Florida); Redwan Alqasemi (Wesley Chapel, Florida); Rajiv Dubey (Tampa, Florida); Karan Khokar (Tampa, Florida); Elijah Anderson Klay (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tamp, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Indika Upashantha Pathirage (Tampa, Florida); Redwan Alqasemi (Wesley Chapel, Florida); Rajiv Dubey (Tampa, Florida); Karan Khokar (Tampa, Florida); Elijah Anderson Klay (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, assisting a user in performing an action in relation to an object of interest includes capturing an image of an environment, identifying boundaries of objects within the image, adaptively dividing the image into selectable cells so that edges of the cells generally aligning with boundaries of objects within the image, and detecting selection of one of the cells by the user, the cell encompassing at least part of the object of interest upon which the user wishes an action to be performed. |
| FILED | Monday, July 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/324812 |
| ART UNIT | 2699 — Search and Capture Special Detail |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/015 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0081 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/225 (20130101) H04N 13/0203 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09389842 | Gazzillo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul Gazzillo (Titusville, New Jersey); Robert Grimm (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Gazzillo (Titusville, New Jersey); Robert Grimm (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer readable media, for generating a plurality of tokens from one or more source files. The one or more source files include source code in a first programming language. The source code includes one or more static conditionals that include a conditional expression and branch code that is operative when the conditional expression is true. Various configurations are possible based upon the conditionals. A first static conditional that includes one or more nested static conditionals within the branch code associated with the first static conditional is determined. Each of the one or more nested static conditionals is hoisted to a beginning of the branch code associated with the first static conditional. Each innermost branch code does not contain a static conditional, and each possible configuration is preserved. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 26, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/316159 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 8/31 (20130101) G06F 8/423 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 8/425 (20130101) |
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| US 09390163 | Paxia et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Salvatore Paxia (New York, New York); Bhubaneswar Mishra (Great Neck, New York); Yi Zhou (Shanghai, China PRC) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Salvatore Paxia (New York, New York); Bhubaneswar Mishra (Great Neck, New York); Yi Zhou (Shanghai, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided which can identify and provide local variations in regions of similarity among two or more data sets. These data sets may be represented as sequences such as, e.g., genomic sequences or words in a text. The local variations in similarity levels can be provided by selecting an initial prior distribution relating the data sets, organizing the first data set into windows and the remaining data sets into blocks, using the priors to sample one or more sets of words from the first data set, computing a similarity curve from exact and inexact matches for these words and, if convergence of results is not achieved, computing a new set of priors and repeating the sampling and computation of similarity curves. The computations can be performed using an amount of computational time that is linearly proportional to the size of the data sets. |
| FILED | Monday, April 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/410692 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30675 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 19/12 (20130101) G06F 19/22 (20130101) G06F 19/24 (20130101) G06F 19/26 (20130101) |
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| US 09390260 | Tan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | LEHIGH UNIVERSITY (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lehigh University (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gang Tan (Center Valley, Pennsylvania); Ben Niu (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the invention provides a method of controlling execution of a computer program. The method comprises the following runtime steps: parsing code to identify one or more indirect branches; creating a branch ID data structure that maps an indirect branch location to a branch ID, which is the indirect branch's equivalence class ID; creating a target ID data structure that maps a code address to a target ID, which is an equivalence class ID to which the address belongs; and prior to execution of an indirect branch including a return instruction located at an address: obtaining the branch ID associated with the return address from the branch ID data structure; obtaining the target ID associated with an actual return address for the indirect branch from the target ID data structure; and comparing the branch ID and the target ID. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 19, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/829963 |
| ART UNIT | 2197 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 8/427 (20130101) G06F 9/45516 (20130101) G06F 21/53 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 2221/033 (20130101) |
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| US 09390695 | Cartwright et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark B. Cartwright (Chicago, Illinois); Bryan A Pardo (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods, and apparatus for equalization preference learning are provided. An example method includes receiving an audio input with respect to a target sound. The example method includes extracting one or more features from the audio input to provide one or more examples for rating based on the audio input. The example method includes generating a query based on the audio input and the one or more rated examples. The example method includes providing one or more synthesizer suggestion results identified in a search based on the query. The example method includes evaluating the one or more results with respect to the target sound. When one of the results matches the target sound, the example method includes outputting synthesizer parameters associated with the result. When none of the results matches the target sound, the example method includes refining the query for a second search based on feedback with respect to the one or more results. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 27, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/924294 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/3053 (20130101) G06F 17/30743 (20130101) Electrophonic Musical Instruments G10H 1/0008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G10H 1/365 (20130101) G10H 1/366 (20130101) G10H 2210/105 (20130101) G10H 2220/106 (20130101) G10H 2240/145 (20130101) G10H 2250/615 (20130101) |
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| US 09390828 | Strachan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas Robert Strachan (Lexington, Kentucky); David Patrick Hunley (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermal and electrical conducting apparatus includes a few-layer graphene film having a thickness D where D≦1.5 nm and a plurality of carbon nanotubes crystallographically aligned with the few-layer graphene film. |
| FILED | Monday, October 01, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/632187 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0226 (20130101) C01B 31/0469 (20130101) C01B 2202/08 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09390936 | Henry et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California); Stephanie Tombrello (Altadena, California) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. Henry (Altadena, California); Andrew P. Homyk (South Pasadena, California); Axel Scherer (Barnard, Vermont); Thomas A. Tombrello (Late of Altadena, California); Sameer Walavalkar (Studio City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for fabricating of high aspect ratio probes and deforming micropillars and nanopillars are described. Use of polymers in deforming nanopillars and micropillars is also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/527039 |
| ART UNIT | 1798 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microstructural Devices or Systems, e.g Micromechanical Devices B81B 2203/0361 (20130101) B81B 2207/056 (20130101) Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00111 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/405 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/3065 (20130101) H01L 21/3081 (20130101) H01L 21/3086 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/30655 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/25375 (20150115) |
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| US 09391287 | Huang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jinsong Huang (Lincoln, Nebraska); Qingfeng Dong (Lincoln, Nebraska); Rui Dong (Lincoln, Nebraska); Yuchuan Sao (Lincoln, Nebraska); Cheng Bi (Lincoln, Nebraska); Qi Wang (Lincoln, Nebraska); Zhengguo Xiao (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor device and a method for fabrication of the semiconductor device are described that include a perovskite layer formed using a solution process with lead iodine and methylammonium halide. In an implementation, a semiconductor device that employs example techniques in accordance with the present disclosure includes a cathode layer; an anode layer; and an active layer disposed between the cathode layer and the anode layer, where the active layer includes a perovskite layer including an interdiffused and annealed lead iodine (PbI2) film and methylammonium halide (CH3NH3X) film. In implementations, a process for fabricating a continuous-perovskite semiconductor device that employs example techniques in accordance with the present disclosure includes spinning a PbI2 layer onto an ITO-covered glass; spinning an MAI layer onto the PbI2 layer; annealing the PbI2 layer and the MAI layer; spinning a PCBM layer onto a resulting perovskite layer; and depositing an Al layer. |
| FILED | Friday, December 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/576878 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/005 (20130101) H01L 51/0037 (20130101) H01L 51/442 (20130101) H01L 51/4213 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09391777 | Mahadevan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER INCORPORATED (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Priya Mahadevan (Sunnyvale, California); Ersin Uzun (Campbell, California); Spencer Sevilla (Saratoga, California); Jose J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves (San Mateo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A key-resolution service (KRS) can facilitate a client device in verifying that Content Objects are signed by a trusted entity. During operation, the KRS service can receive an Interest that includes a KRS query for a content name that is to be resolved. The KRS service obtains the content name from the Interest, and obtains a KRS record that includes security information for the content name or a prefix of the content name. The KRS service then returns a Content Object whose payload includes the KRS record to satisfy the first Interest. The client device can query the KRS service to obtain a trusted key associated with at least a name prefix of the Content Object, and if necessary, can disseminate Interests to obtain keys that complete a chain of trust between the trusted key and a key that is used to authenticate the Content Object. |
| FILED | Friday, August 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/461258 |
| ART UNIT | 2435 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/602 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/30 (20130101) H04L 9/321 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 9/3263 (20130101) H04L 63/06 (20130101) H04L 63/0823 (20130101) |
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| US 09392017 | Cui et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ang Cui (New York, New York); Salvatore J. Stolfo (Ridgewood, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and media for inhibiting attacks on embedded devices are provided, in some embodiments, a system for inhibiting on embedded devices is provided, the system comprises a processor that is configured to: identify an embedded device that is configured to provide one or more services to one or more digital processing devices within a communications network; receive a first firmware associated with the embedded device; generate a second firmware that is functionally equivalent to the first firmware by: determining unused code within the first firmware; removing the unused code within the second firmware; and restructuring remaining code portions of the first firmware into memory positions within the second firmware; and inject the second firmware into the embedded device. |
| FILED | Friday, February 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/379166 |
| ART UNIT | 2496 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/64 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/20 (20130101) H04L 63/145 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Physical Sciences, Inc. (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Physical Sciences, Inc. (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Prakash B. Joshi (Andover, Massachusetts); Lawrence G. Piper (Reading, Massachusetts); David B. Oakes (Reading, Massachusetts); Justin L. Sabourin (Somerville, Massachusetts); Adam J. Hicks (Melrose, Massachusetts); B. David Green (Methuen, Massachusetts); Anait Tsinberg (Somerville, Massachusetts); Allan Dokhan (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A catalyst free method of igniting an ionic liquid is provided. The method can include mixing a liquid hypergol with a HAN-based ionic liquid to ignite the HAN-based ionic liquid in the absence of a catalyst. The HAN-based ionic liquid and the liquid hypergol can be injected into a combustion chamber. The HAN-based ionic liquid and the liquid hypergol can impinge upon a stagnation plate positioned at top portion of the combustion chamber. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/649803 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Detonating or Priming Devices; Fuses; Chemical Lighters; Pyrophoric Compositions C06C 9/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Means for Generating Smoke or Mist; Gas-attack Compositions; Generation of Gas for Blasting or Propulsion C06D 5/08 (20130101) Jet-propulsion Plants F02K 9/68 (20130101) F02K 9/95 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09388909 | Corallo |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hamilton Sundstrand Space Systems International, Inc. (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND SPACE SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL, INC. (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger Corallo (West Suffield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A dual check valve includes, a housing having a cavity fluidically connecting three ports, a movable member movably engaged within the cavity from at least a first position occluding a first port of the three ports, a second position occluding a second port of the three ports, and a third position allowing flow between both the first port, the second port and a third port of the three ports. |
| FILED | Friday, April 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/244991 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Positive-displacement Machines for Liquids; Pumps F04B 53/10 (20130101) Valves; Taps; Cocks; Actuating-floats; Devices for Venting or Aerating F16K 11/044 (20130101) F16K 11/056 (20130101) F16K 15/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 137/7846 (20150401) |
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| US 09391356 | Rochblatt |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Rochblatt (Long Beach, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Rochblatt (Long Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for antenna pointing are disclosed. A transmit antenna system having an adjustable boresight transmits a signal exhibiting a far-field pattern including a feature (e.g. a V-Notch) in a polarization of the signal disposed at a fixed position off a beam peak of the far-field pattern of the signal. A receive antenna system scans across the far-field pattern of the signal in the polarization to locate the feature and determine a pointing error of the adjustable boresight therefrom. The system may be applied to a cross-polarization of the signal where a co-polarization of the signal is simultaneously used for telecommunication. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/912186 |
| ART UNIT | 3648 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 1/1257 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09387644 | Brennan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kelly Patrick Brennan (Sheridan, Wyoming); Gwynedd Adelaide Thomas (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | KENNON PRODUCTS, INC. (Sheridan, Wyoming) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kelly Patrick Brennan (Sheridan, Wyoming); Gwynedd Adelaide Thomas (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides ballistic resistant armor including a first ballistic resistant layer including non-woven material, a second ballistic resistant layer comprising woven material, the first ballistic resistant layer coupled to the second ballistic resistant layer by stitches, and methods of making the same. |
| FILED | Friday, April 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/446605 |
| ART UNIT | 1786 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Outerwear; Protective Garments; Accessories A41D 31/00 (20130101) Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 5/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B32B 5/022 (20130101) B32B 5/024 (20130101) Sewing D05B 35/107 (20130101) Armour; Armoured Turrets; Armoured or Armed Vehicles; Means of Attack or Defence, e.g Camouflage, in General F41H 1/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09388041 | Fuentes-Fernandez et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas); Texas Micropower, Inc. (Dallas, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas); Texas Micropower Inc. (Dallas, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erika Fuentes-Fernandez (Richardson, Texas); Pradeep Shah (Dallas, Texas); Wardia Mechtaly-Debray (Hsinchu County, Taiwan); Bruce E. Gnade (Lewisville, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The claimed invention is directed to integrated energy-harvesting piezoelectric cantilevers. The cantilevers are fabricated using sol-gel processing using a sacrificial poly-Si seeding layer. Improvements in film microstructure and electrical properties are realized by introducing a poly-Si seeding layer and by optimizing the poling process. |
| FILED | Monday, December 02, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/094590 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00388 (20130101) B81C 1/00539 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 41/332 (20130101) H01L 41/1136 (20130101) Electric Machines Not Otherwise Provided for H02N 2/181 (20130101) H02N 2/186 (20130101) |
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| US 09389424 | Schowengerdt |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Magic Leap, Inc. (Dania Beach, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Magic Leap, Inc. (Dania Beach, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian T. Schowengerdt (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The tiled array of fiber scanners includes multiple fiber scanners arranged in a polygonal pattern determined based on analysis results. Multiple fiber scanners generate multiple component images tiled to form a seamless overall image. A fiber scanner is devised through analysis and includes projector optics, a single-core or multi-core scan fiber disposed within an actuator tube coupled with the projector optics within a housing tube according to analysis results and one or more compensators. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 02, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/677931 |
| ART UNIT | 2422 — Cable and Television |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/08 (20130101) G02B 27/0172 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 2006/0098 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 9/14 (20130101) H04N 9/3179 (20130101) |
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Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 09387921 | Hogsette, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); Kurt B. Jordan (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerome A. Hogsette, Jr. (Gainesville, Florida); Kurt B. Jordan (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The self closing aircraft door includes two overlapping door panels and is attached to an outer skin of the aircraft by a plurality of suction cups. Each of the door panels comprises a net material at least partially surrounded by a flexible frame. Each of the panels also includes essentially parallel connecting rods comprising a plurality of magnetic and non-magnetic segments. The door is structured so that in the closed position, the magnetic segments in the connecting rods of the two panels join and thereby create a physical barrier to insects which might otherwise enter the aircraft cabin. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/206647 |
| 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 1/1461 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09388444 | Solaiman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel K Solaiman (Dresher, Pennsylvania); Richard D Ashby (Glenside, Pennsylvania); Jonathan A. Zerkowski (Lexington, Massachusetts); Robert A Moreau (Quakertown, Pennsylvania); Yanhong Liu (Warrington, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The isolation and characterization of a glucosyltransferase gene from Candida bombicola is disclosed. Use of the glucosyltransferase enzyme for the production of glucosylated sterol and hydroxyl-fatty acid substrates is also disclosed. This enzyme has broad-specificity and is useful for the production of sophorolipids both in-vivo and in-vitro. |
| FILED | Friday, April 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/695236 |
| 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 9/1051 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/18 (20130101) C12P 19/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 33/00 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 204/01017 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/52 (20151101) |
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Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 09388273 | Emrick et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd Emrick (South Deerfield, Massachusetts); Justin Timmons (Agawam, Massachusetts); Megan Warner Szyndler (Amherst, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a novel platform for minimal- or non-flammable polymers, which is based purely on hydrocarbon systems and does not need additives of any kind A key feature is that the hydrocarbons disclosed herein are characterized by degradation mechanisms that produce few flammable volatiles. For example, 2,4,4′,6-tetrahydroxydeoxybenzoin is employed as a multifunctional cross-linker in conjunction with bis-epoxydeoxybenzoin, affording new resins that combine excellent physical and mechanical properties with low flammability. |
| FILED | Monday, May 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/280901 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 39/14 (20130101) C07C 39/15 (20130101) C07C 49/83 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 303/28 (20130101) C07D 303/30 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 59/063 (20130101) C08G 59/3218 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 65/4012 (20130101) |
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| US 09390326 | Publicover et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | EYEFLUENCE, INC. (Reno, Nevada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | EYEFLUENCE, INC. (Milpitas, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nelson G. Publicover (Reno, Nevada); William C. Torch (Reno, Nevada); Christopher N. Spitler (Fernley, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | A system mounted within eyewear or headwear to unobtrusively produce and track reference locations on the surface of one or both eyes of an observer is provided to improve the accuracy of gaze tracking. The system utilizes multiple illumination sources and/or multiple cameras to generate and observe glints from multiple directions. The use of multiple illumination sources and cameras can compensate for the complex, three-dimensional geometry of the head and the significant anatomical variations of the head and eye region that occurs among individuals. The system continuously tracks the initial placement and any slippage of eyewear or headwear. In addition, the use of multiple illumination sources and cameras can maintain high-precision, dynamic eye tracking as an eye moves through its full physiological range. Furthermore, illumination sources placed in the normal line-of-sight of the device wearer increase the accuracy of gaze tracking by producing reference vectors that are close to the visual axis of the device wearer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/587991 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 3/024 (20130101) A61B 3/0025 (20130101) A61B 3/113 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 27/0093 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/013 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/0061 (20130101) G06K 9/00604 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/247 (20130101) H04N 5/2256 (20130101) |
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Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 09387082 | Myung et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California); The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California); The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Myung (Santa Clara, California); Lampros Kourtis (San Francisco, California); Laura Hartmann (Berlin, Germany); Curtis W. Frank (Cupertino, California); Stuart B. Goodman (Los Altos, California); Dennis R. Carter (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An arthroplasty device is provided having an interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) hydrogel that is strain-hardened by swelling and adapted to be held in place in a joint by conforming to a bone geometry. The strain-hardened IPN hydrogel is based on two different networks: (1) a non-silicone network of preformed hydrophilic non-ionic telechelic macromonomers chemically cross-linked by polymerization of its end-groups, and (2) a non-silicone network of ionizable monomers. The second network was polymerized and chemically cross-linked in the presence of the first network and has formed physical cross-links with the first network. Within the IPN, the degree of chemical cross-linking in the second network is less than in the first network. An aqueous salt solution (neutral pH) is used to ionize and swell the second network. The swelling of the second network is constrained by the first network resulting in an increase in effective physical cross-links within the IPN. |
| FILED | Monday, February 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/188257 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2/34 (20130101) A61F 2/3603 (20130101) A61F 2/3872 (20130101) A61F 2/4202 (20130101) A61F 2/4225 (20130101) A61F 2/4241 (20130101) A61F 2/4405 (20130101) A61F 2/30756 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61F 2002/3619 (20130101) A61F 2002/30075 (20130101) A61F 2002/30448 (20130101) A61F 2002/30754 (20130101) A61F 2210/0061 (20130101) A61F 2220/005 (20130101) A61F 2310/00293 (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 27/52 (20130101) A61L 27/3843 (20130101) A61L 2430/24 (20130101) |
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| US 09389431 | Wall, III et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MASSACHUSETTS EYE and EAR INFIRMARY (Boston, Massachusetts); THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Conrad Wall, III (Boston, Massachusetts); Minnan Xu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Joseph F. Rizzo, III (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Image stabilization systems and methods include a detector configured to detect images, an actuator coupled to the detector, a sensor coupled to the detector and configured to detect motion of the detector, and an electronic processor in communication with the sensor and the actuator, where the electronic processor is configured to, for example: (a) receive information about motion of the detector from the sensor; (b) determine components of the motion of the detector, and associate a class with each of the determined components; (c) identify components to be compensated from among the determined components based on the associated classes; and (d) generate a control signal that causes the actuator to adjust a position of at least a portion of the detector to compensate for the identified components. |
| FILED | Monday, November 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/356065 |
| ART UNIT | 2852 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 9/08 (20130101) Physical Therapy Apparatus, e.g Devices for Locating or Stimulating Reflex Points in the Body; Artificial Respiration; Massage; Bathing Devices for Special Therapeutic or Hygienic Purposes or Specific Parts of the Body A61H 3/061 (20130101) A61H 2201/165 (20130101) A61H 2201/0184 (20130101) A61H 2201/501 (20130101) A61H 2201/503 (20130101) A61H 2201/5007 (20130101) A61H 2201/5048 (20130101) A61H 2201/5069 (20130101) A61H 2201/5079 (20130101) A61H 2201/5084 (20130101) A61H 2201/5092 (20130101) A61H 2201/5097 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/36046 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 27/646 (20130101) Spectacles; Sunglasses or Goggles Insofar as They Have the Same Features as Spectacles; Contact Lenses G02C 5/001 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02C 11/10 (20130101) Apparatus or Arrangements for Taking Photographs or for Projecting or Viewing Them; Apparatus or Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical Waves; Accessories Therefor G03B 2205/0007 (20130101) G03B 2217/005 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/23258 (20130101) H04N 5/23261 (20130101) H04N 5/23267 (20130101) H04N 5/23287 (20130101) |
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Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 09388528 | Qiao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Virent, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | VIRENT, INC. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ming Qiao (Pewaukee, Wisconsin); Elizabeth Woods (Middleton, Wisconsin); Paul Myren (Madison, Wisconsin); Randy Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin); Sean Connolly (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides processes for deconstructing biomass to produce aqueous and organic products using a solvent produced in a bioreforming reaction. |
| FILED | Friday, October 02, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/873268 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 30/00 (20130101) Cracking Hydrocarbon Oils; Production of Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g by Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation; Recovery of Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, or Gases; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting of Hydrocarbons; Reforming of Naphtha; Mineral Waxes C10G 1/06 (20130101) C10G 1/065 (20130101) C10G 3/00 (20130101) C10G 3/45 (20130101) C10G 3/47 (20130101) C10G 3/49 (20130101) C10G 2300/42 (20130101) C10G 2300/44 (20130101) C10G 2300/805 (20130101) C10G 2300/1011 (20130101) C10G 2300/1014 (20130101) C10G 2400/22 (20130101) C10G 2400/30 (20130101) Production of Sucrose; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor C13B 10/14 (20130101) Saccharides Obtained From Natural Sources or by Hydrolysis of Naturally Occurring Disaccharides, Oligosaccharides or Polysaccharides C13K 1/02 (20130101) C13K 11/00 (20130101) C13K 13/002 (20130101) Fibrous Raw Materials or Their Mechanical Treatment D21B 1/021 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 30/20 (20151101) |
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Department of the Interior (DOI)
| US 09387941 | Husseiny et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED (LaPlace, Louisiana); EMINENT TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATED (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Technology International Incorporated (LaPlace, Louisiana); Eminent Technology Incorporated (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abdo Husseiny (LaPlace, Louisiana); Omar Abdallah (Woodland Hills, California); Bruce Thigpen (Tallahassee, Florida); Ajay Mahajan (North Canton, Ohio); Jonathan Hagstrum (Menlo Park, California); Zeinab A. Sabri (LaPlace, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for mitigation of aircraft bird strikes through the provision of conditions on the ground that totally prevents the formation of atmospheric thermals in the proximity of airports and airfields, whereby conflicts between soaring and migratory birds and aircrafts may be avoided. This is accomplished by modification of the topography of the field into a plurality of zones, as described herein and through construction of high albedo pavements, roads, artificial turfs and cool terrains. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/266545 |
| ART UNIT | 3649 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ground or Aircraft-carrier-deck Installations Specially Adapted for Use in Connection With Aircraft; Designing, Manufacturing, Assembling, Cleaning, Maintaining or Repairing Aircraft, Not Otherwise Provided For; Handling, Transporting, Testing or Inspecting Aircraft Components, Not Otherwise Provided for B64F 1/00 (20130101) B64F 1/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Construction Of, or Surfaces For, Roads, Sports Grounds, or the Like; Machines or Auxiliary Tools for Construction or Repair E01C 7/351 (20130101) E01C 9/00 (20130101) E01C 11/26 (20130101) |
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Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
| US 09392017 | Cui et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ang Cui (New York, New York); Salvatore J. Stolfo (Ridgewood, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and media for inhibiting attacks on embedded devices are provided, in some embodiments, a system for inhibiting on embedded devices is provided, the system comprises a processor that is configured to: identify an embedded device that is configured to provide one or more services to one or more digital processing devices within a communications network; receive a first firmware associated with the embedded device; generate a second firmware that is functionally equivalent to the first firmware by: determining unused code within the first firmware; removing the unused code within the second firmware; and restructuring remaining code portions of the first firmware into memory positions within the second firmware; and inject the second firmware into the embedded device. |
| FILED | Friday, February 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/379166 |
| ART UNIT | 2496 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/64 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/20 (20130101) H04L 63/145 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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U.S. State Government
| US 09388163 | Hecht et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sidney Hecht (Phoenix, Arizona); Omar Khdour (Phoenix, Arizona); Sandipan Roy Chowdhury (Tempe, Arizona); Poulami Talukder (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a Body Corporate of the State of Arizona, Acting for and on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sidney Hecht (Phoenix, Arizona); Omar Khdour (Phoenix, Arizona); Sandipan Roy Chowdhury (Tempe, Arizona); Poulami Talukder (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides methods for identifying therapeutic agents that are multifunctional radical quenchers. It also provides compounds of formula: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, compositions comprising these compounds, and methods of using these compounds in a variety of applications, such as treatment or suppression of diseases associated with decreased mitochondrial function resulting in diminished ATP production and/or oxidative stress and/or lipid peroxidation. |
| FILED | Friday, June 05, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/731950 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 211/94 (20130101) C07D 213/74 (20130101) C07D 213/89 (20130101) C07D 279/18 (20130101) C07D 279/20 (20130101) C07D 401/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5079 (20130101) |
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Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 09388086 | Imholt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jiyun C. Imholt (Methuen, Massachusetts); Richard L. Gentilman (Acton, Massachusetts); Thomas M. Hartnett (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RAYTHEON COMPANY (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jiyun C. Imholt (Methuen, Massachusetts); Richard L. Gentilman (Acton, Massachusetts); Thomas M. Hartnett (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with the present embodiment, a method for making an optical ceramic comprises depositing a plurality of thin layers of powder. The powder comprises a first optical material powder having a first dopant level, and a second optical material powder. The first and second optical material powders are deposited for each layer based on the first dopant level and according to data associated with a three-dimensional (3D) compositional profile design of an optical ceramic. The method further comprises binding the first and second optical material powders of each thin layer to each other and each thin layer with an adjacent layer such that a green state optical ceramic is produced based on the 3D compositional profile design. The method further comprises densifying the green state optical ceramic to obtain the optical ceramic. |
| FILED | Friday, March 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/040555 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Producing Particular Articles From Plastics or From Substances in a Plastic State B29D 11/00 (20130101) Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/44 (20130101) C04B 35/115 (20130101) C04B 35/505 (20130101) C04B 35/553 (20130101) C04B 35/6455 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C04B 2235/75 (20130101) C04B 2235/762 (20130101) C04B 2235/3203 (20130101) C04B 2235/3213 (20130101) C04B 2235/3224 (20130101) C04B 2235/3225 (20130101) C04B 2235/3232 (20130101) C04B 2235/3241 (20130101) C04B 2235/6026 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 1/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09388229 | Vale, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Research Development Foundation (Carson City, Nevada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Development Foundation (Carson City, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wylie W. Vale, Jr. (, None); Kathy A. Lewis (San Diego, California); Marilyn H. Perrin (La Jolla, California); Koichi Kunitake (San Diego, California); Jean E. F. Rivier (La Jolla, California); Jozsef Gulyas (Julian, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A search of the public human genome database identified a human EST, GenBank accession number AW293249, which has high homology to known pufferfish urocortin sequences. The full length sequence was amplified from human genomic DNA and sequenced. Sequence homology comparisons of the novel sequence with human urocortin I and urocortin II revealed that the sequence encoded a novel human urocortin, which was designated urocortin III (UcnIII). While urocortin III does not have high affinity for either CRF-R1 or CRF-R2, the affinity for CRF-R2 is greater than the affinity for CRF-R1. Urocortin III is capable stimulating cyclic AMP production in cells expressing CRF-R2α or β. Thus, the affinity is high enough that urocortin III could act as a native agonist of CRF-R2. However, it is also likely that urocortin III is a stronger agonist of a yet to be identified receptor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/179543 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/695 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/57509 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09388285 | Ralph et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Ralph (Madison, Wisconsin); John H. Grabber (Mazomanie, Wisconsin); Ronald D. Hatfield (Madison, Wisconsin); Fachuang Lu (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is an isolated lignified plant cell wall including lignin, wherein the lignin includes a ferulate residue incorporated therein, such as from coniferyl ferulate and/or sinapyl ferulate. Also described is a method to make the isolated lignified plant cell wall, and the lignin produced by the method. |
| FILED | Monday, September 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/021259 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Derivatives of Natural Macromolecular Compounds C08H 6/00 (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 7/22 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09389343 | Arnold et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | TAG OPTICS, INC. (Princeton, New Jersey) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Craig B. Arnold (Princeton, New Jersey); Euan McLeod (Alhambra, California); Alexandre Mermillod-Blondin (Berlin, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A tunable acoustic gradient index of refraction (TAG) lens and system are provided that permit, in one aspect, dynamic selection of the lens output, including dynamic focusing and imaging. The system may include a TAG lens and at least one of a source and a detector of electromagnetic radiation. A controller may be provided in electrical communication with the lens and at least one of the source and detector and may be configured to provide a driving signal to control the index of refraction and to provide a synchronizing signal to time at least one of the source and the detector relative to the driving signal. Thus, the controller is able to specify that the source irradiates the lens (or detector detects the lens output) when a desired refractive index distribution is present within the lens, e.g. when a desired lens output is present. |
| FILED | Friday, June 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/918321 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 3/12 (20130101) G02B 3/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 3/0081 (20130101) G02B 3/0087 (20130101) G02B 7/023 (20130101) G02B 27/0025 (20130101) G02B 27/0927 (20130101) Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/33 (20130101) G02F 1/113 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, July 12, 2016.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
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FUNDED BY
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Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
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The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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