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| US 09402438 | Shakoor et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Najia Shakoor (Hinsdale, Illinois); Roy H. Lidtke (Elberon, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rush University Medical Center (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Najia Shakoor (Hinsdale, Illinois); Roy H. Lidtke (Elberon, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Footwear including a flexible sole having a series of flexure zones positioned to correspond to primary joint axes of the human foot approximating the characteristics of a bare foot in motion. |
| FILED | Friday, June 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/152401 |
| ART UNIT | 3765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Characteristic Features of Footwear; Parts of Footwear A43B 3/0036 (20130101) A43B 13/141 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09402539 | Buckland |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bioptigen, Inc. (Morrisville, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bioptigen, Inc. (Morrisville, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric L. Buckland (Hickory, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Surgical microscope systems are provided including an optical coherence tomography (OCT) system; an objective lens; oculars for direct viewing of a subject distal to the objective lens; a heads up display module configured to direct an optical image through the oculars to be visible to a user of at least one ocular; and a coupling element connected to the surgical microscope coupling the OCT system, the heads up display module and the objective lens. The coupling element has first and second faces, the first face positioned toward the oculars of the surgical microscope and the second face positioned toward the subject. The coupling element is configured to receive a heads up optical display signal at the first face of the coupling element and reflect the signal in a wavelength band of the heads up display module; and receive a signal on the second face of the coupling element and reflect the signal in a wavelength band of the OCT system. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/471600 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 3/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 3/13 (20130101) A61B 3/102 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/0012 (20130101) G02B 27/01 (20130101) G02B 27/0101 (20130101) G02B 27/141 (20130101) G02B 2027/0123 (20130101) G02B 2027/0138 (20130101) |
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| US 09402540 | Buckland et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bioptigen, Inc. (Morrisville, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bioptigen, Inc. (Morrisville, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric L. Buckland (Hickory, North Carolina); Andrew Murnan (Saratoga Springs, New York); Christopher Saxer (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Robert H. Hart (Cary, North Carolina); Nestor O. Farmiga (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Scanning optical beam imaging systems for imaging extended structures of an eye and providing biometry of an eye are provided. The systems include a focal system for shifting the focus of the scanning system from the front to the back of the eye. The systems provide for converging rays that can scan through the pupil of the eye, enabling scanning of the anterior and posterior segments of the eye using a common objective and a fixed working distance. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/805709 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 3/14 (20130101) A61B 3/0025 (20130101) A61B 3/102 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 3/1005 (20130101) A61B 5/0066 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 13/18 (20130101) G02B 13/22 (20130101) G02B 15/16 (20130101) G02B 26/101 (20130101) |
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| US 09402820 | Matsumoto et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shingo Matsumoto (Rockville, Maryland); Robert J. Gillies (Tampa, Florida); James B. Mitchell (Damascus, Maryland); Murali K. Cherukuri (Rockville, Maryland); Keita Saito (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (Washington, District of Columbia); H. LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC. (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shingo Matsumoto (Rockville, Maryland); Robert J. Gillies (Tampa, Florida); James B. Mitchell (Damascus, Maryland); Murali K. Cherukuri (Rockville, Maryland); Keita Saito (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The identification of pO2 lowering agents as transient hypoxia-inducers is disclosed herein. Provided is a method of enhancing the efficacy of a hypoxia-sensitive agent in a subject, by administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of the hypoxia-sensitive agent and a therapeutically effective amount of a pO2 lowering agent. Methods of treating a subject with a tumor, by administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a pO2 lowering agent and a therapeutically effective amount of a hypoxia-sensitive agent are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, April 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/112906 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/19 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/19 (20130101) A61K 31/355 (20130101) A61K 31/355 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09402826 | Ambron 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) | Richard Ambron (Lake Success, New York); Ying-Ju Sung (Northvale, New Jersey); Jeremy Greenwood (Brooklyn, New York); Leah Frye (Portland, Oregon); Shi-Xian Deng (White Plains, New York); Yuli Xie (New York, New York); Donald W. Landry (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compounds that may be used to inhibit activation of protein kinase G (“PKG”). It is based, at least in part, on the discovery of the tertiary structure of PKG and the identification of molecules that either bind to the active site of PKG and/or are analogs of balanol. |
| FILED | Monday, September 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/500745 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/235 (20130101) A61K 31/335 (20130101) |
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| US 09402839 | Wipf et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh - Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Wipf (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Jingbo Xiao (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Mitchell P. Fink (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Valerian Kagan (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Yulia Tyurina (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Anthony J. Kanai (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a composition and related methods for delivering cargo to a mitochondria which includes (a) a membrane active peptidyl fragment having a high affinity with the mitochondria and (b) cargo. The cargo may be selected from a wide variety of desired cargos which are to be delivered to the mitochondria for a specific purpose. Compositions and methods are disclosed for treating an illness that is caused or associated with cellular damage or dysfunction which is caused by excessive mitochondrial production of reaction oxygen species (ROS). Compositions which act as mitochondria-selective targeting agents using the structural signaling of the β-turn recognizable by cells as mitochondria) targeting sequences are discussed. Mitochondria and cell death by way of apoptosis is inhibited as a result of the ROS-scavenging activity, thereby increasing the survival rate of the patient. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 11, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/619680 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/555 (20130101) A61K 31/4468 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/7034 (20130101) A61K 31/7048 (20130101) A61K 47/481 (20130101) A61K 47/48023 (20130101) A61K 47/48246 (20130101) Peptides C07K 5/08 (20130101) C07K 5/10 (20130101) C07K 7/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09402842 | Cushman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark S. Cushman (West Lafayette, Indiana); Trung X. Nguyen (West Lafayette, Indiana); Martin M. Conda-Sheridan (Evanston, Illinois); Yves George Pommier (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention described herein pertains to the synthesis and use of certain N-substituted indenoisoquinoline compounds which inhibit the activity Tyrosyl-DNA Phosphodiesterase I (Tdp1) or Topoisomerase I (Top1) or both, or otherwise demonstrate anticancer activity. Also disclosed are novel N-substituted indenoisoquinoline compounds and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the novel N-substituted indenoisoquinoline compounds. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 29, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/868701 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/473 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/4741 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 221/18 (20130101) C07D 401/06 (20130101) C07D 491/056 (20130101) |
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| US 09402850 | Deng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | EMORY UNIVERSITY (Atlanta, Georgia); BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia); Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xingming Deng (Lilburn, Georgia); Jia Zhou (League City, Texas); Chunyong Ding (Galveston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure relates to BAX activators and therapeutic uses relates thereto. In certain embodiments, the disclosure relates to methods of treating or preventing cancer, such as lung cancer, comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of a pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound disclosed herein or pharmaceutically acceptable salt to a subject in need thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/709580 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/05 (20130101) A61K 31/44 (20130101) A61K 31/085 (20130101) A61K 31/138 (20130101) A61K 31/404 (20130101) A61K 31/495 (20130101) A61K 31/4412 (20130101) A61K 31/4465 (20130101) A61K 31/5375 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 205/11 (20130101) C07C 205/25 (20130101) C07C 205/35 (20130101) C07C 211/52 (20130101) C07C 215/88 (20130101) C07C 217/20 (20130101) C07C 217/26 (20130101) C07C 217/60 (20130101) C07C 217/94 (20130101) C07C 233/18 (20130101) C07C 233/25 (20130101) C07C 233/80 (20130101) C07C 271/16 (20130101) C07C 309/65 (20130101) C07C 311/21 (20130101) C07C 2101/02 (20130101) C07C 2103/18 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/10 (20130101) C07D 209/12 (20130101) C07D 211/46 (20130101) C07D 213/61 (20130101) C07D 213/64 (20130101) C07D 213/73 (20130101) C07D 213/74 (20130101) C07D 213/643 (20130101) C07D 295/26 (20130101) C07D 295/088 (20130101) C07D 295/185 (20130101) |
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| US 09402852 | Zon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Leonard I. Zon (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Trista E. North (Newton Center, Massachusetts); Wolfram Goessling (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonard I. Zon (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Trista E. North (Newton Center, Massachusetts); Wolfram Goessling (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for compositions and methods for modulating tissue growth using tissue growth modulators, which are agents that either enhance or inhibit tissue growth as desired by a particular indication by modulating the PG or Wnt signaling pathways, or employing modulators of both PG and Wnt signaling pathways for a synergistic effect or highly selective effect. |
| FILED | Monday, October 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/445986 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/557 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09402853 | Schwartz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Temple University Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur G Schwartz (Perkasie, Pennsylvania); John R Williams (Merion Station, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to formulations of poorly water soluble pharmaceutical agents of Formula I and II. The present invention also relates to compositions containing compounds of Formula I or II, and glucocorticoids, and methods for reducing side effects from glucocorticoid treatment by co-administration of compounds of Formula I and II. The compositions herein are useful for the treatment of diabetes and obesity related diseases including metabolic syndrome. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/800392 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/06 (20130101) A61K 9/0014 (20130101) A61K 31/566 (20130101) A61K 31/573 (20130101) A61K 31/5685 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/10 (20130101) A61K 47/26 (20130101) |
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| US 09402868 | Muir |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David F. Muir (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention pertains to compositions and methods for promoting repair of damaged nerve tissue using nerve grafts and preparation of nerve grafts. The compositions and methods of the subject invention can be employed to restore the continuity of nerve interrupted by disease, traumatic events or surgical procedures. Compositions of the subject invention comprise one or more chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan (CSPG)-degrading enzymes that promote axonal penetration into damaged nerve tissue and nerve graft. The invention also concerns methods for promoting repair of damaged nerve tissue using the present compositions and nerve tissue treated according to such methods. The invention also includes storage solutions for nerve tissue. |
| FILED | Monday, February 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/776606 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 35/30 (20130101) A61K 38/51 (20130101) A61K 38/51 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/227 (20130101) A61L 27/383 (20130101) A61L 27/3604 (20130101) A61L 27/3675 (20130101) A61L 27/3683 (20130101) A61L 27/3687 (20130101) A61L 27/3878 (20130101) A61L 31/047 (20130101) A61L 2430/32 (20130101) |
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| US 09402870 | Tan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jun Tan (Tampa, Florida); Paul Sanberg (Spring Hill, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jun Tan (Tampa, Florida); Paul Sanberg (Spring Hill, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Administration of human umbilical cord blood cells (HUCBC) or HUCBC-derived plasma is used to treat amyloid-based diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, cerebral amyloid antigopathy, and type-II diabetes. Modulating inflammatory reactions by infusing HUCBC resulted in a marked reduction of amyloid plaques and immune-associated cellular damage. HUCBC infusion also significantly reduced cerebral amyloid angiopathy in mice models. These effects were associated with suppression of the CD40-CD40L interaction and a reduction in surface expressed CD-40 was observed on immune cells. Further, Aβ phagocytic activity was increased and soluble and insoluble Aβ protein levels were modulated by treatment. HUCBC-infused sera also significantly increased phagocytosis of Aβ1-42 peptide and inhibited immune cell CD40 expression and reduced cerebral amyloid angiopathy. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/706510 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/16 (20130101) A61K 35/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2035/122 (20130101) |
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| US 09402875 | Bradley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Luke H. Bradley (Lexington, Kentucky); Don Marshall Gash (Lexington, Kentucky); Greg A. Gerhardt (Nicholasville, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Luke H. Bradley (Lexington, Kentucky); Don Marshall Gash (Lexington, Kentucky); Greg A. Gerhardt (Nicholasville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the use of novel proteins, referred to herein as amidated glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) peptides (or “Amidated Dopamine Neuron Stimulating peptides (ADNS peptides)”), for treating brain diseases and injuries that result in dopaminergic deficiencies and mitochodrial dysfunction, e.g., reduced complex I enzyme activity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/586617 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/10 (20130101) A61K 38/185 (20130101) |
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| US 09402880 | Mao |
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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) | Jeremy J. Mao (Closter, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | It has been discovered that that certain growth factors can delay the ossification of a tissue site, such as a cranial suture, via the promotion of fibroblast differentiation and/or inhibition of osteoblast differentiation. Provided herein are methods for treating bone formation conditions or disorders, such as synostotic conditions, or ectopic mineralization conditions, via administration of compositions comprising connective tissue growth factor (CTGF), and optionally other growth factors or fibroblast or progenitor cells, to a tissue site of a subject in need thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 05, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/785947 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/50 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 35/00 (20130101) A61K 35/33 (20130101) A61K 38/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/1825 (20130101) A61K 38/1841 (20130101) A61K 38/1866 (20130101) A61K 38/1875 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09402881 | Roedersheimer |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark T. Roedersheimer (Aurora, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark T. Roedersheimer (Aurora, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods for extracting platelets, compositions obtained therefore, and methods for using the same. |
| FILED | Friday, January 23, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/603504 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/19 (20130101) A61K 38/1808 (20130101) A61K 38/1841 (20130101) A61K 38/1858 (20130101) A61K 38/1866 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 15/40 (20130101) A61L 26/0057 (20130101) A61L 27/60 (20130101) A61L 27/3616 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/475 (20130101) |
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| US 09402889 | Kopecko et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Dept. of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis J. Kopecko (Silver Spring, Maryland); De-Qi Xu (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to Salmonella typhi Ty21a comprising core-linked Shigella dysenteriae serotype 1 O-specific polysaccharide (O-Ps) and DNA encoding O antigen biosynthesis, said DNA selected from the group consisting of: a) the DNA sequence set out in any one of SEQ ID NOs: 1 and 2 and species homologs thereof; b) DNA encoding Shigella dysenteriae serotype 1 polypeptides encoded by any one of SEQ ID NOs: 1 and 2, and species homologs thereof; and c) DNA encoding a O antigen biosynthesis gene product that hybridizes under moderately stringent conditions to the DNA of (a) or (b); and related sequences, compositions of matter, vaccines, methods of using, and methods of making. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/585721 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0283 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 48/00 (20130101) A61K 2039/522 (20130101) A61K 2039/523 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/25 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/52 (20130101) |
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| US 09402890 | Frolov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ilya Frolov (Birmingham, Alabama); Elena Frolova (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ilya Frolov (Birmingham, Alabama); Elena Frolova (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides pseudoinfectious alphavirus particles and methods of making them and using them to produce an immune response to an alphavirus in a subject. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 01, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/983279 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/76 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 14/1808 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2770/36111 (20130101) C12N 2770/36121 (20130101) C12N 2770/36122 (20130101) C12N 2770/36123 (20130101) C12N 2770/36134 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2333/181 (20130101) |
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| US 09402895 | Chang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yuan Chang (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Patrick S. Moore (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburg Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuan Chang (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Patrick S. Moore (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An immunogenically-enhanced Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus latency-associated nuclear antigen 1 (“KSHV LANA1”) polypeptide and related methods of eliciting an immune response to KSHV LANA1 are provided. Also described herein is a novel polypeptide capable of inhibiting degradation of a protein or retarding synthesis of a protein when attached to or incorporated within that protein. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/334657 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/245 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/585 (20130101) A61K 2039/55505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 2319/60 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2710/16422 (20130101) C12N 2710/16434 (20130101) |
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| US 09402905 | Wucherpfennig et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kai W. Wucherpfennig (Brookline, Massachusetts); Bettina Franz (Cambridge, United Kingdom); Kenneth F. May, Jr. (Bozeman, Montana); Glenn Dranoff (Sudbury, Massachusetts); F. Stephen Hodi (Framingham, Massachusetts); Christopher Harvey (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides, in part, compositions comprising an antibody or antibody fragment that immunospecifically binds to MCH class I polypeptide-related sequence A (MICA), or an epitope thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/025573 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/16 (20130101) A61K 31/325 (20130101) A61K 31/365 (20130101) A61K 39/3955 (20130101) A61K 39/39558 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 16/06 (20130101) C07K 16/22 (20130101) C07K 16/1282 (20130101) C07K 16/2833 (20130101) C07K 2317/10 (20130101) C07K 2317/21 (20130101) C07K 2317/73 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) |
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| US 09402908 | Kabanov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alexander V. Kabanov (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Rainer Jordan (Dresden, Germany); Robert Luxenhofer (Dresden, Germany) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander V. Kabanov (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Rainer Jordan (Dresden, Germany); Robert Luxenhofer (Dresden, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides polymer aggregates as delivery vehicles for therapeutics and diagnostics. The present invention additionally provides methods of synthesis and uses for such aggregates. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 31, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/144831 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 25/04 (20130101) A01N 25/10 (20130101) A01N 25/30 (20130101) A01N 43/90 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 9/19 (20130101) A61K 9/1075 (20130101) A61K 31/337 (20130101) A61K 38/13 (20130101) A61K 47/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/34 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5005 (20130101) |
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| US 09402917 | Alam et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | S. Munir Alam (Durham, North Carolina); Barton F. Haynes (Durham, North Carolina); Moses D. Sekaran (Durham, North Carolina); Georgia Tomaras (Durham, North Carolina); Xiaoying Shen (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | DUKE UNIVERSITY (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | S. Munir Alam (Durham, North Carolina); Barton F. Haynes (Durham, North Carolina); Moses D. Sekaran (Durham, North Carolina); Georgia Tomaras (Durham, North Carolina); Xiaoying Shen (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates in general, to a formulation suitable for use in inducing anti-HIV-1 antibodies, and, in particular, to a formulation comprising Toll Like Receptor (TLR) agonists with HIV-1 gp41 membrane proximal external region (MPER) peptide-liposome conjugates for induction of broadly reactive anti-HIV-1 antibodies. The invention also relates to methods of inducing neutralizing anti-HIV-1 antibodies using such formulations. |
| FILED | Monday, April 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/262706 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/1272 (20130101) A61K 38/212 (20130101) A61K 38/212 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/21 (20130101) A61K 47/4833 (20130101) A61K 47/48815 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/545 (20130101) A61K 2039/55511 (20130101) A61K 2039/55555 (20130101) A61K 2039/55561 (20130101) A61K 2039/55572 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2740/16134 (20130101) |
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| US 09402921 | Xiao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiao Xiao (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Lin Yang (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of achieving directed evolution of viruses by in vivo screening or “panning” to identify viruses comprising scrambled AAV capsids having characteristics of interest, e.g., tropism profile and/or neutralization profile (e.g., ability to evade neutralizing antibodies). The invention also provides scrambled AAV capsids and virus particles comprising the same. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/520783 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/1719 (20130101) A61K 48/0058 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 14/4716 (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 2750/14122 (20130101) C12N 2750/14143 (20130101) |
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| US 09402926 | Fu 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) | Aihua Fu (Mountain View, California); Shan X. Wang (Palo Alto, California); Sanjiv S. Gambhir (Portola Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for nanoprobes, methods of imaging, methods of imaging a target, methods of making nanoprobes, and the like. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/255210 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/0002 (20130101) A61K 49/0032 (20130101) A61K 49/0093 (20130101) A61K 49/1833 (20130101) A61K 49/1848 (20130101) A61K 51/1244 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/582 (20130101) G01N 33/587 (20130101) G01N 33/5434 (20130101) |
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| US 09403010 | Fried et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Itzhak Fried (Los Angeles, California); Nanthia Suthana (Los Angeles, California); Barbara Knowlton (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Itzhak Fried (Los Angeles, California); Nanthia Suthana (Los Angeles, California); Barbara Knowlton (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A site-specific deep brain stimulation for enhancement of memory is described. A method of the site-specific deep brain stimulation for enhancement of memory may include implanting intracranial depth electrodes in a patient, wherein the electrodes are placed in right and/or left entorhinal regions, and stimulating the electrodes with current set below an after-discharge threshold. The method may include stimulation at a specific brain site in the medial temporal lobe, stimulation (ODTS) at specific stages of information processing. A system for site specific deep brain stimulation of entorhinal regions during specific stages of information processing is also described. |
| FILED | Friday, December 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/994653 |
| 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 1/36082 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/36092 (20130101) A61N 1/36139 (20130101) A61N 1/36157 (20130101) |
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| US 09403014 | Kilgore et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin L. Kilgore (Avon Lake, Ohio); Niloy Bhadra (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of blocking signal transmission through a nerve with reduced onset activity includes applying an HFAC to an axon of a nerve to block the transmission of signals through the axon. The method may also include applying a direct current (DC) to the axon, increasing the amplitude of the DC over time to a predetermined amplitude, applying the HFAC, and then decreasing the DC. The method may also include temporarily reducing the amplitude of the HFAC to permit the transmission of signals through the axon and subsequently increasing the amplitude to block transmission without triggering an onset response. The method may also include temporarily applying an unbalanced charge to the nerve and then balancing the charge over time. |
| FILED | Friday, February 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/626992 |
| 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 1/32 (20130101) A61N 1/205 (20130101) A61N 1/3615 (20130101) A61N 1/36057 (20130101) A61N 1/36067 (20130101) A61N 1/36071 (20130101) A61N 1/36103 (20130101) A61N 1/36167 (20130101) A61N 1/36171 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09403126 | Fissell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William H. Fissell (Brecksville, Ohio); Shuvo Roy (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Aaron Fleischman (Beachwood, Ohio); Kenneth G. Goldman (Olmsted Falls, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan); THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William H. Fissell (Brecksville, Ohio); Shuvo Roy (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Aaron Fleischman (Beachwood, Ohio); Kenneth G. Goldman (Olmsted Falls, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to ultrafiltration. In particular, the present invention provides nanoporous membranes having pores for generating in vitro and in vivo ultrafiltrate, devices and bioartificial organs utilizing such nanoporous membranes, and related methods (e.g., diagnostic methods, research methods, drug screening). The present invention further provides nanoporous membranes configured to avoid protein fouling with, for example, a polyethylene glycol surface coating. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/972502 |
| ART UNIT | 1779 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 61/18 (20130101) B01D 61/20 (20130101) B01D 61/145 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 67/0034 (20130101) B01D 67/0062 (20130101) B01D 67/0088 (20130101) B01D 2313/243 (20130101) B01D 2321/22 (20130101) B01D 2325/028 (20130101) |
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| US 09403763 | Sodroski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); The United States of America As Represented By The Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland); The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Sodroski (Medford, Massachusetts); Judith M. LaLonde (Havertown, Pennsylvania); Amos B. Smith, III (Merion, Pennsylvania); Peter D. Kwong (Washington, District of Columbia); Young Do Kwon (Kensington, Maryland); David M. Jones (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Alexander W. Sun (Eugene, Oregon); Joel R. Courter (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Takahiro Soeta (Kanazawa, Japan); Toyoharu Kobayashi (Tokyo, Japan); Amy M. Princiotto (Attleboro, Massachusetts); Xueling Wu (Potomac, Maryland); John R. Mascola (Rockville, Maryland); Arne Schon (Baltimore, Maryland); Ernesto Freire (Baltimore, Maryland); Navid Madani (Westboro, Massachusetts); Matthew Le-Khac (Brooklyn, New York); Wayne A. Hendrickson (New York, New York); Jongwoo Park (Daejeon, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are small-molecule mimics of CD4, which both enter the Phe43 cavity and target Asp368 of gp120, the HIV-1 envelope protein. Also described herein are methods of using these compounds to inhibit the transmission or progression of HIV infection. These compounds exhibit antiviral potency greater than that of a known antiviral, NBD-556, with 100% breadth against clade B and C viruses. Importantly, the compounds do not activate HIV infection of CD4-negative, CCR5-positive cells, in contrast to NBD-556. |
| FILED | Friday, December 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/365389 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/167 (20130101) A61K 31/185 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 233/56 (20130101) C07C 237/06 (20130101) C07C 237/22 (20130101) C07C 279/12 (20130101) C07C 279/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 2101/14 (20130101) C07C 2102/08 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/34 (20130101) C07D 207/335 (20130101) C07D 209/88 (20130101) C07D 209/94 (20130101) C07D 233/88 (20130101) C07D 235/02 (20130101) C07D 235/06 (20130101) C07D 271/07 (20130101) C07D 307/52 (20130101) |
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09403765 — 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 | 13/619945 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| 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 09403781 | Bertrand et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Guy Bertrand (Riverside, California); Gregorio Gulsado-Barrios (Riverside, California); Jean Bouffard (Riverside, California); Bruno Donnadieu (Riverside, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guy Bertrand (Riverside, California); Gregorio Gulsado-Barrios (Riverside, California); Jean Bouffard (Riverside, California); Bruno Donnadieu (Riverside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel and stable crystalline 1H-1,2,3 triazolium carbenes and metal complexes of 1H-1,2,3 triazolium carbenes. The present invention also provides methods of making 1H-1,2,3 triazolium carbenes and metal complexes of 1H-1,2,3 triazolium carbenes. The present invention also provides methods of using 1H-1,2,3 triazolium carbenes and metal complexes of 1H-1,2,3 triazolium carbenes in catalytic reactions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/643262 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 31/2295 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 249/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 15/0033 (20130101) |
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| US 09403806 | Abraham et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NeuroSolis, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NeuroSolis, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brent D. Abraham (Verona, Wisconsin); Richard R. Copp (Oregon, Wisconsin); James G. Farnham (Madison, Wisconsin); Seth A. Hanson (Madison, Wisconsin); Michael L. Hendrickson (Madison, Wisconsin); Jeffrey C. Ockuly (Madison, Wisconsin); Trevor M. Twose (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); Melinda L. Verdone (Waunakee, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates generally to muscarinic agonists, which are useful for stimulating muscarine receptors, and treating cognitive disorders. Included among the muscarinic agonists disclosed herein are oxadiazole derivatives, compositions, and preparations thereof. Methods of synthesizing oxadiazole compounds also are provided. This disclosure also relates in part to compositions for enhancing cognitive function in subjects such as humans, the compositions comprising a muscarinic agonist or a pharmaceutically suitable form thereof. This disclosure relates in part to methods of treating animals such as humans by administering such compositions. |
| FILED | Monday, November 02, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/930427 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | General Methods of Organic Chemistry; Apparatus Therefor C07B 2200/05 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 403/04 (20130101) C07D 413/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 417/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09403836 | Li |
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| APPLICANT(S) | INTRA-CELLULAR THERAPIES, INC. (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTRA-CELLULAR THERAPIES, INC. (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peng Li (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | 1- or 2-substituted (6aR,9aS)-3-(phenylamino)-5-6a,7,8,9,9a-hexahydro-5-methyl-cyclopent[4,5]imidazo[1,2-a]pyrazolo[4,3-e]pyrimidin-4(1H or, 2H)-one compounds of Formula (I), processes for their production, their use as pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical compositions comprising them. |
| FILED | Friday, August 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/461132 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 487/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09403843 | Thatcher 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); THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory R. J. Thatcher (Chicago, Illinois); Isaac Thomas Schiefer (Chicago, Illinois); Ottavio Arancio (New York, New York); Mauro Fa (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides for novel cysteine protease inhibitors and compositions comprising novel cysteine protease derivatives. The invention further provides for methods for treatment of neurodegenerative diseases comprising administration novel cysteine protease inhibitors or compositions comprising novel cysteine protease inhibitors. In some embodiments, the cysteine protease inhibitors are calpain inhibitors. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/376361 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 303/48 (20130101) C07D 403/12 (20130101) C07D 405/12 (20130101) C07D 409/12 (20130101) C07D 417/12 (20130101) C07D 417/14 (20130101) C07D 495/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09403850 | Burns et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | VenatoRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Malvern, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | VENATORX PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (Malvern, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher J. Burns (Malvern, Pennsylvania); Denis Daigle (Street, Maryland); Bin Liu (Dayton, New Jersey); Daniel McGarry (Malvern, Pennsylvania); Daniel C. Pevear (Downingtown, Pennsylvania); Robert E. Lee Trout (Collegeville, Pennsylvania); Randy W. Jackson (Livingston, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are compounds and compositions that modulate the activity of beta-lactamases. In some embodiments, the compounds described herein inhibit beta-lactamase. In certain embodiments, the compounds described herein are useful in the treatment of bacterial infections. |
| FILED | Friday, January 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/759853 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/69 (20130101) A61K 31/407 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/546 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09403851 | Schoenfisch et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark H. Schoenfisch (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Jae Ho Shin (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Nathan Stasko (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The presently disclosed subject matter relates to nitric oxide-releasing particles for delivering nitric oxide, and their use in biomedical and pharmaceutical applications. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/573099 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/14 (20130101) A61K 9/167 (20130101) A61K 9/5115 (20130101) A61K 31/695 (20130101) A61K 41/0042 (20130101) A61K 47/48192 (20130101) A61K 47/48861 (20130101) A61K 47/48884 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 7/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07F 7/18 (20130101) |
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| US 09403852 | Schoenfisch et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark H. Schoenfisch (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Jae Ho Shin (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Nathan Stasko (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The presently disclosed subject matter relates to nitric oxide-releasing particles for delivering nitric oxide, and their use in biomedical and pharmaceutical applications. |
| FILED | Monday, February 02, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/611574 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/14 (20130101) A61K 9/167 (20130101) A61K 9/5115 (20130101) A61K 31/695 (20130101) A61K 41/0042 (20130101) A61K 47/48192 (20130101) A61K 47/48861 (20130101) A61K 47/48884 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 7/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07F 7/18 (20130101) |
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| US 09403854 | Grubbs et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert H. Grubbs (South Pasadena, California); Arnab K. Chatterjee (Pasadena, California); Tae-Lim Choi (Pasadena, California); Steven D. Goldberg (Pasadena, California); Jennifer A. Love (Pasadena, California); John P. Morgan (Pasadena, California); Daniel P. Sanders (Pasadena, California); Matthias Scholl (Cambridge, Massachusetts); F. Dean Toste (Pasadena, California); Tina M. Trnka (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention pertains to the use of Group 8 transition metal carbene complexes as catalysts for olefin cross-metathesis reactions. In particular, ruthenium and osmium alkylidene complexes substituted with an N-heterocyclic carbene ligand are used to catalyze cross-metathesis reactions to provide a variety of substituted and functionalized olefins, including phosphonate-substituted olefins, directly halogenated olefins, 1,1,2-trisubstituted olefins, and quaternary allylic olefins. The invention further provides a method for creating functional diversity using the aforementioned complexes to catalyze cross-metathesis reactions of a first olefinic reactant, which may or may not be substituted with a functional group, with each of a plurality of different olefinic reactants, which may or may not be substituted with functional groups, to give a plurality of structurally distinct olefinic products. The methodology of the invention is also useful in facilitating the stereoselective synthesis of 1,2-disubstituted olefins in the cis configuration. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/055442 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 6/04 (20130101) C07C 17/275 (20130101) C07C 17/275 (20130101) C07C 25/13 (20130101) C07C 29/40 (20130101) C07C 29/40 (20130101) C07C 29/46 (20130101) C07C 33/483 (20130101) C07C 41/14 (20130101) C07C 45/69 (20130101) C07C 45/69 (20130101) C07C 47/21 (20130101) C07C 67/293 (20130101) C07C 67/293 (20130101) C07C 67/293 (20130101) C07C 67/293 (20130101) C07C 67/293 (20130101) C07C 67/297 (20130101) C07C 67/343 (20130101) C07C 67/343 (20130101) C07C 67/343 (20130101) C07C 67/343 (20130101) C07C 67/343 (20130101) C07C 67/475 (20130101) C07C 67/475 (20130101) C07C 67/475 (20130101) C07C 67/475 (20130101) C07C 69/007 (20130101) C07C 69/16 (20130101) C07C 69/18 (20130101) C07C 69/56 (20130101) C07C 69/78 (20130101) C07C 69/78 (20130101) C07C 69/145 (20130101) C07C 69/145 (20130101) C07C 69/157 (20130101) C07C 69/533 (20130101) C07C 69/732 (20130101) C07C 201/12 (20130101) C07C 201/12 (20130101) C07C 205/06 (20130101) C07C 319/20 (20130101) C07C 319/20 (20130101) C07C 321/14 (20130101) C07C 2101/14 (20130101) C07C 2101/16 (20130101) C07C 2103/74 (20130101) C07C 2531/22 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 263/14 (20130101) C07D 317/12 (20130101) C07D 317/20 (20130101) C07D 317/24 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 7/1892 (20130101) C07F 9/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07F 9/4015 (20130101) C07F 15/0046 (20130101) |
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| US 09403872 | Leppla et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen H. Leppla (Bethesda, Maryland); Shi-Hui Liu (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Sarah Netzel-Arnett (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Henning Birkedal-Hansen (Bethesda, Maryland); Thomas Bugge (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of specifically targeting compounds to cells overexpressing matrix metalloproteinases, plasminogen activators, or plasminogen activator receptors, by administering a compound and a mutant protective antigen protein comprising a matrix metalloproteinase or a plasminogen activator-recognized cleavage site in place of the native protective antigen furin-recognized cleavage site, wherein the mutant protective antigen is cleaved by a matrix metalloproteinase or a plasminogen activator overexpressed by the cell, thereby translocating into the cell a compound comprising a lethal factor polypeptide comprising a protective antigen binding site. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/313575 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 47/48353 (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) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/32 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09403876 | Spaller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark Spaller (Lebanon, New Hampshire); John Marshall (Providence, Rhode Island); Dennis J. Goebel (Detroit, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Spaller (Lebanon, New Hampshire); John Marshall (Providence, Rhode Island); Dennis J. Goebel (Detroit, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition which is reversible inhibitor of at least one neuron-specific PDZ domain comprising wherein R is a molecular transporter with or without a linker amino acid; R1 is at least about one amino acid covalently bound; and, R2 is isoleucine, leucine, alanine, phenylalanine, or valine, and methods of use. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/320848 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/56 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2982 (20150115) |
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| US 09403888 | Khaled |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Annette Khaled (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods for purifying a Bax protein. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention. |
| FILED | Friday, December 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/363793 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/4747 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2319/036 (20130101) |
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| US 09403891 | Liu |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chuan-Ju Liu (Orange, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chuan-Ju Liu (Orange, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to methods and compositions for modulating TNF and TNFR signaling. In particular, the disclosure describes methods and compositions for inhibiting TNFα signaling, such as in the prevention or treatment of TNFα-related diseases. |
| FILED | Friday, March 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/003756 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/18 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/475 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/525 (20130101) C07K 14/70578 (20130101) |
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| US 09403895 | Marinkovich 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 (Stanford, California); The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | M. Peter Marinkovich (Redwood City, California); Alfred T. Lane (Los Altos, California); Jayakumar Rajadas (Cupertino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved methods are provided for the recombinant synthesis of collagen, particularly collagen VII, in host cell, and for therapeutic delivery of the same. The recombinant collagen is produced in a host cell that has increased levels of prolyl-4-hydroxylase, relative to basal cell levels. The collagen produced by the methods of the invention has increased numbers of modified proline residues, relative to a recombinant collagen produced in a host cell having basal levels of prolyl-4-hydroxylase. The increased proline modification provides for a collagen having increased stability, including increased in vivo stability. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/700951 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/39 (20130101) Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 37/0015 (20130101) A61M 2037/0023 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/78 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09403908 | Varner |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Judith A. Varner (Encinitas, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Judith A. Varner (Encinitas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention satisfies the need in the art by providing methods for altering hematopoietic progenitor cell adhesion and/or migration to a target tissue, and for altering hematopoietic progenitor cell differentiation into a second cell type. The invention also provides methods for screening test compounds for altering the level of hematopoietic progenitor cell adhesion and/or migration to a target tissue, and for altering hematopoietic progenitor cell differentiation into a second cell type. The invention further provides methods for isolating hematopoietic progenitor cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/573944 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/07 (20130101) A61K 38/08 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/2842 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/68 (20130101) G01N 33/5008 (20130101) G01N 33/5029 (20130101) G01N 33/5044 (20130101) G01N 33/5058 (20130101) G01N 33/5064 (20130101) G01N 33/5073 (20130101) G01N 2333/70546 (20130101) G01N 2500/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09403911 | Batra et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Surinder K. Batra (Omaha, Nebraska); Maneesh Jain (Omaha, Nebraska); Moorthy P. Ponnusamy (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Surinder K. Batra (Omaha, Nebraska); Maneesh Jain (Omaha, Nebraska); Moorthy P. Ponnusamy (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel antibodies for the detection and/or treatment of a cancer (e.g., a pancreatic cancer or an ovarian cancer) are provided. In certain embodiments the antibodies bind a region of the MUC4 protein that does not comprise the central tandem repeat (TR) domain of MUC4. Certain antibodies bind to the MUC4 peptide fragment MUC4-α-N-Ter and/or to the MUC4 peptide fragment MUC4-α-C-Ter. Chimeric constructs comprising such antibodies are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/122171 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/3092 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/574 (20130101) G01N 33/57411 (20130101) G01N 33/57438 (20130101) G01N 33/57446 (20130101) G01N 33/57449 (20130101) G01N 2333/4725 (20130101) G01N 2400/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09404098 | Terns et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rebecca M. Terns (Athens, Georgia); Michael P. Terns (Athens, Georgia); Jason Carte (Athens, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rebecca M. Terns (Athens, Georgia); Michael P. Terns (Athens, Georgia); Jason Carte (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods for cleaving a target RNA polynucleotide. The target RNA polynucleotide includes a Cas6 recognition domain and a cleavage site, and may be based on a repeat from a CRISPR locus. The methods may be practiced in vivo or in vitro. Also provided are polypeptides that have Cas6 endoribonuclease activity in the presence of a target RNA polynucleotide, and methods for using the polypeptides. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/127764 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/22 (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 1/6806 (20130101) C12Q 1/6806 (20130101) C12Q 2521/307 (20130101) |
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| US 09404130 | Ajikumar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); National University of Singapore (Singapore, Singapore) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); National University of Singapore (Singapore, Singapore) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Parayil K. Ajikumar (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Gregory Stephanopoulos (Winchester, Massachusetts); Heng Phon Too (Singapore, Singapore) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to the production of one or more terpenoids through microbial engineering, and relates to the manufacture of products comprising terpenoids. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/552676 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 5/007 (20130101) C12P 7/42 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 15/00 (20130101) C12P 17/02 (20130101) C12P 19/56 (20130101) C12P 23/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09404140 | Molnar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter Molnar (Szombathely, Hungary); Anupama Natarajan (Chennai, India); Maria Stancescu (Oviedo, Florida); James Hickman (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Molnar (Szombathely, Hungary); Anupama Natarajan (Chennai, India); Maria Stancescu (Oviedo, Florida); James Hickman (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a culture of patterned cardiomyocytes, the culture including a support substrate bearing a multielectrode array, a negative surface resistant to cell attachment and deposited on the support substrate covering the multi-electrode array, a pattern ablated on the negative surface, a positive surface promoting cell attachment deposited on the pattern ablated on the negative surface; and cardiomyocytes adherent to the positive surface and growing aligned along the pattern ablated on the negative surface. The invention also includes a method of making the culture of patterned cardiomyocytes and a method of in vitro method of testing the effect of a compound on cardiac function by measuring electrical output from the patterned cardiomyocytes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/938701 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/02 (20130101) C12Q 1/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5008 (20130101) |
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| US 09404157 | Fan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hei-Mun Christina Fan (Fremont, California); Stephen R. Quake (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method to achieve digital quantification of DNA (i.e., counting differences between identical sequences) using direct shotgun sequencing followed by mapping to the chromosome of origin and enumeration of fragments per chromosome. The preferred method uses massively parallel sequencing, which can produce tens of millions of short sequence tags in a single run and enabling a sampling that can be statistically evaluated. By counting the number of sequence tags mapped to a predefined window in each chromosome, the over- or under-representation of any chromosome in maternal plasma DNA contributed by an aneuploid fetus can be detected. This method does not require the differentiation of fetal versus maternal DNA. The median count of autosomal values is used as a normalization constant to account for differences in total number of sequence tags is used for comparison between samples and between chromosomes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/921881 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/48 (20130101) G01N 2800/387 (20130101) |
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| US 09404161 | Engelthaler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Translational Genomics Research Institute (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Translational Genomics Research Institute (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Engelthaler (Flagstaff, Arizona); Elizabeth Driebe (Flagstaff, Arizona); Paul Keim (Flagstaff, Arizona); James M. Schupp (Flagstaff, Arizona); Erin Kelley (Flagstaff, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and kits that may be used to detect and quantify the presence of Coccidioides species. The methods include quantification real-time PCR assays, and the kits and compositions include oligonucleotides used as primers and probes. |
| FILED | Friday, July 05, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/935668 |
| 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 1/6895 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/112 (20130101) |
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| US 09404730 | Buckland |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bioptigen, Inc. (Morrisville, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bioptigen, Inc. (Morrisville, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric L. Buckland (Hickory, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems and computer program products for managing frequency domain optical coherence tomography (FDOCT) image resolution. A spectrum used to acquire an image of a subject is calibrated and default dispersion correction parameters are set. Default dispersion management parameters associated with a region of the image of the subject are also set. The image of the subject is acquires after setting the default dispersion correction parameters and the default dispersion management parameters. A quality of the acquired image is compared to a quality metric for the acquired image. The dispersion correction parameters are adjusted if the quality of the acquired image does not meet or exceed the quality metric for the acquired image. The acquired image is reprocesses based on the adjusted dispersion correction parameters. The steps of comparing, adjusting and reprocessing are repeated until the acquired image meets or exceeds the quality metric for the acquired image. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/643155 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 3/102 (20130101) A61B 3/117 (20130101) A61B 5/0066 (20130101) A61B 5/7207 (20130101) A61B 5/7257 (20130101) Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 9/02091 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/4795 (20130101) Measuring Linear or Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, or Shock; Indicating Presence, Absence, or Direction, of Movement G01P 3/36 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 11/003 (20130101) |
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| US 09404870 | Butte et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pramod Butte (Los Angeles, California); Paul Lapchak (San Diego, California); David Scott Kittle (Colton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides systems for characterizing a biological sample by analyzing emission of fluorescent light from the biological sample upon excitation and methods for using the same. The system includes a laser source, collection fibers, a demultiplexer and an optical delay device. All references cited herein are incorporated by reference in their entirety as though fully set forth. Unless defined otherwise, technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/776086 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/64 (20130101) G01N 21/6408 (20130101) G01N 21/6486 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2021/6421 (20130101) G01N 2021/6484 (20130101) |
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| US 09404909 | Aksimentiev |
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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) | Aleksei Aksimentiev (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method for selectively applying an electrical potential to a top surface of a membrane having a nanopore to repel or attract a molecular strand from the top surface of the membrane, applying a second electrical potential to a bottom surface of the membrane to repel or attract the molecular strand from the bottom surface of the membrane, applying a third electrical potential to an electrolyte solution to apply a transport force on the molecular strand to displace a section of the molecular strand into the nanopore, arresting the section of the molecular strand in the nanopore by adjusting of the first electrical potential, the second electrical potential, the third electrical potential, or combinations thereof, and measuring a signal at the nanopore to identify the section of the molecular strand. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/911333 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 2565/531 (20130101) C12Q 2565/631 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/48721 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09404922 | Fischetti 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) | Vincent Fischetti (New York, New York); Raymond Schuch (New York, New York); Sherry Kan (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides recombinant phages, a Wip1 p23 receptor binding protein and a Wip1 p24 receptor binding protein that bind to Bacillus anthracis. The disclosure further provides methods and uses thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/332060 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — 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 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2795/10031 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6486 (20130101) G01N 33/56911 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/705 (20130101) |
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| US 09404924 | Love et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | J. Christopher Love (Somerville, Massachusetts); Yuan Gong (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Christopher Love (Somerville, Massachusetts); Yuan Gong (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for detecting virus production, determining frequency and identity of HIV reservoirs, or evaluating gene expression on a single-cell basis using microengraving and RT-PCR. |
| FILED | Monday, October 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/911642 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/703 (20130101) C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56983 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09404926 | Mulé et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James J. Mulé (Odessa, Florida); Domenico Coppola (Tampa, Florida); Timothy J. Yeatman (Thonotosassa, Florida); Andrey Loboda (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Michael V. Nebozhyn (Yeadon, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc. (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James J. Mulé (Odessa, Florida); Domenico Coppola (Tampa, Florida); Timothy J. Yeatman (Thonotosassa, Florida); Andrey Loboda (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Michael V. Nebozhyn (Yeadon, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to methods for selecting a treatment, treating, and predicting survival time in subjects with cancer, such as colorectal cancer, based on tumor expression levels of chemokines, cytotoxic genes, and/or dendritic cell genes. |
| FILED | Friday, January 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/575354 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) C12Q 2600/106 (20130101) C12Q 2600/118 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/574 (20130101) G01N 33/57419 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09404927 | Whitsett et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Translational Genomics Research Institute (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Translational Genomics Research Institute (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy G. Whitsett (Phoenix, Arizona); Nhan L. Tran (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention provide a method detecting and treating cancer, such as lung cancer. In some aspects, the method may include detecting cancer in a subject, which may comprise assessing the expression of a marker in a sample from the subject. For example, the marker may comprise c-Met and/or Fn14. In some embodiments, if the subject is diagnosed as having cancer, the method may further provide administering a therapeutically effective amount of a substance that reduces the expression level of Fn14 to the subject to reduce the invasive and migratory capabilities of the cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, December 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/561313 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1138 (20130101) C12N 2310/11 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2320/30 (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 1/6886 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57423 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09404986 | White et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nathan S. White (San Diego, California); Anders M. Dale (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan S. White (San Diego, California); Anders M. Dale (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, devices and systems are disclosed for measuring biological tissue parameters using restriction spectrum magnetic resonance imaging. In one aspect, a method of characterizing a biological structure includes determining individual diffusion signals from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data in a set of MRI images that include diffusion weighting conditions (e.g., diffusion gradient directions, diffusion gradient strengths, sensitivity factors (b-values), or diffusion times), combining the individual diffusion signals to determine a processed diffusion signal corresponding to at least one location within one or more voxels of the MRI data, calculating one or more parameters from the processed diffusion signal by using the diffusion weighting conditions, and using the one or more parameters to identify a characteristic of the biological structure, in which the one or more parameters include values over a range of one or more diffusion length scales based on at least one of diffusion distance or diffusion rate. |
| FILED | Monday, May 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/466081 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/48 (20130101) G01R 33/56341 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09406133 | Yang |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Qiang Yang (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qiang Yang (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for image registration includes the steps of: providing a computer and an imager; acquiring and processing a reference image frame including a plurality of reference strips; acquiring and correcting a target frame by the steps of: acquiring one or more target frame strips of the target frame; comparing the one or more target frame strips in real-time to one or more corresponding strips of the reference frame based on a calculated registration of a specific target frame strip from a previous target frame; correcting a registration of the one or more target frame strips; repeating steps until a last strip of the target frame; repeating the steps of acquiring and correcting a target frame until a last target frame is acquired; and saving processed image based on a plurality of corrected target frames to a non-volatile memory. A system to perform the method is also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/596927 |
| 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 9/00973 (20130101) G06K 9/6202 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 5/50 (20130101) G06T 7/0038 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2207/20056 (20130101) G06T 2207/20216 (20130101) |
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| US 09406142 | Gorman, III et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph H. Gorman, III (Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania); Alison M. Pouch (Abington, Pennsylvania); Robert C. Gorman (Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania); Hongzhi Wang (Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania); Paul Yushkevich (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Benjamin M Jackson (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Brian B. Avants (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Chandra M. Sehgal (Wayne, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A fully automatic method for segmentation of the mitral leaflets in 3D transesophageal echocardiographic (3D TEE) images is provided. The method combines complementary probabilistic segmentation and geometric modeling techniques to generate 3D patient-specific reconstructions of the mitral leaflets and annulus from 3D TEE image data with no user interaction. In the model-based segmentation framework, mitral leaflet geometry is described with 3D continuous medial representation (cm-rep). To capture leaflet geometry in a target 3D TEE image, a pre-defined cm-rep template of the mitral leaflets is deformed such that the negative log of a Bayesian posterior probability is minimized. The likelihood of the objective function is given by a probabilistic segmentation of the mitral leaflets generated by multi-atlas joint label fusion, while the validity constraints and regularization terms imposed by cm-rep act as shape priors that preserve leaflet topology and constrain model fitting. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/509342 |
| ART UNIT | 2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0081 (20130101) G06T 7/0087 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 7/0097 (20130101) G06T 2207/10136 (20130101) G06T 2207/20076 (20130101) G06T 2207/20128 (20130101) G06T 2207/30048 (20130101) G06T 2210/41 (20130101) |
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| US 09406154 | Fu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York); The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lin Fu (Niskayuna, New York); Madison Gray McGaffin (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Zhou Yu (Madison, Wisconsin); Jean-Baptiste Thibault (Waukesha, Wisconsin); Sathish Ramani (Waukesha, Wisconsin); Jeffrey Allen Fessler (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Bruno Kristiaan Bernard De Man (Clifton Park, New York); Debashish Pal (Waukesha, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The use of the channelized preconditioners in iterative reconstruction is disclosed. In certain embodiments, different channels correspond to different frequency sub-bands and the output of the different channels can be combined to update an image estimate used in the iterative reconstruction process. While individual channels may be relatively simple, the combined channels can represent complex spatial variant operations. The use of channelized preconditioners allows empirical adjustment of individual channels. |
| FILED | Friday, June 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/918656 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 11/006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2211/424 (20130101) |
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09407999 — System and method for enhancing the binaural representation for hearing-impaired subjects
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher A. Brown (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Arizona Board of Regents Acting for and on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher A. Brown (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of enhancing binaural representation for a subject includes receiving a first signal and a second signal in response to a plurality of sound sources, generating a number of estimated interaural time differences using the first signal and the second signal, converting each of the number of estimated interaural time differences to a corresponding interaural level difference, using one or more of the corresponding interaural level differences to generate an adjusted first signal, and using the adjusted first signal to generate a number of signals delivered to the subject for enhancing the hearing of the subject. |
| FILED | Monday, February 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/170870 |
| ART UNIT | 2656 — Digital Audio Data Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups or Like Acoustic Electromechanical Transducers; Deaf-aid Sets; Public Address Systems H04R 25/43 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04R 25/552 (20130101) H04R 2430/03 (20130101) Stereophonic Systems H04S 2420/01 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Liangliang Qiang (Willimantic, Connecticut); Santhisagar Vaddiraju (Willimantic, Connecticut); Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos (West Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT (Farmington, Connecticut); BIORASIS (Storrs, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Liangliang Qiang (Willimantic, Connecticut); Santhisagar Vaddiraju (Willimantic, Connecticut); Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos (West Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a sensor comprising a conduit; the conduit comprising an organic polymer; a working electrode; the working electrode being etched and decorated with a nanostructured material; a reference electrode; and a counter electrode; the working electrode, the reference electrode and the counter electrode being disposed in the conduit; the working electrode, the reference electrode and the counter electrode being separated from each other by an electrically insulating material; and wherein a cross-sectional area of the conduit that comprises a section of the working electrode, a section of the reference electrode and a section of the counter electrode is exposed to detect analytes. |
| FILED | Monday, June 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/164656 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/1473 (20130101) A61B 5/14865 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09402839 | Wipf et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh - Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Wipf (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Jingbo Xiao (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Mitchell P. Fink (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Valerian Kagan (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Yulia Tyurina (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Anthony J. Kanai (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a composition and related methods for delivering cargo to a mitochondria which includes (a) a membrane active peptidyl fragment having a high affinity with the mitochondria and (b) cargo. The cargo may be selected from a wide variety of desired cargos which are to be delivered to the mitochondria for a specific purpose. Compositions and methods are disclosed for treating an illness that is caused or associated with cellular damage or dysfunction which is caused by excessive mitochondrial production of reaction oxygen species (ROS). Compositions which act as mitochondria-selective targeting agents using the structural signaling of the β-turn recognizable by cells as mitochondria) targeting sequences are discussed. Mitochondria and cell death by way of apoptosis is inhibited as a result of the ROS-scavenging activity, thereby increasing the survival rate of the patient. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 11, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/619680 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/555 (20130101) A61K 31/4468 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/7034 (20130101) A61K 31/7048 (20130101) A61K 47/481 (20130101) A61K 47/48023 (20130101) A61K 47/48246 (20130101) Peptides C07K 5/08 (20130101) C07K 5/10 (20130101) C07K 7/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09402911 | Baker, Jr. 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) | James R. Baker, Jr. (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Baohua M. Huang (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Thommey P. Thomas (Dexter, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to dendrimer synthesis. Specifically, the present invention relates to dendrimer compositions (e.g., scaffolds) capable of copper-free click conjugation for use in the synthesis of functionalized dendrimers, and methods of use of the same. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/363185 |
| 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 31/519 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 47/48023 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/48207 (20130101) A61K 49/10 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 73/028 (20130101) C08G 83/004 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 101/005 (20130101) |
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| US 09402920 | Tang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MicroVAX, LLC (Manassas, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MicroVAX, LLC (Warrenton, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yucheng Tang (San Diego, California); Albert Deisseroth (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are expression vectors for generating an immune response to a mucin. The vectors comprise a transcription unit encoding a secretable polypeptide, the polypeptide comprising a secretory signal, a mucin antigen and CD40 ligand. Also provided are methods of generating an immune response against cells expressing a mucin by administering an effective amount of the vector. Further provided are methods of generating an immune response against cancer cells expressing a mucin in an individual by administering an effective amount of the vector. Still further provided are methods of overcoming anergy to a mucin self antigen by administering an effective amount of the vector. |
| FILED | Friday, April 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/256091 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/127 (20130101) A61K 39/0011 (20130101) A61K 48/00 (20130101) A61K 48/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/6031 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/4727 (20130101) C07K 14/70578 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/85 (20130101) |
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| US 09403112 | Ruiz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Dayton (Dayton, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America As Represented By The Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia); University of Dayton (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oscar N. Ruiz (Bellbrook, Ohio); K. A. Shiral Fernando (Beavercreek, Ohio); Christopher E. Bunker (Kettering, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and device for filtering fluids using graphene oxide (GO) is provided. GO-based filters may be used for the efficient removal of microorganisms from organic and aqueous liquids and may be used to prevent fuel biodeterioration. Functionalization of graphene oxide with reactive oxygen functional groups provides physical properties to the GO including high solubility in polar solvents, good colloidal properties, low production costs, low toxicity, and a large surface area which can be decorated with antimicrobial agents including nanosilver. GO may be used as a filtration media for efficient removal of bacteria and to remove small amounts of water from hydrocarbon fuels. The GO filter media may be made of a plurality of GO particles, a structural core coated with GO, a non-porous structural membrane coated with GO, or a filtering membrane coated with GO. A method for sampling impurities found in an environmental sample is also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, July 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/940612 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 23/14 (20130101) B01D 39/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 39/1692 (20130101) B01D 71/021 (20130101) B01D 2239/0407 (20130101) B01D 2239/0442 (20130101) B01D 2239/0478 (20130101) B01D 2325/48 (20130101) Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/281 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/25 (20150115) |
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09403208 — Method and casting core for forming a landing for welding a baffle inserted in an airfoil
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tracy A. Propheter-Hinckley (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tracy A. Propheter-Hinckley (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and casting core for forming a landing for welding a baffle inserted into an airfoil are disclosed, wherein the baffle landing of the blade or vane is formed in investment casting by the casting core rather than by wax, reducing tolerances and variability in the location of the baffle inserted into the cooling cavity of airfoil when the baffle is welded to the baffle landing. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/981630 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Foundry Moulding B22C 9/04 (20130101) B22C 9/10 (20130101) B22C 9/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B22C 9/103 (20130101) Casting of Metals; Casting of Other Substances by the Same Processes or Devices B22D 25/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09403272 | Kornbluh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roy David Kornbluh (Palo Alto, California); Alexander Steele Kernbaum (Sunnyvale, California); Thomas Low (Belmont, California); Katherine Goss Witherspoon (San Francisco, California); Brian Keith McCoy (Sunnyvale, California); Adam Arnold Edward Ziemba (Menlo Park, California); Paul Michael Birkmeyer (Redwood City, California); Richard M. Mahoney (Los Altos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A flexible exosuit includes rigid and flexible elements configured to couple forces to a body of a wearer. Further, the flexible exosuit includes flexible linear actuators and clutched compliance elements to apply and/or modulate forces and/or compliances between segments of the body of the wearer. The flexible exosuit further includes electronic controllers, power sources and sensors. The flexible exosuit can be configured to apply forces to the body of the wearer to enable a variety of applications. In some examples, the flexible exosuit can be configured to augment the physical strength or endurance of the wearer. In some examples, the flexible exosuit can be configured to train the wearer to perform certain physical tasks. In some examples, the flexible exosuit can be configured to record physical activities of the wearer. |
| FILED | Monday, March 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/673211 |
| ART UNIT | 3667 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 9/0006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B25J 9/104 (20130101) B25J 9/1615 (20130101) B25J 9/1633 (20130101) Couplings for Transmitting Rotation; Clutches; Brakes F16D 28/00 (20130101) Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 2219/36429 (20130101) G05B 2219/39345 (20130101) G05B 2219/40305 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 901/02 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49826 (20150115) |
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| US 09403322 | Das et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia); The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION (Atlanta, Georgia); THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Suman Das (Atlanta, Georgia); John W. Halloran (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for fabricating three-dimensional objects are disclosed. The system includes an optical imaging system providing a light source; a photosensitive medium adapted to change states upon exposure to a portion of the light source from the optical imaging system; a control system for controlling movement of the optical imaging system, wherein the optical imaging system moves continuously above the photosensitive medium. The method includes moving a maskless optical imaging system providing the light beam in a continuous sequence; presenting the light beam on a portion of the photosensitive medium; lowering a plate upon which the photosensitive medium resides; and applying a new layer of the photosensitive medium. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/132835 |
| ART UNIT | 1744 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 67/0066 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 27/42 (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 7/2057 (20130101) G03F 7/70291 (20130101) G03F 7/70416 (20130101) |
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| US 09403594 | Gill, III et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Frank Joseph Gill, III (Conshohocken, Pennsylvania); Matthew Howard Cawthorne (Wayne, Pennsylvania); Christopher James Cline (Glen Mills, Pennsylvania); Dinesh Panneerselvam (Thorndale, Pennsylvania); Russell Eddy Fay (Newark, Delaware) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Joseph Gill, III (Conshohocken, Pennsylvania); Matthew Howard Cawthorne (Wayne, Pennsylvania); Christopher James Cline (Glen Mills, Pennsylvania); Dinesh Panneerselvam (Thorndale, Pennsylvania); Russell Eddy Fay (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | An enclosure for carrying an adjustable payload. The enclosure is beneficially used on a rotorcraft blade or other similar structure. The enclosure has a first element having a first flange and an upper element. The first element has an upper surface which has a first angle with respect to a lower surface of the first flange in a direction extending from an inboard direction to an outboard direction. The upper element has a lower surface which has a second angle with respect to an upper surface of said upper element in a direction extending from an inboard direction to an outboard direction, the lower surface being in contact with the upper surface of said first element, the second angle being in a direction which is opposite to the direction of said first angle. The first element and the upper element define a cavity for holding a payload. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 25, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/625959 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal-working Not Otherwise Provided For; Combined Operations; Universal Machine Tools B23P 15/04 (20130101) Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 65/002 (20130101) Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 27/008 (20130101) B64C 27/473 (20130101) Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 9/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49337 (20150115) |
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| US 09403684 | Strano et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael S. Strano (Lexington, Massachusetts); Thomas P. McNicholas (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Andrew J. Hilmer (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Rishabh M. Jain (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Kevin C. Tvrdy (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to compositions, methods, and systems for separating carbon-based nanostructures. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/827478 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0266 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09403723 | Keller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Teddy M. Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Andrew Saab (Washington, District of Columbia); Matthew Laskoski (Springfield, Virginia); Manoj K. Kolel-Veetil (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Teddy M. Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Andrew Saab (Washington, District of Columbia); Matthew Laskoski (Springfield, Virginia); Manoj K. Kolel-Veetil (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition having nanoparticles of a refractory-metal carbide or refractory-metal nitride and a carbonaceous matrix. The composition is not in the form of a powder. A composition comprising a metal component and an organic component. The metal component is nanoparticles or particles of a refractory metal or a refractory-metal compound capable of decomposing into refractory metal nanoparticles. The organic component is an organic compound having a char yield of at least 60% by weight or a thermoset made from the organic compound. A method of combining particles of a refractory metal or a refractory-metal compound capable of reacting or decomposing into refractory-metal nanoparticles with an organic compound having a char yield of at least 60% by weight to form a precursor mixture. |
| FILED | Friday, April 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/245111 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 21/062 (20130101) C01B 21/0617 (20130101) C01B 21/0761 (20130101) C01B 21/0765 (20130101) C01B 31/303 (20130101) C01B 31/305 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/72 (20130101) C01P 2004/03 (20130101) C01P 2004/64 (20130101) C01P 2004/80 (20130101) Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/52 (20130101) C04B 35/66 (20130101) C04B 35/76 (20130101) C04B 35/83 (20130101) C04B 35/522 (20130101) C04B 35/524 (20130101) C04B 35/657 (20130101) C04B 35/806 (20130101) C04B 35/5607 (20130101) C04B 35/5611 (20130101) C04B 35/5622 (20130101) C04B 35/5626 (20130101) C04B 35/6265 (20130101) C04B 35/6269 (20130101) C04B 35/58007 (20130101) C04B 35/58014 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C04B 35/58028 (20130101) C04B 35/62645 (20130101) C04B 35/62675 (20130101) C04B 35/62695 (20130101) C04B 2235/38 (20130101) C04B 2235/44 (20130101) C04B 2235/46 (20130101) C04B 2235/48 (20130101) C04B 2235/80 (20130101) C04B 2235/404 (20130101) C04B 2235/422 (20130101) C04B 2235/425 (20130101) C04B 2235/526 (20130101) C04B 2235/658 (20130101) C04B 2235/663 (20130101) C04B 2235/3839 (20130101) C04B 2235/3843 (20130101) C04B 2235/3847 (20130101) C04B 2235/3886 (20130101) C04B 2235/5248 (20130101) C04B 2235/5288 (20130101) C04B 2235/5454 (20130101) C04B 2235/6562 (20130101) C04B 2235/6581 (20130101) C04B 2235/6586 (20130101) |
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| US 09404018 | Verborgt 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) | Jozef Verborgt (Dunedin, Florida); Arthur A. Webb (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A polyol having the formula Si(O—R1—OH)m(O—R2)nR3. Each R1 is a divalent radical derived from diethylene glycol, triethylene glycol, dipropylene glycol, or tripropylene glycol, each R2 is an aliphatic group, and R3 is an alkyl group or aromatic group. The value m is 2 or 3 and n is 0 or 1. A process of making the above polyol by: providing a reactant having the formula Si(O—R2)3R3, and reacting the reactant with a diol having the formula HO—R1—OH. An antifouling coating comprising a thermoset formed by reacting a polyisocyanate with the above polyol. The coating is not a foam. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/887407 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 7/188 (20130101) C07F 7/1836 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 3/005 (20130101) C08K 5/0058 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 5/1675 (20130101) C09D 175/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09404096 | Arnold et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frances Arnold (Pasadena, California); Peter Meinhold (Pasadena, California); Matthew W. Peters (Pasadena, California); Rudi Fasan (Brea, California); Mike M. Y. Chen (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to modified hydroxylases. The invention further relates to cells expressing such modified hydroxylases and methods of producing hydroxylated alkanes by contacting a suitable substrate with such cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/788365 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/32 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/0071 (20130101) C12N 9/0077 (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 7/04 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 114/15 (20130101) C12Y 114/15003 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/52 (20151101) |
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| US 09404156 | Hicks et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James Hicks (Locust Valley, New York); Nicholas Navin (Houston, Texas); Jennifer Troge (Oyster Bay, New York); Zihua Wang (Huntington, New York); Michael Wigler (Cold Spring Harbor, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Hicks (Locust Valley, New York); Nicholas Navin (Houston, Texas); Jennifer Troge (Oyster Bay, New York); Zihua Wang (Huntington, New York); Michael Wigler (Cold Spring Harbor, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for obtaining from genomic material genomic copy number information unaffected by amplification distortion, comprising obtaining segments of the genomic material, tagging the segments with substantially unique tags to generate tagged nucleic acid molecules, such that each tagged nucleic acid molecule comprises one segment of the genomic material and a tag, subjecting the tagged nucleic acid molecules to polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification, generating tag associated sequence reads by sequencing the product of the PCR reaction, assigning each tagged nucleic acid molecule to a location on a genome associated with the genomic material by mapping the subsequence of each tag associated sequence read corresponding to a segment of the genomic material to a location on the genome, and counting the number of tagged nucleic acid molecules assigned to the same location on the genome having a different tag, thereby obtaining genomic copy number information unaffected by amplification distortion. |
| FILED | Friday, October 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/278333 |
| 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 1/683 (20130101) C12Q 1/683 (20130101) C12Q 1/6881 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) C12Q 2525/155 (20130101) C12Q 2525/191 (20130101) C12Q 2535/122 (20130101) C12Q 2537/16 (20130101) C12Q 2537/159 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) |
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| US 09404718 | Shaver et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vadum Inc. (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vadum Inc. (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jesse Hart Shaver (Cary, North Carolina); Aaron Lael Walker (Durham, North Carolina); Michael Joseph Trapani (Raleigh, North Carolina); Jennings Gary Edge (Durham, North Carolina); Todd Nichols (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for firing a plurality of disrupter loads in arbitrary order at the discretion of the user is disclosed. The loads may be of the same or different types. Both liquid and solid projectiles may be fired. Further, the disrupter may be operated by a user at safe standoff distance from a robotic mount with the aid of control, targeting, ranging and recoil systems. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/694768 |
| 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 21/06 (20130101) F41A 29/04 (20130101) Weapons for Projecting Missiles Without Use of Explosive or Combustible Propellant Charge; Weapons Not Otherwise Provided for F41B 9/0046 (20130101) Armour; Armoured Turrets; Armoured or Armed Vehicles; Means of Attack or Defence, e.g Camouflage, in General F41H 11/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09404775 | Mylaraswamy |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dinkar Mylaraswamy (Fridley, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dinkar Mylaraswamy (Fridley, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for identifying a faulty sensor are provided. One system includes multiple sensors, each generating a first set of parameters based on detected measurands. The system also includes a fusion module for generating a second set of parameters by fusing the first sets of parameters, and a sensor fault module including multiple fault templates defining sensor faults, an estimation module for generating a third set of parameters based on the first and second sets of parameters, and an evaluation module. The evaluation module is configured to compare the third set of parameters and the fault templates, and determine a sensor fault based on the comparison. A method includes receiving a first set of parameters based on measurands from multiple sensors and a second set of parameters based on a measurand from a sensor, and determining a sensor fault based on the first and second set of parameters. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/112849 |
| ART UNIT | 2865 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Not Specially Adapted for a Specific Variable; Arrangements for Measuring Two or More Variables Not Covered in a Single Other Subclass; Tariff Metering Apparatus; Measuring or Testing Not Otherwise Provided for G01D 18/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09404839 | Reed et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Allen Hagerman Reed (Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi); Hang Yin (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); David C. Young (Long Beach, Mississippi); Guoping Zhang (Hadley, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allen Hagerman Reed (Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi); Hang Yin (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); David C. Young (Long Beach, Mississippi); Guoping Zhang (Hadley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods for testing sediment submerged in liquid and manufacturing the apparatus. The apparatus and methods of the present embodiment can provide for nano/micro characterization of mechanical properties of materials submerged in liquid, facilitating specimen preparation and installation, and can provide hydrated materials. The apparatus can include cell walls with optical magnifying lenses so that the materials can be viewed without the aid of a microscope. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/574619 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 3/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 3/068 (20130101) G01N 33/24 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49826 (20150115) |
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| US 09405008 | Raskar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ramesh Raskar (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Achuta Kadambi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ayush Bhandari (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Christopher Barsi (Exeter, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramesh Raskar (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Achuta Kadambi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ayush Bhandari (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Christopher Barsi (Exeter, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | In exemplary implementations of this invention, a multi-frequency ToF camera mitigates the effect of multi-path interference (MPI), and can calculate an accurate depth map despite MPI. A light source in the multi-frequency camera emits light in a temporal sequence of different frequencies. For example, the light source can emit a sequence of ten equidistant frequencies f=10 MHz, 20 MHz, 30 MHz, . . . , 100 MHz. At each frequency, a lock-in sensor within the ToF camera captures 4 frames. From these 4 frames, one or more processors compute, for each pixel in the sensor, a single complex number. The processors stack all of such complex quantities (one such complex number per pixel per frequency) and solve for the depth and intensity, using a spectral estimation technique. |
| FILED | Friday, May 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/280284 |
| ART UNIT | 2664 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| 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 7/493 (20130101) G01S 17/89 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09405136 | Alu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrea Alu (Austin, Texas); Dimitrios Sounas (Austin, Texas); Nicholas Estep (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-reciprocal device incorporating metamaterials which exhibit non-reciprocity through angular momentum biasing. The metamaterial, such as a ring resonator, is angular-momentum biased. This is achieved by applying a suitable mechanical or spatio-temporal modulation to resonant inclusions of the metamaterial, thereby producing strong non-reciprocity. In this manner, non-reciprocity can be produced without requiring the use of large and bulky magnets to produce a static magnetic field. The metamaterials of the present invention can be realized by semiconducting and/or metallic materials which are widely used in integrated circuit technology, and therefore, contrary to magneto-optical materials, can be easily integrated into the non-reciprocal devices and large microwave or optical systems. The metamaterials of the present invention can be compact at various frequencies due to the enhanced wave-matter interaction in the constituent resonant inclusions. Additionally, by using the metamaterials of the present invention, the power consumed in the biasing network is drastically reduced. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/296874 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | 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 1/011 (20130101) G02F 1/0136 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02F 1/0955 (20130101) G02F 2202/30 (20130101) G02F 2202/32 (20130101) G02F 2203/15 (20130101) |
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| US 09405365 | 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); Gholamreza Amayeh (Reno, Nevada); David Leblanc (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is provided for identifying reference locations within the environment of a device wearer. The system includes a scene camera mounted on eyewear or headwear coupled to a processing unit. The system may recognize objects with known geometries that occur naturally within the wearer's environment or objects that have been intentionally placed at known locations within the wearer's environment. One or more light sources may be mounted on the headwear that illuminate reflective surfaces at selected times and wavelengths to help identify scene reference locations and glints projected from known locations onto the surface of the eye. The processing unit may control light sources to adjust illumination levels in order to help identify reference locations within the environment and corresponding glints on the surface of the eye. Objects may be identified substantially continuously within video images from scene cameras to provide a continuous data stream of reference locations. |
| FILED | Monday, November 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/537823 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 3/113 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 27/017 (20130101) G02B 27/0093 (20130101) G02B 2027/014 (20130101) G02B 2027/0138 (20130101) G02B 2027/0178 (20130101) G02B 2027/0187 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/013 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00604 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0044 (20130101) G06T 2207/10016 (20130101) G06T 2207/10024 (20130101) G06T 2207/30204 (20130101) |
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| US 09405959 | Dubberley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John R. Dubberley (New Orleans, Louisiana); Bruce Y. Lin (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Dubberley (New Orleans, Louisiana); Bruce Y. Lin (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | System and method for detecting and classifying man-made objects on the seafloor using 3D reconstruction techniques. Enhanced sea floor object detection with classification is provided that is as good as provided by short range optical imagery. This approach eliminates the step of passing off identification to humans, and enhances the speed, accuracy, and safety of present operations in mine detection and neutralization. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/023846 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — 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 7/539 (20130101) G01S 15/8902 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00201 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/4661 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 17/05 (20130101) |
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| US 09406015 | Appuswamy 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) | Rathinakumar Appuswamy (San Jose, California); Myron D. Flickner (San Jose, California); Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for feature extraction comprising generating synaptic connectivity information for a neurosynaptic core circuit. The core circuit comprises one or more electronic neurons, one or more electronic axons, and an interconnect fabric including a plurality of synapse devices for interconnecting the neurons with the axons. The method further comprises initializing the interconnect fabric based on the synaptic connectivity information generated, and extracting a set of features from input received via the electronic axons. The set of features extracted comprises a set of features with reduced correlation. |
| FILED | Friday, December 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/142609 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06N 3/063 (20130101) G06N 99/005 (20130101) |
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| US 09406016 | Pino et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ICF INTERNATIONAL (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ICF INTERNATIONAL (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robinson E. Pino (Potomac, Maryland); Michael J. Shevenell (Darlington, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system that collects data from monitored network traffic. The system inputs, in parallel, the data through inputs of a neural network. The system compares an output of the neural network, generated in response to the inputted data, to at least one predetermined output. If the output of the neural network corresponds to the at least one predetermined output, the system provides a notification relating to the data. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/658513 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/02 (20130101) G06N 3/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06N 3/084 (20130101) |
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| US 09406167 | Hall et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Hall (State College, Pennsylvania); Jonathan Lynch (Boalsburg, Pennsylvania); Edward W. Reutzel (State College, Pennsylvania); Galen Lynch (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser ablation tomography system includes a specimen stage for supporting a specimen. A specimen axis is defined such that a specimen disposed generally on the axis may be imaged. A laser system is operable to produce a laser sheet in a plane intersecting the specimen axis and generally perpendicular thereto. An imaging system is operable to image the area where the laser sheet intersects the specimen axis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/067502 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/06 (20130101) G01N 2001/045 (20130101) G01N 2001/2886 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 17/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2200/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09406169 | Marks et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David B. Marks (Metairie, Louisiana); Blake Peno (Long Beach, Mississippi); Elias Z. K. Ioup (New Orleans, Louisiana); Paul A. Elmore (Slidell, Louisiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David B. Marks (Metairie, Louisiana); Blake Peno (Long Beach, Mississippi); Elias Z. K. Ioup (New Orleans, Louisiana); Paul A. Elmore (Slidell, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | System and method for compressing electronic data such as, for example topological data (altitude/depth) or geospatial data (latitude/longitude) with constrained loss of fidelity. With respect to altitude/depth data, the system and method allow for a mixture of shoreline and deep water to be thinned within the same mesh without appreciable loss of information in either region. System and method retain underlying grid values, opening RTIN functionality for any sphere where original grid positions must be preserved. System and method provide for encryption/decryption of electronic data. |
| FILED | Friday, December 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/578096 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 1/20 (20130101) G06T 17/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2200/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09406209 | Dagher et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Maine System Board of Trustees (Bangor, Maine) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maine System Board of Trustees (Bangor, Maine) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Habib J. Dagher (Veazie, Maine); Eric D. Cassidy (Easton, Maine); Anthony M. Viselli (Bangor, Maine); Bruce Segee (Old Town, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | A container includes a plurality of weldable hybrid composite panels. Each panel includes a four sided composite panel element, wherein each of the four sides defines a side edge and the composite panel element is formed of fibrous reinforcement layers encased in a resin matrix. Weldable metallic elongated edge elements extend along and are either fixed to the side edges of an outside surface of the panel element or extend from a periphery of the panel element, such that each of the weldable elongated edge elements has a profile that is the same as a profile of its respective side edge. The weldable elongated edge elements are structured to enable the composite panel to be welded at its peripheral edges. The container also includes a plurality of metal rails attached together and defining a rectangular parallelepiped frame having six sides. At least one of the plurality of weldable hybrid composite panels is welded at its edge elements to the rails of each of the six sides of the frame or to an adjacent one of the plurality of weldable hybrid composite panels. |
| FILED | Friday, September 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/485115 |
| ART UNIT | 1781 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Containers for Storage or Transport of Articles or Materials, e.g Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding Containers; Accessories, Closures, or Fittings Therefor; Packaging Elements; Packages B65D 88/12 (20130101) B65D 90/02 (20130101) B65D 90/08 (20130101) B65D 90/022 (20130101) B65D 90/023 (20130101) B65D 90/48 (20130101) B65D 2101/00 (20130101) Testing Static or Dynamic Balance of Machines or Structures; Testing of Structures or Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G01M 11/332 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 31/021 (20130101) G01R 31/025 (20130101) Signalling or Calling Systems; Order Telegraphs; Alarm Systems G08B 13/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/16 (20150115) Y10T 428/18 (20150115) Y10T 428/161 (20150115) Y10T 428/183 (20150115) Y10T 428/187 (20150115) Y10T 428/24995 (20150401) |
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| US 09406449 | Xie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a Body Corporate (Denver, Colorado); Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Colorado, a Body Corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ming Xie (Broomfield, Colorado); Steven M. George (Boulder, Colorado); Mattias J. Young (Boulder, Colorado); Xiang Sun (Kalamazoo, Michigan); Jie Lian (Niskayuna, New York); Gongkai Wang (Troy, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Supercapacitors have composite electrodes that include a porous carbonaceous material such as graphene onto which a metal oxide pseudocapacitor material is deposited in the form of nano-scale particles or a nano-scale film. The composite electrodes exhibit excellent specific capacitance, even at high scan rates. |
| FILED | Friday, November 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/357566 |
| ART UNIT | 2848 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 11/04 (20130101) H01G 11/26 (20130101) H01G 11/30 (20130101) H01G 11/32 (20130101) H01G 11/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01G 11/46 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/13 (20130101) |
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| US 09406477 | Tarhani et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arash Rashidi Tarhani (Madison, Wisconsin); Nader Behdad (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A slow wave structure of a traveling wave tube is provided. The slow wave structure includes an input port, an output port, a first material, and a second material. The second material is mounted in the first material at periodic intervals in a direction of propagation of a radio frequency signal between the input port and the output port. The second material has a real part of permittivity that is negative and a real part of permeability that is positive at an operational frequency of the radio frequency signal. |
| FILED | Monday, March 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/202992 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 23/24 (20130101) H01J 23/30 (20130101) H01J 25/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 25/38 (20130101) Waveguides; Resonators, Lines, or Other Devices of the Waveguide Type H01P 3/123 (20130101) Amplifiers H03F 3/58 (20130101) H03F 2200/451 (20130101) |
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| US 09406492 | Ramsey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Michael Ramsey (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); William McKay Gilliland, Jr. (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrospray ionization (ESI)-mass spectrometer analysis systems include an ESI device with at least one emitter configured to electrospray ions and a mass spectrometer in fluid communication with the at least one emitter of the ESI device. The mass spectrometer includes a mass analyzer held in a vacuum chamber. The vacuum chamber is configured to have a high (background/gas) pressure of about 50 mTorr or greater during operation. During operation, the ESI device is configured to either; (a) electrospray ions into a spatial region external to the vacuum chamber and at atmospheric pressure, the spatial extent being adjacent to an inlet device attached to the vacuum chamber, the inlet device intakes the electrosprayed ions external to the vacuum chamber with the mass analyzer and discharges the ions into the vacuum chamber with the mass analyzer; or (b) electrospray ions directly into the vacuum chamber with the mass analyzer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/710344 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/04 (20130101) H01J 49/24 (20130101) H01J 49/0031 (20130101) H01J 49/165 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09406823 | Homyk et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew P. Homyk (South Pasadena, California); Michael D. Henry (Altadena, California); Axel Scherer (Barnard, Vermont); Sameer Walavalkar (Studio City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for fabricating self-aligned heterostructures and semiconductor arrangements using silicon nanowires are described. |
| FILED | Friday, July 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/329748 |
| ART UNIT | 2897 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0243 (20130101) H01L 21/0259 (20130101) H01L 21/02381 (20130101) H01L 21/02521 (20130101) H01L 21/02639 (20130101) H01L 29/127 (20130101) H01L 29/267 (20130101) H01L 29/413 (20130101) H01L 29/0665 (20130101) H01L 29/0676 (20130101) H01L 29/775 (20130101) H01L 29/66439 (20130101) H01L 31/035227 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 33/06 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/762 (20130101) |
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| US 09407010 | Tonn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David A Tonn (Amston, Connecticut); Susan M Safford (Jamestown, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A Tonn (Amston, Connecticut); Susan M Safford (Jamestown, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna includes a tubular, conductive radiator having a longitudinal slot formed therein from a first end of the conductive radiator to a second end of the conductive radiator. An antenna feed can be joined to the conductive radiator adjacent to and across the slot. An anisotropic plate is positioned a uniform distance from the conductive radiator, centered above the slot. The plate extends beyond the length of the radiator and is electrically insulated therefrom. An anisotropic tube surrounds the plate and radiator. The anisotropic tube is electrically insulated from the plate and radiator. In use, this antenna gives enhanced bandwidth over ordinary slotted antennas. This can also be applied to preexisting slotted antennas for enhanced bandwidth. |
| FILED | Friday, January 16, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/598285 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 1/42 (20130101) H01Q 13/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09407011 | Zaghloul et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Research Laboratory (Adelphi, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amir I. Zaghloul (Bethesda, Maryland); Steven J. Weiss (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An electromagnetic bandgap structure comprising a progressive cascade of a plurality of patterns of cells. The cells of each pattern are dimensioned so that each pattern has a reflection phase response centered at a different, but closely-spaced, frequency compared with the reflection phase response of an adjacently positioned pattern, so that the combined reflection phase response of the plurality of patterns provides a continuous wideband operational range. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/713030 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 15/008 (20130101) H01Q 15/14 (20130101) H01Q 19/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01Q 19/108 (20130101) |
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| US 09407059 | Pomeranz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonard A. Pomeranz (Hollis, New Hampshire); Joseph M. Owen (Merrimack, New Hampshire); Michael J. Shaw (Concord, New Hampshire); David P. Kelly (Nashua, New Hampshire); Philip R. Staver (Wilton, New Hampshire); Peter A. Budni (Nashua, New Hampshire); John C. Wikman (Lyndeborough, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques and architecture are disclosed for providing a laser system. In one specific example embodiment, the system includes a thulium-doped fiber laser coupled by silica glass fiber to a remote optical converter (ROC) including a Ho:YAG laser and, optionally, an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) utilizing in germanium phosphide (ZnGeP2; ZGP) or orientation-patterned gallium arsenide (OPGaAs). The fiber laser may emit a low-peak-power, continuous wave pump signal that pumps the Ho:YAG laser, which in turn emits a higher-peak-power, pulsed signal. When included, the OPO can be used to convert the resultant, pulsed signal to a longer wavelength (e.g., about 2-5 μm, or greater). In some cases, distributed architecture and reduced weight/bulk may be realized while eliminating the need to actively cool the ROC for operation, for example, over a broad temperature range (e.g., −55-125° C.). Also, methods of preparing high-peak-power, pulsed signals using such systems are disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/629749 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | 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 1/353 (20130101) G02F 1/395 (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 3/11 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 3/025 (20130101) H01S 3/0092 (20130101) H01S 3/094038 (20130101) H01S 3/094053 (20130101) H01S 5/0092 (20130101) |
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| US 09407150 | Jacobson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts); The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts); The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body of corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Boris S. Jacobson (Westford, Massachusetts); Regan A. Zane (North Logan, Utah); Daniel F. Seltzer (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A system includes a power converter configured to convert input power into output power. The power converter includes first and second converter bridges, where each converter bridge includes multiple transistors. The system also includes a zero-voltage switching (ZVS) assistance circuit having first and second inverse controlled rectifiers (ICRs). Each of the first and second ICRs is configured to provide current to the transistors in the first and second converter bridges. The system further includes a controller configured to control operation of the first and second converter bridges and the ZVS assistance circuit. The controller could include a phase-shift modulation (PSM) controller configured to control the converter bridges and a pulse width modulation (PWM) controller configured to control the ZVS assistance circuit. The PWM controller can be configured to apply pre-shaped voltages to transistors in regulators of the ICRs to enable substantially zero-loss turn-off commutation of the transistors in the regulators. |
| FILED | Friday, September 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/020474 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus for Conversion Between AC and AC, Between AC and DC, or Between DC and DC, and for Use With Mains or Similar Power Supply Systems; Conversion of DC or AC Input Power into Surge Output Power; Control or Regulation Thereof H02M 3/285 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H02M 3/337 (20130101) H02M 3/33569 (20130101) H02M 2001/0058 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 70/1491 (20130101) |
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| US 09407374 | Wahls et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sander Wahls (Delft, Netherlands); Harold Vincent Poor (Princeton, New Jersey) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Sander Wahls (Delft, Netherlands); Harold Vincent Poor (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A receiver configured to receive wave packets encoded with data via a nonlinear channel is disclosed. The receiver includes an input configured to receive the wave packets from the non-linear channel. The receiver also includes a processor configured to generate a transfer matrix from the received wave packets and find the representation of the transfer matrix as ratios of polynomials and compute the non-linear Fourier spectrum in which the data has been embedded. The receiver may also include a demodulator configured to demodulate the non-linear Fourier spectrum to recover the data. Periodic boundary conditions may be selected. Boundary conditions may be selected based on a non-periodic vanishing signal. The received wave packets may be configured as solitons. The nonlinear channel may be an optical channel. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/463319 |
| ART UNIT | 2637 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 10/69 (20130101) H04B 10/516 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 27/265 (20130101) H04L 27/2628 (20130101) |
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| US 09407467 | Safier et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pedro N. Safier (Alexandria, Virginia); Ira S. Moskowitz (Washington, District of Columbia); Gerard Allwein (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) | Pedro N. Safier (Alexandria, Virginia); Ira S. Moskowitz (Washington, District of Columbia); Gerard Allwein (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | As system and method to transmit information with intensity interferometry includes a digital switch configured to receive a baseline message, and, for each of a plurality of bits of a received interferometric message, set the digital switch to an output position depending upon the bit value of the interferometric message. A first and second pair of transmitters separated by a first and second defined distance, wherein the defined distances are different, are configured to broadcast each of the plurality of bits of the baseline message depending upon the output position of the digital switch. One or more pairs of receivers are configured to receive the broadcast of the plurality of bits of the baseline message. An interferometric message recovery module is configured to recover the bits of the received interferometric message after receiving the broadcast of the baseline message at the one or more pairs of receivers. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/521988 |
| ART UNIT | 2633 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 25/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 25/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09407509 | Porras et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Phillip Andrew Porras (Cupertino, California); Alfonso De Jesus Valdes (San Carlos, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip Andrew Porras (Cupertino, California); Alfonso De Jesus Valdes (San Carlos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of network surveillance includes receiving network packets handled by a network entity and building at least one long-term and at least one short-term statistical profile from a measure of the network packets that monitors data transfers, errors, or network connections. A comparison of the statistical profiles is used to determine whether the difference between the statistical profiles indicates suspicious network activity. |
| FILED | Monday, September 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/563875 |
| ART UNIT | 2116 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 12/2602 (20130101) H04L 41/142 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 43/00 (20130101) H04L 43/06 (20130101) H04L 43/12 (20130101) H04L 43/16 (20130101) H04L 43/0811 (20130101) H04L 43/0888 (20130101) H04L 63/145 (20130101) H04L 63/1408 (20130101) H04L 63/1416 (20130101) H04L 63/1458 (20130101) |
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| US 09407833 | Cossairt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Oliver Cossairt (New York, New York); Changyin Zhou (New York, New York); Shree K. Nayar (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oliver Cossairt (New York, New York); Changyin Zhou (New York, New York); Shree K. Nayar (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods, and media for recording an image of a scene ate provided. In accordance with some embodiments, systems for recording an image of a scene are provided. comprising. a diffuser {hat diffuses light representing the scene and that has a scattering function that is independent of aperture coordinates, a sensor that receives diffused light representing the scene and generates data representing an image; and a hardware processes that uses a point spread function to deblur the image. |
| FILED | Monday, January 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/522943 |
| ART UNIT | 2662 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 5/003 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/238 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04N 5/2254 (20130101) H04N 5/23212 (20130101) |
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| US 09408336 | Zang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | De Yu Zang (Irvine, California); Michael M. Salour (Carlsbad, California); James G. Grote (Yellow Spring, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | IPITEK, Inc. (Carlsbad, California); The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | De Yu Zang (Irvine, California); Michael M. Salour (Carlsbad, California); James G. Grote (Yellow Spring, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielded device which includes an object to be shielded and an EMI shielding material encompassing the object. The EMI shielding material is made up of, but not limited to a broadband biopolymer or polymer dissolved in organic solvents, and metal and carbon-based nano-powders or nanoparticles. The specific makeup of the shielding material and fabrication procedure of the shielding material is also included herein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 22, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/746993 |
| ART UNIT | 2847 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 9/009 (20130101) H05K 9/0022 (20130101) H05K 9/0081 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin C. O'Brien (San Ramon, California); Jeffery J. Haslam (Livermore, California); William L. Bourcier (Livermore, California); William Clary Floyd, III (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A device according to one embodiment includes a porous membrane having a surface charge and pore configuration characterized by a double layer overlap effect being present in pores of the membrane, where the porous membrane includes functional groups that preferentially interact with either cations or anions. A device according to another embodiment includes a porous membrane having a surface charge in pores thereof sufficient to impart anion or cation selectivity in the pores. Additional devices, systems and methods are also presented. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/185053 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 61/46 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 61/485 (20130101) B01D 67/0006 (20130101) B01D 67/0034 (20130101) B01D 67/0037 (20130101) B01D 67/0079 (20130101) B01D 69/02 (20130101) B01D 69/125 (20130101) B01D 71/44 (20130101) B01D 71/64 (20130101) B01D 2323/345 (20130101) B01D 2325/02 (20130101) B01D 2325/14 (20130101) B01D 2325/16 (20130101) Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/4695 (20130101) |
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| US 09403156 | Narula et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chaitanya K. Narula (Knoxville, Tennessee); Xiaofan Yang (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A catalyst comprising a zeolite loaded with copper ions and at least one trivalent metal ion other than Al+3, wherein the catalyst decreases NOx emissions in diesel exhaust. The trivalent metal ions are selected from, for example, trivalent transition metal ions, trivalent main group metal ions, and/or trivalent lanthanide metal ions. In particular embodiments, the catalysts are selected from Cu—Fe-ZSM5, Cu—La-ZSM-5, Fe—Cu—La-ZSM5, Cu—Sc-ZSM-5, and Cu—In-ZSM5. The catalysts are placed on refractory support materials and incorporated into catalytic converters. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 19, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/662946 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/9418 (20130101) B01D 2255/206 (20130101) B01D 2255/207 (20130101) B01D 2255/209 (20130101) B01D 2255/504 (20130101) B01D 2255/2063 (20130101) B01D 2255/20738 (20130101) B01D 2255/20761 (20130101) B01D 2258/012 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 23/83 (20130101) B01J 23/825 (20130101) B01J 29/46 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 29/405 (20130101) B01J 37/009 (20130101) B01J 37/088 (20130101) B01J 37/0203 (20130101) B01J 2229/186 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 39/02 (20130101) C01B 39/06 (20130101) C01B 39/026 (20130101) C01B 39/36 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/24 (20130101) |
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| US 09403186 | Bartl et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael H. Bartl (Salt Lake City, Utah); Moussa Barhoum (Darmstadt, Germany); David Riassetto (Saint Martin d'uriage, France) |
| ABSTRACT | A versatile and rapid sol-gel technique for the fabrication of high quality one-dimensional photonic bandgap materials. For example, silica/titania multi-layer materials may be fabricated by a sol-gel chemistry route combined with dip-coating onto planar or curved substrate. A shock-cooling step immediately following the thin film heat-treatment process is introduced. This step was found important in the prevention of film crack formation—especially in silica/titania alternating stack materials with a high number of layers. The versatility of this sol-gel method is demonstrated by the fabrication of various Bragg stack-type materials with fine-tuned optical properties by tailoring the number and sequence of alternating layers, the film thickness and the effective refractive index of the deposited thin films. Measured optical properties show good agreement with theoretical simulations confirming the high quality of these sol-gel fabricated optical materials. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/362037 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 3/0254 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 18/1216 (20130101) C23C 18/1225 (20130101) C23C 18/1245 (20130101) C23C 18/1254 (20130101) C23C 18/1283 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/285 (20130101) |
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| US 09403686 | McGrail et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | B. Peter McGrail (Richland, Washington); Daryl R. Brown (Richland, Washington); Praveen K. Thallapally (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for releasing associated guest materials from a metal organic framework are provided. Methods for associating guest materials with a metal organic framework are also provided. Methods are provided for selectively associating or dissociating guest materials with a metal organic framework. Systems for associating or dissociating guest materials within a series of metal organic frameworks are provided. Thermal energy transfer assemblies are provided. Methods for transferring thermal energy are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, April 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/245898 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/04 (20130101) B01D 2253/204 (20130101) B01D 2257/504 (20130101) B01D 2259/40083 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/087 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 21/0427 (20130101) C01B 23/0031 (20130101) C01B 31/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Ammonia; Cyanogen; Compounds Thereof C01C 1/006 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 7/00 (20130101) C07C 17/38 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 5/00 (20130101) Refrigeration Machines, Plants or Systems; Combined Heating and Refrigeration Systems; Heat-pump Systems F25B 17/08 (20130101) Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 10/08 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/152 (20151101) |
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| US 09403736 | Beck et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Virent, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virent, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Taylor Beck (Madison, Wisconsin); Brian Blank (Monona, Wisconsin); Casey Jones (Madison, Wisconsin); Elizabeth Woods (Middleton, Wisconsin); Randy Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, catalysts, and reactor systems for producing in high yield aromatic chemicals and liquid fuels from a mixture of oxygenates comprising di- and polyoxygenates are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods, catalysts, and reactor systems for producing aromatic chemicals and liquid fuels from oxygenated hydrocarbons such as carbohydrates, sugars, sugar alcohols, sugar degradation products, and the like; and methods, catalysts, and reactor systems for producing the mixture of oxygenates from oxygenated hydrocarbons such as carbohydrates, sugars, sugar alcohols, sugar degradation products, and the like. The disclosed catalysts for preparing the mixture of oxygenates comprise a NinSnm alloy and a crystalline alumina support. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/211795 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 21/066 (20130101) B01J 23/14 (20130101) B01J 23/835 (20130101) B01J 23/888 (20130101) B01J 23/6527 (20130101) B01J 29/46 (20130101) B01J 29/90 (20130101) B01J 37/0201 (20130101) B01J 37/0213 (20130101) B01J 38/02 (20130101) B01J 38/12 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 1/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 1/2072 (20130101) C07C 29/60 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 301/02 (20130101) Cracking Hydrocarbon Oils; Production of Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g by Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation; Recovery of Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, or Gases; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting of Hydrocarbons; Reforming of Naphtha; Mineral Waxes C10G 3/46 (20130101) C10G 3/47 (20130101) C10G 3/48 (20130101) C10G 3/50 (20130101) C10G 2300/1014 (20130101) C10G 2400/30 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/584 (20151101) Y02P 20/588 (20151101) Y02P 30/20 (20151101) |
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| US 09403781 | Bertrand et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Guy Bertrand (Riverside, California); Gregorio Gulsado-Barrios (Riverside, California); Jean Bouffard (Riverside, California); Bruno Donnadieu (Riverside, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guy Bertrand (Riverside, California); Gregorio Gulsado-Barrios (Riverside, California); Jean Bouffard (Riverside, California); Bruno Donnadieu (Riverside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel and stable crystalline 1H-1,2,3 triazolium carbenes and metal complexes of 1H-1,2,3 triazolium carbenes. The present invention also provides methods of making 1H-1,2,3 triazolium carbenes and metal complexes of 1H-1,2,3 triazolium carbenes. The present invention also provides methods of using 1H-1,2,3 triazolium carbenes and metal complexes of 1H-1,2,3 triazolium carbenes in catalytic reactions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/643262 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 31/2295 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 249/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 15/0033 (20130101) |
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| US 09403861 | Job et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Novomer, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novomer, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel E. Job (Lansing, New York); Jay J. Farmer (Ithaca, New York); Anna E. Cherian (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes metal salen complexes having dianionic counterions. Such complexes can be readily precipitated and provide an economical method for the purification and isolation of the complexes, and are useful to prepare novel polymer compositions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/364349 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 11/005 (20130101) C07F 15/065 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 64/34 (20130101) C08G 64/0208 (20130101) C08G 65/266 (20130101) |
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| US 09403875 | Conti et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter S. Conti (Pasadena, California); Hancheng Cai (Alhambra, California); Zibo Li (Logan, Utah); Shuanglong Liu (Alhambra, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter S. Conti (Pasadena, California); Hancheng Cai (Alhambra, California); Zibo Li (Logan, Utah); Shuanglong Liu (Alhambra, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a class of versatile Sarcophagine based bifunctional chelators (BFCs) containing a hexa-aza cage for labeling with metals having either imaging, therapeutic or contrast applications radiolabeling and one or more linkers (A) and (B). The compounds have the general formula where A is a functional group selected from group consisting of an amine, a carboxylic acid, an ester, a carbonyl, a thiol, an azide and an alkene, and B is a functional group selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, an amine, a carboxylic acid, and ester, a carbonyl, a thiol, an azide and an alkene. Also disclosed are conjugate of the BFC and a targeting moiety, which may be a peptide or antibody. Also disclosed are metal complexes of the BFC/targeting moiety conjugates that are useful as radiopharmaceuticals, imaging agents or contrast agents. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/695125 |
| 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 51/082 (20130101) A61K 51/088 (20130101) A61K 51/0482 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 487/08 (20130101) Peptides C07K 5/1021 (20130101) C07K 7/086 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09403915 | Dibble et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dean C. Dibble (San Mateo, California); Aurelia Cheng (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Anthe George (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for novel compositions and methods for recycling or recovering ionic liquid used in IL pretreated cellulose and/or lignocellulosic biomass (LBM). |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/313964 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 1/003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/02 (20130101) C12P 2201/00 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/582 (20151101) |
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| US 09404036 | Bourret-Courchesne et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edith Bourret-Courchesne (Berkeley, California); Stephen E. Derenzo (Pinole, California); Shameka Parms (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Yetta D. Porter-Chapman (Pleasant Hill, California); Latoria K. Wiggins (Chestertown, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edith Bourret-Courchesne (Berkeley, California); Stephen E. Derenzo (Pinole, California); Shameka Parms (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Yetta D. Porter-Chapman (Pleasant Hill, California); Latoria K. Wiggins (Chestertown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a composition comprising an inorganic scintillator comprising a gadolinium halide, optionally cerium-doped, having the formula AnGdXm:Ce; wherein A is nothing, an alkali metal, such as Li or Na, or an alkali earth metal, such as Ba; X is F, Br, Cl, or I; n is an integer from 1 to 2; m is an integer from 4 to 7; and the molar percent of cerium is 0% to 100%. The gadolinium halides or alkali earth metal gadolinium halides are scintillators and produce a bright luminescence upon irradiation by a suitable radiation. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/262132 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/7773 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09404048 | White et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jacqueline Edwards-Henry (Starkville, Mississippi) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mississippi State University (Mississippi State, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark G. White (Spring Hill, Florida); Samantha A. Ranaweera (Starkville, Mississippi); William P. Henry (, None) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a novel process and system in which a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen synthesis gas, or syngas, is converted into hydrocarbon mixtures composed of high quality distillates, gasoline components, and lower molecular weight gaseous olefins in one reactor or step. The invention utilizes a novel supported bimetallic ion complex catalyst for conversion, and provides methods of preparing such novel catalysts and use of the novel catalysts in the process and system of the invention. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/544988 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 21/08 (20130101) B01J 31/2295 (20130101) B01J 2231/648 (20130101) B01J 2531/16 (20130101) B01J 2531/845 (20130101) B01J 2531/847 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 3/34 (20130101) C01B 2203/062 (20130101) C01B 2203/0205 (20130101) C01B 2203/1235 (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 2/33 (20130101) C10G 2/332 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10G 2/334 (20130101) |
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| US 09404063 | Elliott et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Richland, Washington); GENIFUEL CORPORATION (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington); Genifuel Corporation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas C. Elliott (Richland, Washington); Todd R. Hart (Kennewick, Washington); Gary G. Neuenschwander (Burbank, Washington); James R. Oyler (Salt Lake City, Utah); Leslie J. Rotness, Jr. (Kennewick, Washington); Andrew J. Schmidt (Richland, Washington); Alan H. Zacher (Pasco, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and process are described for clean separation of biocrudes and water by-products from hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) product mixtures of organic and biomass-containing feedstocks at elevated temperatures and pressures. Inorganic compound solids are removed prior to separation of biocrude and water by-product fractions to minimize formation of emulsions that impede separation. Separation may be performed at higher temperatures that reduce heat loss and need to cool product mixtures to ambient. The present invention thus achieves separation efficiencies not achieved in conventional HTL processing. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/534010 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/18 (20130101) B01J 19/24 (20130101) B01J 2219/24 (20130101) Cracking Hydrocarbon Oils; Production of Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g by Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation; Recovery of Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, or Gases; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting of Hydrocarbons; Reforming of Naphtha; Mineral Waxes C10G 3/40 (20130101) C10G 3/52 (20130101) C10G 33/06 (20130101) C10G 2300/1011 (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 1/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C11B 3/006 (20130101) C11B 3/008 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 30/20 (20151101) |
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| US 09404134 | Thompson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BATTELLE ENERGY ALLIANCE, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David N Thompson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); William A Apel (Jackson, Wyoming); Vicki S Thompson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); David W Reed (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Jeffrey A Lacey (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Emily D. Henriksen (Morrisville, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Isolated and/or purified polypeptides and nucleic acid sequences encoding polypeptides from Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius are provided. Further provided are methods of at least partially degrading, cleaving, or removing polysaccharides, lignocellulose, cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin, starch, chitin, polyhydroxybutyrate, heteroxylans, glycosides, xylan-, glucan-, galactan-, or mannan-decorating groups using isolated and/or purified polypeptides and nucleic acid sequences encoding polypeptides from Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius. |
| FILED | Monday, June 01, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/727653 |
| 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) C12N 9/18 (20130101) C12N 9/88 (20130101) C12N 9/248 (20130101) C12N 9/1051 (20130101) C12N 9/2402 (20130101) C12N 9/2408 (20130101) C12N 9/2434 (20130101) C12N 9/2437 (20130101) C12N 9/2445 (20130101) C12N 9/2465 (20130101) C12N 9/2471 (20130101) C12N 9/2494 (20130101) C12N 15/52 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Enzymes C12Y 204/0102 (20130101) C12Y 301/01001 (20130101) C12Y 301/01073 (20130101) C12Y 301/02004 (20130101) C12Y 302/0102 (20130101) C12Y 302/01008 (20130101) C12Y 302/01015 (20130101) C12Y 302/01021 (20130101) C12Y 302/01022 (20130101) C12Y 302/01037 (20130101) C12Y 302/01055 (20130101) C12Y 302/01078 (20130101) C12Y 302/01091 (20130101) C12Y 302/01131 (20130101) C12Y 302/01133 (20130101) C12Y 402/01008 (20130101) |
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| US 09404136 | Walton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan D. Walton (East Lansing, Michigan); John S. Scott-Craig (East Lansing, Michigan); Melissa Borrusch (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to increasing the availability of fermentable sugars from plant biomass, such as glucose and xylose. As described herein, α-xylosidases can be employed with cellulases to enhance biomass conversion into free, fermentable sugar residues. |
| FILED | Friday, March 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/791304 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/248 (20130101) C12N 9/2434 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/02 (20130101) C12P 19/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Enzymes C12Y 302/01177 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/52 (20151101) |
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| US 09404137 | Xu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Feng Xu (Davis, California); Matthew Sweeney (Sacramento, California); Jason Quinlan (Woodland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NOVOZYMES, INC. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Feng Xu (Davis, California); Matthew Sweeney (Sacramento, California); Jason Quinlan (Woodland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions comprising: a polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity and a heterocyclic compound. The present invention also relates to methods of using the compositions. |
| FILED | Friday, August 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/816146 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 31/06 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/96 (20130101) C12N 9/2402 (20130101) C12N 9/2437 (20130101) C12N 9/2445 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/10 (20130101) C12P 7/14 (20130101) C12P 19/02 (20130101) C12P 19/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 2203/00 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 302/01021 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/16 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/52 (20151101) |
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| US 09404371 | McDonald et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jacob Jeremiah McDonald (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Billy C. Brock (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Paul G. Clem (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Hung Loui (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Steven E. Allen (Edgewood, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The various technologies presented herein relate to formation of a wind turbine blade having a reduced radar signature in comparison with a turbine blade fabricated using conventional techniques. Various techniques and materials are presented to facilitate reduction in radar signature of a wind turbine blade, where such techniques and materials are amenable for incorporation into existing manufacturing techniques without degradation in mechanical or physical performance of the blade or major alteration of the blade profile. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/834541 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/147 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09404377 | Campbell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SIEMENS ENERGY, INC. (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SIEMENS ENERGY, INC. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christian Xavier Campbell (Charlotte, North Carolina); Darryl Eng (Stuart, Florida); John J. Marra (Winter Springs, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Platforms (36, 38) span between turbine blades (23, 24, 25) on a disk (32). Each platform may be individually mounted to the disk by a pin attachment (42). Each platform (36) may have a rotationally rearward edge portion (50) that underlies a forward portion (45) of the adjacent platform (38). This limits centrifugal bending of the rearward portion of the platform, and provides coolant sealing. The rotationally forward edge (44A, 44B) of the platform overlies a seal element (51) on the pressure side (28) of the forwardly adjacent blade, and does not underlie a shelf on that blade. The pin attachment allows radial mounting of each platform onto the disk via tilting (60) of the platform during mounting to provide mounting clearance for the rotationally rearward edge portion (50). This facilitates quick platform replacement without blade removal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/526565 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/3007 (20130101) F01D 11/008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09404421 | Charron et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SIEMENS ENERGY, INC. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard C. Charron (West Palm Beach, Florida); William W. Pankey (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida); Clinton A. Mayer (Jupiter, Florida); Benjamin G Hettinger (Jupiter, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A structural support system is provided in a can annular gas turbine engine having an arrangement including a plurality of integrated exit pieces (IEPs) forming an annular chamber for delivering gases from a plurality of combustors to a first row of turbine blades. A bracket structure is connected between an IEP and an inner support structure on the engine. The bracket structure includes an axial bracket member attached to an IEP and extending axially in a forward direction. A transverse bracket member has an end attached to the inner support structure and extends circumferentially to a connection with a forward end of the axial bracket member. The transverse bracket member provides a fixed radial position for the forward end of the axial bracket member and is flexible in the axial direction to permit axial movement of the axial bracket member. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/161798 |
| 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) F01D 25/28 (20130101) Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 7/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09404675 | Stettenheim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joel Stettenheim (Norwich, Vermont); Troy O. McBride (Norwich, Vermont); Oliver J. Brambles (Norwich, Vermont); Jifeng Liu (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Joel Stettenheim (Norwich, Vermont); Troy O. McBride (Norwich, Vermont); Oliver J. Brambles (Norwich, Vermont); Jifeng Liu (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A tubular heat-absorbing element partly enclosed in an insulating layer or jacket, has absorbing surface that is accessible to solar radiation. The thermal insulation is designed to provide entry to solar radiation by way of a cavity. The absorbing surface can be substantially planar. |
| FILED | Monday, January 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/736058 |
| ART UNIT | 3743 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Spring, Weight, Inertia or Like Motors; Mechanical-power Producing Devices or Mechanisms, Not Otherwise Provided for or Using Energy Sources Not Otherwise Provided for F03G 6/06 (20130101) Producing or Use of Heat Not Otherwise Provided For F24J 2/05 (20130101) F24J 2/07 (20130101) F24J 2/08 (20130101) F24J 2/12 (20130101) F24J 2/14 (20130101) F24J 2/24 (20130101) F24J 2/26 (20130101) F24J 2/50 (20130101) F24J 2/54 (20130101) F24J 2/055 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F24J 2/485 (20130101) F24J 2/0488 (20130101) F24J 2/541 (20130101) F24J 2/1047 (20130101) F24J 2/4609 (20130101) F24J 2002/508 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/41 (20130101) Y02E 10/44 (20130101) Y02E 10/45 (20130101) Y02E 10/46 (20130101) |
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| US 09404801 | Stevens et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livemore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles G. Stevens (Danville, California); Joseph W. Tringe (Walnut Creek, California); Christopher T. Cunningham (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a heterodyne detection system for detecting light includes a first input aperture configured to receive first light from a scene input, a second input aperture configured to receive second light from a local oscillator input, a broadband local oscillator configured to provide the second light to the second input aperture, a dispersive element configured to disperse the first light and the second light, and a final condensing lens coupled to an infrared detector. The final condensing lens is configured to concentrate incident light from a primary condensing lens onto the infrared detector, and the infrared detector is a square-law detector capable of sensing the frequency difference between the first light and the second light. More systems and methods for detecting light are described according to other embodiments. |
| FILED | Monday, July 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/331193 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/10 (20130101) G01J 3/453 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01J 3/4338 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/35 (20130101) |
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| US 09404890 | Sinha et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dipen N. Sinha (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Curtis F. Osterhoudt (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Anirban Chaudhuri (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dipen N. Sinha (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Curtis F. Osterhoudt (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Anirban Chaudhuri (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for determining the composition of fluids flowing through pipes from noninvasive measurements of acoustic properties of the fluid is described. The method includes exciting a first transducer located on the external surface of the pipe through which the fluid under investigation is flowing, to generate an ultrasound chirp signal, as opposed to conventional pulses. The chirp signal is received by a second transducer disposed on the external surface of the pipe opposing the location of the first transducer, from which the transit time through the fluid is determined and the sound speed of the ultrasound in the fluid is calculated. The composition of a fluid is calculated from the sound speed therein. The fluid density may also be derived from measurements of sound attenuation. Several signal processing approaches are described for extracting the transit time information from the data with the effects of the pipe wall having been subtracted. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/226444 |
| ART UNIT | 2864 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 29/024 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 29/348 (20130101) G01N 2291/102 (20130101) G01N 2291/0224 (20130101) |
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| US 09404913 | Perroud et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas D. Perroud (San Jose, California); Kamlesh D. Patel (Dublin, California); Robert J. Meagher (Mountain House, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods of making micropores of a desired height and/or width between two isotropic wet etched features in a substrate which comprises single-level isotropic wet etching the two features using an etchant and a mask distance that is less than 2× a set etch depth. Also disclosed herein are methods using the micropores and microfluidic devices comprising the micropores. |
| FILED | Friday, October 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/057170 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Mixing, e.g Dissolving, Emulsifying, Dispersing B01F 3/0807 (20130101) B01F 5/0471 (20130101) B01F 13/0059 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502707 (20130101) B01L 3/502753 (20130101) B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 3/502776 (20130101) B01L 3/502784 (20130101) B01L 2200/0668 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0864 (20130101) B01L 2400/0688 (20130101) Microstructural Devices or Systems, e.g Micromechanical Devices B81B 2201/058 (20130101) Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00047 (20130101) B81C 1/00087 (20130101) B81C 1/00119 (20130101) B81C 1/00404 (20130101) B81C 2201/0133 (20130101) B81C 2201/0142 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 137/9464 (20150401) Y10T 428/24479 (20150115) |
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| US 09405083 | Bora et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mihail Bora (Livermore, California); Tiziana C. Bond (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a system includes a scintillator material; a detector coupled to the scintillator material; and an omnidirectional waveguide coupled to the scintillator material, the omnidirectional waveguide comprising: a plurality of first layers comprising one or more materials having a refractive index in a first range; and a plurality of second layers comprising one or more materials having a refractive index in a second range, the second range being lower than the first range, a plurality of interfaces being defined between alternating ones of the first and second layers. In another embodiment, a method includes depositing alternating layers of a material having a relatively high refractive index and a material having a relatively low refractive index on a substrate to form an omnidirectional waveguide; and coupling the omnidirectional waveguide to at least one surface of a scintillator material. |
| FILED | Monday, May 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/898393 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/20 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/4298 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09405283 | Damico |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph P. Damico (Pacific Grove, California) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph P. Damico (Pacific Grove, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Technologies pertaining to authenticating data output by sensors in an industrial environment are described herein. A sensor sentinel computing device receives time-series data from a sensor by way of a wireline connection. The sensor sentinel computing device generates a validation signal that is a function of the time-series signal. The sensor sentinel computing device then transmits the validation signal to a programmable logic controller in the industrial environment. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/240948 |
| ART UNIT | 2127 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Horticulture; Cultivation of Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops or Seaweed; Forestry; Watering A01G 25/16 (20130101) Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 19/042 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G05B 19/045 (20130101) G05B 19/0426 (20130101) |
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| US 09406821 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bo Li (San Jose, California); David Smith (Campbell, California); Peter Cousins (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of fabricating back-contact solar cells and devices thereof are described. A method of fabricating a back-contact solar cell includes forming an N-type dopant source layer and a P-type dopant source layer above a material layer disposed above a substrate. The N-type dopant source layer is spaced apart from the P-type dopant source layer. The N-type dopant source layer and the P-type dopant source layer are heated. Subsequently, a trench is formed in the material layer, between the N-type and P-type dopant source layers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/314938 |
| ART UNIT | 1758 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/18 (20130101) H01L 31/0682 (20130101) H01L 31/1804 (20130101) H01L 31/02363 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/547 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/521 (20151101) |
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| US 09406919 | Lu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. (Camas, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. (Camas, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuhao Lu (Vancouver, Washington); Long Wang (Vancouver, Washington); Jong-Jan Lee (Camas, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A mechanism is presented for shielding a cathode in a metal cyanometallate battery. A battery is provided with an anode, a cathode, an electrolyte, and an ion-permeable membrane separating the anode from the cathode. The cathode is made up of a plurality of metal cyanometallate layers overlying the current collector. At least one of the metal cyanometallate layers is an active layer formed from an active material AXM1YM2Z(CN)N· |
| FILED | Friday, February 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/193501 |
| ART UNIT | 1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 17/02 (20130101) C01B 19/02 (20130101) C01B 25/003 (20130101) C01B 31/00 (20130101) C01B 33/021 (20130101) Ammonia; Cyanogen; Compounds Thereof C01C 3/12 (20130101) Compounds of Alkali Metals, i.e Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, Caesium, or Francium C01D 1/02 (20130101) C01D 15/02 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 2/1653 (20130101) H01M 2/1686 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/04 (20130101) H01M 4/38 (20130101) H01M 4/049 (20130101) H01M 4/56 (20130101) H01M 4/58 (20130101) H01M 4/131 (20130101) H01M 4/133 (20130101) H01M 4/134 (20130101) H01M 4/136 (20130101) H01M 4/381 (20130101) H01M 4/382 (20130101) H01M 4/387 (20130101) H01M 4/0404 (20130101) H01M 4/0416 (20130101) H01M 4/0452 (20130101) H01M 4/0471 (20130101) H01M 4/485 (20130101) H01M 4/0495 (20130101) H01M 4/0497 (20130101) H01M 4/505 (20130101) H01M 4/587 (20130101) H01M 4/628 (20130101) H01M 4/1391 (20130101) H01M 4/1395 (20130101) H01M 4/1397 (20130101) H01M 4/5825 (20130101) H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 10/054 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) H01M 10/0565 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 7/0042 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49108 (20150115) |
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| US 09406943 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Di-Jia Liu (Elmhurst, Illinois); Shengwen Yuan (Chicago, Illinois); Gabriel A. Goenaga (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing an electrocatalyst article using porous polymers. The method creates a porous polymer designed to receive transition metal groups disposed at ligation sites and activating the transition metals to form an electrocatalyst which can be used in a fuel cell. Electrocatalysts prepared by this method are also provided. A fuel cell which includes the electrocatalyst is also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, March 16, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/659330 |
| 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 23/26 (20130101) B01J 23/30 (20130101) B01J 23/34 (20130101) B01J 23/70 (20130101) B01J 23/75 (20130101) B01J 31/06 (20130101) B01J 31/1815 (20130101) B01J 35/1023 (20130101) B01J 35/1028 (20130101) B01J 37/031 (20130101) B01J 2531/025 (20130101) B01J 2531/842 (20130101) B01J 2531/845 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/8885 (20130101) H01M 4/9008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 2008/1095 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09406944 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Fanglin Chen (Irmo, South Carolina); Chenghao Yang (Columbia, South Carolina); Zhibin Yang (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fanglin Chen (Irmo, South Carolina); Chenghao Yang (Columbia, South Carolina); Zhibin Yang (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the present subject matter is directed to a composite anode for a hydrocarbon solid oxide fuel cell, the anode comprising a layered perovskite ceramic and a bi-metallic alloy. |
| FILED | Monday, August 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/589721 |
| 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 4/881 (20130101) H01M 4/8621 (20130101) H01M 4/8647 (20130101) H01M 4/8652 (20130101) H01M 4/8657 (20130101) H01M 4/8828 (20130101) H01M 4/9033 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/9066 (20130101) H01M 2008/1293 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/50 (20130101) Y02E 60/525 (20130101) |
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| US 09406960 | Xiao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jie Xiao (Richland, Washington); Jiguang Zhang (Richland, Washington); Gordon L. Graff (West Richland, Washington); Jun Liu (Richland, Washington); Wei Wang (Kennewick, Washington); Jianming Zheng (Richland, Washington); Wu Xu (Richland, Washington); Yuyan Shao (Richland, Washington); Zhenguo Yang (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jie Xiao (Richland, Washington); Jiguang Zhang (Richland, Washington); Gordon L. Graff (West Richland, Washington); Jun Liu (Richland, Washington); Wei Wang (Kennewick, Washington); Jianming Zheng (Richland, Washington); Wu Xu (Richland, Washington); Yuyan Shao (Richland, Washington); Zhenguo Yang (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved lithium-sulfur energy storage systems can utilizes LixSy as a component in an electrode of the system. For example, the energy storage system can include a first electrode current collector, a second electrode current collector, and an ion-permeable separator separating the first and second electrode current collectors. A second electrode is arranged between the second electrode current collector and the separator. A first electrode is arranged between the first electrode current collector and the separator and comprises a first condensed-phase fluid comprising LixSy. The energy storage system can be arranged such that the first electrode functions as a positive or a negative electrode. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/432166 |
| ART UNIT | 1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/58 (20130101) H01M 4/485 (20130101) H01M 4/505 (20130101) H01M 4/525 (20130101) H01M 4/5815 (20130101) H01M 8/20 (20130101) H01M 8/188 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 12/08 (20130101) H01M 2300/0025 (20130101) H01M 2300/0028 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) Y02E 60/528 (20130101) |
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| US 09407157 | Gupta et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ranjan Kumar Gupta (Schenectady, New York); Rui Zhou (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A fraction rated conversion system for coupling a plurality of high voltage direct current (HVDC) power strings in parallel to an HVDC transmission system includes at least one fraction rated power converter coupled to the plurality of HVDC power strings and at least one capacitive device coupled to the at least one fraction rated power converter. The at least one fraction rated power converter and the at least one capacitive device regulate a differential voltage across each HVDC power string of the plurality of HVDC power strings to be substantially similar to each other. |
| FILED | Friday, September 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/026737 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 1/102 (20130101) H02J 3/36 (20130101) H02J 3/386 (20130101) Apparatus for Conversion Between AC and AC, Between AC and DC, or Between DC and DC, and for Use With Mains or Similar Power Supply Systems; Conversion of DC or AC Input Power into Surge Output Power; Control or Regulation Thereof H02M 7/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H02M 2001/0077 (20130101) |
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| US 09407251 | Passmore et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc. (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree Fayetteville, Inc. (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brandon Passmore (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Zach Cole (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Bret Whitaker (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Adam Barkley (Springdale, Arkansas); Ty McNutt (Farmington, Arkansas); Alexander Lostetter (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A multichip power module directly connecting the busboard to a printed-circuit board that is attached to the power substrate enabling extremely low loop inductance for extreme environments such as high temperature operation. Wire bond interconnections are taught from the power die directly to the busboard further enabling enable low parasitic interconnections. Integration of on-board high frequency bus capacitors provide extremely low loop inductance. An extreme environment gate driver board allows close physical proximity of gate driver and power stage to reduce overall volume and reduce impedance in the control circuit. Parallel spring-loaded pin gate driver PCB connections allows a reliable and reworkable power module to gate driver interconnections. |
| FILED | Monday, December 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/100288 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse Technique H03K 17/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 1/144 (20130101) H05K 1/0243 (20130101) |
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| US 09408286 | Elizondo-Decanini |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juan M. Elizondo-Decanini (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Short pulse neutron generators are described herein. In a general embodiment, the short pulse neutron generator includes a Blumlein structure. The Blumlein structure includes a first conductive plate, a second conductive plate, a third conductive plate, at least one of an inductor or a resistor, a switch, and a dielectric material. The first conductive plate is positioned relative to the second conductive plate such that a gap separates these plates. A vacuum chamber is positioned in the gap, and an ion source is positioned to emit ions in the vacuum chamber. The third conductive plate is electrically grounded, and the switch is operable to electrically connect and disconnect the second conductive plate and the third conductive plate. The at least one of the resistor or the inductor is coupled to the first conductive plate and the second conductive plate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/016609 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Plasma Technique; Production of Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles or of Neutrons; Production or Acceleration of Neutral Molecular or Atomic Beams H05H 1/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09408289 | Hannon |
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| APPLICANT(S) | JEFFERSON SCIENCE ASSOCIATES, LLC (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | JEFFERSON SCIENCE ASSOCIATES, LLC (Newport News, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fay Hannon (Poquoson, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for maximizing the brightness of the bunches in a particle injector by converting a highly space-charged beam to a relativistic and emittance-dominated beam. The method includes 1) determining the bunch charge and the initial kinetic energy of the highly space-charge dominated input beam; 2) applying the bunch charge and initial kinetic energy properties of the highly space-charge dominated input beam to determine the number of accelerator cavities required to accelerate the bunches to relativistic speed; 3) providing the required number of accelerator cavities; and 4) setting the gradient of the radio frequency (RF) cavities; and 5) operating the phase of the accelerator cavities between −90 and zero degrees of the sinusoid of phase to simultaneously accelerate and bunch the charged particles to maximize brightness, and until the beam is relativistic and emittance-dominated. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 04, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/638319 |
| ART UNIT | 2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Plasma Technique; Production of Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles or of Neutrons; Production or Acceleration of Neutral Molecular or Atomic Beams H05H 7/001 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05H 7/02 (20130101) H05H 2007/004 (20130101) H05H 2007/025 (20130101) |
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| US 09408290 | Douglas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | JEFFERSON SCIENCE ASSOCIATES, LLC (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | JEFFERSON SCIENCE ASSOCIATES, LLC (Newport News, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Douglas (Yorktown, Virginia); Christopher Tennant (Williamsburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for controlling beam quality degradation from ISR and CSR and stabilizing the microbunching instability (μBI) in a high brightness electron beam. The method includes providing a super-periodic second order achromat line with each super period being individually linearly achromatic and isochronous, setting individual superperiod tunes to rational fractions of an integer (such as 4th or 6th integers), setting individual bend angles to be as small as practical to reduce driving terms due to dispersion and dispersive angle, and setting bend radii as large enough to suppress ISR but not negatively affect the radial dependence of CSR. The method includes setting the structure of the individual superperiods to minimize bend plane beam envelope values in the dipoles to reduce betatron response to a CSR event at a dispersed location, increasing beam angular divergence, and creating dispersion nodes in the dipoles to similarly reduce response to CSR events, and limit R56 modulation in order to mitigate μBI. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/526597 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Plasma Technique; Production of Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles or of Neutrons; Production or Acceleration of Neutral Molecular or Atomic Beams H05H 13/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05H 2007/005 (20130101) |
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| US RE46088 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chen-An Chen (San Jose, California); Emmanuel Chua Abas (Laguna, Philippines); Edmundo Anida Divino (Cavite, Philippines); Jake Randal G. Ermita (Laguna, Philippines); Jose Francisco S. Capulong (Laguna, Philippines); Arnold Villamor Castillo (Batangas, Philippines); Diana Xiaobing Ma (Saratoga, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment relates to a substrate carrier for use in electroplating a plurality of substrates. The carrier includes a non-conductive carrier body on which the substrates are placed and conductive lines embedded within the carrier body. A plurality of conductive clip attachment parts are attached in a permanent manner to the conductive lines embedded within the carrier body. A plurality of contact clips are attached in a removable manner to the clip attachment parts. The contact clips hold the substrates in place and conductively connecting the substrates with the conductive lines. Other embodiments, aspects and features are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 05, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/704647 |
| ART UNIT | 3991 — Central Reexamination Unit (Chemical) |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for the Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Production of Coatings; Electroforming; Apparatus Therefor C25D 17/001 (20130101) C25D 17/004 (20130101) C25D 17/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C25D 17/08 (20130101) C25D 17/10 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 3/0097 (20130101) H05K 2203/0169 (20130101) H05K 2203/0723 (20130101) |
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| US 09402394 | Tang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chuanbing Tang (Columbia, South Carolina); Jiuyang Zhang (West Columbia, South Carolina); Yung-Pin Chen (Columbia, South Carolina); Alan W. Decho (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chuanbing Tang (Columbia, South Carolina); Jiuyang Zhang (West Columbia, South Carolina); Yung-Pin Chen (Columbia, South Carolina); Alan W. Decho (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Anion-paired metallocene-containing compounds are generally provided, along with methods of making the same. In one embodiment, the anion-paired metallocene-containing compound includes a cationic metallocene moiety covalently connected to an organic functional group, and an anion paired to the cationic metallocene moiety. Generally, the cationic metallocene moiety comprises two cyclopentadienyl anions bound to a metal center in the oxidation state I. |
| FILED | Friday, April 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/245445 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 37/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09402530 | Gitlin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard D. Gitlin (Tampa, Florida); Gabriel E. Arrobo (Emeryville, California); Thomas P. Ketterl (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard D. Gitlin (Tampa, Florida); Gabriel E. Arrobo (Emeryville, California); Thomas P. Ketterl (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for performing non-invasive networked medical procedures including a number of in vivo medical devices, a communication path between at least two of the devices, an ex vivo control unit to control the behavior of the devices, and a wireless communication path between the control unit and at least one of the devices. An associated method for performing non-invasive networked medical procedures is also provided. Further included is a simulation method that utilizes accurate electromagnetic field simulations, using a software based test bench, to determine the maximum allowable transmitted power levels from in vivo devices to achieve a required bit error rates (BER) at an in vivo or ex vivo node (receiver) while maintaining the specific absorption rate (SAR) under a required threshold. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/919974 |
| ART UNIT | 2647 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 1/00016 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 17/00234 (20130101) A61B 2017/00212 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 8/22 (20130101) H04W 84/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09403186 | Bartl et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael H. Bartl (Salt Lake City, Utah); Moussa Barhoum (Darmstadt, Germany); David Riassetto (Saint Martin d'uriage, France) |
| ABSTRACT | A versatile and rapid sol-gel technique for the fabrication of high quality one-dimensional photonic bandgap materials. For example, silica/titania multi-layer materials may be fabricated by a sol-gel chemistry route combined with dip-coating onto planar or curved substrate. A shock-cooling step immediately following the thin film heat-treatment process is introduced. This step was found important in the prevention of film crack formation—especially in silica/titania alternating stack materials with a high number of layers. The versatility of this sol-gel method is demonstrated by the fabrication of various Bragg stack-type materials with fine-tuned optical properties by tailoring the number and sequence of alternating layers, the film thickness and the effective refractive index of the deposited thin films. Measured optical properties show good agreement with theoretical simulations confirming the high quality of these sol-gel fabricated optical materials. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/362037 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 3/0254 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 18/1216 (20130101) C23C 18/1225 (20130101) C23C 18/1245 (20130101) C23C 18/1254 (20130101) C23C 18/1283 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/285 (20130101) |
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| US 09403753 | Williams 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) | Travis J. Williams (Los Angeles, California); Zhiyao Lu (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A ruthenium bis(pyrazolyl)borate scaffold that enables cooperative reduction reactivity in which boron and ruthenium centers work in concert to effect selective nitrile reduction is provided. The pre-catalyst compound [κ3-(1-pz)2HB(N═CHCH3)]Ru(cymene)+ TfO− (pz=pyrazolyl) was synthesized using readily-available materials through a straightforward route, thus making it an appealing catalyst for a number of reactions. |
| FILED | Monday, November 23, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/948898 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 31/181 (20130101) B01J 2231/64 (20130101) B01J 2531/821 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 209/48 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 213/02 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/38 (20130101) C07D 307/68 (20130101) C07D 333/38 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 15/0046 (20130101) |
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| US 09403854 | Grubbs et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert H. Grubbs (South Pasadena, California); Arnab K. Chatterjee (Pasadena, California); Tae-Lim Choi (Pasadena, California); Steven D. Goldberg (Pasadena, California); Jennifer A. Love (Pasadena, California); John P. Morgan (Pasadena, California); Daniel P. Sanders (Pasadena, California); Matthias Scholl (Cambridge, Massachusetts); F. Dean Toste (Pasadena, California); Tina M. Trnka (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention pertains to the use of Group 8 transition metal carbene complexes as catalysts for olefin cross-metathesis reactions. In particular, ruthenium and osmium alkylidene complexes substituted with an N-heterocyclic carbene ligand are used to catalyze cross-metathesis reactions to provide a variety of substituted and functionalized olefins, including phosphonate-substituted olefins, directly halogenated olefins, 1,1,2-trisubstituted olefins, and quaternary allylic olefins. The invention further provides a method for creating functional diversity using the aforementioned complexes to catalyze cross-metathesis reactions of a first olefinic reactant, which may or may not be substituted with a functional group, with each of a plurality of different olefinic reactants, which may or may not be substituted with functional groups, to give a plurality of structurally distinct olefinic products. The methodology of the invention is also useful in facilitating the stereoselective synthesis of 1,2-disubstituted olefins in the cis configuration. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/055442 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 6/04 (20130101) C07C 17/275 (20130101) C07C 17/275 (20130101) C07C 25/13 (20130101) C07C 29/40 (20130101) C07C 29/40 (20130101) C07C 29/46 (20130101) C07C 33/483 (20130101) C07C 41/14 (20130101) C07C 45/69 (20130101) C07C 45/69 (20130101) C07C 47/21 (20130101) C07C 67/293 (20130101) C07C 67/293 (20130101) C07C 67/293 (20130101) C07C 67/293 (20130101) C07C 67/293 (20130101) C07C 67/297 (20130101) C07C 67/343 (20130101) C07C 67/343 (20130101) C07C 67/343 (20130101) C07C 67/343 (20130101) C07C 67/343 (20130101) C07C 67/475 (20130101) C07C 67/475 (20130101) C07C 67/475 (20130101) C07C 67/475 (20130101) C07C 69/007 (20130101) C07C 69/16 (20130101) C07C 69/18 (20130101) C07C 69/56 (20130101) C07C 69/78 (20130101) C07C 69/78 (20130101) C07C 69/145 (20130101) C07C 69/145 (20130101) C07C 69/157 (20130101) C07C 69/533 (20130101) C07C 69/732 (20130101) C07C 201/12 (20130101) C07C 201/12 (20130101) C07C 205/06 (20130101) C07C 319/20 (20130101) C07C 319/20 (20130101) C07C 321/14 (20130101) C07C 2101/14 (20130101) C07C 2101/16 (20130101) C07C 2103/74 (20130101) C07C 2531/22 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 263/14 (20130101) C07D 317/12 (20130101) C07D 317/20 (20130101) C07D 317/24 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 7/1892 (20130101) C07F 9/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07F 9/4015 (20130101) C07F 15/0046 (20130101) |
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| US 09403862 | Bennett et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clay S. Bennett (Somerville, Massachusetts); John P. Issa (Medford, Massachusetts); Dina Lloyd (Concord, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods for the efficient stereoselective formation of glycosidic bonds, without recourse to prosthetic or directing groups. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/445917 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 1/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07H 15/18 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Benjamin T. King (Reno, Nevada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education on behalf of the University of Nevada, Reno (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin T. King (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to two dimensional polymers and methods of making the same. Irradiation of polycyclic, three bladed monomers, such as polyaromatic, three bladed monomers or an antrip monomer, derivatives or analogs thereof, with ultraviolet radiation provides the two dimensional polymers, which may be used in membrane applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/950995 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 32/00 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 61/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09404096 | Arnold et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frances Arnold (Pasadena, California); Peter Meinhold (Pasadena, California); Matthew W. Peters (Pasadena, California); Rudi Fasan (Brea, California); Mike M. Y. Chen (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to modified hydroxylases. The invention further relates to cells expressing such modified hydroxylases and methods of producing hydroxylated alkanes by contacting a suitable substrate with such cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/788365 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/32 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/0071 (20130101) C12N 9/0077 (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 7/04 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 114/15 (20130101) C12Y 114/15003 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/52 (20151101) |
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| US 09404197 | D'Evelyn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark P. D'Evelyn (Santa Barbara, California); Dirk Ehrentraut (Santa Barbara, California); Wenkan Jiang (Corona, California); Bradley C. Downey (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Soraa, Inc. (Fremont, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark P. D'Evelyn (Santa Barbara, California); Dirk Ehrentraut (Santa Barbara, California); Wenkan Jiang (Corona, California); Bradley C. Downey (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultralow defect gallium-containing nitride crystal and methods of making ultralow defect gallium-containing nitride crystals are disclosed. The crystals are useful as substrates for light emitting diodes, laser diodes, transistors, photodetectors, solar cells, and photoelectrochemical water splitting for hydrogen generators. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/600191 |
| ART UNIT | 1783 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 25/02 (20130101) C30B 29/406 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24355 (20150115) |
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| US 09404835 | Prakash et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Manu Prakash (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Neil Gershenfeld (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manu Prakash (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Neil Gershenfeld (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Fluid-based no-moving part logic devices are constructed from complex sequences of micro- and nanofluidic channels, on-demand bubble/droplet modulators and generators for programming the devices, and micro- and nanofluidic droplet/bubble memory elements for storage and retrieval of biological or chemical elements. The input sequence of bubbles/droplets encodes information, with the output being another sequence of bubbles/droplets or on-chip chemical synthesis. For performing a set of reactions/tasks or process control, the modulators can be used to program the device by producing a precisely timed sequence of bubbles/droplets, resulting in a cascade of logic operations within the micro- or nanofluidic channel sequence, utilizing the generated droplets/bubbles as a control. The devices are based on the principle of minimum energy interfaces formed between the two fluid phases enclosed inside precise channel geometries. Various devices, including logic gates, non-volatile bistable memory, ring oscillators, bubble synchronizers, analysis chips, sample collectors, and printers have been designed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 09, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/481855 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Valves; Taps; Cocks; Actuating-floats; Devices for Venting or Aerating F16K 99/0001 (20130101) F16K 99/0019 (20130101) F16K 2099/0084 (20130101) F16K 2099/0092 (20130101) Pipes; Joints or Fittings for Pipes; Supports for Pipes, Cables or Protective Tubing; Means for Thermal Insulation in General F16L 55/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/2035 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 15/06 (20130101) G01N 2001/002 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 137/2076 (20150401) Y10T 137/9247 (20150401) Y10T 137/87153 (20150401) Y10T 137/87249 (20150401) Y10T 436/11 (20150115) Y10T 436/25 (20150115) Y10T 436/2575 (20150115) Y10T 436/25625 (20150115) |
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| US 09404857 | Popescu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illnois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel Popescu (Champaign, Illinois); Lynford L. Goddard (Champaign, Illinois); Paul Scott Carney (Champaign, Illinois); Taewoo Kim (Urbana, Illinois); Renjie Zhou (Urbana, Illinois); Mustafa A. H. Mir (Oakland, California); S. Derin Babacan (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for obtaining a tomographic phase image of a specimen, either in transmission or in scatter. A specimen is illuminated by a temporally incoherent source and light collected in transmission or scattering is used to generate a scattered phase image of the specimen in multiple axial planes. The scattered field is solved for in wavevector space, and a derived instrument function is deconvolved to obtain specimen susceptibility in wavevector space. The specimen susceptibility is transformed to obtain a three-dimensional phase tomogram of the specimen. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/313118 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/45 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/453 (20130101) G01N 21/4795 (20130101) |
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| US 09404861 | Guo |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama, for and on behalf of the University of Alabama in Huntsville (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA, FO (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Junpeng Guo (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure pertains to metal or dielectric nanostructures of the subwavelength scale within the grating lines of optical diffraction gratings. The nanostructures have surface plasmon resonances or non-plasmon optical resonances. A linear photodetector array is used to capture the resonance spectra from one of the diffraction orders. The combined nanostructure super-grating and photodetector array eliminates the use of external optical spectrometers for measuring surface plasmon or optical resonance frequency shift caused by the presence of chemical and biological agents. The nanostructure super-gratings can be used for building integrated surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectrometers. The nanostructures within the diffraction grating lines enhance Raman scattering signal light while the diffraction grating pattern of the nanostructures diffracts Raman scattering light to different directions of propagation according to their wavelengths. Therefore, the nanostructure super-gratings allows for the use of a photodetector array to capture the surface enhanced Raman scattering spectra. |
| FILED | Monday, February 09, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/617635 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/1804 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/554 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/658 (20130101) G01N 2201/02 (20130101) G01N 2201/06113 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/008 (20130101) G02B 5/18 (20130101) G02B 5/1809 (20130101) |
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| US 09404909 | Aksimentiev |
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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) | Aleksei Aksimentiev (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method for selectively applying an electrical potential to a top surface of a membrane having a nanopore to repel or attract a molecular strand from the top surface of the membrane, applying a second electrical potential to a bottom surface of the membrane to repel or attract the molecular strand from the bottom surface of the membrane, applying a third electrical potential to an electrolyte solution to apply a transport force on the molecular strand to displace a section of the molecular strand into the nanopore, arresting the section of the molecular strand in the nanopore by adjusting of the first electrical potential, the second electrical potential, the third electrical potential, or combinations thereof, and measuring a signal at the nanopore to identify the section of the molecular strand. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/911333 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 2565/531 (20130101) C12Q 2565/631 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/48721 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09405008 | Raskar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ramesh Raskar (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Achuta Kadambi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ayush Bhandari (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Christopher Barsi (Exeter, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramesh Raskar (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Achuta Kadambi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ayush Bhandari (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Christopher Barsi (Exeter, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | In exemplary implementations of this invention, a multi-frequency ToF camera mitigates the effect of multi-path interference (MPI), and can calculate an accurate depth map despite MPI. A light source in the multi-frequency camera emits light in a temporal sequence of different frequencies. For example, the light source can emit a sequence of ten equidistant frequencies f=10 MHz, 20 MHz, 30 MHz, . . . , 100 MHz. At each frequency, a lock-in sensor within the ToF camera captures 4 frames. From these 4 frames, one or more processors compute, for each pixel in the sensor, a single complex number. The processors stack all of such complex quantities (one such complex number per pixel per frequency) and solve for the depth and intensity, using a spectral estimation technique. |
| FILED | Friday, May 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/280284 |
| ART UNIT | 2664 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| 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 7/493 (20130101) G01S 17/89 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09405115 | Riddle et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Reed Riddle (Pasadena, California); Christoph Baranec (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An automated adaptive optics and laser projection system is described. The automated adaptive optics and laser projection system includes an adaptive optics system and a compact laser projection system with related laser guidance programming used to correct atmospheric distortion induced on light received by a telescope. Control of the automated adaptive optics and laser projection system is designed in a modular manner in order to facilitate replication of the system to be used with a variety of different telescopes. Related methods are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/843112 |
| ART UNIT | 2482 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 11/00 (20130101) Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/021 (20130101) G01J 3/027 (20130101) G01J 3/32 (20130101) G01J 3/36 (20130101) G01J 3/0224 (20130101) G01J 3/0229 (20130101) G01J 3/0237 (20130101) G01J 9/00 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 7/003 (20130101) G02B 23/00 (20130101) G02B 23/02 (20130101) G02B 23/06 (20130101) G02B 26/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 26/0816 (20130101) G02B 27/40 (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 21/2033 (20130101) Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 15/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09405164 | Xu |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tao Xu (Lisle, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tao Xu (Lisle, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrochromic device comprises (i) a conductive layer, (ii) an electrochromic material, on the conductive layer, (iii) an electrolyte, on the electrochromic material, and (iv) a counter-electrode, on the electrolyte. The conductive layer has a surface roughness factor (SRF) of at least 10, and the conductive layer comprises a semi-metal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/972447 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | 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 1/15 (20130101) G02F 1/153 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02F 1/155 (20130101) G02F 1/163 (20130101) G02F 1/1521 (20130101) G02F 1/1523 (20130101) G02F 1/1525 (20130101) G02F 1/1533 (20130101) G02F 2001/1512 (20130101) G02F 2001/1515 (20130101) G02F 2001/1519 (20130101) G02F 2001/1555 (20130101) G02F 2201/123 (20130101) |
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| US 09405886 | Taylor et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles A Taylor (Menlo Park, California); Hyun Jin Kim (Boulder, Colorado); Jessica S. Coogan (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles A Taylor (Menlo Park, California); Hyun Jin Kim (Boulder, Colorado); Jessica S. Coogan (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A noninvasive patient-specific method is provided to aid in the analysis, diagnosis, prediction or treatment of hemodynamics of the cardiovascular system of a patient. Coronary blood flow and pressure can be predicted using a 3-D patient image-based model that is implicitly coupled with a model of at least a portion of the remaining cardiovascular system. The 3-D patient image-based model includes at least a portion of the thoracic aorta and epicardial coronaries of the patient. The shape of one or more velocity profiles at the interface of the models is enforced to control complex flow features of recirculating or retrograde flow thereby minimizing model instabilities and resulting in patient-specific predictions of coronary flow rate and pressure. The invention allows for patient-specific predictions of the effect of different or varying physiological states and hemodynamic benefits of coronary medical interventions, percutaneous coronary interventions and surgical therapies. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/661491 |
| 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 19/3437 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09406037 | Papakonstantinou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BioHeatMap, Inc. (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BioHeatMap, Inc. (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yannis Papakonstantinou (La Jolla, California); Robert Meadows (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for performing searches and presenting reports to users include receiving a user query request comprising condition classifications or text words or text phrases, receiving a user report request comprising report classification information that includes a request term, accessing an ontology providing a plurality of classifications, where each classification comprises a set of terms, accessing, using the ontology, a set of document associated with the report classification information, computing an aggregate measure of the request term based on a relationship between the request term and the set of documents, generating a requested report based on the aggregate measure of the request term and presenting the requested report. |
| FILED | Monday, October 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/657810 |
| ART UNIT | 2165 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/063 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09406167 | Hall et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Hall (State College, Pennsylvania); Jonathan Lynch (Boalsburg, Pennsylvania); Edward W. Reutzel (State College, Pennsylvania); Galen Lynch (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser ablation tomography system includes a specimen stage for supporting a specimen. A specimen axis is defined such that a specimen disposed generally on the axis may be imaged. A laser system is operable to produce a laser sheet in a plane intersecting the specimen axis and generally perpendicular thereto. An imaging system is operable to image the area where the laser sheet intersects the specimen axis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/067502 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/06 (20130101) G01N 2001/045 (20130101) G01N 2001/2886 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 17/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2200/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09406307 | Rose 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) | Kenneth Rose (Ojai, California); Tejaswi Nanjundaswamy (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, device, and apparatus provide the ability to predict a portion of a polyphonic audio signal for compression and networking applications. The solution involves a framework of a cascade of long term prediction filters, which by design is tailored to account for all periodic components present in a polyphonic signal. This framework is complemented with a design method to optimize the system parameters. Specialization may include specific techniques for coding and networking scenarios, where the potential of each enhanced prediction is realized to considerably improve the overall system performance for that application. One specific technique provides enhanced inter-frame prediction for the compression of polyphonic audio signals, particularly at low delay. Another specific technique provides improved frame loss concealment capabilities to combat packet loss in audio communications. |
| FILED | Monday, August 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/970080 |
| ART UNIT | 2657 — Linguistics, Speech Processing and Audio Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Speech Analysis or Synthesis; Speech Recognition; Speech or Voice Processing; Speech or Audio Coding or Decoding G10L 19/02 (20130101) G10L 19/005 (20130101) G10L 19/09 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09406789 | Bürki et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona); NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (New York, New York); THE ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerome Alexandre Bürki (Pleasant Hill, California); Charles Allen Stafford (Tucson, Arizona); Daniel L. Stein (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanoscale variable resistor including a metal nanowire as an active element, a dielectric, and a gate. By selective application of a gate voltage, stochastic transitions between different conducting states, and even length, of the nanowire can be induced and with a switching time as fast as picoseconds. With an appropriate choice of dielectric, the transconductance of the device, which may also be considered an “electromechanical transistor,” is shown to significantly exceed the conductance quantum G0=2e2/h. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/903834 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 99/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/068 (20130101) H01L 29/0665 (20130101) H01L 29/775 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 49/006 (20130101) Pulse Technique H03K 17/687 (20130101) |
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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| APPLICANT(S) | Composite Technology Development, Inc. (Lafayette, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Composite Technology Development, Inc. (Lafayette, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry Adams (Thornton, Colorado); Dana Turse (Broomfield, Colorado); Doug Richardson (Westminster, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A system comprising a boom having a first end, a longitudinal length, and a slit that extends along the longitudinal length of the boom; a drum having an elliptic cross section and a longitudinal length; an attachment mechanism coupled with the first end of the boom and the drum such that the boom and the drum are substantially perpendicular relative to one another; an inner shaft having a longitudinal length, the inner shaft disposed within the drum, the longitudinal length of the inner shaft is aligned substantially parallel with the longitudinal length of the drum, the inner shaft at least partially rotatable relative to the drum, and the inner shaft is at least partially rotatable with the drum; and at least two cords coupled with the inner shaft and portions of the boom near the first end of the boom. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/681571 |
| ART UNIT | 3633 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Structural Elements; Building Materials E04C 3/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49826 (20150115) |
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| US 09404658 | Nickolaus |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rolls-Royce Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rolls-Royce Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Nickolaus (Plainfield, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine engine device is disclosed for mixing fuel and air prior to a combustion. The device includes a pilot mixer and a main mixer each having a fuel opening for the delivery of fuel to one or more passages. In one form the main mixer includes an inner passage and an outer passage and in which a fuel opening delivers fuel to the inner passage. The main mixer can include swirlers in the inner and/or outer passages. The pilot mixer can also include a swirler. In one embodiment the main mixer includes a converging flow path and/or a diverging flow path. The pilot mixer can also include a converging and/or diverging flow path and in one form is sheltered from an exit of the device. The main mixer fuel opening can be disposed between an upstream end and a downstream end of the mixer. |
| FILED | Friday, December 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/105495 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Generating Combustion Products of High Pressure or High Velocity, e.g Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers F23R 3/14 (20130101) F23R 3/286 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F23R 3/343 (20130101) F23R 2900/03343 (20130101) |
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| US 09404692 | Grayson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gary D. Grayson (Huntington Beach, California); Mark W. Henley (Topanga, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary D. Grayson (Huntington Beach, California); Mark W. Henley (Topanga, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An method of controlling thermal transfer between a first structure and a second structure may include a signal at a thermal switch. In response to receiving the signal at the thermal switch, a rotating plate may be rotated into one or more positions adjacent to a fixed plate to facilitate radiative thermal transfer between the rotating plate and the fixed plate. The rotating plate and the fixed plate may be in thermally conductive contact with respective ones of the first structure and the second structure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/610865 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Details of Heat-exchange and Heat-transfer Apparatus, of General Application F28F 13/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F28F 2013/008 (20130101) |
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| US 09404861 | Guo |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama, for and on behalf of the University of Alabama in Huntsville (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA, FO (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Junpeng Guo (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure pertains to metal or dielectric nanostructures of the subwavelength scale within the grating lines of optical diffraction gratings. The nanostructures have surface plasmon resonances or non-plasmon optical resonances. A linear photodetector array is used to capture the resonance spectra from one of the diffraction orders. The combined nanostructure super-grating and photodetector array eliminates the use of external optical spectrometers for measuring surface plasmon or optical resonance frequency shift caused by the presence of chemical and biological agents. The nanostructure super-gratings can be used for building integrated surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectrometers. The nanostructures within the diffraction grating lines enhance Raman scattering signal light while the diffraction grating pattern of the nanostructures diffracts Raman scattering light to different directions of propagation according to their wavelengths. Therefore, the nanostructure super-gratings allows for the use of a photodetector array to capture the surface enhanced Raman scattering spectra. |
| FILED | Monday, February 09, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/617635 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/1804 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/554 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/658 (20130101) G01N 2201/02 (20130101) G01N 2201/06113 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/008 (20130101) G02B 5/18 (20130101) G02B 5/1809 (20130101) |
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09404891 — Apparatus for and method of monitoring condensed water in steam pipes at high temperature
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shyh-Shiuh Lih (La Canada Flintridge, California); Hyeong Jae Lee (South Pasadena, California); Yoseph Bar-Cohen (Seal Beach, California); Xiaoqi Bao (San Gabriel, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shyh-Shiuh Lih (La Canada Flintridge, California); Hyeong Jae Lee (South Pasadena, California); Yoseph Bar-Cohen (Seal Beach, California); Xiaoqi Bao (San Gabriel, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for monitoring the properties of a fluid, such as water, in a steam pipe without mechanically penetrating the wall of the pipe. The system uses a piezoelectric transducer to launch an ultrasonic probe signal into the pipe. Reflected ultrasonic signals are captured in a transducer, which can be the same transducer that launched the probe signal. The reflected signals are subjected to data processing, which can include filtering, amplification, analog-to-digital conversion and autocorrelation analysis. A result is extracted which is indicative of a property of the fluid, such as a height of the condensed fluid, a cavitation of the condensed fluid, and a surface perturbation of the condensed fluid. The result can be recorded, displayed, and/or transmitted to another location. One embodiment of the system has been constructed and tested based on a general purpose programmable computer using instructions recorded in machine-readable non-volatile memory. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/109470 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow or Liquid Level; Metering by Volume G01F 23/2962 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 29/024 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 29/50 (20130101) G01N 29/4472 (20130101) G01N 2291/044 (20130101) G01N 2291/101 (20130101) G01N 2291/02836 (20130101) |
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| US 09405005 | Arteaga |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of NASA (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ricardo A. Arteaga (Lancaster, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention proposes an automatic dependent surveillance broadcast (ADS-B) architecture and process, in which priority aircraft and ADS-B IN traffic information are included in the transmission of data through the telemetry communications to a remote ground control station. The present invention further proposes methods for displaying general aviation traffic information in three and/or four dimension trajectories using an industry standard Earth browser for increased situation awareness and enhanced visual acquisition of traffic for conflict detection. The present invention enable the applications of enhanced visual acquisition of traffic, traffic alerts, and en-route and terminal surveillance used to augment pilot situational awareness through ADS-B IN display and information in three or four dimensions for self-separation awareness. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 05, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/785661 |
| ART UNIT | 3648 — 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 13/91 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01S 13/9303 (20130101) |
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| US 09406442 | Manohara et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harish Manohara (Arcadia, California); Linda Y. Del Castillo (Arcadia, California); Mohammed M. Mojarradi (La Canada, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention implement micro- and nanoscale capacitors that incorporate a conductive element that conforms to the shape of an array elongated bodies. In one embodiment, a capacitor that incorporates a conductive element that conforms to the shape of an array of elongated bodies includes: a first conductive element that conforms to the shape of an array of elongated bodies; a second conductive element that conforms to the shape of an array of elongated bodies; and a dielectric material disposed in between the first conductive element and the second conductive element, and thereby physically separates them. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/804301 |
| ART UNIT | 2848 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 4/01 (20130101) H01G 4/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01G 4/30 (20130101) H01G 4/33 (20130101) H01G 4/38 (20130101) H01G 4/232 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 28/60 (20130101) H01L 28/86 (20130101) H01L 28/90 (20130101) |
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| US 09407068 | Mansour et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kamjou Mansour (LaCanada, California); Alexander Soibel (South Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A broadband, integrated quantum cascade laser is disclosed, comprising ridge waveguide quantum cascade lasers formed by applying standard semiconductor process techniques to a monolithic structure of alternating layers of claddings and active region layers. The resulting ridge waveguide quantum cascade lasers may be individually controlled by independent voltage potentials, resulting in control of the overall spectrum of the integrated quantum cascade laser source. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/722981 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 33/04 (20130101) Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 5/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 5/405 (20130101) H01S 5/3402 (20130101) H01S 5/4087 (20130101) |
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 09404036 | Bourret-Courchesne et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edith Bourret-Courchesne (Berkeley, California); Stephen E. Derenzo (Pinole, California); Shameka Parms (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Yetta D. Porter-Chapman (Pleasant Hill, California); Latoria K. Wiggins (Chestertown, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edith Bourret-Courchesne (Berkeley, California); Stephen E. Derenzo (Pinole, California); Shameka Parms (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Yetta D. Porter-Chapman (Pleasant Hill, California); Latoria K. Wiggins (Chestertown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a composition comprising an inorganic scintillator comprising a gadolinium halide, optionally cerium-doped, having the formula AnGdXm:Ce; wherein A is nothing, an alkali metal, such as Li or Na, or an alkali earth metal, such as Ba; X is F, Br, Cl, or I; n is an integer from 1 to 2; m is an integer from 4 to 7; and the molar percent of cerium is 0% to 100%. The gadolinium halides or alkali earth metal gadolinium halides are scintillators and produce a bright luminescence upon irradiation by a suitable radiation. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/262132 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/7773 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09405990 | Skatter et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MORPHO DETECTION, LLC (Newark, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MORPHO DETECTION, LLC (Newark, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sondre Skatter (Oakland, California); Matthew Allen Merzbacher (Oakland, California); Geoffrey Harding (Hamburg, Germany); Samit Kumar Basu (Fremont, California); Gabriel Zienert (Hamburg, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of performing a security inspection of a container including a plurality of objects includes irradiating the container with polychromatic x-rays, reconstructing a 4-D voxelized representation defining a momentum transfer spectrum, and generating a 3-D image by determining a single value at each voxel as a function of the momentum transfer spectrum. The method further includes segmenting the voxels into segments of contiguous voxels that map onto at least one object. The method also includes computing an aggregated momentum transfer spectrum over at least a portion of the contiguous voxels through at least one of aggregating the spectra of the contiguous voxels for each segment and defining a supervoxel that includes voxels with the object exclusively and voxels in a neighborhood, regardless of association with the object. The method further includes classifying the object as one of a threat and a non-threat based on the aggregated momentum transfer spectrum. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/463459 |
| ART UNIT | 2669 — 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 23/20083 (20130101) G01N 2223/41 (20130101) G01N 2223/206 (20130101) G01N 2223/401 (20130101) G01N 2223/405 (20130101) G01N 2223/423 (20130101) G01N 2223/639 (20130101) G01N 2223/643 (20130101) Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/00 (20130101) Geophysics; Gravitational Measurements; Detecting Masses or Objects; Tags G01V 5/0025 (20130101) G01V 5/0041 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/46 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/6267 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 5/001 (20130101) G06T 7/0079 (20130101) G06T 15/08 (20130101) G06T 2207/10116 (20130101) |
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| US 09406488 | Maldonado 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) | Juan R. Maldonado (Menlo Park, California); Yao-Te Cheng (New Taipei, Taiwan); Piero Pianetta (Palo Alto, California); R. Fabian W. Pease (Stanford, California); Lambertus Hesselink (Atherton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of achieving heightened quantum efficiencies and extended photocathode lifetimes is provided that includes using an electron beam bombardment to activate color centers in a CsBr film of a photocathode, and using a laser source for pumping electrons in the color centers of the photocathode. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 26, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/190835 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 40/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 40/18 (20130101) |
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Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 09405015 | Berchin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SUBCARRIER SYSTEMS CORPORATION (Glendora, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SubCarrier Systems Corporation (Glendora, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory John Berchin (Lake Saint Louis, Missouri); David Charles Kelley (Glendora, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Polynomial regression models are used to reduce errors in measurements of pseudorange between a GNSS satellite and a receiving station; for data compression by replacing a large number of measurements with a small number of coefficients of the model polynomial, optionally combined with modeling residuals; for extrapolating usefully accurate estimates of future range between the GNSS satellite and the receiving station; and for providing usefully accurate estimates of future coefficient values of the polynomial regression models themselves. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/718210 |
| ART UNIT | 3648 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 19/04 (20130101) G01S 19/07 (20130101) G01S 19/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01S 19/41 (20130101) G01S 19/43 (20130101) |
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| US 09405365 | 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); Gholamreza Amayeh (Reno, Nevada); David Leblanc (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is provided for identifying reference locations within the environment of a device wearer. The system includes a scene camera mounted on eyewear or headwear coupled to a processing unit. The system may recognize objects with known geometries that occur naturally within the wearer's environment or objects that have been intentionally placed at known locations within the wearer's environment. One or more light sources may be mounted on the headwear that illuminate reflective surfaces at selected times and wavelengths to help identify scene reference locations and glints projected from known locations onto the surface of the eye. The processing unit may control light sources to adjust illumination levels in order to help identify reference locations within the environment and corresponding glints on the surface of the eye. Objects may be identified substantially continuously within video images from scene cameras to provide a continuous data stream of reference locations. |
| FILED | Monday, November 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/537823 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 3/113 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 27/017 (20130101) G02B 27/0093 (20130101) G02B 2027/014 (20130101) G02B 2027/0138 (20130101) G02B 2027/0178 (20130101) G02B 2027/0187 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/013 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00604 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0044 (20130101) G06T 2207/10016 (20130101) G06T 2207/10024 (20130101) G06T 2207/30204 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 09402376 | Wang |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Advanced Genomic Technology, LLC (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ADVANCED GENOMIC TECHNOLOGY, LLC (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugenia Wang (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A transgenic, non-human animal model for accelerated aging and/or age-related symptom, recombinant nucleic acid molecules, cells and methods that can be used to make such animal model and cells, methods of using the animal model and cells, to descendants of the transgenic non-human animal, obtained by breeding with the same or with another phenotype, and to a cell line or primary cell culture or to an organotypic brain slice culture, derived from the transgenic non-human animal or its descendants are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, January 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/371628 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 67/0275 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01K 2217/20 (20130101) A01K 2217/052 (20130101) A01K 2227/105 (20130101) A01K 2267/03 (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 2600/136 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09406142 | Gorman, III et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph H. Gorman, III (Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania); Alison M. Pouch (Abington, Pennsylvania); Robert C. Gorman (Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania); Hongzhi Wang (Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania); Paul Yushkevich (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Benjamin M Jackson (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Brian B. Avants (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Chandra M. Sehgal (Wayne, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A fully automatic method for segmentation of the mitral leaflets in 3D transesophageal echocardiographic (3D TEE) images is provided. The method combines complementary probabilistic segmentation and geometric modeling techniques to generate 3D patient-specific reconstructions of the mitral leaflets and annulus from 3D TEE image data with no user interaction. In the model-based segmentation framework, mitral leaflet geometry is described with 3D continuous medial representation (cm-rep). To capture leaflet geometry in a target 3D TEE image, a pre-defined cm-rep template of the mitral leaflets is deformed such that the negative log of a Bayesian posterior probability is minimized. The likelihood of the objective function is given by a probabilistic segmentation of the mitral leaflets generated by multi-atlas joint label fusion, while the validity constraints and regularization terms imposed by cm-rep act as shape priors that preserve leaflet topology and constrain model fitting. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/509342 |
| ART UNIT | 2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0081 (20130101) G06T 7/0087 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 7/0097 (20130101) G06T 2207/10136 (20130101) G06T 2207/20076 (20130101) G06T 2207/20128 (20130101) G06T 2207/30048 (20130101) G06T 2210/41 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 09402376 | Wang |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Advanced Genomic Technology, LLC (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ADVANCED GENOMIC TECHNOLOGY, LLC (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugenia Wang (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A transgenic, non-human animal model for accelerated aging and/or age-related symptom, recombinant nucleic acid molecules, cells and methods that can be used to make such animal model and cells, methods of using the animal model and cells, to descendants of the transgenic non-human animal, obtained by breeding with the same or with another phenotype, and to a cell line or primary cell culture or to an organotypic brain slice culture, derived from the transgenic non-human animal or its descendants are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, January 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/371628 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 67/0275 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01K 2217/20 (20130101) A01K 2217/052 (20130101) A01K 2227/105 (20130101) A01K 2267/03 (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 2600/136 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09405296 | Levien et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Elwha LLC, a limited liability corporation of the State of Delaware (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Elwah LLC (Bellevue, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Royce A. Levien (Lexington, Massachusetts); Robert W. Lord (Seattle, Washington); Richard T. Lord (Tacoma, Washington); Mark A. Malamud (Seattle, Washington); John D. Rinaldo, Jr. (Bellevue, Washington); Lowell L. Wood, Jr. (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are example embodiments for collision targeting for hazard handling. For certain example embodiments, at least one machine, such as a base station, may: (i) ascertain at least one target for at least one collision to include an unoccupied flying vehicle (UFV); or (ii) transmit at least one command to execute at least one maneuver to divert a UFV at least toward at least one target to induce at least one collision to include the UFV and the at least one target. However, claimed subject matter is not limited to any particular described embodiments, implementations, examples, or so forth. |
| FILED | Monday, December 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/731721 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 39/024 (20130101) Weapon Sights; Aiming F41G 7/00 (20130101) Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 1/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 09406167 | Hall et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Hall (State College, Pennsylvania); Jonathan Lynch (Boalsburg, Pennsylvania); Edward W. Reutzel (State College, Pennsylvania); Galen Lynch (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser ablation tomography system includes a specimen stage for supporting a specimen. A specimen axis is defined such that a specimen disposed generally on the axis may be imaged. A laser system is operable to produce a laser sheet in a plane intersecting the specimen axis and generally perpendicular thereto. An imaging system is operable to image the area where the laser sheet intersects the specimen axis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/067502 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/06 (20130101) G01N 2001/045 (20130101) G01N 2001/2886 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 17/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2200/08 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 09407246 | Hati et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Archita Hati (Boulder, Colorado); Craig Nelson (Boulder, Colorado); David Howe (Louisville, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A phase modulation (PM) noise reducer includes: an amplitude modulation (AM) detector to receive a primary oscillator signal and to produce an AM detector signal, the primary oscillator signal including a first PM noise; and a control circuit to receive the AM detector signal, to produce a control signal, and to communicate the control signal to a phase shifter, wherein the phase shifter receives the primary oscillator signal and control signal, and the oscillator produces a secondary oscillator signal that includes a second PM noise that is less than the first PM noise, and further including; a PM detector and power splitter receives the primary oscillator signal, splits a power of the primary oscillator signal, and communicates the primary oscillator signal to the AM detector and PM detector. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 19, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/716518 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Generation of Oscillations, Directly or by Frequency-changing, by Circuits Employing Active Elements Which Operate in a Non-switching Manner; Generation of Noise by Such Circuits H03B 2200/009 (20130101) Modulation H03C 1/06 (20130101) H03C 3/04 (20130101) H03C 5/00 (20130101) Pulse Technique H03K 5/1252 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 09403895 | Marinkovich 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 (Stanford, California); The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | M. Peter Marinkovich (Redwood City, California); Alfred T. Lane (Los Altos, California); Jayakumar Rajadas (Cupertino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved methods are provided for the recombinant synthesis of collagen, particularly collagen VII, in host cell, and for therapeutic delivery of the same. The recombinant collagen is produced in a host cell that has increased levels of prolyl-4-hydroxylase, relative to basal cell levels. The collagen produced by the methods of the invention has increased numbers of modified proline residues, relative to a recombinant collagen produced in a host cell having basal levels of prolyl-4-hydroxylase. The increased proline modification provides for a collagen having increased stability, including increased in vivo stability. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/700951 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/39 (20130101) Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 37/0015 (20130101) A61M 2037/0023 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/78 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09406037 | Papakonstantinou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BioHeatMap, Inc. (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BioHeatMap, Inc. (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yannis Papakonstantinou (La Jolla, California); Robert Meadows (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for performing searches and presenting reports to users include receiving a user query request comprising condition classifications or text words or text phrases, receiving a user report request comprising report classification information that includes a request term, accessing an ontology providing a plurality of classifications, where each classification comprises a set of terms, accessing, using the ontology, a set of document associated with the report classification information, computing an aggregate measure of the request term based on a relationship between the request term and the set of documents, generating a requested report based on the aggregate measure of the request term and presenting the requested report. |
| FILED | Monday, October 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/657810 |
| ART UNIT | 2165 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/063 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
09403815 — Compounds and uses thereof in modulating levels of various amyloid beta peptide alloforms
| US 09403815 | Wagner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven L. Wagner (San Diego, California); Soan Cheng (San Diego, California); William C. Mobley (La Jolla, California); Rudolph E. Tanzi (Charlestown, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven L. Wagner (San Diego, California); Soan Cheng (San Diego, California); William C. Mobley (La Jolla, California); Rudolph E. Tanzi (Charlestown, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a novel compound having a structure corresponding to Formula (I): (A)-(B)-(C)-(D) (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or prodrug thereof and methods for using them. |
| FILED | Friday, June 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/806692 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 417/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 9/65583 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09404172 | Clavette et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Patrick Louis Clavette (Simsbury, Connecticut); Jun Shi (Carmel, Indiana); Aaron T. Nardi (East Granby, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick Louis Clavette (Simsbury, Connecticut); Jun Shi (Carmel, Indiana); Aaron T. Nardi (East Granby, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A coating is described for an airfoil blade component. The coating comprises a cermet material and has, when applied to the rotor blade, a compressive residual stress greater than about 60 ksi. In another embodiment, the compressive residual stress of the coating is in the range of approximately 90-110 ksi. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/633597 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 11/205 (20130101) Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 4/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C23C 4/129 (20160101) C23C 24/04 (20130101) C23C 30/00 (20130101) Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/288 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2240/303 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/672 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09405277 | Cameron |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOEING COMPANY (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas C. Cameron (Ladera Ranch, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-rate system for controlling an actuator may include an incremental command limiter that receives a command from a first control system and outputs a limited incremental command; a feed-forward that receives the limited incremental command from the incremental command limiter and outputs a feed forward rate command; a first differentiator that limits the limited incremental command to a maximum allowable command; an upsampler state that outputs a current state back to the differentiator; a first summer that receives the limited incremental command and the current state from the upsampler state, and outputs an incremental position command; and a second summer that combines the incremental position command and the feed forward rate command to produce a rate error output signal. |
| FILED | Monday, February 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/182151 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 19/00 (20130101) Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 6/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G05B 2219/41427 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09407430 | Wong |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark B. Wong (Bellflower, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An exemplary method is implemented by a radio frequency receiver for synchronizing the recovery of data carried by frames. An indication is generated from error correction of whether the error control coding in the receiver is capable of correcting all the errors induced by the channel within the frame. If the indication declares that all the errors are corrected, then the carrier frequency estimate associated with the error free frame is saved in memory and will be used to initialize the carrier recovery loop at the beginning of the following frames until such frequency estimate is declared unreliable. A new carrier frequency estimate is available at the end of each frame, and if such estimate is proven to be reliable for future use, the current estimate in memory will be overwritten by the new estimate and the freshness of the frequency estimate is extended. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 23, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/747510 |
| ART UNIT | 2632 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 1/0005 (20130101) H04L 7/10 (20130101) H04L 7/048 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 7/0331 (20130101) H04L 27/0008 (20130101) H04L 27/266 (20130101) H04L 27/2659 (20130101) H04L 2027/0081 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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