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09420988 — Systems and methods for tracking and guiding high intensity focused ultrasound beams

US 09420988	Anand et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	Ajay Anand (Fishkill, New York); John Petruzzello (Carmel, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands)
INVENTOR(S)	Ajay Anand (Fishkill, New York); John Petruzzello (Carmel, New York)
ABSTRACT	The present disclosure provides systems and methods for tracking and guiding high intensity focused ultrasound beams (HIFU). More particularly, the disclosed systems and methods involve use of acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging to detect the focal position of an HIFU capable transducer relative to a target area. The focal position may then be 5 compared to a desired treatment location and the orientation and focus of the transducer may be adjusted accordingly so as to reconfigure and/or refocus the HIFU beam relative to the desired treatment location. The desired treatment location may be dynamically determined using bleed detection and localization (BD&L) techniques. Thus, the desired treatment location may be determined using 3D Doppler ultrasound based techniques, wherein changes in quantitative 10 parameters extracted from the Doppler spectra, e.g., Resistance Index (RI), are used to detect and localize a bleeding site for treatment.
FILED	Wednesday, December 17, 2008
APPL NO	12/809617
ART UNIT	3768 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 8/06 (20130101) A61B 8/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 8/485 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 7/02 (20130101)
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09421203 — Sensitization of cancer cells to DNA damage by inhibiting kinases essential for DNA damage checkpoint control

US 09421203	Yen et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)	Institute for Cancer Research (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Institute for Cancer Research (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Timothy Yen (Haverford, Pennsylvania); Neil Beeharry (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides methods for overriding cell cycle arrest in a tumor cell, which comprise inducing DNA damage in the cell, and contacting the cell with an amount of bosutinib or a bosutinib isomer effective to inhibit one or more kinase constituents of a DNA damage checkpoint pathway. The invention also provides novel bosutinib isomers, as well as compositions of the novel isomers and the bosutinib isomer 3,5-dichloro-4-methoxyaniline.
FILED	Tuesday, December 09, 2014
APPL NO	14/564186
ART UNIT	1626 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/496 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/7068 (20130101) A61K 31/7068 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101)
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09421300 — Simple coacervates and methods of use thereof

US 09421300	Stewart
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)	University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah)
INVENTOR(S)	Russell J. Stewart (Salt Lake City, Utah)
ABSTRACT	Described herein is the synthesis of adhesive from simple adhesive coacervates and their uses thereof. The adhesives are produced by (a) preparing a solution comprising (1) a polyelectrolyte, wherein the polyelectrolyte comprises a polyanion or polycation but not a combination thereof, the polyeletrolyte comprises at least one crosslinking group, and (2) a sufficient amount of a complimentary counterion to produce a simple adhesive coacervate; and (b) crosslinking the simple adhesive coacervate to produce the adhesive. The adhesives have numerous medical and non-medical applications.
FILED	Monday, October 05, 2015
APPL NO	14/874854
ART UNIT	1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 6/0023 (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 24/001 (20130101) A61L 24/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 24/0015 (20130101) A61L 31/10 (20130101) A61L 31/16 (20130101) A61L 2300/418 (20130101) A61L 2400/18 (20130101) Adhesives; Non-mechanical Aspects of Adhesive Processes in General; Adhesive Processes Not Provided for Elsewhere; Use of Materials as Adhesives C09J 143/02 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2852 (20150115)
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09421306 — Reinforced biologic material

US 09421306	Park et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC)
APPLICANT(S)	Jason Park (Brooklyn, New York); Aaron Barere (Hoboken, New Jersey); Christopher T. Wagner (Flemington, New Jersey); Robert Kiefer (Quakertown, Pennsylvania); E. Skott Greenhalgh (Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	LifeCell Corporation (Branchburg, New Jersey)
INVENTOR(S)	Jason Park (Brooklyn, New York); Aaron Barere (Hoboken, New Jersey); Christopher T. Wagner (Flemington, New Jersey); Robert Kiefer (Quakertown, Pennsylvania); E. Skott Greenhalgh (Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	The present disclosure provides an implantable medical device comprising a composite graft material including a first biologic component, such as an acellular tissue matrix, and a second non-biologic component.
FILED	Friday, September 14, 2012
APPL NO	13/616556
ART UNIT	3774 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies
CURRENT CPC	Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2/08 (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 27/48 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 27/446 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49826 (20150115)
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09421307 — Biohybrid composite scaffold

US 09421307	Amoroso et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC) Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC)
APPLICANT(S)	Nicholas J. Amoroso (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Stephen F. Badylak (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Yi Hong (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Alexander Huber (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Keisuke Takanari (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); William R. Wagner (Wexford, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Nicholas J. Amoroso (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Stephen F. Badylak (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Yi Hong (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Alexander Huber (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Keisuke Takanari (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); William R. Wagner (Wexford, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	A biohybrid scaffold is provided that is useful in clinical applications for abdominal wall reconstruction, pelvic floor repair, breast reconstruction, as well as other soft tissue repairs. Methods of making and using the biohybrid scaffold are provided.
FILED	Wednesday, August 17, 2011
APPL NO	13/814783
ART UNIT	1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/18 (20130101) A61L 27/18 (20130101) A61L 27/18 (20130101) A61L 27/48 (20130101) A61L 27/58 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 27/3633 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 67/04 (20130101) C08L 75/00 (20130101)
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09421341 — Laryngeal tube

US 09421341	Miller et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC)
APPLICANT(S)	David J. Miller (Pittsburg, Kansas); Thomas W. McGrail (Cicero, Indiana); Benje Boedeker (Omaha, Nebraska); Volker Bertram (Sulz am Neckar, Germany)
ASSIGNEE(S)	King Systems Corporation (Noblesville, Indiana)
INVENTOR(S)	David J. Miller (Pittsburg, Kansas); Thomas W. McGrail (Cicero, Indiana); Benje Boedeker (Omaha, Nebraska); Volker Bertram (Sulz am Neckar, Germany)
ABSTRACT	A laryngeal tube comprising a tubular component and a nozzle having a central cavity, an anterior opening and a tongue at least partially covering the central cavity. In one example, the laryngeal tube has a first lumen to deliver gases to a patient and a fluid barrier supported by the nozzle. In other examples, the laryngeal tube may include additional lumens including a service lumen to perform a function associated with the thorax and an inflation lumen to inflate the fluid barrier.
FILED	Saturday, February 26, 2011
APPL NO	13/580978
ART UNIT	3771 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies
CURRENT CPC	Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 16/0434 (20130101) A61M 16/0463 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61M 16/0479 (20140204) A61M 16/0484 (20140204) A61M 16/0486 (20140204) A61M 2016/0027 (20130101) A61M 2205/18 (20130101) A61M 2205/44 (20130101) A61M 2205/581 (20130101) A61M 2205/584 (20130101)
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09421507 — Micro-channels, micro-mixers and micro-reactors

US 09421507	Miller
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) U.S. State Government State of Oregon
APPLICANT(S)	State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon)
INVENTOR(S)	Richard Todd Miller (Corvallis, Oregon)
ABSTRACT	A fluid micro-mixer apparatus includes a plurality of first microchannels for receiving a first fluid and a plurality of second microchannels for receiving a second fluid. A mixing chamber flow path is disposed to receive the first and second fluids after the first and second fluids exit their respective output ports. The mixing chamber flow path can include a first mixing chamber in the vicinity of the respective output ports, and the mixing chamber flow path can separate into at least two different flow paths downstream from the first mixing chamber.
FILED	Friday, March 15, 2013
APPL NO	13/841303
ART UNIT	1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Mixing, e.g Dissolving, Emulsifying, Dispersing B01F 5/0475 (20130101) B01F 5/0478 (20130101) B01F 5/0643 (20130101) B01F 5/0644 (20130101) B01F 5/0692 (20130101) B01F 13/0066 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01F 15/0227 (20130101) B01F 15/0241 (20130101) B01F 15/0246 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/0093 (20130101) B01J 2219/0086 (20130101) B01J 2219/00783 (20130101) B01J 2219/00786 (20130101) B01J 2219/00822 (20130101) B01J 2219/00833 (20130101) B01J 2219/00873 (20130101) B01J 2219/00889 (20130101) B01J 2219/00894 (20130101) B01J 2219/00903 (20130101)
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09421606 — Casting cores and manufacture methods

US 09421606	Propheter-Hinckley et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)
APPLICANT(S)	United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut)
ASSIGNEE(S)	United Technologies Corporation (Farmington, Connecticut)
INVENTOR(S)	Tracy A Propheter-Hinckley (Manchester, Connecticut); Eric A Hansen (Glastonbury, Connecticut)
ABSTRACT	A casting core assembly (140) includes a metallic core (144, 146, 148; 360; 380; 400) and a ceramic core (142). A protuberant portion (184) of a metallic core is received in compartment (186) of the ceramic core.
FILED	Wednesday, July 24, 2013
APPL NO	14/432790
ART UNIT	1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Foundry Moulding B22C 7/02 (20130101) B22C 9/04 (20130101) B22C 9/10 (20130101) B22C 9/22 (20130101) B22C 9/103 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B22C 9/108 (20130101)
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09421618 — Clamping device for securing cables to submerged ferrous hull surface

US 09421618	Brennan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Keith Brennan (Middletown, Maryland); Damien Carl Bretall (Baltimore, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Keith Brennan (Middletown, Maryland); Damien Carl Bretall (Baltimore, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A cable clamping arrangement for securing one or more cables to a submerged hull surface of a ship. The cable clamping arrangement includes a plurality of powerful magnetic clamping devices for attaching signal carrying cables to a submerged ferrous submerged hull surface. The cable clamping devices each have a low-profile and are dome shaped to reduce hydrodynamic interference when the ship is travelling at operational speeds. The clamps are equipped to grip a cable in a desired path at a desired tension, thereby increasing the ability to maintain the cable in a fixed manner on the surface while the ship is operating.
FILED	Tuesday, May 20, 2014
APPL NO	14/282313
ART UNIT	3632 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture
CURRENT CPC	Turning; Boring B23B 45/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Pipes; Joints or Fittings for Pipes; Supports for Pipes, Cables or Protective Tubing; Means for Thermal Insulation in General F16L 3/02 (20130101)
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09421732 — Functionally coated non-oxidized particles and methods for making the same

US 09421732	Anderson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)	Scott L. Anderson (Salt Lake City, Utah); Brian R. Van Devener (Salt Lake City, Utah); Jesus Paulo L. Perez (Salt Lake City, Utah)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah)
INVENTOR(S)	Scott L. Anderson (Salt Lake City, Utah); Brian R. Van Devener (Salt Lake City, Utah); Jesus Paulo L. Perez (Salt Lake City, Utah)
ABSTRACT	Air-stable coated particles, which include an oxidizable core having a coating substantially encompassing the oxidizable core, where the coating comprises a first organic ligand and/or a second organic ligand, are disclosed and described. The coated particles can also be substantially free of an oxide layer, especially oxide layers around the oxidizable core. As such, the coating of organic ligand(s) acts as a protective or passivating coating. The air-stable coated particles can be formed via a particle size-reduction process. An oxidizable particulate can be crushed and contacted with a first organic ligand and subsequently with a second organic ligand. The process conditions are maintained such that an oxide layer is preempted from forming on the oxidizable core. Such materials can be effective as high energy density additives for various fuels, pyrotechnic, ionic liquids, and rocket propellant applications and for biomedical applications.
FILED	Monday, May 07, 2012
APPL NO	13/465496
ART UNIT	1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 1/0018 (20130101) B22F 1/0062 (20130101) B22F 9/04 (20130101) Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 5/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Fuels Not Otherwise Provided for; Natural Gas; Synthetic Natural Gas Obtained by Processes Not Covered by Subclasses C10G, C10K; Liquefied Petroleum Gas; Adding Materials to Fuels or Fires to Reduce Smoke or Undesirable Deposits or to Facilitate Soot Removal; Firelighters C10L 9/10 (20130101) C10L 10/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/773 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2989 (20150115)
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09421738 — Chemically stable visible light photoemission electron source

US 09421738	Shaw et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Jonathan L. Shaw (Springfield, Virginia); Jeremy Hanna (Fairfax, Virginia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Jonathan L. Shaw (Springfield, Virginia); Jeremy Hanna (Fairfax, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	A method of producing electrons via photoemission comprising providing diamond doped p-type with boron, treating a surface of the diamond by exposing it to atomic hydrogen inside an ultrahigh vacuum chamber, illuminating the surface with photons, and extracting the photoemitted electrons. A chemically stable visible light photoemission electron source comprising a diamond film having a surface terminated with hydrogen and a light source.
FILED	Monday, June 16, 2014
APPL NO	14/306122
ART UNIT	2881 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 9/007 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B32B 9/041 (20130101) B32B 15/043 (20130101) B32B 37/12 (20130101) B32B 37/24 (20130101) B32B 38/0036 (20130101) B32B 38/1858 (20130101) B32B 2037/246 (20130101) B32B 2038/0052 (20130101) B32B 2250/05 (20130101) B32B 2309/68 (20130101) B32B 2311/00 (20130101) B32B 2311/09 (20130101) B32B 2311/16 (20130101) B32B 2313/04 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 1/34 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/12542 (20150115)
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09422131 — Quick releasable seam

US 09422131	Sadeck
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	James E. Sadeck (East Freetown, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Apparatuses, systems, and methods for securing/releasing material are provided. For example, in one embodiment of the invention a releasable seam system that includes a first textile material. The first textile material includes a plurality of edges. On at least one of these edges is a first plurality of loops. The system also includes at least one at least one other textile material. Each textile material in the at least one other textile material has at least one edge with a plurality of loops thereon. The plurality of loops on the at least one other textile material and the first plurality of loops are paired to form opposing loop pairs. Thereafter, a locking chord is interwoven through the opposing loop pairs to temporarily secure the first textile material to the at least one other textile material.
FILED	Tuesday, April 22, 2014
APPL NO	14/258077
ART UNIT	3677 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware
CURRENT CPC	Handling Thin or Filamentary Material, e.g Sheets, Webs, Cables B65H 69/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09422158 — Perforated contact electrode on vertical nanowire array

US 09422158	Pehrsson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Pehr E Pehrsson (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Chistopher Field (Alexandria, Virginia); Hyun Jin In (Alexandria, Virginia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of Amerixa, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Pehr E Pehrsson (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Chistopher Field (Alexandria, Virginia); Hyun Jin In (Alexandria, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed herein is a structure having: a support, a plurality of nanowires perpendicular to the support, and an electrode in contact with a first end of each nanowire. Each nanowire has a second end in contact with the support. The electrode contains a plurality of perforations. The electrode contains a plurality of perforations. Also disclosed herein is a method of: providing the above support and nanowires; depositing a layer of a filler material that covers a portion of each nanowire and leaves a first end of each nanowire exposed; depositing a plurality of nanoparticles onto the filler material; depositing an electrode material on the nanoparticles, the ends of the nanowires, and any exposed filler material; and removing the nanoparticles and filler material to form an electrode in contact with the first end of each nanowire; wherein the electrode contains a plurality of perforations.
FILED	Thursday, November 10, 2011
APPL NO	13/293323
ART UNIT	2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B82Y 15/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/127 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 1/06744 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/0665 (20130101) H01L 29/0676 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101)
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09422237 — Covalently patterned graphene surfaces by a force accelerated cycloaddition reaction

US 09422237	Braunschweig et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)	New York University (New York, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	New York University (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Adam B. Braunschweig (Miami, Florida); Shudan Bian (Coral Gables, Florida)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates generally to molecular printing techniques for use in sensors, arrays, and integrated optics and electronics. The invention features described give rise to the ability to immobilize biological probes by force-induced patterning, while still maintaining the conductivity of the graphene substrate. Most particularly, the present invention relates to covalent patterning of graphene surface using a force-accelerated reaction.
FILED	Thursday, June 06, 2013
APPL NO	14/417733
ART UNIT	1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
CURRENT CPC	Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 1/283 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0484 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 17/02 (20130101)
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09422433 — Ternary antifouling compositions and methods

US 09422433	Wooley et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)	The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Karen L. Wooley (College Station, Texas); Jeffery E. Raymond (College Station, Texas); Kevin A. Pollack (Dallas, Texas); Philip M. Imbesi (Gilbertsville, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	Compounds for mitigation of biofouling, and methods of making compounds for biofouling. Terpolymers comprising hyperbranched fluoropolymers possessing unique topology mitigate fouling on susceptible surfaces. In some embodiments, the terpolymers comprise PEG and PDMS.
FILED	Thursday, December 18, 2014
APPL NO	14/575625
ART UNIT	1615 — 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 37/44 (20130101) A01N 55/00 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 77/46 (20130101) C08G 77/442 (20130101) C08G 81/025 (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 5/1637 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C09D 5/1675 (20130101) C09D 5/1681 (20130101)
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09422448 — Hydrophobic nanostructured thin films

US 09422448	Dressick et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Walter J Dressick (Waldorf, Maryland); Melik C. Demirel (State College, Pennsylvania); Alok Singh (Springfield, Virginia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Walter J Dressick (Waldorf, Maryland); Melik C. Demirel (State College, Pennsylvania); Alok Singh (Springfield, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	Provided herein are the polymers shown below. The value n is a positive integer. R¹is an organic group, and each R²is H or a chemisorbed group, with at least one R²being a chemisorbed group. The polymer may be a nanostructured film. Also provided herein is a method of: converting a di-p-xylylene paracyclophane dimer to a reactive vapor of monomers; depositing the reactive vapor onto a substrate held at an angle relative to the vapor flux to form nanostructured poly(p-xylylene) film; reacting the film with an agent to form hydrogen atoms that are reactive with a precursor of a chemisorbed group, if the film does not contain the hydrogen atoms; and reacting the hydrogen atoms with the precursor. Also provided herein is a device having a nanostructured poly(p-xylylene) film on a pivotable substrate. The film has directional hydrophobic or oleophobic properties and directional adhesive properties.
FILED	Thursday, September 05, 2013
APPL NO	14/018507
ART UNIT	1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 1/38 (20130101) B05D 1/60 (20130101) B05D 5/08 (20130101) B05D 5/10 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 61/025 (20130101) C08G 2261/3424 (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 155/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Adhesives; Non-mechanical Aspects of Adhesive Processes in General; Adhesive Processes Not Provided for Elsewhere; Use of Materials as Adhesives C09J 7/00 (20130101) C09J 2201/626 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2835 (20150115) Y10T 428/31504 (20150401)
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09422459 — Coatings for protection against corrosion in adhesively bonded steel joints

US 09422459	Weir et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA)
APPLICANT(S)	John Douglas Weir (Huntington, New York); John Abraham Crawford (Miller Place, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Falls Church, Virginia)
INVENTOR(S)	John Douglas Weir (Huntington, New York); John Abraham Crawford (Miller Place, New York)
ABSTRACT	An apparatus includes a first steel component having a first surface, a second steel component having a second surface, a corrosion resistant coating on at least one of the first and second surfaces, and an adhesive bonding the first and second components together. The corrosion resistant coating can be electrically conductive.
FILED	Wednesday, July 27, 2011
APPL NO	13/191600
ART UNIT	1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material
CURRENT CPC	Adhesives; Non-mechanical Aspects of Adhesive Processes in General; Adhesive Processes Not Provided for Elsewhere; Use of Materials as Adhesives C09J 5/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C09J 2400/163 (20130101) C09J 2400/166 (20130101) Devices for Fastening or Securing Constructional Elements or Machine Parts Together, e.g Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips, Wedges, Joints or Jointing F16B 11/006 (20130101) F16B 2001/0064 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/12535 (20150115) Y10T 428/12972 (20150115) Y10T 428/31678 (20150401) Y10T 428/249923 (20150401)
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09422630 — Method and apparatus for generating electrical current

US 09422630	Pollack
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
APPLICANT(S)	4th-Phase, Inc. (Seattle, Washington)
ASSIGNEE(S)	4th-Phase, Inc. (Seattle, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Gerald H. Pollack (Seattle, Washington)
ABSTRACT	Method and system for generating electrical energy from a volume of water.
FILED	Friday, June 12, 2015
APPL NO	14/738599
ART UNIT	1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Processes for the Production of Compounds or Non-metals; Apparatus Therefor C25B 1/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 9/20 (20130101) H01G 9/21 (20130101) H01G 9/2018 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 14/00 (20130101) Generation of Electric Power by Conversion of Infra-red Radiation, Visible Light or Ultraviolet Light, e.g Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules H02S 99/00 (20130101)
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09422816 — Airfoil with hybrid drilled and cutback trailing edge

US 09422816	Spangler et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)
APPLICANT(S)	Brandon W. Spangler (Vernon, Connecticut); Sam Draper (Simpsonville, South Carolina)
ASSIGNEE(S)	United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut)
INVENTOR(S)	Brandon W. Spangler (Vernon, Connecticut); Sam Draper (Simpsonville, South Carolina)
ABSTRACT	An apparatus for a gas turbine engine includes an airfoil, a metering opening for metering a cooling fluid, a cutback slot configured to deliver the cooling fluid from the metering opening, and a cooling hole. The airfoil defines a trailing edge, opposite first and second faces, and a mean camber line. The cutback slot is defined along the first face of the airfoil adjacent to the trailing edge and offset from the mean camber line of the airfoil. The cooling hole has an outlet that is located at the trailing edge and substantially aligned with the mean camber line of the airfoil. The cooling hole delivers a portion of the cooling fluid from the metering opening.
FILED	Friday, June 26, 2009
APPL NO	12/492663
ART UNIT	3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/186 (20130101) F01D 5/187 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2230/10 (20130101) F05D 2230/21 (20130101) F05D 2240/122 (20130101) F05D 2240/304 (20130101) F05D 2260/202 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49341 (20150115)
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09423069 — Portable equipment system mount

US 09423069	Shimmel et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Jeffrey T. Shimmel (Solsberry, Indiana); Todd Mehringer (Jasper, Indiana); Garric Henry (Bloomington, Indiana)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Jeffrey T. Shimmel (Solsberry, Indiana); Todd Mehringer (Jasper, Indiana); Garric Henry (Bloomington, Indiana)
ABSTRACT	A mounting system having a base plate, multiple mounting apertures adapted to releasably hold a man-portable equipment item, and non-invasive fasteners for attaching to a structure without damaging the structure. The non-invasive fasteners can include adhesive bonded fasteners which couple to a structure without damaging the structure and permit attachment and removal of the mounting system. The base plate and mounting apertures are designed to minimize mounting footprint and orient the man-portable equipment item in relation to a user structure or aperture such as a turret, egress point, portal, or other structure which requires a user to pass through a structure and have immediate access to the man-portable equipment item.
FILED	Wednesday, July 24, 2013
APPL NO	13/949573
ART UNIT	3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units
CURRENT CPC	Frames, Casings or Beds of Engines, Machines or Apparatus, Not Specific to Engines, Machines or Apparatus Provided for Elsewhere; Stands; Supports F16M 13/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Functional Features or Details Common to Both Smallarms and Ordnance, e.g Cannons; Mountings for Smallarms or Ordnance F41A 23/26 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49776 (20150115) Y10T 29/49826 (20150115) Y10T 29/49863 (20150115) Y10T 29/49948 (20150115)
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09423200 — Virtual preloaded bearing

US 09423200	Fowler, IV
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Robert Joseph Fowler, IV (Fredericksburg, Virginia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert Joseph Fowler, IV (Fredericksburg, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	A preload bearing is provided for mounting into an orifice in a shock-inducing platform. The bearing includes a cylindrical housing insertable into the orifice of the platform with a housing axis oriented vertically in relation to the platform, the housing having a closed bottom end and an open top end; a scraper that attaches to the bottom end of the housing for receiving compressive load from underneath; a crown roller disposed to extend radially from the housing; a shaft coaxial with the crown roller disposed within the housing along a roller axis perpendicular to the housing axis; and a cap that covers the open top end of the housing.
FILED	Wednesday, July 01, 2015
APPL NO	14/789863
ART UNIT	3631 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture
CURRENT CPC	Functional Features or Details Common to Both Smallarms and Ordnance, e.g Cannons; Mountings for Smallarms or Ordnance F41A 23/52 (20130101) F41A 27/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09423225 — Non-pyrotechnic, non-lethal compressed gas disseminator

US 09423225	Yoon et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG)
APPLICANT(S)	U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical and Biological Command (APG, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Elias W. Yoon (Elkridge, Maryland); Daniel G. Wise (Ellicott City, Maryland); Daniel J. Weber (Bel Air, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A non-pyrotechnic disseminator includes a body portion with a cover; a first compartment adjacent to the cover that is configured to hold disseminating materials; a chamber adjacent to the first compartment; a disk within the chamber and adjacent to the first compartment; a flow control device adjacent to the chamber opposite the disk; a second compartment adjacent to the flow control device and including a pin; an actuating mechanism connected to the pin; a third compartment adjacent to the second compartment opposite the flow control device that is configured to hold compressed gas; and a seal separating the second compartment from the third compartment. Actuation of the actuating mechanism causes the pin to break the seal causing release of the compressed gas into the second compartment and through the flow control device in a predetermined delayed timing, and then causing the compressed gas to burst the disk thereby pushing the disseminating materials out of the body portion by rupturing the cover.
FILED	Thursday, September 10, 2015
APPL NO	14/850433
ART UNIT	3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 12/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F42B 27/00 (20130101)
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09423228 — Advanced fragmentation hand grenade

US 09423228	Moan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC)
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 Scretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Brad Moan (Greenwood, Indiana); Eric Scheid (Bloomington, Indiana); Lucas Allison (Washington, Indiana); Nishkamraj Deshpande (Novi, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	A fragmentation structure is provided with improved performance e.g., fragmentation, projectile generation, storage, and manufacturing. An embodiment can include an open fragmentation structure that can be separated into individual components that can include a structure body section with a compartment, a removable initiator or detonator, a top cap section having an aperture configured to accept the removable initiator or removable detonator, and an explosive. An exemplary explosive can be preassembled to fit within the structure without a need for pouring in an explosive. An exemplary structure or top cap of the structure can receive an embrittlement treatment increasing its fragmentation characteristics. An ability of the structure to be easily disassembled allows for safer storage and a longer shelf life. A design of an exemplary embodiment of the structure allows it to be used with a wide range of explosive materials in addition to many types of removable initiators or detonators.
FILED	Wednesday, October 08, 2014
APPL NO	14/509386
ART UNIT	3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 12/22 (20130101) F42B 12/72 (20130101) F42B 27/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F42B 33/00 (20130101) Ammunition Fuzes; Arming or Safety Means Therefor F42C 19/08 (20130101)
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09423229 — Imploding barrel initiator and related methods

US 09423229	Rice
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC)
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)	Brett A. Rice (Bloomington, Indiana)
ABSTRACT	Apparatuses and methods are provided including electrically fired detonator are provided using, e.g., secondary explosives (SE), that have increased safety and reliability relative to primary explosives (PE). PEs require a lower amount of energy or shock to detonate than SEs thus are more difficult to initiate than PEs; SEs are less sensitive to shock or energy than PEs. SEs increase safety but suffer design difficulties in using such SEs in place of PEs that are more susceptible to undesired detonation. Various embodiments are provided including a metalized barrel with a specific thickness that is filled with a SE having a required diameter that has structures that provide efficient transfer/conversion of electrical energy into a detonation of the SE by, among other things, reducing electrical and mechanical/chemical losses. Embodiments of the invention also include various methods of design, use, and manufacturing.
FILED	Monday, August 10, 2015
APPL NO	14/822032
ART UNIT	3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 3/12 (20130101) F42B 3/124 (20130101) F42B 3/195 (20130101) Ammunition Fuzes; Arming or Safety Means Therefor F42C 19/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F42C 19/0811 (20130101) F42C 19/0838 (20130101)
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09423253 — MEMS hemispherical resonator gyroscope

US 09423253	Bernstein et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Jonathan Bernstein (Medfield, Massachusetts); Marc Steven Weinberg (Newtown, Massachusetts); Murali Chaparala (Needham, Massachusetts); Peter G. Sherman (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A MEMS gyroscope is provided. A substrate can be formed with a substantially planar surface, a substantially hemispherical cavity extending into the surface, an actuation electrode, and a plurality of sensing electrodes. A resonator formed from a substantially hemispherical shell can be suspended within the cavity by a stem coupling the center of the bottom of the cavity to the center of the bottom of the shell. An electronic processor can be configured to cause a voltage to be applied to the actuation electrode, receive signals from the sensing electrodes, and process the received signals to determine rotation of the MEMS gyroscope.
FILED	Wednesday, October 31, 2012
APPL NO	13/665464
ART UNIT	2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 19/5691 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/4913 (20150115)
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09423272 — Estimation of conventional inertial sensor errors with atomic inertial sensor

US 09423272	Fall et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
APPLICANT(S)	Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Honeywell International Inc. (Morris Plains, New Jersey)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert H. Fall (St. Petersburg, Florida); Barton McJunkin (Redmond, Washington); Mitchell Novack (Kenmore, Washington)
ABSTRACT	Embodiments described herein provide for a method for obtaining an inertial measurement. The method includes obtaining multiple contiguous high sample rate readings during a time period from a conventional inertial sensor. Non-contiguous low sample rate reading of accumulated motion are also obtained over the time period from an atomic inertial sensor. One or more observable errors are estimated for the conventional inertial sensor based on comparing the low sample rate reading to the multiple high sample rate readings. A compensated hybrid reading is determined by compensating the high sample rate readings for the one or more observable errors based on the estimating of the one or more observable errors.
FILED	Thursday, December 13, 2012
APPL NO	13/713384
ART UNIT	2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 19/58 (20130101) G01C 21/16 (20130101) G01C 25/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01C 25/005 (20130101) Measuring Linear or Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, or Shock; Indicating Presence, Absence, or Direction, of Movement G01P 21/00 (20130101)
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09423301 — Method for making wavelength-selective, integrated resonance detector for electromagnetic radiation

US 09423301	Savoy et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of the Army (DOA) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)	Nanohmics, Inc. (Austin, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Nanohmics, Inc. (Austin, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Steve M. Savoy (Austin, Texas); Byron G. Zollars (Georgetown, Texas); Gennady Shvets (Austin, Texas)
ABSTRACT	Embodiments of the invention are directed to integrated resonance detectors and arrays of integrated resonance detectors and to methods for making and using the integrated resonance detectors and arrays. Integrated resonance detectors comprise a substrate, a conducting mirror layer, an active layer, and a patterned conducting layer. Electromagnetic radiation is detected by transducing a specific resonance-induced field enhancement in the active layer to a detection current that is proportional to the incident irradiance.
FILED	Thursday, May 21, 2015
APPL NO	14/718166
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 1/42 (20130101) G01J 1/0414 (20130101) G01J 1/0429 (20130101) G01J 1/0488 (20130101) G01J 3/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01J 3/021 (20130101) G01J 3/26 (20130101) G01J 3/51 (20130101) G01J 3/0224 (20130101) G01J 3/2803 (20130101) G01J 5/20 (20130101) G01J 5/024 (20130101) G01J 5/0809 (20130101) G01J 5/0825 (20130101) G01J 5/0862 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/18 (20130101)
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09423341 — Daytime infrared imaging of satellites

US 09423341	Jim et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Kevin T. C. Jim (Honolulu, Hawaii); Basil Scott (Waimea, Hawaii)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Oceanit Laboratories, Inc. (Honolulu, Hawaii)
INVENTOR(S)	Kevin T. C. Jim (Honolulu, Hawaii); Basil Scott (Waimea, Hawaii)
ABSTRACT	GEO satellites and other space objects are studied in daylight, twilight and at night using IR cameras in clusters of no more than three with programs for pointing the instruments at known locations of the GEO objects and satellites and receiving weak near IR signals. Detection instruments have minimal optical surfaces and simple optical paths directing IR through Kshort and combined Kshort and H near IR band filters in cryogenic assemblies. Large focal ratios and large apertures reduce the effect of sky brightness, lower noise and improve the target signal, increasing the noise to signal ratio. Sky background noise is reduced by co-adding hundreds of pixels, allowing for the faint IR signal integration of one second or more. Results are read after integration.
FILED	Tuesday, November 30, 2010
APPL NO	12/956968
ART UNIT	2884 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/359 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09423353 — Apparatus and methods for fluorescence imaging using radiofrequency-multiplexed excitation

US 09423353	Diebold et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC)
APPLICANT(S)	THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Eric D. Diebold (Los Angeles, California); Bahram Jalali (Los Angeles, California); Brandon Buckley (Los Angeles, California)
ABSTRACT	Apparatus and methods for fluorescence imaging using radiofrequency multiplexed excitation. One apparatus splits an excitation laser beam into two arms of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The light in the first beam is frequency shifted by an acousto-optic deflector, which is driven by a phase-engineered radiofrequency comb designed to minimize peak-to-average power ratio. This RF comb generates multiple deflected optical beams possessing a range of output angles and frequency shifts. The second beam is shifted in frequency using an acousto-optic frequency shifter. After combining at a second beam splitter, the two beams are focused to a line on the sample using a conventional laser scanning microscope lens system. The acousto-optic deflectors frequency-encode the simultaneous excitation of an entire row of pixels, which enables detection and de-multiplexing of fluorescence images using a single photomultiplier tube and digital phase-coherent signal recovery techniques.
FILED	Monday, July 06, 2015
APPL NO	14/792282
ART UNIT	2884 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6458 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/6486 (20130101) G01N 2021/6419 (20130101) G01N 2201/06113 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/16 (20130101)
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09423484 — Sky polarization and sun sensor system and method

US 09423484	Aycock et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)	Polaris Sensor Technologies, Inc. (Huntsville, Alabama)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Polaris Sensor Technologies, Inc. (Huntsville, Alabama)
INVENTOR(S)	Todd Michael Aycock (Huntsville, Alabama); David Chenault (Huntsville, Alabama); Arthur Lompado (Huntsville, Alabama); J. Larry Pezzaniti (Huntsville, Alabama)
ABSTRACT	A system for determining a new orientation and/or position of an object comprises a sky polarimeter configured to record image data of the sky, a signal processing unit, and logic configured to receive and store in memory the image data received from the sky polarimeter. The logic calculates the Stokes parameters (S₀, S₁, S₂,), DoLP, and AoP from the image data, detects obscurants and filters the obscurants (such as clouds and trees) from the image data to produce a filtered image. The logic is further configured to find the Sun and zenith in the filtered image, and to determine the roll, pitch, yaw, latitude and longitude of the object using the filtered image. A method for determining a new position/orientation of an object comprises recording raw image data using a sky polarimeter, calculating S₀, S₁, S₂, DoLP, and AoP from the image data, detecting obscurants and filtering the obscurants from the image data to produce a filtered image, obtaining last known position/orientation data of the object, finding the Sun and zenith in the filtered image, and determining the roll, pitch, yaw, latitude and longitude of the object using the filtered image.
FILED	Wednesday, October 22, 2014
APPL NO	14/521401
ART UNIT	2668 — 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 3/783 (20130101) G01S 3/7861 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01S 5/163 (20130101) G01S 5/0263 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/209 (20130101) G06K 9/00624 (20130101)
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09423604 — Subsurface glass reticles

US 09423604	Dugan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)	Translume, Inc. (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
ASSIGNEE(S)	TRANSLUME, INC (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Mark A. Dugan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Ali Said (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	An optical instrument for light incoming along a principal optical axis includes a glass block and a subsurface object within the glass block. The subsurface object includes an arrangement of object marks. Each object mark includes a plurality of scattering layers stacked against the principal optical axis of the incoming light. First and second scattering layers of the plurality of scattering layers have different polarization responses.
FILED	Friday, August 23, 2013
APPL NO	13/974688
ART UNIT	2872 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Soldering or Unsoldering; Welding; Cladding or Plating by Soldering or Welding; Cutting by Applying Heat Locally, e.g Flame Cutting; Working by Laser Beam B23K 26/0006 (20130101) B23K 26/0057 (20130101) B23K 2203/50 (20151001) Weapon Sights; Aiming F41G 1/00 (20130101) F41G 3/06 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 23/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09423819 — Optical quantum random number generator

US 09423819	Marandi et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)	The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Univeristy (Stanford, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Alireza Marandi (Palo Alto, California); Konstantin L. Vodopyanov (Stanford, California); Robert L. Byer (Stanford, California)
ABSTRACT	A random number generator includes a light source emitting light at a first frequency, an optical unit including an optical component configured to receive light at the first frequency and emit light at a second frequency, and a measurement unit configured to receive light at the second frequency, and generate a random output value related to a phase parameter of the light at the second frequency.
FILED	Friday, March 01, 2013
APPL NO	13/783128
ART UNIT	2872 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Optical Computing Devices; G06E 1/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 99/002 (20130101)
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09424064 — Adaptor implementation for internet protocol address and port hopping

US 09424064	Ganga et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)	Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Gangadhar Ganga (Clearwater, Florida); Alen Cruz (Tampa, Florida); Suzanne P. Hassell (Clearwater, Florida); Paul F. Beraud, III (Parrish, Florida); Ledford J. Meadows, III (Wesley Chapel, Florida); Stephen Patrick Marra (Palm Harbor, Florida); Jeanette M. Moody (Palm Harbor, Florida); Stephen R. Martin (Largo, Florida)
ABSTRACT	A system and method of deploying a network hopping adaptor is disclosed. In some embodiments, a network hopping adaptor may be configured to manipulate network traffic so as to change at least one network characteristic of the network traffic, and at least one network interface of a machine selected from a group of machines may be configured to send the network traffic to the network hopping adaptor. The network hopping adaptor may manipulate such characteristics as an IP address, a port number, an encryption algorithm or a compression algorithm. The group of machines may be deployed as virtual machines being executed by a virtualization server, and the network hopping adaptor may be implemented on another virtual machine being executed by the virtualization server. Alternatively, or in addition, the group of machines or the network hopping adaptor may be implemented as physical machines.
FILED	Friday, August 01, 2014
APPL NO	14/449876
ART UNIT	2453 — Computer Networks
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/455 (20130101) G06F 9/45558 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 2009/45595 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 12/2602 (20130101) H04L 63/1408 (20130101)
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09424284 — Mapping neural dynamics of a neural model on to a coarsely grained look-up table

US 09424284	Alvarez-Icaza Rivera et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Rodrigo Alvarez-Icaza Rivera (San Jose, California); John V. Arthur (Mountain View, California); Andrew S. Cassidy (San Jose, California); Pallab Datta (San Jose, California); Paul A. Merolla (Palo Alto, California); Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, California)
ABSTRACT	Embodiments of the invention relate to mapping neural dynamics of a neural model on to a lookup table. One embodiment comprises defining a phase plane for a neural model. The phase plane represents neural dynamics of the neural model. The phase plane is coarsely sampled to obtain state transition information for multiple neuronal states. The state transition information is mapped on to a lookup table.
FILED	Friday, April 17, 2015
APPL NO	14/690326
ART UNIT	2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/10 (20130101) G06F 17/30292 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/04 (20130101) G06N 3/08 (20130101) G06N 3/049 (20130101) G06N 3/063 (20130101)
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09424426 — Detection of malicious code insertion in trusted environments

US 09424426	Payne et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
APPLICANT(S)	Coveros, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	COVEROS, INC. (Fairfax, Virginia)
INVENTOR(S)	Jeffery Payne (Paeonian Springs, Virginia); Mark Fenner (Forty Fort, Pennsylvania); Richard Mills (Ashburn, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	Methods and computer program products which facilitate detection of malicious code insertion by an insider during the software development lifecycle are disclosed Aspects focus on behavioral characteristics associated with the introduction of malcode during the software development process. Injection of malcode by an insider threat, and the malcode itself, may leave behind behavioral signatures in the source code repository and source code that can be detected by a multi-dimensional combination of sensors. By detecting the behavioral signatures of malcode within artifacts generated by the software development process, instances of malcode can be isolated and prevented before release.
FILED	Tuesday, April 22, 2014
APPL NO	14/258741
ART UNIT	2433 — Cryptography and Security
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/562 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09424489 — Automated feature analysis, comparison, and anomaly detection

US 09424489	Fink
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC)
APPLICANT(S)	CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Wolfgang Fink (Montrose, California)
ABSTRACT	Novel methods and systems for automated data analysis are disclosed. Data can be automatically analyzed to determine features in different applications, such as visual field analysis and comparisons. Anomalies between groups of objects may be detected through clustering of objects.
FILED	Tuesday, July 28, 2015
APPL NO	14/811752
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 9/42 (20130101) G06K 9/6218 (20130101) G06K 9/6232 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/6247 (20130101) G06K 9/6298 (20130101)
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09424634 — Machine vision system for identifying and sorting projectiles and other objects

US 09424634	Beach et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM)
APPLICANT(S)	Cybernet Systems Corporation (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Cybernet Systems Corporation (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Glenn J. Beach (Grass Lake, Michigan); Gary Moody (Dexter, Michigan); James Burkowski (Northville, Michigan); Charles J. Jacobus (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	A machine vision system for automatically identifying and inspecting objects is disclosed, including composable vision-based recognition modules and a decision algorithm to perform the final determination on object type and quality. This vision system has been used to develop a Projectile Identification System and an Automated Tactical Ammunition Classification System. The technology can be used to create numerous other inspection and automated identification systems.
FILED	Friday, March 15, 2013
APPL NO	13/834909
ART UNIT	2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation
CURRENT CPC	Postal Sorting; Sorting Individual Articles, or Bulk Material Fit to be Sorted Piece-meal, e.g by Picking B07C 5/34 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/952 (20130101) G01N 21/8851 (20130101) G01N 2021/845 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 2209/19 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0004 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2207/30108 (20130101) G06T 2207/30164 (20130101)
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09424858 — Acoustic receiver for underwater digital communications

US 09424858	Pistacchio et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	David J Pistacchio (Narragansett, Rhode Island); Peter A Child (Barrington, Rhode Island)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	David J Pistacchio (Narragansett, Rhode Island); Peter A Child (Barrington, Rhode Island)
ABSTRACT	A system and method and system for receiving communications signals coded at transmission in a frequency hopping waveform includes a sensor that receives acoustic data. A detector joined to the sensor receives the data and separates signals from background noise. Logic determines when the signal ends. Clusters of signals are processed and grouped into combinations of symbols. A computer translates these symbols into messages using a codebook. When multiple possibilities exist, the message is selected from the codebook that maximizes a similarity score. Additional logic is provided to handle situations where unwanted signals are mixed into an otherwise valid symbol sequence, to find the best subset of signals forming a valid message. Selected messages are provided as output to users. In further details, the detector filters the acoustic data and transforms it to the frequency domain. A power spectrum is calculated for detecting signals in specific frequency bands. Integrations are performed over groups of frequencies. A detection is indicated when one integrator has a large variation from the expected background level.
FILED	Friday, April 18, 2014
APPL NO	14/256319
ART UNIT	2672 — Facsimile; Printer; Color; halftone; Scanner; Computer Graphic Processing; 3-D Animation; Display Color; Attributes; Object Processing; Hardware and Memory
CURRENT CPC	Speech Analysis or Synthesis; Speech Recognition; Speech or Voice Processing; Speech or Audio Coding or Decoding G10L 19/265 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G10L 2019/0011 (20130101)
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09424937 — Method for programming a flash memory

US 09424937	Brosky et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Alexander R. Brosky (Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania); William N. Locke (Finleyville, Pennsylvania); Conrado M. Maher (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	A method of programming a flash memory is described. The method includes partitioning a flash memory into a first group having a first level of write-protection, a second group having a second level of write-protection, and a third group having a third level of write-protection. The write-protection of the second and third groups is disabled using an installation adapter. The third group is programmed using a Software Installation Device.
FILED	Monday, February 24, 2014
APPL NO	14/187425
ART UNIT	2184 — Computer Architecture and I/O
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/0601 (20130101) G06F 13/122 (20130101) G06F 13/385 (20130101) Static Stores G11C 16/10 (20130101) G11C 16/22 (20130101) G11C 16/105 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09425110 — Yield enhancing vertical redundancy method for 3D wafer level packaged (WLP) integrated circuit systems

US 09425110	Padilla et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC)
APPLICANT(S)	NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION (Falls Church, Virginia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Falls Church, Virginia)
INVENTOR(S)	Jose G. Padilla (South Gate, California); Philip W. Hon (Hawthorne, California); Shih-En Shih (Torrance, California); Roger S. Tsai (Torrance, California); Xianglin Zeng (Monterey Park, California)
ABSTRACT	A three-dimensional wafer level packaged (WLP) integrated circuit that includes a pair of opposing circuit cells fabricated on separate wafers that have been bonded together to provide vertical circuit redundancy. The integrated circuits on each of the separate wafers are performance tested prior to the wafers being bonded together so as to designate good performing circuits as active circuit cells and poor performing circuits as inactive circuit cells. The inactive circuit cell for a particular pair of integrated circuits is metalized with a short circuiting metal layer to make it inoperable. The WLP integrated circuit implements a yield-enhancing circuit redundancy scheme on spatially uncorrelated wafers that avoids wasting valuable wafer x-y planar area, which provides cost savings as a result of more wafer area being available for distinct circuits on each wafer rather than sacrificed for traditional side-by-side redundant copies of circuits.
FILED	Thursday, August 27, 2015
APPL NO	14/837718
ART UNIT	2826 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 22/22 (20130101) H01L 22/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 22/32 (20130101) H01L 23/66 (20130101) H01L 25/50 (20130101) H01L 25/0657 (20130101) H01L 2223/6616 (20130101) H01L 2223/6683 (20130101) H01L 2225/06555 (20130101) H01L 2225/06596 (20130101)
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09425124 — Compliant pin fin heat sink and methods

US 09425124	Karidis et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	John P. Karidis (Ossining, New York); Mark D. Schultz (Ossining, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	John P. Karidis (Ossining, New York); Mark D. Schultz (Ossining, New York)
ABSTRACT	A heat sink includes a plurality of layers being disposed substantially parallel with a surface of a heat source. The layers include a plurality of pin portions spaced apart from each other in a planar arrangement wherein the pin portions of the layers are stacked and bonded to form pin fins extending in a transverse direction relative to the heat source to sink heat. A compliant layer is disposed between the pin fins and a mechanical load. The compliant layer provides compliance such that the pin fins accommodate dimensional differences when interfacing with the heat source.
FILED	Thursday, February 02, 2012
APPL NO	13/364907
ART UNIT	3744 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/4882 (20130101) H01L 23/467 (20130101) H01L 23/473 (20130101) H01L 23/3677 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 24/72 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/01322 (20130101) H01L 2924/01322 (20130101)
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09425187 — Apparatus and methods for modulating current / voltage response using multiple semi-conductive channel regions (SCR) produced from different integrated semiconductor structures

US 09425187	Titus
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC)
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)	Jeffrey L. Titus (Bloomington, Indiana)
ABSTRACT	Apparatuses and methods for modulating current/voltage response using multiple semi-conductive channel regions (SCR) produced from different integrated semiconductor structures are provided. In particular, embodiments include systems and methods for controlling current or mitigating electromagnetic or radiation interference effects using combined integrated functions of a lateral double-diffused metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (LDMOSFET) and junction field effect transistor (JFET) disposed in proximity of a LDMOSFET's SCR within a certain orientation forming a second SCR.
FILED	Thursday, May 28, 2015
APPL NO	14/724267
ART UNIT	2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/552 (20130101) H01L 27/144 (20130101) H01L 27/0266 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/808 (20130101) H01L 29/7817 (20130101) H01L 31/02016 (20130101)
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09425303 — Controlling current or mitigating electromagnetic or radiation interference effects using multiple and different semi-conductive channel regions generating structures

US 09425303	Titus
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC)
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)	Jeffrey L. Titus (Bloomington, Indiana)
ABSTRACT	Systems and methods for controlling current or mitigating electromagnetic or radiation interference effects using multiple different semi-conductive channel regions generating structures formed by multiple different semi-conductive electrical current or voltage control structures. One embodiment includes providing a first and second metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) sections formed on opposite sides of a junction field effect transistor (JFET) such that operation of the JFET modulates or controls current otherwise controlled by an electrical path of the MOSFET sections. A control system for determining when an embodiment of the invention is to be operated is also provided to include automated systems including sensors as well as manually operated systems. Automated systems can include radiation sensors as well as other control systems such as highvoltage radio frequency transmitter or receiver systems. Methods of operation for a variety of modes are also provided.
FILED	Friday, March 20, 2015
APPL NO	14/664186
ART UNIT	2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/088 (20130101) H01L 29/086 (20130101) H01L 29/1095 (20130101) H01L 29/7802 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Pulse Technique H03K 17/145 (20130101)
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09425351 — Hybrid heterostructure light emitting devices

US 09425351	Ma et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
APPLICANT(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Zhenqiang Ma (Middleton, Wisconsin); Jung-Hun Seo (Madison, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	Light-emitting devices having a multiple quantum well (MQW) pin diode structure and methods of making and using the devices are provided. The devices are composed of multilayered semiconductor heterostructures. The devices include one or more interfacial layers of a material that allows current tunneling through lattice mismatched heterogeneous junctions at the interfaces between the intrinsic active region and the p-type and/or n-type doped charge injection layers.
FILED	Monday, October 06, 2014
APPL NO	14/506975
ART UNIT	2814 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/283 (20130101) H01L 27/156 (20130101) H01L 31/0328 (20130101) H01L 33/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 33/0008 (20130101) H01L 33/0016 (20130101) H01L 33/28 (20130101) H01L 33/0083 (20130101)
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09425353 — Heterostructure including anodic aluminum oxide layer

US 09425353	Shur et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) Army Research Office (CCDC ARO)
APPLICANT(S)	Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc. (Columbia, South Carolina)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc. (Columbia, South Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael Shur (Latham, New York); Maxim S. Shatalov (Columbia, South Carolina); Alexander Dobrinsky (Loudonville, New York); Remigijus Gaska (Columbia, South Carolina)
ABSTRACT	A semiconductor structure including an anodic aluminum oxide layer is described. The anodic aluminum oxide layer can be located between a semiconductor layer and another layer of material. The anodic aluminum oxide layer can include a plurality of pores extending to an adjacent surface of the semiconductor layer. The layer of material can penetrate at least some of the plurality of pores and directly contact the semiconductor layer. In an illustrative embodiment, the layer of material is a conductive material and the anodic aluminum oxide is located at a p-type contact.
FILED	Thursday, October 02, 2014
APPL NO	14/504456
ART UNIT	2815 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 33/007 (20130101) H01L 33/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 33/32 (20130101) H01L 33/42 (20130101) H01L 33/44 (20130101) H01L 33/145 (20130101) H01L 33/382 (20130101) H01L 33/387 (20130101) H01L 33/405 (20130101) H01L 2933/0016 (20130101) H01L 2933/0083 (20130101) H01L 2933/0091 (20130101)
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09425381 — Low voltage transistor and logic devices with multiple, stacked piezoelectronic layers

US 09425381	Elmegreen et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Bruce G. Elmegreen (Golden's Bridge, New York); Glenn J. Martyna (Croton on Hudson, New York); Dennis M. Newns (Yorktown Heights, New York)
ABSTRACT	A piezoelectronic transistor device includes a first piezoelectric (PE) layer, a second PE layer, and a piezoresistive (PR) layer arranged in a stacked configuration, wherein an electrical resistance of the PR layer is dependent upon an applied voltage across the first and second PE layers by an applied pressure to the PR layer by the first and second PE layers. A piezoelectronic logic device includes a first and second piezoelectric transistor (PET), wherein the first and second PE layers of the first PET have a smaller cross sectional area than those of the second PET, such that a voltage drop across the PE layers of the first PET creates a first pressure in the PR layer of the first PET that is smaller than a second pressure in the PR layer of the second PET created by the same voltage drop across the PE layers of the second PET.
FILED	Tuesday, August 26, 2014
APPL NO	14/468822
ART UNIT	2823 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 41/047 (20130101) H01L 41/083 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 41/183 (20130101)
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09425420 — Active materials for electro-optic devices and electro-optic devices

US 09425420	Yang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	Yang Yang (Los Angeles, California); Letian Dou (Los Angeles, California); Jing-Bi You (Los Angeles, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Yang Yang (Los Angeles, California); Letian Dou (Los Angeles, California); Jing-Bi You (Los Angeles, California)
ABSTRACT	Tandem electro-optic devices and active materials for electro-optic devices are disclosed. Tandem devices include p-type and n-type layers between the active layers, which are doped to achieve carrier tunneling. Low bandgap conjugated polymers are also disclosed.
FILED	Thursday, March 29, 2012
APPL NO	14/009033
ART UNIT	1754 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/302 (20130101) H01L 51/002 (20130101) H01L 51/0036 (20130101) H01L 51/441 (20130101) H01L 51/4246 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/4253 (20130101)
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09425516 — Compact dual band GNSS antenna design

US 09425516	Chen et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)	The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio)
ASSIGNEE(S)
INVENTOR(S)	Chi-Chih Chen (Dublin, Ohio); Ming Chen (Columbus, Ohio); Chia-wei Liu (Fremont, California)
ABSTRACT	An antenna structure comprising a dielectric substrate layer and a patch layer laminated on top of the dielectric substrate layer, wherein the antenna structure is adapted to provide dual band coverage by combining a patch mode and a slot mode configuration.
FILED	Monday, July 08, 2013
APPL NO	13/936955
ART UNIT	2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 5/364 (20150115) H01Q 9/0435 (20130101) H01Q 9/0457 (20130101) H01Q 13/10 (20130101) H01Q 21/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09425580 — Modular laser system

US 09425580	Manke, II
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC)
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)	Gerald C. Manke, II (Bedford, Indiana)
ABSTRACT	Methods and related modular laser systems, e.g., distributed aperture, ultra short pulsed laser, are provided on a host platform having multiple compartments and groups of components where each group has a different environmental sensitivity such as temperature, humidity, vibration, etc or other installation constraints. Each component group is placed in different compartments of the host platform based on constraints comprising equipment, size, available installation footprint, equipment interconnection, and location constraints. For example, one group with one temperature sensitivity falling within environments provided for aircraft passengers or crews can be placed in the crew or passenger compartments. Other components having a greater temperature tolerance might be placed in an equipment bay having a different temperature range than a crew/passenger cabin. Other components might be placed in an area without any environmental controls or even pressurization (e.g., a cargo bay). Components can be located based on single, multiple, or combinations of constraints.
FILED	Friday, May 22, 2015
APPL NO	14/720196
ART UNIT	2828 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/091 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09425738 — Spin current generation with nano-oscillator

US 09425738	Wang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
INVENTOR(S)	Jian-Ping Wang (Shoreview, Minnesota); Mahdi Jamali (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
ABSTRACT	A device including a spin channel to transport a spin current, a nano-oscillator, and a magnetoresistive device that receives the spin current from the nano-oscillator. The nano-oscillator includes a magnetization state that oscillates between a first state and a second state in response to an input voltage or current. The oscillation of the nano-oscillator may induce the spin current within the spin channel. The magnetoresistive device includes a magnetization state that is set based at least in part on the received spin current.
FILED	Thursday, November 13, 2014
APPL NO	14/540701
ART UNIT	2688 — Dynamic Storage Systems; Mechanical parts of Disk Drives
CURRENT CPC	Information Storage Based on Relative Movement Between Record Carrier and Transducer G11B 5/3909 (20130101) G11B 5/3958 (20130101) G11B 2005/3996 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 43/08 (20130101) 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 15/006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Pulse Technique H03K 19/18 (20130101)
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09425751 — System linearization assembly and method for use in modifying distortion components

US 09425751	Bushmaker
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) The Aerospace Corporation (AEROSPACE) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by The Aerospace Corporation (AEROSPACE) at El Segundo, CA
APPLICANT(S)	The Aerospace Corporation (ElSegundo, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Adam Wayne Bushmaker (Los Angeles, California)
ABSTRACT	A system linearization assembly generally includes a filter that is coupled to a measuring device. The filter is configured to receive a signal that includes a time varying parameter representing a plurality of frequency components including at least one component caused by non-linear intermodulation distortion, such as an odd-order intermodulation distortion component. The filter is also configured to isolate at least one harmonic of the frequency components with the same order as the component caused by non-linear intermodulation distortion. The measuring device is configured to measure at least one parameter of the isolated harmonic. The system linearization assembly also includes a controller coupled to the measuring device. The controller is configured to modify, for example by minimizing, the signal from the determined measurement to facilitate a modification, such as a reduction, of the component caused by non-linear intermodulation distortion.
FILED	Monday, November 25, 2013
APPL NO	14/089551
ART UNIT	2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Amplifiers H03F 1/3205 (20130101) H03F 3/193 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03F 2200/15 (20130101) H03F 2200/18 (20130101) H03F 2200/321 (20130101)
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09425765 — Nano- and micro-electromechanical resonators

US 09425765	Rinaldi et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Matteo Rinaldi (Boston, Massachusetts); Zhenyun Qian (Boston, Massachusetts); Yu Hui (Malden, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A resonator including a piezoelectric plate and an interdigital electrode is provided. A ratio between a thickness of the plate and a pitch of the interdigital electrode may be from about 0.5 to about 1.5. A radiation detector including a resonator and an absorber layer capable of absorbing at least one of infrared and terahertz radiation is provided. A resonator including a piezoelectric plate and a two-dimensional electrically conductive material is provided.
FILED	Tuesday, April 22, 2014
APPL NO	14/784876
ART UNIT	2884 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 5/44 (20130101) G01J 5/046 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 41/18 (20130101) Impedance Networks, e.g Resonant Circuits; Resonators H03H 3/02 (20130101) H03H 9/13 (20130101) H03H 9/15 (20130101) H03H 9/17 (20130101) H03H 9/02244 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03H 2003/027 (20130101) H03H 2009/155 (20130101) H03H 2009/241 (20130101)
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09425799 — Reconfigurable logic gates using chaotic dynamics

US 09425799	Ditto et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR)
APPLICANT(S)	University of Hawaii (Honolulu, Hawaii)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Hawaii (Honolulu, Hawaii)
INVENTOR(S)	William Ditto (Kaneohe, Hawaii); Behnam Kia (Honolulu, Hawaii)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides apparatuses and methods for chaos computing. For example, a chaos-based logic block comprises an encoding circuit block, at least one chaotic circuit block, a bias voltage generating circuit block, and a threshold circuit block. The encoding circuit block converts a plurality of digital inputs to an analog output. The plurality of digital inputs may comprise at least one data input and at least one control input. At least one chaotic circuit block is configured to iterate converting an input signal to an output signal by feeding the output signal to at least one chaotic circuit as the input signal at each iteration. The bias voltage generating circuit block converts a plurality of binary control inputs to a bias voltage. The threshold circuit block compares the output signal with a predetermined threshold, thereby generating a digital signal.
FILED	Friday, March 06, 2015
APPL NO	14/640342
ART UNIT	2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Pulse Technique H03K 19/17728 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03K 19/17744 (20130101) Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 1/34 (20130101)
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09425803 — Apparatuses and methods for implementing various physically unclonable function (PUF) and random number generator capabilities

US 09425803	Duncan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC)
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)	Adam Duncan (Bloomington, California); Matthew Gadlage (Bloomington, California); Austin Roach (Bloomfield, Indiana); Matthew Kay (Jasper, Indiana)
ABSTRACT	Methods and apparatuses for implementing a Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) and random number generator capabilities comprising providing a device under test comprising a plurality of bits comprising integrated circuits each including a capacitor; placing the bits in a first state with charge on selected bit capacitors; stopping bit refresh for a first predetermined time; re-enabling refresh for a second predetermined time to read and refresh charge on all bits; reading all bits and recording addresses of bits that have experienced bit flip from a first state to a second state comprising from “1” to “0” state; performing selecting a plurality of said recorded addresses to generate a PUF or cryptographic key; and performing an operation comprising a test or verification operation with said generated information PUF or key. Various hardware elements are also provided as well as machine readable instructions for implementing and controlling aspects of the invention.
FILED	Friday, May 22, 2015
APPL NO	14/720143
ART UNIT	2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 12/14 (20130101) G06F 12/16 (20130101) G06F 12/1408 (20130101) G06F 12/1433 (20130101) G06F 12/1458 (20130101) Pulse Technique H03K 19/17768 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09425959 — Security variable scrambling

US 09425959	Pedersen
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Navy Engineering Logistics Office (NELO)
APPLICANT(S)	Altera Corporation (San Jose, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Altera Corporation (San Jose, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Bruce B. Pedersen (Sunnyvale, California)
ABSTRACT	Methods and systems are provided for securing an integrated circuit device against various security attacks, such as side-channel attacks. By limiting the number of different challenge vectors that can be combined with a critical variable of an encryption operation, it becomes more difficult to create enough side channel measurements to successfully perform statistical side-channel analysis.
FILED	Thursday, September 12, 2013
APPL NO	14/025697
ART UNIT	2437 — Cryptography and Security
CURRENT CPC	Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 9/28 (20130101) H04L 2209/08 (20130101)
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09426007 — Alignment of signal copies from an asynchronous sensor network

US 09426007	Su
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Wei Su (Bel Air, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	Various embodiments associated with resampling signal copies for asynchronous sensors are described. A plurality of asynchronous sensors that sample signals at different frequencies can be distributed in an area. These sensors can sense a signal of interest for an entity. The sensors can send copies of the signal of interest that they have sensed to a system of the entity for processing. However, since the sensors are asynchronous the copies are sampled at different sampling time periods or sampling frequencies. A specific copy of the signal of interest can be selected from among the copies as a reference to estimate relative sampling frequency offset and the remaining copies can be resampled such that their resampled sampling time period or sampling frequency align with the reference signal. With the copies aligned, combination of the copies occurs and further processing can take place.
FILED	Monday, July 22, 2013
APPL NO	13/947435
ART UNIT	2632 — Digital Communications
CURRENT CPC	Transmission H04B 1/7115 (20130101) H04B 3/23 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 27/0012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09426883 — Low profile, highly configurable, current sharing paralleled wide band gap power device power module

US 09426883	McPherson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
APPLICANT(S)	Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc. (Fayetteville, Arkansas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Cree Fayetteville, Inc. (Fayetteville, Arkansas)
INVENTOR(S)	Brice McPherson (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Peter D. Killeen (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Alex Lostetter (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Robert Shaw (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Brandon Passmore (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Jared Hornberger (Springdale, Arkansas); Tony M. Berry (Springdale, Arkansas)
ABSTRACT	A power module with multiple equalized parallel power paths supporting multiple parallel bare die power devices constructed with low inductance equalized current paths for even current sharing and clean switching events. Wide low profile power contacts provide low inductance, short current paths, and large conductor cross section area provides for massive current carrying. An internal gate & source kelvin interconnection substrate is provided with individual ballast resistors and simple bolted construction. Gate drive connectors are provided on either left or right size of the module. The module is configurable as half bridge, full bridge, common source, and common drain topologies.
FILED	Friday, January 30, 2015
APPL NO	14/609629
ART UNIT	2847 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/15 (20130101) H01L 23/049 (20130101) H01L 23/3735 (20130101) H01L 23/49861 (20130101) H01L 25/07 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 1/0296 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09420967 — Apparatus, systems and methods for determining tissue oxygenation

US 09420967	Zand et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	SURGISENSE CORPORATION (Bethesda, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Surgisense Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Jason M. Zand (Washington, District of Columbia); Gregory S. Fischer (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A surgical instrument may be configured to sense a light re-emitting probe to resolve tissue oxygenation, the surgical instrument including: an optical emitter configured to excite the light re-emitting probe within an absorption band of the light re-emitting probe; an optical detector configured to receive the re-emitted light from the probe; and a signal processor configured to resolve the tissue oxygenation based on the received light. The surgical instrument can be a surgical stapler anvil or a flexible substrate having a tissue interfacing surface. Further, a monitoring device may be configured to map oxygenation of a tissue containing a light re-emitting probe, the monitoring device including: an optical emitter configured to excite the light re-emitting probe; at least one optical detector configured to receive the re-emitted light from the probe; and a signal processor that is configured to resolve the tissue oxygenation at multiple points to generate an oxygen map.
FILED	Wednesday, March 19, 2014
APPL NO	14/220034
ART UNIT	3769 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/01 (20130101) A61B 5/0059 (20130101) A61B 5/1459 (20130101) A61B 5/6847 (20130101) A61B 5/14552 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/14556 (20130101) A61B 2505/05 (20130101)
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09421141 — Systems and methods for promoting locomotion and facilitating exercise

US 09421141	Bose et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
APPLICANT(S)	Prodip K. Bose (Gainesville, Florida); Floyd J. Thompson (Gainesville, Florida)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Prodip K. Bose (Gainesville, Florida); Floyd J. Thompson (Gainesville, Florida)
ABSTRACT	In one embodiment, a therapy apparatus includes a support, a body harness mounted to the body support, a gearbox positioned below the harness, the gearbox comprising at least one gear and supporting a crankshaft, crankarms mounted to the crankshaft, and pedals mounted to the crankarms, a driveshaft coupled to the at least one gear such that rotation of the driveshaft results in rotation of the crankshaft, crankarms, and pedals, and a motor that drives the driveshaft, wherein the apparatus is adapted to support part of the weight of an subject with the harness and part of the weight of the subject with the pedals and wherein rotation of the pedals due to operation of the motor provides therapy to the subject.
FILED	Tuesday, June 19, 2012
APPL NO	14/126643
ART UNIT	3771 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies
CURRENT CPC	Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 15/02 (20130101) Physical Therapy Apparatus, e.g Devices for Locating or Stimulating Reflex Points in the Body; Artificial Respiration; Massage; Bathing Devices for Special Therapeutic or Hygienic Purposes or Specific Parts of the Body A61H 1/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61H 1/0214 (20130101) A61H 2201/164 (20130101) A61H 2201/1215 (20130101) A61H 2201/1635 (20130101) A61H 2201/1652 (20130101) A61H 2201/5061 (20130101) A61H 2201/5069 (20130101) A61H 2203/03 (20130101)
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09421177 — Imidamide sphingosine kinase inhibitors

US 09421177	Lynch et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)	Kevin R. Lynch (Charlottesville, Virginia); Timothy L. Macdonald (Charlottesville, Virginia); Thomas P. Mathews (Nashville, Tennessee); Andrew Kennedy (Charlottesville, Virginia); Yugesh Kharel (Charlottesville, Virginia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia)
INVENTOR(S)	Kevin R. Lynch (Charlottesville, Virginia); Timothy L. Macdonald (Charlottesville, Virginia); Thomas P. Mathews (Nashville, Tennessee); Andrew Kennedy (Charlottesville, Virginia); Yugesh Kharel (Charlottesville, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	Imidamide (amidine) analogs that can inhibit the activity of sphingosine kinase 1 and sphingosine kinase 2 (SphK1 & SphK2) are provided. The compounds can prevent angiogenesis in tumors.
FILED	Monday, August 16, 2010
APPL NO	13/390207
ART UNIT	1626 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/155 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 257/16 (20130101) C07C 2101/02 (20130101) C07C 2101/08 (20130101) C07C 2101/14 (20130101) C07C 2103/74 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/09 (20130101)
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09421194 — Lung targeting dual drug delivery system

US 09421194	Prud'homme et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Chemical and Transport Systems (CTS)
APPLICANT(S)	Robert K. Prud'homme (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Patrick J. Sinko (Annandale, New Jersey); Howard A. Stone (Princeton, New Jersey); Nathalie M. Pinkerton (Ottawa Hills, Ohio); Lei Shi (Shanghai, China PRC); Jiandi Wan (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Sherif Ibrahim (Old Bridge, New Jersey); Dayuan Gao (East Brunswick, New Jersey)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey); The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert K. Prud'homme (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Patrick J. Sinko (Annandale, New Jersey); Howard A. Stone (Princeton, New Jersey); Nathalie M. Pinkerton (Ottawa Hills, Ohio); Lei Shi (Shanghai, China PRC); Jiandi Wan (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Sherif Ibrahim (Old Bridge, New Jersey); Dayuan Gao (East Brunswick, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	The American Cancer Society estimated that in 2009, 1,479,350 new cancer cases would be diagnosed in the United States of which 219,440 would be lung and bronchus related. The standard treatments for NSCLC include surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, laser and photodynamic therapy, all with various success rates depending on the stage of the cancer. National Cancer Institute assesses, however, that results of standard treatment are generally poor with only a 15 percent 5-year survival rate for combined cancer stages. Challenges facing the current chemotherapy drugs include excessive toxicity to healthy tissues and limited ability to prevent metastases. A dual drug delivery system described herein selectively targets the lung to deliver anti-cancer drugs and inhibit the formation of metastases.
FILED	Tuesday, April 05, 2011
APPL NO	13/080371
ART UNIT	1611 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 9/1635 (20130101) A61K 9/1641 (20130101) A61K 9/1647 (20130101) A61K 31/437 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09421197 — Methods of generating hyper INOS expressing cells and uses thereof

US 09421197	Lu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)
APPLICANT(S)	CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Cleveland, Ohio)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio)
INVENTOR(S)	Kurt Q. Lu (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Kevin D. Cooper (Moreland Hills, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	A method of generating a hyper iNOS expressing cell includes administering to a myeloid derived cell an amount of a PPARγ agonist and an IL-6/STAT3 signaling pathway antagonist effective to substantially inhibit STAT3 activation in the cell and administering an inflammatory insult to the cell to stimulate hyper iNOS expression from the cell.
FILED	Monday, July 28, 2014
APPL NO	14/444509
ART UNIT	1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/426 (20130101) A61K 31/426 (20130101) A61K 31/4439 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 39/3955 (20130101) A61K 39/39533 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0645 (20130101) C12N 2500/36 (20130101) C12N 2501/23 (20130101) C12N 2501/385 (20130101)
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09421203 — Sensitization of cancer cells to DNA damage by inhibiting kinases essential for DNA damage checkpoint control

US 09421203	Yen et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)	Institute for Cancer Research (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Institute for Cancer Research (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Timothy Yen (Haverford, Pennsylvania); Neil Beeharry (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides methods for overriding cell cycle arrest in a tumor cell, which comprise inducing DNA damage in the cell, and contacting the cell with an amount of bosutinib or a bosutinib isomer effective to inhibit one or more kinase constituents of a DNA damage checkpoint pathway. The invention also provides novel bosutinib isomers, as well as compositions of the novel isomers and the bosutinib isomer 3,5-dichloro-4-methoxyaniline.
FILED	Tuesday, December 09, 2014
APPL NO	14/564186
ART UNIT	1626 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/496 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/7068 (20130101) A61K 31/7068 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101)
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09421211 — N,N′-diarylurea compounds and N,N′-diarylthiourea compounds as inhibitors of translation initiation

US 09421211	Aktas et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	Bertal Huseyin Aktas (Newton, Massachusetts); José A. Halperin (Brookline, Massachusetts); Michael Chorev (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Bertal Huseyin Aktas (Newton, Massachusetts); José A. Halperin (Brookline, Massachusetts); Michael Chorev (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Compositions and methods for inhibiting translation initiation are provided. Compositions, methods and kits for treating (1) cellular proliferative disorders, (2) non-proliferative, degenerative disorders, (3) viral infections, and/or (4) disorders associated with viral infections, using N,N′-diarylureas and/or N,N′-diarylthiourea compounds are described.
FILED	Friday, May 28, 2010
APPL NO	13/322607
ART UNIT	1629 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/5377 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/75 (20130101) C07D 249/14 (20130101)
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09421229 — Neural scaffolds

US 09421229	Boruch
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
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)	Alan V. Boruch (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed herein are compositions and methods useful for preparing neural scaffolds. The scaffolds comprise tissue taken from the spinal cord and/or dura mater of vertebrate and can be processed to form gels or sheets. Methods of treating patient with CNS injury are also presented.
FILED	Wednesday, February 19, 2014
APPL NO	14/183920
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 Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0618 (20130101) C12N 2533/90 (20130101)
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09421233 — Fungal mycobiome as probiotics, diagnostics and therapeutics

US 09421233	Underhill et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)	Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California)
INVENTOR(S)	David M. Underhill (Tarzana, California); Iliyan D. Iliev (West Hollywood, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to methods of using fungal mycobiome as a means of treating and/or diagnosing diseases in a subject. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method of diagnosing inflammatory bowel disease based on the composition of fungal strains present in the gut of a subject, and treating the subject by administering a probiotic biotherapy. In another embodiment, the present invention provides a method of diagnosing a severe form of ulcerative colitis by detecting the presence of a deficiency in dectin-1 expression in s. fibuligera in the gut of a subject.
FILED	Friday, April 26, 2013
APPL NO	14/396468
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 36/06 (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 1/6883 (20130101) C12Q 1/6895 (20130101) C12Q 2600/118 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101)
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09421239 — Therapy and kit for the prevention and treatment of cystic fibrosis

US 09421239	Madden et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
APPLICANT(S)	Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire)
ASSIGNEE(S)	TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE (Hanover, New Hampshire)
INVENTOR(S)	Dean R. Madden (Hanover, New Hampshire); Patrick R. Cushing (Woburn, Massachusetts); Prisca Boisguérin (Berlin, Germany); Rudolf Volkmer (Nordwestuckermark, Germany); Lars Vouilleme (Berlin, Germany)
ABSTRACT	A combination therapy and kit including an agent that inhibit the interaction between CAL and mutant CFTR proteins, in combination with a CFTR corrector, CFTR potentiator, mucolytic, anti-inflammatory agent or a combination thereof are provided as is a method for preventing or treating cystic fibrosis.
FILED	Friday, May 22, 2015
APPL NO	14/719910
ART UNIT	1676 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/15 (20130101) A61K 31/655 (20130101) A61K 31/655 (20130101) A61K 38/04 (20130101) A61K 38/04 (20130101) A61K 38/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/08 (20130101) A61K 38/10 (20130101) A61K 38/10 (20130101) A61K 38/16 (20130101) A61K 38/16 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 5/1013 (20130101) C07K 7/06 (20130101) C07K 7/08 (20130101) C07K 14/4703 (20130101)
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09421247 — Biodegradable nanoparticles as novel hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers and methods of using the same

US 09421247	Ghoroghchian et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
APPLICANT(S)	Vindico NanoBio Technology Inc. (Lexington, Kentucky)
ASSIGNEE(S)	VINDICO NANOBIO TECHNOLOGY INC. (Lexington, Kentucky)
INVENTOR(S)	P. Peter Ghoroghchian (Boston, Massachusetts); Eric Ostertag (Lexington, Kentucky)
ABSTRACT	Compositions of matter and methods for making, storing and administering artificial blood substitutes. Artificial blood substitutes may have oxygen carriers that encapsulate an oxygen-binding compound in a polymer vesicle. Oxygen-binding compounds may include hemoglobin, myoglobin, or other oxygen binding compounds having characteristics similar to hemoglobin. Oxygen carriers may include nanoparticles, polymers and/or polymersomes comprising of poly(ethylene oxide)-block-poly(ε-caprolactone) (PEO-b-PCL) and related diblock copolymers of poly(ethylene oxide)-block-poly(γ-methyl ε-caprolactone) (PEO-b-PMCL). The oxygen carriers may have tunable oxygen-binding capacities, uniform and appropriately small size distributions, and human bloodlike viscosities and oncotic properties.
FILED	Thursday, July 24, 2014
APPL NO	14/339749
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/10 (20130101) A61K 9/19 (20130101) A61K 9/1273 (20130101) A61K 9/1277 (20130101) A61K 31/70 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/42 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 47/32 (20130101)
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09421249 — Methods to activate or block the HLA-E/Qa-1 restricted CD8+ T cell regulatory pathway to treat immunological disease

US 09421249	Jiang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
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)	Hong Jiang (Fort Lee, New Jersey); Leonard Chess (Scarsdale, New York)
ABSTRACT	Methods are provided for inhibiting or enhancing down-regulation of an antigen-activated HLA-E⁺ T cell by an HLA-E-restricted CD8⁺ T cell comprising contacting the HLA-E⁺ T cell and CD8⁺ T cell with an agent which inhibits or enhances, respectively, binding between (i) T cell receptor (TCR) on the surface of the CD8⁺ T cell and (ii) a self peptide presented by HLA-E on the surface of the HLA-E⁺ T cell, thereby inhibiting or enhancing, respectively, down-regulation of the antigen-activated HLA-E⁺ T cell. Compositions comprising agents which inhibit or enhance/activate, respectively, binding between (i) T cell receptor (TCR) on the surface of a CD8⁺ T cell and (ii) a self peptide presented by HLA-E on the surface of a HLA-E⁺ T cell, and assays for identifying such agents, are provided.
FILED	Thursday, February 07, 2013
APPL NO	13/762249
ART UNIT	1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 39/0008 (20130101) A61K 2039/57 (20130101) A61K 2039/5158 (20130101) A61K 2039/6043 (20130101)
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09421250 — Pathogenic phlebovirus isolates and compositions and methods of use

US 09421250	McMullan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
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 (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Laura K. McMullan (Decatur, Georgia); Cynthia Goldsmith (Lilburn, Georgia); Aubree Kelly (Atlanta, Georgia); William L. Nicholson (Atlanta, Georgia); Stuart T. Nichol (Atlanta, Georgia)
ABSTRACT	Described herein are the clinical and laboratory characteristics of two patients bitten by ticks and infected with a unique member of the genus Phlebovirus (family Bunyaviridae) with a proposed name of Heartland virus (HRTLV). Provided herein are nucleotide and amino acid sequences of the Phlebovirus isolates, primers and probes that specifically hybridize with the Phlebovirus isolates, and antibodies specific for the Phlebovirus proteins. Also provided are detection assays using the Phlebovirus nucleic acid molecules, proteins, probes, primers and antibodies. Further provided are recombinant Phleboviruses and their use for eliciting an immune response in a subject.
FILED	Friday, March 22, 2013
APPL NO	14/386923
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 21/04 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/08 (20130101) C07K 14/175 (20130101) C07K 16/10 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 7/04 (20130101) C12N 2760/12221 (20130101) C12N 2760/12222 (20130101) C12N 2760/12234 (20130101) C12N 2760/12251 (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 1/701 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56983 (20130101) G01N 2333/175 (20130101)
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09421254 — Immunostimulatory combinations of TLR ligands and methods of use

US 09421254	Berzofsky et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	Jay A. Berzofsky (Bethesda, Maryland); Qing Zhu (Bethesda, Maryland); Igor Belyakov (Gaithersburg, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Jay A. Berzofsky (Bethesda, Maryland); Qing Zhu (Bethesda, Maryland); Igor Belyakov (Gaithersburg, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides immunostimulatory combinations of TLR ligands and therapeutic and/or prophylactic methods that include administering an immunostimulatory combination to a subject. In general, the immunostimulatory combinations described herein can provide an increased immune response compared to other immunostimulatory combinations and/or compositions.
FILED	Wednesday, September 24, 2008
APPL NO	12/679881
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/39 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/55516 (20130101) A61K 2039/55561 (20130101)
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09421272 — Nanocarrier compositions and methods

US 09421272	Sinko et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	Patrick J. Sinko (Annandale, New Jersey); Stanley Stein (East Brunswick, New Jersey); Simi Gunaseelan (North Brunswick, New Jersey); Shahriar Pooyan (Mount Kisco, New York); Matthew Sean Palombo (Marmora, New Jersey); Xiaoping Zhang (Piscataway, New Jersey)
ASSIGNEE(S)	RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY (New Brunswick, New Jersey)
INVENTOR(S)	Patrick J. Sinko (Annandale, New Jersey); Stanley Stein (East Brunswick, New Jersey); Simi Gunaseelan (North Brunswick, New Jersey); Shahriar Pooyan (Mount Kisco, New York); Matthew Sean Palombo (Marmora, New Jersey); Xiaoping Zhang (Piscataway, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	This invention provides multimeric nanocarrier for in vivo delivery of a bioactive agent, comprising at least two peptide monomers reversibly or irreversibly linked with one or more of said bioactive agents, wherein said two or more of said peptide monomers are covalently linked by a biodegradable difunctional moiety, as well as methods of using this nanocarrier.
FILED	Tuesday, March 16, 2010
APPL NO	13/255635
ART UNIT	1676 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/5169 (20130101) A61K 47/42 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09422229 — Therapeutic compounds

US 09422229	Booth
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
APPLICANT(S)	University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Raymond G. Booth (Boston, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The invention relates to protein binding interacting/binding compounds and methods of identifying and using them. The invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treating 5-HT2C disorders, including diseases and disorders mediated by GPCRs.
FILED	Tuesday, November 19, 2013
APPL NO	14/084339
ART UNIT	1629 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 211/42 (20130101) C07C 215/70 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 2102/10 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/08 (20130101) C07D 209/14 (20130101) C07D 213/38 (20130101) C07D 215/12 (20130101)
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09422232 — Reductive release probes containing a chemoselectively cleavable α-azidoether linker and methods of use thereof

US 09422232	Franzini et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)	Raphael M. Franzini (Stanford, California); Eric Todd Kool (Stanford, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Raphael M. Franzini (Stanford, California); Eric Todd Kool (Stanford, California)
ABSTRACT	Probes comprising one or more selectively cleavable α-azidoether moieties are provided; and linkers comprising the one or more selectively cleavable α-azidoether moieties. The α-azidoether moiety will undergo a Staudinger reaction with a suitable reducing agent, resulting in cleavage. The probes find use in a variety of detection assays, e.g. specific polynucleotide binding assays, polypeptide binding assays, etc. The cleavable linkers are suitable for synthetic reactions, e.g. to prepare probes of the invention; in the synthesis of cleavable peptide conjugates; and the like.
FILED	Wednesday, July 07, 2010
APPL NO	13/383135
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 49/0017 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 247/04 (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 1/6818 (20130101) C12Q 1/6818 (20130101) C12Q 2563/107 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/532 (20130101)
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09422233 — Vanilloid fatty hydroxamates as therapeutic anti-inflammatory pharmaceuticals

US 09422233	Laskin et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)
APPLICANT(S)	Jeffrey D. Laskin (Piscataway, New Jersey); Ned D. Heindel (Easton, Pennsylvania); Carl Jeffrey Lacey (Schnecksville, Pennsylvania); Abhilash N. Pillai (Tiruvalla, India); Marion Gordon (Princeton, New Jersey); Diane E. Heck (Rumson, New Jersey)
ASSIGNEE(S)	RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY (New Brunswick, New Jersey); LEHIGH UNIVERSITY (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Jeffrey D. Laskin (Piscataway, New Jersey); Ned D. Heindel (Easton, Pennsylvania); Carl Jeffrey Lacey (Schnecksville, Pennsylvania); Abhilash N. Pillai (Tiruvalla, India); Marion Gordon (Princeton, New Jersey); Diane E. Heck (Rumson, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	Three unique subtypes of N-hydroxyamides and N-hydroxycarbamates containing both the vanilloid moiety (4-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzyl) and a lipophilic aliphatic moiety. Also disclosed are direct syntheses of these vanilloid fatty hydroxamates. The compounds possess inhibitory activity against the enzymes fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) and matrix metallo-proteinase 9 (MMP-9). In addition, these substances bind to the calcium channel protein TRPV1 and inhibit vesicant-induced inflammation in skin and cornea. The compounds have utility in treating topical or systemic inflammatory processes in the skin and/or eye.
FILED	Friday, March 16, 2012
APPL NO	13/422565
ART UNIT	1629 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 259/06 (20130101) C07C 271/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09422242 — Phosphodiesterase inhibitors and uses thereof

US 09422242	Feng et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Aging (NIA)
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)	Yan Feng (Shanghai, China PRC); Ottavio Arancio (New York, New York); Shixian Deng (White Plains, New York); Donald W. Landry (New York, New York)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides for compounds that are phosphodiesterase inhibitors. The invention further provides for a method for screening compounds that bind to and modulate a phosphosdiesterase protein. The invention also provides methods for treating conditions associated with accumulated amyloid-beta peptide deposit accumulations by administering a phosphodiesterase-binding compound to a subject.
FILED	Tuesday, March 25, 2014
APPL NO	14/224702
ART UNIT	1625 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 215/48 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 215/54 (20130101)
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09422262 — Compounds and methods for treating diseases mediated by protease activated receptors

US 09422262	Dockendorff et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
APPLICANT(S)	Chris Dockendorff (Arlington, Massachusetts); Robert Flaumenhaft (Newton, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Broad Institute, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Chris Dockendorff (Arlington, Massachusetts); Robert Flaumenhaft (Newton, Massachusetts); Lawrence MacPherson (Marlborough, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The invention relates to the use of a compound of Formula I for the treatment of protease-activated receptor mediated diseases by the administration of a compound of Formula I or a prodrug or metabolite thereof.
FILED	Friday, September 23, 2011
APPL NO	13/825574
ART UNIT	1621 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/381 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 233/88 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/34 (20130101) C07D 213/72 (20130101) C07D 215/54 (20130101) C07D 307/68 (20130101) C07D 333/38 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09422275 — Small molecule modifiers of the HEC1-NEK2 interaction in G2/M

US 09422275	Lee et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Wen-Hwa Lee (Irvine, California); Jiewen Zhu (Irvine, California); Chun-Mei Hu (Taipei, Taiwan)
ABSTRACT	Certain embodiments of the present invention provide selected compounds having a molecular structure according to Formula 1: In Formula 1, Z is —CO—, —SO—, or —SO₂—; Ar is phenyl, heteroaryl, or heterocycloalkyl; Het is heteroaryl; R is R″, X, or NR₁R₂; R′ is R₃, or OR₃; R″ is R₄, or OR₄; R₁and R₂are each independently H, alkyl, or acyl; R₃is H, heteroaryl, or alkyl; R₄is H, heteroaryl, or C_nH_2n+1(n>2); and X is F, Br, I, CN, or NO₂. In some embodiments, compounds having a molecular structure according to Formula 1 have the property of inhibiting a growth of a cell line selected from HeLa and MB468 with a sub-micromolar IC₅₀.
FILED	Saturday, July 19, 2014
APPL NO	14/335893
ART UNIT	1625 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 417/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09422286 — Metal-binding bifunctional compounds as diagnostic agents for Alzheimer's disease

US 09422286	Mirica et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri)
INVENTOR(S)	Liviu Mirica (University City, Missouri); Anuj Sharma (St. Louis, Missouri); Jason Schultz (Alexandria, Minnesota)
ABSTRACT	Metal-binding bifunctional compounds and their use as diagnostic agents for Alzheimer's disease and other beta amyloid disorders are disclosed. Also, radiolabeled metal complexes of these bifunctional compounds and their use as positron emission tomography (PET) imaging agents are provided.
FILED	Tuesday, January 27, 2015
APPL NO	14/606714
ART UNIT	1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 51/0482 (20130101) A61K 51/0497 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 417/10 (20130101) C07D 471/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 1/005 (20130101)
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09422301 — Carboxamide bioisosteres of opiates

US 09422301	Wentland
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
APPLICANT(S)	RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE (Troy, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE (Troy, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Mark P. Wentland (Watervliet, New York)
ABSTRACT	A compound of formula I is disclosed. Compounds of formula I are useful as analgesics, anti-inflammatory agents, anti-diarrheal agents, anticonvulsants, antitussives and anti-addiction medications.
FILED	Monday, January 05, 2015
APPL NO	14/589164
ART UNIT	1625 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/439 (20130101) A61K 31/485 (20130101) A61K 31/4748 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 221/22 (20130101) C07D 221/26 (20130101) C07D 221/28 (20130101) C07D 405/12 (20130101) C07D 489/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 489/08 (20130101)
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09422302 — Mixed μ agonist/ δ antagonist opioid analgesics with reduced tolerance liabilities and uses thereof

US 09422302	Coop et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE (Baltimore, Maryland); WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY (Morgantown, West Virginia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE (Baltimore, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Andrew Coop (Baltimore, Maryland); Alexander D. Mackerell (Baltimore, Maryland); Rae Matsumoto (Morgantown, West Virginia)
ABSTRACT	An opioid narcotics used for the treatment of moderate-to-severe pain that primarily exert their analgesic effects through μ receptors. Although, traditional μ agonists can cause undesired side effects, including tolerance, addition of δ antagonists can attenuate said side effects. The present invention includes 4a,9-dihydroxy-7a-(hydroxymethyl)-3-methyl-2,3,4,4a,5,6-hexahydro-1H-4,12-methanobenzofuro[3,2-e]isoquinolin-7(7aH)-one (UMB 425) a 5,14-bridged morphinan-based orvinol precursor, along with analogs of morphine, dihydromorphine, hydromorphone, codeine, dihydrocodeine, hydrocodone and ethylmorphine. Although UMB 425 lacks δ-specific motifs, conformationally sampled pharmacophore models for μ and δ receptors predict it to have efficacy similar to morphine at μ receptors and similar to naltrexone at δ receptors, due to the compound sampling conformations in which the hydroxyl moiety interacts with the receptors similar to orvinols. UMB 425 exhibits a mixed μ agonist/δ antagonist profile as determined in receptor binding. UMB 425 has mixed μ agonist/δ antagonist properties in vitro that translate to reduced tolerance liabilities in vivo.
FILED	Thursday, March 06, 2014
APPL NO	14/772592
ART UNIT	1625 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 489/02 (20130101) C07D 489/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09422303 — Formulations of water-insoluble chemical compounds and methods of using a formulation of compound FL118 for cancer therapy

US 09422303	Li et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	Fengzhi Li (Williamsville, New York); Xiang Ling (East Amherst, New York); Shousong Cao (East Amherst, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Health Research, Inc. (Buffalo, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Fengzhi Li (Williamsville, New York); Xiang Ling (East Amherst, New York); Shousong Cao (East Amherst, New York)
ABSTRACT	Provided are compositions, methods of making the compositions, and methods of using the compositions. The compositions can be provided as pharmaceutical preparations for use in disease treatment, such as cancer therapy. The compositions include novel pharmaceutical preparations which contain effective concentrations of a chemical compound. One compound used is 10H-1,3-Dioxolo[4,5-g]pyrano[3′,4′:6,7]indolizino[1,2-b]quinoline-8,11(7H,12H)-dione, 7-ethyl-7-hydroxy-, (S)-. The invention also provides methodologies for preparing pharmaceutical preparations for use in intravenous and oral pharmaceutical preparations that contain drug compounds that are difficult to dissolve in water.
FILED	Monday, October 31, 2011
APPL NO	13/881785
ART UNIT	1625 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/475 (20130101) A61K 31/475 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 47/10 (20130101) A61K 47/20 (20130101) A61K 47/40 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 491/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09422308 — Derivatives of docosahexaenoylethanolamide and uses thereof

US 09422308	Kim et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
APPLICANT(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Hee-Yong Kim (Potomac, Maryland); Juan Jose Marugan (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Erika E. Englund (Washington, District of Columbia); Samarjit Patnaik (Gaithersburg, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides derivatives of DEA which have increased potency and hydrolysis resistance as compared to DEA, and compositions thereof, as well as methods of using these derivatives to promote neurogenesis, neurite growth and/or length, and/or promote synaptogenesis.
FILED	Friday, March 15, 2013
APPL NO	14/387410
ART UNIT	1672 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 233/09 (20130101) C07C 233/13 (20130101) C07C 233/20 (20130101) C07C 233/23 (20130101) C07C 233/31 (20130101) C07C 233/38 (20130101) C07C 233/49 (20130101) C07C 235/28 (20130101) C07C 255/29 (20130101) C07C 2101/04 (20130101) C07C 2101/14 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 205/04 (20130101) C07D 213/40 (20130101) C07D 235/14 (20130101) C07D 295/13 (20130101) C07D 295/135 (20130101) C07D 295/185 (20130101) C07D 307/52 (20130101) C07D 309/04 (20130101) C07D 319/20 (20130101) C07D 333/20 (20130101) C07D 495/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09422314 — Beta-lactamase inhibitors

US 09422314	Burns et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)	VenatoRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Malvern, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	VENATORX PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (Malvern, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Christopher J. Burns (Malvern, Pennsylvania); Denis Daigle (Havre de Grace, Maryland); Bin Liu (Dayton, New Jersey); Daniel McGarry (Exton, Pennsylvania); Daniel C. Pevear (Downingtown, Pennsylvania); Robert E. Lee Trout (Collegeville, Pennsylvania)
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	Thursday, December 05, 2013
APPL NO	14/649527
ART UNIT	1626 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/69 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07F 5/025 (20130101) C07F 5/027 (20130101)
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09422318 — Epoxyeicosatrienoic acid analogs and methods of making and using the same

US 09422318	Imig et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN, INC. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	John David Imig (Pewaukee, Wisconsin); William B. Campbell (Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin); John Russell Falck (University Park, Texas)
ABSTRACT	Compounds and compositions comprising epoxyeicosatrienoic acid (EET) analogs that act as EET agonists and are useful as medications in the treatment of drug-induced nephrotoxicity, hypertension and other related conditions. Methods of making and using the compounds and compositions are further described.
FILED	Thursday, July 30, 2015
APPL NO	14/813615
ART UNIT	1628 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 233/46 (20130101) C07C 233/47 (20130101) C07C 233/56 (20130101) C07C 237/22 (20130101) C07C 275/20 (20130101) C07C 309/15 (20130101) C07C 311/18 (20130101) C07C 311/19 (20130101) C07C 311/51 (20130101) C07C 317/28 (20130101) C07C 323/44 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 249/12 (20130101) C07D 257/04 (20130101) C07D 271/06 (20130101) C07D 271/07 (20130101) C07D 277/34 (20130101) C07D 277/82 (20130101) C07D 277/593 (20130101) C07D 285/08 (20130101) C07D 291/04 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 9/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09422320 — C-terminal HSP90 inhibitors

US 09422320	Blagg et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
APPLICANT(S)	University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS (Lawrence, Kansas)
INVENTOR(S)	Brian S. J. Blagg (Lawerence, Kansas); Bhaskar Reddy Kusuma (Lawrence, Kansas); Teather Sundstrom (Canton, Missouri)
ABSTRACT	Hsp90 C-terminal inhibitors and pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds are provided. The compounds of the disclosure are useful for the treatment and/or prevention of neurodegenerative disorders such as diabetic peripheral neuropathy.
FILED	Friday, February 08, 2013
APPL NO	14/377616
ART UNIT	1673 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 211/17 (20130101) Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 15/203 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09422337 — Peptide compounds to regulate the complement system

US 09422337	Krishna et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)	Eastern Virginia Medical School (Norfolk, Virginia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Eastern Virginia Medical School (Norfolk, Virginia)
INVENTOR(S)	Neel K. Krishna (Norfolk, Virginia); Kenji Cunnion (Norfolk, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides peptide compounds that regulate the complement system and methods of using these compounds. The invention is an isolated, purified peptide of 30 amino acids derived from human astrovirus protein, called CP1. The invention is directed to peptide compounds that are peptide mimetics, peptide analogs and/or synthetic derivatives of CP1 having, for example, internal peptide deletions and substitutions, deletions and substitutions at the N-terminus and C-terminus, and that are able to regulate complement activation. The invention further provides pharmaceutical compositions of therapeutically effective amounts of the peptide compounds and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, diluent, or excipient for treating a disease or condition associated with complement-mediated tissue damage.
FILED	Friday, November 07, 2014
APPL NO	14/536073
ART UNIT	1675 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/03 (20130101) A61K 38/162 (20130101) A61K 38/1725 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 14/08 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2770/12022 (20130101) C12N 2770/12033 (20130101)
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09422340 — Macrocyclic compounds useful as inhibitors of histone deacetylases

US 09422340	Liu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	The Regents of the University of Colorado, A Body Corporate (Denver, Colorado)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of Colorado, A Body Corporate (Denver, Colorado)
INVENTOR(S)	Xuedong Liu (Niwot, Colorado); Andrew J. Phillips (Guilford, Connecticut); Dana Ungermannova (Houston, Texas); Christopher G. Nasveschuk (Stoneham, Massachusetts); Gan Zhang (Niwot, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides a novel macrocyclic compound of general Formula (I) having histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitory activity, a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compound, and a method useful to treat diseases using the compound.
FILED	Thursday, May 29, 2014
APPL NO	14/289877
ART UNIT	1675 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/425 (20130101) A61K 38/005 (20130101) A61K 38/15 (20130101) A61K 39/3955 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Peptides C07K 5/0821 (20130101) C07K 11/00 (20130101) C07K 11/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09422347 — Algal produced malarial transmission blocking vaccines

US 09422347	Mayfield et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)	Stephen P. Mayfield (Cardiff, California); James A. Gregory (San Diego, California); Carla S. Jones (Austin, Texas); Michael J. Hannon (Seattle, Washington)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Stephen P. Mayfield (Cardiff, California); James A. Gregory (San Diego, California); Carla S. Jones (Austin, Texas); Michael J. Hannon (Seattle, Washington)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to the production of malaria transmission blocking vaccines in single-celled green algae, particularly algae of the genus Chlamydomonas, e.g., Chlamydomonas reinhardtii; the immunogenic Plasmodium polypeptides produced and compositions comprising them; and methods for preventing, ameliorating, reducing, delaying, treating and blocking the transmission of malaria by administration of immunogenic Plasmodium polypeptides produced in an algal host cell.
FILED	Tuesday, May 01, 2012
APPL NO	14/123519
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/015 (20130101) A61K 2039/517 (20130101) A61K 2039/6037 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/445 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/12 (20130101) C12N 15/8214 (20130101) C12N 15/8258 (20130101)
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09422352 — PTD-SMAD7 therapeutics

US 09422352	Wang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)
APPLICANT(S)	The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado)
INVENTOR(S)	Xiao-Jing Wang (Greenwood Village, Colorado); Qinghong Zhang (Englewood, Colorado); Yosef Refaeli (Denver, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	The present technology provides methods and compositions for the treatment of inflammatory and/or tissue damage conditions. In particular, the use of Smad7 compositions delivered locally or systemically to a site of inflammation and/or tissue damage is described. Other specific embodiments concern treatment or prevention of side effects caused by radiation and/or chemotherapy, including but not limited to oral and gastric mucositis. Also provided are codon-optimized nucleic acids encoding for Smad7 fusion proteins.
FILED	Friday, March 07, 2014
APPL NO	14/201488
ART UNIT	1676 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 48/005 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/4702 (20130101) C07K 14/4703 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2319/10 (20130101) C07K 2319/20 (20130101) C07K 2319/23 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2800/22 (20130101)
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09422359 — GPCR fusion protein containing an N-terminal autonomously folding stable domain, and crystals of the same

US 09422359	Kobilka et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)	The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Brian K. Kobilka (Palo Alto, California); Yaozhong Zou (Sunnyvale, California)
ABSTRACT	Certain embodiments provide a GPCR fusion protein. In particular embodiments, the GPCR fusion protein comprises: a) a G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR); and b) an autonomously folding stable domain, where the autonomously folding stable domain is N-terminal to the GPCR and is heterologous to the GPCR. The GPCR fusion protein is characterized in that is crystallizable under lipidic cubic phase crystallization conditions. In certain embodiments, the GPCR fusion protein may be crystallizable in a complex with a G-protein or in a complex with an antibody that binds to the IC3 loop of the GPCR.
FILED	Friday, May 16, 2014
APPL NO	14/280384
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Peptides C07K 14/705 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/723 (20130101) C07K 14/70571 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/43 (20130101) C07K 2319/50 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/2462 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/16 (20130101)
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09422373 — Modified alginates for cell encapsulation and cell therapy

US 09422373	Vegas et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
APPLICANT(S)	Arturo J. Vegas (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Minglin Ma (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Kaitlin M. Bratlie (Ames, Massachusetts); Daniel G. Anderson (Sudbury, Massachusetts); Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Arturo J. Vegas (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Minglin Ma (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Kaitlin M. Bratlie (Ames, Massachusetts); Daniel G. Anderson (Sudbury, Massachusetts); Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Covalently modified alginate polymers, possessing enhanced biocompatibility and tailored physiochemical properties, as well as methods of making and use thereof, are disclosed herein. The covalently modified alginates are useful as a matrix for the encapsulation and transplantation of cells. Also disclosed are high throughput methods for the characterizing the biocompatibility and physiochemical properties of modified alginate polymers.
FILED	Monday, June 04, 2012
APPL NO	13/487524
ART UNIT	1673 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0024 (20130101) A61K 9/5161 (20130101) Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 37/0084 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09422517 — Microscale and nanoscale structures for manipulating particles

US 09422517	Chen et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
APPLICANT(S)	Grace Chen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Fabio Fachin (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Mehmet Toner (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Brian Wardle (Lexington, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Grace Chen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Fabio Fachin (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Mehmet Toner (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Brian Wardle (Lexington, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The devices and systems described herein include one or more fluid paths, e.g., channels, and one or more selectively permeable obstacles arranged in the fluid path(s), each including a plurality of aligned nanostructures, e.g., nanotubes or nanorods, defining an outer surface of the obstacle and an internal network of voids. The obstacle(s) can further include binding moieties applied to the outer surface and/or to the surfaces of the individual nanostructures within the obstacle(s). The devices can be manufactured by forming the dense groupings of nanostructures to extend outwards and upwards from a substrate; forming a fluidic channel, bonding the fluidic channel to the substrate; and optionally applying binding moieties to the obstacles. The devices can be used to manipulate cells within fluid samples.
FILED	Friday, July 29, 2011
APPL NO	13/812934
ART UNIT	3653 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material
CURRENT CPC	Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502707 (20130101) B01L 3/502746 (20130101) B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 2200/0652 (20130101) B01L 2200/0668 (20130101) B01L 2300/0896 (20130101) B01L 2400/086 (20130101) Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 25/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/1404 (20130101) G01N 2015/1413 (20130101)
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09422529 — Alphavirus compositions and methods of use

US 09422529	Nasar et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)	Farooq Nasar (Albany, New York); Jesse Erasmus (Galveston, Texas); Scott C. Weaver (Galveston, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Farooq Nasar (Albany, New York); Jesse Erasmus (Galveston, Texas); Scott C. Weaver (Galveston, Texas)
ABSTRACT	Embodiments are directed compositions related to Eilat virus and uses thereof. Certain aspects are directed to the detection of non-Eilat entities using a chimeric Eilat alphavirus as a capture agent.
FILED	Tuesday, October 28, 2014
APPL NO	14/525820
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/12 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2770/36121 (20130101) C12N 2770/36134 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56983 (20130101) G01N 2333/181 (20130101) G01N 2469/20 (20130101)
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09422545 — Lipopolysaccharide-targeted peptide mimic vaccine against Q fever

US 09422545	Zhang
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)	Guoquan Zhang (Columbia, Missouri)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri)
INVENTOR(S)	Guoquan Zhang (Columbia, Missouri)
ABSTRACT	A vaccine and method of vaccination for conferring immunity to Q fever is described. The vaccine comprises a polypeptide with a sequence of SLTWHKHELHRK (SEQ ID NO: 7) (m1E41920) or SPPWHKHELHRK (SEQ ID NO: 8) (m1E44), or at least 90% identity to m1E41920 or m1E44. Constructs are also provided for use in vaccination and treatment of Q fever. A method to identify and generate new vaccines to prevent diseases caused by intracellular Gram-negative bacteria is also described.
FILED	Wednesday, July 23, 2014
APPL NO	14/338730
ART UNIT	1676 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/08 (20130101) C07K 16/126 (20130101) C07K 16/1203 (20130101) C07K 2317/24 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) C07K 2317/55 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1037 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09422553 — Prokaryotic RNAi-like system and methods of use

US 09422553	Terns et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)	UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Athens, Georgia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia)
INVENTOR(S)	Rebecca M. Terns (Athens, Georgia); Michael P. Terns (Athens, Georgia); Caryn R. Hale (Athens, Georgia)
ABSTRACT	Provided herein are methods for inactivating a target polynucleotide. The methods use a psiRNA having a 5′ region and a 3′ region. The 5′ region includes, but is not limited to, 5 to 10 nucleotides chosen from a repeat from a CRISPR locus immediately upstream of a spacer. The 3′ region is substantially complementary to a portion of the target polynucleotide. The methods may be practiced in a prokaryotic microbe or in vitro. Also provided are polypeptides that have endonuclease activity in the presence of a psiRNA and a target polynucleotide, and methods for using the polypeptides.
FILED	Thursday, September 12, 2013
APPL NO	14/025015
ART UNIT	1674 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/11 (20130101) C12N 2310/3519 (20130101)
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09422554 — MicroRNAome

US 09422554	Cummins et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Jordan Cummins (Baltimore, Maryland); Victor Velculescu (Dayton, Maryland); Kenneth W. Kinzler (Baltimore, Maryland); Bert Vogelstein (Baltimore, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small noncoding RNAs that have important regulatory roles in multicellular organisms. The public miRNA database contains 321 human miRNA sequences, 234 of which have been experimentally verified. To explore the possibility that additional miRNAs are present in the human genome, we have developed an experimental approach called miRNA serial analysis of gene expression (miRAGE) and used it to perform the largest experimental analysis of human miRNAs to date. Sequence analysis of 273,966 small RNA tags from human colorectal cells allowed us to identify 200 known mature miRNAs, 133 novel miRNA candidates, and 112 previously uncharacterized miRNA* forms. To aid in the evaluation of candidate miRNAs, we disrupted the Dicer locus in three human colorectal cancer cell lines and examined known and novel miRNAs in these cells. The miRNAs are useful to diagnose and treat cancers.
FILED	Tuesday, November 19, 2013
APPL NO	14/083749
ART UNIT	1674 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/141 (20130101) C12N 2320/11 (20130101) C12N 2330/10 (20130101) C12N 2510/00 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101)
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09422583 — Stereospecific carbonyl reductases

US 09422583	Montelione et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)	RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY (New Brunswick, New Jersey); JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY (Wuxi, China PRC)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Jiangnan University (Wuxi, China PRC)
INVENTOR(S)	Gaetano T. Montelione (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Rong Xiao (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Yao Nie (Wuxi, China PRC); Yan Xu (Wuxi, China PRC)
ABSTRACT	Stereospecific carbonyl reductases SCR1, SCR2, and SCR3 are described herein as are nucleotide sequences that encode these reductases. These stereospecific carbonyl reductases have anti-Prelog selectivity and have specificities that are useful for fine biochemical synthesis.
FILED	Monday, March 02, 2015
APPL NO	14/635860
ART UNIT	1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/0006 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/04 (20130101) C12P 7/22 (20130101) C12P 7/62 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 41/002 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/52 (20151101)
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09422591 — Methods and kits for detecting mastitis

US 09422591	Madura
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	Kiran Madura (Bridgewater, New Jersey)
ASSIGNEE(S)	RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY (New Brunswick, New Jersey)
INVENTOR(S)	Kiran Madura (Bridgewater, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	Methods and kits for determining if one or more animals have mastitis and for monitoring animals and the quality of the milk they produce are disclosed. Kits and test assays disclosed are used to determine the quantity of proteasomes and proteins thereof, the activity of proteasome enzymes, the quantity of proteasome bound and regulating proteins, and the quantity of ubiquinated protein. Components and reagents for use in the kits and assays are also disclosed.
FILED	Thursday, July 26, 2012
APPL NO	14/234749
ART UNIT	1678 — 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 1/37 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6888 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/573 (20130101) G01N 2800/365 (20130101)
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09422605 — Transposon activation during aging and neuronal decline

US 09422605	Dubnau et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
APPLICANT(S)	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Joshua Dubnau (Huntington, New York); Wanhe Li (New York, New York); Lisa Prazak (Massapequa Park, New York)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to transposon activation and mobilization, particularly in the brain, during normal aging; reporter systems to detect such mobilization, along with cells and transgenic animals containing such systems; methods of monitoring neuronal function during normal aging; methods of determining the risk of age-related neuronal decline and age-related mortality; and the use of transposon inhibitors and apoptosis inhibitors to delay age-related neuronal decline and age-related mortality.
FILED	Monday, March 17, 2014
APPL NO	14/216491
ART UNIT	1674 — 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 1/6881 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) C12Q 2600/118 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101)
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09422630 — Method and apparatus for generating electrical current

US 09422630	Pollack
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
APPLICANT(S)	4th-Phase, Inc. (Seattle, Washington)
ASSIGNEE(S)	4th-Phase, Inc. (Seattle, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Gerald H. Pollack (Seattle, Washington)
ABSTRACT	Method and system for generating electrical energy from a volume of water.
FILED	Friday, June 12, 2015
APPL NO	14/738599
ART UNIT	1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Processes for the Production of Compounds or Non-metals; Apparatus Therefor C25B 1/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 9/20 (20130101) H01G 9/21 (20130101) H01G 9/2018 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 14/00 (20130101) Generation of Electric Power by Conversion of Infra-red Radiation, Visible Light or Ultraviolet Light, e.g Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules H02S 99/00 (20130101)
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09423394 — Retinal pigment epithelial primary cell culture system producing subcellular deposits

US 09423394	Curcio et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Eye Institute (NEI)
APPLICANT(S)	TheraOptix, Inc. (San Jose, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)
INVENTOR(S)	Christine A. Curcio (Birmingham, Alabama); Clyde Guidry (Birmingham, Alabama)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides a retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) primary cell culture system on a material surface seeded at a high density that produces a layer of subcellular deposits, wherein the RPE primary cells are harvested from non-fetal tissue. The present invention additionally provides methods of making and using the PRE primary cell culture system.
FILED	Friday, December 13, 2013
APPL NO	14/106137
ART UNIT	1657 — 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 5/0621 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5035 (20130101) G01N 33/5058 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09423401 — Compositions and methods for detecting cancer

US 09423401	Varki et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Sialix, Inc. (Newton, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Siamab Therapeutics, Inc. (Newton, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Ajit Varki (La Jolla, California); Richard B. Schwab (La Jolla, California); Vered Padler-Karavani (San Diego, California); Nancy Hurtado-Ziola (La Jolla, California)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides sialylated glycans and antibodies that specifically bind to them. The invention's compositions and methods for using them are useful for early detection and diagnosis of cancer.
FILED	Monday, December 23, 2013
APPL NO	14/138879
ART UNIT	1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Peptides C07K 16/3076 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5748 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/57484 (20130101) G01N 2400/00 (20130101)
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09423404 — Method of screening for an agent that enhances beige fat adipogenesis

US 09423404	Feldman
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) NIH Office of the Director (NIHOD)
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 Unviversity (Stanford, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Brian Jay Feldman (Stanford, California)
ABSTRACT	Methods and compositions are provided for enhancing beige fat adipogenesis, and screening for agents having this activity An adipocyte progenitor cell is contacted with an effective dose of an antagonist of unliganded vitamin D receptor (VDR) activity. The contacting may be performed under adipogenic conditions.
FILED	Tuesday, March 11, 2014
APPL NO	14/205170
ART UNIT	1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Peptides C07K 14/70567 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1138 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/82 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/5023 (20130101) G01N 33/5041 (20130101) G01N 33/5044 (20130101) G01N 33/5073 (20130101)
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09423405 — Trimethylamine compounds as risk predictors of cardiovascular disease

US 09423405	Hazen et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
APPLICANT(S)	Stanley L. Hazen (Pepper Pike, Ohio); Zeneng Wang (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Bruce S. Levison (Twinsburg, Ohio)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio)
INVENTOR(S)	Stanley L. Hazen (Pepper Pike, Ohio); Zeneng Wang (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Bruce S. Levison (Twinsburg, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	Methods of characterizing a test subject's risk of having or developing cardiovascular disease are provided. The methods include using an analytic device to determine levels of choline-related trimethylamine-containing compounds such as trimethylamine N-oxide, choline, or betaine in a biological sample obtained from the subject and comparing the levels of the choline-related trimethylamine-containing compound in the subject's biological sample to a control value. The test subject's risk of having cardiovascular disease is then characterized as higher if the levels of the choline-related trimethylamine-containing compound are higher than the control value. Also provided are methods of identifying a subject at risk of experiencing a complication of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, and methods of evaluating the efficacy of a cardiovascular therapeutic agent in a subject with cardiovascular disease using levels of choline-related trimethylamine-containing compounds.
FILED	Friday, December 05, 2008
APPL NO	12/746262
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	Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/92 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2800/56 (20130101) G01N 2800/323 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/174614 (20150115)
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09423476 — Apparatus, systems and methods for facilitating signal excitation and/or reception in a magnetic resonance system

US 09423476	Wiggins et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
APPLICANT(S)	Graham C. Wiggins (New York, New York); Bei Zhang (Harstdale, New York); Daniel K. Sodickson (Larchmont, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	New York University (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Graham C. Wiggins (New York, New York); Bei Zhang (Harstdale, New York); Daniel K. Sodickson (Larchmont, New York)
ABSTRACT	In accordance with certain exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, provided herein are apparatus, systems and methods for, e.g., facilitating signal excitation and/or reception in a magnetic resonance system, such as, e.g., a system configured for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and/or spectroscopy. For example, exemplary embodiments of a method for traveling wave imaging in an MRI system can include, e.g., a circular conductive structure lying in a transverse plane within the scanner bore. The exemplary structure can be concentric with the center of the scanner RF shield. The structure can be arranged to have a resonant mode at the MR frequency characterized by a current pattern which can be configured to excite and receive an exemplary waveguide mode. The exemplary current pattern can be further configured to facilitate traveling wave imaging, for example.
FILED	Friday, April 13, 2012
APPL NO	13/446689
ART UNIT	2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/345 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 33/4802 (20130101)
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09426429 — Scanning projective lensless microscope system

US 09426429	Zheng et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)	Guoan Zheng (Pasadena, California); Samuel Yang (San Dimas, California); Seung Ah Lee (Pasadena, California); Changhuei Yang (Pasadena, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Guoan Zheng (Pasadena, California); Samuel Yang (San Dimas, California); Seung Ah Lee (Pasadena, California); Changhuei Yang (Pasadena, California)
ABSTRACT	A scanning projective lensless microscope device comprises a specimen surface, a scanning illumination source with a light element, a light detector outside the specimen surface, and a processor. The scanning illumination source scans the light element to a plurality of scanning locations to provide illumination to an object on the specimen surface. The light detector samples a sequence of sub-pixel shifted projection object images corresponding to the plurality of scanning locations. The processor constructs a high resolution image of the object based on the sequence of sub-pixel shifted projection images and a motion vector of the projections at a plane of interest.
FILED	Tuesday, October 25, 2011
APPL NO	13/281287
ART UNIT	2485 — Recording and Compression
CURRENT CPC	Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/06 (20130101) G02B 21/367 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 7/183 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09421514 — Porous materials containing built-in single molecule traps for small molecule capture

US 09421514	Zhou et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
APPLICANT(S)	Hong-Cai Zhou (College Station, Texas); Mario Wriedt (College Station, Texas); Julian Sculley (College Station, Texas); Jian-Rong Li (College Station, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Hong-Cai Zhou (College Station, Texas); Mario Wriedt (College Station, Texas); Julian Sculley (College Station, Texas); Jian-Rong Li (College Station, Texas)
ABSTRACT	Provided herein are porous single-molecule trap materials with fixed pore sizes that are capable of trapping one molecule per cavity.
FILED	Monday, June 25, 2012
APPL NO	14/342530
ART UNIT	1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Separation B01D 53/02 (20130101) B01D 2253/204 (20130101) B01D 2253/308 (20130101) B01D 2257/30 (20130101) B01D 2257/40 (20130101) B01D 2257/50 (20130101) B01D 2257/102 (20130101) B01D 2257/104 (20130101) B01D 2257/108 (20130101) B01D 2257/504 (20130101) B01D 2257/702 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/226 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 20/2809 (20130101) B01J 20/28066 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 3/0015 (20130101) C01B 31/20 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 1/08 (20130101) C07F 11/005 (20130101) C07F 15/0046 (20130101) C07F 15/0053 (20130101) Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 10/08 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/328 (20130101)
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09421521 — Nanosegregated bimetallic oxide anode catalyst for proton exchange membrane electrolyzer

US 09421521	Danilovic et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by UChicago Argonne, LLC (UCHICAGO) at Argonne, IL
APPLICANT(S)	UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Nemanja Danilovic (Willowbrook, Illinois); Yijin Kang (Naperville, Illinois); Nenad Markovic (Hinsdale, Illinois); Vojislav Stamenkovic (Naperville, Illinois); Deborah J. Myers (Lisle, Illinois); Ram Subbaraman (Sunnyvale, California)
ABSTRACT	A surface segregated bimetallic composition of the formula Ru_1-xIr_xwherein 0.1≦x≦0.75, wherein a surface of the material has an Ir concentration that is greater than an Ir concentration of the material as a whole is provided. The surface segregated material may be produced by a method including heating a bimetallic composition of the formula Ru_1-xIr_x, wherein 0.1≦x≦0.75, at a first temperature in a reducing environment, and heating the composition at a second temperature in an oxidizing environment. The surface segregated material may be utilized in electrochemical devices.
FILED	Tuesday, September 30, 2014
APPL NO	14/502825
ART UNIT	1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 23/468 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 35/023 (20130101) B01J 37/08 (20130101) B01J 37/12 (20130101) B01J 37/14 (20130101) B01J 37/16 (20130101) B01J 37/18 (20130101) B01J 37/031 (20130101) Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Processes for the Production of Compounds or Non-metals; Apparatus Therefor C25B 9/08 (20130101) C25B 13/04 (20130101)
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09421636 — Pulse joining cartridges

US 09421636	Golovashchenko et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
APPLICANT(S)	Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Dearborn, Michigan)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Dearborn, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Sergey Fedorovich Golovashchenko (Beverly Hills, Michigan); John Joseph Francis Bonnen (Milford, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	A pulsed joining tool includes a tool body that defines a cavity that receives an inner tubular member and an outer tubular member and a pulse joining cartridge. The tubular members are nested together with the cartridge being disposed around the outer tubular member. The cartridge includes a conductor, such as a wire or foil, that extends around the outer tubular member and is insulated to separate a supply segment from a return segment. A source of stored electrical energy is discharged through the conductor to join the tubular members with an electromagnetic force pulse.
FILED	Friday, December 19, 2014
APPL NO	14/577017
ART UNIT	1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Soldering or Unsoldering; Welding; Cladding or Plating by Soldering or Welding; Cutting by Applying Heat Locally, e.g Flame Cutting; Working by Laser Beam B23K 20/002 (20130101) B23K 20/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B23K 20/22 (20130101) B23K 2203/18 (20130101)
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09422207 — Compounds and methods for the production of long chain hydrocarbons from biological sources

US 09422207	Gordon et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Triad National Security, LLC (TRIAD) at Los Alamos, NM
APPLICANT(S)	John Cameron Gordon (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Louis A. Silks (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Andrew D. Sutton (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Ruilian Wu (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Marcel Schlaf (Ontario, Canada); Fraser Waldie (Alberta, Canada); Ryan West (West Chester, Ohio); Dimitris Ioannis Collias (Mason, Ohio)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico); The Proctor and Gamble Company (Cincinnati, Ohio)
INVENTOR(S)	John Cameron Gordon (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Louis A. Silks (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Andrew D. Sutton (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Ruilian Wu (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Marcel Schlaf (Ontario, Canada); Fraser Waldie (Alberta, Canada); Ryan West (West Chester, Ohio); Dimitris Ioannis Collias (Mason, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is directed to the preparation of oxygenated, unsaturated hydrocarbon compounds, such as derivatives of furfural or hydroxymethyl furfural produced by aldol condensation with a ketone or a ketoester, as well as methods of deoxidatively reducing those compounds with hydrogen under acidic conditions to provide saturated hydrocarbons useful as fuels.
FILED	Friday, September 14, 2012
APPL NO	14/344178
ART UNIT	1625 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 1/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 2523/44 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 307/46 (20130101) C07D 307/54 (20130101) Fuels Not Otherwise Provided for; Natural Gas; Synthetic Natural Gas Obtained by Processes Not Covered by Subclasses C10G, C10K; Liquefied Petroleum Gas; Adding Materials to Fuels or Fires to Reduce Smoke or Undesirable Deposits or to Facilitate Soot Removal; Firelighters C10L 1/04 (20130101) C10L 2200/04 (20130101)
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09422342 — Recoding method that removes inhibitory sequences and improves HIV gene expression

US 09422342	Rabadan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Raul Rabadan (Princeton, New Jersey); Michael Krasnitz (Princeton, New Jersey); Harlan Robins (Seattle, Washington); Daniela Witten (Princeton, New Jersey); Arnold Levine (Doylestown, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Institute of Advanced Study (Princeton, New Jersey)
INVENTOR(S)	Raul Rabadan (Princeton, New Jersey); Michael Krasnitz (Princeton, New Jersey); Harlan Robins (Seattle, Washington); Daniela Witten (Princeton, New Jersey); Arnold Levine (Doylestown, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	The invention relates to inhibitory nucleotide signal sequences or “INS” sequences in the genomes of lentiviruses. In particular the invention relates to the AGG motif present in all viral genomes. The AGG motif may have an inhibitory effect on a virus, for example by reducing the levels of, or maintaining low steady-state levels of, viral RNAs in host cells, and inducing and/or maintaining in viral latency. In one aspect, the invention provides vaccines that contain, or are produced from, viral nucleic acids in which the AGG sequences have been mutated. In another aspect, the invention provides methods and compositions for affecting the function of the AGG motif, and methods for identifying other INS sequences in viral genomes.
FILED	Thursday, July 12, 2007
APPL NO	12/373605
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/21 (20130101) A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/525 (20130101) A61K 2039/5252 (20130101) A61K 2039/5254 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2740/16021 (20130101) C12N 2740/16122 (20130101) C12N 2740/16134 (20130101) C12N 2740/16222 (20130101) C12N 2740/16234 (20130101)
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09422537 — Methods for using polypeptides having cellobiohydrolase activity

US 09422537	Morant et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Novozymes Inc. (Davis, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)
INVENTOR(S)	Marc D. Morant (Bagsvaerd, Denmark); Paul Harris (Davis, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellobiohydrolase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
FILED	Monday, October 05, 2015
APPL NO	14/875352
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/2437 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/14 (20130101) C12P 21/00 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 302/01091 (20130101)
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09422581 — Host cells and methods for production of isobutanol

US 09422581	Anthony et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
APPLICANT(S)	BUTAMAX(TM) ADVANCED BIOFUELS LLC (Wilmington, Delaware)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC (Wilmington, Delaware)
INVENTOR(S)	Larry Cameron Anthony (Aston, Pennsylvania); Hongxian He (Wilmington, Delaware); Lixuan Lisa Huang (Hockessin, Delaware); Daniel P. Okeefe (Ridley Park, Pennsylvania); Arthur Leo Kruckeberg (Wilmington, Delaware); Yougen Li (Pennington, New Jersey); Lori Ann Maggio-Hall (Wilmington, Delaware); Jessica McElvain (Wilmington, Delaware); Mark J. Nelson (Newark, Delaware); Ranjan Patnaik (Newark, Delaware); Steven Cary Rothman (Wilmington, Delaware)
ABSTRACT	Provided herein are recombinant yeast host cells and methods for their use for production of isobutanol. Yeast host cells provided comprise an isobutanol biosynthetic pathway and at least one of reduced or eliminated aldehyde dehydrogenase activity, reduced or eliminated acetolactate reductase activity; or a heterologous polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide having ketol-acid reductoisomerase activity.
FILED	Friday, March 15, 2013
APPL NO	13/840649
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 1/38 (20130101) C12N 9/0006 (20130101) C12N 15/81 (20130101) C12N 15/815 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 7/42 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/10 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/52 (20151101)
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09422582 — Host cells and methods for production of isobutanol

US 09422582	Anthony et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
APPLICANT(S)	BUTAMAX(TM) ADVANCED BIOFUELS LLC (Wilmington, Delaware)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC (Wilmington, Delaware)
INVENTOR(S)	Larry Cameron Anthony (Aston, Pennsylvania); Hongxian He (Wilmington, Delaware); Lixuan Lisa Huang (Hockessin, Delaware); Daniel P. Okeefe (Ridley Park, Pennsylvania); Arthur Leo Kruckeberg (Wilmington, Delaware); Yougen Li (Pennington, New Jersey); Lori Ann Maggio-Hall (Wilmington, Delaware); Jessica McElvain (Wilmington, Delaware); Mark J. Nelson (Newark, Delaware); Ranjan Patnaik (Newark, Delaware); Steven Cary Rothman (Wilmington, Delaware)
ABSTRACT	Provided herein are recombinant yeast host cells and methods for their use for production of isobutanol. Yeast host cells provided comprise an isobutanol biosynthetic pathway and at least one of reduced or eliminated aldehyde dehydrogenase activity, reduced or eliminated acetolactate reductase activity; or a heterologous polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide having ketol-acid reductoisomerase activity.
FILED	Friday, March 15, 2013
APPL NO	13/840676
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 1/38 (20130101) C12N 9/0006 (20130101) C12N 15/81 (20130101) C12N 15/815 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 7/42 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/10 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/52 (20151101)
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09422584 — Fatty acid esterification process

US 09422584	Austic et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC)
APPLICANT(S)	Greg Austic (Pittsboro, North Carolina); Rachel Burton (Pittsboro, North Carolina); Xiaohu Fan (Pittsboro, North Carolina)
ASSIGNEE(S)	NOVOZYMES A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark)
INVENTOR(S)	Greg Austic (Pittsboro, North Carolina); Rachel Burton (Pittsboro, North Carolina); Xiaohu Fan (Pittsboro, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	The invention relates to the utilization of fatty acid feedstocks with substantial free fatty acid content in the production of biodiesel by the use of microbial enzymes.
FILED	Monday, February 06, 2012
APPL NO	13/979917
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 21/18 (20130101) C12M 23/58 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/649 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/13 (20130101)
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09422586 — Method for genetic identification of unknown organisms

US 09422586	Colston, Jr. et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (LLNS) at Livermore, CA
APPLICANT(S)	Billy W. Colston, Jr. (San Ramon, California); Joseph P. Fitch (Livermore, California); Benjamin J. Hindson (Livermore, California); J. Chance Carter (Livermore, California); Neil Reginald Beer (Pleasanton, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Billy W. Colston, Jr. (San Ramon, California); Joseph P. Fitch (Livermore, California); Benjamin J. Hindson (Livermore, California); J. Chance Carter (Livermore, California); Neil Reginald Beer (Pleasanton, California)
ABSTRACT	A method of rapid, genome and proteome based identification of unknown pathogenic or non-pathogenic organisms in a complex sample. The entire sample is analyzed by creating millions of emulsion encapsulated microdroplets, each containing a single pathogenic or non-pathogenic organism sized particle and appropriate reagents for amplification. Following amplification, the amplified product is analyzed.
FILED	Friday, June 15, 2007
APPL NO	11/818623
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 3/502784 (20130101) B01L 7/52 (20130101) B01L 2200/10 (20130101) B01L 2200/0673 (20130101) B01L 2300/087 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0864 (20130101) B01L 2300/0867 (20130101) B01L 2400/0487 (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 1/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6888 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/569 (20130101) G01N 33/587 (20130101) G01N 33/5432 (20130101)
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09422867 — Variable volume combustor with center hub fuel staging

US 09422867	Ostebee et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Heath Michael Ostebee (Piedmont, South Carolina); Johnie Franklin McConnaughhay (Greenville, South Carolina); Jason Thurman Stewart (Greer, South Carolina); Christopher Paul Keener (Woodruff, South Carolina)
ABSTRACT	The present application and the resultant patent provide a combustor for use with a gas turbine engine. The combustor may include a number of micro-mixer fuel nozzles and a fuel injection system for providing a flow of fuel to the micro-mixer fuel nozzles. The fuel injection system may include a center hub for providing the flow of fuel therethrough. The center hub may include a first supply circuit for a first micro-mixer fuel nozzle and a second supply circuit for a second micro-mixer fuel nozzle.
FILED	Wednesday, February 06, 2013
APPL NO	13/760099
ART UNIT	3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 7/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Methods or apparatus for combustion using fluid fuel or Solid Fuel Suspended In Air F23C 5/06 (20130101) Generating Combustion Products of High Pressure or High Velocity, e.g Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers F23R 3/10 (20130101) F23R 3/283 (20130101) F23R 3/286 (20130101)
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09423106 — Lighting system with thermal management system having point contact synthetic jets

US 09423106	Arik et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Mehmet Arik (Uskudar Istanbul, Turkey); Stanton Earl Weaver (Northville, New York); Glenn Howard Kuenzler (Beachwood, Ohio); Charles Franklin Wolfe, Jr. (Albany, New York); Rajdeep Sharma (Niskayuna, New York)
ABSTRACT	Lighting systems having unique configurations are provided. For instance, the lighting system may include a light source, a thermal management system and driver electronics, each contained within a housing structure. The light source is configured to provide illumination visible through an opening in the housing structure. The thermal management system includes a plurality of synthetic jets. The synthetic jets are arranged within the lighting system such that they are secured at contact points.
FILED	Friday, November 15, 2013
APPL NO	14/081339
ART UNIT	2875 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Non-electric Light Sources Using Luminescence; Light Sources Using Electrochemiluminescence; Light Sources Using Charges of Combustible Material; Light Sources Using Semiconductor Devices as Light-generating Elements; Light Sources Not Otherwise Provided for F21K 9/13 (20130101) Non-portable Lighting Devices; Systems Thereof; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted for Vehicle Exteriors F21S 8/02 (20130101) Functional Features or Details of Lighting Devices or Systems Thereof; Structural Combinations of Lighting Devices With Other Articles, Not Otherwise Provided for F21V 15/011 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F21V 23/006 (20130101) F21V 29/63 (20150115) F21V 29/507 (20150115) F21V 29/763 (20150115) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21K, F21L, F21S and F21V, Relating to the Form or the Kind of the Light Sources or of the Colour of the Light Emitted F21Y 2101/02 (20130101) F21Y 2105/001 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49826 (20150115)
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09423135 — Combustor having mixing tube bundle with baffle arrangement for directing fuel

US 09423135	Hughes et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael John Hughes (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Johnie Franklin McConnaughhay (Greenville, South Carolina)
ABSTRACT	A combustor includes a tube bundle that extends radially across at least a portion of the combustor. The tube bundle includes an upstream surface axially separated from a downstream surface, and a plurality of tubes extend from the upstream surface through the downstream surface to provide fluid communication through the tube bundle. A barrier extends radially inside the tube bundle between the upstream and downstream surfaces, and a baffle extends axially inside the tube bundle between the upstream surface and the barrier.
FILED	Thursday, November 21, 2013
APPL NO	14/085887
ART UNIT	3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Burners F23D 14/64 (20130101) F23D 14/70 (20130101) Generating Combustion Products of High Pressure or High Velocity, e.g Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers F23R 3/10 (20130101) F23R 3/286 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09423306 — Method and apparatus for wavefront sensing

US 09423306	Bahk
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	RAM Photonics, LLC (San Diego, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	RAM PHOTONICS, LLC (San Diego, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Seung-Whan Bahk (Rochester, New York)
ABSTRACT	A method of measuring characteristics of a wavefront of an incident beam includes obtaining an interferogram associated with the incident beam passing through a transmission mask and Fourier transforming the interferogram to provide a frequency domain interferogram. The method also includes selecting a subset of harmonics from the frequency domain interferogram, individually inverse Fourier transforming each of the subset of harmonics to provide a set of spatial domain harmonics, and extracting a phase profile from each of the set of spatial domain harmonics. The method further includes removing phase discontinuities in the phase profile, rotating the phase profile, and reconstructing a phase front of the wavefront of the incident beam.
FILED	Wednesday, December 31, 2014
APPL NO	14/587392
ART UNIT	2886 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 9/02 (20130101) Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 9/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/706 (20130101)
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09423307 — Method and apparatus for determining wave characteristics using interaction with a known wave

US 09423307	Kane
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC)
APPLICANT(S)	Daniel James Kane (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Mesa Photonics, LLC (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
INVENTOR(S)	Daniel James Kane (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
ABSTRACT	The described system and method uses data from interaction between a known wave and an unknown wave to analyze or characterize the unknown wave using cross correlation frequency resolved optical gating (X-FROG). The system may obtain X-FROG trace data from the interaction between the two waves. The system analyzes the X-FROG trace data using a modified principal component generalized projection method strategy to invert the X-FROG trace data, analyzing or characterizing the unknown wave. Results of the analysis can be provided in real time and displayed.
FILED	Wednesday, February 20, 2013
APPL NO	13/771732
ART UNIT	2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O
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 11/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09424195 — Dynamic remapping of cache lines

US 09424195	Kalamatianos et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (LLNS) at Livermore, CA
APPLICANT(S)	Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. (Sunnyvale, California)
INVENTOR(S)	John Kalamatianos (Arlington, Massachusetts); Johnsy Kanjirapallil John (Acton, Massachusetts); Phillip E. Nevius (Arlington, Massachusetts); Robert G. Gelinas (Needham, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A method of managing cache memory includes accessing a cache memory at a primary index that corresponds to an address specified in an access request. A determination is made that accessing the cache memory at the primary index does not result in a cache hit on a cache line with an error-free status. In response to this determination, the primary index is mapped to a secondary index and data for the address is written to a cache line at the secondary index.
FILED	Tuesday, April 15, 2014
APPL NO	14/253785
ART UNIT	2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/1064 (20130101) G06F 12/121 (20130101) G06F 12/0802 (20130101) G06F 12/0811 (20130101) G06F 12/0864 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 12/0873 (20130101) G06F 12/0888 (20130101) G06F 2212/28 (20130101) G06F 2212/69 (20130101) G06F 2212/283 (20130101) G06F 2212/284 (20130101) G06F 2212/403 (20130101) G06F 2212/1032 (20130101) Static Stores G11C 15/00 (20130101) G11C 29/44 (20130101) G11C 29/4401 (20130101) G11C 2029/0409 (20130101)
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09424522 — Information processing systems, reasoning modules, and reasoning system design methods

US 09424522	Hohimer et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Battelle Memorial Institute (BMI) at Richland, WA
APPLICANT(S)	Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Ryan E. Hohimer (West Richland, Washington); Frank L. Greitzer (Richland, Washington); Shawn D. Hampton (Kennewick, Washington)
ABSTRACT	Information processing systems, reasoning modules, and reasoning system design methods are described. According to one aspect, an information processing system includes working memory comprising a semantic graph which comprises a plurality of abstractions, wherein the abstractions individually include an individual which is defined according to an ontology and a reasoning system comprising a plurality of reasoning modules which are configured to process different abstractions of the semantic graph, wherein a first of the reasoning modules is configured to process a plurality of abstractions which include individuals of a first classification type of the ontology and a second of the reasoning modules is configured to process a plurality of abstractions which include individuals of a second classification type of the ontology, wherein the first and second classification types are different.
FILED	Monday, August 17, 2015
APPL NO	14/828289
ART UNIT	2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling
CURRENT CPC	Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 5/02 (20130101) G06N 5/046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09424639 — Method of assessing heterogeneity in images

US 09424639	Jacob et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Richard E. Jacob (Kennewick, Washington); James P. Carson (Austin, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Richland, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Richard E. Jacob (Kennewick, Washington); James P. Carson (Austin, Texas)
ABSTRACT	A method of assessing heterogeneity in images is disclosed. 3D images of an object are acquired. The acquired images may be filtered and masked. Iterative decomposition is performed on the masked images to obtain image subdivisions that are relatively homogeneous. Comparative analysis, such as variogram analysis or correlogram analysis, is performed of the decomposed images to determine spatial relationships between regions of the images that are relatively homogeneous.
FILED	Tuesday, January 28, 2014
APPL NO	14/166601
ART UNIT	2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation
CURRENT CPC	Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2207/20016 (20130101) G06T 2207/30061 (20130101)
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09424937 — Method for programming a flash memory

US 09424937	Brosky et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Alexander R. Brosky (Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania); William N. Locke (Finleyville, Pennsylvania); Conrado M. Maher (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	A method of programming a flash memory is described. The method includes partitioning a flash memory into a first group having a first level of write-protection, a second group having a second level of write-protection, and a third group having a third level of write-protection. The write-protection of the second and third groups is disabled using an installation adapter. The third group is programmed using a Software Installation Device.
FILED	Monday, February 24, 2014
APPL NO	14/187425
ART UNIT	2184 — Computer Architecture and I/O
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/0601 (20130101) G06F 13/122 (20130101) G06F 13/385 (20130101) Static Stores G11C 16/10 (20130101) G11C 16/22 (20130101) G11C 16/105 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09425001 — Method of making super capacitor with fibers

US 09425001	Farmer et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (LLNS) at Livermore, CA
APPLICANT(S)	LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC (Livermore, California); James Kaschmitter (Pleasanton, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Joseph Collin Farmer (Tracy, California); James Kaschmitter (Pleasanton, California)
ABSTRACT	An electrical cell apparatus includes a first current collector made of a multiplicity of fibers, a second current collector spaced from the first current collector; and a separator disposed between the first current collector and the second current collector. The fibers are contained in a foam.
FILED	Friday, January 16, 2015
APPL NO	14/598974
ART UNIT	1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
CURRENT CPC	Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 18/1262 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 11/28 (20130101) H01G 11/36 (20130101) H01G 11/52 (20130101) H01G 11/66 (20130101) H01G 11/68 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/13 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/7022 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/42 (20150115) Y10T 29/417 (20150115)
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09425019 — Integrated field emission array for ion desorption

US 09425019	Resnick et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (NTESS) at Albuquerque, NM
APPLICANT(S)	Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Christopher Holland (San Jose, California); David Chichester (Idaho Falls, Idaho)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
INVENTOR(S)	Paul J. Resnick (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Kristin L. Hertz (Livermore, California); Christopher Holland (San Jose, California); David Chichester (Idaho Falls, Idaho)
ABSTRACT	An integrated field emission array for ion desorption includes an electrically conductive substrate; a dielectric layer lying over the electrically conductive substrate comprising a plurality of laterally separated cavities extending through the dielectric layer; a like plurality of conically-shaped emitter tips on posts, each emitter tip/post disposed concentrically within a laterally separated cavity and electrically contacting the substrate; and a gate electrode structure lying over the dielectric layer, including a like plurality of circular gate apertures, each gate aperture disposed concentrically above an emitter tip/post to provide a like plurality of annular gate electrodes and wherein the lower edge of each annular gate electrode proximate the like emitter tip/post is rounded. Also disclosed herein are methods for fabricating an integrated field emission array.
FILED	Friday, March 06, 2015
APPL NO	14/640655
ART UNIT	2894 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 9/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/31111 (20130101)
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09425249 — Coincident site lattice-matched growth of semiconductors on substrates using compliant buffer layers

US 09425249	Norman
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (ASE) at Golden, CO
APPLICANT(S)	Andrew Norman (Evergreen, Colorado)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Andrew Norman (Evergreen, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	A method of producing semiconductor materials and devices that incorporate the semiconductor materials are provided. In particular, a method is provided of producing a semiconductor material, such as a III-V semiconductor, on a silicon substrate using a compliant buffer layer, and devices such as photovoltaic cells that incorporate the semiconductor materials. The compliant buffer material and semiconductor materials may be deposited using coincident site lattice-matching epitaxy, resulting in a close degree of lattice matching between the substrate material and deposited material for a wide variety of material compositions. The coincident site lattice matching epitaxial process, as well as the use of a ductile buffer material, reduce the internal stresses and associated crystal defects within the deposited semiconductor materials fabricated using the disclosed method. As a result, the semiconductor devices provided herein possess enhanced performance characteristics due to a relatively low density of crystal defects.
FILED	Wednesday, December 01, 2010
APPL NO	13/990743
ART UNIT	1758 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0242 (20130101) H01L 21/02365 (20130101) H01L 21/02381 (20130101) H01L 21/02395 (20130101) H01L 21/02439 (20130101) H01L 21/02491 (20130101) H01L 21/02502 (20130101) H01L 21/02521 (20130101) H01L 29/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/036 (20130101) H01L 31/056 (20141201) H01L 31/076 (20130101) H01L 31/0725 (20130101) H01L 31/1852 (20130101) H01L 33/007 (20130101) H01L 33/12 (20130101) H01L 33/26 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/52 (20130101) Y02E 10/544 (20130101) Y02E 10/548 (20130101)
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09425413 — Conjugated side-strapped phthalocyanines and methods for producing and using the same

US 09425413	McGrath et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC)
APPLICANT(S)	THE ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Tucson, Arizona)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona)
INVENTOR(S)	Dominic V. McGrath (Tucson, Arizona); Neal R. Armstrong (Tucson, Arizona)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides conjugated side-strapped phthalocyanines and methods for producing and using the same. In one particular embodiment, the conjugated side-strapped phthalocyanine is of the formula: where each of the substituents are defined herein.
FILED	Saturday, March 28, 2015
APPL NO	14/672124
ART UNIT	1625 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 487/22 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0078 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/4253 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101)
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09425461 — Rejuvenation of automotive fuel cells

US 09425461	Kim et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Triad National Security, LLC (TRIAD) at Los Alamos, NM
APPLICANT(S)	Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico)
ASSIGNEE(S)	LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico)
INVENTOR(S)	Yu Seung Kim (Los Alamos, New Mexico); David A. Langlois (Los Alamos, New Mexico)
ABSTRACT	A process for rejuvenating fuel cells has been demonstrated to improve the performance of polymer exchange membrane fuel cells with platinum/ionomer electrodes. The process involves dehydrating a fuel cell and exposing at least the cathode of the fuel cell to dry gas (nitrogen, for example) at a temperature higher than the operating temperature of the fuel cell. The process may be used to prolong the operating lifetime of an automotive fuel cell.
FILED	Thursday, April 17, 2014
APPL NO	14/255847
ART UNIT	1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 2/00 (20130101) H01M 4/92 (20130101) H01M 4/8626 (20130101) H01M 4/8673 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/04223 (20130101) H01M 8/04238 (20130101) H01M 2008/1095 (20130101)
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09426883 — Low profile, highly configurable, current sharing paralleled wide band gap power device power module

US 09426883	McPherson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
APPLICANT(S)	Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc. (Fayetteville, Arkansas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Cree Fayetteville, Inc. (Fayetteville, Arkansas)
INVENTOR(S)	Brice McPherson (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Peter D. Killeen (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Alex Lostetter (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Robert Shaw (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Brandon Passmore (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Jared Hornberger (Springdale, Arkansas); Tony M. Berry (Springdale, Arkansas)
ABSTRACT	A power module with multiple equalized parallel power paths supporting multiple parallel bare die power devices constructed with low inductance equalized current paths for even current sharing and clean switching events. Wide low profile power contacts provide low inductance, short current paths, and large conductor cross section area provides for massive current carrying. An internal gate & source kelvin interconnection substrate is provided with individual ballast resistors and simple bolted construction. Gate drive connectors are provided on either left or right size of the module. The module is configurable as half bridge, full bridge, common source, and common drain topologies.
FILED	Friday, January 30, 2015
APPL NO	14/609629
ART UNIT	2847 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/15 (20130101) H01L 23/049 (20130101) H01L 23/3735 (20130101) H01L 23/49861 (20130101) H01L 25/07 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 1/0296 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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National Science Foundation (NSF)

09420790 — Molecules that induce disease resistance and improve growth in plants

US 09420790	Eulgem et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) Division of Integrative Organismal Biology (IOB) Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) Division of Graduate Education (DGE)
APPLICANT(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Thomas Eulgem (Riverside, California); Melinda Rodriguez-Salus (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Colleen M. Knoth (Costa Mesa, California)
ABSTRACT	Described herein are methods and compositions for enhancing pathogen immunity in plants and improving plant growth.
FILED	Tuesday, April 14, 2015
APPL NO	14/686462
ART UNIT	1616 — 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 43/78 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 277/06 (20130101) C07D 277/56 (20130101)
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09421194 — Lung targeting dual drug delivery system

US 09421194	Prud'homme et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Chemical and Transport Systems (CTS)
APPLICANT(S)	Robert K. Prud'homme (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Patrick J. Sinko (Annandale, New Jersey); Howard A. Stone (Princeton, New Jersey); Nathalie M. Pinkerton (Ottawa Hills, Ohio); Lei Shi (Shanghai, China PRC); Jiandi Wan (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Sherif Ibrahim (Old Bridge, New Jersey); Dayuan Gao (East Brunswick, New Jersey)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey); The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert K. Prud'homme (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Patrick J. Sinko (Annandale, New Jersey); Howard A. Stone (Princeton, New Jersey); Nathalie M. Pinkerton (Ottawa Hills, Ohio); Lei Shi (Shanghai, China PRC); Jiandi Wan (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Sherif Ibrahim (Old Bridge, New Jersey); Dayuan Gao (East Brunswick, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	The American Cancer Society estimated that in 2009, 1,479,350 new cancer cases would be diagnosed in the United States of which 219,440 would be lung and bronchus related. The standard treatments for NSCLC include surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, laser and photodynamic therapy, all with various success rates depending on the stage of the cancer. National Cancer Institute assesses, however, that results of standard treatment are generally poor with only a 15 percent 5-year survival rate for combined cancer stages. Challenges facing the current chemotherapy drugs include excessive toxicity to healthy tissues and limited ability to prevent metastases. A dual drug delivery system described herein selectively targets the lung to deliver anti-cancer drugs and inhibit the formation of metastases.
FILED	Tuesday, April 05, 2011
APPL NO	13/080371
ART UNIT	1611 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 9/1635 (20130101) A61K 9/1641 (20130101) A61K 9/1647 (20130101) A61K 31/437 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09421276 — Clickable polyoxetane carrier for drug delivery

US 09421276	Yang et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems (CBET) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)	VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY (Richmond, Virginia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY (Richmond, Virginia)
INVENTOR(S)	Hu Yang (Mechancsville, Virginia); Olga Zolotarskaya (Richmond, Virginia); Kenneth J. Wynne (Midlothian, Virginia); Kristoffer Valerie (Midlothian, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	A polymer is provided, comprising a subunit having the formula: wherein A, B, C, D, a, b, c, d, and p are defined herein. Compositions, methods of making, and methods of use are provided.
FILED	Tuesday, September 03, 2013
APPL NO	14/425316
ART UNIT	1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/4745 (20130101) A61K 47/48215 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 65/18 (20130101) C08G 65/333 (20130101) C08G 65/33396 (20130101) C08G 2650/30 (20130101) C08G 2650/60 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 2205/05 (20130101)
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09421369 — Circuit architecture for high channel count high-voltage neural stimulator

US 09421369	Liu et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Wentai Liu (Los Angeles, California); Kuanfu Chen (Los Angeles, California); Yi-Kai Lo (Los Angeles, California)
ABSTRACT	A high channel count high-voltage neural stimulator provides an external circuit which communicates power and data to a neural stimulator implant circuit. Data from the external device, such as image data from a camera in an epiretinal application, are communicated to the implant. Multiple pixels circuits, within each implant demultiplex the digital signals, then output separate nerve stimulator outputs from multiple outputs, each configured for connection to a nerve, by sharing a single level conversion driver circuit. In at least one example, the implant circuits can be clustered in a master-slave configuration to increase the number of available neural stimulation outputs.
FILED	Tuesday, August 11, 2015
APPL NO	14/823869
ART UNIT	3766 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion
CURRENT CPC	Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0543 (20130101) A61N 1/3787 (20130101) A61N 1/36046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/36067 (20130101) A61N 1/36082 (20130101) A61N 1/36153 (20130101) A61N 1/37223 (20130101)
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09421524 — Methods for preparing and using metal and/or metal oxide porous materials

US 09421524	Bakker et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE)
APPLICANT(S)	Board of Trustees of The University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Alabama)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Alabama)
INVENTOR(S)	Martin Bakker (Tuscaloosa, Alabama); Franchessa Maddox Sayler (Tuscaloosa, Alabama); Amy Grano (Tuscaloosa, Alabama); Jan-Henrik Smått (Tuscaloosa, Alabama)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed are methods for producing carbon, metal and/or metal oxide porous materials that have precisely controlled structures on the nanometer and micrometer scales. The methods involve the single or repeated infiltration of porous templates with metal salts at controlled temperatures, the controlled drying and decomposition of the metal salts under reducing conditions, and optionally the removal of the template. The carbon porous materials are involve the infiltration of a carbon precursor into a porous template, followed by polymerization and pyrolysis. These porous materials have utility in separations, catalysis, among others.
FILED	Friday, October 04, 2013
APPL NO	14/046062
ART UNIT	1782 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material
CURRENT CPC	Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/06 (20130101) B01J 23/72 (20130101) B01J 23/75 (20130101) B01J 23/755 (20130101) B01J 23/8926 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 3/1137 (20130101) B22F 3/1137 (20130101) B22F 2201/01 (20130101) B22F 2201/013 (20130101) B22F 2999/00 (20130101) B22F 2999/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/00 (20130101) Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 51/04 (20130101) C01G 53/04 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2004/03 (20130101) C01P 2006/12 (20130101) Alloys C22C 1/08 (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 18/31 (20130101) C23C 18/1648 (20130101) C23C 18/1651 (20130101) C23C 18/1653 (20130101) C23C 18/1657 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/13 (20150115) Y10T 428/24997 (20150401)
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09422237 — Covalently patterned graphene surfaces by a force accelerated cycloaddition reaction

US 09422237	Braunschweig et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)	New York University (New York, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	New York University (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Adam B. Braunschweig (Miami, Florida); Shudan Bian (Coral Gables, Florida)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates generally to molecular printing techniques for use in sensors, arrays, and integrated optics and electronics. The invention features described give rise to the ability to immobilize biological probes by force-induced patterning, while still maintaining the conductivity of the graphene substrate. Most particularly, the present invention relates to covalent patterning of graphene surface using a force-accelerated reaction.
FILED	Thursday, June 06, 2013
APPL NO	14/417733
ART UNIT	1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
CURRENT CPC	Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 1/283 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0484 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 17/02 (20130101)
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09422575 — Polydnavirus delivery constructs

US 09422575	Strand
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) Department of Agriculture (USDA)
APPLICANT(S)	Michael Strand (Athens, Georgia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael Strand (Athens, Georgia)
ABSTRACT	Provided herein are methods of producing a genetically modified cell by introducing a polydnavirus delivery construct to a target cell. The polydnavirus delivery construct can comprise an exogenous nucleic acid to form a genetically modified cell comprising the exogenous nucleic acid. Also provided are polydnavirus delivery constructs comprising an exogenous nucleic acid, as well as polydnavirus virions and genetically modified cells comprising the same. Further provided are in vitro methods of identifying a transformed cell. The methods comprise introducing a vector comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a glc polypeptide to an adherent cell and cultivating the cell under conditions that allow for the expression of the glc polypeptide. Expression of the glc polypeptide results in a transformed cell that is identified by a loss of adherency.
FILED	Monday, August 27, 2012
APPL NO	14/241135
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/86 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2710/00011 (20130101) C12N 2710/00043 (20130101)
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09423445 — Method of locating a fault in a power distribution system comprising at least one solar panel distributed resource

US 09423445	Tatcho et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC)
APPLICANT(S)	The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Passinam Tatcho (Tallahassee, Florida); Mischa Steurer (Crawfordville, Florida); Hui Li (Tallahassee, Florida)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides a method to ensure that distributed resources of a power distribution system remain connected to the circuitry of the power distribution system when a fault occurs at a distributed resource node to assist in identifying the location of the fault by continuing to inject current from the distributed resources into the distribution system, wherein at least one of the distributed resources is a solar panel.
FILED	Tuesday, December 08, 2015
APPL NO	14/962465
ART UNIT	2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 31/00 (20130101) G01R 31/08 (20130101) G01R 31/086 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 31/088 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 1/00 (20130101) H02J 2001/002 (20130101) H02J 2001/004 (20130101) H02J 2001/006 (20130101) H02J 2001/008 (20130101)
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09424084 — Systems, methods, and media for online server workload management

US 09424084	Gupta et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	Sandeep Gupta (Phoenix, Arizona); Zahra Abbasi (Tempe, Arizona)
ASSIGNEE(S)
INVENTOR(S)	Sandeep Gupta (Phoenix, Arizona); Zahra Abbasi (Tempe, Arizona)
ABSTRACT	Methods, using a hardware processor, for online server workload management are provided, comprising: receiving information regarding client device requests; determining, using a hardware processor, a workload distribution for the requests based on electricity cost and carbon footprint of one or more data centers using Lyapunov optimization; sending the workload distribution to the one or more data centers; and causing servers in the one or more data center to be active or inactive based on the workload distribution. Systems are provided, comprising at least one hardware processor configured to: receive information regarding client device requests; determine a workload distribution for the requests based on electricity cost and carbon footprint of one or more data centers using Lyapunov optimization; send the workload distribution to the one or more data centers; and cause servers in the one or more data center to be active or inactive based on the workload distribution.
FILED	Wednesday, May 20, 2015
APPL NO	14/717908
ART UNIT	2196 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/48 (20130101) G06F 9/50 (20130101) G06F 9/4881 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 9/4893 (20130101) G06F 9/5027 (20130101) G06F 9/5094 (20130101)
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09424549 — System and method for facilitating user-generated content relating to social networks

US 09424549	Jones et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	Quentin John Jones (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Stephen Ricken (Cranford, New Jersey); Nathaniel Douglas Laws (Whippany, New Jersey)
ASSIGNEE(S)	New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, New Jersey)
INVENTOR(S)	Quentin John Jones (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Stephen Ricken (Cranford, New Jersey); Nathaniel Douglas Laws (Whippany, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	A system and method for facilitating user-generated content relating to social networks are provided. The system provides an online environment which poses questions to users, and which allows the users to answer such questions by identifying appropriate contacts of the user. The system automatically identifies the user's contacts by consulting one or more electronic accounts of the user on one or more social networking sites/services, and/or one or more e-mail accounts. The user can respond to questions posed by clicking on appropriate contacts, dragging them, and dropping them in an answer area in the online environment. The user can manage his/her contacts by creating one or more groups and/or tags associated with each contact. The grouped/tagged contacts can be imported into a contact management system, and can be used by researchers to conduct social network visualizations or to achieve other research objectives.
FILED	Friday, April 09, 2010
APPL NO	12/757515
ART UNIT	2171 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing
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 10/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09424565 — System and method for preparing and delivering informational content

US 09424565	Kortemeyer et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
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)	Gerd Kortemeyer (East Lansing, Michigan); Wolfgang Bauer (East Lansing, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	At least one content publishing server having a memory storing a map data structure configured by a content author which defines relationships among plural resources and thereby define an informational item of higher granularity content. Each of the plural resources are associated with a first electronic file linked to said map data structure and configured to store information about the usage of the associated resource. Higher granularity content is associated with a second electronic file linked to said map data structure configured to store information about the usage of the higher granularity content. The server which delivers the informational item to a computer gathers feedback usage information reflecting how the higher granularity content and individual ones of the plural resources are used by users. The server updates the electronic files in accordance with the feedback usage information.
FILED	Monday, February 25, 2013
APPL NO	13/775862
ART UNIT	3685 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation
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 20/1235 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Educational or Demonstration Appliances; Appliances for Teaching, or Communicating With, the Blind, Deaf or Mute; Models; Planetaria; Globes; Maps; Diagrams G09B 7/00 (20130101)
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09424652 — Adaptive background estimation

US 09424652	Principe et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	Jose Carlos Principe (Gainesville, Florida); Goktug Tankut Cinar (Gainesville, Florida)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Jose Carlos Principe (Gainesville, Florida); Goktug Tankut Cinar (Gainesville, Florida)
ABSTRACT	Various methods and systems are provided for adaptive background estimation. In one embodiment, among others, a signal processing device includes at least one processing unit and a memory storing a background estimation system executable in the at least one processing unit. The background estimation system, when executed, causes the signal processing device to separate foreground objects from at least one image frame in a sequence of image frames based at least in part upon a correntropy cost function. In another embodiment, a method includes obtaining an image frame from a sequence of image frames; performing correntropy filtering on the image frame to separate foreground objects from the image frame; and providing the foreground objects for rendering. The correntropy filtering may adapt to compensate for diffusion effects in the image frame.
FILED	Tuesday, June 12, 2012
APPL NO	14/130129
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) Original (OR) Class G06T 7/0087 (20130101) G06T 2207/20144 (20130101)
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09424952 — Circuits, methods, and media for detecting and countering aging degradation in memory cells

US 09424952	Seok et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	Mingoo Seok (New York, New York); Peter Kinget (Summit, New Jersey); Teng Yang (New York, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Mingoo Seok (New York, New York); Peter Kinget (Summit, New Jersey); Teng Yang (New York, New York)
ABSTRACT	Circuits for estimating threshold voltages of transistors in memory device bitcells are provided. The circuits use a multiplexer, a sensor switch network, a power switch network, and an NMOS device configured as a sensor to couple a desired one the transistors in the bitcells and the NMOS device to each other, to a test voltage, and to ground. A sensor voltage node can then be measured, and based on the resulting measurement, a threshold voltage for the transistor estimate.
FILED	Monday, February 08, 2016
APPL NO	15/018834
ART UNIT	2824 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Static Stores G11C 11/417 (20130101) G11C 29/50004 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G11C 29/50012 (20130101) G11C 29/50016 (20130101)
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09425393 — Non-volatile resistance-switching thin film devices

US 09425393	Chen et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	I-Wei Chen (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania); Xiang Yang (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed herein are resistive switching devices having, e.g., an amorphous layer comprised of an insulating aluminum-based or silicon-based material and a conducting material. The amorphous layer may be disposed between two or more electrodes and be capable of switching between at least two resistance states. Circuits and memory devices including resistive switching devices are also disclosed, and a composition of matter involving an insulating aluminum-based or an silicon-based material and a conducting material. Also disclosed herein are methods for switching the resistance of an amorphous material.
FILED	Friday, October 03, 2014
APPL NO	14/506177
ART UNIT	2815 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Static Stores G11C 11/5685 (20130101) G11C 13/0007 (20130101) G11C 2213/15 (20130101) G11C 2213/33 (20130101) G11C 2213/34 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 45/085 (20130101) H01L 45/145 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 45/1266 (20130101) H01L 45/1625 (20130101)
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09425406 — Gas-phase functionalization of surfaces of microelectronic structures

US 09425406	Gordon et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Chemical and Transport Systems (CTS)
APPLICANT(S)	Roy G. Gordon (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Damon B. Farmer (White Planes, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Roy G. Gordon (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Damon B. Farmer (White Planes, New York)
ABSTRACT	There are provided methods for functionalizing a planar surface of a microelectronic structure, by exposing the surface to at least one vapor including at least one functionalization species, such as NO₂or CH₃ONO, that non-covalently bonds to the surface while providing a functionalization layer of chemically functional groups, to produce a functionalized surface. The functionalized surface is exposed to at least one vapor stabilization species that reacts with the functionalization layer to form a stabilization layer that stabilizes the functionalization layer against desorption from the planar microelectronic surface while providing chemically functional groups. The stabilized surface is exposed to at least one material layer precursor species that deposits a material layer on the stabilized planar microelectronic surface. The stabilized planar microelectronic surface can be annealed at a peak annealing temperature that is less than about 700° C.
FILED	Friday, January 06, 2012
APPL NO	13/344738
ART UNIT	1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0273 (20130101) C01B 2202/02 (20130101) Compounds of the Metals Beryllium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium, Thorium, or of the Rare-earth Metals C01F 7/304 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2004/13 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0049 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/057 (20130101) H01L 51/0595 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/89 (20130101) Y10S 977/734 (20130101) Y10S 977/755 (20130101) Y10S 977/842 (20130101) Y10S 977/847 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2918 (20150115)
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09425420 — Active materials for electro-optic devices and electro-optic devices

US 09425420	Yang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	Yang Yang (Los Angeles, California); Letian Dou (Los Angeles, California); Jing-Bi You (Los Angeles, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Yang Yang (Los Angeles, California); Letian Dou (Los Angeles, California); Jing-Bi You (Los Angeles, California)
ABSTRACT	Tandem electro-optic devices and active materials for electro-optic devices are disclosed. Tandem devices include p-type and n-type layers between the active layers, which are doped to achieve carrier tunneling. Low bandgap conjugated polymers are also disclosed.
FILED	Thursday, March 29, 2012
APPL NO	14/009033
ART UNIT	1754 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/302 (20130101) H01L 51/002 (20130101) H01L 51/0036 (20130101) H01L 51/441 (20130101) H01L 51/4246 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/4253 (20130101)
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Department of Agriculture (USDA)

09422575 — Polydnavirus delivery constructs

US 09422575	Strand
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) Department of Agriculture (USDA)
APPLICANT(S)	Michael Strand (Athens, Georgia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael Strand (Athens, Georgia)
ABSTRACT	Provided herein are methods of producing a genetically modified cell by introducing a polydnavirus delivery construct to a target cell. The polydnavirus delivery construct can comprise an exogenous nucleic acid to form a genetically modified cell comprising the exogenous nucleic acid. Also provided are polydnavirus delivery constructs comprising an exogenous nucleic acid, as well as polydnavirus virions and genetically modified cells comprising the same. Further provided are in vitro methods of identifying a transformed cell. The methods comprise introducing a vector comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a glc polypeptide to an adherent cell and cultivating the cell under conditions that allow for the expression of the glc polypeptide. Expression of the glc polypeptide results in a transformed cell that is identified by a loss of adherency.
FILED	Monday, August 27, 2012
APPL NO	14/241135
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/86 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2710/00011 (20130101) C12N 2710/00043 (20130101)
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09422608 — Methods and compositions for improved cattle longevity and milk production

US 09422608	Khatib et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
APPLICANT(S)	WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin)
ASSIGNEE(S)	WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Hasan Khatib (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); Wen Huang (Madison, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	A single nucleotide polymorphic site at position 10793 of the bovine POU1F1 gene is associated with improved longevity and milk product traits. Disclosed are nucleic acid molecules, kits, methods of genotyping and marker assisted bovine breeding methods.
FILED	Monday, September 30, 2013
APPL NO	14/040757
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	Veterinary Instruments, Implements, Tools, or Methods A61D 19/02 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6876 (20130101) C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) C12Q 1/6888 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) C12Q 2600/172 (20130101)
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09424495 — Digital food imaging analysis: system and method to analyze food consumption

US 09424495	Trevino
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
APPLICANT(S)	Social and Health Research Center (San Antonio, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)
INVENTOR(S)	Roberto Trevino (San Antonio, Texas)
ABSTRACT	A method for identifying and analyzing amounts and nutritional values of food consumption, utilizing digital image processing and linked nutritional information. A recipe generator is utilized to provide a component analysis of food preparations based on identification of subcomponents.
FILED	Thursday, April 16, 2015
APPL NO	14/687917
ART UNIT	2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation
CURRENT CPC	Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/486 (20130101) A61B 5/4866 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/78 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/6267 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/408 (20130101) G06T 2207/30128 (20130101)
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

09423426 — Sampling and control circuit board for an inertial measurement unit

US 09423426	Chelmins et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)	David T Chelmins (Olmsted Falls, Ohio); Richard T. Powis, Jr. (Parma, Ohio); Obed Sands (Avon Lake, Ohio)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	David T Chelmins (Olmsted Falls, Ohio); Richard T. Powis, Jr. (Parma, Ohio); Obed Sands (Avon Lake, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	A circuit board that serves as a control and sampling interface to an inertial measurement unit (“IMU”) is provided. The circuit board is also configured to interface with a local oscillator and an external trigger pulse. The circuit board is further configured to receive the external trigger pulse from an external source that time aligns the local oscillator and initiates sampling of the inertial measurement device for data at precise time intervals based on pulses from the local oscillator. The sampled data may be synchronized by the circuit board with other sensors of a navigation system via the trigger pulse.
FILED	Friday, August 03, 2012
APPL NO	13/565890
ART UNIT	2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 13/0254 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09423799 — Optimum strategies for selecting descent flight-path angles

US 09423799	Wu et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Minghong G. Wu (Sunnyvale, California); Steven M. Green (, None)
ABSTRACT	An information processing system and method for adaptively selecting an aircraft descent flight path for an aircraft, are provided. The system receives flight adaptation parameters, including aircraft flight descent time period, aircraft flight descent airspace region, and aircraft flight descent flyability constraints. The system queries a plurality of flight data sources and retrieves flight information including any of winds and temperatures aloft data, airspace/navigation constraints, airspace traffic demand, and airspace arrival delay model. The system calculates a set of candidate descent profiles, each defined by at least one of a flight path angle and a descent rate, and each including an aggregated total fuel consumption value for the aircraft following a calculated trajectory, and a flyability constraints metric for the calculated trajectory. The system selects a best candidate descent profile having the least fuel consumption value while the flyability constraints metric remains within aircraft flight descent flyability constraints.
FILED	Monday, August 11, 2014
APPL NO	14/456917
ART UNIT	3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
CURRENT CPC	Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 1/042 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G05D 1/0607 (20130101) Traffic Control Systems G08G 5/0004 (20130101) G08G 5/0047 (20130101)
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09424654 — High speed edge detection

US 09424654	Prokop
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Norman F Prokop (South Euclid, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	Analog circuits for detecting edges in pixel arrays are disclosed. A comparator may be configured to receive an all pass signal and a low pass signal for a pixel intensity in an array of pixels. A latch may be configured to receive a counter signal and a latching signal from the comparator. The comparator may be configured to send the latching signal to the latch when the all pass signal is below the low pass signal minus an offset. The latch may be configured to hold a last negative edge location when the latching signal is received from the comparator.
FILED	Friday, July 31, 2015
APPL NO	14/814863
ART UNIT	2422 — Cable and Television
CURRENT CPC	Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0085 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2200/28 (20130101)
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Small Business Administration (SBA)

09423401 — Compositions and methods for detecting cancer

US 09423401	Varki et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Sialix, Inc. (Newton, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Siamab Therapeutics, Inc. (Newton, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Ajit Varki (La Jolla, California); Richard B. Schwab (La Jolla, California); Vered Padler-Karavani (San Diego, California); Nancy Hurtado-Ziola (La Jolla, California)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides sialylated glycans and antibodies that specifically bind to them. The invention's compositions and methods for using them are useful for early detection and diagnosis of cancer.
FILED	Monday, December 23, 2013
APPL NO	14/138879
ART UNIT	1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Peptides C07K 16/3076 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5748 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/57484 (20130101) G01N 2400/00 (20130101)
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09425516 — Compact dual band GNSS antenna design

US 09425516	Chen et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)	The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio)
ASSIGNEE(S)
INVENTOR(S)	Chi-Chih Chen (Dublin, Ohio); Ming Chen (Columbus, Ohio); Chia-wei Liu (Fremont, California)
ABSTRACT	An antenna structure comprising a dielectric substrate layer and a patch layer laminated on top of the dielectric substrate layer, wherein the antenna structure is adapted to provide dual band coverage by combining a patch mode and a slot mode configuration.
FILED	Monday, July 08, 2013
APPL NO	13/936955
ART UNIT	2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 5/364 (20150115) H01Q 9/0435 (20130101) H01Q 9/0457 (20130101) H01Q 13/10 (20130101) H01Q 21/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09425799 — Reconfigurable logic gates using chaotic dynamics

US 09425799	Ditto et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR)
APPLICANT(S)	University of Hawaii (Honolulu, Hawaii)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Hawaii (Honolulu, Hawaii)
INVENTOR(S)	William Ditto (Kaneohe, Hawaii); Behnam Kia (Honolulu, Hawaii)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides apparatuses and methods for chaos computing. For example, a chaos-based logic block comprises an encoding circuit block, at least one chaotic circuit block, a bias voltage generating circuit block, and a threshold circuit block. The encoding circuit block converts a plurality of digital inputs to an analog output. The plurality of digital inputs may comprise at least one data input and at least one control input. At least one chaotic circuit block is configured to iterate converting an input signal to an output signal by feeding the output signal to at least one chaotic circuit as the input signal at each iteration. The bias voltage generating circuit block converts a plurality of binary control inputs to a bias voltage. The threshold circuit block compares the output signal with a predetermined threshold, thereby generating a digital signal.
FILED	Friday, March 06, 2015
APPL NO	14/640342
ART UNIT	2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Pulse Technique H03K 19/17728 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03K 19/17744 (20130101) Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 1/34 (20130101)
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Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

09424665 — System and method for signals transmission in complex scattering environments using interaction of the waves with a nonlinear object

US 09424665	Frazier et al.
FUNDED BY	Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
APPLICANT(S)	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND (College Park, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Matthew Frazier (Greenbelt, Maryland); Biniyam TesFaye Taddese (Hyattsville, Maryland); Steven Mark Anlage (Laurel, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A system and method for safe communication in a complex scattering environment is achieved by means of providing a passive nonlinear object in the wave propagation environment which nonlinearly interacts with the waves to create an exclusive communication channel between the nonlinear object and any point where the waves can be collected. Excitations generated by the nonlinearity in the time-reversal mirror are gathered, time-reversed, and retransmitted into the environment. The retransmitted signals arrive and are reconstructed exclusively at the location of the nonlinear object or linear object depending on the linearity or nonlinearity of the retransmitted sonas. The principles of the system and method are useful in numerous applications where signal communication or power delivery is desired to an object whose location is not known or dynamically changed in an exclusive, highly localized, precise, and secure fashion.
FILED	Monday, January 06, 2014
APPL NO	14/147993
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 7/52038 (20130101) G01S 7/52046 (20130101) G01S 7/52049 (20130101) Geophysics; Gravitational Measurements; Detecting Masses or Objects; Tags G01V 2210/588 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 11/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

09423387 — Localized deposition of polymer film on nanocantilever chemical vapor sensors by surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization

US 09423387	McCaig et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
APPLICANT(S)	Heather McCaig (Pasadena, California); Edward B. Myers (Sherman Oaks, California); Michael L. Roukes (Pasadena, California); Nathan S. Lewis (La Canada, California); Derrick Chi (Walnut, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Heather McCaig (Pasadena, California); Edward B. Myers (Sherman Oaks, California); Michael L. Roukes (Pasadena, California); Nathan S. Lewis (La Canada, California); Derrick Chi (Walnut, California)
ABSTRACT	Cantilever chemical vapor sensors that can be tailored to respond preferentially in frequency by controlling the location of deposition of an adsorbing layer. Cantilever chemical vapor sensor having a base, one or more legs and a tip are fabricated using a gold layer to promote deposition of a sorbing layer of a polymeric material in a desired location, and using a chromium layer to inhibit deposition of the sorbing layer in other locations. Sorbing layers having different glass temperatures Tg and their effects are described. The methods of making such cantilever chemical vapor sensors are described.
FILED	Wednesday, March 14, 2012
APPL NO	13/419510
ART UNIT	2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 5/02 (20130101) G01N 9/002 (20130101) G01N 33/0027 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)

09421363 — Systems and devices for crainial implantation of a neuromodulation device

US 09421363	Krahl et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
APPLICANT(S)	Scott E. Krahl (Stevenson Ranch, California); Antonio A. F. De Salles (Los Angeles, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California); THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Scott E. Krahl (Stevenson Ranch, California); Antonio A. F. De Salles (Los Angeles, California)
ABSTRACT	Described herein is an implantable device including: a housing including a connection opening defined therein, wherein the connection opening includes posts and slots and is configured to receive at least one connection associated with a neuromodulation device; a connection holding cap having posts, wherein the posts are configured to oppose the posts of the connection opening and wherein the connection holding cap is configured to receive the at least one connection associated with the neuromodulation device and configured to be operably connected to the connection opening by interconnecting the opposing posts after receiving the at least one connection associated with the neuromodulation device; a neuromodulation device holder operably connected to the device housing and configured to receive the neuromodulation device and secure the neuromodulation device within the device housing; and a cover operably connected to the device housing and configured to seal the device housing. Other embodiments are also described.
FILED	Wednesday, January 19, 2011
APPL NO	13/574532
ART UNIT	3763 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion
CURRENT CPC	Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 2090/103 (20160201) 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 25/02 (20130101) A61M 2025/0213 (20130101) A61M 2025/0246 (20130101) A61M 2039/025 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0539 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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U.S. State Government

09421507 — Micro-channels, micro-mixers and micro-reactors

US 09421507	Miller
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) U.S. State Government State of Oregon
APPLICANT(S)	State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon)
INVENTOR(S)	Richard Todd Miller (Corvallis, Oregon)
ABSTRACT	A fluid micro-mixer apparatus includes a plurality of first microchannels for receiving a first fluid and a plurality of second microchannels for receiving a second fluid. A mixing chamber flow path is disposed to receive the first and second fluids after the first and second fluids exit their respective output ports. The mixing chamber flow path can include a first mixing chamber in the vicinity of the respective output ports, and the mixing chamber flow path can separate into at least two different flow paths downstream from the first mixing chamber.
FILED	Friday, March 15, 2013
APPL NO	13/841303
ART UNIT	1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Mixing, e.g Dissolving, Emulsifying, Dispersing B01F 5/0475 (20130101) B01F 5/0478 (20130101) B01F 5/0643 (20130101) B01F 5/0644 (20130101) B01F 5/0692 (20130101) B01F 13/0066 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01F 15/0227 (20130101) B01F 15/0241 (20130101) B01F 15/0246 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/0093 (20130101) B01J 2219/0086 (20130101) B01J 2219/00783 (20130101) B01J 2219/00786 (20130101) B01J 2219/00822 (20130101) B01J 2219/00833 (20130101) B01J 2219/00873 (20130101) B01J 2219/00889 (20130101) B01J 2219/00894 (20130101) B01J 2219/00903 (20130101)
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Government Rights Acknowledged

09425265 — Edge termination technique for high voltage power devices having a negative feature for an improved edge termination structure

US 09425265	Van Brunt et al.
FUNDED BY
APPLICANT(S)	Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Edward Robert Van Brunt (Raleigh, North Carolina); Vipindas Pala (Morrisville, North Carolina); Lin Cheng (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Anant Kumar Agarwal (Arlington, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	Embodiments of a semiconductor die having a semiconductor device implemented on the semiconductor die and an edge termination structure around a periphery of the semiconductor device and methods of fabricating the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, a semiconductor die includes a semiconductor device and an edge termination structure around a periphery of the semiconductor device, where the edge termination structure includes negative features (e.g., trenches and/or divots) that vary dose in a corresponding edge termination region to approximate a desired dose profile. In one embodiment, the desired dose profile is a substantially decreasing or substantially linearly decreasing dose from an edge of a main junction of the semiconductor device to an edge of the edge termination region. In this manner, electric field crowding at the edge of the main junction of the semiconductor device is substantially reduced, which in turn substantially improves a break-down voltage of the semiconductor device.
FILED	Friday, August 16, 2013
APPL NO	13/968740
ART UNIT	2829 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/322 (20130101) H01L 21/0475 (20130101) H01L 29/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/0615 (20130101) H01L 29/0661 (20130101) H01L 29/732 (20130101) H01L 29/749 (20130101) H01L 29/861 (20130101) H01L 29/872 (20130101) H01L 29/1608 (20130101) H01L 29/6606 (20130101) H01L 29/7455 (20130101) H01L 29/7811 (20130101) H01L 29/7823 (20130101) H01L 29/66068 (20130101)
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