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| US 09433351 | Yu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chung-Chieh Yu (Tuscon, Arizona); Condon Lau (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Stephen Fulghum (Marblehead, Massachusetts); Christopher Fang-yen (Somerville, Massachusetts); Ramachandra Dasari (Shererville, Indiana); Michael Feld (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); David Feld (Newark, California); Alison Hearn (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Jonathan Feld (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chung-Chieh Yu (Tuscon, Arizona); Condon Lau (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Stephen Fulghum (Marblehead, Massachusetts); Christopher Fang-yen (Somerville, Massachusetts); Ramachandra Dasari (Shererville, Indiana); Michael Feld (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a spectroscopic imaging system using autofluorescence and reflectance images to diagnose tissue. A preferred embodiment of the invention uses a plurality of light sources to illuminate a tissue region to provide the fluorescence and reflectance images, respectively. |
| FILED | Friday, May 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/464578 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0059 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/0066 (20130101) Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/02 (20130101) G01J 3/10 (20130101) G01J 3/32 (20130101) G01J 3/0224 (20130101) G01J 3/0229 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/49 (20130101) G01N 21/4738 (20130101) G01N 2021/4733 (20130101) |
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| US 09433389 | D'Souza et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Warren D'Souza (Timonium, Maryland); Kathleen Malinowski (Seattle, Washington); Thomas McAvoy (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE (Baltimore, Maryland); UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Warren D'Souza (Timonium, Maryland); Kathleen Malinowski (Seattle, Washington); Thomas McAvoy (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for indirectly monitoring the position of a target inside a body is disclosed. The method includes generating position data associated with one or more surrogate devices and predicting a location of the target from the position data based on a target position model that establishes a relationship between an actual location of the target and the position data of the one or more surrogate devices. The method also includes determining that the predicted location of the target deviates from the actual location of the target when an analysis of an error prediction model results in a confidence threshold being exceeded. |
| FILED | Friday, June 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/531044 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/113 (20130101) A61B 6/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 6/5217 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 5/1037 (20130101) A61N 5/1049 (20130101) A61N 5/1067 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/3437 (20130101) |
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| US 09433490 | McFetridge |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter McFetridge (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter McFetridge (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure provide for multi-layered implantation materials, methods of making a multi-layered implantation material, methods of forming a multi-layered implantation material, methods of forming a multi-layered implantation material having a spiral roll cross-section, and the like. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/994915 |
| ART UNIT | 3738 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| 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 2/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/3604 (20130101) A61L 27/3804 (20130101) |
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| US 09433505 | Bachus et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Kent N. Bachus (Salt Lake City, Utah); Sujee Jeyapalina (Salt Lake City, Utah); James Peter Beck (Salt Lake City, Utah); Roy Bloebaum (Salt Lake City, Utah); Jayant P. Agarwal (Salt Lake City, Utah); Joseph A. Longo (Paradise Valley, Arizona); Erik Kubiak (Salt Lake City, Utah); Brian Mueller Holt (Topanga, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An implant assembly for a long bone is adapted to support an exo-prosthesis. The assembly includes a stem, a subdermal component and a percutaneous post. The stem has a proximal end that is adapted to be received in a surgically prepared medullary canal of the long bone, and a distal end having a surface that is adapted to promote bone ingrowth. The subdermal component includes a proximal portion that is adapted for attachment to the distal end of the stem, and a fixation surface that is adapted to promote soft tissue fixation. The percutaneous post has a proximal end that is adapted to be attached to the subdermal component. |
| FILED | Friday, February 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/181029 |
| ART UNIT | 3738 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| 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 2/78 (20130101) A61F 2/2814 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61F 2002/7887 (20130101) A61F 2002/30784 (20130101) |
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| US 09433635 | Cheng |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jin Q. Cheng (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The inventors have determined, contrary to the prior art and experience, how to successfully use triciribine to treat ovarian cancer by one or a combination of (i) administering triciribine only to patients which according to a diagnostic test described below, exhibit enhanced sensitivity to the drug; (ii) use of a described dosage level that minimizes the toxicity of the drug but yet still exhibits efficacy; or (iii) use of a described dosage regimen that minimizes the toxicity of the drug. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/534705 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/706 (20130101) A61K 31/7056 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 19/04 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57449 (20130101) |
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| US 09433663 | Zheng |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi Zheng (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, processes, uses, and pharmaceutical compositions are provided herein for mobilizing hematopoietic progenitor cells and/or cancer stem cells from bone marrow into peripheral blood, comprising the administration of an effective amount of an inhibitor of GTPases, such as a Cdc-42 specific inhibitor alone or in combination with one or more additional agents. Specifically, methods are disclosed for mobilizing hematopoietic stem cells into a subject's peripheral blood. In particular, embodiments of the method involve specific inhibition of the Cdc42 GTPase to increase the numbers of hematopoietic stem cells into a subject's peripheral blood of a subject. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/773479 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/395 (20130101) A61K 31/403 (20130101) A61K 31/403 (20130101) A61K 38/16 (20130101) A61K 38/18 (20130101) A61K 38/44 (20130101) A61K 38/45 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/193 (20130101) A61K 38/193 (20130101) A61K 38/202 (20130101) A61K 38/204 (20130101) A61K 38/2073 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5011 (20130101) G01N 33/56966 (20130101) G01N 2333/70596 (20130101) |
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| US 09433668 | McNeel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas G. McNeel (Madison, Wisconsin); Brian M. Olson (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Androgen receptor-based vaccines for eliciting an immune reaction in vivo against cells expressing androgen receptor are disclosed. The vaccines are useful in the treatment of prostate cancer. Also disclosed are methods for inducing immune reaction to androgen receptor or treating prostate cancer in a mammal, using the vaccines and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the vaccines. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 04, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/614137 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/70 (20130101) A61K 38/193 (20130101) A61K 39/0011 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/585 (20130101) A61K 2039/55516 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56972 (20130101) G01N 33/57434 (20130101) G01N 2800/52 (20130101) |
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| US 09433682 | Mohapatra et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Subhra Mohapatra (Tampa, Florida); Chunyan Wang (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University South Florida (Tampa, Florida); National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (DHHS) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Subhra Mohapatra (Tampa, Florida); Chunyan Wang (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein is a hydrogel composition comprising a graphene, a chitosan, and a polyethylene (glycol) diacrylate (PEGDA) (PCG hydrogel). In some embodiments, the hydrogel further comprises a N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAM) (TPCG hydrogel). Also provided is a method for differentiating a mesenchymal stem cell comprising contacting the cell with the PCG hydrogel. Further provided herein is a method for delivering a pharmaceutical composition to a cell comprising administering to the cell a TPCG hydrogel and the pharmaceutical composition. |
| FILED | Monday, February 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/775560 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/5161 (20130101) A61K 47/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 15/44 (20130101) A61L 15/46 (20130101) A61L 15/60 (20130101) A61L 15/60 (20130101) A61L 15/60 (20130101) A61L 15/60 (20130101) A61L 27/52 (20130101) A61L 27/443 (20130101) A61L 27/443 (20130101) A61L 27/443 (20130101) A61L 27/443 (20130101) Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 37/003 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 220/06 (20130101) C08F 220/06 (20130101) C08F 220/52 (20130101) C08F 220/54 (20130101) C08F 222/1006 (20130101) C08F 251/00 (20130101) C08F 251/00 (20130101) C08F 290/062 (20130101) C08F 290/062 (20130101) C08F 292/00 (20130101) C08F 292/00 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 83/001 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 3/075 (20130101) C08J 2387/00 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 5/08 (20130101) C08L 5/08 (20130101) C08L 5/08 (20130101) C08L 5/08 (20130101) C08L 33/00 (20130101) C08L 33/00 (20130101) C08L 71/02 (20130101) C08L 71/02 (20130101) C08L 71/02 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0068 (20130101) C12N 2533/20 (20130101) C12N 2533/72 (20130101) |
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| US 09433686 | Karin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Karin (La Jolla, California); Massimo Ammirante (San Diego, California); Ali Kuraishy (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Karin (La Jolla, California); Massimo Ammirante (San Diego, California); Ali Kuraishy (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for reducing growth and/or metastasis of androgen-independent (castration resistant) prostate cancer in a tissue in an animal. In one embodiment the method comprises administering to the animal a therapeutically effective amount of a compound that reduces the number of B cells, and/or the function of B cells, in the tissue. In yet another embodiment, the invention provides methods for reducing androgen-induced growth of prostate epithelial cells in prostate tissue in an animal. In one embodiment, the method comprises administering to the animal a therapeutically effective amount of a compound that reduces the number of B cells, and/or the function of B cells, in the tissue. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/982083 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/381 (20130101) A61K 31/437 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 38/1793 (20130101) A61K 38/1793 (20130101) A61K 39/395 (20130101) A61K 39/395 (20130101) A61K 47/48376 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/505 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/52 (20130101) C07K 16/24 (20130101) C07K 16/2887 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2319/30 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09433688 | Acland et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated (Gainesville, Florida); Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated (Gainesville, Florida); Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory M. Acland (Kennett Square, Pennsylvania); Gustavo D. Aguirre (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Jean Bennett (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); William W. Hauswirth (Gainesville, Florida); Samuel G. Jacobson (Penn Valley, Pennsylvania); Albert M. Maguire (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for treating an ocular disorder characterized by the defect or absence of a normal gene in the ocular cells of a human or animal subject involves administering to the subject by subretinal injection an effective amount of a recombinant adeno-associated virus carrying a nucleic acid sequence encoding the normal gene under the control of a promoter sequence which expresses the product of the gene in the ocular cells. The ocular cells are preferably retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells, and the gene is preferably an RPE-specific gene, e.g., RPE65. The promoter is one that can express the gene product in the RPE cells. Compositions for subretinal administration are useful in this method. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/310015 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/70 (20130101) A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/51 (20130101) A61K 38/52 (20130101) A61K 48/00 (20130101) A61K 48/0058 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 48/0075 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/705 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 15/8645 (20130101) C12N 2750/14132 (20130101) C12N 2750/14142 (20130101) C12N 2750/14143 (20130101) C12N 2750/14171 (20130101) C12N 2830/008 (20130101) C12N 2830/85 (20130101) C12N 2840/203 (20130101) |
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| US 09433735 | Cappello et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | PHARMAJET INC. (Golden, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PharmaJet Inc. (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chris Cappello (Broomfield, Colorado); Matt Wixey (Rancho Santa Margarita, California); John W. Bingham (Elizabeth, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A needle-free injection device suitable for delivering a therapeutic substance into the intradermal space of a patient. The needle-free injection device includes a main spring which can be compressed using one or more handles attached to the device to place the needle-free injection device into an armed configuration. Device embodiments may optionally include an injector tube and associated apparatus which may be moved relative to other device structures when the injector is pressed against the skin of a patient with sufficient force. The disclosed operational switches and release mechanisms cooperate to prevent injection unless the device is properly positioned for an injection. Needle-free injection systems and methods of operating a needle-free injection device are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/711765 |
| ART UNIT | 3763 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 5/20 (20130101) A61M 5/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61M 2005/2013 (20130101) |
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| US 09433943 | Bashir et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois); Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois); Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rashid Bashir (Champaign, Illinois); Eric Salm (Champaign, Illinois); Carlos Eduardo Duarte Guevara (Urbana, Illinois); Muhammad Ashraf Alam (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods and devices for rapidly and accurately heating fluid droplets surrounded by a gas-phase medium, such as air. Sub-nanoliter fluid droplets can be rapidly heated by nanoscale field effect transistors via microwave heating by an applied AC voltage to the FET. The heating is in a well-defined interior portion of the fluid droplet, with minimal heating of the outer portion of the fluid droplet, thereby minimizing evaporation. In this manner, rapid thermal cycling is possible, including independently and in parallel for a plurality of droplets. Accordingly, the methods and devices provided herein are used in point-of-care detection such as by PCR that is high speed, robust and of low cost. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/356832 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 7/52 (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 1/686 (20130101) Electric Heating; Electric Lighting Not Otherwise Provided for H05B 3/00 (20130101) H05B 6/802 (20130101) |
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| US 09434681 | Uhrich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kathryn E. Uhrich (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Dawanne E. Poree (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Prabhas Moghe (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes compounds of the formula I and formula II and salts thereof, as well as methods for using the compounds of formula I and formula II for treating atherosclerosis. The invention also includes compounds of formula III and (2l) and salts thereof, as well as methods of using the compounds of formula III and (2l) for treating atherosclerosis. The invention also includes methods of encapsulating molecules using the compounds of the invention. |
| FILED | Monday, June 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/407403 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 69/708 (20130101) C07C 235/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09434727 | Petrukhin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Konstantin Petrukhin (New Windsor, New York); Christopher Cioffi (Albany, New York); Graham Johnson (Sanbornton, New Hampshire); Rando Allikmets (Cornwell on Hudson, New York); Emily Freeman (Albany, New York); Ping Chen (Albany, New York); Michael Conlon (Albany, New York); Lei Zhu (Albany, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Konstantin Petrukhin (New Windsor, New York); Christopher Cioffi (Albany, New York); Graham Johnson (Sanbornton, New Hampshire); Rando Allikmets (Cornwell on Hudson, New York); Emily Freeman (Albany, New York); Ping Chen (Albany, New York); Michael Conlon (Albany, New York); Lei Zhu (Albany, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a compound having the structure: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, and R5 are each independently H, halogen, CF3 or C1-C4 alkyl, wherein two or more of R1, R2, R3, R4, or R5 are other than H; R6 is H, OH, or halogen; and B is a substituted or unsubstituted heterobicycle, wherein when R1 is CF3, R2 is H, R3 is F, R4 is H, and R5 is H, or R1 is H, R2 is CF3, R3 is H, R4 is CF3, and R5 is H, or R1 is Cl, R2 is H, R3 is H, R4 is F, and R5 is H, or R1 is CF3, R2 is H, R3 is F, R4 is H, and R5 is H, or R1 is CF3, R2 is F, R3 is H, R4 is H, and R5 is H, or R1 is Cl, R2 is F, R3 is H, R4 is H, and R5 is H, then B is other than or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 29, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/699672 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 471/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 487/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09434736 | Movassaghi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohammad Movassaghi (Arlington, Massachusetts); Paul J. Hergenrother (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention, among other things, provides compounds, compositions and methods for treatment of cancer. In some embodiments, the present invention provides methods for treating blood cancer using agelastatin alkaloids. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/490146 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/498 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 487/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09434758 | McCall et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ReveraGen Biopharma, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ReveraGen Biopharma, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. McCall (Boca Grande, Florida); Eric Hoffman (Kensington, Maryland); Kanneboyina Nagaraju (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compounds and methods which may be useful as treatments of neuromuscular diseases such as muscular dystrophy, and as inhibitors of NF-κB for the treatment or prevention of muscular wasting disease, including muscular dystrophy. |
| FILED | Monday, January 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/164779 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/575 (20130101) Steroids C07J 5/0053 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07J 5/0076 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 514/825 (20130101) Y10S 514/903 (20130101) |
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| US 09434764 | Abdel-Malek et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zalfa A. Abdel-Malek (Cincinnati, Ohio); Leonid Koikov (Cincinnati, Ohio); James J. Knittel (Belchertown, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Short tri- and tetrapeptides according to the following Formula I Ar(CH2)mX1—X2—CO—X3—X4—X5-(Trp)n-NX6R are potent, selective agonists of melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R). Provided herein are skin care compositions including Formula I peptide agonists of MC1R and methods of regulating a skin condition of a mammal that include applying to a treatment surface of the body a safe and effective amount of a skin care composition including a Formula I peptide. The peptides, skin care compositions, and skin care methods described herein are useful in regulating a skin condition of a mammal associated with exposure ultraviolet (UV) radiation, including sunburn, UV sensitivity, photoaging, and skin pigmentation, particularly in the absence of sun exposure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/646407 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 8/06 (20130101) A61K 8/64 (20130101) A61K 9/0014 (20130101) A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/06 (20130101) A61K 38/07 (20130101) Specific Use of Cosmetics or Similar Toilet Preparations A61Q 17/04 (20130101) A61Q 19/004 (20130101) A61Q 19/04 (20130101) A61Q 19/08 (20130101) Peptides C07K 5/0821 (20130101) C07K 5/1024 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09434768 | Cattaneo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rocherster, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roberto Cattaneo (Rochester, Minnesota); Vincent H. J. Leonard (Watertown, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The document provides nucleic acids, polypeptides, and viruses containing nucleic acids and/or polypeptides. The document also provides methods for using viruses to treat cancer patients. Specifically, the document provides nucleic acid molecules encoding viral hemagglutinin (H) polypeptides, viral H polypeptides, and viruses containing nucleic acids and/or H polypeptides. Such viruses are useful for vaccinations and for treating cancer patients as the viruses are not shed. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/249821 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/711 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 31/7105 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/165 (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 15/00 (20130101) C12N 15/09 (20130101) C12N 2760/18422 (20130101) C12N 2760/18434 (20130101) C12N 2760/18461 (20130101) |
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| US 09434771 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xuhang Li (Baltimore, Maryland); Heng Zhu (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xuhang Li (Baltimore, Maryland); Heng Zhu (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention features biomarkers capable of diagnosing inflammatory bowel disease and methods of using such biomarkers to diagnose and selecting treatments for inflammatory bowel diseases. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/140702 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/245 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6854 (20130101) G01N 2333/245 (20130101) G01N 2800/065 (20130101) |
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| US 09434772 | Maurelli |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anthony T. Maurelli (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony T. Maurelli (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Recombinant vectors comprising the cell entry region of the Shigella ox EIEC invasion plasmid are provided, as well as, Shigella or EIEC strains comprising the recombinant vectors. The vectors provide an improved platform for developing attenuated vaccine strains of Shigella or EiEC and for delivering other foreign proteins of interest. The recombinant vectors and bacterial strains comprising the same may be used in methods of inducing an immune response. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/346408 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 39/0283 (20130101) A61K 2039/522 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/25 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/70 (20130101) C12N 15/74 (20130101) C12N 15/86 (20130101) |
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| US 09434774 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Kevin John Phillips (Somerville, Massachusetts); Michael S. Lawrence (Atkinson, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Kevin John Phillips (Somerville, Massachusetts); Michael S. Lawrence (Atkinson, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Aggregation is a major cause of the misbehavior of proteins. A system for modifying a protein to create a more stable variant is provided. The method involves identifying non-conserved hydrophobic amino acid residues on the surface of a protein, suitable for mutating to more hydrophilic residues (e.g., charged amino acids). Any number of residues on the surface may be changed to create a variant that is more soluble, resistant to aggregation, has a greater ability to re-fold, and/or is more stable under a variety of conditions. The invention also provides GFP, streptavidin, and GST variants with an increased theoretical net charge created by the inventive technology. Kits are also provided for carrying out such modifications on any protein of interest. |
| FILED | Friday, December 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/341231 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/43595 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/93 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 603/02003 (20130101) |
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| US 09434786 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lai-Xi Wang (Ellicott City, Maryland); Wei Huang (Shanghai, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for recombinant Endo-S mutants that exhibit reduced hydrolysis activity and increased transglycosylation activity for the synthesis of glycoproteins wherein a desired sialylated oxazoline or synthetic oligosaccharide oxazoline is added to a core fucosylated or nonfucosylated GlcNAc-protein acceptor. Such recombinant Endo-S mutants are useful for efficient glycosylation remodeling of IgG1-Fc domain to provide different antibody glycoforms carrying structurally well-defined Fc N-glycans. |
| FILED | Monday, February 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/376248 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/4863 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/00 (20130101) C07K 16/18 (20130101) C07K 16/2887 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/10 (20130101) C07K 2317/41 (20130101) C07K 2317/72 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/2402 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 302/01096 (20130101) |
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| US 09434921 | Mitalipov |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shoukhrat M. Mitalipov (Beaverton, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shoukhrat M. Mitalipov (Beaverton, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for producing a primate oocyte in vitro. The methods include removing nuclear DNA from a recipient primate oocyte from a first primate in a manner that does not lower levels of maturation promoting factor (MPF) to form an enucleated recipient primate oocyte. The recipient primate oocyte is enucleated using a non-UV-based spindle imaging system. Nuclear genetic material or DNA including chromosomes from a donor primate oocyte arrested at metaphase II from a second primate is isolated in the form of the karyoplast and introduced into the enucleated recipient primate oocyte. Introduction of the chromosomes is performed using a fusogenic agent or electroporation to produce a hybrid oocyte. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/265326 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/16 (20130101) C12N 5/0604 (20130101) C12N 5/0609 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/873 (20130101) C12N 15/8775 (20130101) C12N 15/8776 (20130101) C12N 2517/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09434926 | Mohapatra et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Subhra Mohapatra (Tampa, Florida); Chunyan Wang (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Subhra Mohapatra (Tampa, Florida); Chunyan Wang (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are hydrogel compositions containing graphene, chitosan, a polyethylene (glycol) diacrylate (PEGDA). The hydrogel can optionally contain an N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAM) (TPCG hydrogel). Also provided are methods for differentiating a cell on the hydrogels described herein. Further provided herein are methods for delivering a compound via the hydrogels described herein. |
| FILED | Friday, February 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/627671 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/06 (20130101) A61K 35/28 (20130101) A61K 47/02 (20130101) A61K 47/14 (20130101) A61K 47/36 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0663 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2501/00 (20130101) C12N 2533/30 (20130101) C12N 2533/72 (20130101) |
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| US 09434928 | Mendell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, INC. (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, INC. (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerry R. Mendell (Columbus, Ohio); Louis Chicoine (Westerville, Ohio); Louise Rodino-Klapac (Groveport, Ohio); Kelly Reed Clark (Columbus, Ohio); Thomas J. Preston (Groveport, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) delivery of an alpha-sarcoglycan gene. The invention provides rAAV products and methods of using the rAAV in the treatment of limb girdle muscular dystrophies such as LGMD2D. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/360243 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 48/005 (20130101) A61K 48/0075 (20130101) Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 1/3603 (20140204) A61M 5/1408 (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 2750/14143 (20130101) |
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| US 09434930 | Doudna et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer A. Doudna (Berkeley, California); Enbo Ma (Moraga, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides a method for producing a Dicer polypeptide in a prokaryotic host cell. The present disclosure further provides a purified Dicer complex. The present disclosure further provides kits for producing a Dicer polypeptide in a prokaryotic host cell. |
| FILED | Monday, August 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/468109 |
| 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 9/16 (20130101) C12N 9/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2330/00 (20130101) C12N 2330/50 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 301/26003 (20130101) |
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| US 09434943 | Aronin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil Aronin (Newtonville, Massachusetts); Phillip D. Zamore (Northboro, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the discovery of an effective treatment for a variety of gain-of-function diseases, in particular, Huntington's disease (HD). The present invention utilizes RNA Interference technology (RNAi) against polymorphic regions in the genes encoding various gain-of-function mutant proteins resulting in an effective treatment for the gain-of-function disease. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/161266 |
| 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 15/111 (20130101) C12N 15/113 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/531 (20130101) C12N 2310/3515 (20130101) C12N 2320/30 (20130101) C12N 2320/34 (20130101) |
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| US 09434945 | Faden et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Faden (Baltimore, Maryland); Boris Sabirzhanov (Lutherville, Maryland); Bogdan Stoica (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method for treating a brain injury due to a traumatic event, disease or ischemic attack in a mammal subject, wherein the method comprises administering to the mammal subject an effective amount of miR-23a-3p and/or miR-27a-3p mimics to reduce activation of Puma, Noxa and Bax therby causing a subsequent reduction in neuronal apoptosis. |
| FILED | Monday, August 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/450664 |
| 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) |
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| US 09434947 | Zhou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zhengfeng Zhou (Portland, Oregon); Qiuming Gong (Portland, Oregon); Matthew Stump (Portland, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | OREGON HEALTH and SCIENCE UNIVERSITY (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhengfeng Zhou (Portland, Oregon); Qiuming Gong (Portland, Oregon); Matthew Stump (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Oligonucleotides with activity in preventing poly(A) adenylation at intron 9 of the KCNH2 gene, as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising the oligonucleotides and methods of using the oligonucleotides to treat long QT syndrome in a subject are disclosed. The oligonucleotides include antisense sequences corresponding to sites termed DSE-1 and DSE-2 in intron 9. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/600958 |
| 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 2310/31 (20130101) C12N 2310/336 (20130101) C12N 2310/3233 (20130101) |
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| US 09434950 | Rossi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CITY OF HOPE (Duarte, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CITY OF HOPE (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J. Rossi (Azusa, California); Dongho Kim (Beverly Hills, California); Patric Lundberg (Rancho Cucamonga, California); Edouard Cantin (Alhambra, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Double-stranded and single-stranded RNA molecules, and their use in methods for inducing interferon are provided. The interferon induction provides anti-viral and other medically useful effects, such as anti-cancer effects. Also provided are methods for reducing or inhibiting interferon induction exhibited by such molecules, particularly siRNA and shRNA molecules produced in vitro. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/446324 |
| 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 15/111 (20130101) C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 15/117 (20130101) C12N 15/1131 (20130101) C12N 15/1135 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/17 (20130101) C12N 2310/18 (20130101) C12N 2310/53 (20130101) C12N 2320/30 (20130101) C12N 2330/30 (20130101) |
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| US 09434983 | Esfandyarpour |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hesaam Esfandyarpour (Los Gatos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a method is provided for the manufacture of a nano-sensor array. A base having a sensing region is provided along with a plurality of nano-sensors. Each of the plurality of nano-sensors is formed by: forming a first nanoneedle along a surface of the base, forming a dielectric on the first nanoneedle, and forming a second nanoneedle on the dielectric layer. The first nanoneedle of each sensor has a first end adjacent to the sensing region of the base. The second nanoneedle is separated from the first nanoneedle by the dielectric and has a first end adjacent the first end of the first nanoneedle. The base is provided with a fluidic channel. The plurality of nano-sensors and the fluidic channel are configured and arranged with the first ends proximate the fluidic channel to facilitate sensing of targeted matter in the fluidic channel. |
| FILED | Friday, November 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/081358 |
| ART UNIT | 1798 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (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 1/6825 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Combinatorial Chemistry; Libraries, e.g Chemical Libraries C40B 60/12 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/3278 (20130101) G01N 33/49 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49826 (20150115) |
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| US 09434985 | Dekker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Job Dekker (Princeton, Massachusetts); Erez Lieberman (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Nynke Van Berkum (The Hague, Netherlands); Andreas Gnirke (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Eric Lander (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Chad Nusbaum (Nowtoa, Massachusetts); Louise Williams (Reading, Massachusetts); Alexandre Melnikov (Bellingham, Massachusetts); Georgia Giannoukos (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute Of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); President And Fellows Of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Whitehead Institute For Biomedical Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Job Dekker (Princeton, Massachusetts); Erez Lieberman (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Nynke Van Berkum (The Hague, Netherlands); Andreas Gnirke (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Eric Lander (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Chad Nusbaum (Nowtoa, Massachusetts); Louise Williams (Reading, Massachusetts); Alexandre Melnikov (Bellingham, Massachusetts); Georgia Giannoukos (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosed Hi-C protocol can identify genomic loci that are spatially co-located in vivo. These spatial co-locations may include, but are not limited to, intrachromosomal interactions and/or interchromosomal interactions. Hi-C techniques may be applied to many different scales of interest. For example, on a large scale, Hi-C techniques can be used to identify long-range interactions between distant genomic loci. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/121158 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/68 (20130101) C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09434994 | Garcia et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Marileila Varella Garcia (Greenwood Village, Colorado); Paul A. Bunn, Jr. (Evergreen, Colorado); Federico Cappuzzo (Bologna, Italy); Wilbur A. Franklin (Denver, Colorado); Fred R. Hirsch (Denver, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marileila Varella Garcia (Greenwood Village, Colorado); Paul A. Bunn, Jr. (Evergreen, Colorado); Federico Cappuzzo (Bologna, Italy); Wilbur A. Franklin (Denver, Colorado); Fred R. Hirsch (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods to obtain an expression score to evaluate gene expression in a tissue specimen obtained from a person having or suspected of having cancer. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/542529 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/106 (20130101) C12Q 2600/112 (20130101) C12Q 2600/118 (20130101) |
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| US 09434995 | Croce et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlo M. Croce (Columbus, Ohio); Stefano Volinia (Ferrara, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | MicroRNA profiles transition from normal breast to ductal carcinoma in situ and transition to invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) and methods of use thereof are described. Methods of diagnosis and prognosis using microRNA signatures to differentiate invasive from in situ carcinoma are described. Also described is the use of microRNA expression for predicting overall survival and time to metastasis. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/483232 |
| 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 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/112 (20130101) C12Q 2600/118 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) C12Q 2600/178 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30542 (20130101) |
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| US 09435000 | Switzer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Washington, District of Columbia); Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Washington, District of Columbia); Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William M. Switzer (Stone Mountain, Georgia); Walid Heneine (Atlanta, Georgia); Thomas M. Folks (Helotes, Texas); Nathan D. Wolfe (Los Angeles, California); Donald S. Burke (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Eitel Mpoudi Ngole (Yaounde, Cameroon) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods related to the isolation and identification of the primate T-lymphotropic viruses, HTLV-3 and HTLV-4. The diversity of HTLVs was investigated among central Africans reporting contact with NHP blood and body fluids through hunting, butchering, and keeping primate pets. Herein it is shown that this population is infected with a variety of HTLVs, including two retroviruses; HTLV-4 is the first member of a novel phylogenetic lineage that is distinct from all known HTLVs and STLVs; HTLV-3 falls within the genetic diversity of STLV-3, a group that has not previously been seen in humans. The present disclosure also relates to vectors and vaccines for use in humans against infection and disease. The disclosure further relates to a variety of bioassays and kits for the detection and diagnosis of infection with and diseases caused by HTLV-3 and HTLV-4 and related viruses. |
| FILED | Friday, September 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/032914 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/5256 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 2740/14021 (20130101) C12N 2740/14022 (20130101) C12N 2740/14043 (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 1/70 (20130101) C12Q 1/701 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09435721 | Henry et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. Henry (Iowa City, Iowa); J. Matthew Barnes (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for isolating viable cancer cells from a sample that comprises a mixture of cancerous cells and normal (non-cancerous) cells are provided. In the methods, a fluid preparation comprising a mixture of cancerous and normal cells is repeatedly exposed to fluid shear stresses, whereby the repeated exposure to the fluid shear stresses preferentially imparts fluid shear stress-resistance to the cancerous cells. |
| FILED | Friday, May 15, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/713241 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/50273 (20130101) B01L 3/502715 (20130101) B01L 2200/027 (20130101) B01L 2200/0647 (20130101) B01L 2400/0475 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0693 (20130101) C12N 2521/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/487 (20130101) G01N 33/574 (20130101) G01N 33/5026 (20130101) G01N 33/5044 (20130101) G01N 33/5091 (20130101) |
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| US 09435738 | Wirtz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Denis Wirtz (Washington, District of Columbia); Pei-Hsun Wu (Towson, Maryland); Shyam B. Khatau (Baltimore, Maryland); Wei-Chang Chen (Baltimore, Maryland); Jude M. Phillip, Jr. (Baltimore, Maryland); Zev A. Binder (Baltimore, Maryland); Yiider Tseng (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland); University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Denis Wirtz (Washington, District of Columbia); Pei-Hsun Wu (Towson, Maryland); Shyam B. Khatau (Baltimore, Maryland); Wei-Chang Chen (Baltimore, Maryland); Jude M. Phillip, Jr. (Baltimore, Maryland); Zev A. Binder (Baltimore, Maryland); Yiider Tseng (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A diagnostic device includes a microscope configured to obtain image data on a plurality of cells and a computing device. The computing device is configured to receive the image data, identify at least a portion of each of the plurality of cells based on the received image data, determine at least one of a value of a morphological parameter for each identified at least a portion of the plurality of cells or a relative organization among the identified at least a portion of the plurality of cells, and calculate statistics for the plurality of cells based on the at least one of the determined values of the morphological parameter or the determined relative organization, the statistics including information suitable for distinguishing metastatic cells from non-metastatic cells. The diagnostic device further includes an output device configured to output the statistics for diagnosis. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/560759 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/14 (20130101) G01N 21/6458 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/6486 (20130101) G01N 33/48728 (20130101) G01N 33/48792 (20130101) G01N 2201/10 (20130101) G01N 2201/06113 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/38 (20130101) G06K 9/00127 (20130101) G06K 9/00134 (20130101) G06K 9/00147 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) G06T 2207/10056 (20130101) G06T 2207/30024 (20130101) |
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| US 09435756 | Peterson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ICAGEN, INC. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ICAGEN, INC. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lori J. Peterson (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Cameron A. Mortillaro (Phoenix, Arizona); Benjamin P. Warner (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Nathan H. Zahler (Ashland, Massachusetts); Pratima Bharti (Portage, Michigan); Chang-Tai Hsieh (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Emilia A. Solomon (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method to quantify biomarkers. The method uses an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer to perform an X-ray fluorescence analysis on the sample to obtain spectral features derived from the biomarker; and quantifying the X-ray fluorescence signal of the biomarker. |
| FILED | Monday, May 18, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/715206 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 6/485 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 23/223 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/487 (20130101) G01N 33/4833 (20130101) G01N 2223/076 (20130101) G01N 2223/0766 (20130101) |
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| US 09435804 | Kozel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on behalf of the University of Nevada (Reno, Nevada); STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on behalf of the University of Nevada, Reno (Reno, Nevada); Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota); STC UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Kozel (Reno, Nevada); William Murphy (Reno, Nevada); Suzanne Brandt (Boise, Idaho); Bruce R Blazar (Golden Valley, Minnesota); Julie A Lovchik (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Peter Thorkildson (Reno, Nevada); Ann Percival (Reno, Nevada); C. Rick Lyons (Ft. Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for the detection, prevention, or treatment of anthrax or other infectious diseases. In one aspect, the present invention provides methods for immunizing humans or animals against Bacillus anthracis or other capsulated pathogens. The methods include administering a capsular polypeptide of a pathogen of interest and a CD40 agonist to a human or animal. The capsular polypeptide or the CD40 agonist is administered in such an amount or frequency that an immunoprotective response can be elicited in the human or animal against the pathogen of interest. In another aspect, the present invention provides methods of using passive immunization with anti-capsular polypeptide antibodies to prevent or treat infections caused by Bacillus anthracis or other pathogens. In yet another aspect, the present invention provides methods useful for diagnosis of anthrax by detection of capsular polypeptide in serum or other biological samples. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/967259 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/07 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56911 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/32 (20130101) |
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| US 09435808 | Hazen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley L. Hazen (Pepper Pike, Ohio); Renliang Zhang (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Diagnostic tests for characterizing an individual's risk of developing or having a cardiovascular disease. In one embodiment the present diagnostic test comprises determining the level of myeloperoxidase (MPO) activity in a bodily sample obtained from the individual or test subject. In another embodiment, the diagnostic test comprises determining the level of MPO mass in a bodily sample obtained from the test subject. In another embodiment, the diagnostic test comprises determining the level of one or more select MPO-generated oxidation products in a bodily sample obtained from the test subject. The select MPO-generated oxidation products are dityrosine, nitrotyrosine, methionine sulphoxide or an MPO-generated lipid peroxidation products. Levels of MPO activity, MPO mass, or the select MPO-generated oxidation product in bodily samples from the test subject are then compared to a predetermined value that is derived from measurements of MPO activity, MPO mass, or the select MPO-generated oxidation product in comparable bodily samples obtained from the general population or a select population of human subjects. Such comparison characterizes the test subject's risk of developing CVD. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/984072 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/616 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/28 (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 1/28 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/573 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/908 (20130101) G01N 2800/32 (20130101) G01N 2800/50 (20130101) G01N 2800/324 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/3431 (20130101) 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 50/22 (20130101) |
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| US 09435809 | Nimer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen D. Nimer (Miami, Florida); Lan Wang (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen D. Nimer (Miami, Florida); Lan Wang (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and compositions for treating and reducing the risk of Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML). In particular, the invention provides methods for identifying novel treatments for AML based on reproducible and detectable changes in AML1-ETO acetylation. The present invention further provides methods of using these treatments. |
| FILED | Friday, July 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/232801 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 16/44 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) C07K 2317/40 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1135 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5011 (20130101) G01N 33/57426 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2440/10 (20130101) G01N 2500/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09435810 | Havranek et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James J. Havranek (Clayton, Missouri); Benjamin Borgo (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Reagents and methods for the digital analysis of proteins or peptides are provided. Specifically provided herein are proteins for identifying the N-terminal amino acid or N-terminal phosphorylated amino acid of a polypeptide. Also, an enzyme for use in the cleavage step of the Edman degradation reaction and a method for using this enzyme are described. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/211448 |
| 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 9/50 (20130101) C12N 9/641 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6824 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09435813 | Alam et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hasan B. Alam (Natick, Massachusetts); Yongqing Li (West Roxbury, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hasan B. Alam (Natick, Massachusetts); Yongqing Li (West Roxbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the use of keratinocyte chemoattractant (KC)/human growth-regulated oncogene (GRO) (KC/GRO), apolipoprotein A2 (APOA2), angiotensinogen r (AGT), thyroglobulin (TG), disintegrin and metalloproteinase domain-containing protein 17 (ADAM17), anionic trypsin-1 (PRSS1), complement C4 (C4A), zona pellucida sperm-binding protein 1 (ZP1), neuropilin-2 (NRP2), solute carrier family 13 member 2 (SLC13A2), glucagon-like peptide 2 receptor (GLP2R), lipoma high mobility group protein isoform I-C (HMGIC) fusion partner-like protein 4 (LHFPL4), and claudin-3 (CLDN3) as biomarkers for diagnosis and prognosis, and for monitoring the efficacy of treatment, in hemorrhagic shock (HS). |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/696530 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/92 (20130101) G01N 33/6893 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2800/32 (20130101) |
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| US 09435814 | Gozal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Gozal (Chicago, Illinois); Saeed A. Jortani (Louisville, Kentucky); Roland Valdes, Jr. (Simpsonville, Kentucky); Leila Kheirandish-Gozal (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The presently-disclosed subject matter provides methods and kits for diagnosing obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in a subject, such as a human child, wherein a biological sample is provided from the subject and the amount of a Urocortin III peptide is determined from the sample. Further provided are methods for diagnosing OSA in a subject wherein the amount of a Urocortin III peptide and one or more peptides selected from a Uromodulin peptide, an Orosomucoid 1 peptide, and a Kallikrein 1 peptide are determined in a biological sample from a subject. |
| FILED | Friday, March 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/641006 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6896 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2800/2864 (20130101) |
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| US 09436158 | Kostuk et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond K. Kostuk (Tucson, Arizona); Paul J. Gelsinger-Austin (Pine Hill, New Jersey); Johnathan W. Brownlee (Tucson, Arizona); Jennifer K. Barton (Tucson, Arizona); Erich de Leon (Lake Shore, Maryland); Michael Gordon (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are modular volume holographic imaging system (VHIS) endoscopic systems, comprising: an endoscope attachment module having a microscope objective lens, a single or cascaded compensated relay system configured to preserve an optical wavefront for use with a single or multiplexed volume hologram to select wavefronts originating from different object depths, and a system aperture; and a handle module configured to be reversibly attachable for operative communication with the endoscope attachment module, and having a beam splitter; a relay having adjustable spacing for object space focus compensation, and a single or multiplexed volume hologram suitable in operation to select wavefronts originating from different object depths, and wherein the handle module is further configured for operative communication with an illumination source and imaging optics. Preferably, an illumination module and an imaging module are configured to be in operative, reversibly attachable communication with the handle module. Flexible tip endoscopic embodiments are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/353148 |
| ART UNIT | 2487 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 1/00163 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 23/243 (20130101) G02B 23/2446 (20130101) G02B 23/2469 (20130101) Holographic Processes or Apparatus G03H 1/0005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G03H 1/28 (20130101) G03H 1/041 (20130101) G03H 1/0248 (20130101) G03H 1/0443 (20130101) G03H 1/0465 (20130101) G03H 2001/005 (20130101) G03H 2001/0436 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 7/183 (20130101) |
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| US 09436851 | Ganor et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | AIC Innovations Group, Inc. (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | AIC Innovations Group, Inc. (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yaniv Ganor (Brookline, Massachusetts); Maurice Lepouttre (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system and computer program for defining a geometric code is provided. The method for generating a geometric code includes the steps of defining a first geometric shape, defining a size of a second geometric shape as a change in size from the first geometric shape, defining a position of the second geometric shape as a change in position from the first geometric shape, and displaying the first geometric shape and the second geometric shape. A system for imaging the defined geometric code includes a processor performing the steps of segmenting the imaged code, partitioning the segmented imaged code, determining a gray level of each portion of the partitioned segmented imaged code, and determining a code represented by each segmented portion of the partitioned segmented imaged code. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/903620 |
| ART UNIT | 2876 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 5/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 7/1417 (20130101) G06K 9/34 (20130101) G06K 19/06037 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 11/20 (20130101) |
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| US 09436992 | Diem et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Max Diem (Boston, Massachusetts); Milos Miljkovic (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Melissa Romeo (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Benjamin Bird (Roslindale, Massachusetts); Jennifer Schubert (Boston, Massachusetts); Kostas Papamarkakis (Springfield, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present disclosure provides improved methods for determining the presence of abnormalities in exfoliated cells. In one embodiment, the present disclosure provides methods for reconstructing cellular spectrum of a cell sample by creating a spectral map of the cellular sample, generating a binary mask of the spectral map, removing edge artifacts from each cell, and co-adding spectral data of each pixel corresponding to the cell to reconstruct the spectrum of each cell. |
| FILED | Friday, April 03, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/678396 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — 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 9/00147 (20130101) G06K 9/522 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 7/402 (20130101) G06T 7/408 (20130101) G06T 2207/10056 (20130101) G06T 2207/20021 (20130101) G06T 2207/30004 (20130101) G06T 2207/30024 (20130101) |
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| US 09437407 | McAlister et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Graeme Conrad McAlister (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Wilhelm Haas (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Steven P. Gygi (Foxborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of performing a mass spectrometry analysis includes labeling each of a plurality of samples with a corresponding chemical tag; forming a first plurality of ions from molecules in the samples; selecting a subset of the first plurality of ions, the subset being selected by isolating ions of the first plurality of ions in a plurality of ranges of mass-to-charge; forming a second plurality of ions by fragmenting ions in the subset; and measuring information indicative of a quantity of each of the plurality of chemical tags present in each of the plurality of samples. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/901137 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/50 (20130101) G01N 2560/00 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/0031 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09433252 | Lebel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stéphane Lebel (St. Redempteur, Canada); Dominic Giroux Bernier (Montreal, Canada); Michael James McGinn (Montreal, Canada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Revision Military S.ar.L. (Luxembourg, Luxembourg) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stéphane Lebel (St. Redempteur, Canada); Dominic Giroux Bernier (Montreal, Canada); Michael James McGinn (Montreal, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A helmet accessory attachment system may include an attachment portion comprising a biasing element, a position member, and a movable member. The movable member may be selectively moveable between a home position which is a first distance from the position member and a release position which is a second distance from the position member. The biasing element may bias the movable member toward the home position. The helmet accessory attachment system also may include a mounting portion attachable to a helmet. The mounting portion may include a first channel to receive the movable member at a first opening and a second channel to receive the position member at a second opening. A third distance between the first opening of the first channel and the second opening of the second channel may be greater than the first distance from the movable member to the position member in the home position. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/563584 |
| ART UNIT | 3765 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Hats; Head Coverings A42B 3/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A42B 3/221 (20130101) A42B 3/326 (20130101) |
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| US 09433505 | Bachus et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Kent N. Bachus (Salt Lake City, Utah); Sujee Jeyapalina (Salt Lake City, Utah); James Peter Beck (Salt Lake City, Utah); Roy Bloebaum (Salt Lake City, Utah); Jayant P. Agarwal (Salt Lake City, Utah); Joseph A. Longo (Paradise Valley, Arizona); Erik Kubiak (Salt Lake City, Utah); Brian Mueller Holt (Topanga, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An implant assembly for a long bone is adapted to support an exo-prosthesis. The assembly includes a stem, a subdermal component and a percutaneous post. The stem has a proximal end that is adapted to be received in a surgically prepared medullary canal of the long bone, and a distal end having a surface that is adapted to promote bone ingrowth. The subdermal component includes a proximal portion that is adapted for attachment to the distal end of the stem, and a fixation surface that is adapted to promote soft tissue fixation. The percutaneous post has a proximal end that is adapted to be attached to the subdermal component. |
| FILED | Friday, February 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/181029 |
| ART UNIT | 3738 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| 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 2/78 (20130101) A61F 2/2814 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61F 2002/7887 (20130101) A61F 2002/30784 (20130101) |
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| US 09433611 | Dasgupta et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ramanuj Dasgupta (New York, New York); Foster Gonsalves (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramanuj Dasgupta (New York, New York); Foster Gonsalves (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A series of oxazole and thiazole compounds are shown herein to be small molecule inhibitors of the Wnt pathway that specifically target the activity of the stabilized pool of β-cat oxazole and thiazole compounds are disclosed that have a formula represented by the following: The compounds may be prepared as pharmaceutical compositions, and may be used for the prevention and treatment of a variety of conditions in mammals including humans, including by way of non-limiting example, cancer, and others. |
| FILED | Monday, August 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/595336 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/55 (20130101) A61K 31/421 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/422 (20130101) A61K 31/426 (20130101) A61K 31/427 (20130101) A61K 31/428 (20130101) A61K 31/433 (20130101) A61K 31/435 (20130101) A61K 31/454 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/498 (20130101) A61K 31/506 (20130101) A61K 31/4439 (20130101) A61K 31/4545 (20130101) A61K 31/4709 (20130101) A61K 31/4725 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) |
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| US 09433635 | Cheng |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jin Q. Cheng (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The inventors have determined, contrary to the prior art and experience, how to successfully use triciribine to treat ovarian cancer by one or a combination of (i) administering triciribine only to patients which according to a diagnostic test described below, exhibit enhanced sensitivity to the drug; (ii) use of a described dosage level that minimizes the toxicity of the drug but yet still exhibits efficacy; or (iii) use of a described dosage regimen that minimizes the toxicity of the drug. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/534705 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/706 (20130101) A61K 31/7056 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 19/04 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57449 (20130101) |
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| US 09433750 | Pivonka et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel Michael Pivonka (Stanford, California); Anatoly Anatolievich Yakovlev (Mountain View, California); Ada Shuk Yan Poon (Redwood City, California); Teresa H. Meng (Saratoga, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Michael Pivonka (Stanford, California); Anatoly Anatolievich Yakovlev (Mountain View, California); Ada Shuk Yan Poon (Redwood City, California); Teresa H. Meng (Saratoga, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a locomotive implant for usage within a predetermined magnetic field. In one embodiment magnetohydrodynamics is used to generate thrust with a plurality of electrodes. In another embodiment, asymmetric drag forces are used to generate thrust. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/591188 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 25/0116 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61M 25/0127 (20130101) |
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| US 09434309 | Smyth |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Research Laboratory ATTN: RDRL-LOC-I (Adelphi, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher C. Smyth (Fallston, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for predicting vehicle speed during an indirect vision driving task. A further method and apparatus for optimizing the display of a camera return during an indirect vision driving task based on operator perceived vehicle speed as set by the display characteristics and the field-of-view of the camera. A further method and apparatus for using the perceived speed as a driving task aid, in particular, as an electronic aider for optimizing the driving scene display characteristics of scene compression and camera field-of view. In this manner, the invention adjusts the perceived speed in order to match the operator's cognitive flow to the control dynamics needed from the operator for the task. The invention has application to autonomous driving where manual intervention is incorporated during critical events for particular tasks; and with limited display space within the vehicle, the display format is adjusted by the invention according to the operator's task needs. |
| FILED | Monday, February 02, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/611905 |
| ART UNIT | 2487 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, or Vehicle Parts, Not Otherwise Provided for B60R 1/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B60R 2300/207 (20130101) B60R 2300/302 (20130101) Conjoint Control of Vehicle Sub-units of Different Type or Different Function; Control Systems Specially Adapted for Hybrid Vehicles; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems for Purposes Not Related to the Control of a Particular Sub-unit B60W 30/06 (20130101) B60W 40/072 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/52 (20130101) G06K 9/66 (20130101) G06K 9/00335 (20130101) G06K 9/00791 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/004 (20130101) G06T 7/20 (20130101) G06T 7/60 (20130101) G06T 7/0079 (20130101) G06T 2207/20112 (20130101) G06T 2207/30252 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/23296 (20130101) H04N 7/18 (20130101) |
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| US 09434685 | Wright |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael E. Wright (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A class of modified single-ring cyanate esters which have shown the ability to tailor and control the glass-transition (Tg) of the cured resins as well as the water uptake. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 03, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/059463 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 253/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09434758 | McCall et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ReveraGen Biopharma, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ReveraGen Biopharma, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. McCall (Boca Grande, Florida); Eric Hoffman (Kensington, Maryland); Kanneboyina Nagaraju (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compounds and methods which may be useful as treatments of neuromuscular diseases such as muscular dystrophy, and as inhibitors of NF-κB for the treatment or prevention of muscular wasting disease, including muscular dystrophy. |
| FILED | Monday, January 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/164779 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/575 (20130101) Steroids C07J 5/0053 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07J 5/0076 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 514/825 (20130101) Y10S 514/903 (20130101) |
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| US 09434772 | Maurelli |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anthony T. Maurelli (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony T. Maurelli (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Recombinant vectors comprising the cell entry region of the Shigella ox EIEC invasion plasmid are provided, as well as, Shigella or EIEC strains comprising the recombinant vectors. The vectors provide an improved platform for developing attenuated vaccine strains of Shigella or EiEC and for delivering other foreign proteins of interest. The recombinant vectors and bacterial strains comprising the same may be used in methods of inducing an immune response. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/346408 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 39/0283 (20130101) A61K 2039/522 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/25 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/70 (20130101) C12N 15/74 (20130101) C12N 15/86 (20130101) |
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| US 09435266 | Sutterfield et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc. (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc. (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Sutterfield (Greenwood, Indiana); Gregory W.P. Zeaton (Carmel, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A sealing assembly may include a support, an engine component, and a seal. The engine component may be mounted relative to the support to define a gap between the engine component and the support. The seal may be arranged between the support and the engine component to block gasses from passing through the gap. The seal may be adapted to compress and expand to fill the gap during expansion and contraction of the adjacent components that occurs during operation of a gas turbine engine including the sealing assembly. |
| FILED | Friday, December 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/137400 |
| ART UNIT | 3675 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 7/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Jet-propulsion Plants F02K 1/805 (20130101) Pistons; Cylinders; Sealings F16J 15/104 (20130101) F16J 15/0812 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/672 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49297 (20150115) |
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| US 09435602 | Tomik et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthew Tomik (Easton, Pennsylvania); William Bartell (Hackettstown, New Jersey); Thomas Tighe (Morristown, New Jersey); Noah Gordon (Metuchen, New Jersey); Joshua Stapp (Mt. Bethel, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Tomik (Easton, Pennsylvania); William Bartell (Hackettstown, New Jersey); Thomas Tighe (Morristown, New Jersey); Noah Gordon (Metuchen, New Jersey); Joshua Stapp (Mt. Bethel, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An active recoil control system uses multiple sensors in combination with a solenoid controlled multi-disc brake to adjust the weapon recoil. Using outputs from the sensors, a controller predicts and reacts to a recoiling mass performance, and applies the required braking force, in order to compensate for anticipated or actual variations. Feedback from the sensors allows the active recoil control system to adjust braking during the recoil strokes and counter-recoil strokes in order to optimize the weapon operation and performance in extreme firing conditions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/596573 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Functional Features or Details Common to Both Smallarms and Ordnance, e.g Cannons; Mountings for Smallarms or Ordnance F41A 25/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09435616 | Kucherov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Graham K. Hubler (Highland, Maryland); Brant Johnson (Edgewater, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yan R. Kucherov (Alexandria, Virginia); Graham K. Hubler (Highland, Maryland); Brant Johnson (Edgewater, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite armor plate includes a fracture layer placed adjacent to a ceramic layer. The ceramic layer provides a ballistic resistant layer that receives a ballistic impact and propagates a compression wave. The fracture layer is placed behind the ceramic layer and absorbs a portion of the compression wave propagating out in front of the ballistic impact. The absorbed compression wave causes the fracture layer to at least partially disintegrate into fine particles, which dissipates energy in the process. To cause a higher degree of fracturing (and thus larger dissipation of compression wave energy) the fracture layer includes a plurality of resonators embedded in a fracture material. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/185282 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 2307/412 (20130101) B32B 2315/02 (20130101) B32B 2571/02 (20130101) Armour; Armoured Turrets; Armoured or Armed Vehicles; Means of Attack or Defence, e.g Camouflage, in General F41H 1/04 (20130101) F41H 5/0407 (20130101) F41H 5/0414 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F41H 5/0428 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 156/10 (20150115) |
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| US 09435721 | Henry et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. Henry (Iowa City, Iowa); J. Matthew Barnes (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for isolating viable cancer cells from a sample that comprises a mixture of cancerous cells and normal (non-cancerous) cells are provided. In the methods, a fluid preparation comprising a mixture of cancerous and normal cells is repeatedly exposed to fluid shear stresses, whereby the repeated exposure to the fluid shear stresses preferentially imparts fluid shear stress-resistance to the cancerous cells. |
| FILED | Friday, May 15, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/713241 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/50273 (20130101) B01L 3/502715 (20130101) B01L 2200/027 (20130101) B01L 2200/0647 (20130101) B01L 2400/0475 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0693 (20130101) C12N 2521/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/487 (20130101) G01N 33/574 (20130101) G01N 33/5026 (20130101) G01N 33/5044 (20130101) G01N 33/5091 (20130101) |
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| US 09435751 | Wu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dong Ho Wu (Olney, Maryland); Benjamin Graber (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) | Dong Ho Wu (Olney, Maryland); Benjamin Graber (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for detecting and identifying nuclear materials by detecting and measuring positive and negative ions in multiple ion chambers, wherein each ion chamber comprises a different gas, including oxygen, argon, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and humid air, and one or more ion counters. The ion data can be transmitted to an isotope identification module. The ion data can include a distinctive pattern data of positive-ion production rates and negative-ion production rates generated from the measured positive and negative ions. The isotope identification module can compare the pattern data of positive-ion production rates and negative-ion production rates to an isotope data library, and identify a detected nuclear isotope with the isotope identification module. A display can show the identified detected nuclear isotope; a probability of the presence of the detected nuclear isotope; and a radioactivity of the detected nuclear isotope. |
| FILED | Friday, May 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/720565 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 23/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 30/00 (20130101) Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/185 (20130101) Geophysics; Gravitational Measurements; Detecting Masses or Objects; Tags G01V 5/00 (20130101) G01V 5/0091 (20130101) |
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| US 09435813 | Alam et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hasan B. Alam (Natick, Massachusetts); Yongqing Li (West Roxbury, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hasan B. Alam (Natick, Massachusetts); Yongqing Li (West Roxbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the use of keratinocyte chemoattractant (KC)/human growth-regulated oncogene (GRO) (KC/GRO), apolipoprotein A2 (APOA2), angiotensinogen r (AGT), thyroglobulin (TG), disintegrin and metalloproteinase domain-containing protein 17 (ADAM17), anionic trypsin-1 (PRSS1), complement C4 (C4A), zona pellucida sperm-binding protein 1 (ZP1), neuropilin-2 (NRP2), solute carrier family 13 member 2 (SLC13A2), glucagon-like peptide 2 receptor (GLP2R), lipoma high mobility group protein isoform I-C (HMGIC) fusion partner-like protein 4 (LHFPL4), and claudin-3 (CLDN3) as biomarkers for diagnosis and prognosis, and for monitoring the efficacy of treatment, in hemorrhagic shock (HS). |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/696530 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/92 (20130101) G01N 33/6893 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2800/32 (20130101) |
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| US 09435819 | Fraley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc. (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree Fayetteville, Inc. (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Fraley (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Bryon Western (West Fork, Arkansas); Roberto Marcelo Schupbach (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine environment wireless transmitter for monitoring bearing health inside jet turbines. This transmitter has the ability to operate in 225 to 300 degree Celsius environments and monitor real time bearing temperature and vibration and transmit that data to a centralized system for processing. The system is powered by a built in thermal electric generator, which produces power in response to a thermal gradient across it. The information transmitted is used to monitor and diagnose a bearing operating parameters in real-time and predict a failure event before any damage occurs. |
| FILED | Monday, April 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/872505 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Mechanical Vibrations or Ultrasonic, Sonic or Infrasonic Waves G01H 1/006 (20130101) Testing Static or Dynamic Balance of Machines or Structures; Testing of Structures or Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G01M 13/045 (20130101) Measuring Linear or Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, or Shock; Indicating Presence, Absence, or Direction, of Movement G01P 1/006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09435839 | Devgan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Preetpaul S Devgan (Dayton, Ohio); Nicholas G Usechak (Dayton, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus is provided for RF signal discrimination. A master laser of the apparatus is connected to an optical input of an optical phase modulator. The optical phase modulator is configured to receive a plurality of RF signals at an RF input and further configured to receive an output from the master laser at an optical input. A slave laser operating below a lasing threshold is configured to receive a modulated output from the optical phase modulator. An optical filter is configured to receive a mixed signal generated inside the slave laser. A photodetector receives the filtered mixed signal and is configured to recover a RF signal from the plurality of RF signals, where a frequency of a sideband of the recovered RF signal corresponds to a mode of the slave laser. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/693327 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — 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 2001/4242 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 29/0892 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09435882 | Martone et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Research Laboratory ATTN: RDRL-LOC-I (Adelphi, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony F. Martone (Ellicott City, Maryland); David M. McNamara (Frederick, Maryland); Gregory J. Mazzaro (Charleston, South Carolina); Abigail S. Hedden (Vienna, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for cognitive non-linear radar processing comprising identifying one or more frequency bands of interest, passively scanning, using a non-linear radar (NR), the one or more frequency bands of interest to determine whether interference signals are occupying the one or more bands, transmitting radar waveforms and receiving radar waveform responses at one or more frequency bands determined to be free of interference, determining a likelihood of a target being present or not based on whether the received waveform responses match stored waveform responses for non-linear targets, and modifying waveform parameters of the transmitted radar waveform when the received waveform responses match the stored waveform responses, so as to transmit a modified radar waveform. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/010580 |
| ART UNIT | 3648 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 7/021 (20130101) G01S 7/023 (20130101) G01S 7/28 (20130101) G01S 7/412 (20130101) G01S 7/414 (20130101) G01S 13/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09435888 | Hilde |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Jay Hilde (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for automatic target recognition. A hypothesis about a target's classification, position and orientation relative to a LADAR sensor that generates range image data of a scene including the target is simulated and a synthetic range image is generated. The range image and synthetic range image are then electronically processed to determine whether the hypothesized model and position and orientation are correct. If the score is sufficiently high then the hypothesis is declared correct, otherwise a new hypothesis is formed according to a search strategy. |
| FILED | Monday, March 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/849649 |
| 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 17/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09435912 | Lai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT 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) | William W. Lai (Ridgecrest, California); Lee R. Cambrea (Ridgecrest, California); Alfred J. Baca (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A wholly organic coating consisting of one or more layers of Py-BBL that is transparent in the IR region of the spectrum which is also thermally and oxdatively stable. This is coated onto IR transparent windows, domes and or optical lenses, for enhanced IR and signal filtering. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/678387 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 1/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 5/28 (20130101) G02B 13/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09435918 | Baer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Baer (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Anne P. Hiltner (Cleveland, Ohio); Michael T. Ponting (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating an aspherical gradient refractive index lens includes co-extruding a first polymer material having a first refractive index and a second polymer material having a second refractive index different than the first refractive index to form multilayered polymer composite films, assembling the multilayered polymer composite films into a multilayer composite GRIN sheet and shaping the multilayered composite GRIN sheet into an aspherical lens. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/864730 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Producing Particular Articles From Plastics or From Substances in a Plastic State B29D 11/023 (20130101) B29D 11/00355 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 3/0087 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Spectacles; Sunglasses or Goggles Insofar as They Have the Same Features as Spectacles; Contact Lenses G02C 7/02 (20130101) G02C 2202/22 (20130101) |
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| US 09436187 | Arbogast et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William Dale Arbogast (Charleston, South Carolina); Waleed Barnawi (Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina); Michael Eric Lind (Charleston, South Carolina); Blake Wall (Charleston, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Dale Arbogast (Charleston, South Carolina); Waleed Barnawi (Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina); Michael Eric Lind (Charleston, South Carolina); Blake Wall (Charleston, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for a USV fleet is disclosed that can execute autonomous path-planning in an A2/AD environment, where communication reach back to a base station for instruction or Positional, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) data is not assured. This process has the ability to adapt considering the failure and intermittent connection of the ad-hoc USV-to-USV data network. This process also has the ability to continue operation considering the failure of any or all communications between members and is immediately prepared for reconnection should failures occur. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 15, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/597522 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 21/20 (20130101) Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 1/0088 (20130101) G05D 1/0291 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09436784 | Cunningham et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Alaska Fairbanks (Fairbanks, Alaska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Alaska Fairbanks (Fairbanks, Alaska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith W. Cunningham (Fairbanks, Alaska); Peter Webley (Fairbanks, Alaska) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods and systems of rapidly validating accuracy in particle cloud forecast transport and dispersion models. An example method can comprise accessing a forecast model of a volcanic ash cloud. An example method can comprise generating first data based at least on the forecast model. The first data can have at least one fewer spatial dimension than second data associated with the forecast model. An example method can comprise determining accuracy of the forecast model based at least on measurements of at least a portion of the volcanic ash cloud. An example method can comprise refining the forecast model based at least on the determined accuracy, thereby improving a representation of the volcanic ash cloud. |
| FILED | Monday, February 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/176449 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/5009 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 19/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09436822 | Ghosh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | George Mason Research Foundation, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | George Mason Research Foundation, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anup K. Ghosh (Centreville, Virginia); Sushil Jajodia (Oakton, Virginia); Yih Huang (Fairfax, Virginia); Jiang Wang (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment for providing a secure virtual browsing environment includes creating a virtual browsing environment with a virtualized operating system sharing an operating system kernel of a supporting operating system and executing the browser application within the virtual browsing environment. Another embodiment includes receiving a website selection within a browser application, determining if the website selection corresponds to a secure bookmark, and creating a second virtual browsing environment and executing the browser application within the second virtual browsing environment to access the website selection when the website selection corresponds to a website specified as a secure bookmark. Yet another embodiment includes monitoring operation of the operating system within the at least one virtual browsing environment, determining when the operation of the operating system includes potential malicious activity, and terminating the virtual browsing environment when the operation includes potential malicious activity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 09, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/480657 |
| ART UNIT | 2497 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/54 (20130101) G06F 21/53 (20130101) G06F 21/56 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 21/568 (20130101) G06F 2209/541 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/1483 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09436912 | Rubin |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart H. Rubin (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method involves providing a parent schema, generating a plurality of distinct and domain-specific instantiations of the parent schema, user-validating at least two of the instantiations of the parent schema, and creating a symmetric schema by combining the user-validated instantiations of the parent schema. The parent schema and the instantiations of the parent schema may be user-provided or iteratively generated. The parent schema contains more than one tractable search spaces. Prior to user-validating the instantiations of the parent schema, they may be optimized using domain-specific knowledge. Additionally, one or more existing Boolean features in one or more cases of a case-based reasoning system may be replaced with the instantiations of the parent schema and non-zero weights for the cases may evolve that include the instantiations of the parent schema. The method may also include generating instantiations of the created symmetric schema. |
| FILED | Monday, October 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/058925 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 5/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09437009 | Medioni et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gerard Guy Medioni (Los Angeles, California); Thang Ba Dinh (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerard Guy Medioni (Los Angeles, California); Thang Ba Dinh (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure describes systems and techniques relating to identifying and tracking objects in images, such as visual tracking in video images in unconstrained environments. According to an aspect, a system includes one or more processors, and computer-readable media configured and arranged to cause the one or more processors to: identify an object in a first image of a sequence of images, identifying one or more regions similar to the object in the first image of the sequence of images, identifying one or more features around the object in the first image of the sequence of images, preventing drift in detection of the object in a second image of the sequence of images based on the one or more regions similar to the object, and verifying the object in the second image of the sequence of images based on the one or more features. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/528668 |
| ART UNIT | 2667 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 7/204 (20130101) G06T 2207/20081 (20130101) G06T 2207/30196 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09437041 | Hall et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Hall (State College, Pennsylvania); Jonathan Lynch (Boalsburg, Pennsylvania); Edward W. Reutzel (State College, Pennsylvania); Galen Lynch (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser ablation tomography system includes a specimen stage for supporting a specimen. A specimen axis is defined such that a specimen disposed generally on the axis may be imaged. A laser system is operable to produce a laser sheet in a plane intersecting the specimen axis and generally perpendicular thereto. An imaging system is operable to image the area where the laser sheet intersects the specimen axis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/067502 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/06 (20130101) G01N 2001/045 (20130101) G01N 2001/2886 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 17/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2200/08 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09437582 | Gibson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tessera, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tessera, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Gibson (Lake Oswego, Oregon); Andy Stavros (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microelectronic assembly includes units superposed on one another to form at least one stack having a vertical direction. Each unit includes one or more microelectronic devices and has top and bottom surfaces. Top unit terminals are exposed at the top surfaces and bottom unit terminals are exposed at the bottom surfaces. The top and bottom unit terminals are provided at a set of ordered column positions. Each top unit terminal of the set, except the top unit terminals at the highest ordered column position, is connected to a respective bottom unit terminal of the same unit at a next higher ordered column position. Each bottom unit terminal of the set, except the bottom unit terminals of the lowest unit in the stack, is connected to a respective upper unit terminal of the next lower unit in the stack at the same column position. |
| FILED | Monday, April 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/257795 |
| ART UNIT | 2897 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/4985 (20130101) H01L 23/49816 (20130101) H01L 23/49833 (20130101) H01L 24/14 (20130101) H01L 24/17 (20130101) H01L 25/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 25/105 (20130101) H01L 25/0655 (20130101) H01L 2224/16225 (20130101) H01L 2224/48091 (20130101) H01L 2225/107 (20130101) H01L 2225/0652 (20130101) H01L 2225/1023 (20130101) H01L 2225/06527 (20130101) H01L 2225/06548 (20130101) H01L 2225/06572 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/1437 (20130101) H01L 2924/15311 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 1/112 (20130101) H05K 1/141 (20130101) H05K 3/3436 (20130101) H05K 2201/10378 (20130101) H05K 2201/10515 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09437628 | Ma et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhenqiang Ma (Middleton, Wisconsin); Yei Hwan Jung (Madison, Wisconsin); Shaoqin Gong (Middleton, Wisconsin); Tzu-Hsuan Chang (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Substantially biodegradable microwave integrated circuits and method for making the microwave integrated circuits are provided. The integrated circuits, which have applications in high performance flexible microwave and digital electronics, utilize biobased, biodegradable cellulose nanofibril films as a substrate and comprise only very small amounts of potentially toxic inorganic materials. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/709850 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/84 (20130101) H01L 27/13 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09437759 | Baehr-Jones et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Coriant Advanced Technology, LLC (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Coriant Advanced Technology, LLC (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Baehr-Jones (Arcadia, California); Yi Zhang (Jersey City, New Jersey); Michael J. Hochberg (New York, New York); Ari Novack (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A Ge-on-Si photodetector constructed without doping or contacting Germanium by metal is described. Despite the simplified fabrication process, the device has responsivity of 1.24 A/W, corresponding to 99.2% quantum efficiency. Dark current is 40 nA at −4 V reverse bias. 3-dB bandwidth is 30 GHz. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/644122 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/14638 (20130101) H01L 27/14685 (20130101) H01L 27/14698 (20130101) H01L 31/028 (20130101) H01L 31/107 (20130101) H01L 31/0256 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/0352 (20130101) |
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| US 09437796 | Venkatasubramanian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina); U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rama Venkatasubramanian (Cary, North Carolina); Bruce Allen Cook (Ankeny, Iowa); Evgenii M. Levin (Ames, Iowa); Joel Lee Harringa (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermoelectric material and a thermoelectric converter using this material. The thermoelectric material has a first component including a semiconductor material and a second component including a rare earth material included in the first component to thereby increase a figure of merit of a composite of the semiconductor material and the rare earth material relative to a figure of merit of the semiconductor material. The thermoelectric converter has a p-type thermoelectric material and a n-type thermoelectric material. At least one of the p-type thermoelectric material and the n-type thermoelectric material includes a rare earth material in at least one of the p-type thermoelectric material or the n-type thermoelectric material. |
| FILED | Friday, December 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/725156 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Alloys C22C 1/02 (20130101) C22C 28/00 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 1/401 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 35/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09437800 | McDermott, III et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Francis McDermott, III (Madison, Wisconsin); Pradeep Kumar (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Francis McDermott, III (Madison, Wisconsin); Pradeep Kumar (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for suppressing magnetically active surface defects in superconducting quantum circuits are provided. A method includes providing one or more superconducting quantum circuits, and arranging the one or more superconducting quantum circuits in a hermetic enclosure capable of isolating the one or more superconducting circuits from ambient surroundings. The method also includes controlling an environment in the hermetic enclosure to suppress magnetically active surface defects associated with the one or more superconducting quantum circuits. In some aspects, the method further includes introducing an inert gas into the hermetic enclosure to passivate a surface of the one or more superconducting quantum circuits. In other aspects, the method further includes coating a surface of the one or more superconducting circuits with a non-magnetic encapsulation layer. In yet other aspects, the method further includes irradiating the one or more superconducting circuits using ultraviolet light. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 26, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/632505 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/18 (20130101) H01L 39/045 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 39/2493 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09437906 | Cardenas-Valencia et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andres M. Cardenas-Valencia (Tampa, Florida); Jay Dlutowski (Safety Harbor, Florida); Melynda C. Calves (Riverview, Florida); John Bumgarner (Anniston, Alabama); Larry Langebrake (St. Petersburg, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andres M. Cardenas-Valencia (Tampa, Florida); Jay Dlutowski (Safety Harbor, Florida); Melynda C. Calves (Riverview, Florida); John Bumgarner (Anniston, Alabama); Larry Langebrake (St. Petersburg, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to the fabrication of thin aluminum anode batteries using a highly reproducible process that enables high volume manufacturing of the galvanic cells. A thin aluminum anode galvanic cell having a meshed structure is provided which includes a catalytic metal layer positioned on a patterned silicon substrate, an etched dielectric layer positioned to cover the catalytic metal layer, the catalytic metal layer serving as an etch stop for the etched dielectric layer and an etched aluminum layer positioned to cover the dielectric layer, the dielectric layer serving as an etch stop for the etched aluminum layer. |
| FILED | Friday, April 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/245611 |
| ART UNIT | 1727 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/38 (20130101) H01M 4/92 (20130101) H01M 4/134 (20130101) H01M 4/0426 (20130101) H01M 4/0473 (20130101) H01M 4/0492 (20130101) H01M 4/8825 (20130101) H01M 4/8878 (20130101) H01M 6/40 (20130101) H01M 12/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 12/04 (20130101) H01M 12/08 (20130101) H01M 12/065 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49115 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09437932 | Freeman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Will Freeman (Ridgecrest, California); Michael M. Neel (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Will Freeman (Ridgecrest, California); Michael M. Neel (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A two-arm delta mode spiral antenna includes a dielectric substrate having an upper side, a lower side, and an outward edge. A flat top cone with cylinder sidewall is attached to the lower side of the dielectric substrate, forming a scalable feed cavity. Two spiraling conductive radiator arms are mounted on the dielectric substrate. A magic-T is electrically connected to the two spiraling conductive radiator arms. |
| FILED | Friday, August 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/594574 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 1/28 (20130101) H01Q 9/27 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09438025 | Athan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Defense Electronics Corporation (Pinellas Park, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | DEFENSE ELECTRONICS CORPORATION (Pinellas Park, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephan P. Athan (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, apparatus, and integrated circuits that provide radiation hardening through chip level integrated recovery are provided. The apparatus may include first and second circuits within a partition of an integrated circuit and a state machine configured to monitor current leakage of the first circuit while the first circuit is powered on and to power on the second circuit and power off the first circuit when the monitored first circuit current leakage exceeds a first current leakage threshold. The method may include powering a first circuit of a partition within an integrated circuit, monitoring current leakage of the first circuit while the first circuit is powered on and the second circuit is powered off, and powering off the first circuit and powering on the second circuit when the monitored first circuit current leakage exceeds a first current leakage threshold. |
| FILED | Monday, March 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/793065 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements H02H 3/087 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H02H 9/001 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09438245 | Bronn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas T. Bronn (Long Island City, New York); Jerry M. Chow (White Plains, New York); Jay M. Gambetta (Yorktown Heights, New York); Nicholas A. Masluk (Putnam Valley, New York); Matthias Steffen (Cortlandt Manor, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A mechanism relates a superconductor circuit. A Δ circuit includes a first node connecting a Purcell capacitor to a qubit coupling capacitor, a second node connecting the Purcell capacitor to a readout coupling capacitor, and a third node connecting the qubit coupling capacitor to the readout coupling capacitor. A qubit is connected to the first node and has a qubit frequency. A readout resonator connects to the third node combining with the Purcell capacitor to form a filter. Capacitance of the Purcell capacitor is determined as a factor of the qubit frequency of the qubit and blocks emissions of the qubit at the qubit frequency. Capacitance of the Purcell capacitor causes destructive interference, between a first path containing Purcell capacitor and a second path containing both the qubit coupling capacitor and readout coupling capacitor, in order to block emissions of the qubit at the qubit frequency to the external environment. |
| FILED | Monday, October 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/512489 |
| ART UNIT | 2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse Technique H03K 19/195 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03K 19/00346 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09438277 | Ramlall et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sunil Ramlall (San Diego, California); Rohan Ramlall (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sunil Ramlall (San Diego, California); Rohan Ramlall (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for bandpass sampling of a continuous analog signal according to several embodiments can use a linear relationship between sampling frequency and intermediate frequency where fIF is the intermediate frequency and FS is the sampling frequency of the bandpass sampling, fC is the carrier frequency, B is a bandwidth and fU is an upper frequency for the signal, and n is an integer such that The sampling frequency FS can be chosen first and the IF can be calculated without iteration using the relationship above. Or, when fIF is the most important design parameter, fIF can be selected first, and sample frequencies which will not cause aliasing can be solved by calculating FS given IF using the equation above, for all values of n so that and then selecting a particular FS. fIF can be chosen to be FS/4. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/452042 |
| ART UNIT | 2631 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 1/1255 (20130101) Transmission H04B 1/0007 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 5/001 (20130101) |
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| US 09438454 | Su |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Government of the United States, as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Su (Bel Air, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments associated with synchronization of signal editions from multiple sensors are described. A plurality of sensors can be deployed in an environment. Different copies of a desired signal can be present in the environment and there can be a desire to identify this signal even if the signal is unknown (and a demodulation scheme of the desired signal is not known). The plurality of sensors can sense weak editions of the desired signal and transfer those signals to a master sensor or to a separate location, such as a fusion center. The weak editions may be asynchronous due to the editions being captured at different locations, different channels, different devices, etc. At the master sensor or separate location, the weak editions can be post-synchronized together and then fused together into a strong signal. From the strong signal, a demodulation scheme can be determined and the signal can be demodulated. |
| FILED | Sunday, March 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/783309 |
| ART UNIT | 2632 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 1/10 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 27/0012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 27/2655 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09438516 | Chang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kirk K. Chang (Morganville, New Jersey); Gi Tae Kim (Morristown, New Jersey); John Unger (Bud Lake, New Jersey); John Sucec (Piscataway, New Jersey); Sunil Samtani (East Newark, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nytell Software LLC (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kirk K. Chang (Morganville, New Jersey); Gi Tae Kim (Morristown, New Jersey); John Unger (Bud Lake, New Jersey); John Sucec (Piscataway, New Jersey); Sunil Samtani (East Newark, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | In a secure network where the network characteristics are not known, a call admission control algorithm and a preemption control algorithm based on a destination node informing the source node of the observed carried traffic are used to regulate the amount of traffic that needs to be preempted by the source. The amount of traffic that needs to be preempted is based on the carried traffic measured at the destination node. The traffic to be preempted is based on the priority of the traffic, where the lowest priority traffic is the first to be preempted until the amount of traffic preempted is sufficient to allow the remaining traffic to pass through the network without congestion. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/104489 |
| ART UNIT | 2479 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 12/5695 (20130101) H04L 47/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 47/11 (20130101) H04L 47/245 (20130101) H04L 47/805 (20130101) H04L 47/822 (20130101) H04L 47/2408 (20130101) H04L 47/2433 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09439295 | Lazarus et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Research Laboratory (Adelphi, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan S. Lazarus (Bethesda, Maryland); Christopher D. Meyer (Bethesda, Maryland); Sarah S. Bedair (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention are directed to electrical devices and methods for fabricating electrical devices using an oxidation process. According to one embodiment, a method of forming an electrical device using an oxidation process includes forming a metallic element which is to become an electrically insulating or resistive element in an electrical device; forming an electrically conductive element connected to the metallic element, wherein the metallic element and the electrically conductive element have different oxidation behavior when subjected to the oxidation process; and subjecting the elements forming the electrically insulating or resistive element and the electrically conductive element to the oxidation process. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/870018 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00095 (20130101) Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 25/00 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 1/165 (20130101) H05K 3/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05K 2201/0394 (20130101) H05K 2203/0315 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49002 (20150115) |
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| US 09433885 | Appel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aaron M. Appel (Richland, Washington); James J. Strohm (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aaron M. Appel (Richland, Washington); James J. Strohm (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for removing components of a gaseous mixture is provided comprising: a reactor fluid containing vessel having conduits extending therefrom, aqueous fluid within the reactor, the fluid containing a ligand and a metal, and at least one reactive surface within the vessel coupled to a power source. A method for removing a component from a gaseous mixture is provided comprising exposing the gaseous mixture to a fluid containing a ligand and a reactive metal, the exposing chemically binding the component of the gaseous mixture to the ligand. A method of capturing a component of a gaseous mixture is provided comprising: exposing the gaseous mixture to a fluid containing a ligand and a reactive metal, the exposing chemically binding the component of the gaseous mixture to the ligand, altering the oxidation state of the metal, the altering unbinding the component from the ligand, and capturing the component. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/440683 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/62 (20130101) B01D 53/96 (20130101) B01D 53/965 (20130101) B01D 53/1425 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 53/1475 (20130101) B01D 2251/604 (20130101) B01D 2251/2062 (20130101) B01D 2252/60 (20130101) B01D 2252/102 (20130101) B01D 2255/104 (20130101) B01D 2255/20738 (20130101) B01D 2255/20746 (20130101) B01D 2255/20753 (20130101) B01D 2255/20761 (20130101) B01D 2255/20792 (20130101) B01D 2257/504 (20130101) B01D 2258/0283 (20130101) Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 10/04 (20130101) Y02C 10/06 (20130101) |
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09433887 — Membrane loop process for separating carbon dioxide for use in gaseous form from flue gas
| US 09433887 | Wijmans et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Johannes G Wijmans (Menlo Park, California); Richard W Baker (Palo Alto, California); Timothy C Merkel (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH, INC. (Newark, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Johannes G Wijmans (Menlo Park, California); Richard W Baker (Palo Alto, California); Timothy C Merkel (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a process involving membrane-based gas separation for separating and recovering carbon dioxide emissions from combustion processes in partially concentrated form, and then transporting the carbon dioxide and using or storing it in a confined manner without concentrating it to high purity. The process of the invention involves building up the concentration of carbon dioxide in a gas flow loop between the combustion step and a membrane separation step. A portion of the carbon dioxide-enriched gas can then be withdrawn from this loop and transported, without the need to liquefy the gas or otherwise create a high-purity stream, to a destination where it is used or confined, preferably in an environmentally benign manner. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/477633 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 53/62 (20130101) B01D 2256/22 (20130101) B01D 2257/504 (20130101) B01D 2311/13 (20130101) Removal or Treatment of Combustion Products or Combustion Residues; Flues F23J 15/02 (20130101) F23J 15/006 (20130101) F23J 2215/50 (20130101) F23J 2219/00 (20130101) Supplying Air or Non-combustible Liquids or Gases to Combustion Apparatus in General; Valves or Dampers Specially Adapted for Controlling Air Supply or Draught in Combustion Apparatus; Inducing Draught in Combustion Apparatus; Tops for Chimneys or Ventilating Shafts; Terminals for Flues F23L 7/007 (20130101) Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 10/04 (20130101) Y02C 10/08 (20130101) Y02C 10/10 (20130101) Y02C 20/20 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 20/344 (20130101) |
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| US 09433892 | Heldebrant et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David J. Heldebrant (Richland, Washington); Phillip K. Koech (Richland, Washington); John C. Linehan (Richland, Washington); James E. Rainbolt (Wenatchee, Washington); Mark D. Bearden (Richland, Washington); Feng Zheng (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Heldebrant (Richland, Washington); Phillip K. Koech (Richland, Washington); John C. Linehan (Richland, Washington); James E. Rainbolt (Wenatchee, Washington); Mark D. Bearden (Richland, Washington); Feng Zheng (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A system, method, and material that enables the pressure-activated reversible chemical capture of acid gasses such as CO2 from gas volumes such as streams, flows or any other volume. Once the acid gas is chemically captured, the resulting product typically a zwitterionic salt, can be subjected to a reduced pressure whereupon the resulting product will release the captures acid gas and the capture material will be regenerated. The invention includes this process as well as the materials and systems for carrying out and enabling this process. |
| FILED | Friday, October 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/516900 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 53/77 (20130101) B01D 53/78 (20130101) B01D 53/1475 (20130101) B01D 53/1493 (20130101) B01D 2252/30 (20130101) B01D 2252/40 (20130101) B01D 2252/20431 (20130101) B01D 2257/504 (20130101) Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 10/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09433920 | Janke et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher J. Janke (Oliver Springs, Tennessee); Sheng Dai (Knoxville, Tennessee); Yatsandra Oyola (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber-based adsorbent and a related method of manufacture are provided. The fiber-based adsorbent includes polymer fibers with grafted side chains and an increased surface area per unit weight over known fibers to increase the adsorption of dissolved metals, for example uranium, from aqueous solutions. The polymer fibers include a circular morphology in some embodiments, having a mean diameter of less than 15 microns, optionally less than about 1 micron. In other embodiments, the polymer fibers include a non-circular morphology, optionally defining multiple gear-shaped, winged-shaped or lobe-shaped projections along the length of the polymer fibers. A method for forming the fiber-based adsorbents includes irradiating high surface area polymer fibers, grafting with polymerizable reactive monomers, reacting the grafted fibers with hydroxylamine, and conditioning with an alkaline solution. High surface area fiber-based adsorbents formed according to the present method demonstrated a significantly improved uranium adsorption capacity per unit weight over existing adsorbents. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/226942 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/264 (20130101) B01J 20/265 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 20/3085 (20130101) B01J 20/28004 (20130101) B01J 20/28016 (20130101) B01J 20/28023 (20130101) B01J 20/28033 (20130101) B01J 45/00 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 3/28 (20130101) C08J 7/16 (20130101) C08J 7/18 (20130101) C08J 9/36 (20130101) C08J 2323/06 (20130101) C08J 2433/18 (20130101) Production and Refining of Metals; Pretreatment of Raw Materials C22B 60/0265 (20130101) Crimping or Curling Fibres, Filaments, Threads, or Yarns; Yarns or Threads D02G 3/22 (20130101) D02G 3/34 (20130101) Treatment, Not Provided for Elsewhere in Class D06, of Fibres, Threads, Yarns, Fabrics, Feathers or Fibrous Goods Made From Such Materials D06M 10/008 (20130101) D06M 11/63 (20130101) D06M 14/28 (20130101) D06M 15/31 (20130101) D06M 15/263 (20130101) D06M 2101/20 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2973 (20150115) Y10T 428/2978 (20150115) |
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| US 09433924 | Kim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Manhoe Kim (Troy, Michigan); Steven O. Salley (Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan); K. Y. Simon Ng (West Bloomfield, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manhoe Kim (Troy, Michigan); Steven O. Salley (Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan); K. Y. Simon Ng (West Bloomfield, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Mixed metal oxide catalysts (ZnO, CeO, La2O3, NiO, Al203, Si02, TiO2, Nd2O3, Yb2O3, or any combination of these) supported on zirconia (ZrO2) or hydrous zirconia are provided. These mixed metal oxide catalysts can be prepared via coprecipitation, impregnation, or sol-gel methods from metal salt precursors with/without a Zirconium salt precursor. Metal oxides/ZrO2 catalyzes both esterification and transesterification of oil containing free fatty acids in one batch or in single stage. In particular, these mixed metal oxides supported or added on zirconium oxide exhibit good activity and selectivity for esterification and transesterification. The low acid strength of this catalyst can avoid undesirable side reaction such as alcohol dehydration or cracking of fatty acids. Metal oxides/ZrO2 catalysts are not sensitive to any water generated from esterification. Thus, esterification does not require a water free condition or the presence of excess methanol to occur when using the mixed metal oxide catalyst. The FAME yield obtained with metal oxides/ZrO2 is higher than that obtained with homogeneous sulfuric acid catalyst. Metal oxides/ZrO2 catalasts can be prepared as strong pellets and in various shapes for use directly in a flow reactor. Furthermore, the pellet has a strong resistance toward dissolution to aqueous or oil phases. |
| FILED | Monday, November 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/508738 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 21/063 (20130101) B01J 21/066 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 23/002 (20130101) B01J 23/06 (20130101) B01J 23/10 (20130101) B01J 23/80 (20130101) B01J 37/031 (20130101) B01J 37/036 (20130101) B01J 2523/00 (20130101) B01J 2523/00 (20130101) B01J 2523/00 (20130101) B01J 2523/00 (20130101) B01J 2523/00 (20130101) B01J 2523/00 (20130101) B01J 2523/00 (20130101) B01J 2523/00 (20130101) B01J 2523/00 (20130101) B01J 2523/00 (20130101) B01J 2523/27 (20130101) B01J 2523/27 (20130101) B01J 2523/27 (20130101) B01J 2523/27 (20130101) B01J 2523/27 (20130101) B01J 2523/27 (20130101) B01J 2523/27 (20130101) B01J 2523/27 (20130101) B01J 2523/27 (20130101) B01J 2523/41 (20130101) B01J 2523/41 (20130101) B01J 2523/41 (20130101) B01J 2523/41 (20130101) B01J 2523/41 (20130101) B01J 2523/47 (20130101) B01J 2523/47 (20130101) B01J 2523/47 (20130101) B01J 2523/47 (20130101) B01J 2523/48 (20130101) B01J 2523/48 (20130101) B01J 2523/48 (20130101) B01J 2523/48 (20130101) B01J 2523/48 (20130101) B01J 2523/48 (20130101) B01J 2523/48 (20130101) B01J 2523/847 (20130101) B01J 2523/3725 (20130101) B01J 2523/3725 (20130101) B01J 2523/3725 (20130101) B01J 2523/3743 (20130101) B01J 2523/3787 (20130101) B01J 2523/3787 (20130101) B01J 2523/3787 (20130101) B01J 2523/3787 (20130101) Cracking Hydrocarbon Oils; Production of Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g by Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation; Recovery of Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, or Gases; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting of Hydrocarbons; Reforming of Naphtha; Mineral Waxes C10G 2300/1003 (20130101) C10G 2300/1011 (20130101) Fatty Acids From Fats, Oils or Waxes; Candles; Fats, Oils or Fatty Acids by Chemical Modification of Fats, Oils, or Fatty Acids Obtained Therefrom C11C 3/003 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/13 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 30/20 (20151101) |
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| US 09434645 | Adams et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J. Adams (Livermore, California); Masoud Bolourchi (Livermore, California); Jeffrey D. Bude (Danville, California); Gabriel M. Guss (Manteca, California); Jeffery A. Jarboe (Livermore, California); Manyalibo J. Matthews (Livermore, California); Michael C. Nostrand (Livermore, California); Paul J. Wegner (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for repairing a damage site on a surface of an optical material is disclosed. The method may involve focusing an Infrared (IR) laser beam having a predetermined wavelength, with a predetermined beam power, to a predetermined full width (“F/W”) 1/e2 diameter spot on the damage site. The focused IR laser beam is maintained on the damage site for a predetermined exposure period corresponding to a predetermined acceptable level of downstream intensification. The focused IR laser beam heats the damage site to a predetermined peak temperature, which melts and reflows material at the damage site of the optical material to create a mitigated site. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/707053 |
| ART UNIT | 1741 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| 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 26/0081 (20130101) B23K 26/0626 (20130101) Chemical Composition of Glasses, Glazes or Vitreous Enamels; Surface Treatment of Glass; Surface Treatment of Fibres or Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals or Slags; Joining Glass to Glass or Other Materials C03C 23/0025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09434658 | Narula et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chaitanya K. Narula (Knoxville, Tennessee); Brian H. Davison (Knoxville, Tennessee); Martin Keller (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for converting an alcohol to a hydrocarbon fraction having a lowered benzene content, the method comprising: converting said alcohol to a hydrocarbon fraction by contacting said alcohol, under conditions suitable for converting said alcohol to said hydrocarbon fraction, with a metal-loaded zeolite catalyst catalytically active for converting said alcohol to said hydrocarbon fraction, and contacting said hydrocarbon fraction with a benzene alkylation catalyst, under conditions suitable for alkylating benzene, to form alkylated benzene product in said hydrocarbon fraction. Also described is a catalyst composition useful in the method, comprising a mixture of (i) a metal-loaded zeolite catalyst catalytically active for converting said alcohol to said hydrocarbon, and (ii) a benzene alkylation catalyst, in which (i) and (ii) may be in a mixed or separated state. A reactor for housing the catalyst and conducting the reaction is also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/787112 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 29/18 (20130101) B01J 29/40 (20130101) B01J 29/46 (20130101) B01J 29/48 (20130101) B01J 29/061 (20130101) B01J 29/76 (20130101) B01J 29/78 (20130101) B01J 29/80 (20130101) B01J 29/084 (20130101) B01J 29/088 (20130101) B01J 29/405 (20130101) B01J 29/7049 (20130101) B01J 35/0006 (20130101) B01J 2229/18 (20130101) B01J 2229/186 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 1/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 1/24 (20130101) C07C 1/24 (20130101) C07C 2/64 (20130101) C07C 2/66 (20130101) C07C 2/66 (20130101) C07C 2/864 (20130101) C07C 2/864 (20130101) C07C 11/04 (20130101) C07C 15/073 (20130101) C07C 15/073 (20130101) C07C 2529/08 (20130101) C07C 2529/14 (20130101) C07C 2529/18 (20130101) C07C 2529/40 (20130101) C07C 2529/48 (20130101) C07C 2529/70 (20130101) C07C 2529/072 (20130101) C07C 2529/076 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/06 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/17 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/52 (20151101) Y02P 30/20 (20151101) |
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| US 09434659 | Lilga et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Lilga (Richland, Washington); John G. Frye, Jr. (Richland, Washington); Suh-Jane Lee (Richland, Washington); Karl O. Albrecht (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition comprising 2,3-butanediol is dehydrated to methyl vinyl carbinol and/or 1,3-butadiene by exposure to a catalyst comprising (a) MxOy wherein M is a rare earth metal, a group IIIA metal, Zr, or a combination thereof, and x and y are based upon an oxidation state of M, or (b) M3a(PO4)b where M3 is a group IA, a group IIA metal, a group IIIA metal, or a combination thereof, and a and b are based upon the oxidation state of M3. Embodiments of the catalyst comprising MxOy may further include M2, wherein M2 is a rare earth metal, a group IIA metal, Zr, Al, or a combination thereof. In some embodiments, 2,3-butanediol is dehydrated to methyl vinyl carbinol and/or 1,3-butadiene by a catalyst comprising MxOy, and the methyl vinyl carbinol is subsequently dehydrated to 1,3-butadiene by exposure to a solid acid catalyst. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 28, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/607871 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/00 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 1/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 1/24 (20130101) C07C 1/30 (20130101) C07C 1/2078 (20130101) C07C 11/167 (20130101) C07C 29/60 (20130101) C07C 29/60 (20130101) C07C 33/03 (20130101) C07C 49/203 (20130101) C07C 2521/04 (20130101) C07C 2521/06 (20130101) C07C 2523/02 (20130101) C07C 2523/08 (20130101) C07C 2523/10 (20130101) C07C 2527/167 (20130101) C07C 2529/40 (20130101) C07C 2529/70 (20130101) |
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| US 09434666 | Vasudevan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kalyan V. Vasudevan (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Guoqi Zhang (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Susan K. Hanson (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kalyan V. Vasudevan (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Guoqi Zhang (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Susan K. Hanson (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Complexes of cobalt and nickel with tridentate ligand PNHPR are effective for hydrogenation of unsaturated compounds. Cobalt complex [(PNHPCy)Co(CH2SiMe3)]BArF4 (PNHPCy=bis[2-(dicyclohexylphosphino)ethyl]amine, BArF4=B(3,5-(CF3)2C6H3)4)) was prepared and used with hydrogen for hydrogenation of alkenes, aldehydes, ketones, and imines under mild conditions (25-60° C., 1-4 atm H2). Nickel complex [(PNHPCy)Ni(H)]BPh4 was used for hydrogenation of styrene and 1-octene under mild conditions. (PNPCy)Ni(H) was used for hydrogenating alkenes. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/587717 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 31/189 (20130101) B01J 2231/643 (20130101) B01J 2531/0244 (20130101) B01J 2531/845 (20130101) B01J 2531/847 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 5/03 (20130101) C07C 5/03 (20130101) C07C 5/03 (20130101) C07C 5/03 (20130101) C07C 5/03 (20130101) C07C 5/03 (20130101) C07C 5/03 (20130101) C07C 5/05 (20130101) C07C 5/05 (20130101) C07C 11/02 (20130101) C07C 13/20 (20130101) C07C 13/26 (20130101) C07C 13/64 (20130101) C07C 15/02 (20130101) C07C 15/073 (20130101) C07C 15/085 (20130101) C07C 17/354 (20130101) C07C 17/354 (20130101) C07C 25/13 (20130101) C07C 29/141 (20130101) C07C 29/141 (20130101) C07C 29/141 (20130101) C07C 29/141 (20130101) C07C 29/145 (20130101) C07C 29/145 (20130101) C07C 29/145 (20130101) C07C 29/145 (20130101) C07C 29/145 (20130101) C07C 29/145 (20130101) C07C 29/172 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 29/172 (20130101) C07C 29/175 (20130101) C07C 29/175 (20130101) C07C 29/175 (20130101) C07C 31/125 (20130101) C07C 31/125 (20130101) C07C 31/125 (20130101) C07C 31/125 (20130101) C07C 33/20 (20130101) C07C 33/22 (20130101) C07C 33/22 (20130101) C07C 33/24 (20130101) C07C 33/46 (20130101) C07C 35/32 (20130101) C07C 35/38 (20130101) C07C 41/01 (20130101) C07C 41/18 (20130101) C07C 41/20 (20130101) C07C 41/20 (20130101) C07C 41/20 (20130101) C07C 41/26 (20130101) C07C 41/26 (20130101) C07C 43/04 (20130101) C07C 43/23 (20130101) C07C 43/205 (20130101) C07C 45/62 (20130101) C07C 45/62 (20130101) C07C 49/403 (20130101) C07C 51/36 (20130101) C07C 51/36 (20130101) C07C 53/126 (20130101) C07C 67/303 (20130101) C07C 67/303 (20130101) C07C 69/24 (20130101) C07C 209/52 (20130101) C07C 209/52 (20130101) C07C 209/52 (20130101) C07C 211/27 (20130101) C07C 211/48 (20130101) C07C 2101/14 (20130101) C07C 2101/16 (20130101) C07C 2101/18 (20130101) C07C 2102/08 (20130101) C07C 2102/42 (20130101) C07C 2103/18 (20130101) C07C 2531/14 (20130101) C07C 2531/28 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 211/02 (20130101) C07D 211/46 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/04 (20130101) C07F 15/04 (20130101) C07F 15/06 (20130101) C07F 15/045 (20130101) C07F 15/065 (20130101) |
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| US 09434875 | Cannan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CARBO Ceramics Inc. (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CARBO CERAMICS INC. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad Cannan (Cypress, Texas); Todd Roper (Katy, Texas); Steve Savoy (Austin, Texas); Daniel R. Mitchell (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrically-conductive sintered, substantially round and spherical particles and methods for producing such electrically-conductive sintered, substantially round and spherical particles from an alumina-containing raw material. Methods for using such electrically-conductive sintered, substantially round and spherical particles in hydraulic fracturing operations. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/572486 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 5/12 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2006/10 (20130101) C01P 2006/40 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 8/805 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Earth Drilling, e.g Deep Drilling; Obtaining Oil, Gas, Water, Soluble or Meltable Materials or a Slurry of Minerals From Wells E21B 43/267 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2438 (20150115) Y10T 428/2991 (20150115) |
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| US 09434956 | Unkefer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico); University of Maine System Board of Trustees (Bangor, Maine) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico); UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM BOARD OF TRUSTEES (Bangor, Maine) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pat J. Unkefer (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Penelope S. Anderson (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Thomas J. Knight (Raymond, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to transgenic plants exhibiting dramatically enhanced growth rates, greater seed and fruit/pod yields, earlier and more productive flowering, more efficient nitrogen utilization, increased tolerance to high salt conditions, and increased biomass yields. In one embodiment, transgenic plants engineered to over-express both glutamine phenylpyruvate transaminase (GPT) and glutamine synthetase (GS) are provided. The GPT+GS double-transgenic plants of the invention consistently exhibit enhanced growth characteristics, with T0 generation lines showing an increase in biomass over wild type counterparts of between 50% and 300%. Generations that result from sexual crosses and/or selfing typically perform even better, with some of the double-transgenic plants achieving an astounding four-fold biomass increase over wild type plants. |
| FILED | Friday, December 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/714948 |
| ART UNIT | 1663 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/1096 (20130101) C12N 15/8261 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09434974 | Glass et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John I. Glass (Germantown, Maryland); Lei Young (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Carole Lartigue (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Nacyra Assad-Garcia (Germantown, Maryland); Hamilton O. Smith (Reistertown, Maryland); Clyde A. Hutchison (La Jolla, California); J. Craig Venter (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Synthetic Genomics, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John I. Glass (Germantown, Maryland); Lei Young (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Carole Lartigue (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Nacyra Assad-Garcia (Germantown, Maryland); Hamilton O. Smith (Reistertown, Maryland); Clyde A. Hutchison (La Jolla, California); J. Craig Venter (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for introducing a genome into a cell or cell-like system. The introduced genome may occur in nature, be manmade with or without automation, or may be a hybrid of naturally occurring and manmade materials. The genome is obtained outside of a cell with minimal damage. Materials such as a proteins, RNAs, polycations, nucleoid condensation proteins, or gene translation systems may accompany the genome. The genome is installed into a naturally occurring cell or into a manmade cell-like system. A cell-like system or synthetic cell resulting from the practice of the provided method may be designed and used to yield gene-expression products, such as desired proteins. By enabling the synthesis of cells or cell-like systems comprising a wide variety of genomes, accompanying materials and membrane types, the provided method makes possible a broader field of experimentation and bioengineering than has been available using prior art methods. |
| FILED | Friday, December 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/644713 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2510/00 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 21/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09434997 | Colston, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bill W. Colston, Jr. (San Ramon, California); J. Patrick Fitch (Middletown, Maryland); Shea N. Gardner (Oakland, California); Peter L. Williams (San Anselmo, California); Mark C. Wagner (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bill W. Colston, Jr. (San Ramon, California); J. Patrick Fitch (Middletown, Maryland); Shea N. Gardner (Oakland, California); Peter L. Williams (San Anselmo, California); Mark C. Wagner (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods to identify a set of probe polynucleotides suitable for detecting a set of targets and in particular methods for identification of primers suitable for detection of target microorganisms related polynucleotides, set of polynucleotides and compositions, and related methods and systems for detection and/or identification of microorganisms in a sample. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/196238 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/689 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/701 (20130101) |
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| US 09435011 | Holcomb et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David E. Holcomb (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Govindarajan Muralidharan (Knoxville, Tennessee); Dane F. Wilson (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An essentially Fe- and Co-free alloy is composed essentially of, in terms of weight percent: 6.0 to 7.5 Cr, 0 to 0.15 Al, 0.5 to 0.85 Mn, 11 to 19.5 Mo, 0.03 to 4.5 Ta, 0.01 to 9 W, 0.03 to 0.08 C, 0 to 1 Re, 0 to 1 Ru, 0 to 0.001 B, 0.0005 to 0.005 N, balance Ni, the alloy being characterized by, at 850° C., a yield strength of at least 25 Ksi, a tensile strength of at least 38 Ksi, a creep rupture life at 12 Ksi of at least 25 hours, and a corrosion rate, expressed in weight loss [g/(cm2 sec)]10−11 during a 1000 hour immersion in liquid FLiNaK at 850° C., in the range of 3 to 10. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/962197 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Alloys C22C 19/007 (20130101) C22C 19/057 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Changing the Physical Structure of Non-ferrous Metals and Non-ferrous Alloys C22F 1/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09435021 | Thompson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark E. Thompson (Ewing, New Jersey); Zhiwei Liu (Ewing, New Jersey); Chao Wu (Ewing, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Thompson (Ewing, New Jersey); Zhiwei Liu (Ewing, New Jersey); Chao Wu (Ewing, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating an OLED by preparing phosphorescent metal complexes in situ is provided. In particular, the method simultaneously synthesizes and deposits copper (I) complexes in an organic light emitting device. Devices comprising such complexes may provide improved photoluminescent and electroluminescent properties. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/193036 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 1/005 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/06 (20130101) C09K 2211/188 (20130101) C09K 2211/1007 (20130101) C09K 2211/1029 (20130101) C09K 2211/1048 (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 14/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/001 (20130101) H01L 51/0091 (20130101) H01L 51/5016 (20130101) |
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| US 09435033 | Qu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jun Qu (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Huimin Luo (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for conversion coating a magnesium-containing surface, the method comprising contacting the magnesium-containing surface with an ionic liquid compound under conditions that result in decomposition of the ionic liquid compound to produce a conversion coated magnesium-containing surface having a substantially improved corrosion resistance relative to the magnesium-containing surface before said conversion coating. Also described are the resulting conversion-coated magnesium-containing surface, as well as mechanical components and devices containing the conversion-coated magnesium-containing surface. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 02, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/044248 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| 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 22/03 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C23C 22/48 (20130101) C23C 22/57 (20130101) C23C 22/74 (20130101) |
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| US 09435039 | O'Keefe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthew J. O'Keefe (Rolla, Missouri); Surender Maddela (Rolla, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators Of The University Of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew J. O'Keefe (Rolla, Missouri); Surender Maddela (Rolla, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Mixed-metal automotive vehicle bodies-in-white comprising ferrous metal surfaces, zinc surfaces, aluminum alloy surfaces, and magnesium alloy surfaces are cleaned and immersed in an aqueous bath comprising an adhesion promoter and an aqueous electrocoat bath (the adhesion promoter may be in the electrocoat bath. The adhesion promoter, which may be a cerium salt, is selected to react with each metal in the body surfaces to form an oxide layer that provides corrosion resistance for the surface and adherence for the deposited polymeric paint coating. The body is cathodic in the electrocoat deposition. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/450667 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| 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 22/68 (20130101) Cleaning or Degreasing of Metallic Material by Chemical Methods Other Than Electrolysis C23G 1/00 (20130101) C23G 3/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Processes for the Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Production of Coatings; Electroforming; Apparatus Therefor C25D 13/20 (20130101) C25D 13/22 (20130101) |
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| US 09435043 | Haber et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel A. Haber (Pasadena, California); Jian Jin (Berkeley, California); Chengxiang Xiang (Costa Mesa, California); John M. Gregoire (Sierra Madre, California); Ryan J. Jones (Pasadena, California); Dan W. Guevarra (Norwalk, California); Aniketa A. Shinde (Upland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An Oxygen Evolution Reaction (OER) catalyst includes a metal oxide that includes oxygen, cerium, and one or more second metals. In some instances, the cerium is 10 to 80 molar % of the metals in the metal oxide and/or the catalyst includes two or more second metals. The OER catalyst can be included in or on an electrode. The electrode can be arranged in an oxygen evolution system such that the Oxygen Evolution Reaction occurs at the electrode. |
| FILED | Friday, December 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/569497 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Processes for the Production of Compounds or Non-metals; Apparatus Therefor C25B 1/02 (20130101) C25B 11/0452 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Processes for the Electrolytic Production, Recovery or Refining of Metals; Apparatus Therefor C25C 7/02 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/9016 (20130101) |
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| US 09435209 | Garcia Crespo |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andres Jose Garcia Crespo (Greenville, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present disclosure include a system having a turbomachine blade segment including a blade and a mounting segment coupled to the blade, wherein the mounting segment has a plurality of reinforcement pins laterally extending at least partially through a neck of the mounting segment. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 25, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/660989 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/147 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F01D 5/282 (20130101) F01D 5/284 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2260/941 (20130101) F05D 2300/702 (20130101) F05D 2300/6033 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 20/16 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/672 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49337 (20150115) |
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| US 09435212 | Scribner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carmen Andrew Scribner (Charlotte, North Carolina); Stephen John Messmann (Charlotte, North Carolina); Jan H. Marsh (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine airfoil usable in a turbine engine and having at least one snubber with a snubber cooling system positioned therein and in communication with an airfoil cooling system is disclosed. The snubber may extend from the outer housing of the airfoil toward an adjacent turbine airfoil positioned within a row of airfoils. The snubber cooling system may include an inner cooling channel separated from an outer cooling channel by an inner wall. The inner wall may include a plurality of impingement cooling orifices that direct impingement fluid against an outer wall defining the outer cooling channel. In one embodiment, the cooling fluids may be exhausted from the snubber, and in another embodiment, the cooling fluids may be returned to the airfoil cooling system. Flow guides may be positioned in the outer cooling channel, which may reduce cross-flow by the impingement orifices, thereby increasing effectiveness. |
| FILED | Friday, November 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/074930 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/22 (20130101) F01D 5/187 (20130101) F01D 5/188 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F01D 5/3007 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2260/201 (20130101) |
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| US 09435268 | Garcia-Crespo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andres Jose Garcia-Crespo (Greenville, South Carolina); John Delvaux (Greenville, South Carolina); Noemie Dion Ouellet (Greenville, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of controlling volatilization of silicon based components in a gas turbine engine includes measuring, estimating and/or predicting a variable related to operation of the gas turbine engine; correlating the variable to determine an amount of silicon to control volatilization of the silicon based components in the gas turbine engine; and injecting silicon into the gas turbine engine to control volatilization of the silicon based components. A gas turbine with a compressor, combustion system, turbine section and silicon injection system may be controlled by a controller that implements the control method. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/222927 |
| ART UNIT | 3754 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/288 (20130101) Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 9/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2270/11 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/672 (20130101) |
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| US 09435298 | Hayman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan W. Hayman (Romeo, Michigan); Robert S. McAlpine (Lake Orion, Michigan); Edward J. Keating (Ortonville, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An internal combustion engine comprises a first engine bank and a second engine bank. A first intake valve is disposed in an intake port of a cylinder of the first engine bank, and is configured for metering the first flow of combustion air by periodically opening and closing according to a first intake valve lift and duration characteristic. A variable valve train control mechanism is configured for affecting the first intake valve lift and duration characteristic. Either a lift or duration of the first intake valve is modulated so as to satisfy an EGR control criterion. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/937280 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion Piston Engines; Combustion Engines in General F02B 27/0268 (20130101) F02B 29/0406 (20130101) F02B 33/00 (20130101) Supplying Combustion Engines in General With Combustible Mixtures or Constituents Thereof F02M 26/03 (20160201) F02M 26/09 (20160201) F02M 26/21 (20160201) F02M 26/38 (20160201) F02M 26/39 (20160201) F02M 26/43 (20160201) Original (OR) Class F02M 35/10045 (20130101) F02M 35/10255 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/121 (20130101) Y02T 10/146 (20130101) |
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| US 09435539 | Keener et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Paul Keener (Woodruff, South Carolina); Thomas Edward Johnson (Greer, South Carolina); Johnie Franklin McConnaughhay (Greenville, South Carolina); Heath Michael Ostebee (Piedmont, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application provides a combustor for use with a gas turbine engine. The combustor may include a number of fuel nozzles, a pre-nozzle fuel injection system supporting the fuel nozzles, and a linear actuator to maneuver the fuel nozzles and the pre-nozzle fuel injection system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/760091 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | 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) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09435679 | Daily, III |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William Dean Daily, III (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Dean Daily, III (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for sensing the level of a liquid includes a float, a tether attached to the float, a pulley attached to the tether, a rotation sensor connected to the pulley that senses vertical movement of said float and senses the level of the liquid. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/882913 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow or Liquid Level; Metering by Volume G01F 23/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01F 23/42 (20130101) G01F 23/44 (20130101) G01F 23/443 (20130101) G01F 23/446 (20130101) |
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| US 09436179 | Turney et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Johnson Controls Technology Company (Holland, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Johnson Controls Technology Company (Holland, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert D. Turney (Watertown, Wisconsin); Michael J. Wenzel (Oak Creek, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems to minimize energy cost in response to time-varying energy prices are presented for a variety of different pricing scenarios. A cascaded model predictive control system is disclosed comprising an inner controller and an outer controller. The inner controller controls power use using a derivative of a temperature setpoint and the outer controller controls temperature via a power setpoint or power deferral. An optimization procedure is used to minimize a cost function within a time horizon subject to temperature constraints, equality constraints, and demand charge constraints. Equality constraints are formulated using system model information and system state information whereas demand charge constraints are formulated using system state information and pricing information. A masking procedure is used to invalidate demand charge constraints for inactive pricing periods including peak, partial-peak, off-peak, critical-peak, and real-time. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/802279 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 23/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 70/32 (20130101) Y02B 70/3225 (20130101) Y02B 70/3241 (20130101) Systems Integrating Technologies Related to Power Network Operation, Communication or Information Technologies for Improving the Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management or Usage, i.e Smart Grids Y04S 20/20 (20130101) Y04S 20/40 (20130101) Y04S 20/44 (20130101) Y04S 20/46 (20130101) Y04S 20/222 (20130101) Y04S 20/224 (20130101) |
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| US 09436436 | Humble et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Travis S. Humble (Knoxville, Tennessee); Raphael C. Pooser (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for generating random numbers. The system may include a random number generator (RNG), such as a quantum random number generator (QRNG) configured to self-correct or adapt in order to substantially achieve randomness from the output of the RNG. By adapting, the RNG may generate a random number that may be considered random regardless of whether the random number itself is tested as such. As an example, the RNG may include components to monitor one or more characteristics of the RNG during operation, and may use the monitored characteristics as a basis for adapting, or self-correcting, to provide a random number according to one or more performance criteria. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/178863 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 7/588 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 99/002 (20130101) |
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| US 09436552 | Cher |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chen-Yong Cher (Port Chester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | According to an aspect, a method for triggering creation of a checkpoint in a computer system includes executing a task in a processing node of the computer system and determining whether it is time to read a monitor associated with a metric of the task. The monitor is read to determine a value of the metric based on determining that it is time to read the monitor. A threshold for triggering creation of the checkpoint is determined based on the value of the metric. Based on determining that the value of the metric has crossed the threshold, the checkpoint including state data of the task is created to enable restarting execution of the task upon a restart operation. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/302947 |
| ART UNIT | 2114 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/1407 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 11/1438 (20130101) G06F 11/1469 (20130101) G06F 11/3037 (20130101) G06F 11/3409 (20130101) G06F 2201/81 (20130101) |
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| US 09436722 | Bent et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | EMC Corporation (Hopkinton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | EMC Corporation (Hopkinton, Massachusetts); Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. Bent (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Sorin Faibish (Newton, Massachusetts); Gary Grider (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Checksum values are generated and used to verify the data integrity. A client executing in a parallel computing system stores a data chunk to a shared data object on a storage node in the parallel computing system. The client determines a checksum value for the data chunk; and provides the checksum value with the data chunk to the storage node that stores the shared object. The data chunk can be stored on the storage node with the corresponding checksum value as part of the shared object. The storage node may be part of a Parallel Log-Structured File System (PLFS), and the client may comprise, for example, a Log-Structured File System client on a compute node or burst buffer. The checksum value can be evaluated when the data chunk is read from the storage node to verify the integrity of the data that is read. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/799264 |
| ART UNIT | 2154 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30371 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09437092 | Warmack et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Bruce Warmack (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Dennis A. Wolf (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Steven Shane Frank (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Various apparatus and methods for smoke detection are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of training a classifier for a smoke detector comprises inputting sensor data from a plurality of tests into a processor. The sensor data is processed to generate derived signal data corresponding to the test data for respective tests. The derived signal data is assigned into categories comprising at least one fire group and at least one non-fire group. Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) training is performed by the processor. The derived signal data and the assigned categories for the derived signal data are inputs to the LDA training. The output of the LDA training is stored in a computer readable medium, such as in a smoke detector that uses LDA to determine, based on the training, whether present conditions indicate the existence of a fire. |
| FILED | Monday, September 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/859631 |
| ART UNIT | 2684 — Telemetry and Code Generation Vehicles and System Alarms |
| CURRENT CPC | Signalling or Calling Systems; Order Telegraphs; Alarm Systems G08B 3/10 (20130101) G08B 17/00 (20130101) G08B 17/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G08B 17/117 (20130101) G08B 29/20 (20130101) G08B 29/188 (20130101) |
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| US 09437331 | Cordaro et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph V. Cordaro (Martinez, Georgia); John Stephen Bellamy (Aiken, South Carolina); James M. Shuler (Germantown, Maryland); Davis J. Shull (Batesburg, South Carolina); Daniel R. Leduc (Edgefield, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Generally, the present disclosure is directed to gas monitoring systems that use inductive power transfer to safely power an electrically passive device included within a nuclear material storage container. In particular, the electrically passive device can include an inductive power receiver for receiving inductive power transfer through a wall of the nuclear material storage container. The power received by the inductive power receiver can be used to power one or more sensors included in the device. Thus, the device is not required to include active power generation components such as, for example, a battery, that increase the risk of a spark igniting flammable gases within the container. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/182608 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/0036 (20130101) Nuclear Reactors G21C 17/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 50/10 (20160201) Transmission H04B 5/0037 (20130101) |
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| US 09437335 | Yacout et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | A. M. Yacout (Naperville, Illinois); Michael J. Pellin (Naperville, Illinois); Marius Stan (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | A. M. Yacout (Naperville, Illinois); Michael J. Pellin (Naperville, Illinois); Marius Stan (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A nuclear fuel pellet with a porous substrate, such as a carbon or tungsten aerogel, on which at least one layer of a fuel containing material is deposited via atomic layer deposition, and wherein the layer deposition is controlled to prevent agglomeration of defects. Further, a method of fabricating a nuclear fuel pellet, wherein the method features the steps of selecting a porous substrate, depositing at least one layer of a fuel containing material, and terminating the deposition when the desired porosity is achieved. Also provided is a nuclear reactor fuel cladding made of a porous substrate, such as silicon carbide aerogel or silicon carbide cloth, upon which layers of silicon carbide are deposited. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/017173 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Nuclear Reactors G21C 3/07 (20130101) G21C 3/20 (20130101) G21C 3/044 (20130101) G21C 21/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G21C 2003/045 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 30/40 (20130101) |
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| US 09437629 | Davids et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Davids (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David W. Peters (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Technologies pertaining to converting infrared (IR) radiation to DC energy are described herein. In a general embodiment, a rectenna comprises a conductive layer. A thin insulator layer is formed on the conductive layer, and a nanoantenna is formed on the thin insulator layer. The thin insulator layer acts as a tunnel junction of a tunnel diode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 25, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/834514 |
| ART UNIT | 2897 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/144 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/88 (20130101) H01L 31/09 (20130101) H01L 31/18 (20130101) |
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| US 09437692 | James et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph B. James (Ridge, New York); Giuseppe Camarda (Shoreham, New York); Aleksey E. Bolotnikov (South Setauket, New York); Anwar Hossain (Port Jefferson Station, New York); Ge Yang (Moriches, New York); Kihyun Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | Technologies are described effective to implement systems and methods of producing a material. The methods comprise receiving a tertiary semiconductor sample with a dilute species. The sample has two ends. The first end of the sample includes a first concentration of the dilute species lower than a second concentration of the dilute species in the second end of the sample. The method further comprises heating the sample in a chamber. The chamber has a first zone and a second zone. The first zone having a first temperature higher than a second temperature in the second zone. The sample is orientated such that the first end is in the first zone and the second end is in the second zone. |
| FILED | Friday, October 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/063819 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 1/10 (20130101) C30B 11/00 (20130101) C30B 29/48 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09437771 | Deptuch |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Grzegorz W. Deptuch (Forest Park, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (Batavia, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Grzegorz W. Deptuch (Forest Park, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A monolithic active pixel radiation detector including a method of fabricating thereof. The disclosed radiation detector can include a substrate comprising a silicon layer upon which electronics are configured. A plurality of channels can be formed on the silicon layer, wherein the plurality of channels are connected to sources of signals located in a bulk part of the substrate, and wherein the signals flow through electrically conducting vias established in an isolation oxide on the substrate. One or more nested wells can be configured from the substrate, wherein the nested wells assist in collecting charge carriers released in interaction with radiation and wherein the nested wells further separate the electronics from the sensing portion of the detector substrate. The detector can also be configured according to a thick SOA method of fabrication. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/893514 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/115 (20130101) |
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| US 09437796 | Venkatasubramanian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina); U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rama Venkatasubramanian (Cary, North Carolina); Bruce Allen Cook (Ankeny, Iowa); Evgenii M. Levin (Ames, Iowa); Joel Lee Harringa (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermoelectric material and a thermoelectric converter using this material. The thermoelectric material has a first component including a semiconductor material and a second component including a rare earth material included in the first component to thereby increase a figure of merit of a composite of the semiconductor material and the rare earth material relative to a figure of merit of the semiconductor material. The thermoelectric converter has a p-type thermoelectric material and a n-type thermoelectric material. At least one of the p-type thermoelectric material and the n-type thermoelectric material includes a rare earth material in at least one of the p-type thermoelectric material or the n-type thermoelectric material. |
| FILED | Friday, December 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/725156 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Alloys C22C 1/02 (20130101) C22C 28/00 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 1/401 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 35/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09437864 | Tan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | 24M Technologies, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | 24M Technologies, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Taison Tan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Yet-Ming Chiang (Weston, Massachusetts); Naoki Ota (Lexington, Massachusetts); Throop Wilder (Lincoln, Massachusetts); Mihai Duduta (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments described herein relate generally to devices, systems and methods of producing high energy density batteries having a semi-solid cathode that is thicker than the anode. An electrochemical cell can include a positive electrode current collector, a negative electrode current collector and an ion-permeable membrane disposed between the positive electrode current collector and the negative electrode current collector. The ion-permeable membrane is spaced a first distance from the positive electrode current collector and at least partially defines a positive electroactive zone. The ion-permeable membrane is spaced a second distance from the negative electrode current collector and at least partially defines a negative electroactive zone. The second distance is less than the first distance. A semi-solid cathode that includes a suspension of an active material and a conductive material in a non-aqueous liquid electrolyte is disposed in the positive electroactive zone, and an anode is disposed in the negative electroactive zone. |
| FILED | Monday, March 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/202606 |
| ART UNIT | 1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/13 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/38 (20130101) H01M 4/362 (20130101) H01M 4/386 (20130101) H01M 4/387 (20130101) H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 2004/023 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/54 (20151101) |
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| US 09437880 | Mukerjee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Subhasish Mukerjee (Pittsford, New York); Karl Jacob Haltiner, Jr. (Fairport, New York); Kerry D. Meinhardt (Richland, Washington); Jin Yong Kim (Richland, Washington); Eric S. Mast (Richland, Washington); Vincent L. Sprenkle (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan); Battelle Memorial Institute (Richmond, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Subhasish Mukerjee (Pittsford, New York); Karl Jacob Haltiner, Jr. (Fairport, New York); Kerry D. Meinhardt (Richland, Washington); Jin Yong Kim (Richland, Washington); Eric S. Mast (Richland, Washington); Vincent L. Sprenkle (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of manufacturing a solid oxide fuel cell stack having an electrically conductive interconnect, including the steps of: (a) providing a first fuel cell and a second fuel cell, (b) providing a substrate having an iron-chromium alloy, (c) depositing a layer of metallic cobalt over a portion of substrate surface, (d) subjecting the layer of metallic cobalt to reducing conditions, (e) then exposing the remaining portion of the layer of metallic cobalt to oxidizing conditions for a predetermined time and temperature, such that the surface portion of the layer of metallic cobalt is oxidized to cobalt oxide, thereby forming the electrically conductive interconnect having a layer of metallic cobalt sandwiched between a surface layer of cobalt oxide and the layer of cobalt-iron-chromium alloy, and (f) sandwiching the substrate between the first and second fuel cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/623455 |
| 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 8/021 (20130101) H01M 8/24 (20130101) H01M 8/0228 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/1246 (20130101) H01M 2008/1293 (20130101) H01M 2300/0071 (20130101) |
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| US 09437893 | Omosebi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Hoboken, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ayokunle Omosebi (Lexington, Kentucky); Ronald Besser (New Providence, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An in-membrane micro fuel cell comprises an electrically-insulating membrane that is permissive to the flow of cations, such as protons, and a pair of electrodes deposited on channels formed in the membrane. The channels are arranged as conduits for fluids, and define a membrane ridge between the channels. The electrodes are porous and include catalysts for promoting the liberation of a proton and an electron from a chemical species and/or or the recombination of a proton and an electron with a chemical specie. The fuel cell may be provided a biosensor, an electrochemical sensor, a microfluidic device, or other microscale devices fabricated in the fuel cell membrane. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/471753 |
| 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 8/1065 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 2008/1095 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/521 (20130101) |
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| US 09437899 | Shao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuyan Shao (Richland, Washington); Jun Liu (Richland, Washington); Tianbiao Liu (Richland, Washington); Guosheng Li (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of a solid-state electrolyte comprising magnesium borohydride, polyethylene oxide, and optionally a Group IIA or transition metal oxide are disclosed. The solid-state electrolyte may be a thin film comprising a dispersion of magnesium borohydride and magnesium oxide nanoparticles in polyethylene oxide. Rechargeable magnesium batteries including the disclosed solid-state electrolyte may have a coulombic efficiency ≧95% and exhibit cycling stability for at least 50 cycles. |
| FILED | Monday, February 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/177115 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/38 (20130101) H01M 4/466 (20130101) H01M 4/5815 (20130101) H01M 4/5825 (20130101) H01M 10/054 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 10/056 (20130101) H01M 10/0565 (20130101) H01M 10/0566 (20130101) H01M 10/0567 (20130101) H01M 10/0569 (20130101) H01M 2300/0082 (20130101) |
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| US 09438042 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Di Zhang (Niskayuna, New York); Luis Jose Garces (Niskayuna, New York); Jian Dai (Niskayuna, New York); Rixin Lai (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A power transmission system includes a first unit for carrying out the steps of receiving high voltage direct current (HVDC) power from an HVDC power line, generating an alternating current (AC) component indicative of a status of the first unit, and adding the AC component to the HVDC power line. Further, the power transmission system includes a second unit for carrying out the steps of generating a direct current (DC) voltage to transfer the HVDC power on the HVDC power line, wherein the HVDC power line is coupled between the first unit and the second unit, detecting a presence or an absence of the added AC component in the HVDC power line, and determining the status of the first unit based on the added AC component. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/769919 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 3/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H02J 3/382 (20130101) H02J 13/0003 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 40/72 (20130101) Systems Integrating Technologies Related to Power Network Operation, Communication or Information Technologies for Improving the Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management or Usage, i.e Smart Grids Y04S 10/123 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edward Turos (Wesley Chapel, Florida); Raphael Labruere (Creteil, France); Ryan Scott Cormier (Tampa, Florida); Renaud Sicard (Coral Gables, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward Turos (Wesley Chapel, Florida); Raphael Labruere (Creteil, France); Ryan Scott Cormier (Tampa, Florida); Renaud Sicard (Coral Gables, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention comprises poly(vinyl benzoate) nanoparticle suspensions as molecular carriers. These nanoparticles can be formed by nanoprecipitation of poly(vinyl benzoate) in water using Pluronic F68 as surfactant, to create spherical nanostructures measuring about 200-250 nm in diameter which are stable in phosphate buffer and blood serum, and only slowly degrade in the presence of esterases. Kinetics experiments in phosphate buffer indicate that 78% of the coumarin-6 was encapsulated within the polymer matrix of the nanoparticle, and the residual 22% of coumarin-6 was surface-bound and quickly released. The nanoparticles are non-toxic in vitro towards human epithelial cells (IC50>1000 μg/mL) and primary bovine primary aortic endothelial cells (IC50>500 μg/mL), and exert non-observable bactericidal activity against a selection of representative test microbes (MIC>250 μg/mL). Poly(vinyl benzoate) nanoparticles are suitable carriers for molecular delivery of lipophilic small molecules such as drugs pharmaceutical and imaging agents. |
| FILED | Monday, May 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/897868 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/10 (20130101) A61K 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 9/146 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 9/5138 (20130101) A61K 47/10 (20130101) A61K 47/489 (20130101) A61K 49/0039 (20130101) A61K 49/0043 (20130101) A61K 49/0093 (20130101) |
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| US 09433638 | Puleo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Puleo (Lexington, Kentucky); Thomas Dziubla (Lexington, Kentucky); Theodora Asafo-Adjei (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | The presently-disclosed subject matter includes compounds that comprise an initiator and an active agent that is covalently bonded to the initiator through a ring-opening polymerization process, an atom-transfer radical polymerization process, a Michael addition reaction, or a ring-opening metathesis polymerization process. In some embodiments the active agent includes simvastatin. The presently-disclosed subject matter also includes methods for making the compositions and methods for using the compositions to treat tissue wounds. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/505381 |
| 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 31/366 (20130101) A61K 31/765 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09433895 | Yu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tao Yu (Arlington, Virginia); Richard G. Weiss (Bethesda, Maryland); Taisuke Yamada (Arlington, Virginia); Mathew George (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the present invention relates to salts that are room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs), methods of making them, and methods of using them in connection with temporary or permanent gas sequestration. Another aspect of the present invention relates to a class of solvents which can be transformed into RTILs by exposure to a gas, and methods of using them in connection with temporary or permanent gas sequestration. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 05, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/072439 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/62 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 53/1493 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 213/08 (20130101) C07C 213/08 (20130101) C07C 213/08 (20130101) C07C 215/08 (20130101) C07C 215/30 (20130101) C07C 257/14 (20130101) C07C 271/02 (20130101) C07C 319/20 (20130101) C07C 319/20 (20130101) C07C 323/25 (20130101) C07C 323/43 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 487/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09433943 | Bashir et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois); Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois); Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rashid Bashir (Champaign, Illinois); Eric Salm (Champaign, Illinois); Carlos Eduardo Duarte Guevara (Urbana, Illinois); Muhammad Ashraf Alam (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods and devices for rapidly and accurately heating fluid droplets surrounded by a gas-phase medium, such as air. Sub-nanoliter fluid droplets can be rapidly heated by nanoscale field effect transistors via microwave heating by an applied AC voltage to the FET. The heating is in a well-defined interior portion of the fluid droplet, with minimal heating of the outer portion of the fluid droplet, thereby minimizing evaporation. In this manner, rapid thermal cycling is possible, including independently and in parallel for a plurality of droplets. Accordingly, the methods and devices provided herein are used in point-of-care detection such as by PCR that is high speed, robust and of low cost. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/356832 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 7/52 (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 1/686 (20130101) Electric Heating; Electric Lighting Not Otherwise Provided for H05B 3/00 (20130101) H05B 6/802 (20130101) |
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| US 09435918 | Baer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Baer (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Anne P. Hiltner (Cleveland, Ohio); Michael T. Ponting (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating an aspherical gradient refractive index lens includes co-extruding a first polymer material having a first refractive index and a second polymer material having a second refractive index different than the first refractive index to form multilayered polymer composite films, assembling the multilayered polymer composite films into a multilayer composite GRIN sheet and shaping the multilayered composite GRIN sheet into an aspherical lens. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/864730 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Producing Particular Articles From Plastics or From Substances in a Plastic State B29D 11/023 (20130101) B29D 11/00355 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 3/0087 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Spectacles; Sunglasses or Goggles Insofar as They Have the Same Features as Spectacles; Contact Lenses G02C 7/02 (20130101) G02C 2202/22 (20130101) |
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| US 09437041 | Hall et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Hall (State College, Pennsylvania); Jonathan Lynch (Boalsburg, Pennsylvania); Edward W. Reutzel (State College, Pennsylvania); Galen Lynch (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser ablation tomography system includes a specimen stage for supporting a specimen. A specimen axis is defined such that a specimen disposed generally on the axis may be imaged. A laser system is operable to produce a laser sheet in a plane intersecting the specimen axis and generally perpendicular thereto. An imaging system is operable to image the area where the laser sheet intersects the specimen axis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/067502 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/06 (20130101) G01N 2001/045 (20130101) G01N 2001/2886 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 17/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2200/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09437344 | Zhamu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Jinjun Shi (Hilliard, Ohio); Guorong Chen (Fairborn, Ohio); Qing Fang (Fairborn, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio); Ming C. Wang (Fairborn, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Jinjun Shi (Hilliard, Ohio); Guorong Chen (Fairborn, Ohio); Qing Fang (Fairborn, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio); Ming C. Wang (Fairborn, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a graphite or graphite-carbon particulate for use as a lithium secondary battery anode material having a high-rate capability. The particulate is formed of a core carbon or graphite particle and a plurality of satellite carbon or graphite particles that are each separately bonded to the core particle wherein the core particle is spherical in shape, slightly elongate in shape with a major axis-to-minor axis ratio less than 2, or fibril in shape, and wherein the satellite particles are disc-, platelet-, or flake-like particles each containing a graphite crystallite with a crystallographic c-axis dimension Lc and a lateral dimension. Preferably, Lc is less than 100 nm and the flake/platelet lateral dimension is less than 1 μm. The core particle may be selected from natural graphite, artificial graphite, spherical graphite, graphitic coke, meso-carbon micro-bead, soft carbon, hard carbon, graphitic fibril, carbon nano-fiber, carbon fiber, or graphite fiber. Preferably, the flat-shaped particles are randomly oriented with respect to one another. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/804413 |
| ART UNIT | 1783 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/04 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/122 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/133 (20130101) H01M 4/587 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/7011 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/30 (20150115) |
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| US 09437370 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Guorong Chen (Fairborn, Ohio); Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Xiging Wang (Cincinnati, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio); Yanbo Wang (Fairborn, Ohio); Qing Fang (Fairborn, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guorong Chen (Fairborn, Ohio); Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Xiging Wang (Cincinnati, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio); Yanbo Wang (Fairborn, Ohio); Qing Fang (Fairborn, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A lithium-ion cell comprising: (A) a cathode comprising graphene as the cathode active material having a surface area to capture and store lithium thereon and wherein said graphene cathode is meso-porous having a specific surface area greater than 100 m2/g; (B) an anode comprising an anode active material for inserting and extracting lithium, wherein the anode active material is mixed with a conductive additive and/or a resin binder to form a porous electrode structure, or coated onto a current collector in a coating or thin film form; (C) a porous separator disposed between the anode and the cathode; (D) a lithium-containing electrolyte in physical contact with the two electrodes; and (E) a lithium source disposed in at least one of the two electrodes when the cell is made. This new Li-ion cell exhibits an unprecedentedly high energy density. |
| FILED | Monday, February 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/385561 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 11/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/386 (20130101) H01M 4/387 (20130101) H01M 4/483 (20130101) H01M 4/485 (20130101) H01M 4/587 (20130101) H01M 4/625 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/13 (20130101) |
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| US 09437602 | Chakrabartty et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shantanu Chakrabartty (Williamston, Michigan); Ming Gu (Lansing, Michigan); Chenling Huang (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A temperature compensation technique is provided for a non-volatile memory arrangement. The memory arrangement includes: a memory circuit (12) having a floating gate transistor (P3) operating in weak-inversion mode and a varactor (Cv) with a terminal electrically coupled to a gate node of the floating gate transistor; a first current reference circuit (14) having a floating gate transistor (PI); a second current reference circuit (16) having a floating gate transistor (P2); and a control module (18) configured to selectively receive a reference current (I1, I2) from a drain of the floating gate transistor in each of the first and second current reference circuits. The control module operates to determine a ratio between the reference currents received from the first and second current reference circuits, generate a tuning voltage (Vx) in accordance with the ratio between the reference currents and apply the tuning voltage to the varactor in the memory circuit. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/362256 |
| ART UNIT | 2898 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 7/04 (20130101) G11C 16/0408 (20130101) G11C 16/0441 (20130101) G11C 27/005 (20130101) G11C 27/028 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/0629 (20130101) H01L 27/11526 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 28/40 (20130101) |
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| US 09437774 | Gaska et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc. (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc. (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Remigijus Gaska (Columbia, South Carolina); Maxim S. Shatalov (Columbia, South Carolina); Michael Shur (Latham, New York); Alexander Dobrinsky (Loudonville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating a light emitting diode, which includes an n-type contact layer and a light generating structure adjacent to the n-type contact layer, is provided. The light generating structure includes a set of quantum wells. The contact layer and light generating structure can be configured so that a difference between an energy of the n-type contact layer and an electron ground state energy of a quantum well is greater than an energy of a polar optical phonon in a material of the light generating structure. Additionally, the light generating structure can be configured so that its width is comparable to a mean free path for emission of a polar optical phonon by an electron injected into the light generating structure. |
| FILED | Monday, November 09, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/935988 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/5068 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 33/04 (20130101) H01L 33/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 33/10 (20130101) H01L 33/22 (20130101) H01L 33/0025 (20130101) H01L 33/32 (20130101) H01L 33/38 (20130101) H01L 33/46 (20130101) H01L 33/0075 (20130101) H01L 33/145 (20130101) H01L 33/385 (20130101) H01L 33/405 (20130101) H01L 2933/0058 (20130101) |
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| US 09438138 | Nair et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Oscilla Power Inc. (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oscilla Power Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Balakrishnan Nair (Sandy, Utah); Jesse Alan Nachlas (Salt Lake City, Utah); Zachary Murphree (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The device generates electrical energy from mechanical motion. The device includes at least one magnetostrictive element and at least one force modifier. The force modifier is coupled to the magnetostrictive element. The force modifier receives an input force and applies a modified force to the magnetostrictive element. |
| FILED | Friday, February 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/181574 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Machines or Engines for Liquids F03B 13/18 (20130101) F03B 13/188 (20130101) F03B 13/189 (20130101) F03B 13/1885 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 41/125 (20130101) Electric Machines Not Otherwise Provided for H02N 2/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/38 (20130101) |
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| US 09438504 | Akella et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Srinivasa Aditya Akella (Middleton, Wisconsin); Ashok Anand (Madison, Wisconsin); Srinivasan Seshan (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Srinivasa Aditya Akella (Middleton, Wisconsin); Ashok Anand (Madison, Wisconsin); Srinivasan Seshan (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A network employing multiple redundancy-aware routers that can eliminate the transmission of redundant data is greatly improved by steering redundant data preferentially into common data paths possibly contrary to other routing paradigms. By collecting redundant data in certain pathways, the effectiveness of the redundancy-aware routers is substantially increased. |
| FILED | Monday, June 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/480353 |
| ART UNIT | 2477 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 45/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 45/30 (20130101) H04L 45/42 (20130101) H04L 47/24 (20130101) H04L 69/04 (20130101) H04L 69/14 (20130101) |
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Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 09434788 | Yadav et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Madhav P. Yadav (North Wales, Pennsylvania); Kevin B. Hicks (Malvern, Pennsylvania); David Johnston (Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania); Kyle A. Hanah (Mount Prospect, Illinois); Triveni P. Shukla (Mukwonago, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Processes for the preparation of bio-based fiber gums and products produced by these processes and some of their uses. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/798468 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Edible Oils or Fats, e.g Margarines, Shortenings, Cooking Oils A23D 7/005 (20130101) Foods, Foodstuffs, or Non-alcoholic Beverages, Not Covered by Subclasses A23B - A23J; Their Preparation or Treatment, e.g Cooking, Modification of Nutritive Qualities, Physical Treatment; Preservation of Foods or Foodstuffs, in General A23L 1/052 (20130101) A23L 1/22008 (20130101) A23L 3/3454 (20130101) Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 37/00 (20130101) C08B 37/0003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08B 37/006 (20130101) C08B 37/0057 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 3/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09434885 | Mullen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles A. Mullen (Lansdale, Pennsylvania); Akwasi A. Boateng (Royersford, Pennsylvania); Neil M. Goldberg (North Wales, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for producing bio-oil from a feedstock (e.g., lignocellulosic) involving (1) pyrolyzing the feedstock in an inert atmosphere in a reactor to produce bio-oil, bio-char and non-condensable gases; (2) recycling 50 to about 85% of the non-condensable gases to the reactor to produce deoxygenated bio-oil; wherein the method is conducted in the absence of oxygen and wherein the method does not utilize externally added catalysts. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/777020 |
| ART UNIT | 1798 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Destructive Distillation of Carbonageous Materials for Production of Gas, Coke, Tar, or Similar Materials C10B 49/08 (20130101) C10B 53/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/14 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/145 (20151101) |
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| US 09434922 | Oatley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Washington State University (Pullman, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington State University (Pullman, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jon Michael Oatley (Pullman, Washington); Melissa Joan Oatley (Pullman, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the production and culture of undifferentiated spermatogonial stem cells that can be maintained long term and are feeder free. The resultant feeder-free populations can be used in any of a number of protocols including the generation of progeny bulls. The present invention includes novel methods required for the successful enrichment of bovine spermatogonial stem cells, novel cell lines and other components used for the same, as well as the resultant stem cell compositions. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 05, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/639454 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 67/0271 (20130101) A01K 2207/12 (20130101) A01K 2227/101 (20130101) A01K 2227/108 (20130101) A01K 2267/02 (20130101) Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 17/425 (20130101) Veterinary Instruments, Implements, Tools, or Methods A61D 19/00 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/52 (20130101) Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 21/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/061 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 5/0602 (20130101) C12N 5/0603 (20130101) C12N 5/0656 (20130101) C12N 5/0683 (20130101) C12N 15/873 (20130101) C12N 2500/25 (20130101) C12N 2500/32 (20130101) C12N 2500/38 (20130101) C12N 2500/44 (20130101) C12N 2500/46 (20130101) C12N 2501/13 (20130101) C12N 2501/21 (20130101) C12N 2501/115 (20130101) C12N 2501/125 (20130101) C12N 2502/13 (20130101) C12N 2502/246 (20130101) C12N 2533/90 (20130101) |
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| US 09434952 | Maliga |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pal Maliga (East Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pal Maliga (East Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and method for the generation of transplastomic plants are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/326295 |
| ART UNIT | 1662 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/8212 (20130101) C12N 15/8214 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09434954 | Lessard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Philip A. Lessard (Framingham, Massachusetts); Michael Lanahan (Cary, Massachusetts); Vladimir Samoylov (Sudbury, Massachusetts); Oleg Bougri (Boise, Idaho); Jonas Emery (Eugene, Oregon); R. Michael Raab (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Agrivida, Inc. (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip A. Lessard (Framingham, Massachusetts); Michael Lanahan (Cary, Massachusetts); Vladimir Samoylov (Sudbury, Massachusetts); Oleg Bougri (Boise, Idaho); Jonas Emery (Eugene, Oregon); R. Michael Raab (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Vectors for altering the expression of one or more starch regulation enzymes are provided. Methods of transformation of plant tissues to express elements altering expression of one or more starch regulation enzymes, and resulting transgenic plants are provided. Methods of using the transgenic plants are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, June 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/806654 |
| ART UNIT | 1662 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/8218 (20130101) C12N 15/8245 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09435458 | Needham et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Duane Needham (San Francisco, California); Andrew J. Holtz (Atascadero, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Capstan Ag Systems, Inc. (Topeka, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Duane Needham (San Francisco, California); Andrew J. Holtz (Atascadero, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electric solenoid valve, methods for operating and/or actuating the solenoid valve, valve system diagnostics, and applications for use are described. The valve may be designed to actuate in a manner so as to control liquid flow into and/or through a device, such as a spray nozzle. By altering the characteristics of the electrical signal transmitted to the solenoid valve, the instantaneous pressure across the valve and duration of fluid flow through the valve can be controlled with a single actuator. Controlled cyclic durations of flow may be implemented to regulate the exact timing of flow through the valve. Alternatively, cyclic durations may occur with a pulse-width modulation technique in which the duty cycle regulates average flow rate through the valve. |
| FILED | Friday, March 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/410589 |
| ART UNIT | 3752 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Horticulture; Cultivation of Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops or Seaweed; Forestry; Watering A01G 25/16 (20130101) Spraying Apparatus; Atomising Apparatus; Nozzles B05B 12/008 (20130101) B05B 12/085 (20130101) B05B 15/02 (20130101) Valves; Taps; Cocks; Actuating-floats; Devices for Venting or Aerating F16K 31/0606 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F16K 31/0627 (20130101) F16K 31/0658 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 137/0318 (20150401) Y10T 137/86413 (20150401) |
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| US 09437041 | Hall et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Hall (State College, Pennsylvania); Jonathan Lynch (Boalsburg, Pennsylvania); Edward W. Reutzel (State College, Pennsylvania); Galen Lynch (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser ablation tomography system includes a specimen stage for supporting a specimen. A specimen axis is defined such that a specimen disposed generally on the axis may be imaged. A laser system is operable to produce a laser sheet in a plane intersecting the specimen axis and generally perpendicular thereto. An imaging system is operable to image the area where the laser sheet intersects the specimen axis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/067502 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/06 (20130101) G01N 2001/045 (20130101) G01N 2001/2886 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 17/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2200/08 (20130101) |
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| US PP27128 | Beckman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); The University of Georgia Research Foundation (Athens, Georgia); The University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); The University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc. (Athens, Georgia); The University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas G Beckman (Warner Robins, Georgia); Jose X Chaparro (Gainesville, Florida); Patrick J Conner (Tifton, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A new and distinct variety of peach tree, denominated ‘GulfAtlas’, has a winter chilling requirement estimated at approximately 400 chill units (cu). The tree is medium size, moderately vigorous, and semi-spreading in growth habit. It bears showy, pink flowers, and leaves with reniform glands. Trees of ‘GulfAtlas’ are self-fertile and regularly bear heavy annual crops. Fruit are uniformly firm and have yellow, non-melting flesh. Fruit are nearly round, and uniform with substantially symmetrical shape, and have an attractive approximately 75% red skin. The fruit of ‘GulfAtlas’ typically ripen about 3 weeks after ‘Gulfcrimson’ in midJune at Attapulgus, Ga. |
| FILED | Friday, September 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/998066 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/197 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
09433887 — Membrane loop process for separating carbon dioxide for use in gaseous form from flue gas
| US 09433887 | Wijmans et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Johannes G Wijmans (Menlo Park, California); Richard W Baker (Palo Alto, California); Timothy C Merkel (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH, INC. (Newark, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Johannes G Wijmans (Menlo Park, California); Richard W Baker (Palo Alto, California); Timothy C Merkel (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a process involving membrane-based gas separation for separating and recovering carbon dioxide emissions from combustion processes in partially concentrated form, and then transporting the carbon dioxide and using or storing it in a confined manner without concentrating it to high purity. The process of the invention involves building up the concentration of carbon dioxide in a gas flow loop between the combustion step and a membrane separation step. A portion of the carbon dioxide-enriched gas can then be withdrawn from this loop and transported, without the need to liquefy the gas or otherwise create a high-purity stream, to a destination where it is used or confined, preferably in an environmentally benign manner. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/477633 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 53/62 (20130101) B01D 2256/22 (20130101) B01D 2257/504 (20130101) B01D 2311/13 (20130101) Removal or Treatment of Combustion Products or Combustion Residues; Flues F23J 15/02 (20130101) F23J 15/006 (20130101) F23J 2215/50 (20130101) F23J 2219/00 (20130101) Supplying Air or Non-combustible Liquids or Gases to Combustion Apparatus in General; Valves or Dampers Specially Adapted for Controlling Air Supply or Draught in Combustion Apparatus; Inducing Draught in Combustion Apparatus; Tops for Chimneys or Ventilating Shafts; Terminals for Flues F23L 7/007 (20130101) Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 10/04 (20130101) Y02C 10/08 (20130101) Y02C 10/10 (20130101) Y02C 20/20 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 20/344 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09435458 | Needham et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Duane Needham (San Francisco, California); Andrew J. Holtz (Atascadero, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Capstan Ag Systems, Inc. (Topeka, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Duane Needham (San Francisco, California); Andrew J. Holtz (Atascadero, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electric solenoid valve, methods for operating and/or actuating the solenoid valve, valve system diagnostics, and applications for use are described. The valve may be designed to actuate in a manner so as to control liquid flow into and/or through a device, such as a spray nozzle. By altering the characteristics of the electrical signal transmitted to the solenoid valve, the instantaneous pressure across the valve and duration of fluid flow through the valve can be controlled with a single actuator. Controlled cyclic durations of flow may be implemented to regulate the exact timing of flow through the valve. Alternatively, cyclic durations may occur with a pulse-width modulation technique in which the duty cycle regulates average flow rate through the valve. |
| FILED | Friday, March 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/410589 |
| ART UNIT | 3752 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Horticulture; Cultivation of Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops or Seaweed; Forestry; Watering A01G 25/16 (20130101) Spraying Apparatus; Atomising Apparatus; Nozzles B05B 12/008 (20130101) B05B 12/085 (20130101) B05B 15/02 (20130101) Valves; Taps; Cocks; Actuating-floats; Devices for Venting or Aerating F16K 31/0606 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F16K 31/0627 (20130101) F16K 31/0658 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 137/0318 (20150401) Y10T 137/86413 (20150401) |
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| US 09437344 | Zhamu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Jinjun Shi (Hilliard, Ohio); Guorong Chen (Fairborn, Ohio); Qing Fang (Fairborn, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio); Ming C. Wang (Fairborn, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Jinjun Shi (Hilliard, Ohio); Guorong Chen (Fairborn, Ohio); Qing Fang (Fairborn, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio); Ming C. Wang (Fairborn, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a graphite or graphite-carbon particulate for use as a lithium secondary battery anode material having a high-rate capability. The particulate is formed of a core carbon or graphite particle and a plurality of satellite carbon or graphite particles that are each separately bonded to the core particle wherein the core particle is spherical in shape, slightly elongate in shape with a major axis-to-minor axis ratio less than 2, or fibril in shape, and wherein the satellite particles are disc-, platelet-, or flake-like particles each containing a graphite crystallite with a crystallographic c-axis dimension Lc and a lateral dimension. Preferably, Lc is less than 100 nm and the flake/platelet lateral dimension is less than 1 μm. The core particle may be selected from natural graphite, artificial graphite, spherical graphite, graphitic coke, meso-carbon micro-bead, soft carbon, hard carbon, graphitic fibril, carbon nano-fiber, carbon fiber, or graphite fiber. Preferably, the flat-shaped particles are randomly oriented with respect to one another. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/804413 |
| ART UNIT | 1783 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/04 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/122 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/133 (20130101) H01M 4/587 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/7011 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/30 (20150115) |
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| US 09437370 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Guorong Chen (Fairborn, Ohio); Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Xiging Wang (Cincinnati, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio); Yanbo Wang (Fairborn, Ohio); Qing Fang (Fairborn, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guorong Chen (Fairborn, Ohio); Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Xiging Wang (Cincinnati, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio); Yanbo Wang (Fairborn, Ohio); Qing Fang (Fairborn, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A lithium-ion cell comprising: (A) a cathode comprising graphene as the cathode active material having a surface area to capture and store lithium thereon and wherein said graphene cathode is meso-porous having a specific surface area greater than 100 m2/g; (B) an anode comprising an anode active material for inserting and extracting lithium, wherein the anode active material is mixed with a conductive additive and/or a resin binder to form a porous electrode structure, or coated onto a current collector in a coating or thin film form; (C) a porous separator disposed between the anode and the cathode; (D) a lithium-containing electrolyte in physical contact with the two electrodes; and (E) a lithium source disposed in at least one of the two electrodes when the cell is made. This new Li-ion cell exhibits an unprecedentedly high energy density. |
| FILED | Monday, February 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/385561 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 11/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/386 (20130101) H01M 4/387 (20130101) H01M 4/483 (20130101) H01M 4/485 (20130101) H01M 4/587 (20130101) H01M 4/625 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/13 (20130101) |
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| US 09437582 | Gibson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tessera, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tessera, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Gibson (Lake Oswego, Oregon); Andy Stavros (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microelectronic assembly includes units superposed on one another to form at least one stack having a vertical direction. Each unit includes one or more microelectronic devices and has top and bottom surfaces. Top unit terminals are exposed at the top surfaces and bottom unit terminals are exposed at the bottom surfaces. The top and bottom unit terminals are provided at a set of ordered column positions. Each top unit terminal of the set, except the top unit terminals at the highest ordered column position, is connected to a respective bottom unit terminal of the same unit at a next higher ordered column position. Each bottom unit terminal of the set, except the bottom unit terminals of the lowest unit in the stack, is connected to a respective upper unit terminal of the next lower unit in the stack at the same column position. |
| FILED | Monday, April 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/257795 |
| ART UNIT | 2897 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/4985 (20130101) H01L 23/49816 (20130101) H01L 23/49833 (20130101) H01L 24/14 (20130101) H01L 24/17 (20130101) H01L 25/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 25/105 (20130101) H01L 25/0655 (20130101) H01L 2224/16225 (20130101) H01L 2224/48091 (20130101) H01L 2225/107 (20130101) H01L 2225/0652 (20130101) H01L 2225/1023 (20130101) H01L 2225/06527 (20130101) H01L 2225/06548 (20130101) H01L 2225/06572 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/1437 (20130101) H01L 2924/15311 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 1/112 (20130101) H05K 1/141 (20130101) H05K 3/3436 (20130101) H05K 2201/10378 (20130101) H05K 2201/10515 (20130101) |
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| US 09437774 | Gaska et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc. (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc. (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Remigijus Gaska (Columbia, South Carolina); Maxim S. Shatalov (Columbia, South Carolina); Michael Shur (Latham, New York); Alexander Dobrinsky (Loudonville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating a light emitting diode, which includes an n-type contact layer and a light generating structure adjacent to the n-type contact layer, is provided. The light generating structure includes a set of quantum wells. The contact layer and light generating structure can be configured so that a difference between an energy of the n-type contact layer and an electron ground state energy of a quantum well is greater than an energy of a polar optical phonon in a material of the light generating structure. Additionally, the light generating structure can be configured so that its width is comparable to a mean free path for emission of a polar optical phonon by an electron injected into the light generating structure. |
| FILED | Monday, November 09, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/935988 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/5068 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 33/04 (20130101) H01L 33/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 33/10 (20130101) H01L 33/22 (20130101) H01L 33/0025 (20130101) H01L 33/32 (20130101) H01L 33/38 (20130101) H01L 33/46 (20130101) H01L 33/0075 (20130101) H01L 33/145 (20130101) H01L 33/385 (20130101) H01L 33/405 (20130101) H01L 2933/0058 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 09434486 | Santos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Luis H. Santos (Greenbackville, Virginia); John D. Hudeck (Pocomoke, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A frictionless satellite constraint system is provided. The constraint system includes at least one clamp bar configured to restrain a satellite within the constraint system in an axial direction. The constraint system also includes a plurality of pins configured to restrain the satellite within the constraint system in a lateral direction. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/781121 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Cosmonautics; Vehicles or Equipment Therefor B64G 1/64 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B64G 1/222 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09434831 | Rhine et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aspen Aerogels, Inc. (Northborough, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ASPEN AEROGELS, INC. (Northborough, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wendell E Rhine (Belmont, Massachusetts); David Mihalcik (Northborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides aerogel materials based on imidazoles and polyimidazoles. The polyimidazole based aerogel materials can be thermally stable up to 500° C. or more, and can be carbonized to produce a carbon aerogel having a char yield of 60% or more, specifically 70% or more. The present invention also provides methods of producing polyimidazole based aerogel materials by reacting at least one monomer in a suitable solvent to form a polybenzimidazole gel precursor solution, casting the polybenzimidazole gel precursor solution into a fiber reinforcement phase, allowing the at least one gel precursor in the precursor solution to transition into a gel material, and drying the gel materials to remove at least a portion of the solvent, to obtain an polybenzimidazole-based aerogel material. |
| FILED | Monday, August 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/450942 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 9/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08J 2201/0502 (20130101) C08J 2205/026 (20130101) C08J 2379/04 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09434832 | Meador |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mary Ann B. Meador (Strongsville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An aerogel and process of making the aerogel is provided. The aerogel is a polyimide aerogel having polyamide cross-links formed using a triacid chloride cross-linker. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 17, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/660492 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 9/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08J 2201/05 (20130101) C08J 2205/026 (20130101) C08J 2205/042 (20130101) C08J 2379/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09435821 | Tucker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis Stephen Tucker (Huntsville, Alabama); Pedro A. Capó-Lugo (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A single-axis accelerometer includes a housing defining a sleeve. An object/mass is disposed in the sleeve for sliding movement therein in a direction aligned with the sleeve's longitudinal axis. A first piezoelectric strip, attached to a first side of the object and to the housing, is longitudinally aligned with the sleeve's longitudinal axis. The first piezoelectric strip includes a first strip of a piezoelectric material with carbon nanotubes substantially aligned along a length thereof. A second piezoelectric strip, attached to a second side of the object and to the housing, is longitudinally aligned with the sleeve's longitudinal axis. The second piezoelectric strip includes a second strip of the piezoelectric material with carbon nanotubes substantially aligned along a length thereof. A voltage sensor is electrically coupled to at least one of the first and second piezoelectric strips. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/104881 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Linear or Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, or Shock; Indicating Presence, Absence, or Direction, of Movement G01P 15/09 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 41/16 (20130101) |
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| US 09438011 | Frez et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clifford F. Frez (Arcadia, California); Carl E. Borgentun (Pasadena, California); Ryan M. Briggs (Pasadena, California); Mahmood Bagheri (Pasadena, California); Siamak Forouhar (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Single-mode, distributed feedback interband cascade lasers (ICLs) using distributed-feedback gratings (e.g., lateral Bragg gratings) and methods of fabricating such ICLs are provided. The ICLs incorporate distributed-feedback gratings that are formed above the laser active region and adjacent the ridge waveguide (RWG) of the ICL. The ICLs may incorporate a double-ridge system comprising an optical confinement structure (e.g., a RWG) disposed above the laser active region that comprises the first ridge of the double ridge system, a DFB grating (e.g., lateral Bragg grating) disposed above the laser active region and adjacent the optical confinement structure, and an electric confinement structure that passes at least partially through the laser active region and that defines the boundary of the second ridge comprises and the termination of the DFB grating. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/824933 |
| 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 5/125 (20130101) H01S 5/187 (20130101) H01S 5/0425 (20130101) H01S 5/1003 (20130101) H01S 5/1237 (20130101) H01S 5/2205 (20130101) H01S 5/3401 (20130101) H01S 5/3402 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 09433505 | Bachus et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Kent N. Bachus (Salt Lake City, Utah); Sujee Jeyapalina (Salt Lake City, Utah); James Peter Beck (Salt Lake City, Utah); Roy Bloebaum (Salt Lake City, Utah); Jayant P. Agarwal (Salt Lake City, Utah); Joseph A. Longo (Paradise Valley, Arizona); Erik Kubiak (Salt Lake City, Utah); Brian Mueller Holt (Topanga, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An implant assembly for a long bone is adapted to support an exo-prosthesis. The assembly includes a stem, a subdermal component and a percutaneous post. The stem has a proximal end that is adapted to be received in a surgically prepared medullary canal of the long bone, and a distal end having a surface that is adapted to promote bone ingrowth. The subdermal component includes a proximal portion that is adapted for attachment to the distal end of the stem, and a fixation surface that is adapted to promote soft tissue fixation. The percutaneous post has a proximal end that is adapted to be attached to the subdermal component. |
| FILED | Friday, February 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/181029 |
| ART UNIT | 3738 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| 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 2/78 (20130101) A61F 2/2814 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61F 2002/7887 (20130101) A61F 2002/30784 (20130101) |
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| US 09436298 | Draper et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United States Government as Represented by The Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by The Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ursula Draper (Tampa, Florida); Michael Kerrigan (Tampa, Florida); Jeffrey Craighead (Land-O-Lakes, Florida); Jan Jasiewicz (Tampa, Florida); Telina Caudill (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An extendable stylus operated with a mouth, the stylus having an extending portion configured to have an adjustable length, a conductive tip that can interface with a touch screen device, the conductive tip located at a first end of the extending portion, a mouthpiece that engages the mouth of a user, wherein the mouthpiece is located at a second end of the extending portion opposite the first end and a control mechanism disposed at or near the second end of the extending portion, wherein the control mechanism is configured to control the length of the extending portion based on an operation by the mouth of the user. |
| FILED | Friday, February 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/180988 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| 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 4/00 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/039 (20130101) G06F 3/03545 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 09433557 | Green et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chad Green (San Diego, California); Laura Martinson (San Diego, California); Val Anthony Bellora (San Diego, California); Richard Alexander Grant (Del Mar, California); Evert Kroon (San Diego, California); Emmanuel Edward Baetge (St. Sulpice, Switzerland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | VIACYTE, INC. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad Green (San Diego, California); Laura Martinson (San Diego, California); Val Anthony Bellora (San Diego, California); Richard Alexander Grant (Del Mar, California); Evert Kroon (San Diego, California); Emmanuel Edward Baetge (St. Sulpice, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides, in at least one embodiment, a loading device, system and method that loads aggregate cells into an encapsulation device for implanting into a patient. The loading system uses negative pressure from a low pressure pump in a closed system to improve safety and cell viability while allowing for even loading of the encapsulation device. |
| FILED | Monday, February 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 14/000864 |
| ART UNIT | 1799 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| 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 2/022 (20130101) A61F 2/0095 (20130101) Containers Specially Adapted for Medical or Pharmaceutical Purposes; Devices or Methods Specially Adapted for Bringing Pharmaceutical Products into Particular Physical or Administering Forms; Devices for Administering Food or Medicines Orally; Baby Comforters; Devices for Receiving Spittle A61J 1/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09434769 | Melnik et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lilia I. Melnik (New Orleans, Louisiana); Robert F. Garry (New Orleans, Louisiana); Cindy A. Morris (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an isolated peptide having an amino acid residue sequence that comprises at least one human cytomegalovirus glycoprotein B (HCMV-gB) sequence segment, each HCMV-gB sequence segment consisting of at least 8 and not more than 60 consecutive amino acid residues from residues 146 to 315, residues 476 to 494 of SEQ ID NO: 1, or from a sequence variant of residues 146 to 315 or 476 to 494 of SEQ ID NO: 1 that has at least 70% sequence identity thereto. The peptides of the invention are useful for treating, preventing, or inhibiting a herpesvirus (e.g., Herpes Simplex Virus-1, Human Cytomegalovirus, and the like) infection in a subject. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 09, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/327287 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/245 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/045 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2710/16122 (20130101) C12N 2710/16133 (20130101) |
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Department of Commerce (DOC)
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joshua A. Gordon (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce, The National Institute of Standards and Technology (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua A. Gordon (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for imaging and aligning antennas that includes an overlay imaging aligner composed of two or more antennas in association with a polarization gate, a polarization beam splitter, a non-polarizing beam splitter, a beam dump, one or more imaging lens and a common detector array. The overlay imaging aligner aligns the antennas by overlaying simultaneous digital images associated with the antennas on the common detector array. The antennas can be, for example, mm Wave antennas, waveguides, etc. The detector array generates real-time digital images the antennas. Such an approach of simultaneous imaging leverages the spatial resolution of digital optical imaging to aligning antenna components. |
| FILED | Monday, October 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/651560 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 1/125 (20130101) H01Q 1/1257 (20130101) H01Q 3/08 (20130101) H01Q 3/267 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01Q 15/22 (20130101) H01Q 19/062 (20130101) H01Q 19/195 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 09438419 | Aggarwal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sudhir Aggarwal (Tallahassee, Florida); Shiva Houshmand (Tallahassee, Florida); Randy Flood (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | System and methodology that utilizes keyboard patterns and alpha string patterns for password cracking. Keyboard patterns can be used as components of passwords, and the relevant shapes can extracted from these keyboard patterns and passwords. This keyboard information can be used to extend a probabilistic context-free grammar that can then be used to generate guesses containing keyboard patterns. Further, patterns in alpha strings, such as repeated words and multi-words, can be systematically learned using a training dictionary. This information can be used to extend the probabilistic context-free grammars which leads to generation of guesses based on the distribution of these patterns in the alpha strings, Keyboard patterns and alpha string patterns, individually and in combination, are shown herein to be effective for password cracking. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/319775 |
| ART UNIT | 2492 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 5/048 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/0863 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 2209/26 (20130101) |
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Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 09436877 | Edmondson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Polaris Sensor Technologies, Inc. (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Polaris Sensor Technologies, Inc. (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard P. Edmondson (Huntsville, Alabama); Jonathan B. Hanks (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for monitoring vehicle traffic and collecting data indicative of pedestrian right of way violations by vehicles is provided. The system comprises memory and logic for monitoring traffic intersections and recording evidence indicating that vehicles have violated pedestrian right of way. Two sensor modalities collecting video data and radar data of the intersection under observation are employed in one embodiment of the system. The violation evidence can be accessed remotely by a traffic official for issuing of traffic citations. |
| FILED | Monday, April 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/257472 |
| ART UNIT | 2667 — 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 9/00771 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/00785 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 09433943 | Bashir et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois); Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois); Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rashid Bashir (Champaign, Illinois); Eric Salm (Champaign, Illinois); Carlos Eduardo Duarte Guevara (Urbana, Illinois); Muhammad Ashraf Alam (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods and devices for rapidly and accurately heating fluid droplets surrounded by a gas-phase medium, such as air. Sub-nanoliter fluid droplets can be rapidly heated by nanoscale field effect transistors via microwave heating by an applied AC voltage to the FET. The heating is in a well-defined interior portion of the fluid droplet, with minimal heating of the outer portion of the fluid droplet, thereby minimizing evaporation. In this manner, rapid thermal cycling is possible, including independently and in parallel for a plurality of droplets. Accordingly, the methods and devices provided herein are used in point-of-care detection such as by PCR that is high speed, robust and of low cost. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/356832 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 7/52 (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 1/686 (20130101) Electric Heating; Electric Lighting Not Otherwise Provided for H05B 3/00 (20130101) H05B 6/802 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 09433557 | Green et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chad Green (San Diego, California); Laura Martinson (San Diego, California); Val Anthony Bellora (San Diego, California); Richard Alexander Grant (Del Mar, California); Evert Kroon (San Diego, California); Emmanuel Edward Baetge (St. Sulpice, Switzerland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | VIACYTE, INC. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad Green (San Diego, California); Laura Martinson (San Diego, California); Val Anthony Bellora (San Diego, California); Richard Alexander Grant (Del Mar, California); Evert Kroon (San Diego, California); Emmanuel Edward Baetge (St. Sulpice, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides, in at least one embodiment, a loading device, system and method that loads aggregate cells into an encapsulation device for implanting into a patient. The loading system uses negative pressure from a low pressure pump in a closed system to improve safety and cell viability while allowing for even loading of the encapsulation device. |
| FILED | Monday, February 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 14/000864 |
| ART UNIT | 1799 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| 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 2/022 (20130101) A61F 2/0095 (20130101) Containers Specially Adapted for Medical or Pharmaceutical Purposes; Devices or Methods Specially Adapted for Bringing Pharmaceutical Products into Particular Physical or Administering Forms; Devices for Administering Food or Medicines Orally; Baby Comforters; Devices for Receiving Spittle A61J 1/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 09433642 | Winn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michelle Winn (Durham, North Carolina); Margaret A. Pericak-Vance (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Jeffery M. Vance (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | DUKE UNIVERSITY (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michelle Winn (Durham, North Carolina); Margaret A. Pericak-Vance (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Jeffery M. Vance (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) is a kidney disorder of unknown etiology and up to 20% of patients on dialysis have this diagnosis. A large family with hereditary FSGS carries a missense mutation in the TRPC6 gene on chromosome 11q, encoding the ion channel protein Transient Receptor Potential Cation Channel 6. The missense mutation is a P112Q substitution, which occurs in a highly conserved region of the protein, enhances TRPC6-mediated calcium signals in response to agonists such as angiotensin II, and alters the intracellular distribution of TRPC6 protein. Previous work has emphasized the importance of cytoskeletal and structural proteins in proteinuric kidney diseases. Our findings suggest a novel mechanism for glomerular disease pathogenesis. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/782075 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/69 (20130101) A61K 31/4174 (20130101) A61K 33/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/705 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6872 (20130101) G01N 2800/347 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09438246 | Naaman |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ofer Naaman (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ofer Naaman (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is provided for multiplexed readout of qubits. The system comprises a plurality of bandpass (BP) filter resonant sections that are each coupled to a different respective point on a read line, wherein each BP filter resonant section is coupleable to a respective qubit through a respective qubit readout resonator. The system further comprises a plurality of tunable couplers, wherein each tunable coupler is coupled between a respective BP filter resonant section and a qubit readout resonator, and a coupling controller that controls the coupling strength of each qubit to the read line by controlling the impedance of each tunable coupler of the plurality of tunable couplers. |
| FILED | Friday, September 04, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/845981 |
| ART UNIT | 2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse Technique H03K 19/195 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
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ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
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- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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