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09445596 — Small molecule compounds for the control of nematodes

US 09445596	Schroeder et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)	Frank C. Schroeder (Ithaca, New York); Stephan H. von Reuss (Jena, Germany); Andrea Choe (Los Angeles, California); Paul W. Sternberg (Pasadena, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (Ithaca, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Frank C. Schroeder (Ithaca, New York); Stephan H. von Reuss (Jena, Germany); Andrea Choe (Los Angeles, California); Paul W. Sternberg (Pasadena, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to compounds involved in nematode signaling.
FILED	Wednesday, August 08, 2012
APPL NO	14/237774
ART UNIT	1673 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware
CURRENT CPC	Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 37/46 (20130101) A01N 43/16 (20130101) A01N 43/38 (20130101) A01N 43/90 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01N 47/36 (20130101) A01N 63/02 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/708 (20130101) A61K 31/7076 (20130101) Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 15/04 (20130101) C07H 15/10 (20130101) C07H 15/18 (20130101) C07H 19/16 (20130101)
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09445780 — Tracked ultrasound vessel imaging

US 09445780	Hossack et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)
APPLICANT(S)	John A. Hossack (Charlottesville, Virginia); Michael I. Fuller (Charlestown, Massachusetts); Travis N. Blalock (Charlottesville, Virginia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia)
INVENTOR(S)	John A. Hossack (Charlottesville, Virginia); Michael I. Fuller (Charlestown, Massachusetts); Travis N. Blalock (Charlottesville, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	A medical imaging apparatus, such as including a processor circuit, can be used to construct a first image of a plane parallel to the surface of an ultrasonic imaging transducer, the plane corresponding to a locus at a specified depth within a first region of tissue. The apparatus can obtain information about a location of a vessel in the first image, then obtain, from a second region of tissue, imaging information corresponding to loci in planes parallel to the surface of the transducer, the planes at depths automatically determined at least in part using the obtained information about the location of the vessel in the first image. In an example, the apparatus can automatically determine an adjusted depth corresponding to the location of the vessel in the second region, and construct a second image of a plane corresponding to the adjusted depth within the tissue.
FILED	Saturday, December 04, 2010
APPL NO	12/960477
ART UNIT	3737 — Dynamic Storage Systems; Mechanical parts of Disk Drives
CURRENT CPC	Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 8/085 (20130101) A61B 8/463 (20130101) A61B 8/469 (20130101) A61B 8/523 (20130101) A61B 8/0891 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 7/52046 (20130101) G01S 7/52061 (20130101) G01S 15/8909 (20130101) G01S 15/8993 (20130101)
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09445993 — Nanotechnology approach for inhalation therapies

US 09445993	Minko et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
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)	Tamara Minko (Somerset, New Jersey); Olga B. Garbuzenko (Highland Park, New Jersey); Vera Ivanova (Franklin Park, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	This invention relates to lipid nanoparticle compositions and methods for the localized delivery of active agents via inhalation therapy.
FILED	Tuesday, April 16, 2013
APPL NO	13/863828
ART UNIT	1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0078 (20130101) A61K 9/127 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 9/5123 (20130101) A61K 31/355 (20130101) A61K 31/355 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 31/5575 (20130101) A61K 31/5575 (20130101) A61K 47/48815 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101)
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09445994 — Lipid vesicle compositions and methods of use

US 09445994	Irvine et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Darrell J. Irvine (Arlington, Massachusetts); Jaehyun Moon (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides delivery systems comprised of stabilized multilamellar vesicles, as well as compositions, methods of synthesis, and methods of use thereof. The stabilized multilamellar vesicles comprise terminal-cysteine-bearing antigens or cysteine-modified antigens, at their surface and/or internally.
FILED	Wednesday, June 17, 2015
APPL NO	14/741694
ART UNIT	1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/127 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 9/1273 (20130101) A61K 38/20 (20130101) A61K 38/45 (20130101) A61K 38/193 (20130101) A61K 38/208 (20130101) A61K 38/212 (20130101) A61K 38/217 (20130101) A61K 38/2013 (20130101) A61K 38/2046 (20130101) A61K 38/2086 (20130101) A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/015 (20130101) A61K 39/21 (20130101) A61K 39/39 (20130101) A61K 39/39533 (20130101) A61K 47/48815 (20130101) A61K 2039/575 (20130101) A61K 2039/55511 (20130101) A61K 2039/55555 (20130101) A61K 2039/55572 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/88 (20130101) C12N 2740/15034 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 207/10001 (20130101)
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09446019 — Sparstolonin B based pharmaceutical agent for neuroblastoma treatment

US 09446019	Kumar et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
APPLICANT(S)	University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Ambrish Kumar (Columbia, South Carolina); Ugra Sen Singh (Columbia, South Carolina); Daping Fan (Columbia, South Carolina); Donald J. Dipette (Blythewood, South Carolina)
ABSTRACT	Use of sparstolonin B in inhibition of growth and/or viability of human neuroblastoma cells is described. The sparstolonin B can be naturally derived from the Chinese herb Sparganium stoloniferum or can be synthetic. The sparstolonin B is shown to be effective both in vitro and in vivo in inhibition of growth and/or viability of neuroblastoma cells of multiple different genetic backgrounds including N-myc amplified with wild p53 neuroblastoma cells, N-myc amplified with mutated p53 neuroblastoma cells, and N-myc nonamplified neuroblastoma cells.
FILED	Thursday, September 11, 2014
APPL NO	14/483445
ART UNIT	1628 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/37 (20130101) A61K 31/353 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09446022 — Pro-neurogenic compounds

US 09446022	McKnight et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
APPLICANT(S)	Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Board of Regents of The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Steven L. McKnight (Dallas, Texas); Andrew A. Pieper (Iowa City, Iowa); Joseph M. Ready (Carrollton, Texas); Jef K. De Brabander (Flower Mound, Texas)
ABSTRACT	This technology relates generally to compounds and methods for stimulating neurogenesis (e.g., post-natal neurogenesis, including post-natal hippocampal and hypothalamic neurogenesis) and/or protecting neuronal cell from cell death. Various compounds are disclosed herein. In vivo activity tests suggest that these compounds may have therapeutic benefits in neuropsychiatric and/or neurodegenerative diseases such as schizophrenia, major depression, bipolar disorder, normal aging, epilepsy, traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, Down syndrome, spinocerebellar ataxia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Huntington's disease, stroke, radiation therapy, chronic stress, abuse of a neuro-active drug, retinal degeneration, spinal cord injury, peripheral nerve injury, physiological weight loss associated with various conditions, as well as cognitive decline associated with normal aging, chemotherapy, and the like.
FILED	Thursday, July 02, 2015
APPL NO	14/790313
ART UNIT	1626 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/403 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/404 (20130101) A61K 31/422 (20130101) A61K 31/437 (20130101) A61K 31/506 (20130101) A61K 31/4045 (20130101) A61K 31/4155 (20130101) A61K 31/4188 (20130101) A61K 31/4192 (20130101) A61K 31/4439 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/08 (20130101) C07D 209/82 (20130101) C07D 209/86 (20130101) C07D 209/88 (20130101) C07D 401/06 (20130101) C07D 401/12 (20130101) C07D 403/06 (20130101) C07D 403/12 (20130101) C07D 405/12 (20130101) C07D 413/06 (20130101) C07D 471/04 (20130101) C07D 495/04 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/022 (20130101)
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09446042 — Pro-neurogenic compounds

US 09446042	McKnight et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
APPLICANT(S)	Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Board of Regents of The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Steven L. McKnight (Dallas, Texas); Andrew A. Pieper (Iowa City, Iowa); Joseph M. Ready (Carrollton, Texas); Jef K. De Brabander (Flower Mound, Texas)
ABSTRACT	This invention relates generally to stimulating neurogenesis (e.g., post-natal neurogenesis, e.g., post-natal hippocampal neurogenesis) and protecting from neuron cell death.
FILED	Thursday, June 25, 2015
APPL NO	14/750119
ART UNIT	1626 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/403 (20130101) A61K 31/404 (20130101) A61K 31/422 (20130101) A61K 31/437 (20130101) A61K 31/506 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/4035 (20130101) A61K 31/4045 (20130101) A61K 31/4155 (20130101) A61K 31/4192 (20130101) A61K 31/4439 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/08 (20130101) C07D 209/14 (20130101) C07D 209/88 (20130101) C07D 401/06 (20130101) C07D 401/12 (20130101) C07D 403/06 (20130101) C07D 403/12 (20130101) C07D 413/06 (20130101) C07D 471/04 (20130101)
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09446045 — Methods of using selective chemotherapeutic agents for targeting tumor cells

US 09446045	Gangjee et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	Aleem Gangjee (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Larry H. Matherly (Farmington Hills, Michigan)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Duquesne University of the Holy Ghost (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Aleem Gangjee (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Larry H. Matherly (Farmington Hills, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	A method for treating cancer tumors, particularly ovarian cancer tumors, is described, where fused cyclic pyrimidine having a cancer treating ability is selectively delivered to an FR expressing cancerous tumor.
FILED	Thursday, January 08, 2015
APPL NO	14/592149
ART UNIT	1628 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/519 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 487/04 (20130101)
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09446048 — Methods for treating leukemia and disorders mediated by CBFβ and RUNX1 proteins

US 09446048	Liu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
APPLICANT(S)	Pu Liu (Bethesda, Maryland); Wei Zheng (Potomac, Maryland); Juan Marugan (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Noel T. Southall (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Lea Cunningham (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Pu Liu (Bethesda, Maryland); Wei Zheng (Potomac, Maryland); Juan Marugan (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Noel T. Southall (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Lea Cunningham (Washington, District of Columbia)
ABSTRACT	A method for treating core binding factor (CBF) leukemia in a subject, comprising administering to a subject having CBF leukemia a therapeutically effective amount of a compound, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof, that inhibits CBFβ and RUNX1 binding in the subject, thereby treating the CBF leukemia.
FILED	Thursday, March 15, 2012
APPL NO	14/005534
ART UNIT	1621 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/40 (20130101) A61K 31/40 (20130101) A61K 31/203 (20130101) A61K 31/203 (20130101) A61K 31/417 (20130101) A61K 31/417 (20130101) A61K 31/704 (20130101) A61K 31/704 (20130101) A61K 31/5513 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/5513 (20130101) A61K 31/7068 (20130101) A61K 31/7068 (20130101) A61K 31/7076 (20130101) A61K 31/7076 (20130101) A61K 38/2013 (20130101) A61K 38/2013 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 514/908 (20130101)
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09446096 — Glypican-4 based compositions and methods for treating and diagnosing insulin resistance

US 09446096	Ussar et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
APPLICANT(S)	Joslin Diabetes Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Joslin Diabetes Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Siegfried Ussar (Boston, Massachusetts); C. Ronald Kahn (West Newton, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Provided herein are methods for increasing insulin sensitivity in a subject. A method may comprise administering to a subject in need of increased insulin sensitivity a therapeutically effective amount of a glypican-4 agent. Also provided herein are methods for determining whether a subject is or is likely to become insulin resistant. A method may comprise determining the level of glypican-4 in a subject, wherein an elevated level of glypican-4 indicates that a subject is or is likely to become insulin resistant.
FILED	Monday, December 31, 2012
APPL NO	14/369095
ART UNIT	1676 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/1709 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6893 (20130101)
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09446097 — Methods for treating metabolic disorders using FGF

US 09446097	Jonker et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
APPLICANT(S)	Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Johan W. Jonker (Gronigen, Netherlands); Michael Downes (San Diego, California); Ronald M. Evans (La Jolla, California); Jae Myoung Suh (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	The method provides methods and compositions for treating metabolic disorders such as impaired glucose tolerance, elevated blood glucose, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, obesity, and fatty liver.
FILED	Friday, June 05, 2015
APPL NO	14/731705
ART UNIT	1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 38/1825 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/1825 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101)
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09446104 — Method of inducing a proinflammatory immune response to human α-lactalbumin

US 09446104	Tuohy et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
APPLICANT(S)	The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio)
INVENTOR(S)	Vincent K. Tuohy (Broadview Heights, Ohio); Justin M. Johnson (Willoughby Hills, Ohio); Ritika Jaini (Cleveland, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	Compositions and methods for immunization against human breast cancer are disclosed. A breast cancer vaccine comprises an immunogenic polypeptide comprising human α-lactalbumin.
FILED	Wednesday, December 18, 2013
APPL NO	14/132962
ART UNIT	1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0011 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/545 (20130101) A61K 2039/572 (20130101) A61K 2039/55577 (20130101)
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09446107 — Scaffolds for cell transplantation

US 09446107	Mooney et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
APPLICANT(S)	President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
ASSIGNEE(S)	President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	David J. Mooney (Sudbury, Massachusetts); Omar Abdel-Rahman Ali (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Eduardo Alexandre Barros E Silva (Davis, California); Hyun Joon Kong (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Elliot Earl Hill, Jr. (Ypsilanti, Missouri); Tanyarut Boontheekul (Bangkok, Thailand)
ABSTRACT	A device that includes a scaffold composition and a bioactive composition with the bioactive composition being incorporated into or coated onto the scaffold composition such that the scaffold composition and/or a bioactive composition controls egress of a resident cell or progeny thereof. The devices mediate active recruitment, modification, and release of host cells from the material.
FILED	Thursday, June 25, 2015
APPL NO	14/750423
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 38/193 (20130101) A61K 39/0011 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/54 (20130101) A61K 2039/6093 (20130101) A61K 2039/55561 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/18 (20130101) A61L 27/38 (20130101) A61L 27/54 (20130101) A61L 27/56 (20130101) A61L 27/58 (20130101) A61L 27/3633 (20130101) A61L 2300/252 (20130101) A61L 2300/414 (20130101) A61L 2300/426 (20130101) A61L 2300/438 (20130101) A61L 2300/604 (20130101) A61L 2300/606 (20130101) A61L 2400/18 (20130101) A61L 2430/30 (20130101)
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09446113 — Bacterial live vector vaccines expressing chromosomally-integrated foreign antigens

US 09446113	Galen et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)	James E. Galen (Eldersburg, Maryland); Jin-Yuan Wang (Silver Spring, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE (Baltimore, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	James E. Galen (Eldersburg, Maryland); Jin-Yuan Wang (Silver Spring, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	Bacterial live vector vaccines represent a vaccine development strategy that offers exceptional flexibility. In the present invention, genes encoding protective antigens of unrelated bacterial, viral, parasitic, or fungal pathogens are expressed in an attenuated bacterial vaccine strain that delivers these foreign antigens to the immune system, thereby eliciting relevant immune responses. Rather than expressing these antigens using only low copy expression plasmids, expression of foreign proteins is accomplished using both low copy expression plasmids in conjunction with chromosomal integrations within the same live vector. This strategy compensates for the inherent disadvantage of loss of gene dosage (versus exclusive plasmid-based expression) by integrating antigen expression cassettes into multiple chromosomal sites already inactivated in an attenuated vector.
FILED	Wednesday, April 15, 2015
APPL NO	14/687463
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 39/0291 (20130101) A61K 2039/522 (20130101) A61K 2039/523 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/74 (20130101)
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09446119 — Vaccinia virus polypeptides

US 09446119	Poland et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)	Gregory A. Poland (Rochester, Minnesota); Richard B. Kennedy (Rochester, Minnesota)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota)
INVENTOR(S)	Gregory A. Poland (Rochester, Minnesota); Richard B. Kennedy (Rochester, Minnesota)
ABSTRACT	This document provides methods and materials related to polypeptides present in a vaccinia virus (e.g., membrane proteins such as vaccinia virus B5R, L1R, A33R, or A27L polypeptides). For example, methods for generating a vaccine comprising one or more of vaccinia virus polypeptides disclosed herein for preventing or treating Orthopoxvirus infection are provided. In addition, kits related to the use of vaccinia polypeptides are provided.
FILED	Thursday, August 23, 2012
APPL NO	13/593365
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/285 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 39/295 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 2710/24122 (20130101) C12N 2710/24134 (20130101)
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09446125 — Anti-EphA2 antibodies and methods of use thereof

US 09446125	Zhou et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKE (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Yu Zhou (San Francisco, California); James D. Marks (Kensington, California)
ABSTRACT	Antibodies that bind to tumor associated antigen CD44 or to tumor associated antigen EphA2, are disclosed herein, as well as related compositions and methods of use. Methods of use encompass cancer therapies, diagnostics, and screening methods.
FILED	Tuesday, August 18, 2015
APPL NO	14/829077
ART UNIT	1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/39558 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/48215 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/30 (20130101) C07K 16/40 (20130101) C07K 16/464 (20130101) C07K 16/2866 (20130101) C07K 16/2884 (20130101) C07K 2317/10 (20130101) C07K 2317/21 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) C07K 2317/55 (20130101) C07K 2317/77 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101)
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09446144 — Glycopeptide and uses thereof

US 09446144	Boons et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia); Alex Haley (Athens, Georgia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia)
INVENTOR(S)	Geert-Jan Boons (Athens, Georgia); Therese Buskas (Athens, Georgia); Sampat Ingale (San Diego, California); Margaretha Wolfert (Athens, Georgia)
ABSTRACT	A glycolipopeptide comprising a carbohydrate component, a peptide component and a lipid component, for use as a therapeutic or prophylactic vaccine. Also provided are monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies that recognize the glycolipopeptide of the invention, as well as uses thereof.
FILED	Tuesday, December 31, 2013
APPL NO	14/145745
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/127 (20130101) A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 39/0008 (20130101) A61K 39/0011 (20130101) A61K 39/385 (20130101) A61K 47/4833 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/57 (20130101) A61K 2039/545 (20130101) A61K 2039/6018 (20130101) A61K 2039/6075 (20130101) A61K 2039/55555 (20130101) Peptides C07K 9/00 (20130101) C07K 14/22 (20130101) C07K 14/4727 (20130101) C07K 16/44 (20130101) C07K 16/3076 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2740/16011 (20130101) C12N 2740/16134 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2400/02 (20130101) G01N 2800/042 (20130101) G01N 2800/2821 (20130101)
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09446149 — Nanoparticles stabilized with nitrophenylboronic acid compositions

US 09446149	Davis et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Mark E. Davis (Pasadena, California); Han Han (Belmont, California)
ABSTRACT	Described herein are polymer conjugates comprising a polymer containing a polyol coupled to a polymer containing a nitroboronic acid.
FILED	Wednesday, July 22, 2015
APPL NO	14/805640
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 9/19 (20130101) A61K 9/5146 (20130101) A61K 31/337 (20130101) A61K 31/427 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 31/4745 (20130101) A61K 47/48907 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 81/00 (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) C12N 2310/351 (20130101) C12N 2320/30 (20130101)
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09446150 — Particles for imaging

US 09446150	Lanza et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	Gregory M. Lanza (St. Louis, Missouri); Samuel A. Wickline (St. Louis, Missouri); Dipanjan Pan (St. Louis, Missouri); Angana Senpan (St. Louis, Missouri)
ASSIGNEE(S)	WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (St. Louis, Missouri)
INVENTOR(S)	Gregory M. Lanza (St. Louis, Missouri); Samuel A. Wickline (St. Louis, Missouri); Dipanjan Pan (St. Louis, Missouri); Angana Senpan (St. Louis, Missouri)
ABSTRACT	The invention encompasses particles comprising metal atoms, methods of making the particles, and methods for using the particles. In particular, the particles may be used to image biological tissues or to deliver a bioactive agent.
FILED	Thursday, October 09, 2008
APPL NO	12/682094
ART UNIT	1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/0002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 49/14 (20130101) A61K 49/0065 (20130101) A61K 49/0082 (20130101) A61K 49/085 (20130101) A61K 49/103 (20130101) A61K 49/0428 (20130101) A61K 49/1809 (20130101) A61K 49/1839 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101)
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09446157 — Chelated PSMA inhibitors

US 09446157	Berkman et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	Clifford Berkman (Pullman, Washington); Bea Langton-Webster (Woodinville, Washington); Xiaobing Wang (Redmond, Washington)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Cancer Targeted Technology LLC (Woodinville, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Clifford Berkman (Pullman, Washington); Bea Langton-Webster (Woodinville, Washington); Xiaobing Wang (Redmond, Washington)
ABSTRACT	Compounds as defined herein are provided which are useful in (1) diagnostic methods for detecting and/or identifying cells presenting PSMA; (2) compositions comprising a compound of the invention together with a pharmaceutically acceptable diluent; and (3) methods for imaging prostate cancer cells.
FILED	Wednesday, June 13, 2012
APPL NO	14/126296
ART UNIT	1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/04 (20130101) A61K 51/0489 (20130101) A61K 51/0497 (20130101) Original (OR) Class General Methods of Organic Chemistry; Apparatus Therefor C07B 59/004 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 9/2458 (20130101) C07F 9/6515 (20130101) C07F 9/6524 (20130101) C07F 9/6527 (20130101) C07F 9/6561 (20130101) C07F 9/65583 (20130101)
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09446169 — Method for creating perfusable microvessel systems

US 09446169	Neumann
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
APPLICANT(S)	Thomas Neumann (Seattle, Washington)
ASSIGNEE(S)	NORTIS, INC. (Woodinville, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Thomas Neumann (Seattle, Washington)
ABSTRACT	A method for the creation of endothelial parent vessels from human vascular endothelial cells in vitro in a culture perfusion device (CPD) including a collagen chamber, inlet ports, a capillary tube, and an outlet port. A collagen solution is injected into the collagen chamber through a syringe needle until the chamber is filled with collagen. The CPD is perfused by filling the inlet ports and sequentially priming the inlet ports, and the outlet ports. A perfusable channel is created in the collagen chamber and a concentrated suspension of endothelial cells is injected into the inlet ports. The endothelial cells are injected into the at least one perfusable channel and incubated to attach to the walls of the perfusable channel. The cells are distributed within the CPD; and perfused to form a parent vessel having homogeneous monolayers of cells.
FILED	Wednesday, August 17, 2011
APPL NO	13/212107
ART UNIT	1799 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/3808 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 21/08 (20130101) C12M 23/06 (20130101) C12M 23/20 (20130101) C12M 25/14 (20130101) C12M 29/10 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0068 (20130101) C12N 5/0691 (20130101) C12N 2533/50 (20130101)
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09446175 — Compositions and methods for treating and preventing neointimal stenosis

US 09446175	Breuer et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)
APPLICANT(S)	Christopher Breuer (New Albany, Ohio); Tarek Fahmy (New Haven, Connecticut); Michael Simons (Hamden, Connecticut); Pei-Yu Chen (East Haven, Connecticut); Daniel Rowe Duncan (Boston, Massachusetts); Joseph Patterson (New Haven, Connecticut)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut)
INVENTOR(S)	Christopher Breuer (New Albany, Ohio); Tarek Fahmy (New Haven, Connecticut); Michael Simons (Hamden, Connecticut); Pei-Yu Chen (East Haven, Connecticut); Daniel Rowe Duncan (Boston, Massachusetts); Joseph Patterson (New Haven, Connecticut)
ABSTRACT	Methods for treating or preventing neointima stenosis are disclosed. The methods generally involve the use of a TGFβ inhibitor, a SMAD2 inhibitor, an FGF Receptor agonist, a Let-7 agonist, or a combination thereof, to inhibit endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition (Endo-MT) of vascular endothelial cells into smooth muscle cells (SMC) at sites of endothelial damage. The disclosed methods can therefore be used to prevent or inhibit neointimal stenosis or restenosis, e.g., after angioplasty, vascular graft, or stent. Also disclosed are methods for increasing the patency of biodegradable, synthetic vascular grafts using a composition that inhibits Endo-MT. A cell-free tissue engineered vascular graft (TEVG) produced by this method is also disclosed.
FILED	Monday, June 04, 2012
APPL NO	14/123728
ART UNIT	1674 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/444 (20130101) A61K 31/444 (20130101) A61K 31/498 (20130101) A61K 31/498 (20130101) A61K 31/4178 (20130101) A61K 31/4178 (20130101) A61K 31/4439 (20130101) A61K 31/4439 (20130101) A61K 31/4709 (20130101) A61K 31/4709 (20130101) A61K 38/1825 (20130101) A61K 38/1825 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/54 (20130101) A61L 27/507 (20130101) A61L 31/06 (20130101) A61L 31/14 (20130101) A61L 31/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 2300/25 (20130101) A61L 2300/61 (20130101) A61L 2300/204 (20130101) A61L 2300/258 (20130101) A61L 2300/432 (20130101) A61L 2300/622 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/2863 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101)
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09446356 — Ultrasonic dispersion apparatus, system, and method

US 09446356	Milner
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS)
APPLICANT(S)	DISPERSE SYSTEMS, INC. (Oceanside, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Disperse Systems, Inc. (Oceanside, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Henry Milner (Oceanside, California)
ABSTRACT	An apparatus, system, and method of dispersing solid forms of drugs or medications reliably and consistently may generally employ ultrasonic energy. The disclosed embodiments facilitate preparation of a liquid dose from solid medications for administration to a patient.
FILED	Monday, November 02, 2015
APPL NO	14/929679
ART UNIT	1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Mixing, e.g Dissolving, Emulsifying, Dispersing B01F 1/0005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01F 11/0283 (20130101) B01F 2215/0032 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/10 (20130101) B01J 2219/089 (20130101)
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09446394 — Z-selective ring-closing metathesis reactions

US 09446394	Hoveyda et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Amir H. Hoveyda (Lincoln, Massachusetts); Miao Yu (West Roxbury, Massachusetts); Chenbo Wang (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Richard R. Schrock (Winchester, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates generally to olefin metathesis. In some embodiments, the present invention provides methods for Z-selective ring-closing metathesis.
FILED	Friday, March 06, 2015
APPL NO	14/641293
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 31/2208 (20130101) B01J 31/2295 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 2231/543 (20130101) B01J 2531/64 (20130101) B01J 2531/66 (20130101) General Methods of Organic Chemistry; Apparatus Therefor C07B 37/10 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 225/02 (20130101) C07D 245/02 (20130101) C07D 267/00 (20130101) C07D 313/00 (20130101) C07D 417/06 (20130101) C07D 491/18 (20130101) C07D 491/22 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 11/00 (20130101)
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09446995 — Synthesis of therapeutic and diagnostic drugs centered on regioselective and stereoselective ring opening of aziridinium ions

US 09446995	Chong
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	Hyun-Soon Chong (Chicago, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Hyun-Soon Chong (Chicago, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	Stereoselective and regioselective synthesis of compounds via nucleophilic ring opening reactions of aziridinium ions for use in stereoselective and regioselective synthesis of therapeutic and diagnostic compounds.
FILED	Friday, May 17, 2013
APPL NO	13/896524
ART UNIT	1625 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	General Methods of Organic Chemistry; Apparatus Therefor C07B 43/00 (20130101) C07B 43/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07B 2200/07 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 209/08 (20130101) C07C 209/08 (20130101) C07C 209/10 (20130101) C07C 209/10 (20130101) C07C 209/62 (20130101) C07C 209/62 (20130101) C07C 209/74 (20130101) C07C 209/74 (20130101) C07C 211/27 (20130101) C07C 211/27 (20130101) C07C 211/29 (20130101) C07C 211/49 (20130101) C07C 213/00 (20130101) C07C 213/00 (20130101) C07C 213/00 (20130101) C07C 215/30 (20130101) C07C 219/22 (20130101) C07C 227/18 (20130101) C07C 227/18 (20130101) C07C 227/18 (20130101) C07C 229/16 (20130101) C07C 229/34 (20130101) C07C 247/10 (20130101) C07C 253/14 (20130101) C07C 253/14 (20130101) C07C 255/42 (20130101) C07C 319/04 (20130101) C07C 319/04 (20130101) C07C 323/29 (20130101) C07C 327/06 (20130101) C07C 331/28 (20130101) C07C 2102/08 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/404 (20130101) C07D 209/16 (20130101) C07D 217/04 (20130101) C07D 221/10 (20130101) C07D 255/02 (20130101) C07D 265/32 (20130101)
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09447049 — Compounds for treatment of cancer

US 09447049	Li et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	GTx, Inc. (Memphis, Tennessee); UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Knoxville, Tennessee)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Knoxville, Tennessee)
INVENTOR(S)	Wei Li (Germantown, Tennessee); Min Xiao (Memphis, Tennessee); James Dalton (Lakeland, Tennessee); Sunjoo Ahn (Memphis, Tennessee); Duane D. Miller (Germantown, Tennessee); Jianjuan Chen (Memphis, Tennessee); Jin Wang (Memphis, Tennessee)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to novel compounds having anti-cancer activity, methods of making these compounds, and their use for treating cancer and drug-resistant tumors, e.g. melanoma, metastatic melanoma, drug resistant melanoma, prostate cancer and drug resistant prostate cancer.
FILED	Wednesday, November 14, 2012
APPL NO	13/676650
ART UNIT	1626 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/4164 (20130101) A61K 31/4164 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 233/64 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 263/32 (20130101) C07D 277/24 (20130101) C07D 277/28 (20130101) C07D 277/56 (20130101) C07D 417/04 (20130101)
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09447058 — Substituted 1,3-thiazoles as heat shock transcription factor 1 activators

US 09447058	Thiele et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)	Duke University (Durham, North Carolina); Chaperone Therapeutics, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Duke University (Durham, North Carolina); Chaperone Therapeutics, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Dennis J. Thiele (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Daniel W. Neef (Durham, North Carolina); Jose S. Mendoza (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to 1,3-thiazole compounds, methods for their discovery, and their research and therapeutic uses, as well as pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, chelates, non-covalent complexes, prodrugs, mixtures (including both R and S enantiomeric forms and racemic mixtures thereof), and pharmaceutical Formulations thereof.
FILED	Thursday, October 08, 2015
APPL NO	14/878749
ART UNIT	1624 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/415 (20130101) A61K 31/415 (20130101) A61K 31/426 (20130101) A61K 31/426 (20130101) A61K 31/4155 (20130101) A61K 31/4155 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 211/01 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 231/38 (20130101) C07D 231/40 (20130101) C07D 277/38 (20130101) C07D 277/42 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 277/60 (20130101) C07D 405/14 (20130101) C07D 409/04 (20130101) C07D 413/12 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101)
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09447060 — Small molecule modulators of pRb inactivation

US 09447060	Marmorstein et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)	The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Ronen Marmorstein (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania); Daniela Fera (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides a small molecule treatment of diseases/conditions caused by a virus carrying a viral oncoprotein. In one embodiment, the virus which carries the viral oncoprotein is HPV. The small molecule useful herein includes thiadiazolin-3,5-dione compounds having an optionally substituted aryl group bound to one nitrogen atom of said thiadiazolin-3,5-dione compound. The small molecules may also be administered with a compound which inhibits binding of HPV E6 to p53. In one embodiment, the thiadiazolin-3,5-dione compound has formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, prodrug, solvate, or metabolite thereof, wherein R¹and R²are defined herein.
FILED	Tuesday, November 06, 2012
APPL NO	14/356979
ART UNIT	1627 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/66 (20130101) A61K 31/185 (20130101) A61K 31/194 (20130101) A61K 31/196 (20130101) A61K 31/351 (20130101) A61K 31/409 (20130101) A61K 31/433 (20130101) A61K 31/433 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 5/10 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 285/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09447075 — Pyridazine derivatives as EAAT2 activators

US 09447075	Cuny et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
APPLICANT(S)	Gregory D. Cuny (Houston, Texas); Marcie Glicksman (Winchester, Massachusetts); Xeuchao Xing (Wilmington, Massachusetts); Chien-Liang Glenn Lin (Columbus, Ohio)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio)
INVENTOR(S)	Gregory D. Cuny (Houston, Texas); Marcie Glicksman (Winchester, Massachusetts); Xeuchao Xing (Wilmington, Massachusetts); Chien-Liang Glenn Lin (Columbus, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	Pyridazine derivatives that activate the excitatory amino acid transporter 2 (EAAT2), and methods use thereof for treating or preventing diseases, disorders, and conditions associated with glutamate excitotoxicity.
FILED	Thursday, August 02, 2012
APPL NO	14/236041
ART UNIT	1624 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/50 (20130101) A61K 31/501 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/32 (20130101) C07D 237/18 (20130101) C07D 401/04 (20130101) C07D 401/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09447127 — Synthetic lung surfactant and use thereof

US 09447127	Notter et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	University of Rochester (Rochester, New York); University of Guelph (Guelph, Canada); The Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Rochester (Rochester, New York); The Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute of Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (Torrance, California); University of Guelph (Guelph, Ontario, Canada)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert H. Notter (Pittsford, New York); Zhengdong Wang (Rochester, New York); Adrian L. Schwan (Guelph, Canada); Zhongyi Wang (Guelph, Canada); Jason A. Davy (Guelph, Canada); Alan J Waring (Irvine, California); Frans Walther (Renondo Beach, California); Larry M. Gordon (Torrance, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to synthetic lung surfactant compositions that contain one or more of phospholipase-resistant phospho-glycerol derivatives, phospholipase-resistant phospho-choline derivatives, and surface active proteins or peptides, more preferably a combination of at least two or all three of these materials. Novel phospholipase-resistant phospho-glycerol derivatives, phospholipase-resistant phospho-choline derivatives, and surface active peptides are also disclosed herein. Uses of the surfactant compositions of the present invention to treat endogenous surfactant dysfunctional or deficient lung tissue, to prepare synthetic peptides for use in the surfactant compositions, and to deliver therapeutic agents are also disclosed.
FILED	Wednesday, September 18, 2013
APPL NO	14/030719
ART UNIT	1676 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0082 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 9/091 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07F 9/4006 (20130101) C07F 9/4075 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/001 (20130101) C07K 14/785 (20130101)
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09447134 — Compounds and methods for treating mammalian gastrointestinal microbial infections

US 09447134	Hedstrom et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)	Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts); The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts); The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Lizbeth K. Hedstrom (Newton, Massachusetts); Gregory D. Cuny (Houston, Texas); Suresh K. Gorla (Gurgaon, India); Mandapati Kavitha (Gurgaon, India)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed are compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, which are useful as inhibitors of IMPDH. In certain embodiments, a compound selectively inhibits a parasitic IMPDH versus a host IMPDH. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more compounds of the invention. Related methods of treating various parasitic and bacterial infections in mammals are disclosed. Moreover, the compounds may be used alone or in combination with other therapeutic or prophylactic agents, such as anti-virals, anti-inflammatory agents, antimicrobials and immunosuppressants.
FILED	Monday, August 19, 2013
APPL NO	14/421818
ART UNIT	1672 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/17 (20130101) A61K 31/44 (20130101) A61K 31/47 (20130101) A61K 31/277 (20130101) A61K 31/325 (20130101) A61K 31/423 (20130101) A61K 31/423 (20130101) A61K 31/427 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/502 (20130101) A61K 31/502 (20130101) A61K 31/4184 (20130101) A61K 31/4184 (20130101) A61K 31/4192 (20130101) A61K 31/4409 (20130101) A61K 31/4439 (20130101) A61K 31/4709 (20130101) A61K 31/5375 (20130101) A61K 31/7036 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 271/44 (20130101) C07C 271/50 (20130101) C07C 271/52 (20130101) C07C 275/28 (20130101) C07C 275/30 (20130101) C07C 275/34 (20130101) C07C 275/36 (20130101) C07C 275/38 (20130101) C07C 275/40 (20130101) C07C 275/42 (20130101) C07C 381/00 (20130101) C07C 2101/02 (20130101) C07C 2103/74 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/75 (20130101) C07D 215/38 (20130101) C07D 237/32 (20130101) C07D 249/18 (20130101) C07D 263/57 (20130101) C07D 295/088 (20130101) C07D 295/135 (20130101) C07D 319/18 (20130101) C07D 401/04 (20130101) C07D 401/12 (20130101) C07D 405/12 (20130101) C07D 413/04 (20130101) C07D 413/12 (20130101) C07D 413/14 (20130101) C07D 417/04 (20130101) Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 15/203 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09447139 — Ship inhibitors and uses thereof

US 09447139	Kerr et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
APPLICANT(S)	William G. Kerr (Syracuse, New York); John D. Chisholm (Syracuse, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (Syracuse, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	William G. Kerr (Syracuse, New York); John D. Chisholm (Syracuse, New York)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to SHIP inhibitor compounds and methods for using these compounds. In particular, the present invention discloses the following methods: (i) a method of treating graft versus host disease in a subject; (ii) a method of inhibiting a SHIP1 protein in a cell; (iii) a method of selectively inhibiting a SHIP1 protein in a cell; (iv) a method for treating or preventing graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) in a recipient of an organ or tissue transplant; (v) a method of modulating SHIP activity in a cell expressing SHIP1 or SHIP2; (vi) a method of ex vivo or in vitro treatment of transplants; (vii) a method of inhibiting tumor growth and metastasis in a subject; (viii) a method of treating a hematologic malignancy in a subject; (ix) a method of inducing apoptosis of multiple myeloma cells; (x) a method of treating multiple myeloma in a subject; (xi) a method of inhibiting the proliferation of a human breast cancer cell; and (xii) a method of treating breast cancer in a subject.
FILED	Monday, April 11, 2011
APPL NO	13/640162
ART UNIT	1628 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/56 (20130101) A61K 31/565 (20130101) A61K 31/575 (20130101) Steroids C07J 1/0007 (20130101) C07J 1/0011 (20130101) C07J 9/00 (20130101) C07J 31/003 (20130101) C07J 31/006 (20130101) C07J 41/0005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07J 41/005 (20130101) C07J 41/0011 (20130101) C07J 41/0027 (20130101) C07J 41/0055 (20130101)
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09447144 — MHC class II restricted T cell epitopes from the cancer antigen, NY ESO-1

US 09447144	Wang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
APPLICANT(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Rong-Fu Wang (Houston, Texas); Steven A. Rosenberg (Potomac, Maryland); Gang Zeng (Germantown, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	The present invention discloses the identification and isolation of novel MHC class II epitopes derived from the cancer antigen, NY ESO-1. The novel MHC class II epitopes from NY-EsO-1 are recognized by CD4⁺ T lymphocytes in an HLA class II restricted manner, in particular HLA-DR or HLA-DP restricted. The products of the gene are promising candidates for immunotherapeutic strategies for the prevention, treatment and diagnosis of patients with cancer.
FILED	Thursday, May 22, 2014
APPL NO	14/284971
ART UNIT	1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 2217/05 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/08 (20130101) A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 48/00 (20130101) A61K 2039/53 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/4748 (20130101) C07K 16/30 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2799/021 (20130101)
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09447155 — Isoform Nell-1 peptide

US 09447155	Ting et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
APPLICANT(S)	Kang Ting (Beverly Hills, California); Chia Soo (Beverly Hills, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Kang Ting (Beverly Hills, California); Chia Soo (Beverly Hills, California)
ABSTRACT	This application generally relates to an isoform Nell-1 peptide, compositions thereof, and methods of using the same.
FILED	Wednesday, March 24, 2010
APPL NO	13/256931
ART UNIT	1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/32 (20130101) A61K 35/32 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09447156 — Methods and compositions for inhibiting neddylation of proteins

US 09447156	Monda et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)	Julie K. Monda (Memphis, Tennessee); Brenda A. Schulman (Memphis, Tennessee); Daniel C. Scott (Memphis, Tennessee)
ASSIGNEE(S)	St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, Tennessee)
INVENTOR(S)	Julie K. Monda (Memphis, Tennessee); Brenda A. Schulman (Memphis, Tennessee); Daniel C. Scott (Memphis, Tennessee)
ABSTRACT	Provided herein is a novel binding pocket within NEDD8 co-E3 proteins that binds NEDD8 E2 enzymes. Particularly at its M-Terminus. Methods are provided for screening for compounds that bind to the disclosed E2-binding pocket in NEDD8 co-E3 proteins. Compounds that bind to the E2-binding pocket and optionally inhibit the activity of NEDD8 co-E3 proteins and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same are further provided. The NEDD8 co-E3 inhibitors find use, as agents preventing the NEDDylation of a target protein, in inhibiting cell growth and methods for treating cancers, inflammatory disorders, and pathogenic infections. The preferred inhibitors are peptides corresponding to a M-terminal fragment of Dnc1, e.g. MTLASKLKRDD, MLKLRQLQKKKQ, and MIKLFSLKQQKK, which are substituted at the M-Terminus with an uncharged group (e.g. acyl).
FILED	Wednesday, May 16, 2012
APPL NO	14/118132
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) Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2299/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/93 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 603/02019 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/566 (20130101) G01N 33/573 (20130101) G01N 2333/9015 (20130101) G01N 2440/36 (20130101) G01N 2500/04 (20130101)
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09447157 — Nitration shielding peptides and methods of use thereof

US 09447157	Black et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	Augusta University Research Institute, Inc. (Augusta, Georgia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Augusta University Research Institute, Inc. (Augusta, Georgia)
INVENTOR(S)	Stephen M. Black (Martinez, Georgia); Ruslan Robertovich Rafitov (Evans, Georgia)
ABSTRACT	Nitration shielding peptides that reduce or prevent nitration of a protein of interest are disclosed. The peptide can serve as molecular sink for nitrating agents, block access of the nitrating agents to the target tyrosine on the protein of interest, serve as substrate for the nitrating agent (i.e., provide an alternative nitratable tyrosine residue), provide a nitrating agent neutralizing moiety such as antioxidant, or a combination thereof. The nitration shielding peptide can be a fusion protein that includes one or more additional domains such a protein transduction domain, a targeting signal, a purification tag, or any combination thereof. Exemplary nitration shielding peptides for reducing nitration of RhoA and PKG-1α, and methods of use thereof for treating pathologies, disease, and disorders associated with nitration of RhoA and PKG-1α, respectively are also provided.
FILED	Monday, September 15, 2014
APPL NO	14/486317
ART UNIT	1675 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/82 (20130101) C07K 14/4702 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/01 (20130101) C07K 2319/10 (20130101) C07K 2319/21 (20130101) C07K 2319/41 (20130101) C07K 2319/42 (20130101) C07K 2319/43 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/1205 (20130101)
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09447158 — Kinase inhibitors and uses thereof

US 09447158	Panitch et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
APPLICANT(S)	PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayett, Indiana)
INVENTOR(S)	Alyssa Panitch (West Lafayette, Indiana); Brandon Seal (Pleasant Grove, Utah); Brian Ward (Brownsburg, Indiana)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to kinase inhibiting compositions and uses thereof. The invention further provides isolated kinase inhibiting peptides and uses thereof for inhibiting hyperplasia, for inhibiting the growth of neoplasms, and for inducing programmed cell death in a cell population.
FILED	Tuesday, April 22, 2014
APPL NO	14/258418
ART UNIT	1675 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/005 (20130101) A61K 38/16 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) C07K 7/08 (20130101) C07K 14/4703 (20130101) C07K 14/4747 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09447186 — Antibodies to human B7x for treatment of metastatic cancer

US 09447186	Zang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
APPLICANT(S)	Xingxing Zang (New York, New York); James P. Allison (Houston, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Inc. (Bronx, New York); Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Xingxing Zang (New York, New York); James P. Allison (Houston, Texas)
ABSTRACT	Methods are provided for treating metastatic cancer in patients having metastatic cancer or for preventing metastasis in cancer patients at risk for metastasis comprising administering to the patient an antibody to B7x, or an active antibody fragment that binds B7x, in an amount effective to treat or prevent metastasis.
FILED	Thursday, October 10, 2013
APPL NO	14/050512
ART UNIT	1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/3955 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/30 (20130101) C07K 16/2827 (20130101) C07K 2317/732 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5011 (20130101)
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09447243 — Polymerization method and polymers formed therewith

US 09447243	Dong et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE)
APPLICANT(S)	The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Jiajia Dong (San Diego, California); Valery Fokin (Oceanside, California); Larisa Krasnova (San Diego, California); Luke R. Kwisnek (San Diego, California); James S. Oakdale (San Diego, California); K. Barry Sharpless (La Jolla, California)
ABSTRACT	Condensation of fluoro-substituted and silyl-substituted monomers provides polymers suitable for use, e.g., as engineering polymers. A monomer composition is condensed in the presence of a basic catalyst. The monomer composition contains a compound of formula F—X—F and a compound of formula (R¹)3Si—Z—Si(R¹)3, and forms an alternating X—Z polymer chain and a silyl fluoride byproduct. X has the formula -A(-R²-A)n-; each A is SO₂, C(═O), or Het; R²is an organic moiety; n is 0 or 1; Het is an aromatic nitrogen heterocycle; Z has the formula -L-R³-L-; each L is O, S, or N(R⁴); and each R³is an organic moiety, and R⁴comprises H or an organic moiety.
FILED	Tuesday, December 03, 2013
APPL NO	14/649428
ART UNIT	1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 64/06 (20130101) C08G 64/24 (20130101) C08G 65/40 (20130101) C08G 65/4012 (20130101) C08G 75/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 2650/40 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 5/18 (20130101) C08J 2369/00 (20130101) C08J 2381/00 (20130101)
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09447378 — Method for differentiating human embryonic stem cells into β-cells for the treatment of type I diabetes

US 09447378	Colton et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
APPLICANT(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Clark K. Colton (Newton, Massachusetts); Amanda Dilenno (Boston, Massachusetts); Jeffrey R. Millman (St. Louis, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides inter alia methods for differentiating embryonic stem cells into insulin producing cells, as well as compositions comprising such cells, and therapeutic uses of such compositions.
FILED	Monday, April 29, 2013
APPL NO	13/873020
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 5/0606 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 5/0676 (20130101) C12N 2500/02 (20130101) C12N 2506/02 (20130101)
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09447390 — Aldehyde tags, uses thereof in site-specific protein modification

US 09447390	Carrico et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Isaac S. Carrico (Stony Brook, New York); Brian L. Carlson (Richmond, California); Peng Wu (Berkeley, California); Carolyn Bertozzi (Berkeley, California)
ABSTRACT	The invention features compositions and methods for site-specific modification of proteins by incorporation of an aldehyde tag. Enzymatic modification at a sulfatase motif of the aldehyde tag through action of a formylglycine generating enzyme (FGE) generates a formylglycine (FGly) residue. The aldehyde moiety of FGly residue can be exploited as a chemical handle for site-specific attachment of a moiety of interest to a polypeptide.
FILED	Wednesday, August 20, 2014
APPL NO	14/464528
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Peptides C07K 1/006 (20130101) C07K 1/13 (20130101) C07K 1/1072 (20130101) C07K 14/00 (20130101) C07K 14/35 (20130101) C07K 14/565 (20130101) C07K 16/00 (20130101) C07K 16/46 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/13 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 9/96 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 21/00 (20130101) C12P 21/005 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 208/02 (20130101)
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09447405 — Regulation of specific spinal neurons regulating pain transmission via chimeric toxins

US 09447405	Johnson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)	Eric A. Johnson (Madison, Wisconsin); Sabine Pellett (Madison, Wisconsin); William H. Tepp (Stoughton, Wisconsin); Tony L. Yaksh (San Diego, California); Marc Marino (San Diego, California); Qinghao Xu (San Diego, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin); THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Eric A. Johnson (Madison, Wisconsin); Sabine Pellett (Madison, Wisconsin); William H. Tepp (Stoughton, Wisconsin); Tony L. Yaksh (San Diego, California); Marc Marino (San Diego, California); Qinghao Xu (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	A chimeric toxin is disclosed comprising a peptide ligand specifically targeting neurons involved in pain processing; and a clostridial neurotoxin light chain, wherein the ligand is linked to the light chain. The methods of preparing such chimeric toxin and the method of using the chimeric toxin to regulate pain transmission are also disclosed.
FILED	Friday, February 14, 2014
APPL NO	14/181241
ART UNIT	1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/164 (20130101) A61K 38/4893 (20130101) A61K 47/48238 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/22 (20130101) C07K 14/33 (20130101) C07K 14/70 (20130101) C07K 14/72 (20130101) C07K 14/57545 (20130101) C07K 2319/01 (20130101) C07K 2319/33 (20130101) C07K 2319/55 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/96 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09447411 — Methods and compositions for single cell expression profiling

US 09447411	Chenchik
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	CELLECTA, INC. (Mountain View, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Cellecta, Inc. (Mountain View, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Alex Chenchik (Redwood City, California)
ABSTRACT	Methods of obtaining a single cell expression profile from a target mammalian cell are provided. Aspects of the methods include contacting a cellular sample which includes the target mammalian cell with a packaged viral barcoded trans-splicing library including a plurality of barcoded trans-splicing constructs under transduction conditions, where a barcoded trans-splicing construct includes a trans-splicing element linked to a barcode element. The methods further include generating expression data from the resultant transduced target mammalian cell to obtain the single cell expression data from the target mammalian cell. Also provided are compositions, e.g., libraries and components thereof, which find use in practicing the methods.
FILED	Monday, January 13, 2014
APPL NO	14/153864
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	Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/102 (20130101) C12N 15/1065 (20130101) C12N 15/1072 (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 1/6886 (20130101)
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09447429 — Method to trigger RNA interference

US 09447429	Carrington et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB) Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
APPLICANT(S)	Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon)
INVENTOR(S)	James C. Carrington (St. Louis, Missouri); Edwards Allen (O'Fallon, Missouri)
ABSTRACT	A method to generate siRNAs in vivo is described, as are constructs and compositions useful in the method. The method does not depend on the use of DNA or synthetic constructs that contain inverted duplications or dual promoters so as to form perfect or largely double-stranded RNA. Rather, the method depends on constructs that yield single-stranded RNA transcripts, and exploits endogenous or in vivo-produced miRNAs or siRNAs to initiate production of siRNAs. The miRNAs or siRNAs guide cleavage of the transcript and set the register for production of siRNAs (usually 21 nucleotides in length) encoded adjacent to the initiation cleavage site within the construct. The method results in specific formation of siRNAs of predictable size and register (phase) relative to the initiation cleavage site. The method can be used to produce specific siRNAs in vivo for inactivation or suppression of one or more target genes or other entities, such as pathogens.
FILED	Monday, August 25, 2014
APPL NO	14/468159
ART UNIT	1663 — Plants
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 15/8218 (20130101) C12N 15/8245 (20130101) C12N 15/8246 (20130101) C12N 15/8247 (20130101) C12N 15/8251 (20130101) C12N 15/8261 (20130101) C12N 15/8271 (20130101) C12N 15/8274 (20130101) C12N 15/8279 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2320/11 (20130101)
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09447434 — Use of chimeric nucleases to stimulate gene targeting

US 09447434	Baltimore et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	David Baltimore (Pasadena, California); Matthew Porteus (Dallas, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
INVENTOR(S)	David Baltimore (Pasadena, California); Matthew Porteus (Dallas, Texas)
ABSTRACT	Gene targeting is a technique to introduce genetic change into one or more specific locations in the genome of a cell. For example, gene targeting can introduce genetic change by modifying, repairing, attenuating or inactivating a target gene or other chromosomal DNA. In one aspect, this disclosure relates to methods and compositions for gene targeting with high efficiency in a cell. This disclosure also relates to methods of treating or preventing a genetic disease in an individual in need thereof. Further disclosed are chimeric nucleases and vectors encoding chimeric nucleases.
FILED	Friday, September 05, 2003
APPL NO	10/656531
ART UNIT	1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 48/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 2319/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/09 (20130101) C07K 2319/43 (20130101) C07K 2319/81 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/22 (20130101) C12N 15/907 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2800/80 (20130101) C12N 2830/00 (20130101) C12N 2830/15 (20130101) C12N 2830/48 (20130101) C12N 2830/60 (20130101) C12N 2830/90 (20130101) C12N 2840/203 (20130101)
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09447449 — Recombinant mycobacteriophages for delivery of nucleic acids of interest into mycobacteria

US 09447449	Jacobs et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Non-Profit Organization (NPO) Duke University Center for Aids Research (CFAR)
APPLICANT(S)	Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York); University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Inc. (Bronx, New York); University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	William R. Jacobs (Pelham, New York); Graham F. Hatfull (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	Methods are provided for detecting mycobacteria in a sample, including clinical samples. Methods are also provided for determining susceptibility of mycobacterial strains to known or potential antibiotic agents, as are kits therefor. Recombinant mycobacteriophages are also provided comprising heterologous nucleic acids of interest.
FILED	Friday, October 19, 2012
APPL NO	14/352761
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 15/74 (20130101) C12N 2795/00021 (20130101) C12N 2795/00022 (20130101) C12N 2795/00031 (20130101) C12N 2795/00043 (20130101) C12N 2795/00051 (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 1/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2333/035 (20130101) G01N 2333/35 (20130101) G01N 2500/10 (20130101)
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09447451 — Device and methods for epigenetic analysis

US 09447451	Craighead et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Electrical and Communications Systems (ECS)
APPLICANT(S)	Cornell University (Ithaca, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Cornell University (Ithaca, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York); Benjamin R. Cipriany (Ithaca, New York); Stephen Levy (Ithaca, New York); Paul Soloway (Ithaca, New York)
ABSTRACT	Provided herein are methods and devices for single object detection. The methods and devices can be used to identify a plurality epigenetic markers on a genetic material, or a chromatin, encompassing fragments thereof. The invention provides for the characterization of the genetic material flowing through a channel in a continuous body of fluid based on detection of one or more properties of the genetic material. The methods and systems provided herein allow genome-wide, high-throughput epigenetic analysis and overcome a variety of limitations common to bulk analysis techniques.
FILED	Wednesday, April 23, 2014
APPL NO	14/260082
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	Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 2200/0663 (20130101) B01L 2300/0654 (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 1/68 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6827 (20130101) C12Q 1/6827 (20130101) C12Q 1/6827 (20130101) C12Q 2537/164 (20130101) C12Q 2537/164 (20130101) C12Q 2561/113 (20130101) C12Q 2565/629 (20130101) C12Q 2565/629 (20130101) C12Q 2565/631 (20130101) C12Q 2565/631 (20130101) C12Q 2565/631 (20130101)
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09447452 — Selective oxidation of 5-methylcytosine by TET-family proteins

US 09447452	Rao et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
APPLICANT(S)	Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); The United States of America, As Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Anjana Rao (La Jolla, California); Mamta Tahiliani (New York, New York); Kian Peng Koh (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Suneet Agarwal (Belmont, Massachusetts); Aravind Iyer (Bethesda, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides for novel methods for regulating and detecting the cytosine methylation status of DNA. The invention is based upon identification of a novel and surprising catalytic activity for the family of TET proteins, namely TET1, TET2, TET3, and CXXC4. The novel activity is related to the enzymes being capable of converting the cytosine nucleotide 5-methylcytosine into 5-hydroxymethylcytosine by hydroxylation.
FILED	Tuesday, March 12, 2013
APPL NO	13/795739
ART UNIT	1642 — 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 5/0018 (20130101) C12N 9/0071 (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 1/26 (20130101) C12Q 1/6806 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6827 (20130101) C12Q 1/6827 (20130101) C12Q 2521/531 (20130101) C12Q 2522/10 (20130101) C12Q 2537/164 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5011 (20130101) G01N 33/5308 (20130101) G01N 2500/00 (20130101)
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09447461 — Analysis devices, kits, and related methods for digital quantification of nucleic acids and other analytes

US 09447461	Ismagilov et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) NIH Office of the Director (NIHOD) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE)
APPLICANT(S)	Rustem F. Ismagilov (Chicago, Illinois); Feng Shen (Chicago, Illinois); Jason E. Kreutz (Chicago, Illinois); Bing Sun (Chicago, Illinois); Wenbin Du (Chicago, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California); UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (Chicago, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Rustem F. Ismagilov (Chicago, Illinois); Feng Shen (Chicago, Illinois); Jason E. Kreutz (Chicago, Illinois); Bing Sun (Chicago, Illinois); Wenbin Du (Chicago, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	Provided are devices and methods for effecting processing of samples, including essentially isothermal amplification of nucleic acids, at multiple reaction locations in a single device. In some embodiments, the disclosed devices and methods provide for effecting parallel sample processing in several hundred locations on a single device.
FILED	Thursday, April 05, 2012
APPL NO	13/440371
ART UNIT	1799 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Mixing, e.g Dissolving, Emulsifying, Dispersing B01F 13/0094 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/5025 (20130101) B01L 3/502738 (20130101) B01L 2200/027 (20130101) B01L 2300/0864 (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 1/6851 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6851 (20130101) C12Q 2531/119 (20130101) C12Q 2537/149 (20130101) C12Q 2563/159 (20130101) C12Q 2565/629 (20130101)
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09448158 — Lightguides to simplify total emission detection for multiphoton microscopy

US 09448158	Knutson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	Jay R. Knutson (Kensington, Maryland); Christian A. Combs (Bethesda, Maryland); Robert S. Balaban (Bethesda, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Jay R. Knutson (Kensington, Maryland); Christian A. Combs (Bethesda, Maryland); Robert S. Balaban (Bethesda, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	Light collectors for fluorescence microscopy include slab light guides having a specimen volume such as a specimen well configured to retain a specimen. The specimen volume is bounded by a surface of the slab light guide that permits laterally propagating fluorescence to enter the slab light guide and propagate toward a detection or imaging system. Typically, the slab light guide has an elliptical perimeter and the sample volume is situated at a first focus of the elliptical perimeter. A reflector such as a conical reflector is situated at the second focus so as to direct the collected fluorescence to exit the slab light guide.
FILED	Friday, February 03, 2012
APPL NO	13/983534
ART UNIT	2872 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/01 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/6458 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/241 (20130101) G02B 21/16 (20130101) G02B 21/26 (20130101)
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09448173 — Dye-conjugated dendrimers

US 09448173	Kim et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
APPLICANT(S)	Younghoon Kim (Champaign, Illinois); Sung Hoon Kim (Champaign, Illinois); Melikhan Tanyeri (Champaign, Illinois); John A. Katzenellenbogen (Urbana, Illinois); Charles M. Schroeder, III (Champaign, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Younghoon Kim (Champaign, Illinois); Sung Hoon Kim (Champaign, Illinois); Melikhan Tanyeri (Champaign, Illinois); John A. Katzenellenbogen (Urbana, Illinois); Charles M. Schroeder, III (Champaign, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides dendrimers, conjugates thereof, and methods of using dendrimer conjugates. In one embodiment, the invention provides novel polymeric dendrimers as a new class of fluorescent labels. The labels can include multiple fluorescent dye molecules conjugated to a single polymeric backbone or core, such as a dendrimer. The dendrimers can have regular or irregular branched polymeric network structures that allow for the chemical attachment of multiple dye molecules, multiple color dyes, and/or multiple functional groups, in a combinatorial fashion. The fluorescent dendritic nanoprobes (FDNs) thus provide a new class of fluorescent reporters for fluorescence microscopy and imaging.
FILED	Thursday, March 08, 2012
APPL NO	13/385828
ART UNIT	1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 73/14 (20130101) C08G 73/028 (20130101) C08G 83/003 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6428 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/6456 (20130101) G01N 33/582 (20130101) G01N 33/585 (20130101) G01N 2021/6441 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/707 (20130101)
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09448178 — Integrated microfluidic radioassay and imaging platform for small sample analysis

US 09448178	Graeber et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
APPLICANT(S)	THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Thomas G. Graeber (Pacific Palisades, California); Hsian-Rong Tseng (Los Angeles, California); Arion F. Hadjioannou (Chatziioannou) (Los Angeles, California); Cong Fang (Newbury Park, California); Yanju Wang (Los Angeles, California); Nam T. Vu (Redondo Beach, California)
ABSTRACT	An immunocapture-based in vitro kinase assay on an integrated polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microfluidics platform that can reproducibly measure kinase activity from as few as 3,000 cells is described. For this platform, the standard radiometric ³²P-ATP labeled phosphate transfer assay was adopted. Implementation on a microfluidic device required the development of methods for repeated trapping and mixing of solid-phase affinity micro beads. A solid state beta-particle camera imbedded directly below the microfluidic device was used to provide real-time quantitative detection of the signal from this and other microfluidic radio bioassays. The integrated device can measure ABL protein kinase activity from BCR-ABL positive leukemia patient samples, and can measure the small molecule phosphorylation such as phosphorylation of the deoxycytidine analog ¹⁸F-FAC by deoxycytidine kinase (dCK) isolated from cell lysates.
FILED	Saturday, March 02, 2013
APPL NO	13/783283
ART UNIT	1677 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502707 (20130101) B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 2200/0668 (20130101) B01L 2300/088 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2400/086 (20130101) B01L 2400/0481 (20130101) B01L 2400/0487 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/485 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/75 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/573 (20130101) G01N 33/54366 (20130101)
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09448289 — Background field removal method for MRI using projection onto dipole fields

US 09448289	Wang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
APPLICANT(S)	Yi Wang (New York, New York); Ludovic de Rochefort (Cachan, France); Tian Liu (New York, New York); Ildar Khalidov (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation)
ASSIGNEE(S)	CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Yi Wang (New York, New York); Ludovic de Rochefort (Cachan, France); Tian Liu (New York, New York); Ildar Khalidov (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation)
ABSTRACT	For optimal image quality in susceptibility-weighted imaging and accurate quantification of susceptibility, it is necessary to isolate the local field generated by local magnetic sources (such as iron) from the background field that arises from imperfect shimming and variations in magnetic susceptibility of surrounding tissues (including air). We present a nonparametric background field removal method based on projection onto dipole fields in which the background field inside an ROI is decomposed into a field originating from dipoles outside the ROI using the projection theorem in Hilbert space.
FILED	Wednesday, November 23, 2011
APPL NO	13/304141
ART UNIT	2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation
CURRENT CPC	Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 33/5608 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 2207/10088 (20130101)
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09449144 — Flux balance analysis with molecular crowding

US 09449144	Oltvai et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)	University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Zoltan N. Oltvai (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Alexei Vazquez (Princeton, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	Methods are provided herein for: calculating cell growth rates in various environments and genetic backgrounds; calculating the order of substrate utilization from a defined growth medium; calculating metabolic flux reorganization in various environments and at various growth rates; and calculating the maximum metabolic rate and optimal metabolite concentrations and enzyme activities by applying a computational optimization method to a kinetic model of a metabolic pathway. The optimization methods use intracellular molecular crowding parameters and/or well as kinetic rates to assist in modeling metabolic activity.
FILED	Friday, September 28, 2012
APPL NO	13/630650
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	Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 41/48 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/12 (20130101) G06F 19/3437 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09449377 — Imaging methods and computer-readable media

US 09449377	Sarkar et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
APPLICANT(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Service (Bethesda, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Susanta Kumar Sarkar (Rockville, Maryland); Ambika Bumb (Greer, South Carolina); Keir Cajal Neuman (Bethesda, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	One aspect of the invention provides an imaging method including: (a) acquiring a first fluorescent image of an object of interest impregnated with fluorescent nanodiamonds; (b) applying a magnetic field to the fluorescent nanodiamonds in order to decrease fluorescence of the fluorescent nanodiamonds; (c) acquiring a second fluorescent image of the object of interest; and (d) subtracting the second fluorescent image from the first fluorescent image to produce a resulting image. Another aspect of the invention provides an imaging method including: (a) applying a time-varying magnetic field to an object of interest impregnated with fluorescent nanodiamonds to modulate the fluorescence of the fluorescent nanodiamonds; (b) acquiring a plurality of fluorescent images of the object of interest; and (c) for each corresponding pixel in the plurality of fluorescent images, calculating a fluorescence intensity using a lock-in technique.
FILED	Tuesday, October 08, 2013
APPL NO	14/049096
ART UNIT	2667 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation
CURRENT CPC	Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6428 (20130101) G01N 21/6458 (20130101) G01N 21/6486 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00134 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 5/003 (20130101) G06T 5/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2207/10016 (20130101) G06T 2207/10056 (20130101) G06T 2207/10064 (20130101) G06T 2207/20182 (20130101) G06T 2207/20216 (20130101) G06T 2207/20224 (20130101) G06T 2207/30024 (20130101)
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Department of Defense (DOD)

09445994 — Lipid vesicle compositions and methods of use

US 09445994	Irvine et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Darrell J. Irvine (Arlington, Massachusetts); Jaehyun Moon (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides delivery systems comprised of stabilized multilamellar vesicles, as well as compositions, methods of synthesis, and methods of use thereof. The stabilized multilamellar vesicles comprise terminal-cysteine-bearing antigens or cysteine-modified antigens, at their surface and/or internally.
FILED	Wednesday, June 17, 2015
APPL NO	14/741694
ART UNIT	1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/127 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 9/1273 (20130101) A61K 38/20 (20130101) A61K 38/45 (20130101) A61K 38/193 (20130101) A61K 38/208 (20130101) A61K 38/212 (20130101) A61K 38/217 (20130101) A61K 38/2013 (20130101) A61K 38/2046 (20130101) A61K 38/2086 (20130101) A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/015 (20130101) A61K 39/21 (20130101) A61K 39/39 (20130101) A61K 39/39533 (20130101) A61K 47/48815 (20130101) A61K 2039/575 (20130101) A61K 2039/55511 (20130101) A61K 2039/55555 (20130101) A61K 2039/55572 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/88 (20130101) C12N 2740/15034 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 207/10001 (20130101)
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09446112 — Clostridium difficile DNA vaccine

US 09446112	Kutzler et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC)
APPLICANT(S)	Michele Kutzler (Souderton, Pennsylvania); Scott Baliban (Southampton, New Jersey); David B. Weiner (Merion, Pennsylvania); Niranjan Y. Sardesai (Blue Bell, Pennsylvania); J. Joseph Kim (Harleyville, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Philadelphia Health and Education Corporation (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania); The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Michele Kutzler (Souderton, Pennsylvania); Scott Baliban (Southampton, New Jersey); David B. Weiner (Merion, Pennsylvania); Niranjan Y. Sardesai (Blue Bell, Pennsylvania); J. Joseph Kim (Harleyville, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	The invention relates to compositions and methods for treating C. difficile associated disease (CDAD) through the administration to a subject in need thereof at least one nucleic acid encoding at least a portion of at least one of toxin A and toxin B.
FILED	Thursday, July 12, 2012
APPL NO	14/232048
ART UNIT	1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/53 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/327 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/33 (20130101)
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09446114 — Cross-protective arenavirus vaccines and their method of use

US 09446114	Broderick et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)	Kate Broderick (San Diego, California); Niranjan Sardesai (Blue Bell, Pennsylvania); Kathleen Cashman (Purcellville, Virginia); Connie Schmaljohn (Middletown, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Kate Broderick (San Diego, California); Niranjan Sardesai (Blue Bell, Pennsylvania); Kathleen Cashman (Purcellville, Virginia); Connie Schmaljohn (Middletown, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	The invention relates to DNA vaccines that target multiple arenavirus agents singly or simultaneously.
FILED	Wednesday, July 11, 2012
APPL NO	14/232110
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/54 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/327 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2760/10022 (20130101) C12N 2760/10034 (20130101)
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09446348 — Imidazolium-based room-temperature ionic liquids, polymers, monomers and membranes incorporating same

US 09446348	Bara et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) Army Research Office (CCDC ARO)
APPLICANT(S)	THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, A BODY CORPORATE (Denver, Colorado)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado)
INVENTOR(S)	Jason E. Bara (Tuscaloosa, Alabama); Trevor K. Carlisle (Boulder, Colorado); Evan S. Hatakeyama (Richmond, California); Douglas L. Gin (Longmont, Colorado); Richard D. Noble (Boulder, Colorado); Robert L. Kerr (Santa Ana, California); Andrew L. LaFrate (Boulder, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides gels, solutions, films, membranes, compositions, and other materials containing polymerized and/or non-polymerized room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs). These materials are useful in catalysis, gas separation and as antistatic agents. The RTILs are preferably imidazolium-based RTILs which are optionally substituted, such as with one or more hydroxyl groups. Optionally, the materials of the present invention are composite materials comprising both polymerized and non-polymerized RTILs. The RTIL polymer is formed from polymerized RTIL cations typically synthesized as monomers and polymerized in the presence of the non-polymerized RTIL cations to provide a solid composite material. The non-polymerized RTIL cations are not covalently bound to the cationic polymer but remain as free cations within the composite material able to associate with charged subunits of the polymer. These composite materials are useful in catalysis, gas separation, and antistatic applications.
FILED	Tuesday, January 06, 2015
APPL NO	14/590690
ART UNIT	1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Separation B01D 53/228 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 69/12 (20130101) B01D 71/28 (20130101) B01D 71/44 (20130101)
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09446512 — iAnt swarm robotic platform and evolutionary algorithms

US 09446512	Moses et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) Division of Emerging Frontiers (EF)
APPLICANT(S)	Melanie E. Moses (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Joshua P. Hecker (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Kenneth Letendre (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Karl Andrew Stolleis (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
ASSIGNEE(S)	STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
INVENTOR(S)	Melanie E. Moses (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Joshua P. Hecker (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Kenneth Letendre (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Karl Andrew Stolleis (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides a swarm of robots and a related method of operating the swarm. The robots are programmed to start at a nest and to select a dispersal direction from a uniform random distribution. The robots travel along the dispersal direction until transitioning to a search mode upon reaching a search site, where the robot performs a correlated random walk with fixed step size and direction and using a standard deviation to determine how correlated the direction of the next step of the robot is with the direction of the previous step. If no resource is found within predetermined time t independently determined by each of said robots, the robot returns to the nest and repeats the above steps.
FILED	Wednesday, March 25, 2015
APPL NO	14/668741
ART UNIT	3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
CURRENT CPC	Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 9/0084 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09446994 — Polymer composite comprising metal based nanoparticles in a polymer matrix

US 09446994	Rauscher et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)	Cornerstone Research Group, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Cornerstone Research Group, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael D. Rauscher (Beavercreek, Ohio); Emily A. Frake (Kettering, Ohio); Michael J. Fisher (Springboro, Ohio); Brian E. Henslee (Galloway, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	A composite having a substrate and a plurality of core-shell nanoparticles. The substrate has microporosity, nanoporosity, or free volume and is a polymer matrix, a metal-organic framework, a micro-porous structure, or a nano-porous structure. The plurality of core-shell nanoparticles each has a core and at least one shell layer. The core is made from a decomposed product of a first precursor disposed in the microporosity, nanoporosity, or free volume of the substrate. The at least one shell layer is made from a decomposed product of a second precursor and is disposed on the core.
FILED	Friday, December 04, 2015
APPL NO	14/959819
ART UNIT	1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Explosives or Thermic Compositions; Manufacture Thereof; Use of Single Substances as Explosives C06B 23/005 (20130101) C06B 33/00 (20130101) C06B 45/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09447186 — Antibodies to human B7x for treatment of metastatic cancer

US 09447186	Zang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
APPLICANT(S)	Xingxing Zang (New York, New York); James P. Allison (Houston, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Inc. (Bronx, New York); Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Xingxing Zang (New York, New York); James P. Allison (Houston, Texas)
ABSTRACT	Methods are provided for treating metastatic cancer in patients having metastatic cancer or for preventing metastasis in cancer patients at risk for metastasis comprising administering to the patient an antibody to B7x, or an active antibody fragment that binds B7x, in an amount effective to treat or prevent metastasis.
FILED	Thursday, October 10, 2013
APPL NO	14/050512
ART UNIT	1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/3955 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/30 (20130101) C07K 16/2827 (20130101) C07K 2317/732 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5011 (20130101)
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09447462 — Methods for concurrent identification and quantification of an unknown bioagent

US 09447462	Ecker et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	Ibis Biosciences, Inc. (Carlsbad, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	IBIS BIOSCIENCES, INC. (Carlsbad, California)
INVENTOR(S)	David J. Ecker (Encinitas, California); Rangarajan Sampath (San Diego, California); Lawrence B. Blyn (Mission Viejo, California); Steven A. Hofstadler (Vista, California); Thomas A. Hall (Oceanside, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides methods for the quantification of an unknown bioagent in a sample by amplification of nucleic acid of the bioagent, and concurrent amplification of a known quantity of a calibration polynucleotide from which are obtained a bioagent identifying amplicon and a calibration amplicon. Upon molecular mass analysis, mass and abundance data are obtained. The identity of the bioagent is then determined from the molecular mass of the bioagent identifying amplicon and the quantity of the identified bioagent in the sample is determined from the abundance data of the bioagent identifying amplicon and the abundance data of the calibration amplicon.
FILED	Monday, January 27, 2014
APPL NO	14/164559
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	Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 21/04 (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 1/6851 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6872 (20130101) C12Q 1/6872 (20130101) C12Q 2545/101 (20130101)
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09447503 — Closed pore ceramic composite article

US 09447503	Tholen et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC)
APPLICANT(S)	Susan M. Tholen (Kennebunk, Maine); Christopher W. Strock (Kennebunk, Maine)
ASSIGNEE(S)	United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut)
INVENTOR(S)	Susan M. Tholen (Kennebunk, Maine); Christopher W. Strock (Kennebunk, Maine)
ABSTRACT	A composite article includes a substrate and a thermal barrier secured to the substrate. The thermal barrier includes a plurality of closed pores within a ceramic matrix. For example, the closed pores comprise 20 vol % to 80 vol % of the thermal barrier.
FILED	Wednesday, May 30, 2007
APPL NO	11/755281
ART UNIT	3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/10 (20130101) C04B 35/10 (20130101) C04B 35/48 (20130101) C04B 35/48 (20130101) C04B 35/58 (20130101) C04B 35/58 (20130101) C04B 35/185 (20130101) C04B 35/185 (20130101) C04B 38/00 (20130101) C04B 38/0061 (20130101) C04B 38/0061 (20130101) C04B 38/0061 (20130101) C04B 38/067 (20130101) C04B 38/0074 (20130101) C04B 38/0074 (20130101) C04B 2111/00525 (20130101) C04B 2111/00982 (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 28/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 11/08 (20130101) F01D 11/12 (20130101) F01D 25/005 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2300/611 (20130101) F05D 2300/6033 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24997 (20150401)
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09447521 — Method and apparatus for producing large, single-crystals of aluminum nitride

US 09447521	Schowalter et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Commerce (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR) Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)	Crystal IS, Inc. (Green Island, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Crystal IS, Inc. (Green Island, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Leo Schowalter (Latham, New York); Glen A. Slack (Scotia, New York); Juan Carlos Rojo (South Beach, New York); Robert T. Bondokov (Watervliet, New York); Kenneth E. Morgan (Castleton, New York); Joseph A. Smart (Mooresville, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	Bulk single crystals of AlN having a diameter greater than about 25 mm and dislocation densities of about 10,000 cm⁻²or less and high-quality AlN substrates having surfaces of any desired crystallographic orientation fabricated from these bulk crystals.
FILED	Wednesday, October 22, 2014
APPL NO	14/520615
ART UNIT	1785 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material
CURRENT CPC	Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 11/003 (20130101) C30B 23/00 (20130101) C30B 23/025 (20130101) C30B 25/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C30B 25/16 (20130101) C30B 29/403 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/04 (20130101) H01L 29/32 (20130101) H01L 29/0657 (20130101) H01L 29/2003 (20130101) H01L 33/025 (20130101) H01L 33/0075 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/21 (20150115)
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09447696 — Blade outer air seal system for controlled tip clearance

US 09447696	McCaffrey et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Michael G. McCaffrey (Windsor, Connecticut); Brandon T. Rouse (Anacortes, Washington); Thomas Almy (Rocky Hill, Connecticut); Igor S. Garcia (Salem, Connecticut); John R. Farris (Bolton, Connecticut); Mark Borja (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida)
ASSIGNEE(S)	United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael G. McCaffrey (Windsor, Connecticut); Brandon T. Rouse (Anacortes, Washington); Thomas Almy (Rocky Hill, Connecticut); Igor S. Garcia (Salem, Connecticut); John R. Farris (Bolton, Connecticut); Mark Borja (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida)
ABSTRACT	A blade outer air seal system for a gas turbine engine includes a plurality of ring carriers made of a first material having a first coefficient of thermal expansion. A plurality of seal segments are carried, respectively, on the plurality of ring carriers. A ring member is carried in the plurality of ring carriers. The ring member is made of a second material that is different from the first material in composition. The second material has a second coefficient of thermal expansion such that the first coefficient of thermal expansion is 75-175% of the second coefficient of thermal expansion.
FILED	Thursday, December 27, 2012
APPL NO	13/727798
ART UNIT	3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 11/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2240/11 (20130101) F05D 2300/50212 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/671 (20130101)
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09448033 — Projectile launcher with a permanent high-low pressure system

US 09448033	Jackson
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Paul T. Jackson (Huntsville, Alabama)
ABSTRACT	A projectile launcher includes a barrel, a high pressure chamber included within the barrel, and a low pressure area included within the barrel and substantially surrounding the high pressure chamber. The high pressure chamber includes an inner cavity and multiple vent holes connecting the inner cavity to the low pressure area so that high pressure gases generated in the inner cavity by a pressure cartridge can pass from the inner cavity to the low pressure area and propel a round (or projectile) out of the launcher.
FILED	Thursday, July 11, 2013
APPL NO	13/939372
ART UNIT	3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Weapons for Projecting Missiles Without Use of Explosive or Combustible Propellant Charge; Weapons Not Otherwise Provided for F41B 11/60 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F41B 11/62 (20130101) F41B 11/73 (20130101)
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09448047 — Single canister selectable color smoke grenade

US 09448047	Domanico
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG)
APPLICANT(S)	U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical and Biological Command (APG, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Joseph A. Domanico (Bel Air, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A selectable color smoke grenade for producing different color smokes from a single grenade canister. Each grenade canister includes an upper chamber that holds gas producing material and a fuze, one or more dye chambers with dye containing compartments and bypass chambers, a plug positioned between the one or more dye chambers and the upper chamber, and a mixing chamber to receive smoke from the one or more dye chambers and having holes to release the smoke to the environment. Each dye chamber has one or more compartments containing a different color dye. Holes in the plug are used to selectively channel the gases from the upper chamber into one or more of the dye containing compartments. Color selectivity is achieved by changing the alignment between the holes in the plug and the dye containing compartments by rotating the plug and dye chamber relative to each other about a common axis.
FILED	Wednesday, July 08, 2015
APPL NO	14/794150
ART UNIT	3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 12/36 (20130101) F42B 12/48 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F42B 27/00 (20130101)
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09448155 — System for sampling and/or analysis of particles in a gaseous environment

US 09448155	Pan
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) Army Research Office (CCDC ARO) Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
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)	Yongle Pan (Ellicott City, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A system for trapping particles in a gas comprising a chamber; an intake for intake of a gas containing at least one particle to be trapped and released, and an outlet for exit of the gas out of the chamber containing at least one particle; a first passage operatively connected to the intake operating to create a flow of a gas containing at least one particle into the chamber, a second passage operatively connected to the outlet for flow of the gas; a third passage operatively connected to a gaseous flow for creating a flow of fluid in a direction substantially opposite to the transfer of gas from the first passage so as to counteract the flow of gas from the first passage; an image sensor for recording an image; and a laser for generating a light beam for forming a photophoretic trap between the first and third passages.
FILED	Tuesday, June 16, 2015
APPL NO	14/740676
ART UNIT	2886 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/1434 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 15/1463 (20130101) G01N 21/65 (20130101) G01N 2015/0065 (20130101)
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09448219 — Electro-mechanical switches and methods of use thereof

US 09448219	Arora et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) Army Research Office (CCDC ARO)
APPLICANT(S)	William Jay Arora (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Karen K. Gleason (Cambridge, Massachusetts); George Barbastathis (Boston, Massachusetts); Wyatt E. Tenhaeff (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	William Jay Arora (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Karen K. Gleason (Cambridge, Massachusetts); George Barbastathis (Boston, Massachusetts); Wyatt E. Tenhaeff (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	One aspect of the invention relates to an ultrathin micro-electromechanical chemical sensing device which uses swelling or straining of a reactive organic material for sensing. In certain embodiments, the device comprises a contact on-off switch chemical sensor. For example, the device can comprises a small gap separating two electrodes, wherein the gap can be closed as a result of the swelling or stressing of an organic polymer coating on one or both sides of the gap. In certain embodiments, the swelling or stressing is due to the organic polymer reacting with a target analyte.
FILED	Tuesday, May 14, 2013
APPL NO	13/893699
ART UNIT	1798 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/128 (20130101) G01N 33/0057 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/147777 (20150115) Y10T 436/163333 (20150115) Y10T 436/173076 (20150115) Y10T 436/173845 (20150115)
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09448277 — Integrated time dependent dielectric breakdown reliability testing

US 09448277	Chen et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Jifeng Chen (Willimantic, Connecticut); Dirk Pfeiffer (Croton on Hudson, New York); Thomas M. Shaw (Peekskill, New York); Peilin Song (Lagrangeville, New York); Franco Stellari (Waldwick, New Jersey)
ASSIGNEE(S)	INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Jifeng Chen (Willimantic, Connecticut); Dirk Pfeiffer (Croton on Hudson, New York); Thomas M. Shaw (Peekskill, New York); Peilin Song (Lagrangeville, New York); Franco Stellari (Waldwick, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	Systems for reliability testing include a picometer configured to measure a leakage current across a device under test (DUT); a camera configured to measure optical emissions from the DUT based on a timing of the measurement of the leakage current; and a test system configured to apply a stress voltage to the DUT and to correlate the leakage current with the optical emissions using a processor to determine a time and location of a defect occurrence within the DUT by locating instances of increased noise in the leakage current that correspond in time with instances of increased optical emissions.
FILED	Monday, July 09, 2012
APPL NO	13/544080
ART UNIT	2865 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 31/311 (20130101) G01R 31/2855 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 31/2858 (20130101) G01R 31/2879 (20130101)
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09448304 — Ground moving target indicator (GMTI) radar that converts radar tracks to directed graphs (DG), and creates weighted DGs aligned with superimposed with digital maps

US 09448304	MacPherson
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	SRC, Inc. (North Syracuse, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	SRC, Inc. (North Syracuse, None)
INVENTOR(S)	David L. MacPherson (Lansing, New York)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is directed to a system that includes a semantic reasoning engine that is configured to convert radar track data into a directed graph representation (DGR) of the predetermined surveillance region and iteratively combine the DGRs to create a weighted directed graph (WDG) aligned and superimposed with the digital map data. The WDG includes first WDG elements corresponding to moving objects detected by a radar system. The WDG is compared to historical data to obtain a surveillance detection parameter. An alarm message is generated if the surveillance detection parameter deviates from the historical data by a predetermined amount. An output device is coupled to the semantic reasoning engine and is configured to provide a representation of the digital map data, the WDG and the at least one alarm message.
FILED	Tuesday, March 11, 2014
APPL NO	14/204850
ART UNIT	2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling
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 7/003 (20130101) G01S 13/66 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01S 13/723 (20130101) G01S 13/5242 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 5/022 (20130101)
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09448428 — System for stabilizing the temperature sensitivity in photonic circuits comprising thermoelastic optical circuit claddings

US 09448428	Ptasinski et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR)
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 Secreatary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Joanna N. Ptasinski (San Diego, California); Sanja Zlatanovic (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	A system for stabilizing the temperature sensitivity in photonic circuits comprising a thermoelastic cladding directly overlaid on a photonic circuit, wherein the properties of the thermoelastic cladding are such that the temperature of the photonic circuit is passively stabilized, such as by adjustment of the effective refractive index of the photonic circuit. The thermoelastic cladding may comprise a negative thermo-optic coefficient and the photonic circuit has a positive thermo-elastic coefficient. The thermoelastic cladding may be a liquid, solid, or gas, and may be contained within a chamber having an inlet and an outlet. A pressure sensor may be contained within the chamber for monitoring pressure. The sensor can detect whether the fluid/gas has reached its maximum expansion and can send a signal when that happens. The pressure sensor is connected in a feedback loop and it sends an alarm once the chamber pressure is at a maximum.
FILED	Friday, June 05, 2015
APPL NO	14/731911
ART UNIT	2871 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/132 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02F 1/2257 (20130101) G02F 2203/15 (20130101) G02F 2203/58 (20130101)
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09449109 — Visualizing, sharing and monetizing multimedia content

US 09449109	Keel et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)	Paul Erich Keel (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David Birnbach (Andover, Massachusetts); Matthew Sither (Swampscott, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Eversitas, LLC (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Paul Erich Keel (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David Birnbach (Andover, Massachusetts); Matthew Sither (Swampscott, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A system provides exchange and display of information among a group of users based on creation, arranging, sharing and exchange of tiles. The system further provides connecting advertisements to tiles, displaying the advertisement when tiles are accessed, monetizing the advertisement and adding visual effects to the display of the advertisement.
FILED	Tuesday, September 04, 2012
APPL NO	13/602458
ART UNIT	2142 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/3087 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/10 (20130101) G06Q 30/0277 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 21/4821 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 707/99933 (20130101) Y10S 707/99943 (20130101)
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09449142 — System and method for modeling supervisory control of heterogeneous unmanned vehicles through discrete event simulation

US 09449142	Cummings et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)	Mary Louise Cummings (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Carl Elie Nehme (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Mary Louise Cummings (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Carl Elie Nehme (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A system and method for modeling supervisory control of heterogeneous unmanned vehicles through discrete event simulation is provided. Generally, the system contains a memory and a processor configured by the memory to perform the steps of: simulating events in the system; simulating arrival processes for the events in the system; simulating how long a human operator takes to respond to the simulated events in the system, where the time that the human operator takes to respond to a simulated event is referred to as a service time; and prioritizing the events to be handled by the human operator, wherein the system models human operator involvement in the unmanned vehicle system.
FILED	Monday, March 09, 2009
APPL NO	12/400454
ART UNIT	2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling
CURRENT CPC	Conjoint Control of Vehicle Sub-units of Different Type or Different Function; Control Systems Specially Adapted for Hybrid Vehicles; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems for Purposes Not Related to the Control of a Particular Sub-unit B60W 40/02 (20130101) B60W 40/08 (20130101) B60W 40/10 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/5009 (20130101) G06F 17/5095 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Educational or Demonstration Appliances; Appliances for Teaching, or Communicating With, the Blind, Deaf or Mute; Models; Planetaria; Globes; Maps; Diagrams G09B 9/003 (20130101) G09B 19/00 (20130101)
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09449280 — System and method for mining large, diverse, distributed, and heterogeneous datasets

US 09449280	Rubin
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR)
APPLICANT(S)	Stuart Harvey Rubin (San Diego, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Stuart Harvey Rubin (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	A method for directed mining of a heterogeneous dataset with a computer comprising: populating a rule base with known rules, wherein each rule has a context and a situation; populating a case base with known cases, wherein each case has a context and a situation, and wherein the case base is partitioned from the rule base; ascribing a natural language semantics to predicates of the known cases and rules; randomly transforming the known rules and the known cases to form new rules by extracting a maximum number of common predicates; segmenting the rules and the cases on the basis of shared predicates without making distinction between context and situation predicates; abducing new knowledge from the dataset by fuzzily matching the context of a new rule to a situation the new rule does not cover; and issuing a query to a user to supply missing predicates of the fuzzy match.
FILED	Thursday, June 26, 2014
APPL NO	14/316439
ART UNIT	2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling
CURRENT CPC	Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 5/025 (20130101) G06N 5/048 (20130101) G06N 7/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09449668 — Current induced spin-momentum transfer stack with dual insulating layers

US 09449668	Kent et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) Army Research Office (CCDC ARO) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR) Division of Physics (PHY)
APPLICANT(S)	New York University (New York, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	New York University (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Andrew Kent (New York, New York); Daniel Bedau (San Jose, California); Huanlong Liu (New York, New York)
ABSTRACT	A high speed, low power method to control and switch the magnetization direction of a magnetic region in a magnetic device for memory cells using spin polarized electrical current. The magnetic device comprises a pinned magnetic layer, a reference magnetic layer with a fixed magnetization direction and a free magnetic layer with a changeable magnetization direction. The magnetic layers are separated by insulating non-magnetic layers. A current can be applied to the device to induce a torque that alters the magnetic state of the device so that it can act as a magnetic memory for writing information. The resistance, which depends on the magnetic state of the device, can be measured to read out the information stored in the device.
FILED	Tuesday, July 07, 2015
APPL NO	14/792753
ART UNIT	2827 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Static Stores G11C 11/16 (20130101) G11C 11/161 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G11C 11/1675 (20130101) G11C 11/5607 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/222 (20130101) H01L 29/66984 (20130101)
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09449743 — Synthesis of magnetic carbon nanoribbons and magnetic functionalized carbon nanoribbons

US 09449743	Tour et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)	James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Bostjan Genorio (Ivancna Gorica, Slovenia); Wei Lu (Houston, Texas); Brandi Katherine Price-Hoelscher (Houston, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY (Houston, Texas); M-I, L.L.C. (Houston, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Bostjan Genorio (Ivancna Gorica, Slovenia); Wei Lu (Houston, Texas); Brandi Katherine Price-Hoelscher (Houston, Texas)
ABSTRACT	Various embodiments of the present disclosure pertain to methods of making magnetic carbon nanoribbons. Such methods generally include: (1) forming carbon nanoribbons by splitting carbon nanomaterials; and (2) associating graphene nanoribbons with magnetic materials, precursors of magnetic materials, or combinations thereof. Further embodiments of the present disclosure also include a step of reducing the precursors of magnetic materials to magnetic materials. In various embodiments, the associating occurs before, during or after the splitting of the carbon nanomaterials. In some embodiments, the methods of the present disclosure further comprise a step of (3) functionalizing the carbon nanoribbons with functionalizing agents. In more specific embodiments, the functionalizing occurs in situ during the splitting of carbon nanomaterials. In further embodiments, the carbon nanoribbons are edge-functionalized. Additional embodiments of the present disclosure pertain to magnetic carbon nanoribbon compositions that were formed in accordance with the methods of the present disclosure.
FILED	Monday, January 28, 2013
APPL NO	14/374591
ART UNIT	1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0253 (20130101) C01B 31/0484 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 8/032 (20130101) C09K 8/32 (20130101) C09K 8/36 (20130101) C09K 2208/10 (20130101) Earth Drilling, e.g Deep Drilling; Obtaining Oil, Gas, Water, Soluble or Meltable Materials or a Slurry of Minerals From Wells E21B 21/00 (20130101) E21B 47/12 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 1/01 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09449787 — Liquid flow cells having graphene on nitride for microscopy

US 09449787	Adiga et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by University of California (UC BERKELEY) at Berkeley, CA National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC)
APPLICANT(S)	Vivekananda P. Adiga (Albany, California); Gabriel Dunn (Berkeley, California); Alexander K. Zettl (Kensington, California); A. Paul Alivisatos (Berkeley, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Vivekananda P. Adiga (Albany, California); Gabriel Dunn (Berkeley, California); Alexander K. Zettl (Kensington, California); A. Paul Alivisatos (Berkeley, California)
ABSTRACT	This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus related to liquid flow cells for microscopy. In one aspect, a device includes a substrate having a first and a second oxide layer disposed on surfaces of the substrate. A first and a second nitride layer are disposed on the first and second oxide layers, respectively. A cavity is defined in the first oxide layer, the first nitride layer, and the substrate, with the cavity including a third nitride layer disposed on walls of the substrate and the second oxide layer that define the cavity. A channel is defined in the second oxide layer. An inlet port and an outlet port are defined in the second nitride layer and in fluid communication with the channel. A plurality of viewports is defined in the second nitride layer. A first graphene sheet is disposed on the second nitride layer covering the plurality of viewports.
FILED	Tuesday, August 04, 2015
APPL NO	14/817551
ART UNIT	1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 18/08 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 1/12 (20130101) G02B 21/16 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 37/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 37/26 (20130101) H01J 2237/2003 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/1606 (20130101) H01L 29/66045 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49002 (20150115)
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09449833 — Methods of fabricating self-aligned FETS using multiple sidewall spacers

US 09449833	Regan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	HRL LABORATORIES, LLC. (Malibu, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Dean C. Regan (Simi Valley, California); Keisuke Shinohara (Thousand Oaks, California); Yan Tang (Oak Park, California); Miroslav Micovic (Thousand Oaks, California)
ABSTRACT	A self-aligned process for locating a stem of a T-shaped gate relative to source and drain contacts of a FET or HEMT. The gate stem is located asymmetrically in some embodiments and in such embodiments the stem of the T-shaped gate is located relative to drain and source contacts of the device by forming a plurality of sidewall spacers, with more sidewall spacers being formed on the drain side of the stem than are formed on the source side of the stem. Additionally the gate stem preferably has a high aspect ratio to improve the performance of the resulting FET or HEMT. Drain and source contacts are preferably formed of an n+ semiconductor material.
FILED	Monday, December 09, 2013
APPL NO	14/101102
ART UNIT	2895 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/28114 (20130101) H01L 21/28587 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/66477 (20130101)
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09449851 — Local doping of two-dimensional materials

US 09449851	Wong et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG) Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by University of California (UC BERKELEY) at Berkeley, CA National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI)
APPLICANT(S)	Dillon Wong (Alameda, California); Jairo Velasco, Jr. (Berkeley, California); Long Ju (Berkeley, California); Salman Kahn (Tracy, California); Juwon Lee (Berkeley, California); Chad E. Germany (Richmond, California); Alexander K. Zettl (Kensington, California); Feng Wang (Fremont, California); Michael F. Crommie (Oakland, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Dillon Wong (Alameda, California); Jairo Velasco, Jr. (Berkeley, California); Long Ju (Berkeley, California); Salman Kahn (Tracy, California); Juwon Lee (Berkeley, California); Chad E. Germany (Richmond, California); Alexander K. Zettl (Kensington, California); Feng Wang (Fremont, California); Michael F. Crommie (Oakland, California)
ABSTRACT	This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus related to locally doping two-dimensional (2D) materials. In one aspect, an assembly including a substrate, a first insulator disposed on the substrate, a second insulator disposed on the first insulator, and a 2D material disposed on the second insulator is formed. A first voltage is applied between the 2D material and the substrate. With the first voltage applied between the 2D material and the substrate, a second voltage is applied between the 2D material and a probe positioned proximate the 2D material. The second voltage between the 2D material and the probe is removed. The first voltage between the 2D material and the substrate is removed. A portion of the 2D material proximate the probe when the second voltage was applied has a different electron density compared to a remainder of the 2D material.
FILED	Monday, August 24, 2015
APPL NO	14/833407
ART UNIT	2819 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/326 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/479 (20130101) H01L 21/2254 (20130101) H01L 21/2256 (20130101) H01L 21/02381 (20130101) H01L 21/02488 (20130101) H01L 21/02502 (20130101) H01L 21/02527 (20130101) H01L 21/02568 (20130101) H01L 29/1606 (20130101)
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09449891 — Proximity switch fabrication method using angled deposition

US 09449891	Wang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR)
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)	Andrew Wang (San Diego, California); Paul D. Swanson (San Diego, California); Charles H. Tally, IV (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	A method involves applying a voltage to a first conductive surface and a second conductive surface separated by a conductive surface gap of a distance greater than the distance required to produce a tunneling current between the first and second conductive surfaces when the voltage is applied, and using angled deposition to deposit conductive material on the first and second conductive surfaces to narrow the conductive surface gap until a tunneling current appears across the first and second conductive surfaces responsive to the applied voltage.
FILED	Wednesday, February 25, 2015
APPL NO	14/631344
ART UNIT	2898 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/78 (20130101) H01L 21/283 (20130101) H01L 21/306 (20130101) H01L 22/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09450020 — Multiple-bits-per-cell voltage-controlled magnetic memory

US 09450020	Khalili Amiri
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Pedram Khalili Amiri (Los Angeles, California)
ABSTRACT	Voltage controlled magneto-electric tunnel junctions and memory devices are described which provide efficient high speed voltage switching of non-volatile magnetic devices (MeRAM) at high cell densities. A multi-bit-per-cell (MBPC) MeRAM is described which requires only a single transistor to write and read two data bits from the one MBPC MeRAM cell.
FILED	Monday, December 08, 2014
APPL NO	14/562978
ART UNIT	2823 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Static Stores G11C 11/16 (20130101) G11C 11/5607 (20130101) G11C 11/5657 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/222 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 43/02 (20130101) H01L 43/08 (20130101) H01L 43/10 (20130101) H01L 43/12 (20130101)
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09450022 — Memristor devices and fabrication

US 09450022	Wheeler et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	Dana C. Wheeler (Santa Monica, California); Tahir Hussain (Calabasas, California); Yakov Royter (Santa Monica, California); Eason F. Wang (Culver City, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Dana C. Wheeler (Santa Monica, California); Tahir Hussain (Calabasas, California); Yakov Royter (Santa Monica, California); Eason F. Wang (Culver City, California)
ABSTRACT	A method for fabricating a digital memristor crossbar array includes applying a protective layer on at least a portion of a memristive layer. A method for fabricating an analog memristor crossbar array includes providing a self-aligning first electrode layer. An analog memristor includes a memristive layer bar arranged to self-align said second electrode on said memristive layer along its length.
FILED	Wednesday, September 05, 2012
APPL NO	13/604559
ART UNIT	2828 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/2418 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09450043 — Methods and devices for fabricating and assembling printable semiconductor elements

US 09450043	Nuzzo et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Materials Sciences and Engineering Division (MSE)
APPLICANT(S)	THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Ralph G. Nuzzo (Champaign, Illinois); John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Etienne Menard (Voglans, France); Keon Jae Lee (Daejeon, South Korea); Dahl-Young Khang (Urbana, Illinois); Yugang Sun (Champaign, Illinois); Matthew Meitl (Durham, North Carolina); Zhengtao Zhu (Rapid City, South Dakota)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides methods and devices for fabricating printable semiconductor elements and assembling printable semiconductor elements onto substrate surfaces. Methods, devices and device components of the present invention are capable of generating a wide range of flexible electronic and optoelectronic devices and arrays of devices on substrates comprising polymeric materials. The present invention also provides stretchable semiconductor structures and stretchable electronic devices capable of good performance in stretched configurations.
FILED	Tuesday, January 14, 2014
APPL NO	14/155010
ART UNIT	2829 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 2201/0185 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/308 (20130101) H01L 21/02521 (20130101) H01L 21/02603 (20130101) H01L 21/02628 (20130101) H01L 21/6835 (20130101) H01L 24/03 (20130101) H01L 24/05 (20130101) H01L 24/08 (20130101) H01L 24/29 (20130101) H01L 24/32 (20130101) H01L 24/80 (20130101) H01L 24/83 (20130101) H01L 24/94 (20130101) H01L 24/97 (20130101) H01L 27/1285 (20130101) H01L 27/1292 (20130101) H01L 29/04 (20130101) H01L 29/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/12 (20130101) H01L 29/068 (20130101) H01L 29/0665 (20130101) H01L 29/0673 (20130101) H01L 29/0676 (20130101) H01L 29/78603 (20130101) H01L 29/78681 (20130101) H01L 29/78696 (20130101) H01L 31/0392 (20130101) H01L 31/1804 (20130101) H01L 31/1864 (20130101) H01L 31/1896 (20130101) H01L 31/03926 (20130101) H01L 2221/68368 (20130101) H01L 2221/68381 (20130101) H01L 2224/03 (20130101) H01L 2224/03 (20130101) H01L 2224/80 (20130101) H01L 2224/83 (20130101) H01L 2224/94 (20130101) H01L 2224/94 (20130101) H01L 2224/95 (20130101) H01L 2224/97 (20130101) H01L 2224/97 (20130101) H01L 2224/97 (20130101) H01L 2224/0332 (20130101) H01L 2224/0332 (20130101) H01L 2224/0345 (20130101) H01L 2224/0362 (20130101) H01L 2224/2919 (20130101) H01L 2224/2919 (20130101) H01L 2224/03614 (20130101) H01L 2224/05073 (20130101) H01L 2224/05073 (20130101) H01L 2224/05082 (20130101) H01L 2224/05082 (20130101) H01L 2224/05124 (20130101) H01L 2224/05124 (20130101) H01L 2224/05144 (20130101) H01L 2224/05144 (20130101) H01L 2224/05144 (20130101) H01L 2224/05155 (20130101) H01L 2224/05155 (20130101) H01L 2224/05155 (20130101) H01L 2224/05166 (20130101) H01L 2224/05166 (20130101) H01L 2224/05166 (20130101) H01L 2224/05552 (20130101) H01L 2224/05552 (20130101) H01L 2224/05553 (20130101) H01L 2224/05553 (20130101) H01L 2224/05554 (20130101) H01L 2224/05554 (20130101) H01L 2224/05555 (20130101) H01L 2224/05555 (20130101) H01L 2224/05644 (20130101) H01L 2224/05644 (20130101) H01L 2224/05644 (20130101) H01L 2224/05644 (20130101) H01L 2224/05666 (20130101) H01L 2224/05666 (20130101) H01L 2224/08225 (20130101) H01L 2224/8385 (20130101) H01L 2224/9202 (20130101) H01L 2224/9202 (20130101) H01L 2224/32225 (20130101) H01L 2224/32225 (20130101) H01L 2224/80006 (20130101) H01L 2224/80121 (20130101) H01L 2224/80121 (20130101) H01L 2224/80862 (20130101) H01L 2224/80895 (20130101) H01L 2224/83005 (20130101) H01L 2224/83121 (20130101) H01L 2224/83121 (20130101) H01L 2224/83192 (20130101) H01L 2224/83192 (20130101) H01L 2224/83193 (20130101) H01L 2224/83862 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00012 (20130101) H01L 2924/00012 (20130101) H01L 2924/00012 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/0665 (20130101) H01L 2924/01032 (20130101) H01L 2924/01032 (20130101) H01L 2924/1305 (20130101) H01L 2924/1305 (20130101) H01L 2924/1306 (20130101) H01L 2924/1306 (20130101) H01L 2924/1461 (20130101) H01L 2924/1461 (20130101) H01L 2924/1579 (20130101) H01L 2924/10253 (20130101) H01L 2924/10329 (20130101) H01L 2924/12032 (20130101) H01L 2924/12032 (20130101) H01L 2924/12036 (20130101) H01L 2924/12036 (20130101) H01L 2924/12041 (20130101) H01L 2924/12042 (20130101) H01L 2924/12042 (20130101) H01L 2924/12043 (20130101) H01L 2924/12043 (20130101) H01L 2924/12044 (20130101) H01L 2924/12044 (20130101) H01L 2924/13091 (20130101) H01L 2924/13091 (20130101) H01L 2924/15159 (20130101) H01L 2924/15162 (20130101) H01L 2924/15788 (20130101) H01L 2924/15788 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/547 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/521 (20151101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/707 (20130101) Y10S 977/724 (20130101)
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09450053 — Photonic integrated circuits based on quantum cascade structures

US 09450053	Goyal et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD R&E) MIT Lincoln Laboratory (MITLL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at Lexington, MA Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR)
APPLICANT(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Pendar Technologies, LLC (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Pendar Technologies, LLC (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Anish K. Goyal (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Laurent Diehl (Somerville, Massachusetts); Christian Pfluegl (Medford, Massachusetts); Christine A. Wang (Bedford, Massachusetts); Mark Francis Witinski (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are based on quantum cascade (QC) structures. In embodiment methods and corresponding devices, a QC layer in a wave confinement region of an integrated multi-layer semiconductor structure capable of producing optical gain is depleted of free charge carriers to create a low-loss optical wave confinement region in a portion of the structure. Ion implantation may be used to create energetically deep trap levels to trap free charge carriers. Other embodiments include modifying a region of a passive, depleted QC structure to produce an active region capable of optical gain. Gain or loss may also be modified by partially depleting or enhancing free charge carrier density. QC lasers and amplifiers may be integrated monolithically with each other or with passive waveguides and other passive devices in a self-aligned manner. Embodiments overcome challenges of high cost, complex fabrication, and coupling loss involved with material re-growth methods.
FILED	Thursday, July 25, 2013
APPL NO	13/951240
ART UNIT	2894 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/15 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 5/026 (20130101) H01S 5/2063 (20130101) H01S 5/2275 (20130101) H01S 5/3402 (20130101)
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09450081 — High voltage GaN transistor

US 09450081	Wu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)	CREE, INC. (Durham, North Carolina)
ASSIGNEE(S)	CREE, INC. (Goleta, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Yifeng Wu (Goleta, California); Primit Parikh (Goleta, California); Umesh Mishra (Montecito, California)
ABSTRACT	A multiple field plate transistor includes an active region, with a source, a drain, and a gate. A first spacer layer is over the active region between the source and the gate and a second spacer layer over the active region between the drain and the gate. A first field plate on the first spacer layer is connected to the gate. A second field plate on the second spacer layer is connected to the gate. A third spacer layer is on the first spacer layer, the second spacer layer, the first field plate, the gate, and the second field plate, with a third field plate on the third spacer layer and connected to the source. The transistor exhibits a blocking voltage of at least 600 Volts while supporting a current of at least 2 Amps with an on resistance of no more than 5.0 mΩ-cm², of at least 600 Volts while supporting a current of at least 3 Amps with an on resistance of no more than 5.3 mΩ-cm², of at least 900 Volts while supporting a current of at least 2 Amps with an on resistance of no more than 6.6 mΩ-cm², or a blocking voltage of at least 900 Volts while supporting a current of at least 3 Amps with an on resistance of no more than 7.0 mΩ-cm².
FILED	Monday, May 11, 2015
APPL NO	14/709211
ART UNIT	2811 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/404 (20130101) H01L 29/2003 (20130101) H01L 29/7786 (20130101) H01L 29/7787 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/66462 (20130101)
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09450126 — Solar cell module

US 09450126	Streett et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF)
APPLICANT(S)	Andrew R. Streett (San Clemente, California); Darren S. Cokin (Santa Monica, California); Ray A. Stribling (Redondo Beach, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	THE BOEING COMPANY (Chicago, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Andrew R. Streett (San Clemente, California); Darren S. Cokin (Santa Monica, California); Ray A. Stribling (Redondo Beach, California)
ABSTRACT	A solar cell module including a substrate and solar cells mounted on the substrate, the substrate including a base layer, a first insulation layer positioned over the base layer, a second insulation layer positioned over the first insulation layer and defining a surface, a first bus bar layer positioned between the first and second insulation layers, the first bus bar layer including at least one bus bar extending across the substrate, and a second bus bar layer positioned over the second insulation layer, the second bus bar layer including bus bars, wherein the solar cells are mounted on the surface and are electrically interconnected by the bus bars of the second bus bar layer.
FILED	Friday, June 18, 2010
APPL NO	12/818255
ART UNIT	1755 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/042 (20130101) H01L 31/049 (20141201) H01L 31/0201 (20130101) H01L 31/0392 (20130101) H01L 31/0475 (20141201) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/02013 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/50 (20130101)
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09450165 — Apparatus and method for production of untwinned YBCO films

US 09450165	Taylor
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR)
APPLICANT(S)	Benjamin J. Taylor (Escondido, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Benjamin J. Taylor (Escondido, California)
ABSTRACT	A method for manufacturing untwinned YBCO film can include the initial the step of depositing YBCO film on a substrate having a first end and second end. A temperature gradient can be established from the first end to the second end, which can establish an oxygen gradient in the YBCO film. A uniaxial pressure can further be established the film, in the same direction as the temperature gradient, form the first end to the second end. When the uniaxial pressure is established simultaneously with the temperature gradient, the result can be an untwinned YBCO film.
FILED	Monday, December 01, 2014
APPL NO	14/557147
ART UNIT	1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 39/126 (20130101) H01L 39/225 (20130101) H01L 39/2454 (20130101) H01L 39/2464 (20130101) H01L 39/2496 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09450366 — Long-life metal sliding contacts

US 09450366	Argibay et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)	Nicolas Argibay (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Wallace Gregory Sawyer (Gainesville, Florida)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Gainesville, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Nicolas Argibay (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Wallace Gregory Sawyer (Gainesville, Florida)
ABSTRACT	In one embodiment, a sliding contact system includes a first metal contact, a second metal contact in sliding engagement with the first contact, and a lubricant in which the first metal contact and the second metal contact are immersed to inhibit oxidation and cold welding of the contacts.
FILED	Wednesday, October 26, 2011
APPL NO	13/880202
ART UNIT	2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Electrically-conductive Connections; Structural Associations of a Plurality of Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting Elements; Coupling Devices; Current Collectors H01R 39/00 (20130101) H01R 39/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01R 39/46 (20130101) H01R 43/00 (20130101) Dynamo-electric Machines H02K 9/28 (20130101) H02K 13/00 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/725 (20130101)
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09450379 — Quantum dot SOA-silicon external cavity multi-wavelength laser

US 09450379	Zhang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
APPLICANT(S)	Coriant Advanced Technology, LLC (New York, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Coriant Advanced Technology, LLC (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Yi Zhang (Jersey City, New Jersey); Shuyu Yang (Jersey City, New Jersey); Michael J. Hochberg (New York, New York); Thomas Baehr-Jones (Arcadia, California)
ABSTRACT	A hybrid external cavity multi-wavelength laser using a QD RSOA and a silicon photonics chip is demonstrated. Four lasing modes at 2 nm spacing and less than 3 dB power non-uniformity were observed, with over 20 mW of total output power. Each lasing peak can be successfully modulated at 10 Gb/s. At 10⁻⁹BER, the receiver power penalty is less than 2.6 dB compared to a conventional commercial laser. An expected application is the provision of a comb laser source for WDM transmission in optical interconnection systems.
FILED	Friday, February 27, 2015
APPL NO	14/634699
ART UNIT	2828 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/005 (20130101) H01S 3/0078 (20130101) H01S 5/14 (20130101) H01S 5/021 (20130101) H01S 5/141 (20130101) H01S 5/142 (20130101) H01S 5/146 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 5/1032 (20130101) H01S 5/1096 (20130101) H01S 5/3412 (20130101) H01S 5/4062 (20130101)
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09450403 — Electro-optic terminal protection system with matching stub

US 09450403	Wiebe et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Missile Defense Agency (MDA)
APPLICANT(S)	ARC Technology, LLC (Whitewater, Kansas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	ARC Technology, LLC (Whitewater, Kansas)
INVENTOR(S)	Aaron Jay Wiebe (Whitewater, Kansas); William John Carey (Whitewater, Kansas)
ABSTRACT	Apparatus for protecting a device from transients. The apparatus includes a switching network and a transmission line electrically connecting an input to an output. The switching network includes a stub connected near the input with a detector at the other end, a switch, and a communication path therebetween. The detector detects a transient and communicates with the switch. The switch then actuates to place a low impendence across the output of the transmission line, thereby attenuating the transient. The switching network has a switching time that equals the sum of the times to detect the transient at the input, transmit a signal corresponding to the detection to the switch, and actuate the switch. The input signal travels from the input to the output along the transmission line, which has a propagation delay. The propagation delay is greater than the stub propagation time plus the switching time of the switch network.
FILED	Tuesday, October 14, 2014
APPL NO	14/513824
ART UNIT	2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements H02H 9/042 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09450420 — Energy conveyance device

US 09450420	Russell
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR)
APPLICANT(S)	Stephen D. Russell (San Diego, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Stephen D. Russell (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	Devices and methods for conveying energy through a watertight enclosure can include placing at least one means for converting electrical energy into vibrational mechanical energy in direct contact with the enclosure. At least one means for harvesting the vibrational mechanical energy from the enclosure into electrical energy can also be placed in direct contact on the enclosure, on the opposite side of the enclosure from the conversion means. The conversion means and harvesting means both operate at a matching frequency ω. A plurality of transducers generating vibrations at frequency ω can be used in conjunction with harvester, or vice versa. Or, a plurality of transducers operating at discrete frequencies ω_ncan be used in conjunction with a plurality of harvesters operating at matching frequencies ω_n. These configurations can be used to transmit electrical energy through the watertight enclosure without breaking the watertight integrity of the enclosure.
FILED	Monday, June 10, 2013
APPL NO	13/914319
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 4/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09450595 — N-path cascode transistor output switch for a digital to analog converter

US 09450595	Cali et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL)
APPLICANT(S)	BAE SYSTEMS Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire)
ASSIGNEE(S)	BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire)
INVENTOR(S)	Joseph D. Cali (Nashua, New Hampshire); Lawrence J. Kushner (Andover, Massachusetts); Steven E. Turner (Nashua, New Hampshire)
ABSTRACT	Techniques are provided for a switched output digital to analog converter employing an N-path cascode output switch. An example system may include a plurality of cascode transistors coupled in parallel to an output stage of a current mode digital to analog converter (DAC) circuit. The system may also include a plurality of control ports, each of the control ports coupled to a gate of one of the cascode transistors. The system may further include a plurality of output ports, each output port coupled to one of the cascode transistors. The cascode transistors are configured to switch the output stage of the DAC to the output port of the transistor in response to a routing control signal applied to the control port of the transistor. The cascode transistors are High Electron Mobility Transistors (HEMT) fabricated from Gallium Nitride.
FILED	Thursday, December 03, 2015
APPL NO	14/958051
ART UNIT	2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/0605 (20130101) H01L 27/0617 (20130101) H01L 29/73 (20130101) H01L 29/737 (20130101) Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 1/66 (20130101) H03M 1/0626 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09450673 — Stabilized microwave-frequency source

US 09450673	Vahala et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Commerce (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Department of the Army (DOA) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Physics (PHY)
APPLICANT(S)	CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California); THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE, THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California); 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)	Kerry Vahala (Pasadena, California); Scott Diddams (Louisville, Colorado); Jiang Li (Pasadena, California); Xu Yi (Pasadena, California); Hansuek Lee (Pasadena, California)
ABSTRACT	A microwave-frequency source at frequency f_Mcomprises: a dual optical-frequency reference source, an electro-optic sideband generator, an optical bandpass filter, an optical detector, a reference oscillator, an electrical circuit, and a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO). The sideband generator modulates dual optical reference signals at v₂and v₁to generate sideband signals at v₁±n₁f_Mand v₂±n₂f_M. The bandpass filter transmits sideband signals at v₁+N₁f_Mand v₂−N₂f_M. The optical detector generates a beat note at (v₂−N₂f_M)−(v₁+N₁f_M). The beat note and a reference oscillator signal are processed by the circuit to generate a loop-filtered error signal to input to the VCO. Output of the VCO at f_Mdrives the sideband generator and forms the microwave-frequency output signal. The resultant frequency division results in reduced phase noise on the microwave-frequency signal.
FILED	Monday, January 26, 2015
APPL NO	14/605977
ART UNIT	2637 — Optical Communications
CURRENT CPC	Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation, or Stabilisation of Generators of Electronic Oscillations or Pulses H03L 7/08 (20130101) H03L 7/16 (20130101) Transmission H04B 10/503 (20130101) H04B 10/2504 (20130101) H04B 10/2507 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 10/2575 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 7/0075 (20130101) H04L 7/0091 (20130101)
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09451042 — Scheduling and execution of DAG-structured computation on RDMA-connected clusters

US 09451042	Guerin et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL)
APPLICANT(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Xavier Rene Guerin (White Plains, New York); Yinglong Xia (Rye Brook, New York)
ABSTRACT	A server and/or a client stores a metadata hash map that includes one or more entries associated with keys for data records stored in a cache on a server, wherein the data records comprise a directed acyclic graph (DAG), and the directed acyclic graph is comprised of a collection of one or more nodes connected by one or more edges, each of the nodes representing one or more tasks ordered into a sequence, and each of the edges representing one or more constraints on the nodes connected by the edges. Each of the entries stores metadata for a corresponding data record, wherein the metadata comprises a server-side remote pointer that references the corresponding data record stored in the cache. A selected data record is accessed using a provided key by: (1) identifying potentially matching entries in the metadata hash map using the provided key; (2) accessing data records stored in the cache using the server-side remote pointers from the potentially matching entries; and (3) determining whether the accessed data records match the selected data record using the provided key.
FILED	Tuesday, December 15, 2015
APPL NO	14/970202
ART UNIT	2442 — Computer Networks
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 15/167 (20130101) G06F 17/30424 (20130101) G06F 17/30917 (20130101) G06F 17/30949 (20130101) G06F 17/30958 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 67/1097 (20130101) H04L 67/2842 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09451339 — Sensor communication system for metal enclosures

US 09451339	Kauffman et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
APPLICANT(S)	University of Dayton (Dayton, Ohio)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Dayton (Dayton, Ohio)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert E. Kauffman (Centerville, Ohio); J. Douglas Wolf (Kettering, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	A sensor transmitter for communicating wirelessly a presence of a condition within a metal enclosure includes a power supply, at least one sensor where each sensor senses a presence of a condition, and a low frequency generator positioned within a metal enclosure and electrically coupled to the power supply and the at least one sensor. The low frequency generator transmits a low frequency wireless signal indicative of the presence of the condition within the metal enclosure when the condition is present at one sensor.
FILED	Friday, January 24, 2014
APPL NO	14/162845
ART UNIT	2682 — Computer Networks
CURRENT CPC	Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 19/0716 (20130101) G06K 19/0717 (20130101) G06K 19/0723 (20130101) Selecting H04Q 9/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04Q 2209/40 (20130101) H04Q 2209/886 (20130101)
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09451456 — Smart phone server sleeve

US 09451456	Lee
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) The Aerospace Corporation (AEROSPACE) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by The Aerospace Corporation (AEROSPACE) at El Segundo, CA
APPLICANT(S)	The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Richard M Lee (Calabasas, California)
ABSTRACT	A sleeve that acts as a server is provided. In one embodiment, the sleeve may be configured to attach to a mobile device. The sleeve may include a server configured to wirelessly connect to the mobile device.
FILED	Monday, June 03, 2013
APPL NO	13/908919
ART UNIT	2645 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details
CURRENT CPC	Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/0876 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 12/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04W 52/0296 (20130101) H04W 84/18 (20130101)
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National Science Foundation (NSF)

09445749 — Smartphone-based apparatus and method for obtaining repeatable, quantitative colorimetric measurement

US 09445749	Erickson et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	David Erickson (Ithaca, New York); Dakota O'Dell (Ithaca, New York); Vlad-Victor Oncescu (Ithaca, New York); Matthew Mancuso (Ithaca, New York); Seoho Lee (Ithaca, New York)
ABSTRACT	A method for obtaining a point-of-collection, selected quantitative indicia of an analyte on a test strip using a smartphone involves imaging a test strip on which a colorimetric reaction of a target sample has occurred due to test strip illumination by the smartphone. The smartphone includes a smartphone app and a smartphone accessory that provides an external environment-independent/internal light-free, imaging environment independent of the smartphone platform being used. The result can then be presented quantitatively or turned into a more consumer-friendly measurement (positive, negative, above average, etc.), displayed to the user, stored for later use, and communicated to a location where practitioners can provide additional review. Additionally, social media integration can allow for device results to be broadcast to specific audiences, to compare healthy living with others, to compete in health based games, create mappings, and other applications.
FILED	Tuesday, January 21, 2014
APPL NO	14/762214
ART UNIT	2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation
CURRENT CPC	Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0022 (20130101) A61B 5/157 (20130101) A61B 5/1032 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/1455 (20130101) A61B 5/1495 (20130101) A61B 5/4845 (20130101) A61B 5/6898 (20130101) A61B 5/14507 (20130101) A61B 5/14532 (20130101) A61B 5/14539 (20130101) A61B 5/14546 (20130101) A61B 5/150022 (20130101) A61B 5/150358 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/78 (20130101) G01N 21/80 (20130101) G01N 33/52 (20130101) G01N 33/558 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/408 (20130101) G06T 2207/10024 (20130101) G06T 2207/10056 (20130101) G06T 2207/30024 (20130101)
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09446147 — Membrane stabilizing compositions and methods

US 09446147	Bong
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	Dennis Bong (Columbus, Ohio)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio)
INVENTOR(S)	Dennis Bong (Columbus, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	A sugar-anchor polymer and methods of making and using the same to stabilize a lipid membrane. The sugar-anchor polymer includes a sugar covalently bound to a first anchor and a second anchor wherein the covalent bonds are selected from the group consisting essentially of an oxime bond, a hydrazone bond, an acylhydrazide bond, an aminothioacetal bond, an acetal bond, a thioacetal bond, a dithioacetal bond, a thioether bond and combinations thereof. The method includes reacting a sugar having at least two nucleophilic moieties with at least two anchors, each anchor having at least one electrophilic moiety, to form the polymer. Alternatively, the method includes reacting a sugar having at least two electrophilic moieties with at least two anchors, each anchor having at least one nucleophilic moiety, to form the polymer. The anchors may be lipids or peptides. The sugar-anchor polymers stabilize lipid membranes against serum proteins, dehydration, and cryopreservation.
FILED	Friday, February 24, 2012
APPL NO	13/404852
ART UNIT	1673 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/1271 (20130101) A61K 9/1272 (20130101) A61K 47/48815 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 1/00 (20130101) C07H 15/14 (20130101) C07H 15/18 (20130101)
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09446152 — Polyethylene glycol based oligomers for coating nanoparticles, nanoparticles coated therewith, and related methods

US 09446152	Mattoussi et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE)
APPLICANT(S)	The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Hedi Mattoussi (Tallahassee, Florida); Goutam Palui (Tallahassee, Florida); Hyon Bin Na (Seoul, South Korea)
ABSTRACT	In a composition aspect of the invention, a nanoparticle coating comprises repeating polyacrylic acid monomers covalently bound together in an aliphatic chain having a plurality of carboxylic acid functional groups and modified carboxylic acid functional groups extending therefrom. A first portion of the modified carboxylic acid functional groups are modified by a PEG oligomer having a terminal methoxy functional group and a second portion of the modified carboxylic acid functional groups are modified by a PEG oligomer having at least one terminal sulfur moiety.
FILED	Friday, August 28, 2015
APPL NO	14/838586
ART UNIT	1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/0067 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 8/32 (20130101) C08F 20/06 (20130101) C08F 22/00 (20130101) C08F 220/26 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 5/00 (20130101) C08K 5/13 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 33/00 (20130101) C08L 71/08 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 133/14 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 1/0054 (20130101)
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09446153 — Polyethylene glycol based oligomers for coating nanoparticles, nanoparticles coated therewith, and related methods

US 09446153	Mattoussi et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE)
APPLICANT(S)	The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Hedi Mattoussi (Tallahassee, Florida); Goutam Palui (Tallahassee, Florida); Hyon Bin Na (Seoul, South Korea)
ABSTRACT	In a composition aspect of the invention, a nanoparticle coating comprises repeating polyacrylic acid monomers covalently bound together in an aliphatic chain having a plurality of carboxylic acid functional groups and modified carboxylic acid functional groups extending therefrom. A first portion of the modified carboxylic acid functional groups are modified by a PEG oligomer having a terminal methoxy functional group and a second portion of the modified carboxylic acid functional groups are modified by a PEG oligomer having at least one terminal catechol group.
FILED	Friday, August 28, 2015
APPL NO	14/838611
ART UNIT	1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/0067 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 8/32 (20130101) C08F 20/06 (20130101) C08F 22/00 (20130101) C08F 220/26 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 5/00 (20130101) C08K 5/13 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 33/00 (20130101) C08L 71/08 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 133/14 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 1/0054 (20130101)
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09446512 — iAnt swarm robotic platform and evolutionary algorithms

US 09446512	Moses et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) Division of Emerging Frontiers (EF)
APPLICANT(S)	Melanie E. Moses (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Joshua P. Hecker (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Kenneth Letendre (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Karl Andrew Stolleis (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
ASSIGNEE(S)	STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
INVENTOR(S)	Melanie E. Moses (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Joshua P. Hecker (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Kenneth Letendre (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Karl Andrew Stolleis (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides a swarm of robots and a related method of operating the swarm. The robots are programmed to start at a nest and to select a dispersal direction from a uniform random distribution. The robots travel along the dispersal direction until transitioning to a search mode upon reaching a search site, where the robot performs a correlated random walk with fixed step size and direction and using a standard deviation to determine how correlated the direction of the next step of the robot is with the direction of the previous step. If no resource is found within predetermined time t independently determined by each of said robots, the robot returns to the nest and repeats the above steps.
FILED	Wednesday, March 25, 2015
APPL NO	14/668741
ART UNIT	3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
CURRENT CPC	Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 9/0084 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09446544 — Method and system for multivariate remote monitoring of polymer processing

US 09446544	Gao et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI)
APPLICANT(S)	Robert X. Gao (Manchester, Connecticut); Zhaoyan Fan (Willimantic, Connecticut); David O. Kazmer (North Andover, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut); University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert X. Gao (Manchester, Connecticut); Zhaoyan Fan (Willimantic, Connecticut); David O. Kazmer (North Andover, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	In an injection molding process, it can be difficult to detect, in real time, process control variables such as pressure and temperature. Traditional temperature detectors and pressure sensors can be difficult to place in or near a mold cavity. An example embodiment of the present invention includes a self-powered multivariate sensor and uses acoustic transmission. The sensor may employ an infra-red thermal detector and pressure sensor and transmit coded representations of measurements acoustically via a body of the mold. From the temperature and pressure, melt velocity and melt viscosity of a compound in the mold can be determined with a high degree of accuracy by a processor internal to or external from the sensor. The example embodiment maintains structural integrity of the mold, provides a wireless self-powered sensor, and makes available sensing of properties of the viscous compound to enable injection molded parts production at a success rate exceeding 90%.
FILED	Friday, June 29, 2012
APPL NO	13/538475
ART UNIT	2865 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 45/77 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B29C 2945/7604 (20130101) B29C 2945/76006 (20130101) B29C 2945/76461 (20130101) B29C 2945/76538 (20130101) B29C 2945/76993 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/442 (20130101)
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09447129 — Suprametallogels and uses thereof

US 09447129	Johnson et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE)
APPLICANT(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Jeremiah A. Johnson (Boston, Massachusetts); Niels Holten-Andersen (Allston, Massachusetts); Scott Charles Grindy (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ken Kawamoto (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Aleksandr V. Zhukhovitskiy (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The disclosure provides nanostructures (e.g., nanospheres and nano-paddlewheels) formed through transition metal-ligand (e.g., Pd(II)-, Ni(II)-, or Fe(II)-ligand of Formula (A)) coordination and junction self-assembly. The disclosure also provides supramolecular complexes that include the nanostructures connected by divalent linkers Y. The provided supramolecular complexes are able to form gels (e.g., hydrogels). The gels are suprametallogels and exhibited excellent mechanical properties without sacrificing self-healing and showed high robustness and storage modulus. The present disclosure further provides compositions (e.g., gels) that include the nanostructures or supramolecular complexes and optionally an agent (e.g., small molecule), where the nanostructures and the nanostructure moieties of the supramolecular complexes may encapsulate and slowly release the agent. The nanostructures, supramolecular complex, and compositions may be useful in delivering an agent to a subject, tissue, or cell, as super-absorbent materials, and in treating a disease (e.g., a genetic diseases, proliferative disease (e.g., cancer or benign neoplasm), hematological disease, neurological disease, gastrointestinal disease (e.g., liver disease), spleen disease, respiratory disease (e.g., lung disease), painful condition, genitourinary disease, musculoskeletal condition, infectious disease, inflammatory disease, autoimmune disease, psychiatric disorder, or metabolic disorder).
FILED	Monday, February 09, 2015
APPL NO	14/617747
ART UNIT	1625 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/22 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 15/02 (20130101) C07F 15/04 (20130101) C07F 15/006 (20130101) C07F 15/0066 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09447243 — Polymerization method and polymers formed therewith

US 09447243	Dong et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE)
APPLICANT(S)	The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Jiajia Dong (San Diego, California); Valery Fokin (Oceanside, California); Larisa Krasnova (San Diego, California); Luke R. Kwisnek (San Diego, California); James S. Oakdale (San Diego, California); K. Barry Sharpless (La Jolla, California)
ABSTRACT	Condensation of fluoro-substituted and silyl-substituted monomers provides polymers suitable for use, e.g., as engineering polymers. A monomer composition is condensed in the presence of a basic catalyst. The monomer composition contains a compound of formula F—X—F and a compound of formula (R¹)3Si—Z—Si(R¹)3, and forms an alternating X—Z polymer chain and a silyl fluoride byproduct. X has the formula -A(-R²-A)n-; each A is SO₂, C(═O), or Het; R²is an organic moiety; n is 0 or 1; Het is an aromatic nitrogen heterocycle; Z has the formula -L-R³-L-; each L is O, S, or N(R⁴); and each R³is an organic moiety, and R⁴comprises H or an organic moiety.
FILED	Tuesday, December 03, 2013
APPL NO	14/649428
ART UNIT	1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 64/06 (20130101) C08G 64/24 (20130101) C08G 65/40 (20130101) C08G 65/4012 (20130101) C08G 75/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 2650/40 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 5/18 (20130101) C08J 2369/00 (20130101) C08J 2381/00 (20130101)
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09447329 — Analogue ionic liquids for the separation and recovery of hydrocarbons from particulate matter

US 09447329	Painter et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)	The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Paul Painter (Boalsburg, Pennsylvania); Phil Williams (State College, Pennsylvania); Ehren Mannebach (Fond du Lac, Wisconsin); Aron Lupinsky (State College, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	Systems, methods and compositions for the separation and recovery of hydrocarbons from particulate matter are herein disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method includes contacting particulate matter with at least one analogue ionic liquid. The particulate matter contains at least one hydrocarbon and at least one solid particulate. When the particulate matter is contacted with the analogue ionic liquid, the hydrocarbon dissociates from the solid particulate to form a multiphase system.
FILED	Friday, November 01, 2013
APPL NO	14/070078
ART UNIT	1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Cracking Hydrocarbon Oils; Production of Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g by Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation; Recovery of Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, or Gases; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting of Hydrocarbons; Reforming of Naphtha; Mineral Waxes C10G 1/04 (20130101) C10G 1/045 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10G 2300/44 (20130101) C10G 2300/805 (20130101) C10G 2300/1033 (20130101)
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09447423 — Regulatory polynucleotides and uses thereof

US 09447423	Elich et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR)
APPLICANT(S)	Tedd D. Elich (Durham, North Carolina); Philip N. Benfey (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Jee W. Jung (Raleigh, North Carolina)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis, Missouri)
INVENTOR(S)	Tedd D. Elich (Durham, North Carolina); Philip N. Benfey (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Jee W. Jung (Raleigh, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of transcribable polynucleotides in plant cells, plant tissues, and plants. Compositions include regulatory polynucleotide molecules capable of providing expression in plant tissues and plants. Methods for expressing polynucleotides in a plant cell, plant tissue, or plants using the regulatory polynucleotide molecules disclosed herein are also provided.
FILED	Thursday, July 07, 2011
APPL NO	13/808510
ART UNIT	1661 — Plants
CURRENT CPC	Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 21/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/63 (20130101) C12N 15/82 (20130101) C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 15/8201 (20130101) C12N 15/8216 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/8241 (20130101)
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09447429 — Method to trigger RNA interference

US 09447429	Carrington et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB) Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
APPLICANT(S)	Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon)
INVENTOR(S)	James C. Carrington (St. Louis, Missouri); Edwards Allen (O'Fallon, Missouri)
ABSTRACT	A method to generate siRNAs in vivo is described, as are constructs and compositions useful in the method. The method does not depend on the use of DNA or synthetic constructs that contain inverted duplications or dual promoters so as to form perfect or largely double-stranded RNA. Rather, the method depends on constructs that yield single-stranded RNA transcripts, and exploits endogenous or in vivo-produced miRNAs or siRNAs to initiate production of siRNAs. The miRNAs or siRNAs guide cleavage of the transcript and set the register for production of siRNAs (usually 21 nucleotides in length) encoded adjacent to the initiation cleavage site within the construct. The method results in specific formation of siRNAs of predictable size and register (phase) relative to the initiation cleavage site. The method can be used to produce specific siRNAs in vivo for inactivation or suppression of one or more target genes or other entities, such as pathogens.
FILED	Monday, August 25, 2014
APPL NO	14/468159
ART UNIT	1663 — Plants
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 15/8218 (20130101) C12N 15/8245 (20130101) C12N 15/8246 (20130101) C12N 15/8247 (20130101) C12N 15/8251 (20130101) C12N 15/8261 (20130101) C12N 15/8271 (20130101) C12N 15/8274 (20130101) C12N 15/8279 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2320/11 (20130101)
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09447451 — Device and methods for epigenetic analysis

US 09447451	Craighead et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Electrical and Communications Systems (ECS)
APPLICANT(S)	Cornell University (Ithaca, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Cornell University (Ithaca, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York); Benjamin R. Cipriany (Ithaca, New York); Stephen Levy (Ithaca, New York); Paul Soloway (Ithaca, New York)
ABSTRACT	Provided herein are methods and devices for single object detection. The methods and devices can be used to identify a plurality epigenetic markers on a genetic material, or a chromatin, encompassing fragments thereof. The invention provides for the characterization of the genetic material flowing through a channel in a continuous body of fluid based on detection of one or more properties of the genetic material. The methods and systems provided herein allow genome-wide, high-throughput epigenetic analysis and overcome a variety of limitations common to bulk analysis techniques.
FILED	Wednesday, April 23, 2014
APPL NO	14/260082
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	Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 2200/0663 (20130101) B01L 2300/0654 (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 1/68 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6827 (20130101) C12Q 1/6827 (20130101) C12Q 1/6827 (20130101) C12Q 2537/164 (20130101) C12Q 2537/164 (20130101) C12Q 2561/113 (20130101) C12Q 2565/629 (20130101) C12Q 2565/629 (20130101) C12Q 2565/631 (20130101) C12Q 2565/631 (20130101) C12Q 2565/631 (20130101)
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09447461 — Analysis devices, kits, and related methods for digital quantification of nucleic acids and other analytes

US 09447461	Ismagilov et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) NIH Office of the Director (NIHOD) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE)
APPLICANT(S)	Rustem F. Ismagilov (Chicago, Illinois); Feng Shen (Chicago, Illinois); Jason E. Kreutz (Chicago, Illinois); Bing Sun (Chicago, Illinois); Wenbin Du (Chicago, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California); UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (Chicago, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Rustem F. Ismagilov (Chicago, Illinois); Feng Shen (Chicago, Illinois); Jason E. Kreutz (Chicago, Illinois); Bing Sun (Chicago, Illinois); Wenbin Du (Chicago, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	Provided are devices and methods for effecting processing of samples, including essentially isothermal amplification of nucleic acids, at multiple reaction locations in a single device. In some embodiments, the disclosed devices and methods provide for effecting parallel sample processing in several hundred locations on a single device.
FILED	Thursday, April 05, 2012
APPL NO	13/440371
ART UNIT	1799 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Mixing, e.g Dissolving, Emulsifying, Dispersing B01F 13/0094 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/5025 (20130101) B01L 3/502738 (20130101) B01L 2200/027 (20130101) B01L 2300/0864 (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 1/6851 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6851 (20130101) C12Q 2531/119 (20130101) C12Q 2537/149 (20130101) C12Q 2563/159 (20130101) C12Q 2565/629 (20130101)
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09447895 — Microfluidic pressure amplifier circuits and electrostatic gates for pneumatic microsystems

US 09447895	Tice et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the University Of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois); Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
INVENTOR(S)	Joshua D. Tice (Urbana, Illinois); Thomas A. Bassett (Bourbannais, Illinois); Amit V. Desai (Urbana, Illinois); Christopher A. Apblett (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Paul J. A. Kenis (Champaign, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	An electrostatic actuator is provide that can include a fluidic line, a first electrode, and a second electrode such that a gate chamber portion of the fluidic line is sandwiched between the first electrode and the second electrode. The electrostatic actuator can also include a pressure-balancing channel in fluid communication with the gate chamber portion where the first electrode is sandwiched between the pressure-balancing channel and the gate chamber portion. A pneumatic valve system is provided which includes an electrostatic gate and a fluidic channel fluidly separate from a fluidic control line. A pneumatic valve portion of the fluidic control line can be positioned relative to a portion of the fluidic channel such that expansion of the pneumatic valve portion restricts fluid flow through the fluidic channel. Methods of using an electrostatic actuator and a pneumatic valve system are also provided.
FILED	Thursday, May 23, 2013
APPL NO	13/901200
ART UNIT	3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing
CURRENT CPC	Valves; Taps; Cocks; Actuating-floats; Devices for Venting or Aerating F16K 31/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F16K 99/0026 (20130101) F16K 99/0051 (20130101) F16K 2099/0084 (20130101)
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09448066 — Methods and apparatus for jammable HCI interfaces

US 09448066	Follmer et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Sean Follmer (Somerville, Massachusetts); Daniel Leithinger (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Hiroshi Ishii (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Alex Olwal (Stockholm, Sweden)
ABSTRACT	In exemplary implementations of this invention, a jammable structure functions as an HCI interface. A user provides input by changing the shape of a flexible layer of the jammable structure (e.g., by pressing against it or stretching, twisting or bending it) and receives haptic feedback (e.g., varying stiffness). Sensors are used to determine the shape of the flexible layer. The sensors output data that is indicative of electromagnetic waves that have traveled through the jammable media or of electrical or magnetic phenomena that are produced by the waves. For example, visible or infrared light may be shone through a transparent jammable media to the flexible layer and reflect back to a camera. The media may comprise granular particles (e.g., glass beads) and a liquid (e.g., oil) with matching indices of refraction. Or capacitive sensing may be used to detect the shape of the flexible layer.
FILED	Wednesday, April 17, 2013
APPL NO	13/864663
ART UNIT	2864 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 21/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01B 21/20 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/041 (20130101) G06F 3/044 (20130101) G06F 3/0425 (20130101) G06F 2203/04102 (20130101) G06F 2203/04103 (20130101)
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09448072 — System and method for locating, tracking, and/or monitoring the status of personnel and/or assets both indoors and outdoors

US 09448072	Bandyopadhyay et al.
FUNDED BY	National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)	Amrit Bandyopadhyay (Washington, District of Columbia); Daniel Hakim (Silver Spring, Maryland); Benjamin E. Funk (Hanover, Maryland); Eric Asher Kohn (Washington, District of Columbia); Carole A. Teolis (Glenn Dale, Maryland); Gilmer Blankenship (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	TRX Systems, Inc. (Greenbelt, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Amrit Bandyopadhyay (Washington, District of Columbia); Daniel Hakim (Silver Spring, Maryland); Benjamin E. Funk (Hanover, Maryland); Eric Asher Kohn (Washington, District of Columbia); Carole A. Teolis (Glenn Dale, Maryland); Gilmer Blankenship (Washington, District of Columbia)
ABSTRACT	A system and method for locating, tracking, and/or monitoring the status of personnel and/or assets (collectively “trackees”), both indoors and outdoors, is provided. Tracking data obtained from any number of sources utilizing any number of tracking methods (e.g., inertial navigation and signal-based methods) may be provided as input to a mapping application. The mapping application may generate position estimates for trackees using a suite of mapping tools to make corrections to the tracking data. The mapping application may further use information from building data, when available, to enhance position estimates. Indoor tracking methods including, for example, sensor fusion methods, map matching methods, and map building methods may be implemented to take tracking data from one or more trackees and compute a more accurate tracking estimate for each trackee. Outdoor tracking methods may be implemented to enhance outdoor tracking data by combining tracking estimates such as inertial tracks with magnetic and/or compass data if and when available, and with GPS, if and when available.
FILED	Wednesday, August 06, 2008
APPL NO	12/187067
ART UNIT	3664 — 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 17/38 (20130101) G01C 21/16 (20130101) G01C 21/165 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01C 21/206 (20130101) G01C 21/3438 (20130101) G01C 21/3626 (20130101) Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 5/0294 (20130101) G01S 19/39 (20130101) G01S 19/48 (20130101) G01S 19/49 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 4/028 (20130101) H04W 4/043 (20130101) H04W 64/00 (20130101)
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09448338 — Passively athermalized infrared imaging system and method of manufacturing same

US 09448338	Kubala et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)	Kenneth Scott Kubala (Boulder, Colorado); Alan E. Baron (Boulder, Colorado); Robert Matthew Bates (Erie, Colorado)
ASSIGNEE(S)	FiveFocal LLC (Boulder, Colorado)
INVENTOR(S)	Kenneth Scott Kubala (Boulder, Colorado); Alan E. Baron (Boulder, Colorado); Robert Matthew Bates (Erie, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	In an embodiment, a method of aligning elements in a manufacturing process includes placing a middle element onto a base element, the base element forming first alignment features, the middle element forming apertures therethrough corresponding to the first alignment features. The method also includes placing second alignment features of an upper element onto the first alignment features such that the first and second alignment features cooperate, through the apertures, to align the upper element with the base element. An infrared lens assembly includes a lens formed of an infrared transmitting material that is disposed within a carrier of a base material, the lens being molded within the carrier with at least one feature that secures the lens to the carrier.
FILED	Friday, January 20, 2012
APPL NO	13/355474
ART UNIT	2872 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 3/0062 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 7/003 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49826 (20150115) Y10T 156/1052 (20150115)
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09449241 — System and method for detecting and tracking a curvilinear object in a three-dimensional space

US 09449241	Hager et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	Gregory Donald Hager (Baltimore, Maryland); Nicolas Padoy (Baltimore, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Gregory Donald Hager (Baltimore, Maryland); Nicolas Padoy (Baltimore, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A system for detecting and tracking a curvilinear object in a three-dimensional space includes an image acquisition system including a video camera arranged to acquire a video image of the curvilinear object and output a corresponding video signal, the video image comprising a plurality n of image frames each at a respective time t_i, where i=1, 2, . . . , n; and a data processing system adapted to communicate with the image acquisition system to receive the video signal. The data processing system is configured to determine a position, orientation and shape of the curvilinear object in the three-dimensional space at each time t_iby forming a computational model of the curvilinear object at each time t_isuch that a projection of the computation model of the curvilinear object at each time ti onto a corresponding frame of the plurality of image frames of the video image matches a curvilinear image in the frame to a predetermined accuracy to thereby detect and track the curvilinear object from time t_ito time t_n.
FILED	Thursday, February 23, 2012
APPL NO	13/985815
ART UNIT	2488 — Recording and Compression
CURRENT CPC	Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 9/1697 (20130101) Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 2219/4705 (20130101) G05B 2219/39123 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/3241 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 901/46 (20130101)
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09449668 — Current induced spin-momentum transfer stack with dual insulating layers

US 09449668	Kent et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) Army Research Office (CCDC ARO) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR) Division of Physics (PHY)
APPLICANT(S)	New York University (New York, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	New York University (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Andrew Kent (New York, New York); Daniel Bedau (San Jose, California); Huanlong Liu (New York, New York)
ABSTRACT	A high speed, low power method to control and switch the magnetization direction of a magnetic region in a magnetic device for memory cells using spin polarized electrical current. The magnetic device comprises a pinned magnetic layer, a reference magnetic layer with a fixed magnetization direction and a free magnetic layer with a changeable magnetization direction. The magnetic layers are separated by insulating non-magnetic layers. A current can be applied to the device to induce a torque that alters the magnetic state of the device so that it can act as a magnetic memory for writing information. The resistance, which depends on the magnetic state of the device, can be measured to read out the information stored in the device.
FILED	Tuesday, July 07, 2015
APPL NO	14/792753
ART UNIT	2827 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Static Stores G11C 11/16 (20130101) G11C 11/161 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G11C 11/1675 (20130101) G11C 11/5607 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/222 (20130101) H01L 29/66984 (20130101)
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09449731 — Modular supramolecular approach for co-crystallization of donors and acceptors into ordered networks

US 09449731	Stupp et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)	Samuel I. Stupp (Chicago, Illinois); J. Fraser Stoddart (Evanston, Illinois); Alex K. Shveyd (Camillus, New York); Alok S. Tayi (Niskayuna, New York); Andrew C. H. Sue (Arcadia, California); Ashwin Narayanan (Chicago, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Samuel I. Stupp (Chicago, Illinois); J. Fraser Stoddart (Evanston, Illinois); Alex K. Shveyd (Camillus, New York); Alok S. Tayi (Niskayuna, New York); Andrew C. H. Sue (Arcadia, California); Ashwin Narayanan (Chicago, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	Organic charge-transfer (CT) co-crystals in a mixed stack system are disclosed, wherein a donor molecule (D) and an acceptor molecule (A) occupy alternating positions (DADADA) along the CT axis. A platform is provided which amplifies the molecular recognition of donors and acceptors and produces co-crystals at ambient conditions, wherein the platform comprises (i) a molecular design of the first constituent (α-complement), (ii) a molecular design of the second compound (β-complement), and (iii) a solvent system that promotes co-crystallization.
FILED	Monday, May 21, 2012
APPL NO	13/476974
ART UNIT	1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 487/14 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/121 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09449780 — X-ray analyzer having multiple excitation energy bands produced using multi-material x-ray tube anodes and monochromating optics

US 09449780	Chen
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP)
APPLICANT(S)	X-RAY OPTICAL SYSTEMS, INC. (East Greenbush, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	X-RAY OPTICAL SYSTEMS, INC. (East Greenbush, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Zewu Chen (Schenectady, New York)
ABSTRACT	An x-ray tube includes a target on which electrons impinge to form a diverging x-ray beam. The target has a surface formed from first and second target materials, each tailored to emit a respective x-ray energy profile. A first x-ray optic may be provided for directing the beam toward the sample spot, the first x-ray optic monochromating the diverging x-ray beam to a first energy from the energy emitted by the first target material; and a second x-ray optic may be provided, for directing the beam toward the sample spot, the second x-ray optic monochromating the diverging x-ray beam to a second energy from the energy emitted by the second target material. Fluorescence from the sample spot induced by the first and second monochromated energies is used to measure the concentration of at least one element in the sample, or separately measure elements in a coating and underlying substrate.
FILED	Wednesday, February 27, 2013
APPL NO	14/381023
ART UNIT	2884 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 23/223 (20130101) Techniques for Handling Particles or Ionising Radiation Not Otherwise Provided For; Irradiation Devices; Gamma Ray or X-ray Microscopes G21K 1/062 (20130101) G21K 1/067 (20130101) G21K 2201/062 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 35/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 35/14 (20130101) H01J 2235/081 (20130101) H01J 2235/084 (20130101) H01J 2235/088 (20130101)
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09449787 — Liquid flow cells having graphene on nitride for microscopy

US 09449787	Adiga et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by University of California (UC BERKELEY) at Berkeley, CA National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC)
APPLICANT(S)	Vivekananda P. Adiga (Albany, California); Gabriel Dunn (Berkeley, California); Alexander K. Zettl (Kensington, California); A. Paul Alivisatos (Berkeley, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Vivekananda P. Adiga (Albany, California); Gabriel Dunn (Berkeley, California); Alexander K. Zettl (Kensington, California); A. Paul Alivisatos (Berkeley, California)
ABSTRACT	This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus related to liquid flow cells for microscopy. In one aspect, a device includes a substrate having a first and a second oxide layer disposed on surfaces of the substrate. A first and a second nitride layer are disposed on the first and second oxide layers, respectively. A cavity is defined in the first oxide layer, the first nitride layer, and the substrate, with the cavity including a third nitride layer disposed on walls of the substrate and the second oxide layer that define the cavity. A channel is defined in the second oxide layer. An inlet port and an outlet port are defined in the second nitride layer and in fluid communication with the channel. A plurality of viewports is defined in the second nitride layer. A first graphene sheet is disposed on the second nitride layer covering the plurality of viewports.
FILED	Tuesday, August 04, 2015
APPL NO	14/817551
ART UNIT	1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 18/08 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 1/12 (20130101) G02B 21/16 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 37/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 37/26 (20130101) H01J 2237/2003 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/1606 (20130101) H01L 29/66045 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49002 (20150115)
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09449851 — Local doping of two-dimensional materials

US 09449851	Wong et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG) Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by University of California (UC BERKELEY) at Berkeley, CA National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI)
APPLICANT(S)	Dillon Wong (Alameda, California); Jairo Velasco, Jr. (Berkeley, California); Long Ju (Berkeley, California); Salman Kahn (Tracy, California); Juwon Lee (Berkeley, California); Chad E. Germany (Richmond, California); Alexander K. Zettl (Kensington, California); Feng Wang (Fremont, California); Michael F. Crommie (Oakland, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Dillon Wong (Alameda, California); Jairo Velasco, Jr. (Berkeley, California); Long Ju (Berkeley, California); Salman Kahn (Tracy, California); Juwon Lee (Berkeley, California); Chad E. Germany (Richmond, California); Alexander K. Zettl (Kensington, California); Feng Wang (Fremont, California); Michael F. Crommie (Oakland, California)
ABSTRACT	This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus related to locally doping two-dimensional (2D) materials. In one aspect, an assembly including a substrate, a first insulator disposed on the substrate, a second insulator disposed on the first insulator, and a 2D material disposed on the second insulator is formed. A first voltage is applied between the 2D material and the substrate. With the first voltage applied between the 2D material and the substrate, a second voltage is applied between the 2D material and a probe positioned proximate the 2D material. The second voltage between the 2D material and the probe is removed. The first voltage between the 2D material and the substrate is removed. A portion of the 2D material proximate the probe when the second voltage was applied has a different electron density compared to a remainder of the 2D material.
FILED	Monday, August 24, 2015
APPL NO	14/833407
ART UNIT	2819 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/326 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/479 (20130101) H01L 21/2254 (20130101) H01L 21/2256 (20130101) H01L 21/02381 (20130101) H01L 21/02488 (20130101) H01L 21/02502 (20130101) H01L 21/02527 (20130101) H01L 21/02568 (20130101) H01L 29/1606 (20130101)
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09450120 — Method of increasing the band gap of iron pyrite by alloying with oxygen

US 09450120	Wu et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE)
APPLICANT(S)	THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Ruqian Wu (Irvine, California); Matt Law (Irvine, California); Jun Hu (Irvine, California); Yanning Zhang (Irvine, California)
ABSTRACT	A method of increasing the band gap of iron pyrite by alloying with oxygen is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method comprises alloying iron pyrite (FeS₂) with oxygen to form an iron pyrite and oxygen alloy (FeS_2−xO_x). The iron pyrite and oxygen alloy (FeS_2−xO_x) has a band gap greater than iron pyrite (FeS₂).
FILED	Wednesday, March 13, 2013
APPL NO	13/799632
ART UNIT	1755 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/032 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/072 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/50 (20130101)
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09450421 — Wireless non-radiative energy transfer

US 09450421	Joannopoulos et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	John D. Joannopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts); Aristeidis Karalis (Boston, Massachusetts); Marin Soljacic (Belmont, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Described herein are embodiments of a source high-Q resonator, optionally coupled to an energy source, a second high-Q resonator, optionally coupled to an energy drain that may be located a distance from the source resonator. A third high-Q resonator, optionally coupled to an energy drain that may be located a distance from the source resonator. The source resonator and at least one of the second resonator and third resonator may be coupled to transfer electromagnetic energy from said source resonator to said at least one of the second resonator and third resonator.
FILED	Tuesday, February 24, 2015
APPL NO	14/629709
ART UNIT	2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Propulsion of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Supplying Electric Power for Auxiliary Equipment of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Electrodynamic Brake Systems for Vehicles in General; Magnetic Suspension or Levitation for Vehicles; Monitoring Operating Variables of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Electric Safety Devices for Electrically-propelled Vehicles B60L 11/18 (20130101) B60L 11/182 (20130101) Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 9/04 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 5/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H02J 50/12 (20160201) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/7005 (20130101) Y02T 10/7072 (20130101) Y02T 10/7088 (20130101) Y02T 90/14 (20130101) Y02T 90/122 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 307/25 (20150401)
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09450422 — Wireless energy transfer

US 09450422	Karalis et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Aristeidis Karalis (Boston, Massachusetts); Andre B. Kurs (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Robert Moffatt (Reston, Virginia); John D. Joannopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts); Peter H. Fisher (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Marin Soljacic (Belmont, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed is an apparatus for use in wireless energy transfer, which includes a first resonator structure configured to transfer energy non-radiatively with a second resonator structure over a distance greater than a characteristic size of the second resonator structure. The non-radiative energy transfer is mediated by a coupling of a resonant field evanescent tail of the first resonator structure and a resonant field evanescent tail of the second resonator structure.
FILED	Tuesday, March 24, 2015
APPL NO	14/666683
ART UNIT	2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Propulsion of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Supplying Electric Power for Auxiliary Equipment of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Electrodynamic Brake Systems for Vehicles in General; Magnetic Suspension or Levitation for Vehicles; Monitoring Operating Variables of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Electric Safety Devices for Electrically-propelled Vehicles B60L 11/182 (20130101) B60L 2210/20 (20130101) Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 7/00 (20130101) H01Q 9/04 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 5/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H02J 50/12 (20160201) Transmission H04B 5/0037 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/725 (20130101) Y02T 10/7005 (20130101) Y02T 10/7072 (20130101) Y02T 90/14 (20130101) Y02T 90/122 (20130101) Y02T 90/127 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/4902 (20150115)
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09450673 — Stabilized microwave-frequency source

US 09450673	Vahala et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Commerce (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Department of the Army (DOA) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Physics (PHY)
APPLICANT(S)	CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California); THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE, THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California); 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)	Kerry Vahala (Pasadena, California); Scott Diddams (Louisville, Colorado); Jiang Li (Pasadena, California); Xu Yi (Pasadena, California); Hansuek Lee (Pasadena, California)
ABSTRACT	A microwave-frequency source at frequency f_Mcomprises: a dual optical-frequency reference source, an electro-optic sideband generator, an optical bandpass filter, an optical detector, a reference oscillator, an electrical circuit, and a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO). The sideband generator modulates dual optical reference signals at v₂and v₁to generate sideband signals at v₁±n₁f_Mand v₂±n₂f_M. The bandpass filter transmits sideband signals at v₁+N₁f_Mand v₂−N₂f_M. The optical detector generates a beat note at (v₂−N₂f_M)−(v₁+N₁f_M). The beat note and a reference oscillator signal are processed by the circuit to generate a loop-filtered error signal to input to the VCO. Output of the VCO at f_Mdrives the sideband generator and forms the microwave-frequency output signal. The resultant frequency division results in reduced phase noise on the microwave-frequency signal.
FILED	Monday, January 26, 2015
APPL NO	14/605977
ART UNIT	2637 — Optical Communications
CURRENT CPC	Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation, or Stabilisation of Generators of Electronic Oscillations or Pulses H03L 7/08 (20130101) H03L 7/16 (20130101) Transmission H04B 10/503 (20130101) H04B 10/2504 (20130101) H04B 10/2507 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 10/2575 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 7/0075 (20130101) H04L 7/0091 (20130101)
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09446343 — Simulated moving bed system for CO₂separation, and method of same

US 09446343	Elliott et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Exxonmobil Research and Engineering Company (Annandale, New Jersey); TDA Research, Inc. (Wheat Ridge, Colorado)
ASSIGNEE(S)	EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANY (Annandale, New Jersey); TDA RESEARCH, INC. (Wheat Ridge, Colorado)
INVENTOR(S)	Jeannine Elizabeth Elliott (Superior, Colorado); Robert James Copeland (Arvada, Colorado); Jeff Lind (Arvada, Colorado); Daniel P. Leta (Flemington, New Jersey); Patrick P. McCall (Matawan, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	A system and method for separating and/or purification of CO₂gas from a CO₂feed stream is described. The system and method include a plurality of fixed sorbent beds, adsorption zones and desorption zones, where the sorbent beds are connected via valve and lines to create a simulated moving bed system, where the sorbent beds move from one adsorption position to another adsorption position, and then into one regeneration position to another regeneration position, and optionally back to an adsorption position. The system and method operate by concentration swing adsorption/desorption and by adsorptive/desorptive displacement.
FILED	Tuesday, July 08, 2014
APPL NO	14/325552
ART UNIT	1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Separation B01D 53/06 (20130101) B01D 53/10 (20130101) B01D 53/0446 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 2253/104 (20130101) B01D 2257/504 (20130101) B01D 2258/0283 (20130101) B01D 2259/402 (20130101) B01D 2259/4009 (20130101) B01D 2259/4065 (20130101) B01D 2259/40086 (20130101) Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 10/08 (20130101)
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09446967 — Method for producing size selected particles

US 09446967	Krumdick et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by UChicago Argonne, LLC (UCHICAGO) at Argonne, IL
APPLICANT(S)	UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Gregory K. Krumdick (Homer Glen, Illinois); Young Ho Shin (LaGrange, Illinois); Kaname Takeya (Valencia, California)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides a system for preparing specific sized particles, the system comprising a continuous stir tank reactor adapted to receive reactants; a centrifugal dispenser positioned downstream from the reactor and in fluid communication with the reactor; a particle separator positioned downstream of the dispenser; and a solution stream return conduit positioned between the separator and the reactor. Also provided is a method for preparing specific sized particles, the method comprising introducing reagent into a continuous stir reaction tank and allowing the reagents to react to produce product liquor containing particles; contacting the liquor particles with a centrifugal force for a time sufficient to generate particles of a predetermined size and morphology; and returning unused reagents and particles of a non-predetermined size to the tank.
FILED	Wednesday, April 30, 2014
APPL NO	14/265638
ART UNIT	1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 45/00 (20130101) C01G 51/06 (20130101) C01G 53/00 (20130101) C01G 53/006 (20130101) C01G 53/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C01G 53/44 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2004/03 (20130101) C01P 2004/32 (20130101) C01P 2004/51 (20130101) C01P 2004/52 (20130101) C01P 2004/61 (20130101) C01P 2006/11 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/485 (20130101) H01M 4/505 (20130101) H01M 4/525 (20130101) H01M 2004/021 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101)
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09446992 — Compounds and methods for improving plant performance

US 09446992	Unkefer et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Triad National Security, LLC (TRIAD) at Los Alamos, NM
APPLICANT(S)	Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico); 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); Thomas Joseph Knight (Bangor, Maine)
ABSTRACT	The invention is directed to methods and compositions for increasing a growth characteristic of a plant, increasing nutrient use efficiency of a plant, or improving a plant's ability to overcome stress comprising applying a composition comprising ketosuccinamate, a derivative thereof, or a salt thereof, to the plant or to a propagation material of the plant.
FILED	Friday, August 08, 2014
APPL NO	14/454849
ART UNIT	1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 25/00 (20130101) A01N 25/00 (20130101) A01N 37/42 (20130101) A01N 37/42 (20130101) A01N 37/42 (20130101) A01N 43/36 (20130101) A01N 43/36 (20130101) A01N 43/36 (20130101) A01N 43/36 (20130101) A01N 43/36 (20130101) A01N 43/40 (20130101) A01N 43/40 (20130101) A01N 43/40 (20130101) A01N 43/44 (20130101) A01N 43/44 (20130101) A01N 43/44 (20130101) A01N 43/62 (20130101) A01N 43/62 (20130101) A01N 43/62 (20130101) Organic Fertilisers Not Covered by Subclasses C05B, C05C, e.g Fertilisers From Waste or Refuse C05F 11/00 (20130101) Mixtures of Fertilisers Covered Individually by Different Subclasses of Class C05; Mixtures of One or More Fertilisers With Materials Not Having a Specific Fertilising Activity, e.g Pesticides, Soil-conditioners, Wetting Agents; Fertilisers Characterised by Their Form C05G 3/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09447107 — Broadly absorbing metalloporphyrin-based multichromophoric arrays for triplet harvesting

US 09447107	Thompson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC)
APPLICANT(S)	Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim, California); Matthew T. Whited (Northfield, Minnesota); Peter I. Djurovich (Long Beach, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim, California); Matthew T. Whited (Northfield, Minnesota); Peter I. Djurovich (Long Beach, California)
ABSTRACT	The present disclosure relates to multichromophoric assemblies comprising metalloporphyrin scaffolds. The present disclosure also relates, in part, to methods for generating electric-field-stabilized geminate polaron pairs comprising applying electric fields to the multichromophoric assemblies described herein, or alternatively, directly to the metalloporphyrins provided by the present disclosure. The present disclosure further relates, in part, to multichromophoric assemblies comprising metalloporphyrin scaffolds, which exhibit enhanced energy transfer properties.
FILED	Friday, September 09, 2011
APPL NO	13/229477
ART UNIT	1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 487/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Organic Dyes or Closely-related Compounds for Producing Dyes; Mordants; Lakes C09B 47/045 (20130101) C09B 47/073 (20130101) C09B 57/10 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 9/02 (20130101) C09K 11/06 (20130101) C09K 2211/185 (20130101) C09K 2211/1029 (20130101) C09K 2211/1055 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/008 (20130101) H01L 51/009 (20130101) H01L 51/0087 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101)
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09447205 — Atmospheric pressure plasma processing of polymeric materials utilizing close proximity indirect exposure

US 09447205	Paulauskas et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by UT-Battelle, LLC (UTB) at Oak Ridge, TN
APPLICANT(S)	UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); REMAXCO TECHNOLOGIES (Knoxville, Tennessee)
INVENTOR(S)	Felix L. Paulauskas (Knoxville, Tennessee); Truman Bonds (Knoxville, Tennessee)
ABSTRACT	A plasma treatment method that includes providing treatment chamber including an intermediate heating volume and an interior treatment volume. The interior treatment volume contains an electrode assembly for generating a plasma and the intermediate heating volume heats the interior treatment volume. A work piece is traversed through the treatment chamber. A process gas is introduced to the interior treatment volume of the treatment chamber. A plasma is formed with the electrode assembly from the process gas, wherein a reactive species of the plasma is accelerated towards the fiber tow by flow vortices produced in the interior treatment volume by the electrode assembly.
FILED	Monday, November 19, 2012
APPL NO	13/680406
ART UNIT	1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/087 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 8/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Chemical Features in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons; Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture of Carbon Filaments D01F 9/328 (20130101) Treating Textile Materials Using Liquids, Gases or Vapours D06B 19/00 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 37/3277 (20130101) H01J 37/32348 (20130101) H01J 37/32522 (20130101) Plasma Technique; Production of Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles or of Neutrons; Production or Acceleration of Neutral Molecular or Atomic Beams H05H 1/2406 (20130101) H05H 2001/2412 (20130101) H05H 2001/2437 (20130101)
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09447315 — Electrophilic acid gas-reactive fluid, proppant, and process for enhanced fracturing and recovery of energy producing materials

US 09447315	Fernandez et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Battelle Memorial Institute (BMI) at Richland, WA
APPLICANT(S)	Carlos A. Fernandez (Kennewick, Washington); David J. Heldebrant (Richland, Washington); Alain H. R. Bonneville (Richland, Washington); Hun Bok Jung (Richland, Washington); Kenneth C. Carroll (Las Cruces, New Mexico)
ASSIGNEE(S)	BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Richland, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Carlos A. Fernandez (Kennewick, Washington); David J. Heldebrant (Richland, Washington); Alain H. R. Bonneville (Richland, Washington); Hun Bok Jung (Richland, Washington); Kenneth C. Carroll (Las Cruces, New Mexico)
ABSTRACT	An electrophilic acid gas-reactive fracturing and recovery fluid, proppant, and process are detailed. The fluid expands in volume to provide rapid and controlled increases in pressure that enhances fracturing in subterranean bedrock for recovery of energy-producing materials. Proppants stabilize openings in fractures and fissures following fracturing.
FILED	Thursday, September 04, 2014
APPL NO	14/477700
ART UNIT	3674 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware
CURRENT CPC	Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 8/68 (20130101) 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 43/26 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2982 (20150115)
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09447318 — Plastic scintillators with high loading of one or more metal carboxylates

US 09447318	Cherepy et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (LLNS) at Livermore, CA
APPLICANT(S)	Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Nerine Cherepy (Piedmont, California); Robert Dean Sanner (Livermore, California)
ABSTRACT	According to one embodiment, a method includes incorporating a metal carboxylate complex into a polymeric matrix to form an optically transparent material. According to another embodiment, a material includes at least one metal carboxylate complex incorporated into a polymeric matrix, where the material is optically transparent.
FILED	Wednesday, November 18, 2015
APPL NO	14/945112
ART UNIT	2884 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 3/24 (20130101) C08J 2325/16 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C09K 2211/181 (20130101) C09K 2211/188 (20130101) Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/20 (20130101) G01T 1/203 (20130101) G01T 3/06 (20130101)
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09447400 — Beta-glucosidase I variants with improved properties

US 09447400	Bott et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Richard R. Bott (Burlingame, California); Thijs Kaper (Half Moon Bay, California); Bradley Kelemen (Menlo Park, California); Frits Goedegebuur (Vlaardingen, Netherlands); Ronaldus Wilhelmus Hommes (Haarlem, Netherlands); Slavko Kralj (Oestgeest, Netherlands); Paulien Kruithof (Zoetmeer, Netherlands); Igor Nikolaev (Noordwijk, Netherlands); Wilhelmus Antonious Hendricus Van Der Kley (The Hague, Netherlands); Johannes Franciscus Thomas Van Lieshout (Utrecht, Netherlands); Sander Van Stigt Thans (Zevenbergen, Netherlands); Gudrun Vogtentanz (Sunnyvale, California); Mats Sandgren (Uppsala, Sweden)
ASSIGNEE(S)	DANISCO US INC. (Palo Alto, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Richard R. Bott (Burlingame, California); Thijs Kaper (Half Moon Bay, California); Bradley Kelemen (Menlo Park, California); Frits Goedegebuur (Vlaardingen, Netherlands); Ronaldus Wilhelmus Hommes (Haarlem, Netherlands); Slavko Kralj (Oestgeest, Netherlands); Paulien Kruithof (Zoetmeer, Netherlands); Igor Nikolaev (Noordwijk, Netherlands); Wilhelmus Antonious Hendricus Van Der Kley (The Hague, Netherlands); Johannes Franciscus Thomas Van Lieshout (Utrecht, Netherlands); Sander Van Stigt Thans (Zevenbergen, Netherlands); Gudrun Vogtentanz (Sunnyvale, California); Mats Sandgren (Uppsala, Sweden)
ABSTRACT	The present disclosure is generally directed to enzymes and in particular beta-glucosidase variants. Also described are nucleic acids encoding beta-glucosidase variants, compositions comprising beta-glucosidase variants, methods of using beta-glucosidase variants, and methods of identifying additional useful beta-glucosidase variants.
FILED	Friday, November 19, 2010
APPL NO	13/510902
ART UNIT	1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/2445 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Enzymes C12Y 302/01021 (20130101)
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09447798 — Fluid powered linear piston motor with harmonic coupling

US 09447798	Raymond
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (NTESS) at Albuquerque, NM
APPLICANT(S)	Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
INVENTOR(S)	David W. Raymond (Edgewood, New Mexico)
ABSTRACT	A motor is disclosed that includes a module assembly including a piston that is axially cycled. The piston axial motion is coupled to torque couplers that convert the axial motion into rotary motion. The torque couplers are coupled to a rotor to rotate the rotor.
FILED	Thursday, March 13, 2014
APPL NO	14/209840
ART UNIT	3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Systems Acting by Means of Fluids in General; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g Servomotors; Details of Fluid-pressure Systems, Not Otherwise Provided for F15B 15/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F15B 15/063 (20130101)
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09447975 — Variable volume combustor with aerodynamic fuel flanges for nozzle mounting

US 09447975	McConnaughhay et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Schenectady, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Johnie Franklin McConnaughhay (Greenville, South Carolina); Christopher Paul Keener (Woodruff, South Carolina); Thomas Edward Johnson (Greer, 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 micro-mixer fuel nozzles and a fuel injection system for providing a flow of fuel to the micro-mixer fuel nozzles. The fuel injection system may include a number of support struts supporting the fuel nozzles and for providing the flow of fuel therethrough. The fuel injection system also may include a number of aerodynamic fuel flanges connecting the micro-mixer fuel nozzles and the support struts.
FILED	Wednesday, February 06, 2013
APPL NO	13/760094
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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09448042 — Diminishing detonator effectiveness through electromagnetic effects

US 09448042	Schill, Jr.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	University of Nevada, Las Vegas (Las Vegas, Nevada)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board Of Regents Of The Nevada System Of Higher Education On Behalf Of The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (Las Vegas, Nevada)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert A. Schill, Jr. (Henderson, Nevada)
ABSTRACT	An inductively coupled transmission line with distributed electromotive force source and an alternative coupling model based on empirical data and theory were developed to initiate bridge wire melt for a detonator with an open and a short circuit detonator load. In the latter technique, the model was developed to exploit incomplete knowledge of the open circuited detonator using tendencies common to all of the open circuit loads examined. Military, commercial, and improvised detonators were examined and modeled. Nichrome, copper, platinum, and tungsten are the detonator specific bridge wire materials studied. The improvised detonators were made typically made with tungsten wire and copper (˜40 AWG wire strands) wire.
FILED	Wednesday, July 03, 2013
APPL NO	13/934377
ART UNIT	3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Armour; Armoured Turrets; Armoured or Armed Vehicles; Means of Attack or Defence, e.g Camouflage, in General F41H 11/136 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Blasting F42D 5/04 (20130101)
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09448336 — Fabrication method for small-scale structures with non-planar features

US 09448336	Burckel et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (NTESS) at Albuquerque, NM
APPLICANT(S)	Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Sandia Corporation (Albquerque, New Mexico)
INVENTOR(S)	David Bruce Burckel (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Gregory A. Ten Eyck (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
ABSTRACT	The fabrication of small-scale structures is disclosed. A unit-cell of a small-scale structure with non-planar features is fabricated by forming a membrane on a suitable material. A pattern is formed in the membrane and a portion of the substrate underneath the membrane is removed to form a cavity. Resonators are then directionally deposited on the wall or sides of the cavity. The cavity may be rotated during deposition to form closed-loop resonators. The resonators may be non-planar. The unit-cells can be formed in a layer that includes an array of unit-cells.
FILED	Wednesday, November 19, 2014
APPL NO	14/548070
ART UNIT	1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
CURRENT CPC	Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 40/00 (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 14/22 (20130101) C23C 14/24 (20130101) C23C 14/042 (20130101) C23C 14/225 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 3/0012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/001 (20130101) H01L 51/0008 (20130101) H01L 51/0011 (20130101) Waveguides; Resonators, Lines, or Other Devices of the Waveguide Type H01P 11/008 (20130101)
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09448798 — Silent store detection and recording in memory storage

US 09448798	Bose et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Pradip Bose (Yorktown Heights, New York); Chen-Yong Cher (Port Chester, New York); Ravi Nair (Briarcliff Manor, New York)
ABSTRACT	An aspect includes receiving a write request that includes a memory address and write data. Stored data is read from a memory location at the memory address. Based on determining that the memory location was not previously modified, the stored data is compared to the write data. Based on the stored data matching the write data, the write request is completed without writing the write data to the memory and a corresponding silent store bit, in a silent store bitmap is set. Based on the stored data not matching the write data, the write data is written to the memory location, the silent store bit is reset and a corresponding modified bit is set. At least one of an application and an operating system is provided access to the silent store bitmap.
FILED	Thursday, March 31, 2016
APPL NO	15/086974
ART UNIT	2139 — Memory Access and Control
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/3863 (20130101) G06F 9/30043 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09448803 — System and method for hardware scheduling of conditional barriers and impatient barriers

US 09448803	Lindholm et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	NVIDIA Corporation (Santa Clara, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	NVIDIA Corporation (Santa Clara, California)
INVENTOR(S)	John Erik Lindholm (Saratoga, California); Tero Tapani Karras (Helsinki, Finland); Timo Oskari Aila (Tuusula, Finland); Samuli Matias Laine (Vantaa, Finland)
ABSTRACT	A method and a system are provided for hardware scheduling of barrier instructions. Execution of a plurality of threads to process instructions of a program that includes a barrier instruction is initiated, and when each thread reaches the barrier instruction during execution of program, it is determined whether the thread participates in the barrier instruction. The threads that participate in the barrier instruction are then serially executed to process one or more instructions of the program that follow the barrier instruction. A method and system are also provided for impatient scheduling of barrier instructions. When a portion of the threads that is greater than a minimum number of threads and less than all of the threads in the plurality of threads reaches the barrier instruction each of the threads in the portion is serially executed to process one or more instructions of the program that follow the barrier instruction.
FILED	Monday, March 11, 2013
APPL NO	13/794578
ART UNIT	2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/38 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 9/522 (20130101) G06F 9/3834 (20130101) G06F 9/3851 (20130101) G06F 9/4881 (20130101) G06F 9/30072 (20130101) G06F 9/30087 (20130101)
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09448933 — Using redundant transactions to verify the correctness of program code execution

US 09448933	Gurumurthi et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (LLNS) at Livermore, CA
APPLICANT(S)	Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. (Sunnyvale, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Sudhanva Gurumurthi (Watertown, Massachusetts); Vilas Sridharan (Brookline, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	In the described embodiments, a processor core (e.g., a GPU core) receives a section of program code to be executed in a transaction from another entity in a computing device. The processor core sends the section of program code to one or more compute units in the processor core to be executed in a first transaction and concurrently executed in a second transaction, thereby creating a “redundant transaction pair.” When the first transaction and the second transaction are completed, the processor core compares a read-set of the first transaction to a read-set of the second transaction and compares a write-set of the first transaction to a write-set of the second transaction. When the read-sets and the write-sets match and no transactional error condition has occurred, the processor core allows results from the first transaction to be committed to an architectural state of the computing device.
FILED	Thursday, August 29, 2013
APPL NO	14/013252
ART UNIT	2132 — Memory Access and Control
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 12/0811 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09448940 — Multiple core computer processor with globally-accessible local memories

US 09448940	Shalf et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by University of California (UC BERKELEY) at Berkeley, CA
APPLICANT(S)	THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	John Shalf (Oakland, California); David Donofrio (San Francisco, California); Leonid Oliker (San Francisco, California)
ABSTRACT	A multi-core computer processor including a plurality of processor cores interconnected in a Network-on-Chip (NoC) architecture, a plurality of caches, each of the plurality of caches being associated with one and only one of the plurality of processor cores, and a plurality of memories, each of the plurality of memories being associated with a different set of at least one of the plurality of processor cores and each of the plurality of memories being configured to be visible in a global memory address space such that the plurality of memories are visible to two or more of the plurality of processor cores.
FILED	Friday, October 26, 2012
APPL NO	14/354257
ART UNIT	2184 — Computer Architecture and I/O
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 12/0811 (20130101) G06F 12/0813 (20130101) G06F 12/0815 (20130101) G06F 12/0833 (20130101) G06F 12/0842 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 2212/621 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 60/1225 (20130101)
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09449726 — ¹⁰⁰Mo compounds as accelerator targets for production of ^99mTc

US 09449726	Richards et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC)
APPLICANT(S)	Washington University (Saint Louis, Missouri)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Washington University (Saint Louis, Missouri)
INVENTOR(S)	Vernal Richards (Saint Louis, Missouri); Suzanne Lapi (Saint Louis, Missouri)
ABSTRACT	Methods of synthesizing ¹⁰⁰Mo₂C and ^99mTcO₄⁻ are disclosed. Methods of ¹⁰⁰Mo₂C generation involve thermally carburizing ¹⁰⁰MoO₃. Methods of ^99mTcO₄generation involve proton bombardment of ¹⁰⁰Mo₂C in a cyclotron. Yields of ^99mTcO₄can be increased by sintering ¹⁰⁰Mo₂C prior to bombardment. The methods also include recycling of ¹⁰⁰Mo₂C to form ¹⁰⁰MoO₃. SPECT images obtained using ^99mTcO₄generated by the disclosed methods are also presented.
FILED	Monday, June 02, 2014
APPL NO	14/293599
ART UNIT	1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 51/0489 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/34 (20130101) Conversion of Chemical Elements; Radioactive Sources G21G 1/001 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G21G 2001/0036 (20130101) G21G 2001/0042 (20130101)
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09449731 — Modular supramolecular approach for co-crystallization of donors and acceptors into ordered networks

US 09449731	Stupp et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)	Samuel I. Stupp (Chicago, Illinois); J. Fraser Stoddart (Evanston, Illinois); Alex K. Shveyd (Camillus, New York); Alok S. Tayi (Niskayuna, New York); Andrew C. H. Sue (Arcadia, California); Ashwin Narayanan (Chicago, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Samuel I. Stupp (Chicago, Illinois); J. Fraser Stoddart (Evanston, Illinois); Alex K. Shveyd (Camillus, New York); Alok S. Tayi (Niskayuna, New York); Andrew C. H. Sue (Arcadia, California); Ashwin Narayanan (Chicago, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	Organic charge-transfer (CT) co-crystals in a mixed stack system are disclosed, wherein a donor molecule (D) and an acceptor molecule (A) occupy alternating positions (DADADA) along the CT axis. A platform is provided which amplifies the molecular recognition of donors and acceptors and produces co-crystals at ambient conditions, wherein the platform comprises (i) a molecular design of the first constituent (α-complement), (ii) a molecular design of the second compound (β-complement), and (iii) a solvent system that promotes co-crystallization.
FILED	Monday, May 21, 2012
APPL NO	13/476974
ART UNIT	1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 487/14 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/121 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09449787 — Liquid flow cells having graphene on nitride for microscopy

US 09449787	Adiga et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by University of California (UC BERKELEY) at Berkeley, CA National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC)
APPLICANT(S)	Vivekananda P. Adiga (Albany, California); Gabriel Dunn (Berkeley, California); Alexander K. Zettl (Kensington, California); A. Paul Alivisatos (Berkeley, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Vivekananda P. Adiga (Albany, California); Gabriel Dunn (Berkeley, California); Alexander K. Zettl (Kensington, California); A. Paul Alivisatos (Berkeley, California)
ABSTRACT	This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus related to liquid flow cells for microscopy. In one aspect, a device includes a substrate having a first and a second oxide layer disposed on surfaces of the substrate. A first and a second nitride layer are disposed on the first and second oxide layers, respectively. A cavity is defined in the first oxide layer, the first nitride layer, and the substrate, with the cavity including a third nitride layer disposed on walls of the substrate and the second oxide layer that define the cavity. A channel is defined in the second oxide layer. An inlet port and an outlet port are defined in the second nitride layer and in fluid communication with the channel. A plurality of viewports is defined in the second nitride layer. A first graphene sheet is disposed on the second nitride layer covering the plurality of viewports.
FILED	Tuesday, August 04, 2015
APPL NO	14/817551
ART UNIT	1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 18/08 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 1/12 (20130101) G02B 21/16 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 37/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 37/26 (20130101) H01J 2237/2003 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/1606 (20130101) H01L 29/66045 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49002 (20150115)
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09449851 — Local doping of two-dimensional materials

US 09449851	Wong et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG) Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by University of California (UC BERKELEY) at Berkeley, CA National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI)
APPLICANT(S)	Dillon Wong (Alameda, California); Jairo Velasco, Jr. (Berkeley, California); Long Ju (Berkeley, California); Salman Kahn (Tracy, California); Juwon Lee (Berkeley, California); Chad E. Germany (Richmond, California); Alexander K. Zettl (Kensington, California); Feng Wang (Fremont, California); Michael F. Crommie (Oakland, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Dillon Wong (Alameda, California); Jairo Velasco, Jr. (Berkeley, California); Long Ju (Berkeley, California); Salman Kahn (Tracy, California); Juwon Lee (Berkeley, California); Chad E. Germany (Richmond, California); Alexander K. Zettl (Kensington, California); Feng Wang (Fremont, California); Michael F. Crommie (Oakland, California)
ABSTRACT	This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus related to locally doping two-dimensional (2D) materials. In one aspect, an assembly including a substrate, a first insulator disposed on the substrate, a second insulator disposed on the first insulator, and a 2D material disposed on the second insulator is formed. A first voltage is applied between the 2D material and the substrate. With the first voltage applied between the 2D material and the substrate, a second voltage is applied between the 2D material and a probe positioned proximate the 2D material. The second voltage between the 2D material and the probe is removed. The first voltage between the 2D material and the substrate is removed. A portion of the 2D material proximate the probe when the second voltage was applied has a different electron density compared to a remainder of the 2D material.
FILED	Monday, August 24, 2015
APPL NO	14/833407
ART UNIT	2819 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/326 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/479 (20130101) H01L 21/2254 (20130101) H01L 21/2256 (20130101) H01L 21/02381 (20130101) H01L 21/02488 (20130101) H01L 21/02502 (20130101) H01L 21/02527 (20130101) H01L 21/02568 (20130101) H01L 29/1606 (20130101)
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09450043 — Methods and devices for fabricating and assembling printable semiconductor elements

US 09450043	Nuzzo et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Materials Sciences and Engineering Division (MSE)
APPLICANT(S)	THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Ralph G. Nuzzo (Champaign, Illinois); John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Etienne Menard (Voglans, France); Keon Jae Lee (Daejeon, South Korea); Dahl-Young Khang (Urbana, Illinois); Yugang Sun (Champaign, Illinois); Matthew Meitl (Durham, North Carolina); Zhengtao Zhu (Rapid City, South Dakota)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides methods and devices for fabricating printable semiconductor elements and assembling printable semiconductor elements onto substrate surfaces. Methods, devices and device components of the present invention are capable of generating a wide range of flexible electronic and optoelectronic devices and arrays of devices on substrates comprising polymeric materials. The present invention also provides stretchable semiconductor structures and stretchable electronic devices capable of good performance in stretched configurations.
FILED	Tuesday, January 14, 2014
APPL NO	14/155010
ART UNIT	2829 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 2201/0185 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/308 (20130101) H01L 21/02521 (20130101) H01L 21/02603 (20130101) H01L 21/02628 (20130101) H01L 21/6835 (20130101) H01L 24/03 (20130101) H01L 24/05 (20130101) H01L 24/08 (20130101) H01L 24/29 (20130101) H01L 24/32 (20130101) H01L 24/80 (20130101) H01L 24/83 (20130101) H01L 24/94 (20130101) H01L 24/97 (20130101) H01L 27/1285 (20130101) H01L 27/1292 (20130101) H01L 29/04 (20130101) H01L 29/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/12 (20130101) H01L 29/068 (20130101) H01L 29/0665 (20130101) H01L 29/0673 (20130101) H01L 29/0676 (20130101) H01L 29/78603 (20130101) H01L 29/78681 (20130101) H01L 29/78696 (20130101) H01L 31/0392 (20130101) H01L 31/1804 (20130101) H01L 31/1864 (20130101) H01L 31/1896 (20130101) H01L 31/03926 (20130101) H01L 2221/68368 (20130101) H01L 2221/68381 (20130101) H01L 2224/03 (20130101) H01L 2224/03 (20130101) H01L 2224/80 (20130101) H01L 2224/83 (20130101) H01L 2224/94 (20130101) H01L 2224/94 (20130101) H01L 2224/95 (20130101) H01L 2224/97 (20130101) H01L 2224/97 (20130101) H01L 2224/97 (20130101) H01L 2224/0332 (20130101) H01L 2224/0332 (20130101) H01L 2224/0345 (20130101) H01L 2224/0362 (20130101) H01L 2224/2919 (20130101) H01L 2224/2919 (20130101) H01L 2224/03614 (20130101) H01L 2224/05073 (20130101) H01L 2224/05073 (20130101) H01L 2224/05082 (20130101) H01L 2224/05082 (20130101) H01L 2224/05124 (20130101) H01L 2224/05124 (20130101) H01L 2224/05144 (20130101) H01L 2224/05144 (20130101) H01L 2224/05144 (20130101) H01L 2224/05155 (20130101) H01L 2224/05155 (20130101) H01L 2224/05155 (20130101) H01L 2224/05166 (20130101) H01L 2224/05166 (20130101) H01L 2224/05166 (20130101) H01L 2224/05552 (20130101) H01L 2224/05552 (20130101) H01L 2224/05553 (20130101) H01L 2224/05553 (20130101) H01L 2224/05554 (20130101) H01L 2224/05554 (20130101) H01L 2224/05555 (20130101) H01L 2224/05555 (20130101) H01L 2224/05644 (20130101) H01L 2224/05644 (20130101) H01L 2224/05644 (20130101) H01L 2224/05644 (20130101) H01L 2224/05666 (20130101) H01L 2224/05666 (20130101) H01L 2224/08225 (20130101) H01L 2224/8385 (20130101) H01L 2224/9202 (20130101) H01L 2224/9202 (20130101) H01L 2224/32225 (20130101) H01L 2224/32225 (20130101) H01L 2224/80006 (20130101) H01L 2224/80121 (20130101) H01L 2224/80121 (20130101) H01L 2224/80862 (20130101) H01L 2224/80895 (20130101) H01L 2224/83005 (20130101) H01L 2224/83121 (20130101) H01L 2224/83121 (20130101) H01L 2224/83192 (20130101) H01L 2224/83192 (20130101) H01L 2224/83193 (20130101) H01L 2224/83862 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00012 (20130101) H01L 2924/00012 (20130101) H01L 2924/00012 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/0665 (20130101) H01L 2924/01032 (20130101) H01L 2924/01032 (20130101) H01L 2924/1305 (20130101) H01L 2924/1305 (20130101) H01L 2924/1306 (20130101) H01L 2924/1306 (20130101) H01L 2924/1461 (20130101) H01L 2924/1461 (20130101) H01L 2924/1579 (20130101) H01L 2924/10253 (20130101) H01L 2924/10329 (20130101) H01L 2924/12032 (20130101) H01L 2924/12032 (20130101) H01L 2924/12036 (20130101) H01L 2924/12036 (20130101) H01L 2924/12041 (20130101) H01L 2924/12042 (20130101) H01L 2924/12042 (20130101) H01L 2924/12043 (20130101) H01L 2924/12043 (20130101) H01L 2924/12044 (20130101) H01L 2924/12044 (20130101) H01L 2924/13091 (20130101) H01L 2924/13091 (20130101) H01L 2924/15159 (20130101) H01L 2924/15162 (20130101) H01L 2924/15788 (20130101) H01L 2924/15788 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/547 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/521 (20151101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/707 (20130101) Y10S 977/724 (20130101)
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09450130 — Frame-mounted wire management device

US 09450130	Grushkowitz et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Tyler Grushkowitz (Hayward, California); Kevin Fischer (Orinda, California); Matthew Danning (Oakland, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Tyler Grushkowitz (Hayward, California); Kevin Fischer (Orinda, California); Matthew Danning (Oakland, California)
ABSTRACT	A wire management device is disclosed. The device comprises a clip comprising an upper planar member and a lower planar member, each planar member having an inner and outer surface, wherein the inner surface of the upper planar member includes a post extending toward the inner surface of the lower planar member, a stem extending from the outer surface of the lower planar member, the stem including two outwardly-extending flanges, each of the first and second outwardly-extending flanges including an edge portion extending toward the outer surface of the lower planar member, and a transverse passage extending along the outer surface of the lower planar member, the transverse passage extending across the stem, wherein the stem has a recessed portion along the transverse passage.
FILED	Wednesday, March 30, 2011
APPL NO	13/076078
ART UNIT	1758 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Pipes; Joints or Fittings for Pipes; Supports for Pipes, Cables or Protective Tubing; Means for Thermal Insulation in General F16L 3/23 (20130101) F16L 3/24 (20130101) Producing or Use of Heat Not Otherwise Provided For F24J 2/5211 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/05 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Installation of Electric Cables or Lines, or of Combined Optical and Electric Cables or Lines H02G 3/32 (20130101) Generation of Electric Power by Conversion of Infra-red Radiation, Visible Light or Ultraviolet Light, e.g Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules H02S 30/10 (20141201) H02S 40/36 (20141201) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/50 (20130101)
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09450224 — Sodium iron(II)-hexacyanoferrate(II) battery electrode and synthesis method

US 09450224	Lu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
APPLICANT(S)	Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. (Camas, Washington)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. (Camas, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Yuhao Lu (Vancouver, Washington); Sean Andrew Vail (Vancouver, Washington)
ABSTRACT	A method is provided for synthesizing sodium iron(II)-hexacyanoferrate(II). A Fe(CN)₆material is mixed with the first solution and either an anti-oxidant or a reducing agent. The Fe(CN)₆material may be either ferrocyanide ([Fe(CN)₆]⁴⁻) or ferricyanide ([Fe(CN)₆]³⁻). As a result, sodium iron(II)-hexacyanoferrate(II) (Na_1+XFe[Fe(CN)₆]_Z.MH₂O is formed, where X is less than or equal to 1, and where M is in a range between 0 and 7. In one aspect, the first solution including includes A ions, such as alkali metal ions, alkaline earth metal ions, or combinations thereof, resulting in the formation of Na_1+XA_YFe[Fe(CN)₆]_Z.MH₂O, where Y is less than or equal to 1. Also provided are a Na_1+XFe[Fe(CN)₆]_Z.MH₂O battery and Na_1+XFe[Fe(CN)₆]_Z.MH₂O battery electrode.
FILED	Wednesday, October 30, 2013
APPL NO	14/067038
ART UNIT	1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 17/02 (20130101) C01B 19/02 (20130101) C01B 25/003 (20130101) C01B 31/00 (20130101) C01B 33/021 (20130101) Ammonia; Cyanogen; Compounds Thereof C01C 3/12 (20130101) Compounds of Alkali Metals, i.e Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, Caesium, or Francium C01D 1/02 (20130101) C01D 15/02 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 2/1653 (20130101) H01M 2/1686 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/04 (20130101) H01M 4/38 (20130101) H01M 4/049 (20130101) H01M 4/56 (20130101) H01M 4/58 (20130101) H01M 4/131 (20130101) H01M 4/133 (20130101) H01M 4/134 (20130101) H01M 4/136 (20130101) H01M 4/381 (20130101) H01M 4/382 (20130101) H01M 4/387 (20130101) H01M 4/0404 (20130101) H01M 4/0416 (20130101) H01M 4/0452 (20130101) H01M 4/0471 (20130101) H01M 4/485 (20130101) H01M 4/0495 (20130101) H01M 4/0497 (20130101) H01M 4/505 (20130101) H01M 4/587 (20130101) H01M 4/628 (20130101) H01M 4/1391 (20130101) H01M 4/1395 (20130101) H01M 4/1397 (20130101) H01M 4/5825 (20130101) H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 10/054 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) H01M 10/0565 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 7/0042 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49108 (20150115)
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09450272 — Small domain-size multiblock copolymer electrolytes

US 09450272	Pistorino et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Electricity (DOE-OE)
APPLICANT(S)	Jonathan Pistorino (Oakland, California); Hany Basam Eitouni (Oakland, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Seeo, Inc. (Hayward, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Jonathan Pistorino (Oakland, California); Hany Basam Eitouni (Oakland, California)
ABSTRACT	New block polymer electrolytes have been developed which have higher conductivities than previously reported for other block copolymer electrolytes. The new materials are constructed of multiple blocks (>5) of relatively low domain size. The small domain size provides greater protection against formation of dendrites during cycling against lithium in an electrochemical cell, while the large total molecular weight insures poor long range alignment, which leads to higher conductivity. In addition to higher conductivity, these materials can be more easily synthesized because of reduced requirements on the purity level of the reagents.
FILED	Sunday, April 14, 2013
APPL NO	13/862442
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 10/052 (20130101) H01M 10/0565 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101)
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09450373 — Apparatus and method for enabling quantum-defect-limited conversion efficiency in cladding-pumped Raman fiber lasers

US 09450373	Heebner et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (LLNS) at Livermore, CA
APPLICANT(S)	John E. Heebner (Livermore, California); Arun K. Sridharan (Fremont, California); Jay Walter Dawson (Livermore, California); Michael J. Messerly (Danville, California); Paul H. Pax (Hayward, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California)
INVENTOR(S)	John E. Heebner (Livermore, California); Arun K. Sridharan (Fremont, California); Jay Walter Dawson (Livermore, California); Michael J. Messerly (Danville, California); Paul H. Pax (Hayward, California)
ABSTRACT	Cladding-pumped Raman fiber lasers and amplifiers provide high-efficiency conversion efficiency at high brightness enhancement. Differential loss is applied to both single-pass configurations appropriate for pulsed amplification and laser oscillator configurations applied to high average power cw source generation.
FILED	Friday, March 05, 2010
APPL NO	12/718179
ART UNIT	2883 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/067 (20130101) H01S 3/302 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 3/0675 (20130101) H01S 3/06708 (20130101) H01S 3/094007 (20130101)
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09450550 — Nanoscale electromechanical parametric amplifier

US 09450550	Aleman et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by University of California (UC BERKELEY) at Berkeley, CA
APPLICANT(S)	Benjamin Jose Aleman (Berkeley, California); Alexander Zettl (Kensington, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Benjamin Jose Aleman (Berkeley, California); Alexander Zettl (Kensington, California)
ABSTRACT	This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus related to a parametric amplifier. In one aspect, a device includes an electron source electrode, a counter electrode, and a pumping electrode. The electron source electrode may include a conductive base and a flexible conductor. The flexible conductor may have a first end and a second end, with the second end of the flexible conductor being coupled to the conductive base. A cross-sectional dimension of the flexible conductor may be less than about 100 nanometers. The counter electrode may be disposed proximate the first end of the flexible conductor and spaced a first distance from the first end of the flexible conductor. The pumping electrode may be disposed proximate a length of the flexible conductor and spaced a second distance from the flexible conductor.
FILED	Friday, July 19, 2013
APPL NO	13/946908
ART UNIT	2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Amplifiers H03F 7/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03F 7/04 (20130101)
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

09445779 — Infrasonic stethoscope for monitoring physiological processes

US 09445779	Shams et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia); Elke H. Zuckerwar (Williamsburg, Virginia)
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)	Qamar A. Shams (Yorktown, Virginia); Allan J. Zuckerwar (Williamsburg, Virginia); Albert L. Dimarcantonio (Williamsburg, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	An infrasonic stethoscope for monitoring physiological processes of a patient includes a microphone capable of detecting acoustic signals in the audible frequency bandwidth and in the infrasonic bandwidth (0.03 to 1000 Hertz), a body coupler attached to the body at a first opening in the microphone, a flexible tube attached to the body at a second opening in the microphone, and an earpiece attached to the flexible tube. The body coupler is capable of engagement with a patient to transmit sounds from the person, to the microphone and then to the earpiece.
FILED	Monday, March 16, 2015
APPL NO	14/658584
ART UNIT	2688 — Dynamic Storage Systems; Mechanical parts of Disk Drives
CURRENT CPC	Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 7/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 8/0883 (20130101)
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09446365 — Sabatier process and apparatus for controlling exothermic reaction

US 09446365	Junaedi et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC)
APPLICANT(S)	Precision Combustion, Inc. (North Haven, Connecticut)
ASSIGNEE(S)	PRECISION COMBUSTION, INC. (North Haven, Connecticut)
INVENTOR(S)	Christian Junaedi (Cheshire, Connecticut); Kyle Hawley (Woodbury, Connecticut); Subir Roychoudhury (Madison, Connecticut)
ABSTRACT	A Sabatier process involving contacting carbon dioxide and hydrogen in a first reaction zone with a first catalyst bed at a temperature greater than a first designated temperature; feeding the effluent from the first reaction zone into a second reaction zone, and contacting the effluent with a second catalyst bed at a temperature equal to or less than a second designated temperature, so as to produce a product stream comprising water and methane. The first and second catalyst beds each individually comprise an ultra-short-channel-length metal substrate. An apparatus for controlling temperature in an exothermic reaction, such as the Sabatier reaction, is disclosed.
FILED	Friday, February 28, 2014
APPL NO	14/192923
ART UNIT	1774 — 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 8/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 19/2495 (20130101) B01J 2219/00085 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 1/12 (20130101) C07C 1/12 (20130101) C07C 9/04 (20130101) C07C 2521/04 (20130101) C07C 2521/06 (20130101) C07C 2521/08 (20130101) C07C 2521/10 (20130101) C07C 2523/42 (20130101) C07C 2523/44 (20130101) C07C 2523/46 (20130101) C07C 2523/75 (20130101) C07C 2523/745 (20130101) C07C 2523/755 (20130101)
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09446836 — Method for a leading edge slat on a wing of an aircraft

US 09446836	Pitt et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center (LaRC)
APPLICANT(S)	The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	THE BOEING COMPANY (Chicago, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Dale M. Pitt (Affton, Missouri); Nicholas Stephen Eckstein (St. Louis, Missouri)
ABSTRACT	A method for managing a flight control surface system. A leading edge device is moved on a leading edge from an undeployed position to a deployed position. The leading edge device has an outer surface, an inner surface, and a deformable fairing attached to the leading edge device such that the deformable fairing covers at least a portion of the inner surface. The deformable fairing changes from a deformed shape to an original shape when the leading edge device is moved to the deployed position. The leading edge device is then moved from the deployed position to the undeployed position, wherein the deformable fairing changes from the original shape to the deformed shape.
FILED	Wednesday, July 31, 2013
APPL NO	13/955126
ART UNIT	3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 7/00 (20130101) B64C 9/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B64C 9/24 (20130101)
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09446851 — Landing hazard avoidance display

US 09446851	Abernathy et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC)
APPLICANT(S)	Rapid Imaging Software, Inc. (Albuquerque, New Mexico); NASA (Houston, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Rapid Imaging Software, Inc. (Albuquerque, New Mexico); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Houston, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael Franklin Abernathy (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Robert L. Hirsh (Houston, Texas)
ABSTRACT	Landing hazard avoidance displays can provide rapidly understood visual indications of where it is safe to land a vehicle and where it is unsafe to land a vehicle. Color coded maps can indicate zones in two dimensions relative to the vehicles position where it is safe to land. The map can be simply green (safe) and red (unsafe) areas with an indication of scale or can be a color coding of another map such as a surface map. The color coding can be determined in real time based on topological measurements and safety criteria to thereby adapt to dynamic, unknown, or partially known environments.
FILED	Tuesday, November 18, 2014
APPL NO	14/546723
ART UNIT	2684 — Telemetry and Code Generation Vehicles and System Alarms
CURRENT CPC	Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 43/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09446953 — Fabrication of metallic hollow nanoparticles

US 09446953	Kim et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)	Jae-Woo Kim (Newport News, Virginia); Sang H. Choi, Sr. (Poquoson, Virginia); Peter T. Lillehei (Yorktown, Virginia); Sang-Hyon Chu (Newport News, Virginia); Yeonjoon Park (Yorktown, Virginia); Glen C. King (Williamsburg, Virginia); James R. Elliott (Yorktown, Virginia)
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)	Jae-Woo Kim (Newport News, Virginia); Sang H. Choi, Sr. (Poquoson, Virginia); Peter T. Lillehei (Yorktown, Virginia); Sang-Hyon Chu (Newport News, Virginia); Yeonjoon Park (Yorktown, Virginia); Glen C. King (Williamsburg, Virginia); James R. Elliott (Yorktown, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	Metal and semiconductor nanoshells, particularly transition metal nanoshells, are fabricated using dendrimer molecules. Metallic colloids, metallic ions or semiconductors are attached to amine groups on the dendrimer surface in stabilized solution for the surface seeding method and the surface seedless method, respectively. Subsequently, the process is repeated with additional metallic ions or semiconductor, a stabilizer, and NaBH₄to increase the wall thickness of the metallic or semiconductor lining on the dendrimer surface. Metallic or semiconductor ions are automatically reduced on the metallic or semiconductor nanoparticles causing the formation of hollow metallic or semiconductor nanoparticles. The void size of the formed hollow nanoparticles depends on the dendrimer generation. The thickness of the metallic or semiconductor thin film around the dendrimer depends on the repetition times and the size of initial metallic or semiconductor seeds.
FILED	Thursday, December 04, 2008
APPL NO	12/315519
ART UNIT	1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 13/02 (20130101) Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 1/0018 (20130101) B22F 9/24 (20130101) B22F 2001/0029 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 19/007 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/02428 (20130101)
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09447260 — Methods for preparing nanoparticle-containing thermoplastic composite laminates

US 09447260	Gruber et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)	Mark B. Gruber (Landenberg, Pennsylvania); Brian J. Jensen (Williamsburg, Virginia); Roberto J. Cano (Yorktown, Virginia)
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)	Mark B. Gruber (Landenberg, Pennsylvania); Brian J. Jensen (Williamsburg, Virginia); Roberto J. Cano (Yorktown, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	High quality thermoplastic composites and composite laminates containing nanoparticles and/or nanofibers, and methods of producing such composites and laminates are disclosed. The composites comprise a thermoplastic polymer and a plurality of nanoparticles, and may include a fibrous structural reinforcement. The composite laminates are formed from a plurality of nanoparticle-containing composite layers and may be fused to one another via an automated process.
FILED	Friday, December 18, 2009
APPL NO	12/641603
ART UNIT	1741 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding
CURRENT CPC	Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 27/08 (20130101) B32B 27/20 (20130101) B32B 2250/05 (20130101) B32B 2262/06 (20130101) B32B 2262/08 (20130101) B32B 2262/14 (20130101) B32B 2262/101 (20130101) B32B 2262/106 (20130101) B32B 2605/00 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 2650/40 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 5/005 (20130101) C08J 2371/00 (20130101) C08J 2379/08 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 3/346 (20130101) C08K 7/06 (20130101) C08K 7/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08K 2201/011 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 65/00 (20130101) C08L 71/00 (20130101) C08L 71/00 (20130101) C08L 79/08 (20130101) C08L 2666/20 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 156/10 (20150115) Y10T 428/25 (20150115)
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09447731 — Supersonic elliptical ramp inlet

US 09447731	Adamson et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)	Eric E. Adamson (Newcastle, Washington); Lawrence E. Fink (Renton, Washington); Spencer R. Fugal (Renton, Washington)
ASSIGNEE(S)	THE BOEING COMPANY (Chicago, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Eric E. Adamson (Newcastle, Washington); Lawrence E. Fink (Renton, Washington); Spencer R. Fugal (Renton, Washington)
ABSTRACT	A supersonic inlet includes a supersonic section including a cowl which is at least partially elliptical, a ramp disposed within the cowl, and a flow inlet disposed between the cowl and the ramp. The ramp may also be at least partially elliptical.
FILED	Wednesday, August 15, 2012
APPL NO	13/586247
ART UNIT	3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 30/00 (20130101) Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 33/02 (20130101) B64D 2033/026 (20130101) Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 7/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Jet-propulsion Plants F02K 7/10 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2250/14 (20130101)
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09449723 — Nanostructure neutron converter layer development

US 09449723	Park et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (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)	Cheol Park (Yorktown, Virginia); Godfrey Sauti (Hampton, Virginia); Jin Ho Kang (Newport News, Virginia); Sharon E. Lowther (Hampton, Virginia); Sheila A. Thibeault (Hampton, Virginia); Robert G. Bryant (Williamsburg, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	Methods for making a neutron converter layer are provided. The various embodiment methods enable the formation of a single layer neutron converter material. The single layer neutron converter material formed according to the various embodiments may have a high neutron absorption cross section, tailored resistivity providing a good electric field penetration with submicron particles, and a high secondary electron emission coefficient. In an embodiment method a neutron converter layer may be formed by sequential supercritical fluid metallization of a porous nanostructure aerogel or polyimide film. In another embodiment method a neutron converter layer may be formed by simultaneous supercritical fluid metallization of a porous nanostructure aerogel or polyimide film. In a further embodiment method a neutron converter layer may be formed by in-situ metalized aerogel nanostructure development.
FILED	Monday, March 10, 2014
APPL NO	14/202289
ART UNIT	1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding
CURRENT CPC	Protection Against X-radiation, Gamma Radiation, Corpuscular Radiation or Particle Bombardment; Treating Radioactively Contaminated Material; Decontamination Arrangements Therefor G21F 1/08 (20130101) G21F 1/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G21F 1/026 (20130101) G21F 3/00 (20130101)
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09449818 — Double sided Si(Ge)/Sapphire/III-nitride hybrid structure

US 09449818	Park et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (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)	Yeonjoon Park (Yorktown, Virginia); Sang Hyouk Choi (Poquoson, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	One aspect of the present invention is a double sided hybrid crystal structure including a trigonal Sapphire wafer containing a (0001) C-plane and having front and rear sides. The Sapphire wafer is substantially transparent to light in the visible and infrared spectra, and also provides insulation with respect to electromagnetic radio frequency noise. A layer of crystalline Si material having a cubic diamond structure aligned with the cubic <111> direction on the (0001) C-plane and strained as rhombohedron to thereby enable continuous integration of a selected (SiGe) device onto the rear side of the Sapphire wafer. The double sided hybrid crystal structure further includes an integrated III-Nitride crystalline layer on the front side of the Sapphire wafer that enables continuous integration of a selected III-Nitride device on the front side of the Sapphire wafer.
FILED	Tuesday, March 11, 2014
APPL NO	14/204535
ART UNIT	2813 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0242 (20130101) H01L 21/0254 (20130101) H01L 21/02433 (20130101) H01L 21/02532 (20130101) H01L 21/02554 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 25/167 (20130101) H01L 27/15 (20130101) H01L 29/267 (20130101) H01L 31/028 (20130101) H01L 31/125 (20130101) H01L 31/0336 (20130101) H01L 31/1804 (20130101) H01L 31/1812 (20130101) H01L 31/1848 (20130101) H01L 31/1852 (20130101) H01L 31/03682 (20130101) H01L 33/007 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/544 (20130101) Y02E 10/546 (20130101) Y02E 10/547 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/521 (20151101)
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09450482 — Fault recovery for multi-phase power converters

US 09450482	Drummond et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC)
APPLICANT(S)	Geoffrey N. Drummond (Fort Collins, Colorado); Vladislav V. Shilo (Fort Collins, Colorado)
ASSIGNEE(S)	COLORADO POWER ELECTRONICS, INC. (Fort Collins, Colorado)
INVENTOR(S)	Geoffrey N. Drummond (Fort Collins, Colorado); Vladislav V. Shilo (Fort Collins, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	A fault recovery method for multi-phase power converters enables delivery of reduced output power of as much as 66% of normal power in the event of a shorted power switch component. The need for redundant power converters in conventional multi-phase space power systems is reduced, if not eliminated. Fault recovery includes 1) detecting a shorted power switch fault; 2) providing short circuit current protection; 3) providing isolation of the shorted power switch; and 4) reconfiguring the remaining undamaged power switches.
FILED	Friday, September 12, 2014
APPL NO	14/121500
ART UNIT	2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Apparatus for Conversion Between AC and AC, Between AC and DC, or Between DC and DC, and for Use With Mains or Similar Power Supply Systems; Conversion of DC or AC Input Power into Surge Output Power; Control or Regulation Thereof H02M 1/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H02M 7/53873 (20130101) H02M 2001/325 (20130101)
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09450747 — Soft decision analyzer and method

US 09450747	Steele et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (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)	Glen F. Steele (Webster, Texas); Chatwin Lansdowne (Houston, Texas); Joan P. Zucha (Pearland, Texas); Adam M. Schlesinger (League City, Texas)
ABSTRACT	A soft decision analyzer system is operable to interconnect soft decision communication equipment and analyze the operation thereof to detect symbol wise alignment between a test data stream and a reference data stream in a variety of operating conditions.
FILED	Tuesday, September 22, 2015
APPL NO	14/861458
ART UNIT	2633 — Digital Communications
CURRENT CPC	Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 1/0047 (20130101) H04L 1/242 (20130101) H04L 7/042 (20130101) H04L 7/0087 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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Small Business Administration (SBA)

09447423 — Regulatory polynucleotides and uses thereof

US 09447423	Elich et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR)
APPLICANT(S)	Tedd D. Elich (Durham, North Carolina); Philip N. Benfey (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Jee W. Jung (Raleigh, North Carolina)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis, Missouri)
INVENTOR(S)	Tedd D. Elich (Durham, North Carolina); Philip N. Benfey (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Jee W. Jung (Raleigh, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of transcribable polynucleotides in plant cells, plant tissues, and plants. Compositions include regulatory polynucleotide molecules capable of providing expression in plant tissues and plants. Methods for expressing polynucleotides in a plant cell, plant tissue, or plants using the regulatory polynucleotide molecules disclosed herein are also provided.
FILED	Thursday, July 07, 2011
APPL NO	13/808510
ART UNIT	1661 — Plants
CURRENT CPC	Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 21/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/63 (20130101) C12N 15/82 (20130101) C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 15/8201 (20130101) C12N 15/8216 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/8241 (20130101)
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09447521 — Method and apparatus for producing large, single-crystals of aluminum nitride

US 09447521	Schowalter et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Commerce (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR) Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)	Crystal IS, Inc. (Green Island, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Crystal IS, Inc. (Green Island, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Leo Schowalter (Latham, New York); Glen A. Slack (Scotia, New York); Juan Carlos Rojo (South Beach, New York); Robert T. Bondokov (Watervliet, New York); Kenneth E. Morgan (Castleton, New York); Joseph A. Smart (Mooresville, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	Bulk single crystals of AlN having a diameter greater than about 25 mm and dislocation densities of about 10,000 cm⁻²or less and high-quality AlN substrates having surfaces of any desired crystallographic orientation fabricated from these bulk crystals.
FILED	Wednesday, October 22, 2014
APPL NO	14/520615
ART UNIT	1785 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material
CURRENT CPC	Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 11/003 (20130101) C30B 23/00 (20130101) C30B 23/025 (20130101) C30B 25/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C30B 25/16 (20130101) C30B 29/403 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/04 (20130101) H01L 29/32 (20130101) H01L 29/0657 (20130101) H01L 29/2003 (20130101) H01L 33/025 (20130101) H01L 33/0075 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/21 (20150115)
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09448072 — System and method for locating, tracking, and/or monitoring the status of personnel and/or assets both indoors and outdoors

US 09448072	Bandyopadhyay et al.
FUNDED BY	National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)	Amrit Bandyopadhyay (Washington, District of Columbia); Daniel Hakim (Silver Spring, Maryland); Benjamin E. Funk (Hanover, Maryland); Eric Asher Kohn (Washington, District of Columbia); Carole A. Teolis (Glenn Dale, Maryland); Gilmer Blankenship (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	TRX Systems, Inc. (Greenbelt, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Amrit Bandyopadhyay (Washington, District of Columbia); Daniel Hakim (Silver Spring, Maryland); Benjamin E. Funk (Hanover, Maryland); Eric Asher Kohn (Washington, District of Columbia); Carole A. Teolis (Glenn Dale, Maryland); Gilmer Blankenship (Washington, District of Columbia)
ABSTRACT	A system and method for locating, tracking, and/or monitoring the status of personnel and/or assets (collectively “trackees”), both indoors and outdoors, is provided. Tracking data obtained from any number of sources utilizing any number of tracking methods (e.g., inertial navigation and signal-based methods) may be provided as input to a mapping application. The mapping application may generate position estimates for trackees using a suite of mapping tools to make corrections to the tracking data. The mapping application may further use information from building data, when available, to enhance position estimates. Indoor tracking methods including, for example, sensor fusion methods, map matching methods, and map building methods may be implemented to take tracking data from one or more trackees and compute a more accurate tracking estimate for each trackee. Outdoor tracking methods may be implemented to enhance outdoor tracking data by combining tracking estimates such as inertial tracks with magnetic and/or compass data if and when available, and with GPS, if and when available.
FILED	Wednesday, August 06, 2008
APPL NO	12/187067
ART UNIT	3664 — 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 17/38 (20130101) G01C 21/16 (20130101) G01C 21/165 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01C 21/206 (20130101) G01C 21/3438 (20130101) G01C 21/3626 (20130101) Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 5/0294 (20130101) G01S 19/39 (20130101) G01S 19/48 (20130101) G01S 19/49 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 4/028 (20130101) H04W 4/043 (20130101) H04W 64/00 (20130101)
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09448338 — Passively athermalized infrared imaging system and method of manufacturing same

US 09448338	Kubala et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)	Kenneth Scott Kubala (Boulder, Colorado); Alan E. Baron (Boulder, Colorado); Robert Matthew Bates (Erie, Colorado)
ASSIGNEE(S)	FiveFocal LLC (Boulder, Colorado)
INVENTOR(S)	Kenneth Scott Kubala (Boulder, Colorado); Alan E. Baron (Boulder, Colorado); Robert Matthew Bates (Erie, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	In an embodiment, a method of aligning elements in a manufacturing process includes placing a middle element onto a base element, the base element forming first alignment features, the middle element forming apertures therethrough corresponding to the first alignment features. The method also includes placing second alignment features of an upper element onto the first alignment features such that the first and second alignment features cooperate, through the apertures, to align the upper element with the base element. An infrared lens assembly includes a lens formed of an infrared transmitting material that is disposed within a carrier of a base material, the lens being molded within the carrier with at least one feature that secures the lens to the carrier.
FILED	Friday, January 20, 2012
APPL NO	13/355474
ART UNIT	2872 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 3/0062 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 7/003 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49826 (20150115) Y10T 156/1052 (20150115)
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09450053 — Photonic integrated circuits based on quantum cascade structures

US 09450053	Goyal et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD R&E) MIT Lincoln Laboratory (MITLL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at Lexington, MA Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR)
APPLICANT(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Pendar Technologies, LLC (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Pendar Technologies, LLC (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Anish K. Goyal (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Laurent Diehl (Somerville, Massachusetts); Christian Pfluegl (Medford, Massachusetts); Christine A. Wang (Bedford, Massachusetts); Mark Francis Witinski (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are based on quantum cascade (QC) structures. In embodiment methods and corresponding devices, a QC layer in a wave confinement region of an integrated multi-layer semiconductor structure capable of producing optical gain is depleted of free charge carriers to create a low-loss optical wave confinement region in a portion of the structure. Ion implantation may be used to create energetically deep trap levels to trap free charge carriers. Other embodiments include modifying a region of a passive, depleted QC structure to produce an active region capable of optical gain. Gain or loss may also be modified by partially depleting or enhancing free charge carrier density. QC lasers and amplifiers may be integrated monolithically with each other or with passive waveguides and other passive devices in a self-aligned manner. Embodiments overcome challenges of high cost, complex fabrication, and coupling loss involved with material re-growth methods.
FILED	Thursday, July 25, 2013
APPL NO	13/951240
ART UNIT	2894 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/15 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 5/026 (20130101) H01S 5/2063 (20130101) H01S 5/2275 (20130101) H01S 5/3402 (20130101)
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Department of Agriculture (USDA)

09445538 — Apparatus and method for no-till inter-row simultaneous application of herbicide and fertilizer, soil preparation, and seeding of a cover crop in a standing crop

US 09445538	Roth et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA)
APPLICANT(S)	The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Gregory W. Roth (Furnace, Pennsylvania); Corey Dillon (Port Matilda, Pennsylvania); William Curran (Centre Hall, Pennsylvania); Christian Houser (Woodward, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	A no-till apparatus for application of herbicide and fertilizer, soil preparation, and seeding of a cover crop in a standing crop has inter-row assemblies configured to pass along inter-row areas between adjacent row lines of standing crop plants. Each assembly includes a fertilizer applicator, a no-till soil preparation element, a cover crop seed applicator, and a post-seeding element.
FILED	Tuesday, April 14, 2015
APPL NO	14/685938
ART UNIT	3671 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware
CURRENT CPC	Planting; Sowing; Fertilising A01C 7/006 (20130101) A01C 7/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01C 23/047 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 60/16 (20151101)
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09446110 — Vaccine candidates against Johne's disease

US 09446110	Talaat
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
APPLICANT(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Adel Mohammed Talaat (Madison, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	A composition and method for immunizing a mammal infected with Mycobacterium are disclosed. The genes gcpE, pstA, kdpC, papA2, impA, umaA1, fabG2_2, aceAB, mbtH2, lpqP, map0834c, cspB, lipN, and map1634 of M. paratuberculosis and the products that they encode are vaccine targets for Johne's and Crohn's disease. Eighteen M. paratuberculosis-specific genomic islands (MAPs) were identified. Three inverted large genomic fragments in M. paratuberculosis (INV) were also identified. These genomic identifiers represent novel virulence determinants that can be used as targets for vaccines and for developments of drugs against Johne's disease. The methods can be used to deliver an immunizing compound to a mammal, to provide an immune response against Johne's or Crohn's disease in the mammal.
FILED	Friday, May 02, 2014
APPL NO	14/268793
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 39/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/53 (20130101)
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09447429 — Method to trigger RNA interference

US 09447429	Carrington et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB) Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
APPLICANT(S)	Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon)
INVENTOR(S)	James C. Carrington (St. Louis, Missouri); Edwards Allen (O'Fallon, Missouri)
ABSTRACT	A method to generate siRNAs in vivo is described, as are constructs and compositions useful in the method. The method does not depend on the use of DNA or synthetic constructs that contain inverted duplications or dual promoters so as to form perfect or largely double-stranded RNA. Rather, the method depends on constructs that yield single-stranded RNA transcripts, and exploits endogenous or in vivo-produced miRNAs or siRNAs to initiate production of siRNAs. The miRNAs or siRNAs guide cleavage of the transcript and set the register for production of siRNAs (usually 21 nucleotides in length) encoded adjacent to the initiation cleavage site within the construct. The method results in specific formation of siRNAs of predictable size and register (phase) relative to the initiation cleavage site. The method can be used to produce specific siRNAs in vivo for inactivation or suppression of one or more target genes or other entities, such as pathogens.
FILED	Monday, August 25, 2014
APPL NO	14/468159
ART UNIT	1663 — Plants
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 15/8218 (20130101) C12N 15/8245 (20130101) C12N 15/8246 (20130101) C12N 15/8247 (20130101) C12N 15/8251 (20130101) C12N 15/8261 (20130101) C12N 15/8271 (20130101) C12N 15/8274 (20130101) C12N 15/8279 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2320/11 (20130101)
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Department of Commerce (DOC)

09447519 — Aluminum nitride bulk crystals having high transparency to untraviolet light and methods of forming them

US 09447519	Schujman et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Commerce (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
APPLICANT(S)	Crystal IS, Inc. (Green Island, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Crystal IS, Inc. (Green Island, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Sandra B. Schujman (Niskayuna, New York); Shailaja P. Rao (Albany, New York); Robert T. Bondokov (Watervliet, New York); Kenneth E. Morgan (Castleton, New York); Glen A. Slack (Scotia, New York); Leo J. Schowalter (Latham, New York)
ABSTRACT	In various embodiments, methods of forming single-crystal AlN include providing a substantially undoped polycrystalline AlN ceramic having an oxygen concentration less than approximately 100 ppm, forming a single-crystal bulk AlN crystal by a sublimation-recondensation process at a temperature greater than approximately 2000° C., and cooling the bulk AlN crystal to a first temperature between approximately 1500° C. and approximately 1800° C. at a first rate less than approximately 250° C./hour.
FILED	Thursday, April 16, 2015
APPL NO	14/687993
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 23/00 (20130101) C30B 23/002 (20130101) C30B 23/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C30B 29/403 (20130101) C30B 33/02 (20130101) C30B 35/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/02389 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2982 (20150115)
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09447521 — Method and apparatus for producing large, single-crystals of aluminum nitride

US 09447521	Schowalter et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Commerce (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR) Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)	Crystal IS, Inc. (Green Island, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Crystal IS, Inc. (Green Island, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Leo Schowalter (Latham, New York); Glen A. Slack (Scotia, New York); Juan Carlos Rojo (South Beach, New York); Robert T. Bondokov (Watervliet, New York); Kenneth E. Morgan (Castleton, New York); Joseph A. Smart (Mooresville, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	Bulk single crystals of AlN having a diameter greater than about 25 mm and dislocation densities of about 10,000 cm⁻²or less and high-quality AlN substrates having surfaces of any desired crystallographic orientation fabricated from these bulk crystals.
FILED	Wednesday, October 22, 2014
APPL NO	14/520615
ART UNIT	1785 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material
CURRENT CPC	Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 11/003 (20130101) C30B 23/00 (20130101) C30B 23/025 (20130101) C30B 25/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C30B 25/16 (20130101) C30B 29/403 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/04 (20130101) H01L 29/32 (20130101) H01L 29/0657 (20130101) H01L 29/2003 (20130101) H01L 33/025 (20130101) H01L 33/0075 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/21 (20150115)
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09450673 — Stabilized microwave-frequency source

US 09450673	Vahala et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Commerce (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Department of the Army (DOA) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Physics (PHY)
APPLICANT(S)	CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California); THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE, THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California); 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)	Kerry Vahala (Pasadena, California); Scott Diddams (Louisville, Colorado); Jiang Li (Pasadena, California); Xu Yi (Pasadena, California); Hansuek Lee (Pasadena, California)
ABSTRACT	A microwave-frequency source at frequency f_Mcomprises: a dual optical-frequency reference source, an electro-optic sideband generator, an optical bandpass filter, an optical detector, a reference oscillator, an electrical circuit, and a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO). The sideband generator modulates dual optical reference signals at v₂and v₁to generate sideband signals at v₁±n₁f_Mand v₂±n₂f_M. The bandpass filter transmits sideband signals at v₁+N₁f_Mand v₂−N₂f_M. The optical detector generates a beat note at (v₂−N₂f_M)−(v₁+N₁f_M). The beat note and a reference oscillator signal are processed by the circuit to generate a loop-filtered error signal to input to the VCO. Output of the VCO at f_Mdrives the sideband generator and forms the microwave-frequency output signal. The resultant frequency division results in reduced phase noise on the microwave-frequency signal.
FILED	Monday, January 26, 2015
APPL NO	14/605977
ART UNIT	2637 — Optical Communications
CURRENT CPC	Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation, or Stabilisation of Generators of Electronic Oscillations or Pulses H03L 7/08 (20130101) H03L 7/16 (20130101) Transmission H04B 10/503 (20130101) H04B 10/2504 (20130101) H04B 10/2507 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 10/2575 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 7/0075 (20130101) H04L 7/0091 (20130101)
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Department of Transportation (USDOT)

09446672 — Charging systems for electric vehicles

US 09446672	Hill et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Transportation (USDOT) Federal Transit Administration (FTA)
APPLICANT(S)	Proterra Inc. (Greenville, South Carolina)
ASSIGNEE(S)	PROTERRA INC (Greenville, South Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Dale Hill (Dillon, Colorado); Michael Walker (Greenville, South Carolina); Joshua Goldman (San Diego, California); John Horth (Evergreen, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	This disclosure provides systems and methods for charging a vehicle. A vehicle and charging station can be designed such that an electric or hybrid vehicle can operate in a fashion similar to a conventional vehicle by being opportunity charged throughout a known route.
FILED	Friday, August 01, 2014
APPL NO	14/449842
ART UNIT	2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Propulsion of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Supplying Electric Power for Auxiliary Equipment of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Electrodynamic Brake Systems for Vehicles in General; Magnetic Suspension or Levitation for Vehicles; Monitoring Operating Variables of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Electric Safety Devices for Electrically-propelled Vehicles B60L 5/42 (20130101) B60L 11/185 (20130101) B60L 11/1816 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B60L 11/1824 (20130101) B60L 11/1825 (20130101) B60L 11/1837 (20130101) B60L 2200/18 (20130101) B60L 2200/26 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/7005 (20130101) Y02T 10/7072 (20130101) Y02T 10/7088 (20130101) Y02T 90/14 (20130101) Y02T 90/121 (20130101) Y02T 90/128 (20130101)
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Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)

09445958 — Manual wheelchair system for improved propulsion and transfers

US 09445958	Hansen et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
APPLICANT(S)	DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER PROGRAM [US/US] (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER PROGRAM (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Andrew H. Hansen (Washington, District of Columbia); Gary D. Goldish (Washington, District of Columbia)
ABSTRACT	A manual wheelchair including a frame, a drive wheel connected to the frame, having a first axis of rotation and configured to rotate relative to the frame, a push rim connected to the frame, having a second axis of rotation extending substantially parallel to the first axis of rotation of the drive wheel and configured to rotate relative to the frame, wherein the second axis of rotation of the push rim is offset from the first axis of rotation of the drive wheel in a direction orthogonal to the first axis of rotation of the drive wheel, and a transmission configured to transmit rotation of the push rim to rotation of the drive wheel. Additionally, the wheelchair may also include multispeed fixed-gear hubs for propulsion on different terrain and removable or rotatable push rims for easier transfers.
FILED	Friday, March 07, 2014
APPL NO	14/776642
ART UNIT	3611 — Dynamic Storage Systems; Mechanical parts of Disk Drives
CURRENT CPC	Transport, Personal Conveyances, or Accommodation Specially Adapted for Patients or Disabled Persons; Operating Tables or Chairs; Chairs for Dentistry; Funeral Devices A61G 5/024 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61G 5/026 (20130101) A61G 5/027 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 74/20834 (20150115) Y10T 74/20864 (20150115)
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National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)

09448072 — System and method for locating, tracking, and/or monitoring the status of personnel and/or assets both indoors and outdoors

US 09448072	Bandyopadhyay et al.
FUNDED BY	National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)	Amrit Bandyopadhyay (Washington, District of Columbia); Daniel Hakim (Silver Spring, Maryland); Benjamin E. Funk (Hanover, Maryland); Eric Asher Kohn (Washington, District of Columbia); Carole A. Teolis (Glenn Dale, Maryland); Gilmer Blankenship (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	TRX Systems, Inc. (Greenbelt, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Amrit Bandyopadhyay (Washington, District of Columbia); Daniel Hakim (Silver Spring, Maryland); Benjamin E. Funk (Hanover, Maryland); Eric Asher Kohn (Washington, District of Columbia); Carole A. Teolis (Glenn Dale, Maryland); Gilmer Blankenship (Washington, District of Columbia)
ABSTRACT	A system and method for locating, tracking, and/or monitoring the status of personnel and/or assets (collectively “trackees”), both indoors and outdoors, is provided. Tracking data obtained from any number of sources utilizing any number of tracking methods (e.g., inertial navigation and signal-based methods) may be provided as input to a mapping application. The mapping application may generate position estimates for trackees using a suite of mapping tools to make corrections to the tracking data. The mapping application may further use information from building data, when available, to enhance position estimates. Indoor tracking methods including, for example, sensor fusion methods, map matching methods, and map building methods may be implemented to take tracking data from one or more trackees and compute a more accurate tracking estimate for each trackee. Outdoor tracking methods may be implemented to enhance outdoor tracking data by combining tracking estimates such as inertial tracks with magnetic and/or compass data if and when available, and with GPS, if and when available.
FILED	Wednesday, August 06, 2008
APPL NO	12/187067
ART UNIT	3664 — 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 17/38 (20130101) G01C 21/16 (20130101) G01C 21/165 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01C 21/206 (20130101) G01C 21/3438 (20130101) G01C 21/3626 (20130101) Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 5/0294 (20130101) G01S 19/39 (20130101) G01S 19/48 (20130101) G01S 19/49 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 4/028 (20130101) H04W 4/043 (20130101) H04W 64/00 (20130101)
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Non-Profit Organization (NPO)

09447449 — Recombinant mycobacteriophages for delivery of nucleic acids of interest into mycobacteria

US 09447449	Jacobs et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Non-Profit Organization (NPO) Duke University Center for Aids Research (CFAR)
APPLICANT(S)	Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York); University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Inc. (Bronx, New York); University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	William R. Jacobs (Pelham, New York); Graham F. Hatfull (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	Methods are provided for detecting mycobacteria in a sample, including clinical samples. Methods are also provided for determining susceptibility of mycobacterial strains to known or potential antibiotic agents, as are kits therefor. Recombinant mycobacteriophages are also provided comprising heterologous nucleic acids of interest.
FILED	Friday, October 19, 2012
APPL NO	14/352761
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 15/74 (20130101) C12N 2795/00021 (20130101) C12N 2795/00022 (20130101) C12N 2795/00031 (20130101) C12N 2795/00043 (20130101) C12N 2795/00051 (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 1/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2333/035 (20130101) G01N 2333/35 (20130101) G01N 2500/10 (20130101)
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U.S. State Government

09449381 — Methods, systems, and media for generating and analyzing medical images having elongated structures

US 09449381	Liang
FUNDED BY	U.S. State Government State of Arizona
APPLICANT(S)	Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona, acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona, acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona)
INVENTOR(S)	Jianming Liang (Phoenix, Arizona)
ABSTRACT	Methods, systems, and media for generating and/or analyzing medical images having elongated structures are provided. In some embodiments, a method for analyzing medical images is provided, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of images, wherein each of the plurality of images includes a portion of an elongated structure; receiving a location of interest within a least one of the plurality of images; determining an orientation of the elongated structure in response to receiving the location of interest; adjusting image planes of each of the plurality of images to correspond with the orientation of the elongated structure; and causing the elongated structure to be displayed in the adjusted image planes.
FILED	Tuesday, September 10, 2013
APPL NO	14/023380
ART UNIT	2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation
CURRENT CPC	Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 3/60 (20130101) G06T 7/004 (20130101) G06T 7/0012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 11/008 (20130101) G06T 2207/10081 (20130101) G06T 2207/30101 (20130101)
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United States Postal Service (USPS)

09449317 — Method and system for interrogating and processing codes

US 09449317	Reblin
FUNDED BY	United States Postal Service (USPS)
APPLICANT(S)	UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Gary C. Reblin (Falls Church, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	An interrogating and processing system and method is described. A wireless communication device interrogates an information source, having a barcode or tag, and wirelessly transmits data indicative of the information source. The interrogator can be built into or adjunct to the wireless communication device. An automated processing subsystem receives the transmitted data and identifies an item corresponding to the data. A fulfillment subsystem effects delivery of the item to a destination. There can be a coupon code scanning and processing system and method. A wireless computing device having an interrogator reads a coupon code. An automated processing subsystem receives the corresponding data and provides a benefit associated with the coupon. The benefit can be a discount on a product or service. Alternatively, at least a portion of the coupon including a code is displayed on a screen of the computing device for processing at a point of sale terminal.
FILED	Thursday, November 13, 2014
APPL NO	14/540444
ART UNIT	2876 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/08 (20130101) G06Q 10/087 (20130101) G06Q 20/208 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06Q 20/327 (20130101) G06Q 20/3276 (20130101) G06Q 20/3278 (20130101) G06Q 30/02 (20130101) G06Q 30/06 (20130101) G06Q 30/0238 (20130101) G06Q 30/0253 (20130101) Registering the Receipt of Cash, Valuables, or Tokens G07G 1/009 (20130101) G07G 1/0045 (20130101)
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