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| US 09451882 | Nie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | EMORY UNIVERSITY (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shuming Nie (Atlanta, Georgia); Aaron Mohs (Atlanta, Georgia); Michael Mancini (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one aspect, a system for intraoperatively providing anatomical guidance in a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes: a first light source configured to emit a beam of visible light; second light source configured to emit a beam of near-infrared light; a handheld probe optically coupled to the second light source; a second imaging device configured to detect visible light; a third imaging device configured to detect near-infrared light having a first predetermined wavelength; a fourth imaging device configured to detect near-infrared light having a second predetermined wavelength; a display for displaying at least one visual representation of data; and, a controller programmed to generate at least one real-time integrated visual representation of an area of interest and to display the real-time visual representation on the display for guidance during the diagnostic or therapeutic procedure. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/086334 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/06 (20130101) A61B 5/0035 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/0071 (20130101) A61B 5/0075 (20130101) A61B 5/0077 (20130101) A61B 5/0086 (20130101) A61B 5/415 (20130101) A61B 5/418 (20130101) A61B 5/7425 (20130101) A61B 19/5225 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/0017 (20130101) |
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| US 09451884 | Zharov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vladimir Pavlovich Zharov (Little Rock, Arkansas); Ekaterina Galanzha (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir Pavlovich Zharov (Little Rock, Arkansas); Ekaterina Galanzha (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and method of using the device to detect the presence and composition of clots and other target objects in a circulatory vessel of a living subject is described. In particular, devices and methods of detecting the presence and composition of clots and other target objects in a circulatory vessel of a living subject using in vivo photoacoustic flow cytometry techniques is described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/253767 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0059 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/0095 (20130101) A61B 5/412 (20130101) A61B 5/415 (20130101) A61B 5/416 (20130101) A61B 5/418 (20130101) A61B 8/06 (20130101) A61B 8/08 (20130101) A61B 8/481 (20130101) A61B 18/20 (20130101) A61B 18/1815 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/22 (20130101) Magnetic or Electrostatic Separation of Solid Materials From Solid Materials or Fluids; Separation by High-voltage Electric Fields B03C 1/30 (20130101) B03C 1/288 (20130101) B03C 2201/06 (20130101) B03C 2201/26 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/147 (20130101) G01N 15/1425 (20130101) G01N 15/1434 (20130101) G01N 21/1702 (20130101) G01N 29/2418 (20130101) G01N 29/4427 (20130101) G01N 2015/1477 (20130101) G01N 2201/0221 (20130101) |
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| US 09451885 | Liu |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yang Liu (Sewickley, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yang Liu (Sewickley, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods that facilitate analysis of superficial tissue based at least in part on a depth-selective fiber optic probe are discussed herein. The depth-selective fiber optic probe can include an illumination fiber for providing light to the superficial tissue, a collection fiber for collected reflected light, a ball lens that couples the fibers, and a protective overtube that houses the ball lens and fibers. The distances between the ball lens and fibers and between the fibers can be optimized based on several factors, such as by minimizing the illumination spot size, maximizing the overlap between the illumination and collection spots, and based on the angle between the illumination and collection beams. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/991459 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 1/07 (20130101) A61B 1/0017 (20130101) A61B 1/00096 (20130101) A61B 1/00167 (20130101) A61B 1/00188 (20130101) A61B 5/0075 (20130101) A61B 5/0084 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/443 (20130101) A61B 5/444 (20130101) A61B 5/1455 (20130101) A61B 2560/0233 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/474 (20130101) G01N 2021/4742 (20130101) G01N 2201/0639 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/32 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49826 (20150115) |
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| US 09451917 | Kaggie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF UTAH RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF UTAH RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua D. Kaggie (West Jordan, Utah); J. Rock Hadley (Centerville, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a dual resonant breast coil design for combined sodium and proton breast MRI with increased SNR at 3T when compared to a coil with a single proton and sodium channel. The coil consists of a 7-channel sodium receive phased array, a large sodium transmit coil, and a 4-channel hydrogen transceive array. An interleaved overlapping coil layout is used to reduce coupling between sodium and proton coil elements. The new composite array coil demonstrates a 2-5× improvement in SNR for sodium imaging when compared to a simple single-loop dual resonant design. |
| FILED | Monday, April 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/247125 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/055 (20130101) A61B 5/4312 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/3415 (20130101) G01R 33/3635 (20130101) |
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| US 09451926 | Kinahan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul E. Kinahan (Seattle, Washington); Adam Alessio (Seattle, Washington); Chi Liu (Orange, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul E. Kinahan (Seattle, Washington); Adam Alessio (Seattle, Washington); Chi Liu (Orange, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present technology relates generally to respiratory motion correction and associated systems and methods. In particular, several embodiments are directed to respiratory motion correction using internal-external motion correlation. For example, one embodiment of a method of correcting motion blurring in PET/CT imaging includes obtaining PET/CT imaging data of a target tissue in a patient and determining a centroid of the target tissue. The method can further include obtaining an external motion signal of the patient and determining a mean displacement of the external motion signal. The centroid of the target tissue can be correlated with the mean displacement and, based on the correlation, a PET/CT image corrected for motion of the target tissue can be reconstructed. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/891083 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 6/032 (20130101) A61B 6/037 (20130101) A61B 6/527 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 6/541 (20130101) A61B 6/5235 (20130101) A61B 6/5264 (20130101) |
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| US 09452049 | Guldberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert E. Guldberg (Marietta, Georgia); Yash M. Kolambkar (Mableton, Georgia); Dietmar W. Hutmacher (Kenmore Hills, Australia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION (Atlanta, Georgia); QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert E. Guldberg (Marietta, Georgia); Yash M. Kolambkar (Mableton, Georgia); Dietmar W. Hutmacher (Kenmore Hills, Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and method to affect anatomical structures is disclosed. The systems and method can be used to regenerate bone. The system can comprise a nanofiber mesh configured to substantially conform to an anatomical structure, wherein at least a portion of the nanofiber mesh defines a fillable space. The system can comprise a carrier substance comprising an active agent, such as a bone morphogenetic protein, The carrier substance can be disposed within the fillable space. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/625069 |
| ART UNIT | 3738 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2/2846 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61F 2/3094 (20130101) A61F 2/30767 (20130101) A61F 2002/0068 (20130101) A61F 2002/285 (20130101) A61F 2002/2817 (20130101) A61F 2002/2825 (20130101) A61F 2002/3084 (20130101) A61F 2002/3092 (20130101) A61F 2002/30028 (20130101) A61F 2002/30075 (20130101) A61F 2002/30235 (20130101) A61F 2002/30838 (20130101) A61F 2002/30914 (20130101) A61F 2210/0061 (20130101) A61F 2230/0069 (20130101) A61F 2240/001 (20130101) A61F 2310/00365 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/52 (20130101) A61L 27/54 (20130101) A61L 27/56 (20130101) A61L 27/3804 (20130101) A61L 27/3834 (20130101) A61L 31/16 (20130101) A61L 31/146 (20130101) A61L 2300/414 (20130101) A61L 2400/06 (20130101) A61L 2400/12 (20130101) A61L 2430/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09452165 | El-Deiry et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE PENN STATE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wafik S. El-Deiry (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Joshua E. Allen (Hershey, Pennsylvania); Gen Sheng Wu (Troy, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions relating to TIC10 are described according to aspects of the present invention. The compositions and methods have utility in treating disease, particularly cancer in a subject in need thereof, including a human subject as well as subjects of other species. The compositions have utility in treating brain cancer in a subject in need thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, June 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/733740 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/337 (20130101) A61K 31/337 (20130101) A61K 31/513 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 31/4188 (20130101) A61K 31/4545 (20130101) A61K 39/3955 (20130101) A61K 39/39558 (20130101) A61K 39/39558 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6863 (20130101) G01N 2800/52 (20130101) |
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| US 09452171 | Pak et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen C. Pak (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); David Hirsch Perlmutter (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Gary A. Silverman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of treatment of clinical disorders associated with protein aggregation comprising administering, to a subject, an effective amount of an anti-protein aggregate (“APA”) compound selected from the group consisting of pimozide, fluphenazine (e.g., fluphenazine hydrochloride), tamoxifen (e.g., tamoxifen citrate), taxol, cantharidin, cantharidic acid, salts thereof and their structurally related compounds. It is based, at least in part, on the discovery that each of the aforelisted compounds were able to promote degradation of aggregated ATZ protein in a Caenorhabditis elegans model system. According to the invention, treatment with one or more of these APA compounds may be used to ameliorate the symptoms and signs of AT deficiency as well as other disorders marked by protein aggregation, including, but not limited to, Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, and Huntington's Disease. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 02, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/728619 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 2217/052 (20130101) A01K 2227/703 (20130101) A01K 2267/03 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/138 (20130101) A61K 31/337 (20130101) A61K 31/366 (20130101) A61K 31/454 (20130101) A61K 31/5415 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 49/0008 (20130101) |
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| US 09452182 | Muller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas); Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas); Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Florian L. Muller (Houston, Texas); Eliot Fletcher-Sananikone (Houston, Texas); Simona Colla (Houston, Texas); Elisa Aquilanti (Boston, Massachusetts); Ronald DePinho (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for treating a subject determined to have a cancer comprising a heterozygous inactivation of a housekeeping gene (or a homozygous deletion of a functionally redundant housekeeping gene) by treating the subject with an inhibitor of the gene. For example, a subject having a cancer with an ENO gene deletion can be treated with a glycolysis inhibitor, such as an enolase inhibitor. In some aspects, a subject having a cancer with an ARS gene deletion can be treated with an ARS inhibitor. |
| FILED | Friday, December 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/365367 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/35 (20130101) A61K 31/35 (20130101) A61K 31/191 (20130101) A61K 31/191 (20130101) A61K 31/198 (20130101) A61K 31/198 (20130101) A61K 31/352 (20130101) A61K 31/352 (20130101) A61K 31/357 (20130101) A61K 31/357 (20130101) A61K 31/661 (20130101) A61K 31/662 (20130101) A61K 31/662 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 31/5685 (20130101) A61K 31/5685 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 48/00 (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) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1137 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/531 (20130101) C12N 2310/531 (20130101) C12N 2320/31 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) C12Q 2600/106 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 402/01001 (20130101) C12Y 402/01011 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5038 (20130101) G01N 33/5743 (20130101) G01N 33/57407 (20130101) G01N 2333/988 (20130101) G01N 2800/52 (20130101) |
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| US 09452185 | Gregory et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carl A. Gregory (Temple, Texas); Ulf C. Krause (Temple, Texas); Bret H. Clough (Temple, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TEXAS A and M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl A. Gregory (Temple, Texas); Ulf C. Krause (Temple, Texas); Bret H. Clough (Temple, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Materials and methods for preparing mesenchymal stem cells are described such that the mesenchymal stem cells remain for a longer period of time than would normally be found at a site of tissue healing. The mesenchymal stem cells are pretreated to exhibit osteogenic characteristics and, when combined with extracellular matrix components produced from the pretreated cells, improve tissue healing. Co-administration of the pretreated cells and their secreted extracellular matrix components at an injured site or defect allowed the mesenchymal stem cells to co-localize at or near the injured or defect site for a longer period. The combination improves overall repair of the tissue by extending the retention signal of mesenchymal stem cells. A three-dimensional scaffold containing the pretreated cells with or without addition of the secreted extracellular matrix is also described. The conditioned scaffold is suitable for use in vivo and may be preserved cryogenically prior to use. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/288719 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2035/124 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0663 (20130101) C12N 2501/385 (20130101) C12N 2501/415 (20130101) |
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| US 09452187 | Klein et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter S. Klein (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Jian Huang (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a therapeutic approach to maintain and expand HSCs in vivo using currently available medications that target GSK-3 and mTOR. The present invention also provides a system and method for the ex vivo culturing of HSCs, where an mTOR inhibitor is combined with a GSK-3 inhibitor within the culturing conditions. |
| FILED | Monday, March 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/673125 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2035/124 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0647 (20130101) C12N 2500/12 (20130101) C12N 2500/30 (20130101) C12N 2501/04 (20130101) C12N 2501/415 (20130101) C12N 2510/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09452189 | Mazmanian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sarkis K. Mazmanian (Porter Ranch, California); Paul H. Patterson (Altadena, California); Janet Chow (Alhambra, California); Elaine Hsiao (Rowland Heights, California); Sara McBride (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sarkis K. Mazmanian (Porter Ranch, California); Paul H. Patterson (Altadena, California); Janet Chow (Alhambra, California); Elaine Hsiao (Rowland Heights, California); Sara McBride (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is a method and a composition for improving behavioral performance in an individual comprising identifying an individual in need of treatment, and providing such an individual a composition comprising bacteria within the genus Bacteroides. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/267748 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/741 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09452200 | Wells et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan H. Wells (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Cecelia C. Yates-Binder (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Joel S. Schuman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure describes methods of treating angiogenic disorders of the eye, such as macular degeneration, restenosis following glaucoma treatment or diabetic retinopathy, by administering an activator of C-X-C chemokine receptor 3 (CXCR3). In some embodiments, the activator of CXCR3 is interferon-γ-inducible 10 kDa protein (IP-10) or a fragment or variant thereof, such as a fragment comprising or consisting of the C-terminal α-helix of IP-10. In other embodiments, the activator of CXCR3 is platelet factor 4 (PF4) or a fragment or variant thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/878370 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0048 (20130101) A61K 38/195 (20130101) A61K 38/217 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/4823 (20130101) A61K 47/48215 (20130101) |
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| US 09452204 | Kaumaya |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pravin Kaumaya (Westerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions, methods, and vaccines that may stimulate the immune system and that may be used for treating malignancies associated with overexpression of the HER-2 protein are provided. Such compositions include epitopes of the HER-2 proteins. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/905996 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 39/0011 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 14/71 (20130101) C07K 14/82 (20130101) |
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| US 09452205 | Pascual et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY (Bozeman, Montana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Montana State University (Bozeman, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Pascual (Bozeman, Montana); Massimo Maddaloni (Bozeman, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates generally to therapeutic compositions comprising recombinant bacteria. Further, the disclosure elaborates upon methods of utilizing the taught therapeutic compositions to treat autoimmune and inflammatory disease. The present teachings also relate to the disclosed recombinant bacteria and methods of producing the recombinant bacteria utilized in the compositions and methods. Further taught herein are dietary supplements and food additive compositions comprising the taught recombinant bacteria. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/035070 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/744 (20130101) A61K 35/747 (20130101) A61K 39/0258 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/58 (20130101) A61K 2039/523 (20130101) |
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| US 09452208 | Granoff et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL and RESEARCH CENTER OAKLAND (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL and RESEARCH CENTER OAKLAND (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan M. Granoff (Berkeley, California); Victor Chen-Hsi Hou (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally provides methods and compositions for eliciting an immune response against Neisseria spp. bacteria in a subject, particularly against a Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B strain. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 16, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/688594 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/127 (20130101) A61K 39/095 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/522 (20130101) A61K 2039/575 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/22 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 530/825 (20130101) |
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| US 09452218 | Panitch et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alyssa Panitch (West Lafayette, Indiana); Brandon Seal (Pleasant Grove, Utah); Jamie L. Brugnano (Lafayette, Indiana); Rush L. Bartlett (West Lafayette, Indiana); Shaili Sharma (Lafayette, Indiana); James McMasters (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to compositions and methods for the treatment of inflammatory disease states. In particular, the invention relates to the use of a nanoparticle incorporated kinase inhibiting peptide to treat inflammatory disease states. |
| FILED | Friday, March 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/383701 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/5146 (20130101) A61K 38/005 (20130101) A61K 38/16 (20130101) A61K 38/17 (20130101) A61K 47/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/34 (20130101) |
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| US 09452239 | West et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jennifer L. West (Houston, Texas); Christopher S. Chen (Princeton, New Jersey); Jordan S. Miller (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Michael T. Yang (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas); University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer L. West (Houston, Texas); Christopher S. Chen (Princeton, New Jersey); Jordan S. Miller (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Michael T. Yang (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of fabricating a substantially interconnected model vasculature, as well as compositions formed from such methods are provided. In some embodiments, the methods may comprise forming a non-woven fiber network comprising a plurality of fibers and a void space; backfilling the void space of the fiber network; and removing the fibers to form a substantially interconnected vascular network. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/211478 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — 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 27/38 (20130101) A61L 27/56 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 2400/18 (20130101) |
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| US 09452289 | Chichilnisky et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eduardo-Jose Chichilnisky (Cardiff, California); Lauren Jepson (San Diego, California); Martin Greschner (Oldenburg, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pixium Vision SA (, France) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eduardo-Jose Chichilnisky (Cardiff, California); Lauren Jepson (San Diego, California); Martin Greschner (Oldenburg, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Retinal prostheses are configured to apply retinal stimulus signals based on retinal cell classification such as cell types or cell clusters identified based on retinal cell signals. Cell types are identified based on spontaneous or induced retinal electrical signals and analyzed based on temporal patterns of electrical activity, spatio-temporal voltage waveforms, and signal correlations that can be obtained from temporal spike patterns. Cell type indications are stored, and a signals are applied to the retina based on the stored cell type indications. |
| FILED | Monday, March 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/005818 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0496 (20130101) A61B 5/4851 (20130101) A61B 5/6821 (20130101) A61B 5/7264 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0543 (20130101) A61N 1/36046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09452959 | Hartwig et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Hartwig (Berkeley, California); Patrick Fier (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions and methods of using the compositions in fluorinating aryl precursors containing a leaving group replaceable by fluoride ion. The compositions include a metal ion source, a fluoride ion source, and a compound, which is an aryl precursor of the aryl fluoride, and which has a leaving group replaceable by the fluoride. Exemplary methods of the invention make use of such compositions and methods to prepare an aryl fluoride compound. In an exemplary embodiment, the fluoride ion source is a source of 18F. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/407060 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 31/1805 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 17/20 (20130101) C07C 17/202 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 17/204 (20130101) C07C 17/206 (20130101) C07C 17/208 (20130101) C07C 25/00 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 1/005 (20130101) |
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| US 09452973 | Marugan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Service (Washington, District of Columbia); The Florida International University Board of Trustees (Miami, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (Washington, District of Columbia); THE FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES (Miami, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juan Jose Marugan (Gaithersburgh, Maryland); Jingbo Xiao (Rockville, Maryland); Marc Ferrer-Alegre (Potomac, Maryland); Catherine Chen (Germantown, Maryland); Noel Southall (Potomac, Maryland); Wei Zheng (Potomac, Maryland); Alexander Agoulnik (Miami, Florida); Irina Agoulnik (Miami, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are modulators of the human relaxin receptor 1, for example, of formula (I), wherein A, R1, and R2 are as defined herein, that are useful in treating mammalian relaxin receptor 1 mediated facets of human health, e.g., cardiovascular disease. Also disclosed is a composition comprising a pharmaceutically suitable carrier and at least one compound of the disclosure, and a method for therapeutic intervention in a facet of mammalian health that is mediated by a human relaxin receptor 1. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/398830 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 233/63 (20130101) C07C 235/64 (20130101) C07C 237/30 (20130101) C07C 237/40 (20130101) C07C 237/42 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 255/57 (20130101) C07C 255/60 (20130101) C07C 257/04 (20130101) C07C 257/18 (20130101) C07C 271/28 (20130101) C07C 311/29 (20130101) C07C 317/36 (20130101) C07C 317/40 (20130101) C07C 317/44 (20130101) C07C 323/42 (20130101) C07C 323/62 (20130101) C07C 2101/02 (20130101) C07C 2101/04 (20130101) C07C 2101/10 (20130101) C07C 2101/14 (20130101) C07C 2101/16 (20130101) C07C 2101/18 (20130101) C07C 2102/08 (20130101) C07C 2103/74 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/08 (20130101) C07D 209/46 (20130101) C07D 213/75 (20130101) C07D 213/79 (20130101) C07D 213/80 (20130101) C07D 213/81 (20130101) C07D 213/82 (20130101) C07D 235/06 (20130101) C07D 235/18 (20130101) C07D 261/18 (20130101) C07D 295/088 (20130101) C07D 295/135 (20130101) C07D 295/205 (20130101) C07D 307/52 (20130101) C07D 307/68 (20130101) C07D 317/66 (20130101) C07D 317/68 (20130101) C07D 333/20 (20130101) C07D 333/38 (20130101) C07D 333/40 (20130101) C07D 403/10 (20130101) C07D 487/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09452992 | Cunningham et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James Cunningham (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Kyungae Lee (Newton, Massachusetts); Tao Ren (West Roxbury, Massachusetts); Kartik Chandran (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Cunningham (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Kyungae Lee (Newton, Massachusetts); Tao Ren (West Roxbury, Massachusetts); Kartik Chandran (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for the treatment of infection by enveloped viruses, such as Ebola and Lassa fever viruses. |
| FILED | Friday, July 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/237625 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 295/185 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09453005 | DeGrado et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William F. DeGrado (Media, Pennsylvania); Jun Wang (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William F. DeGrado (Media, Pennsylvania); Jun Wang (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are compounds that are capable of modulating the activity of the influenza A virus via interaction with the M2 transmembrane protein. Also provided are methods for treating an influenza A-affected disease state or infection comprising administering a composition comprising one or more compounds that have been identified as being capable of interaction with the M2 protein. |
| FILED | Friday, August 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/119052 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/438 (20130101) A61K 31/4465 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 211/08 (20130101) C07D 401/04 (20130101) C07D 401/06 (20130101) C07D 409/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 413/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09453017 | Lindsley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Craig W. Lindsley (Brentwood, Tennessee); Alex H. Brown (Franklin, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig W. Lindsley (Brentwood, Tennessee); Alex H. Brown (Franklin, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods of treating viral infections comprising, in one aspect, administering compounds that are phospholipase D inhibitors. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention. In accordance with the purpose(s) of the invention, as embodied and broadly described herein, the invention, in one aspect, relates to antiviral therapies. For example, compounds having Phospholipase D activity (e.g., isoform selective Phospholipase D inhibitors) can be useful in antiviral therapies (e.g., influenza treatments). |
| FILED | Sunday, September 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/348036 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/05 (20130101) A61K 31/05 (20130101) A61K 31/138 (20130101) A61K 31/138 (20130101) A61K 31/231 (20130101) A61K 31/435 (20130101) A61K 31/454 (20130101) A61K 31/454 (20130101) A61K 31/498 (20130101) A61K 31/661 (20130101) A61K 31/661 (20130101) A61K 31/683 (20130101) A61K 31/4535 (20130101) A61K 31/4535 (20130101) A61K 31/4709 (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) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 401/04 (20130101) C07D 401/14 (20130101) C07D 405/14 (20130101) C07D 409/14 (20130101) C07D 471/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09453019 | Shi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Genbin Shi (Frederick, Maryland); Gary X. Shaw (North Potomac, Maryland); Xinhua Ji (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides linked purine pterin compounds and analogs thereof that are novel HPPK inhibitors. The HPPK inhibitors described herein are compounds and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof of general Formula I The variables, e.g. A1 to A3, R1 to R4, L1, L2, B1, and B2 are described herein. Compounds and salts of Formula I bind to HPPK with high affinity and specificity. Pharmaceutical compositions containing an HPPK inhibitor of Formula I and methods of treating a bacterial infection in a patient by providing one or more HPPK inhibitors of Formula I to the patient are also provided. Processes and intermediates useful for preparing compounds of Formula I are also provided. Methods of using the disclosed compounds to guide the development of additional novel anti-bacterial agents are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, April 17, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/689449 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 475/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 19/167 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/16 (20130101) |
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| US 09453022 | Zheng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi Zheng (Cincinnati, Ohio); Prakash Jagtap (North Andover, Massachusetts); Emily E. Bosco (North Potomac, Maryland); Jaroslaw Meller (Cincinnati, Ohio); Marie-Dominique Filippi (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Inhibitors of p67phox protein are provided herein, as well as pharmaceutical compositions and methods recited thereto. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/378089 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/473 (20130101) A61K 31/4738 (20130101) A61K 31/5365 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 215/06 (20130101) C07D 215/36 (20130101) C07D 215/38 (20130101) C07D 215/48 (20130101) C07D 221/16 (20130101) C07D 401/04 (20130101) C07D 409/04 (20130101) C07D 491/04 (20130101) C07D 491/048 (20130101) C07D 491/052 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 498/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09453040 | Shaunak et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sunil Shaunak (Greater London, United Kingdom); Ian Alfred Teo (Greater London, United Kingdom) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | IMPERIAL INNOVATIONS LIMITED (London, Greater London, United Kingdom) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sunil Shaunak (Greater London, United Kingdom); Ian Alfred Teo (Greater London, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A glycodendrimer comprising: a) a non-toxic dendrimer polypropyletherimine core supporting on average in the range of 9 to 64 terminal carboxylic acid groups, and b) conjugated to said core in the range of 2 to 8 amino sugars or a sulphate amino sugar selected from the group consisting of glucosamine, N-acetyl glucosamine, mannosamine, N-acetylmannosamine, galactosamine, a sulphate of any one of the same and a combination thereof, wherein each sugar is linked directly through a zero length amide bond with a residue of a terminal carboxylic acid group. The invention also extends to defined populations comprising said glycodendrimer molecules, pharmaceutical compositions comprising said molecules or populations, process for preparing the molecules and formulations, and therapeutic uses of the molecules, populations and compositions. |
| FILED | Monday, August 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/818580 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/48192 (20130101) A61K 47/48207 (20130101) Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 5/06 (20130101) C07H 11/00 (20130101) C07H 13/04 (20130101) C07H 15/12 (20130101) C07H 15/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 73/02 (20130101) C08G 73/024 (20130101) C08G 73/028 (20130101) C08G 83/003 (20130101) |
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| US 09453049 | Sebti et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Said M. Sebti (Tampa, Florida); Jin Q. Cheng (Tampa, Florida); Andrew D. Hamilton (Oxford, United Kingdom); Katherine Kayser-Bricker (Brandford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida); Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Said M. Sebti (Tampa, Florida); Jin Q. Cheng (Tampa, Florida); Andrew D. Hamilton (Oxford, United Kingdom); Katherine Kayser-Bricker (Brandford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a species of peptide and non-peptide inhibitors of Akt, an oncogenic protein. Beginning with a residue of Akt target substrate GSK-3, the functional domains of the GSK-3 residue were characterized. Functionally homologous non-peptide groups were substituted for the amino acids of the GSK-3 creating a hybrid peptide-non-peptide and non-peptide compounds capable of binding to Akt. The non-peptide compounds show increased stability and rigidity compared to peptide counterparts and are less susceptible to degradation. The bound non-peptide compounds exhibit an inhibitory effect on Akt, similar to peptide-based Akt inhibitors. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/472966 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/132 (20130101) A61K 31/404 (20130101) A61K 38/00 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 255/50 (20130101) C07C 255/51 (20130101) C07C 255/60 (20130101) C07C 279/12 (20130101) C07C 2101/16 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/04 (20130101) C07D 209/14 (20130101) Peptides C07K 5/06 (20130101) C07K 5/08 (20130101) C07K 5/10 (20130101) C07K 5/0207 (20130101) C07K 7/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/12 (20130101) C12N 9/1205 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 207/11001 (20130101) |
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| US 09453057 | Johnson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric A. Johnson (Madison, Wisconsin); Kristin M. Marshall (Plainfield, Illinois); Sabine Pellett (Madison, Wisconsin); Marite Bradshaw (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a novel isolated plasmid, wherein the plasmid is a native plasmid found in unique C. botulinum type A strains and encode either BoNT/A3 or BoNT/A4 and BoNT/B. The present invention also provides a method of obtaining a plasmid-encoded botulinum neurotoxin and botulinum neurotoxin complex comprising the step of isolating a plasmid encoding the cntA/A or cntA/B neurotoxin gene and genes encoding protein components of the toxin complex from a C. botulinum type A strain. The inventors performed comparative analyses of representative BoNT/A subtype strains by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and Southern hybridizations with probes specific for the BoNT/A and B genes, cntA/A and cntA/B. Unexpectedly, the inventors determined that the genes encoding BoNT/A3 in the A3 strain, and BoNT/A4 and BoNT/B in the A4 strain, are on plasmids. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/800997 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/33 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/74 (20130101) |
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| US 09453061 | Peti et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BROWN UNIVERSITY (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BROWN UNIVERSITY (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wolfgang Peti (Barrington, Rhode Island); Rebecca Page (Barrington, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | Therapeutic compositions for treatment of protein serine/threonine phosphatase-related diseases are obtained by engineering amino acid sequences that disrupt interaction between the protein serine/threonine phosphatase and a protein inhibitor and are provided herein. Calcineurin and PPI are examples of protein serine/threonine phosphatases. RCAN1 is an inhibitor of calcineurin and is overexpressed in patients with serious diseases, such as Down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease. Molecules that bind RCAN1 at regions that interact with calcineurin selectively modulate functions of calcineurin to treat these diseases. Methods of treating a subject for a protein serine/threonine phosphatase-related disease by administering a molecule having an amino acid sequence selected from the group of SEQ ID NOs: 1-19 are further provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/819623 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 33/06 (20130101) A61K 38/1738 (20130101) A61K 38/1738 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/4703 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2319/23 (20130101) C07K 2319/24 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/16 (20130101) |
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| US 09453065 | Steyaert et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jan Steyaert (Beersel, Belgium); Els Pardon (Lubbeek, Belgium); Soren Rasmussen (Gentofte, Denmark); Juan Fung (San Jose, California); Brian Kobilka (Palo Alto, California); Toon Laeremans (Dworp, Belgium) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | VIB VZW (Ghent, Belgium); Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels, Belgium); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jan Steyaert (Beersel, Belgium); Els Pardon (Lubbeek, Belgium); Soren Rasmussen (Gentofte, Denmark); Juan Fung (San Jose, California); Brian Kobilka (Palo Alto, California); Toon Laeremans (Dworp, Belgium) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure relates to the field of GPCR structure biology and signaling. In particular, it relates to protein binding domains directed against or capable of specifically binding to a functional conformational state of a G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR). More specifically, it provides protein binding domains that are capable of increasing the stability of a functional conformational state of a GPCR, in particular, increasing the stability of a GPCR in its active conformational state. The protein binding domains hereof can be used as a tool for the structural and functional characterization of G-protein-coupled receptors bound to various natural and synthetic ligands, as well as for screening and drug discovery efforts targeting GPCRs. Moreover, also encompassed are the diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic usefulness of these protein binding domains for GPCR-related diseases. |
| FILED | Monday, July 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/810652 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/705 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/723 (20130101) C07K 16/28 (20130101) C07K 2317/22 (20130101) C07K 2317/33 (20130101) C07K 2317/75 (20130101) C07K 2317/569 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/68 (20130101) G01N 33/566 (20130101) G01N 2333/726 (20130101) |
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| US 09453068 | Marks et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James D. Marks (Kensington, California); Jianlong Lou (San Bruno, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure provides antibodies that specifically bind to and typically neutralize botulinum neurotoxins (e.g., BoNT/A, BoNT/B, BoNT/E, etc.) and the epitopes bound by those antibodies. The antibodies and derivatives thereof and/or other antibodies that specifically bind to the neutralizing epitopes provided herein can be used to neutralize botulinum neurotoxin and are therefore also useful in the treatment of botulism. |
| FILED | Friday, February 27, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/634355 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/1282 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2316/96 (20130101) C07K 2317/21 (20130101) C07K 2317/52 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09453074 | Oh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Baylor Research Institute (Dallas, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor Research Institute (Dallas, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sangkon Oh (Baltimore, Maryland); Dapeng Li (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes compositions and methods for making and using anti DC-ASGPR antibodies that can, e.g., activate DCs and other cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/254206 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/48561 (20130101) A61K 51/1027 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 14/37 (20130101) C07K 14/195 (20130101) C07K 14/405 (20130101) C07K 14/435 (20130101) C07K 16/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/56 (20130101) C07K 2317/74 (20130101) C07K 2317/75 (20130101) |
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| US 09453201 | Palecek et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sean Palecek (Verona, Wisconsin); Timothy Kamp (Madison, Wisconsin); Xiaojun Lian (Allston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for generating high-yield, high-purity cardiomyocyte progenitors or cardiomyocytes from pluripotent cells are described. Wnt/β-catenin signaling is first activated in pluripotent cells, e.g., by inhibition of Gsk-3 to obtain a first population of cells. Wnt/β-catenin signaling is then inhibited in the first cell population to induce cardiogenesis under fully defined, growth factor free culture conditions. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/592678 |
| 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 5/0657 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2501/16 (20130101) C12N 2501/155 (20130101) C12N 2501/415 (20130101) C12N 2501/727 (20130101) C12N 2501/998 (20130101) C12N 2501/999 (20130101) C12N 2506/02 (20130101) C12N 2506/45 (20130101) |
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| US 09453204 | Webb et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carol Webb (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma); Paul Kincade (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carol Webb (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma); Paul Kincade (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention involves the identification of Bright/ARID3a as involved in the regulation of pluripotency in cells, and the targeting of that function for the regulation of pluripotency. Thus, methods of de-differentiating cells into pluripotent cells are provided, as well as methods for re-differentiating such cells in a controlled fashion. |
| FILED | Friday, July 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/500987 |
| 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 5/0696 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2501/60 (20130101) C12N 2510/00 (20130101) |
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09453226 — Protection of cells from Alu-RNA-induced degeneration and inhibitors for protecting cells
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jayakrishna Ambati (Lexington, Kentucky); Valeria Tarallo (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of protecting a cell includes inhibiting an inflammasome, MyD88, IL-18, VDAC1, VDAC2, caspase-8, and/or NFκB of the cell. Administering an inhibitor of MyD88, IL-18, VDAC1, VDAC2, caspase-8, and/or NFκB can protect the cell from Alu-RNA-induced degeneration. Protecting a cell, such as an retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), can be therapeutically useful in the context of age-related macular degeneration and geographic atrophy. |
| FILED | Friday, January 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/158357 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 38/08 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 49/005 (20130101) A61K 49/0008 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) C07K 14/00 (20130101) C07K 16/244 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1136 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5023 (20130101) G01N 33/5041 (20130101) G01N 33/6869 (20130101) G01N 2333/54 (20130101) |
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| US 09453227 | Diamond et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CITY OF HOPE (Duarte, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CITY OF HOPE (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Don J. Diamond (Glendora, California); Edwin Manuel (San Diego, California); Fernanda V. V. Castro (Monrovia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a single modality cancer immunotherapy regimen that includes a therapeutic composition is provided. Such a therapeutic composition may include a Salmonella strain comprising a plasmid that expresses an shRNA molecule that suppresses the expression of an immunosuppressive target and suppresses tumor growth. In some aspects, the Salmonella strain is an attenuated Salmonella typhimurium strain. In other aspects, the immunosuppressive target is STAT3, IDO1, IDO2, Arginase 1, iNOS, CTLA-4, TGF-β, IL-10, pGE2 or VEGF. In one embodiment, the immunosuppressive target is IDO1 or Arg1 and the shRNA molecule is any one of SEQ ID NO:5-14. |
| FILED | Monday, October 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/065284 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0011 (20130101) A61K 39/39 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1136 (20130101) C12N 15/1137 (20130101) C12N 15/1138 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/531 (20130101) C12N 2320/32 (20130101) C12N 2330/50 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 113/11052 (20130101) C12Y 305/03001 (20130101) |
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| US 09453239 | Moss et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bernard Moss (Bethesda, Maryland); Linda Wyatt (Rockville, Maryland); Harriet L. Robinson (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Guam); The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bernard Moss (Bethesda, Maryland); Linda Wyatt (Rockville, Maryland); Harriet L. Robinson (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA), a replication-deficient strain of vaccinia virus, expressing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) env, gag, and pol genes. |
| FILED | Monday, August 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/574285 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/57 (20130101) A61K 2039/5256 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/86 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2710/24143 (20130101) C12N 2740/16023 (20130101) C12N 2740/16122 (20130101) C12N 2740/16134 (20130101) C12N 2740/16222 (20130101) C12N 2740/16234 (20130101) C12N 2830/00 (20130101) C12N 2830/15 (20130101) C12N 2830/60 (20130101) |
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| US 09453240 | Chamberlain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey S. Chamberlain (Seattle, Washington); Dennis J. Hartigan-O'Connor (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and compositions for the production of viral vectors. In particular, the present invention provides methods and compositions for faster, higher titer and higher purity production of viral vectors (e.g. adenoviral vectors). In some embodiments, the present invention provides gutted and helper viruses with identical or similar termini. In other embodiments, the present invention provides terminal protein linked adenoviral DNA. In certain embodiments, the present invention provides template extended adenoviral DNA. |
| FILED | Friday, January 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/163331 |
| 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 | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/86 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2710/10322 (20130101) C12N 2710/10343 (20130101) C12N 2710/10351 (20130101) C12N 2800/30 (20130101) C12N 2830/002 (20130101) C12N 2830/38 (20130101) |
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| US 09453241 | Pan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zhuo-Hua Pan (Troy, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhuo-Hua Pan (Troy, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Microbial type rhodopsins, such as the light-gated cation-selective membrane channel, channel-rhodopsin-2 (Chop2/ChR2) or the ion pump halorhodopsin (HaloR) are expressed in retinal ganglion cells upon transduction using recombinant AAV vectors. Selective targeting of these transgenes for expression in discrete subcellular regions or sites is achieved by including a sorting motif in the vector that can target either the central area or surround (off-center) area of these cells. Nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding such rhodopsins and sorting motifs and their use in methods of differential expression of the transgene are disclosed. These compositions and methods provide significant improvements for restoring visual perception and various aspects of vision, particular in patients with retinal disease. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/696252 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 48/005 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/705 (20130101) C07K 14/4702 (20130101) C07K 2319/01 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/8616 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2750/14143 (20130101) |
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| US 09453252 | Prabhakarpandian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CFD Research Corporation (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CFD RESEARCH CORPORATION (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Balabhaskar Prabhakarpandian (Madison, Alabama); Kapil Pant (Huntsville, Alabama); Charles Joseph Garson (Meridianville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for assaying a tumor drug delivery vehicle and or drug can include an idealized microvascular network (IMN) of one or more interconnected idealized flow channels in fluid communication through a porous wall with a tissue space (e.g., idealized tissue space) containing animal cells and means for quantifying drug delivery through the IMN to the animal cells. |
| FILED | Friday, December 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/715350 |
| 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 | 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 1/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5008 (20130101) G01N 33/54366 (20130101) |
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| US 09453261 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The George Washington University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The George Washington University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Norman H. Lee (Dayton, Maryland); Steven R. Patierno (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Bi-Dar Wang (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are novel splicing variants of the genes associated with prostate cancer risk and survival, particularly splicing variants of PIK3CD, FGFR3, TSC2, RASGRP2, ITGA4, MET, NF1 and BAK1. The disclosure also relates risk assessment, detection, diagnosis, or prognosis of prostate cancer. More specifically, this disclosure relates to the detection of certain splicing variants of PIK3CD, FGFR3, TSC2, RASGRP2, ITGA4, MET, NF1 and BAK1. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/344509 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101) C07K 14/4748 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1137 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/118 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) |
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| US 09453262 | Gillevet |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BioSpherex, LLC a Limited Liability Company (Potomac Falls, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BIOSPHEREX, LLC (Potomac Falls, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick M. Gillevet (Oakton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention herein described relate to multiplex polynucleotide sequence analysis without the use of size separation methods or blotting. In certain particulars the invention relates to multiplex sequencing using massively parallel sequencing methods, such as pyrosequencing methods and sequencing by synthesis. The invention provides increased throughput, increased accuracy of enumerating sample components, and the ability to analyze greater numbers of samples simultaneously or serially on presently available systems, as well as others yet to be developed. In certain of its embodiments the invention relates to the analysis of complex microbial communities, particularly to in-depth analysis thereof in large numbers of samples. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/066967 |
| 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 | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/689 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6858 (20130101) C12Q 1/6858 (20130101) C12Q 2525/161 (20130101) C12Q 2537/143 (20130101) C12Q 2563/179 (20130101) C12Q 2600/16 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) |
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| US 09453809 | Solin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart A. Solin (St. Louis, Missouri); Kirk D. Wallace (St. Louis, Missouri); Samuel A. Wickline (St. Louis, Missouri); Michael S. Hughes (Wildwood, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is an apparatus comprising a metal shunt and a semiconductor material in electrical contact with the metal shunt, thereby defining a semiconductor/metal interface for passing a flow of current between the semiconductor material and the metal shunt in response to an application of an electrical bias to the apparatus, wherein the semiconductor material and the metal shunt lie in different planes that are substantially parallel planes, the semiconductor/metal interface thereby being parallel to planes in which the semiconductor material and the metal shunt lie, and wherein, when under the electrical bias, the semiconductor/metal interface is configured to exhibit a change in resistance thereof in response to a perturbation. Such an apparatus can be used as a sensor and deployed as an array of sensors. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/162205 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/1031 (20130101) G01N 27/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2015/0038 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 27/02 (20130101) G01R 33/09 (20130101) G01R 33/095 (20130101) G01R 33/1269 (20130101) Static Stores G11C 11/18 (20130101) G11C 11/161 (20130101) |
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| US 09453836 | Pestell |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard G. Pestell (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Richard G. Pestell (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure is directed, in part, to a method of determining whether a subject having cancer is at risk for developing metastasis of the cancer. In one embodiment, the method comprises (a) obtaining a biological sample from the subject having cancer; (b) determining CCR5 expression level and/or expression level of at least one of CCR5 ligands in the biological sample; and (c) if the expression level of CCR5 and/or of at least one of CCR5 ligands determined in step (b) is increased compared to CCR5 expression level and/or expression level of at least one of CCR5 ligands in a control sample, then the subject is identified as likely at risk for developing metastasis of the cancer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/893791 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/46 (20130101) A61K 31/506 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5091 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/57415 (20130101) G01N 33/57492 (20130101) G01N 2333/7158 (20130101) G01N 2800/56 (20130101) |
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| US 09453844 | Xian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Washington State University (Pullman, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington State University (Pullman, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ming Xian (Pullman, Washington); Dehui Zhang (Pullman, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and assays for detecting S-sulfhydration of amino acids in proteins, polypeptides and peptides are provided. The method is a two-step “tag-switch” method employing two reagents consecutively to specifically label, with a detectable label, persulfide (—S—SH) linkages in proteins, polypeptides and peptides. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/507970 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6815 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2440/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/18 (20150115) Y10T 436/182 (20150115) |
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| US 09454509 | Pearlman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonathan L. Pearlman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Jonathan A. Duvall (Glenshaw, Pennsylvania); Benjamin T. Gebrosky (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Rory Alan Cooper (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan L. Pearlman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Jonathan A. Duvall (Glenshaw, Pennsylvania); Benjamin T. Gebrosky (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Rory Alan Cooper (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for use with a mobile device includes at least one sensor to sense a variable related to tilting of the mobile device and at least one activatable system in operative connection with the sensor. The at least one activatable system increases stability of the mobile device upon actuation/change in state thereof on the basis of data measured by the at least one sensor. A variable related to tilting includes variables that indicate concurrent, actual tilting as described herein as well as variables predictive of imminent tilting. Activatable systems hereof change state upon actuation or activation to increase stability of the mobile device by reducing, eliminating or preventing tilting. |
| FILED | Friday, January 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/750619 |
| ART UNIT | 3669 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Transport, Personal Conveyances, or Accommodation Specially Adapted for Patients or Disabled Persons; Operating Tables or Chairs; Chairs for Dentistry; Funeral Devices A61G 5/00 (20130101) A61G 5/043 (20130101) A61G 5/063 (20130101) A61G 5/068 (20130101) A61G 2005/128 (20130101) A61G 2005/1054 (20130101) A61G 2005/1089 (20130101) A61G 2203/14 (20130101) A61G 2203/42 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09454640 | Famili et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Imandokht Famili (San Diego, California); Christophe H. Schilling (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intrexon CEU, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Imandokht Famili (San Diego, California); Christophe H. Schilling (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides models and methods useful for optimizing cell lines. The invention provides methods and computer readable medium or media containing such methods. Such a computer readable medium or media can comprise commands for carrying out a method of the invention. The methods of the invention can be utilized to model improved characteristics of a cell line, for example, improved product production, improved growth, improved culture characteristics, and the like. |
| FILED | Friday, February 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/203470 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09454709 | Saranathan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manojkumar Saranathan (Redwood City, California); Brian K. Rutt (Stanford, California); James A. Rioux (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for providing an image of a subject is provided. The plurality of Cartesian points is divided into a first group and a second group, wherein all of the Cartesian points in the first group have a kr that is less than or equal to kr of all of the Cartesian points in the second group. The second group is divided into N subgroups. An inversion recovery radio frequency is applied to the subject. K-space data for the first group of Cartesian points for M different time periods is acquired, wherein k-space data is acquired for only one sub-group sequentially and cyclically for the M different time periods. For each time period i of the M different time periods, acquired k-space data for the first group of Cartesian points at time period i and k-space data from N consecutive subgroups of Cartesian points. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/539061 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0042 (20130101) A61B 5/055 (20130101) A61B 5/742 (20130101) A61B 2576/026 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/482 (20130101) G01R 33/5601 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/4633 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/4647 (20130101) G06K 9/4652 (20130101) G06K 2009/4657 (20130101) G06K 2209/051 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) G06T 7/0061 (20130101) G06T 7/0065 (20130101) G06T 7/0087 (20130101) G06T 2207/10096 (20130101) G06T 2207/20076 (20130101) G06T 2207/30016 (20130101) G06T 2207/30196 (20130101) |
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| US 09454809 | Popescu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel Popescu (Champaign, Illinois); Taewoo Kim (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and a module for use with a microscope for enhancing image contrast in an image of a phase object. A transmission image of a specimen is formed in an image plane, of which a Fourier transform is generated in a Fourier plane. An amplitude filter is applied to the Fourier transform field, which is then transformed back to an image at a focal plane of a detector array. An image signal from the detector array is processed to generate a contrast-enhanced image of the specimen. |
| FILED | Monday, February 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/776037 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/36 (20130101) G02B 21/361 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 5/007 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09456200 | Ji et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Songbai Ji (Hanover, New Hampshire); Xiaoyao Fan (Hanover, New Hampshire); Keith D. Paulsen (Hanover, New Hampshire); David W. Roberts (Lyme, New Hampshire); Alex Hartov (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for, and method of, extracting a surface profile from a stereo pair of images obtained at an arbitrary setting S of an optical system, includes determining surface profile reconstruction parameters for images obtained with the optical system at a reference setting So of the optical system; determining warping parameters for a digital image processor for warping images obtained with the optical system at the arbitrary setting S into images corresponding to the reference setting So; obtaining the stereo pair of images from at least one camera of the optical system; warping the stereo pair of images into images corresponding to the reference setting So, and using the surface profile reconstruction parameters to determine the surface profile. In a particular embodiment, the surface profile is passed to a computer model of tissue deformation and used to determine an intra-surgery location of a tumor or other anatomic feature of tissue. |
| FILED | Friday, January 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/370713 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 11/02 (20130101) G01C 25/00 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 3/0093 (20130101) G06T 2200/04 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 13/0246 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04N 2013/0074 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert E. Guldberg (Marietta, Georgia); Yash M. Kolambkar (Mableton, Georgia); Dietmar W. Hutmacher (Kenmore Hills, Australia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION (Atlanta, Georgia); QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert E. Guldberg (Marietta, Georgia); Yash M. Kolambkar (Mableton, Georgia); Dietmar W. Hutmacher (Kenmore Hills, Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and method to affect anatomical structures is disclosed. The systems and method can be used to regenerate bone. The system can comprise a nanofiber mesh configured to substantially conform to an anatomical structure, wherein at least a portion of the nanofiber mesh defines a fillable space. The system can comprise a carrier substance comprising an active agent, such as a bone morphogenetic protein, The carrier substance can be disposed within the fillable space. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/625069 |
| ART UNIT | 3738 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2/2846 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61F 2/3094 (20130101) A61F 2/30767 (20130101) A61F 2002/0068 (20130101) A61F 2002/285 (20130101) A61F 2002/2817 (20130101) A61F 2002/2825 (20130101) A61F 2002/3084 (20130101) A61F 2002/3092 (20130101) A61F 2002/30028 (20130101) A61F 2002/30075 (20130101) A61F 2002/30235 (20130101) A61F 2002/30838 (20130101) A61F 2002/30914 (20130101) A61F 2210/0061 (20130101) A61F 2230/0069 (20130101) A61F 2240/001 (20130101) A61F 2310/00365 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/52 (20130101) A61L 27/54 (20130101) A61L 27/56 (20130101) A61L 27/3804 (20130101) A61L 27/3834 (20130101) A61L 31/16 (20130101) A61L 31/146 (20130101) A61L 2300/414 (20130101) A61L 2400/06 (20130101) A61L 2400/12 (20130101) A61L 2430/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09452184 | Ildstad et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Suzanne T. Ildstad (Prospect, Kentucky); Mary Jane Elliott (Brandenburg, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to human facilitating cells (hFC), and methods of isolating, characterizing, and using such hFCs. |
| FILED | Friday, January 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/157888 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 35/17 (20130101) A61K 35/28 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0634 (20130101) C12N 5/0652 (20130101) |
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| US 09452219 | Bates et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paula J. Bates (Louisville, Kentucky); Mohammad Tariq Malik (Prospect, Kentucky); Kyung A. Kang (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paula J. Bates (Louisville, Kentucky); Mohammad Tariq Malik (Prospect, Kentucky); Kyung A. Kang (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition comprises an anti-nucleolin agent conjugated to nanoparticles. The nanoparticles are non-magnetic, not iron oxide and not polyacrylamide. Furthermore, a pharmaceutical composition for treating cancer comprises a composition including an anti-nucleolin agent conjugated to nanoparticles, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. |
| FILED | Friday, June 01, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/122617 |
| 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 47/48015 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/48169 (20130101) A61K 47/48238 (20130101) A61K 47/48884 (20130101) A61K 49/04 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2982 (20150115) |
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| US 09452433 | Shenderov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Advanced Liquid Logic, Inc. (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina); Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Liquid Logic, Inc. (San Diego, California); Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Shenderov (Raleigh, North Carolina); Michael G. Pollack (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for conducting chemical or biochemical reactions that require multiple reaction temperatures are described. The methods involve moving one or more reaction droplets or reaction volumes through various reaction zones having different temperatures on a microfluidics apparatus. The devices comprise a microfluidics apparatus comprising appropriate actuators capable of moving reaction droplets or reaction volumes through the various reaction zones. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/290057 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502792 (20130101) B01L 7/525 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 2200/0673 (20130101) B01L 2300/089 (20130101) B01L 2300/0654 (20130101) B01L 2300/0864 (20130101) B01L 2300/0887 (20130101) B01L 2400/0427 (20130101) |
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| US 09452667 | Harmon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Corvid Technologies LLC (Mooresville, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Corvid Technologies LLC (Mooresville, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Harmon (Mooresville, North Carolina); Gregory McGowan (Huntersville, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for transporting a cargo load using a carrier aircraft includes: mounting a shield on the cargo load such that the shield is supported by the cargo load to form a protected load; and aerial transporting the protected load as a slung load from the carrier aircraft, wherein the shield serves to protect the cargo load from aerodynamic loads generated by flight of the carrier aircraft. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/192453 |
| ART UNIT | 3612 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Windows, Windscreens, Non-fixed Roofs, Doors, or Similar Devices for Vehicles; Removable External Protective Coverings Specially Adapted for Vehicles B60J 11/06 (20130101) B60J 11/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 1/22 (20130101) B64D 9/00 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/46 (20130101) |
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| US 09452750 | Shukla et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Oshkosh Defense, LLC (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oshkosh Defense, LLC (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Deepak Shukla (Oshkosh, Wisconsin); Rongjun Zhang (Oshkosh, Wisconsin); Nader Nasr (Neenah, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of operating a first motor/generator and a second motor/generator in a vehicle drive includes operating the vehicle drive in a first operating mode and a second operating mode, the first operating mode including operating the first motor/generator as a generator and operating the second motor/generator as a motor, the second operating mode including operating both the first motor/generator as a generator and the second motor/generator as a generator when a first power generation capability associated with the first motor/generator is below a first threshold level, the first motor/generator and the second motor/generator providing electrical power to the DC bus without doing either of (a) providing electrical power to an energy storage device or (b) consuming electrical power from an energy storage device. |
| FILED | Friday, September 11, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/852095 |
| ART UNIT | 3659 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Arrangement or Mounting of Propulsion Units or of Transmissions in Vehicles; Arrangement or Mounting of Plural Diverse Prime-movers in Vehicles; Auxiliary Drives for Vehicles; Instrumentation or Dashboards for Vehicles; Arrangements in Connection With Cooling, Air Intake, Gas Exhaust or Fuel Supply of Propulsion Units in Vehicles B60K 6/26 (20130101) B60K 6/34 (20130101) B60K 6/365 (20130101) B60K 6/445 (20130101) 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 11/04 (20130101) Conjoint Control of Vehicle Sub-units of Different Type or Different Function; Control Systems Specially Adapted for Hybrid Vehicles; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems for Purposes Not Related to the Control of a Particular Sub-unit B60W 10/02 (20130101) B60W 10/06 (20130101) B60W 10/08 (20130101) B60W 20/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B60W 2510/081 (20130101) B60W 2710/083 (20130101) Gearing F16H 1/28 (20130101) F16H 3/72 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/92 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 903/93 (20130101) Y10S 903/906 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James D. Marks (Kensington, California); Jianlong Lou (San Bruno, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure provides antibodies that specifically bind to and typically neutralize botulinum neurotoxins (e.g., BoNT/A, BoNT/B, BoNT/E, etc.) and the epitopes bound by those antibodies. The antibodies and derivatives thereof and/or other antibodies that specifically bind to the neutralizing epitopes provided herein can be used to neutralize botulinum neurotoxin and are therefore also useful in the treatment of botulism. |
| FILED | Friday, February 27, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/634355 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/1282 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2316/96 (20130101) C07K 2317/21 (20130101) C07K 2317/52 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09453102 | Luscombe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christine Keiko Luscombe (Seattle, Washington); Ken Okamoto (Tsukuba, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the preparation of mono- and bis-end-functionalized π-conjugated polymers. In the methods, chalcogens are selectively installed at the polymer terminus or termini. |
| FILED | Monday, October 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/518951 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 61/126 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 2261/16 (20130101) C08G 2261/18 (20130101) C08G 2261/70 (20130101) C08G 2261/72 (20130101) C08G 2261/312 (20130101) C08G 2261/417 (20130101) C08G 2261/964 (20130101) C08G 2261/1412 (20130101) C08G 2261/3142 (20130101) C08G 2261/3221 (20130101) C08G 2261/3223 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Warwick Mills Inc. (New Ipswich, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Warwick Mills Inc. (New Ipswich, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles A. Howland (Temple, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of protecting a user from a strike by a maximum threat includes adhesively bonding a plurality of solid elements to a support structure in a planar array, dimensions and material properties of the solid elements, support structure, and adhesive being selected to cause an impacted solid element to be dislodged by the maximum threat, and to combine its mass with the projectile for reduced velocity and increased impact area. The support structure is configured to fail in tensile and to allow the combined projectile and solid element to pass through the support structure. The solid elements can be ceramic, and can be commutated upon impact while remaining substantially intact. The solid elements can include titanium backing layers. After formation, ceramic cores can be compressed upon cooling by an outer ceramic layer having a higher coefficient of thermal expansion, the outer layer being formed by glazing or doping. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/472468 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 37/12 (20130101) B32B 2307/542 (20130101) B32B 2313/02 (20130101) B32B 2323/04 (20130101) Armour; Armoured Turrets; Armoured or Armed Vehicles; Means of Attack or Defence, e.g Camouflage, in General F41H 1/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F41H 5/0428 (20130101) F41H 5/0435 (20130101) F41H 5/0457 (20130101) F41H 5/0471 (20130101) F41H 5/0492 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 156/1092 (20150115) Y10T 156/1093 (20150115) |
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| US 09453793 | Bratkovski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alexandre M Bratkovski (Mountain View, California); R Stanley Williams (Portola Valley, California); Zhiyong Li (Foster City, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexandre M Bratkovski (Mountain View, California); R Stanley Williams (Portola Valley, California); Zhiyong Li (Foster City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Examples of integrated sensors are disclosed herein. An example of an integrated sensor includes a flexible substrate, and an array of spaced apart sensing members formed on a surface of the flexible substrate. Each of the spaced apart sensing members includes a plurality of polygon assemblies. The polygon assemblies are arranged in a controlled pattern on the surface of the flexible substrate such that each of the plurality of polygon assemblies is a predetermined distance from each other of the plurality of polygon assemblies, and each of the plurality of polygon assemblies including collapsible signal amplifying structures controllably positioned in a predetermined geometric shape. |
| FILED | Friday, April 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/452218 |
| ART UNIT | 1798 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/01 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/648 (20130101) G01N 21/658 (20130101) |
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| US 09453900 | MacGillivray et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. MacGillivray (Fayetteville, New York); David L. Graham (Pennellville, New York); Dane E. Reiner (Liverpool, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for identifying an unidentified sound source in a 3-dimensional sensor array calculates a position vector for each of a plurality of sensors in the array. A time Fourier transform is computed based on time samples from each of the sensors. A spatial Fourier transform is computed for the results of the time Fourier transform and in part on the position vectors calculated. All three dimensional components of the wavenumber of the received signal, kx, ky and kz are explicitly calculated to generate spatial frequency information in all three dimensions. Direction of arrival of the received sound signal is determined in all three spatial directions providing unambiguous target localization and acoustic signature characterization. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/838016 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 3/80 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01S 3/86 (20130101) |
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| US 09453970 | Blanche et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pierre Alexandre Blanche (Tucson, Arizona); Nasser N. Peyghambarian (Tucson, Arizona); Brittany Lynn (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Optical switch based on a micro-mirror device such as a DMD for simultaneous switching light from N inputs to M outputs with switching times of about 10 microseconds, where N and M are generally greater than one. The mirrors of the device are oriented according to a pattern calculated based on a Fourier Transform of spatial distribution of M outputs such as to form, in diffraction of light incident on the device, an diffraction light pattern that in the output plane is substantially congruent with the spatial distribution of M outputs. The device can be configured as a modulator of amplitude and/or a modulator of phase of incident light wavefront. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 31, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/439778 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/3518 (20130101) G02B 6/3546 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/3556 (20130101) G02B 6/3584 (20130101) G02B 26/06 (20130101) G02B 26/0833 (20130101) G02B 27/42 (20130101) |
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| US 09454004 | Beresnev et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Research Laboratory ATTN: RDRL-LOC-I (Adelphi, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonid A. Beresnev (Columbia, Maryland); Jony J. Liu (Olney, Maryland); Gary W. Carhart (Elkton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for coherent beam combining in an array of laser beam collimators. The array of laser beam collimators includes an array of a plurality collimating lenses, each lens intercepting a respective one of a plurality of divergent laser beams. Each collimating lens is joined with adjacent collimating lenses such that an output aperture is formed with a common vertex of the adjacently joined collimating lenses. A concave mirror is positioned a distance from the common vertex for receiving a fraction of each of the collimated laser beams that passed through a portion of each of the collimating lenses that are adjacent to the common vertex, and then providing reflected fractional collimated laser beams. A sensor intercepts the reflected fractional collimated laser beams so as to provide a signal that is applied to synchronize the phase of each of the collimated laser beams. |
| FILED | Friday, September 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/039665 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 27/0087 (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 3/005 (20130101) H01S 3/1307 (20130101) H01S 3/2383 (20130101) |
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| US 09454077 | Carroll et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory T. Carroll (New York, New York); Jeffrey T. Koberstein (Storrs, Connecticut); Denong Wang (Palo Alto, California); Nicholas J. Turro (Tenafly, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds and methods for controlling the surface properties are described. Compounds of the invention can form radicals upon exposure to irradiation, which can then react with nearby molecules to alter the surface properties of various substrates. The invention can provide surfaces that are resistant to dewetting, surfaces that have immobilized molecules such as carbohydrates and polymers immobilized, and surfaces that have metals deposited on the surface. The invention can be utilized in a wide range of application, such as sensors, microreactors, microarrays, electroless deposition of metals, and the like. |
| FILED | Monday, January 05, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/589306 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 3/06 (20130101) B05D 3/067 (20130101) B05D 5/00 (20130101) B05D 7/02 (20130101) B05D 7/14 (20130101) Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 18/30 (20130101) C23C 18/32 (20130101) C23C 18/1612 (20130101) C23C 18/1641 (20130101) Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/20 (20130101) G03F 7/0045 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09454460 | Yang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Junfeng Yang (New York, New York); Heming Cui (New York, New York); Jingyue Wu (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Junfeng Yang (New York, New York); Heming Cui (New York, New York); Jingyue Wu (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and media for providing determinism in multithreaded programs are provided. In some embodiments, methods for providing determinism in multithreaded programs are provided, the methods comprising: instrumenting a program with: a proxy that: receives inputs to the program; and determines whether a schedule corresponding to a set of input constraints satisfied by the inputs has been memoized; and a replayer that: if it is determined that a schedule corresponding to a set of input constraints satisfied by the inputs has been memoized, processes the inputs by the program according to the schedule. |
| FILED | Monday, July 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/190316 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 8/458 (20130101) G06F 11/3632 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09454511 | Casey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen D. Casey (Ashburn, Virginia); Brian M. Sadler (Adelphi, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | AMERICAN UNIVERSITY (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen D. Casey (Ashburn, Virginia); Brian M. Sadler (Adelphi, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present embodiments include methods of time-frequency analyzing signals. Some embodiments provide methods of processing signals comprising: receiving a communication signal; adaptively partitioning the signal in a time domain into a plurality of windows of the signal; transforming each of the windows of the signal producing respective expansions in a frequency domain and obtaining respective samples of the windows of signal in the frequency domain; and mapping the samples in the frequency domain back into the time domain. |
| FILED | Friday, May 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/464843 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/141 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission H04B 1/71632 (20130101) |
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| US 09454659 | Daymont |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Securisea, Inc. (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SECURISEA, INC. (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua M. Daymont (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention teaches a system and methods of detecting software vulnerabilities in a computer program by analyzing the compiled code and optionally the source code of the computer program. The invention models compiled software to examine both control flow and dataflow properties of the target program. A comprehensive instruction model is used for each instruction of the compiled code, and is complemented by a control flow graph that includes all potential control flow paths of the instruction. A data flow model is used to record the flow of unsafe data during the execution of the program. The system analyzes the data flow model and creates a security finding corresponding to each instruction that calls an unsafe function on unsafe data. These security findings are aggregated in a security report along with the corresponding debug information, any ancillary information, remediation recommendations and the optional source code information for each instruction that triggered the security finding. |
| FILED | Friday, August 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/460636 |
| ART UNIT | 2431 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/3668 (20130101) G06F 21/566 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 2221/033 (20130101) G06F 2221/034 (20130101) |
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| US 09454743 | Braman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Norwich University Applied Research Institutes (Northfield, Vermont) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Norwich University Applied Research Institutes (Northfield, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric W. Braman (Northfield, Vermont); Andrew W. Cutts (Henniker, New Hampshire); Michael Geilich (Cornish, New Hampshire); Dennis McGrath (Hartland, Vermont); Eric Richardson (Norwich, Vermont); Jeffrey A. Schmidt (Chicago, Illinois); Robert Schmidt (Princeton, New Jersey); Thomas Bernhardt (Logan, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for simulating risk tolerance and associated adversary costs in a distributed business process are disclosed. The methods and apparatus simulate an interdependent business process, such as a financial transaction system, in a secure distributed manner. Each business entity that is part of the interdependent business process models itself on a local client device at any chosen level of detail. A simulation server connects the separate client based simulations into one large simulation. Details of each local simulation may be hidden from other simulation participants. However, interruptions in business flow caused by simulated disruptions introduced at the simulation server and/or a client device are propagated to all of the effected simulation participants via the simulation server. In addition, the simulation server receives inputs from users indicative of risk tolerance levels and associated response actions. If the operational costs imposed by a selected response action are greater than a deterrence threshold associated with a particular adversary, the adversary is not deterred from causing a certain disruption to the simulated competitive market environment. If the operational costs imposed by a selected response action are greater than the deterrence threshold the adversary is deterred. |
| FILED | Monday, October 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/512671 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/5009 (20130101) Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/0635 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06Q 40/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09454819 | Seetharaman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESETNED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gunasekaran Seetharaman (Alexandria, Virginia); Kannappan Palaniappan (Columbia, Missouri); Filiz Bunyak Ersoy (Columbia, Missouri); Rui Wang (Guangzhou, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for static and moving object detection employing a motion computation method based on spatio-temporal tensor formulation, a foreground and background modeling method, and a multi-cue appearance comparison method. The invention operates in the presence of shadows, illumination changes, dynamic background, and both stopped and removed objects. |
| FILED | Friday, July 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/795953 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/40 (20130101) G06T 7/0042 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 7/0051 (20130101) G06T 7/0085 (20130101) G06T 7/2006 (20130101) G06T 2207/10016 (20130101) |
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| US 09454888 | Xie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | INDIANA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian Xie (Carmel, Indiana); Jie Chen (Carmel, Indiana); Lingxi Li (Zionsville, Indiana); Yaobin Chen (Carmel, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, apparatuses and methods for detecting internal cell faults using online and real-time sensing techniques, and providing an accurate and reliable early warning for the incoming failure of battery cells hours or days prior to failure. A system is configured to perform real-time and direct measurement of battery cell parameters of temperature, voltage, and AC impedance through online sensing. These parameters may be simultaneously processed using advanced probabilistic and/or fuzzy logic-based algorithms to provide an early warning for the incoming failure of battery cells in a battery pack. This technology may safeguard the LIB battery packs while allowing them to operate at or near 100% capacity in both transportation and stationary applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 27, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/923852 |
| ART UNIT | 2682 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 31/3606 (20130101) G01R 31/3651 (20130101) G01R 31/3658 (20130101) G01R 31/3675 (20130101) Signalling or Calling Systems; Order Telegraphs; Alarm Systems G08B 21/185 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G08B 29/181 (20130101) |
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| US 09455030 | Wu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qing Wu (Manlius, New York); Richard Linderman (Rome, New York); Mark Barnell (North Syracuse, New York); Yiran Chen (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Hai Li (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Invention provides an apparatus and method for performing signal processing on a crossbar array of resistive memory devices. The invention is implemented using one or multiple crossbar arrays of resistive memory devices in conjunction with devices for converting input real number representations to voltage waveforms, devices for converting current waveforms into voltage waveforms, and devices for converting voltage waveforms to real numbers outputs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/977683 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 13/0038 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09455094 | Tour et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Yu Zhu (Houston, Texas); Lei Li (Houston, Texas); Zheng Yan (Houston, Texas); Jian Lin (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Yu Zhu (Houston, Texas); Lei Li (Houston, Texas); Zheng Yan (Houston, Texas); Jian Lin (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods of making graphene-carbon nanotube hybrid materials. Such methods generally include: (1) associating a graphene film with a substrate; (2) applying a catalyst and a carbon source to the graphene film; and (3) growing carbon nanotubes on the graphene film. The grown carbon nanotubes become covalently linked to the graphene film through carbon-carbon bonds that are located at one or more junctions between the carbon nanotubes and the graphene film. In addition, the grown carbon nanotubes are in ohmic contact with the graphene film through the carbon-carbon bonds at the one or more junctions. The one or more junctions may include seven-membered carbon rings. Also provided are the formed graphene-carbon nanotube hybrid materials. |
| FILED | Monday, November 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/358864 |
| ART UNIT | 2848 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/022 (20130101) C01B 31/0226 (20130101) C01B 31/0438 (20130101) C01B 31/0484 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 11/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01G 11/72 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/13 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/30 (20150115) Y10T 428/24893 (20150115) |
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| US 09455114 | Wong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Liang Jie Wong (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Byron Freelon (Chicago, Illinois); Timm Rohwer (Arlington, Massachusetts); Nuh Gedik (Watertown, Massachusetts); Steven Glenn Johnson (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Liang Jie Wong (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Byron Freelon (Chicago, Illinois); Timm Rohwer (Arlington, Massachusetts); Nuh Gedik (Watertown, Massachusetts); Steven Glenn Johnson (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for modulating a particle pulse include a succession of Hermite-Gaussian optical modes that effectively construct a three-dimensional optical trap in the particle pulse's rest frame. Optical incidence angles between the propagation of the particle pulse and the optical pulse are tuned for improved compression. Particles pulses that can be modulated by these methods and apparatus include charged particles and particles with non-zero polarizability in the Rayleigh regime. Exact solutions to Maxwell's equations for first-order Hermite-Gaussian beams demonstrate single-electron pulse compression factors of more than 100 in both longitudinal and transverse dimensions. The methods and apparatus are useful in ultrafast electron imaging for both single- and multi-electron pulse compression, and as a means of circumventing temporal distortions in magnetic lenses when focusing ultra-short electron pulses. |
| FILED | Friday, August 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/832056 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 37/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 2237/047 (20130101) H01J 2237/063 (20130101) |
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| US 09455356 | Das et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mrinal Das (Durham, North Carolina); Brett Hull (Raleigh, North Carolina); Joseph Sumakeris (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mrinal Das (Durham, North Carolina); Brett Hull (Raleigh, North Carolina); Joseph Sumakeris (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Silicon Carbide (SiC) PiN Diodes are provided having a reverse blocking voltage (VR) from about 3.0 kV to about 10.0 kV and a forward voltage (VF) of less than about 4.3 V. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/363800 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/868 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/1608 (20130101) H01L 29/6606 (20130101) |
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| US 09455365 | Balicas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Luis Balicas (Tallahassee, Florida); Nihar R. Pradhan (Tallahassee, Florida); Efstratios Manousakis (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A light-induced diode-like response in multi-layered MoSe2 field-effect transistors resulting from a difference in the size of the Schottky barriers between drain and source contacts, wherein each barrier can be modeled as a Schottky diode but with opposite senses of current rectification, wherein the diode response results from the light induced promotion of photo-generated carriers across the smaller barrier. The sense of current rectification can be controlled by the gate voltage which is able to modulate the relative amplitude between both barriers, yielding a photovoltaic response. |
| FILED | Friday, February 26, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/054829 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/032 (20130101) H01L 31/078 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/022425 (20130101) |
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| US 09455391 | Nayfeh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Osama M. Nayfeh (San Diego, California); Son Dinh (San Diego, California); Anna Leese de Escobar (San Diego, California); Kenneth Simonsen (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for constructing a superconducting Josephson-based nonvolatile quantum memory device comprising: sequentially depositing on a silicon substrate a thermal oxide buffer layer, a superconductor bottom-electrode thin film, and an oxide isolation layer; patterning an active window having dimensions smaller that 10 nanometers in the oxide isolation layer; then sequentially depositing a bottom tunnel oxide layer, a charge-trapping layer, a top cap, and a top superconductor electrode layer; defining an active region by dry etching down to the oxide isolation layer while protecting the active region from etch chemistry; depositing a device passivation layer; defining and patterning vias from a top of the device passivation layer to the superconductor bottom-electrode thin film and to the top superconductor electrode of the active region; and depositing metal interconnect into the vias. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 03, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/060353 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/18 (20130101) H01L 39/223 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 39/2493 (20130101) |
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| US 09455392 | Abraham et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Abraham (Croton-On-Hudson, New York); Jerry M. Chow (White Plains, New York); Antonio D. Corcoles Gonzalez (Mount Kisco, New York); George A. Keefe (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Mary E. Rothwell (Ridgefield, Connecticut); James R. Rozen (Peekskill, New York); Matthias Steffen (Cortlandt Manor, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A coplanar waveguide device includes a coplanar waveguide structure disposed on a substrate, at least one qubit coupled to the coplanar waveguide structure and an add-on chip having a metallized trench, and disposed over the substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, January 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/610551 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 39/2406 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09455447 | Thillaiyan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | EAGLEPICHER TECHNOLOGIES, LLC (Joplin, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | EAGLEPICHER TECHNOLOGIES, LLC (Joplin, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramanathan Thillaiyan (Joplin, Missouri); Wujun Fu (Joplin, Missouri); Mario Destephen (Joplin, Missouri); Greg Miller (Diamond, Missouri); Ernest Ndzebet (Carl Junction, Missouri); Umamaheswari Janakiraman (Webb City, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved lithium-sulfur battery containing a surface-functionalized carbonaceous material. The presence of the surface-functionalized carbonaceous material generates weak chemical bonds between the functional groups of the surface-functionalized carbonaceous material and the functional groups of the polysulfides, which prevents the polysulfide migration to the battery anode, thereby providing a battery with relatively high energy density and good partial discharge efficiency. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/038337 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 2/1673 (20130101) H01M 4/13 (20130101) H01M 4/382 (20130101) H01M 4/628 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/5815 (20130101) H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 10/058 (20130101) H01M 10/0568 (20130101) H01M 10/0569 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 7/0052 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/7011 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49108 (20150115) |
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| US 09455701 | Titus |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey L. Titus (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatuses and methods for modulating current/voltage response using multiple semi-conductive channel regions (SCR) produced from different integrated semiconductor structures are provided. In particular, embodiments include systems and methods for controlling current or mitigating electromagnetic or radiation interference effects using combined integrated functions of a lateral double-diffused metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (LDMOSFET) and metal-semiconductor field effect transistor (MESFET) disposed in proximity of a LDMOSFET's SCR within a certain orientation forming a second SCR. |
| FILED | Friday, October 02, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/873739 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/0207 (20130101) H01L 27/0617 (20130101) H01L 29/812 (20130101) H01L 29/1033 (20130101) H01L 29/7816 (20130101) Pulse Technique H03K 17/161 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09455707 | Herr et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anna Y. Herr (Ellicott City, Maryland); Quentin P. Herr (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anna Y. Herr (Ellicott City, Maryland); Quentin P. Herr (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment includes a superconductive gate system. The superconductive gate system includes a Josephson D-gate circuit comprising a bi-stable loop configured to store a digital state as one of a first data state and a second data state in response to an enable single flux quantum (SFQ) pulse provided on an enable input and a respective presence of or absence of a data SFQ pulse provided on a data input. The digital state can be provided at an output. The readout circuit is coupled to the output and can be configured to reproduce the digital state as an output signal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/325518 |
| ART UNIT | 2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Static Stores G11C 11/44 (20130101) Pulse Technique H03K 3/38 (20130101) H03K 19/0008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03K 19/1952 (20130101) |
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| US 09455757 | Tripurari et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karthik Tripurari (New York, New York); Peter R. Kinget (Summit, New Jersey); Harish Krishnaswamy (New York, New York); Teng Yang (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Circuits and methods for performing harmonic rejection mixing are provided. In some embodiments, the circuit comprises: a first amplifier that amplifies a received signal at a first gain; a second amplifier that amplifies the received signal at a fraction of the first gain; a mixer that receives a local oscillator signal having a first fundamental frequency and the first amplifier output, and outputs a first mixed signal; a second mixer that receives a second local oscillator signal having a fundamental frequency that is a multiple of the first fundamental frequency and the second amplifier output, and outputs a second mixed signal; and an output stage that receives the first and second mixed signals and outputs a sum of the first and second mixed signals. |
| FILED | Friday, July 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/415914 |
| ART UNIT | 2633 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Demodulation or Transference of Modulation From One Carrier to Another H03D 7/1441 (20130101) H03D 7/1458 (20130101) H03D 2200/0086 (20130101) Transmission H04B 1/123 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 25/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09456483 | Soles et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alexander Soles (Bloomington, Indiana); Joel McWhinney (Raeford, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Soles (Bloomington, Indiana); Joel McWhinney (Raeford, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A compact multi-emitter source that can be used for a multitude of purposes including identification of friend or foe, landing zones, roadways, obstructions, aircraft, vehicles, personnel, and underwater marking and can be quickly programmed in field conditions and requires no additional support items to operate. |
| FILED | Friday, November 22, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/087691 |
| ART UNIT | 2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Heating; Electric Lighting Not Otherwise Provided for H05B 33/0845 (20130101) H05B 33/0863 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SRI INTERNATIONAL (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI INTERNATIONAL (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc Hornbostel (Palo Alto, California); Gopala N. Krishnan (Sunnyvale, California); Angel Sanjurjo (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for producing a strong, light, sorbent-based storage/dispenser system for gases and fuels. The system comprises a porous monolithic material with an adherent strong impervious skin that is capable of storing a gas under pressure in a safe and usable manner. |
| FILED | Saturday, April 25, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/696425 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/0407 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 2253/31 (20130101) B01D 2253/102 (20130101) B01D 2253/306 (20130101) B01D 2253/308 (20130101) B01D 2253/311 (20130101) B01D 2253/342 (20130101) B01D 2257/7025 (20130101) B01D 2259/4525 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/02 (20130101) B01J 20/18 (20130101) B01J 20/20 (20130101) B01J 20/328 (20130101) B01J 20/2808 (20130101) B01J 20/3204 (20130101) B01J 20/3236 (20130101) B01J 20/3268 (20130101) B01J 20/3291 (20130101) B01J 20/28011 (20130101) B01J 20/28042 (20130101) B01J 20/28045 (20130101) B01J 20/28057 (20130101) B01J 20/28061 (20130101) B01J 20/28066 (20130101) B01J 20/28088 (20130101) Vessels for Containing or Storing Compressed, Liquefied or Solidified Gases; Fixed-capacity Gas-holders; Filling Vessels With, or Discharging From Vessels, Compressed, Liquefied, or Solidified Gases F17C 11/005 (20130101) F17C 11/007 (20130101) Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 20/20 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/249954 (20150401) Y10T 428/249979 (20150401) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sean M. Kelly (Pittsford, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PRAXAIR TECHNOLOGY, INC. (Danbury, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sean M. Kelly (Pittsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for air temperature control in an oxygen transport membrane based reactor is provided. The system and method involves introducing a specific quantity of cooling air or trim air in between stages in a multistage oxygen transport membrane based reactor or furnace to maintain generally consistent surface temperatures of the oxygen transport membrane elements and associated reactors. The associated reactors may include reforming reactors, boilers or process gas heaters. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/509381 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/46 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 53/226 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 8/009 (20130101) B01J 8/025 (20130101) B01J 8/062 (20130101) B01J 8/065 (20130101) B01J 19/2475 (20130101) B01J 2208/00176 (20130101) B01J 2208/00371 (20130101) B01J 2219/00006 (20130101) B01J 2219/24 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 3/382 (20130101) C01B 3/384 (20130101) C01B 3/386 (20130101) C01B 13/0251 (20130101) C01B 2203/148 (20130101) C01B 2203/0233 (20130101) C01B 2203/0261 (20130101) C01B 2203/0805 (20130101) C01B 2203/0844 (20130101) C01B 2203/1241 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 1/041 (20130101) C07C 1/0485 (20130101) |
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| US 09452401 | Kelly et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | PRAXAIR TECHNOLOGY, INC. (Danbury, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sean M. Kelly (Pittsford, New York); Gervase Maxwell Christie (Amherst, New York); Lee J. Rosen (Buffalo, New York); Charles Robinson (Lawtons, New York); Jamie R. Wilson (Maynard, Massachusetts); Javier E. Gonzalez (East Amherst, New York); Uttam R. Doraswami (Tonawanda, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A commercially viable modular ceramic oxygen transport membrane reforming reactor for producing a synthesis gas that improves the thermal coupling of reactively-driven oxygen transport membrane tubes and catalyst reforming tubes required to efficiently and effectively produce synthesis gas. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/508297 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 8/009 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 8/065 (20130101) B01J 8/067 (20130101) B01J 12/007 (20130101) B01J 19/242 (20130101) B01J 19/243 (20130101) B01J 19/2425 (20130101) B01J 19/2475 (20130101) B01J 2208/00309 (20130101) B01J 2208/00938 (20130101) B01J 2219/0004 (20130101) B01J 2219/00006 (20130101) B01J 2219/00117 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 3/382 (20130101) C01B 3/384 (20130101) C01B 13/0255 (20130101) C01B 2203/127 (20130101) C01B 2203/0233 (20130101) C01B 2203/0244 (20130101) C01B 2203/0894 (20130101) Methods of Steam Generation; Steam Boilers F22B 1/003 (20130101) F22B 1/16 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/129 (20151101) |
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| US 09453100 | Allen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Scott D. Allen (Ithaca, New York); Wayne R. Willkomm (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novomer, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott D. Allen (Ithaca, New York); Wayne R. Willkomm (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention encompasses polyurethane compositions comprising aliphatic polycarbonate chains. In one aspect, the present invention encompasses polyurethane foams, thermoplastics and elastomers derived from aliphatic polycarbonate polyols and polyisocyanates wherein the polyol chains contain a primary repeating unit having a structure: In another aspect, the invention provides articles comprising the inventive foam and elastomer compositions as well as methods of making such compositions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/234482 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 18/10 (20130101) C08G 18/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 18/44 (20130101) C08G 18/165 (20130101) C08G 18/246 (20130101) C08G 18/664 (20130101) C08G 18/1833 (20130101) C08G 18/2081 (20130101) C08G 18/7664 (20130101) C08G 18/7664 (20130101) C08G 64/34 (20130101) C08G 64/183 (20130101) C08G 64/0208 (20130101) C08G 2101/0008 (20130101) C08G 2101/0025 (20130101) C08G 2101/0066 (20130101) C08G 2101/0083 (20130101) |
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| US 09453129 | Naskar |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amit K. Naskar (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A polymer blend material comprising: (i) a first polymer containing hydrogen bond donating groups having at least one hydrogen atom bound to a heteroatom selected from oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur, or an anionic version of said first polymer wherein at least a portion of hydrogen atoms bound to a heteroatom is absent and replaced with at least one electron pair; (ii) a second polymer containing hydrogen bond accepting groups selected from nitrile, halogen, and ether functional groups; and (iii) at least one modifying agent selected from carbon particles, ether-containing polymers, and Lewis acid compounds; wherein, if said second polymer contains ether functional groups, then said at least one modifying agent is selected from carbon particles and Lewis acid compounds. Methods for producing the polymer blend, molded forms thereof, and articles thereof, are also described. |
| FILED | Monday, June 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/311893 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 3/04 (20130101) C08K 3/04 (20130101) C08K 3/04 (20130101) C08K 3/04 (20130101) C08K 3/04 (20130101) C08K 3/04 (20130101) C08K 3/04 (20130101) C08K 3/04 (20130101) C08K 3/22 (20130101) C08K 3/22 (20130101) C08K 3/22 (20130101) C08K 3/38 (20130101) C08K 3/38 (20130101) C08K 3/38 (20130101) C08K 3/38 (20130101) C08K 3/38 (20130101) C08K 3/38 (20130101) C08K 3/38 (20130101) C08K 3/38 (20130101) C08K 3/38 (20130101) C08K 3/38 (20130101) C08K 3/38 (20130101) C08K 5/14 (20130101) C08K 5/14 (20130101) C08K 5/14 (20130101) C08K 5/14 (20130101) C08K 5/14 (20130101) C08K 5/14 (20130101) C08K 5/14 (20130101) C08K 5/14 (20130101) C08K 5/14 (20130101) C08K 5/14 (20130101) C08K 5/14 (20130101) C08K 5/14 (20130101) C08K 5/14 (20130101) C08K 2003/2296 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 7/00 (20130101) C08L 9/00 (20130101) C08L 9/00 (20130101) C08L 9/02 (20130101) C08L 9/02 (20130101) C08L 9/02 (20130101) C08L 9/02 (20130101) C08L 9/02 (20130101) C08L 9/02 (20130101) C08L 9/02 (20130101) C08L 9/02 (20130101) C08L 9/02 (20130101) C08L 9/02 (20130101) C08L 9/02 (20130101) C08L 9/02 (20130101) C08L 9/06 (20130101) C08L 9/06 (20130101) C08L 21/00 (20130101) C08L 21/00 (20130101) C08L 71/02 (20130101) C08L 71/02 (20130101) C08L 71/02 (20130101) C08L 71/02 (20130101) C08L 71/02 (20130101) C08L 71/02 (20130101) C08L 87/005 (20130101) C08L 97/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08L 97/005 (20130101) C08L 97/005 (20130101) C08L 97/005 (20130101) C08L 97/005 (20130101) C08L 97/005 (20130101) C08L 97/005 (20130101) C08L 97/005 (20130101) C08L 97/005 (20130101) C08L 97/005 (20130101) C08L 97/005 (20130101) C08L 97/005 (20130101) C08L 97/005 (20130101) C08L 97/005 (20130101) C08L 97/005 (20130101) C08L 97/005 (20130101) C08L 97/005 (20130101) |
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| US 09453161 | Zhuravleva et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mariya Zhuravleva (Knoxville, Tennessee); Kan Yang (Solon, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A halide scintillator material is disclosed where the halide may comprise chloride, bromide or iodide. The material is single-crystalline and has a composition of the general formula ABX3 where A is an alkali, B is an alkali earth and X is a halide which general composition was investigated. In particular, crystals of the formula ACa1-yEuyI3 where A=K, Rb and Cs were formed as well as crystals of the formula CsA1-yEuyX3 (where A=Ca, Sr, Ba, or a combination thereof and X=Cl, Br or I or a combination thereof) with divalent Europium doping where 0≦y≦1, and more particularly Eu doping has been studied at one to ten mol %. The disclosed scintillator materials are suitable for making scintillation detectors used in applications such as medical imaging and homeland security. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/314393 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| 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 35/5152 (20130101) C04B 35/6455 (20130101) C04B 2235/3208 (20130101) C04B 2235/3213 (20130101) C04B 2235/3215 (20130101) C04B 2235/3224 (20130101) C04B 2235/9653 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/7733 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C09K 11/7791 (20130101) 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 11/00 (20130101) C30B 15/00 (20130101) C30B 29/12 (20130101) Techniques for Handling Particles or Ionising Radiation Not Otherwise Provided For; Irradiation Devices; Gamma Ray or X-ray Microscopes G21K 4/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2982 (20150115) |
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| US 09453181 | Lupton |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Francis Stephen Lupton (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis Stephen Lupton (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for removing contaminants from algal oil are provided. In an embodiment, a method comprises the steps of combining a sulfuric acid-aqueous solution that has a pH of about 1 or less with a contaminant-containing algal oil at treatment conditions effective to form an effluent. The effluent comprises a treated algal oil phase and contaminants in an acidic aqueous phase. The contaminants comprise metals, phosphorus, or combinations thereof. The acidic aqueous phase is removed from the effluent to form a contaminant-depleted algal oil. |
| FILED | Friday, December 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/561702 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Producing, e.g by Pressing Raw Materials or by Extraction From Waste Materials, Refining or Preserving Fats, Fatty Substances, e.g Lanolin, Fatty Oils or Waxes; Essential Oils; Perfumes C11B 3/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09453289 | Rose et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Klint Aaron Rose (Alviso, California); Joshua D. Kuntz (Livermore, California); Marcus Worsley (Hayward, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Klint Aaron Rose (Alviso, California); Joshua D. Kuntz (Livermore, California); Marcus Worsley (Hayward, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A ceramic, metal, or cermet according to one embodiment includes a first layer having a gradient in composition, microstructure and/or density in an x-y plane oriented parallel to a plane of deposition of the first layer. A ceramic according to another embodiment includes a plurality of layers comprising particles of a non-cubic material, wherein each layer is characterized by the particles of the non-cubic material being aligned in a common direction. Additional products and methods are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/085405 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| 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 2235/787 (20130101) C04B 2235/5296 (20130101) C04B 2235/9653 (20130101) Processes for the Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Production of Coatings; Electroforming; Apparatus Therefor C25D 13/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C25D 13/20 (20130101) C25D 13/22 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/252 (20150115) Y10T 428/12458 (20150115) Y10T 428/24802 (20150115) Y10T 428/24992 (20150115) |
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| US 09453376 | Raymond |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David W. Raymond (Edgewood, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Raymond (Edgewood, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Self-assembling segmented coiled tubing is a concept that allows the strength of thick-wall rigid pipe, and the flexibility of thin-wall tubing, to be realized in a single design. The primary use is for a drillstring tubular, but it has potential for other applications requiring transmission of mechanical loads (forces and torques) through an initially coiled tubular. The concept uses a spring-loaded spherical ‘ball-and-socket’ type joint to interconnect two or more short, rigid segments of pipe. Use of an optional snap ring allows the joint to be permanently made, in a ‘self-assembling’ manner. |
| FILED | Monday, February 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/371696 |
| ART UNIT | 3679 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Earth Drilling, e.g Deep Drilling; Obtaining Oil, Gas, Water, Soluble or Meltable Materials or a Slurry of Minerals From Wells E21B 17/05 (20130101) E21B 17/07 (20130101) E21B 17/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 403/32819 (20150115) |
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| US 09453421 | Cairo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Ralph Cairo (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Jason Robert Parolini (Greer, South Carolina); John McConnell Delvaux (Fountain Inn, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus having reduced wear and friction between CMC-to-metal attachment and interface of the apparatus, including a CMC component having a surface. The CMC component surface is configured for sliding contact with a surface of a metal component, the sliding contact resulting in formation of debris along the contacting surfaces. The surface of the CMC component has an engineered surface feature formed therein to substantially prevent an accumulation of debris along the contacting surfaces. |
| FILED | Friday, February 19, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/048537 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/02 (20130101) F01D 5/147 (20130101) F01D 5/282 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F01D 5/284 (20130101) F01D 5/3007 (20130101) F01D 5/3084 (20130101) F01D 5/3092 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2220/32 (20130101) F05D 2240/24 (20130101) F05D 2250/711 (20130101) F05D 2250/712 (20130101) F05D 2300/6033 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/672 (20130101) |
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| US 09453644 | Kromer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brian R. Kromer (Buffalo, New York); Michael M. Litwin (Cheektowaga, New York); Sean M. Kelly (Pittsford, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PRAXAIR TECHNOLOGY, INC. (Danbury, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian R. Kromer (Buffalo, New York); Michael M. Litwin (Cheektowaga, New York); Sean M. Kelly (Pittsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for generating electrical power in which a high pressure synthesis gas stream generated in a gasifier is partially oxidized in an oxygen transport membrane based reactor, expanded and thereafter, is combusted in an oxygen transport membrane based boiler. A low pressure synthesis gas slip stream is split off downstream of the expanders and used as the source of fuel in the oxygen transport membrane based partial oxidation reactors to allow the oxygen transport membrane to operate at low fuel pressures with high fuel utilization. The combustion within the boiler generates heat to raise steam to in turn generate electricity by a generator coupled to a steam turbine. The resultant flue gas can be purified to produce a carbon dioxide product. |
| FILED | Monday, December 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/138619 |
| ART UNIT | 3754 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Steam Engine Plants; Steam Accumulators; Engine Plants Not Otherwise Provided For; Engines Using Special Working Fluids or Cycles F01K 7/16 (20130101) F01K 13/006 (20130101) F01K 23/16 (20130101) F01K 23/067 (20130101) Methods or apparatus for combustion using fluid fuel or Solid Fuel Suspended In Air F23C 2900/99011 (20130101) Supplying Air or Non-combustible Liquids or Gases to Combustion Apparatus in General; Valves or Dampers Specially Adapted for Controlling Air Supply or Draught in Combustion Apparatus; Inducing Draught in Combustion Apparatus; Tops for Chimneys or Ventilating Shafts; Terminals for Flues F23L 7/007 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F23L 15/04 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 20/18 (20130101) Y02E 20/344 (20130101) Y02E 20/348 (20130101) |
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| US 09453784 | DeSilva et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SIEMENS ENERGY, INC. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Upul P. DeSilva (Oviedo, Florida); Heiko Claussen (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Michelle Xiaohong Yan (Princeton, New Jersey); Justinian Rosca (West Windsor, New Jersey); Nancy H. Ulerich (Longwood, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for operating a gas turbine engine including determining a temperature of a working gas at a predetermined axial location within the engine. An acoustic signal is encoded with a distinct signature defined by a set of predetermined frequencies transmitted as a non-broadband signal. Acoustic signals are transmitted from an acoustic transmitter located at a predetermined axial location along the flow path of the gas turbine engine. A received signal is compared to one or more transmitted signals to identify a similarity of the received signal to a transmitted signal to identify a transmission time for the received signal. A time-of-flight is determined for the signal and the time-of-flight for the signal is processed to determine a temperature in a region of the predetermined axial location. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/017386 |
| ART UNIT | 2852 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 7/32 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2260/83 (20130101) Measurement of Mechanical Vibrations or Ultrasonic, Sonic or Infrasonic Waves G01H 3/00 (20130101) Measuring Temperature; Measuring Quantity of Heat; Thermally-sensitive Elements Not Otherwise Provided for G01K 11/24 (20130101) G01K 13/02 (20130101) G01K 2013/024 (20130101) Testing Static or Dynamic Balance of Machines or Structures; Testing of Structures or Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G01M 15/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09453926 | Vu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cung Khac Vu (Houston, Texas); Christopher Skelt (Houston, Texas); Kurt Nihei (Oakland, California); Paul A. Johnson (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Robert Guyer (Reno, Nevada); James A. Ten Cate (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Pierre-Yves Le Bas (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Carène S. Larmat (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, California); Los Alamos National Security LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cung Khac Vu (Houston, Texas); Christopher Skelt (Houston, Texas); Kurt Nihei (Oakland, California); Paul A. Johnson (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Robert Guyer (Reno, Nevada); James A. Ten Cate (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Pierre-Yves Le Bas (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Carène S. Larmat (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for investigating rock formations outside a borehole are provided. The method includes generating a first compressional acoustic wave at a first frequency by a first acoustic source; and generating a second compressional acoustic wave at a second frequency by a second acoustic source. The first and the second acoustic sources are arranged within a localized area of the borehole. The first and the second acoustic waves intersect in an intersection volume outside the borehole. The method further includes receiving a third shear acoustic wave at a third frequency, the third shear acoustic wave returning to the borehole due to a non-linear mixing process in a non-linear mixing zone within the intersection volume at a receiver arranged in the borehole. The third frequency is equal to a difference between the first frequency and the second frequency. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/292908 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Geophysics; Gravitational Measurements; Detecting Masses or Objects; Tags G01V 1/006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01V 1/44 (20130101) G01V 1/46 (20130101) G01V 1/50 (20130101) G01V 1/52 (20130101) G01V 2210/125 (20130101) G01V 2210/127 (20130101) G01V 2210/588 (20130101) Sound-producing Devices; Methods or Devices for Protecting Against, or for Damping, Noise or Other Acoustic Waves in General; Acoustics Not Otherwise Provided for G10K 15/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09455057 | Anders |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andre Anders (El Cerrito, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A plasma lens for enhancing the quality and rate of sputter deposition onto a substrate is described herein. The plasma lens serves to focus positively charged ions onto the substrate while deflecting negatively charged ions, while at the same time due to the line of sight positioning of the lens, allowing for free passage of neutrals from the target to the substrate. The lens itself is formed of a wound coil of multiple turns, inside of which are deposed spaced lens electrodes which are electrically paired to impress an E field overtop the B field generated by the coil, the potential applied to the electrodes increasing from end to end towards the center of the lens, where the applied voltage is set to a high potential at the center electrodes as to produce a potential minimum on the axis of the lens. |
| FILED | Friday, October 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/645962 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Techniques for Handling Particles or Ionising Radiation Not Otherwise Provided For; Irradiation Devices; Gamma Ray or X-ray Microscopes G21K 1/087 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 37/3408 (20130101) H01J 37/3467 (20130101) H01J 37/32697 (20130101) |
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| US 09455094 | Tour et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Yu Zhu (Houston, Texas); Lei Li (Houston, Texas); Zheng Yan (Houston, Texas); Jian Lin (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Yu Zhu (Houston, Texas); Lei Li (Houston, Texas); Zheng Yan (Houston, Texas); Jian Lin (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods of making graphene-carbon nanotube hybrid materials. Such methods generally include: (1) associating a graphene film with a substrate; (2) applying a catalyst and a carbon source to the graphene film; and (3) growing carbon nanotubes on the graphene film. The grown carbon nanotubes become covalently linked to the graphene film through carbon-carbon bonds that are located at one or more junctions between the carbon nanotubes and the graphene film. In addition, the grown carbon nanotubes are in ohmic contact with the graphene film through the carbon-carbon bonds at the one or more junctions. The one or more junctions may include seven-membered carbon rings. Also provided are the formed graphene-carbon nanotube hybrid materials. |
| FILED | Monday, November 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/358864 |
| ART UNIT | 2848 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/022 (20130101) C01B 31/0226 (20130101) C01B 31/0438 (20130101) C01B 31/0484 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 11/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01G 11/72 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/13 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/30 (20150115) Y10T 428/24893 (20150115) |
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| US 09455146 | Atwater et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Harry A. Atwater (South Pasadena, California); Marina S. Leite (Pasadena, California); Emily C. Warmann (Riverside, California); Dennis M. Callahan (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harry A. Atwater (South Pasadena, California); Marina S. Leite (Pasadena, California); Emily C. Warmann (Riverside, California); Dennis M. Callahan (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A virtual substrate includes a handle support and a strain-relieved single crystalline layer on the handle support. A method of making the virtual substrate includes growing a coherently-strained single crystalline layer on an initial growth substrate, removing the initial growth substrate to relieve the strain on the single crystalline layer, and applying the strain-relieved single crystalline layer on a handle support. |
| FILED | Friday, December 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/928762 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/187 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09455366 | Landingham et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard L. Landingham (Livermore, California); Joe Satcher, Jr. (Patterson, California); Robert Reibold (Salida, California) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one embodiment, a photoconductive semiconductor switch includes a structure of nanopowder of a high band gap material, where the nanopowder is optically transparent, and where the nanopowder has a physical characteristic of formation from a sol-gel process. According to another embodiment, a method includes mixing a sol-gel precursor compound, a hydroxy benzene and an aldehyde in a solvent thereby creating a mixture, causing the mixture to gel thereby forming a wet gel, drying the wet gel to form a nanopowder, and applying a thermal treatment to form a SiC nanopowder. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/843863 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/0312 (20130101) |
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| US 09455399 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhong Lin Wang (Atlanta, Georgia); Ken Pradel (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | In a method of growing p-type nanowires, a nanowire growth solution of zinc nitrate (Zn(NO3)2), hexamethylenetetramine (HMTA) and polyethylenemine (800 Mw PEI) is prepared. A dopant solution to the growth solution, the dopant solution including an equal molar ration of sodium hydroxide (NaOH), glycolic acid (C2H4O3) and antimony acetate (Sb(CH3COO)3) in water is prepared. The dopant solution and the growth solution combine to generate a resulting solution that includes antimony to zinc in a ratio of between 0.2% molar to 2.0% molar, the resulting solution having a top surface. An ammonia solution is added to the resulting solution. A ZnO seed layer is applied to a substrate and the substrate is placed into the top surface of the resulting solution with the ZnO seed layer facing downwardly for a predetermined time until Sb-doped ZnO nanowires having a length of at least 5 μm have grown from the ZnO seed layer. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/024798 |
| ART UNIT | 1789 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 41/31 (20130101) H01L 41/39 (20130101) H01L 41/082 (20130101) H01L 41/113 (20130101) H01L 41/183 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 41/187 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/23993 (20150401) |
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| US 09455431 | Lu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. (Camas, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. (Camas, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuhao Lu (Vancouver, Washington); Long Wang (Vancouver, Washington); Jong-Jan Lee (Camas, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for fabricating a cyanometallate cathode battery. The method provides a cathode of AXM1YM2Z(CN)N |
| FILED | Thursday, February 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/174171 |
| ART UNIT | 1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 17/02 (20130101) C01B 19/02 (20130101) C01B 25/003 (20130101) C01B 31/00 (20130101) C01B 33/021 (20130101) Ammonia; Cyanogen; Compounds Thereof C01C 3/12 (20130101) Compounds of Alkali Metals, i.e Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, Caesium, or Francium C01D 1/02 (20130101) C01D 15/02 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 2/1653 (20130101) H01M 2/1686 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/04 (20130101) H01M 4/38 (20130101) H01M 4/049 (20130101) H01M 4/56 (20130101) H01M 4/58 (20130101) H01M 4/131 (20130101) H01M 4/133 (20130101) H01M 4/134 (20130101) H01M 4/136 (20130101) H01M 4/381 (20130101) H01M 4/382 (20130101) H01M 4/387 (20130101) H01M 4/0404 (20130101) H01M 4/0416 (20130101) H01M 4/0452 (20130101) H01M 4/0471 (20130101) H01M 4/485 (20130101) H01M 4/0495 (20130101) H01M 4/0497 (20130101) H01M 4/505 (20130101) H01M 4/587 (20130101) H01M 4/628 (20130101) H01M 4/1391 (20130101) H01M 4/1395 (20130101) H01M 4/1397 (20130101) H01M 4/5825 (20130101) H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 10/054 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) H01M 10/0565 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 7/0042 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49108 (20150115) |
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| US 09455439 | Dai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sheng Dai (Knoxville, Tennessee); Xiao-Guang Sun (Knoxville, Tennessee); Bingkun Guo (Knoxville, Tennessee); Xiqing Wang (Mason, Ohio); Richard T. Mayes (Knoxville, Tennessee); Teng Ben (Changchun, China PRC); Shilun Qiu (Changchun, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed in a first aspect to electron-conducting porous compositions comprising an organic polymer matrix doped with nitrogen atoms and having elemental sulfur dispersed therein, particularly such compositions having an ordered framework structure. The invention is also directed to composites of such S/N-doped electron-conducting porous aromatic framework (PAF) compositions, or composites of an S/N-doped mesoporous carbon composition, which includes the S/N-doped composition in admixture with a binder, and optionally, conductive carbon. The invention is further directed to cathodes for a lithium-sulfur battery in which such composites are incorporated. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/683520 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/137 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/602 (20130101) H01M 4/623 (20130101) H01M 4/625 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) |
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| US 09455446 | Lu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. (Camas, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. (Camas, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuhao Lu (Camas, Washington); Sean Vail (Vancouver, Washington); Xin Zhao (Vancouver, Washington); Jie Song (Vancouver, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A sodium or potassium battery is provided, prior to an initial charge and discharge cycle, with a halogen salt additive. As is conventional, the battery is made up of the following components: an anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte. In addition, the battery includes a halogen salt (MX), where M is a metal and X is a halogen element. The halogen salt is added to the anode, the cathode, the electrolyte, or combinations thereof. The concentration MX with respect to the component(s) to which it is added is in the range of 0.01% to 10% in weight. The element X can be selected from the group of halogen elements listed in the Periodic Table. M is a material such as lithium, sodium, potassium, cesium, magnesium, calcium, barium, titanium, manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel, copper, zinc, ammonium, or combinations thereof. Advantageously, the electrolyte may be either aqueous or non-aqueous. |
| FILED | Friday, August 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/827001 |
| ART UNIT | 1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammonia; Cyanogen; Compounds Thereof C01C 3/12 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/58 (20130101) H01M 4/62 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/136 (20130101) H01M 4/0404 (20130101) H01M 4/0452 (20130101) H01M 4/0471 (20130101) H01M 4/622 (20130101) H01M 4/625 (20130101) H01M 4/1397 (20130101) H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 10/054 (20130101) H01M 2004/027 (20130101) H01M 2004/028 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) |
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| US 09455451 | Kerr et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John B. Kerr (Oakland, California); Xiaobing Zhu (Albany, California); Gi Suk Hwang (Albany, California); Zulima Martin (Berkeley, California); Qinggang He (Culver City, California); Peter Driscoll (Methuen, Massachusetts); Adam Weber (Pleasant Hill, California); Kyle Clark (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John B. Kerr (Oakland, California); Xiaobing Zhu (Albany, California); Gi Suk Hwang (Albany, California); Zulima Martin (Berkeley, California); Qinggang He (Culver City, California); Peter Driscoll (Methuen, Massachusetts); Adam Weber (Pleasant Hill, California); Kyle Clark (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Water soluble catalysts, (M)meso-tetra(N-Methyl-4-Pyridyl)Porphinepentachloride (M=Fe, Co, Mn & Cu), have been incorporated into the polymer binder of oxygen reduction cathodes in membrane electrode assemblies used in PEM fuel cells and found to support encouragingly high current densities. The voltages achieved are low compared to commercial platinum catalysts but entirely consistent with the behavior observed in electroanalytical measurements of the homogeneous catalysts. A model of the dynamics of the electrode action has been developed and validated and this allows the MEA electrodes to be optimized for any chemistry that has been demonstrated in solution. It has been shown that improvements to the performance will come from modifications to the structure of the catalyst combined with optimization of the electrode structure and a well-founded pathway to practical non-platinum group metal catalysts exists. |
| FILED | Friday, October 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/052576 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/8668 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/9008 (20130101) H01M 4/9041 (20130101) H01M 4/9083 (20130101) H01M 2004/028 (20130101) H01M 2008/1095 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09455456 | Saito et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ballard Power Systems Inc. (Burnaby, Canada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ballard Power Systems Inc. (Burnaby, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kazuo Saito (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Tommy Skiba (East Hartford, Connecticut); Kirtikumar H. Patel (Berlin, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An anode exhaust recycle turbocharger (100) has a turbocharger turbine (102) secured in fluid communication with a compressed oxidant stream within an oxidant inlet line (218) downstream from a compressed oxidant supply (104), and the anode exhaust recycle turbocharger (100) also includes a turbocharger compressor (106) mechanically linked to the turbocharger turbine (102) and secured in fluid communication with a flow of anode exhaust passing through an anode exhaust recycle loop (238) of the solid oxide fuel cell power plant (200). All or a portion of compressed oxidant within an oxidant inlet line (218) drives the turbocharger turbine (102) to thereby compress the anode exhaust stream in the recycle loop (238). A high-temperature, automotive-type turbocharger (100) replaces a recycle loop blower-compressor (52). |
| FILED | Monday, June 29, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/754642 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/12 (20130101) H01M 8/0662 (20130101) H01M 8/04089 (20130101) H01M 8/04097 (20130101) H01M 8/04111 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/04425 (20130101) H01M 8/04708 (20130101) H01M 2008/1293 (20130101) H01M 2300/0074 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/50 (20130101) Y02E 60/525 (20130101) |
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| US 09455791 | Lawry et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE (Troy, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tristan J. Lawry (East Lyme, Connecticut); Gary J. Saulnier (East Greenbush, New York); Kyle R. Wilt (Sand Lake, New York); Jonathan D. Ashdown (Greenwich, New York); Henry A. Scarton (Troy, New York); Andrew Gavens (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus provide simultaneous bi-directional communications through a barrier using a pair of piezoelectric transducers. Outside-to-inside transmission of differentially encoded binary data is only sampled at the inside when a known repeated bit in a Barker sequence is transmitted in the other direction. Differentially encoded data is translated based on the absolute value of differences between each signal envelope sample and the previous signal envelope sample. Inside-to-outside data is transmitted by varying an electrical load on the inside transducer to vary the proportion of a continuous wave signal it reflects. The reflected portion of the continuous wave changes the electrical impedance of the outside transducer and this change is measured and interpreted as binary data. Two frequency selection algorithms select minimally sufficient and then optimal frequencies for power and data transmission by a frequency stepping process. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/385947 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 11/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 5/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09456183 | Brackney |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Larry J. Brackney (Denver, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry J. Brackney (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of detecting occupants in a building automation system environment using image based occupancy detection and position determinations. In one example, the system includes an image processing occupancy sensor that detects the number and position of occupants within a space that has controllable building elements such as lighting and ventilation diffusers. Based on the position and location of the occupants, the system can finely control the elements to optimize conditions for the occupants, optimize energy usage, among other advantages. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/947045 |
| ART UNIT | 2487 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00771 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 7/183 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Heating; Electric Lighting Not Otherwise Provided for H05B 37/0227 (20130101) H05B 37/0245 (20130101) |
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| US 09451754 | Amasino et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard M. Amasino (Madison, Wisconsin); Scott Woody (Windsor, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides Brassica rapa plants and seeds thereof that are self-compatible, rapid-cycling and lack inbreeding depression. For instance, the invention provides plants and seeds of the Brassica rapa line designated B3. The invention thus relates to plants, seeds and tissue cultures of Brassica rapa plants that are self-compatible, rapid-cycling and lack inbreeding depression, such as Brassica rapa line B3, and methods to produce and propagate said plants by crossing such a Brassica rapa plant with itself, or another Brassica rapa plant. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. Educational materials, such as a kit comprising said Brassica rapa plants are also provided by the invention. |
| FILED | Friday, September 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/026955 |
| ART UNIT | 1662 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Horticulture; Cultivation of Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops or Seaweed; Forestry; Watering A01G 1/00 (20130101) A01G 1/001 (20130101) New Plants or Processes for Obtaining Them; Plant Reproduction by Tissue Culture Techniques A01H 5/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09451884 | Zharov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vladimir Pavlovich Zharov (Little Rock, Arkansas); Ekaterina Galanzha (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir Pavlovich Zharov (Little Rock, Arkansas); Ekaterina Galanzha (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and method of using the device to detect the presence and composition of clots and other target objects in a circulatory vessel of a living subject is described. In particular, devices and methods of detecting the presence and composition of clots and other target objects in a circulatory vessel of a living subject using in vivo photoacoustic flow cytometry techniques is described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/253767 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0059 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/0095 (20130101) A61B 5/412 (20130101) A61B 5/415 (20130101) A61B 5/416 (20130101) A61B 5/418 (20130101) A61B 8/06 (20130101) A61B 8/08 (20130101) A61B 8/481 (20130101) A61B 18/20 (20130101) A61B 18/1815 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/22 (20130101) Magnetic or Electrostatic Separation of Solid Materials From Solid Materials or Fluids; Separation by High-voltage Electric Fields B03C 1/30 (20130101) B03C 1/288 (20130101) B03C 2201/06 (20130101) B03C 2201/26 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/147 (20130101) G01N 15/1425 (20130101) G01N 15/1434 (20130101) G01N 21/1702 (20130101) G01N 29/2418 (20130101) G01N 29/4427 (20130101) G01N 2015/1477 (20130101) G01N 2201/0221 (20130101) |
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| US 09451886 | Teixeira |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rodrigo E. Teixeira (Madison, Alabama) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Rodrigo E. Teixeira (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A probabilistic digital signal processor using data from multiple instruments is described. In one example, an analyzer is configured to: receive discrete first and second input data, related to a first and second sub-system of the system, from a first and second instrument, respectively. A system processor is used to fuse the first and second input data into fused data. The system processor optionally includes: (1) a probabilistic processor configured to convert the fused data into at least two probability distribution functions and (2) a dynamic state-space model, the dynamic state-space model including at least one probabilistic model configured to operate on the at least two probability distribution functions. The system processor iteratively circulates the at least two probability distribution functions in the dynamic state-space model in synchronization with receipt of updated input data, processes the probability distribution functions, and generates an output related to the state of the system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/181140 |
| 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 | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0205 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/0402 (20130101) A61B 5/7203 (20130101) A61B 5/7214 (20130101) A61B 5/14551 (20130101) |
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| US 09452049 | Guldberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert E. Guldberg (Marietta, Georgia); Yash M. Kolambkar (Mableton, Georgia); Dietmar W. Hutmacher (Kenmore Hills, Australia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION (Atlanta, Georgia); QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert E. Guldberg (Marietta, Georgia); Yash M. Kolambkar (Mableton, Georgia); Dietmar W. Hutmacher (Kenmore Hills, Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and method to affect anatomical structures is disclosed. The systems and method can be used to regenerate bone. The system can comprise a nanofiber mesh configured to substantially conform to an anatomical structure, wherein at least a portion of the nanofiber mesh defines a fillable space. The system can comprise a carrier substance comprising an active agent, such as a bone morphogenetic protein, The carrier substance can be disposed within the fillable space. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/625069 |
| ART UNIT | 3738 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2/2846 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61F 2/3094 (20130101) A61F 2/30767 (20130101) A61F 2002/0068 (20130101) A61F 2002/285 (20130101) A61F 2002/2817 (20130101) A61F 2002/2825 (20130101) A61F 2002/3084 (20130101) A61F 2002/3092 (20130101) A61F 2002/30028 (20130101) A61F 2002/30075 (20130101) A61F 2002/30235 (20130101) A61F 2002/30838 (20130101) A61F 2002/30914 (20130101) A61F 2210/0061 (20130101) A61F 2230/0069 (20130101) A61F 2240/001 (20130101) A61F 2310/00365 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/52 (20130101) A61L 27/54 (20130101) A61L 27/56 (20130101) A61L 27/3804 (20130101) A61L 27/3834 (20130101) A61L 31/16 (20130101) A61L 31/146 (20130101) A61L 2300/414 (20130101) A61L 2400/06 (20130101) A61L 2400/12 (20130101) A61L 2430/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09452107 | Bilgili et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ecevit Bilgili (Woodbridge, New Jersey); Rajesh Dave (Princeton, New Jersey); Anagha Bhakay (Harrison, New Jersey); Mohammad Azad (Newark, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ecevit Bilgili (Woodbridge, New Jersey); Rajesh Dave (Princeton, New Jersey); Anagha Bhakay (Harrison, New Jersey); Mohammad Azad (Newark, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides improved systems and methods utilizing colloidal/ultrafine superdisintegrant-based composite particles for dispersion and/or dissolution of active pharmaceutical agents. In general, the present disclosure utilizes a surfactant-free or near surfactant-free formulation by incorporating a wet milled SDI as a dispersant in the formulation. As such, the present disclosure provides for the preparation of surfactant-free or substantially surfactant-free formulations (e.g., nano-composite micro-particle formulations) by incorporating a wet-milled superdisintegrant (SDI) as the dispersant in the formulations. The advantageous SDI particles (e.g., colloidal/ultrafine SDI particles) of the present disclosure can be used to break-up the aggregates (e.g., nanoparticle aggregates) of the active agents (e.g. poorly water-soluble drugs) in the formulations (e.g., micro-particle formulations) and enhance the recovery of the nanoparticles of active agents during aqueous re-dispersion and their dissolution rate in vitro and in vivo. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/829948 |
| ART UNIT | 1619 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Containers Specially Adapted for Medical or Pharmaceutical Purposes; Devices or Methods Specially Adapted for Bringing Pharmaceutical Products into Particular Physical or Administering Forms; Devices for Administering Food or Medicines Orally; Baby Comforters; Devices for Receiving Spittle A61J 3/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61J 3/02 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/146 (20130101) A61K 9/5138 (20130101) A61K 9/5161 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 40/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09452587 | Kisailus et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Kisailus (Riverside, California); Garrett Milliron (Riverside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Material composites are provided that have improved shock and impact resistance. |
| FILED | Friday, August 02, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/957708 |
| ART UNIT | 1781 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 5/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B32B 5/26 (20130101) B32B 2250/20 (20130101) B32B 2260/023 (20130101) B32B 2260/046 (20130101) B32B 2262/02 (20130101) B32B 2262/10 (20130101) B32B 2262/067 (20130101) B32B 2262/101 (20130101) B32B 2262/106 (20130101) B32B 2307/302 (20130101) B32B 2307/306 (20130101) B32B 2307/554 (20130101) B32B 2307/558 (20130101) B32B 2307/714 (20130101) B32B 2307/3065 (20130101) B32B 2571/00 (20130101) B32B 2571/02 (20130101) B32B 2605/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24124 (20150115) |
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| US 09452930 | Sirkar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kamalesh Sirkar (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Robert Pfeffer (Scottsdale, Arizona); Dhananjay Singh (Kearny, New Jersey); Dengyue Chen (Harrison, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to the field of polymer coating. The present disclosure provides improved systems and methods for continuous polymer coating of particles (e.g., nanoparticles). The present disclosure provides for a solid hollow fiber cooling crystallization (SHFCC) technique to continuously coat the nanoparticles with polymer. In certain embodiments, the present disclosure embraces continuous coating of particles from about 1 nm to about 10 microns. A polymer solution containing a suspension of submicron particles flows in the lumen of a solid polymeric hollow fiber, and controlled cooling of the polymer solution allows for polymer nucleation on the surface of the particles, and the precipitated polymer forms a thin film around the particles (the thickness of which can be varied depending on the operating conditions). The systems, methods and assemblies of the present disclosure are easily adaptable for coating nano-sized drug particles as well. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/532663 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/50 (20130101) A61K 9/5192 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09453099 | Zhang et al. |
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| 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) | Wei Zhang (Superior, Colorado); Philip Taynton (Morrison, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are compositions and methods of making novel covalently cross-linked polyimines that non-malleable under standard conditions but yet may be rendered malleable. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/656684 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 12/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 14/06 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 7/06 (20130101) C08K 7/06 (20130101) C08K 7/14 (20130101) C08K 7/14 (20130101) C08K 7/24 (20130101) C08K 7/24 (20130101) C08K 2201/011 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 79/02 (20130101) C08L 79/02 (20130101) C08L 79/02 (20130101) C08L 79/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09453102 | Luscombe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christine Keiko Luscombe (Seattle, Washington); Ken Okamoto (Tsukuba, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the preparation of mono- and bis-end-functionalized π-conjugated polymers. In the methods, chalcogens are selectively installed at the polymer terminus or termini. |
| FILED | Monday, October 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/518951 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 61/126 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 2261/16 (20130101) C08G 2261/18 (20130101) C08G 2261/70 (20130101) C08G 2261/72 (20130101) C08G 2261/312 (20130101) C08G 2261/417 (20130101) C08G 2261/964 (20130101) C08G 2261/1412 (20130101) C08G 2261/3142 (20130101) C08G 2261/3221 (20130101) C08G 2261/3223 (20130101) |
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| US 09453111 | Singh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kansas State University Research Foundation (Manhattan, Kansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kansas State University Research Foundation (Manhatten, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gurpreet Singh (Manhattan, Kansas); Romil Bhandavat (Manhattan, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | New methods for synthesizing boron-modified silazanes, their use as polymer-derived ceramic precursors, and polymer-derived ceramics and composites formed therefrom are disclosed. The polymeric ceramic precursors comprise a boron-modified silazane that is a room temperature liquid-phase polymer comprising a backbone having recurring monomeric repeat units comprising boron-nitrogen bonds. Nanocomposites comprising polymer-derived ceramics and carbon nanotubes are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/377123 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 3/0254 (20130101) B05D 7/24 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 24/42 (20130101) C04B 35/58 (20130101) C04B 35/589 (20130101) C04B 35/597 (20130101) C04B 35/806 (20130101) C04B 35/6267 (20130101) C04B 35/6268 (20130101) C04B 35/62218 (20130101) C04B 35/62222 (20130101) C04B 35/62857 (20130101) C04B 35/62863 (20130101) C04B 35/62868 (20130101) C04B 35/62871 (20130101) C04B 35/62886 (20130101) C04B 2235/483 (20130101) C04B 2235/486 (20130101) C04B 2235/665 (20130101) C04B 2235/667 (20130101) C04B 2235/3409 (20130101) C04B 2235/5288 (20130101) C04B 2235/9607 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 77/62 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 183/16 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/30 (20150115) Y10T 428/31678 (20150401) |
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| US 09453166 | Huber et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George H. Huber (Belchertown, Massachusetts); Anne Mae Gaffney (West Chester, Pennsylvania); Jungho Jae (Amherst, Massachusetts); Yu-Ting Cheng (Amherst, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to compositions and methods for fluid hydrocarbon product, and more specifically, to compositions and methods for fluid hydrocarbon product via catalytic pyrolysis. Some embodiments relate to methods for the production of specific aromatic products (e.g., benzene, toluene, naphthalene, xylene, etc.) via catalytic pyrolysis. Some such methods may involve the use of a composition comprising a mixture of a solid hydrocarbonaceous material and a heterogeneous pyrolytic catalyst component. In some embodiments, an olefin compound may be co-fed to the reactor and/or separated from a product stream and recycled to the reactor to improve yield and/or selectivity of certain products. The methods described herein may also involve the use of specialized catalysts. For example, in some cases, zeolite catalysts may be used. In some instances, the catalysts are characterized by particle sizes in certain identified ranges that can lead to improve yield and/or selectivity of certain products. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 29, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/868423 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 29/40 (20130101) B01J 29/44 (20130101) B01J 29/46 (20130101) B01J 29/48 (20130101) B01J 29/87 (20130101) B01J 29/405 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 45/49 (20130101) Destructive Distillation of Carbonageous Materials for Production of Gas, Coke, Tar, or Similar Materials C10B 49/22 (20130101) C10B 53/02 (20130101) C10B 57/06 (20130101) Cracking Hydrocarbon Oils; Production of Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g by Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation; Recovery of Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, or Gases; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting of Hydrocarbons; Reforming of Naphtha; Mineral Waxes C10G 1/002 (20130101) C10G 1/02 (20130101) C10G 1/10 (20130101) C10G 3/00 (20130101) C10G 3/49 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10G 11/18 (20130101) C10G 45/32 (20130101) C10G 50/00 (20130101) C10G 2300/70 (20130101) C10G 2300/1003 (20130101) C10G 2300/1014 (20130101) C10G 2300/4018 (20130101) C10G 2300/4081 (20130101) C10G 2400/20 (20130101) C10G 2400/30 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/14 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 30/20 (20151101) Y02P 30/42 (20151101) |
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| US 09453201 | Palecek et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sean Palecek (Verona, Wisconsin); Timothy Kamp (Madison, Wisconsin); Xiaojun Lian (Allston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for generating high-yield, high-purity cardiomyocyte progenitors or cardiomyocytes from pluripotent cells are described. Wnt/β-catenin signaling is first activated in pluripotent cells, e.g., by inhibition of Gsk-3 to obtain a first population of cells. Wnt/β-catenin signaling is then inhibited in the first cell population to induce cardiogenesis under fully defined, growth factor free culture conditions. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/592678 |
| 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 5/0657 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2501/16 (20130101) C12N 2501/155 (20130101) C12N 2501/415 (20130101) C12N 2501/727 (20130101) C12N 2501/998 (20130101) C12N 2501/999 (20130101) C12N 2506/02 (20130101) C12N 2506/45 (20130101) |
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| US 09453844 | Xian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Washington State University (Pullman, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington State University (Pullman, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ming Xian (Pullman, Washington); Dehui Zhang (Pullman, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and assays for detecting S-sulfhydration of amino acids in proteins, polypeptides and peptides are provided. The method is a two-step “tag-switch” method employing two reagents consecutively to specifically label, with a detectable label, persulfide (—S—SH) linkages in proteins, polypeptides and peptides. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/507970 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6815 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2440/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/18 (20150115) Y10T 436/182 (20150115) |
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| US 09453943 | Miyake et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Garret M Miyake (Pasadena, California); Raymond Weitekamp (Glendale, California); Robert H Grubbs (South Pasadena, California); Victoria Piunova (Altadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a class of block copolymers having a plurality of chemically different blocks, at least a portion of which incorporating polymer side chain groups having a helical secondary structure. The invention also provides structures generated by self-assembly of polymer blends including at least one block copolymer component, such as a brush block polymer or wedge-type block polymer. The invention provides, for example, periodic nanostructures and microstructures generated by self-assembly of block copolymers and polymer blends comprising a mixture of at least one block copolymer component, such as a brush block copolymer, and at least a second component. |
| FILED | Friday, June 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/930400 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 222/04 (20130101) C08F 222/40 (20130101) C08F 293/00 (20130101) C08F 299/00 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 81/00 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 1/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09453970 | Blanche et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pierre Alexandre Blanche (Tucson, Arizona); Nasser N. Peyghambarian (Tucson, Arizona); Brittany Lynn (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Optical switch based on a micro-mirror device such as a DMD for simultaneous switching light from N inputs to M outputs with switching times of about 10 microseconds, where N and M are generally greater than one. The mirrors of the device are oriented according to a pattern calculated based on a Fourier Transform of spatial distribution of M outputs such as to form, in diffraction of light incident on the device, an diffraction light pattern that in the output plane is substantially congruent with the spatial distribution of M outputs. The device can be configured as a modulator of amplitude and/or a modulator of phase of incident light wavefront. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 31, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/439778 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/3518 (20130101) G02B 6/3546 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/3556 (20130101) G02B 6/3584 (20130101) G02B 26/06 (20130101) G02B 26/0833 (20130101) G02B 27/42 (20130101) |
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| US 09454077 | Carroll et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory T. Carroll (New York, New York); Jeffrey T. Koberstein (Storrs, Connecticut); Denong Wang (Palo Alto, California); Nicholas J. Turro (Tenafly, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds and methods for controlling the surface properties are described. Compounds of the invention can form radicals upon exposure to irradiation, which can then react with nearby molecules to alter the surface properties of various substrates. The invention can provide surfaces that are resistant to dewetting, surfaces that have immobilized molecules such as carbohydrates and polymers immobilized, and surfaces that have metals deposited on the surface. The invention can be utilized in a wide range of application, such as sensors, microreactors, microarrays, electroless deposition of metals, and the like. |
| FILED | Monday, January 05, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/589306 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 3/06 (20130101) B05D 3/067 (20130101) B05D 5/00 (20130101) B05D 7/02 (20130101) B05D 7/14 (20130101) Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 18/30 (20130101) C23C 18/32 (20130101) C23C 18/1612 (20130101) C23C 18/1641 (20130101) Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/20 (20130101) G03F 7/0045 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09454460 | Yang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Junfeng Yang (New York, New York); Heming Cui (New York, New York); Jingyue Wu (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Junfeng Yang (New York, New York); Heming Cui (New York, New York); Jingyue Wu (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and media for providing determinism in multithreaded programs are provided. In some embodiments, methods for providing determinism in multithreaded programs are provided, the methods comprising: instrumenting a program with: a proxy that: receives inputs to the program; and determines whether a schedule corresponding to a set of input constraints satisfied by the inputs has been memoized; and a replayer that: if it is determined that a schedule corresponding to a set of input constraints satisfied by the inputs has been memoized, processes the inputs by the program according to the schedule. |
| FILED | Monday, July 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/190316 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 8/458 (20130101) G06F 11/3632 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09454509 | Pearlman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonathan L. Pearlman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Jonathan A. Duvall (Glenshaw, Pennsylvania); Benjamin T. Gebrosky (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Rory Alan Cooper (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan L. Pearlman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Jonathan A. Duvall (Glenshaw, Pennsylvania); Benjamin T. Gebrosky (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Rory Alan Cooper (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for use with a mobile device includes at least one sensor to sense a variable related to tilting of the mobile device and at least one activatable system in operative connection with the sensor. The at least one activatable system increases stability of the mobile device upon actuation/change in state thereof on the basis of data measured by the at least one sensor. A variable related to tilting includes variables that indicate concurrent, actual tilting as described herein as well as variables predictive of imminent tilting. Activatable systems hereof change state upon actuation or activation to increase stability of the mobile device by reducing, eliminating or preventing tilting. |
| FILED | Friday, January 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/750619 |
| ART UNIT | 3669 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Transport, Personal Conveyances, or Accommodation Specially Adapted for Patients or Disabled Persons; Operating Tables or Chairs; Chairs for Dentistry; Funeral Devices A61G 5/00 (20130101) A61G 5/043 (20130101) A61G 5/063 (20130101) A61G 5/068 (20130101) A61G 2005/128 (20130101) A61G 2005/1054 (20130101) A61G 2005/1089 (20130101) A61G 2203/14 (20130101) A61G 2203/42 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09454809 | Popescu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel Popescu (Champaign, Illinois); Taewoo Kim (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and a module for use with a microscope for enhancing image contrast in an image of a phase object. A transmission image of a specimen is formed in an image plane, of which a Fourier transform is generated in a Fourier plane. An amplitude filter is applied to the Fourier transform field, which is then transformed back to an image at a focal plane of a detector array. An image signal from the detector array is processed to generate a contrast-enhanced image of the specimen. |
| FILED | Monday, February 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/776037 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/36 (20130101) G02B 21/361 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 5/007 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09455127 | Pallav et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kumar Pallav (Sunnyvale, California); Rajiv Malhotra (Corvallis, Oregon); Ishan Saxena (Evanston, Illinois); Kornel Ehmann (Evanston, Illinois); Jian Cao (Wilmette, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for laser-induced plasma micromachining of a work-piece includes a dielectric fluid, a dielectric fluid supply device, a laser, a processor, and a memory. The dielectric fluid supply device is arranged to hold a work-piece in the dielectric fluid or to direct the dielectric fluid onto the work-piece. The laser is arranged to emit a pulsed laser-beam. The processor is in electronic communication with the laser. The memory is in electronic communication with the processor. The memory includes programming code for execution by the processor. The programming code is programmed to direct the laser to deliver the pulsed laser-beam into the dielectric fluid to create a plasma generated at a focal point of the pulsed laser-beam in the dielectric fluid to micromachine, using the plasma, the work-piece disposed adjacent to the focal point. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/681365 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Soldering or Unsoldering; Welding; Cladding or Plating by Soldering or Welding; Cutting by Applying Heat Locally, e.g Flame Cutting; Working by Laser Beam B23K 26/00 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 37/14 (20130101) H01J 37/302 (20130101) H01J 37/3266 (20130101) H01J 37/32339 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 37/32669 (20130101) H01J 37/32926 (20130101) Plasma Technique; Production of Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles or of Neutrons; Production or Acceleration of Neutral Molecular or Atomic Beams H05H 1/2475 (20130101) |
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| US 09455548 | Kim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of The University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seongsin Kim (Tuscaloosa, Alabama); Patrick Kung (Tuscaloosa, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for generating terahertz radiation are disclosed herein. In addition, methods for forming orientation-patterned nonlinear semiconductor crystals are disclosed herein. For example, according to an example implementation, a method for generating terahertz radiation may include: providing an optical pulse having a wavelength less than approximately 1.0 μm; and illuminating an orientation-patterned nonlinear semiconductor crystal with the optical pulse. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 01, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/676213 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/3544 (20130101) G02F 1/3558 (20130101) G02F 2001/3548 (20130101) G02F 2203/13 (20130101) Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 1/02 (20130101) H01S 5/041 (20130101) H01S 5/0604 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 5/3013 (20130101) |
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| US 09455645 | Zhou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yan Zhou (Tallahassee, Florida); Hui Li (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The cascaded multilevel inverter is considered to be a promising topology alternative for low-cost and high-efficiency photovoltaic (PV) systems. However, the leakage current issue, resulting from the stray capacitances between the PV panels and the earth, remains a challenge in the photovoltaic cascaded multilevel inverter application. The present invention presents leakage current suppression solutions for the PV cascaded multilevel inverter by introducing properly arranged and designed passive filters. The embodiments of the invention do not include an active semiconductor device, and as such, the leakage current suppression techniques of the present invention retain the simple structure of the cascaded inverter and do not complicate the associated control system. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/209010 |
| 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 7/5387 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09455757 | Tripurari et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karthik Tripurari (New York, New York); Peter R. Kinget (Summit, New Jersey); Harish Krishnaswamy (New York, New York); Teng Yang (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Circuits and methods for performing harmonic rejection mixing are provided. In some embodiments, the circuit comprises: a first amplifier that amplifies a received signal at a first gain; a second amplifier that amplifies the received signal at a fraction of the first gain; a mixer that receives a local oscillator signal having a first fundamental frequency and the first amplifier output, and outputs a first mixed signal; a second mixer that receives a second local oscillator signal having a fundamental frequency that is a multiple of the first fundamental frequency and the second amplifier output, and outputs a second mixed signal; and an output stage that receives the first and second mixed signals and outputs a sum of the first and second mixed signals. |
| FILED | Friday, July 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/415914 |
| ART UNIT | 2633 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Demodulation or Transference of Modulation From One Carrier to Another H03D 7/1441 (20130101) H03D 7/1458 (20130101) H03D 2200/0086 (20130101) Transmission H04B 1/123 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 25/14 (20130101) |
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 09452491 | Littell |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Justin Anderson Littell (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A friction pull plug is provided for use in forming a plug weld in a hole in a material. The friction pull plug includes a shank and a series of three frustoconical sections. The relative sizes of the sections assure that a central one of the sections defines the initial contact point between the hole's sides. The angle defined by the central one of the sections reduces or eliminates chatter as the plug is pulled into the hole. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 16, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/971665 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Soldering or Unsoldering; Welding; Cladding or Plating by Soldering or Welding; Cutting by Applying Heat Locally, e.g Flame Cutting; Working by Laser Beam B23K 20/1255 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B23K 20/1295 (20130101) Pipes; Joints or Fittings for Pipes; Supports for Pipes, Cables or Protective Tubing; Means for Thermal Insulation in General F16L 55/11 (20130101) F16L 55/13 (20130101) |
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| US 09452926 | Okojie |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Okojie (Strongsville, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Okojie (Strongsville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for selectively etching a substrate is provided. In one embodiment, an epilayer is grown on top of the substrate. A resistive element may be defined and etched into the epilayer. On the other side of the substrate, the substrate is selectively etched up to the resistive element, leaving a suspended resistive element. |
| FILED | Monday, July 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/561359 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/0015 (20130101) B81C 1/00531 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B81C 1/00555 (20130101) |
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| US 09453502 | Goebel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dan Michael Goebel (Tarzana, California); Richard Robert Hofer (Monrovia, California); Ioannis G. Mikellides (Valencia, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan Michael Goebel (Tarzana, California); Richard Robert Hofer (Monrovia, California); Ioannis G. Mikellides (Valencia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A Hall thruster apparatus having walls constructed from a conductive material, such as graphite, and having magnetic shielding of the walls from the ionized plasma has been demonstrated to operate with nearly the same efficiency as a conventional non-magnetically shielded design using insulators as wall components. The new design is believed to provide the potential of higher power and uniform operation over the operating life of a thruster device. |
| FILED | Friday, February 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/768788 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Cosmonautics; Vehicles or Equipment Therefor B64G 1/405 (20130101) Producing a Reactive Propulsive Thrust, Not Otherwise Provided for F03H 1/0012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F03H 1/0037 (20130101) F03H 1/0062 (20130101) F03H 1/0068 (20130101) F03H 1/0075 (20130101) |
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| US 09453947 | Arbabi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amir Arbabi (Pasadena, California); Andrei Faraon (La Canada Flintridge, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A retroreflector device is described, which includes a lens component operable for focusing radiation, which is incident thereto at an angle of incidence. The retroreflector also includes a mirror component operable for reflecting the radiation focused by the lens component back along the angle of incidence. The lens component and/or the mirror component includes a quasi-periodic array of elements, each of which comprises a dimension smaller than a wavelength of the radiation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/558201 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/13 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 5/136 (20130101) Transmission H04B 10/40 (20130101) H04B 10/501 (20130101) |
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| US 09455374 | Park et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yeonjoon Park (Yorktown, Virginia); Sang Hyouk Choi (Poquoson, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated hybrid crystal Light Emitting Diode (“LED”) display device that may emit red, green, and blue colors on a single wafer. The various embodiments may provide double-sided hetero crystal growth with hexagonal wurtzite III-Nitride compound semiconductor on one side of (0001) c-plane sapphire media and cubic zinc-blended III-V or II-VI compound semiconductor on the opposite side of c-plane sapphire media. The c-plane sapphire media may be a bulk single crystalline c-plane sapphire wafer, a thin free standing c-plane sapphire layer, or crack-and-bonded c-plane sapphire layer on any substrate. The bandgap energies and lattice constants of the compound semiconductor alloys may be changed by mixing different amounts of ingredients of the same group into the compound semiconductor. The bandgap energy and lattice constant may be engineered by changing the alloy composition within the cubic group IV, group III-V, and group II-VI semiconductors and within the hexagonal III-Nitrides. |
| FILED | Friday, May 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/279614 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/15 (20130101) H01L 33/007 (20130101) H01L 33/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 33/16 (20130101) |
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Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 09451745 | O'Shaughnessy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Susan A. O'Shaughnessy (Amarillo, Texas); Steven R. Evett (Amarillo, Texas); Martin A. Hebel (Makanda, Illinois); Paul D. Colaizzi (Amarillo, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University (Carbondale, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan A. O'Shaughnessy (Amarillo, Texas); Steven R. Evett (Amarillo, Texas); Martin A. Hebel (Makanda, Illinois); Paul D. Colaizzi (Amarillo, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Plant canopy temperature and multi-spectral reflectance are measured with a wireless multi-band sensor, and the temperature data are qualified and the spectral reflectance measurements are classified. The multi-band sensor includes sensors for measuring plant canopy temperature radiation and spectral reflectance over five bands, a microprocessor to receive and store measured data, and a wireless transmitter for transmitting data from the microprocessor to a remote receiver, all enclosed within a single housing. The data are used to detect variations in spectral signature due to plant stress (e.g., disease, water stress) and due to soil background and to qualify temperature data accordingly. The data provide information for decision support algorithms related to the initiation of automatic irrigation scheduling as a function of crop canopy cover, qualification of temperature data used in automatic irrigation scheduling algorithms, and detection of diseased crops for the purpose of withholding irrigations when yield potential is compromised. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 05, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/785500 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Horticulture; Cultivation of Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops or Seaweed; Forestry; Watering A01G 25/167 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 5/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09451771 | Khrimian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represented By the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ashot Khrimian (Rockville, Maryland); Jeffrey R. Aldrich (Hyattsville, Maryland); Aijun Zhang (Laurel, Maryland); Tracy C. Leskey (Shepherdstown, West Virginia); Donald C. Weber (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition (useful for attracting Halyomorpha halys) containing (3R,6R,7R,10S)-10,11-epoxy-1-bisabolen-3-ol, (3R,6R,7R,10R)-10,11-epoxy-1-bisabolen-3-ol, (3S,6S,7R,10S)-10,11-epoxy-1-bisabolen-3-ol, (3S,6S,7R,10R)-10,11-epoxy-1-bisabolen-3-ol, and optionally a carrier material or carrier. The composition may also contain (3R,6S,7R,10S)-10,11-epoxy-1-bisabolen-3-ol, (3R,6S,7R,10R)-10,11-epoxy-1-bisabolen-3-ol, (3S,6R,7R,10S)-10,11-epoxy-1-bisabolen-3-ol, (3S,6R,7R,10R)-10,11-epoxy-1-bisabolen-3-ol where the composition contains a 3:1 ratio of cis-epoxybisabolenols:trans-epoxybisabolenols produced from (R)-citronellal. These compositions were based on the newly discovered aggregation pheromone components: (3S,6S,7R,10S)-10,11-epoxy-1-bisabolen-3-ol and (3R,6S,7R,10S)-10,11-epoxy-1-bisabolen-3-ol. The composition may also contain methyl(2E,4E,6Z)-decatrieonate. Also a method for attracting Halyomorpha halys to an object or area, involving treating said object or area with a Halyomorpha halys attracting composition containing a Halyomorpha halys attracting effective amount of the composition. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/712284 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 37/06 (20130101) A01N 37/06 (20130101) A01N 43/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01N 43/20 (20130101) A01N 43/20 (20130101) A01N 49/00 (20130101) A01N 49/00 (20130101) A01N 49/00 (20130101) A01N 49/00 (20130101) A01N 49/00 (20130101) A01N 2300/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 303/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09453156 | Wu |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Qinglin Wu (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University And Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qinglin Wu (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed for reducing lost circulation in drilling wells, employing composite materials as lost circulation materials. The composites comprise a thermoplastic polymer and cellulosic fibers. Optionally the composites may include other components such as calcium carbonate, clay, oil and other blending agents. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/058136 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| 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 14/20 (20130101) C04B 14/20 (20130101) C04B 14/28 (20130101) C04B 14/28 (20130101) C04B 14/30 (20130101) C04B 14/30 (20130101) C04B 14/042 (20130101) C04B 14/042 (20130101) C04B 18/022 (20130101) C04B 18/022 (20130101) C04B 18/022 (20130101) C04B 18/24 (20130101) C04B 18/26 (20130101) C04B 2103/46 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 8/035 (20130101) C09K 8/487 (20130101) C09K 8/501 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C09K 8/514 (20130101) C09K 8/516 (20130101) C09K 2208/08 (20130101) C09K 2208/18 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Wastewater Treatment or Waste Management Y02W 30/97 (20150501) |
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 09452433 | Shenderov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Advanced Liquid Logic, Inc. (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina); Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Liquid Logic, Inc. (San Diego, California); Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Shenderov (Raleigh, North Carolina); Michael G. Pollack (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for conducting chemical or biochemical reactions that require multiple reaction temperatures are described. The methods involve moving one or more reaction droplets or reaction volumes through various reaction zones having different temperatures on a microfluidics apparatus. The devices comprise a microfluidics apparatus comprising appropriate actuators capable of moving reaction droplets or reaction volumes through the various reaction zones. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/290057 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502792 (20130101) B01L 7/525 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 2200/0673 (20130101) B01L 2300/089 (20130101) B01L 2300/0654 (20130101) B01L 2300/0864 (20130101) B01L 2300/0887 (20130101) B01L 2400/0427 (20130101) |
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| US 09452989 | Zang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ling Zang (Salt Lake City, Utah); Jimin Han (Salt Lake City, Utah); Xu Miao (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, compositions, and systems for detecting gamma radiation is disclosed and described. A compound for detecting gamma radiation can comprise a conjugated imidazole having the following structure: [Formula I] where at least one of R1, R2, and R3 are conjugated organic groups. Additionally, the conjugated imidazole can be capable of reacting with a radical or ion formed by the reaction of gamma radiation with a radical generating component such as a halogen solvent to decrease a molar extinction coefficient of the conjugated imidazole in the visible light region or to quench fluorescence of the conjugated imidazole. As a sensor (100), a radiation detection indicator (108) can indicate the change in molar extinction coefficient or fluorescence of the conjugated imidazole material (120) upon exposure to gamma radiation. |
| FILED | Friday, May 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/403540 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 235/02 (20130101) C07D 235/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/46 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/63 (20130101) G01N 21/64 (20130101) G01N 21/6428 (20130101) Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09453161 | Zhuravleva et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mariya Zhuravleva (Knoxville, Tennessee); Kan Yang (Solon, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A halide scintillator material is disclosed where the halide may comprise chloride, bromide or iodide. The material is single-crystalline and has a composition of the general formula ABX3 where A is an alkali, B is an alkali earth and X is a halide which general composition was investigated. In particular, crystals of the formula ACa1-yEuyI3 where A=K, Rb and Cs were formed as well as crystals of the formula CsA1-yEuyX3 (where A=Ca, Sr, Ba, or a combination thereof and X=Cl, Br or I or a combination thereof) with divalent Europium doping where 0≦y≦1, and more particularly Eu doping has been studied at one to ten mol %. The disclosed scintillator materials are suitable for making scintillation detectors used in applications such as medical imaging and homeland security. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/314393 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| 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 35/5152 (20130101) C04B 35/6455 (20130101) C04B 2235/3208 (20130101) C04B 2235/3213 (20130101) C04B 2235/3215 (20130101) C04B 2235/3224 (20130101) C04B 2235/9653 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/7733 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C09K 11/7791 (20130101) 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 11/00 (20130101) C30B 15/00 (20130101) C30B 29/12 (20130101) Techniques for Handling Particles or Ionising Radiation Not Otherwise Provided For; Irradiation Devices; Gamma Ray or X-ray Microscopes G21K 4/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2982 (20150115) |
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Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 09454816 | Mian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Electronic Machines Corporation (Troy, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Electronic Machines Corp. (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zahid F. Mian (Loudonville, New York); Ronald W. Gamache (East Greenbush, New York); Ryk E. Spoor (Troy, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A solution for evaluating an object using physical three-dimensional locations of the various points on the object derived from image data concurrently acquired by two or more cameras (e.g., stereo image data) is provided. Image data concurrently acquired by at least two cameras at each of multiple instants is processed to identify one or more points of an object visible in the image data. A physical three-dimensional location of each such point can be calculated at each instant using the corresponding image data. Additionally, a physical three-dimensional location of one or more points of the object visible only in the image data acquired by one camera can be calculated for each of the three different instants using the image data in which the corresponding point is visible and the physical three-dimensional location of one or more of the points visible in the image data acquired by at least two cameras. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/520433 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0022 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 7/0075 (20130101) G06T 2207/30236 (20130101) G06T 2207/30261 (20130101) Traffic Control Systems G08G 1/162 (20130101) G08G 1/166 (20130101) G08G 1/167 (20130101) |
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Department of the Interior (DOI)
| US 09455114 | Wong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Liang Jie Wong (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Byron Freelon (Chicago, Illinois); Timm Rohwer (Arlington, Massachusetts); Nuh Gedik (Watertown, Massachusetts); Steven Glenn Johnson (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Liang Jie Wong (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Byron Freelon (Chicago, Illinois); Timm Rohwer (Arlington, Massachusetts); Nuh Gedik (Watertown, Massachusetts); Steven Glenn Johnson (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for modulating a particle pulse include a succession of Hermite-Gaussian optical modes that effectively construct a three-dimensional optical trap in the particle pulse's rest frame. Optical incidence angles between the propagation of the particle pulse and the optical pulse are tuned for improved compression. Particles pulses that can be modulated by these methods and apparatus include charged particles and particles with non-zero polarizability in the Rayleigh regime. Exact solutions to Maxwell's equations for first-order Hermite-Gaussian beams demonstrate single-electron pulse compression factors of more than 100 in both longitudinal and transverse dimensions. The methods and apparatus are useful in ultrafast electron imaging for both single- and multi-electron pulse compression, and as a means of circumventing temporal distortions in magnetic lenses when focusing ultra-short electron pulses. |
| FILED | Friday, August 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/832056 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 37/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 2237/047 (20130101) H01J 2237/063 (20130101) |
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Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09452667 | Harmon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Corvid Technologies LLC (Mooresville, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Corvid Technologies LLC (Mooresville, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Harmon (Mooresville, North Carolina); Gregory McGowan (Huntersville, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for transporting a cargo load using a carrier aircraft includes: mounting a shield on the cargo load such that the shield is supported by the cargo load to form a protected load; and aerial transporting the protected load as a slung load from the carrier aircraft, wherein the shield serves to protect the cargo load from aerodynamic loads generated by flight of the carrier aircraft. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/192453 |
| ART UNIT | 3612 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Windows, Windscreens, Non-fixed Roofs, Doors, or Similar Devices for Vehicles; Removable External Protective Coverings Specially Adapted for Vehicles B60J 11/06 (20130101) B60J 11/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 1/22 (20130101) B64D 9/00 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/46 (20130101) |
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Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 09452409 | Waddell |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kevin W. Waddell (Hendersonville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin W. Waddell (Hendersonville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A reactor assembly comprising a reservoir, a reaction chamber, and a valve assembly comprising at least one valve. The reservoir, reaction chamber, and valve assembly are non-magnetic. The valve assembly is adapted to selectively provide fluid communication between the reservoir and the reaction chamber. |
| FILED | Sunday, April 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/113325 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/087 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/282 (20130101) |
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| US 09452830 | D'Anna et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank P. D'Anna (Seymour, Connecticut); David A. Darrow, Jr. (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A constant velocity drive includes a drive ring and a driven ring positioned around the drive ring. Drive links extend from the drive ring to the driven ring to transfer torque applied at the drive ring to the driven ring. Elastomeric bearings are positioned at the driven ring to transfer torque from a drive link of the plurality of drive links to the driven ring. Each elastomeric bearing includes both spherical bearing elements and planar bearing elements to allow for tilt of an axis of rotation of the driven ring with respect to an axis of rotation of the drive ring while ensuring a constant rotational velocity of the driven ring with respect to the rotational velocity of the drive ring. |
| FILED | Monday, January 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/153482 |
| 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 27/06 (20130101) B64C 27/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B64C 27/32 (20130101) B64C 27/35 (20130101) B64C 27/41 (20130101) Couplings for Transmitting Rotation; Clutches; Brakes F16D 3/30 (20130101) F16D 3/50 (20130101) F16D 3/70 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, September 27, 2016.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
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FUNDED BY
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Department of Defense (DOD)
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Army Research Office (ARO)
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APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
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Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
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ABSTRACT
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FILED
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APPL NO
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ART UNIT
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3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
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CURRENT CPC
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The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
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