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| US 09510746 | Criscione et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE TEXAS A and M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (College Station, Texas); CORINNOVA INCORPORATED (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TEXAS A and M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (College Station, Texas); CORINNOVA INCORPORATED (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Criscione (College Station, Texas); Lewis D. Harrison (Highland Village, Texas); Michael R. Moreno (Bryan, Texas); Christina M. Bolch (Houston, Texas); Dennis I. Robbins (Richardson, Texas); Saurabh Biswas (College Station, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods, systems, kits, and devices that aid in the positioning of a direct cardiac compression device about the heart. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/653823 |
| ART UNIT | 3733 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 1/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 2/2481 (20130101) Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 1/1068 (20130101) |
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| US 09510752 | Klin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ami Klin (Atlanta, Georgia); Warren Jones (Decatur, Georgia); Sarah Shultz (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Inc. (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ami Klin (Atlanta, Georgia); Warren Jones (Decatur, Georgia); Sarah Shultz (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present systems and methods provide a mechanism to assess viewer behavior, features of stimuli, and the interaction between viewer behavior and stimuli. The systems and methods described herein for quantifying blink response and blink inhibition provide moment-by-moments measurements of viewer engagement by measuring what is or is not engaging enough to warrant viewers' inhibition of blinking. The present disclosure describes measures of visual scanning, eye movements, blink data, and blink timing data to derive a measure of how engaged a person is with what he or she is looking at. Blink-related data as a measure of viewer engagement provides a mechanism for determining the most engaging spatial and temporal aspects of a stimulus. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/103640 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 3/0025 (20130101) A61B 3/0041 (20130101) A61B 3/112 (20130101) A61B 3/113 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/16 (20130101) A61B 5/167 (20130101) A61B 5/168 (20130101) |
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| US 09510762 | Datovech et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | LKC Technologies Inc. (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | LKC TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James J. Datovech (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Charles Quentin Davis (Frederick, Maryland); Bryan A. Hays (Damascus, Maryland); Anatolie Hobet (Salem, Oregon); Frank Hunleth (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrode arrays have a plurality of electrodes. These arrays may have any combination of the following improvements. The arrays may have features that enable easier electrical connections and reduced bending stiffness by having a stop region and a torsion relief region, respectively. The arrays may have a shielding feature that may reduce electrical interference. The arrays may come in pairs that are designed to simplify measurements of electric signals of bilateral organs and tissues, such as eyes and ears. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/426063 |
| ART UNIT | 3739 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0478 (20130101) A61B 5/0492 (20130101) A61B 5/0496 (20130101) A61B 5/04001 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/04085 (20130101) A61B 5/6814 (20130101) A61B 5/6833 (20130101) A61B 2562/125 (20130101) A61B 2562/227 (20130101) |
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| US 09510783 | Hadjioannou 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 (Oaklnad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arion-Xenofon F. Hadjioannou (Los Angeles, California); Tsu-Chin Tsao (Manhattan Beach, California); Brittany N. Berry-Pusey (Los Angeles, California); Yen-Chi Chang (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system, and a method for its use, provides for placement of a fluid delivery needle into the tail of a laboratory animal. The system includes an animal receiving portion, structure configured to receive, position and restrain a tail of the animal placed in the animal receiving portion and a hollow needle attached to a fluid transfer device. Positioning structure is provided to align the needle and fluid transfer chamber with the restrained tail for proper automated insertion of the needle into a blood vessel within the tail. A lateral actuator operatively connected to the fluid transfer device moves the hollow needle in a forward direction so that it is inserted into the blood vessel of the properly aligned tail. The system can include a computer programmed to automatically perform all of the functions and operate all the components of the system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/347207 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 15/04 (20130101) Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/150206 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 17/34 (20130101) A61B 2017/3405 (20130101) Veterinary Instruments, Implements, Tools, or Methods A61D 3/00 (20130101) A61D 7/00 (20130101) Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 5/46 (20130101) A61M 5/427 (20130101) A61M 5/3287 (20130101) A61M 2005/1585 (20130101) |
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| US 09510879 | Bottlang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zimmer, Inc. (Warsaw, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Zimmer, Inc. (Warsaw, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Bottlang (Happy Valley, Oregon); Steven M. Madey (West Linn, Oregon); Kyle Wirtz (Portland, Oregon); Stanley Tsai (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments provide methods, apparatuses, and systems for fixation of a fractured bone with a bone plate. In various embodiments, the systems and plates provide elastic suspension of the receiving holes relative to an osteosynthesis plate. This elastic suspension can promote load distribution between the screws that connect a bone segment to the plate, thereby reducing stress risers and load shielding effect. In addition, stress at the screw holes, and within the construct as a whole, is reduced by incorporation of these elastic elements in the plate. Additionally, in some embodiments where fracture healing by callus formation is desired, elastic suspension of the receiving holes relative to the osteosynthesis plate can enable small, controlled amounts of relative motion between bone fragments connected by the plate. This relative motion can promote fracture healing by callus formation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/308286 |
| ART UNIT | 3775 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 17/863 (20130101) A61B 17/8004 (20130101) A61B 17/8047 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 17/8085 (20130101) |
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| US 09511036 | He et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhigang He (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Duo Jin (Boston, Massachusetts); Fang Sun (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a method of promoting sustained survival, sustained regeneration, in a lesioned mature neuron, sustained compensatory outgrowth in a neuron, or combinations thereof. The method comprises contacting the lesioned mature neuron with an effective amount of an inhibitor of PTEN and an effective amount of an inhibitor of SOCS3 to thereby promote survival and/or regeneration and/or compensatory outgrowth of the neuron. Therapeutic methods of treatment of a subject with a neuronal lesion by administration of a therapeutically effective amount of an inhibitor of PTEN and a therapeutically effective amount of an inhibitor of SOCS3, are also disclosed, as are pharmaceutical compositions and devices for use in the methods. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 01, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/354694 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 67/0276 (20130101) A01K 2207/30 (20130101) A01K 2217/15 (20130101) A01K 2217/075 (20130101) A01K 2217/206 (20130101) A01K 2227/105 (20130101) A01K 2267/0356 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0085 (20130101) A61K 31/11 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/196 (20130101) A61K 31/444 (20130101) A61K 31/444 (20130101) A61K 31/555 (20130101) A61K 31/708 (20130101) A61K 31/708 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 31/4353 (20130101) A61K 31/4353 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 33/24 (20130101) A61K 33/24 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 39/39533 (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) Peptides C07K 14/4703 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/16 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 301/03048 (20130101) |
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| US 09511050 | Toretsky et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey A. Toretsky (Silver Spring, Maryland); Aykut Uren (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions provided herein relate to the treatment of cancer. In some embodiments, the compositions have utility in the treatment of cancers including glioblastoma multiforme and lung cancer. |
| FILED | Monday, October 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 15/030713 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/404 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 47/40 (20130101) |
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| US 09511069 | Gangjee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aleem Gangjee (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Larry H. Matherly (Farmington Hills, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aleem Gangjee (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Larry H. Matherly (Farmington Hills, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Fused cyclic pyrimidine compounds, including tautomers thereof, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, prodrugs, solvates and hydrates thereof, are disclosed having the general Formula 1: These compounds are useful in methods for treating cancer, selectively targeting cancerous cells via the proton coupled folate transporter, folate receptor alpha, and/or folate receptor beta pathways, inhibiting GARFTase in cancerous cells, and selectively targeting activated macrophages in a patient having an autoimmune disease, such as rheumatoid arthritis. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/558873 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/519 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 487/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09511071 | Boden et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Scott D. Boden (Atlanta, Georgia); Sreedhara Sangadala (Dallas, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott D. Boden (Atlanta, Georgia); Sreedhara Sangadala (Dallas, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure relates to compounds and compositions for forming bone and methods related thereto. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a composition comprising a compound disclosed herein, such as 2,4-diamino-1,3,5-triazine derivatives or salts thereof, for use in bone growth processes. In a typical embodiment, a bone graft composition is implanted in a subject at a site of desired bone growth or enhancement. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/816312 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/53 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/1875 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/54 (20130101) A61L 2300/412 (20130101) A61L 2430/02 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 251/18 (20130101) |
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| US 09511072 | Sweeney et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William E. Sweeney (Waukesha, Wisconsin); Ellis D. Avner (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Richard J. Roman (Brookfield, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William E. Sweeney (Waukesha, Wisconsin); Ellis D. Avner (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Richard J. Roman (Brookfield, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for preferentially reducing the proliferation of cystic epithelial cells in the kidney or bile duct in a mammal in need thereof by administering a 20-HETE synthesizing enzyme inhibitor or a 20-HETE antagonist to the mammal in an amount sufficient to preferentially reduce the proliferation of cystic epithelial cells over normal epithelial cells such as tubule epithelial cells in the kidney or bile duct. The present invention also provides a method for preventing or treating autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD), ARPKD associated congenital hepatic fibrosis, ARPKD associated Caroli's disease, or cholangiocarcinoma in a mammal in need thereof by administering a 20-HETE synthesizing enzyme inhibitor or a 20-HETE antagonist to the mammal in an amount sufficient to prevent or treat the disease. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/302545 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/18 (20130101) A61K 31/20 (20130101) A61K 31/155 (20130101) A61K 31/201 (20130101) A61K 31/202 (20130101) A61K 31/5375 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09511074 | Perlmutter 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) | David Hirsch Perlmutter (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); George Konstantine Michalopoulos (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Tunde Hidvegi (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of treatment of clinical disorders associated with protein polymerization comprising administering, to a subject, an effective amount of carbamazepine, oxcarbazepine or another carbamazepine-like compound. It is based, at least in part, on the discovery that, in cells having a genetic defect in α1-antitrypsin, carbamazepine was able to decrease levels of the mutant protein. Furthermore, carbamazepine reduced the hepatic load of mutant α1-antitrypsin and the toxic effect of that mutant protein accumulation, hepatic fibrosis, in vivo using a mouse model of the disease. As patients having this defect in α1-antitrypsin exhibit toxic accumulations of the protein, treatment according to the invention may be used to ameliorate symptoms and signs of disease. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/535210 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/55 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/155 (20130101) |
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| US 09511075 | Simard |
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| APPLICANT(S) | J. Marc Simard (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland); The United States of America as Represented by the Dept. of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Marc Simard (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns protection of an organ or tissue following an ischemic episode In particular aspects, the invention concerns organ preservation for transplantation, angina pectoris, kidney reperfusion injury, and so forth In specific embodiments, the organ is subjected to an inhibitor of an NCCa-ATP channel that is regulated by SUR1 Exemplary inhibitors include sulfonylurea compounds, such as glibenclamide, for example. |
| FILED | Friday, January 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/522444 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/57 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/427 (20130101) A61K 31/565 (20130101) A61K 38/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6872 (20130101) |
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| US 09511084 | Cheng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jin Q. Cheng (Tampa, Florida); Said M. Sebti (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention encompasses combination therapies including TCN, TCN-P, TCN-PM and/or related compounds and one or more additional anti-cancer agents, for example, taxanes a molecule that modulates the HER2/neu (erbB2) receptor, anthracyclin compounds, epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitor compounds, one or more platinum compounds and bortezomib and derivatives thereof and compositions with reduced toxicity for the treatment and prevention of tumors, cancer, and other disorders associated with abnormal cell proliferation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/514311 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/282 (20130101) A61K 31/282 (20130101) A61K 31/337 (20130101) A61K 31/337 (20130101) A61K 31/4353 (20130101) A61K 31/4353 (20130101) A61K 31/7064 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/7076 (20130101) A61K 31/7076 (20130101) A61K 33/24 (20130101) A61K 33/24 (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) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/2863 (20130101) C07K 2317/24 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) |
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| US 09511086 | Weyand et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cornelia M. Weyand (Stanford, California); Jörg J. Goronzy (Palo Alto, California); Lan Shao (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California); Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cornelia M. Weyand (Stanford, California); Jörg J. Goronzy (Palo Alto, California); Lan Shao (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for improving immune system function are provided. These methods find particular use in improving immune system function in individuals with a condition in which naïve lymphocytes comprise elevated amounts of DNA double strand breaks (DSB), for example, individuals with Rheumatoid Arthritis, individuals that have received a bone marrow transplant, or elderly individuals, e.g. individuals that are 50 or more years old. Also provided are methods and compositions for screening for novel compounds that will improve immune system function in such individuals. |
| FILED | Monday, August 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/205001 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/711 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/7105 (20130101) A61K 38/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5008 (20130101) G01N 2800/102 (20130101) |
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| US 09511093 | Gregory et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carl A. Gregory (Temple, Texas); Darwin J. Prockop (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl A. Gregory (Temple, Texas); Darwin J. Prockop (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention encompasses an osteogenic composition comprising mesenchymal stem cells pre-cultured in the presence of an agent that accelerates canonical Wnt signaling therein. Also, provided are osteogenic compositions incorporated into a biocompatible gel. The present invention provides methods for treating bone degeneration or injury associated with a pathophysiological condition in a mammal or for accelerating repair of a skeletal injury in a mammal by administering to the mammal or contacting the site of injury with the osteogenic composition. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/730022 |
| 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 09511095 | Xia et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lijun Xia (Edmond, Oklahoma); Rodger P. McEver (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | A population of cells possesses enhanced selectin binding based upon a fucosylated selectin ligand present on a surface thereof. Methods of producing the population of cells, along with therapeutic methods of using the cells, are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/894123 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| 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 5/0006 (20130101) C12N 5/0647 (20130101) |
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| US 09511097 | Zhou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Inc. (Bronx, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Inc. (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bin Zhou (Bronx, New York); Bingrou Wu (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and products are provided for producing an artery-specific endothelial cell. Also provided are methods for treating a tumor in a subject. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/443075 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 67/0275 (20130101) A01K 2217/072 (20130101) A01K 2217/206 (20130101) A01K 2227/105 (20130101) A01K 2267/0375 (20130101) A01K 2267/0393 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 16/22 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/069 (20130101) C12N 15/8509 (20130101) C12N 2501/165 (20130101) C12N 2506/1315 (20130101) C12N 2840/203 (20130101) |
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| US 09511103 | Chiorini et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John A. Chiorini (Dayton, Maryland); Giovanni Di Pasquale (Kensington, Maryland); Edoardo Mannucci (Prato, Italy) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Chiorini (Dayton, Maryland); Giovanni Di Pasquale (Kensington, Maryland); Edoardo Mannucci (Prato, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a gene transfer-based method to protect a subject from diabetes or obesity. The method comprises administering to a salivary gland of the subject an AAV virion comprising an AAV vector that encodes an exendin-4 protein. Also provided are exendin-4 proteins and nucleic acid molecules that encode such exendin-4 proteins. Also provided are AAV vectors and AAV virions that encode an exendin-4 protein. One embodiment is an exendin-4 protein that is a fusion protein comprising an NGF secretory segment joined to the amino terminus of an exendin-4 protein domain. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/112790 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/761 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/1703 (20130101) A61K 48/005 (20130101) A61K 48/0075 (20130101) Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 21/04 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/48 (20130101) C07K 14/605 (20130101) C07K 14/57563 (20130101) C07K 2319/50 (20130101) C07K 2319/055 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 2750/14143 (20130101) |
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| US 09511111 | Drezner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc K. Drezner (Madison, Wisconsin); Baozhi Yuan (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides methods of treating X-linked hypophosphatemia, related bone demineralization and renal phosphate wasting disorders in a mammalian subject. The methods comprise administering to the subject an effective amount of a polyarginine peptide. |
| FILED | Friday, March 13, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/657240 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/10 (20130101) A61K 47/48015 (20130101) A61K 47/48238 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09511113 | Ellis-Behnke et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Versitech Limited (Hong Kong, China PRC) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Versitech Limited (Hong Kong, China PRC) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rutledge Ellis-Behnke (Canton, Massachusetts); Yu-Xiang Liang (Hong Kong, China PRC); Gerald E. Schneider (Somerville, Massachusetts); Kwok-Fai So (Hong Kong, China PRC); David K. C. Tay (Hong Kong, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Method are described for inhibiting movement of a bodily fluid and/or contaminants on or in an animal comprising administering to the animal self-assembling peptidomimetics, including α-peptides, β-peptides, γ-peptides, and/or δ-peptides. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 23, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/748185 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 15/42 (20130101) A61L 26/0061 (20130101) |
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| US 09511117 | Ward et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher W. Ward (Baltimore, Maryland); Ramzi Khairallah (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher W. Ward (Baltimore, Maryland); Ramzi Khairallah (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for improving muscular function or treating a muscular disorder in an individual by administering to the individual a pharmacologically effective amount of a compound that inhibits microtubule-dependent NADPH Oxidase 2 reactive oxygen species signaling production. In addition compounds that block sarcolemmal Ca2+ channel activation and/or renin-angiotensin signaling may be administered with the inhibitor of microtubule-dependent NADPH Oxidase 2 reactive oxygen species signaling production. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/284736 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/12 (20130101) A61K 31/165 (20130101) A61K 31/165 (20130101) A61K 31/4178 (20130101) A61K 38/1767 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09511131 | Granoff et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dan M. Granoff (Berkeley, California); Peter Beernink (Walnut Creek, California); Jo Anne Welsch (Berkeley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital and Research Center Oakland (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan M. Granoff (Berkeley, California); Peter Beernink (Walnut Creek, California); Jo Anne Welsch (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Chimeric fHBPs that can elicit antibodies that are bactericidal for different fHBP variant strains of N. meningitidis, and methods of use, are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, March 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/921123 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/095 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/55505 (20130101) A61K 2039/55566 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/22 (20130101) C07K 16/1217 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09511135 | Chackerian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bryce C. Chackerian (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David S. Peabody (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryce C. Chackerian (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David S. Peabody (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides immunotherapeutic and prophylactic bacteriophage viral-like particle (VLPs) which are useful in the treatment and prevention of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) infections and related disorders, including bronchiolitis and viral pneumonia. Related compositions (e.g. vaccines), nucleic acid constructs, and therapeutic methods are also provided. VLPs and related compositions of the invention induce high titer antibody responses against RSV. VLPs, VLP-containing compositions, and therapeutic methods of the invention induce an immunogenic response against RSV infection, confer immunity against RSV infection, protect against RSV infection, and reduce the likelihood of infection by RSV infection. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/820891 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/155 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 39/295 (20130101) A61K 47/48776 (20130101) A61K 47/48884 (20130101) A61K 2039/5256 (20130101) A61K 2039/5258 (20130101) A61K 2039/6075 (20130101) A61K 2039/55566 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2760/18534 (20130101) |
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| US 09511142 | Burns et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | VenatoRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Malvern, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | VENATORX PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (Malvern, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher J. Burns (Malvern, Pennsylvania); Denis Daigle (Street, Maryland); Bin Liu (Dayton, New Jersey); Daniel McGarry (Malvern, Pennsylvania); Daniel C. Pevear (Downingtown, Pennsylvania); Robert E. Lee Trout (Collegeville, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are compounds and compositions that modulate the activity of beta-lactamases. In some embodiments, the compounds described herein inhibit beta-lactamase. In certain embodiments, the compounds described herein are useful in the treatment of bacterial infections. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 11, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/737323 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/69 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/025 (20130101) |
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| US 09511152 | Gao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jinming Gao (Dallas, Texas); Kejin Zhou (Dallas, Texas); Baran D. Sumer (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to pH-tunable, highly activatable multicolored fluorescent nanoplatforms and methods of using the nanoplatforms in a variety of applications including, but not limited to, investigating fundamental cell physiological processes such as pH regulation in endocytic vesicles, endosome/lysosome maturation, and effect of pH on receptor cycling and trafficking of subcellular organelles. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/827197 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/0032 (20130101) A61K 49/0054 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 49/0082 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6486 (20130101) |
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| US 09511206 | Hofius et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SRI INTERNATIONAL (Menlo Park, California); THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY (Palo Alto, California); Chunyuan Qiu (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI INTERNATIONAL (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Hofius (Menlo Park, California); Manish Kothari (Menlo Park, California); Chunyuan Qiu (Menlo Park, California); Pablo E. Garcia (Menlo Park, California); Karen S. Koenig (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to medical devices and, particularly, catheter medical devices. In an aspect is a nerve block catheter system comprising a dual-sheath catheter comprising an inner sheath and an outer sheath, wherein distal ends of the sheaths are connected, the inner sheath defines a fluid delivery lumen, and the outer sheath comprises a tissue lock movable between a collapsed position and an extended position, wherein the tissue lock forms a reversible tissue anchor when in the extended position, and an actuator connected to the proximate end of the catheter and configured to activate the tissue lock by sliding the outer sheath length-wise relative to the inner sheath. |
| FILED | Sunday, July 05, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/791460 |
| ART UNIT | 3763 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 19/00 (20130101) A61M 25/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61M 25/005 (20130101) A61M 25/0026 (20130101) A61M 25/0053 (20130101) A61M 2025/0056 (20130101) A61M 2025/0293 (20130101) A61M 2202/048 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0551 (20130101) |
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| US 09512068 | Laskin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Lehigh University (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY (New Brunswick, New Jersey); LEHIGH UNIVERSITY (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey D. Laskin (Piscataway, New Jersey); Ned D. Heindel (Easton, Pennsylvania); Diane E. Heck (Rumson, New Jersey); Carl Jeffrey Lacey (Schnecksville, Pennsylvania); Sherri C. Young (Clinton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Augmented or synergized anti-inflammatory constructs are disclosed including terpenes covalently conjugated with other anti-inflammatory molecules such as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, vanilloids, amino acids and polyamines; and anti-inflammatory molecules covalently conjugated with specific amino acids. For the latter, further conjugation with a choline bioisostere further augments the anti-inflammatory activity. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/776857 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/27 (20130101) A61K 31/132 (20130101) A61K 31/198 (20130101) A61K 31/405 (20130101) A61K 31/4015 (20130101) A61K 47/48038 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 271/12 (20130101) C07C 271/16 (20130101) C07C 271/22 (20130101) C07C 271/34 (20130101) C07C 271/48 (20130101) C07C 271/50 (20130101) C07C 271/52 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 2101/16 (20130101) C07C 2102/42 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/16 (20130101) C07D 209/26 (20130101) |
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| US 09512072 | Lu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zheng-Rong Lu (Beachwood, Ohio); Erlei Jin (Laramie, Wyoming); Xiaohui Wu (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Biodegradable computed tomography (CT) contrast agents comprising a polyiodinated aryl contrast agent that is crosslinked by an organic disulfide are described herein. The contrast agents can be used to image a tissue region by administering an effective amount of the biodegradable CT contrast agent to a subject, allowing a sufficient amount of time for the biodegradable CT contrast agent to enter the tissue region, and performing x-ray computed tomography imaging of the tissue region of the subject. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/529631 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/0438 (20130101) A61K 49/0442 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 319/12 (20130101) C07C 323/25 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/46 (20130101) |
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| US 09512073 | Dong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yizhou Dong (Dublin, Ohio); Kevin Thomas Love (Boston, Massachusetts); Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts); Daniel Griffith Anderson (Framingham, Massachusetts); Delai Chen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Yi Chen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Arturo Jose Vegas (Belmont, Massachusetts); Akinleye C. Alabi (Ithaca, New York); Yunlong Zhang (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are compounds and compositions characterized, in certain embodiments, by conjugation of various groups, such as lipophilic groups, to an amino or amide group of an amino acid, a linear or cyclic peptide, a linear or cyclic polypeptide, or structural isomer thereof, to provide compounds of the present invention, collectively referred to herein as “APPLs”. Such APPLs are deemed useful for a variety of applications, such as, for example, improved nucleotide delivery. Exemplary APPLs include, but are not limited to, compounds of Formula (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V), and (VI), and salts thereof, as described herein: wherein m, n, p, R′, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R8, Z, W, Y, and Z are as defined herein. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/662002 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 229/12 (20130101) C07C 229/22 (20130101) C07C 229/24 (20130101) C07C 229/26 (20130101) C07C 229/36 (20130101) C07C 237/08 (20130101) C07C 237/12 (20130101) C07C 271/22 (20130101) C07C 279/14 (20130101) C07C 323/58 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/16 (20130101) C07D 209/20 (20130101) C07D 209/24 (20130101) C07D 233/64 (20130101) C07D 241/08 (20130101) C07D 265/32 (20130101) C07D 403/06 (20130101) C07D 413/06 (20130101) C07D 487/04 (20130101) C07D 487/06 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/87 (20130101) C12N 15/88 (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 1/025 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/15 (20130101) |
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| US 09512074 | Esslinger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of Montana (Missoula, Montana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA (Missoula, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Sean Esslinger (Missoula, Montana); Michael P. Kavanaugh (Missoula, Montana); Brent Lyda (Billings, Montana); Nicholas R. Natale (Missoula, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a compound of Formula (I) or (II) or a salt thereof, wherein R is described herein. The compounds are novel hydroxy-proline analog inhibitors of the ASCT1 and ASCT2 neutral amino acid transporters. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/515103 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 51/0446 (20130101) General Methods of Organic Chemistry; Apparatus Therefor C07B 59/002 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09512092 | Cuervo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, INC. (Bronx, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, INC. (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ana Maria Cuervo (Bronx, New York); Evripidis Gavathiotis (Flushing, New York); Qisheng Xin (Bronx, New York); Bhaskar C. Das (Kansas City, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds, compositions and methods are provided for selectively activating chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA), protecting cells from oxidative stress, proteotoxicity and lipotoxicity, and/or antagonizing activity of retinoic acid receptor alpha (RARα) in subjects in need thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/566762 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | General Methods of Organic Chemistry; Apparatus Therefor C07B 2200/11 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 279/22 (20130101) C07C 2101/16 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 265/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 413/10 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2500/04 (20130101) G01N 2800/7009 (20130101) |
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| US 09512099 | Ghosh |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arun K. Ghosh (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments of the present invention relate to, among other things, compounds that are inhibitors of Memapsin 1 and, as a result, are effective in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease or diabetes (e.g., Type 2 diabetes). |
| FILED | Friday, September 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/485389 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 233/78 (20130101) C07C 311/08 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 277/30 (20130101) C07D 317/60 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09512103 | Ouerfelli et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ouathek Ouerfelli (Fort Lee, New Jersey); Anna Dilhas (Basel, Switzerland); Guangbin Yang (Forest Hills, New York); Hong Zhao (Rego Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel synthesis of the anti-androgen, A52, which has been found to be useful in the treatment of prostate cancer, is provided. A52 as well as structurally related analogs may be prepared via the inventive route. This new synthetic scheme may be used to prepare kilogram scale quantities of pure A52. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/666933 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 209/36 (20130101) C07C 209/36 (20130101) C07C 211/52 (20130101) C07C 213/08 (20130101) C07C 213/08 (20130101) C07C 217/58 (20130101) C07C 231/12 (20130101) C07C 253/00 (20130101) C07C 253/00 (20130101) C07C 253/30 (20130101) C07C 253/30 (20130101) C07C 255/46 (20130101) C07C 255/46 (20130101) C07C 2101/04 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/61 (20130101) C07D 213/64 (20130101) C07D 213/72 (20130101) C07D 213/74 (20130101) C07D 213/84 (20130101) C07D 401/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09512105 | Carroll et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank I. Carroll (Durham, North Carolina); James B. Thomas (Elfand, North Carolina); Hernan A. Navarro (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); S. Wayne Mascarella (Hillsborough, North Carolina); Scott P. Runyon (Hillsborough, North Carolina); Chunyang Jin (Apex, North Carolina); Chad M. Kormos (Apex, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are compounds represented by the formula: where R, Y3, R1, R2, R3, R4, R6, G, R7, E1, E2, A, B, W, X, Y and Z are as defined herein. |
| FILED | Monday, December 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/364003 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 241/04 (20130101) C07D 295/13 (20130101) C07D 401/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09512106 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Chen (Durham, North Carolina); Jiangbo Wang (Durham, North Carolina); Robert A. Mook, Jr. (Durham, North Carolina); Lawrence S. Barak (Durham, North Carolina); H. Kim Lyerly (Durham, North Carolina); Anthony Angelo Ribeiro (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds of general Formulas (I), (IA), (IB) are described, along with compositions containing the same and methods of use thereof, inhibiting the hedgehog pathway in a cell or inhibiting unwanted proliferation of a cell. |
| FILED | Monday, September 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/405614 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 401/12 (20130101) C07D 401/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0619 (20130101) C12N 2500/46 (20130101) |
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| US 09512125 | Shokat et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kevan M. Shokat (San Francisco, California); Nikolai Sepetov (Los Gatos, California); Chao Zhang (San Francisco, California); Heinz W. Gschwend (Santa Rosa, California); Eric J. Kunkel (San Mateo, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevan M. Shokat (San Francisco, California); Nikolai Sepetov (Los Gatos, California); Chao Zhang (San Francisco, California); Heinz W. Gschwend (Santa Rosa, California); Eric J. Kunkel (San Mateo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides anti-inflammatory compounds useful in the treatment of diseases and conditions in which inflammation is involved in disease progression or the manifestation of symptoms of the disease or condition. |
| FILED | Monday, November 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/719722 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 487/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09512147 | Blum 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) | Suzanne A. Blum (Irvine, California); Joshua J. Hirner (Irvine, California); Darius J. Faizi (Oceanside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for methods of making an organoboron compound, organoboron compounds, and the like. |
| FILED | Monday, November 16, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/941880 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 1/12 (20130101) C07F 5/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07F 5/025 (20130101) C07F 5/027 (20130101) |
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| US 09512160 | Turos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edward Turos (Wesley Chapel, Florida); Praveen Ramaraju (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward Turos (Wesley Chapel, Florida); Praveen Ramaraju (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Synthetically-derived S,S-heterodisubstituted disulfides that exhibit potent in vitro antibacterial activity against a variety of bacteria, including Staphylococcus aureus, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Francisella tularensis. The present invention provides compounds, methods and compositions effective to treat microbial/bacterial infections, and, especially, infections arising from bacteria which have developed resistance to conventional antibiotics. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/765272 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 321/14 (20130101) C07C 321/20 (20130101) C07C 381/00 (20130101) C07C 2101/14 (20130101) Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 15/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09512170 | Covey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas Covey (St. Louis, Missouri); Xin Jiang (Coppell, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure is generally directed to neuroactive 13,17-substituted steroids as referenced herein, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, for use as, for example, an anesthetic, and/or in the treatment of disorders relating to GABA function and activity. The present disclosure is further directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/191740 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Steroids C07J 1/0011 (20130101) C07J 3/00 (20130101) C07J 7/002 (20130101) C07J 7/0005 (20130101) C07J 7/007 (20130101) C07J 13/007 (20130101) C07J 21/008 (20130101) C07J 71/0005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09512179 | Akassoglou |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The J. David Gladstone Institutes (San Francsico, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The J. David Gladstone Institutes (San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Katerina Akassoglou (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides compositions for regulating glucose metabolism. The compositions provide for reduced levels of p75NTR and/or reduced binding of p75NTR to a GTPase such as Rab31 or Rab5. The compositions are useful in methods of regulating glucose metabolism, which methods are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/364466 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/10 (20130101) A61K 38/10 (20130101) A61K 38/46 (20130101) A61K 38/46 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/7151 (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 1/54 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 306/05002 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/60 (20130101) G01N 33/66 (20130101) G01N 2500/00 (20130101) G01N 2800/042 (20130101) |
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| US 09512180 | Morikis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California); THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (Princeton, New Jersey); UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS (Cyprus, Greece) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey); University of Cyprus (Cyprus, Greece) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dimitrios Morikis (Riverside, California); Ronald D. Gorham (Riverside, California); Christodoulos A. Floudas (Princeton, New Jersey); Meghan L. Bellows-Peterson (Livermore, California); George A. Khoury (Schnecksville, Pennsylvania); Georgios Archontis (Cyprus, Greece); Phanourios Tamamis (Cyprus, Greece) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure describes compstatin analogs and methods of using such analogs for the treatment of complement-related disease and disorder. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/652076 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/472 (20130101) |
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| US 09512182 | Bock |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Susan C. Bock (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF UTAH RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan C. Bock (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of identification and elimination of immunodominant epitopes to elicit a response to secondary epitopes, especially conserved structures, is described, and applied to influenza haemagglutinin (HA). Identification of the primary epitopes in (HA), and replacement of amino acids having high LODrps with corresponding low LODrps amino acids produces an HA molecule which induces antibody responses to conserved HA residues. Modified HA molecules induce a broadly neutralizing vaccine. |
| FILED | Monday, December 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/993862 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 35/76 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/145 (20130101) A61K 2039/58 (20130101) A61K 2039/555 (20130101) A61K 2039/55561 (20130101) A61K 2039/55566 (20130101) A61K 2039/55566 (20130101) A61K 2039/55572 (20130101) A61K 2039/55577 (20130101) A61K 2039/55583 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2760/16034 (20130101) C12N 2760/16111 (20130101) C12N 2760/16121 (20130101) C12N 2760/16122 (20130101) C12N 2760/16134 (20130101) C12N 2760/16134 (20130101) C12N 2760/16151 (20130101) C12N 2760/16171 (20130101) |
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| US 09512183 | Ray et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stuart Campbell Ray (Lutherville, Maryland); Supriya Munshaw (Baltimore, Maryland); Lin Liu (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart Campbell Ray (Lutherville, Maryland); Supriya Munshaw (Baltimore, Maryland); Lin Liu (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Synthetic representative HCV subtypes, including a 1a and 1b genome, dubbed Bole1a and Bole1b, are provided using an inventive method of Bayesian phylogenetic tree analysis, ancestral sequence reconstruction and covariance analysis. Bole1a branches centrally among 390 full-genome sequences used in its design, a carefully curated 143 sequence full-genome dataset, and separate genomic regions including an independent set of 214 E1E2 sequences from a Baltimore cohort. Bole1a is phylogenetically representative of widely circulating strains. Full genome non-synonymous diversity comparison and 9-mer peptide coverage analysis showed that Bole1a is able to provide more coverage (94% and 78% respectively) than any other sequence in the dataset including H77, a traditional reference sequence. Bole1a also provides unsurpassed epitope coverage when compared to all known T cell epitopes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/114808 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/29 (20130101) A61K 2039/53 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 9/0069 (20130101) C12N 2770/24221 (20130101) C12N 2770/24234 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56983 (20130101) |
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| US 09512189 | Gigliotti et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Francis Gigliotti (Pittsford, New York); Terry W Wright (West Henrietta, New York); Constantine G. Haidaris (Rochester, New York); Patricia J. Simpson-Haidaris (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis Gigliotti (Pittsford, New York); Terry W Wright (West Henrietta, New York); Constantine G. Haidaris (Rochester, New York); Patricia J. Simpson-Haidaris (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Immunologically active agents are described, including isolated Pneumocystis A 12 protein or polypeptides; immunogenic conjugates containing Pneumocystis A 12 protein or polypeptide of the present invention; antibodies recognizing the Pneumocystis A 12 protein or polypeptide or the immunogenic conjugates of the present invention; and nucleic acid molecules that encode the Pneumocystis A 12 protein or polypeptide of the present invention, as well as DNA constructs, expression vectors, and host cells that contain the nucleic acid molecules. Disclosed uses of the antibodies, immunogenic conjugates, and DNA constructs include inducing passive or active immunity to treat or prevent pathogen infections, particularly by a Pneumocystis organism, in a subject. |
| FILED | Monday, August 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/237133 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 39/0002 (20130101) A61K 2039/55566 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/20 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/0051 (20130101) |
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| US 09512191 | Dewji 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) | Nazneen Dewji (San Diego, California); S. Jonathan Singer (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure relates generally to neurodegenerative disorders and more specifically to a group of presenilin/G-protein/c-src binding polypeptides and methods of use for modulating signaling and progression of Alzheimer's disease. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 28, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/607713 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/08 (20130101) A61K 38/10 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) C07K 7/08 (20130101) C07K 14/4711 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09512192 | 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 (Davis, California); John Eric Paderi (San Francisco, California); Kinam Park (West Lafayette, Indiana); Katherine Allison Stuart (West Lafayette, Indiana); Steve Higbee (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to collagen-binding synthetic peptidoglycans and engineered collagen matrices comprising a collagen matrix and a collagen-binding synthetic peptidoglycan where the collagen-binding synthetic peptidoglycan can be aberrant or can have amino acid homology with a portion of the amino acid sequence of a protein or a proteoglycan that regulates collagen fibrillogenesis. The invention also relates to kits, compounds, compositions, and engineered graft constructs comprising such collagen-binding synthetic peptidoglycans or engineered collagen matrices and methods for their preparation and use. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 23, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/078885 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/24 (20130101) A61L 27/54 (20130101) A61L 27/227 (20130101) A61L 27/3804 (20130101) A61L 2300/25 (20130101) A61L 2300/42 (20130101) Peptides C07K 9/00 (20130101) C07K 9/001 (20130101) C07K 14/00 (20130101) C07K 14/78 (20130101) C07K 14/4725 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09512196 | Arditi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Moshe Arditi (Encino, California); Pearl S. Gray (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is based on a novel, alternatively spliced human isoform of MD-2 (MD-2s). In addition, the present invention relates to modified MD-2 proteins, wherein one or more tyrosine residues have been mutated to phenylalanine. In various embodiments, the invention relates to methods and kits for preventing, reducing the likelihood of developing and/or treating various conditions using MD-2s. The invention also describes methods of determining the risk of a subject to various conditions. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 05, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/639782 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/16 (20130101) A61K 38/177 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101) C07K 14/435 (20130101) C07K 14/705 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09512199 | Loew et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andreas Loew (Somerville, Massachusetts); Brian Edward Vash (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Shohei Koide (Chicago, Illinois); John Bernard Wojcik (Chicago, Illinois); Akiko Koide (Chicago, Illinois); Ryan Nicholas Gilbreth (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NOVARTIS AG (Basel, Switzerland); UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andreas Loew (Somerville, Massachusetts); Brian Edward Vash (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Shohei Koide (Chicago, Illinois); John Bernard Wojcik (Chicago, Illinois); Akiko Koide (Chicago, Illinois); Ryan Nicholas Gilbreth (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The here described invention discloses a combination of a top and bottom loop binder library using the CD and the FG loops of a number of FnIII domains (FnIII) (e.g., FnIII7, FnIII10 and FnIII14) together with the surface exposed residues of the beta-sheet. The invention also pertains to a method of forming a library of FnIII domain polypeptides useful in screening for the presence of one or more polypeptides having a selected binding or enzymatic activity. |
| FILED | Monday, August 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/813409 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/78 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/18 (20130101) C07K 16/40 (20130101) C07K 16/42 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) C07K 2318/20 (20130101) |
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| US 09512204 | Maynard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas); Synthetic Biologics, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas); SYNTHETIC BIOLOGICS, INC. (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer Maynard (Austin, Texas); Annalee Nguyen (Austin, Texas); Eduardo Padlan (Rockville, Maryland); Ellen Wagner (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to humanized antibodies which bind the pertussis toxin protein and their use as therapeutic agents. In particular, the present invention is directed to improved humanized 1B7 and 11E6 antibodies which bind the pertussis toxin protein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 31, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/675514 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/40 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2039/507 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/1225 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/14 (20130101) C07K 2317/24 (20130101) C07K 2317/56 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) C07K 2317/94 (20130101) |
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| US 09512209 | Keane et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI (Miami, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Miami (Miami, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert W. Keane (Miami, Florida); W. Dalton Dietrich (Miami, Florida); Juan Pablo De Rivero Vaccari (Miami, Florida); Helen M. Bramlett (Miami, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for reducing inflammation in the central nervous system (CNS) of a mammal that has been subjected to a stroke, traumatic injury to the CNS such as traumatic brain injury (TBI), spinal cord injury (SCI), or having an autoimmune or CNS disease have been developed. The compositions and methods described herein include antibodies that specifically bind to at least one component (e.g., ASC, NALP1) in a mammalian inflammasome (e.g., the NALP1 inflammasome) and have use as treatments for SCI, TBI, stroke, and autoimmune and CNS diseases in a mammal. In a rodent model of SCI, therapeutic neutralization of ASC using a polyclonal antibody that specifically binds to ASC inhibited the inflammasome, reduced caspase-1 activation, XIAP cleavage, and interleukin processing, resulting in significant tissue sparing and functional improvement. Additionally, in a rodent model of TBI, neutralization of ASC after TBI reduced caspase-1 activation and XIAP cleavage. Further, in a rodent thromboembolic stroke model, neutralization of NLRP1 resulted in reduced histopathological damage in mice and reduced cytokine activation, suggesting that the inflammasome complex forms in the brain after stroke and is a therapeutic target for reducing the detrimental consequences of post-stroke inflammation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/219857 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/395 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2317/77 (20130101) |
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| US 09512396 | Chen 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) | Christopher S. Chen (Princeton, New Jersey); Ken Margulies (Villanova, Pennsylvania); Thomas Boudou (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Wesley Legant (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Michael T. Yang (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for generating microtissues, including a micro-fabricated platform including at least one micro-well including a plurality of micro-cantilevers coupled thereto and surrounded by a plurality of ridges, each micro-cantilever including a cap at a terminal end thereof. The platform can be immersed in a suspension of cells. The suspension of cells can be driven into at least one micro-well, and the ridges can be de-wetted to remove excess suspension and isolate the suspension of cells in each micro-well. The cells can be driven in the suspension of each micro-well toward a top surface of the suspension, which can be polymerized to form a matrix. The cells can be cultivated to spontaneously compact the matrix such that the micro-cantilevers anchor and constrain the contracting matrix to form a band of microtissue that spans across the micro-cantilevers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/247951 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 21/08 (20130101) C12M 23/12 (20130101) C12M 41/36 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/14 (20130101) C12N 1/20 (20130101) C12N 5/0062 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 5/0657 (20130101) C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2527/00 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/025 (20130101) C12Q 1/68 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5005 (20130101) |
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| US 09512400 | Mellott et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Adam J. Mellott (Lawrence, Kansas); Michael Detamore (Lawrence, Kansas); Hinrich Staecker (Leawood, Kansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam J. Mellott (Lawrence, Kansas); Michael Detamore (Lawrence, Kansas); Hinrich Staecker (Leawood, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of transforming human cells into mechanosensory hair cells (MHCs), such as inner hear hair cells in the cochlea and vestibular organs, can include: causing human Wharton's jelly cells (hWJCs) to increase expression of or biological function of HATH1 so as to transform the hWJCs into MHCs. The method can include; administering a nucleic acid that encodes HATH1 to the hWJCs; causing inhibited expression of or biological function of HES1 and/or HES5 in the hWJCs; administering a nucleic acid that inhibits HES1 and/or a nucleic acid that inhibits HES5 to the hWJCs; causing inhibited expression of or biological function of HES1 and/or HES5 in the WJCs by administering a nucleic acid that inhibits HES1 and/or a nucleic acid that inhibits HES5; nucleic acids are administered includes a sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2, SEQ ID NO: 3, and/or SEQ ID NO: 4. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 28, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/698157 |
| 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 35/30 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/062 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/51 (20130101) C12N 2506/025 (20130101) C12N 2510/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09512401 | Radvanyi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Laszlo Radvanyi (Houston, Texas); Patrick Hwu (Houston, Texas); Chantale Bernatchez (Spring, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laszlo Radvanyi (Houston, Texas); Patrick Hwu (Houston, Texas); Chantale Bernatchez (Spring, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | BTLA-positive (“BTLA+”) lymphocyte signaling drives T cells and kills tumors. BTLA functions as a positive modulator of anti-tumor (anti-melanoma) T cell responses, The BTLA+ T cell responds against tumor or cancer cells, and, in cancer patients respond better to IL-2 than BTLA-negative cells. Hence, the BTLA-positive T cell in cancers is a positive marker for selection of enriched anti-tumor-cancer reactive T cells and can be used or applied for adoptive T-cell therapy or for therapeutic purposes. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/876198 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/17 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0636 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09512404 | Stupp et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel I. Stupp (Chicago, Illinois); Shuming Zhang (Evanston, Illinois); Alvaro Mata (Chicago, Illinois); Megan A. Greenfield (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to nanofibers. In particular, the present invention provides aligned nanofiber bundle assemblies. In some embodiments, the aligned nanofiber bundle assemblies are used for tissue regeneration, controlled growth of cells, and related methods (e.g., diagnostic methods, research methods, drug screening). |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/325495 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0068 (20130101) C12N 5/0662 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2533/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09512428 | Sengupta et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Srikumar Sengupta (Madison, Wisconsin); James Thomson (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for producing mature hepatocytes having functional hepatic enzyme activity from human pluripotent cells is disclosed. The method includes the step of transferring an external vector comprising the DNA sequence coding for a microRNA having the seed sequence of the microRNA miR-122, the DNA sequence coding for a microRNA having the seed sequence of the microRNA miR-let-7c, a microRNA having the seed sequence of the microRNA miR-122, a microRNA having the seed sequence of the microRNA miR-let-7c, or a combination thereof into one or more fetal hepatocytes. The resulting cells differentiate into mature hepatocytes that exhibit functional hepatic enzyme activity, and can be used in drug metabolism and toxicity testing, in the study of viruses that target hepatic tissue, and as therapeutics. A related method of maintaining the functional hepatic enzyme activity of primary hepatocytes over time is also disclosed. The method includes the step of transferring an external vector comprising the DNA sequence coding for a microRNA having the seed sequence of the microRNA miR-122 into one or more cultured primary hepatocytes. |
| FILED | Monday, August 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/822099 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/407 (20130101) A61K 35/545 (20130101) A61K 38/38 (20130101) A61K 38/44 (20130101) A61K 38/45 (20130101) A61K 38/57 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/067 (20130101) C12N 5/0672 (20130101) C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 15/113 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/141 (20130101) C12N 2320/30 (20130101) C12N 2501/65 (20130101) C12N 2510/00 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 114/13017 (20130101) C12Y 114/14001 (20130101) C12Y 206/01005 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5014 (20130101) |
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| US 09512429 | Jessup et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Dept. of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Dept. of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Milburn Jessup (Potomac, Maryland); Nikolay Korokhov (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present description relates to an inhibitory RNA molecule, comprising an oligonucleotide that selectively knocks down expression a Nanog pseudogene expressed in many human cancers, a replicating viral vector capable of encoding such inhibitory RNA molecule, pharmaceutical compositions comprising said vector, and methods of treating cancer by administration of said pharmaceutical composition. |
| FILED | Monday, October 19, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/886970 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 15/113 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/531 (20130101) C12N 2710/10032 (20130101) C12N 2710/10043 (20130101) C12N 2710/10045 (20130101) C12N 2799/022 (20130101) C12N 2799/028 (20130101) C12N 2820/007 (20130101) C12N 2830/008 (20130101) |
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| US 09512430 | Bresnick et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Emery H. Bresnick (Middleton, Wisconsin); Yoon A. Kang (San Francisco, California); Skye McIver (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are compositions and methods for enhancing erythropoiesis in an individual in need thereof. Specifically agents that decrease the expression of Exosc8, Exosc9, Dis3, Dis3L or Exosc10, such as inhibitory nucleic acid molecules, produce an increase in red blood cell production in the individual. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/323175 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 15/1137 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/11 (20130101) C12N 2310/12 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/15 (20130101) C12N 2320/30 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 301/13 (20130101) |
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| US 09512431 | Mirsky et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ethan Mirsky (San Francisco, California); Karsten Temme (San Francisco, California); Christopher A. Voigt (Belmont, Massachusetts); Dehua Zhao (Allston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ethan Mirsky (San Francisco, California); Karsten Temme (San Francisco, California); Christopher A. Voigt (Belmont, Massachusetts); Dehua Zhao (Allston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for making synthetic gene clusters are described. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/126307 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/26 (20130101) C07K 14/255 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/52 (20130101) C12N 15/63 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/67 (20130101) C12N 15/74 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/22 (20130101) |
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| US 09512446 | Joung et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Keith Joung (Winchester, Massachusetts); Benjamin Kleinstiver (Medford, Massachusetts); Vikram Pattanayak (Wellesley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Engineered CRISPR-Cas9 nucleases with improved specificity and their use in genomic engineering, epigenomic engineering, genome targeting, and genome editing. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 04, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/015947 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/16 (20130101) C12N 15/902 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Enzymes C12Y 301/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09512463 | Gelb et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael H. Gelb (Seattle, Washington); Frantisek Turecek (Seattle, Washington); Zdenek Spacil (Seattle, Washington); C. Ronald Scott (Seattle, Washington); Mariana Natali Barcenas Rodriguez (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and liquid compositions for assaying the activity of one or more lysosomal enzymes in a sample are provided. In some embodiments, the assay is a multiplexed assay for the activities of a plurality of lysosomal enzymes in the sample. The compositions and methods can comprise or employ: one or more metal cations effective for precipitating sulfate ions, one or more metal cations effective for precipitating phosphate ions, a maltase glucoamylase inhibitor, a beta-N-acetylhexosaminidase inhibitor, and one or more surfactants. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/352291 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/44 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 30/7233 (20130101) G01N 33/573 (20130101) |
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| US 09512465 | Gee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Life Technologies Corporation (Carlsbad, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Life Technologies Corporation (Carlsbad, California); President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kyle R. Gee (Springfield, Oregon); Brian Agnew (Eugene, Oregon); Adrian Salic (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Timothy J. Mitchison (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for the labeling of nucleic acid polymers in vitro and in vivo. Certain methods are provided that include a [3+2] cycloaddition between a nucleotide analogue incorporated into a nucleic acid polymer and a reagent attached to a label. Other methods are provided that include a Staudinger ligation between a nucleotide analogue incorporated into a nucleic acid polymer and a reagent comprising a substituted triarylphosphine attached to a label. Such methods do not require fixation and denaturation and therefore can be applied to the labeling of nucleic acid polymers in living cells and in organisms. Also provided are methods for measuring cellular proliferation. In these methods, the amount of label incorporated into the DNA is measured as an indication of cellular proliferation. The methods of the invention can be used in a wide variety of applications including clinical diagnosis of diseases and disorders in which cellular proliferation is involved, toxicity assays, and as a tool for the study of chromosomes' ultrastructures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/972365 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/68 (20130101) C12Q 1/68 (20130101) C12Q 1/6806 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6816 (20130101) C12Q 1/6816 (20130101) C12Q 1/6841 (20130101) C12Q 1/6841 (20130101) C12Q 2525/101 (20130101) C12Q 2563/107 (20130101) C12Q 2563/107 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/582 (20130101) G01N 33/5011 (20130101) |
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| US 09512469 | Seligmann et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HTG Molecular Diagnostics, Inc. (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HTG Molecular Diagnostics, Inc. (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Seligmann (Tucson, Arizona); Matt Rounseville (Tucson, Arizona); Krishna Maddula (Tucson, Arizona); Ihab Botros (Tucson, Arizona); Chris Cox (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods of co-detecting presence of target messenger RNA (mRNA) and small non-coding RNA (for example, miRNA) in a sample. The disclosed methods can be used to simultaneously detect mRNA and small non-coding RNA in a single assay (for example in the same reaction or the same well of a multi-well assay). The methods can include contacting a sample with a plurality of nuclease protection probes (NPPs) including at least one probe which specifically binds to a target mRNA and at least one probe which specifically binds to a target small non-coding RNA, contacting the sample with a nuclease specific for single-stranded nucleic acids, and detecting the NPP, for example on a microarray. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/347855 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6816 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6816 (20130101) C12Q 2521/325 (20130101) C12Q 2525/207 (20130101) C12Q 2537/143 (20130101) C12Q 2561/108 (20130101) |
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| US 09512485 | Richardson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrea L. Richardson (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Zhigang C. Wang (Newton, Massachusetts); Daniel P. Silver (Wayland, Massachusetts); Zoltan Szallasi (Boston, Massachusetts); Nicolai Juul Birkbak (Copenhagen, Denmark); Aron Charles Eklund (Copenhagen, Denmark) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); The Brigham and Women's Hospital. Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); The Technical University of Denmark (Lyngby, Denmark) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrea L. Richardson (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Zhigang C. Wang (Newton, Massachusetts); Daniel P. Silver (Wayland, Massachusetts); Zoltan Szallasi (Boston, Massachusetts); Nicolai Juul Birkbak (Copenhagen, Denmark); Aron Charles Eklund (Copenhagen, Denmark) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is based, in part, on the identification of novel methods for defining predictive biomarkers of response to anti-cancer drugs. |
| FILED | Friday, August 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/818425 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/16 (20130101) C12Q 2600/106 (20130101) C12Q 2600/118 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Theodore Winger (Morrisville, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Liquid Logic, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theodore Winger (Morrisville, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Droplet actuators and techniques for droplet-based assays are provided. A method of conducting an assay comprises: incubating a droplet in oil, the droplet comprising an umbelliferone substrate, a sample potentially comprising an enzyme which cleaves the umbelliferone substrate, and a zwitterionic surfactant; and detecting a signal emitted from the droplet. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/131846 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502792 (20130101) B01L 2300/12 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2400/0424 (20130101) B01L 2400/0427 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/447 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2800/044 (20130101) |
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| US 09513260 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hao F. Zhang (Deerfield, Illinois); Cheng Sun (Wilmette, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain examples provide a transparent ultrasonic transducer including a transparent substrate and a transparent optical resonator positioned on the transparent substrate. The transparent optical resonator is to facilitate excitation of a biological sample and to receive acoustic emission from the biological sample triggered by the excitation, for example. Certain examples provide a ring resonator ultrasonic detector including a microscope cover slide. The microscope cover sheet includes a substrate and a ring optical resonator positioned on the substrate. The example ring optical resonator is to facilitate illumination of a biological sample and to receive acoustic emission from the biological sample in response to the illumination. |
| FILED | Monday, June 09, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/299807 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/1702 (20130101) G01N 29/14 (20130101) G01N 29/34 (20130101) G01N 29/0681 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 29/2418 (20130101) G01N 2291/02466 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/1221 (20130101) G02B 6/12007 (20130101) G02B 21/0004 (20130101) |
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| US 09513281 | Yadava et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts); Baystate Medical Center, Inc. (Springfield, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER, INC. (Springfield, Massachusetts); UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nagendra Yadava (Longmeadow, Massachusetts); Alejandro Pablo Heuck (Amherst, Massachusetts); Chul Kim (West Springfield, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods, compositions, devices, and kits relating to the use of cholesterol-dependent cytolysins (e.g., PFOs) for measuring intracellular mitochondrial activity. |
| FILED | Monday, October 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/519119 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/33 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5005 (20130101) G01N 33/5079 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/33 (20130101) |
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| US 09513286 | Loughran, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas P. Loughran, Jr. (Hummelstown, Pennsylvania); Ravi Kothapalli (Wesley Chapel, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas P. Loughran, Jr. (Hummelstown, Pennsylvania); Ravi Kothapalli (Wesley Chapel, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention concerns gene sequences and the use thereof as markers for large granular lymphocyte (LGL) leukemia. The gene sequences of the invention are differentially expressed in LGL. Another aspect of the invention pertains to therapeutic compositions directed to gene expression and gene products of differentially expressed genes in LGL. The invention also concerns methods for screening and identifying compositions that may be of therapeutic benefit to patients having LGL leukemia and/or autoimmune disorders. In addition, because a large fraction of patients with T-LGL leukemia also have rheumatoid arthritis, these differentially expressed genes also represent novel targets for the diagnosis, prevention or treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/476407 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/564 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/57426 (20130101) G01N 2500/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09513293 | Gold et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Immunomedics, Inc. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Immunomedics, Inc. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David V. Gold (Metuchen, New Jersey); David M. Goldenberg (Mendham, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are compositions and methods of use of anti-pancreatic cancer antibodies or fragments thereof, such as murine, chimeric, humanized or human PAM4 antibodies. The subject antibodies show a number of novel and useful diagnostic characteristics, such as binding with high specificity to pancreatic and other cancers, but not to normal pancreatic tissues and binding to a high percentage of early stage pancreatic cancers. In preferred embodiments, the antibodies bind to pancreatic cancer mucins. The antibodies and fragments are of use for the detection and diagnosis of early stage pancreatic cancer. In preferred embodiments, the anti-pancreatic cancer antibodies can be used for immunoassay of serum samples, wherein the immunoassay can detect a marker for early stage pancreatic cancer in serum. More preferably, the serum is extracted with an organic phase, such as butanol, before immunoassay. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 18, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/944993 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/48746 (20130101) A61K 51/08 (20130101) A61K 51/088 (20130101) A61K 51/109 (20130101) A61K 51/0406 (20130101) A61K 51/0491 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) A61K 2039/507 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) B82Y 15/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/44 (20130101) C07K 16/303 (20130101) C07K 16/3092 (20130101) C07K 2317/24 (20130101) C07K 2317/31 (20130101) C07K 2317/54 (20130101) C07K 2317/55 (20130101) C07K 2317/565 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57438 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/57488 (20130101) G01N 2333/4725 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ned J. Place (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ned J. Place (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to non-surgical assays that can be used to determine whether an animal that has a non-postpartum anestrous period of three months or greater, such as a dog or a cat, has been spayed. In particular, the present invention relates to devices, kits and methods that allow correlation of levels of Anti-Müllerian Hormone with the state of being spayed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/435607 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/74 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/581 (20130101) G01N 2333/495 (20130101) G01N 2333/575 (20130101) |
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| US 09513354 | Hancu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ileana Hancu (Clifton Park, New York); Selaka Bandara Bulumulla (Niskayuna, New York); Seung-Kyun Lee (Cohoes, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Exemplary embodiments are directed to estimating an electrical property of tissue using Magnetic Resonance (MR) images. In exemplary embodiments, complex MR images of a target tissue are obtained. An estimated value of an electrical property of the target tissue is determined based on complex values of the pixels in the complex MR images. The complex values are proportional to the product of the transmit radio frequency magnetic field and the receive RF magnetic field. |
| FILED | Monday, October 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/652155 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/055 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/48 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09514358 | Konofagou 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) | Elisa Konofagou (New York, New York); Jean Provost (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for matching a characteristic of multiple sectors of a moving tissue to verify an overlap thereof are disclosed herein. In an exemplary method, tissue data for at least a first sector and a second sector of a moving tissue is acquired. A characteristic of at least a portion of the first and second sectors is estimated from the acquired tissue data, and the estimated characteristics are matched to verify whether a portion of the first sector overlaps with a portion of the second sector. Estimating can include estimating a displacement such as an axial displacement and/or lateral displacements. Estimating can further include estimating a strain, a velocity, a strain rate and/or a stiffness or equivalent. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/848436 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/055 (20130101) A61B 6/03 (20130101) A61B 6/503 (20130101) A61B 6/504 (20130101) A61B 8/08 (20130101) A61B 8/485 (20130101) A61B 8/0891 (20130101) Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 7/52042 (20130101) G01S 7/52071 (20130101) G01S 15/8977 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00536 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09514513 | Kim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jong S. Kim (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Hiroshi Ishikawa (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Joel S. Schuman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Gadi Wollstein (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jong S. Kim (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Hiroshi Ishikawa (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Joel S. Schuman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Gadi Wollstein (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Advances in optical coherence tomography (OCT) have prompted a transition from time domain OCT, providing 2D OCT images, to spectral domain OCT, which has a 3D imaging capability. Yet conventional technology offers little toward the goal of inter-device compatibility between extant 2D OCT images and newer 3D OCT images for the same or comparable subjects, as in the context of ongoing monitoring the quantitative status of a patient's eyes. The inventive methodology is particularly useful to identify the scan location of tissue in a 2D OCT image within the 3D OCT volumetric data, thereby allowing clinicians to image a patient via 3D OCT, based on available 2D OCT images, with minimal inter-device variation. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/056510 |
| ART UNIT | 2667 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 3/102 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 3/0075 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joachim B. Kohn (Piscataway, New Jersey); Carmine P. Iovine (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Niraj Ramachandran (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joachim B. Kohn (Piscataway, New Jersey); Carmine P. Iovine (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Niraj Ramachandran (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to compositions and applications for an mterpolymer network delivery system containing iodine. |
| FILED | Sunday, August 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/238605 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/7023 (20130101) A61K 33/18 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 47/32 (20130101) A61K 47/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 31/16 (20130101) A61L 31/042 (20130101) A61L 31/048 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 18/831 (20130101) |
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| US 09511224 | Downs, Jr. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edward F. Downs, Jr. (Lynn Haven, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward F. Downs, Jr. (Lynn Haven, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A bionic cochlea includes a fluid filled vessel having a flexible window disposed in one of its walls. The flexible window flexes when exposed to an acoustic pulse to produce an acoustic pressure pulse in the fluid inside the vessel. A plurality of piezoelectric nanowires is disposed within the fluid filled vessel. The piezoelectric nanowires vibrate in response to acoustic pressure pulses transmitting through the fluid and produce electrical signals. Electrical wires in communication with the piezoelectric nanowires receive the produced electrical signals and pass these signals to the mammalian auditory nerve. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/532891 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/375 (20130101) A61N 1/36032 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 41/113 (20130101) |
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| US 09511240 | Dobrynin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Danil V. Dobrynin (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Alexander Fridman (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Young I. Cho (Cherry Hill, New Jersey); Gregory Fridman (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Gennady Friedman (Richboro, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Danil V. Dobrynin (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Alexander Fridman (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Young I. Cho (Cherry Hill, New Jersey); Gregory Fridman (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Gennady Friedman (Richboro, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are atmospheric pressure pin-to-hole pulsed spark discharge devices and methods for creating plasma. The devices include a conduit for fluidically communicating a gas, a plasma, or both, therethrough, portion of the conduit capable of being connected to a gas supply, and a second portion of the conduit capable of emitting a plasma; a positive electrode comprising a sharp tip; and a ground plate electrode. Disclosed are methods for treating a skin ulcer using non-thermal plasma include flowing a gas through a cold spark discharge zone simultaneously with the creation of a pulsed spark discharge to give rise to a non-thermal plasma emitted from a conduit, the non-thermal plasma comprising NO; and contacting a skin ulcer with said non-thermal plasma for sufficient time and intensity to give rise to treatment of the skin ulcer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/256556 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/0468 (20130101) A61N 1/0472 (20130101) |
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| US 09511329 | Chu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Chu (Stony Brook, New York); Benjamin S. Hsiao (Stony Brook, New York); Hongyang Ma (Stony Brook, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A membrane is provided including a coating layer having cellulose nanofibers produced from oxidized cellulose microfibers and an electrospun substrate upon which the coating layer is applied. The nanofibers of the electrospun substrate have a diameter greater than that of the cellulose nanofibers. The membrane also has non-woven support upon which the electrospun substrate is disposed. Microfibers of the non-woven support have a diameter greater than that of the nanofibers of the electrospun substrate. Application of electrospun membrane is in microfiltration area, while the cellulose nanofiber membrane serves in ultrafiltration, nanofiltration, and reverse osmosis after chemical modification. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 01, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/676107 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 39/18 (20130101) B01D 39/1615 (20130101) B01D 39/1623 (20130101) B01D 67/0002 (20130101) B01D 69/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 71/12 (20130101) B01D 71/38 (20130101) B01D 2239/10 (20130101) B01D 2239/025 (20130101) B01D 2239/0478 (20130101) B01D 2239/0631 (20130101) B01D 2239/0654 (20130101) B01D 2239/1208 (20130101) B01D 2239/1216 (20130101) B01D 2239/1233 (20130101) B01D 2323/39 (20130101) Mechanical Methods or Apparatus in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons D01D 5/0084 (20130101) Chemical Features in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons; Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture of Carbon Filaments D01F 2/00 (20130101) D01F 2/24 (20130101) Treatment, Not Provided for Elsewhere in Class D06, of Fibres, Threads, Yarns, Fabrics, Feathers or Fibrous Goods Made From Such Materials D06M 13/123 (20130101) D06M 15/263 (20130101) D06M 17/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2495 (20150115) Y10T 428/249921 (20150401) |
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| US 09511346 | Tour et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Alexander Slesarev (Obninsk, Russian Federation); Dmitry V. Kosynkin (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia); Anna Y. Romanchuk (Moscow, Russian Federation); Stepan N. Kalmykov (Moscow, Russian Federation) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Alexander Slesarev (Obninsk, Russian Federation); Dmitry V. Kosynkin (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia); Anna Y. Romanchuk (Moscow, Russian Federation); Stepan N. Kalmykov (Moscow, Russian Federation) |
| ABSTRACT | Various aspects of the present invention pertain to methods of sorption of various materials from an environment, including radioactive elements, chlorates, perchlorates, organohalogens, and combinations thereof. Such methods generally include associating graphene oxides with the environment. This in turn leads to the sorption of the materials to the graphene oxides. In some embodiments, the methods of the present invention also include a step of separating the graphene oxides from the environment after the sorption of the materials to the graphene oxides. More specific aspects of the present invention pertain to methods of sorption of radionuclides (such as actinides) from a solution by associating graphene oxides with the solution and optionally separating the graphene oxides from the solution after the sorption. |
| FILED | Monday, February 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/001255 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — 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 20/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 20/205 (20130101) B01J 20/0296 (20130101) B01J 20/327 (20130101) B01J 20/3204 (20130101) B01J 20/3244 (20130101) B01J 20/3272 (20130101) Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/283 (20130101) C02F 2101/006 (20130101) Protection Against X-radiation, Gamma Radiation, Corpuscular Radiation or Particle Bombardment; Treating Radioactively Contaminated Material; Decontamination Arrangements Therefor G21F 9/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09511399 | Coyle et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles G. Coyle (Omaha, Nebraska); Victor F. Medina (Clinton, Mississippi); Scott A. Waisner (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Chung-Rei Mao (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by The Secretary of The Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles G. Coyle (Omaha, Nebraska); Victor F. Medina (Clinton, Mississippi); Scott A. Waisner (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Chung-Rei Mao (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes methods and a system for treating a mass of contaminated media using ammonia. The methods include determining the amount of ammonia required for treatment using various calculation methods and combining the ammonia with air or another carrier gas to create a gas mixture. The methods and system utilize at least one injection well inserted into the contaminated media to deliver the gas mixture over a period ranging from approximately 1 week to approximately 8 weeks. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/692210 |
| ART UNIT | 3672 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Reclamation of Contaminated Soil B09C 1/002 (20130101) B09C 1/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B09C 2101/00 (20130101) Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/66 (20130101) C02F 2103/06 (20130101) C02F 2305/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/24 (20130101) |
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| US 09511537 | Tuscano et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Tuscano (Stratford, Connecticut); Michael Haiday (Bethany, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A bonding tool to facilitate bonding of a liner to a surface of a workpiece is provided. The bonding tool includes a bladder, which is inflatable from an initial size to an expanded size, a frame formed to define a recess in which the bladder is disposed, the recess being oriented such that, when inflated from the initial size to the expanded size, the bladder applies a predefined pressure to the liner such that the liner is pressed against the surface of the workpiece. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/926537 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 43/10 (20130101) B29C 43/3642 (20130101) B29C 63/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B29C 2043/3649 (20130101) Presses in General B30B 1/003 (20130101) B30B 5/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09512036 | Abouraddy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ayman F. Abouraddy (Oviedo, Florida); Esmaeil H. Banaei (Orlando, Florida); Daosheng S. Deng (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Yoel Fink (Brookline, Massachusetts); Steven G. Johnson (Arlington, Massachusetts); Joshua J. Kaufman (Oviedo, Florida); Xiangdong Liang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Soroush Shabahang (Orlando, Florida); Guangming Tao (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber is provided, including a cladding material that is disposed along a longitudinal-axis fiber length. A plurality of spherical particles are disposed as a sequence along a longitudinal line parallel to the longitudinal fiber axis in at least a portion of the fiber length, and include a spherical particle material that is interior to the fiber cladding material and different than the fiber cladding material. To produce particles, a drawn fiber, having a longitudinal-axis fiber length and including at least one fiber core that has a longitudinal core axis parallel to the longitudinal fiber axis and that is internally disposed to at least one outer fiber cladding layer along the fiber length, is heated for a time that is sufficient to cause a fiber core to break-up into droplets sequentially disposed along the fiber core axis. Fiber cooling solidifies droplets into spherical particles interior to fiber cladding. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/803213 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 2/00 (20130101) Preparation or Pretreatment of the Material to be Shaped; Making Granules or Preforms; Recovery of Plastics or Other Constituents of Waste Material Containing Plastics B29B 9/00 (20130101) B29B 9/06 (20130101) Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 47/04 (20130101) B29C 47/0014 (20130101) B29C 47/027 (20130101) B29C 47/0066 (20130101) B29C 47/92 (20130101) B29C 2947/92704 (20130101) Manufacture, Shaping, or Supplementary Processes C03B 19/1005 (20130101) C03B 37/15 (20130101) C03B 2201/86 (20130101) Chemical Composition of Glasses, Glazes or Vitreous Enamels; Surface Treatment of Glass; Surface Treatment of Fibres or Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals or Slags; Joining Glass to Glass or Other Materials C03C 14/00 (20130101) C03C 14/006 (20130101) C03C 25/002 (20130101) C03C 25/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Mechanical Methods or Apparatus in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons D01D 5/00 (20130101) Crimping or Curling Fibres, Filaments, Threads, or Yarns; Yarns or Threads D02G 3/22 (20130101) D02G 3/045 (20130101) Finishing or Dressing of Filaments, Yarns, Threads, Cords, Ropes or the Like D02J 1/22 (20130101) D02J 1/224 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2927 (20150115) |
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| US 09512127 | Sherrill 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) | William Matthew Sherrill (Aberdeen, Maryland); Joseph Erik Banning (North East, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A spherical morphology of the high explosive tetranitroglycoluril (TNGU) has been discovered. This new morphology exhibits approximately a twofold improvement in the response of the material to impact, more than a one and a half fold improvement in friction and the same high resistance to electrostatic discharge over non-spherical TNGU produced by other methods. |
| FILED | Monday, September 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/499280 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosives or Thermic Compositions; Manufacture Thereof; Use of Single Substances as Explosives C06B 25/34 (20130101) C06B 45/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 487/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09512138 | Pietras 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) | Richard J. Pietras (Sherman Oaks, California); Michael E. Jung (Los Angeles, California); Diana C. Márquez-Garbán (Los Angeles, California); Gang Deng (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein, inter alia, are compositions and methods useful for treating hyperproliferative diseases, including cancer and non-malignant hyperproliferative diseases. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 07, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 14/990651 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/365 (20130101) A61K 31/443 (20130101) A61K 31/4525 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 493/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09512145 | Yaghi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Omar M. Yaghi (Los Angeles, California); Alexader U. Czaja (Dirmstein, Germany); William Morris (Los Angeles, California); Joseph R. Hunt (Fredericksburg, Virginia); David Kyle Britt (Los Angeles, California); Chain Lee (Monterey Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Omar M. Yaghi (Los Angeles, California); Alexader U. Czaja (Dirmstein, Germany); William Morris (Los Angeles, California); Joseph R. Hunt (Fredericksburg, Virginia); David Kyle Britt (Los Angeles, California); Chain Lee (Monterey Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates to porous frameworks for gas separation, sensing and drug/biomolecule delivery. More particularly, the disclosure relates to reactive porous frameworks for functionalization. |
| FILED | Friday, December 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/140408 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 3/003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09512146 | Scheidt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl A. Scheidt (Evanston, Illinois); John M. Roberts (Evanston, Illinois); Joseph T. Hupp (Northfield, Illinois); Omar K. Farha (Morton Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are metal-organic frameworks comprising at least two azolium rings. The azolium groups are used as a strategy for controlling catenation and morphology in metal-organic frameworks. |
| FILED | Monday, July 27, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/810192 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 1/08 (20130101) C07F 3/003 (20130101) C07F 3/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09512209 | Keane et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI (Miami, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Miami (Miami, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert W. Keane (Miami, Florida); W. Dalton Dietrich (Miami, Florida); Juan Pablo De Rivero Vaccari (Miami, Florida); Helen M. Bramlett (Miami, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for reducing inflammation in the central nervous system (CNS) of a mammal that has been subjected to a stroke, traumatic injury to the CNS such as traumatic brain injury (TBI), spinal cord injury (SCI), or having an autoimmune or CNS disease have been developed. The compositions and methods described herein include antibodies that specifically bind to at least one component (e.g., ASC, NALP1) in a mammalian inflammasome (e.g., the NALP1 inflammasome) and have use as treatments for SCI, TBI, stroke, and autoimmune and CNS diseases in a mammal. In a rodent model of SCI, therapeutic neutralization of ASC using a polyclonal antibody that specifically binds to ASC inhibited the inflammasome, reduced caspase-1 activation, XIAP cleavage, and interleukin processing, resulting in significant tissue sparing and functional improvement. Additionally, in a rodent model of TBI, neutralization of ASC after TBI reduced caspase-1 activation and XIAP cleavage. Further, in a rodent thromboembolic stroke model, neutralization of NLRP1 resulted in reduced histopathological damage in mice and reduced cytokine activation, suggesting that the inflammasome complex forms in the brain after stroke and is a therapeutic target for reducing the detrimental consequences of post-stroke inflammation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/219857 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/395 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2317/77 (20130101) |
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| US 09512249 | Holmberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Angela L. Holmberg (Newark, Delaware); Joseph F. Stanzione (Wilmington, Delaware); Richard Wool (Newark, Delaware); Thomas H. Epps, III (Bear, Delaware) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Angela L. Holmberg (Newark, Delaware); Joseph F. Stanzione (Wilmington, Delaware); Richard Wool (Newark, Delaware); Thomas H. Epps, III (Bear, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention pertains to bio-based block polymers synthesized from functionalized lignin-based molecules (A-monomer) and functionalized fatty acids or fatty alcohols (B-monomer) derived from plant or animal oils, waxes or fats. The block polymers can be synthesized via numerous polymerization techniques, such as reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT). Most importantly, this class of bio-based block polymers shows promise as providing sustainable yet scalable and tunable thermoplastic elastomers and pressure-sensitive adhesives, among other applications. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/200855 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 12/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08F 212/14 (20130101) C08F 290/06 (20130101) C08F 293/005 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 25/18 (20130101) |
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| US 09512324 | Hunt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas); Texas Tech University System (Lubbock, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas); Texas Tech University (Lubbock, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Emily M. Hunt (Canyon, Texas); Michelle L. Pantoya (Lubbock, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Antibacterial metallic nanofoams, substrates having the nanofoam coated thereon, methods for preventing, inhibiting, and/or killing bacterial growth using the metallic nanofoams, and compositions and methods for making the metallic nanofoams. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/645318 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 1/02 (20130101) B22F 1/0018 (20130101) B22F 1/0048 (20130101) B22F 3/1143 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 5/14 (20130101) C09D 7/1225 (20130101) C09D 7/1291 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Alloys C22C 1/08 (20130101) C22C 1/10 (20130101) C22C 1/051 (20130101) C22C 21/00 (20130101) C22C 29/12 (20130101) C22C 32/0015 (20130101) C22C 32/0036 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24997 (20150401) |
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| US 09512545 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mei Zhang (Tallahassee, Florida); Shaoli Fang (Richardson, Texas); Ray H. Baughman (Dallas, Texas); Anvar A. Zakhidov (McKinney, Texas); Kenneth Ross Atkinson (Victoria, Australia); Ali E. Aliev (Dallas, Texas); Sergey Li (Dallas, Texas); Chris Williams (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to nanofiber yarns, ribbons, and sheets; to methods of making said yarns, ribbons, and sheets; and to applications of said yarns, ribbons, and sheets. In some embodiments, the nanotube yarns, ribbons, and sheets comprise carbon nanotubes. Particularly, such carbon nanotube yarns of the present invention provide unique properties and property combinations such as extreme toughness, resistance to failure at knots, high electrical and thermal conductivities, high absorption of energy that occurs reversibly, up to 13% strain-to-failure compared with the few percent strain-to-failure of other fibers with similar toughness, very high resistance to creep, retention of strength even when heated in air at 450° C. for one hour, and very high radiation and UV resistance, even when irradiated in air. Furthermore these nanotube yarns can be spun as one micron diameter yarns and plied at will to make two-fold, four-fold, and higher fold yarns. Additional embodiments provide for the spinning of nanofiber sheets having arbitrarily large widths. In still additional embodiments, the present invention is directed to applications and devices that utilize and/or comprise the nanofiber yarns, ribbons, and sheets of the present invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/581092 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502707 (20130101) Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 47/0059 (20130101) Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 5/02 (20130101) B32B 5/12 (20130101) B32B 18/00 (20130101) B32B 2262/106 (20130101) B32B 2310/00 (20130101) B32B 2313/04 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0293 (20130101) Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/62231 (20130101) C04B 35/62272 (20130101) C04B 35/62281 (20130101) C04B 35/62855 (20130101) C04B 35/62892 (20130101) C04B 35/62897 (20130101) C04B 2235/422 (20130101) C04B 2235/526 (20130101) C04B 2235/5248 (20130101) C04B 2235/5264 (20130101) Chemical Features in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons; Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture of Carbon Filaments D01F 9/12 (20130101) D01F 9/127 (20130101) D01F 9/1275 (20130101) Crimping or Curling Fibres, Filaments, Threads, or Yarns; Yarns or Threads D02G 3/16 (20130101) D02G 3/28 (20130101) D02G 3/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Making Textile Fabrics, e.g From Fibres or Filamentary Material; Fabrics Made by Such Processes or Apparatus, e.g Felts, Non-woven Fabrics; Cotton-wool; Wadding D04H 3/002 (20130101) Treating Textile Materials Using Liquids, Gases or Vapours D06B 15/00 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses of Section D, Relating to Textiles D10B 2101/122 (20130101) 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 2001/1515 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 11/36 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0048 (20130101) H01L 51/5206 (20130101) H01L 51/5234 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/8605 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) Y02E 60/13 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/521 (20151101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/742 (20130101) Y10S 977/745 (20130101) Y10S 977/843 (20130101) Y10S 977/847 (20130101) Y10S 977/848 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/30 (20150115) |
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| US 09512861 | Fugate et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Fugate (East Hartford, Connecticut); Frank E. Bullis (Hebron, Connecticut); Christopher A. Johnson (Tolland, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Fugate (East Hartford, Connecticut); Frank E. Bullis (Hebron, Connecticut); Christopher A. Johnson (Tolland, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An example method of initiating a maintenance action on a component includes monitoring an electrical current required to maintain a steady state position. The method then initiates a maintenance action on the component based on the monitored current. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/975399 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Systems Acting by Means of Fluids in General; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g Servomotors; Details of Fluid-pressure Systems, Not Otherwise Provided for F15B 19/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09512922 | Takeuchi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Don Takeuchi (Tempe, Arizona); Nathan Gibson (Tempe, Arizona); Tina Hynes (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Don Takeuchi (Tempe, Arizona); Nathan Gibson (Tempe, Arizona); Tina Hynes (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Sealing apparatus and engine are provided. A sealing apparatus includes a first cover plate, a second cover plate spaced apart from the first cover plate, and a sealing element disposed between the first cover plate and the second cover plate and including at least two diaphragm members, wherein a first diaphragm member has a first stiffness and a second diaphragm member has a second stiffness that is different than the first stiffness. The sealing apparatus may be disposed in an engine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/624902 |
| ART UNIT | 3675 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 11/001 (20130101) F01D 11/02 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2240/56 (20130101) F05D 2240/57 (20130101) Pistons; Cylinders; Sealings F16J 15/3288 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F16J 15/3292 (20130101) |
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| US 09513010 | Tseng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond R. Tseng (Chandler, Arizona); Frank J. Zupanc (Fountain Hills, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for controlling air flow through a combustor swirler assembly that includes an inner swirler and an outer swirler. A bistable fluidic amplifier that includes an air inlet, a first air outlet, a second air outlet, and a control port is disposed upstream of the combustor swirler assembly. A flow of compressed is directed into the air inlet of the bistable fluidic amplifier and, based on the control air pressure at the control port, the flow of compressed air supplied to the air inlet is selectively directed to either the first air outlet or the second air outlet. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/961223 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 7/042 (20130101) F02C 7/222 (20130101) F02C 9/54 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2210/33 (20130101) F05D 2240/35 (20130101) F05D 2270/18 (20130101) Burners F23D 2900/00 (20130101) F23D 2900/14 (20130101) F23D 2900/14021 (20130101) F23D 2900/14482 (20130101) Generating Combustion Products of High Pressure or High Velocity, e.g Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers F23R 3/14 (20130101) F23R 3/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F23R 3/286 (20130101) |
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| US 09513119 | Goldstein |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David J. Goldstein (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Goldstein (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A tiltmeter-integrated two element optical relative alignment monitor provides relative alignment and contact sensing and can provide precise information regarding the nature of physical contact experienced by objects being monitored. A computer monitor can display the information in real time, in an intuitive manner. This system can provide all the information with good resolution in a low-cost, easily installable package for a wide variety of research, high energy physics applications, and industrial uses. A projector unit is mounted on one component containing a diffuse light source, a coded mask, and a lens. The projector is aligned with a camera to receive the focused image. Shifts in the image of the mask indicate relative motion between the camera and the projector unit. A tiltmeter is affixed to either the camera or projector, to distinguish between image shifts due to translational movement and image shifts due to rotation or tilting. |
| FILED | Monday, October 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/059175 |
| ART UNIT | 2482 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 11/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01C 2009/066 (20130101) |
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| US 09513129 | Wang |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOEING COMPANY (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hanching Grant Wang (Madison City, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for generating navigation solutions. A global positioning system based navigation solution unit; an inertial navigation solution unit; a correction unit, a limiter, and an adding unit. The global positioning system based navigation solution unit is capable of generating a first navigation solution. The inertial navigation solution unit is capable of generating a second navigation solution. The correction unit is capable of generating a raw correction. The limiter is capable of selectively modifying the raw correction to fall within a selected range of corrections to form a correction. The adding unit is capable of adding the correction to the second navigation solution to form a navigation solution. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 05, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/019004 |
| ART UNIT | 3627 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 21/165 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 19/47 (20130101) G01S 19/215 (20130101) |
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| US 09513167 | Hargreaves et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thermo Scientific Portable Analytical Instruments Inc. (Tewksbury, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Thermo Scientific Portable Analytical Instruments Inc. (Tewksbury, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Derek Hargreaves (Burlington, Massachusetts); Timothy M. Pastore (Wakefield, Massachusetts); Gregory H. Vander Rhodes (Melrose, Massachusetts); Brendon D. Tower (Weymouth, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A spectrometer configurable for field analyses of chemical properties of a material is provided. The spectrometer includes: at least one sensor adapted for providing Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) surveillance and at least another sensor for providing Raman spectroscopy surveillance. The spectrometer can be provided with a user accessible instruction set for modifying a sampling configuration of the spectrometer. A method of determining the most likely composition of a sample by at least two technologies using the spectrometer is also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, December 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/579832 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/28 (20130101) G01J 3/44 (20130101) G01J 3/45 (20130101) G01J 3/0264 (20130101) G01J 3/0283 (20130101) G01J 3/0291 (20130101) G01J 3/453 (20130101) G01J 3/4412 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01J 2003/2833 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/35 (20130101) G01N 21/65 (20130101) G01N 2021/3595 (20130101) G01N 2201/0221 (20130101) |
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| US 09513226 | Pang 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) | Lin Pang (San Diego, California); Yeshaiahu Fainman (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, devices and techniques are disclosed for optically detecting single molecules using nanoscale chip configurations. In one aspect, a sensing device includes a composite membrane having an array of nanochannels that form openings at opposing sides of the membrane, a first and second substrate each including channels to carry a fluid containing particles, a fluidic module that is fluidically coupled to the channels to supply the fluid, a plurality of electrodes located along the channels, and an electrical module to generate an electric field via the electrodes to effectuate an electrokinetic force within the channels to steer the particles toward the openings of the nanochannels to immobilize the particles, in which the nanochannels operate as resonant structures to amplify localized fields produced in an optical interrogation of the immobilized particles. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/967331 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 1/0044 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/658 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09513328 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona Acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yong-Hang Zhang (Scottsdale, Arizona); Jing-Jing Li (Tempe, Arizona); Swee Hoe Lim (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A pulsed voltage bias method and/or pulsed light bias method may be used to reduce, minimize, and/or eliminate external quantum efficiency measurement artifacts of multi-junction solar cells, for example artifacts caused by the shunt effect. In this manner, multi-junction solar cells may be designed and constructed with improved performance, efficiency, and the like. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/795660 |
| ART UNIT | 2868 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 31/2605 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Generation of Electric Power by Conversion of Infra-red Radiation, Visible Light or Ultraviolet Light, e.g Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules H02S 50/00 (20130101) H02S 50/10 (20141201) |
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| US 09513405 | Kaplan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tufts University (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TUFTS UNIVERSITY (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Fiorenzo Omenetto (Lexington, Massachusetts); Brian Lawrence (New York, New York); Mark Cronin-Golomb (Reading, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of manufacturing a biopolymer photonic crystal includes providing a biopolymer, processing the biopolymer to yield a biopolymer matrix solution, providing a substrate, casting the matrix solution on the substrate, and drying the biopolymer matrix solution to form a solidified biopolymer film. A surface of the film is formed with a nanopattern, or a nanopattern is machined on a surface of the film. In another embodiment, a plurality of biopolymer films is stacked together. A photonic crystal is also provided that is made of a biopolymer and has a nanopatterned surface. In another embodiment, the photonic crystal includes a plurality of nanopatterned films that are stacked together. |
| FILED | Monday, October 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/065369 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Producing Particular Articles From Plastics or From Substances in a Plastic State B29D 11/00 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 1/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/1225 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24273 (20150115) Y10T 428/24355 (20150115) Y10T 428/31678 (20150401) |
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| US 09513406 | Chartoff et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Chartoff (Eugene, Oregon); Casey Check (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed embodiments concern a soluble functionalized nanoparticle suitable for use with polymerizable components, such as monomers (or polymers thereof), used to make gradient optical polymer nanocomposites. In particular disclosed embodiments, the nanoparticle is functionalized with one or more surface ligands that promote the solubility and dispersion of the nanoparticle in the disclosed monomer. Also disclosed herein are embodiments of a method for making the functionalized nanoparticle as well as embodiments of a composition comprising the functionalized nanoparticles. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/944797 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 220/18 (20130101) C08F 222/1006 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 9/04 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 1/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09513432 | Cranch et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Geoffrey A. Cranch (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Clay K. Kirkendall (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey A. Cranch (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Clay K. Kirkendall (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus includes a rigid support and a first cantilever including a first optical fiber and a first rigid ribbon. The first optical fiber and the first ribbon, together include a first neutral surface. The first optical fiber is connected to the rigid support. The first optical fiber includes at least one first wave-guiding core running parallel to the first neutral surface. Each of the at least one first wave-guiding core includes at least one first reflector. The first rigid ribbon is affixed to the first optical fiber and to said first rigid support. The apparatus further includes a first membrane surrounding the first cantilever. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 07, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/706314 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Not Specially Adapted for a Specific Variable; Arrangements for Measuring Two or More Variables Not Covered in a Single Other Subclass; Tariff Metering Apparatus; Measuring or Testing Not Otherwise Provided for G01D 5/3537 (20130101) G01D 5/35316 (20130101) Measurement of Mechanical Vibrations or Ultrasonic, Sonic or Infrasonic Waves G01H 9/004 (20130101) Measuring Temperature; Measuring Quantity of Heat; Thermally-sensitive Elements Not Otherwise Provided for G01K 11/3206 (20130101) Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 1/242 (20130101) G01L 11/025 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/02076 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09513438 | Lloyd et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeffrey M. Lloyd (San Diego, California); Brandon J. Wiedemeier (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey M. Lloyd (San Diego, California); Brandon J. Wiedemeier (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A portable splicer for an optical fiber can include a first case half and second case half with respective exterior and interior surfaces, which can be hingedly attached to define a case having an interior case surface. At least two clamps for receiving the cable to be spliced and a fuser can be attached to the interior case surface. A deployed configuration for the splice can be established, wherein the first exterior and second exterior surfaces are co-planar. In the deployed configuration, the fuser is located between the two clamps and the fuser and clamps are substantially co-planar. A first channel can be formed in the first exterior surface and a second channel can be formed in the second exterior surface. A bar can be slidably disposed within one of the channels, and can be extended into the other channel to thereby fix the case halves in the deployed configuration. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/501545 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Containers for Storage or Transport of Articles or Materials, e.g Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding Containers; Accessories, Closures, or Fittings Therefor; Packaging Elements; Packages B65D 85/68 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/2553 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/2555 (20130101) G02B 6/2557 (20130101) |
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| US 09513919 | Satpathy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sudhir K. Satpathy (Hillsboro, Oregon); Sanu K. Mathew (Hillsboro, Oregon); Vinodh Gopal (Westborough, Massachusetts); James D. Guilford (Northborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for performing parallel decoding of prefix codes such as Huffman codes. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a first decompression module to perform a non-speculative decompression of a first portion of a prefix code payload comprising a first plurality of symbols; and a second decompression module to perform speculative decompression of a second portion of the prefix code payload comprising a second plurality of symbols concurrently with the non-speculative decompression performed by the first compression module. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 28, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/698486 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/30156 (20130101) G06F 9/30196 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09514254 | Winfrey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clinton M. Winfrey (King George, Virginia); Benjamin A. Baldwin (King George, Virginia); Mary Ann Cummings (King George, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented modeling-and-simulation coordination module is provided for coordinating components by exchanging and sequencing instructions. The module includes a scenario file generator, a plug-in loader, an interface loader, a module classifier, an event detector, a response initiator, a simulation processor, a model request processor, an instance receiver, and an output provider. The scenario file generator creates a blank scenario file. The plug-in loader loads plug-in modules. The interface loader loads GUIs into corresponding containers. The classifier sets a classification to a highest rank plug-in module. The event detector monitors updating events. The response initiator prompts the operator to select an experimental plug-in module. The simulation processor executes a simulation in response to the operator loading a scenario, setting experimental parameters, and selecting the simulator plug-in. The model request processor provides parameters from the experimental frame to the model plug-in module. The instance receiver receives model instances from the model plug-in module. The output provider displays information based on time controls. The simulation processor instructs the simulator plug-in to execute instructions until satisfaction of terminal conditions and in response to initiation by the experimental plug-in module. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/815158 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/5009 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09514263 | Cheng 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) | Joy Cheng (Taipei, Taiwan); Gregory S. Doerk (Mountain View, California); Michael A. Guillorn (Cold Springs, New York); Kafai Lai (Poughkeepsie, New York); HsinYu Tsai (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to generate chemo-epitaxy masks includes receiving a device pattern comprising a plurality of device geometries, wherein the device pattern conforms to chemo-epitaxy constraints, enlarging the device geometries along a width of the device geometries to provide enlarged device geometries, and using the enlarged device geometries to generate at least one chemo-epitaxy mask corresponding to the device pattern. The at least one chemo-epitaxy mask may include a neutral hard mask and one or more cut masks. The method may also include bridging device geometries that are within a selected distance along a length of the device geometries and merging device geometries that overlap. The method may also include filling break regions between the device geometries with a neutral fill pattern. A corresponding computer program product and computer system are also disclosed herein. |
| FILED | Monday, June 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/733040 |
| ART UNIT | 2851 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/5072 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09514378 | Armstrong-Crews et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nicholas Lloyd Armstrong-Crews (Westford, Massachusetts); Bryce Jason Remesch (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas Lloyd Armstrong-Crews (Westford, Massachusetts); Bryce Jason Remesch (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Three-dimensional imagers have conventionally been constrained by size, weight, and power (“SWaP”) limitations, readout circuitry bottlenecks, and the inability to image in sunlit environments. As described herein, an imager can illuminate a scene with spatially and temporally modulated light comprising a viewpoint-invariant pattern. The imager can detect diffuse reflections from the illuminated scene to produce a first image. The first image is background-corrected and compared with respect to a known reference image to produce a depth image. The imager can perform in sunlit environments and has improved SWaP and signal-to-noise (SNR) characteristics over existing technologies. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 16, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/855752 |
| ART UNIT | 2488 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus or Arrangements for Taking Photographs or for Projecting or Viewing Them; Apparatus or Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical Waves; Accessories Therefor G03B 35/00 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/40 (20130101) G06K 9/2027 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/378 (20130101) H04N 13/021 (20130101) H04N 13/0239 (20130101) H04N 13/0253 (20130101) H04N 13/0271 (20130101) H04N 13/0296 (20130101) H04N 2013/0081 (20130101) |
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| US 09514931 | Yi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alphabet Energy, Inc. (Hayward, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alphabet Energy, Inc. (Hayward, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mingqiang Yi (San Pablo, California); Gabriel A. Matus (San Francisco, California); Matthew L. Scullin (San Francisco, California); Chii Guang Lee (Fremont, California); Sylvain Muckenhirn (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A matrix with at least one embedded array of nanowires and method thereof. The matrix includes nanowires and one or more fill materials located between the nanowires. Each of the nanowires including a first end and a second end. The nanowires are substantially parallel to each other and are fixed in position relative to each other by the one or more fill materials. Each of the one or more fill materials is associated with a thermal conductivity less than 50 Watts per meter per degree Kelvin. And, the matrix is associated with at least a sublimation temperature and a melting temperature, the sublimation temperature and the melting temperature each being above 350° C. |
| FILED | Monday, March 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/203360 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/02112 (20130101) H01L 21/02225 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 35/26 (20130101) |
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| US 09515025 | Rogers 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) | John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Dahl-Young Khang (Seoul, South Korea); Yugang Sun (Naperville, Illinois); Etienne Menard (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides stretchable, and optionally printable, semiconductors and electronic circuits capable of providing good performance when stretched, compressed, flexed or otherwise deformed. Stretchable semiconductors and electronic circuits of the present invention preferred for some applications are flexible, in addition to being stretchable, and thus are capable of significant elongation, flexing, bending or other deformation along one or more axes. Further, stretchable semiconductors and electronic circuits of the present invention may be adapted to a wide range of device configurations to provide fully flexible electronic and optoelectronic devices. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 01, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/789645 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/5387 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/78603 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 1/0283 (20130101) |
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| US 09515161 | Shinohara et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keisuke Shinohara (Thousand Oaks, California); Dean C. Regan (Simi Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Monolithic integration of high-frequency GaN-HEMTs and GaN-Schottky diodes. The integrated HEMTs/Schottky diodes are realized using an epitaxial structure and a fabrication process which reduces fabrication cost. Since the disclosed process preferably uses self-aligned technology, both devices show extremely high-frequency performance by minimizing device parasitic resistances and capacitances. Furthermore, since the Schottky contact of diodes is formed by making a direct contact of an anode metal to the 2DEG channel the resulting structure minimizes an intrinsic junction capacitance due to the very thin contact area size. The low resistance of high-mobility 2DEG channel and a low contact resistance realized by a n+GaN ohmic regrowth layer reduce a series resistance of diodes as well as access resistance of the HEMT. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/464077 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0254 (20130101) H01L 21/02164 (20130101) H01L 21/32051 (20130101) H01L 29/201 (20130101) H01L 29/205 (20130101) H01L 29/475 (20130101) H01L 29/2003 (20130101) H01L 29/42316 (20130101) H01L 29/66143 (20130101) H01L 29/66462 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09515199 | Van Brunt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward Robert Van Brunt (Morrisville, North Carolina); Vipindas Pala (Morrisville, North Carolina); Lin Cheng (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Daniel J. Lichtenwalner (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor device has a drift region having an upper surface and a lower surface. A first contact is on the upper surface of the drift region and a second contact is on the lower surface of the drift region. The drift region includes a first semiconductor pillar that has a tapered sidewall and that is doped with first conductivity type impurities and a second semiconductor pillar on the tapered sidewall of the first semiconductor pillar, the second semiconductor pillar doped with second conductivity type impurities that have an opposite conductivity from the first conductivity type impurities. |
| FILED | Friday, January 02, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/588527 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/0634 (20130101) H01L 29/0684 (20130101) H01L 29/872 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/1608 (20130101) |
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| US 09515247 | Chang 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) | Josephine B. Chang (Bedford Hills, New York); Douglas T. McClure, III (Rye, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique relates to protecting a tunnel junction. A first electrode paddle and a second electrode paddle are on a substrate. The first and second electrode paddles oppose one another. A sacrificial shorting strap is formed on the substrate. The sacrificial shorting strap connects the first electrode paddle and the second electrode paddle; The tunnel junction is formed connecting the first electrode paddle and the second electrode paddle, after forming the sacrificial shorting strap. The substrate is mounted on a portion of a quantum cavity. The portion of the quantum cavity is placed in a vacuum chamber. The sacrificial shorting strap is etched away in the vacuum chamber while the substrate is mounted to the portion of the quantum cavity, such that the sacrificial shorting strap no longer connects the first and second electrode paddles. The tunnel junction has been protected from electrostatic discharge by the sacrificial shorting strap. |
| FILED | Monday, May 18, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/714894 |
| ART UNIT | 2897 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 39/223 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 39/2493 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09515257 | Hersam et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark C. Hersam (Wilmette, Illinois); Vinod K. Sangwan (Syracuse, New York); Deep M. Jariwala (Evanston, Illinois); In Soo Kim (Woodridge, Illinois); Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Lincoln J. Lauhon (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect of the invention, the memristor includes a monolayer film formed of an atomically thin material, where the monolayer film has at least one grain boundary (GB), a first electrode and a second electrode electrically coupled with the monolayer film to define a memristor channel therebetween, such that the at least one GB is located in the memristor channel, and a gate electrode capacitively coupled with the memristor channel. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 17, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/045822 |
| ART UNIT | 2897 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/2463 (20130101) H01L 45/142 (20130101) H01L 45/143 (20130101) H01L 45/1206 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 45/1253 (20130101) H01L 45/1616 (20130101) H01L 45/1625 (20130101) |
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| US 09515275 | Forrest et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen R. Forrest (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Rhonda F. Bailey-Salzman (San Ramon, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen R. Forrest (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Rhonda F. Bailey-Salzman (San Ramon, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to organic photosensitive optoelectronic devices grown in an inverted manner. An inverted organic photosensitive optoelectronic device of the present disclosure comprises a reflective electrode, an organic donor-acceptor heterojunction over the reflective electrode, and a transparent electrode on top of the donor-acceptor heterojunction. |
| FILED | Monday, October 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/605958 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/228 (20130101) H01L 21/2225 (20130101) H01L 27/302 (20130101) H01L 51/0053 (20130101) H01L 51/0078 (20130101) H01L 51/424 (20130101) H01L 51/441 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) |
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| US 09515364 | Houck et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nuvotronics, LLC (Radford, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nuvotronics, Inc. (Radford, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William D. Houck (Blacksburg, Virginia); David W. Sherrer (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are three-dimensional microstructures and their methods of formation. The microstructures are formed by a sequential build process and include microstructural elements which are affixed to one another. The microstructures find use, for example, in coaxial transmission lines for electromagnetic energy. |
| FILED | Monday, December 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/563018 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Waveguides; Resonators, Lines, or Other Devices of the Waveguide Type H01P 3/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01P 11/005 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09515370 | Rollins |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gordon Z. Rollins (Woodland Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna assembly is provided. The antenna assembly includes at least one foam member that is fabricated from a homogenous material, wherein the foam member includes a first surface and a second surface. At least one conductive plate including a first conductive plate is coupled to the foam member first surface. The foam member second surface is configured to couple to a second conductive plate or receive a conductive coating thereon to facilitate at least one electromagnetic wave to be channeled through the antenna assembly in a substantially single direction. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/677501 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Waveguides; Resonators, Lines, or Other Devices of the Waveguide Type H01P 11/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 15/08 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49016 (20150115) |
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| US 09515390 | Feng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Simin Feng (Waldorf, Maryland); Kevin A. Boulais (La Plata, Maryland); Frank L. Wallace (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Blaise L. Corbett (King George, Virginia); Victor H. Gehman, Jr. (Dahlgren, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Simin Feng (Waldorf, Maryland); Kevin A. Boulais (La Plata, Maryland); Frank L. Wallace (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Blaise L. Corbett (King George, Virginia); Victor H. Gehman, Jr. (Dahlgren, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An electromagnetic reflector for reflecting an electromagnetic signal is provided based on meta-surface phase control using photo-capacitive materials, varactors or other tuning means. The shape of the metamaterial unit cell enhances the resonance and phase shift. The reflector includes first and second cells having respective first and second phase states, along with a switch for selecting between the first and second cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 11, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/737283 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 15/148 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01Q 19/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09515451 | Zayhowski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John J. Zayhowski (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Dale H. Martz (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J. Zayhowski (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Dale H. Martz (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for optical amplification includes an optical fiber with a core containing a gain medium surrounded by a cladding, a seed light source, a control light source, and a pump source. The seed light source transmits seed light, at a first wavelength and having a first linewidth greater than 100 MHz, into the core of the fiber. The control light source transmits control light, at a second wavelength shorter than the first wavelength, into the core where it interacts with the pumped gain medium so as to reduce the peak rate of heat deposition per unit length along the fiber. The control light has a second linewidth greater than 100 MHz. The pump source transmits pump light at a pump wavelength, shorter than the second wavelength, into the fiber so as to pump the gain medium and amplify the seed light. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 28, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/009102 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/0085 (20130101) H01S 3/0804 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 3/1618 (20130101) H01S 3/06733 (20130101) H01S 3/06754 (20130101) H01S 3/06762 (20130101) H01S 3/094003 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | INTEL CORPORATION (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTEL CORPORATION (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hyundai Park (Santa Clara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are embodiments of apparatuses and systems including a hybrid laser including anti-resonant waveguides, and methods for making such apparatuses and systems. A hybrid laser apparatus may include a first semiconductor region including an active region of one or more layers of semiconductor materials from group III, group IV, or group V semiconductor, and a second semiconductor region coupled with the first semiconductor region and having an optical waveguide, a first trench disposed on a first side of the optical waveguide, and a second trench disposed on a second side, opposite the first side, of the optical waveguide. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. |
| FILED | Monday, November 02, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/930598 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/122 (20130101) Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 5/026 (20130101) H01S 5/343 (20130101) H01S 5/0422 (20130101) H01S 5/1032 (20130101) H01S 5/2027 (20130101) H01S 5/3013 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 5/34306 (20130101) |
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| US 09515668 | Faisal 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) | Muhammad Faisal (Ann Arbor, Michigan); David D. Wentzloff (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An all digital phase-locked loop (PLL) and a method of controlling the PLL is provided. The method includes the steps of receiving a reference signal (fREF) at a controller and a time-to-digital converter (TDC), the controller and TDC being coupled to multiple tunable delay elements; receiving at the multiple tunable delay elements a first signal input via the controller and a pulse-width modulation (PWM) circuit; providing an PLL output (fDCO) to the TDC at least partially based on the first signal input; and generating a phase error output (ΦERR) based on the reference signal (fREF) and the PLL output (fDCO), wherein the phase error output (ΦERR) is provided as feedback to the controller to control the PLL output (fDCO). |
| FILED | Saturday, May 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/894483 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse Technique H03K 5/134 (20140701) H03K 2005/00241 (20130101) Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation, or Stabilisation of Generators of Electronic Oscillations or Pulses H03L 7/091 (20130101) H03L 7/103 (20130101) H03L 7/0995 (20130101) H03L 7/0997 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03L 2207/06 (20130101) H03L 2207/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09515698 | Goodman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel I. Goodman (Alexandria, Virginia); Crystal Bertoncini Acosta (Alexandria, Virginia); Gregory Cowart (Upper Marlboro, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A Frequency Position Modulation system for encoding signals for transmission. A signal's discrete frequency support is used to represent symbols. The signal can be non-uniformly spread over many GHz of instantaneous bandwidth, resulting in a communications system that is resilient to interference and difficult to intercept. The FPM symbols are recovered using adaptive projections that use an analog polynomial nonlinearity paired with an analog-to-digital converter that is sampling at a rate at that is only a fraction of the instantaneous bandwidth of the signal. In the presence of partial band interference, nonlinearities generated by the transmitter are exploited by the receiver to help unambiguously recover tones that could otherwise be lost. The nonlinearities are generated by driving the power amplifier of the transmitter into saturation to induce distortions at a desired level. |
| FILED | Monday, December 07, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/961162 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers H03F 1/32 (20130101) Transmission H04B 1/04 (20130101) H04B 1/715 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 2001/0408 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 5/02 (20130101) H04L 5/14 (20130101) H04L 25/03993 (20130101) |
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| US 09515774 | Goldsmith 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) | Andrea Goldsmith (Menlo Park, California); Seyed Reza Mir Ghaderi (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for energy efficient communication based on feedback. A method may include sending a first message carried by a first wireless radio channel at a first predetermined energy level; receiving, in response to the first message, a second message carried by a second wireless radio channel; comparing the first message to the second message; sending a termination message, when the comparing indicates the first message and the second message match; and sending a portion of the first message at a second predetermined energy level, when the comparing indicates the second message contains at least one error when compared to the first message. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/185754 |
| ART UNIT | 2476 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 1/0003 (20130101) H04L 1/0009 (20130101) H04L 1/16 (20130101) H04L 1/0034 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Wireless Communication Networks H04W 52/48 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 60/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09515777 | Le 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) | Franck Le (White Plains, New York); Erich M. Nahum (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A snoop receiver, method and computer program product for increasing the efficiency of TCP protocol operations at the snoop receiver by assuming there is no reordering over the wireless hop. The method performs maintaining a copy of each packet received, the copy adapted for retransmission to the receiver device on behalf of the source device and maintaining for each packet received, a virtual send time (VST) value of that packet. The VST corresponds to a virtual time the packet was sent or retransmitted to the receiver device. There is further maintained an estimate of the receiver device's time (VRT) based on acknowledgement (ACK) messages for packets received from the receiver device. Responsive to receiving an acknowledgement for a packet sent at the time VST, the method infers any lost packets and retransmits a copy of any lost packets having a VST value sent before the receiver's VRT estimate. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/522227 |
| ART UNIT | 2462 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 1/16 (20130101) H04L 1/1809 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 1/1858 (20130101) H04L 43/0829 (20130101) H04L 69/16 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 24/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09515789 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HRL LABORATORIES, LLC. (Malibu, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Deying Zhang (Oak Park, California); Narayan Srinivasa (Oak Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system for inter-device communication is described. Information data from each neuromorphic chip is coded and modulated, on the basis of destination, into different channels. The parallel signals in different channels are sent serially using TDM to a central router. After signal grouping by a central switching controller, each group of signals may be delivered to corresponding transmitter in the central router for transmission to a corresponding receiver in the neuromorphic chip using TDM. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/779408 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/02 (20130101) G06N 3/08 (20130101) G06N 3/049 (20130101) G06N 3/063 (20130101) G06N 3/0454 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 5/0023 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 27/264 (20130101) |
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| US 09516404 | Parkins |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Red Tail Hawk Corporation (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Red Tail Hawk Corporation (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. Parkins (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved wireless communications earplug for use with a magnetic field transmitter. The wireless earplug has a receiver made of a coil of wire on a magnetic bobbin, mounted in close proximity or in contact with a magnetic case of a speaker. The magnetic case of the speaker serves to increase the magnetic flux through the receiver and improves the efficiency of the earplug. The speaker is acoustically coupled to an eartip, and the earplug may be molded into a custom earplug body. |
| FILED | Friday, February 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/186477 |
| ART UNIT | 2654 — Audio Signals |
| 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 11/08 (20130101) A61F 11/14 (20130101) Telephonic Communication H04M 1/05 (20130101) H04M 1/215 (20130101) H04M 1/6066 (20130101) Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups or Like Acoustic Electromechanical Transducers; Deaf-aid Sets; Public Address Systems H04R 1/1016 (20130101) H04R 1/1041 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04R 1/1075 (20130101) H04R 1/1091 (20130101) H04R 2209/041 (20130101) |
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| US 09511240 | Dobrynin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Danil V. Dobrynin (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Alexander Fridman (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Young I. Cho (Cherry Hill, New Jersey); Gregory Fridman (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Gennady Friedman (Richboro, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Danil V. Dobrynin (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Alexander Fridman (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Young I. Cho (Cherry Hill, New Jersey); Gregory Fridman (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Gennady Friedman (Richboro, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are atmospheric pressure pin-to-hole pulsed spark discharge devices and methods for creating plasma. The devices include a conduit for fluidically communicating a gas, a plasma, or both, therethrough, portion of the conduit capable of being connected to a gas supply, and a second portion of the conduit capable of emitting a plasma; a positive electrode comprising a sharp tip; and a ground plate electrode. Disclosed are methods for treating a skin ulcer using non-thermal plasma include flowing a gas through a cold spark discharge zone simultaneously with the creation of a pulsed spark discharge to give rise to a non-thermal plasma emitted from a conduit, the non-thermal plasma comprising NO; and contacting a skin ulcer with said non-thermal plasma for sufficient time and intensity to give rise to treatment of the skin ulcer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/256556 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/0468 (20130101) A61N 1/0472 (20130101) |
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| US 09512269 | Allen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Novomer, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novomer, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott D. Allen (Ithaca, New York); Christopher A. Simoneau (Ithaca, New York); William D. Keefe (Ithaca, New York); Jeff R. Conuel (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for reducing induction periods in epoxide-CO2 copolymerizations. In certain embodiments, the methods include the step of contacting an epoxide with CO2 in the presence of two catalysts: an epoxide hydrolysis catalyst and an epoxide CO2 copolymerization catalyst. In another aspect, the invention provides catalyst compositions comprising a mixture of an epoxide hydrolysis catalyst and an epoxide CO2 copolymerization catalyst. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/367333 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 64/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09512364 | Marker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | GAS TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gas Technology Institute (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terry L. Marker (Palos Heights, Illinois); Larry G. Felix (Pelham, Alabama); Martin B. Linck (Grayslake, Illinois); Michael J. Roberts (Itasca, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a process for thermochemically transforming biomass or other oxygenated feedstocks into high quality liquid hydrocarbon fuels. In particular, a catalytic hydropyrolysis reactor, containing a deep bed of fluidized catalyst particles is utilized to accept particles of biomass or other oxygenated feedstocks that are significantly smaller than the particles of catalyst in the fluidized bed. The reactor features an insert or other structure disposed within the reactor vessel that inhibits slugging of the bed and thereby minimizes attrition of the catalyst. Within the bed, the biomass feedstock is converted into a vapor-phase product, containing hydrocarbon molecules and other process vapors, and an entrained solid char product, which is separated from the vapor stream after the vapor stream has been exhausted from the top of the reactor. When the product vapor stream is cooled to ambient temperatures, a significant proportion of the hydrocarbons in the product vapor stream can be recovered as a liquid stream of hydrophobic hydrocarbons, with properties consistent with those of gasoline, kerosene, and diesel fuel. Separate streams of gasoline, kerosene, and diesel fuel may also be obtained, either via selective condensation of each type of fuel, or via later distillation of the combined hydrocarbon liquid. |
| FILED | Monday, September 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/492840 |
| ART UNIT | 1798 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 8/34 (20130101) B01J 8/1809 (20130101) B01J 23/755 (20130101) B01J 23/882 (20130101) B01J 2208/00061 (20130101) B01J 2208/0084 (20130101) B01J 2208/00115 (20130101) B01J 2208/00548 (20130101) B01J 2219/00252 (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 1/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10G 1/10 (20130101) C10G 1/086 (20130101) C10G 3/45 (20130101) C10G 3/46 (20130101) C10G 3/50 (20130101) C10G 3/57 (20130101) C10G 2300/202 (20130101) C10G 2300/1003 (20130101) C10G 2300/1014 (20130101) C10G 2300/1018 (20130101) C10G 2400/02 (20130101) C10G 2400/04 (20130101) C10G 2400/08 (20130101) Fuels Not Otherwise Provided for; Natural Gas; Synthetic Natural Gas Obtained by Processes Not Covered by Subclasses C10G, C10K; Liquefied Petroleum Gas; Adding Materials to Fuels or Fires to Reduce Smoke or Undesirable Deposits or to Facilitate Soot Removal; Firelighters C10L 1/04 (20130101) C10L 2200/0469 (20130101) C10L 2290/02 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/32 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 30/20 (20151101) |
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| US 09512421 | Branch et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darren W. Branch (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Erika Cooley Vreeland (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Gennifer Tanabe Smith (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to an acoustic lysis system including a disposable cartridge that can be reversibly coupled to a platform having a small, high-frequency piezoelectric transducer array. In particular, the system releases viable DNA, RNA, and proteins from human or bacterial cells, without chemicals or additional processing, to enable high-speed sample preparation for clinical point-of-care medical diagnostics and use with nano/microfluidic cartridges. Also described herein are methods of making and using the system of the invention. |
| FILED | Friday, June 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/318364 |
| ART UNIT | 1799 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 13/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 29/02 (20130101) G01N 29/036 (20130101) G01N 2291/0255 (20130101) G01N 2291/0256 (20130101) G01N 2291/0423 (20130101) Impedance Networks, e.g Resonant Circuits; Resonators H03H 9/02866 (20130101) H03H 9/14505 (20130101) |
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09512679 — Methods and apparatus for removal and control of material in laser drilling of a borehole
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles C. Rinzler (Denver, Colorado); Mark S. Zediker (Castle Rock, Colorado); Brian O. Faircloth (Evergreen, Colorado); Joel F. Moxley (Denver, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Foro Energy, Inc. (Littleton, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles C. Rinzler (Denver, Colorado); Mark S. Zediker (Castle Rock, Colorado); Brian O. Faircloth (Evergreen, Colorado); Joel F. Moxley (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The removal of material from the path of a high power laser beam during down hole laser operations including drilling of a borehole and removal of displaced laser effected borehole material from the borehole during laser operations. In particular, paths, dynamics and parameters of fluid flows for use in conjunction with a laser bottom hole assembly. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/104395 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — 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 7/14 (20130101) E21B 7/15 (20130101) Original (OR) Class E21B 10/60 (20130101) E21B 21/00 (20130101) E21B 21/08 (20130101) E21B 21/103 (20130101) E21B 29/00 (20130101) E21B 43/11 (20130101) |
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| US 09512715 | Challener et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Albert Challener (Niskayuna, New York); Li Airey (Milton Keynes, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A measurement system in one embodiment includes an acquisition module and a determination module. The acquisition module is configured to acquire resonant frequency information corresponding to a sensor disposed in a remote location from the acquisition module. The resonant frequency information includes first resonant frequency information for a first resonant frequency of the sensor corresponding to environmental conditions of the remote location, and also includes second resonant frequency information for a different, second resonant frequency of the sensor corresponding to the environmental conditions of the remote location. The determination module is configured to use the first resonant frequency information and the second resonant frequency information to determine the temperature and the pressure at the remote location. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/954296 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Earth Drilling, e.g Deep Drilling; Obtaining Oil, Gas, Water, Soluble or Meltable Materials or a Slurry of Minerals From Wells E21B 47/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring Temperature; Measuring Quantity of Heat; Thermally-sensitive Elements Not Otherwise Provided for G01K 1/024 (20130101) G01K 7/32 (20130101) Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 9/0017 (20130101) G01L 19/0092 (20130101) G01L 27/002 (20130101) |
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| US 09512793 | Toner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel G. Toner (Bad Axe, Michigan); Kushal Narayanaswamy (Troy, Michigan); Gerald A. Szekely, Jr. (Sterling Heights, Michigan); Paul M. Najt (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for controlling ammonia generation in an exhaust gas feedstream output from an internal combustion engine equipped with an exhaust aftertreatment system including a first aftertreatment device includes executing an ammonia generation cycle to generate ammonia on the first aftertreatment device. A desired air-fuel ratio output from the engine and entering the exhaust aftertreatment system conducive for generating ammonia on the first aftertreatment device is determined. Operation of a selected combination of a plurality of cylinders of the engine is selectively altered to achieve the desired air-fuel ratio entering the exhaust aftertreatment system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/652549 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas-flow Silencers or Exhaust Apparatus for Machines or Engines in General; Gas-flow Silencers or Exhaust Apparatus for Internal Combustion Engines F01N 3/101 (20130101) F01N 3/208 (20130101) F01N 3/2066 (20130101) F01N 2240/25 (20130101) F01N 2610/02 (20130101) Controlling Combustion Engines F02D 41/008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F02D 41/0235 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/22 (20130101) Y02T 10/24 (20130101) |
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| US 09513001 | Lou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ALSTOM Technology Ltd (Baden, Switzerland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GENERAL ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY GMBH (Baden, Switzerland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xinsheng Lou (West Hartford, Connecticut); Jundong Zhang (Bloomfield, Connecticut); Abhinaya Joshi (Glastonbury, Connecticut); James A. McCombe (East Longmeadow, Massachusetts); Armand A. Levasseur (Windsor Lock, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An oxy-combustion boiler unit is disclosed which includes a furnace for combusting fuel and for emitting flue gas resulting from combustion. The furnace has first, second and third combustion zones, and an air separation unit for separating oxygen gas from air and providing a first portion of the separated oxygen to a first oxidant flow, a second portion to a second oxidant flow, and a third portion of the separated oxygen gas to the first, second, and third zones of the furnace. A controller can cause the separated oxygen gas to be distributed so that the first and second oxygen flows have a desired oxygen content, and so that the first, second, and third zones of the furnace receive a desired amount of oxygen based on a combustion zone stoichiometry control. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/030442 |
| ART UNIT | 3743 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or apparatus for combustion using fluid fuel or Solid Fuel Suspended In Air F23C 6/04 (20130101) F23C 6/045 (20130101) F23C 7/008 (20130101) F23C 9/003 (20130101) F23C 2201/101 (20130101) F23C 2202/30 (20130101) F23C 2900/06041 (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 15/00 (20130101) F23L 2900/07001 (20130101) F23L 2900/07005 (20130101) F23L 2900/07006 (20130101) F23L 2900/07007 (20130101) Regulating or Controlling Combustion F23N 3/00 (20130101) F23N 5/006 (20130101) F23N 2021/08 (20130101) F23N 2037/26 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 20/322 (20130101) Y02E 20/344 (20130101) |
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| US 09513043 | Keres et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen L. Keres (Watervliet, Michigan); Alberto Regio Gomes (St. Joseph, Michigan); Andrew D. Litch (St. Joseph, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Whirlpool Corporation (Benton Harbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen L. Keres (Watervliet, Michigan); Alberto Regio Gomes (St. Joseph, Michigan); Andrew D. Litch (St. Joseph, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A refrigerator, a sealed refrigerant system, and method are provided where the refrigerator includes at least a refrigerated compartment and a sealed refrigerant system including an evaporator, a compressor, a condenser, a controller, an evaporator fan, and a condenser fan. The method includes monitoring a frequency of the compressor, and identifying a fault condition in the at least one component of the refrigerant sealed system in response to the compressor frequency. The method may further comprise calculating a compressor frequency rate based upon the rate of change of the compressor frequency, wherein a fault in the condenser fan is identified if the compressor frequency rate is positive and exceeds a condenser fan fault threshold rate, and wherein a fault in the evaporator fan is identified if the compressor frequency rate is negative and exceeds an evaporator fan fault threshold rate. |
| FILED | Monday, June 25, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/531707 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration Machines, Plants or Systems; Combined Heating and Refrigeration Systems; Heat-pump Systems F25B 49/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F25B 2500/19 (20130101) F25B 2600/021 (20130101) F25B 2600/111 (20130101) F25B 2600/112 (20130101) F25B 2600/2507 (20130101) F25B 2700/171 (20130101) F25B 2700/2117 (20130101) F25B 2700/21171 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 30/741 (20130101) Y02B 30/743 (20130101) |
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| US 09513233 | La Riviere et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (Chicago, Illinois); THE PENN STATE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (University Park, Pennsylvania); UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick La Riviere (Chicago, Illinois); Yuxin Steve Wang (Palatine, Illinois); Darin Clark (Durham, North Carolina); Keith Cheng (Hummelstown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are provided for staining tissue with multiple biologically specific heavy metal stains and then performing X-ray imaging, either in projection or tomography modes, using either a plurality of illumination energies or an energy sensitive detection scheme. The resulting energy-weighted measurements can then be used to decompose the resulting images into quantitative images of the distribution of stains. The decomposed images may be false-colored and recombined to make virtual X-ray histology images. The techniques thereby allow for effective differentiation between two or more X-ray dyes, which had previously been unattainable in 3D imaging, particularly 3D imaging of features at the micron resolution scale. While techniques are described in certain example implementations, such as with microtomography, the techniques are scalable to larger fields of view, allowing for use in 3D color, X-ray virtual histology of pathology specimens. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/354855 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 6/032 (20130101) A61B 6/482 (20130101) A61B 6/508 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 23/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 23/046 (20130101) G01N 23/223 (20130101) G01N 23/2251 (20130101) G01N 2223/0766 (20130101) G01N 2223/6126 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 19/00 (20130101) G06T 2210/41 (20130101) Techniques for Handling Particles or Ionising Radiation Not Otherwise Provided For; Irradiation Devices; Gamma Ray or X-ray Microscopes G21K 2201/061 (20130101) G21K 2201/064 (20130101) |
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| US 09513554 | Burckel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Bruce Burckel (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Cody M. Washburn (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Timothy N. Lambert (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Patrick Sean Finnegan (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David R. Wheeler (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A microporous carbon scaffold is produced by lithographically patterning a carbon-containing photoresist, followed by pyrolysis of the developed resist structure. Prior to exposure, the photoresist is loaded with a nanoparticulate material. After pyrolysis, the nanonparticulate material is dispersed in, and intimately mixed with, the carbonaceous material of the scaffold, thereby yielding a carbon composite structure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/749328 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | 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 7/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09513828 | Bertolli 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) | Carlo Bertolli (Dobbs Ferry, New York); John K. O'Brien (South Salem, New York); Olivier H. Sallenave (Baldwin Place, New York); Zehra N. Sura (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An aspect includes a table of contents (TOC) that was generated by a compiler being received at an accelerator device. The TOC includes an address of global data in a host memory space. The global data is copied from the address in the host memory space to an address in the device memory space. The address in the host memory space is obtained from the received TOC. The received TOC is updated to indicate that global data is stored at the address in the device memory space. A kernel that accesses the global data from the address in the device memory space is executed. The address in the device memory space is obtained based on contents of the updated TOC. When the executing is completed, the global data from the address in the device memory space is copied to the address in the host memory space. |
| FILED | Monday, June 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/745486 |
| ART UNIT | 2136 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/065 (20130101) G06F 3/068 (20130101) G06F 3/0619 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 3/0631 (20130101) |
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| US 09513832 | Bertolli 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) | Carlo Bertolli (Dobbs Ferry, New York); John K. O'Brien (South Salem, New York); Olivier H. Sallenave (Baldwin Place, New York); Zehra N. Sura (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An aspect includes a table of contents (TOC) that was generated by a compiler being received at an accelerator device. The TOC includes an address of global data in a host memory space. The global data is copied from the address in the host memory space to an address in the device memory space. The address in the host memory space is obtained from the received TOC. The received TOC is updated to indicate that global data is stored at the address in the device memory space. A kernel that accesses the global data from the address in the device memory space is executed. The address in the device memory space is obtained based on contents of the updated TOC. When the executing is completed, the global data from the address in the device memory space is copied to the address in the host memory space. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 25, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/667760 |
| ART UNIT | 2136 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/0604 (20130101) G06F 3/0631 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 3/0673 (20130101) |
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09514326 — Serial interpolation for secure membership testing and matching in a secret-split archive
| US 09514326 | Kroeger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas M. Kroeger (San Ramon, California); Thomas R. Benson (Hastings, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The various technologies presented herein relate to analyzing a plurality of shares stored at a plurality of repositories to determine whether a secret from which the shares were formed matches a term in a query. A threshold number of shares are formed with a generating polynomial operating on the secret. A process of serially interpolating the threshold number of shares can be conducted whereby a contribution of a first share is determined, a contribution of a second share is determined while seeded with the contribution of the first share, etc. A value of a final share in the threshold number of shares can be determined and compared with the search term. In the event of the value of the final share and the search term matching, the search term matches the secret in the file from which the shares are formed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/513769 |
| ART UNIT | 2431 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30073 (20130101) G06F 17/30106 (20130101) G06F 21/6218 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09514431 | Tsai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Han-Chung Tsai (Darien, Illinois); Yung Y. Liu (Hinsdale, Illinois); Hok L. Lee (Westmont, Illinois); Brian Craig (Downers Grove, Illinois); Kevin Byrne (Carol Stream, Illinois); Ketan Mittal (Lemont, Illinois); Justin C. Scherer (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Han-Chung Tsai (Darien, Illinois); Yung Y. Liu (Hinsdale, Illinois); Hok L. Lee (Westmont, Illinois); Brian Craig (Downers Grove, Illinois); Kevin Byrne (Carol Stream, Illinois); Ketan Mittal (Lemont, Illinois); Justin C. Scherer (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for monitoring a plurality radio frequency identification tags is described. The system uses at least one set of radio frequency identification tags. Each tag is attached to a container and includes several sensors for detecting physical conditions of said container. The system includes at least one autonomous intermediate reader in wireless communication with the frequency identification tags. The intermediate reader includes external wireless communication system, intermediate reader logic controller, and a self-contained rechargeable power supply. The system uses a central status reporting system in communication the intermediate reader. |
| FILED | Monday, August 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/451218 |
| ART UNIT | 2682 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 7/10475 (20130101) G06K 19/0717 (20130101) G06K 2007/10504 (20130101) G06K 2017/0045 (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 10/0833 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09514864 | Stoltzfus et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Stoltzfus (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mark E. Savage (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Brian Thomas Hutsel (Sandia Park, New Mexico); William E. Fowler (Stanardsville, Virginia); Keven Alan MacRunnels (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David Justus (Tijeras, New Mexico); William A. Stygar (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A flexible solid-state resistor comprises a string of ceramic resistors that can be used to charge the capacitors of a linear transformer driver (LTD) used in a pulsed power machine. The solid-state resistor is able to absorb the energy of a switch prefire, thereby limiting LTD cavity damage, yet has a sufficiently low RC charge time to allow the capacitor to be recharged without disrupting the operation of the pulsed power machine. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 11, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/619536 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Resistors H01C 1/16 (20130101) H01C 1/028 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01C 1/082 (20130101) H01C 13/02 (20130101) Pulse Technique H03K 3/53 (20130101) |
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| US 09515025 | Rogers 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) | John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Dahl-Young Khang (Seoul, South Korea); Yugang Sun (Naperville, Illinois); Etienne Menard (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides stretchable, and optionally printable, semiconductors and electronic circuits capable of providing good performance when stretched, compressed, flexed or otherwise deformed. Stretchable semiconductors and electronic circuits of the present invention preferred for some applications are flexible, in addition to being stretchable, and thus are capable of significant elongation, flexing, bending or other deformation along one or more axes. Further, stretchable semiconductors and electronic circuits of the present invention may be adapted to a wide range of device configurations to provide fully flexible electronic and optoelectronic devices. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 01, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/789645 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/5387 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/78603 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 1/0283 (20130101) |
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| US 09515211 | Mandal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Krishna C. Mandal (Columbia, South Carolina); J. Russell Terry (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Krishna C. Mandal (Columbia, South Carolina); J. Russell Terry (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A detection device, along with methods of its manufacture and use, is provided. The detection device can include: a SiC substrate defining a substrate surface cut from planar to about 12°; a buffer epitaxial layer on the substrate surface; a n-type epitaxial layer on the buffer epitaxial layer; and a top contact on the n-type epitaxial layer. The buffer epitaxial layer can include a n-type 4H—SiC epitaxial layer doped at a concentration of about 1×1015 cm−3 to about 5×1018 cm−3 with nitrogen, boron, aluminum, or a mixture thereof. The n-type epitaxial layer can include a n-type 4H—SiC epitaxial layer doped at a concentration of about 1×1013 cm−3 to about 5×1015 cm−3 with nitrogen. The top contact can have a thickness of about 8 nm to about 15 nm. |
| FILED | Monday, July 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/444140 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/036 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/118 (20130101) H01L 31/0312 (20130101) H01L 33/0033 (20130101) |
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| US 09515275 | Forrest et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen R. Forrest (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Rhonda F. Bailey-Salzman (San Ramon, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen R. Forrest (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Rhonda F. Bailey-Salzman (San Ramon, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to organic photosensitive optoelectronic devices grown in an inverted manner. An inverted organic photosensitive optoelectronic device of the present disclosure comprises a reflective electrode, an organic donor-acceptor heterojunction over the reflective electrode, and a transparent electrode on top of the donor-acceptor heterojunction. |
| FILED | Monday, October 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/605958 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/228 (20130101) H01L 21/2225 (20130101) H01L 27/302 (20130101) H01L 51/0053 (20130101) H01L 51/0078 (20130101) H01L 51/424 (20130101) H01L 51/441 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) |
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| US 09515283 | Liu, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jie Jerry Liu, Jr. (Niskayuna, New York); Srinivas Prasad Sista (Glenville, New York); Xiaolei Shi (Niskayuna, New York); Ri-An Zhao (Niskayuna, New York); Kelly Scott Chichak (Clifton Park, New York); Jeffrey Michael Youmans (Saratoga Springs, New York); Kevin Henry Janora (Schenectady, New York); Larry Gene Turner (Hagaman, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. (Beijing, China PRC) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jie Jerry Liu, Jr. (Niskayuna, New York); Srinivas Prasad Sista (Glenville, New York); Xiaolei Shi (Niskayuna, New York); Ri-An Zhao (Niskayuna, New York); Kelly Scott Chichak (Clifton Park, New York); Jeffrey Michael Youmans (Saratoga Springs, New York); Kevin Henry Janora (Schenectady, New York); Larry Gene Turner (Hagaman, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Optoelectronic devices with enhanced internal outcoupling include a substrate, an anode, a cathode, an electroluminescent layer, and an electron transporting layer comprising inorganic nanoparticles dispersed in an organic matrix. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/599529 |
| ART UNIT | 2896 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0067 (20130101) H01L 51/5072 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/5088 (20130101) H01L 51/5268 (20130101) H01L 2251/5369 (20130101) |
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| US 09515310 | Cao 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) | Guozhong Cao (Seattle, Washington); Yanyi Liu (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for forming films of orthorhombic V2O5. Additionally provided are the orthorhombic V2O5 films themselves, as well as batteries incorporating the films as cathode materials. The methods use electrodeposition from a precursor solution to form a V2O5 sol gel on a substrate. The V2O5 gel can be annealed to provide an orthorhombic V2O5 film on the substrate. The V2O5 film can be freestanding such that it can be removed from the substrate and integrated without binders or conductive filler into a battery as a cathode element. Due to the improved intercalation properties of the orthorhombic V2O5 films, batteries formed using the V2O5 films have extraordinarily high energy density, power density, and capacity. |
| FILED | Monday, April 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/863066 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for the Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Production of Coatings; Electroforming; Apparatus Therefor C25D 9/00 (20130101) C25D 9/08 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/38 (20130101) H01M 4/131 (20130101) H01M 4/0452 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/0469 (20130101) H01M 4/485 (20130101) H01M 4/1391 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) |
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| US 09515318 | Paranthaman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mariappan Parans Paranthaman (Knoxville, Tennessee); Hansan Liu (Wilmington, Delaware); Gilbert M. Brown (Knoxville, Tennessee); Xiao-Guang Sun (Knoxville, Tennessee); Zhonghe Bi (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods of making are provided for mesoporous metal oxide microspheres electrodes. The mesoporous metal oxide microsphere compositions comprise (a) microspheres with an average diameter between 200 nanometers (nm) and 10 micrometers (μm); (b) mesopores on the surface and interior of the microspheres, wherein the mesopores have an average diameter between 1 nm and 50 nm and the microspheres have a surface area between 50 m2/g and 500 m2/g. The methods of making comprise forming composite powders. The methods may also comprise refluxing the composite powders in a basic solution to form an etched powder, washing the etched powder with an acid to form a hydrated metal oxide, and heat-treating the hydrated metal oxide to form mesoporous metal oxide microspheres. |
| FILED | Monday, February 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/764060 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 23/04 (20130101) C01G 23/047 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/72 (20130101) C01P 2004/03 (20130101) C01P 2004/04 (20130101) C01P 2004/32 (20130101) C01P 2004/61 (20130101) C01P 2006/12 (20130101) C01P 2006/16 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/48 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/483 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) H01M 2004/021 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/7011 (20130101) |
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| US 09515323 | Serov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexey Serov (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Barr Halevi (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Kateryna Artyushkova (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Plamen B Atanassov (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of preparation of metal-chalcogen-nitrogen-carbon (M-Ch-N—C) catalytic material utilizing a sacrificial support approach and using inexpensive and readily available precursors is described. Furthermore, the catalytic materials synthesized using the disclosed methods include multiple types of active sites. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/376146 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 23/70 (20130101) B01J 37/08 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/88 (20130101) H01M 4/90 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/8605 (20130101) H01M 8/02 (20130101) H01M 8/1002 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/521 (20130101) |
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| US 09515340 | Stanis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ronald J. Stanis (Des Plaines, Illinois); Timothy N. Lambert (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald J. Stanis (Des Plaines, Illinois); Timothy N. Lambert (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus of an aspect includes a fuel cell catalyst layer. The fuel cell catalyst layer is operable to catalyze a reaction involving a fuel reactant. A fuel cell gas diffusion layer is coupled with the fuel cell catalyst layer. The fuel cell gas diffusion layer includes a porous electrically conductive material. The porous electrically conductive material is operable to allow the fuel reactant to transfer through the fuel cell gas diffusion layer to reach the fuel cell catalyst layer. The porous electrically conductive material is also operable to conduct electrons associated with the reaction through the fuel cell gas diffusion layer. An electrically conductive polymer material is coupled with the fuel cell gas diffusion layer. The electrically conductive polymer material is operable to limit transfer of the fuel reactant to the fuel cell catalyst layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/081381 |
| ART UNIT | 1727 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/1011 (20130101) |
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| US 09510746 | Criscione et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE TEXAS A and M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (College Station, Texas); CORINNOVA INCORPORATED (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TEXAS A and M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (College Station, Texas); CORINNOVA INCORPORATED (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Criscione (College Station, Texas); Lewis D. Harrison (Highland Village, Texas); Michael R. Moreno (Bryan, Texas); Christina M. Bolch (Houston, Texas); Dennis I. Robbins (Richardson, Texas); Saurabh Biswas (College Station, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods, systems, kits, and devices that aid in the positioning of a direct cardiac compression device about the heart. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/653823 |
| ART UNIT | 3733 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 1/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 2/2481 (20130101) Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 1/1068 (20130101) |
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| US 09510932 | Kumta 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) | Prashant N. Kumta (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Da-Tren Chou (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Daeho Hong (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Partha Saha (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to biodegradable, metal alloy-containing compositions, methods for their preparation and applications for their use. The compositions include magnesium and other components, such as yttrium, calcium, silver, cerium, and zirconium; or zinc, silver, cerium, and zirconium; or aluminum, zinc, calcium, manganese, silver, yttrium; or strontium, calcium, zinc. The compositions are prepared by vacuum induction/crucible melting together the components and casting the melted mixture in a preheated mild steel/copper mold. In certain embodiments, the compositions of the invention are particularly useful for forming medical devices for implantation into a body of a patient. |
| FILED | Friday, October 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/349564 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/397 (20130101) A61K 31/7036 (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 27/047 (20130101) A61L 27/58 (20130101) Alloys C22C 1/02 (20130101) C22C 23/00 (20130101) C22C 23/04 (20130101) C22C 23/06 (20130101) Changing the Physical Structure of Non-ferrous Metals and Non-ferrous Alloys C22F 1/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09511147 | Kohn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joachim B. Kohn (Piscataway, New Jersey); Carmine P. Iovine (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Niraj Ramachandran (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joachim B. Kohn (Piscataway, New Jersey); Carmine P. Iovine (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Niraj Ramachandran (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to compositions and applications for an mterpolymer network delivery system containing iodine. |
| FILED | Sunday, August 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/238605 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/7023 (20130101) A61K 33/18 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 47/32 (20130101) A61K 47/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 31/16 (20130101) A61L 31/042 (20130101) A61L 31/048 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 18/831 (20130101) |
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| US 09511528 | Wong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of Akron (Akron, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Akron (Akron, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shing-Chung Josh Wong (Copley, Ohio); Johhny F. Najem (Okaibe, Lebanon); Pei Chen (Beijing, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a dry adhesive by includes forming an electrospun non-woven of a spinnable polymer, wherein the polymer fiber forming the non-woven is aligned. A dry adhesive is provided that comprises aligned polymeric nanofibers. The polymeric nanofibers may be formed from a mixture of highly spinnable material is combined with an adhesive component to further enhance the adhesion onto substrates. The non-woven can further be processed by plastic deformation to create microprotrusions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/419358 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 47/0004 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29B, B29C or B29D, Relating to Moulding Materials or to Materials for Reinforcements, Fillers or Preformed Parts, e.g Inserts B29K 2035/00 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29C, Relating to Particular Articles B29L 2007/00 (20130101) Mechanical Methods or Apparatus in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons D01D 5/003 (20130101) D01D 5/0007 (20130101) D01D 5/0023 (20130101) D01D 5/0038 (20130101) Chemical Features in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons; Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture of Carbon Filaments D01F 1/10 (20130101) D01F 6/44 (20130101) D01F 6/88 (20130101) Making Textile Fabrics, e.g From Fibres or Filamentary Material; Fabrics Made by Such Processes or Apparatus, e.g Felts, Non-woven Fabrics; Cotton-wool; Wadding D04H 1/74 (20130101) D04H 1/728 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses of Section D, Relating to Textiles D10B 2331/02 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 442/609 (20150401) Y10T 442/643 (20150401) |
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| US 09512036 | Abouraddy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ayman F. Abouraddy (Oviedo, Florida); Esmaeil H. Banaei (Orlando, Florida); Daosheng S. Deng (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Yoel Fink (Brookline, Massachusetts); Steven G. Johnson (Arlington, Massachusetts); Joshua J. Kaufman (Oviedo, Florida); Xiangdong Liang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Soroush Shabahang (Orlando, Florida); Guangming Tao (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber is provided, including a cladding material that is disposed along a longitudinal-axis fiber length. A plurality of spherical particles are disposed as a sequence along a longitudinal line parallel to the longitudinal fiber axis in at least a portion of the fiber length, and include a spherical particle material that is interior to the fiber cladding material and different than the fiber cladding material. To produce particles, a drawn fiber, having a longitudinal-axis fiber length and including at least one fiber core that has a longitudinal core axis parallel to the longitudinal fiber axis and that is internally disposed to at least one outer fiber cladding layer along the fiber length, is heated for a time that is sufficient to cause a fiber core to break-up into droplets sequentially disposed along the fiber core axis. Fiber cooling solidifies droplets into spherical particles interior to fiber cladding. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/803213 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 2/00 (20130101) Preparation or Pretreatment of the Material to be Shaped; Making Granules or Preforms; Recovery of Plastics or Other Constituents of Waste Material Containing Plastics B29B 9/00 (20130101) B29B 9/06 (20130101) Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 47/04 (20130101) B29C 47/0014 (20130101) B29C 47/027 (20130101) B29C 47/0066 (20130101) B29C 47/92 (20130101) B29C 2947/92704 (20130101) Manufacture, Shaping, or Supplementary Processes C03B 19/1005 (20130101) C03B 37/15 (20130101) C03B 2201/86 (20130101) Chemical Composition of Glasses, Glazes or Vitreous Enamels; Surface Treatment of Glass; Surface Treatment of Fibres or Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals or Slags; Joining Glass to Glass or Other Materials C03C 14/00 (20130101) C03C 14/006 (20130101) C03C 25/002 (20130101) C03C 25/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Mechanical Methods or Apparatus in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons D01D 5/00 (20130101) Crimping or Curling Fibres, Filaments, Threads, or Yarns; Yarns or Threads D02G 3/22 (20130101) D02G 3/045 (20130101) Finishing or Dressing of Filaments, Yarns, Threads, Cords, Ropes or the Like D02J 1/22 (20130101) D02J 1/224 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2927 (20150115) |
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| US 09512174 | Brummond et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kay M. Brummond (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kay M. Brummond (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kay M. Brummond (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Laura S. Kocsis (Copley, Ohio); Erica Benedetti (Tavernerio, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the synthesis and use of functionalized, substituted naphthalenes are described. The functionalized, substituted naphthalenes display useful properties including liquid crystals and fluorescence properties, such as solvatochromatic fluorescence, with high quantum yields, Stoke's shift, and show emission maxima that are significantly red-shifted. |
| FILED | Monday, August 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/822858 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/14 (20130101) A61K 49/0021 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 45/67 (20130101) C07C 47/55 (20130101) C07C 49/792 (20130101) C07C 49/813 (20130101) C07C 67/34 (20130101) C07C 69/76 (20130101) C07C 69/78 (20130101) C07C 69/757 (20130101) C07C 221/00 (20130101) C07C 225/22 (20130101) C07C 305/00 (20130101) C07C 315/04 (20130101) C07C 317/14 (20130101) C07C 317/44 (20130101) C07C 2103/14 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/06 (20130101) C07D 209/62 (20130101) C07D 211/14 (20130101) C07D 249/06 (20130101) C07D 295/112 (20130101) C07D 307/73 (20130101) C07D 307/87 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 9/4015 (20130101) C07F 9/4018 (20130101) C07F 9/4021 (20130101) C07F 9/4056 (20130101) C07F 9/4075 (20130101) C07F 9/5022 (20130101) C07F 15/006 (20130101) Peptides C07K 1/13 (20130101) C07K 2/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/64 (20130101) |
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| US 09512278 | Bong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ki Wan Bong (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Patrick Seamus Doyle (Boston, Massachusetts); Daniel Colin Pregibon (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ki Wan Bong (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Patrick Seamus Doyle (Boston, Massachusetts); Daniel Colin Pregibon (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are provided to independently control 3D shape and chemistry of rapidly produced colloids. A pre-polymer mixture including a monomer is made to flow into a channel with insular relief in a wall at a known location of the channel. A stimulus that polymerizes the pre-polymer mixture is directed onto the known location to form a structure locked in place at the known location by the insular relief. A pressure is applied to the channel that is sufficient to deflect the wall having the insular relief sufficiently to release a hydrogel particle comprising the structure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/125306 |
| ART UNIT | 1744 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 3/075 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/0037 (20130101) G03F 7/2012 (20130101) G03F 7/2035 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2982 (20150115) |
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| US 09512324 | Hunt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas); Texas Tech University System (Lubbock, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas); Texas Tech University (Lubbock, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Emily M. Hunt (Canyon, Texas); Michelle L. Pantoya (Lubbock, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Antibacterial metallic nanofoams, substrates having the nanofoam coated thereon, methods for preventing, inhibiting, and/or killing bacterial growth using the metallic nanofoams, and compositions and methods for making the metallic nanofoams. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/645318 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 1/02 (20130101) B22F 1/0018 (20130101) B22F 1/0048 (20130101) B22F 3/1143 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 5/14 (20130101) C09D 7/1225 (20130101) C09D 7/1291 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Alloys C22C 1/08 (20130101) C22C 1/10 (20130101) C22C 1/051 (20130101) C22C 21/00 (20130101) C22C 29/12 (20130101) C22C 32/0015 (20130101) C22C 32/0036 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24997 (20150401) |
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| US 09512431 | Mirsky et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ethan Mirsky (San Francisco, California); Karsten Temme (San Francisco, California); Christopher A. Voigt (Belmont, Massachusetts); Dehua Zhao (Allston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ethan Mirsky (San Francisco, California); Karsten Temme (San Francisco, California); Christopher A. Voigt (Belmont, Massachusetts); Dehua Zhao (Allston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for making synthetic gene clusters are described. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/126307 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/26 (20130101) C07K 14/255 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/52 (20130101) C12N 15/63 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/67 (20130101) C12N 15/74 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/22 (20130101) |
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| US 09512440 | Guo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Ames, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongqing Guo (Ames, Iowa); Yanhai Yin (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides the disclosure of a novel plant growth pathway involving several receptor like kinases. The pathway was shown to work largely independent of brassinosteroids and involves several members of the CrRLK1L family of receptor kinases. According to the invention, HERK1, HERK2, FER, THE1 and the brassinosteroid BES1 may be modulated to influence plant growth and elongation. The invention includes methods, and transformed plants, cells tissues and seeds with increased cellular elongation and other related yield traits. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/773150 |
| ART UNIT | 1663 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/8261 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/8281 (20130101) C12N 15/8298 (20130101) |
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| US 09512618 | Lang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY (Provo, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY (Provo, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Lang (Provo, Utah); Bryce J. Edmondson (Provo, Utah); Spencer P. Magleby (Provo, Utah); Larry L. Howell (Orem, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Rigidly foldable, foldable multi-body arrays or systems that may include three-dimensional bodies connected together by multiple hinges and reconfigurable between unfolded and folded configurations. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/548148 |
| ART UNIT | 3635 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Structural Elements; Building Materials E04C 2/405 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Producing or Use of Heat Not Otherwise Provided For F24J 2/36 (20130101) F24J 2002/5277 (20130101) F24J 2002/5468 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/40 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/19 (20150115) |
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| US 09513226 | Pang 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) | Lin Pang (San Diego, California); Yeshaiahu Fainman (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, devices and techniques are disclosed for optically detecting single molecules using nanoscale chip configurations. In one aspect, a sensing device includes a composite membrane having an array of nanochannels that form openings at opposing sides of the membrane, a first and second substrate each including channels to carry a fluid containing particles, a fluidic module that is fluidically coupled to the channels to supply the fluid, a plurality of electrodes located along the channels, and an electrical module to generate an electric field via the electrodes to effectuate an electrokinetic force within the channels to steer the particles toward the openings of the nanochannels to immobilize the particles, in which the nanochannels operate as resonant structures to amplify localized fields produced in an optical interrogation of the immobilized particles. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/967331 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 1/0044 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/658 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09513240 | Lin 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) | Qiao Lin (New York, New York); Bin Wang (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | MEMS-based calorimeter including two microchambers supported in a thin film substrate is provided. The thin film substrate includes a thermoelectric sensor configured to measure temperature differential between the two microchambers, and also includes a thermally stable and high strength polymeric diaphragm. Methods for fabricating the MEMS-based calorimeter, as well as methods of using the calorimeter to measure thermal properties of materials, such as biomolecules, or thermodynamic properties of chemical reactions or physical interactions, are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/972783 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 25/48 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 25/4893 (20130101) |
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| US 09513260 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hao F. Zhang (Deerfield, Illinois); Cheng Sun (Wilmette, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain examples provide a transparent ultrasonic transducer including a transparent substrate and a transparent optical resonator positioned on the transparent substrate. The transparent optical resonator is to facilitate excitation of a biological sample and to receive acoustic emission from the biological sample triggered by the excitation, for example. Certain examples provide a ring resonator ultrasonic detector including a microscope cover slide. The microscope cover sheet includes a substrate and a ring optical resonator positioned on the substrate. The example ring optical resonator is to facilitate illumination of a biological sample and to receive acoustic emission from the biological sample in response to the illumination. |
| FILED | Monday, June 09, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/299807 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/1702 (20130101) G01N 29/14 (20130101) G01N 29/34 (20130101) G01N 29/0681 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 29/2418 (20130101) G01N 2291/02466 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/1221 (20130101) G02B 6/12007 (20130101) G02B 21/0004 (20130101) |
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| US 09513328 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona Acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yong-Hang Zhang (Scottsdale, Arizona); Jing-Jing Li (Tempe, Arizona); Swee Hoe Lim (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A pulsed voltage bias method and/or pulsed light bias method may be used to reduce, minimize, and/or eliminate external quantum efficiency measurement artifacts of multi-junction solar cells, for example artifacts caused by the shunt effect. In this manner, multi-junction solar cells may be designed and constructed with improved performance, efficiency, and the like. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/795660 |
| ART UNIT | 2868 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 31/2605 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Generation of Electric Power by Conversion of Infra-red Radiation, Visible Light or Ultraviolet Light, e.g Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules H02S 50/00 (20130101) H02S 50/10 (20141201) |
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| US 09513342 | Salmani 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) | Mohamadamin Salmani (Tallahassee, Florida); Chris S. Edrington (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel method for real-time small-signal stability analysis within the instability borders for power electronic-based components in a power system. The method may be used to monitor a power system in real-time by perturbing the source side of an electronic-based component of the power system of about 0.5 to 1 percent of a nominal current of the power system at the source side, and perturbing the load side of the power electronic-based component by varying the voltage at the load side. Time-domain results of the perturbations may be transferred to frequency-domain results and the stability of the power system may be monitored by obtaining a Nyquist contour and employing unit circuit criterion or Generalized Nyquist Criterion. |
| FILED | Monday, April 18, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/131729 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 27/16 (20130101) G01R 31/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09513886 | Bai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ke Bai (Tempe, Arizona); Aviral Shrivastava (Chandler, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ke Bai (Tempe, Arizona); Aviral Shrivastava (Chandler, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A compiler tool-chain may automatically compile an application to execute on a limited local memory (LLM) multi-core processor by including automated heap management transparently to the application. Management of the heap in the LLM for the application may include identifying access attempts to a program variable, transferring the program variable to the LLM, when not already present in the LLM, and returning a local address for the program variable to the application. The application then accesses the program variable using the local address transparently without knowledge about data in the LLM. Thus, the application may execute on a LLM multi-core processor as if the LLM multi-core processor has an unlimited heap space. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/166220 |
| ART UNIT | 2181 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 8/4442 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 12/0862 (20130101) |
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| US 09514271 | Nolte |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David D. Nolte (Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David D. Nolte (Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Motility contrast imaging (MCI) is a depth-resolved holographic technique to extract cellular and subcellular motion inside tissue. The holographic basis of the measurement technique makes it highly susceptible to mechanical motion. The motility contrast application, in particular, preferably includes increased mechanical stability because the signal is based on time-varying changes caused by cellular motion, which should not be confused with mechanical motion of the system. Apparatus for motility contrast imaging that provides increased mechanical stability is disclosed. It is based on common-path configurations, in which the signal and reference beams share optical elements in their paths to the detector. The two beams share mechanical motions in common, and hence these motions do not contribute to the signal. |
| FILED | Friday, June 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/704438 |
| ART UNIT | 2481 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0075 (20130101) A61B 5/4845 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/27 (20130101) Holographic Processes or Apparatus G03H 1/32 (20130101) G03H 1/0443 (20130101) G03H 1/0866 (20130101) G03H 2001/045 (20130101) G03H 2001/0445 (20130101) G03H 2001/0447 (20130101) G03H 2001/0467 (20130101) G03H 2222/24 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09515256 | Ramanathan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shriram Ramanathan (Acton, Massachusetts); Dmitry Ruzmetov (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Venkatesh Narayanamurti (Boston, Massachusetts); Changhyun Ko (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PRESIDENTS AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shriram Ramanathan (Acton, Massachusetts); Dmitry Ruzmetov (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Venkatesh Narayanamurti (Boston, Massachusetts); Changhyun Ko (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Phase transition devices may include a functional layer made of functional material that can undergo a change in conductance in response to an external stimulus such as an electric or magnetic or optical field, or heat. The functional material transitions between a conducting state and a non-conducting state, upon application of the external stimulus. A capacitive device may include a functional layer between a top electrode and a bottom electrode, and a dielectric layer between the functional layer and the top electrode. A three terminal phase transition switch may include a functional layer, for example a conductive oxide channel, deposited between a source and a drain, and a gate dielectric layer and a gate electrode deposited on the functional layer. An array of phase transition switches and/or capacitive devices may be formed on a substrate, which may be made of inexpensive flexible material. |
| FILED | Monday, August 03, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/816208 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 11/16 (20130101) G11C 13/0007 (20130101) G11C 2213/32 (20130101) G11C 2213/34 (20130101) G11C 2213/53 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/2463 (20130101) H01L 28/20 (20130101) H01L 28/40 (20130101) H01L 29/66984 (20130101) H01L 45/06 (20130101) H01L 45/12 (20130101) H01L 45/146 (20130101) H01L 45/147 (20130101) H01L 45/1206 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 45/1226 (20130101) H01L 45/1233 (20130101) H01L 45/1253 (20130101) H01L 45/1616 (20130101) H01L 45/1625 (20130101) H01L 45/1675 (20130101) H01L 49/003 (20130101) |
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| US 09515257 | Hersam et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark C. Hersam (Wilmette, Illinois); Vinod K. Sangwan (Syracuse, New York); Deep M. Jariwala (Evanston, Illinois); In Soo Kim (Woodridge, Illinois); Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Lincoln J. Lauhon (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect of the invention, the memristor includes a monolayer film formed of an atomically thin material, where the monolayer film has at least one grain boundary (GB), a first electrode and a second electrode electrically coupled with the monolayer film to define a memristor channel therebetween, such that the at least one GB is located in the memristor channel, and a gate electrode capacitively coupled with the memristor channel. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 17, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/045822 |
| ART UNIT | 2897 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/2463 (20130101) H01L 45/142 (20130101) H01L 45/143 (20130101) H01L 45/1206 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 45/1253 (20130101) H01L 45/1616 (20130101) H01L 45/1625 (20130101) |
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| US 09515310 | Cao 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) | Guozhong Cao (Seattle, Washington); Yanyi Liu (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for forming films of orthorhombic V2O5. Additionally provided are the orthorhombic V2O5 films themselves, as well as batteries incorporating the films as cathode materials. The methods use electrodeposition from a precursor solution to form a V2O5 sol gel on a substrate. The V2O5 gel can be annealed to provide an orthorhombic V2O5 film on the substrate. The V2O5 film can be freestanding such that it can be removed from the substrate and integrated without binders or conductive filler into a battery as a cathode element. Due to the improved intercalation properties of the orthorhombic V2O5 films, batteries formed using the V2O5 films have extraordinarily high energy density, power density, and capacity. |
| FILED | Monday, April 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/863066 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for the Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Production of Coatings; Electroforming; Apparatus Therefor C25D 9/00 (20130101) C25D 9/08 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/38 (20130101) H01M 4/131 (20130101) H01M 4/0452 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/0469 (20130101) H01M 4/485 (20130101) H01M 4/1391 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) |
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| US 09515774 | Goldsmith 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) | Andrea Goldsmith (Menlo Park, California); Seyed Reza Mir Ghaderi (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for energy efficient communication based on feedback. A method may include sending a first message carried by a first wireless radio channel at a first predetermined energy level; receiving, in response to the first message, a second message carried by a second wireless radio channel; comparing the first message to the second message; sending a termination message, when the comparing indicates the first message and the second message match; and sending a portion of the first message at a second predetermined energy level, when the comparing indicates the second message contains at least one error when compared to the first message. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/185754 |
| ART UNIT | 2476 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 1/0003 (20130101) H04L 1/0009 (20130101) H04L 1/16 (20130101) H04L 1/0034 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Wireless Communication Networks H04W 52/48 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 60/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09516589 | Ansari 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) | Nirwan Ansari (Montville, New Jersey); Tao Han (North Arlington, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Technologies are generally described for reducing overall power consumption of a wireless network such as a cellular network through spectrum trading. According to some examples, spectrum may be shared between primary base stations (PBSs) and secondary base stations (SBSs) to reduce a power consumption of PBSs and increase the spectral efficiency of cellular networks. A PBS may share a portion of its licensed bandwidth with SBSs, to provide data services to primary users (PUs) within SBSs' coverage area. Due to their proximity to the PUs, the SBSs may satisfy the PUs' quality of service (QoS) requirements by utilizing a portion of the allocated bandwidth. Thus, PBSs may reduce their power consumption by offloading some of the PUs to SBSs. Because the SBSs typically use lower power compared to the PBS, the overall power consumption of the network may be reduced as well. |
| FILED | Monday, April 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/110708 |
| ART UNIT | 2479 — Audio Signals |
| CURRENT CPC | Wireless Communication Networks H04W 52/0206 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 60/50 (20130101) |
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 09511327 | MacCallum et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | PARAGON SPACE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Paragon Space Development Corporation (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Taber K. MacCallum (Tucson, Arizona); Laura Kelsey (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure provides water processing apparatuses, systems, and methods for recovering water from wastewater such as urine. The water processing apparatuses, systems, and methods can utilize membrane technology for extracting purified water in a single step. A containment unit can include an ionomer membrane, such as Nafion®, over a hydrophobic microporous membrane, such as polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). The containment unit can be filled with wastewater, and the hydrophobic microporous membrane can be impermeable to liquids and solids of the wastewater but permeable to gases and vapors of the wastewater, and the ionomer membrane can be permeable to water vapor but impermeable to one or more contaminants of the gases and vapors. The containment unit can be exposed to a dry purge gas to maintain a water vapor partial pressure differential to drive permeation of the water vapor, and the water vapor can be collected and processed into potable water. |
| FILED | Monday, June 27, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/194391 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 61/364 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09511369 | Srinivasan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Advanced Liquid Logic, Inc. (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Liquid Logic, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vijay Srinivasan (San Diego, California); Michael G. Pollack (San Diego, California); Alexander Shenderov (Raleigh, North Carolina); Zhishan Hua (Oceanside, California); Arjun Sudarsan (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a droplet actuator. The droplet actuator may include a base substrate and a top substrate separated to form a gap. The base substrate may include electrodes configured for conducting droplet operations in the gap; and the top substrate may include a glass substrate portion coupled to a non-glass portion, where the non-glass portion may include one or more openings establishing a fluid path extending from an exterior of the droplet actuator and into the gap. The invention also provides related methods of manufacturing the droplet actuator, methods of using the droplet actuator, and methods of loading the droplet actuator. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 09, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/248884 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502792 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 2200/12 (20130101) B01L 2300/089 (20130101) B01L 2300/0819 (20130101) B01L 2400/0415 (20130101) B01L 2400/0421 (20130101) B01L 2400/0427 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49826 (20150115) |
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| US 09512287 | Rhine et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ASPEN AEROGELS, INC. (Northborough, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ASPEN AEROGELS, INC. (Northborough, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wendell E Rhine (Belmont, Massachusetts); Decio Coutinho (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Kiranmayi Deshpande (Lake Forest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed and claimed herein are hybrid silica aerogels containing non-polymeric, functional organic materials covalently bonded at one or both ends to the silica network of the aerogels through a C—Si bond between a carbon atom of the organic material and a silicon atom of the aerogel network. Methods of their preparation are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, November 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/536735 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 33/1585 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 9/286 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08J 2201/0504 (20130101) C08J 2383/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09512863 | Jung-Kubiak et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cecile Jung-Kubiak (Pasadena, California); Theodore Reck (Pasadena, California); Bertrand Thomas (Bonn, Germany); Robert H. Lin (Chino, California); Alejandro Peralta (Huntington Beach, California); John J. Gill (La Crescenta, California); Choonsup Lee (La Palma, California); Jose V. Siles (Pasadena, California); Risaku Toda (Glendale, California); Goutam Chattopadhyay (Pasadena, California); Ken B. Cooper (Glendale, California); Imran Mehdi (South Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A silicon alignment pin is used to align successive layers of components made in semiconductor chips and/or metallic components to make easier the assembly of devices having a layered structure. The pin is made as a compressible structure which can be squeezed to reduce its outer diameter, have one end fit into a corresponding alignment pocket or cavity defined in a layer of material to be assembled into a layered structure, and then allowed to expand to produce an interference fit with the cavity. The other end can then be inserted into a corresponding cavity defined in a surface of a second layer of material that mates with the first layer. The two layers are in registry when the pin is mated to both. Multiple layers can be assembled to create a multilayer structure. Examples of such devices are presented. |
| FILED | Friday, April 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/871830 |
| ART UNIT | 3679 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Fastening or Securing Constructional Elements or Machine Parts Together, e.g Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips, Wedges, Joints or Jointing F16B 5/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49778 (20150115) Y10T 403/20 (20150115) |
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| US 09512894 | Boechler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas Boechler (Culpeper, Virginia); Robert Peter Dillon (Costa Mesa, California); Chiara Daraio (Pasadena, California); Gregory L. Davis (Pasadena, California); Andrew A. Shapiro (Glendale, California); John Paul C. Borgonia (Santa Fe Springs, California); Daniel Louis Kahn (Altadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for vibration suppression using a granular particle chain. The granular particle chain is statically compressed and the end particles of the chain are attached to a payload and vibration source. The properties of the granular particles along with the amount of static compression are chosen to provide desired filtering of vibrations. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/851730 |
| ART UNIT | 3657 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Springs; Shock-absorbers; Means for Damping Vibration F16F 1/374 (20130101) F16F 1/445 (20130101) F16F 1/3615 (20130101) F16F 3/0876 (20130101) F16F 7/015 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F16F 9/303 (20130101) F16F 13/00 (20130101) F16F 2234/08 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49 (20150115) |
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| US 09514734 | Jones et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael G Jones (Newport News, Virginia); Joseph E Grady (Avon, Ohio); James D. Kiser (Hinckley, Ohio); Christopher Miller (Rocky River, Ohio); James D. Heidmann (Solon, 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) | Michael G Jones (Newport News, Virginia); Joseph E Grady (Avon, Ohio); James D. Kiser (Hinckley, Ohio); Christopher Miller (Rocky River, Ohio); James D. Heidmann (Solon, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved acoustic liner for turbine engines is disclosed. The acoustic liner may include a straight cell section including a plurality of cells with straight chambers. The acoustic liner may also include a bent cell section including one or more cells that are bent to extend chamber length without increasing the overall height of the acoustic liner by the entire chamber length. In some cases, holes are placed between cell chambers in addition to bending the cells, or instead of bending the cells. |
| FILED | Friday, June 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/537816 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 3/12 (20130101) General Building Constructions; Walls, e.g Partitions; Roofs; Floors; Ceilings; Insulation or Other Protection of Buildings E04B 1/74 (20130101) E04B 1/82 (20130101) E04B 1/86 (20130101) E04B 2001/748 (20130101) Jet-propulsion Plants F02K 1/827 (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 11/00 (20130101) G10K 11/172 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09515531 | Jansen 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 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph H Jansen (Westlake, Ohio); Larry M Trase (Litchfield, Ohio); Timothy P Dever (Westlake, Ohio); Peter E Kascak (Cleveland, Ohio); Thomas G Kraft (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Flywheel systems are disclosed that provide increased energy density and operational effectiveness. A first bearingless motor and a second bearingless motor may be configured to simultaneously suspend the central rotor in a radial direction and to rotate the central rotor. However, certain implementations may have one motor or more than two motors, depending on the design. A plurality of the flywheel systems may be collectively controlled to perform community energy storage with higher storage capacities than individual flywheel systems. |
| FILED | Friday, December 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/723598 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Shafts; Flexible Shafts; Elements or Crankshaft Mechanisms; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing Elements; Bearings F16C 32/0497 (20130101) Dynamo-electric Machines H02K 5/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H02K 5/16 (20130101) H02K 7/09 (20130101) H02K 7/025 (20130101) Control or Regulation of Electric Motors, Electric Generators or Dynamo-electric Converters; Controlling Transformers, Reactors or Choke Coils H02P 9/02 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/16 (20130101) |
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Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 09511071 | Boden et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Scott D. Boden (Atlanta, Georgia); Sreedhara Sangadala (Dallas, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott D. Boden (Atlanta, Georgia); Sreedhara Sangadala (Dallas, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure relates to compounds and compositions for forming bone and methods related thereto. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a composition comprising a compound disclosed herein, such as 2,4-diamino-1,3,5-triazine derivatives or salts thereof, for use in bone growth processes. In a typical embodiment, a bone graft composition is implanted in a subject at a site of desired bone growth or enhancement. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/816312 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/53 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/1875 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/54 (20130101) A61L 2300/412 (20130101) A61L 2430/02 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 251/18 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | J. Marc Simard (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland); The United States of America as Represented by the Dept. of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Marc Simard (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns protection of an organ or tissue following an ischemic episode In particular aspects, the invention concerns organ preservation for transplantation, angina pectoris, kidney reperfusion injury, and so forth In specific embodiments, the organ is subjected to an inhibitor of an NCCa-ATP channel that is regulated by SUR1 Exemplary inhibitors include sulfonylurea compounds, such as glibenclamide, for example. |
| FILED | Friday, January 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/522444 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/57 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/427 (20130101) A61K 31/565 (20130101) A61K 38/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6872 (20130101) |
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| US 09511086 | Weyand et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cornelia M. Weyand (Stanford, California); Jörg J. Goronzy (Palo Alto, California); Lan Shao (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California); Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cornelia M. Weyand (Stanford, California); Jörg J. Goronzy (Palo Alto, California); Lan Shao (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for improving immune system function are provided. These methods find particular use in improving immune system function in individuals with a condition in which naïve lymphocytes comprise elevated amounts of DNA double strand breaks (DSB), for example, individuals with Rheumatoid Arthritis, individuals that have received a bone marrow transplant, or elderly individuals, e.g. individuals that are 50 or more years old. Also provided are methods and compositions for screening for novel compounds that will improve immune system function in such individuals. |
| FILED | Monday, August 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/205001 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/711 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/7105 (20130101) A61K 38/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5008 (20130101) G01N 2800/102 (20130101) |
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| US 09513286 | Loughran, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas P. Loughran, Jr. (Hummelstown, Pennsylvania); Ravi Kothapalli (Wesley Chapel, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas P. Loughran, Jr. (Hummelstown, Pennsylvania); Ravi Kothapalli (Wesley Chapel, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention concerns gene sequences and the use thereof as markers for large granular lymphocyte (LGL) leukemia. The gene sequences of the invention are differentially expressed in LGL. Another aspect of the invention pertains to therapeutic compositions directed to gene expression and gene products of differentially expressed genes in LGL. The invention also concerns methods for screening and identifying compositions that may be of therapeutic benefit to patients having LGL leukemia and/or autoimmune disorders. In addition, because a large fraction of patients with T-LGL leukemia also have rheumatoid arthritis, these differentially expressed genes also represent novel targets for the diagnosis, prevention or treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/476407 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/564 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/57426 (20130101) G01N 2500/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09513288 | Movsesian |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew A. Movsesian (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns methods and compositions related to type 3 phosphodiesterases (PDE3). Certain embodiments concern isolated peptides corresponding to various PDE3A isoforms and/or site-specific mutants of PDE3A isoforms, along with expression vectors encoding such isoforms or mutants. In specific embodiments, methods for identifying isoform-selective inhibitors or activators of PDE3 are provided, along with methods of use of such inhibitors or activators in the treatment of dilated cardiomyopathy, pulmonary hypertension and/or other medical conditions related to PDE3 effects on cAMP levels in different intracellular compartments. In particular, techniques are disclosed herein relating to the identification of a test compound that binds to an isolated polypeptide such as PDE3A2 and assaying the test compound for its ability to exhibit superior ability to interfere with binding of the isolated polypeptide when compared with at least a second isolated polypeptide such as of PDE3A1 and methods of treatment of cardiomyopathy, pulmonary hypertension involving the resulting test compound. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/080623 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/16 (20130101) C12N 9/18 (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 1/44 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 301/04037 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/573 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2500/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09513289 | Movsesian |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United Sates of America, as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew A. Movsesian (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns methods and compositions related to type 3 phosphodiesterases (PDE3). Certain embodiments concern isolated peptides corresponding to various PDE3A isoforms and/or site-specific mutants of PDE3A isoforms, along with expression vectors encoding such isoforms or mutants. In specific embodiments, methods for identifying isoform-selective inhibitors or activators of PDE3 are provided, along with methods of use of such inhibitors or activators in the treatment of dilated cardiomyopathy, pulmonary hypertension and/or other medical conditions related to PDE3 effects on cAMP levels in different intracellular compartments. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/227426 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/444 (20130101) A61K 31/4709 (20130101) A61K 38/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/18 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/573 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/916 (20130101) G01N 2500/02 (20130101) G01N 2500/04 (20130101) |
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National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 09513919 | Satpathy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sudhir K. Satpathy (Hillsboro, Oregon); Sanu K. Mathew (Hillsboro, Oregon); Vinodh Gopal (Westborough, Massachusetts); James D. Guilford (Northborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for performing parallel decoding of prefix codes such as Huffman codes. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a first decompression module to perform a non-speculative decompression of a first portion of a prefix code payload comprising a first plurality of symbols; and a second decompression module to perform speculative decompression of a second portion of the prefix code payload comprising a second plurality of symbols concurrently with the non-speculative decompression performed by the first compression module. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 28, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/698486 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/30156 (20130101) G06F 9/30196 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09513976 | Golliver |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Roger Golliver (Beaverton, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger Golliver (Beaverton, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented method and a corresponding computer system for emulation of Extended Memory Semantics (EMS) operations. The method and system include obtaining a set of computer instructions that include an EMS operation, converting the EMS operation into a corresponding atomic memory operation (AMO), and executing the AMO on at least one processor of a computer. |
| FILED | Friday, December 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/997534 |
| ART UNIT | 2139 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 8/458 (20130101) G06F 9/526 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09515456 | Park |
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| APPLICANT(S) | INTEL CORPORATION (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTEL CORPORATION (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hyundai Park (Santa Clara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are embodiments of apparatuses and systems including a hybrid laser including anti-resonant waveguides, and methods for making such apparatuses and systems. A hybrid laser apparatus may include a first semiconductor region including an active region of one or more layers of semiconductor materials from group III, group IV, or group V semiconductor, and a second semiconductor region coupled with the first semiconductor region and having an optical waveguide, a first trench disposed on a first side of the optical waveguide, and a second trench disposed on a second side, opposite the first side, of the optical waveguide. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. |
| FILED | Monday, November 02, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/930598 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/122 (20130101) Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 5/026 (20130101) H01S 5/343 (20130101) H01S 5/0422 (20130101) H01S 5/1032 (20130101) H01S 5/2027 (20130101) H01S 5/3013 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 5/34306 (20130101) |
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U.S. State Government
| US 09512212 | Sierks et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a Body Corporate of the State of Arizona, Acting for and on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a Body Corporate of the State of Arizona, Acting for and on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Sierks (Fort McDowell, Arizona); Yong Shen (Bradenton, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to therapeutic agents comprising bispecific recombinant antibody fragments to selectively clear a protein associated with a neurological disease and methods of use of these therapeutic agents to treat neurological diseases. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/370199 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/40 (20130101) C07K 16/42 (20130101) C07K 16/283 (20130101) C07K 2317/31 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101) C07K 2317/626 (20130101) C07K 2317/734 (20130101) C07K 2319/02 (20130101) C07K 2319/21 (20130101) C07K 2319/41 (20130101) |
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| US 09513328 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona Acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yong-Hang Zhang (Scottsdale, Arizona); Jing-Jing Li (Tempe, Arizona); Swee Hoe Lim (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A pulsed voltage bias method and/or pulsed light bias method may be used to reduce, minimize, and/or eliminate external quantum efficiency measurement artifacts of multi-junction solar cells, for example artifacts caused by the shunt effect. In this manner, multi-junction solar cells may be designed and constructed with improved performance, efficiency, and the like. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/795660 |
| ART UNIT | 2868 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 31/2605 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Generation of Electric Power by Conversion of Infra-red Radiation, Visible Light or Ultraviolet Light, e.g Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules H02S 50/00 (20130101) H02S 50/10 (20141201) |
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| US 09513406 | Chartoff et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Chartoff (Eugene, Oregon); Casey Check (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed embodiments concern a soluble functionalized nanoparticle suitable for use with polymerizable components, such as monomers (or polymers thereof), used to make gradient optical polymer nanocomposites. In particular disclosed embodiments, the nanoparticle is functionalized with one or more surface ligands that promote the solubility and dispersion of the nanoparticle in the disclosed monomer. Also disclosed herein are embodiments of a method for making the functionalized nanoparticle as well as embodiments of a composition comprising the functionalized nanoparticles. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/944797 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 220/18 (20130101) C08F 222/1006 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 9/04 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 1/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 09512461 | Beck et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John J. Beck (Rocklin, California); Noreen E. Mahoney (Richmond, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J. Beck (Rocklin, California); Noreen E. Mahoney (Richmond, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to food safety and to the reliable detection of aflatoxins produced by aflatoxigenic aspergilli in the presence other fungal species in a natural fungal bouquet using volatile emissions as an indicator. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/895748 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09513287 | He et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by The Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaohua He (Richmond, California); Larry H. Stanker (Livermore, California); Craig B. Skinner (Novato, California) |
| ABSTRACT | High affinity monoclonal antibodies against Stx2f and hybridomas that produce such antibodies are described. The antibodies may be used in a kit for detecting Stx2f and variants thereof in a sample as well as neutralization of Shiga toxin in vivo. |
| FILED | Friday, May 09, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/274485 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 16/1232 (20130101) C07K 2317/14 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56916 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/245 (20130101) G01N 2469/10 (20130101) |
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Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09514931 | Yi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alphabet Energy, Inc. (Hayward, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alphabet Energy, Inc. (Hayward, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mingqiang Yi (San Pablo, California); Gabriel A. Matus (San Francisco, California); Matthew L. Scullin (San Francisco, California); Chii Guang Lee (Fremont, California); Sylvain Muckenhirn (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A matrix with at least one embedded array of nanowires and method thereof. The matrix includes nanowires and one or more fill materials located between the nanowires. Each of the nanowires including a first end and a second end. The nanowires are substantially parallel to each other and are fixed in position relative to each other by the one or more fill materials. Each of the one or more fill materials is associated with a thermal conductivity less than 50 Watts per meter per degree Kelvin. And, the matrix is associated with at least a sublimation temperature and a melting temperature, the sublimation temperature and the melting temperature each being above 350° C. |
| FILED | Monday, March 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/203360 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/02112 (20130101) H01L 21/02225 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 35/26 (20130101) |
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| US 09516404 | Parkins |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Red Tail Hawk Corporation (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Red Tail Hawk Corporation (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. Parkins (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved wireless communications earplug for use with a magnetic field transmitter. The wireless earplug has a receiver made of a coil of wire on a magnetic bobbin, mounted in close proximity or in contact with a magnetic case of a speaker. The magnetic case of the speaker serves to increase the magnetic flux through the receiver and improves the efficiency of the earplug. The speaker is acoustically coupled to an eartip, and the earplug may be molded into a custom earplug body. |
| FILED | Friday, February 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/186477 |
| ART UNIT | 2654 — Audio Signals |
| 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 11/08 (20130101) A61F 11/14 (20130101) Telephonic Communication H04M 1/05 (20130101) H04M 1/215 (20130101) H04M 1/6066 (20130101) Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups or Like Acoustic Electromechanical Transducers; Deaf-aid Sets; Public Address Systems H04R 1/1016 (20130101) H04R 1/1041 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04R 1/1075 (20130101) H04R 1/1091 (20130101) H04R 2209/041 (20130101) |
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Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 09512545 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mei Zhang (Tallahassee, Florida); Shaoli Fang (Richardson, Texas); Ray H. Baughman (Dallas, Texas); Anvar A. Zakhidov (McKinney, Texas); Kenneth Ross Atkinson (Victoria, Australia); Ali E. Aliev (Dallas, Texas); Sergey Li (Dallas, Texas); Chris Williams (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to nanofiber yarns, ribbons, and sheets; to methods of making said yarns, ribbons, and sheets; and to applications of said yarns, ribbons, and sheets. In some embodiments, the nanotube yarns, ribbons, and sheets comprise carbon nanotubes. Particularly, such carbon nanotube yarns of the present invention provide unique properties and property combinations such as extreme toughness, resistance to failure at knots, high electrical and thermal conductivities, high absorption of energy that occurs reversibly, up to 13% strain-to-failure compared with the few percent strain-to-failure of other fibers with similar toughness, very high resistance to creep, retention of strength even when heated in air at 450° C. for one hour, and very high radiation and UV resistance, even when irradiated in air. Furthermore these nanotube yarns can be spun as one micron diameter yarns and plied at will to make two-fold, four-fold, and higher fold yarns. Additional embodiments provide for the spinning of nanofiber sheets having arbitrarily large widths. In still additional embodiments, the present invention is directed to applications and devices that utilize and/or comprise the nanofiber yarns, ribbons, and sheets of the present invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/581092 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502707 (20130101) Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 47/0059 (20130101) Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 5/02 (20130101) B32B 5/12 (20130101) B32B 18/00 (20130101) B32B 2262/106 (20130101) B32B 2310/00 (20130101) B32B 2313/04 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0293 (20130101) Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/62231 (20130101) C04B 35/62272 (20130101) C04B 35/62281 (20130101) C04B 35/62855 (20130101) C04B 35/62892 (20130101) C04B 35/62897 (20130101) C04B 2235/422 (20130101) C04B 2235/526 (20130101) C04B 2235/5248 (20130101) C04B 2235/5264 (20130101) Chemical Features in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons; Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture of Carbon Filaments D01F 9/12 (20130101) D01F 9/127 (20130101) D01F 9/1275 (20130101) Crimping or Curling Fibres, Filaments, Threads, or Yarns; Yarns or Threads D02G 3/16 (20130101) D02G 3/28 (20130101) D02G 3/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Making Textile Fabrics, e.g From Fibres or Filamentary Material; Fabrics Made by Such Processes or Apparatus, e.g Felts, Non-woven Fabrics; Cotton-wool; Wadding D04H 3/002 (20130101) Treating Textile Materials Using Liquids, Gases or Vapours D06B 15/00 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses of Section D, Relating to Textiles D10B 2101/122 (20130101) 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 2001/1515 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 11/36 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0048 (20130101) H01L 51/5206 (20130101) H01L 51/5234 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/8605 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) Y02E 60/13 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/521 (20151101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/742 (20130101) Y10S 977/745 (20130101) Y10S 977/843 (20130101) Y10S 977/847 (20130101) Y10S 977/848 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/30 (20150115) |
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Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
| US 09510581 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Changlu Wang (East Brunswick, New Jersey); Narinderpal Singh (East Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments of the present invention provide a lure composition, lure arrangement, and/or method for attracting and capturing bed bugs and the like. In some embodiments, the present invention combines a collection structure with a chemical lure composition that has improved efficacy due to a synergistic combination of elements. The present invention reduces the need for sprayed or broadcast attractants. In one aspect of the invention, a lure composition for attracting bed bugs and the like is provided. The 5-chemical lure mixture comprises a combination of Nonanal, 1-octen-3-ol, L-lactic acid, spearmint oil, and coriander Egyptian oil. In another embodiment of the invention, the mixture comprises a 4-chemical lure mixture Nonanal, 1-octen-3-ol, spearmint oil, and coriander Egyptian oil. |
| FILED | Friday, November 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/357425 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Catching, Trapping or Scaring of Animals; Apparatus for the Destruction of Noxious Animals or Noxious Plants A01M 1/02 (20130101) A01M 1/023 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01M 1/103 (20130101) Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 25/18 (20130101) A01N 25/18 (20130101) A01N 25/18 (20130101) A01N 31/02 (20130101) A01N 31/02 (20130101) A01N 31/02 (20130101) A01N 35/02 (20130101) A01N 35/02 (20130101) A01N 37/36 (20130101) A01N 37/36 (20130101) A01N 37/36 (20130101) A01N 59/04 (20130101) A01N 59/04 (20130101) A01N 59/04 (20130101) A01N 65/00 (20130101) A01N 65/00 (20130101) A01N 65/10 (20130101) A01N 65/10 (20130101) A01N 65/10 (20130101) A01N 65/22 (20130101) A01N 65/22 (20130101) A01N 65/22 (20130101) A01N 65/22 (20130101) |
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 09511399 | Coyle et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles G. Coyle (Omaha, Nebraska); Victor F. Medina (Clinton, Mississippi); Scott A. Waisner (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Chung-Rei Mao (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by The Secretary of The Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles G. Coyle (Omaha, Nebraska); Victor F. Medina (Clinton, Mississippi); Scott A. Waisner (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Chung-Rei Mao (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes methods and a system for treating a mass of contaminated media using ammonia. The methods include determining the amount of ammonia required for treatment using various calculation methods and combining the ammonia with air or another carrier gas to create a gas mixture. The methods and system utilize at least one injection well inserted into the contaminated media to deliver the gas mixture over a period ranging from approximately 1 week to approximately 8 weeks. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/692210 |
| ART UNIT | 3672 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Reclamation of Contaminated Soil B09C 1/002 (20130101) B09C 1/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B09C 2101/00 (20130101) Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/66 (20130101) C02F 2103/06 (20130101) C02F 2305/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/24 (20130101) |
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National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 09514386 | Scott et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Grant Jason Scott (Columbia, Missouri); Chi-Ren Shyu (Columbia, Missouri); Matthew Nicholas Klaric (Columbia, Missouri); Curtis Herbert Davis (Columbia, Missouri); Brian Christopher Claywell (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system, and medium are provided for identifying terrestrial objects that have changed in a certain manner. One embodiment of the method includes receiving a query that includes one or more inputs, which are related to 1) a first terrestrial object (“first object”) and 2) source change-detection information that describes change associated with the first object; applying the query to a dataset that includes indexed information that describes the imagery; based on the one or more inputs, receiving a query result by identifying a set of regions in the dataset that are respectively associated with change information that is similar to that of the source change-detection information; and presenting on a presentation device indications of at least a portion of the identified set of regions. |
| FILED | Friday, August 28, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/839016 |
| ART UNIT | 2159 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30241 (20130101) G06F 17/30259 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/46 (20130101) G06K 9/0063 (20130101) G06K 9/00476 (20130101) G06K 9/6215 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/6253 (20130101) G06K 2009/4666 (20130101) |
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Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 09512545 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mei Zhang (Tallahassee, Florida); Shaoli Fang (Richardson, Texas); Ray H. Baughman (Dallas, Texas); Anvar A. Zakhidov (McKinney, Texas); Kenneth Ross Atkinson (Victoria, Australia); Ali E. Aliev (Dallas, Texas); Sergey Li (Dallas, Texas); Chris Williams (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to nanofiber yarns, ribbons, and sheets; to methods of making said yarns, ribbons, and sheets; and to applications of said yarns, ribbons, and sheets. In some embodiments, the nanotube yarns, ribbons, and sheets comprise carbon nanotubes. Particularly, such carbon nanotube yarns of the present invention provide unique properties and property combinations such as extreme toughness, resistance to failure at knots, high electrical and thermal conductivities, high absorption of energy that occurs reversibly, up to 13% strain-to-failure compared with the few percent strain-to-failure of other fibers with similar toughness, very high resistance to creep, retention of strength even when heated in air at 450° C. for one hour, and very high radiation and UV resistance, even when irradiated in air. Furthermore these nanotube yarns can be spun as one micron diameter yarns and plied at will to make two-fold, four-fold, and higher fold yarns. Additional embodiments provide for the spinning of nanofiber sheets having arbitrarily large widths. In still additional embodiments, the present invention is directed to applications and devices that utilize and/or comprise the nanofiber yarns, ribbons, and sheets of the present invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/581092 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502707 (20130101) Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 47/0059 (20130101) Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 5/02 (20130101) B32B 5/12 (20130101) B32B 18/00 (20130101) B32B 2262/106 (20130101) B32B 2310/00 (20130101) B32B 2313/04 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0293 (20130101) Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/62231 (20130101) C04B 35/62272 (20130101) C04B 35/62281 (20130101) C04B 35/62855 (20130101) C04B 35/62892 (20130101) C04B 35/62897 (20130101) C04B 2235/422 (20130101) C04B 2235/526 (20130101) C04B 2235/5248 (20130101) C04B 2235/5264 (20130101) Chemical Features in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons; Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture of Carbon Filaments D01F 9/12 (20130101) D01F 9/127 (20130101) D01F 9/1275 (20130101) Crimping or Curling Fibres, Filaments, Threads, or Yarns; Yarns or Threads D02G 3/16 (20130101) D02G 3/28 (20130101) D02G 3/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Making Textile Fabrics, e.g From Fibres or Filamentary Material; Fabrics Made by Such Processes or Apparatus, e.g Felts, Non-woven Fabrics; Cotton-wool; Wadding D04H 3/002 (20130101) Treating Textile Materials Using Liquids, Gases or Vapours D06B 15/00 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses of Section D, Relating to Textiles D10B 2101/122 (20130101) 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 2001/1515 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 11/36 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0048 (20130101) H01L 51/5206 (20130101) H01L 51/5234 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/8605 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) Y02E 60/13 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/521 (20151101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/742 (20130101) Y10S 977/745 (20130101) Y10S 977/843 (20130101) Y10S 977/847 (20130101) Y10S 977/848 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/30 (20150115) |
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Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
| US 09515247 | Chang 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) | Josephine B. Chang (Bedford Hills, New York); Douglas T. McClure, III (Rye, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique relates to protecting a tunnel junction. A first electrode paddle and a second electrode paddle are on a substrate. The first and second electrode paddles oppose one another. A sacrificial shorting strap is formed on the substrate. The sacrificial shorting strap connects the first electrode paddle and the second electrode paddle; The tunnel junction is formed connecting the first electrode paddle and the second electrode paddle, after forming the sacrificial shorting strap. The substrate is mounted on a portion of a quantum cavity. The portion of the quantum cavity is placed in a vacuum chamber. The sacrificial shorting strap is etched away in the vacuum chamber while the substrate is mounted to the portion of the quantum cavity, such that the sacrificial shorting strap no longer connects the first and second electrode paddles. The tunnel junction has been protected from electrostatic discharge by the sacrificial shorting strap. |
| FILED | Monday, May 18, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/714894 |
| ART UNIT | 2897 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 39/223 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 39/2493 (20130101) |
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U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
| US 09512437 | Tuinstra et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mitchell R. Tuinstra (West Lafayette, Indiana); Kartikeya Krothapalli (West Lafayette, Indiana); Brian Dilkes (West Lafayette, Indiana); Elizabeth Buescher (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to new forage crops and methods of creating new forage crops. For example, chemical mutagenesis is used to create mutant crops having desirable forage characteristics. In some embodiments, a mutant sorghum plant is produced by inducing mutagenesis; producing a population of mutant sorghum plants using the treated reproductive portion; assaying the population of mutant sorghum for a C493Y mutation in CYP79A1; and growing the mutant sorghum plant, wherein the mutant sorghum plant exhibits altered dhurrin content or catabolism as compared to a control sorghum plant. |
| FILED | Friday, August 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/423927 |
| ART UNIT | 1663 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | New Plants or Processes for Obtaining Them; Plant Reproduction by Tissue Culture Techniques A01H 1/06 (20130101) A01H 5/10 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/8245 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 09512187 | Je et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SNU R and DB FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SNU R and DB FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yeon Ho Je (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea); Jae Young Choi (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea); Song Eun Kim (Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea); Jae Su Kim (Jeollabuk-do, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure discloses novel Cry1Ac mutants with improved insecticidal activity and/or spectrum against pests belong to Order lepidoptera. Also provided are transgenic plants expressing the present protein and methods for controlling Lepidopteran pest using the present mutants. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 17, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/857257 |
| 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 | 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 63/02 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/325 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/8286 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09514437 | Becker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael J. Becker (Half Moon Bay, California); Aaron Cammarata (Fremont, California); Peter A. Bonanni, III (Austin, Texas); David S. Maynard (Menlo Park, California); John Alan Main (Fairfax Station, Virginia); John R. Lowell (Fairfax, Virginia); Lawton Campbell (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cubic Corporation (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Becker (Half Moon Bay, California); Aaron Cammarata (Fremont, California); Peter A. Bonanni, III (Austin, Texas); David S. Maynard (Menlo Park, California); John Alan Main (Fairfax Station, Virginia); John R. Lowell (Fairfax, Virginia); Lawton Campbell (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, a mobile device comprises a local content store, one or more media playback components, one or more content capture components, and an instructional module agent comprising an authoring application and a playback application. The authoring application is configured to allow an author to create and edit instructional modules each comprising one or more media playback steps, each step comprising media that can be displayed or played, and to use the content capture components to capture content, store the captured content in the local content store, and configure at least one of the steps to display or play the captured content using the media playback components. The playback application is configured to play the instructional modules using the media playback components. The instructional module agent can be configured to respond to the creation and/or editing of an instructional module using the authoring application by automatically uploading at least a portion of the instructional module to a content repository stored on one or more computer servers. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/167650 |
| ART UNIT | 3715 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Educational or Demonstration Appliances; Appliances for Teaching, or Communicating With, the Blind, Deaf or Mute; Models; Planetaria; Globes; Maps; Diagrams G09B 5/125 (20130101) Information Storage Based on Relative Movement Between Record Carrier and Transducer G11B 27/031 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 65/4084 (20130101) Telephonic Communication H04M 1/72558 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/77 (20130101) H04N 5/772 (20130101) H04N 9/8205 (20130101) H04N 21/2743 (20130101) H04N 21/4325 (20130101) H04N 21/4334 (20130101) H04N 21/41407 (20130101) H04N 21/47205 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09516063 | Savage et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Britt C. Savage (Rockwall, Texas); Shawna L. Kellam (Sachse, Texas); Elizabeth A. Grant (Wylie, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An automated build server communicates with an automated build client to build virtual clients hosted by a virtual server. The automated build client communicates with the automated build server to obtain a configuration of the virtual client. The configuration specifies a previously approved security baseline for configuring the resources of the virtual client. The virtual client then obtains a security validation tool that audits the security baseline of the newly built virtual client. Based on the results of the security audit, the virtual client is placed in an operational mode or in a restricted operating mode. The restricted operating has limitations on resources when compared with the operational mode. An administrator is then notified of the security audit failure, who can then update the configuration stored by the automated build server to conform it with the security baseline used by the security validation tool in its security audit. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/643644 |
| ART UNIT | 2498 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/45558 (20130101) G06F 2009/45587 (20130101) G06F 2009/45595 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 63/105 (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, December 06, 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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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
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APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
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)
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