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Patent Details for Tuesday, January 03, 2017
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Department of Defense (DOD)
| US 09532621 | Redpath et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Revision Military S.a.r.L. (Luxembourg, Luxembourg) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Revision Military S.a.r.L. (Luxembourg, Luxembourg) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Redpath (Beaconsfield, Canada); Marie-Pierre Gendron (Mercier, Canada); Stéphane Lebel (St. Redempteur, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Integrated helmet systems provide convenient and modular use of electronic devices with a protective helmet. In addition to ease of use, weight savings and space savings also may be realized in certain embodiments. A flexible printed circuit board is used as a power bus to deliver electrical power from a battery pack to various electronic devices. Examples of devices used with protective helmets include: night vision goggles; helmet-mounted display units; ear phones; communication headsets; camera systems; biometric sensors; microprocessors; identify friend or foe devices (IFFs); and GPS devices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 07, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/792848 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Hats; Head Coverings A42B 3/04 (20130101) A42B 3/042 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Manufacturing or Trimming Head Coverings, e.g Hats A42C 2/00 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 1/028 (20130101) H05K 3/40 (20130101) H05K 13/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49002 (20150115) |
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| US 09532721 | Batchinsky et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andriy Batchinsky (San Antonio, Texas); Leopoldo C. Cancio (San Antonio, Texas); Jose Salinas (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by The Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andriy Batchinsky (San Antonio, Texas); Leopoldo C. Cancio (San Antonio, Texas); Jose Salinas (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are systems and methods to provide a patient care recommendation. The systems and methods receive patient information and a plurality of patient physiological signals that are related to a patient. The systems and methods are then operable to produce at least one derived patient signal from at least one of the plurality of patient physiological signals. The systems and methods use the patient information, at least one of the plurality of patient physiological signals, and the at least one derived patient signal to provide at least one patient care recommendation. |
| FILED | Friday, August 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/204490 |
| ART UNIT | 3769 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/08 (20130101) A61B 5/021 (20130101) A61B 5/0022 (20130101) A61B 5/024 (20130101) A61B 5/0205 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/0245 (20130101) A61B 5/0402 (20130101) A61B 5/742 (20130101) A61B 5/746 (20130101) A61B 5/0816 (20130101) A61B 5/7228 (20130101) A61B 5/7257 (20130101) A61B 5/7275 (20130101) A61B 5/7278 (20130101) A61B 5/7282 (20130101) A61B 5/14551 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/345 (20130101) G06F 19/3418 (20130101) |
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| US 09532875 | Mikos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Antonios G. Mikos (Houston, Texas); Mark E. Wong (Houston, Texas); Simon W. Young (Houston, Texas); James D. Kretlow (Houston, Texas); Meng Shi (Katy, Texas); F. Kurtis Kasper (Houston, Texas); Patrick Spicer (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods and compositions useful for treatment of traumatic bone injuries are provided. In one embodiment, a bone reconstruction system comprising a space maintaining composition comprising porous polymethylmethacrylate; and an osseous generating construct comprising a polymethylmethacrylate chamber that comprises one or more osseous generating materials is provided. Associated compositions and methods are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, September 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/491681 |
| ART UNIT | 3738 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| 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 2/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61F 2/2803 (20130101) A61F 2210/0085 (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 27/16 (20130101) A61L 27/16 (20130101) A61L 27/56 (20130101) A61L 27/3608 (20130101) A61L 2430/02 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 33/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09532980 | Flajolet et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Marc Flajolet (New York, New York); Paul Greengard (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc Flajolet (New York, New York); Paul Greengard (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for treating Aβ peptide related disorders such as Alzheimer's disease comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of a CK1 modulator to a patient in need thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/447080 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/40 (20130101) A61K 31/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/70 (20130101) |
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| US 09533006 | Jiang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shaoyi Jiang (Redmond, Washington); Xuewei Xu (Seattle, Washington); Yuting Li (Seattle, Washington); Andrew Keefe (Seattle, Washington); Hong Xue (Pleasanton, California); Shengfu Chen (Hangzhou, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Marine coatings including cationic polymers hydrolyzable to nonfouling zwitterionic polymers, coated marine surfaces, and methods for making and using the marine coatings. |
| FILED | Monday, December 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/692958 |
| 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 31/785 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 5/16 (20130101) C09D 5/165 (20130101) C09D 5/1606 (20130101) C09D 5/1637 (20130101) C09D 5/1656 (20130101) C09D 5/1662 (20130101) C09D 5/1668 (20130101) C09D 5/1675 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/3154 (20150401) Y10T 428/31511 (20150401) Y10T 428/31551 (20150401) Y10T 428/31663 (20150401) Y10T 428/31725 (20150401) Y10T 428/31786 (20150401) Y10T 428/31844 (20150401) Y10T 428/31938 (20150401) Y10T 428/31942 (20150401) Y10T 442/10 (20150401) |
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| US 09533038 | Broder et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE HENRY M. JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE, INC. (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher C. Broder (Silver Spring, Maryland); Katharine N. Bossart (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to soluble forms of G glycoprotein from Hendra and Nipah virus. In particular, this invention relates to compositions comprising soluble forms of G glycoprotein from Hendra and Nipah virus and also to diagnostic and therapeutic methods using the soluble forms of G glycoprotein from Hendra and Nipah virus. Further, the invention relates to therapeutic antibodies including neutralizing antibodies, and vaccines for the prevention and treatment of infection by Hendra and Nipah viruses. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/701006 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 39/155 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/505 (20130101) A61K 2039/6075 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 14/07 (20130101) C07K 14/115 (20130101) C07K 16/1027 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2710/24141 (20130101) C12N 2760/18222 (20130101) C12N 2760/18234 (20130101) C12N 2760/18271 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6854 (20130101) G01N 33/56983 (20130101) |
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| US 09533073 | Kong 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) | Hyunjoon Kong (Champaign, Illinois); Rashid Bashir (Champaign, Illinois); Jaehyun Jeong (Champaign, Illinois); Vincent Chan (Urbana, Illinois); Chaenyung Cha (Penndel, Pennsylvania); Pinar Zorlutuna (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions and methods for making and using microvascular stamps for stimulation and spatial organization of neovessels in tissue. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/709726 |
| 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 | 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 27/26 (20130101) A61L 27/52 (20130101) A61L 27/54 (20130101) A61L 27/507 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 27/3834 (20130101) A61L 2300/64 (20130101) A61L 2430/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09533150 | Nudo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS (Lawrence, Kansas); CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS (Lawrence, Kansas); CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randolph J. Nudo (Overland Park, Kansas); Pedram Mohseni (Shaker Heights, Ohio); David Guggenmos (Kansas City, Kansas); Meysam Azin (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for bridging brain sites between which there is substantially no effective communication, and associated neural prosthetic devices, are provided. A neural spike in a first neural site in a subject is detected, and a stimulus to a second neural site in the subject is delivered within a defined period of time after the detection of the neural spike, wherein there is substantially no effective communication between the first and second neural sites. The method forms an artificial bridge between the two neural sites, and establishes lasting communication between the two sites. The present disclosure provides, among other things, a neural prosthetic device comprising an integrated circuit that comprises a recording front-end comprising a plurality of recording channels; a processor unit; and a stimulus delivering back-end comprising a plurality of stimulation channels. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/630375 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/04001 (20130101) A61B 5/6868 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0531 (20130101) A61N 1/36103 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/36139 (20130101) |
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| US 09533318 | Galbraith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Resodyn Corporation (Butte, Montana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Resodyn Corporation (Butte, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen L. Galbraith (Butte, Montana); Lawrence C. Farrar (Butte, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for forming a fusible coating or structure comprising a combustor that is operative to combust a fuel and contain the resulting flame to produce combustion products; means for cooling the combustion products to produce a hot carrier gas stream; and means for introducing fusible material into the hot carrier gas stream. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/508357 |
| ART UNIT | 3752 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Spraying Apparatus; Atomising Apparatus; Nozzles B05B 7/1486 (20130101) B05B 7/1626 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 1/08 (20130101) Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 4/12 (20130101) C23C 4/129 (20160101) |
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| US 09533319 | Kesavan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical and Biological Command (APG, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jana S Kesavan (Catonsville, Maryland); Jerold R. Bottiger (Aberdeen, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An aerosol generator includes a first body having a first end including an exit opening, and an oppositely positioned second end. An open channel second body is substantially positioned inside the first body and extends from the first end to the second end of the first body. An exit opening of the second body is positioned adjacent to the exit opening of the first end of the first body. An insert, which holds material to be aerosolized, is at least partially positioned inside the second body. An inlet opening receives compressed air into the first body. The compressed air flows towards the exit opening of the first end of the first body. The air flow creates a region of low pressure at the exit opening of the second body. The region of low pressure pulls the material out from the second body and aerosolizes the material. The aerosol generator is particularly effective in generating aerosols from small amounts of solid and liquid materials with minimal losses of material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/288721 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Spraying Apparatus; Atomising Apparatus; Nozzles B05B 7/2491 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09533342 | Kennedy |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Boeing Company (Seal Beach, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis K. Kennedy (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of co-curing aligned annular supports in a tubular region of a composite structure, such as a rotor blade, are disclosed. Methods include assembling an uncured composite structure by positioning an inboard annular support and an outboard annular support around an arbor, forming reinforcement fiber into a tubular region in contact with the supports, and applying a matrix material to the reinforcement fiber. The inboard and outboard annular supports are substantially composed of metal. Methods also include concentrically aligning the arbor and the supports along a common axis by applying heat to cause differential expansion of the arbor with respect to the supports, wherein the differential expansion causes an interference fit of the supports against the arbor. Methods also include curing the uncured composite structure to form the composite structure. |
| FILED | Friday, June 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/923795 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Working or Processing of Sheet Metal or Metal Tubes, Rods or Profiles Without Essentially Removing Material; Punching Metal B21D 53/78 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09533445 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nanonex Corporation (Monmouth Junction, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NANONEX CORPORATION (Monmouth Junction, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Zhang (Newtown, Pennsylvania); Hua Tan (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Lin Hu (Livingston, New Jersey); Stephen Y. Chou (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for nanoimprint lithography using a deformable mold. Generally, the method includes a deformable mold fixed firmly onto a hollow mold holder around its full periphery is attached to top inner surface of the chamber and positioned underneath the transparent section. The central area of the mold is freely accessible from underneath through the opening of the mold holder. At beginning of the imprinting, the substrate with a layer of resist is positioned underneath the mold at a predetermined gap between them and a substrate is moved up to contact with the mold either under vacuum or under atmosphere. After consolidating the resist, the substrate is separated from the mold by either direct pull-down enabled by stage movement or deforming the mold enabled by differential pressure between the mold mini-chamber and the bulk volume of the chamber, or mixing of both. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/301101 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — 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 59/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29C, Relating to Particular Articles B29L 2007/001 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/0002 (20130101) |
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| US 09533451 | Folgar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | 3D Systems, Inc. (Rock Hill, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3D Systems, Inc. (Rock Hill, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Luis N Folgar (Lake Oswego, Oregon); Christian E Folgar (Langhorne, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | There are provided techniques for direct printing material into parts made by additive manufacturing, such as parts made by laser sintering. The direct printed material may be a metal, elastomer, ceramic, or any other material. Further, the direct printed material is typically different than the laser sintering material. Other aspects of the invention include using direct printed materials in the laser sintered parts to improve part strength, provide multi-materials, selectively provide electrical conductivity, and/or provide other desirable features to the parts. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/213731 |
| ART UNIT | 1785 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 3/1055 (20130101) B22F 7/08 (20130101) B22F 2003/1056 (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 67/0074 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B29C 67/0077 (20130101) B29C 67/0081 (20130101) B29C 67/0085 (20130101) 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 2105/251 (20130101) B29K 2501/00 (20130101) B29K 2995/0005 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29C, Relating to Particular Articles B29L 2031/772 (20130101) Additive Manufacturing, i.e Manufacturing of Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects by Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration or Additive Layering, e.g by 3-d Printing, Stereolithography or Selective Laser Sintering B33Y 10/00 (20141201) B33Y 30/00 (20141201) B33Y 80/00 (20141201) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 5/16 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 10/295 (20151101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24851 (20150115) |
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| US 09533754 | Ferguson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley D. Ferguson (Renton, Washington); Ian J. Fialho (League City, Texas); Richard C. Potter (Huntington Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An aircraft comprises a wing assembly, a pod, and a pylon attaching the pod to the wing assembly. The pylon has a swept pylon flap, which is configured to unload the pylon and pod during flight of the aircraft, and also to create downward flow that counters a vortex trailing the pod. |
| FILED | Saturday, April 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/256935 |
| ART UNIT | 3647 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 9/00 (20130101) B64C 23/00 (20130101) B64C 23/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 39/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09533883 | Weisenberger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mathew C. Weisenberger (Georgetown, Kentucky); John D. Craddock (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mathew C. Weisenberger (Georgetown, Kentucky); John D. Craddock (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus is provided for harvesting a carbon nanotube array from a substrate. The apparatus includes a peeler that peels the carbon nanotube array from the substrate and a support that receives the carbon nanotube array peeled from the substrate. In addition the apparatus includes a drawing device that simultaneously draws the carbon nanotube array from the substrate onto the support as the carbon nanotube array is peeled from the substrate. The peeler and drawing device are synchronized in operation so that as a given length of carbon nanotube array is peeled from the substrate, that same given length of carbon nanotube array is drawn onto the support. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/044939 |
| ART UNIT | 1783 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 2/24 (20130101) B01J 2/26 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/022 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/25 (20150115) Y10T 428/30 (20150115) |
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| US 09533892 | Baker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Colin C. Baker (Alexandria, Virginia); Woohong Kim (Lorton, Virginia); Guillermo R. Villalobos (Springfield, Virginia); Jasbinder S. Sanghera (Ashburn, Virginia); Ishwar D. Aggarwal (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Colin C. Baker (Alexandria, Virginia); Woohong Kim (Lorton, Virginia); Guillermo R. Villalobos (Springfield, Virginia); Jasbinder S. Sanghera (Ashburn, Virginia); Ishwar D. Aggarwal (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanoparticle containing monoclinic lutetium oxide. A method of: dispersing a lutetium salt solution in a stream of oxygen gas to form droplets, and combusting the droplets to form nanoparticles containing lutetium oxide. The combustion occurs at a temperature sufficient to form monoclinic lutetium oxide in the nanoparticles. An article containing lutetium oxide and having an average grain size of at most 10 microns. |
| FILED | Monday, July 13, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/797398 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Compounds of the Metals Beryllium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium, Thorium, or of the Rare-earth Metals C01F 17/0043 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 1/02 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/54 (20130101) C01P 2002/72 (20130101) C01P 2004/03 (20130101) C01P 2004/52 (20130101) Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/50 (20130101) C04B 35/6455 (20130101) C04B 35/62665 (20130101) C04B 2235/72 (20130101) C04B 2235/443 (20130101) C04B 2235/445 (20130101) C04B 2235/762 (20130101) C04B 2235/786 (20130101) C04B 2235/3203 (20130101) C04B 2235/5445 (20130101) C04B 2235/5454 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/7767 (20130101) C09K 11/7769 (20130101) C09K 11/7784 (20130101) Hot Gas or Combustion-product Positive-displacement Engine Plants; Use of Waste Heat of Combustion Engines; Not Otherwise Provided for F02G 2258/10 (20130101) F02G 2258/90 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2982 (20150115) |
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| US 09533911 | Owen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph M. Owen (Merrimack, New Hampshire); David P. Kelly (Nashua, New Hampshire); Michael E. Chadwick (Bedford, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for applying a mid-IR graded microstructure to the end of a chalcogenide glass optical fiber are presented herein. The method and apparatus transfer a microstructure from a negative imprint on a nickel shim to a chalcogenide glass fiber tip with minimal shape distortion and minimal damage-threshold impact resulting in large gains in anti-reflective properties. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/337890 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Manufacture, Shaping, or Supplementary Processes C03B 37/15 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C03B 2201/86 (20130101) C03B 2203/02 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/102 (20130101) G02B 6/262 (20130101) G02B 6/02052 (20130101) G02B 6/02295 (20130101) G02B 6/4207 (20130101) |
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| US 09534002 | Ramachandran et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Padi Veeraraghavan Ramachandran (West Lafayette, Indiana); Pravin D. Gagare (West Lafayette, Indiana); Hitesh Mistry (Mumbai, India); Bidyut Biswas (Delhi, India) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Padi Veeraraghavan Ramachandran (West Lafayette, Indiana); Pravin D. Gagare (West Lafayette, Indiana); Hitesh Mistry (Mumbai, India); Bidyut Biswas (Delhi, India) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for synthesizing ammonia borane includes (a) preparing a reaction mixture in one or more solvents, the reaction mixture containing sodium borohydride, at least one ammonium salt, and ammonia; and (b) incubating the reaction mixture at temperatures between about 0° C. to about room temperature in an ambient air environment under conditions sufficient to form ammonia borane. Methods for synthesizing ethylenediamine bisborane, and methods for dehydrogenation of ethylenediamine bisborane are also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/809316 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 35/14 (20130101) C01B 35/146 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/006 (20130101) C07F 5/022 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09534007 | Boss et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The United States of America as represented by The Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California); THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA as represented by THE SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerry Boss (La Jolla, California); Adriano Chan (La Jolla, California); Matthew Brenner (Irvine, California); Sari Brenner-Mahon (Irvine, California); Vikhyat S. Bebarta (San Antonio, Texas); Jingjing Jiang (La Jolla, California); Karen Christman (La Jolla, California); Jean Wang Wassenaar (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition and method for treating excess cyanide and hydrogen sulfide comprising administering a cobinamide. Further a method for determining extent of binding by an agent to an extracellular matrix. |
| FILED | Monday, December 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/654438 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 15/065 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/52 (20130101) |
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| US 09534120 | Matzdorf et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Craig Matzdorf (Hollywood, Maryland); William Nickerson (Ashburn, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig Matzdorf (Hollywood, Maryland); William Nickerson (Ashburn, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to galvanic aluminum alloy powder-pigments coated with semi-conducting corrosion-inhibiting compositions and particularly to the process for preparing said coated powder-pigments for coating substrates to inhibit corrosion. The coated aluminum alloy powder-pigments are electrically active and prevent corrosion of metals which are more cathodic (electropositive) than the coated-aluminum alloy pigments. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 16, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/971427 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 7/16 (20130101) B05D 7/148 (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 5/08 (20130101) C09D 5/084 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C09D 5/086 (20130101) Alloys C22C 21/00 (20130101) C22C 21/10 (20130101) Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 4/00 (20130101) C23C 4/04 (20130101) C23C 4/06 (20130101) C23C 4/123 (20160101) C23C 22/34 (20130101) C23C 24/00 (20130101) C23C 2222/10 (20130101) Non-mechanical Removal of Metallic Material From Surface; Inhibiting Corrosion of Metallic Material or Incrustation in General; Multi-step Processes for Surface Treatment of Metallic Material Involving at Least One Process Provided for in Class C23 and at Least One Process Covered by Subclass C21D or C22F or Class C25 C23F 13/06 (20130101) C23F 13/14 (20130101) C23F 13/16 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09534214 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bing Li (Clifton park, New York); Gregory Andrew Grossmann (Halfmoon, New York); Erik Leeming Kvam (Niskayuna, New York); Brian Christopher Bales (Niskayuna, New York); Jason Louis Davis (Albany, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A solid substrate for biological sample storage under dry-state and elution of biomolecules is provided. The dry, solid substrate is coated with saccharides, such as monosaccharides, oligosaccharides, polysaccharides or combinations thereof, and the substrate is comprised of one or more protein denaturing agents impregnated therein under a substantially dry state. A method for elution of biomolecules from biological samples is also provided. The compositions disclosed herein provide for enhanced elution and recovery of biomolecules, such as nucleic acids, from the sample. The sample is disposed on a substrate, dried to a substantially dry state; eluted from the biological sample dried on the substrate by rehydrating the substrate in an elution buffer. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 31, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/068633 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/22 (20130101) B01J 20/261 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09534224 | Collins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James J. Collins (Newton, Massachusetts); Farren J. Isaacs (Brookline, Massachusetts); Charles R. Cantor (Del Mar, California); Daniel J. Dwyer (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James J. Collins (Newton, Massachusetts); Farren J. Isaacs (Brookline, Massachusetts); Charles R. Cantor (Del Mar, California); Daniel J. Dwyer (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides nucleic acid molecules, DNA constructs, plasmids, and methods for post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression using RNA molecules to both repress and activate translation of an open reading frame. Repression of gene expression is achieved through the presence of a regulatory nucleic acid element (the cis-repressive RNA or crRNA) within the 5′ untranslated region (5′ UTR) of an mRNA molecule. The nucleic acid element forms a hairpin (stem/loop) structure through complementary base pairing. The hairpin blocks access to the mRNA transcript by the ribosome, thereby preventing translation. In particular, in embodiments of the invention designed to operate in prokaryotic cells, the stem of the hairpin secondary structure sequesters the ribosome binding site (RBS). In embodiments of the invention designed to operate in eukaryotic cells, the stem of the hairpin is positioned upstream of the start codon, anywhere within the 5′ UTR of an mRNA. A small RNA (trans-activating RNA, or taRNA), expressed in trans, interacts with the crRNA and alters the hairpin structure. This alteration allows the ribosome to gain access to the region of the transcript upstream of the start codon, thereby activating transcription from its previously repressed state. |
| FILED | Friday, November 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/535128 |
| 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 | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/11 (20130101) C12N 15/67 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/53 (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 1/6897 (20130101) |
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| US 09534256 | Xu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jianfeng Xu (Clemmons, North Carolina); William B. Isaacs (Glyndon, Maryland); Henrik Grönberg (Stockholm, Sweden) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jianfeng Xu (Clemmons, North Carolina); William B. Isaacs (Glyndon, Maryland); Henrik Grönberg (Stockholm, Sweden) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of identifying a subject as having an increased risk of having or developing aggressive prostate cancer, comprising detecting in the subject the presence of various polymorphisms associated with an increased risk of having or developing aggressive prostate cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, January 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/344907 |
| 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 2600/156 (20130101) |
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| US 09534319 | Tour et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Matteo Pasquali (Houston, Texas); Natnael Behabtu (Wilmington, Delaware); Jay R. Lomeda (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Dmitry V. Kosynkin (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia); Amanda Duque (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Micah J. Green (Lubbock, Texas); A. Nicholas Parra-Vasquez (Bordeaux, France); Colin Young (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Matteo Pasquali (Houston, Texas); Natnael Behabtu (Wilmington, Delaware); Jay R. Lomeda (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Dmitry V. Kosynkin (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia); Amanda Duque (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Micah J. Green (Lubbock, Texas); A. Nicholas Parra-Vasquez (Bordeaux, France); Colin Young (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for dissolving carbon materials such as, for example, graphite, graphite oxide, oxidized graphene nanoribbons and reduced graphene nanoribbons in a solvent containing at least one superacid are described herein. Both isotropic and liquid crystalline solutions can be produced, depending on the concentration of the carbon material The superacid solutions can be formed into articles such as, for example, fibers and films, mixed with other materials such as, for example, polymers, or used for functionalization of the carbon material. The superacid results in exfoliation of the carbon material to produce individual particles of the carbon material. In some embodiments, graphite or graphite oxide is dissolved in a solvent containing at least one superacid to form graphene or graphene oxide, which can be subsequently isolated. In some embodiments, liquid crystalline solutions of oxidized graphene nanoribbons in water are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, February 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/202352 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/04 (20130101) C01B 31/043 (20130101) C01B 31/0469 (20130101) C01B 31/0484 (20130101) Mechanical Methods or Apparatus in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons D01D 1/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class D01D 5/04 (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) |
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| US 09534538 | Cerny |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Robert Cerny (West Chester, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated power and thermal management system for a turbine-powered aircraft is provided. The system may comprise a power turbine, compressor, first cooling turbine, second cooling turbine, and electrical motor-generator disposed on a primary shaft. The compressor may be disposed on the primary shaft to motivate a system airflow and operably joined to the power turbine. The first cooling turbine may be rotatably disposed on the primary shaft in selective fluid communication with the compressor. The second cooling turbine may be rotatably disposed on the primary shaft in selective fluid communication with the first cooling turbine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 27, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/923731 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 7/32 (20130101) F02C 7/36 (20130101) F02C 7/143 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F02C 7/268 (20130101) F02C 9/18 (20130101) Dynamo-electric Machines H02K 7/1823 (20130101) |
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| US 09534640 | Bouton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rolls-Royce Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rolls-Royce Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew T. Bouton (Indianapolis, Indiana); Doug M. Schwerin (Zionsville, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine engine clutch includes a dry clutch assembly, forward and aft working areas, and a shaft. The dry clutch assembly is operative to receive power from a gas turbine engine. The dry clutch assembly is configured to selectively engage the gas turbine engine with a driven source, and has an axial opening extending therethrough. The forward and aft working areas are disposed at axially opposite ends of the dry clutch assembly. The shaft extends axially through the axial opening of the dry clutch assembly, and defines an axial fluid flow passage therethrough in liquid fluid communication with the forward and aft working areas. |
| FILED | Friday, December 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/142737 |
| ART UNIT | 3655 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 7/36 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2240/61 (20130101) F05D 2260/20 (20130101) F05D 2260/4023 (20130101) Couplings for Transmitting Rotation; Clutches; Brakes F16D 13/52 (20130101) F16D 13/72 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/675 (20130101) |
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| US 09534863 | Maier 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) | William Bryan Maier (Marina, California); Eugene Ellis Nolting (Columbia, Maryland); Gene Morris (Seaside, California); Donald D. Snyder (Monterey, California); George Ralph Caramico (Virginia Beach, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and method to accelerate solid metal slugs to high speeds. In one embodiment, a large electric current is passed through an outer cylindrical metal tube enclosing in part a metal slug, a central electrode, and a conducting tail coupled at opposite ends to the. metal slug and the central electrode. Electromagnetic forces accelerate the metal slug to a point high enough to mechanically separate the conducting tail. On separation, a plasma is generated by the passage of electric current though a gas produced by vaporization of the conducting tail and nearby materials. An insulator enclosed within the tube prevents the plasma from shorting to the outer tube until the current flow has produced a sufficient magnetic field to contain the plasma. The metal slug is then accelerated to high speed by a combination of electromagnetic forces and mechanical pressure from the hot gas through which the electric current is passing. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/662786 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Weapons for Projecting Missiles Without Use of Explosive or Combustible Propellant Charge; Weapons Not Otherwise Provided for F41B 6/00 (20130101) F41B 6/006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 6/006 (20130101) |
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| US 09534870 | Knies et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David L. Knies (Marbury, Maryland); Alex E. Moser (Fort Washington, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Knies (Marbury, Maryland); Alex E. Moser (Fort Washington, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An armor system includes an appliqué comprising a high fluid retaining material (HFRM) and a plate configured to hold the appliqué against a compartment, wherein the armor system is adapted so that upon impact of a blast wave upon the plate, the HFRM is vented away from the compartment. The armor system may be adapted to a vehicle. In another embodiment, an armor system includes a plate operably connected to a plunger, one or more rods of brittle material operably contained within a tube, wherein the armor system is adapted so that upon impact of a blast shock wave upon the plate, the plate transfers the blast shock wave to the plunger and then to the contents of the tube. Optionally, the tube also contains HFRM. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/921648 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Armour; Armoured Turrets; Armoured or Armed Vehicles; Means of Attack or Defence, e.g Camouflage, in General F41H 5/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F41H 5/0492 (20130101) F41H 7/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09534884 | Dowski, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ASCENTIA IMAGING, INC. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ASCENTIA IMAGING, INC. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward R. Dowski, Jr. (Lafayette, Colorado); Bradley Sissom (Boulder, Colorado); Gregory Johnson (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A coded localization system includes a plurality of optical channels arranged to cooperatively image at least one object onto a plurality of detectors. Each of the channels includes a localization code that is different from any other localization code in other channels, to modify electromagnetic energy passing therethrough. Output digital images from the detectors are processable to determine sub-pixel localization of the object onto the detectors, such that a location of the object is determined more accurately than by detector geometry alone. Another coded localization system includes a plurality of optical channels arranged to cooperatively image partially polarized data onto a plurality of pixels. Each of the channels includes a polarization code that is different from any other polarization code in other channels to uniquely polarize electromagnetic energy passing therethrough. Output digital images from the detectors are processable, to determine a polarization pattern for a user of the system. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/365498 |
| ART UNIT | 3667 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 11/002 (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 5/16 (20130101) G01S 19/48 (20130101) Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 1/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09534993 | Bond et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ray Bond (Lafayette, Indiana); Douglas E. Adams (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ray Bond (Lafayette, Indiana); Douglas E. Adams (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for identifying the location of the load on a structure. Various embodiments include calculating a plurality of potential loading sites, assessing the statistical order of each of those predictions, and selecting regions of the structure where the load most likely occurred based on the orderliness (or randomness) of the assessments. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/882891 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 5/0052 (20130101) Testing Static or Dynamic Balance of Machines or Structures; Testing of Structures or Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G01M 5/0033 (20130101) G01M 5/0066 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 3/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09535062 | Jiang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shaoyi Jiang (Redmond, Washington); Zheng Zhang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Shengfu Chen (Hangzhou, China PRC); Hana Vaisocherova (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Dual-functional nonfouling surfaces and materials, methods for making dual-functional nonfouling surfaces and materials, and devices that include dual-functional nonfouling surfaces and materials. The dual-functional surfaces are nonfouling surfaces that resist non-specific protein adsorption and cell adhesion. The dual-functional surfaces and materials include covalently coupled biomolecules (e.g., target binding partners) that impart specific biological activity thereto. The surfaces and materials are useful in medical diagnostics, biomaterials and bioprocessing, tissue engineering, and drug delivery. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/470775 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 122/22 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/545 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/54353 (20130101) |
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| US 09535063 | Lieber et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles M. Lieber (Lexington, Massachusetts); Xuan Gao (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Gengfeng Zheng (Dorchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the invention provides a nanoscale wire that has improved sensitivity, for example, as the carrier concentration in the wire is controlled by an external gate voltage. In one set of embodiments, the nanoscale wire has a Debye screening length that is greater than the average cross-sectional dimension of the nanoscale wire when the nanoscale wire is exposed to a solution suspected of containing an analyte. In certain instances, the Debye screening length associated with the carriers inside nanoscale wire may be adjusted by adjusting the voltage, for example, a gate voltage applied to an FET structure. In some cases, the nanoscale wire can be operated under conditions where the carriers in the nanoscale wire are depleted and the nanoscale wire has a conductance that is not linearly proportional to the voltage applied to the nanoscale wire sensor device, for example, via a gate electrode. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/030170 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/4146 (20130101) G01N 33/552 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09535200 | Perreault |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporate (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John D Perreault (Manhattan Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for simultaneously measuring linear and circular polarization components of light is provided, and contains no moving parts. The apparatus may include a prism assembly configured to receive collimated light and splits the light into different directions according to its polarization state. The apparatus may also include lenses configured to collimate light from an image plane to be analyzed by the prism assembly, or direct the light that is split by the prism assembly to different detectors or locations on an image plane. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/720697 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — 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 3/447 (20130101) G01J 3/2803 (20130101) G01J 4/00 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/3083 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 27/283 (20130101) |
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| US 09535215 | Jin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Danliang Jin (Bothell, Washington); Guomin Yu (Bothell, Washington); Hui Chen (Kirkland, Washington); Baoquan Chen (Bothell, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BRPHOTONICS PRODUCTOS OPTOELECTRONICOS LTDA. (Sao Paulo, Brazil) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Danliang Jin (Bothell, Washington); Guomin Yu (Bothell, Washington); Hui Chen (Kirkland, Washington); Baoquan Chen (Bothell, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A low index of refraction hybrid optical cladding may be formed from a fluorinated sol-gel. An electro-optic device may include a poled organic chromophore-loaded modulation layer (electro-optic polymer) and at least one adjacent fluorinated hybrid sol-gel cladding layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/432973 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 77/24 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/13 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 2006/121 (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 1/065 (20130101) G02F 2202/38 (20130101) |
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| US 09535219 | Goldsmith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall Howard Goldsmith (Madison, Wisconsin); Kevin Daniel Heylman (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method comprises exposing the surface of an optical microcavity characterized by at least one resonance frequency to a sample such that a single particle or molecule from the sample adsorbs onto the surface of the microcavity; evanescently coupling a probe laser beam into the microcavity, the wavelength of the probe laser beam substantially matching the at least one resonance frequency; illuminating the surface of the microcavity with a free space pump light beam and moving the focal spot of the free space pump light beam such that the focal spot substantially overlaps with the single particle/molecule; and detecting light from the probe laser beam. The wavelength of the free space pump light beam generates sufficient heat via energy absorbed by the single particle/molecule to induce a shift in the at least one resonance frequency, thereby providing a change in an optical characteristic of the detected light. |
| FILED | Friday, February 13, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/621502 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/171 (20130101) G01N 21/7746 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/29341 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/0147 (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 3/0604 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin L. Whiteaker (Erie, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for correcting chromatic aberrations in a telescope incorporating a diffractive primary optical element are provided. In particular, a corrective optic assembly that includes a corrector diffractive optical element (DOE) is described. The corrective optic assembly provides light to the corrector DOE at a high incidence angle. Moreover, light is reflected from the corrector DOE at a high exit angle comprising a cylindrical Littrow configuration allowing for greater bandwidth and smaller size. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/575909 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 17/0808 (20130101) G02B 23/06 (20130101) G02B 27/4211 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 27/4272 (20130101) |
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| US 09535308 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Oracle International Corporation (Redwood City, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guoliang Li (San Diego, California); Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California); Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California); Ying L. Luo (San Diego, California); John E. Cunningham (San Deigo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) is described. This PIC includes a semiconductor-barrier layer-semiconductor diode in an optical waveguide that conveys an optical signal, where the barrier layer is an oxide or a high-k material. Moreover, semiconductor layers in the semiconductor-barrier layer-semiconductor diode may include geometric features (such as a periodic pattern of holes or trenches) that create a lattice-shifted photonic crystal optical waveguide having a group velocity of light that is lower than the group velocity of light in the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer without the geometric features. The optical waveguide is included in an optical modulator, such as a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI). |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/036964 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/1225 (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 1/2257 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02F 2001/212 (20130101) G02F 2202/32 (20130101) |
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| US 09535562 | Mehringer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Todd Mehringer (Jasper, Indiana); Bret Mehringer (Jasper, Indiana); Peter Avenatti (Bloomington, Indiana); Mark Rondina (Bloomfield, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd Mehringer (Jasper, Indiana); Bret Mehringer (Jasper, Indiana); Peter Avenatti (Bloomington, Indiana); Mark Rondina (Bloomfield, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A device or computer program that takes the data and/or video from separate sensory devices and then combines this information for display in a standardized, but user configurable Graphical User Interface. Since each input device is paired with a device driver to properly parse the data for the input device, new devices may be added by writing new device drivers. The GUI has a standard set of elements that the individual user can modify to suit their personal preferences and needs. Since the Graphical User Interface is standardized, the user knows where to look for the data that they need no matter which sensory device is attached. |
| FILED | Monday, April 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/863051 |
| ART UNIT | 2171 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/048 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 3/0481 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/23216 (20130101) H04N 5/23245 (20130101) H04N 5/23293 (20130101) H04N 7/181 (20130101) |
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| US 09535837 | Maddah-Ali et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ALCATEL-LUCENT USA INC. (Murray Hill, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. (Murray Hill, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohammadali Maddah-Ali (Piscataway, New Jersey); Urs Niesen (Summit, New Jersey); Ramtin Pedarsani (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A first cache is provided to cache a first portion of a first block of digital content received over a network connection shared between a first user associated with the first cache and at least one second user. The first cache caches the first portion in response to the first user or the second user(s) requesting the first block. The first cache selects the first portion based on a fullness of the first cache, a number of blocks cached in the first cache, or a cache eviction rule associated with the first cache. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/083723 |
| ART UNIT | 2138 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 12/123 (20130101) G06F 12/127 (20130101) G06F 12/0813 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 2212/1016 (20130101) |
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| US 09536177 | Chalasani et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rakesh Chalasani (Gainesville, Florida); Jose C. Principe (Gainsville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Various examples are provided for object recognition in video. In one example, among others, a system includes processing circuitry including a processor. The processing circuitry is configured to process a sequence of images to recognize an object in the images, the recognition of the object based upon a hierarchical model. In another example, a method includes determining input data from a plurality of overlapping pixel patches of a video image; determining a plurality of corresponding states based at least in part upon the input data and an over-complete dictionary of filters; and determining a cause based at least in part upon the plurality of corresponding states. The cause may be used to identify an object in the video image. |
| FILED | Monday, December 01, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/557262 |
| ART UNIT | 2667 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/3241 (20130101) G06K 9/4628 (20130101) G06K 9/6249 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/6272 (20130101) |
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| US 09536179 | Andreopoulos 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) | Alexander Andreopoulos (San Jose, California); Rathinakumar Appuswamy (San Jose, California); Pallab Datta (San Jose, California); Steven K. Esser (San Jose, California); Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention provide a method for scene understanding based on a sequence of image frames. The method comprises converting each pixel of each image frame to neural spikes, and extracting features from the sequence of image frames by processing neural spikes corresponding to pixels of the sequence of image frames. The method further comprises encoding the extracted features as neural spikes, and classifying the extracted features. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 19, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/133102 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/46 (20130101) G06K 9/52 (20130101) G06K 9/66 (20130101) G06K 9/4623 (20130101) G06K 9/4676 (20130101) G06K 9/6256 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/6267 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/08 (20130101) G06N 3/0635 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/2033 (20130101) G06T 2207/10016 (20130101) G06T 2207/20081 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 19/136 (20141101) |
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| US 09536512 | Alu 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) | Andrea Alu (Austin, Texas); Romain Fleury (Austin, Texas); Dimitrios Sounas (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-reciprocal acoustic device that accomplishes non-reciprocity via linear or angular-momentum bias. The non-reciprocal acoustic device includes an azimuthally symmetric or planar acoustical cavity (e.g., ring cavity), where the cavity is biased by imposing a circular or linear motion of a gas, a fluid or a solid medium filling the cavity. Acoustic waveguides are connected to the cavity or the cavity is excited from the surrounding medium. A port of this device is excited with an acoustic wave. When the cavity is biased appropriately, the acoustic wave is transmitted to one of the other acoustic waveguides while no transmission of the acoustic wave occurs at the other acoustic waveguides. As a result, linear non-reciprocity is now realized in acoustics without distorting the input signal or requiring high input power or bulky devices. |
| FILED | Monday, August 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/913240 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | 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 11/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09536620 | Kay 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) | Matthew Kay (Jasper, Indiana); James David Ingalls (Bedford, Indiana); Matthew Gadlage (Bloomington, Indiana); Adam Duncan (Bloomington, Indiana); Andrew Howard (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of improving radiation tolerance of floating gate memories is provided herein. Floating gate memories can include a floating gate transistor or a block of floating gate transistors. A floating gate transistor can include a semiconductor region, a source region, a drain region, a floating gate region, a tunnel oxide region, an oxide-nitride-oxide region, and a control gate region. A floating gate transistor or block of floating gate transistors can be written to multiple times in order to accumulate charge on one or more floating gate regions in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. When exposed to radiation, a floating gate region can retain its charge above a certain voltage threshold. A block of floating gate transistors can communicate with an external device where the external device can read a state of the block of floating gate transistors in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 03, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/958202 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 5/005 (20130101) G11C 16/10 (20130101) G11C 16/26 (20130101) G11C 16/349 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G11C 16/0408 (20130101) G11C 29/50004 (20130101) G11C 2029/5002 (20130101) |
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| US 09536698 | Wong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Liang Jie Wong (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Byron Freelon (Chicago, Illinois); Timm Rohwer (Arlington, Massachusetts); Nuh Gedik (Watertown, Massachusetts); Steven Glenn Johnson (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Liang Jie Wong (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Byron Freelon (Chicago, Illinois); Timm Rohwer (Arlington, Massachusetts); Nuh Gedik (Watertown, Massachusetts); Steven Glenn Johnson (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for modulating a particle pulse include a succession of Hermite-Gaussian optical modes that effectively construct a three-dimensional optical trap in the particle pulse's rest frame. Optical incidence angles between the propagation of the particle pulse and the optical pulse are tuned for improved compression. Particles pulses that can be modulated by these methods and apparatus include charged particles and particles with non-zero polarizability in the Rayleigh regime. Exact solutions to Maxwell's equations for first-order Hermite-Gaussian beams demonstrate single-electron pulse compression factors of more than 100 in both longitudinal and transverse dimensions. The methods and apparatus are useful in ultrafast electron imaging for both single- and multi-electron pulse compression, and as a means of circumventing temporal distortions in magnetic lenses when focusing ultra-short electron pulses. |
| FILED | Friday, August 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/832056 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 37/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 2237/047 (20130101) H01J 2237/063 (20130101) |
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| US 09537087 | Khalili Amiri 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) | Pedram Khalili Amiri (Los Angeles, California); Zhongming Zeng (Suzhou, China PRC); Kang L. Wang (Santa Monica, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanoscale tunnel magneto-resistance (TMR) sensor comprising an in-plane-magnetized reference layer and a free layer comprising interfacial perpendicular anisotropy, wherein the free layer comprises a sensing layer for sensing resistance as a function of applied magnetic field and is tunable to vary the direction of the sensing layer magnetization to be in-plane, canted, or out-of-plane. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 27, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/606206 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/098 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 43/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 43/10 (20130101) |
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09537167 — Methods and apparatus of an anode/cathode (A/C) junction fuel cell with solid electrolyte
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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) | Rongzhong Jiang (Olney, Maryland); Dat Tien Tran (Perry Hall, Maryland); Deryn D. Chu (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a fuel cell having an anode; a cathode opposing the anode; a first electrolyte membrane disposed between the anode and the cathode; a second electrolyte membrane disposed between the anode and the cathode; and an A/C junction electrode disposed between the first electrolyte membrane and the second electrolyte membrane, the A/C junction electrode comprising a first gas diffusion layer; a second gas diffusion layer; a current collector disposed between the first gas diffusion layer and the second gas diffusion layer; a first catalyst layer disposed between the first electrolyte membrane and the first gas diffusion layer; and a second catalyst layer disposed between the second electrolyte membrane and the second gas diffusion layer. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/162223 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/921 (20130101) H01M 8/0206 (20130101) H01M 8/0232 (20130101) H01M 8/0245 (20130101) H01M 8/0612 (20130101) H01M 8/0656 (20130101) H01M 8/1002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/1007 (20160201) H01M 8/1011 (20130101) H01M 2008/1095 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/522 (20130101) Y02E 60/523 (20130101) |
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| US 09537224 | Friedman 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) | Daniel J. Friedman (Sleepy Hollow, New York); Xiaoxiong Gu (Scarsdale, New York); Duixian Liu (Scarsdale, New York); Arun S. Natarajan (White Plains, New York); Scott K. Reynolds (Amawalk, New York); Alberto Valdes Garcia (Hartsdale, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods, devices and apparatuses directed to transceiver devices are disclosed. In accordance with one method, a first set of antenna positions in a first section of a set of sections of a circuit layout for the circuit package is selected. The method further includes selecting another set of antenna positions in another section of the circuit layout such that an arrangement of selected antenna positions of the other set is different from an arrangement of selected antenna positions of a previously selected set of antenna positions. The selecting another set of positions in another section is iterated until selections have been made for a total number of antennas. The selecting the other set is performed such that consecutive unselected positions in the other section do not exceed a predetermined number of positions. In addition, antenna elements are formed at the selected positions to fabricate the circuit package. |
| FILED | Friday, May 29, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/725161 |
| ART UNIT | 2649 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 2224/16225 (20130101) Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 21/061 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01Q 21/065 (20130101) H01Q 23/00 (20130101) Transmission H04B 7/04 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49016 (20150115) |
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| US 09537230 | Pope et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tyco Electronics Corporation (Berwyn, Pennsylvania); Tyco Electronics UK Ltd. (Swindon, United Kingdom); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tyco Electronics Corporation (Berwyn, Pennsylvania); Tyco Electronics UK Ltd. (Swindon, Wiltshire, United Kingdom); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin Pope (Swindon, United Kingdom); Thomas A. Briere (North Richland Hills, Texas); Robert P. Moore (Redwood City, California); Nina Przybylska (Swindon, United Kingdom); Oliviu Muja (Lexington Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A splice kit is provided for repairing a cable having a central conductor, an insulator surrounding the central conductor, an outer conductive sheath surrounding the insulator, and a jacket surrounding the outer conductive sheath. The splice kit includes a central conductor joint that is electrically conductive and is configured to engage the central conductor of the cable such that the central conductor joint defines a portion of an electrical path of the central conductor. The splice kit also includes a dielectric insert configured to at least partially surround the central conductive joint and the central conductor of the cable, and an outer sheath joint that is electrically conductive and is configured to at least partially surround the dielectric insert. The outer sheath joint is configured to be electrically connected to the outer conductive sheath of the cable such that the outer sheath joint defines a portion of an electrical path of the outer conductive sheath. The splice kit further includes a jacket joint configured to at least partially surround the outer sheath joint and the jacket of the cable. |
| FILED | Monday, October 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/047889 |
| ART UNIT | 2847 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrically-conductive Connections; Structural Associations of a Plurality of Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting Elements; Coupling Devices; Current Collectors H01R 4/72 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01R 9/0503 (20130101) H01R 2103/00 (20130101) Installation of Electric Cables or Lines, or of Combined Optical and Electric Cables or Lines H02G 1/14 (20130101) H02G 1/16 (20130101) H02G 15/1806 (20130101) |
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| US 09537340 | Aston et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOEING COMPANY (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard W. Aston (Brea, California); Michael John Langmack (Huntington Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus comprises a first plurality of walls, a second plurality of walls, and a plurality of channels formed by the first plurality of walls and the second plurality of walls. The second plurality of walls meets the first plurality of walls at substantially right angles and forms a housing with a first side and a second side. The plurality of channels extends through the housing from the first side to the second side. The plurality of channels has a first plurality of openings on the first side. The plurality of channels has a second plurality of openings on the second side. The plurality of channels has substantially a same shape and is configured to receive a plurality of battery cells. |
| FILED | Monday, March 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/229989 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 2/1022 (20130101) H01M 2/1072 (20130101) H01M 10/613 (20150401) H01M 10/623 (20150401) H01M 10/625 (20150401) H01M 10/6568 (20150401) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 7/0068 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Albert B Ryu (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Albert B Ryu (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a transmitter system. The system is made up of a reference clock, a differential oscillator and an edge combining power amplifier (ECPA). The clock feeds a low frequency reference signal into the differential oscillator to produce at least two low frequency outputs with opposite phases. Each low frequency output is made up of a number of low frequency subsignals equal to the number of oscillator stages. Each low frequency output is fed into a branch in the ECPA having a number of sub-branches equal to the number of oscillator stages. A processor uses an edge combining algorithm to combine these subsignals into a high frequency signal. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/038028 |
| ART UNIT | 2649 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Demodulation or Transference of Modulation From One Carrier to Another H03D 7/00 (20130101) Transmission H04B 1/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09537571 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jiang Li (Pasadena, California); Kerry Vahala (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A dual-frequency optical source comprises: (a) first and second pump laser sources arranged to generate optical pump power at respective first and second pump laser frequencies vpump1 and vpump2; and (b) a fiber optical resonator characterized by a Brillouin shift frequency vB and a free spectral range that is substantially equal to an integer submultiple of the Brillouin shift frequency. Each one of the first and second pump laser sources is frequency-locked to a corresponding resonant optical mode of the fiber optical resonator. First and second optical output signals of the dual-frequency optical reference source at respective first and second output frequencies v1=vpump1−vB and v2=vpump2−vB comprise stimulated Brillouin laser output generated by simultaneous optical pumping of the fiber optical resonator by the first and second pump laser sources, respectively. An output difference frequency v2−v1 is greater than about 300 GHz. |
| FILED | Monday, January 26, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/605987 |
| ART UNIT | 2637 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation, or Stabilisation of Generators of Electronic Oscillations or Pulses H03L 7/08 (20130101) H03L 7/16 (20130101) Transmission H04B 10/503 (20130101) H04B 10/2504 (20130101) H04B 10/2507 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 10/2575 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 7/0075 (20130101) H04L 7/0091 (20130101) |
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| US 09537759 | Calmon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Flavio du Pin Calmon (White Plains, New York); Jason M. Cloud (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Muriel Medard (Belmont, Massachusetts); Weifei Zeng (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques, devices, systems, and protocols are disclosed herein that relate to data transfer between communication nodes via multiple heterogeneous paths. In various embodiments, network coding may be used to improve data flow and reliability in a multiple path scenario. Transmission control protocol (TCP) may also be used within different paths to further enhance data transfer reliability. In some embodiments, multiple levels of network coding may be provided within a transmitter in a multiple path scenario, with one level being applied across ail paths and another being applied within individual paths. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/754398 |
| ART UNIT | 2477 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 7/15521 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 1/0041 (20130101) H04L 1/0076 (20130101) H04L 45/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 69/14 (20130101) H04L 2001/0096 (20130101) |
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| US 09537954 | Ranasinghe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | EpiSys Science, Inc. (Poway, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | EpiSys Science, Inc. (Poway, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nadeesha Oliver Ranasinghe (Torrance, California); Bong Kyun Ryu (Poway, California); Wei-Min Shen (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus are provided for autonomously detecting and reporting anomalies in actions of an autonomous mobile node, or in behaviors of a swarm of autonomous mobile nodes to an operator. The autonomous mobile node may experience anomalies or unexpected situations due to various failures or external influence (e.g. natural weather phenomena, enemy threats). During a training phase a prediction model and a structured model may be established from measurement data received from one or more sensors of an autonomous mobile node or a swarm of nodes while executing an action or behavior under normal circumstances. A prediction model forecasts the expected outcome of an action or behavior, and structured model helps quantify the similarity of a learned action or behavior to the currently observed situation. Based on the measurement data applicable models can be used for an action or behavior for anomaly detection in the action or behavior. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 19, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/716852 |
| ART UNIT | 3667 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 1/00 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/6297 (20130101) Time or Attendance Registers; Registering or Indicating the Working of Machines; Generating Random Numbers; Voting or Lottery Apparatus; Arrangements, Systems or Apparatus for Checking Not Provided for Elsewhere G07C 5/02 (20130101) G07C 5/08 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 67/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Wireless Communication Networks H04W 4/021 (20130101) H04W 4/023 (20130101) H04W 24/10 (20130101) H04W 40/248 (20130101) H04W 72/0406 (20130101) H04W 76/021 (20130101) H04W 76/045 (20130101) H04W 84/005 (20130101) H04W 84/18 (20130101) |
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| US 09538167 | Welch et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory Francis Welch (Heathrow, Florida); Henry Fuchs (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Peter Lincoln (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Andrew Nashel (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Andrei State (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Francis Welch (Heathrow, Florida); Henry Fuchs (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Peter Lincoln (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Andrew Nashel (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Andrei State (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and computer readable media for shader lamps-based avatars of real and virtual people are disclosed. According to one method, shader lamps-based avatars of real and virtual objects are displayed on physical target objects. The method includes obtaining visual information of a source object and generating at least a first data set of pixels representing a texture image of the source object. At least one of a size, shape, position, and orientation of a 3D physical target object are determined. A set of coordinate data associated with various locations on the surface of the target object are also determined. The visual information is mapped to the physical target object. Mapping includes defining a relationship between the first and second sets of data, wherein each element of the first set is related to each element of the second set. The mapped visual information is displayed on the physical target object using a display module, such as one or more projectors located at various positions around the target object. |
| FILED | Monday, March 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/254837 |
| ART UNIT | 2616 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 15/04 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 13/0488 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09538388 | McHenry et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark Allen McHenry (McLean, Virginia); Igor Anatoly Bazarov (Herndon, Virginia); Jevgenijs Livsics (Reston, Virginia); Filip Perich (Annapolis, Maryland); Olga K. Ritterbush (Arlington, Virginia); Karl N. Steadman (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shared Spectrum Company (Vienna, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Allen McHenry (McLean, Virginia); Igor Anatoly Bazarov (Herndon, Virginia); Jevgenijs Livsics (Reston, Virginia); Filip Perich (Annapolis, Maryland); Olga K. Ritterbush (Arlington, Virginia); Karl N. Steadman (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for dynamic spectrum access (DSA) in a wireless network are provided. A DSA-enabled device may sense spectrum use in a region and, based on the detected spectrum use, select one or more communication channels for use. The devices also may detect one or more other DSA-enabled devices with which they can form DSA networks. A DSA network may monitor spectrum use by cooperative and non-cooperative devices, to dynamically select one or more channels to use for communication while avoiding or reducing interference with other devices. |
| FILED | Friday, August 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/541616 |
| ART UNIT | 2648 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 27/0006 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 16/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04W 72/082 (20130101) H04W 72/0406 (20130101) |
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| US 09538672 | Spanier et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonathan E Spanier (Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania); Stephen S Nonnenmann (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Oren David Leaffer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan E Spanier (Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania); Stephen S Nonnenmann (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Oren David Leaffer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are nanoscale devices comprising one or more ferroelectric nanoshells characterized as having an extreme curvature in at least one spatial dimension. Also disclosed are ferroelectric field effect transistors and metal ferroelectric metal capacitors comprising one or more ferroelectric nanoshells. Methods for controlling spontaneous ferroelectric polarization in nanoshell devices are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, September 28, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/867257 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 4/005 (20130101) H01G 4/008 (20130101) H01G 4/33 (20130101) H01G 4/1209 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/28291 (20130101) H01L 27/0214 (20130101) H01L 28/40 (20130101) H01L 29/068 (20130101) H01L 29/0665 (20130101) H01L 29/0673 (20130101) H01L 29/775 (20130101) H01L 29/6684 (20130101) H01L 29/66977 (20130101) H01L 29/78391 (20140902) H01L 43/02 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 5/0091 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ralph Weissleder (Peabody, Massachusetts); Hakho Lee (Acton, Massachusetts); David Issadore (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph Weissleder (Peabody, Massachusetts); Hakho Lee (Acton, Massachusetts); David Issadore (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic device includes a substrate and an array including a plurality of magnetic particles, in which a magnetic dipole moment direction of each magnetic particle in a majority of the magnetic particles in the array alternates with respect to a magnetic dipole direction of a directly adjacent magnetic particle or directly adjacent magnetic particles in the array. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/825762 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/055 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Magnetic or Electrostatic Separation of Solid Materials From Solid Materials or Fluids; Separation by High-voltage Electric Fields B03C 1/288 (20130101) B03C 1/0332 (20130101) B03C 2201/18 (20130101) B03C 2201/26 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/383 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 1/009 (20130101) H01F 1/068 (20130101) |
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| US 09532769 | Dayton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul A. Dayton (Carrboro, North Carolina); Ryan Gessner (Carrboro, North Carolina); Hyunggyun Lee (Vaughan, Canada); Marc Lukacs (Toronto, Canada); Francis Stuart Foster (Toronto, Canada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul A. Dayton (Carrboro, North Carolina); Ryan Gessner (Carrboro, North Carolina); Hyunggyun Lee (Vaughan, Canada); Marc Lukacs (Toronto, Canada); Francis Stuart Foster (Toronto, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods, and computer readable media for high-frequency contrast imaging and image-guided therapeutics are disclosed. According to one aspect a method for high frequency contrast imaging and image-guided therapeutics includes: providing ultrasound of a first frequency bandwidth, directed toward the volume to be imaged, the volume containing a carrier having non-linear acoustical properties, wherein the ultrasound of the first frequency bandwidth causes the carrier to generate ultrasound of a second frequency bandwidth that is different from the first frequency bandwidth; receiving, from the volume to be imaged, ultrasound of the second frequency bandwidth; and using the received ultrasound of the second frequency bandwidth to generate an image of the volume to be imaged, wherein the components of the second frequency bandwidth that are detected are of a frequency greater than 20 MHz. According to another aspect, ultrasound at a first frequency bandwidth enables imaging of a target, and ultrasound at a second frequency bandwidth mediates drug or gene delivery to a portion of the target, as guided by the image provided by the first frequency. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/393500 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 8/481 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 37/0092 (20130101) |
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| US 09532897 | Huber et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jessica E. Huber (Lafayette, Indiana); Scott Kepner (West Lafayette, Indiana); Derek Tully (Indianapolis, Indiana); James Thomas Jones (Brookston, Indiana); Kirk Solon Foster (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A voice enhancement device including an earpiece configured to be positioned in an ear canal of a user. A microcontroller is operatively coupled to the earpiece. The microcontroller is configured to selectively provide at least multitalker babble. An accelerometer is located within the earpiece and operatively coupled to the microcontroller. The accelerometer is configured to detect speech by the user and communicate with the microcontroller to provide the multitalker babble to the earpiece during the detected speech by the user. A method of making the voice enhancement device, and a method for increasing vocal loudness in a patient using the voice enhancement device are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/332679 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| 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 5/58 (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 19/04 (20130101) G09B 21/00 (20130101) Speech Analysis or Synthesis; Speech Recognition; Speech or Voice Processing; Speech or Audio Coding or Decoding G10L 2021/0575 (20130101) G10L 2021/03646 (20130101) Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups or Like Acoustic Electromechanical Transducers; Deaf-aid Sets; Public Address Systems H04R 1/1016 (20130101) H04R 1/1091 (20130101) H04R 3/00 (20130101) H04R 2420/07 (20130101) H04R 2420/09 (20130101) H04R 2460/13 (20130101) |
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| US 09532948 | Mirkin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); C. Shad Thaxton (Chicago, Illinois); David A. Giljohann (Chicago, Illinois); Weston Daniel (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Articles, compositions, kits, and methods relating to nanostructures, including those that can sequester molecules such as cholesterol, are provided. Certain embodiments described herein include structures having a core-shell type arrangement; for instance, a nanoparticle core may be surrounded by a shell including a material, such as a lipid bilayer, that can interact with cholesterol and/or other lipids. In some embodiments, the structures, when introduced into a subject, can sequester cholesterol and/or other lipids and remove them from circulation. Accordingly, the structures described herein may be used to diagnose, prevent, treat or manage certain diseases or bodily conditions, especially those associated with abnormal lipid levels. |
| FILED | Monday, October 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/651935 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/127 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 9/1271 (20130101) A61K 9/1275 (20130101) A61K 9/5115 (20130101) A61K 9/5123 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) |
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| US 09532955 | Popov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts); The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts); The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexey Popov (Waltham, Massachusetts); Elizabeth M. Enlow (Waltham, Massachusetts); James Bourassa (Somerville, Massachusetts); Colin R. Gardner (Concord, Massachusetts); Hongming Chen (Belmont, Massachusetts); Laura M. Ensign (Towson, Maryland); Samuel K. Lai (Carrboro, North Carolina); Tao Yu (Baltimore, Maryland); Justin Hanes (Baltimore, Maryland); Ming Yang (Towson, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanocrystals, compositions, and methods that aid particle transport in mucus are provided. In some embodiments, the compositions and methods involve making mucus-penetrating particles (MPP) without any polymeric carriers, or with minimal use of polymeric carriers. The compositions and methods may include, in some embodiments, modifying the surface coatings of particles formed of pharmaceutical agents that have a low water solubility. Such methods and compositions can be used to achieve efficient transport of particles of pharmaceutical agents though mucus barriers in the body for a wide spectrum of applications, including drug delivery, imaging, and diagnostic applications. In certain embodiments, a pharmaceutical composition including such particles is well-suited for administration routes involving the particles passing through a mucosal barrier. |
| FILED | Monday, June 20, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/187552 |
| ART UNIT | 1613 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/10 (20130101) A61K 9/5031 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 9/5089 (20130101) A61K 9/5138 (20130101) A61K 31/12 (20130101) A61K 31/56 (20130101) A61K 31/58 (20130101) A61K 31/341 (20130101) A61K 31/405 (20130101) A61K 31/409 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/569 (20130101) A61K 31/573 (20130101) A61K 31/675 (20130101) A61K 47/34 (20130101) A61K 49/0089 (20130101) |
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| US 09532956 | Radovic-Moreno et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aleksandar Filip Radovic-Moreno (State College, Pennsylvania); Weiwei Gao (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Archana Swami (Everett, Massachusetts); Gershon Golomb (Efrat, Israel); Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts); Omid C. Farokhzad (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aleksandar Filip Radovic-Moreno (State College, Pennsylvania); Weiwei Gao (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Archana Swami (Everett, Massachusetts); Gershon Golomb (Efrat, Israel); Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts); Omid C. Farokhzad (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to polymers and particles, such as nanoparticles. The particles and polymers generally include one or more buffering components. Additionally, the particles and polymers may include two or more components that impart useful properties (functionalities). The particles and polymers, for example, may include a buffering component and a degradable component. As described herein, the particles and polymers may also include a hydrophilic component and/or a cleavable bond component. The particles and polymers described herein have been found to be particularly effective when used for delivery of one or more agents, such as one or more pharmaceutical agents. Other aspects of the invention are directed to methods of using or administering such particles or polymers, kits involving such particles or polymers, and the like. The present invention also relates to particles containing a cleavable bond component and one or more fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) pairs as well as methods of detecting the cleavage of the cleavable bond component of such particles. |
| FILED | Sunday, April 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/762348 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/51 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 48/0008 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 15/115 (20130101) C12N 2310/11 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/16 (20130101) C12N 2320/32 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Savannah State University (Savannah, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Savannah State University (Savannah, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karla-Sue C. Marriott (Savannah, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Benzofuran compound, composition thereof, kit thereof, and/or method thereof. A benzofuran-2-carboxamide moiety may be N-arylated and/or N-alkylated, and the resulting benzofuran compound may be a sigma receptor ligand that binds to, e.g., a σ1 receptor and/or a σ2 receptor with relatively high affinity and/or selectivity. For example, the benzofuran compound may be 5,6-dimethoxy-3-methyl-N-phenyl-N-(3-(piperidin-1-yl)propyl)benzofuran-2-carboxamide, 3-methyl-N-phenyl-N-(3-(piperidin-1-yl)propyl)benzofuran-2-carboxamide, or 6-methoxy-3-methyl-N-phenyl-N-(3-(piperidin-1-yl)propyl)benzofuran-2-carboxamide. The composition may include the benzofuran compound and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/448138 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/4525 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 307/85 (20130101) |
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| US 09532986 | Gonda et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ARADIGM CORPORATION (Hayward, California); OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ARADIGM CORPORATION (Hayward, California); OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor Gonda (San Francisco, California); James Blanchard (El Granada, California); David C. Cipolla (San Ramon, California); Luiz Eduardo Moreira Bermudez (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of treatment of NTM lung infections using formulations of liposomal ciprofloxacin. Specific liposome formulations and delivery of such for treatment of respiratory tract infections and other medical conditions, and devices and formulations used in connection with such are described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 31, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/675218 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0073 (20130101) A61K 9/0078 (20130101) A61K 9/127 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09532989 | Coller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); The Rockefeller University (New York, New York); Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (Washington, District of Columbia); ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI (New York, New York); THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barry S. Coller (New York, New York); Craig Thomas (Rockville, Maryland); Marta Filizola (New York, New York); Joshua McCoy (Portland, Maine); Wenwei Huang (Rockville, Maryland); Min Shen (Boyds, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compounds of Formula P-I where the variables (e.g. R1, Y, A, R1, Ra, Ra′, Rb, Rb′, Rc, Rc′, Rd, Rd′, Re, or Re′) and compositions useful for inhibiting and/or reducing platelet deposition, adhesion and/or aggregation. The present invention further relates to methods for the treatment or prophylaxis of thrombotic disorders, including stroke, myocardial infarction, unstable angina, peripheral vascular disease, abrupt closure following angioplasty or stent placement and thrombosis as a result of vascular surgery. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 04, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/730707 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/497 (20130101) A61K 31/497 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 487/04 (20130101) C07D 513/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09532994 | Parhami |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Farhad Parhami (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Farhad Parhami (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses agents and methods for inducing osteoblastic cellular differentiation, as well as the use of such agents and methods to treat patients to maintain bone mass, enhance bone formation and/or bone repair. Exemplary agents include oxysterols, alone or in combination with particular oxysterols, or other agents, such as bone morphogenic proteins, known to assist in bone formation. The invention further includes medicaments including oxysterols for the treatment of bone disorders and implants to facilitate bone repair. |
| FILED | Monday, August 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/569994 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/22 (20130101) A61K 31/22 (20130101) A61K 31/56 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/56 (20130101) A61K 31/59 (20130101) A61K 31/59 (20130101) A61K 31/66 (20130101) A61K 31/66 (20130101) A61K 33/06 (20130101) A61K 33/06 (20130101) A61K 38/1875 (20130101) A61K 38/1875 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0654 (20130101) C12N 2501/155 (20130101) C12N 2501/999 (20130101) |
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| US 09532997 | Katajisto et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pekka Katajisto (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Michael Pacold (Boston, Massachusetts); David M. Sabatini (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Omer Yilmaz (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are novel methods and compositions useful for promoting intestinal stem cell function. The methods and compositions are particularly useful for stimulating the proliferation of and/or self-renewal of intestinal stem cells, as well as for minimizing, preventing, or ameliorating cellular damage resulting from incidental or accidental exposure to radiation (e.g., cancer radiation therapy). |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/390731 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/436 (20130101) A61K 31/675 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 31/7076 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 38/46 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 301/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09533025 | Hermann |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brian P. Hermann (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian P. Hermann (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of ameliorating, inhibiting, preventing, or reducing male infertility in a subject undergoing or in need of chemotherapy by administering to the subject a granulocyte colony-stimulating factor in a protective amount, prior to, during or after administration of one or more chemotherapeutic agents to the subject. |
| FILED | Monday, February 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/177103 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/255 (20130101) A61K 31/255 (20130101) A61K 38/09 (20130101) A61K 38/09 (20130101) A61K 38/185 (20130101) A61K 38/185 (20130101) A61K 38/193 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/193 (20130101) A61K 38/1825 (20130101) A61K 38/1825 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09533027 | Ghoroghchian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vindico NanoBio Technology Inc. (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vindico NanoBioTechnology, LLC (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | P. Peter Ghoroghchian (Boston, Massachusetts); Eric Ostertag (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions of matter and methods for making, storing and administering artificial blood substitutes. Artificial blood substitutes may have oxygen carriers that encapsulate an oxygen-binding compound in a polymer vesicle. Oxygen-binding compounds may include hemoglobin, myoglobin, or other oxygen binding compounds having characteristics similar to hemoglobin. Oxygen carriers may include nanoparticles, polymers and/or polymersomes comprising of poly(ethylene oxide)-block-poly(ε-caprolactone) (PEO-b-PCL) and related diblock copolymers of poly(ethylene oxide)-block-poly(γ-methyl ε-caprolactone) (PEO-b-PMCL). The oxygen carriers may have tunable oxygen-binding capacities, uniform and appropriately small size distributions, and human bloodlike viscosities and oncotic properties. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/339714 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/10 (20130101) A61K 9/19 (20130101) A61K 9/1273 (20130101) A61K 9/1277 (20130101) A61K 31/70 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/42 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 47/32 (20130101) |
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| US 09533031 | Franzusoff et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | GlobeImmune, Inc. (Louisville, Colorado); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GlobeImmune, Inc. (Louisville, Colorado); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Dept. of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alex Franzusoff (Nahant, Massachusetts); Zhimin Guo (Superior, Colorado); Jeffrey Schlom (Potomac, Maryland); Kwong-Yok Tsang (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are yeast-based immunotherapeutic compositions comprising mucin-1 (MUC1), as well as methods for the prevention and/or treatment of cancers characterized by the expression or overexpression of mucin-1 (MUC1). |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/803757 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0002 (20130101) A61K 39/0011 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/6031 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/4727 (20130101) |
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| US 09533032 | Mekalanos |
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| APPLICANT(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J. Mekalanos (Charlestown, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to vaccine compositions having a carrier protein and an antigen of interest entrapped in a complex, methods of making such vaccines, and methods of vaccine administration. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/950113 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/02 (20130101) A61K 39/07 (20130101) A61K 39/092 (20130101) A61K 39/095 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 39/0275 (20130101) A61K 39/0283 (20130101) A61K 39/385 (20130101) A61K 47/42 (20130101) A61K 2039/645 (20130101) A61K 2039/6037 (20130101) |
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| US 09533033 | Bakaletz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, INC. (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, INC. (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lauren O. Bakaletz (Hilliard, Ohio); Robert S. Munson, Jr. (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention described herein relates to a Haemophilus influenzae (H. influenzae) regulon encoding type IV pili. In particular, the invention relates to type IV pili from nontypeable H. influenzae (NTHi) and from H. influenzae strains a, b, c, e and f. The invention provides isolated H. influenzae pilus polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded by the polynucleotides as well as polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded by the polynucleotides involved in the assembly/disassembly of the structure. The invention also relates to uses of these polynucleotides and/or polypeptides including methods for eliciting an immune response to H. influenzae and methods of treating and preventing H. influenzae related pathological conditions. |
| FILED | Monday, March 07, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/062897 |
| 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 39/102 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/195 (20130101) C07K 14/285 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 435/851 (20130101) |
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| US 09533038 | Broder et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE HENRY M. JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE, INC. (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher C. Broder (Silver Spring, Maryland); Katharine N. Bossart (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to soluble forms of G glycoprotein from Hendra and Nipah virus. In particular, this invention relates to compositions comprising soluble forms of G glycoprotein from Hendra and Nipah virus and also to diagnostic and therapeutic methods using the soluble forms of G glycoprotein from Hendra and Nipah virus. Further, the invention relates to therapeutic antibodies including neutralizing antibodies, and vaccines for the prevention and treatment of infection by Hendra and Nipah viruses. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/701006 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 39/155 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/505 (20130101) A61K 2039/6075 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 14/07 (20130101) C07K 14/115 (20130101) C07K 16/1027 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2710/24141 (20130101) C12N 2760/18222 (20130101) C12N 2760/18234 (20130101) C12N 2760/18271 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6854 (20130101) G01N 33/56983 (20130101) |
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| US 09533040 | Skalka et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Institute for Cancer Research (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Institute for Cancer Research (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anna Marie Skalka (Princeton, New Jersey); Mark Andrake (Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania); Ravi Shankar Bojja (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods to inhibit the formation of retrovirus integrase reaching dimers, to dissociate retrovirus integrase reaching dimers, and to stabilize retrovirus integrase reaching dimers in a conformation in which retrovirus DNA-to host cell DNA integration activity of the integrase is inhibited are provided. Methods for treating a retrovirus infection, which target retrovirus integrase reaching dimer formation and/or stability are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, June 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/923494 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/3955 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 16/1054 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/22 (20130101) C12N 2740/11022 (20130101) C12N 2740/16211 (20130101) C12N 2740/16222 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/18 (20130101) C12Q 1/34 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2333/161 (20130101) G01N 2333/922 (20130101) |
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| US 09533057 | Chackerian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bryce Chackerian (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David S. Peabody (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryce 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 human papillomavirus (HPV) infections and related disorders, including cervical cancer and persistent infections associated with HPV. 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 HPV L2 and protect against HPV challenge in vivo. VLPs, VLP-containing compositions, and therapeutic methods of the invention induce an immunogenic response against HPV infection, confer immunity against HPV infection, protect against HPV infection, and reduce the likelihood of infection by HPV infection. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/577484 |
| 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 47/48776 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/5258 (20130101) A61K 2039/55566 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2710/20034 (20130101) C12N 2795/18123 (20130101) |
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| US 09533114 | Kayyali et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hani Kayyali (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Daniel Bishop (Tallmadge, Ohio); Brian M Kolkowski (Leroy, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cleveland Medical Devices Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hani Kayyali (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Daniel Bishop (Tallmadge, Ohio); Brian M Kolkowski (Leroy, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to an integrated sleep diagnosis and treatment device, and more particularly to an integrated apnea diagnosis and treatment device. The present invention additionally relates to methods of sleep diagnosis and treatment. The sleep disorder treatment system of the present invention can use a diagnosis device to perform various forms of analysis to determine or diagnose a subject's sleeping disorder or symptoms of a subject's sleep disorder, and using this analysis or diagnosis can with or in some embodiments without human intervention treat the subject either physically or chemically to improve the sleeping disorder or the symptoms of the sleeping disorder. The diagnostic part of the system can use many different types of sensors and methods for diagnosing the severity of the symptoms of or the sleep disorder itself. The treatment part of the system can use a device to physically or chemically treat the subject's symptoms or sleep disorder itself. |
| FILED | Monday, August 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/975792 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0022 (20130101) A61B 5/0205 (20130101) A61B 5/681 (20130101) A61B 5/1135 (20130101) A61B 5/02416 (20130101) A61B 5/4818 (20130101) A61B 5/4836 (20130101) A61B 5/14551 (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 16/06 (20130101) A61M 16/12 (20130101) A61M 16/0051 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61M 16/0057 (20130101) A61M 16/0875 (20130101) |
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| US 09533167 | Zurovcik |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Danielle R. Zurovcik (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Danielle R. Zurovcik (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for manipulating devices, such as a medical implant arranged within a subject, is provided. For non-invasive manipulation of a medical implant, a subject having a non-ferromagnetic medical implant arranged therein is arranged within a system having a static magnetic field and a plurality of adjustable magnetic fields. The non-ferromagnetic medical implant includes at least one cavity and at least one ferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic material arranged within the at least one cavity. The plurality of adjustable magnetic fields of the system are controlled to induce forces on the at least one ferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic material arranged within the at least one cavity to thereby apply the induced forces to the non-ferromagnetic medical implant to effectuate a non-invasive, in vivo manipulation of the non-ferromagnetic medical implant. Other implementations include the manipulation devices such as robotic medical systems, using magnetic fields to drive the robotic medical system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/979528 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/055 (20130101) A61B 10/0233 (20130101) A61B 34/70 (20160201) A61B 2017/00243 (20130101) A61B 2017/3407 (20130101) A61B 2034/732 (20160201) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 2/004 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09533305 | Esfandyarpour et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | GenapSys, Inc. (Redwood City, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GENAPSYS, INC. (Redwood City, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hesaam Esfandyarpour (Redwood City, California); Mark Oldham (Emerald Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method comprises magnetically holding a bead carrying biological material (e.g., nucleic acid, which may be in the form of DNA fragments or amplified DNA) in a specific location of a substrate, and applying an electric field local to the bead to isolate the biological material or products or byproducts of reactions of the biological material. For example, the bead is isolated from other beads having associated biological material. The electric field in various embodiments concentrates reagents for an amplification or sequencing reaction, and/or concentrates and isolates detectable reaction by-products. For example, by isolating nucleic acids around individual beads, the electric field can allow for clonal amplification, as an alternative to emulsion PCR. In other embodiments, the electric field isolates a nanosensor proximate to the bead, to facilitate detection of at least one of local pH change, local conductivity change, local charge concentration change and local heat. The beads may be trapped in the form of an array of localized magnetic field regions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 25, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/835070 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502761 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 7/52 (20130101) B01L 2200/0668 (20130101) B01L 2300/089 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2400/043 (20130101) B01L 2400/0415 (20130101) B01L 2400/0418 (20130101) B01L 2400/0421 (20130101) B01L 2400/0427 (20130101) B01L 2400/0655 (20130101) Magnetic or Electrostatic Separation of Solid Materials From Solid Materials or Fluids; Separation by High-voltage Electric Fields B03C 1/288 (20130101) B03C 5/005 (20130101) B03C 5/026 (20130101) B03C 2201/26 (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 1/6848 (20130101) C12Q 1/6848 (20130101) C12Q 1/6853 (20130101) C12Q 1/6853 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 1/6874 (20130101) C12Q 1/6874 (20130101) C12Q 2523/307 (20130101) C12Q 2523/307 (20130101) C12Q 2523/307 (20130101) C12Q 2563/116 (20130101) C12Q 2563/116 (20130101) C12Q 2563/143 (20130101) C12Q 2563/143 (20130101) C12Q 2565/543 (20130101) C12Q 2565/543 (20130101) Combinatorial Chemistry; Libraries, e.g Chemical Libraries C40B 60/10 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/40 (20130101) G01N 27/4145 (20130101) G01N 27/4146 (20130101) G01N 2001/4038 (20130101) |
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| US 09533879 | Cao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Han Cao (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Michael D. Austin (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Parikshit A. Deshpande (Princeton, New Jersey); Mark Kunkel (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Alexey Y. Sharonov (Hamden, Connecticut); Michael Kochersperger (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BioNano Genomics, Inc. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Han Cao (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Michael D. Austin (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Parikshit A. Deshpande (Princeton, New Jersey); Mark Kunkel (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Alexey Y. Sharonov (Hamden, Connecticut); Michael Kochersperger (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are integrated analysis devices having features of macroscale and nanoscale dimensions, and devices that have reduced background signals and that reduce quenching of fluorophores disposed within the devices. Related methods of manufacturing these devices and of using these devices are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, June 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/996410 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 2200/10 (20130101) B01L 2200/0663 (20130101) B01L 2200/0689 (20130101) B01L 2300/168 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0851 (20130101) B01L 2300/0858 (20130101) B01L 2300/0864 (20130101) B01L 2300/0887 (20130101) B01L 2400/043 (20130101) B01L 2400/086 (20130101) B01L 2400/0415 (20130101) B01L 2400/0442 (20130101) B01L 2400/0487 (20130101) Microstructural Devices or Systems, e.g Micromechanical Devices B81B 2201/058 (20130101) Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00119 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B81C 2201/019 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2021/0346 (20130101) G01N 2021/6439 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/4981 (20150115) |
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| US 09533947 | Silverman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard B. Silverman (Winnetka, Illinois); Hua Wang (Evanston, Illinois); Mohammad Khanfar (Evanston, Illinois); Aleksey G. Kazantsev (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Benzamide compounds and derivatives thereof, as can be used for selective inhibition of the SIRT2 enzyme and/or therapeutic use in the treatment of Huntington's disease. |
| FILED | Friday, May 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/292087 |
| ART UNIT | 1613 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | General Methods of Organic Chemistry; Apparatus Therefor C07B 2200/07 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 235/60 (20130101) C07C 255/60 (20130101) C07C 257/18 (20130101) C07C 311/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 311/21 (20130101) C07C 311/29 (20130101) C07C 311/46 (20130101) C07C 311/47 (20130101) C07C 317/22 (20130101) C07C 317/34 (20130101) C07C 317/40 (20130101) C07C 317/44 (20130101) C07C 317/48 (20130101) C07C 323/20 (20130101) C07C 323/42 (20130101) C07C 323/49 (20130101) C07C 323/62 (20130101) C07C 2101/02 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/16 (20130101) C07D 213/75 (20130101) C07D 213/76 (20130101) C07D 213/80 (20130101) C07D 213/81 (20130101) C07D 213/82 (20130101) C07D 213/85 (20130101) C07D 217/04 (20130101) C07D 223/04 (20130101) C07D 237/20 (20130101) C07D 239/42 (20130101) C07D 261/14 (20130101) C07D 271/113 (20130101) C07D 277/46 (20130101) C07D 295/26 (20130101) C07D 305/06 (20130101) C07D 311/16 (20130101) C07D 403/12 (20130101) C07D 413/12 (20130101) C07D 417/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09533957 | Devaraj 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) | Neal K. Devaraj (San Diego, California); Jun Yang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein, inter alia, are compositions and methods of synthesis and detection of tetrazines, e.g., a tetrazine of formula and diazonorcaradienes. |
| FILED | Monday, October 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/507509 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 237/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 257/08 (20130101) C07D 403/14 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/022 (20130101) Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 13/08 (20130101) C07H 21/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09533969 | Turchi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corp. (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J. Turchi (Indianapolis, Indiana); Sarah Shuck (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Targeting uncontrolled cell proliferation and resistance to DNA damaging chemotherapeutics with at least one reagent has significant potential in cancer treatment. Replication Protein A, the eukaryotic single-strand (ss) DNA binding protein, is essential for genomic maintenance and stability via roles in both DNA replication and repair. Reported herein are small molecules that inhibits the in vitro, in vivo, and cellular ssDNA binding activity of RPA, thereby disrupting the eukaryotic cell cycle, inducing cytotoxicity and increasing the efficacy of chemotherapeutic agents damage DNA, and/or disrupt its replication and/or function. These results provide new insights into the mechanism of RPA-ssDNA interactions in chromosome maintenance and stability. This represents a molecularly targeted eukaryotic DNA binding inhibitor and demonstrates the utility of targeting a protein-DNA interaction as a means of studying the cell cycle and providing a therapeutic strategy for cancer treatment. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/470585 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/415 (20130101) A61K 31/415 (20130101) A61K 31/4709 (20130101) A61K 31/4709 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) A61K 33/24 (20130101) A61K 33/24 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 401/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09533973 | Zhou 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) | Jia Zhou (League City, Texas); Chunyong Ding (Galveston, Texas); Kathryn A. Cunningham (Galveston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure is directed to compounds identified as allosteric modulators of 5-HT 2CR, as well as pharmaceutical compositions and methods using the same. Certain embodiments also include methods of identifying and methods of synthesizing the compounds. Optimization and development of allosteric 5-HT 2CR modulators that bind sites other than the primary ligand binding site generate novel, highly selective, and potent ligands of 5-HT2CR. Such molecules can be used as small molecule probes for the nervous system and as effective therapeutics for a variety of diseases. |
| FILED | Friday, December 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/363141 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 211/32 (20130101) C07D 211/34 (20130101) C07D 211/60 (20130101) C07D 223/16 (20130101) C07D 241/04 (20130101) C07D 309/10 (20130101) C07D 405/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 15/14 (20130101) C07H 15/16 (20130101) |
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| US 09533982 | Conn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | P. Jeffrey Conn (Nashville, Tennessee); Craig W. Lindsley (Brentwood, California); Kyle A. Emmitte (Spring Hill, Tennessee); Andrew S. Felts (Brentwood, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are negative allosteric modulators of the metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 5 (mGluR5); synthetic methods for making the compounds; pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds; and methods of treating neurological and psychiatric disorders associated with glutamate dysfunction using the compounds and compositions. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention. |
| FILED | Friday, March 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/664792 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/506 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 401/14 (20130101) C07D 403/14 (20130101) C07D 417/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09533990 | Xu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | DREXEL UNIVERSITY (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); BARUCH S. BLUMBERG INSTITUTE (Doylestown, Pennsylvania); ENANTIGEN THERAPEUTICS, INC. (Doylestown, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Baruch S. Blumberg Institute (Doylestown, Pennsylvania); Arbutus Biopharma, Inc. (Doylestown, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaodong Xu (Doylestown, Pennsylvania); Andrea Cuconati (Oreland, Pennsylvania); Timothy M. Block (Doylestown, Pennsylvania); Tong Xiao (Edison, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Pharmaceutical compositions of the invention comprise triazolopyrimidines useful for the treatment of hepatitis virus in a patient. |
| FILED | Friday, November 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/549777 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 487/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09534007 | Boss et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The United States of America as represented by The Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California); THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA as represented by THE SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerry Boss (La Jolla, California); Adriano Chan (La Jolla, California); Matthew Brenner (Irvine, California); Sari Brenner-Mahon (Irvine, California); Vikhyat S. Bebarta (San Antonio, Texas); Jingjing Jiang (La Jolla, California); Karen Christman (La Jolla, California); Jean Wang Wassenaar (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition and method for treating excess cyanide and hydrogen sulfide comprising administering a cobinamide. Further a method for determining extent of binding by an agent to an extracellular matrix. |
| FILED | Monday, December 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/654438 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 15/065 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/52 (20130101) |
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| US 09534008 | Choe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrea Choe (Los Angeles, California); Paul W. Sternberg (Pasadena, California); Frank C. Schroeder (Ithaca, New York); Stephan H. Von Reuss (Jena, Germany); Fatma Kaplan (Gainesville, Florida); Peter A. Teal (Gainesville, Florida); Hans Alborn (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (Ithaca, New York); The United States of America, As Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrea Choe (Los Angeles, California); Paul W. Sternberg (Pasadena, California); Frank C. Schroeder (Ithaca, New York); Stephan H. Von Reuss (Jena, Germany); Fatma Kaplan (Gainesville, Florida); Peter A. Teal (Gainesville, Florida); Hans Alborn (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of modifying nematode behavior using certain isolated modulator compounds. Also disclosed are methods of promoting or inhibiting reproduction in a nematode population, methods of promoting or inhibiting nematode aggregation at a first location, and methods of treating or preventing parasite infection of a plant. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/237786 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Organic 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 37/36 (20130101) A01N 43/16 (20130101) A01N 43/38 (20130101) A01N 63/02 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/454 (20130101) A61K 31/7028 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 309/10 (20130101) Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 15/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07H 15/08 (20130101) C07H 15/10 (20130101) C07H 15/18 (20130101) C07H 15/26 (20130101) |
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| US 09534021 | Earnhart et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher G. Earnhart (Williamsburg, Virginia); Richard T. Marconi (Richmond, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher G. Earnhart (Williamsburg, Virginia); Richard T. Marconi (Richmond, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Antigenic polypeptides comprising linear immunodominant epitopes of Borrelia outer surface protein A (OspA) or Borrelia outer surface protein C (OspC) are useful as vaccines against Lyme disease, and as diagnostics for detecting Borrelia infections. The OspA and OspC antigenic polypeptides typically comprise a plurality of peptides representing epitope containing regions from multiple distinct phyletic groups. The antigenic polypeptides may also include epitopes from both Borrelia OspA and Borrelia OspC. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/243476 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0225 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/1207 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56911 (20130101) G01N 2333/20 (20130101) G01N 2469/20 (20130101) |
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| US 09534024 | Gundlach et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington); The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UAB RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Birmingham, Alabama); UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jens H. Gundlach (Seattle, Washington); Michael Niederweis (Homewood, Alabama); Thomas Z. Butler (Seattle, Washington); Mikhail Pavlenok (Birmingham, Alabama); Mark A. Troll (Seattle, Washington); Suja Sukumaran (Dublin, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are Mycobacterium smegmatis porin nanopores, systems that comprise these nanopores, and methods of using and making these nanopores. Such nanopores may be wild-type MspA porins, mutant MspA porins, wild-type MspA paralog porins, wild-type MspA homolog porins, mutant MspA paralog porins, mutant MspA homolog porins, or single-chain Msp porins. Also provided are bacterial strains capable of inducible Msp porin expression. |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/216349 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/04 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/35 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 13/00 (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 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 2523/31 (20130101) C12Q 2565/631 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/44704 (20130101) G01N 33/6872 (20130101) G01N 33/48721 (20130101) |
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| US 09534027 | Barasch 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) | Jonathan Barasch (New York, New York); Andong Qiu (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect the present invention is directed to mutant Neutrophil Gelatinase Associated Lipocalin (NGAL) proteins that have the ability to bind to siderophores, such as enterochelin, and to chelate and transport iron, and that are excreted in the urine. Such NGAL mutants, and complexes thereof with siderophores, can be used to clear excess iron from the body, for example in the treatment of iron overload. The NGAL mutants of the invention also have antibacterial activity and can be used in the treatment of bacterial infections, such as those of the urinary tract. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/684060 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09534033 | Morrison 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) | Sherie L. Morrison (Los Angeles, California); Tzu-Hsuan Huang (Newton, Massachusetts); Caiyun Xuan (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel chimeric moieties that show significant efficacy against cancers are provided. In certain embodiments the chimeric moieties comprise a targeting moiety attached to an interferon. In certain embodiments, the chimeric moieties comprise fusion proteins where an antibody that specifically binds to a cancer marker is fused to interferon alpha (IFN-α) or interferon beta (IFN-β). |
| FILED | Friday, August 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/015838 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/212 (20130101) A61K 38/215 (20130101) A61K 47/48423 (20130101) A61K 47/48569 (20130101) A61K 47/48584 (20130101) A61K 47/48661 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/56 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/555 (20130101) C07K 14/565 (20130101) C07K 16/32 (20130101) C07K 16/2863 (20130101) C07K 16/2887 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101) C07K 2319/33 (20130101) |
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| US 09534041 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhaochun Chen (North Potomac, Maryland); Robert H. Purcell (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Lisbeth Kim Green (Olney, Maryland); Stanislav Sosnovtsev (North Potomac, Maryland); Karin Bok (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Monoclonal neutralizing antibodies are disclosed that specifically bind to a Norovirus. In some embodiments, the Norovirus is a genogroup II Norovirus or a Genogroup II Norovirus. In some embodiments, the Norovirus is Norwalk virus. In some embodiments, the monoclonal antibodies specifically bind VP1. Also disclosed are compositions including the disclosed antibodies, nucleic acids encoding these antibodies, expression vectors including the nucleic acids, and isolated host cells that express the nucleic acids. The antibodies and compositions disclosed herein can be used for detecting the presence of a Norovirus in a biological sample, or detecting a Norovirus infection. In addition, the neutralization ability of the disclosed antibodies makes them ideal for treating a subject with a Norovirus infection. Thus, disclosed are methods of treating and/or preventing these infections. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/767274 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/42 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/21 (20130101) C07K 2317/24 (20130101) C07K 2317/33 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) C07K 2317/55 (20130101) C07K 2317/56 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) C07K 2317/565 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56983 (20130101) G01N 2333/08 (20130101) G01N 2469/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09534050 | Borghaei et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Institute for Cancer Research (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Institute for Cancer Research (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hossein Borghaei (King of Prussia, Pennsylvania); Louis M. Weiner (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | Antibodies that specifically bind to an epitope on the extracellular domain of TEM7R are provided. Nucleic acids encoding such antibodies and cells capable of expressing such antibodies are also provided. The antibodies may be used in methods for treating tumors and for inhibiting angiogenesis in tumors. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/514493 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/48561 (20130101) A61K 51/1027 (20130101) A61K 51/1063 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/3046 (20130101) C07K 2317/33 (20130101) C07K 2317/73 (20130101) C07K 2317/77 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101) |
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| US 09534057 | Grewal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ImmunGene Inc. (Camarillo, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | IMMUNGENE INC (Camarillo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Iqbal Grewal (Chalfont, Pennsylvania); Sanjay Khare (Palo Alto, California); Michael Gresser (Ojai, California); Rashid Syed (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The field of the present invention relates to genetically engineered fusion molecules, methods of making said fusion molecules, and uses thereof in anti-tumor immunotherapies. More specifically, the present invention relates to fusion molecule constructs wherein a tumor associated antigen (TAA) antibody (Ab) serves as a targeting moiety to selectively deliver a cytokine to a tumor cell for purposes of killing or inhibiting the growth or proliferation of said tumor cell. In various embodiments, the engineered fusion molecules comprise a TAA Ab fused to an interferon-alpha (IFN-α) mutant molecule. The engineered Ab-IFN-α mutant fusion molecules of the present invention demonstrate improved therapeutic index and preserved or increased efficacy as compared to Ab-wildtype IFN-α fusion molecules, and/or demonstrate improved PK properties as compared to Ab-wildtype IFN-α fusion molecules. |
| FILED | Monday, February 02, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/611945 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/212 (20130101) A61K 39/39558 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/56 (20130101) C07K 16/18 (20130101) C07K 16/30 (20130101) C07K 16/32 (20130101) C07K 16/2803 (20130101) C07K 16/2827 (20130101) C07K 16/2851 (20130101) C07K 16/2887 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/2896 (20130101) C07K 2317/73 (20130101) C07K 2317/90 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/33 (20130101) |
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| US 09534059 | 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) | Xi He (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Xinjun Zhang (Brookline, Massachusetts); Bryan MacDonald (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Modulators of Wnt activity, e.g., Wnt inhibitors, that act on TIKI proteins and inhibit TIKI-mediated cleavage of Wnt proteins, as well as methods of identifying such modulators and methods of use thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, April 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/391971 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 39/3955 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/76 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/6489 (20130101) C12N 15/1137 (20130101) C12N 2310/11 (20130101) C12N 2310/3233 (20130101) |
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| US 09534204 | Anversa et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Piero Anversa (Boston, Massachusetts); Annarosa Leri (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | AAL Scientifics, Inc. (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Piero Anversa (Boston, Massachusetts); Annarosa Leri (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention relate to human stem cells and their therapeutic use in the treatment and/or prevention of lung diseases. Provided herein are compositions comprising c-kit positive human lung stem cells and methods of preparing and using c-kit positive human lung stem cells for the treatment and/or prevention of lung diseases. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/877381 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/42 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0689 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09534221 | Gelfand et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | National Jewish Health (Denver, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Jewish Health (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erwin W. Gelfand (Cherry Hills Village, Colorado); Meiqin Wang (Glendale, Colorado); Yi Jia (Centennial, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and compositions for treating and/or preventing allergic diseases or conditions by inhibiting one or more components of the steroidogenic pathway. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/160747 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/58 (20130101) A61K 31/444 (20130101) A61K 31/451 (20130101) A61K 31/7105 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1137 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/14 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 114/15006 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 514/826 (20130101) |
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| US 09534222 | Ambati et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Balamurali K. Ambati (Sandy, Utah); Hironori Uehara (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Balamurali K. Ambati (Sandy, Utah); Hironori Uehara (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Various methods and compositions relating to vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 (VEGFR2) are provided. In one aspect, a method of increasing expression of the soluble form of VEGFR2 (sVEGFR2) in a subject can include binding an antisense morphoiino to an exon13-intron13 splicing site of VEGFR2 mRNA such that the VEGFR2 niRNA is spliced into a sVEGFR2 isoform. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/358572 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 15/1138 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/11 (20130101) C12N 2310/3233 (20130101) C12N 2320/33 (20130101) |
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| US 09534241 | Smolke 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 (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christina D. Smolke (Menlo Park, California); Catherine Thodey (Sunnyvale, California); Isis Trenchard (Redwood City, California); Stephanie Galanie (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Aspects of the invention include host cells that are engineered to produce benzylisoquinoline alkaloids (BIAs). The host cells include heterologous coding sequences for a variety of enzymes involved in synthetic pathways from starting compounds to BIAs of the host cell. Also provided are methods of producing the BIAs of interest by culturing the host cells under culture conditions that promote expression of enzymes encoded by the heterologous coding sequences of the host cells. Aspects of the invention further include compositions, e.g., host cells, starting compounds and kits, etc., that find use in methods of the invention. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/211611 |
| 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 9/1007 (20130101) C12N 15/52 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 17/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 17/182 (20130101) |
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| US 09534248 | Gambhir et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Sanjiv S. Gambhir (Portola Valley, California); John A. Ronald (Pacifica, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure encompasses embodiments of nucleic acid minicircle vectors most advantageous for the detection of tumor cells. In particular, the minicircles of the disclosure incorporate a tumor-specific promoter operably linked to a nucleotide sequence desired to be selectively expressed in a tumor cell or a tissue comprising a population of tumor cells. In embodiments of the disclosure, the minicircle vectors comprise a tumor-specific promoter operably linked to a nucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide useful as a reporter. Accordingly, when expressed by a recipient tumor cell, the reporter may be detectable, thereby providing information such as a visual image of the tumor cell and/or its location in a tissue of the subject human or non-human animal. Tumor-specific minicircle vectors driving the expression of either secreted embryonic alkaline phosphatase or firefly luciferase and their utility validated for detecting tumors after systemic administration using blood- and/or imaging-based assays are disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 09, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/480861 |
| 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 | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 48/00 (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 1/66 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2800/7028 (20130101) |
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| US 09534256 | Xu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jianfeng Xu (Clemmons, North Carolina); William B. Isaacs (Glyndon, Maryland); Henrik Grönberg (Stockholm, Sweden) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jianfeng Xu (Clemmons, North Carolina); William B. Isaacs (Glyndon, Maryland); Henrik Grönberg (Stockholm, Sweden) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of identifying a subject as having an increased risk of having or developing aggressive prostate cancer, comprising detecting in the subject the presence of various polymorphisms associated with an increased risk of having or developing aggressive prostate cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, January 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/344907 |
| 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 2600/156 (20130101) |
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| US 09534259 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi Zhang (Newton, Massachusetts); Qin Feng (Bellaire, Texas); Yuki Okada (Tokyo, Japan); Guoliang Xu (Shanghai, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides polypeptides with histone H3 lysine 79 methyltransferase activity as well as nucleic acids encoding the same. Also provided are methods of using the polypeptides and nucleic acids of the invention in screening assays to identify compounds of interest. Further provided are diagnostic methods for leukemia and prognostic methods to predict the course of the disease in a subject. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/525783 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 21/04 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/1007 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/118 (20130101) C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) C12Q 2600/154 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/53 (20130101) G01N 33/6893 (20130101) G01N 2440/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09534958 | Lhamon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael E. Lhamon (Lexington, Kentucky); Anuj Agarwal (Lexington, Kentucky) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Michael E. Lhamon (Lexington, Kentucky); Anuj Agarwal (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | Detecting infrared radiation from a rodent in a cage using an infrared sensor array with a field of view that corresponds to a moving area of the rodent to determine position, velocity, head position, etc. and determining a behavior of the rodent based on the detected infrared radiation. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 01, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/872596 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 29/005 (20130101) Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 5/10 (20130101) G01J 5/0025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring Linear or Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, or Shock; Indicating Presence, Absence, or Direction, of Movement G01P 3/68 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/33 (20130101) |
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| US 09535005 | Page et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ciencia, Inc. (East Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ciencia, Inc. (East Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Page (Storrs, Connecticut); George N. Gibson (Storrs, Connecticut); Ernest F. Guignon (Canton, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An instrument for measuring and analyzing surface plasmon resonance (SPR) and/or surface plasmon coupled emission on an electro-optic grating-coupled sensor surface is described herein. The sensor chip achieves SPR through a grating-coupled approach, with variations in the local dielectric constant at regions of interest (ROI) at the sensor surface detected as a function of the intensity of light reflecting from these ROI. Unlike other grating-based approaches, the metal surface is sufficiently thin that resonant conditions are sensitive to dielectric constant changes both above and below the metal surface (like the Kretschmann configuration). Dielectric constant shifts that occur as mass accumulates on the surface can be returned to reference intensities by applying voltage across the underlying electro-optic polymer. Approaches to the development of the sensor surfaces are described, as are software and hardware features facilitating sample handling, data gathering, and data analysis by this solid-state approach. |
| FILED | Friday, July 01, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/200217 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/553 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/195 (20130101) |
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| US 09535058 | Jaron et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dov Jaron (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Kenneth A. Barbee (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Allison M. Andrews (King of Prussia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dov Jaron (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Kenneth A. Barbee (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Allison M. Andrews (King of Prussia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A flow chamber and method for detecting the presence of one more cell produced analytes under flow conditions. The flow chamber includes two compartments separated by a permeable membrane on which a plurality of cells may be positioned. The permeable membrane shields one or more analyte sensors positioned one compartment from the convective transport forces of a fluid flow within the other compartment to allow reliable and accurate detection of cell-produced analytes and determination of the concentration of cell-produced analytes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/446686 |
| ART UNIT | 1799 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 25/02 (20130101) C12M 35/04 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5091 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/5302 (20130101) |
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| US 09535068 | McDevitt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John T. McDevitt (Houston, Texas); Nicolaos Christodoulides (Houston, Texas); Pierre N. Floriano (Missouri City, Texas); Martin Thornhill (Sheffield, United Kingdom); Spencer Redding (San Antonio, Texas); Nadarajah Vigneswaran (Houston, Texas); Craig Murdoch (Sheffield, United Kingdom); Paul Speight (Sheffield, United Kingdom) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. McDevitt (Houston, Texas); Nicolaos Christodoulides (Houston, Texas); Pierre N. Floriano (Missouri City, Texas); Martin Thornhill (Sheffield, United Kingdom); Spencer Redding (San Antonio, Texas); Nadarajah Vigneswaran (Houston, Texas); Craig Murdoch (Sheffield, United Kingdom); Paul Speight (Sheffield, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A point of care diagnostic test, device and disposables for determining a patient risk for oral cancer in the same visit that a sample is collected. |
| FILED | Friday, November 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/884702 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57407 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/47 (20130101) G01N 2333/71 (20130101) G01N 2333/4703 (20130101) G01N 2333/70596 (20130101) |
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| US 09535070 | Saul 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 (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) | Justin Saul (Mesa, Arizona); Ji Qiu (Chandler, Arizona); Joshua LaBaer (Chandler, Arizona); Mitch Magee (Chandler, Arizona); John Chaput (Phoenix, Arizona); Sujay Sau (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and related microfluidic chip and kit for high throughput detection of proteins of interest contained in a sample is disclosed. The method comprises of specifically labeling fusion proteins in a complex sample with fusion tag specific fluorophores that specifically bind the fusion tags coupled to the proteins of interest, and subjecting the sample to automated capillary electrophoresis, wherein the presence of the proteins of interest in the sample is detected by fluorescence signals associated with the fusion tag specific fluorophores. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/073332 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/582 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09535148 | Zhang 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) | Tao Zhang (Stanford, California); Joseph Y. Cheng (Stanford, California); John M. Pauly (Stanford, California); Michael Lustig (Berkeley, California); Shreyas S. Vasanawala (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of providing dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of an object in an MRI system is provided. A magnetic resonance excitation from the MRI system is applied to the object. A magnetic resonance signal is read out through k-space for a plurality of regions with two or three spatial dimensions and a temporal dimension, wherein the read out is pseudo-randomly undersampled in the spatial frequency dimensions and the temporal dimension providing k-space data that is pseudo-randomly undersampled in the spatial frequency dimensions and the temporal dimension. The readout data is used to create a sequential series of spatial frequency data sets by generating interpolated data in the spatial frequency dimensions and the temporal dimension. The sequential series of spatial frequency data sets is used to create temporally resolved spatial images. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/961711 |
| ART UNIT | 2852 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/5611 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 33/56308 (20130101) |
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| US 09538056 | Adelson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward H. Adelson (Winchester, Massachusetts); Micah K. Johnson (West Roxbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure provides systems, devices, and methods for capturing and measuring surface topography. This disclosure provides a high resolution retrographic sensor comprising a volume of elastomer and a thin, opaque reflective membrane. The reflective membrane is arranged to conform to a specimen that contacts it. The disclosure provides a high resolution visualization system comprising the retrographic sensor and an illumination source. Also provided are high resolution measurement systems comprising the retrographic sensor, an illumination source, an imaging device, and a processing component. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 02, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/677394 |
| ART UNIT | 2422 — Cable and Television |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0077 (20130101) A61B 5/441 (20130101) A61B 5/1172 (20130101) Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 11/30 (20130101) G01B 11/303 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/0304 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/2256 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09538297 | Hazrati et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas); Demetria Loizou (Plano, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oldooz Hazrati (Dallas, Texas); Philipos C. Loizou (Plano, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to a single channel mask estimation method capable of improving reverberant speech identification for CI users. The method is based on the energy of the reverberant signal and the residual signal computed from linear prediction (LP) analysis. The mask is estimated by comparing the energy ratio of the two signals at different frequency bins with an adaptive threshold. As the threshold is updated for each frame of speech based on the energy ratios of the reverberant and LP residual signals computed from previous frames, it is amenable for real-time implementation. It can thus be used as a specialized (for reverberant environments) sound coding strategy used for cochlear implant applications. |
| FILED | Friday, November 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/536344 |
| ART UNIT | 2654 — Audio Signals |
| CURRENT CPC | Speech Analysis or Synthesis; Speech Recognition; Speech or Voice Processing; Speech or Audio Coding or Decoding G10L 2021/02082 (20130101) Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups or Like Acoustic Electromechanical Transducers; Deaf-aid Sets; Public Address Systems H04R 25/453 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09533334 | Mariella, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond P. Mariella, Jr. (Danville, California); Yves M. Dardenne (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus, systems, and methods for nuclear radiation cleanup and uranium prospecting include the steps of identifying an area; collecting samples; sample preparation; identification, assay, and analysis; and relating the samples to the area. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 16, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/970986 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Cleaning in General; Prevention of Fouling in General B08B 7/0042 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B08B 15/02 (20130101) Soldering or Unsoldering; Welding; Cladding or Plating by Soldering or Welding; Cutting by Applying Heat Locally, e.g Flame Cutting; Working by Laser Beam B23K 26/36 (20130101) B23K 26/0884 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/04 (20130101) G01N 2001/021 (20130101) G01N 2001/028 (20130101) Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 7/00 (20130101) G01T 7/02 (20130101) Geophysics; Gravitational Measurements; Detecting Masses or Objects; Tags G01V 5/02 (20130101) G01V 5/0091 (20130101) Protection Against X-radiation, Gamma Radiation, Corpuscular Radiation or Particle Bombardment; Treating Radioactively Contaminated Material; Decontamination Arrangements Therefor G21F 9/005 (20130101) |
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| US 09533352 | Singh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dileep Singh (Naperville, Illinois); Yusuf Yusufoglu (Gebze, Turkey); Elena Timofeeva (Chicago, Illinois); Jules L. Routbort (Willowbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for preparing intermetallic nanoparticles of two or more metals is provided. In particular, the process includes the steps: a) dispersing nanoparticles of a first metal in a solvent to prepare a first metal solution, b) forming a reaction mixture with the first metal solution and a reducing agent, c) heating the reaction mixture to a reaction temperature; and d) adding a second metal solution containing a salt of a second metal to the reaction mixture. During this process, intermetallic nanoparticles, which contain a compound with the first and second metals are formed. The intermetallic nanoparticles with uniform size and a narrow size distribution is also provided. An electrochemical device such as a battery with the intermetallic nanoparticles is also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 03, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/931478 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 1/0018 (20130101) B22F 1/0044 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B22F 9/16 (20130101) B22F 9/24 (20130101) B22F 2009/165 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 5/10 (20130101) Alloys C22C 1/0491 (20130101) C22C 9/02 (20130101) C22C 13/00 (20130101) Details of Heat-exchange and Heat-transfer Apparatus, of General Application F28F 23/00 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/38 (20130101) H01M 4/387 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/12 (20150115) Y10T 428/12014 (20150115) |
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| US 09533533 | Benedict et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company (Akron, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company (Akron, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Leon Benedict (Tallmadge, Ohio); Thulasiram Gobinath (Hudson, Ohio); Cheng-Hsiung Lin (Hudson, Ohio); Robin Lamgaday (Wadsworth, Ohio); Robert Allen Losey (Kent, Ohio); Jean-Claude Patrice Philippe Griffoin (Mertzig, Luxembourg) |
| ABSTRACT | An air pumping tube and tire system and method of assembling is provided in which a tire groove is formed to extend into a flexing region of a tire sidewall and a complementary air pumping tube inserts into the tire groove. In the green, uncured air pumping tube condition, one or more check valves are assembled into the air pumping tube through access shafts and align with an internal air passageway of the air pumping tube. Plug components of the system enclose the check valves in the air pumping tube and the check valve-containing green air pumping tube is then cured. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/260590 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Vehicle Tyres Tyre Inflation; Tyre Changing or Repairing; Repairing, or Connecting Valves To, Inflatable Elastic Bodies in General; Devices or Arrangements Related to Tyres B60C 23/004 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B60C 23/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09533887 | Polsky et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronen Polsky (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Xiaoyin Xiao (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David Bruce Burckel (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David R. Wheeler (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Susan M. Brozik (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Thomas Edwin Beechem (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A patterned graphene or graphitic body is produced by providing a three-dimensionally patterned carbonaceous body; coating the body with a catalytic metal whereby is formed a coating having an inner surface proximal the body and an outer surface distal the body; and annealing the coated body under time and temperature conditions effective to form a graphene or graphitic layer on the outer surface of the catalytic metal coating. |
| FILED | Friday, March 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/790524 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C01B 31/0446 (20130101) |
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| US 09533921 | Narula et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC. (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chaitanya K. Narula (Knoxville, Tennessee); Brian H. Davison (Knoxville, Tennessee); Martin Keller (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for converting an alcohol to a hydrocarbon, the method comprising contacting said alcohol with a metal-loaded zeolite catalyst at a temperature of at least 100° C. and up to 550° C., wherein said alcohol can be produced by a fermentation process, said metal is a positively-charged metal ion, and said metal-loaded zeolite catalyst is catalytically active for converting said alcohol to said hydrocarbon. |
| FILED | Monday, June 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/293248 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 29/46 (20130101) B01J 29/48 (20130101) B01J 29/061 (20130101) B01J 29/68 (20130101) B01J 29/69 (20130101) B01J 29/072 (20130101) B01J 29/076 (20130101) B01J 29/143 (20130101) B01J 29/146 (20130101) B01J 29/163 (20130101) B01J 29/166 (20130101) B01J 29/7615 (20130101) B01J 29/7661 (20130101) B01J 29/7669 (20130101) B01J 29/7692 (20130101) B01J 29/7815 (20130101) B01J 29/7861 (20130101) B01J 29/7869 (20130101) B01J 29/7892 (20130101) B01J 35/04 (20130101) B01J 35/023 (20130101) B01J 37/0246 (20130101) B01J 2229/183 (20130101) B01J 2229/186 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 1/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 3/45 (20130101) C10G 3/49 (20130101) C10G 2300/1011 (20130101) C10G 2300/1014 (20130101) C10G 2300/4006 (20130101) C10G 2400/02 (20130101) C10G 2400/04 (20130101) C10G 2400/08 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/06 (20130101) C12P 7/08 (20130101) C12P 7/10 (20130101) C12P 7/16 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/10 (20130101) Y02E 50/16 (20130101) Y02E 50/17 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 30/20 (20151101) |
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| US 09534002 | Ramachandran et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Padi Veeraraghavan Ramachandran (West Lafayette, Indiana); Pravin D. Gagare (West Lafayette, Indiana); Hitesh Mistry (Mumbai, India); Bidyut Biswas (Delhi, India) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Padi Veeraraghavan Ramachandran (West Lafayette, Indiana); Pravin D. Gagare (West Lafayette, Indiana); Hitesh Mistry (Mumbai, India); Bidyut Biswas (Delhi, India) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for synthesizing ammonia borane includes (a) preparing a reaction mixture in one or more solvents, the reaction mixture containing sodium borohydride, at least one ammonium salt, and ammonia; and (b) incubating the reaction mixture at temperatures between about 0° C. to about room temperature in an ambient air environment under conditions sufficient to form ammonia borane. Methods for synthesizing ethylenediamine bisborane, and methods for dehydrogenation of ethylenediamine bisborane are also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/809316 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 35/14 (20130101) C01B 35/146 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/006 (20130101) C07F 5/022 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09534097 | Hibbs |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R. Hibbs (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition and method of forming a composition including a compound including a poly(phenylene) backbone represented by the following formula: wherein each of R1, R2 and R3 may be the same or different and is H or an unsubstituted or inertly-substituted aromatic moiety; wherein Ar1 is an unsubstituted or inertly-substituted aromatic moiety; wherein R4 is an alkylene, perfluoroalkyl, polyethylene glycol, or polypropylene glycol moiety; wherein each of R6, R7, R8, R9, R10 and R11 is H or a monovalent hydrocarbon group including two to 18 carbon atoms, with the proviso that each R6, R7, R8, R9, R10 and R11 cannot be H; and wherein each of Y6, Y7, Y8, Y9, Y10 and Y11 may be the same or different and is H or a functional group are disclosed. The composition can be used as anion-exchange membranes and as an electrode binder material in anion exchange membrane fuel cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 23, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/694875 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 61/02 (20130101) C08G 2261/19 (20130101) C08G 2261/46 (20130101) C08G 2261/143 (20130101) C08G 2261/312 (20130101) C08G 2261/516 (20130101) C08G 2261/598 (20130101) C08G 2261/3326 (20130101) C08G 2261/3424 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 5/2256 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08J 2365/02 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 65/00 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/8668 (20130101) H01M 8/1023 (20130101) H01M 2008/1095 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/521 (20130101) |
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| US 09534227 | Kutchan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Toni Kutchan (St. Louis, Missouri); Yasuhiro Higashi (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan); Xiaohong Feng (Ladue, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are enhanced high yield production systems for producing terpenes in plants via the expression of fusion proteins comprising various combinations of geranyl diphosphate synthase large and small subunits and limonene synthases. Also provided are engineered oilseed plants that accumulate monoterpene and sesquiterpene hydrocarbons in their seeds, as well as methods for producing such plants, providing a system for rapidly engineering oilseed crop production platforms for terpene-based biofuels. |
| FILED | Monday, May 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/893105 |
| ART UNIT | 1663 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | New Plants or Processes for Obtaining Them; Plant Reproduction by Tissue Culture Techniques A01H 5/10 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 11/02 (20130101) C07C 11/21 (20130101) C07C 13/20 (20130101) C07C 13/47 (20130101) C07C 15/02 (20130101) C07C 2101/16 (20130101) Peptides C07K 2319/08 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/88 (20130101) C12N 9/1085 (20130101) C12N 15/8243 (20130101) C12N 15/8257 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09534251 | Young et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lei Young (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Hamilton O. Smith (San Diego, California); Daniel Glenn Gibson (Crofton, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Synthetic Genomics, Inc. (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lei Young (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Hamilton O. Smith (San Diego, California); Daniel Glenn Gibson (Crofton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates, e.g., to in vitro method, using isolated protein reagents, for joining two double stranded (ds) DNA molecules of interest, wherein the distal region of the first DNA molecule and the proximal region of the second DNA molecule share a region of sequence identity, comprising contacting the two DNA molecules in a reaction mixture with (a) a non-processive 5′ exonuclease; (b) a single stranded DNA binding protein (SSB) which accelerates nucleic acid annealing; (c) a non strand-displacing DNA polymerase; and (d) a ligase, under conditions effective to join the two DNA molecules to form an intact double stranded DNA molecule, in which a single copy of the region of sequence identity is retained. The method allows the joining of a number of DNA fragments, in a predetermined order and orientation, without the use of restriction enzymes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/750571 |
| 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 | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/10 (20130101) C12N 15/64 (20130101) C12N 15/66 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/34 (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 1/62 (20130101) C12Q 1/6862 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2521/501 (20130101) C12Q 2522/101 (20130101) |
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| US 09534439 | Briese et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | GED INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS, INC. (Twinsburg, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GED Integrated Solutions, Inc. (Twinsburg, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William A. Briese (Hinckley, Ohio); John Grismer (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio); Timothy B. McGlinchy (Twinsburg, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An insulating glass unit (IGU) assembly line apparatus capable of interleaving double and triple pane IGUs in accordance with an IGU production schedule. Visual indicators or prompts instruct operators at the assembly line in configuring a sequence of IGUs. Triple pane IGUs are assembled with minimal contamination of a center glass lite. A non-contact Bernoulli pad is used to lift a glass lite off from a horizontal or vertical support that conveys it from a glass washer to an assembly station. Each of multiple pads has a capacity to lift approximately seven to ten pounds. Use of multiple pads per glass sheet or lite allows lites having dimensions up to 70 by 100 inches (assuming glass thickness of one quarter inch) to be assembled. |
| FILED | Friday, July 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/334895 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal-working Not Otherwise Provided For; Combined Operations; Universal Machine Tools B23P 19/00 (20130101) Fixed or Movable Closures for Openings in Buildings, Vehicles, Fences or Like Enclosures in General, e.g Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates E06B 3/673 (20130101) E06B 3/67326 (20130101) E06B 3/67365 (20130101) E06B 3/67369 (20130101) Original (OR) Class E06B 3/67382 (20130101) E06B 2003/66395 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/53 (20150115) Y10T 29/534 (20150115) Y10T 29/49826 (20150115) Y10T 29/49828 (20150115) Y10T 29/49829 (20150115) Y10T 29/49885 (20150115) Y10T 29/49904 (20150115) Y10T 29/53409 (20150115) |
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| US 09534447 | Zediker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark S. Zediker (Castle Rock, Colorado); Mark S. Land (Houston, Texas); Charles C. Rinzler (Boston, Massachusetts); Brian O. Faircloth (Evergreen, Colorado); Yeshaya Koblick (Sharon, Massachusetts); Joel F. Moxley (Highlands Ranch, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Foro Energy, Inc. (Littleton, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark S. Zediker (Castle Rock, Colorado); Mark S. Land (Houston, Texas); Charles C. Rinzler (Boston, Massachusetts); Brian O. Faircloth (Evergreen, Colorado); Yeshaya Koblick (Sharon, Massachusetts); Joel F. Moxley (Highlands Ranch, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A system, apparatus and methods for delivering high power laser energy to perform laser operations in oil fields and to form a borehole deep into the earth using laser energy. A laser downhole assembly for the delivery of high power laser energy to surfaces and areas in a borehole, which assembly may have laser optics and a fluid path. |
| FILED | Friday, July 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/335627 |
| 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 09534781 | Hughes et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael John Hughes (Greer, South Carolina); Thomas Edward Johnson (Greer, South Carolina); Jonathan Dwight Berry (Simpsonville, South Carolina); William David York (Greer, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael John Hughes (Greer, South Carolina); Thomas Edward Johnson (Greer, South Carolina); Jonathan Dwight Berry (Simpsonville, South Carolina); William David York (Greer, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A system includes a multi-tube fuel nozzle with a fuel nozzle body and a plurality of tubes. The fuel nozzle body includes a nozzle wall surrounding a chamber. The plurality of tubes extend through the chamber, wherein each tube of the plurality of tubes includes an air intake portion, a fuel intake portion, and an air-fuel mixture outlet portion. The multi-tube fuel nozzle also includes a differential configuration of the air intake portions among the plurality of tubes. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/468988 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Regulating or Controlling Combustion F23N 3/082 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Generating Combustion Products of High Pressure or High Velocity, e.g Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers F23R 3/26 (20130101) F23R 3/045 (20130101) F23R 3/286 (20130101) |
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| US 09534879 | Grubelich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark C. Grubelich (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Gerold Yonas (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas powered fluid gun for propelling a stream or slug of a fluid at high velocity toward a target. Recoil mitigation is provided by a cavitating venturi that reduces or eliminates the associated recoil forces, with minimal or no backwash. By launching a quantity of water in the opposite direction, net momentum forces are reduced or eliminated. |
| FILED | Friday, January 22, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/004666 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Weapons for Projecting Missiles Without Use of Explosive or Combustible Propellant Charge; Weapons Not Otherwise Provided for F41B 9/0021 (20130101) Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 33/062 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09534967 | Chainer 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) | Timothy J. Chainer (Putnam Valley, New York); Pritish R. Parida (Fishkill, New York); Mark D. Schultz (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method includes determining a relationship between indirect thermal data for a processor and a measured temperature associated with the processor, during a calibration process, obtaining the indirect thermal data for the processor during actual operation of the processor, and determining an actual significant temperature associated with the processor during the actual operation using the indirect thermal data for the processor during actual operation of the processor and the relationship. |
| FILED | Friday, May 13, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/154448 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Temperature; Measuring Quantity of Heat; Thermally-sensitive Elements Not Otherwise Provided for G01K 7/02 (20130101) G01K 15/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09535087 | Jesse et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Jesse (Knoxville, Tennessee); Sergei V. Kalinin (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Scanning probe microscopy may include a method for generating a band excitation (BE) signal and simultaneously exciting a probe at a plurality of frequencies within a predetermined frequency band based on the excitation signal. A response of the probe is measured across a subset of frequencies of the predetermined frequency band and the excitation signal is adjusted based on the measured response. |
| FILED | Friday, June 26, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/752387 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 35/00 (20130101) Scanning-probe Techniques or Apparatus; Applications of Scanning-probe Techniques, e.g Scanning Probe Microscopy [SPM] G01Q 10/06 (20130101) G01Q 20/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01Q 30/04 (20130101) G01Q 60/32 (20130101) |
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| US 09535100 | McAninch et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BWXT Nuclear Operations Group, Inc. (Lynchburg, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BWXT Nuclear Operations Group, Inc. (Lynchburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. McAninch (Goode, Virginia); Jeffrey J. Root (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to the field of sensors for beam imaging and, in particular, to a new and useful beam imaging sensor for use in determining, for example, the power density distribution of a beam including, but not limited to, an electron beam or an ion beam. In one embodiment, the beam imaging sensor of the present invention comprises, among other items, a circumferential slit that is either circular, elliptical or polygonal in nature. In another embodiment, the beam imaging sensor of the present invention comprises, among other things, a discontinuous partially circumferential slit. Also disclosed is a method for using the various beams sensor embodiments of the present invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 13, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/595593 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Soldering or Unsoldering; Welding; Cladding or Plating by Soldering or Welding; Cutting by Applying Heat Locally, e.g Flame Cutting; Working by Laser Beam B23K 15/0026 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 19/0061 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 37/244 (20130101) H01J 2237/3104 (20130101) H01J 2237/24405 (20130101) H01J 2237/24507 (20130101) |
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| US 09535774 | Cher 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) | Chen-Yong Cher (Port Chester, New York); Carlos H. Andrade Costa (White Plains, New York); Yoonho Park (Chappaqua, New York); Bryan S. Rosenburg (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Kyung D. Ryu (New City, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for providing notification of a predictable memory failure includes the steps of: obtaining information regarding at least one condition associated with a memory; calculating a memory failure probability as a function of the obtained information; calculating a failure probability threshold; and generating a signal when the memory failure probability exceeds the failure probability threshold, the signal being indicative of a predicted future memory failure. |
| FILED | Monday, September 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/022180 |
| ART UNIT | 2114 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 11/3037 (20130101) G06F 11/3058 (20130101) |
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| US 09536692 | Jain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ankit Jain (West Lafayette, Indiana); Muhammad Ashraful Alam (West Lafayette, Indiana); Pradeep Nair (Maharashtra, India) |
| ABSTRACT | A microelectromechanical system (MEMS)-based electrical switch. The electrical switch includes a moveable electrode, a dielectric layer positioned adjacent the moveable electrode on a first side of the dielectric layer and spaced apart from the moveable electrode when the moveable electrode is in an inactivated position and in contact with the moveable electrode when the moveable electrode is in an activated position, and a substrate attached to the dielectric layer on a second side opposite to the first side, the moveable electrode is configured to brake prior to coming in contact with the dielectric layer when the moveable electrode is switched between the inactivated state and the activated state. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 13, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/881185 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Switches; Relays; Selectors; Emergency Protective Devices H01H 59/0009 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Pulse Technique H03K 17/975 (20130101) |
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| US 09536725 | Marcus et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, California); Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Battelle Memorial Institute on behalf of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | R. Kenneth Marcus (Clemson, South Carolina); Charles Derrick Quarles, Jr. (Clemson, South Carolina); Richard E. Russo (Berkeley, California); David W. Koppenaal (Richland, Washington); Charles J. Barinaga (Richland, Washington); Anthony J. Carado (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A liquid sampling, atmospheric pressure, glow discharge (LS-APGD) device as well as systems that incorporate the device and methods for using the device and systems are described. The LS-APGD includes a hollow capillary for delivering an electrolyte solution to a glow discharge space. The device also includes a counter electrode in the form of a second hollow capillary that can deliver the analyte into the glow discharge space. A voltage across the electrolyte solution and the counter electrode creates the microplasma within the glow discharge space that interacts with the analyte to move it to a higher energy state (vaporization, excitation, and/or ionization of the analyte). |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/171981 |
| 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 3/443 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 27/16 (20130101) H01J 49/105 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 49/145 (20130101) H01J 49/165 (20130101) |
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| US 09536947 | Okandan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Murat Okandan (Edgewood, New Mexico); Bruce L. Draper (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Paul J. Resnick (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided an electronic device and a method for its manufacture. The device comprises an elongate silicon nanowire less than 0.5 μm in cross-sectional dimensions and having a hexagonal cross-sectional shape due to annealing-induced energy relaxation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/966553 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/306 (20130101) H01L 29/0669 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/0673 (20130101) H01L 29/0847 (20130101) H01L 29/1037 (20130101) H01L 29/7853 (20130101) H01L 29/42376 (20130101) H01L 29/42392 (20130101) |
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| US 09537024 | Narasimhan 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) | Vijay K. Narasimhan (Stanford, California); Thomas M. Hymel (Stanford, California); Ruby A. Lai (Stanford, California); Yi Cui (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optoelectronic device has a hybrid metal-dielectric optoelectronic interface including an array of nanoscale dielectric resonant elements (e.g., nanopillars), and a metal film disposed between the dielectric resonant elements and below a top surface of the resonant elements such that the dielectric resonant elements protrude through the metal film. The device may also include an anti-reflection coating. The device may further include a metal film layer on each of the dielectric resonant elements. |
| FILED | Friday, April 29, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/142851 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/0224 (20130101) H01L 31/0687 (20130101) H01L 31/0725 (20130101) H01L 31/02161 (20130101) H01L 31/02168 (20130101) H01L 31/02327 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/02366 (20130101) H01L 31/022425 (20130101) H01L 33/38 (20130101) H01L 33/44 (20130101) H01L 2933/0016 (20130101) |
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| US 09537030 | Dennis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tim Dennis (Canton, Texas); Scott Harrington (Oakland, California); Jane Manning (Woodside, California); David D. Smith (Campbell, California); Ann Waldhauer (La Honda, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of fabricating solar cells with tunnel dielectric layers are described. Solar cells with tunnel dielectric layers are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, May 29, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/725939 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/068 (20130101) H01L 31/182 (20130101) H01L 31/0216 (20130101) H01L 31/0236 (20130101) H01L 31/1804 (20130101) H01L 31/1864 (20130101) H01L 31/1872 (20130101) H01L 31/02168 (20130101) H01L 31/03682 (20130101) H01L 31/03921 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/546 (20130101) Y02E 10/547 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/521 (20151101) |
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| US 09537131 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. (Camas, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. (Camas, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Long Wang (Vancouver, Washington); Yuhao Lu (Vancouver, Washington); Jong-Jan Lee (Camas, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is presented for fabricating an anode preloaded with consumable metals. The method provides a material (X), which may be one of the following materials: carbon, metals able to be electrochemically alloyed with a metal (Me), intercalation oxides, electrochemically active organic compounds, and combinations of the above-listed materials. The method loads the metal (Me) into the material (X). Typically, Me is an alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, or a combination of the two. As a result, the method forms a preloaded anode comprising Me/X for use in a battery comprising a M1YM2Z(CN)N |
| FILED | Thursday, March 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/198663 |
| ART UNIT | 1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 17/02 (20130101) C01B 19/02 (20130101) C01B 25/003 (20130101) C01B 31/00 (20130101) C01B 33/021 (20130101) Ammonia; Cyanogen; Compounds Thereof C01C 3/12 (20130101) Compounds of Alkali Metals, i.e Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, Caesium, or Francium C01D 1/02 (20130101) C01D 15/02 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 2/1653 (20130101) H01M 2/1686 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/04 (20130101) H01M 4/38 (20130101) H01M 4/049 (20130101) H01M 4/56 (20130101) H01M 4/58 (20130101) H01M 4/131 (20130101) H01M 4/133 (20130101) H01M 4/134 (20130101) H01M 4/136 (20130101) H01M 4/381 (20130101) H01M 4/382 (20130101) H01M 4/387 (20130101) H01M 4/0404 (20130101) H01M 4/0416 (20130101) H01M 4/0452 (20130101) H01M 4/0471 (20130101) H01M 4/485 (20130101) H01M 4/0495 (20130101) H01M 4/0497 (20130101) H01M 4/505 (20130101) H01M 4/587 (20130101) H01M 4/628 (20130101) H01M 4/1391 (20130101) H01M 4/1395 (20130101) H01M 4/1397 (20130101) H01M 4/5825 (20130101) H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 10/054 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) H01M 10/0565 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 7/0042 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49108 (20150115) |
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| US 09537157 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yinmin Wang (Tracy, California); Xianying Wang (Shanghai, China PRC); Alex V. Hamza (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanoconverter or nanosensor is disclosed capable of directly generating electricity through physisorption interactions with molecules that are dipole containing organic species in a molecule interaction zone. High surface-to-volume ratio semiconductor nanowires or nanotubes (such as ZnO, silicon, carbon, etc.) are grown either aligned or randomly-aligned on a substrate. Epoxy or other nonconductive polymers are used to seal portions of the nanowires or nanotubes to create molecule noninteraction zones. By correlating certain molecule species to voltages generated, a nanosensor may quickly identify which species is detected. Nanoconverters in a series parallel arrangement may be constructed in planar, stacked, or rolled arrays to supply power to nano- and micro-devices without use of external batteries. In some cases breath, from human or other life forms, contain sufficient molecules to power a nanoconverter. A membrane permeable to certain molecules around the molecule interaction zone increases specific molecule nanosensor selectivity response. |
| FILED | Friday, April 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/695354 |
| ART UNIT | 1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/327 (20130101) G01N 27/417 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/00 (20130101) H01M 4/90 (20130101) H01M 4/9016 (20130101) H01M 8/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/22 (20130101) H01M 8/24 (20130101) H01M 8/222 (20130101) H01M 8/0284 (20130101) H01M 8/0286 (20130101) H01M 8/0289 (20130101) H01M 8/0297 (20130101) Electric Machines Not Otherwise Provided for H02N 11/002 (20130101) |
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| US 09537604 | Dowla et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livemore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Farid Dowla (Castro Valley, California); Faranak Nekoogar (San Ramon, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for adaptive Radio Frequency (RF) jamming according to one embodiment includes dynamically monitoring a RF spectrum; detecting any undesired signals in real time from the RF spectrum; and sending a directional countermeasure signal to jam the undesired signals. A method for adaptive Radio Frequency (RF) communications according to another embodiment includes transmitting a data pulse in a RF spectrum; and transmitting a reference pulse separated by a predetermined period of time from the data pulse; wherein the data pulse is modulated with data, wherein the reference pulse is unmodulated. A method for adaptive Radio Frequency (RF) communications according to yet another embodiment includes receiving a data pulse in a RF spectrum; and receiving a reference pulse separated in time from the data pulse, wherein the data pulse is modulated with data, wherein the reference pulse is unmodulated; and demodulating the pulses. |
| FILED | Monday, February 02, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/612205 |
| ART UNIT | 2633 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse Technique H03K 3/00 (20130101) Transmission H04B 1/0003 (20130101) Secret Communication; Jamming of Communication H04K 3/42 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04K 3/44 (20130101) H04K 3/45 (20130101) H04K 2203/00 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 4/22 (20130101) |
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| US 09532948 | Mirkin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); C. Shad Thaxton (Chicago, Illinois); David A. Giljohann (Chicago, Illinois); Weston Daniel (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Articles, compositions, kits, and methods relating to nanostructures, including those that can sequester molecules such as cholesterol, are provided. Certain embodiments described herein include structures having a core-shell type arrangement; for instance, a nanoparticle core may be surrounded by a shell including a material, such as a lipid bilayer, that can interact with cholesterol and/or other lipids. In some embodiments, the structures, when introduced into a subject, can sequester cholesterol and/or other lipids and remove them from circulation. Accordingly, the structures described herein may be used to diagnose, prevent, treat or manage certain diseases or bodily conditions, especially those associated with abnormal lipid levels. |
| FILED | Monday, October 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/651935 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/127 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 9/1271 (20130101) A61K 9/1275 (20130101) A61K 9/5115 (20130101) A61K 9/5123 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) |
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| US 09533073 | Kong 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) | Hyunjoon Kong (Champaign, Illinois); Rashid Bashir (Champaign, Illinois); Jaehyun Jeong (Champaign, Illinois); Vincent Chan (Urbana, Illinois); Chaenyung Cha (Penndel, Pennsylvania); Pinar Zorlutuna (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions and methods for making and using microvascular stamps for stimulation and spatial organization of neovessels in tissue. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/709726 |
| 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 | 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 27/26 (20130101) A61L 27/52 (20130101) A61L 27/54 (20130101) A61L 27/507 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 27/3834 (20130101) A61L 2300/64 (20130101) A61L 2430/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09533077 | James et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan P. James (Bellvue, Colorado); Min Zhang (Seattle, Washington); Guy Beauregard (Irvine, California); Rachael Kurkowski Oldinski (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides, inter alia, a method of producing an outer layer material for forming into a structure and that comprises an entanglement having a hydrophobic polymer host and a hydrophilic guest, including in one embodiment the steps of: intermingling cloaked hydrophilic guest complexes with the hydrophobic host; crosslinking molecules of the guest with the guest; and performing a hydrolysis reaction. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/013360 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 31/048 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 37/00 (20130101) C08B 37/0072 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 3/246 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 5/08 (20130101) C08L 5/08 (20130101) C08L 101/00 (20130101) C08L 2666/02 (20130101) C08L 2666/26 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/249953 (20150401) |
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| US 09533254 | McGrath et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia); Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas); Colleen Kraft (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia); Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James McGrath (Blackburg, Virginia); Yu Chen (Appleton, Wisconsin); Rulian Guo (Granger, Indiana); Benny Freeman (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Gas separation membrane compositions including at least one crosslinked polymer, gas separation membranes made of such compositions, methods for making such gas separation membranes, and methods of using such membranes to separate gases are described. In one embodiment, the crosslinked polymer includes polyarylene ethers (PAE). |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/530108 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/228 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 71/28 (20130101) B01D 71/30 (20130101) B01D 71/32 (20130101) B01D 71/52 (20130101) B01D 71/66 (20130101) B01D 71/68 (20130101) B01D 71/76 (20130101) B01D 71/80 (20130101) B01D 2053/221 (20130101) B01D 2053/224 (20130101) B01D 2323/30 (20130101) B01D 2323/345 (20130101) |
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| US 09533297 | Matyjaszewski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Krzysztof Matyjaszewski (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Yungwan Kwak (Breinigsville, Pennsylvania); Joanna Burdynska (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Andrea Elsen (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Kristin Schroeder (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A series of ligands with site specific electron donating substituents that form a catalyst complex with a transition metal and are suitable for catalysis of atom transfer radical reactions, including ATRP are described. Faster catalysis rates were observed allowing for low catalyst concentrations and linear increases in molecular weight with monomer conversion, and narrow molecular weight distributions. Cyclic voltammetry revealed that increasing the strength and number of conjugated electron donating groups resulted in more stable complexes and larger ATRP equilibrium constants. |
| FILED | Friday, February 22, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/379418 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 31/1815 (20130101) B01J 31/2243 (20130101) B01J 31/2295 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 2231/10 (20130101) B01J 2231/30 (20130101) B01J 2231/42 (20130101) B01J 2531/16 (20130101) B01J 2531/0247 (20130101) B01J 2531/842 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 2/38 (20130101) C08F 4/10 (20130101) C08F 4/26 (20130101) C08F 4/40 (20130101) C08F 120/18 (20130101) C08F 2220/1825 (20130101) C08F 2438/01 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/52 (20151101) |
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| US 09533306 | Chiou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pei-Yu Chiou (Los Angeles, California); Sung-Yong Park (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pei-Yu Chiou (Los Angeles, California); Sung-Yong Park (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A single-sided continuous optoelectrowetting (SCOEW) device for manipulating droplets retained in a fluid over the SCOEW device with dynamic patterns of low intensity light, such as from a display screen, is described. A single pair of lateral electrodes are utilized for providing a lateral electric field bias, with transport motion controlled in response to projecting light through a photoconductive layer and dielectric layer adjacent to which droplets are retained. The device is configured for optically manipulating droplets having volumes spanning over five orders of magnitude, and can be configured to perform droplet dispensing, transport, splitting, merging, mixing and other droplet manipulation functions involving any of the above on a single sided surface. |
| FILED | Sunday, July 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/194966 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502792 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2400/0427 (20130101) |
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| US 09533975 | Chmielewski |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jean Anne Chmielewski (Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention cationic amphiphilic polyproline helices (CAPHs) compounds having increased hydrophobicity and cellular internalization as antimicrobial agents. Antimicrobial compositions and methods of using the same are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, May 01, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/702530 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7036 (20130101) A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 47/48238 (20130101) A61K 49/0056 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 405/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 5/0806 (20130101) |
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| US 09534138 | Economy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ATSP Innovations, LLC (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ATSP Innovations (Champaign, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Economy (Urbana, Illinois); Andreas Polycarpou (College Station, Texas); Jacob Meyer (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel Aromatic Thermosetting Copolyester (ATSP) can be processed into highly effective wear resistant coatings by blending with polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE) and other additives. Surface treatments/coatings are key to improving wear performance and durability in a wide array of applications. The problems associated with use of liquid lubricants, hard/soft coatings are well known but only modest progress has been achieved due to lack of research on new material systems. These coatings were fabricated and tested as highly effective wear resistant coatings by blending ATSP with PTFE and other tribologically beneficial additives. The main advantages of these polymeric-based coatings are their relatively low cost and simple substrate surface conditioning (i.e., no need for expensive surface preparation before coating). |
| FILED | Thursday, April 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/700265 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 1/06 (20130101) B05D 3/0254 (20130101) B05D 2202/00 (20130101) B05D 2506/15 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 63/127 (20130101) C08G 63/133 (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 167/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 4/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09534213 | Kotov |
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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) | Nicholas A. Kotov (Ypsilanti, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Supraparticle nanoassemblies are provided that comprise nanoparticle species and protein species, as well as methods for making such assemblies. A supraparticle may comprise a nanoparticle species with a first charge and an average particle size diameter of ≧about 1 nm to ≦about 100 nm. The supraparticle also comprises a protein species. The nanoparticle species and the protein species have the same charge and are assembled together without any intramolecular chemical bonding to form the supraparticle. The supraparticle may be a substantially round particle. In certain other aspects, a photoreactive supraparticle is provided, where the nanoparticle is reactive to energy or electromagnetic radiation, which in the presence of such energy or radiation enhances reactivity of the protein species in the supraparticle. |
| FILED | Monday, March 02, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/635347 |
| 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 9/96 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09534224 | Collins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James J. Collins (Newton, Massachusetts); Farren J. Isaacs (Brookline, Massachusetts); Charles R. Cantor (Del Mar, California); Daniel J. Dwyer (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James J. Collins (Newton, Massachusetts); Farren J. Isaacs (Brookline, Massachusetts); Charles R. Cantor (Del Mar, California); Daniel J. Dwyer (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides nucleic acid molecules, DNA constructs, plasmids, and methods for post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression using RNA molecules to both repress and activate translation of an open reading frame. Repression of gene expression is achieved through the presence of a regulatory nucleic acid element (the cis-repressive RNA or crRNA) within the 5′ untranslated region (5′ UTR) of an mRNA molecule. The nucleic acid element forms a hairpin (stem/loop) structure through complementary base pairing. The hairpin blocks access to the mRNA transcript by the ribosome, thereby preventing translation. In particular, in embodiments of the invention designed to operate in prokaryotic cells, the stem of the hairpin secondary structure sequesters the ribosome binding site (RBS). In embodiments of the invention designed to operate in eukaryotic cells, the stem of the hairpin is positioned upstream of the start codon, anywhere within the 5′ UTR of an mRNA. A small RNA (trans-activating RNA, or taRNA), expressed in trans, interacts with the crRNA and alters the hairpin structure. This alteration allows the ribosome to gain access to the region of the transcript upstream of the start codon, thereby activating transcription from its previously repressed state. |
| FILED | Friday, November 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/535128 |
| 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 | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/11 (20130101) C12N 15/67 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/53 (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 1/6897 (20130101) |
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| US 09534236 | Novak et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paige J. Novak (St. Paul, Minnesota); William A. Arnold (Minnetonka, Minnesota); Erin M. Surdo (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An example includes an apparatus, method, and system for producing and extracting a gas from a wastewater fluid. The apparatus can include a membrane including at least one hollow fiber, the at least one hollow fiber configured to convey a gas extracted from a wastewater fluid. Bacteria can be immobilized within the membrane, and the bacteria configured to produce the gas during treatment of the wastewater fluid. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/198104 |
| ART UNIT | 1799 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 3/102 (20130101) Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 21/04 (20130101) C12M 23/20 (20130101) C12M 23/40 (20130101) C12M 25/10 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 11/08 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 3/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 5/023 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/343 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Wastewater Treatment or Waste Management Y02W 10/15 (20150501) |
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| US 09534241 | Smolke 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 (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christina D. Smolke (Menlo Park, California); Catherine Thodey (Sunnyvale, California); Isis Trenchard (Redwood City, California); Stephanie Galanie (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Aspects of the invention include host cells that are engineered to produce benzylisoquinoline alkaloids (BIAs). The host cells include heterologous coding sequences for a variety of enzymes involved in synthetic pathways from starting compounds to BIAs of the host cell. Also provided are methods of producing the BIAs of interest by culturing the host cells under culture conditions that promote expression of enzymes encoded by the heterologous coding sequences of the host cells. Aspects of the invention further include compositions, e.g., host cells, starting compounds and kits, etc., that find use in methods of the invention. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/211611 |
| 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 9/1007 (20130101) C12N 15/52 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 17/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 17/182 (20130101) |
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| US 09534243 | Marino et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John P. Marino (Silver Spring, Maryland); Zvi Kelman (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Jerard Hurwitz (New York, New York); Gary G. Giulian (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE (Washington, District of Columbia); MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER (New York, New York); UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John P. Marino (Silver Spring, Maryland); Zvi Kelman (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Jerard Hurwitz (New York, New York); Gary G. Giulian (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for making a nucleotide analog includes combining a first substrate that includes a linker and a base with a second substrate to form a substrate composition. An enzyme contacts the substrate composition and catalyzes formation of the nucleotide analog from the first substrate and the second substrate. Additionally, a composition includes the first substrate, second substrate, the enzyme, the nucleotide analog, and optional additives. |
| FILED | Friday, February 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/174981 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 19/10 (20130101) C07H 19/207 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 19/305 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 207/07 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/52 (20151101) |
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| US 09534305 | Gerken et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James B Gerken (Madison, Wisconsin); Shannon S. Stahl (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are electrolysis catalysts formed from cobalt, oxygen and buffering electrolytes (e.g. fluoride). They can be formed as a coating on an anode by conducting an electrolysis reaction using an electrolyte containing cobalt and an anionic buffering electrolyte. The catalysts will facilitate the conversion of water to oxygen and hydrogen gas at a range of mildly acidic conditions. Alternatively, these anodes can be used with cathodes that facilitate other desirable reactions such as converting carbon dioxide to methanol. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/571574 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 23/75 (20130101) B01J 37/348 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 13/0207 (20130101) Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Processes for the Production of Compounds or Non-metals; Apparatus Therefor C25B 1/04 (20130101) C25B 11/0405 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C25B 11/0442 (20130101) C25B 11/0478 (20130101) C25B 11/0489 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/366 (20130101) |
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| US 09535025 | Grayson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Grayson (Evanston, Illinois); Wang Zhou (Evanston, Illinois); Gautham Badri Ramachandran Sundar (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A probe assembly includes plural capacitive contacts that are separate from each other and a conductive depletion gate disposed between and separating the contacts from each other. The depletion gate is configured to receive a direct electric voltage to deplete regions of a sample under test of electrons. The contacts are configured to be placed in close proximity to a buried conducting layer in the sample under test without engaging the buried conducting layer, thereby capacitively coupling to the buried conducting layer. A first subset of the capacitive contacts is configured to apply an alternating electric current to a portion of the sample under test and a second subset of the capacitive contacts is configured to sense an alternating voltage response of the portion of the sample under test to characterize one or more electrical properties of the sample under test without the capacitive contact with the buried conductive layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/382599 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 1/07 (20130101) G01R 31/312 (20130101) |
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| US 09535031 | Stimpson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SUPRASENSOR TECHNOLOGIES, LLC (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SUPRASENSOR TECHNOLOGIES, LLC (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Calden Carroll Stimpson (Eugene, Oregon); Jordan Richard Kusiek (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments include a method for securing a membrane material to a gate of a molecular receptor-based chemical field-effect transistor (CHEMFET). The method can include casting a membrane material onto an exposed region of the gate, curing the membrane material, placing the CHEMFET into a mold, inserting a single application of impervious electrically insulative resin into the mold, and securing edges of the membrane material by the single application of the impervious electrically insulative resin, thereby physically preventing lifting off of the membrane material from the gate. Embodiments include a sensor module. The sensor module can include a CHEMFET, an amplifier circuit, one or more sensor pins for contacting field ground soil, a data logger, and a wireless transceiver, among other components. |
| FILED | Friday, February 05, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/017483 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/414 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/56 (20130101) H01L 21/565 (20130101) H01L 23/293 (20130101) H01L 23/3107 (20130101) H01L 23/3121 (20130101) H01L 23/49827 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) |
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| US 09535058 | Jaron et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dov Jaron (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Kenneth A. Barbee (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Allison M. Andrews (King of Prussia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dov Jaron (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Kenneth A. Barbee (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Allison M. Andrews (King of Prussia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A flow chamber and method for detecting the presence of one more cell produced analytes under flow conditions. The flow chamber includes two compartments separated by a permeable membrane on which a plurality of cells may be positioned. The permeable membrane shields one or more analyte sensors positioned one compartment from the convective transport forces of a fluid flow within the other compartment to allow reliable and accurate detection of cell-produced analytes and determination of the concentration of cell-produced analytes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/446686 |
| ART UNIT | 1799 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 25/02 (20130101) C12M 35/04 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5091 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/5302 (20130101) |
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| US 09535704 | Ding et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chen Ding (Pittsford, New York); Hao Luo (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chen Ding (Pittsford, New York); Hao Luo (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to quantify a plurality of digital data sharing in a multi-threaded execution includes the steps of: providing at least one processor; providing a computer readable non-transitory storage medium including a computer readable multi-threaded executable code and a computer readable executable code to calculate a plurality of shared footprint values and an average shared footprint value; running the multi-threaded executable code on the at least one computer processor; running the computer readable executable code configured to calculate a plurality of shared footprint values and an average shared footprint value; calculating a plurality of shared footprint values by use of a linear-time process for a corresponding plurality of executable windows in time; and calculating and saving an average shared footprint value based on the plurality of shared footprint values to quantify by a metric the data sharing by the multi-threaded execution. A system to perform the method is also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 03, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/613066 |
| ART UNIT | 2197 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/3001 (20130101) G06F 9/3863 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 9/30047 (20130101) |
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| US 09536975 | Kolpak et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexie M. Kolpak (Boston, Massachusetts); Fred J. Walker (New Haven, Connecticut); James W. Reiner (Palo Alto, California); Charles H. Ahn (New Haven, Connecticut); Sohrab Ismail-Beigi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Ferroelectric semiconductor devices are provided by including a ferroelectric layer in the device that is made of a material that is not ferroelectric in bulk. Such layers can be disposed at interfaces to promote ferroelectric switching in a semiconductor device. Switching of conduction in the semiconductor is effected by the polarization of a mechanically bi-stable material. This material is not ferroelectric in bulk but can be considered to be when the thickness is sufficiently reduced down to a few atomic layers. Devices including such ferroelectric layers are suitable for various applications, such as transistors and memory cells (both volatile and non-volatile). |
| FILED | Sunday, June 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/745457 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/28291 (20130101) H01L 27/11585 (20130101) H01L 29/516 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/78391 (20140902) Pulse Technique H03K 3/36 (20130101) |
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| US 09537112 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jing Li (Cranbury, New Jersey); Mojgan Roushan (Goleta, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jing Li (Cranbury, New Jersey); Mojgan Roushan (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This application discloses a new family of inorganic-organic hybrid semiconductor bulk materials built on periodic nanostructured 2D layers of ZnS that emit bright white light with high quantum efficiency. These ZnS-based crystalline inorganic-organic hybrid semiconductors have well defined and precisely controllable crystal structure and composition. Their optical emission properties, including intensity, quantum yield, and color quality, can be systematically tuned by varying the composition of both inorganic and organic components. Methods for preparing these materials, use of these materials as a new type of single-phased white light emitting phosphors, and their applications in making WLED devices are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Sunday, August 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/239616 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/883 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 33/502 (20130101) H01L 51/5036 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 20/181 (20130101) |
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| US 09537571 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jiang Li (Pasadena, California); Kerry Vahala (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A dual-frequency optical source comprises: (a) first and second pump laser sources arranged to generate optical pump power at respective first and second pump laser frequencies vpump1 and vpump2; and (b) a fiber optical resonator characterized by a Brillouin shift frequency vB and a free spectral range that is substantially equal to an integer submultiple of the Brillouin shift frequency. Each one of the first and second pump laser sources is frequency-locked to a corresponding resonant optical mode of the fiber optical resonator. First and second optical output signals of the dual-frequency optical reference source at respective first and second output frequencies v1=vpump1−vB and v2=vpump2−vB comprise stimulated Brillouin laser output generated by simultaneous optical pumping of the fiber optical resonator by the first and second pump laser sources, respectively. An output difference frequency v2−v1 is greater than about 300 GHz. |
| FILED | Monday, January 26, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/605987 |
| ART UNIT | 2637 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation, or Stabilisation of Generators of Electronic Oscillations or Pulses H03L 7/08 (20130101) H03L 7/16 (20130101) Transmission H04B 10/503 (20130101) H04B 10/2504 (20130101) H04B 10/2507 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 10/2575 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 7/0075 (20130101) H04L 7/0091 (20130101) |
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| US 09537679 | Nowick et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven M. Nowick (Leonia, New Jersey); Gennette Delaine Gill (Pelham, New York); Sumedh S. Attarde (Pune, India) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven M. Nowick (Leonia, New Jersey); Gennette Delaine Gill (Pelham, New York); Sumedh S. Attarde (Pune, India) |
| ABSTRACT | A dynamically reconfigurable asynchronous arbitration node for use in an adaptive asynchronous interconnection network is provided. The arbitration node includes a circuit, an output channel and two input channels—a first input channel and a second input channel. The circuit supports a default-arbitration mode and a biased-input mode. The circuit is configured to generate data for the output channel by mediating between input traffic including data received at the first and second input channels, if the arbitration node is operating in the default-arbitration mode, or by providing a direct path to the output channel for one of the first input channel and the second input channel that is biased, if the arbitration node is operating in the biased-input mode. The circuit is further configured to monitor the input traffic and implement a mode change based on a history of the observed input traffic in accordance with a mode-change policy. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/004870 |
| ART UNIT | 2633 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 13/14 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 25/03 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09538056 | Adelson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward H. Adelson (Winchester, Massachusetts); Micah K. Johnson (West Roxbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure provides systems, devices, and methods for capturing and measuring surface topography. This disclosure provides a high resolution retrographic sensor comprising a volume of elastomer and a thin, opaque reflective membrane. The reflective membrane is arranged to conform to a specimen that contacts it. The disclosure provides a high resolution visualization system comprising the retrographic sensor and an illumination source. Also provided are high resolution measurement systems comprising the retrographic sensor, an illumination source, an imaging device, and a processing component. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 02, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/677394 |
| ART UNIT | 2422 — Cable and Television |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0077 (20130101) A61B 5/441 (20130101) A61B 5/1172 (20130101) Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 11/30 (20130101) G01B 11/303 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/0304 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/2256 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09538157 | Piestun et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, A BODY CORPORATE (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rafael Piestun (Boulder, Colorado); Sean Albert Quirin (Longmont, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments include methods, systems, and/or devices that may be used to image, obtain three-dimensional information from a scene, and/or locate multiple small particles and/or objects in three dimensions. A point spread function (PSF) with a predefined three dimensional shape may be implemented to obtain high Fisher information in 3D. The PSF may be generated via a phase mask, an amplitude mask, a hologram, or a diffractive optical element. The small particles may be imaged using the 3D PSF. The images may be used to find the precise location of the object using an estimation algorithm such as maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), expectation maximization, or Bayesian methods, for example. Calibration measurements can be used to improve the theoretical model of the optical system. Fiduciary particles/targets can also be used to compensate for drift and other type of movement of the sample relative to the detector. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/465543 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0048 (20130101) G06T 2207/10056 (20130101) G06T 2207/10064 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 13/0203 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09533882 | Varshney et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Deepak Varshney (San Juan, Puerto Rico); Vladimir Makarov (San Juan, Puerto Rico); Gerardo Morell (Guaynabo, Puerto Rico); Puja Saxena (San Juan, Puerto Rico); Brad Weiner (Dorado, Puerto Rico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Puerto Rico (San Juan, Puerto Rico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Deepak Varshney (San Juan, Puerto Rico); Vladimir Makarov (San Juan, Puerto Rico); Gerardo Morell (Guaynabo, Puerto Rico); Puja Saxena (San Juan, Puerto Rico); Brad Weiner (Dorado, Puerto Rico) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel sp3 rich diamond-like carbon (DLC) nanorod films were fabricated by hot filament chemical vapor deposition technique. The results are indicative of a bottom-up self-assembly synthesis process, which results in a hierarchical structure that consists of microscale papillae comprising numerous nanorods. The papillae have diameters ranging from 2 to 4 μm and the nanorods have diameters in the 35-45 nm range. A growth mechanism based on the vapor liquid-solid mechanism is proposed that accounts for the morphological aspects in the micro- and nano-scales. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/070678 |
| 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 20/28028 (20130101) B01J 2203/0655 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/02 (20130101) Chemical Features in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons; Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture of Carbon Filaments D01F 9/127 (20130101) |
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| US 09535059 | Tai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu-Chong Tai (Pasadena, California); Siyang Zheng (Pasadena, California); Jeffrey Chun-Hui Lin (Pasadena, California); Harvey L. Kasdan (Chatsworth, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are particular embodiments relating to a microfluidic device that may be utilized for cell sensing, counting, and/or sorting. Particular aspects relate to a microfabricated device that is capable of differentiating single cell types from dense cell populations. One particular embodiment relates a device and methods of using the same for sensing, counting, and/or sorting leukocytes from whole, undiluted blood samples. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 03, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/931645 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502753 (20130101) B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 2200/0636 (20130101) B01L 2200/0647 (20130101) B01L 2300/0681 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0822 (20130101) B01L 2300/0864 (20130101) B01L 2300/0877 (20130101) B01L 2400/086 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/1056 (20130101) G01N 15/1484 (20130101) G01N 33/582 (20130101) G01N 33/5005 (20130101) G01N 33/5094 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2015/149 (20130101) G01N 2015/1006 (20130101) G01N 2015/1486 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/11 (20150115) Y10T 436/13 (20150115) Y10T 436/25 (20150115) Y10T 436/2575 (20150115) |
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| US 09537169 | Mittelsteadt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Giner, Inc. (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GINER, INC. (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cortney K. Mittelsteadt (Wayland, Massachusetts); William A. Braff (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrochemical device and methods of using the same. In one embodiment, the electrochemical device may be used as a fuel cell and/or as an electrolyzer and includes a membrane electrode assembly (MEA), an anodic gas diffusion medium in contact with the anode of the MEA, a cathodic gas diffusion medium in contact with the cathode, a first bipolar plate in contact with the anodic gas diffusion medium, and a second bipolar plate in contact with the cathodic gas diffusion medium. Each of the bipolar plates includes an electrically-conductive, chemically-inert, non-porous, liquid-permeable, substantially gas-impermeable membrane in contact with its respective gas diffusion medium, as well as a fluid chamber and a non-porous an electrically-conductive plate. |
| FILED | Friday, August 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/974172 |
| ART UNIT | 1729 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Processes for the Production of Compounds or Non-metals; Apparatus Therefor C25B 9/00 (20130101) C25B 9/10 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/186 (20130101) H01M 8/0204 (20130101) H01M 8/1006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/1011 (20130101) H01M 8/04186 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/523 (20130101) Y02E 60/528 (20130101) |
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| US 09537277 | Yost 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); Tyco Electronics Corporation (Berwyn, Pennsylvania) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | William T. Yost (Newport News, Virginia); Karl E. Cramer (Yorktown, Virginia); Daniel F. Perey (Yorktown, Virginia); Keith A. Williams (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A process and apparatus for collecting data for nondestructive evaluation of the quality of a crimped wire connector are provided. The process involves providing a crimping tool having an anvil and opposing jaw for crimping a terminal onto a stranded wire, moving the jaw relative to the anvil to close the distance between the jaw and the anvil and thereby compress the terminal against the wire, while transmitting ultrasonic waves that are propagated through the terminal wire combination and received at a receiving ultrasonic transducer as the jaw is moved relative to the anvil, and detecting and recording the position of the jaw relative to the anvil as a function of time and detecting and recording the amplitude of the ultrasonic wave that is received at the receiving ultrasonic transducer as a function of time as the jaw is moved relative to the anvil. |
| FILED | Friday, February 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/193086 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 29/11 (20130101) G01N 2291/048 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 31/045 (20130101) Electrically-conductive Connections; Structural Associations of a Plurality of Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting Elements; Coupling Devices; Current Collectors H01R 43/048 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01R 43/0486 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49004 (20150115) Y10T 29/49181 (20150115) Y10T 29/49771 (20150115) Y10T 29/53022 (20150115) |
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| US 09537677 | Hines et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | APPLIED SENSOR RESEARCH and DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Arnold, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SenSanna Incorporated (Arnold, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jacqueline H. Hines (Annapolis, Maryland); Leland P. Solie (Apopka, Florida); Dana Y. G. Tucker (Acton, Massachusetts); Andrew T. Hines (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A surface-launched acoustic wave sensor tag system for remotely sensing and/or providing identification information using sets of surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensor tag devices is characterized by acoustic wave device embodiments that include coding and other diversity techniques to produce groups of sensors that interact minimally, reducing or alleviating code collision problems typical of prior art coded SAW sensors and tags, and specific device embodiments of said coded SAW sensor tags and systems. These sensor/tag devices operate in a system which consists of one or more uniquely identifiable sensor/tag devices and a wireless interrogator. The sensor device incorporates an antenna for receiving incident RF energy and re-radiating the tag identification information and the sensor measured parameter(s). Since there is no power source in or connected to the sensor, it is a passive sensor. The device is wirelessly interrogated by the interrogator. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/694889 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 41/08 (20130101) Impedance Networks, e.g Resonant Circuits; Resonators H03H 9/25 (20130101) H03H 9/6406 (20130101) Transmission H04B 1/69 (20130101) H04B 2001/6912 (20130101) Multiplex Communication H04J 13/107 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 25/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 09535804 | Kaplan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Laurence S. Kaplan (Shoreline, Washington); Preston P. Briggs, III (Seattle, Washington); Miles A. Ohlrich (Seattle, Washington); Willard H. Leslie (Issaquah, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cray Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laurence S. Kaplan (Shoreline, Washington); Preston P. Briggs, III (Seattle, Washington); Miles A. Ohlrich (Seattle, Washington); Willard H. Leslie (Issaquah, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A resiliency system detects and corrects memory errors reported by a memory system of a computing system using previously stored error correction information. When a program stores data into a memory location, the resiliency system executing on the computing system generates and stores error correction information. When the program then executes a load instruction to retrieve the data from the memory location, the load instruction completes normally if there is no memory error. If, however, there is a memory error, the computing system passes control to the resiliency system (e.g., via a trap) to handle the memory error. The resiliency system retrieves the error correction information for the memory location and re-creates the data of the memory location. The resiliency system stores the data as if the load instruction had completed normally and passes control to the next instruction of the program. |
| FILED | Monday, May 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/476819 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/08 (20130101) G06F 11/10 (20130101) G06F 11/14 (20130101) G06F 11/141 (20130101) G06F 11/202 (20130101) G06F 11/1008 (20130101) G06F 11/1016 (20130101) G06F 11/1068 (20130101) G06F 11/1402 (20130101) G06F 11/1405 (20130101) G06F 11/1479 (20130101) G06F 11/2023 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 11/2035 (20130101) |
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| US 09537772 | Scott et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven L. Scott (Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin); Gregory Hubbard (Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin); Dennis C. Abts (Eleva, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for routing in a high-radix network. A packet is received and examined to determine if the packet can be routed adaptively. If the packet can be routed adaptively, the packet is routed adaptively, wherein routing adaptively includes selecting a column, computing a column mask, routing the packet to the column; and selecting an output port as a function of the column mask. If the packet can be routed deterministically, routing deterministically, wherein routing deterministically includes accessing a routing table to obtain an output port and routing the packet to the output port from the routing table. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/310832 |
| ART UNIT | 2474 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 15/17362 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 45/00 (20130101) H04L 45/28 (20130101) H04L 45/566 (20130101) H04L 45/745 (20130101) H04L 45/7453 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 49/15 (20130101) |
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| US 09538040 | Goergen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND (College Park, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan Goergen (Baltimore, Maryland); Wan-Yi Lin (College Park, Maryland); K. J. Ray Liu (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Various communication systems may benefit from physical layer watermarking. For example, active sensing for dynamic spectrum access may be performed using physical layer watermarking, such as watermarking based on channel effects and/or receiver distortion. A method may include, for example, obtaining an original signal to be transmitted to at least one receiver. The method may also include watermarking the original signal with at least one of authentication data or ancillary data to provide an enhanced signal. The watermarking can include a physical layer watermark. The physical layer watermark can be configured to emulate at least one a channel effect or a receiver distortion. The method can further include transmitting the enhanced signal to the at least one receiver. |
| FILED | Monday, December 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/717675 |
| ART UNIT | 2497 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30743 (20130101) G06F 21/16 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 1/32144 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04N 21/8358 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 16/14 (20130101) |
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U.S. State Government
| US 09532747 | LaBelle et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeffrey T. LaBelle (Tempe, Arizona); Jorge Tenorio (Chandler, Arizona); Kevin Uchimura (Gilbert, Arizona); Benjamin Cantrill (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a body of corporate of the State of Arizona (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey T. LaBelle (Tempe, Arizona); Jorge Tenorio (Chandler, Arizona); Kevin Uchimura (Gilbert, Arizona); Benjamin Cantrill (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for non-invasively monitoring a stress level of a subject is presented. A sensor is configured to monitor an attribute of the subject. A housing is configured to removably attach to the subject, the housing includes a processor in communication with the sensor, the processor is configured to retrieve data from the sensor, and use the data retrieved from the sensor to determine a stress level of the subject. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 31, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/419133 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/01 (20130101) A61B 5/0002 (20130101) A61B 5/16 (20130101) A61B 5/024 (20130101) A61B 5/0488 (20130101) A61B 5/681 (20130101) A61B 5/0816 (20130101) A61B 5/02405 (20130101) A61B 5/4884 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/6824 (20130101) A61B 5/7278 (20130101) A61B 2562/164 (20130101) |
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| US 09534958 | Lhamon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael E. Lhamon (Lexington, Kentucky); Anuj Agarwal (Lexington, Kentucky) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Michael E. Lhamon (Lexington, Kentucky); Anuj Agarwal (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | Detecting infrared radiation from a rodent in a cage using an infrared sensor array with a field of view that corresponds to a moving area of the rodent to determine position, velocity, head position, etc. and determining a behavior of the rodent based on the detected infrared radiation. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 01, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/872596 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 29/005 (20130101) Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 5/10 (20130101) G01J 5/0025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring Linear or Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, or Shock; Indicating Presence, Absence, or Direction, of Movement G01P 3/68 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/33 (20130101) |
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| US 09535070 | Saul 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 (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) | Justin Saul (Mesa, Arizona); Ji Qiu (Chandler, Arizona); Joshua LaBaer (Chandler, Arizona); Mitch Magee (Chandler, Arizona); John Chaput (Phoenix, Arizona); Sujay Sau (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and related microfluidic chip and kit for high throughput detection of proteins of interest contained in a sample is disclosed. The method comprises of specifically labeling fusion proteins in a complex sample with fusion tag specific fluorophores that specifically bind the fusion tags coupled to the proteins of interest, and subjecting the sample to automated capillary electrophoresis, wherein the presence of the proteins of interest in the sample is detected by fluorescence signals associated with the fusion tag specific fluorophores. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/073332 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/582 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 09534243 | Marino et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John P. Marino (Silver Spring, Maryland); Zvi Kelman (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Jerard Hurwitz (New York, New York); Gary G. Giulian (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE (Washington, District of Columbia); MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER (New York, New York); UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John P. Marino (Silver Spring, Maryland); Zvi Kelman (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Jerard Hurwitz (New York, New York); Gary G. Giulian (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for making a nucleotide analog includes combining a first substrate that includes a linker and a base with a second substrate to form a substrate composition. An enzyme contacts the substrate composition and catalyzes formation of the nucleotide analog from the first substrate and the second substrate. Additionally, a composition includes the first substrate, second substrate, the enzyme, the nucleotide analog, and optional additives. |
| FILED | Friday, February 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/174981 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 19/10 (20130101) C07H 19/207 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 19/305 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 207/07 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/52 (20151101) |
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| US 09535085 | Stan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Gheorghe Stan (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE (Washington, District of Columbia); UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gheorghe Stan (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Richard S. Gates (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An intermittent contact atomic force microscope includes: a cantilever configured to receive a contact resonance modulation; a sample disposed proximate to the cantilever; a contact resonance modulator in communication with the cantilever and configured to provide the contact resonance modulation to the cantilever; and a scan modulator in mechanical communication with the sample to provide a scan modulation to the sample. Also disclosed is a process for performing intermittent contact atomic force microscopy, the process includes: providing a dual modulation microscope including: a cantilever configured to receive a contact resonance modulation; a sample disposed proximate to the cantilever; a contact resonance modulator in communication with the cantilever and configured to provide the contact resonance modulation to the cantilever; and a scan modulator in mechanical communication with the sample to provide a scan modulation to the sample; subjecting the cantilever to the contact resonance modulation; modulating the cantilever at a contact resonance frequency; subjecting the sample to the scan modulation; and modulating the sample at a scan modulation frequency to perform intermittent contact atomic force microscopy. |
| FILED | Monday, August 03, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/816438 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Scanning-probe Techniques or Apparatus; Applications of Scanning-probe Techniques, e.g Scanning Probe Microscopy [SPM] G01Q 10/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01Q 60/34 (20130101) |
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Department of the Interior (DOI)
| US 09535658 | Kolesnikov |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vladimir Y. Kolesnikov (Jersey City, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alcatel Lucent (Boulogne-Billancourt, France) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir Y. Kolesnikov (Jersey City, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Secure private database querying on a database for a query having a formula evaluation on at least two keywords A and B comprises: a server receiving a Bloom filter tree comprised of encrypted Bloom filters of encrypted keywords from the database, wherein each Bloom filter in the Bloom filter tree is separately masked by a random mask pad P; receiving an encrypted version of the keywords A and B from the client; and obtaining masked Bloom filter indices for the keywords A and B. The client and server participate in secure function evaluation (SFE) with the client. The server has an input comprising the masked Bloom filter indices for the keywords A and B and the client has an input comprising the random mask pad P. The secure function evaluation comprises: removing the random mask pad P from the masked Bloom filter indices input by the server; determining if there is a matching Bloom filter for each of the keywords A and B; and applying the formula evaluation to determine if the formula is satisfied. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/630590 |
| ART UNIT | 2165 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 7/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 17/30424 (20130101) G06F 21/6227 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/008 (20130101) H04L 9/0894 (20130101) H04L 2209/42 (20130101) |
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| US 09536698 | Wong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Liang Jie Wong (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Byron Freelon (Chicago, Illinois); Timm Rohwer (Arlington, Massachusetts); Nuh Gedik (Watertown, Massachusetts); Steven Glenn Johnson (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Liang Jie Wong (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Byron Freelon (Chicago, Illinois); Timm Rohwer (Arlington, Massachusetts); Nuh Gedik (Watertown, Massachusetts); Steven Glenn Johnson (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for modulating a particle pulse include a succession of Hermite-Gaussian optical modes that effectively construct a three-dimensional optical trap in the particle pulse's rest frame. Optical incidence angles between the propagation of the particle pulse and the optical pulse are tuned for improved compression. Particles pulses that can be modulated by these methods and apparatus include charged particles and particles with non-zero polarizability in the Rayleigh regime. Exact solutions to Maxwell's equations for first-order Hermite-Gaussian beams demonstrate single-electron pulse compression factors of more than 100 in both longitudinal and transverse dimensions. The methods and apparatus are useful in ultrafast electron imaging for both single- and multi-electron pulse compression, and as a means of circumventing temporal distortions in magnetic lenses when focusing ultra-short electron pulses. |
| FILED | Friday, August 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/832056 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 37/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 2237/047 (20130101) H01J 2237/063 (20130101) |
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Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 09534008 | Choe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrea Choe (Los Angeles, California); Paul W. Sternberg (Pasadena, California); Frank C. Schroeder (Ithaca, New York); Stephan H. Von Reuss (Jena, Germany); Fatma Kaplan (Gainesville, Florida); Peter A. Teal (Gainesville, Florida); Hans Alborn (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (Ithaca, New York); The United States of America, As Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrea Choe (Los Angeles, California); Paul W. Sternberg (Pasadena, California); Frank C. Schroeder (Ithaca, New York); Stephan H. Von Reuss (Jena, Germany); Fatma Kaplan (Gainesville, Florida); Peter A. Teal (Gainesville, Florida); Hans Alborn (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of modifying nematode behavior using certain isolated modulator compounds. Also disclosed are methods of promoting or inhibiting reproduction in a nematode population, methods of promoting or inhibiting nematode aggregation at a first location, and methods of treating or preventing parasite infection of a plant. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/237786 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Organic 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 37/36 (20130101) A01N 43/16 (20130101) A01N 43/38 (20130101) A01N 63/02 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/454 (20130101) A61K 31/7028 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 309/10 (20130101) Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 15/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07H 15/08 (20130101) C07H 15/10 (20130101) C07H 15/18 (20130101) C07H 15/26 (20130101) |
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Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 09534319 | Tour et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Matteo Pasquali (Houston, Texas); Natnael Behabtu (Wilmington, Delaware); Jay R. Lomeda (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Dmitry V. Kosynkin (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia); Amanda Duque (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Micah J. Green (Lubbock, Texas); A. Nicholas Parra-Vasquez (Bordeaux, France); Colin Young (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Matteo Pasquali (Houston, Texas); Natnael Behabtu (Wilmington, Delaware); Jay R. Lomeda (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Dmitry V. Kosynkin (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia); Amanda Duque (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Micah J. Green (Lubbock, Texas); A. Nicholas Parra-Vasquez (Bordeaux, France); Colin Young (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for dissolving carbon materials such as, for example, graphite, graphite oxide, oxidized graphene nanoribbons and reduced graphene nanoribbons in a solvent containing at least one superacid are described herein. Both isotropic and liquid crystalline solutions can be produced, depending on the concentration of the carbon material The superacid solutions can be formed into articles such as, for example, fibers and films, mixed with other materials such as, for example, polymers, or used for functionalization of the carbon material. The superacid results in exfoliation of the carbon material to produce individual particles of the carbon material. In some embodiments, graphite or graphite oxide is dissolved in a solvent containing at least one superacid to form graphene or graphene oxide, which can be subsequently isolated. In some embodiments, liquid crystalline solutions of oxidized graphene nanoribbons in water are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, February 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/202352 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/04 (20130101) C01B 31/043 (20130101) C01B 31/0469 (20130101) C01B 31/0484 (20130101) Mechanical Methods or Apparatus in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons D01D 1/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class D01D 5/04 (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) |
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Department of the Treasury (TREASURY)
| US 09533305 | Esfandyarpour et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | GenapSys, Inc. (Redwood City, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GENAPSYS, INC. (Redwood City, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hesaam Esfandyarpour (Redwood City, California); Mark Oldham (Emerald Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method comprises magnetically holding a bead carrying biological material (e.g., nucleic acid, which may be in the form of DNA fragments or amplified DNA) in a specific location of a substrate, and applying an electric field local to the bead to isolate the biological material or products or byproducts of reactions of the biological material. For example, the bead is isolated from other beads having associated biological material. The electric field in various embodiments concentrates reagents for an amplification or sequencing reaction, and/or concentrates and isolates detectable reaction by-products. For example, by isolating nucleic acids around individual beads, the electric field can allow for clonal amplification, as an alternative to emulsion PCR. In other embodiments, the electric field isolates a nanosensor proximate to the bead, to facilitate detection of at least one of local pH change, local conductivity change, local charge concentration change and local heat. The beads may be trapped in the form of an array of localized magnetic field regions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 25, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/835070 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502761 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 7/52 (20130101) B01L 2200/0668 (20130101) B01L 2300/089 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2400/043 (20130101) B01L 2400/0415 (20130101) B01L 2400/0418 (20130101) B01L 2400/0421 (20130101) B01L 2400/0427 (20130101) B01L 2400/0655 (20130101) Magnetic or Electrostatic Separation of Solid Materials From Solid Materials or Fluids; Separation by High-voltage Electric Fields B03C 1/288 (20130101) B03C 5/005 (20130101) B03C 5/026 (20130101) B03C 2201/26 (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 1/6848 (20130101) C12Q 1/6848 (20130101) C12Q 1/6853 (20130101) C12Q 1/6853 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 1/6874 (20130101) C12Q 1/6874 (20130101) C12Q 2523/307 (20130101) C12Q 2523/307 (20130101) C12Q 2523/307 (20130101) C12Q 2563/116 (20130101) C12Q 2563/116 (20130101) C12Q 2563/143 (20130101) C12Q 2563/143 (20130101) C12Q 2565/543 (20130101) C12Q 2565/543 (20130101) Combinatorial Chemistry; Libraries, e.g Chemical Libraries C40B 60/10 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/40 (20130101) G01N 27/4145 (20130101) G01N 27/4146 (20130101) G01N 2001/4038 (20130101) |
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National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
| US 09535215 | Jin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Danliang Jin (Bothell, Washington); Guomin Yu (Bothell, Washington); Hui Chen (Kirkland, Washington); Baoquan Chen (Bothell, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BRPHOTONICS PRODUCTOS OPTOELECTRONICOS LTDA. (Sao Paulo, Brazil) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Danliang Jin (Bothell, Washington); Guomin Yu (Bothell, Washington); Hui Chen (Kirkland, Washington); Baoquan Chen (Bothell, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A low index of refraction hybrid optical cladding may be formed from a fluorinated sol-gel. An electro-optic device may include a poled organic chromophore-loaded modulation layer (electro-optic polymer) and at least one adjacent fluorinated hybrid sol-gel cladding layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/432973 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 77/24 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/13 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 2006/121 (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 1/065 (20130101) G02F 2202/38 (20130101) |
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Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 09534958 | Lhamon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael E. Lhamon (Lexington, Kentucky); Anuj Agarwal (Lexington, Kentucky) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Michael E. Lhamon (Lexington, Kentucky); Anuj Agarwal (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | Detecting infrared radiation from a rodent in a cage using an infrared sensor array with a field of view that corresponds to a moving area of the rodent to determine position, velocity, head position, etc. and determining a behavior of the rodent based on the detected infrared radiation. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 01, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/872596 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 29/005 (20130101) Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 5/10 (20130101) G01J 5/0025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring Linear or Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, or Shock; Indicating Presence, Absence, or Direction, of Movement G01P 3/68 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/33 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
| US 09535658 | Kolesnikov |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vladimir Y. Kolesnikov (Jersey City, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alcatel Lucent (Boulogne-Billancourt, France) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir Y. Kolesnikov (Jersey City, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Secure private database querying on a database for a query having a formula evaluation on at least two keywords A and B comprises: a server receiving a Bloom filter tree comprised of encrypted Bloom filters of encrypted keywords from the database, wherein each Bloom filter in the Bloom filter tree is separately masked by a random mask pad P; receiving an encrypted version of the keywords A and B from the client; and obtaining masked Bloom filter indices for the keywords A and B. The client and server participate in secure function evaluation (SFE) with the client. The server has an input comprising the masked Bloom filter indices for the keywords A and B and the client has an input comprising the random mask pad P. The secure function evaluation comprises: removing the random mask pad P from the masked Bloom filter indices input by the server; determining if there is a matching Bloom filter for each of the keywords A and B; and applying the formula evaluation to determine if the formula is satisfied. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/630590 |
| ART UNIT | 2165 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 7/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 17/30424 (20130101) G06F 21/6227 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/008 (20130101) H04L 9/0894 (20130101) H04L 2209/42 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09534138 | Economy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ATSP Innovations, LLC (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ATSP Innovations (Champaign, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Economy (Urbana, Illinois); Andreas Polycarpou (College Station, Texas); Jacob Meyer (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel Aromatic Thermosetting Copolyester (ATSP) can be processed into highly effective wear resistant coatings by blending with polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE) and other additives. Surface treatments/coatings are key to improving wear performance and durability in a wide array of applications. The problems associated with use of liquid lubricants, hard/soft coatings are well known but only modest progress has been achieved due to lack of research on new material systems. These coatings were fabricated and tested as highly effective wear resistant coatings by blending ATSP with PTFE and other tribologically beneficial additives. The main advantages of these polymeric-based coatings are their relatively low cost and simple substrate surface conditioning (i.e., no need for expensive surface preparation before coating). |
| FILED | Thursday, April 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/700265 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 1/06 (20130101) B05D 3/0254 (20130101) B05D 2202/00 (20130101) B05D 2506/15 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 63/127 (20130101) C08G 63/133 (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 167/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 4/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 09532961 | Peterson |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Darryl R Peterson (Barrington Hills, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (North Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darryl R Peterson (Barrington Hills, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for preventing blood-brain barrier reperfusion injury in a mammalian blood-brain barrier endothelial cell during reperfusion following ischemic stroke comprising administering an effective amount of a γ-glutamyl-D-cysteine antioxidant to the subject and a kit for doing the same. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/868902 |
| 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 31/145 (20130101) A61K 31/155 (20130101) A61K 31/155 (20130101) A61K 31/198 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/198 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09535245 | Kowalevicz |
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| APPLICANT(S) | RAYTHEON COMPANY (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RAYTHEON COMPANY (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Kowalevicz (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | In one example a method of deceiving an optical augmentation device includes receiving an interrogation beam at an optical system from the optical augmentation device, encoding the interrogation beam with a false signature mis-identifying the optical system, and retro-reflecting the encoded interrogation beam to the optical augmentation device, without retro-reflecting the original interrogation beam. |
| FILED | Friday, December 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/714812 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 26/0841 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/14643 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
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, January 03, 2017.
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.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
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)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
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