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| US 09585380 | Merali et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Salim Merali (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Oscar Mauricio Perez Leal (Barranquilla, Colombia); Magid Abou-Gharbia (Exton, Pennsylvania); Wayne E. Childers (New Hope, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TEMPLE UNIVERSITY Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Salim Merali (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Oscar Mauricio Perez Leal (Barranquilla, Colombia); Magid Abou-Gharbia (Exton, Pennsylvania); Wayne E. Childers (New Hope, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides an isolated nucleic acid having a sequence encoding a spermidine/spermine acetyltransferase (“SSAT”), wherein translation of an mRNA comprising the encoded SSAT has increased basal translation and increased stimulated translation, compared to a wild-type mRNA encoding SSAT. Methods of use for the nucleic acid are also provided. Methods and compositions are also provided for reducing ischemia-reperfusion injury in organs or tissue for transplantation. |
| FILED | Friday, August 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/342063 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| 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 1/0226 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/1029 (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 1/6802 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 201/03 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/502 (20130101) G01N 2500/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09585556 | Buckland et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bioptigen, Inc. (Morrisville, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bioptigen, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric L. Buckland (Hickory, North Carolina); Bradley A. Bower (Hillsborough, North Carolina); Robert H. Hart (Cary, North Carolina); Pete Huening (Clayton, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems for imaging a sample are provided. The system includes an OCT imaging portion having an associated OCT path defined by one set of optical elements between an OCT signal delivery optical fiber and the sample; an image capture portion having an associated image capture path defined by a second set of optical elements between an image capture device and the sample; and an illuminator portion having an associated illumination path defined by a third set of optical elements between an illumination source and the sample. The OCT path, the image capture path, and the illuminator path have at least one optical element in common, and the respective paths differ from each other by at least one optical element. The illumination path includes a multi-wavelength source of optical radiation. |
| FILED | Friday, February 26, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/054714 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 3/14 (20130101) A61B 3/102 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 9/0203 (20130101) G01B 9/02091 (20130101) |
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| US 09585579 | He et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bin He (Arden Hills, Minnesota); Zhaoye Zhou (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bin He (Arden Hills, Minnesota); Zhaoye Zhou (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for non-invasively generating a report of cardiac electrical activities of a subject includes determining, using cardiac electrical activation information, equivalent current densities (ECDs). The ECDs are assembled into time-course ECD information and a spectrum of the time-course ECD information is analyzed to determine peaks for spectral characteristics of atrial fibrillation (AF). The spectral characteristics of AF are correlated with potential electrical sources of the AF and a report is generated indicating the potential electrical sources of the AF spatially registered with the medical imaging data. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/266001 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0037 (20130101) A61B 5/0044 (20130101) A61B 5/046 (20130101) A61B 5/055 (20130101) A61B 5/0432 (20130101) A61B 5/04012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/7278 (20130101) A61B 5/7289 (20130101) A61B 6/032 (20130101) A61B 6/507 (20130101) A61B 2576/023 (20130101) |
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| US 09585631 | Vappou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonathan Vappou (New York, New York); Elisa Konofagou (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Vappou (New York, New York); Elisa Konofagou (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A device, method, and system for using an acoustic radiation force resulting from focused ultrasound energy in order to generate an internal force remotely and to measure quantitatively tissue elasticity in vivo and non-invasively. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/701116 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 8/485 (20130101) A61B 8/0858 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 7/52042 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) |
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| US 09585666 | Yu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Hoboken, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Hoboken, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaojun Yu (Fishers, Indiana); Wei Chang (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A nerve guidance conduit includes a spiral structured porous sheet decorated with channels on its surface and electrospun nanofibers in a parallel alignment with the channels and an outer tubular structure including randomly-oriented nanofibers. Such a structure provides augmented surface areas for providing directional guidance and augmented surfaces for enhancing and peripheral nerve regeneration. The structure also has the mechanical and nutrient transport requirements required over long regeneration periods. To prepare a nerve guidance conduit, porous polymer sheet is prepared by a solvent casting method while using a template of thin rods to form parallel channels on a surface of the sheet. Aligned nanofibers are deposited on the sheet parallel to the channels. The polymer sheet is then wound to form a spiral structure. A dense layer of randomly-oriented nanofibers may be deposited on the outside of the spiral. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/313384 |
| ART UNIT | 3731 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 17/1128 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 2017/00526 (20130101) A61B 2017/1132 (20130101) |
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| US 09585850 | McCafferty et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dewey G. McCafferty (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Julie A. Pollock (Champaign, Illinois); David M. Gooden (Durham, North Carolina); Marc G. Caron (Hillsborough, North Carolina); Raul R. Gainetdinov (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Tatyana D. Sotnikova (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method of treating Parkinson's disease using arylcyclopropylamine compounds. The arylcyclopropylamine compounds have the following formula wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are described herein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/513488 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/135 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/135 (20130101) A61K 31/198 (20130101) A61K 31/198 (20130101) A61K 31/343 (20130101) A61K 31/343 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 211/40 (20130101) C07C 211/42 (20130101) C07C 217/74 (20130101) C07C 323/31 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 317/58 (20130101) |
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| US 09585855 | Yang |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF UTAH RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tianxin Yang (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of treating the side effects of a toxic medical therapy using nitrated lipids. In particular, the methods comprise the use of nitrated fatty acids or esters thereof to treat side effects, including organ system damage, caused by chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and the administration of other toxic agents. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/205108 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/201 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09585857 | Gudas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lorraine J Gudas (New York, New York); Yannick Benoit (Ontario, Canada); Ronald Perez (Somerset, New Jersey); Xiao-Han Tang (Staten Island, New York); Steven Trasino (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to pharmaceutical composition and methods of using vitamin A and/or RARB agonist for the treatment or prevention of diseases or conditions associated with high fat diet and/or vitamin deficiency. After smoking, high fat diet is said to be the second most lethal habit, causing 300,000 deaths each year in the U.S. alone. High fat diet leads to many health problems, including obesity, stroke, cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, heart disease, and diseases in other organs such as liver and kidney. |
| FILED | Friday, January 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/761341 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/07 (20130101) A61K 31/192 (20130101) A61K 31/203 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/426 (20130101) |
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| US 09585910 | Sessler 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) | Jonathan L. Sessler (Austin, Texas); Christopher W. Bielawski (Austin, Texas); Abdullah Aydogan (Austin, Texas); Daniel J. Coady (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Polymeric compounds containing polymer backbones functionalized with ion-specific recognition elements and methods for the use of these compounds are described herein. The polymeric compounds may contain multiple types of ion-specific recognition elements depending on a specific application. The polymeric compounds can be used to remove ionic species from a solution, for example, in separations applications in which a single or multiple types of ionic species are desired to be removed from the solution. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/445744 |
| 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 31/74 (20130101) A61K 31/787 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/48076 (20130101) A61K 51/1241 (20130101) A61K 51/1268 (20130101) Separation B01D 15/00 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/26 (20130101) B01J 20/261 (20130101) B01J 20/262 (20130101) B01J 20/265 (20130101) B01J 20/321 (20130101) B01J 20/3212 (20130101) B01J 20/3255 (20130101) B01J 41/125 (20130101) B01J 45/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09585915 | Davis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | EMORY UNIVERSITY (Atlanta, Georgia); GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia); Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael E. Davis (Atlanta, Georgia); Archana V. Boopathy (Lilburn, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates to self-assembling peptides that form hydrogels comprising peptide sequences for the activation of signaling pathways. In certain embodiments, the disclosure relates to compositions comprising a recombinant polypeptide comprising a cell signaling sequence, e.g., JAG-1 sequence, fused to a hydrogel polypeptide sequence. In certain embodiments, the disclosure relates to methods of cell culture on three dimensional scaffolds/hydrogels composed of self-assembling peptides disclosed herein. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/602839 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 14/00 (20130101) C07K 14/70596 (20130101) C07K 2319/70 (20130101) C07K 2319/75 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0068 (20130101) C12N 5/0657 (20130101) C12N 2501/42 (20130101) |
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| US 09585930 | Spira et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Avrum Spira (Newton, Massachusetts); Marc Lenburg (Brookline, Massachusetts); Joshua Campbell (Quincy, Massachusetts); Dimitri Petchkovski (Vancouver, Canada); Darryl Andrew Knight (Vancouver, Canada); James Cameron Hogg (Vancouver, Canada); Julie Erin Zeskind Gil (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts); The University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Avrum Spira (Newton, Massachusetts); Marc Lenburg (Brookline, Massachusetts); Joshua Campbell (Quincy, Massachusetts); Dimitri Petchkovski (Vancouver, Canada); Darryl Andrew Knight (Vancouver, Canada); James Cameron Hogg (Vancouver, Canada); Julie Erin Zeskind Gil (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention described herein relates to methods of treating emphysema and COPD with a GHK tripeptide. The invention further relates to methods of determining the state of the lungs using biomarkers described herein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/004781 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — 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 38/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (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 15/009 (20130101) A61M 16/14 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6881 (20130101) C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6884 (20130101) G01N 33/54306 (20130101) G01N 33/56966 (20130101) G01N 2500/04 (20130101) G01N 2800/60 (20130101) G01N 2800/122 (20130101) |
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| US 09585933 | Pagano |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pennsylvania Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick J. Pagano (Sewickley, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for treatment of a condition mediated by Nox2 in a patient. The method comprises administering to the patient by inhalation a polypeptide as described herein, able to inhibit superoxide production by Nox2. Conditions treatable in this manner include, without limitation, one or more of: right ventricular hypertrophy; pulmonary hypertension; acute lung injury; obstructive sleep apnea; ischemia/reperfusion injury in the lung; pulmonary fibrosis; an obstructive lung disorder such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), asthma, cystic fibrosis and emphysema; and atherosclerosis. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 29, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/608655 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/08 (20130101) A61K 38/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09585934 | Soliman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Extend Biosciences, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Extend Biosciences, Inc. (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tarik Soliman (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Laura M. Hales (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Daniel B. Hall (Easton, Massachusetts); Christopher So (Henderson, Nevada); Howard P. Sard (Arlington, Massachusetts); Vishnumurthy Hegde (Chelmsford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides non-hormonal vitamin D conjugated to apelin proteins that result in increased absorption, bioavailability or circulating half-life when compared to non-conjugated forms. In some embodiments, the vitamin D targeting groups are coupled to the apelin proteins via the third carbon on the vitamin D backbone. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/919601 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/48023 (20130101) A61K 47/48107 (20130101) A61K 47/48215 (20130101) |
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| US 09585936 | Sullivan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Schepens Eye Research Institute (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Schepens Eye Research Institute (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Sullivan (San Diego, California); Tannin A. Schmidt (Calgary, Canada); David A. Sullivan (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition, and methods of use thereof, for treating ocular boundary deficiency, symptoms associated therewith, or an undesired condition that is associated with or causes discomfort at the ocular surface. The pharmaceutical composition of the present invention comprises a human PRG4 protein, or a lubricating fragment thereof, suspended in an ophthalmically acceptable vehicle. The pharmaceutical composition of the present invention may also comprise one or more ophthalmically acceptable agents selected from the group consisting of an ophthalmically acceptable demulcent, excipient, astringent, vasoconstrictor, emollient, sodium hyaluronate, hyaluronic acid, and surface active phospholipids, in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier for topical administration. |
| FILED | Friday, December 18, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/974055 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0048 (20130101) A61K 9/0051 (20130101) A61K 31/568 (20130101) A61K 31/568 (20130101) A61K 31/685 (20130101) A61K 31/688 (20130101) A61K 31/715 (20130101) A61K 31/728 (20130101) A61K 38/13 (20130101) A61K 38/13 (20130101) A61K 38/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/17 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 38/1841 (20130101) A61K 38/1841 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 47/02 (20130101) A61K 47/24 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09585950 | Wacker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | GLYCOVAXYN AG (Schlieren, Switzerland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GLYCOVAXYN AG (, Switzerland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Wacker (Unterengstringen, Switzerland); Michael Kowarik (Zurich, Switzerland); Michael Wetter (Zurich, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention encompasses a novel S. aureus bioconjugate vaccine. More generally, the invention is directed to Gram-positive and other bioconjugate vaccines containing a protein carrier, at least one polysaccharide such as a capsular Gram-positive polysaccharide, and, optionally, an adjuvant or pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The instant invention also includes methods of producing Gram-positive and other bioconjugate vaccines. An N-glycosylated protein is also provided that contains one or more polysaccharides such as Gram-positive polysaccharides. The invention is additionally directed to engineered prokaryotic organisms comprising nucleotide sequences encoding a glycosyltransferase of a first prokaryotic organism and a glycosyltransferase of a second prokaryotic organism. The invention further includes plasmids and prokaryotic cells transformed with plasmids encoding polysaccharides and enzymes which produce an N-glycosylated protein and/or bioconjugate vaccine. Further, the invention is directed to methods of inducing an immune response in a mammal comprising administering said bioconjugate vaccines. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/494150 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/085 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/64 (20130101) A61K 2039/6037 (20130101) A61K 2039/6087 (20130101) Peptides C07K 2319/034 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/70 (20130101) C12N 15/74 (20130101) |
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| US 09585957 | Powell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonathan D Powell (Baltimore, Maryland); Charles George Drake (Baltimore, Maryland); Paul Zarek (McLean, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan D Powell (Baltimore, Maryland); Charles George Drake (Baltimore, Maryland); Paul Zarek (McLean, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are uses of A2a adenosine receptor antagonists and agonists to provide long term modulation of immune responses. A2a receptor antagonists in particular are provided to enhance immune responses by reducing T-cell mediated tolerance to antigenic stimuli and agonists are provided to enhance effectiveness of immunosuppressive agents. The application provides methods of treatment and prevention based on the long term effects of the compounds on T cell responses. |
| FILED | Monday, September 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/676741 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/39558 (20130101) A61K 39/39558 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09585958 | Acharya et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Abhinav P. Acharya (El Cerrito, California); Niren Murthy (Berkeley, California); Elliot C. Woods (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides methods of reducing levels of lactate in a fluid or tissue in an individual. The present disclosure provides pharmaceutical compositions suitable for use in the methods. |
| FILED | Friday, September 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/491714 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/69 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09585971 | Deverman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin E. Deverman (Pasadena, California); Paul H. Patterson (Altadena, California); Viviana Gradinaru (La Canada —Flintridge, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods of selective screening. In addition, various targeting proteins and sequences, as well as methods of their use, are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, September 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/485024 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/47 (20130101) A61K 38/50 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 38/2093 (20130101) A61K 38/4813 (20130101) A61K 39/3955 (20130101) A61K 48/0058 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) C07K 2319/33 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 2750/14122 (20130101) C12N 2750/14143 (20130101) C12N 2750/14145 (20130101) C12N 2810/6027 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 304/14009 (20130101) C12Y 305/01015 (20130101) |
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| US 09585972 | Thornton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sherry L. Thornton (Cincinnati, Ohio); Xiaoyang Qi (Cincinnati, Ohio); Matthew J. Flick (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Sherry L. Thornton (Cincinnati, Ohio); Xiaoyang Qi (Cincinnati, Ohio); Matthew J. Flick (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure demonstrates that a nanovesicle comprising a membrane-associated lysosomal protein (saposin C; “SapC”) incorporated into a phospholipid has a high fusogenic affinity for phosphatidylserine-rich domains on the surfaces of target cell membranes. It is believed that the nanovesicles target surface exposed phosphatidylserine on the membranes of cells associated with arthritis, allowing for detection of local tissue damage associated with arthritis. In plasma membranes, phosphatidylserine is normally present only on the inner leaflet but is “flipped” to the outer leaflet upon the presence of cell damage. Incorporation of the fluorophore in the nanovesicles allows for the in vivo visualization of the fluorophore in targeted tissue and provides a technique to detect and evaluate the onset and progression of arthritic disease in an animal. Furthermore, the use of the nanovesicle in optical imaging methods provides great promise for analyzing events occurring early in the pathogenesis of arthritis and arthritic disease. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/116711 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/004 (20130101) A61B 5/0071 (20130101) A61B 5/4528 (20130101) A61B 2503/40 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/5146 (20130101) A61K 49/0017 (20130101) A61K 49/0056 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09585975 | Meade et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J. Meade (Wilmette, Illinois); Renee C. Strauch (Charlotte, North Carolina); Luke F. Vistain (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to MRI based imaging. In particular, the present invention provides MRI contrast agents targeted to a HaloTag protein with tunable relaxation properties thereby providing optimal relaxivity for low field strength imaging and the other optimal relaxivity for high field strength imaging. Moreover, the MRI contrast agents are used to detect gene expression (of a gene of interest) in real time in vivo, to detect changes in gene expression (of a gene of interest) over time in, for example, an individual organism, to detect gene expression changes (of a gene of interest) in response to therapeutics, in cell labeling for MR imaging, in clinical diagnostics, and in theranostics. |
| FILED | Friday, March 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/853324 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/14 (20130101) A61K 49/108 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 49/126 (20130101) |
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| US 09586055 | Efimov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor R. Efimov (Wildwood, Missouri); Valentin I. Krinski (Villeneuve Loubet, France); Vladmir P. Nikolski (St. Anthony, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for extinguishing a cardiac arrhythmia utilizes destructive interference of the passing of the reentry wave tip of an anatomical reentry through a depolarized region created by a relatively low voltage electric field in such a way as to effectively unpin the anatomical reentry. Preferably, the relatively low voltage electric field is defined by at least one unpinning shock(s) that are lower than an expected lower limit of vulnerability as established, for example, by a defibrillation threshold test. By understanding the physics of the electric field distribution between cardiac cells, the method permits the delivery of an electric field sufficient to unpin the core of the anatomical reentry, whether the precise or estimated location of the reentry is known or unknown and without the risk of inducting ventricular fibrillation. A number of embodiments for performing the method are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, June 29, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/753773 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0402 (20130101) A61B 5/0464 (20130101) A61B 5/7239 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/39 (20130101) A61N 1/3627 (20130101) A61N 1/3906 (20130101) A61N 1/3962 (20130101) A61N 1/3987 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09586880 | Yuan 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) | Junying Yuan (Newton, Massachusetts); Emily P. Hsu (Munich, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds having the following structure (VI-A): or any pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof, or any stereoisomer thereof, wherein RE1, RE2, RE3, RE4, ZE2 and ZE3 are as disclosed herein, are provided. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds, and methods for use of the compounds for treating disorders associated with necrosptosis are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, September 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/033176 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 33/38 (20130101) C07C 35/37 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/08 (20130101) C07D 211/78 (20130101) C07D 211/90 (20130101) C07D 215/08 (20130101) C07D 231/06 (20130101) C07D 231/12 (20130101) C07D 231/56 (20130101) C07D 233/02 (20130101) C07D 277/18 (20130101) C07D 277/46 (20130101) C07D 307/52 (20130101) C07D 333/20 (20130101) C07D 403/06 (20130101) C07D 403/12 (20130101) C07D 405/06 (20130101) C07D 417/12 (20130101) C07D 495/04 (20130101) C07D 498/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09586883 | Wickens et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zachary K. Wickens (Pasadena, California); Bill Morandi (Pasadena, California); Robert H. Grubbs (South Pasadena, California); Kacper Skakuj (Durham, North Carolina); Sarah M. Bronner (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure is directed to methods of preparing organic aldehydes, each method comprising contacting a terminal olefin with an oxidizing mixture comprising: (a) a dichloro-palladium complex; (b) a copper complex; (c) a source of nitrite; under aerobic reaction conditions sufficient to convert at least a portion of the terminal olefin to an aldehyde. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/255049 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 45/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 51/373 (20130101) C07C 51/373 (20130101) C07C 59/235 (20130101) C07C 201/12 (20130101) C07C 205/44 (20130101) C07C 209/60 (20130101) C07C 209/60 (20130101) C07C 211/48 (20130101) C07C 213/00 (20130101) C07C 213/00 (20130101) C07C 217/48 (20130101) C07C 227/08 (20130101) C07C 227/08 (20130101) C07C 229/18 (20130101) C07C 249/04 (20130101) C07C 253/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 301/22 (20130101) |
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| US 09586928 | Kamenecka et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Theodore Mark Kamenecka (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida); Patrick R. Griffin (Jupiter, Florida); Youseung Shin (Dublin, Ohio); Yuanjun He (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida); Anne-Laure Blayo (Jupiter, Florida); Brent R. Lyda (Jupiter, Florida); Marcel Koenig (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida); Naresh Kumar (Indianapolis, Indiana); Thomas Burris (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theodore Mark Kamenecka (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida); Patrick R. Griffin (Jupiter, Florida); Youseung Shin (Dublin, Ohio); Yuanjun He (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida); Anne-Laure Blayo (Jupiter, Florida); Brent R. Lyda (Jupiter, Florida); Marcel Koenig (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida); Naresh Kumar (Indianapolis, Indiana); Thomas Burris (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides small molecule modulators of retinoic acid receptor-related orphan receptors such as RORα, RORβ, or RORγ, of formula with the variable atoms as defined herein and R1 comprising a hydroxyl- or alkoxyl-substituted fluoroalkyl group. Compounds of the invention can be effective modulators at concentrations ineffective to act on LXR receptors, or on other nuclear receptors, or other biological targets. Methods of modulation the RORs and methods of treating metabolic disorders, immune disorders, cancer, and CNS disorders wherein modulation of an ROR is medically indicated are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/118116 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/495 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/5375 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/09 (20130101) C07D 209/14 (20130101) C07D 211/22 (20130101) C07D 213/36 (20130101) C07D 213/61 (20130101) C07D 213/64 (20130101) C07D 213/74 (20130101) C07D 213/82 (20130101) C07D 215/12 (20130101) C07D 233/61 (20130101) C07D 277/28 (20130101) C07D 277/64 (20130101) C07D 295/26 (20130101) C07D 295/096 (20130101) C07D 295/185 (20130101) C07D 295/205 (20130101) C07D 295/215 (20130101) C07D 307/24 (20130101) C07D 317/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 317/58 (20130101) C07D 319/20 (20130101) C07D 333/20 (20130101) C07D 333/34 (20130101) C07D 401/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09586944 | Disney et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew D. Disney (Jupiter, Florida); Lirui Guan (Rockville, Maryland); Wang-Yong Yang (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides small molecule compounds that can form covalent adducts with specific sequences of RNA, such as the hairpin loop r(CUG)exp sequence which is a cause of myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), or the r(CGG)exp sequence which is a cause of fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS); to methods of making the small molecule compounds; and to methods of using the small molecular compounds in the treatment of DM1 or of FXTAS in patients afflicted therewith. The invention further provides a method for identifying an RNA target of a small molecule drug in vivo, using a small molecule drug conjugated to an RNA-reactive crosslinker group and a reporter group, contacting a cell or nucleic acid extract with the small molecule drug conjugate, then separating RNA targets crosslinked to the small molecule drug conjugate by interaction of the affinity group with a complementary affinity group. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/904999 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 48/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 403/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 495/04 (20130101) C07D 519/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09586946 | Zhan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang-Guo Zhan (Lexington, Kentucky); Kyung Bo Kim (Lexington, Kentucky); Vinod Kasam (Lexington, Kentucky); Na-Re Lee (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds useful for inhibiting the immunoproteasome have the formula of Methods and compounds for inhibiting the immunoproteasome, particularly, immunoproteasome inhibitors with non-peptide scaffolds, are described. |
| FILED | Monday, May 16, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/155627 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 405/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09586964 | Lindsley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig W. Lindsley (Brentwood, Tennessee); P. Jeffrey Conn (Brentwood, Tennessee); Michael R. Wood (Brentwood, Tennessee); Corey R. Hopkins (Nolensville, Tennessee); Bruce J. Melancon (Nashville, Tennessee); Michael S. Poslusney (Nashville, Tennessee); Darren W. Engers (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the invention relates to substituted 2-(4-heterocyclylbenzyl)isoindolin-1-one analogs compounds, derivatives thereof, and related compounds, which are useful as positive allosteric modulators of the muscarinic acetylcholine receptor M1 (mAChR M1); synthesis methods for making the compounds; pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds; and methods of treating neurological and psychiatric disorders associated with muscarinic acetylcholine receptor 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 | Sunday, October 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/354560 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 275/06 (20130101) C07D 401/10 (20130101) C07D 401/14 (20130101) C07D 403/10 (20130101) C07D 405/10 (20130101) C07D 417/10 (20130101) C07D 471/04 (20130101) C07D 487/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 519/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09586974 | Boger |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH LINSTITUTE (La Jolla, California); Dale L. Boger (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (LaJolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dale Boger (Lajolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A group of cyclic N-acyl O-amino phenol CBI derivatives were synthesized and shown to be pro-drugs, subject to reductive activation by cleavage of a N-0 bond, effectively releasing the free drug in functional in vitro cellular assays for cytotoxic activity approaching the activity of the free drug, yet remain essentially stable to ex vivo DNA alkylation conditions. Assessment of the in vivo antitumor activity of a representative pro-drug indicates that a contemplated pro-drug approaches the potency and exceeds the efficacy of the free drug itself (CBI-indole2), indicating that the inactive pro-drugs not only effectively release the free drug in vivo, but that they offer additional advantages related to a controlled or targeted release in vivo. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/773257 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/5365 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 498/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 519/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09586981 | Rosebrugh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lauren E. Rosebrugh (Pasadena, California); Myles B. Herbert (Somerville, Massachusetts); Vanessa M. Marx (Los Angeles, California); Benjamin K. Keitz (San Francisco, California); Robert H. Grubbs (South Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel chelated ruthenium-based metathesis catalyst bearing an N-2,6-diisopropylphenyl group is reported and displays near-perfect selectivity for the Z-olefin (>95%), as well as unparalleled TONs of up to 7,400, in a variety of homodimerization and industrially relevant metathesis reactions. This derivative and other new catalytically-active species were synthesized using an improved method employing sodium carboxylates to induce the salt metathesis and C—H activation of these chelated complexes. All of these new ruthenium-based catalysts are highly Z-selective in the homodimerization of terminal olefins. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/649725 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 31/2265 (20130101) B01J 31/2278 (20130101) B01J 2231/20 (20130101) B01J 2231/32 (20130101) B01J 2531/821 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 2/34 (20130101) C07C 29/00 (20130101) C07C 45/673 (20130101) C07C 67/293 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 313/00 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 15/0046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 110/14 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 61/08 (20130101) C08G 2261/418 (20130101) |
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| US 09586984 | Gervay-Hague 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) | Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague (Davis, California); Wenjun Du (Mount Pleasant, Michigan); Suvarn S. Kulkarni (Mumbai, India); Matthew Schombs (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a one-pot method of preparing an unprotected α-O-glycolipid. The first step involves contacting a protected α-iodo sugar with a catalyst and a lipid comprising a hydroxy group, under conditions sufficient to prepare a protected α-O-glycolipid. The second step involves deprotecting the protected α-O-glycolipid under conditions sufficient to prepare the unprotected α-O-glycolipid, wherein the contacting and deprotecting steps are performed in a single vessel. The present invention also provides a one-pot method of preparing an unprotected β-O-glycolipid following the steps for the preparation of the unprotected α-O-glycolipid. |
| FILED | Monday, January 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/148477 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 1/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07H 5/00 (20130101) C07H 5/06 (20130101) C07H 15/04 (20130101) C07H 15/06 (20130101) C07H 15/10 (20130101) Steroids C07J 17/005 (20130101) |
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| US 09586992 | Bradley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Luke Bradley (Lexington, Kentucky); Don Marshall Gash (Lexington, Kentucky); Greg Gerhardt (Nicholasville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel proteins, referred to herein as amidated glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) peptides (or “Amidated Dopamine Neuron Stimulating peptides (ADNS peptides)”), that are useful for treating brain diseases and injuries that result in dopaminergic deficiencies. |
| FILED | Monday, January 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/153844 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/08 (20130101) A61K 38/10 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 7/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09586995 | Feng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF UTAH RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yumei Feng (Fort Collins, Colorado); Tianxin Yang (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods of treating kidney disease, infectious or inflammatory diseases, acute kidney injury and hypertension by administering a (pro)renin receptor (PRR) antagonist. In some instances the PRR antagonist is a polypeptide. The PRR antagonist can be a polypeptide having at least 70% identity to the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:2. Also disclosed are methods of decreasing proteinuria and methods of promoting wound healing by administering a PRR antagonist. |
| FILED | Friday, August 01, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/449714 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/43 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09587001 | Cochran et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer R. Cochran (Stanford, California); Jun Woo Kim (Fullerton, California); Frank V. Cochran (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are knottin peptides containing non-natural amino acids so that they can be formed by chemical conjugation into two or more knottin monomers. The knottin monomers comprise a non-natural amino acid such as an aminooxy residue within the polypeptide sequence. The exemplified dimers were produced by oxime formation between two aldehyde groups present on a polyether linker and an aminooxy functional group that was site-specifically incorporated the knottin. Knottins variants based on EETI (Ecballium elaterium trypsin inhibitor) and AgRP (Agouti-related protein) were engineered to contain integrin-binding loops. These dimers were shown to have increased binding strength to integrins on U87MG tumor cells, achieving significant increases in inhibition of cell adhesion and proliferation. Also disclosed are knottin monomers comprising an aminooxy residue; these may be conjugated to molecules such as doxorubicin. |
| FILED | Friday, October 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/435711 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 47/48246 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/811 (20130101) C07K 14/4702 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2319/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/33 (20130101) |
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| US 09587004 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Candace Y. W. Lee (Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Canada); John C. Burnett, Jr. (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | This document provides methods and materials related to natriuretic polypeptides and the use of natriuretic polypeptides to treat cardiovascular and/or renal conditions. For example, chimeric polypeptides having at least one amino acid segment (e.g., N-terminus tail, ring structure, C-terminus tail, or a combination thereof) of a natriuretic peptide (e.g., ANP, BNP, CNP, URO, or DNP) and an amino acid segment of an angiotensin polypeptide (e.g., Ang-(1-7)) are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 09, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/232429 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/58 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09587020 | Wu 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) | Chia-Yung Wu (San Francisco, California); James Onuffer (Alameda, California); Wendell A. Lim (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides a heterodimeric, conditionally active chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), and a nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding the CAR. The present disclosure provides cells genetically modified to produce the CAR. A CAR of the present disclosure can be used in various methods, which are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 09, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/064938 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/17 (20130101) A61K 47/48723 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/705 (20130101) C07K 14/7051 (20130101) C07K 14/70521 (20130101) C07K 14/70575 (20130101) C07K 14/70578 (20130101) C07K 16/18 (20130101) C07K 16/2803 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/2866 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/03 (20130101) C07K 2319/20 (20130101) C07K 2319/33 (20130101) C07K 2319/74 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/14 (20130101) C12N 9/90 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 502/01008 (20130101) |
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| US 09587024 | Clemmons 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) | David Clemmons (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Laura Maile (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Michael Naso (Radnor, Pennsylvania); Francis J. Carr (Balmedie, United Kingdom); Timothy D. Jones (Babraham, United Kingdom); Simon William Keen (West Wickham, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof that binds αvβ3 integrin, as well as methods of use in the treatment of diseases and disorders. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 02, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/728379 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 16/2848 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/24 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) C07K 2317/565 (20130101) |
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| US 09587025 | Ravetch et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey V. Ravetch (New York, New York); Andrew Pincetic (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention concerns anti-inflammatory agents, compositions, and methods for treating inflammatory disorders. |
| FILED | Monday, December 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/368701 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/00 (20130101) C07K 16/08 (20130101) C07K 16/2851 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/41 (20130101) C07K 2317/52 (20130101) C07K 2317/72 (20130101) C07K 2318/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09587028 | Marasco et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC. (Boston, Massachusetts); BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wayne A. Marasco (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Jianhua Sui (Waltham, Massachusetts); Quan Zhu (Needham, Massachusetts); De-Kuan Chang (Malden, Massachusetts); Thomas S. Kupper (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides affinity matured humanized monoclonal antibodies, bi-specific antibodies, antibody conjugates, and fusion proteins that bind to the chemokine receptor CCR4. This antibody is derived from mAb 1567 and recognizes the same epitope. Binding of the antibodies disclosed herein to CCR4 inhibits ligand-mediated activities and is used to treat symptoms of cancer. Moreover, the antibody is used in combination with vaccines to suppress the activity of regulatory T cells. |
| FILED | Friday, August 07, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/820882 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/48546 (20130101) A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/40 (20130101) C07K 16/2866 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/24 (20130101) C07K 2317/31 (20130101) C07K 2317/35 (20130101) C07K 2317/56 (20130101) C07K 2317/64 (20130101) C07K 2317/72 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) C07K 2317/565 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101) C07K 2317/732 (20130101) C07K 2317/734 (20130101) |
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| US 09587032 | Mollick 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) | Joseph A. Mollick (Palo Alto, California); Pearline Teo (Buona Vista, Singapore); Paul J. Utz (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel IgE antibodies useful for inhibiting or preventing metastatic cancer. Also provided are methods to inhibit tumor metastasis by modulating the activity of at least one non-tumor cell, treating a patient to inhibit or prevent tumor metastases of a primary solid tumor, treating metastatic carcinoma, reducing metastasis of carcinoma cells, and reducing the growth kinetics of a primary solid tumor or a metastasized cell or tumor. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/939781 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/2887 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/3092 (20130101) C07K 2317/52 (20130101) C07K 2317/70 (20130101) C07K 2317/73 (20130101) |
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| US 09587071 | Sun et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); IMRA of America, Inc. (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan); IMRA OF AMERICA, INC. (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Duxin Sun (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Hongwei Chen (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Wei Qian (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Yong Che (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Masayuki Ito (Cupertino, California); Hayley Paholak (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Kanokwan Sansanaphongpricha (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods, compositions, and kits for generating conjugated gold nanoparticles. In certain embodiments, the present invention provides methods of generating unsaturated conjugated gold nanoparticles by mixing naked gold nanoparticles with a first type of attachment molecules at a molar ratio such that the attachment molecules attach to the naked gold particles at a density level below the saturation level of the naked gold particles (e.g., at a saturation level of 1-99%). In some embodiments, a second type of attachment molecules (e.g., with the opposite charge as the first type of attachment molecules) are mixed with the unsaturated conjugated gold nanoparticles to generate double-conjugated gold nanoparticles (e.g., that are zwitterionic). |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/962619 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 41/0052 (20130101) A61K 47/48 (20130101) A61K 47/48215 (20130101) A61K 49/0065 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 65/48 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 65/3344 (20130101) |
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| US 09587238 | Rogers |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Faye A. Rogers (Norwalk, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are methods of triplex-induced apoptosis, in which multiple triplexes are formed in cells in which gene amplification has occurred (cells comprising/characterized by at least one amplified gene), referred to as target cells, and apoptosis is induced in the target cells. |
| FILED | Friday, July 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/335371 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/15 (20130101) |
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| US 09587239 | Kislin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Translational Genomics Research Institute (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kerri L. Kislin (Phoenix, Arizona); Michael Edward Berens (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention encompasses methods and kits used in the detection of invasive glioblastoma based upon the expression of NHERF-1. The methods and kits also allow prediction of disease outcome as well as therapeutic outcome. |
| FILED | Monday, February 23, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/629431 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 39/39558 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/28 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 15/1138 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/14 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/689 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57407 (20130101) |
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| US 09587250 | Gao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guangping Gao (Westborough, Massachusetts); James M. Wilson (Glen Mills, Pennsylvania); Mauricio R. Alvira (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Sequences of a serotype 8 adeno-associated virus and vectors and host cells containing these sequences are provided. Also described are methods of using such host cells and vectors in production of rAAV particles. |
| FILED | Friday, January 16, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/598477 |
| 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 35/761 (20130101) A61K 38/45 (20130101) A61K 38/177 (20130101) A61K 38/4846 (20130101) A61K 48/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 14/705 (20130101) C07K 14/755 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 9/644 (20130101) C12N 9/1018 (20130101) C12N 15/86 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2750/14122 (20130101) C12N 2750/14143 (20130101) C12N 2750/14152 (20130101) C12N 2830/008 (20130101) C12N 2830/48 (20130101) C12N 2830/85 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 201/03003 (20130101) C12Y 304/21022 (20130101) |
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| US 09587252 | Church 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) | George M. Church (Brookline, Massachusetts); Kevin Esvelt (Auburndale, Massachusetts); Prashant Mali (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of modulating expression of a target nucleic acid in a cell are provided including use of multiple orthogonal Cas9 proteins to simultaneously and independently regulate corresponding genes or simultaneously and independently edit corresponding genes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 31, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/674895 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 2/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/22 (20130101) C12N 15/11 (20130101) C12N 15/85 (20130101) C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 15/907 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/3519 (20130101) C12N 2320/33 (20130101) C12N 2320/50 (20130101) C12N 2800/40 (20130101) C12N 2800/80 (20130101) C12N 2800/107 (20130101) C12N 2810/10 (20130101) C12N 2830/00 (20130101) C12N 2830/34 (20130101) C12N 2999/007 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 301/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09587266 | Miller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen C. Miller (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David Mofford (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Katryn Harwood (North Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen C. Miller (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David Mofford (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Katryn Harwood (North Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are mutant luciferases, nucleic acids that encode them, cells and animals expressing them, methods of use thereof, and kits. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/984506 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 2267/0393 (20130101) Peptides C07K 2319/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/02 (20130101) C07K 2319/23 (20130101) C07K 2319/30 (20130101) C07K 2319/31 (20130101) C07K 2319/50 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/0069 (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 Enzymes C12Y 113/12007 (20130101) |
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| US 09587282 | Schaffer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David V. Schaffer (Danville, California); Ryan R. Klimczak (San Francisco, California); James T. Koerber (San Francisco, California); John G. Flannery (Berkeley, California); Deniz Dalkara Mourot (Berkeley, California); Meike Visel (El Cerrito, California); Leah C. T. Byrne (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides adeno-associated virus (AAV) virions with altered capsid protein, where the AAV virions exhibit greater infectivity of retinal cells, when administered via intravitreal injection, compared to wild-type AAV. The present disclosure further provides methods of delivering a gene product to a retinal cell in an individual, and methods of treating ocular disease. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 11, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/938154 |
| 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 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 48/0025 (20130101) A61K 48/0075 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 2319/33 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 2750/14121 (20130101) C12N 2750/14122 (20130101) C12N 2750/14143 (20130101) C12N 2750/14145 (20130101) C12N 2750/14152 (20130101) C12N 2810/40 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/70 (20130101) C12Q 1/701 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/16 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5008 (20130101) G01N 33/5058 (20130101) |
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| US 09588079 | Gundlach et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jens Gundlach (Seattle, Washington); Ian M. Derrington (Seattle, Washington); Marcus D. Collins (Issaquah, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jens Gundlach (Seattle, Washington); Ian M. Derrington (Seattle, Washington); Marcus D. Collins (Issaquah, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods and systems pertaining to sequencing units of analytes using nanopores. In general, arresting constructs are used to modify an analyte such that the modified analyte pauses in the opening of a nanopore. During such a pause, an ion current level is obtained that corresponds to a unit of the analyte. After altering the modified analyte such that the modified analyte advances through the opening, another arresting construct again pauses the analyte, allowing for a second ion current level to be obtained that represents a second unit of the analyte. This process may be repeated until each unit of the analyte is sequenced. Systems for performing such methods are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/592077 |
| 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 | Separation B01D 69/06 (20130101) B01D 2325/02 (20130101) B01D 2325/24 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) B82Y 15/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/35 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/447 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 27/44704 (20130101) G01N 33/48721 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/712 (20130101) Y10S 977/714 (20130101) Y10S 977/781 (20130101) Y10S 977/924 (20130101) |
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| US 09588106 | Dubrovskyi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oleksii Dubrovskyi (Chicago, Illinois); Konstantin Birukov (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention provide an in vitro assay that measures cell monolayer permeability. The assay utilizes detection of a binding pair initially separated by the cell monolayer as a qualitative and quantitative measure of the permeability of the monolayer. In certain embodiments, the assay is performed in the presence of a test substance that may or may not affect cell permeability. In particular aspects, the assay is performed on a substrate that is elastic. One can also assay spatial resolution of local changes by visualizing regional variations of the cell monolayers. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 05, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/019055 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5044 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09588120 | Geradts |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Geradts (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods of determining the aggressiveness or indolence of a ductal carcinoma in situ lesion. Also provided are methods of development treatment plans for subjects with a ductal carcinoma in situ lesion based on the aggressiveness of the lesion. |
| FILED | Monday, March 09, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/642371 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) C12Q 2600/112 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57415 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/47 (20130101) G01N 2800/52 (20130101) |
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| US 09588122 | Chang 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) | Edwin Chang (Menlo Park, California); Lingyun Xu (Fremont, California); Nick Hughes (Orinda, California); Carsten H. Nielsen (Copenhagen N, Denmark); Sanjiv S. Gambhir (Portola Valley, California); Parag Mallick (San Mateo, California); Arutselvan Natarajan (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides methods of treating cancer and modifying a cancer treatment for a cancer with an anti-EGFR drug by creating PRDX6 expression profiles and using the profiles to evaluate and optionally modify treatment. The present disclosure also provides assays and systems for assessing sensitivity of a cancer to an anti-EGFR therapy. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/206223 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/517 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57419 (20130101) G01N 33/57423 (20130101) G01N 33/57434 (20130101) G01N 33/57438 (20130101) G01N 33/57488 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/902 (20130101) |
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| US 09588207 | Weller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel Weller (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Leo Grady (Millbrae, California); Lawrence Wald (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Vivek K Goyal (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (DHHS), The United States of America NIH Division of Extramural Inventions and Technology Resources (DEITR) (Washington, District of Columbia); Siemens Healthcare GmbH (Erlangen, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Weller (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Leo Grady (Millbrae, California); Lawrence Wald (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Vivek K Goyal (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for parallel image processing in MR imaging comprises multiple MR imaging RF coils for individually receiving MR imaging data representing a slice of patient anatomy. An MR imaging system uses the multiple RF coils for acquiring corresponding multiple image data sets of the slice. An image data processor comprises at least one processing device conditioned for, deriving a first set of weights for generating a calibration data set comprising a subset of k-space data of composite image data representing the multiple image data sets. The at least one processing device uses the calibration data set in generating a first MR image data set, deriving a second set of weights using the calibration data set and the generated first MR image data set and uses the second set of weights in generating a second MR image data set representing a single image having a reduced set of data components relative to the first composite MR image data set. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/615785 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/5611 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09588208 | Polimeni et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, Massachusetts); Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. (Malvern, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (DHHS), U.S. Government NIH Division of Extramural Inventions and Technology Resources (DEITR) (Washington, District of Columbia); Siemens Healthcare GmbH (Erlangen, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Rizzo Polimeni (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Himanshu Bhat (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Keith Aaron Heberlein (Charlestown, Massachusetts); Kawin Setsompop (Charlestown, Massachusetts); Thomas Witzel (Boston, Massachusetts); Stephen Farman Cauley (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for accelerated segmented magnetic resonance (MR) image data acquisition includes using a plurality of RF pulses to excite one or more slices of an anatomical area of interest according to a predetermined slice acceleration factor. Next, a collapsed image comprising the slices is acquired using a consecutive segment acquisition process. Then, a parallel image reconstruction method is applied to the collapsed image to separate the collapsed image into a plurality of slice images. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/271754 |
| ART UNIT | 2852 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/482 (20130101) G01R 33/546 (20130101) G01R 33/4835 (20130101) G01R 33/5608 (20130101) G01R 33/5611 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 33/5616 (20130101) G01R 33/34092 (20130101) G01R 33/56509 (20130101) |
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| US 09588330 | Phillips et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kevin Phillips (Portland, Oregon); Owen J. McCarty (Portland, Oregon); Steven L. Jacques (Portland, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | OREGON HEALTH and SCIENCE UNIVERSITY (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Phillips (Portland, Oregon); Owen J. McCarty (Portland, Oregon); Steven L. Jacques (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a method of tomographic bright field imaging (TBFI): an optical imaging technique that enables the measurement of cellular refractive index and dry mass density using a standard transillumination optical microscope and software embodying said method. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 26, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/316074 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/367 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0083 (20130101) G06T 11/003 (20130101) G06T 2207/10101 (20130101) |
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| US 09588491 | Sapozhnikov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oleg A. Sapozhnikov (Seattle, Washington); Michael R. Bailey (Seattle, Washington); Peter J. Kaczkowski (Seattle, Washington); Vera A. Khokhlova (Seattle, Washington); Wayne Kreider (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present technology relates generally to portable acoustic holography systems for therapeutic ultrasound sources, and associated devices and methods. In some embodiments, a method of characterizing an ultrasound source by acoustic holography includes the use of a transducer geometry characteristic, a transducer operation characteristic, and a holography system measurement characteristic. A control computer can be instructed to determine holography measurement parameters. Based on the holography measurement parameters, the method can include scanning a target surface to obtain a hologram. Waveform measurements at a plurality of points on the target surface can be captured. Finally, the method can include processing the measurements to reconstruct at least one characteristic of the ultrasound source. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/894333 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 8/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 29/0663 (20130101) Holographic Processes or Apparatus G03H 3/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 359/901 (20130101) |
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| US 09589051 | Bergstrom et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington through Its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington Through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl Bergstrom (Seattle, Washington); Martin Rosvall (Umeå, Sweden); Daril Vilhena (Seattle, Washington); Jevin D. West (Kenmore, Washington); Andrew Torrance (Leawood, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are methods and systems for hierarchically mapping, ranking, and labeling data sets automatically. Also provided are methods for browsing and navigating a hierarchically mapped data set, and START identifying changes in network structure over time. An example method may involve receiving document data indicating a corpus of documents and references between documents within the corpus. Based on the document data, a network comprising two or more nodes and at least one directed edge may be determined. Also, a hierarchical partition of the documents may be determined based on the directed edges of the network. The hierarchical partition may define a plurality of nested modules, and each module in the plurality of nested modules may be associated with one or more respective documents within the corpus. The method may additionally include causing a graphical display to provide a visual indication of one or more of the plurality of nested modules. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/371364 |
| ART UNIT | 2159 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30728 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09589100 | Aneja et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NOVAZOI THERANOSTICS (Plano, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NOVAZOI THERANOSTICS (Plano, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ritu Aneja (Lilburn, Georgia); Padmashree C. G. Rida (Plano, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of computing the risk profile of a neoplastic tissue in a patient is disclosed. The method includes the steps of (a) processing a sample of tumor tissue or cancer cells from the patient in a form suitable for visualization and demarcation of cell nuclei, individually distinguishable centrosomes (iCTRs) and megacentrosomes (mCTRs) in a region of interest (ROI) defined by a plurality of cell nuclei; (b) determining the numbers of iCTRs and mCTRs associated with each cell nucleus in the ROI; (c) determining the volume of each iCTR and mCTR in the ROI; and (d) calculating one or more centrosome amplification scores (CASs) values for the sample based on steps (b) and (c), wherein the one or more CASs indicate the severity of centrosome amplification, the frequency of centrosome amplification, or both, and wherein the one or more scores provide a measure of a level of risk and/or a prognosis associated with the neoplastic tissue. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 26, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/632778 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57407 (20130101) G01N 33/57415 (20130101) G01N 33/57438 (20130101) G01N 33/57496 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 19/3431 (20130101) |
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| US 09589173 | So et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter T. C. So (Boston, Massachusetts); Bevin Engelward (Lexington, Massachusetts); Timothy Ragan (Somerville, Massachusetts); Karsten Bahlman (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ki-Hean Kim (Belmont, Massachusetts); Lily Hsu Laiho (San Luis Obispo, California); Hayden Huang (Chevy Chase, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with preferred embodiments of the present invention, a method for imaging tissue, for example, includes the steps of mounting the tissue on a computer controlled stage of a microscope, determining volumetric imaging parameters, directing at least two photons into a region of interest, scanning the region of interest across a portion of the tissue, imaging a plurality of layers of the tissue in a plurality of volumes of the tissue in the region of interest, sectioning the portion of the tissue and imaging a second plurality of layers of the tissue in a second plurality of volumes of the tissue in the region of interest, detecting a fluorescence image of the tissue due to said excitation light; and processing three-dimensional data that is collected to create a three-dimensional image of the region of interest. |
| FILED | Monday, May 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/270126 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/1456 (20130101) G01N 2001/282 (20130101) G01N 2015/1006 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00127 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09589345 | Zhao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PATENT FOUNDATION (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Li Zhao (Charlottesville, Virginia); Xiao Chen (Charlottesville, Virginia); Samuel W. Fielden (Charlottesville, Virginia); Frederick H. Epstein (Charlottesville, Virginia); John P. Mugler, III (Charlottesville, Virginia); Manal Nicolas-Jilwan (Charlottesville, Virginia); Max Wintermark (Charlottesville, Virginia); Craig H. Meyer (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for accelerated arterial spin labeling (ASL) using compressed sensing are disclosed. In one aspect, in accordance with one example embodiment, a method includes acquiring magnetic resonance data associated with an area of interest of a subject, wherein the area of interest corresponds to one or more physiological activities of the subject. The method also includes performing image reconstruction using temporally constrained compressed sensing reconstruction on at least a portion of the acquired magnetic resonance data, wherein acquiring the magnetic resonance data includes receiving data associated with ASL of the area of interest of the subject. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/870803 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/4824 (20130101) G01R 33/5611 (20130101) G01R 33/56366 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/6232 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 11/005 (20130101) G06T 2207/10088 (20130101) G06T 2207/30104 (20130101) G06T 2211/412 (20130101) G06T 2211/424 (20130101) |
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| US 09589346 | Farsiu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sina Farsiu (Durham, North Carolina); Stephanie J. Chiu (Durham, North Carolina); Cynthia A. Toth (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Josheph A. Izatt (Raleigh, North Carolina); Xiao T. Li (Cumming, Georgia); Peter Christopher Nicholas (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are systems and method for segmentation and identification of structured features in images. According to an aspect, a method may include representing an image as a graph of nodes connected together by edges. For example, the image may be an ocular image showing layered structures or other features of the retina. The method may also include adding, to the graph, nodes adjacent to nodes along first and second sides of the graph. The added nodes may have edge weights less than the nodes along the first and second sides of the graph. Further, the method may include assigning start and end points to any of the added nodes along the first and second sides, respectively. The method may also include graph cutting between the start and end points for identifying a feature in the image. |
| FILED | Sunday, February 21, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/049103 |
| ART UNIT | 2669 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 3/0025 (20130101) A61B 3/102 (20130101) A61B 5/0066 (20130101) A61B 5/7203 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/34 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 7/0081 (20130101) G06T 7/0093 (20130101) G06T 2207/10004 (20130101) G06T 2207/10101 (20130101) G06T 2207/30041 (20130101) |
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| US 09589361 | Reda et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fitsum A. Reda (Nashville, Tennessee); Jack H. Noble (Nashville, Tennessee); Benoit Dawant (Nashville, Tennessee); Robert F. Labadie (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for automatic segmentation of intra-cochlear anatomy of a patient. The patient has an implanted ear and a normal contralateral ear. At least one computed tomography (CT) image is obtained to generate a first image corresponding to the normal contralateral ear and a second image corresponding to the implanted ear. Intra-cochlear surfaces of at least one first structure of interest (SOI) of the normal contralateral ear in the first image are segmented using at least one active shape model (ASM). Next, the segmented intra-cochlear surfaces in the first image is projected to the second image using a transformation function, thereby obtaining projected segmented intra-cochlear surfaces for the implanted ear in the second image. |
| FILED | Friday, February 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/766402 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 6/03 (20130101) A61B 6/50 (20130101) A61B 6/5211 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0541 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 3/00 (20130101) G06T 3/40 (20130101) G06T 7/0014 (20130101) G06T 7/0024 (20130101) G06T 7/0036 (20130101) G06T 7/0044 (20130101) G06T 7/0083 (20130101) G06T 7/0089 (20130101) G06T 7/0095 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 7/0097 (20130101) G06T 2207/10081 (20130101) G06T 2207/20016 (20130101) G06T 2207/20081 (20130101) G06T 2207/20124 (20130101) G06T 2207/20128 (20130101) G06T 2207/20132 (20130101) G06T 2207/30052 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 19/428 (20141101) |
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| US 09585577 | Banet et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matt Banet (Kihei, Hawaii); Isaac Henry (La Mesa, California); Donald Bernstein (Rancho Santa Fe, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SOTERA WIRELESS, INC. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matt Banet (Kihei, Hawaii); Isaac Henry (La Mesa, California); Donald Bernstein (Rancho Santa Fe, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for measuring stroke volume from a patient using a transbrachial electro-velocimetry waveform measured using an impedance sensor together with a motion waveform measured using a motion sensor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/338248 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/01 (20130101) A61B 5/021 (20130101) A61B 5/029 (20130101) A61B 5/0295 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/0535 (20130101) A61B 5/681 (20130101) A61B 5/746 (20130101) A61B 5/0816 (20130101) A61B 5/1116 (20130101) A61B 5/6823 (20130101) A61B 5/6824 (20130101) A61B 5/6826 (20130101) A61B 5/6833 (20130101) A61B 5/7239 (20130101) A61B 5/14551 (20130101) A61B 2562/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09585666 | Yu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Hoboken, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Hoboken, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaojun Yu (Fishers, Indiana); Wei Chang (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A nerve guidance conduit includes a spiral structured porous sheet decorated with channels on its surface and electrospun nanofibers in a parallel alignment with the channels and an outer tubular structure including randomly-oriented nanofibers. Such a structure provides augmented surface areas for providing directional guidance and augmented surfaces for enhancing and peripheral nerve regeneration. The structure also has the mechanical and nutrient transport requirements required over long regeneration periods. To prepare a nerve guidance conduit, porous polymer sheet is prepared by a solvent casting method while using a template of thin rods to form parallel channels on a surface of the sheet. Aligned nanofibers are deposited on the sheet parallel to the channels. The polymer sheet is then wound to form a spiral structure. A dense layer of randomly-oriented nanofibers may be deposited on the outside of the spiral. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/313384 |
| ART UNIT | 3731 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 17/1128 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 2017/00526 (20130101) A61B 2017/1132 (20130101) |
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| US 09585688 | Yoo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James J. Yoo (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Anthony Atala (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Paul Scarpinato (Clemmons, North Carolina); Sang Jin Lee (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Mitchell Ladd (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James J. Yoo (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Anthony Atala (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Paul Scarpinato (Clemmons, North Carolina); Sang Jin Lee (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Mitchell Ladd (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein is a tissue stretching device including a tissue clamping member defining an area in a Z plane, wherein the tissue clamping member is configured to hold tissue parallel to the Z plane. Methods of use of the tissue stretching device to stretch a tissue as well as for culturing organized tissues are also provided. Stretched and/or cultured tissues produced by these processes are also provided, as well as methods of treatment making use of the same. |
| FILED | Friday, January 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/986771 |
| ART UNIT | 3738 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 17/322 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 90/02 (20160201) A61B 2017/00969 (20130101) A61B 2017/3225 (20130101) |
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| US 09585757 | Slocum, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander H. Slocum, Jr. (Huntington, West Virginia); Adam T. Paxson (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jonathan David Smith (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Daniel H. Goodman (Boston, Massachusetts); Kripa K. Varanasi (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides, among other things, prosthetic joint components having textured surface(s) for improving lubrication and increasing the useful life of the prosthetic joint components. The textured surface includes solid features configured to stably contain a biological fluid or a synthetic biological fluid therebetween or therewithin for a non-zero residence time. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/017178 |
| ART UNIT | 3738 — 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 2/30767 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61F 2/30771 (20130101) A61F 2002/3084 (20130101) A61F 2002/30144 (20130101) A61F 2002/30673 (20130101) A61F 2002/30838 (20130101) |
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| US 09586181 | Eisaman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthew D. Eisaman (Newark, California); Karl Littau (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew D. Eisaman (Newark, California); Karl Littau (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method comprises flowing process solution and electrode solution into a BPMED apparatus, applying a voltage such that the process solution is acidified and basified and dissolved CO2 is generated, flowing the process solution out of the apparatus, and desorbing CO2 out of the process solution. A method for desorbing CO2 from an ocean comprises flowing seawater and electrode solution into a BPMED apparatus, applying a voltage such that dissolved CO2 is generated, flowing the seawater out of the apparatus, and desorbing CO2 out of the seawater. A method for producing a desalted solution and CO2 gas comprises flowing process solution and electrode solution into a BPMED apparatus that includes one or more three-compartment cells, applying a voltage such that the process solution is acidified, basified, and desalted, flowing the process solution out of the apparatus, and desorbing CO2 out of the process solution. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/177421 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 61/445 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 2311/18 (20130101) B01D 2311/2626 (20130101) B01D 2311/2653 (20130101) Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/4693 (20130101) C02F 2103/08 (20130101) C02F 2201/4618 (20130101) Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 10/04 (20130101) Y02C 10/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09586636 | Burmeister 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) | Aaron Burmeister (San Diego, California); Kurt Talke (San Diego, California); Abraham Hart (San Diego, California); Narek Pezeshkian (Glendale, California); Saam Ostovari (San Diego, California); Leah C. Kelley (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system includes a first drive module connected to a first end of a linkage arm and a second drive module connected to a second end of the linkage arm. Two magnetic wheels are connected to each of the first and second drive modules. The first and second drive modules may be independently controlled or controlled using a coordinated controller. The linkage arm may include a first linkage arm portion having at least one degree of freedom with respect to a connected second linkage arm portion, which may be connected via a hinged or ball-joint connection. One or both ends of the linkage arm may have at least one degree of freedom with respect to its respectively connected drive module. Additional linkage arms and drive modules may be connected to form a multi-segment system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/749433 |
| ART UNIT | 3611 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Motor Vehicles; Trailers B62D 49/0621 (20130101) B62D 53/028 (20130101) B62D 57/024 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 901/01 (20130101) |
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| US 09586661 | Braun 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 Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Joseph Braun (San Diego, California); Wayne Po-wen Liu (San Diego, California); Peter Thomas Sullivan (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A device comprising a first plate disposed on top of a second plate where the first and second plates are parallel and separated by a fixed distance with a spacer, and wherein the spacer fits around the perimeter of the first and second plates creating a void space, and wherein the second plate has a plurality of pin-sized holes, and wherein a pump sits in the void space and is operably coupled to the plates, wherein the plates are operably coupled to the bottom, exterior hull of an Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV), and wherein the pump is configured to pump liquid into the void space between the parallel plates. |
| FILED | Monday, January 04, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 14/987502 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Offensive or Defensive Arrangements on Vessels; Mine-laying; Mine-sweeping; Submarines; Aircraft Carriers B63G 8/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B63G 8/001 (20130101) B63G 2008/002 (20130101) Positive-displacement Machines for Liquids; Pumps F04B 43/0009 (20130101) F04B 43/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09586857 | Cabral, Jr. 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) | Cyril Cabral, Jr. (Mahopac, New York); Fuad E. Doany (Katonah, New York); Gregory M. Fritz (Wakefield, Massachusetts); Michael S. Gordon (Yorktown Heights, New York); Qiang Huang (Croton on Hudson, New York); Eric P. Lewandowski (Morristown, New Jersey); Xiao Hu Liu (Briarcliff Manor, New York); Kenneth P. Rodbell (Sandy Hook, Connecticut); Thomas M. Shaw (Peekskill, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of manufacturing a glass substrate to control the fragmentation characteristics by etching and filling trenches in the glass substrate is disclosed. An etching pattern may be determined. The etching pattern may outline where trenches will be etched into a surface of the glass substrate. The etching pattern may be configured so that the glass substrate, when fractured, has a smaller fragmentation size than chemically strengthened glass that has not been etched. A mask may be created in accordance with the etching pattern, and the mask may be applied to a surface of the glass substrate. The surface of the glass substrate may then be etched to create trenches. A filler material may be deposited into the trenches. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/700877 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Manufacture, Shaping, or Supplementary Processes C03B 23/203 (20130101) Chemical Composition of Glasses, Glazes or Vitreous Enamels; Surface Treatment of Glass; Surface Treatment of Fibres or Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals or Slags; Joining Glass to Glass or Other Materials C03C 15/00 (20130101) C03C 17/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C03C 17/34 (20130101) C03C 21/002 (20130101) C03C 23/0055 (20130101) C03C 27/06 (20130101) C03C 2217/252 (20130101) C03C 2217/261 (20130101) C03C 2218/32 (20130101) C03C 2218/34 (20130101) C03C 2218/328 (20130101) Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/20 (20130101) |
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| US 09587143 | Iezzi |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Erick B. Iezzi (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erick B. Iezzi (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition having: an amine-functional compound and an alkoxysilane-terminated polyurea made by reacting: an amino-functional alkoxysilane-polyisocyanate adduct with a difunctional amino- or hydroxyl compound. The composition contains no unreacted isocyanate groups. A coating composition having: an amine-functional compound, an alkoxysilane-terminated polyurea, and an epoxy- or acrylate-functional compound. The coating composition is a two-component system. |
| FILED | Friday, September 04, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/845407 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 18/42 (20130101) C08G 18/61 (20130101) C08G 18/289 (20130101) C08G 18/778 (20130101) C08G 18/792 (20130101) C08G 18/809 (20130101) C08G 18/837 (20130101) C08G 18/3228 (20130101) C08G 18/3234 (20130101) C08G 18/3237 (20130101) C08G 18/3821 (20130101) C08G 77/26 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 71/02 (20130101) C08L 83/08 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 5/30 (20130101) C09D 163/00 (20130101) C09D 175/02 (20130101) C09D 183/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09587232 | Harvey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical and Biological Command (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven P. Harvey (Lutherville, Maryland); Mark A. Guelta (White Marsh, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed toward non-wild-type organophosphorus acid anhydrolases having three site mutations, method of production, and method of use to effectively degrade toxic chemicals such as N,N-diethyl-2-(methyl-(2-methylpropoxy)phosphoryl)sulfanylethanamine) (“VR”). |
| FILED | Thursday, November 19, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/946276 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/465 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Enzymes C12Y 301/08002 (20130101) |
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| US 09587504 | McCaffrey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael G. McCaffrey (Windsor, Connecticut); Brandon T. Rouse (Anacortes, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine engine according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, an engine case, a rotor stage including a plurality of rotor blades, a plurality of carriers for supporting a plurality of blade outer air seals and an interlock formed between circumferential ends of a first adjacent carrier and a second adjacent carrier of the plurality of carriers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/675292 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 9/04 (20130101) F01D 11/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09587585 | Rolling et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | August J Rolling (Colorado Springs, Colorado); William H Heiser (Colorado Springs, Colorado); Charles F Wisniewski (Monument, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | August J Rolling (Colorado Springs, Colorado); William H Heiser (Colorado Springs, Colorado); Charles F Wisniewski (Monument, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A system to improve jet engine powered aircraft performance and efficiency includes a jet engine having a pressurized air port configured to convey a pressurized airflow from a compressor or a bypass fan disposed in the jet engine. A primary airfoil has a trailing edge, a top surface, and a boundary region. The system further includes a secondary airfoil disposed at a distance from the top surface of the primary airfoil. The secondary airfoil has a bottom surface and a trailing edge. An exhaust region is formed by the trailing edge of the primary airfoil and the trailing edge of the secondary airfoil. A primary airfoil ejector port and a secondary airfoil ejector port are pneumatically coupled to the pressurized air port. The primary airfoil ejector port is disposed proximate the boundary region and the secondary airfoil ejector port is disposed on the bottom surface. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 01, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/231989 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 9/38 (20130101) B64C 15/14 (20130101) Jet-propulsion Plants F02K 3/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09587586 | Morgan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Orbital ATK, Inc. (Dulles, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ORBITAL ATK, INC. (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard E. Morgan (Huntsville, Alabama); Craig L. Meeks (Meridianville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Insulation materials have a coating of a partially cured polymer on a plurality of fibers, and the plurality of coated fibers in a cross-linked polymeric matrix. Insulation may be formed by applying a preceramic polymer to a plurality of fibers, heating the preceramic polymer to form a partially cured polymer over at least portions of the plurality of fibers, disposing the plurality of fibers in a polymeric material, and curing the polymeric material. A rocket motor may be formed by disposing a plurality of coated fibers in an insulation precursor, curing the insulation precursor to form an insulation material without sintering the partially cured polymer, and providing an energetic material over the polymeric material. An article includes an insulation material over at least one surface. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/787355 |
| ART UNIT | 1789 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/00 (20130101) Jet-propulsion Plants F02K 1/822 (20130101) F02K 9/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F02K 9/32 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2300/6033 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 3/308 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/1362 (20150115) Y10T 428/249921 (20150401) Y10T 442/2631 (20150401) |
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| US 09587710 | Collins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Collins (Waltham, Massachusetts); Gordon O. Salmela (Waltham, Massachusetts); Jeffrey J. Farnum (Waltham, Massachusetts); Jonathan E. Casey (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An adjustable drive mechanism, which may be used to control the elevation angle of a telescope or antenna, is disclosed. The adjustable drive mechanism can include a base plate configured to couple with a support structure and having a first spherical portion facing away from the support structure. In addition, the adjustable drive mechanism can include a gear box having a pinion gear to interface with a driven gear of a telescope or antenna, and a housing in support of the pinion gear and including a second spherical portion configured to interface with the first spherical portion of the base plate. The first spherical portion and the second spherical portion can be movable relative to one another in three rotational degrees of freedom to facilitate alignment and positioning of the pinion gear relative to the driven gear. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/184569 |
| ART UNIT | 3658 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Gearing F16H 1/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F16H 1/26 (20130101) F16H 57/12 (20130101) F16H 2057/125 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 7/183 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 74/1955 (20150115) |
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| US 09587909 | Askin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Department of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis Askin (King George, Virginia); Lee Foltz (Indian Head, Maryland); David Rivera Marchand (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A modular disruptor cannon includes three open-ended tubular structures. A first tubular housing defines a first interior region longitudinally aligned with a second interior region. The first tubular housing has external-surface threads at a first end thereof adjacent to the second interior region. A tubular insert is fitted in the second interior region. A second tubular housing defines a cap longitudinally aligned with a barrel. The barrel has an inside diameter equal to the inside diameter of the tubular insert. The cap has internal-surface threads for mating with the external-surface threads of the first tubular housing where the barrel is longitudinally aligned with the tubular insert. |
| FILED | Friday, May 06, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 14/999439 |
| 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 9/0046 (20130101) Apparatus for Launching Projectiles or Missiles From Barrels, e.g Cannons; Launchers for Rockets or Torpedoes; Harpoon Guns F41F 1/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09587920 | Yoon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical and Biological Command (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elias W. Yoon (Elkridge, Maryland); Daniel G. Wise (Ellicott City, Maryland); Daniel J. Weber (Bel Air, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-pyrotechnic disseminator includes a body portion with a cover; a first compartment that holds disseminating materials; a spring-loaded piston; a cable connecting the piston to a base of the body portion: a second compartment adjacent to the first compartment; a control mechanism; and an initiator mechanism. The control mechanism sets a delay timing countdown for initiation of dissemination of the disseminating materials out of the body portion. The initiator mechanism begins the delay timing countdown. The second compartment includes a delay fuze module; and a cutting mechanism in contact with the cable. The delay fuze module processes the delay timing countdown, and upon expiration of the countdown, sends a signal to the cutting mechanism to cut the cable. When the cable cuts, the spring uncoils and pushes the piston, which forces the disseminating materials out of the body portion by rupturing the cover. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 29, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/869430 |
| ART UNIT | 3711 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 8/26 (20130101) F42B 12/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F42B 27/00 (20130101) Ammunition Fuzes; Arming or Safety Means Therefor F42C 14/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09588011 | Shen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Young T. Shen (Potomac, Maryland); Michael J. Hughes (Vienna, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Young T. Shen (Potomac, Maryland); Michael J. Hughes (Vienna, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Exemplary practice of the present invention provides and implements a superior small-scale test model of a full-scale vessel hull describing a smooth axisymmetric body. The boundary layer of a smooth axisymmetric body moving in water is characterized, in succession from front axial-longitudinal end to back axial-longitudinal end, by a laminar region, an unstable region, an intermittent region, and a turbulent region. The smooth axisymmetric body's intermittent region is characterized by generation of turbulent spots, which bring about the turbulent region. According to exemplary inventive practice, a “turbulent spot inducer” (ring-shaped structure or structural arrangement) is strategically sized and placed to increase generation of turbulent spots, thereby reducing (axially-longitudinally shortening) the intermittent region and enlarging (axially-longitudinally lengthening) the turbulent region. The turbulent spot inducer is circumferentially coupled with the smooth axisymmetric body at a location coinciding with the smooth axisymmetric body's delimitation between its unstable region and its intermittent region. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 07, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/706333 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Testing Static or Dynamic Balance of Machines or Structures; Testing of Structures or Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G01M 10/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09588034 | Bonsteel 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) | Russell A. Bonsteel (Providence, Utah); Wesley D. Ercanbrack (Eagle Mountain, Utah); Christopher A. Bailey (Lindon, Utah); Kenneth D Nemelka (Alpine, Utah); Nathan L. Porter (Kaysville, Utah); Michael B. DeZearn (Abingdon, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for performing permeation testing on materials used in personal protective equipment is described. Two or more test cells are loaded with swatches of material and inserted into the testing apparatus. Chemicals to be tested on the material are loaded into one or more syringes and may be introduced into the top of the test cells as a liquid or a vapor. Vapor is collected from the bottom of the test cells, underneath the swatches of material, and tested for concentration of the chemicals being tested. The apparatus and method facilitates instantaneous breakthrough analysis, control of the sample environment and ease of operator use and calibration. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/196501 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/08 (20130101) G01N 15/082 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 15/0806 (20130101) |
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| US 09588047 | Jungwirth et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Edward Lewis Jungwirth (Golden Valley, Minnesota); James Goeders (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-cell apparatus and method for single ion addressing are described herein. One apparatus includes a first cell configured to set a frequency, intensity, and a polarization of a laser and shutter the laser, a second cell configured to align the shuttered laser to an ion in an ion trap such that the ion fluoresces light and/or performs a quantum operation, and a third cell configured to detect the light fluoresced from the ion. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/686553 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration Machines, Plants or Systems; Combined Heating and Refrigeration Systems; Heat-pump Systems F25B 23/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/64 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/4205 (20130101) |
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| US 09588048 | Kim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ansoon Kim (Mountain View, California); Zhiyong Li (Foster City, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ansoon Kim (Mountain View, California); Zhiyong Li (Foster City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) sensor, system and method employ nanorods and independent nanoparticles that interact. The sensor includes at least two spaced apart nanorods attached at first ends to a substrate and an independent nanoparticle. Second ends of the nanorods are movable into close proximity to one another and include a Raman active surface. The nanoparticle has a functionalized surface that includes a Raman signal generator. An interaction between the nanoparticle and the nanorod second ends in close proximity is detectable. The system includes the SERS sensor, an illumination source and a Raman signal detector. The method includes illuminating the interaction of the nanoparticle and the nanorods with an analyte, and detecting an effect on a Raman signal caused by the analyte. |
| FILED | Friday, May 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 14/118801 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/44 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/658 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09588095 | Gregory et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kerin E. Gregory (Bolton, Massachusetts); Roderick R. Kunz (Acton, Massachusetts); Michael Sworin (Marlboro, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Reagents and methods are disclosed for detection of oxidizers and inorganic salts and other analytes of interest. The reagents can interact with their target analytes, especially oxidizer compositions or oxidizer-based explosives, to selectively enhance their ionization yield, interacting by chemical reaction or by forming an associative adduct which facilitates their detection. For example, the reagents can adduct with the counter-ion of the intended analyte for improved direct detection and/or react chemically via acid-base reactions to produce a new product for detection. In another aspect of the invention, reactive reagents and methods are also disclosed that facilitate indirect detection of the analyte at lower temperatures based on reduction-oxidation (redox) chemistry. These reagents are particularly useful in detecting oxidizer analytes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/948423 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/622 (20130101) G01N 31/227 (20130101) G01N 33/227 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2001/028 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/19 (20150115) Y10T 436/24 (20150115) Y10T 436/141111 (20150115) Y10T 436/143333 (20150115) Y10T 436/173076 (20150115) Y10T 436/206664 (20150115) |
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| US 09588105 | Hussain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Saber M. Hussain (Beavercreek, Ohio); Christin M. Grabinski (Centerville, Ohio); James E. Grabinski (Lowell, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A single- or multi-well chamber assembly comprising nanoparticle exposure chambers with a plurality of wells designed to hold porous membrane inserts, with cell culture media being maintained on the basal (lower) surface to generate the air-liquid interface. The wells may accommodate a variety of sizes of cell culture inserts and may be arranged radially. The chamber assembly comprises an integrated heating-humidifying mechanism so that the internal chamber environment may be heated to 37° C. and maintained at humid conditions to allow for maintenance of cell cultures. The presently disclosed apparatus may be used to investigate the toxicity of airborne nanoparticles to cells or tissue models grown at the air-liquid interface. Aerosolized nanomaterials are drawn into a multi-well chamber assembly and deposited via electrostatic deposition onto cells grown at the air-liquid interface. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/214168 |
| ART UNIT | 1799 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 23/12 (20130101) C12M 25/00 (20130101) C12M 29/00 (20130101) C12M 35/02 (20130101) C12M 41/48 (20130101) C12M 47/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09588191 | Kornev et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hypres, Inc. (Elmsford, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hypres, Inc. (Elmsford, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor K. Kornev (Moscow, Russian Federation); Igor I. Soloviev (Moscow, Russian Federation); Nikolai V. Klenov (Troitsk, Russian Federation); Oleg A. Mukhanov (Putnam Valley, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUID) comprises a superconducting inductive loop with at least two Josephson junction, whereby a magnetic flux coupled into the inductive loop produces a modulated response up through radio frequencies. Series and parallel arrays of SQUIDs can increase the dynamic range, output, and linearity, while maintaining bandwidth. Several approaches to achieving a linear triangle-wave transfer function are presented, including harmonic superposition of SQUID cells, differential serial arrays with magnetic frustration, and a novel bi-SQUID cell comprised of a nonlinear Josephson inductance shunting the linear coupling inductance. Total harmonic distortion of less than −120 dB can be achieved in optimum cases. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 13, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/595559 |
| ART UNIT | 2867 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/0354 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 39/223 (20130101) |
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09588218 — System and method for robust navigation and geolocation using measurements of opportunity
| US 09588218 | Kennedy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph P. Kennedy (Great Falls, Virginia); John Carlson (Dulles, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Echo Ridge LLC (Great Falls, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph P. Kennedy (Great Falls, Virginia); John Carlson (Dulles, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method to opportunistically capture and use measurements on a priori unknown radio signals, not intended for radio navigation or geolocation, to improve navigation/geolocation position estimation yield and accuracy. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/250134 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 5/0242 (20130101) G01S 5/0252 (20130101) G01S 5/0289 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09588223 | Wilby et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | RAYTHEON COMPANY (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RAYTHEON COMPANY (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Wilby (Torrance, California); Jonathan Pearson Magoon (Anaheim, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for adjusting phase centers of a receiving array in real time. In one embodiment, a transmitter transmits a sequence of pings. Receiving elements are grouped into staves and summed prior to subsequent processing, and the groups are selected so that the phase center on a ping is substantially in the same location as another phase center on a previous ping. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 09, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/481515 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 7/28 (20130101) G01S 7/523 (20130101) G01S 13/90 (20130101) G01S 13/9094 (20130101) G01S 15/60 (20130101) G01S 15/8904 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09588255 | Tassin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Ames, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philippe Tassin (Göteborg, Sweden); Thomas Koschny (Ames, Iowa); Costas M. Soukoulis (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus, system, and method to counteract group velocity dispersion in fibers, or any other propagation of electromagnetic signals at any wavelength (microwave, terahertz, optical, etc.) in any other medium. A dispersion compensation step or device based on dispersion-engineered metamaterials is included and avoids the need of a long section of specialty fiber or the need for Bragg gratings (which have insertion loss). |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/494174 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 1/007 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/26 (20130101) |
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| US 09588416 | Englund et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dirk Robert Englund (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Igal Bayn (Port Jeff Station, New Jersey); Luozhou Li (Upton, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Columbia University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dirk Robert Englund (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Igal Bayn (Port Jeff Station, New Jersey); Luozhou Li (Upton, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus for nanofabrication on an unconventional substrate including a patterned pliable membrane mechanically coupled to a membrane support structure, a substrate support structure to receive a substrate for processing, and an actuator to adjust the distance between the pliable membrane and the substrate. Nanofabrication on conventional and unconventional substrates can be achieved by transferring a pre-formed patterned pliable membrane onto the substrate using a transfer probe or non-stick sheet, followed by irradiating the substrate through the patterned pliable membrane so as to transfer the pattern on the pliable membrane into or out of the substrate. The apparatus and methods allow fabrication of diamond photonic crystals, fiber-integrated photonic devices and Nitrogen Vacancy (NV) centers in diamonds. |
| FILED | Monday, November 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/537304 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/065 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 13/00 (20130101) Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 14/58 (20130101) C23C 16/50 (20130101) C23C 16/483 (20130101) C23C 16/486 (20130101) C23C 16/487 (20130101) Scanning-probe Techniques or Apparatus; Applications of Scanning-probe Techniques, e.g Scanning Probe Microscopy [SPM] G01Q 80/00 (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 1/62 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 37/3171 (20130101) H01J 2237/31706 (20130101) |
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| US 09588889 | Steely, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Simon C. Steely, Jr. (Hudson, New Hampshire); William C. Hasenplaugh (Boston, Massachusetts); Joel S. Emer (Hudson, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTEL CORPORATION (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Simon C. Steely, Jr. (Hudson, New Hampshire); William C. Hasenplaugh (Boston, Massachusetts); Joel S. Emer (Hudson, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and apparatus to efficiently maintain cache coherency by reading/writing a domain state field associated with a tag entry within a cache tag directory. A value may be assigned to a domain state field of a tag entry in a cache tag directory. The cache tag directory may belong to a hierarchy of cache tag directories. Each tag entry may be associated with a cache line from a cache belonging to a first domain. The first domain may contain multiple caches. The value of the domain state field may indicate whether its associated cache line can be read or changed. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/995991 |
| ART UNIT | 2131 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 12/0802 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 12/0811 (20130101) G06F 12/0817 (20130101) G06F 13/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09588937 | Alvarez-Icaza Rivera 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) | Rodrigo Alvarez-Icaza Rivera (San Jose, California); John V. Arthur (Mountain View, California); John E. Barth, Jr. (Williston, Vermont); Andrew S. Cassidy (San Jose, California); Subramanian S. Iyer (Mount Kisco, New York); Bryan L. Jackson (Fremont, California); Paul A. Merolla (Palo Alto, California); Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, California); Jun Sawada (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention relate to an array of processor core circuits with reversible tiers. One embodiment comprises multiple tiers of core circuits and multiple switches for routing packets between the core circuits. Each tier comprises at least one core circuit. Each switch comprises multiple router channels for routing packets in different directions relative to the switch, and at least one routing circuit configured for reversing a logical direction of at least one router channel. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/781465 |
| ART UNIT | 2184 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 15/7825 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 15/17387 (20130101) |
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| US 09589046 | Akoglu 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) | Leman Akoglu (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Hanghang Tong (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are provided for anomaly, association and clustering detection. At least one code table is built for each attribute in a set of data. A first code table corresponding to a first attribute and a second code table corresponding to a second attribute are selected. The first code table and the second code table are merged into a merged code table, and a determination is made to accept or reject the merged code table. An anomaly is detected when a total compression cost for a data point is greater than a threshold compression cost inferred from one or more code tables. An association in a data table is detected by merging attribute groups, splitting data groups, and assigning data points to data groups. A cluster is inferred from a matrix of data and code words for each of the one or more code tables. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 03, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/014644 |
| ART UNIT | 2154 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30303 (20130101) G06F 17/30371 (20130101) G06F 17/30598 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 21/564 (20130101) G06F 21/566 (20130101) G06F 2221/2101 (20130101) G06F 2221/2117 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/1425 (20130101) |
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| US 09589195 | Aycock et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Polaris Sensor Technologies, Inc. (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Polaris Sensor Technologies, Inc. (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd M. Aycock (Huntsville, Alabama); David B. Chenault (Huntsville, Alabama); Jonathan B. Hanks (Huntsville, Alabama); John S. Harchanko (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A method using Long Wave Infrared Imaging Polarimetry for improved mapping and perception of a roadway or path and for perceiving or detecting obstacles comprises recording raw image data using a polarimeter to obtain polarized images of the roadway or area. The images are then corrected for non-uniformity, optical distortion, and registration. IR and polarization data products are computed, and the resultant data products are converted to a multi-dimensional data set for exploitation. Contrast enhancement algorithms are applied to the multi-dimensional imagery to form enhanced object images. The enhanced object images may then be displayed to a user, and/or an annunciator may announce the presence of an object. Further, the vehicle may take evasive action based upon the presence of an object in the roadway. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 26, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/836549 |
| 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 9/00805 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 5/007 (20130101) G06T 2207/10048 (20130101) G06T 2207/30261 (20130101) Traffic Control Systems G08G 9/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09589229 | Deng 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) | Yu Deng (Yorktown Heights, New York); Rafah A. Hosn (New York, New York); Ruchi Mahindru (Elmsford, New York); Harigovind V. Ramasamy (Ossining, New York); Soumitra Sarkar (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for model-based analysis of a data center. A method includes creating a metamodel based on domain knowledge to represent a type of object and/or relationship of a data center, using static and dynamic configuration and data analysis techniques to discover topology of elements of the data center and represent the topology as a model that is an instance of the metamodel, extending the metamodel, using the model to perform analysis of the data center in connection with a specified task, leveraging domain knowledge represented in nodes of the extended metamodel to guide the analysis in terms of determining guidelines to apply to each node and determining relationships to traverse to continue the analysis, extending the domain knowledge by updating the extended metamodel upon discovery of additional knowledge for use in improving analysis tasks, and extending the model on-demand using dynamic analysis techniques upon detection of multiple analysis failures. |
| FILED | Friday, February 27, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/634146 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 5/04 (20130101) G06N 5/025 (20130101) G06N 5/027 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06N 7/005 (20130101) Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/00 (20130101) G06Q 10/063 (20130101) |
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| US 09589241 | Schneider et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Felix Schneider (Huntingburg, Indiana); Christopher Allen Brown (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Felix Schneider (Huntingburg, Indiana); Christopher Allen Brown (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, an electrical system is provided. The system comprises a controller including a plurality of machine implemented processing sequences. The electrical system also includes a plurality of sensors configured to receive input related to the environmental conditions of the environment surrounding the plurality of sensors and transmit the input to the controller, at least one power source in electrical communication with the controller. The electrical system further includes at least one storage device in electrical communication with the controller, and at least one device sensor in communication with an end user. The at least one device sensor includes memory, and the memory includes priority information regarding the priority of a device associated with the at least one device sensor. The at least one device sensor is operable to transmit information to the controller. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/077913 |
| ART UNIT | 3624 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06Q 50/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09589245 | Coden 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) | Anni R. Coden (Bronx, New York); Ching-Yung Lin (Forest Hills, New York); Wan-Yi Lin (White Plains, New York); Yinglong Xia (Rye Brook, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for predicting insider threat includes mining electronic data of an organization corresponding to activity of an entity, determining features of the electronic data corresponding to the activity of the entity, classifying the features corresponding to the activity of the entity, determining sequences of classified features matching one or more patterns of insider threat, scoring the entity according to matches of the classified features to the one or more patterns of insider threat, and predicting an insider threat corresponding to the entity according to the score. |
| FILED | Monday, April 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/246816 |
| ART UNIT | 2494 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/552 (20130101) G06F 21/554 (20130101) Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/0635 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/1425 (20130101) |
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| US 09589793 | Ning et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cun-Zheng Ning (Chandler, Arizona); Anlian Pan (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, A Body Corporate Acting For And On Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cun-Zheng Ning (Chandler, Arizona); Anlian Pan (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are semiconductor structures comprising laterally varying II-VI alloy layer formed over a surface of a substrate. Further, methods are provided for preparing laterally varying II-VI alloy layers over at least a portion of a surface of a substrate comprising contacting at least a portion of a surface of a substrate within a reaction zone with a chemical vapor under suitable reaction conditions to form a laterally varying II-VI alloy layer over the portion of the surface of the substrate, wherein the chemical vapor is generated by heating at least two II-VI binary compounds; and the reaction zone has a temperature gradient of at least 50-100° C. along an extent of the reaction zone. Also described here are devices such as lasers, light emitting diodes, detectors, or solar cells that can use such semiconductor structures. In the case of lasers, spatially varying wavelength can be realized while in the case of solar cells and detectors multiple solar cells can be achieved laterally where each cell absorbs solar energy of a given wavelength range such that entire solar spectrum can be covered by the said solar cell structure. For LED applications, spatial variation of alloy composition can be used to engineer colors of light emission. |
| FILED | Friday, November 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/126864 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0256 (20130101) H01L 21/0262 (20130101) H01L 21/02422 (20130101) H01L 21/02491 (20130101) H01L 21/02557 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/02562 (20130101) H01L 21/02568 (20130101) H01L 21/02636 (20130101) H01L 31/0296 (20130101) H01L 31/0352 (20130101) H01L 33/02 (20130101) H01L 33/28 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 5/327 (20130101) H01S 5/1042 (20130101) |
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| US 09590015 | Lu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yicheng Lu (East Brunswick, New Jersey); Yang Zhang (Piscataway, New Jersey); Chieh-Jen Ku (Edison, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A vertically integrated reconfigurable and programmable diode/memory resistor (1D1R) and thin film transistor/memory resistor (1T1R) structures built on substrates are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, November 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/537480 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 2213/53 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/24 (20130101) H01L 27/2409 (20130101) H01L 27/2454 (20130101) H01L 27/2463 (20130101) H01L 27/2481 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/24 (20130101) H01L 29/872 (20130101) H01L 29/7869 (20130101) H01L 45/00 (20130101) H01L 45/08 (20130101) H01L 45/146 (20130101) H01L 45/147 (20130101) H01L 45/1233 (20130101) H01L 45/1253 (20130101) H01L 45/1616 (20130101) |
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| US 09590081 | Kub 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) | Francis J. Kub (Arnold, Maryland); Travis J. Anderson (Alexandria, Virginia); Andrew D. Koehler (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a graphene base transistor with reduced collector area comprising forming a graphene material layer, forming a collector material, depositing a dielectric, planarizing the dielectric, cleaning and removing the native oxide, transferring a base graphene material layer to the top surface of the graphene material layer, bonding the base graphene material layer, and photostepping and defining a second graphene material layer. A method of making a graphene base transistor with reduced collector area comprising forming an electron injection region, forming an electron collection region, and forming a base region. A graphene base transistor with reduced collector area comprising an electron emitter region, an electron collection region, and a base region. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 25, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/952422 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/165 (20130101) H01L 29/267 (20130101) H01L 29/732 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/0817 (20130101) H01L 29/0821 (20130101) H01L 29/1606 (20130101) H01L 29/1608 (20130101) H01L 29/2003 (20130101) H01L 29/7371 (20130101) H01L 29/7606 (20130101) H01L 29/66037 (20130101) H01L 29/66068 (20130101) H01L 29/66242 (20130101) H01L 29/66318 (20130101) H01L 29/66931 (20130101) H01L 29/66939 (20130101) H01L 29/66969 (20130101) |
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| US 09590140 | Suchalkin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sergey Suchalkin (Stony Brook, New York); Gregory Belenky (Port Jefferson, New York); Leon Shterengas (Port Jefferson, New York); David Westerfeld (Central Islip, New York) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Sergey Suchalkin (Stony Brook, New York); Gregory Belenky (Port Jefferson, New York); Leon Shterengas (Port Jefferson, New York); David Westerfeld (Central Islip, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An LED optimized for use in low-cost gas or other non-solid substance detection systems, emitting two wavelengths (“colors”) of electromagnetic radiation from the same aperture is disclosed. The LED device emits a light with a wavelength centered on an absorption line of the target detection non-solid substance, and also emits a reference line with a wavelength that is not absorbed by a target non-solid substance, while both wavelengths are transmitted through the atmosphere with low loss. Since the absorption and reference wavelengths are emitted from the same exact aperture, both wavelengths can share the same optical path, reducing the size and cost of the detector while also reducing potential sources of error due to optical path variation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 01, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/789438 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/314 (20130101) G01N 21/3504 (20130101) G01N 2021/3181 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 33/06 (20130101) H01L 33/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 33/0025 (20130101) H01L 33/30 (20130101) |
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| US 09590167 | Elmegreen 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) | Bruce G. Elmegreen (Golden's Bridge, New York); Glenn J. Martyna (Croton on Hudson, New York); Dennis M. Newns (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A piezoelectronic transistor device includes a first piezoelectric (PE) layer, a second PE layer, and a piezoresistive (PR) layer arranged in a stacked configuration, wherein an electrical resistance of the PR layer is dependent upon an applied voltage across the first and second PE layers by an applied pressure to the PR layer by the first and second PE layers. A piezoelectronic logic device includes a first and second piezoelectric transistor (PET), wherein the first and second PE layers of the first PET have a smaller cross sectional area than those of the second PET, such that a voltage drop across the PE layers of the first PET creates a first pressure in the PR layer of the first PET that is smaller than a second pressure in the PR layer of the second PET created by the same voltage drop across the PE layers of the second PET. |
| FILED | Friday, August 26, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/248488 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 41/047 (20130101) H01L 41/083 (20130101) H01L 41/107 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 41/1876 (20130101) |
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| US 09590535 | Bargatin 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) | Igor Bargatin (Mountain View, California); Roger T. Howe (Los Gatos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermionic energy converter is provided that includes an anode, a cathode, where the anode is disposed opposite the cathode, and a suspension, where a first end of the suspension is connected to the cathode and a second end of the suspension is connected to the anode, where the suspension moveably supports the cathode above the anode to form a variable gap between the anode and the cathode, where the variable gap is capable of enabling a variable thermionic current between the anode and the cathode, where the thermionic converter is capable of an AC power output. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/944570 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Microstructural Devices or Systems, e.g Micromechanical Devices B81B 3/0032 (20130101) Electric Machines Not Otherwise Provided for H02N 3/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09590611 | Cole 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) | Patrick L. Cole (Bedford, Indiana); Adam R. Duncan (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for controlling current or mitigating electromagnetic or radiation interference effects using structures configured to cooperatively control a common semi-conductive channel region (SCR). One embodiment includes providing a metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) section formed with an exemplary SCR and two junction field effect transistor (JFET) gates on opposing sides of the MOSFET's SCR such that operation of the JFET modulates or controls current through the MOSFET's. With two JFET gate terminals to modulate various embodiments' signal(s), an improved mixer, demodulator, and gain control element in, e.g., analog circuits can be realized. Additionally, a direct current (DC)-biased terminal of one embodiment decreases cross-talk with other devices. A lens structure can also be incorporated into MOSFET structures to further adjust operation of the MOSFET. An embodiment can also include a current leakage mitigation structure configured to reduce or eliminate current leakage between MOSFET and JFET structures. |
| FILED | Friday, April 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/683438 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 35/005 (20130101) Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/026 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/823412 (20130101) H01L 27/085 (20130101) H01L 27/098 (20130101) H01L 27/0617 (20130101) H01L 29/78 (20130101) H01L 29/808 (20130101) H01L 29/1045 (20130101) H01L 29/1058 (20130101) H01L 29/7832 (20130101) H01L 29/42368 (20130101) H01L 29/66484 (20130101) H01L 31/08 (20130101) Control of Amplification H03G 1/007 (20130101) H03G 3/3036 (20130101) Pulse Technique H03K 17/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03K 17/567 (20130101) |
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| US 09590740 | Pace 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) | Phillip E. Pace (San Juan Bautista, California); Thomas W. Tedesso (Annapolis, Maryland); James Calusdian (Salinas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A four-element wideband photonic DF system with robust symmetrical number system preprocessing utilizes dual electrode Mach-Zehnder modulators (DE-MZMs) to conduct phase detection for direct wideband direction finding (DF) of RF signals, such as microwave signals, in which the normalized magnitude of the output signal phase detector circuit is equal to |sin(φ/2)| where φ is the phase difference between the plane waves arriving at the reference and measurement antennas of a linear DF array. The method and system allow fine angular resolution using a much smaller array size than is typically required for linear arrays employing super-resolution signal processing techniques. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/919346 |
| ART UNIT | 2637 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 10/503 (20130101) H04B 10/541 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09591238 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Voxtel, Inc. (Beaverton, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Voxtel, Inc. (Beaverton, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam Lee (Portland, Oregon); Jehyuk Rhee (King City, Oregon); Brent Jensen (Hillsboro, Oregon); George Williams (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | An imaging device is disclosed, the device comprising a pixelated array of semiconductor elements, in which each detecting element is electrically connected to an integrated circuit, the integrated circuit comprising a passive signal path and an active signal path. The passive path provides consecutive frame imaging and the active path detects the location of transient events. The device further comprising a readout decoder block, the readout decoder block controlling operation of the passive paths. Additionally, the device comprises of an address arbitration control block, the address arbitration control block controlling operation of the active paths, wherein the address arbitration control block readout of the active paths are independent of readout of the integrated signal readout from the passive paths. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/526340 |
| ART UNIT | 2663 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/33 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04N 5/378 (20130101) H04N 5/3742 (20130101) H04N 5/3745 (20130101) |
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| US 09591240 | Barbu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adrian Barbu (Tallahassee, Florida); Josue Anaya (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a system and method for generating a dataset of uncompressed color images taken with three digital cameras and exhibiting different levels of real noise, resulting from low-light conditions. For each scene there are, on average, two low-noise and two noisy images that are aligned at the pixel level both spatially and in intensity. In one embodiment, the dataset contains over 100 scenes and more than 400 images, including both 16-bit RAW formatted images and 8-bit BMP pixel and intensity aligned images from three digital cameras. The generated dataset of real noise images is useful in the evaluation of denoising algorithms. |
| FILED | Monday, November 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/954402 |
| ART UNIT | 2668 — 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 9/32 (20130101) G06K 9/40 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 5/002 (20130101) G06T 5/003 (20130101) G06T 2207/10024 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/357 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04N 5/2353 (20130101) H04N 5/2354 (20130101) |
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| US 09586040 | Sheth et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Heeral Sheth (Oakland, California); William J. Bennett (Livermore, California); Satinderpall S. Pannu (Pleasanton, California); Angela C. Tooker (Dublin, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Heeral Sheth (Oakland, California); William J. Bennett (Livermore, California); Satinderpall S. Pannu (Pleasanton, California); Angela C. Tooker (Dublin, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A flexible device insertion tool including an elongated stiffener with one or more suction ports, and a vacuum connector for interfacing the stiffener to a vacuum source, for attaching the flexible device such as a flexible neural probe to the stiffener during insertion by a suction force exerted through the suction ports to, and to release the flexible device by removing the suction force. |
| FILED | Monday, May 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/898385 |
| ART UNIT | 3731 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/685 (20130101) A61B 5/04001 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0531 (20130101) A61N 1/0539 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09586190 | Ermanoski |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ivan Ermanoski (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermal swing reactor including a multi-flight auger and methods for solar thermochemical reactions are disclosed. The reactor includes a multi-flight auger having different helix portions having different pitch. Embodiments of reactors include at least two distinct reactor portions between which there is at least a pressure differential. In embodiments, reactive particles are exchanged between portions during a reaction cycle to thermally reduce the particles at first conditions and oxidize the particles at second conditions to produce chemical work from heat. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/278350 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 8/002 (20130101) B01J 8/087 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 19/20 (20130101) B01J 19/127 (20130101) B01J 2208/00451 (20130101) B01J 2219/00144 (20130101) Transport or Storage Devices, e.g Conveyors for Loading or Tipping, shop Conveyor Systems Or pneumatic Tube Conveyors B65G 33/14 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 3/063 (20130101) C01B 31/18 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/41 (20130101) Y02E 10/44 (20130101) |
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| US 09586320 | Lin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yhu-Tin Lin (Rochester Hills, Michigan); Timothy Daro (Lake Orion, Michigan); Jeffrey A. Abell (Rochester Hills, Michigan); Raymond D. Turner, III (Canadensis, Pennsylvania); Daniel J. Casoli (Howell, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method includes the following steps: actuating a robotic arm to perform an action at a start position; moving the robotic arm from the start position toward a first position; determining from a vision process method if a first part from the first position will be ready to be subjected to a first action by the robotic arm once the robotic arm reaches the first position; commencing the execution of the visual processing method for determining the position deviation of the second part from the second position and the readiness of the second part to be subjected to a second action by the robotic arm once the robotic arm reaches the second position; and performing a first action on the first part using the robotic arm with the position deviation of the first part from the first position predetermined by the vision process method. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/493942 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 9/0093 (20130101) B25J 9/1697 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 901/09 (20130101) |
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| US 09586362 | Matsen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Marc R. Matsen (Seattle, Washington); Mark A. Negley (Bellevue, Washington); William Preston Geren (Shoreline, Washington); Robert James Miller (Fall City, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc R. Matsen (Seattle, Washington); Mark A. Negley (Bellevue, Washington); William Preston Geren (Shoreline, Washington); Robert James Miller (Fall City, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermoplastic welding apparatus includes a thermoplastic welding tool, at least one tooling surface in the thermoplastic welding tool, a magnetic induction coil in the thermoplastic welding tool and generally encircling the at least one tooling surface and at least one smart susceptor in the thermoplastic welding tool at the at least one tooling surface. The magnetic induction coil is adapted to generate a magnetic flux field oriented generally parallel to a plane of the at least one smart susceptor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/109061 |
| ART UNIT | 1747 — 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 65/3612 (20130101) B29C 65/3644 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B29C 65/3668 (20130101) B29C 65/3676 (20130101) B29C 66/00145 (20130101) B29C 66/474 (20130101) B29C 66/524 (20130101) B29C 66/721 (20130101) B29C 66/1122 (20130101) B29C 66/7212 (20130101) B29C 66/7212 (20130101) B29C 66/7212 (20130101) B29C 66/7392 (20130101) B29C 66/7394 (20130101) B29C 66/8122 (20130101) B29C 66/8122 (20130101) B29C 66/8126 (20130101) B29C 66/73921 (20130101) B29C 66/81457 (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 2307/04 (20130101) B29K 2309/08 (20130101) B29K 2909/02 (20130101) B29K 2995/0008 (20130101) Electric Heating; Electric Lighting Not Otherwise Provided for H05B 6/105 (20130101) H05B 2206/023 (20130101) |
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| US 09586704 | Nikolaev 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) | Sergei Nikolaev (Sacramento, California); Willem H. De Vries (Livermore, California); John R. Henderson (Castro Valley, California); Matthew A. Horsley (Danville, California); Ming Jiang (Dublin, California); Joanne L. Levatin (Livermore, California); Scot S. Olivier (Livermore, California); Alexander J. Pertica (Livermore, California); Donald W. Phillion (Dublin, California); Harry K. Springer (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A space object modeling system that models the evolution of space debris is provided. The modeling system simulates interaction of space objects at simulation times throughout a simulation period. The modeling system includes a propagator that calculates the position of each object at each simulation time based on orbital parameters. The modeling system also includes a collision detector that, for each pair of objects at each simulation time, performs a collision analysis. When the distance between objects satisfies a conjunction criterion, the modeling system calculates a local minimum distance between the pair of objects based on a curve fitting to identify a time of closest approach at the simulation times and calculating the position of the objects at the identified time. When the local minimum distance satisfies a collision criterion, the modeling system models the debris created by the collision of the pair of objects. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 02, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/875580 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Cosmonautics; Vehicles or Equipment Therefor B64G 3/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/5009 (20130101) Traffic Control Systems G08G 5/0052 (20130101) G08G 9/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09586984 | Gervay-Hague 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) | Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague (Davis, California); Wenjun Du (Mount Pleasant, Michigan); Suvarn S. Kulkarni (Mumbai, India); Matthew Schombs (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a one-pot method of preparing an unprotected α-O-glycolipid. The first step involves contacting a protected α-iodo sugar with a catalyst and a lipid comprising a hydroxy group, under conditions sufficient to prepare a protected α-O-glycolipid. The second step involves deprotecting the protected α-O-glycolipid under conditions sufficient to prepare the unprotected α-O-glycolipid, wherein the contacting and deprotecting steps are performed in a single vessel. The present invention also provides a one-pot method of preparing an unprotected β-O-glycolipid following the steps for the preparation of the unprotected α-O-glycolipid. |
| FILED | Monday, January 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/148477 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 1/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07H 5/00 (20130101) C07H 5/06 (20130101) C07H 15/04 (20130101) C07H 15/06 (20130101) C07H 15/10 (20130101) Steroids C07J 17/005 (20130101) |
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| US 09587252 | Church 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) | George M. Church (Brookline, Massachusetts); Kevin Esvelt (Auburndale, Massachusetts); Prashant Mali (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of modulating expression of a target nucleic acid in a cell are provided including use of multiple orthogonal Cas9 proteins to simultaneously and independently regulate corresponding genes or simultaneously and independently edit corresponding genes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 31, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/674895 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 2/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/22 (20130101) C12N 15/11 (20130101) C12N 15/85 (20130101) C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 15/907 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/3519 (20130101) C12N 2320/33 (20130101) C12N 2320/50 (20130101) C12N 2800/40 (20130101) C12N 2800/80 (20130101) C12N 2800/107 (20130101) C12N 2810/10 (20130101) C12N 2830/00 (20130101) C12N 2830/34 (20130101) C12N 2999/007 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 301/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09587256 | Adams et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia); North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia); North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael W. W. Adams (Athens, Georgia); Robert M. Kelly (Cary, North Carolina); Aaron B. Hawkins (Durham, North Carolina); Angeli Lal Menon (Athens, Georgia); Gina Lynette Pries Lipscomb (Athens, Georgia); Gerrit Jan Schut (Athen, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are genetically engineered microbes that include at least a portion of a carbon fixation pathway, and in one embodiment, use molecular hydrogen to drive carbon dioxide fixation. In one embodiment, the genetically engineered microbe is modified to convert acetyl CoA, molecular hydrogen, and carbon dioxide to 3-hydroxypropionate, 4-hydroxybutyrate, acetyl CoA, or the combination thereof at levels greater than a control microbe. Other products may also be produced. Also provided herein are cell free compositions that convert acetyl CoA, molecular hydrogen, and carbon dioxide to 3-hydroxypropionate, 4-hydroxybutyrate, acetyl CoA, or the combination thereof. Also provided herein are methods of using the genetically engineered microbes and the cell free compositions. |
| FILED | Friday, September 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/426290 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/001 (20130101) C12N 9/0008 (20130101) C12N 9/0036 (20130101) C12N 9/88 (20130101) C12N 9/90 (20130101) C12N 9/93 (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 7/42 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Enzymes C12Y 102/01018 (20130101) C12Y 102/01075 (20130101) C12Y 102/01076 (20130101) C12Y 103/01084 (20130101) C12Y 106/99001 (20130101) C12Y 402/01116 (20130101) C12Y 501/99001 (20130101) C12Y 504/99002 (20130101) C12Y 602/01036 (20130101) C12Y 604/01002 (20130101) C12Y 604/01003 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/52 (20151101) |
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| US 09587262 | McBrayer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brett McBrayer (Davis, California); Tarana Shaghasi (Davis, California); Elena Vlasenko (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to enzyme compositions for high temperature saccharification of cellulosic material and to uses thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, October 16, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/885555 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/22 (20130101) C12N 9/248 (20130101) C12N 9/2437 (20130101) C12N 9/2445 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/02 (20130101) C12P 19/12 (20130101) C12P 19/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Enzymes C12Y 302/01004 (20130101) C12Y 302/01008 (20130101) C12Y 302/01021 (20130101) C12Y 302/01037 (20130101) C12Y 302/01091 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/52 (20151101) |
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| US 09587448 | Decker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on behalf of the Desert Research Institute (Reno, Nevada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on behalf of the Desert Research Institute (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Decker (Reno, Nevada); Brad F. Lyles (Reno, Nevada); Richard G. Purcell (Reno, Nevada); Ronald Lee Hershey (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, the present disclosure provides an apparatus and method for supporting a tubing bundle during installation or removal. The apparatus includes a clamp for securing the tubing bundle to an external wireline. In various examples, the clamp is external to the tubing bundle or integral with the tubing bundle. According to one method, a tubing bundle and wireline are deployed together and the tubing bundle periodically secured to the wireline using a clamp. In another embodiment, the present disclosure provides an apparatus and method for coupling conduit segments together. A first pump obtains a sample and transmits it through a first conduit to a reservoir accessible by a second pump. The second pump further conducts the sample from the reservoir through a second conduit. In a specific example, one or more clamps are used to connect the first and/or second conduits to an external wireline. |
| FILED | Friday, March 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/229443 |
| 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 19/00 (20130101) E21B 19/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class E21B 49/08 (20130101) Pipes; Joints or Fittings for Pipes; Supports for Pipes, Cables or Protective Tubing; Means for Thermal Insulation in General F16L 3/23 (20130101) F16L 3/223 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 24/1441 (20150115) Y10T 137/86107 (20150401) Y10T 137/86147 (20150401) |
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| US 09587492 | Roberts, III et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Herbert Chidsey Roberts, III (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Peter Joel Meschter (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Herbert Chidsey Roberts, III (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Peter Joel Meschter (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbomachine component includes a body having an exterior surface and an interior surface, an internal cavity defined by the interior surface, and a reactivity neutralizing member arranged within the internal cavity. The reactivity neutralizing member is configured and disposed to neutralize turbomachine combustion products on the interior surface of the body. |
| FILED | Friday, May 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/464134 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F01D 5/147 (20130101) F01D 5/282 (20130101) F01D 5/284 (20130101) F01D 5/286 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2300/224 (20130101) F05D 2300/2261 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49231 (20150115) |
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| US 09587562 | Ostebee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Heath Michael Ostebee (Piedmont, South Carolina); Thomas Edward Johnson (Greer, South Carolina); Jason Thurman Stewart (Greer, South Carolina); Christopher Paul Keener (Woodruff, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application provides a combustor for use with a gas turbine engine. The combustor may include a number of micro-mixer fuel nozzles and a fuel injection system for providing a flow of fuel to the micro-mixer fuel nozzles. The fuel injection system may include a number of support struts supporting the fuel nozzles and providing the flow of fuel therethrough. The support struts may include an aerodynamic contoured shape so as to distribute evenly a flow of air to the micro-mixer fuel nozzles. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/760097 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 3/14 (20130101) F02C 7/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Burners F23D 2900/14004 (20130101) Generating Combustion Products of High Pressure or High Velocity, e.g Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers F23R 3/46 (20130101) F23R 3/283 (20130101) F23R 3/286 (20130101) |
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| US 09587746 | Bidkar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rahul Anil Bidkar (Niskayuna, New York); Neelesh Nandkumar Sarawate (Niskayuna, New York); Christopher Edward Wolfe (Niskayuna, New York); Eric John Ruggiero (Niskayuna, New York); Vivek Raja Raj Mohan (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rahul Anil Bidkar (Niskayuna, New York); Neelesh Nandkumar Sarawate (Niskayuna, New York); Christopher Edward Wolfe (Niskayuna, New York); Eric John Ruggiero (Niskayuna, New York); Vivek Raja Raj Mohan (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A seal assembly for a rotary machine is provided. The seal assembly includes multiple sealing device segments disposed circumferentially intermediate to a stationary housing and a rotor. Each of the segments includes a shoe plate with a forward-shoe section and an aft-shoe section having one or more labyrinth teeth therebetween facing the rotor. The sealing device includes a stator interface element having a groove or slot for allowing disposal of a spline seal for preventing segment leakages. The sealing device segment also includes multiple bellow springs or flexures connected to the shoe plate and to the stator interface element. Further, the sealing device segments include a secondary seal integrated with the stator interface element at one end and positioned about the multiple bellow springs or flexures and the shoe plate at the other end. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/562705 |
| ART UNIT | 3675 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 11/04 (20130101) F01D 11/14 (20130101) F01D 11/025 (20130101) Pistons; Cylinders; Sealings F16J 15/442 (20130101) F16J 15/445 (20130101) F16J 15/4476 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09588058 | Bora 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) | Mihail Bora (Livermore, California); Jack Kotovsky (Alameda, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and techniques for non-destructive evaluation of water ingress in photovoltaic modules include and/or are configured to illuminate a photovoltaic module comprising a photovoltaic cell and an encapsulant with at least one beam of light having a wavelength in a range from about 1400 nm to about 2700 nm; capture one or more images of the illuminated photovoltaic module, each image relating to a water content of the photovoltaic module; and determine a water content of the photovoltaic module based on the one or more images. Systems preferably include one or more of a light source, a moving mirror, a focusing lens, a beam splitter, a stationary mirror, an objective lens and an imaging module. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 29, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/983076 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/94 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/958 (20130101) G01N 21/8851 (20130101) G01N 2021/8887 (20130101) Generation of Electric Power by Conversion of Infra-red Radiation, Visible Light or Ultraviolet Light, e.g Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules H02S 50/15 (20141201) |
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| US 09588124 | El-Sayed et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mostafa A. El-Sayed (Atlanta, Georgia); Ivan Homer El-Sayed (San Francisco, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mostafa A. El-Sayed (Atlanta, Georgia); Ivan Homer El-Sayed (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Noble metal nanoparticles and methods of their use are provided. Certain aspects provided solid noble metal nanoparticles tuned to the near infrared. The disclosed nanoparticles can be used in molecular imaging, diagnosis, and treatment. Methods for imaging cells are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/913915 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 41/0052 (20130101) A61K 49/0065 (20130101) Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 1/0018 (20130101) B22F 1/0025 (20130101) B22F 2998/00 (20130101) B22F 2998/00 (20130101) B22F 2998/00 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/587 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09588229 | Farmer 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) | Joseph C. Farmer (Tracy, California); Edward Ira Moses (Livermore, California); Alexander M. Rubenchik (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An enhanced multifunctional paint apparatus, systems, and methods for detecting radiation on a surface include providing scintillation particles; providing an enhance neutron absorptive material; providing a binder; combining the scintillation particles, the enhance neutron absorptive material, and the binder creating a multifunctional paint; applying the multifunctional paint to the surface; and monitoring the surface for detecting radiation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 17, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/659848 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 1/12 (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 5/32 (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 24/04 (20130101) Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/11 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01T 1/20 (20130101) |
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| US 09588234 | Watson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Scott A Watson (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Evan A Rose (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A miniature, portable x-ray system may be configured to scan images stored on a phosphor. A flash circuit may be configured to project red light onto a phosphor and receive blue light from the phosphor. A digital monochrome camera may be configured to receive the blue light to capture an article near the phosphor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/258481 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 23/04 (20130101) G01N 2223/301 (20130101) G01N 2223/308 (20130101) Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/2012 (20130101) G01T 1/2014 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09588255 | Tassin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Ames, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philippe Tassin (Göteborg, Sweden); Thomas Koschny (Ames, Iowa); Costas M. Soukoulis (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus, system, and method to counteract group velocity dispersion in fibers, or any other propagation of electromagnetic signals at any wavelength (microwave, terahertz, optical, etc.) in any other medium. A dispersion compensation step or device based on dispersion-engineered metamaterials is included and avoids the need of a long section of specialty fiber or the need for Bragg gratings (which have insertion loss). |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/494174 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 1/007 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/26 (20130101) |
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| US 09588767 | Bose 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) | Pradip Bose (Yorktown Heights, New York); Chen-Yong Cher (Port Chester, New York); Ravi Nair (Briarcliff Manor, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An aspect includes receiving a write request that includes a memory address and write data. Stored data is read from a memory location at the memory address. Based on determining that the memory location was not previously modified, the stored data is compared to the write data. Based on the stored data matching the write data, the write request is completed without writing the write data to the memory and a corresponding silent store bit, in a silent store bitmap is set. Based on the stored data not matching the write data, the write data is written to the memory location, the silent store bit is reset and a corresponding modified bit is set. At least one of an application and an operating system is provided access to the silent store bitmap. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 25, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/749680 |
| ART UNIT | 2139 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/3863 (20130101) G06F 9/30043 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09588768 | Bose 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) | Pradip Bose (Yorktown Heights, New York); Chen-Yong Cher (Port Chester, New York); Ravi Nair (Briarcliff Manor, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An aspect includes receiving a write request that includes a memory address and write data. Stored data is read from a memory location at the memory address. Based on determining that the memory location was not previously modified, the stored data is compared to the write data. Based on the stored data matching the write data, the write request is completed without writing the write data to the memory and a corresponding silent store bit, in a silent store bitmap is set. Based on the stored data not matching the write data, the write data is written to the memory location, the silent store bit is reset and a corresponding modified bit is set. At least one of an application and an operating system is provided access to the silent store bitmap. |
| FILED | Monday, November 23, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/948725 |
| ART UNIT | 2139 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/3863 (20130101) G06F 9/30043 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09588989 | Payne et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Deborah A. Payne (Richland, Washington); Edwin R. Burtner (Richland, Washington); Shawn J. Bohn (Richland, Washington); Shawn D. Hampton (Kennewick, Washington); David S. Gillen (Kennewick, Washington); Michael J. Henry (Pasco, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Search systems and computer-implemented search methods are described. In one aspect, a search system includes a communications interface configured to access a plurality of data items of a collection, wherein the data items include a plurality of image objects individually comprising image data utilized to generate an image of the respective data item. The search system may include processing circuitry coupled with the communications interface and configured to process the image data of the data items of the collection to identify a plurality of image content facets which are indicative of image content contained within the images and to associate the image objects with the image content facets and a display coupled with the processing circuitry and configured to depict the image objects associated with the image content facets. |
| FILED | Monday, December 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/977452 |
| ART UNIT | 2167 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30038 (20130101) G06F 17/30247 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 17/30598 (20130101) G06F 17/30991 (20130101) |
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| US 09589297 | Fuller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jason C. Fuller (Richland, Washington); David P. Chassin (Pasco, Washington); Robert G. Pratt (Kennewick, Washington); Matthew Hauer (Richland, Washington); Francis K. Tuffner (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason C. Fuller (Richland, Washington); David P. Chassin (Pasco, Washington); Robert G. Pratt (Kennewick, Washington); Matthew Hauer (Richland, Washington); Francis K. Tuffner (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are representative embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems for distributing a resource (such as electricity) using a resource allocation system. One of the disclosed embodiments is a method for operating a transactive thermostatic controller configured to submit bids to a market-based resource allocation system. According to the exemplary method, a first bid curve is determined, the first bid curve indicating a first set of bid prices for corresponding temperatures and being associated with a cooling mode of operation for a heating and cooling system. A second bid curve is also determined, the second bid curve indicating a second set of bid prices for corresponding temperatures and being associated with a heating mode of operation for a heating and cooling system. In this embodiment, the first bid curve, the second bid curve, or both the first bid curve and the second bid curve are modified to prevent overlap of any portion of the first bid curve and the second bid curve. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/096770 |
| ART UNIT | 3691 — Business Methods - Finance/Banking/ Insurance |
| CURRENT CPC | Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 30/08 (20130101) G06Q 40/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09589757 | Hannon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | JEFFERSON SCIENCE ASSOCIATES, LLC (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | JEFFERSON SCIENCE ASSOCIATES, LLC (Newport News, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fay Hannon (Poquoson, Virginia); Pietro Musumeci (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for providing a superconducting surface on a laser-driven niobium cathode in order to increase the effective quantum efficiency. The enhanced surface increases the effective quantum efficiency by improving the laser absorption of the surface and enhancing the local electric field. The surface preparation method makes feasible the construction of superconducting radio frequency injectors with niobium as the photocathode. An array of nano-structures are provided on a flat surface of niobium. The nano-structures are dimensionally tailored to interact with a laser of specific wavelength to thereby increase the electron yield of the surface. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 23, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/862640 |
| ART UNIT | 3723 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Machines, Devices, or Processes for Grinding or Polishing; Dressing or Conditioning of Abrading Surfaces; Feeding of Grinding, Polishing, or Lapping Agents B24B 37/042 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 9/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 40/06 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09589792 | Jiang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SORAA, INC. (Fremont, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Soraa, Inc. (Fremont, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wenkan Jiang (Santa Barbara, California); Mark P. D'Evelyn (Santa Barbara, California); Derrick S. Kamber (Goleta, California); Dirk Ehrentraut (Santa Barbara, California); Michael Krames (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | High quality ammonothermal group III metal nitride crystals having a pattern of locally-approximately-linear arrays of threading dislocations, methods of manufacturing high quality ammonothermal group III metal nitride crystals, and methods of using such crystals are disclosed. The crystals are useful for seed bulk crystal growth and as substrates for light emitting diodes, laser diodes, transistors, photodetectors, solar cells, and for photoelectrochemical water splitting for hydrogen generation devices. |
| FILED | Monday, November 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/089281 |
| ART UNIT | 1781 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 7/105 (20130101) C30B 29/403 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0237 (20130101) H01L 21/0254 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/02458 (20130101) H01L 21/02642 (20130101) H01L 21/02647 (20130101) H01L 33/0075 (20130101) |
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| US 09590026 | Deligianni 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) | Hariklia Deligianni (Alpine, New York); William J. Gallagher (Ardsley, New York); Maurice Mason (Danbury, Connecticut); Eugene J. O'Sullivan (Nyack, New York); Lubomyr T. Romankiw (Briancliff Manor, New York); Naigang Wang (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An on-chip magnetic structure includes a palladium activated seed layer and a substantially amorphous magnetic material disposed onto the palladium activated seed layer. The substantially amorphous magnetic material includes nickel in a range from about 50 to about 80 atomic % (at. %) based on the total number of atoms of the magnetic material, iron in a range from about 10 to about 50 at. % based on the total number of atoms of the magnetic material, and phosphorous in a range from about 0.1 to about 30 at. % based on the total number of atoms of the magnetic material. The magnetic material can include boron in a range from about 0.1 to about 5 at. % based on the total number of atoms of the magnetic material. |
| FILED | Friday, June 19, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/744124 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/288 (20130101) H01L 28/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Transphorm Inc. (Goleta, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Transphorm Inc. (Goleta, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rakesh K. Lal (Isla Vista, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A III-N enhancement-mode transistor includes a III-N structure including a conductive channel, source and drain contacts, and a gate electrode between the source and drain contacts. An insulator layer is over the III-N structure, with a recess formed through the insulator layer in a gate region of the transistor, with the gate electrode at least partially in the recess. The transistor further includes a field plate having a portion between the gate electrode and the drain contact, the field plate being electrically connected to the source contact. The gate electrode includes an extending portion that is outside the recess and extends towards the drain contact. The separation between the conductive channel and the extending portion of the gate electrode is greater than the separation between the conductive channel and the portion of the field plate that is between the gate electrode and the drain contact. |
| FILED | Monday, May 18, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/714964 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/8252 (20130101) H01L 27/085 (20130101) H01L 27/0605 (20130101) H01L 27/0883 (20130101) H01L 29/78 (20130101) H01L 29/407 (20130101) H01L 29/2003 (20130101) H01L 29/4236 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/66522 (20130101) H01L 2224/4813 (20130101) H01L 2224/48091 (20130101) H01L 2224/48091 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/13055 (20130101) H01L 2924/13055 (20130101) |
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| US 09590131 | Wanlass |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Wanlass (Golden, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and Methods for Advanced Ultra-High-Performance InP Solar Cells are provided. In one embodiment, an InP photovoltaic device comprises: a p-n junction absorber layer comprising at least one InP layer; a front surface confinement layer; and a back surface confinement layer; wherein either the front surface confinement layer or the back surface confinement layer forms part of a High-Low (HL) doping architecture; and wherein either the front surface confinement layer or the back surface confinement layer forms part of a heterointerface system architecture. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 26, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/226540 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/184 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/0304 (20130101) H01L 31/0693 (20130101) H01L 31/0735 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/50 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/521 (20151101) |
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| US 09590248 | Amine et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Khalil Amine (Oak Brook, Illinois); Jun Lu (Bolingbrook, Illinois); Peng Du (Woodbridge, Illinois); Jianguo Wen (Naperville, Illinois); Larry A. Curtiss (Downers Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An active material composition includes a porous graphene nanocage and a source material. The source material may be a sulfur material. The source material may be an anodic material. A lithium-sulfur battery is provided that includes a cathode, an anode, a lithium salt, and an electrolyte, where the cathode of the lithium-sulfur battery includes a porous graphene nanocage and a sulfur material and at least a portion of the sulfur material is entrapped within the porous graphene nanocage. Also provided is a lithium-air battery that includes a cathode, an anode, a lithium salt, and an electrolyte, where the cathode includes a porous graphene nanocage and where the cathode may be free of a cathodic metal catalyst. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/796672 |
| ART UNIT | 1727 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/136 (20130101) H01M 4/583 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/5815 (20130101) H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 12/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09590260 | Fernandes et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ACUMENTRICS SOFC CORPORATION (Walpole, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ACUMENTRICS SOFC CORPORATION (Westwood, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil Edward Fernandes (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Michael S. Brown (Somerville, Massachusetts); Praveen Cheekatamaria (Norwood, Massachusetts); Thomas Deng (Needham, Massachusetts); James Dimitrakopoulos (Peabody, Massachusetts); Anthony F. Litka (Hanover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A reactor system is integrated internally within an anode-side cavity of a fuel cell. The reactor system is configured to convert higher hydrocarbons to smaller species while mitigating the lower production of solid carbon. The reactor system may incorporate one or more of a pre-reforming section, an anode exhaust gas recirculation device, and a reforming section. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/077728 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/0618 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/04097 (20130101) H01M 2008/1293 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/50 (20130101) Y02E 60/525 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/56 (20151101) |
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| US 09590268 | Yang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jin Yang (Pleasanton, California); Hany Basam Eitouni (Oakland, California); Mohit Singh (Berkeley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Seeo, Inc. (Hayward, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jin Yang (Pleasanton, California); Hany Basam Eitouni (Oakland, California); Mohit Singh (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrochemical cells that use electrolytes made from new polymer compositions based on poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene oxide) and other high-softening-temperature polymers are disclosed. These materials have a microphase domain structure that has an ionically-conductive phase and a phase with good mechanical strength and a high softening temperature. In one arrangement, the structural block has a softening temperature of about 210° C. These materials can be made with either homopolymers or with block copolymers. Such electrochemical cells can operate safely at higher temperatures than have been possible before, especially in lithium cells. The ionic conductivity of the electrolytes increases with increasing temperature. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/698665 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 10/0565 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 7/00 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) |
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| US 09590274 | Veith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel M. Veith (Knoxville, Tennessee); Beth L. Armstrong (Clinton, Tennessee); Wyatt E. Tenhaeff (Rochester, New York); Nancy J. Dudney (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A passively impact resistant composite electrolyte composition includes an electrolyte solvent, up to 2M of an electrolyte salt, and shear thickening ceramic particles having a polydispersity index of no greater than 0.1, an average particle size of in a range of 50 nm to 1 μm, and an absolute zeta potential of greater than ±40 mV. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/497667 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 10/05 (20130101) H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 10/054 (20130101) H01M 10/0567 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 10/0568 (20130101) H01M 10/0569 (20130101) H01M 10/4235 (20130101) H01M 12/08 (20130101) H01M 2300/0037 (20130101) |
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| US 09590284 | Nordquist et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Nordquist (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Sean Michael Scott (West Lafayette, Indiana); Joyce Olsen Custer (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Darin Leonhardt (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Tyler Scott Jordan (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Christopher T. Rodenbeck (Alexandria, Virginia); Paul G. Clem (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jeff Hunker (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Steven L. Wolfley (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention related to self-limiting filters, arrays of such filters, and methods thereof. In particular embodiments, the filters include a metal transition film (e.g., a VO2 film) capable of undergoing a phase transition that modifies the film's resistivity. Arrays of such filters could allow for band-selective interferer rejection, while permitting transmission of non-interferer signals. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 26, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/721890 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Waveguides; Resonators, Lines, or Other Devices of the Waveguide Type H01P 1/203 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01P 1/2013 (20130101) Control of Amplification H03G 11/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09590384 | Marchlik et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | JEFFERSON SCIENCE ASSOCIATES, LLC (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | JEFFERSON SCIENCE ASSOCIATES, LLC (Newport News, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Marchlik (Newport News, Virginia); George Herman Biallas (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for managing the broad band microwave and TeraHertz (THz) radiation in a free electron laser (FEL) having a wiggler producing power in the electromagnetic spectrum. The method includes placement of broadband microwave and TeraHertz (THz) radiation absorbers on the upstream end of the wiggler. The absorbers dampen the bounced back, broad band microwave and THz radiation returning from the surfaces outside the nose of the cookie-cutter and thus preventing broadening of the electron beam pulse's narrow longitudinal energy distribution. Broadening diminishes the ultimate laser power from the wiggler. The broadband microwave and THz radiation absorbers are placed on either side of the slot in the cookie-cutter that shapes the wake field wave of the electron pulse to the slot shape of the wiggler chamber aperture. The broad band microwave and THz radiation absorber is preferably a non-porous pyrolytic grade of graphite with small grain size. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 11, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/151903 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 1/005 (20130101) H01S 3/0903 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09590421 | Divan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | VARENTEC, INC. (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | VARENTEC, INC. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Deepakraj M. Divan (San Jose, California); Anish Prasai (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Dynamic power flow controllers are provided. A dynamic power flow controller may comprise a transformer and a power converter. The power converter is subject to low voltage stresses and not floated at line voltage. In addition, the power converter is rated at a fraction of the total power controlled. A dynamic power flow controller controls both the real and the reactive power flow between two AC sources having the same frequency. A dynamic power flow controller inserts a voltage with controllable magnitude and phase between two AC sources; thereby effecting control of active and reactive power flows between two AC sources. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/260253 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Systems for Regulating Electric or Magnetic Variables G05F 1/70 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 3/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H02J 3/1878 (20130101) Apparatus for Conversion Between AC and AC, Between AC and DC, or Between DC and DC, and for Use With Mains or Similar Power Supply Systems; Conversion of DC or AC Input Power into Surge Output Power; Control or Regulation Thereof H02M 5/10 (20130101) H02M 2001/0077 (20130101) Control or Regulation of Electric Motors, Electric Generators or Dynamo-electric Converters; Controlling Transformers, Reactors or Choke Coils H02P 13/06 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 307/32 (20150401) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard F Post (Walnut Creek, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a way re-center a rotor's central longitudinal rotational axis with a desired system longitudinal axis. A pair of planar semicircular permanent magnets are pieced together to form a circle. The flux from each magnet is pointed in in opposite directions that are both parallel with the rotational axis. A stationary shorted circular winding the plane of which is perpendicular to the system longitudinal axis and the center of curvature of the circular winding is positioned on the system longitudinal axis. Upon rotation of the rotor, when a transverse displacement of the rotational axis occurs relative to the system longitudinal axis, the winding will experience a time-varying magnetic flux such that an alternating current that is proportional to the displacement will flow in the winding. Such time-varying magnetic flux will provide a force that will bring the rotor back to its centered position about the desired axis. |
| FILED | Friday, February 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/628018 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamo-electric Machines H02K 7/09 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09585579 | He et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bin He (Arden Hills, Minnesota); Zhaoye Zhou (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bin He (Arden Hills, Minnesota); Zhaoye Zhou (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for non-invasively generating a report of cardiac electrical activities of a subject includes determining, using cardiac electrical activation information, equivalent current densities (ECDs). The ECDs are assembled into time-course ECD information and a spectrum of the time-course ECD information is analyzed to determine peaks for spectral characteristics of atrial fibrillation (AF). The spectral characteristics of AF are correlated with potential electrical sources of the AF and a report is generated indicating the potential electrical sources of the AF spatially registered with the medical imaging data. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/266001 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0037 (20130101) A61B 5/0044 (20130101) A61B 5/046 (20130101) A61B 5/055 (20130101) A61B 5/0432 (20130101) A61B 5/04012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/7278 (20130101) A61B 5/7289 (20130101) A61B 6/032 (20130101) A61B 6/507 (20130101) A61B 2576/023 (20130101) |
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| US 09585840 | Brenneisen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter Brenneisen (Dusseldorf, Germany); Sudipta Seal (Orlando, Florida); Ajay Karakoti (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Brenneisen (Dusseldorf, Germany); Sudipta Seal (Orlando, Florida); Ajay Karakoti (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanoparticles disclosed in the invention comprise a dextran-coated crystalline structure of cerium oxide wherein tetravalent Ce4+ predominates over trivalent Ce3+ and wherein said nanoparticles have a diameter of approximately from 3 to 5 nm. The nanoparticles exhibit both superoxide dismutase activity and catalase activity in an environment having a substantially neutral or acidic pH. The nanoparticles may be used to make and may be contained in a medication. The subject nanoparticles are useful in a method of promoting a cytotoxic anti-invasive effect on squamous tumor cells and inhibit tumor invasiveness. |
| FILED | Friday, July 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/548795 |
| 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 9/143 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 2003/2213 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/773 (20130101) Y10S 977/911 (20130101) |
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| US 09585910 | Sessler 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) | Jonathan L. Sessler (Austin, Texas); Christopher W. Bielawski (Austin, Texas); Abdullah Aydogan (Austin, Texas); Daniel J. Coady (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Polymeric compounds containing polymer backbones functionalized with ion-specific recognition elements and methods for the use of these compounds are described herein. The polymeric compounds may contain multiple types of ion-specific recognition elements depending on a specific application. The polymeric compounds can be used to remove ionic species from a solution, for example, in separations applications in which a single or multiple types of ionic species are desired to be removed from the solution. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/445744 |
| 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 31/74 (20130101) A61K 31/787 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/48076 (20130101) A61K 51/1241 (20130101) A61K 51/1268 (20130101) Separation B01D 15/00 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/26 (20130101) B01J 20/261 (20130101) B01J 20/262 (20130101) B01J 20/265 (20130101) B01J 20/321 (20130101) B01J 20/3212 (20130101) B01J 20/3255 (20130101) B01J 41/125 (20130101) B01J 45/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09585934 | Soliman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Extend Biosciences, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Extend Biosciences, Inc. (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tarik Soliman (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Laura M. Hales (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Daniel B. Hall (Easton, Massachusetts); Christopher So (Henderson, Nevada); Howard P. Sard (Arlington, Massachusetts); Vishnumurthy Hegde (Chelmsford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides non-hormonal vitamin D conjugated to apelin proteins that result in increased absorption, bioavailability or circulating half-life when compared to non-conjugated forms. In some embodiments, the vitamin D targeting groups are coupled to the apelin proteins via the third carbon on the vitamin D backbone. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/919601 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/48023 (20130101) A61K 47/48107 (20130101) A61K 47/48215 (20130101) |
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| US 09586192 | Huang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BROWN UNIVERSITY (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BROWN UNIVERSITY (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yongsong Huang (Barrington, Rhode Island); James Dillon (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, compositions, devices and kits are provided herein for separating, scavenging, capturing or identifying a metal from a target using a medium or scaffold with a selenium-containing functional group. The medium or the scaffold including the selenium-containing functional group has affinity and specificity to metal ions or compounds having one or more metals, and efficiently separates, recovers, and scavenges of the metals from a target such as a sample, solution, suspension, or mixture. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/600296 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/695 (20130101) Separation B01D 15/08 (20130101) B01D 15/3828 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/22 (20130101) B01J 20/103 (20130101) B01J 20/281 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 20/289 (20130101) B01J 20/3204 (20130101) B01J 20/3219 (20130101) B01J 20/3246 (20130101) B01J 20/3248 (20130101) B01J 20/3261 (20130101) B01J 20/3293 (20130101) |
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| US 09586315 | Guerin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kelleher Guerin (Baltimore, Maryland); Gregory D. Hager (Baltimore, Maryland); Sebastian Riedel (Bayem, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for enabling human-machine collaborations include a generalizable framework that supports dynamic adaptation and reuse of robotic capability representations and human-machine collaborative behaviors. Specifically, a method of enabling user-robot collaboration includes providing a composition of a robot capability that models a robot's functionality for performing a type of task action and user interaction capabilities; specializing the robot capability with an information kernel to provide a specialized robot capability, the information kernel encapsulating a set of task-related parameters associated with the type of task action; providing an instance of the specialized robot capability as a robot capability element that controls the robot's functionality based on the set of task-related parameters; providing instances of the user interaction capabilities as interaction capability elements; executing the robot capability element to receive user input via the user interaction capability elements; and controlling, based on the user input and the set of task-related parameters, the robot's functionality to perform a task action of the type of task action in collaboration with the user input. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 19, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/001003 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 9/163 (20130101) B25J 9/1628 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B25J 9/1664 (20130101) B25J 13/00 (20130101) Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 2219/33051 (20130101) G05B 2219/36422 (20130101) G05B 2219/40391 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 901/02 (20130101) Y10S 901/04 (20130101) Y10S 901/46 (20130101) |
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| US 09586981 | Rosebrugh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lauren E. Rosebrugh (Pasadena, California); Myles B. Herbert (Somerville, Massachusetts); Vanessa M. Marx (Los Angeles, California); Benjamin K. Keitz (San Francisco, California); Robert H. Grubbs (South Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel chelated ruthenium-based metathesis catalyst bearing an N-2,6-diisopropylphenyl group is reported and displays near-perfect selectivity for the Z-olefin (>95%), as well as unparalleled TONs of up to 7,400, in a variety of homodimerization and industrially relevant metathesis reactions. This derivative and other new catalytically-active species were synthesized using an improved method employing sodium carboxylates to induce the salt metathesis and C—H activation of these chelated complexes. All of these new ruthenium-based catalysts are highly Z-selective in the homodimerization of terminal olefins. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/649725 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 31/2265 (20130101) B01J 31/2278 (20130101) B01J 2231/20 (20130101) B01J 2231/32 (20130101) B01J 2531/821 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 2/34 (20130101) C07C 29/00 (20130101) C07C 45/673 (20130101) C07C 67/293 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 313/00 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 15/0046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 110/14 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 61/08 (20130101) C08G 2261/418 (20130101) |
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| US 09586983 | Cheng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhengdong Cheng (College Station, Texas); Andres F. Mejia (College Station, Texas); Agustin Diaz (College Station, Texas); Abraham Clearfield (College Station, Texas); Mahboobul S Mannan (College Station, Texas); Ya-Wen Chang (College Station, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | In some embodiments, the present invention provides amphiphilic nanosheets that comprise lamellar crystals with at least two regions: a first hydrophilic region, and a second hydrophobic region. In some embodiments, the amphiphilic nanosheets of the present invention also comprise a plurality of functional groups that are appended to the lamellar crystals. In some embodiments, the functional groups are hydrophobic functional groups that are appended to the second region of the lamellar crystals. In some embodiments, the lamellar crystals comprise α-zirconium phosphates. Additional embodiments of the present invention pertain to methods of making the aforementioned amphiphilic nanosheets. Such methods generally comprise appending one or more functional groups to a stack of lamellar crystals; and exfoliating the stack of lamellar crystals for form the amphiphilic nanosheets. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 18, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/624974 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/10 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 25/26 (20130101) C01B 25/372 (20130101) C01B 31/04 (20130101) C01B 31/0423 (20130101) C01B 31/0438 (20130101) C01B 33/26 (20130101) Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 23/003 (20130101) C01G 33/00 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/82 (20130101) C01P 2002/85 (20130101) C01P 2002/88 (20130101) C01P 2004/03 (20130101) C01P 2004/04 (20130101) C01P 2004/24 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 19/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09586984 | Gervay-Hague 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) | Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague (Davis, California); Wenjun Du (Mount Pleasant, Michigan); Suvarn S. Kulkarni (Mumbai, India); Matthew Schombs (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a one-pot method of preparing an unprotected α-O-glycolipid. The first step involves contacting a protected α-iodo sugar with a catalyst and a lipid comprising a hydroxy group, under conditions sufficient to prepare a protected α-O-glycolipid. The second step involves deprotecting the protected α-O-glycolipid under conditions sufficient to prepare the unprotected α-O-glycolipid, wherein the contacting and deprotecting steps are performed in a single vessel. The present invention also provides a one-pot method of preparing an unprotected β-O-glycolipid following the steps for the preparation of the unprotected α-O-glycolipid. |
| FILED | Monday, January 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/148477 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 1/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07H 5/00 (20130101) C07H 5/06 (20130101) C07H 15/04 (20130101) C07H 15/06 (20130101) C07H 15/10 (20130101) Steroids C07J 17/005 (20130101) |
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| US 09587067 | Kennedy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph Kennedy (Akron, Ohio); Yongmoon Kwon (Copley, Ohio); Subramanyam Ummadisetty (Longview, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON (Akron, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Kennedy (Akron, Ohio); Yongmoon Kwon (Copley, Ohio); Subramanyam Ummadisetty (Longview, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to alcohol-terminated polyisobutylene (PIB) compounds, and to a process for making such compounds. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to primary alcohol-terminated polyisobutylene compounds, and to a process for making such compounds. In still another embodiment, the present invention relates to polyisobutylene compounds that can be used to synthesize polyurethanes, to polyurethane compounds made via the use of such polyisobutylene compounds, and to processes for making such compounds. In yet another embodiment, the present invention relates to primary alcohol-terminated polyisobutylene compounds having two or more primary alcohol termini and to a process for making such compounds. In yet another embodiment, the present invention relates to primary terminated polyisobutylene compounds having two or more primary termini selected from amine groups or methacrylate groups. |
| FILED | Friday, October 09, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/879896 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 17/013 (20130101) C07C 19/075 (20130101) C07C 31/18 (20130101) C07C 51/00 (20130101) C07C 209/08 (20130101) C07C 211/01 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 2/38 (20130101) C08F 4/16 (20130101) C08F 8/00 (20130101) C08F 8/00 (20130101) C08F 8/00 (20130101) C08F 8/00 (20130101) C08F 8/00 (20130101) C08F 8/10 (20130101) C08F 8/10 (20130101) C08F 8/12 (20130101) C08F 8/12 (20130101) C08F 8/20 (20130101) C08F 8/20 (20130101) C08F 8/20 (20130101) C08F 8/20 (20130101) C08F 8/20 (20130101) C08F 8/20 (20130101) C08F 8/20 (20130101) C08F 8/26 (20130101) C08F 8/26 (20130101) C08F 8/26 (20130101) C08F 8/26 (20130101) C08F 8/26 (20130101) C08F 8/26 (20130101) C08F 8/26 (20130101) C08F 8/26 (20130101) C08F 8/26 (20130101) C08F 8/28 (20130101) C08F 8/30 (20130101) C08F 8/30 (20130101) C08F 8/30 (20130101) C08F 8/30 (20130101) C08F 10/10 (20130101) C08F 10/10 (20130101) C08F 10/10 (20130101) C08F 10/10 (20130101) C08F 10/10 (20130101) C08F 10/10 (20130101) C08F 10/10 (20130101) C08F 10/10 (20130101) C08F 10/10 (20130101) C08F 110/10 (20130101) C08F 110/10 (20130101) C08F 110/10 (20130101) C08F 110/10 (20130101) C08F 110/10 (20130101) C08F 110/10 (20130101) C08F 110/10 (20130101) C08F 110/10 (20130101) C08F 2810/30 (20130101) C08F 2810/40 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 18/3206 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 18/6204 (20130101) |
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| US 09587136 | Gopalan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Padma Gopalan (Madison, Wisconsin); Daniel Patrick Sweat (Madison, Wisconsin); Xiang Yu (Skokie, Illinois); Myungwoong Kim (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Block copolymers for use in block copolymer lithography, self-assembled films of the block copolymers and methods for polymerizing the block copolymers are provided. The block copolymers are characterized by high Flory-Huggins interaction parameters (χ). The block copolymers can be polymerized from protected hydroxystyrene monomers or from tert-butyl styrene and 2-vinylpyridine monomers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/048766 |
| ART UNIT | 1787 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 12/22 (20130101) C08F 12/32 (20130101) C08F 297/02 (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 153/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/0002 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/268 (20150115) |
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| US 09587221 | Lipke et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Auburn University (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Auburn University (Auburn, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elizabeth A. Lipke (Auburn, Alabama); Petra Kerscher (Auburn, Alabama); Alexander J. Hodge (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the production of cell cultures and tissues from undifferentiated pluripotent stem cells using three-dimensional biomimetic materials. The resultant cell cultures or tissues can be used in any of a number of protocols including testing chemicals, compounds, and drugs. Further, the methods and compositions of the present invention further provide viable cell sources and novel cell delivery platforms that allow for replacement of diseased tissue and engraftment of new cardiomyocytes from a readily available in vitro source. The present invention includes novel methods required for the successful production of cell cultures and tissues, systems and components used for the same, and methods of using the resultant cell and tissue compositions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/538435 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0657 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 5/0696 (20130101) C12N 2500/46 (20130101) C12N 2500/50 (20130101) C12N 2501/999 (20130101) C12N 2506/45 (20130101) C12N 2513/00 (20130101) C12N 2533/52 (20130101) C12N 2533/54 (20130101) C12N 2537/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09587247 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Junrui Zhang (Madison, Wisconsin); Richard David Vierstra (Madison, Wisconsin); Robert Joseph Stankey (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Polynucleotides encoding polypeptides that increase the light sensitivity of plants were identified. Introduction of the polynucleotides into plants produces plants having altered characteristics, such as decreased height, decreased diameter, decreased petiole length, decreased internode length, decreased hypocotyl length, increased hyponasty or enhanced germination. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/803403 |
| ART UNIT | 1662 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/415 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/8261 (20130101) C12N 15/8269 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09588195 | Fichtinger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabor Fichtinger (Kingston, Canada); Ergin Atalar (Bilkent Ankara, Turkey); Louis L. Whitcomb (Baltimore, Maryland); Robert C. Susil (Baltimore, Maryland); Axel Krieger (San Antonio, Texas); Attila Tanacs (Zakanyszek, Hungary) |
| ABSTRACT | The end-effector includes a sheath and a medical device or needle carrier that is disposed within the interior compartment of the sheath. An aperture is located in a portion of the sheath proximal a distal end of the sheath that is inserted into a natural or artificial cavity. This device is guided by a real-time imager. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/200910 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/06 (20130101) A61B 5/055 (20130101) A61B 6/12 (20130101) A61B 8/12 (20130101) A61B 8/445 (20130101) A61B 8/0833 (20130101) A61B 8/0841 (20130101) A61B 10/0241 (20130101) A61B 17/3403 (20130101) A61B 17/3478 (20130101) A61B 34/20 (20160201) A61B 2017/00274 (20130101) A61B 2018/00547 (20130101) A61B 2034/107 (20160201) A61B 2034/2051 (20160201) A61B 2090/365 (20160201) A61B 2090/378 (20160201) A61B 2090/3784 (20160201) A61B 2090/3954 (20160201) A61B 2090/3958 (20160201) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/287 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09588292 | Yu 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) | Nanfang Yu (New York, New York); Zhaoyi Li (New York, New York); Myoung-Hwan Kim (Fishkill, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Integrated photonic devices including an optical waveguide patterned with an array of antennas are provided. The small footprint, lightweight, and broadband integrated photonic devices provided can be configured into waveguide mode converters, polarization rotators, perfect absorbers, photodetectors, optical power diodes, nonlinear optical elements, heat-assisted magnetic recorders, optical isolators, and optical circulators. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/977741 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/008 (20130101) G02B 6/14 (20130101) G02B 6/102 (20130101) G02B 6/105 (20130101) G02B 6/107 (20130101) G02B 6/1226 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/2766 (20130101) G02B 2006/12147 (20130101) G02B 2006/12157 (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 1/3544 (20130101) Information Storage Based on Relative Movement Between Record Carrier and Transducer G11B 5/6088 (20130101) G11B 2005/0021 (20130101) |
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| US 09589051 | Bergstrom et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington through Its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington Through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl Bergstrom (Seattle, Washington); Martin Rosvall (Umeå, Sweden); Daril Vilhena (Seattle, Washington); Jevin D. West (Kenmore, Washington); Andrew Torrance (Leawood, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are methods and systems for hierarchically mapping, ranking, and labeling data sets automatically. Also provided are methods for browsing and navigating a hierarchically mapped data set, and START identifying changes in network structure over time. An example method may involve receiving document data indicating a corpus of documents and references between documents within the corpus. Based on the document data, a network comprising two or more nodes and at least one directed edge may be determined. Also, a hierarchical partition of the documents may be determined based on the directed edges of the network. The hierarchical partition may define a plurality of nested modules, and each module in the plurality of nested modules may be associated with one or more respective documents within the corpus. The method may additionally include causing a graphical display to provide a visual indication of one or more of the plurality of nested modules. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/371364 |
| ART UNIT | 2159 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30728 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09589792 | Jiang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SORAA, INC. (Fremont, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Soraa, Inc. (Fremont, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wenkan Jiang (Santa Barbara, California); Mark P. D'Evelyn (Santa Barbara, California); Derrick S. Kamber (Goleta, California); Dirk Ehrentraut (Santa Barbara, California); Michael Krames (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | High quality ammonothermal group III metal nitride crystals having a pattern of locally-approximately-linear arrays of threading dislocations, methods of manufacturing high quality ammonothermal group III metal nitride crystals, and methods of using such crystals are disclosed. The crystals are useful for seed bulk crystal growth and as substrates for light emitting diodes, laser diodes, transistors, photodetectors, solar cells, and for photoelectrochemical water splitting for hydrogen generation devices. |
| FILED | Monday, November 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/089281 |
| ART UNIT | 1781 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 7/105 (20130101) C30B 29/403 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0237 (20130101) H01L 21/0254 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/02458 (20130101) H01L 21/02642 (20130101) H01L 21/02647 (20130101) H01L 33/0075 (20130101) |
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| US 09586091 | Reich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alton Reich (Huntsville, Alabama); James Shaw (Sterling, Connecticut) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Alton Reich (Huntsville, Alabama); James Shaw (Sterling, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention comprises a method and/or an apparatus using a computer configured exercise system equipped with an electric motor to provide physical resistance to user motion in conjunction with means for sharing exercise system related data and/or user performance data with a secondary user, such as a medical professional, a physical therapist, a trainer, a computer generated competitor, and/or a human competitor. For example, the exercise system is used with a remote trainer to enhance exercise performance, with a remote medical professional for rehabilitation, and/or with a competitor in a competition, such as in a power/weightlifting competition or in a video game. The exercise system is optionally configured with an intelligent software assistant and knowledge navigator functioning as a personal assistant application. |
| FILED | Monday, January 25, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/005928 |
| ART UNIT | 3764 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus for Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, or Fencing; Ball Games; Training Equipment A63B 21/0058 (20130101) A63B 24/0062 (20130101) A63B 24/0084 (20130101) A63B 24/0087 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A63B 2024/0093 (20130101) A63B 2220/40 (20130101) A63B 2220/51 (20130101) A63B 2230/045 (20130101) |
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| US 09586192 | Huang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BROWN UNIVERSITY (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BROWN UNIVERSITY (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yongsong Huang (Barrington, Rhode Island); James Dillon (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, compositions, devices and kits are provided herein for separating, scavenging, capturing or identifying a metal from a target using a medium or scaffold with a selenium-containing functional group. The medium or the scaffold including the selenium-containing functional group has affinity and specificity to metal ions or compounds having one or more metals, and efficiently separates, recovers, and scavenges of the metals from a target such as a sample, solution, suspension, or mixture. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/600296 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/695 (20130101) Separation B01D 15/08 (20130101) B01D 15/3828 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/22 (20130101) B01J 20/103 (20130101) B01J 20/281 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 20/289 (20130101) B01J 20/3204 (20130101) B01J 20/3219 (20130101) B01J 20/3246 (20130101) B01J 20/3248 (20130101) B01J 20/3261 (20130101) B01J 20/3293 (20130101) |
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| US 09586234 | Bar-Cohen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yoseph Bar-Cohen (Seal Beach, California); Mircea Badescu (La Canada Flintridge, California); Shyh-Shiuh Lih (La Canada Flintridge, California); Stewart Sherrit (La Crescenta, California); Nobuyuki Takano (Arcadia, California); Patrick N. Ostlund (Pomona, California); Hyeong Jae Lee (South Pasadena, California); Xiaoqi Bao (San Gabriel, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A high temperature ultrasonic probe and a mounting fixture for attaching and aligning the probe to a steam pipe using blind alignment. The high temperature ultrasonic probe includes a piezoelectric transducer having a high temperature. The probe provides both transmitting and receiving functionality. The mounting fixture allows the high temperature ultrasonic probe to be accurately aligned to the bottom external surface of the steam pipe so that the presence of liquid water in the steam pipe can be monitored. The mounting fixture with a mounted high temperature ultrasonic probe are used to conduct health monitoring of steam pipes and to track the height of condensed water through the wall in real-time. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/259893 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Generating or Transmitting Mechanical Vibrations of Infrasonic, Sonic, or Ultrasonic Frequency, for Performing Mechanical Work in General B06B 1/0215 (20130101) B06B 1/0644 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B06B 3/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09587089 | Park et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cheol Park (Yorktown, Virginia); Dennis C. Working (Norfolk, Virginia); Emilie J. Siochi (Newport News, Virginia); Joycelyn S. Harrison (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Conventional toughening agents are typically rubbery materials or small molecular weight molecules, which mostly sacrifice the intrinsic properties of a matrix such as modulus, strength, and thermal stability as side effects. On the other hand, high modulus inclusions tend to reinforce elastic modulus very efficiently, but not the strength very well. For example, mechanical reinforcement with inorganic inclusions often degrades the composite toughness, encountering a frequent catastrophic brittle failure triggered by minute chips and cracks. Thus, toughening generally conflicts with mechanical reinforcement. Carbon nanotubes have been used as efficient reinforcing agents in various applications due to their combination of extraordinary mechanical, electrical, and thermal properties. Moreover, nanotubes can elongate more than 20% without yielding or breaking, and absorb significant amounts of energy during deformation, which enables them to also be an efficient toughening agent, as well as excellent reinforcing inclusion. Accordingly, an improved toughening method is provided by incorporating nanotubular inclusions into a host matrix, such as thermoset and thermoplastic polymers or ceramics without detrimental effects on the intrinsic physical properties of the matrix. |
| FILED | Monday, July 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/791974 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 7/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08K 2201/011 (20130101) |
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| US 09587586 | Morgan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Orbital ATK, Inc. (Dulles, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ORBITAL ATK, INC. (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard E. Morgan (Huntsville, Alabama); Craig L. Meeks (Meridianville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Insulation materials have a coating of a partially cured polymer on a plurality of fibers, and the plurality of coated fibers in a cross-linked polymeric matrix. Insulation may be formed by applying a preceramic polymer to a plurality of fibers, heating the preceramic polymer to form a partially cured polymer over at least portions of the plurality of fibers, disposing the plurality of fibers in a polymeric material, and curing the polymeric material. A rocket motor may be formed by disposing a plurality of coated fibers in an insulation precursor, curing the insulation precursor to form an insulation material without sintering the partially cured polymer, and providing an energetic material over the polymeric material. An article includes an insulation material over at least one surface. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/787355 |
| ART UNIT | 1789 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/00 (20130101) Jet-propulsion Plants F02K 1/822 (20130101) F02K 9/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F02K 9/32 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2300/6033 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 3/308 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/1362 (20150115) Y10T 428/249921 (20150401) Y10T 442/2631 (20150401) |
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| US 09587699 | Griffin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven F. Griffin (Kihei, Hawaii); Daniel Niedermaier (League City, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A tunable mass damper incorporates a frame and a voice coil supported in the frame. A magnet concentric with the voice coil is movable relative to the housing via the voice coil. A plurality of flexures having a first end extending from the magnet and an arm releasably coupled to the frame are adjustable to an effective length for a desired frequency of reciprocation of the magnet. |
| FILED | Sunday, August 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/840024 |
| ART UNIT | 3657 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 7/00 (20130101) General Building Constructions; Walls, e.g Partitions; Roofs; Floors; Ceilings; Insulation or Other Protection of Buildings E04B 1/985 (20130101) Buildings or Like Structures for Particular Purposes; Swimming or Splash Baths or Pools; Masts; Fencing; Tents or Canopies, in General E04H 9/027 (20130101) Springs; Shock-absorbers; Means for Damping Vibration F16F 7/104 (20130101) F16F 7/116 (20130101) F16F 7/1011 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09587725 | Wingett et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul T. Wingett (Mesa, Arizona); Casey Hanlon (Queen Creek, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | An actuator includes a ball nut, a ball screw, and a ball screw stop. The ball nut is adapted to receive an input torque and in response rotates and supplies a drive force. The ball screw extends through the ball nut and has a first end and a second end. The ball screw receives the drive force from the ball nut and in response selectively translates between a retract position and a extend position. The ball screw stop is mounted on the ball screw proximate the first end to translate therewith. The ball screw stop engages the ball nut when the ball screw is in the extend position, translates, with compliance, a predetermined distance toward the first end upon engaging the ball nut, and prevents further rotation of the ball screw upon translating the predetermined distance. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/804806 |
| ART UNIT | 3658 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Gearing F16H 25/2015 (20130101) F16H 25/2018 (20130101) F16H 25/2204 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F16H 2025/204 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 74/18688 (20150115) |
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| US 09588491 | Sapozhnikov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oleg A. Sapozhnikov (Seattle, Washington); Michael R. Bailey (Seattle, Washington); Peter J. Kaczkowski (Seattle, Washington); Vera A. Khokhlova (Seattle, Washington); Wayne Kreider (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present technology relates generally to portable acoustic holography systems for therapeutic ultrasound sources, and associated devices and methods. In some embodiments, a method of characterizing an ultrasound source by acoustic holography includes the use of a transducer geometry characteristic, a transducer operation characteristic, and a holography system measurement characteristic. A control computer can be instructed to determine holography measurement parameters. Based on the holography measurement parameters, the method can include scanning a target surface to obtain a hologram. Waveform measurements at a plurality of points on the target surface can be captured. Finally, the method can include processing the measurements to reconstruct at least one characteristic of the ultrasound source. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/894333 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 8/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 29/0663 (20130101) Holographic Processes or Apparatus G03H 3/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 359/901 (20130101) |
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| US 09588528 | Schwerman |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Schwerman (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A circuit and method for controlling when a load may be fully energized includes directing electrical current through a current limiting resistor that has a first terminal connected to a source terminal of a field effect transistor (FET), and a second terminal connected to a drain terminal of the FET. The gate voltage magnitude on a gate terminal of the FET is varied, whereby current flow through the FET is increased while current flow through the current limiting resistor is simultaneously decreased. A determination is made as to when the gate voltage magnitude on the gate terminal is equal to or exceeds a predetermined reference voltage magnitude, and the load is enabled to be fully energized when the gate voltage magnitude is equal to or exceeds the predetermined reference voltage magnitude. |
| FILED | Monday, December 01, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/557113 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Systems for Regulating Electric or Magnetic Variables G05F 1/46 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G05F 1/56 (20130101) G05F 1/565 (20130101) Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements H02H 9/001 (20130101) H02H 9/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09591417 | Shams et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qamar A. Shams (Yorktown, Virginia); Allan J. Zuckerwar (Williamsburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is an extremely low frequency (ELF) microphone and acoustic measurement system capable of infrasound detection in a portable and easily deployable form factor. In one embodiment of the invention, an extremely low frequency electret microphone comprises a membrane, a backplate, and a backchamber. The backchamber is sealed to allow substantially no air exchange between the backchamber and outside the microphone. Compliance of the membrane may be less than ambient air compliance. The backplate may define a plurality of holes and a slot may be defined between an outer diameter of the backplate and an inner wall of the microphone. The locations and sizes of the holes, the size of the slot, and the volume of the backchamber may be selected such that membrane motion is substantially critically damped. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/771735 |
| ART UNIT | 2655 — Digital Audio Data Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Mechanical Vibrations or Ultrasonic, Sonic or Infrasonic Waves G01H 11/02 (20130101) Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups or Like Acoustic Electromechanical Transducers; Deaf-aid Sets; Public Address Systems H04R 19/00 (20130101) H04R 29/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 09585376 | Park et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Johnny Park (Lafayette, Indiana); German Andres Holguin Londono (West Lafayette, Indiana); Henry Ponti Medeiros (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Johnny Park (Lafayette, Indiana); German Andres Holguin Londono (West Lafayette, Indiana); Henry Ponti Medeiros (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Illustrative embodiments of integrated pest management (IPM) systems and electronic insect monitoring devices (EIMDs) are disclosed. In some embodiments, the EIMDs may each comprise a lure for attracting at least one target insect species, one or more sensors that generate one or more output signals in response to an insect approaching the lure, and an electronic controller configured to determine if the insect approaching the lure belongs to the at least one target insect species using the one or more output signals. In some embodiments, the IPM system may comprise a plurality of EIMDs configured to communicate over a wireless network shared by the plurality of EIMDs. |
| FILED | Monday, October 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/879685 |
| ART UNIT | 2864 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Catching, Trapping or Scaring of Animals; Apparatus for the Destruction of Noxious Animals or Noxious Plants A01M 1/026 (20130101) A01M 1/223 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01M 1/2016 (20130101) Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 61/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09585870 | Horseman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI (Cincinnati, Ohio); WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nelson Horseman (Cincinnati, Ohio); Laura Hernandez Baumgard (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to the use of pharmaceutical agents to manipulate serotonin in animal mammary glands. Use of the serotonin agents results in increased PTHrP levels, resulting in the release of calcium from the bone, which improves lactation. |
| FILED | Friday, January 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/375103 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Fodder A23K 20/142 (20160501) A23K 40/35 (20160501) A23K 50/10 (20160501) A23K 50/30 (20160501) A23K 50/75 (20160501) Foods, Foodstuffs, or Non-alcoholic Beverages, Not Covered by Subclasses A23B - A23J; Their Preparation or Treatment, e.g Cooking, Modification of Nutritive Qualities, Physical Treatment; Preservation of Foods or Foodstuffs, in General A23L 33/175 (20160801) Indexing Scheme Relating to Foods, Foodstuffs or Non-alcoholic Beverages A23V 2002/00 (20130101) A23V 2002/00 (20130101) A23V 2200/30 (20130101) A23V 2250/0602 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/405 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09587247 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Junrui Zhang (Madison, Wisconsin); Richard David Vierstra (Madison, Wisconsin); Robert Joseph Stankey (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Polynucleotides encoding polypeptides that increase the light sensitivity of plants were identified. Introduction of the polynucleotides into plants produces plants having altered characteristics, such as decreased height, decreased diameter, decreased petiole length, decreased internode length, decreased hypocotyl length, increased hyponasty or enhanced germination. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/803403 |
| ART UNIT | 1662 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/415 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/8261 (20130101) C12N 15/8269 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09587248 | Trick et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Harold Trick (Olsburg, Kansas); Xiuming Liu (Manhattan, Kansas); Ming-Shun Chen (Manhattan, Kansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE (Washington, District of Columbia); KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Manhattan, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harold Trick (Olsburg, Kansas); Xiuming Liu (Manhattan, Kansas); Ming-Shun Chen (Manhattan, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Plants having increased resistance to a pest relative to corresponding control plants are provided. The resistant plants have inhibited expression, activity, or function of a susceptibility gene, and thereby have decreased expression, activity, or function of the susceptibility gene in the presence of the pest as compared to a control plant in which the wild-type susceptibility gene is normally expressed in the presence of the pest. Methods of producing plants with increased resistance are also provided. The methods involve altering the expression, activity, or function of a susceptibility gene, such as Mds-1, in the plant. Isolated Mds-1 sequences are provided that can be manipulated to enhance pest resistance in modified plants. Modified plants, plant cells, tissues, seeds, and progeny are also provided having enhanced pest resistance. |
| FILED | Monday, January 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/979408 |
| ART UNIT | 1663 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/415 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/8279 (20130101) C12N 15/8286 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 09587178 | Qiao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Virent, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virent, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ming Qiao (Pewaukee, Wisconsin); Elizabeth Woods (Middleton, Wisconsin); Paul Myren (Madison, Wisconsin); Randy Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin); Sean Connolly (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides processes for deconstructing biomass to produce aqueous and organic products using a solvent produced in a bioreforming reaction. |
| FILED | Monday, July 11, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/206900 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 311/72 (20130101) Steroids C07J 75/00 (20130101) Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 30/12 (20130101) Cracking Hydrocarbon Oils; Production of Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g by Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation; Recovery of Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, or Gases; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting of Hydrocarbons; Reforming of Naphtha; Mineral Waxes C10G 1/065 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10G 2300/44 (20130101) C10G 2300/1014 (20130101) Producing, e.g by Pressing Raw Materials or by Extraction From Waste Materials, Refining or Preserving Fats, Fatty Substances, e.g Lanolin, Fatty Oils or Waxes; Essential Oils; Perfumes C11B 3/006 (20130101) Saccharides Obtained From Natural Sources or by Hydrolysis of Naturally Occurring Disaccharides, Oligosaccharides or Polysaccharides C13K 1/02 (20130101) C13K 11/00 (20130101) C13K 13/00 (20130101) C13K 13/002 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09590603 | Allouche et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Erez Allouche (Madison, Mississippi); Arun Prakash Jaganathan (Ruston, Louisiana); Bryan Cady (Ruston, Louisiana); Neven Simicevic (Ruston, Louisiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Louisiana Tech Research Corporation (Ruston, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erez Allouche (Madison, Mississippi); Arun Prakash Jaganathan (Ruston, Louisiana); Bryan Cady (Ruston, Louisiana); Neven Simicevic (Ruston, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | An adaptive UWB radar front-end that can a) automatically tune the pulse width for target type and depth; b) automatically sweep specific area by controlling the timing (delay); and, c) for each steering direction, it can automatically adjusts the power distribution for improving radiation pattern and thus improving signal quality for clutter free imaging. |
| FILED | Friday, May 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/469454 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 3/00 (20130101) Pulse Technique H03K 5/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Secret Communication; Jamming of Communication H04K 3/228 (20130101) H04K 2203/32 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 09588889 | Steely, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Simon C. Steely, Jr. (Hudson, New Hampshire); William C. Hasenplaugh (Boston, Massachusetts); Joel S. Emer (Hudson, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTEL CORPORATION (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Simon C. Steely, Jr. (Hudson, New Hampshire); William C. Hasenplaugh (Boston, Massachusetts); Joel S. Emer (Hudson, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and apparatus to efficiently maintain cache coherency by reading/writing a domain state field associated with a tag entry within a cache tag directory. A value may be assigned to a domain state field of a tag entry in a cache tag directory. The cache tag directory may belong to a hierarchy of cache tag directories. Each tag entry may be associated with a cache line from a cache belonging to a first domain. The first domain may contain multiple caches. The value of the domain state field may indicate whether its associated cache line can be read or changed. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/995991 |
| ART UNIT | 2131 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 12/0802 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 12/0811 (20130101) G06F 12/0817 (20130101) G06F 13/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09589229 | Deng 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) | Yu Deng (Yorktown Heights, New York); Rafah A. Hosn (New York, New York); Ruchi Mahindru (Elmsford, New York); Harigovind V. Ramasamy (Ossining, New York); Soumitra Sarkar (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for model-based analysis of a data center. A method includes creating a metamodel based on domain knowledge to represent a type of object and/or relationship of a data center, using static and dynamic configuration and data analysis techniques to discover topology of elements of the data center and represent the topology as a model that is an instance of the metamodel, extending the metamodel, using the model to perform analysis of the data center in connection with a specified task, leveraging domain knowledge represented in nodes of the extended metamodel to guide the analysis in terms of determining guidelines to apply to each node and determining relationships to traverse to continue the analysis, extending the domain knowledge by updating the extended metamodel upon discovery of additional knowledge for use in improving analysis tasks, and extending the model on-demand using dynamic analysis techniques upon detection of multiple analysis failures. |
| FILED | Friday, February 27, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/634146 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 5/04 (20130101) G06N 5/025 (20130101) G06N 5/027 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06N 7/005 (20130101) Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/00 (20130101) G06Q 10/063 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 09589801 | Herbots et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nicole Herbots (Tempe, Arizona); Shawn Whaley (Chandler, Arizona); Robert Culbertson (Tempe, Arizona); Ross Bennett-Kennett (Gilbert, Arizona); Ashlee Murphy (Scottsdale, Arizona); Matthew Bade (Chandler, Arizona); Sam Farmer (Tempe, Arizona); Brance Hudzietz (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board Of Regents, A Body Corporated Of The State Of Arizona, Acting For And On Behalf Of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicole Herbots (Tempe, Arizona); Shawn Whaley (Chandler, Arizona); Robert Culbertson (Tempe, Arizona); Ross Bennett-Kennett (Gilbert, Arizona); Ashlee Murphy (Scottsdale, Arizona); Matthew Bade (Chandler, Arizona); Sam Farmer (Tempe, Arizona); Brance Hudzietz (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Substrates may be bonded according to a method comprising contacting a first bonding surface of a first substrate with a second bonding surface of a second substrate to form an assembly in the presence of an steam atmosphere under suitable conditions to form a bonding layer between the first and second surfaces, wherein the first bonding surface comprises a polarized surface layer; the second bonding surface comprises a hydrophilic surface layer; the first and second bonding surfaces are different. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/238979 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/187 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09590247 | Chan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Candace Chan (Phoenix, 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) | Candace Chan (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A transition metal hydroxy-anion electrode material for lithium-ion battery cathodes includes the charge-neutral structure Mx(OH)n(XO4)m, where M is one or more transition metals, x is the total number of transition metal atoms, X is sulfur or phosphorus, and x, n, and m are integers. (OH)n(XO4)m is a hydroxysulfate or hydroxyphosphate, and M can be one or more (e.g., a solid solution of) transition metals selected from the group consisting of copper, iron, manganese, nickel, vanadium, cobalt, zinc, chromium, and molybdenum. A lithium-ion battery may have a cathode including Mx(OH)n(XO4)m as a cathode material, and an electronic device may include a lithium-ion battery having a cathode including Mx(OH)n(XO4)m as a cathode material. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/408870 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 25/37 (20130101) Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 3/10 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/136 (20130101) H01M 4/1391 (20130101) H01M 4/5825 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 2004/028 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 09588095 | Gregory et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kerin E. Gregory (Bolton, Massachusetts); Roderick R. Kunz (Acton, Massachusetts); Michael Sworin (Marlboro, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Reagents and methods are disclosed for detection of oxidizers and inorganic salts and other analytes of interest. The reagents can interact with their target analytes, especially oxidizer compositions or oxidizer-based explosives, to selectively enhance their ionization yield, interacting by chemical reaction or by forming an associative adduct which facilitates their detection. For example, the reagents can adduct with the counter-ion of the intended analyte for improved direct detection and/or react chemically via acid-base reactions to produce a new product for detection. In another aspect of the invention, reactive reagents and methods are also disclosed that facilitate indirect detection of the analyte at lower temperatures based on reduction-oxidation (redox) chemistry. These reagents are particularly useful in detecting oxidizer analytes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/948423 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/622 (20130101) G01N 31/227 (20130101) G01N 33/227 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2001/028 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/19 (20150115) Y10T 436/24 (20150115) Y10T 436/141111 (20150115) Y10T 436/143333 (20150115) Y10T 436/173076 (20150115) Y10T 436/206664 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 09588611 | Lancaster et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeff Lancaster (Cumming, Iowa); Robert E. De Mers (Nowthen, Minnesota); Sonia R. Dodd (Phoenix, Arizona); Erik T. Nelson (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Jessamy Almquist (Golden Valley, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A touch screen system and method that (1) renders a critical button in a visually distinguishable manner and (2) provides an intuitive multi-step activation process that effectively guards the button from unintentional activation is provided. |
| FILED | Monday, January 19, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/599708 |
| ART UNIT | 2621 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/0412 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 3/0488 (20130101) G06F 3/04842 (20130101) G06F 2203/04104 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 09585932 | Lu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter C. Dowling (Fort Lee, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Peter C. Dowling (Fort Lee, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Lu (Sea Girt, New Jersey); Peter C. Dowling (Ft. Lee, New Jersey); Rui Rong Yuan (Ft. Lee, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The described invention provides methods and kits for administering an EPO-derived peptide to a subject suffering from a neurodegenerative disease. The EPO-derived peptide delays the onset and/or progression of a neurodegenerative disease, limits cognitive impairment in, and prolongs the survival of, subjects suffering from a neurodegenerative disease. |
| FILED | Monday, March 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/792336 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/1816 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/505 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 09586814 | Pressman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan G. Pressman (Cincinnati, Ohio); Woo Hyoung Lee (Orlando, Florida); David G. Wahman (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A monochloramine microsensor includes an elongated housing defining a central axis and an open interior and having a capillary opening at one end. A semi-permeable membrane covers the capillary opening, the semi-permeable membrane allowing diffusion of chloramines there-through while preventing water from entering into the interior of the housing. A chloramine sensitive element in the form of a wire, fiber or nanotube is mounted within the housing, the chloramine sensitive element, when used in conjunction with an anode, outputs current in an amount proportional to the concentration of chloramine present in a liquid sample in which the chloramine sensitive element is immersed. The chloramine sensitive element extends along a length of the central axis to a first end adjacent to and spaced from the semi-permeable membrane. The chloramine sensitive element is a gold wire, a platinum wire, a carbon fiber or a carbon nanotube. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/939959 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Microstructural Devices or Systems, e.g Micromechanical Devices B81B 7/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/4045 (20130101) G01N 33/188 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 09587710 | Collins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Collins (Waltham, Massachusetts); Gordon O. Salmela (Waltham, Massachusetts); Jeffrey J. Farnum (Waltham, Massachusetts); Jonathan E. Casey (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An adjustable drive mechanism, which may be used to control the elevation angle of a telescope or antenna, is disclosed. The adjustable drive mechanism can include a base plate configured to couple with a support structure and having a first spherical portion facing away from the support structure. In addition, the adjustable drive mechanism can include a gear box having a pinion gear to interface with a driven gear of a telescope or antenna, and a housing in support of the pinion gear and including a second spherical portion configured to interface with the first spherical portion of the base plate. The first spherical portion and the second spherical portion can be movable relative to one another in three rotational degrees of freedom to facilitate alignment and positioning of the pinion gear relative to the driven gear. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/184569 |
| ART UNIT | 3658 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Gearing F16H 1/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F16H 1/26 (20130101) F16H 57/12 (20130101) F16H 2057/125 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 7/183 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 74/1955 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09586091 | Reich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alton Reich (Huntsville, Alabama); James Shaw (Sterling, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alton Reich (Huntsville, Alabama); James Shaw (Sterling, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention comprises a method and/or an apparatus using a computer configured exercise system equipped with an electric motor to provide physical resistance to user motion in conjunction with means for sharing exercise system related data and/or user performance data with a secondary user, such as a medical professional, a physical therapist, a trainer, a computer generated competitor, and/or a human competitor. For example, the exercise system is used with a remote trainer to enhance exercise performance, with a remote medical professional for rehabilitation, and/or with a competitor in a competition, such as in a power/weightlifting competition or in a video game. The exercise system is optionally configured with an intelligent software assistant and knowledge navigator functioning as a personal assistant application. |
| FILED | Monday, January 25, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/005928 |
| ART UNIT | 3764 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus for Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, or Fencing; Ball Games; Training Equipment A63B 21/0058 (20130101) A63B 24/0062 (20130101) A63B 24/0084 (20130101) A63B 24/0087 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A63B 2024/0093 (20130101) A63B 2220/40 (20130101) A63B 2220/51 (20130101) A63B 2230/045 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US D780452 | Stratton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher M. Stratton (Springfield, Virginia); Gregory J. Smith (Arlington, Virginia); Thomas C. Potter (Oak Hill, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 29, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 29/540955 |
| ART UNIT | 2913 — Design |
| CURRENT CPC | Travel goods and personal belongings D3/305 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 09588888 | Nickel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Janice H. Nickel (Sunnyvale, California); Gilberto Ribeiro (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Janice H. Nickel (Sunnyvale, California); Gilberto Ribeiro (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A memory device and method for altering a performance characteristic of a memory array to increase a rate at which the memory device writes data in response to the memory device experiencing a demand for bandwidth above a threshold. The memory device may include a memory controller and a memory array, which may include memristive memory elements. To alter a performance characteristic, for example, the memristive memory elements may be written at sub-full resistive states which have a smaller difference between high and low resistive states, and/or the memory controller may disable a subset of memory elements and/or memory cells along a bit line and/or word line of the memory array. The subset of memory elements may be re-enable in response to the demand for bandwidth falling below the threshold, and data may be moved and/or rearranged within the memory device when the subset of memory elements is re-enabled. Altering the performance characteristic may increase a rate at which the memory device writes data. |
| FILED | Friday, July 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/847907 |
| ART UNIT | 2135 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 12/0802 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 2212/601 (20130101) G06F 2212/2024 (20130101) Static Stores G11C 13/0002 (20130101) G11C 13/0007 (20130101) G11C 13/0069 (20130101) G11C 2213/77 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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