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| US 09622658 | Hart et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bioptigen, Inc. (Morrisville, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bioptigen, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert H. Hart (Cary, North Carolina); Eric L. Buckland (Hickory, North Carolina); Glenn A. Myers (Durham, North Carolina); Joseph A. Izatt (Raleigh, North Carolina); Joseph Elliott Vance (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | OCT imaging systems are provided for imaging a spherical-type eye including a source having an associated source arm path and a reference arm having an associated reference arm path coupled to the source path. The reference arm path has an associated reference arm path length. A sample is also provided having an associated sample arm path coupled to the source arm and reference arm paths. A lens having a focal power optimized for a diameter of the spherical-type eye is provided along with a reference arm path length adjustment module coupled to the reference arm. The reference arm path length adjustment module is configured to automatically adjust the reference arm path length such that the reference arm path length is based on an eye diameter of the subject. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/301670 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 3/102 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/0066 (20130101) A61B 5/0073 (20130101) |
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| US 09622661 | Crisco, III et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Riddell, Inc. (Rosemont, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Riddell, Inc. (Rosemont, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph J. Crisco, III (Providence, Rhode Island); Richard M. Greenwald (Norwich, Vermont); Jeffrey J. Chu (Quechee, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a system and method for real-time impact monitoring of multiple players engaged in a sporting activity where each player wears a protective helmet. The system includes a sensing and control unit removably positioned in each helmet. The sensing and control unit has a sensor to detect helmet impact data, a processor to compare the detected impact data to profiles, and a transmitter to transmit impact data. The system also includes a remote unit for receiving the impact data transmitted from the helmets. |
| FILED | Monday, October 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/047176 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Hats; Head Coverings A42B 3/046 (20130101) Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0004 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/11 (20130101) A61B 5/742 (20130101) A61B 5/4076 (20130101) A61B 5/6803 (20130101) A61B 5/6814 (20130101) A61B 5/7246 (20130101) A61B 5/7475 (20130101) Apparatus for Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, or Fencing; Ball Games; Training Equipment A63B 71/06 (20130101) A63B 71/10 (20130101) A63B 2208/12 (20130101) A63B 2230/60 (20130101) A63B 2243/007 (20130101) |
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| US 09622662 | Zuzak 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) | Karel J. Zuzak (Arlington, Texas); Jeffrey A. Cadeddu (Dallas, Texas); Rafael Ufret-Vincenty (Dallas, Texas); Robert P. Francis (Grand Prarie, Texas); Edward Livingston (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A hyperspectral imaging system having an optical path. The system including an illumination source adapted to output a light beam, the light beam illuminating a target, a dispersing element arranged in the optical path and adapted to separate the light beam into a plurality of wavelengths, a digital micromirror array adapted to tune the plurality of wavelengths into a spectrum, an optical device having a detector and adapted to collect the spectrum reflected from the target and arranged in the optical path and a processor operatively connected to and adapted to control at least one of: the illumination source; the dispersing element; the digital micromirror array; the optical device; and, the detector, the processor further adapted to output a hyperspectral image of the target. The dispersing element is arranged between the illumination source and the digital micromirror array, the digital micromirror array is arranged to transmit the spectrum to the target and the optical device is arranged in the optical path after the target. |
| FILED | Monday, February 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/776087 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0059 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/0071 (20130101) A61B 5/0075 (20130101) A61B 5/0084 (20130101) A61B 5/0086 (20130101) A61B 5/411 (20130101) A61B 5/413 (20130101) A61B 5/4064 (20130101) A61B 5/4842 (20130101) A61B 5/14551 (20130101) Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/02 (20130101) G01J 3/10 (20130101) G01J 3/021 (20130101) G01J 3/0208 (20130101) G01J 3/0229 (20130101) G01J 3/0264 (20130101) G01J 3/2803 (20130101) G01J 3/2823 (20130101) G01J 2003/1213 (20130101) G01J 2003/1282 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/31 (20130101) G01N 21/39 (20130101) |
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| US 09622671 | Weber et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas Weber (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Robert Gaunt (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Timothy Bruns (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatuses for monitoring and regulating physiological states and functions are disclosed. Several embodiments include application of one or more microelectrode arrays to a dorsal root ganglion for measurement of sensory neuron activity, or stimulation of sensory reflex circuits. The methods and apparatuses can be used, for example, for monitoring or controlling bladder function in a patient. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/843023 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/112 (20130101) A61B 5/205 (20130101) A61B 5/04001 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/4519 (20130101) A61B 5/4836 (20130101) Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 5/1723 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0551 (20130101) A61N 1/3606 (20130101) A61N 1/36003 (20130101) A61N 1/36007 (20130101) A61N 1/36071 (20130101) A61N 1/36082 (20130101) A61N 1/36107 (20130101) A61N 1/36139 (20130101) |
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| US 09622711 | Zhao 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) | Heng Zhao (Rochester, Minnesota); Pengfei Song (Rochester, Minnesota); Matthew W. Urban (Rochester, Minnesota); Randall Kinnick (Rochester, Minnesota); Armando Manduca (Rochester, Minnesota); James F. Greenleaf (Rochester, Minnesota); Shigao Chen (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for measuring material properties of a medium includes producing a multi-directional wave field in the medium and detecting, with a detection system capable of detecting wave fields propagating in a medium, the multi-directional wave field in at least two spatial dimensions over at least one time instance. The system and method also include determining a lowest wave speed, calculating at least one of wave speed and material properties of the medium, and generating a report indicating the at least one of wave speed and material properties of the medium. |
| FILED | Friday, April 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/398854 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/055 (20130101) A61B 5/4244 (20130101) A61B 5/7257 (20130101) A61B 5/7282 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 8/485 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 29/043 (20130101) G01N 2291/028 (20130101) Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 7/52022 (20130101) G01S 7/52042 (20130101) G01S 15/899 (20130101) |
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| US 09622849 | El-Kurdi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mohammed El-Kurdi (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); J. Christopher Flaherty (Topsfield, Massachusetts); Yi Hong (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Jonathan McGrath (Duxbury, Massachusetts); Lorenzo Soletti (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); John Stankus (Campbell, California); David Vorp (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); William Wagner (Wexford, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohammed El-Kurdi (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); J. Christopher Flaherty (Topsfield, Massachusetts); Yi Hong (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Jonathan McGrath (Duxbury, Massachusetts); Lorenzo Soletti (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); John Stankus (Campbell, California); David Vorp (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); William Wagner (Wexford, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A tubular tissue graft device is provided comprising a tubular member and a restrictive fiber matrix of a bioerodible polymer about a circumference of the tubular tissue. The matrix may be electrospun onto the tubular tissue. In one embodiment, the tubular tissue is from a vein, such as a saphenous vein, useful as an arterial graft, for example and without limitation, in a coronary artery bypass procedure. 5 Also provided is method of preparing a tubular graft comprising depositing a fiber matrix of a bioerodible polymer about a perimeter of a tubular tissue to produce a tubular tissue graft device. A cardiac bypass method comprising bypassing a coronary artery with a tubular tissue graft device comprising a vein and a restrictive fiber matrix of a bioerodible polymer about a circumference of the vein also is provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/502759 |
| ART UNIT | 3731 — 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 2/04 (20130101) A61F 2/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61F 2/062 (20130101) A61F 2002/072 (20130101) |
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| US 09622993 | Springett et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | H. LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC. (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc. (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Springett (Tampa, Florida); Said M. Sebti (Tampa, Florida); Nicholas J. Lawrence (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase-beta (LPAAT-β) catalyzes the production of phosphatidic acid (PA) from lysophosphatidic acid (LPA). The lipid cofactor PA contributes to the activation of c-Raf, BRAF, mTOR and PKC-ζ. LPAAT-β expression is a prognostic factor in gynecologic malignancies and is being investigated as a therapeutic target in a variety of tumor types. A class of thiosemicarbazones was identified as inhibitors of LPAAT-β from a screen of a library of small molecules. A focused library of thiosemicarbazones derivatives was prepared and led to the development of compounds which potently inhibit LPAAT-β and inhibit the growth of MiaPaCa2 human pancreatic cancer cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 07, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 15/302640 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/175 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/4412 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 337/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09622995 | Abood et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | TEMPLE UNIVERSITY OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); DUKE UNIVERSITY (Durham, North Carolina); RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TEMPLE UNIVERSITY Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); DUKE UNIVERSITY (Durham, North Carolina); RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mary E. Abood (Gladwyne, Pennsylvania); Pingwei Zhao (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Lawrence S. Barak (Durham, North Carolina); Herbert H. Seltzman (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds are provided having agonistic activity against G protein-coupled receptor 35 (GPR35). The compounds are useful for providing antinociception, providing neuroprotection in case of stroke or ischemia, or treating gastric inflammation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 13, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/711355 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/191 (20130101) A61K 31/194 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09623008 | Tomkinson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico); UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico); UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Edward Tomkinson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Feyruz Rassool (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, the invention provides a method of treating a subject suffering from a breast cancer tumor which is non-responsive or intrinsically resistant to anti-estrogen therapy comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of an inhibitor of alternative (ALT) non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) factor to the subject. In another embodiment the invention provides a method of treating a subject who suffers from a pancreatic cancer which is non-responsive to chemotherapy and/or radiation comprising co-administering a therapeutically effective amount of PARP1 inhibitor and a DNA ligase IIIα inhibitor to the subject. Related diagnostic methods, nucleic acid arrays, devices and kits are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/793878 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/00 (20130101) A61K 31/165 (20130101) A61K 31/4184 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) C12Q 2600/106 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/20 (20130101) |
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| US 09623013 | Penny 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) | Hweixian Leong Penny (Singapore, Singapore); Edgar George Engleman (Palo Alto, California); Nupur Bhattacharya (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An agent that increases local concentration of retinoic acid (RA) in the intestine through modifying enzymatic pathways involved in RA metabolism is administered in a dose effective to inhibit or reverse production of inflammatory mediators by intestinal dendritic cells and thereby reduce intestinal inflammation and tumor growth associated with intestinal inflammation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/962782 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0053 (20130101) A61K 31/428 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/4184 (20130101) |
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| US 09623020 | Greig et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nigel H. Greig (Phoenix, Maryland); Weiming Luo (Lutherville, Maryland); David Tweedie (Baltimore, Maryland); Harold W. Holloway (Middle River, Maryland); Qian-Sheng Yu (Lutherville, Maryland); Edward J. Goetzl (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof, having a structure of: wherein A, B and D are each oxygen or sulfur, provided that least one of A, B and D is sulfur; and R1-R8 are each independently hydrogen, hydroxyl, acyl, substituted acyl, acyloxy, substituted acyloxy, alkyl, substituted alkyl, alkenyl, substituted alkenyl, alkynyl, substituted alkynyl, alkoxy, substituted alkoxy, aryl, substituted aryl, amino, substituted amino, halogen, heterocycloalkyl, substituted heterocycloalkyl, heteroaryl, substituted heteroaryl, or a thio-containing group. |
| FILED | Monday, June 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/746512 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/454 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 401/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09623024 | Kazlauskas |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Schepens Eye Research Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Schepens Eye Research Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrius Kazlauskas (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions and methods for treatment of proliferative vitreoretinopathy. |
| FILED | Friday, August 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/622169 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/496 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1135 (20130101) C12N 15/1138 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2320/30 (20130101) |
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09623032 — Methods and compositions related to glucocorticoid receptor antagonists and breast cancer
| US 09623032 | Pan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Deng Pan (Chicago, Illinois); Masha Kocherginsky (Chicago, Illinois); Suzanne D. Conzen (Park Ridge, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention are directed to methods of determining the prognosis of a breast cancer patient by evaluating the activity of the glucocorticoid receptor in tumor cells. Other embodiment include methods of treating breast cancer cells, particularly, chemo-resistant cells, with a glucocorticoid receptor antagonist and an anticancer agent or compound. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/296127 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Containers Specially Adapted for Medical or Pharmaceutical Purposes; Devices or Methods Specially Adapted for Bringing Pharmaceutical Products into Particular Physical or Administering Forms; Devices for Administering Food or Medicines Orally; Baby Comforters; Devices for Receiving Spittle A61J 1/00 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/58 (20130101) A61K 31/282 (20130101) A61K 31/337 (20130101) A61K 31/357 (20130101) A61K 31/567 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/575 (20130101) A61K 31/575 (20130101) A61K 31/4745 (20130101) A61K 31/7068 (20130101) A61K 33/24 (20130101) A61K 39/3955 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 5/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09623039 | Dawson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ted M. Dawson (Baltimore, Maryland); Valina L. Dawson (Baltimore, Maryland); Shaida A. Andrabi (Baltimore, Maryland); Ho Chul Kang (Parkville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | VALTED, LLC (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ted M. Dawson (Baltimore, Maryland); Valina L. Dawson (Baltimore, Maryland); Shaida A. Andrabi (Baltimore, Maryland); Ho Chul Kang (Parkville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Research into neuroprotective mechanisms has at its heart the goal of developing new therapeutic strategies to treat patients. For example, the compositions and induction strategies disclosed herein have use for acute injuries such as stroke or trauma, and would be extremely useful in treating patients undergoing cardiac bypass surgery, neurosurgery or other surgical cohorts where ischemia is a risk. Further, patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage, transient ischemic attacks, soldiers at risk for blast injury or patients suffering from chronic neurodegenerative diseases would also benefit from enhanced neuronal survival based upon the techniques and compositions disclosed herein. In addition, protecting against cell death by, for example, interfering with PAR polymer signaling via the compositions and processes disclosed herein, offers new therapeutic strategies for the treatment of neurologic disorders. |
| FILED | Friday, November 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/294884 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7088 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/7105 (20130101) A61K 48/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/93 (20130101) C12N 15/1137 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 603/02019 (20130101) |
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| US 09623040 | Krams et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sheri M. Krams (Berkeley, California); Audrey H. Lau (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods of modulating an immune response by controlling expression levels of microRNAs in dendritic cells are disclosed. In particular, the invention relates to modified dendritic cells and methods of using such dendritic cells in cellular therapy for treating various immune conditions and diseases, including transplant rejection, inflammatory disorders, autoimmune diseases, allergies, infectious diseases, immunodeficiency, and cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, July 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/797065 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7105 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 35/15 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 48/00 (20130101) A61K 2035/122 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/00 (20130101) C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/141 (20130101) |
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| US 09623041 | Inoue et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Satoshi Inoue (Beverly Hills, California); Hui Ding (Los Angeles, California); Eggehard Holler (Los Angeles, California); Keith L. Black (Los Angeles, California); Julia Y. Ljubimova (Studio City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanobiopolymeric conjugates based on biodegradable, non-toxic and non-immunogenic poly (β-L-malic acid) PMLA covalently linked to molecular modules that include morpholino antisense oligonucleotides (AONa), an siRNA or an antibody specific for an oncogenic protein in a cancer cell, and an antibody specific for a transferrin receptor protein, are provided. Methods for treating a cancer in subject with nanobiopolymeric conjugates are described. |
| FILED | Friday, June 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/930533 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/713 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/32 (20130101) C07K 16/2881 (20130101) |
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| US 09623069 | Szeto |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CORNELL RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hazel H. Szeto (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for reducing oxidative damage in a mammal, a removed organ, or a cell in need thereof. The method comprises administering an effective amount of an aromatic cationic peptide. The aromatic cationic peptide has (a) at least one net positive charge; (b) a minimum of three amino acids; (c) a maximum of about twenty amino acids, (d) a relationship between the minimum number of net positive charges (pm) and the total number of amino acid residues (r) wherein 3 pm is the largest number that is less than or equal to r+1; (e) a relationship between the minimum number of aromatic groups (a) and the total number of net positive charges (pt) wherein 3a or 2a is the largest number that is less than or equal to pt+1, except that when a is 1, pt may also be 1; and (f) at least one tyrosine or tryptophan amino acid. |
| FILED | Monday, December 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/100626 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/07 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/08 (20130101) A61K 38/10 (20130101) Peptides C07K 5/1019 (20130101) |
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| US 09623080 | Wong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | G. William Wong (Lutherville-Timonium, Maryland); Jonathan M. Peterson (Johnson City, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are disclosed for treating or preventing fatty liver disease using a CTRP3 polypeptide or functional variant thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/777001 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/191 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101) |
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| US 09623083 | Qi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ling Qi (Ithaca, New York); Yewei Ji (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ling Qi (Ithaca, New York); Yewei Ji (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Obesity is associated with a state of chronic low-grade inflammation and the present invention establishes that adipose-resident natural killer T (NKT) cells attenuate inflammation in adipose tissue and improves systemic glucose homeostasis in mice at different stages of obesity. Accordingly, the present invention provides methods of treating type-2 diabetes or those at risk for type-2 diabetes using activators of adipose-resident NKT cells. Such activators include particular glycolipids (e.g., a-galactosylceramide and its analogs other than sulfated analogs) and cytokines that promote M2 macrophage polarization. The invention also includes methods to screen for activators of adipose-resident NKT cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/241482 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7028 (20130101) A61K 31/7032 (20130101) A61K 38/19 (20130101) A61K 38/208 (20130101) A61K 38/2026 (20130101) A61K 38/2066 (20130101) A61K 38/2086 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0646 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6851 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/505 (20130101) G01N 33/5088 (20130101) G01N 33/6863 (20130101) G01N 33/6869 (20130101) |
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| US 09623097 | Palena et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | GlobeImmune, Inc. (Lousiville, Colorado); The USA, as represented by the Secretary, Dept. of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GlobeImmune, Inc. (Louisville, Colorado); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Dept. of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Claudia Palena (Potomac, Maryland); Zhimin Guo (Superior, Colorado); David Apelian (Boonton Township, New Jersey); Jeffrey Schlom (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are yeast-based immunotherapeutic compositions comprising Brachyury antigens, and methods for the prevention and/or treatment of cancers characterized by the expression or overexpression of Brachyury. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 29, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/926372 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 36/064 (20130101) A61K 38/17 (20130101) A61K 39/0011 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2039/51 (20130101) A61K 2039/6006 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 5/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09623117 | Chapman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edwin Raymond Chapman (Madison, Wisconsin); Felix Leejia Yeh (San Francisco, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edwin Raymond Chapman (Madison, Wisconsin); Felix Leejia Yeh (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and reagents for directing the selective targeting and entry of bacterial toxins to mammalian cells. Methods include the step of contacting a cell with a bacterial toxin or toxic bioactive fragment thereof associated with an antibody or ligand that is specific to a target on the cell, wherein the antibody or ligand selectively binds the target on the cell and the bacterial toxin or fragment thereof is internalized and enters the cell. The invention further encompasses compositions and kits to carry out the methods. |
| FILED | Friday, March 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/435688 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/48484 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/48561 (20130101) |
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| US 09623123 | Liu |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michigan Technological University (Houghton, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (Houghton, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Haiying Liu (Houghton, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides various fluorescent conjugated polymers with a BODIPY-based backbone. The invention also provides methods of using the polymers of the invention, such as for imaging and detection of cells, tumors, bacteria and viruses. |
| FILED | Friday, July 22, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/217133 |
| 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 31/785 (20130101) A61K 31/787 (20130101) A61K 49/0054 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 61/124 (20130101) C08G 2261/3241 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6428 (20130101) G01N 33/574 (20130101) G01N 33/582 (20130101) G01N 33/56911 (20130101) G01N 33/56916 (20130101) G01N 33/56983 (20130101) G01N 2021/6439 (20130101) G01N 2333/11 (20130101) G01N 2333/33 (20130101) G01N 2333/245 (20130101) |
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| US 09623126 | Weissleder et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph Weissleder (Peabody, Massachusetts); Hakho Lee (Acton, Massachusetts); Tae-Jong Yoon (Yongin, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic nanoparticle includes a magnetic core and a superparamagnetic outer shell, in which the outer shell enhances magnetic properties of the nanoparticle. The enhanced magnetic properties of the magnetic nanoparticle allow for highly sensitive detection as well as diminished non-specific aggregation of nanoparticles. |
| FILED | Friday, January 09, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/593293 |
| 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 9/5094 (20130101) A61K 9/5115 (20130101) A61K 33/24 (20130101) A61K 33/24 (20130101) A61K 33/26 (20130101) A61K 33/26 (20130101) A61K 33/30 (20130101) A61K 33/30 (20130101) A61K 41/0052 (20130101) A61K 49/08 (20130101) A61K 49/10 (20130101) A61K 49/126 (20130101) A61K 49/183 (20130101) A61K 49/1824 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 49/1827 (20130101) A61K 49/1836 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2800/47 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 2/02 (20130101) Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 1/025 (20130101) |
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| US 09623128 | Kelly |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kimberly A. Kelly (Crozet, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods useful for diagnostic and imaging techniques for detecting and localizing the biomarker Plectin-1. The present invention provides multimeric peptide ligand complexes for targeting Plectin-1, such as the multimeric peptide ligand complex having the formula (βAKTLLPTPGGS(PEG5000))4 KKKKDOTAβA-NH2, to which imaging agents and/or therapeutic agents can be conjugated. |
| FILED | Friday, March 27, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/671062 |
| 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 47/48246 (20130101) A61K 49/0002 (20130101) A61K 51/065 (20130101) A61K 51/088 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 51/0482 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) C07K 14/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/531 (20130101) G01N 33/574 (20130101) G01N 2333/4724 (20130101) |
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| US 09623147 | Kaplan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medord, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Ung-Jin Kim (Daejeon, South Korea); Jaehyung Park (Decatur, Georgia); Hyoung-Joon Jin (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for concentrated aqueous silk fibroin solutions and an all-aqueous mode for preparation of concentrated aqueous fibroin solutions that avoids the use of organic solvents, direct additives, or harsh chemicals. The invention further provides for the use of these solutions in production of materials, e.g., fibers, films, foams, meshes, scaffolds and hydrogels. |
| FILED | Monday, June 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/293308 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/38 (20130101) A61L 27/52 (20130101) A61L 27/227 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 27/3604 (20130101) A61L 2430/02 (20130101) Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 39/003 (20130101) B29C 39/203 (20130101) B29C 55/005 (20130101) Producing Particular Articles From Plastics or From Substances in a Plastic State B29D 7/01 (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 2089/00 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29C, Relating to Particular Articles B29L 2007/00 (20130101) B29L 2009/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/43536 (20130101) C07K 14/43586 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 3/07 (20130101) C08J 3/075 (20130101) C08J 5/18 (20130101) C08J 9/26 (20130101) C08J 9/28 (20130101) C08J 9/0061 (20130101) C08J 2201/0444 (20130101) C08J 2201/0504 (20130101) C08J 2205/022 (20130101) C08J 2389/00 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 89/00 (20130101) Mechanical Methods or Apparatus in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons D01D 5/0007 (20130101) Chemical Features in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons; Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture of Carbon Filaments D01F 4/02 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/249921 (20150401) Y10T 442/10 (20150401) Y10T 442/60 (20150401) |
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| US 09623242 | Richter et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois); RESONANCE MEDICAL, LLC (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois); RESONANCE MEDICAL, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Claus-Peter Richter (Skokie, Illinois); Reagan Roberts (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of generating frequency-modulated pulse trains in a CI includes dividing data representing audio spanning frequency bands into a plurality of bins associated with each frequency band, each bin representing an energy level of the data within the frequency band within a period of time; associating each frequency band with a phase probability that starts at an initial phase probability value (PPV), resets to a minimum PPV after generating a pulse, and increases from the minimum PPV to a maximum PPV over a period of time; for each bin, assigning a power probability as a normalized intensity being a number between a minimum power probability and a maximum power probability representing the energy level of the bin, and generating a pulse in an electrode associated with the frequency band associated with the bin when a random number generated is less than the power probability divided by the phase probability. |
| FILED | Monday, July 11, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/206921 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0541 (20130101) A61N 1/36032 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09623243 | Chancellor et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael B. Chancellor (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Changfeng Tai (Wexford, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus are therefore provided herein for stimulating a desired physiological effect. The methods and apparatus can be used to control micturition, defecation and/or ejaculation. The methods and apparatus also can be used to control pain in the lower pelvic region, for example and without limitation, interstitial cystitis. The methods and apparatus also can be used to increase sexual sensation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/276297 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/3606 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/36007 (20130101) A61N 1/36071 (20130101) A61N 1/36171 (20130101) A61N 1/37252 (20130101) |
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| US 09623258 | Trayanova et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Natalia Trayanova (Baltimore, Maryland); Lukas Rantner (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes a method for cardiac defibrillation, especially low-voltage defibrillation, in a subject, including converting fibrillation into tachycardia and using feedback or an estimation thereof from the heart to time stimuli to occur when large amounts of tissue are excitable in the heart of the subject. The resultant tachycardia can then be terminated using a tachycardia termination protocol known to or conceivable by one of skill in the art. The method can be implemented using a currently available defibrillator or an internal cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) configured to apply a lower voltage shock, such as a far-field stimulation. A device designed especially for the method or another device employing this method can also be used. Because the proposed defibrillation method requires less energy than current approaches using single biphasic stimulus, defibrillator battery life is improvable or battery size decreasable. The method reduces pain and cellular damage resultant from traditional defibrillation. |
| FILED | Monday, May 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/398803 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/046 (20130101) A61B 5/0464 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/395 (20130101) A61N 1/3621 (20130101) A61N 1/3906 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/3956 (20130101) A61N 1/3962 (20130101) A61N 1/3987 (20130101) |
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| US 09623262 | Vaziri 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) | Behrooz Vaziri (Livingston, New Jersey); Han Wu (Kearny, New Jersey); Roger W. Howell (Millington, New Jersey); John M. Akudugu (Bellville, South Africa); Venkata S. Neti (Branchburg, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A system, method and computer program product to determine radiation dose from radionuclides used to treat a patient in need thereof. The present invention allows users to visualize and understand the impact of radionuclide choice, distribution of activity in the cell, distribution of activity among the cells, cell dimensions, cell separation distance, cluster size, and radiobiological response parameters on the capacity to kill populations of cells. All of these parameters can play a substantial role in determining the surviving fraction of cells. Accordingly, this system, method and computer program product can assist in designing treatment plans for therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals suited to individual needs. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/213231 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 5/1031 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09623264 | Wagner |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Highland Instruments, Inc. (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Highland Instruments (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy Andrew Wagner (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally relates to systems and methods for stimulating cellular function in biological tissue. In certain embodiments, the invention provides a method for stimulating cellular function within tissue that involves providing a first type of energy to a region of tissue, in which the first type is provided in an amount that inhibits cellular function within the region of tissue, and providing a second type of energy to the region of tissue, in which the second type is provided in an amount that facilitates cellular function within the region of tissue, wherein the combined effect stimulates cellular function within the tissue. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 05, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/704270 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 2018/00994 (20130101) 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 7/00 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/36 (20130101) A61N 1/205 (20130101) A61N 1/325 (20130101) A61N 1/326 (20130101) A61N 1/327 (20130101) A61N 1/36021 (20130101) A61N 1/36025 (20130101) A61N 7/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 2007/0021 (20130101) A61N 2007/0026 (20130101) |
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| US 09624178 | Gangjee |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Duquesne Univversity of the Holy Spirit (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aleem Gangjee (Allison Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides substituted cyclopenta and cyclopentyl pyrimidine bicyclic compounds of Formula III, and 5,6-saturated and unsaturated and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, prodrugs, solvates, and hydrates thereof, having antimitotic activity, anti-multidrug resistance activity, such as for example P-glycoprotein inhibition, and antitumor activity, and which inhibit paclitaxel sensitive and resistant tumor cells. Also provided are methods of utilizing these compounds for treating tumor cells and inhibiting mitosis of cancerous cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/244445 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 239/70 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 487/04 (20130101) C07D 491/048 (20130101) |
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| US 09624190 | Scheidt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl A. Scheidt (Evanston, Illinois); Bi-Shun Zeng (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods to access 2-aryl chromene compounds via an asymmetric catalytic process. |
| FILED | Monday, April 11, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/095855 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | General Methods of Organic Chemistry; Apparatus Therefor C07B 53/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 311/32 (20130101) C07D 311/60 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 311/62 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 9/591 (20130101) C07F 9/65515 (20130101) C07F 9/657154 (20130101) |
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| US 09624211 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shuxing Zhang (Pearland, Texas); Hui-Kuan Lin (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Chia-Hsin Chan (Houston, Texas); John Kenneth Morrow (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods and compositions for the treatment of diseases such as cancer. In certain aspects, compounds which can inhibit Skp2 are provided. Specifically chromenone derivatives are disclosed that have the capability toward reducing differentiation of pluripotent, multipotent or totipotent cells and thus have therapeutic utility in the treatment of a proliferative disease such as cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, July 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/905726 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/55 (20130101) A61K 31/352 (20130101) A61K 31/352 (20130101) A61K 31/423 (20130101) A61K 31/428 (20130101) A61K 31/454 (20130101) A61K 31/4184 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 405/04 (20130101) C07D 413/04 (20130101) C07D 417/04 (20130101) C07D 417/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09624275 | Gundlach et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington); The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington); The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jens H. Gundlach (Seattle, Washington); Michael Niederweis (Homewood, Alabama); Thomas Z. Butler (Seattle, Washington); Mikhail Pavlenok (Birmingham, Alabama); Mark A. Troll (Seattle, Washington); Suja Sukumaran (Dublin, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are Mycobacterium smegmatis porin nanopores, systems that comprise these nanopores, and methods of using and making these nanopores. Such nanopores may be wild-type MspA porins, mutant MspA porins, wild-type MspA paralog porins, wild-type MspA homolog porins, mutant MspA paralog porins, mutant MspA homolog porins, or single-chain Msp porins. Also provided are bacterial strains capable of inducible Msp porin expression. |
| FILED | Friday, June 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/318072 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/04 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/35 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 13/00 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 2523/31 (20130101) C12Q 2565/631 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/44704 (20130101) G01N 33/6872 (20130101) G01N 33/48721 (20130101) |
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| US 09624281 | Barasch et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Barasch (New York, New York); Andong Qiu (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect the present invention is directed to mutant NGAL proteins that have the ability to bind to siderophores, such as enterochelin, and to chelate and transport iron, and that are excreted in the urine. Such NGAL mutants, and complexes thereof with siderophores, can be used to clear excess iron from the body, for example in the treatment of iron overload. The NGAL mutants of the invention also have antibacterial activity and can be used in the treatment of bacterial infections, such as those of the urinary tract. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/719204 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09624282 | Lai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi Lai (Columbia, Missouri); Junling Zhao (Columbia, Missouri); Yongping Yue (Columbia, Missouri); Dongsheng Duan (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | According to the embodiments described herein, a series of biological materials for treatment/therapy of DMD and/or BMD through the recovery of sarcolemmal nNOS is provided. The biological material comprises the complete dystrophin repeats R16 and R17 or certain domains, sections, or fragments of the dystrophin repeats R16 and R17. In some aspects, such domains, sections, or fragments may be selected from sequence motifs including dystrophin R17 α1 helix, α2 and α3 helices of both R16 and R17, or a combination thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/091326 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/1719 (20130101) A61K 47/48315 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/4708 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/4716 (20130101) |
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| US 09624283 | Pereira et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Heloise Anne Pereira (Edmond, Oklahoma); Anne Kasus-Jacobi (Midwest City, Oklahoma); Gina L. Griffith (McAlester, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | Peptide compounds based on the CAP37 protein are disclosed, along with methods for treating various infections, wounds, and conditions, and methods of promoting healing and acceptance of grafts, using compositions containing these peptide compounds. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/781801 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/17 (20130101) A61K 38/1729 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/4723 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09624287 | Weiss |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Weiss (Moreland Hills, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An insulin analogue comprises an insulin B-chain polypeptide modified with an O-linked monosaccaride pyranoside adduct at the side chain of residue B27 or an O-linked monosaccaride pyranoside adduct at the side chain of residue B30, or both, where the positions are recited relative to human insulin. The monosaccaride may be a manopyranoside, an N-acetyl-galactopyranoside, or a glucopyranoside. The insulin analogue may additionally comprise containing a foreshortened B-chain polypeptide lacking residues B1-B3, an extension of 1 or 2 Glu residues on the carboxy terminal end of the B-chain polypeptide, an extension of ornithine at the carboxy-terminal end of the B-chain, the substitutions Lys at position B28 and Pro at position B29, an ornithine substitution at position B29, or combinations thereof. The analogue may be an analogue of a mammalian insulin, such as human insulin. A method of treating a patient comprises administering a physiologically effective amount of the insulin analogue. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/416022 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/62 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09624288 | Xu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yan Xu (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Pei Tang (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Tommy Tillman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yan Xu (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Pei Tang (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Tommy S. Tillman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Engineered chloride channel receptors, nucleic acids encoding these receptors, expression vectors including these nucleic acids are disclosed herein. Nanoparticles and pharmaceutical compositions including these engineered chloride channel receptors, nucleic acids, and expression vectors are disclosed. The use of these compositions and nanoparticles, such as for the treatment of pain, cystic fibrosis and asthma, is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, December 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/650859 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/164 (20130101) A61K 38/177 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/27 (20130101) C07K 14/195 (20130101) C07K 14/705 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2319/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/03 (20130101) |
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| US 09624304 | Braun 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) | Jonathan Braun (Tarzana, California); Lynn K. Gordon (Tarzana, California); Kaori Shimazaki Dadgostar (Los Angeles, California); Madhuri Wadehra (Manhattan Beach, California); Kathy A. Kelly (Pacific Palisades, California); Anna M. Wu (Sherman Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and compositions useful in the treatment or prevention of Chlamydia infections and cancer. The methods and compositions inhibit the entry of Chlamydia into a host cell expressing EMP2 by interfering with the interaction between the Chlamydia and EMP2. The methods and compositions target cancers which express or overexpress EMP2 nucleic acids and polypeptides by targeting EMP2. |
| FILED | Monday, March 23, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/666091 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — 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) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/28 (20130101) C07K 16/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/125 (20130101) C07K 2316/96 (20130101) C07K 2317/21 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) C07K 2317/52 (20130101) C07K 2317/73 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09624305 | Jaiswal 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) | Siddhartha Jaiswal (San Francisco, California); Irving L. Weissman (Stanford, California); Ravindra Majeti (Palo Alto, California); Mark P. Chao (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided to manipulate phagocytosis of cancer cells, including e.g. leukemias, solid tumors including carcinomas, etc. |
| FILED | Friday, February 26, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/054891 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/39558 (20130101) A61K 47/4863 (20130101) A61K 47/48569 (20130101) A61K 47/48607 (20130101) A61K 47/48615 (20130101) A61K 47/48623 (20130101) A61K 47/48638 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) A61K 2039/507 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/18 (20130101) C07K 16/30 (20130101) C07K 16/2803 (20130101) C07K 16/2896 (20130101) C07K 16/3038 (20130101) C07K 16/3046 (20130101) C07K 16/3053 (20130101) C07K 16/3061 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/3069 (20130101) C07K 2317/31 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) |
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| US 09624306 | Morgan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard A. Morgan (Columbia, Maryland); Steven A. Rosenberg (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) comprising an antigen binding domain of human antibody 139, an extracellular hinge domain, a transmembrane domain, and an intracellular domain T cell receptor signaling domain. Nucleic acids, recombinant expression vectors, host cells, populations of cells, antibodies, or antigen binding portions thereof, and pharmaceutical compositions relating to the CARs are disclosed. Methods of detecting the presence of cancer in a host and methods of treating or preventing cancer in a host are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 13, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 14/994403 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 48/00 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/7051 (20130101) C07K 14/70503 (20130101) C07K 14/70517 (20130101) C07K 14/70521 (20130101) C07K 14/70575 (20130101) C07K 14/70596 (20130101) C07K 16/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/2863 (20130101) C07K 16/3053 (20130101) C07K 2317/21 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/70 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57492 (20130101) G01N 2333/71 (20130101) |
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| US 09624338 | Sampson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (Albany, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicole S. Sampson (Setauket, New York); Li Tan (Centereach, New York); Kathlyn Parker (Setauket, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to the field of polymers and olefin polymerization, and more specifically olefin metathesis polymerization. The invention provides regioregular alternating polymers and methods of synthesizing such polymers. To demonstrate, polymers were synthesized and modified with a FRET pair (Trp/Dansyl) post-polymerization. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/906834 |
| ART UNIT | 1613 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/1075 (20130101) A61K 31/74 (20130101) A61K 31/74 (20130101) A61K 47/32 (20130101) A61K 47/48176 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 232/04 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 61/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 61/12 (20130101) C08G 61/128 (20130101) C08G 2261/74 (20130101) C08G 2261/124 (20130101) C08G 2261/418 (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 5/1637 (20130101) |
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| US 09624344 | Dong 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) | Jiajia Dong (Shanghai, China PRC); Valery Fokin (Oceanside, California); Larisa Krasnova (San Diego, California); Luke R. Kwisnek (San Diego, California); James S. Oakdale (San Diego, California); K. Barry Sharpless (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Condensation of fluoro-substituted and silyl-substituted monomers provides polymers suitable for use, e.g., as engineering polymers. A monomer composition is condensed in the presence of a basic catalyst. The monomer composition contains a compound of formula F—X—F and a compound of formula (R1)3Si—Z—Si(R1)3, and forms an alternating X—Z polymer chain and a silyl fluoride byproduct. X has the formula -A(-R2-A)n-; each A is SO2, C(═O) or Het; R2 is an organic moiety; n is 0 or 1; Het is an aromatic nitrogen heterocycle; Z has the formula -L-R3-L-; each L is O, S, or N(R4); and each R3 is an organic moiety, and R4 comprises H or an organic moiety. |
| FILED | Monday, September 19, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/269468 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 75/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09624468 | Hashino et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eri Hashino (Indianapolis, Indiana); Gerry Oxford (Indianapolis, Indiana); Karl R. Koehler (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eri Hashino (Indianapolis, Indiana); Gerry Oxford (Indianapolis, Indiana); Karl R. Koehler (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for generating cultures and isolated cell populations containing preplacodal ectoderms cells, otic placode cells, and inner ear sensory hair cells derived from pluripotent cells by modulating TGFβ, BMP, and FGF signaling pathways under defined culture conditions. Also described are methods for obtaining non-otic placodal tissues from pluripotent stem cells. Methods for identifying agents that induce or enhance differentiation and generation of hair cells are also disclosed. Methods for identifying cytoprotective agents for hair cells are also described. |
| FILED | Monday, May 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/398664 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/062 (20130101) C12N 5/0627 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2501/15 (20130101) C12N 2501/113 (20130101) C12N 2501/115 (20130101) C12N 2501/155 (20130101) C12N 2501/415 (20130101) C12N 2501/727 (20130101) C12N 2506/02 (20130101) C12N 2506/03 (20130101) C12N 2533/90 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5044 (20130101) G01N 33/5073 (20130101) |
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| US 09624470 | Slukvin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Igor I. Slukvin (Verona, Wisconsin); Maksym A. Vodyanyk (Madison, Wisconsin); James A. Thomson (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor I. Slukvin (Verona, Wisconsin); Maksym A. Vodyanyk (Madison, Wisconsin); James A. Thomson (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to hematopoietic precursors derived from human embryonic stem cells. In the culture of differentiated cells from human ES cells, the fully committed hematopoietic precursors are CD34+ and CD43+ but not CD45+. If the cells are cultured until they express CD45, then the cells lose the ability to produce differentiated cells of the lymphoid lineages. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/194623 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — 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 5/0647 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2502/1394 (20130101) C12N 2506/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09624471 | Ruohola-Baker 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) | Hannele Ruohola-Baker (Seattle, Washington); Kavitha Kuppusamy (Seattle, Washington); Henrik Sperber (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are methods and compositions useful for inducing maturation of a cardiomyocyte to a mature (e.g., adult) phenotype, such that the function and morphology of the mature cardiomyocyte matches or more closely mimics that of the adult heart. The methods and compositions use Let-7 miRNAs and modified forms thereof. Such methods and compositions permit the study and treatment of adult-onset cardiac diseases, disorders or injuries with mature cardiomyocytes that mimic the heart function of an adult. Methods of using cardiomyocytes matured in this manner for drug identification and drug cardiotoxicity testing are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/897403 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/34 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0657 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/141 (20130101) C12N 2320/30 (20130101) |
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| US 09624473 | Mohapatra et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Subhra Mohapatra (Tampa, Florida); Shyam S. Mohapatra (Tampa, Florida); Yvonne Kathleen Davis (Tampa, Florida); Chunyan Wang (Tampa, Florida) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Subhra Mohapatra (Tampa, Florida); Shyam S. Mohapatra (Tampa, Florida); Yvonne Kathleen Davis (Tampa, Florida); Chunyan Wang (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein is a three-dimensional scaffold composition comprising randomly oriented fibers, wherein the fibers comprise a polyethylene glycol-polylactic acid block copolymer (PEG-PLA) and a poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA). Also provided are methods for using the three-dimensional scaffolds described herein. |
| FILED | Monday, February 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/775536 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — 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 5/0062 (20130101) C12N 5/0068 (20130101) C12N 5/0693 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2533/40 (20130101) C12N 2533/72 (20130101) |
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09624475 — Genetically stable live attenuated respiratory syncytial virus vaccine and its production
| US 09624475 | Collins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter L. Collins (Silver Spring, Maryland); Cindy L. Luongo (Bethesda, Maryland); Ursula J. Buchholz (Silver Spring, Maryland); Brian R. Murphy (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are recombinant respiratory syncytial viruses that contain mutations that make the disclosed viruses attractive vaccine candidates. The viruses disclosed contain attenuating mutations designed to have increased genetic and phenotypic stability. Desired combinations of these mutations can be made to achieve desired levels of attenation. Exemplary vaccine candidates are described. Also provided are polynucleotides capable of encoding the described viruses, as wells as methods for producing the viruses and methods of use. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/394226 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 2039/5254 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2760/18521 (20130101) C12N 2760/18522 (20130101) C12N 2760/18534 (20130101) C12N 2760/18562 (20130101) |
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| US 09624484 | Georgiou 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) | George Georgiou (Austin, Texas); Everett Stone (Austin, Texas); Wei-Cheng Lu (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions relating to the engineering of an improved protein with methionine-γ-lyase enzyme activity are described. For example, in certain aspects there may be disclosed a modified cystathionine-γ-lyase (CGL) comprising one or more amino acid substitutions and capable of degrading methionine. Furthermore, certain aspects of the invention provide compositions and methods for the treatment of cancer with methionine depletion using the disclosed proteins or nucleic acids. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 18, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/297102 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/12 (20130101) A61K 38/51 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/14 (20130101) C12N 1/20 (20130101) C12N 5/0601 (20130101) C12N 9/88 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/70 (20130101) C12N 15/74 (20130101) C12N 15/79 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 404/01001 (20130101) |
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| US 09624485 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wenshe Liu (College Station, Texas); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wenshe Liu (College Station, Texas); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to orthogonal pairs of tRNAs and aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases that can incorporate unnatural amino acids into proteins in mammalian host cells, for example, primate host cells and rodent host cells. The invention provides, for example but not limited to, translation systems that include host cells (e.g., primate or rodent cells), orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases derived from eubacterial synthetases, orthogonal tRNAs, and the unnatural amino acid. The invention also relates to methods for producing proteins of interest comprising at least one unnatural amino acid in mammalian host cell systems. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/311545 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/93 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 21/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09624497 | Giangrande et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paloma Giangrande (Iowa City, Iowa); Francis Miller (Iowa City, Iowa); William Thiel (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to optimized aptamers and methods of using these aptamers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 18, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/829451 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7105 (20130101) A61K 47/48092 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/115 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/1048 (20130101) C12N 15/1137 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/16 (20130101) C12N 2310/322 (20130101) C12N 2310/3519 (20130101) C12N 2320/32 (20130101) C12N 2330/31 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 106/03001 (20130101) |
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| US 09624510 | Ertl et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Wistar Institute (Philadelpia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Wistar Institute (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hildegund C. J. Ertl (Villanova, Pennsylvania); Xiang Yang Zhou (North Wales, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure provides replication-incompetent adenoviral vectors useful in vaccine development and gene therapy. The disclosed vectors comprise a selective deletion of E3 and are particularly useful for preparation of vaccines development and for gene therapy using toxic transgene products that result in vector instability that occurs when the entire E3 domain is deleted. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 26, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/190787 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/86 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/861 (20130101) C12N 2710/10043 (20130101) |
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| US 09624524 | Ting et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alice Y. Ting (Allston, Massachusetts); Jeffrey Daniel Martell (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Hyun-Woo Rhee (Gulhwart, South Korea); Peng Zou (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alice Y. Ting (Allston, Massachusetts); Jeffrey Daniel Martell (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Hyun-Woo Rhee (Gulhwart, South Korea); Peng Zou (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The application discloses methods, materials, and compositions for the labeling of molecules, for example, proteins, in living cells or in subcellular compartments of living cells. In particular, the application relates to proteomic analysis methods; materials and compositions and means based on direct tagging of unknown proteins with tagging enzymes (such as biotin ligase or a peroxidase) within the vicinity of a tagging substrate (such as a tyramide) within living cells, with optional targeting to specific subcellular locations by expression of genetic constructs. |
| FILED | Friday, June 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/125819 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5023 (20130101) G01N 33/6803 (20130101) G01N 2570/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09624529 | Oyler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Synaptic Research, LLC (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SYNAPTIC RESEARCH, LLC (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George A. Oyler (Baltimore, Maryland); Yien Che Tsai (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A cell based assay for detection for protease activity is disclosed. In the assay a cell is engineered to express a protease substrate with at least one label, preferably on its C-terminus. Cleavage of the substrate by the protease that recognizes it results in a C-terminal fragment and a N-terminal fragment, where the fragment having the label is subject to ubiquitin proteasome degradation. The assay measures the disappearance of the label due to degradation of the fragment to which it is attached. A cell free assay is also described for detection of protease activity. In the cell free assay, the protease substrate is expressed in a solution that includes the elements of the ubiquitin proteasome pathway for degradation of the fragment. The assay measures the disappearance of the label attached to the fragment that results from cleavage by the protease. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 27, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/606352 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/37 (20130101) C12Q 1/66 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2333/33 (20130101) G01N 2333/952 (20130101) G01N 2500/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09624538 | Church et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | George M. Church (Brookline, Massachusetts); Gregory J. Porreca (Ocean City, New Jersey); Jay Shendure (Chagrin Fall, Ohio); Abraham Meir Rosenbaum (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George M. Church (Brookline, Massachusetts); Gregory J. Porreca (Ocean City, New Jersey); Jay Shendure (Chagrin Fall, Ohio); Abraham Meir Rosenbaum (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for sequencing a polynucleotide immobilized on an array having a plurality of specific regions each having a defined diameter size, including synthesizing a concatemer of a polynucleotide by rolling circle amplification, wherein the concatemer has a cross-sectional diameter greater than the diameter of a specific region, immobilizing the concatemer to the specific region to make an immobilized concatemer, and sequencing the immobilized concatemer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/120541 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6874 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6874 (20130101) C12Q 2531/125 (20130101) C12Q 2563/155 (20130101) C12Q 2565/513 (20130101) |
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| US 09624539 | Ju et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jingyue Ju (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey); Jian Wu (New York, New York); Zengmin Li (Flushing, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jingyue Ju (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey); Jian Wu (New York, New York); Zengmin Li (Flushing, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides nucleoside triphosphate analogs having the structure: wherein B is a base and is adenine, guanine, cytosine, uracil or thymine, wherein R″ is an OH or an H, and wherein R′ is azidomethyl, a hydrocarbyl, or a substituted hydrocarbyl, and which has a Raman spectroscopy peak with wavenumber from 2000 cm−1 to 2300 cm−1 or a Fourier transform-infrared spectroscopy spectroscopy peak with wavenumber from 2000 cm−1 to 2300 cm−1, and also to methods of DNA sequencing and SNP detection. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/119846 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 19/06 (20130101) C07H 19/16 (20130101) C07H 21/00 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6827 (20130101) C12Q 1/6827 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 1/6874 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2525/101 (20130101) C12Q 2533/101 (20130101) C12Q 2565/632 (20130101) C12Q 2565/632 (20130101) |
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| US 09624543 | Saavedra et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | National Jewish Health (Denver, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Jewish Health (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Milene Saavedra (Denver, Colorado); Jerry Nick (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is related to the novel discovery of a number of genes that were identified as systemic markers of pulmonary inflammation. This discovery allows for development of a novel tool for reliable, rapid and efficient assessment of therapeutic responses and enables design of novel therapies targeted against diseases associated with pulmonary inflammation. In one embodiment, the present invention allows quantification of therapeutic response in patients who have a disease associated with pulmonary inflammation. In preferred embodiments, the genes are CD64, ADAM9, CD36, IL32, HPSE, PLXND1, HCA112, CSPG2, TLR2, and CD163. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 15, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/799918 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/106 (20130101) C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) |
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| US 09624544 | Siddique et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Teepu Siddique (Wilmette, Illinois); Han-Xiang Deng (Chicago, Illinois); Jianhua Yan (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods, kits, and compositions for detecting mutations in transient receptor potential cation channel, subfamily V, member 4 (TRPV4). In particular, mutations are detected in TRPV4 to detect diseases such as scapuloperoneal spinal muscular atrophy (SPSMA) and hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy type IIC (HMSN IIC) or Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2C (CMT2C). |
| FILED | Thursday, December 17, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/973601 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) |
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| US 09624545 | Rothenberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc E. Rothenberg (Cincinnati, Ohio); Thomas Xuefeng Lu (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions disclosed herein generally relate to methods of treating eosinophilic esophagitis (EE) and eosinophilic disorders by providing or enhancing a diagnosis of EE and eosinophilic disorders. In particular, the invention relates to obtaining a sample from a patient, then quantifying from the sample an amount of one or more microRNAs (miRNAs) associated with EE, wherein an altered level of the miRNA correlates with a positive diagnosis of EE. An EE diagnosis can then be provided or enhanced, based upon the quantifying step, and an appropriate treatment can be administered to the patient. The invention further relates to diagnostic kits, tests, and/or arrays that can be used to quantify the one or more miRNAs associated with EE, as well as treatments developed to up-regulate or down-regulate one or more miRNAs and/or their downstream pathways relevant to EE or asthma. The invention further relates to the use of IGF1 and IGF1R inhibitors for the treatment of EE and eosinophilic disorders. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 06, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 14/989243 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 2310/141 (20130101) C12N 2320/10 (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 1/6883 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) C12Q 2600/178 (20130101) |
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| US 09624547 | Wong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David T. Wong (Beverly Hills, California); Lei Zhang (Los Angeles, California); Hua Xiao (Irvine, California); Hui Zhou (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David T. Wong (Beverly Hills, California); Lei Zhang (Los Angeles, California); Hua Xiao (Irvine, California); Hui Zhou (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Presented herein are biomarkers related to breast cancer. The presently identified salivary biomarkers create the basis for a breast cancer detection bioassay with sensitivity and specificity. Means and methods for evaluating the data generated using multiple biomarkers in order to validate findings and further use of the multiplexed breast cancer assay in clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic uses is also included. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/025110 |
| 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) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57415 (20130101) |
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| US 09624554 | Collins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James J. Collins (Newton, Massachusetts); Timothy Kuan-Ta Lu (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James J. Collins (Newton, Massachusetts); Timothy Kuan-Ta Lu (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | We have created novel engineered genetic counter designs and methods of use thereof that utilize DNA recombinases to provide modular systems, termed single invertase memory modules (SIMMs), for encoding memory in cells and cellular systems. Our designs are easily extended to compute to high numbers, by utilizing the >100 known recombinases to create subsequent modules. Flexibility in our engineered genetic counter designs is provided by daisy-chaining individual modular components, i.e., SIMMs together. These modular components of the engineered genetic counters can be combined in other network topologies to create circuits that perform, amongst other things, logic and memory. Our novel engineered genetic counter designs allow for the maintenance of memory and provide the ability to count between discrete states by expressing the recombinases between their cognate recognition sites. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/135009 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/63 (20130101) C12N 15/635 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6897 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6897 (20130101) C12Q 2521/507 (20130101) |
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| US 09624589 | Rosenthal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joel Rosenthal (Newark, Delaware); John L. DiMeglio (Newark, Delaware); Jonnathan Medina-Ramos (Newark, Delaware) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel Rosenthal (Newark, Delaware); John L. DiMeglio (Newark, Delaware); Jonnathan Medina-Ramos (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a system and a process that allow for the selective electrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide with high energy efficiency, using a cathode comprised of bismuth in combination with an anode such as an anode comprised of platinum. The electrolysis system may be comprised of a single or two compartment cell and may employ an organic electrolyte or an ionic liquid electrolyte. The invention permits the storage of solar, wind or conventional electric energy by converting carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide and liquid fuels. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/199416 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Processes for the Production of Compounds or Non-metals; Apparatus Therefor C25B 1/00 (20130101) C25B 11/0447 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09625251 | Heaton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MASSACHUSETTS EYE and EAR INFIRMARY (Boston, Massachusetts); The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (Boston, Massachusetts); The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Tracey Heaton (Mansfield, Massachusetts); Theresa A. Hadlock (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure features systems and methods for detecting a user's facial movement and expression, that include a plurality of radiation sources, a plurality of radiation detectors, where each radiation detector is paired with a different one of the radiation sources and configured to detect radiation emitted by its paired radiation source, and a controller connected to the radiation detectors and configured to receive signals corresponding to measurements of emitted radiation from each of the radiation detectors, determine, for each radiation source-detector pair, information about whether a radiation path between the source and detector is blocked by a portion of the user's face, and determine a facial movement or expression of the user based on the information. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/760944 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/16 (20130101) A61B 5/0059 (20130101) A61B 5/1103 (20130101) A61B 5/1126 (20130101) A61B 5/6803 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0452 (20130101) A61N 1/0456 (20130101) A61N 1/0476 (20130101) A61N 1/0492 (20130101) A61N 1/36014 (20130101) Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 11/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09625369 | Shribak |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Shribak (Falmouth, Massachusetts) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Shribak (Falmouth, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus for generating polychromatic polarized light with the polarization ellipse orientation determined by the wavelength. The proposed polychromatic polarization state generator can be used in various configurations of polarized light microscope (called “polychromatic polscope”) for imaging birefringent samples. The polychromatic polscope produces a spectral-modulated visual scene, in which birefringent structures are evident because their appearance is different from the background. New polarized light microscope can subtract the background and produce video-enhanced color image of birefringent structures. The obtained picture can be also mathematically processed in order to obtain a map of quantitative distribution of specimen retardation and orientation of the principal axes. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 23, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/807020 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/23 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2201/0683 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/0092 (20130101) G02B 27/286 (20130101) |
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| US 09625404 | Sorgenfrei 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) | Sebastian Sorgenfrei (Portland, Oregon); Kenneth Shepard (Ossining, New York); Chien-Yang Chiu (Goleta, California); Colin Nuckolls (New York, New York); Steven Warren (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for single-molecule detection is provided and uses a carbon nanotube having a probe entity attached thereto to define a first state of the carbon nanotube. The carbon nanotube is introduced to a target entity to define a second state of the carbon nanotube. The electrical conductance of the carbon nanotube in the first and second states is compared to detect the presence of a biomolecular entity. A system for single-molecule detection including a carbon nanotube is also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/801834 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6816 (20130101) C12Q 1/6816 (20130101) C12Q 1/6874 (20130101) C12Q 1/6874 (20130101) C12Q 2563/116 (20130101) C12Q 2563/116 (20130101) C12Q 2563/157 (20130101) C12Q 2563/157 (20130101) C12Q 2565/607 (20130101) C12Q 2565/607 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/041 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 27/3278 (20130101) |
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| US 09625448 | Shi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Diana Shi (Morgantown, West Virginia); Samuel Wang (Princeton, New Jersey); Martin Semmelhack (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Double caged GABA compounds and compositions including the same are described. Methods of synthesizing and using double caged GABA compounds are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, March 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/664445 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 227/18 (20130101) C07C 227/18 (20130101) C07C 229/36 (20130101) C07C 269/06 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5058 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/9426 (20130101) G01N 2500/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09625456 | Bradbury et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michelle Bradbury (New York, New York); Ulrich Wiesner (Ithaca, New York); Oula Penate Medina (New York, New York); Hoosweng Ow (Arlington, Massachusetts); Andrew Burns (Niskayuna, New York); Jason Lewis (New York, New York); Steven Larson (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York); Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michelle Bradbury (New York, New York); Ulrich Wiesner (Ithaca, New York); Oula Penate Medina (New York, New York); Hoosweng Ow (Arlington, Massachusetts); Andrew Burns (Niskayuna, New York); Jason Lewis (New York, New York); Steven Larson (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a fluorescent silica-based nanoparticle that allows for precise detection, characterization, monitoring and treatment of a disease such as cancer The nanoparticle has a fluorescent compound positioned within the nanoparticle, and has greater brightness and fluorescent quantum yield than the free fluorescent compound To facilitate efficient urinary excretion of the nanoparticle, it may be coated with an organic polymer, such as polyethylene glycol) (PEG) The small size of the nanoparticle, the silica base and the organic polymer coating minimizes the toxicity of the nanoparticle when administered in vivo The nanoparticle may further be conjugated to a ligand capable of binding to a cellular component associated with the specific cell type, such as a tumor marker A therapeutic agent may be attached to the nanoparticle Radionuclides/radiometals or paramagnetic ions may be conjugated to the nanoparticle to permit the nanoparticle to be detectable by various imaging techniques. |
| FILED | Friday, July 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/381209 |
| 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 49/0019 (20130101) A61K 49/0054 (20130101) A61K 49/0056 (20130101) A61K 49/0093 (20130101) A61K 51/08 (20130101) A61K 51/082 (20130101) A61K 51/1255 (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) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/582 (20130101) G01N 33/54346 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09625458 | Hellinga et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Homme W. Hellinga (Durham, North Carolina); Loren L. Looger (Madison, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Homme W. Hellinga (Durham, North Carolina); Loren L. Looger (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Biosensors are made by attaching covalently or non-covalently at least one reporter group to one or more specific positions of a bacterial periplasmic binding protein (bPBP). Upon binding of ligand to the biosensor, there is a change in the signal transduced by the reporter group. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/686529 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/001 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/542 (20130101) G01N 33/566 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/54373 (20130101) G01N 2333/195 (20130101) |
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| US 09625466 | Blanchard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Scott C. Blanchard (New York, New York); Roger B. Altman (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott C. Blanchard (New York, New York); Roger B. Altman (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes the synthesis of biological samples that can be used for the purpose of enhancing the signal-to-noise ratios achievable during the imaging of protein synthesis, amino acid transport and neurotransmitter transport, particularly in applications where single-molecule resolution is demanded. The present invention provides quencher-labeled elongation factor (EF-Tu) and fluorophore-labeled tRNA. When these molecules are present in a ternary complex with GTP, the fluorescently-labeled tRNA is quantitatively quenched. Once the tRNA is incorporated into an actively translating ribosome, however, a burst of fluorescence is released and can be detected by a variety of techniques, including smFRET imaging. The invention further provides novel EF-Tu constructs for achieving quencher labeling at high levels while retaining native or near native activity in the translation reactions, as well as methods for preparing stable ternary complexes, methods of protein sequencing, methods of detecting amino acid transport using a proteoliposome assay system and the proteoliposomes systems and methods of imaging translation events in single living cells. The present invention should have an immediate impact on next-generation sequencing technologies and the detection of neurotransmitter transporter activities in both in vitro and in vivo settings, a critical component of drug activity/screening assays targeting this important class of molecules. |
| FILED | Friday, April 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/110372 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/68 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09625469 | Marcotte et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edward Marcotte (Austin, Texas); Jagannath Swaminathan (Thane, India); Andrew Ellington (Austin, Texas); Eric Anslyn (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board Of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward Marcotte (Austin, Texas); Jagannath Swaminathan (Thane, India); Andrew Ellington (Austin, Texas); Eric Anslyn (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for identifying amino acids in peptides. In one embodiment, the present invention contemplates labeling the N-terminal amino acid with a first label and labeling an internal amino acid with a second label. In some embodiments, the labels are fluorescent labels. In other embodiments, the internal amino acid is lysine. In other embodiments, amino acids in peptides are identified based on the fluorescent signature for each peptide at the single molecule level. |
| FILED | Friday, June 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/128247 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6824 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2570/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09625470 | Coon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua Jacques Coon (Middleton, Wisconsin); Michael Scott Westphall (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); Derek James Bailey (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of identifying a related peak set from MS1 spectra data is provided. An intensity peak is selected from MS1 spectra data generated for a sample by a tandem mass spectrometer. A peak location is identified for the selected intensity peak. An intensity score is calculated from the MS1 spectra data for each of a plurality of possible related peak locations based on an intensity value associated with each of the plurality of possible related peak locations. Whether or not any of the plurality of possible related peak locations forms a related peak set is determined based on the calculated intensity score for each of the plurality of possible related peak locations. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/888841 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6848 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/0031 (20130101) H01J 49/0036 (20130101) |
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| US 09625549 | Hernando |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Diego Hernando (Madison, Wisconsin) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Diego Hernando (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for producing an image of a subject with a magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”) system, in which relative signal contributions from a plurality of different chemical species are separated, is provided. A plurality of different echo signals occurring at a respective plurality of different echo times are acquired with the MRI system and a signal model that accounts for relative signal components for each of a plurality of different chemical species is formed for each echo signal. Those echo signals containing errors, such as phase errors, magnitude errors, or errors indicative of a corrupted echo signal, are identified. The relative signal components for each of the plurality of different chemical species are then determined by fitting the echo signals with the signal model. Particularly, those echo signals identified as containing errors are fitted to the signal models in a manner that discards the error-containing information. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/089512 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/4828 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 33/56518 (20130101) |
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| US 09625550 | Driehuys et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bastiaan Driehuys (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Gary Price Cofer (Hillsborough, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for assessing pulmonary gas exchange and/or alveolar-capillary barrier status include obtaining at least one MRI image and/or image data of hyperpolarized 129Xe dissolved in the red blood cells (RBC) in the gas exchange region of the lungs of a patient. The image is sufficiently sensitive to allow a clinician or image recognition program to assess at least one of pulmonary gas exchange, barrier thickness or barrier function based on the 129Xe MRI image. |
| FILED | Friday, November 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/535990 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/08 (20130101) A61B 5/055 (20130101) A61B 5/416 (20130101) A61B 5/7239 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 24/08 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/465 (20130101) G01R 33/483 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 33/4816 (20130101) G01R 33/34076 (20130101) |
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| US 09625752 | Verduzco et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rafael Verduzco (Houston, Texas); Jeffrey G. Jacot (Houston, Texas); Oluwatomiyin Adetiba (Houston, Texas); Aditya Agrawal (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Responsive, biocompatible substrates are of interest for directing the maturation and function of cells in vitro during cell culture. This can potentially provide cells and tissues with desirable properties for regenerative therapies. The present disclosure provides a scalable approach to attach, align and dynamically load cells on responsive liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) substrates. Monodomain LCEs exhibit reversible shape changes in response to cyclic stimulus, and when immersed in an aqueous medium on top of, for example, resistive heaters, shape changes are fast, reversible and produce minimal temperature changes in the surroundings. |
| FILED | Monday, July 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/330691 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 19/3833 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0068 (20130101) C12N 2533/12 (20130101) C12N 2535/10 (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 1/133365 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/1086 (20150115) |
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| US 09626583 | Burger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburg Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Virginia M. Burger (Boston, Massachusetts); Srinivas C. Chennubhotla (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | In aspects, the subject innovation can comprise systems and methods capable of automatically labeling cell nuclei (e.g., epithelial nuclei) in tissue images containing multiple cell types. The enhancements to standard nuclei segmentation algorithms of the subject innovation can enable cell type specific analysis of nuclei, which has recently been shown to reveal novel disease biomarkers and improve diagnostic accuracy of computational disease classification models. |
| FILED | Friday, December 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/568900 |
| 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 9/00134 (20130101) G06K 9/2018 (20130101) G06K 9/4604 (20130101) G06K 9/4638 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/6257 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0081 (20130101) G06T 7/0087 (20130101) G06T 2207/20148 (20130101) G06T 2207/30024 (20130101) |
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| US 09626778 | Stayman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Webster Stayman (Baltimore, Maryland); Jeffrey H. Siewerdsen (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A framework, comprising techniques, process(es), device(s), system(s), combinations thereof, or the like, to analyze propagation of information in prior-image-based reconstruction by decomposing the estimation into distinct components supported by a current data acquisition and by a prior image. Such decomposition can quantify contributions from prior data and current data as a spatial map and/or can trace specific features in an image to a source of at least some of such features. |
| FILED | Friday, May 31, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/404889 |
| ART UNIT | 2667 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 11/006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2211/424 (20130101) |
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| US 09626845 | Eagleman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas); William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor College of Medicine William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Eagleman (Houston, Texas); Scott Novich (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A hearing device may provide hearing-to-touch sensory substitution as a therapeutic approach to deafness. Through use of signal processing on received signals, the hearing device may provide better accuracy with the hearing-to-touch sensory substitution by extending beyond the simple filtering of an incoming audio stream as found in previous tactile hearing aids. The signal processing may include low bitrate audio compression algorithms, such as linear predictive coding, mathematical transforms, such as Fourier transforms, and/or wavelet algorithms. The processed signals may activate tactile interface devices that provide touch sensation to a user. For example, the tactile interface devices may be vibrating devices attached to a vest, which is worn by the user. The vest may also provide other types of information to the user. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 25, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/750626 |
| ART UNIT | 2687 — Dynamic Storage Systems; Mechanical parts of Disk Drives |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 11/04 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/016 (20130101) Signalling or Calling Systems; Order Telegraphs; Alarm Systems G08B 6/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Educational or Demonstration Appliances; Appliances for Teaching, or Communicating With, the Blind, Deaf or Mute; Models; Planetaria; Globes; Maps; Diagrams G09B 21/003 (20130101) |
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09627119 — Persistent-mode MRI magnet fabricated from reacted, monofilamentary MgB2 wires and joints
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institure of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seungyong Hahn (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Yukikazu Iwasa (Weston, Massachusetts); Juan Bascunan (Burlington, Massachusetts); John Peter Voccio (West Newton, Massachusetts); Jiayin Ling (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jungbin Song (Brookline, Massachusetts); YoungJae Kim (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A superconducting magnet and method for making a superconducting magnet, are presented. The superconducting magnet is made by forming a coil from windings of a first wire comprising a reacted MgB2 monofilament, filling a cavity of a stainless steel billet with a Mg+B powder. Monofilament ends of the first wire and a similar second wire are sheared at an acute angle and inserted into the billet. A copper plug configured to partially fill the billet cavity is inserted into the billet cavity. A portion of the billet adjacent to the plug and the wires is sealed with a ceramic paste. |
| FILED | Monday, July 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/330689 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/3815 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 6/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01F 41/048 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49014 (20150115) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas Weber (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Robert Gaunt (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Timothy Bruns (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatuses for monitoring and regulating physiological states and functions are disclosed. Several embodiments include application of one or more microelectrode arrays to a dorsal root ganglion for measurement of sensory neuron activity, or stimulation of sensory reflex circuits. The methods and apparatuses can be used, for example, for monitoring or controlling bladder function in a patient. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/843023 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/112 (20130101) A61B 5/205 (20130101) A61B 5/04001 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/4519 (20130101) A61B 5/4836 (20130101) Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 5/1723 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0551 (20130101) A61N 1/3606 (20130101) A61N 1/36003 (20130101) A61N 1/36007 (20130101) A61N 1/36071 (20130101) A61N 1/36082 (20130101) A61N 1/36107 (20130101) A61N 1/36139 (20130101) |
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| US 09622924 | Sunday et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cornerstone Research Group, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornerstone Research Group, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew B. Sunday (Demossville, Kentucky); Joseph H. Althaus (Yellow Springs, Ohio); Brian E. Henslee (Galloway, Ohio); Benjamin C. MacMurray (Bellbrook, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of a fluid absorption and distribution enhancement (FADE) product comprises at least one flow media layer, and at least one superabsorbent polymer layer. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/964943 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| 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 13/534 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61F 13/536 (20130101) A61F 13/537 (20130101) A61F 13/538 (20130101) A61F 13/5323 (20130101) A61F 13/49001 (20130101) A61F 2013/15154 (20130101) A61F 2013/15186 (20130101) A61F 2013/53062 (20130101) A61F 2013/530481 (20130101) A61F 2013/530554 (20130101) Transport, Personal Conveyances, or Accommodation Specially Adapted for Patients or Disabled Persons; Operating Tables or Chairs; Chairs for Dentistry; Funeral Devices A61G 1/04 (20130101) Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 3/266 (20130101) B32B 5/02 (20130101) B32B 2260/023 (20130101) B32B 2260/046 (20130101) B32B 2439/70 (20130101) B32B 2555/02 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 137/0318 (20150401) |
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| US 09623107 | Arvanian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor L. Arvanian (Huntington, New York); Joel M. Levine (Miller Place, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure is directed to adeno-associated viral vector monoclonal antibody constructs and compositions thereof, methods of improving locomotor function after spinal cord injury, methods of treating neurodegenerative diseases. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 04, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/818013 |
| 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 9/0085 (20130101) A61K 39/3955 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 48/00 (20130101) A61K 2039/54 (20130101) A61K 2039/525 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/44 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2750/14143 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 402/02004 (20130101) |
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| US 09623147 | Kaplan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medord, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Ung-Jin Kim (Daejeon, South Korea); Jaehyung Park (Decatur, Georgia); Hyoung-Joon Jin (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for concentrated aqueous silk fibroin solutions and an all-aqueous mode for preparation of concentrated aqueous fibroin solutions that avoids the use of organic solvents, direct additives, or harsh chemicals. The invention further provides for the use of these solutions in production of materials, e.g., fibers, films, foams, meshes, scaffolds and hydrogels. |
| FILED | Monday, June 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/293308 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/38 (20130101) A61L 27/52 (20130101) A61L 27/227 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 27/3604 (20130101) A61L 2430/02 (20130101) Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 39/003 (20130101) B29C 39/203 (20130101) B29C 55/005 (20130101) Producing Particular Articles From Plastics or From Substances in a Plastic State B29D 7/01 (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 2089/00 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29C, Relating to Particular Articles B29L 2007/00 (20130101) B29L 2009/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/43536 (20130101) C07K 14/43586 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 3/07 (20130101) C08J 3/075 (20130101) C08J 5/18 (20130101) C08J 9/26 (20130101) C08J 9/28 (20130101) C08J 9/0061 (20130101) C08J 2201/0444 (20130101) C08J 2201/0504 (20130101) C08J 2205/022 (20130101) C08J 2389/00 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 89/00 (20130101) Mechanical Methods or Apparatus in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons D01D 5/0007 (20130101) Chemical Features in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons; Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture of Carbon Filaments D01F 4/02 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/249921 (20150401) Y10T 442/10 (20150401) Y10T 442/60 (20150401) |
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| US 09623223 | Steinbaugh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | RevMedx, Inc. (Wilsonville, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | REVMEDX, Inc. (Wilsonville, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Steinbaugh (Wilsonville, Oregon); Mary Bullard (Wilsonville, Oregon); Andrew Barofsky (Lake Oswego, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are self-expanding wound dressings that include a first outer layer, a second outer layer, and a liquid-expandable layer disposed between the first outer layer and the second outer layer, wherein the liquid-expandable layer includes a plurality of liquid-expandable articles retained by a substrate, wherein the plurality of liquid-expandable articles expand to form expanded articles upon contact with a liquid. Also provided is a method of treating an individual having a bleeding wound, the method including applying a self-expanding wound dressing to the wound. Also provided are methods of manufacturing a wound dressing, the methods including forming an absorbent material into a plurality of liquid-expandable articles, coupling the plurality of liquid-expandable articles to a substrate to form a liquid-expandable layer, and positioning the liquid-expandable layer between a first outer layer and a second outer layer to form the wound dressing. |
| FILED | Friday, January 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/163962 |
| ART UNIT | 1611 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 13/00008 (20130101) A61F 13/00051 (20130101) A61F 13/0206 (20130101) A61F 13/0223 (20130101) A61F 13/0233 (20130101) A61F 13/0243 (20130101) A61F 2013/00463 (20130101) A61F 2013/00468 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 15/28 (20130101) A61L 15/28 (20130101) A61L 15/60 (20130101) A61L 15/60 (20130101) A61L 15/425 (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 35/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 1/00 (20130101) C08L 1/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09623263 | Cheng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vision RT Limited (London, United Kingdom) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | VISION RT LIMITED (London, United Kingdom) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chieh C. Cheng (Redlands, California); David A. Lesyna (Redlands, California); Michael F. Moyers (Colton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods for therapy delivery are disclosed. In one embodiment, a therapy delivery system includes a plurality of movable components including a radiation therapy nozzle and a patient pod for holding a patient, a patient registration module for determining a desired position of at least one of the plurality of movable components, and a motion control module for coordinating the movement of the least one of the plurality of movable components from a current position to the desired position. The motion control module includes a path planning module for simulating at least one projected trajectory of movement of the least one of the plurality of moveable components from the current position to the desired position. |
| FILED | Friday, June 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/298082 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 6/0442 (20130101) A61B 6/547 (20130101) A61B 6/4092 (20130101) A61B 2090/3937 (20160201) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 5/107 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 5/1037 (20130101) A61N 5/1049 (20130101) A61N 5/1067 (20130101) A61N 5/1069 (20130101) A61N 5/1078 (20130101) A61N 2005/105 (20130101) A61N 2005/1059 (20130101) A61N 2005/1061 (20130101) A61N 2005/1062 (20130101) A61N 2005/1087 (20130101) A61N 2005/1097 (20130101) Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 9/1666 (20130101) Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 15/02 (20130101) G05B 2219/45117 (20130101) |
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| US 09623264 | Wagner |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Highland Instruments, Inc. (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Highland Instruments (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy Andrew Wagner (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally relates to systems and methods for stimulating cellular function in biological tissue. In certain embodiments, the invention provides a method for stimulating cellular function within tissue that involves providing a first type of energy to a region of tissue, in which the first type is provided in an amount that inhibits cellular function within the region of tissue, and providing a second type of energy to the region of tissue, in which the second type is provided in an amount that facilitates cellular function within the region of tissue, wherein the combined effect stimulates cellular function within the tissue. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 05, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/704270 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 2018/00994 (20130101) 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 7/00 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/36 (20130101) A61N 1/205 (20130101) A61N 1/325 (20130101) A61N 1/326 (20130101) A61N 1/327 (20130101) A61N 1/36021 (20130101) A61N 1/36025 (20130101) A61N 7/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 2007/0021 (20130101) A61N 2007/0026 (20130101) |
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| US 09623404 | Hupp et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph T. Hupp (Northfield, Illinois); Omar K. Farha (Morton Grove, Illinois); Michael J. Katz (Evanston, Illinois); Joseph E. Mondloch (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of using a metal organic framework (MOF) comprising a metal ion and an at least bidendate organic ligand to catalytically detoxify chemical warfare nerve agents including exposing the metal-organic-framework (MOF) to the chemical warfare nerve agent and catalytically decomposing the nerve agent with the MOF. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/585718 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices, Apparatus or Methods for Life-saving A62B 7/10 (20130101) Chemical Means for Extinguishing Fires or for Combating or Protecting Against Harmful Chemical Agents; Chemical Materials for Use in Breathing Apparatus A62D 3/35 (20130101) A62D 9/00 (20130101) A62D 2101/02 (20130101) Separation B01D 53/04 (20130101) B01D 2253/204 (20130101) B01D 2253/306 (20130101) B01D 2253/308 (20130101) B01D 2257/408 (20130101) B01D 2259/4583 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/226 (20130101) B01J 31/1691 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 35/023 (20130101) B01J 35/1019 (20130101) B01J 35/1023 (20130101) B01J 35/1028 (20130101) B01J 35/1057 (20130101) B01J 35/1061 (20130101) B01J 2531/46 (20130101) B01J 2531/48 (20130101) B01J 2531/49 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 7/006 (20130101) |
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| US 09623568 | da Silva et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Google Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Google Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marco da Silva (Arlington, Massachusetts); Kevin Blankespoor (Arlington, Massachusetts); Michael Rose (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An example method may include determining a requested yaw for a body of a robot, where the biped robot comprises a foot coupled to the body via a leg. The robot may then detect, via one or more sensors, a yaw rotation of the body with respect to a ground surface, where the foot is in contact with the ground surface. Based on the detected yaw rotation of the body, the robot may determine a measured yaw for the body. The robot may also determine a target yaw for the body, where the target yaw for the body is between the measured yaw for the body and the requested yaw for the body. The robot may then cause the foot to rotate the body to the target yaw for the body. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 03, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/145773 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — 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 9/0003 (20130101) B25J 13/088 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 19/5705 (20130101) Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 1/0891 (20130101) G05D 2201/0217 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 901/01 (20130101) |
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| US 09623966 | van der Westhuizen |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Groen Brothers Aviation Global, Inc. (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Groen Aeronautics Corporation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jacob Johannes van der Westhuizen (South Jordan, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The rotorcraft may include an airframe, at least one engine connected to the airframe, and a rotor connected to the airframe. The rotor may include a hub, a rotor blade, and a feathering spindle connected to the hub. The rotor blade may have a root and a tip and form a conduit extending in the radial direction from the root to the tip. The root may comprise a wall forming a hollow circular cylinder. The hollow circular cylinder may form a portion of the conduit. A plurality of bolts may be distributed circumferential within the wall of the root. The plurality of bolts may extend in the radial direction from the wall of the root to secure the rotor blade to the feathering spindle. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 25, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/544854 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 27/18 (20130101) B64C 27/48 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09624098 | Rosenblatt 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) | Sami Rosenblatt (White Plains, New York); James Hone (New York, New York); Changyao Chen (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A fabricated electromechanical device is disclosed herein. An exemplary device includes, a substrate, at least one layer of a high-transconductance material separated from the substrate by a dielectric medium, a first electrode in electrical contact with the at least one layer of a high-transconductance material and separated from the substrate by at least one first supporting member, a second electrode in electrical contact with the layer of a high-transconductance material and separated from the substrate by at least one second supporting member, where the first electrode is electrically separate from the second electrode, and a third electrode separated from the at least one layer of high-transconductance material by a dielectric medium and separated from each of the first electrode and the second electrode by a dielectric medium. |
| FILED | Monday, July 27, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/809934 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00142 (20130101) B81C 1/00341 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/16 (20130101) H01L 29/84 (20130101) H01L 29/86 (20130101) H01L 29/1606 (20130101) H01L 51/0045 (20130101) Generation of Oscillations, Directly or by Frequency-changing, by Circuits Employing Active Elements Which Operate in a Non-switching Manner; Generation of Noise by Such Circuits H03B 5/30 (20130101) |
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| US 09624272 | Baker 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) | David Baker (Seattle, Washington); Eva-Maria Strauch (Seattle, Washington); David La (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are polypeptides that bind to the hemagglutinin protein of influenza virus, and which can be used for treating and diagnosing influenza infection. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/766375 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/08 (20130101) C07K 14/001 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/11 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2760/16134 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56983 (20130101) G01N 2333/11 (20130101) G01N 2500/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09624284 | Philip |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ramila Philip (Ivyland, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Immunotope, Inc. (Doylestown, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramila Philip (Ivyland, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for the prevention, treatment, and diagnosis of cancer, especially carcinomas, such as pancreatic carcinoma. The invention discloses peptides, polypeptides, and polynucleotides that can be used to stimulate a CTL response against pancreatic and other cancers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/344048 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/191 (20130101) A61K 38/193 (20130101) A61K 38/208 (20130101) A61K 38/2006 (20130101) A61K 38/2013 (20130101) A61K 38/2046 (20130101) A61K 38/2086 (20130101) A61K 39/0011 (20130101) A61K 2039/55566 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) C07K 14/4748 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/70539 (20130101) |
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| US 09624470 | Slukvin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Igor I. Slukvin (Verona, Wisconsin); Maksym A. Vodyanyk (Madison, Wisconsin); James A. Thomson (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor I. Slukvin (Verona, Wisconsin); Maksym A. Vodyanyk (Madison, Wisconsin); James A. Thomson (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to hematopoietic precursors derived from human embryonic stem cells. In the culture of differentiated cells from human ES cells, the fully committed hematopoietic precursors are CD34+ and CD43+ but not CD45+. If the cells are cultured until they express CD45, then the cells lose the ability to produce differentiated cells of the lymphoid lineages. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/194623 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — 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 5/0647 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2502/1394 (20130101) C12N 2506/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09624473 | Mohapatra et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Subhra Mohapatra (Tampa, Florida); Shyam S. Mohapatra (Tampa, Florida); Yvonne Kathleen Davis (Tampa, Florida); Chunyan Wang (Tampa, Florida) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Subhra Mohapatra (Tampa, Florida); Shyam S. Mohapatra (Tampa, Florida); Yvonne Kathleen Davis (Tampa, Florida); Chunyan Wang (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein is a three-dimensional scaffold composition comprising randomly oriented fibers, wherein the fibers comprise a polyethylene glycol-polylactic acid block copolymer (PEG-PLA) and a poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA). Also provided are methods for using the three-dimensional scaffolds described herein. |
| FILED | Monday, February 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/775536 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — 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 5/0062 (20130101) C12N 5/0068 (20130101) C12N 5/0693 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2533/40 (20130101) C12N 2533/72 (20130101) |
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| US 09624515 | Strobel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gary A. Strobel (Bozeman, Montana); Angela R. Tomsheck (Oilmont, Montana) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Gary A. Strobel (Bozeman, Montana); Angela R. Tomsheck (Oilmont, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | An isolated fungus is described. The isolated fungus produces at least one compound selected from the group consisting of 1,8-cineole, 1-methyl-1, 4-cyclohexadiene, and (+)-α-methylene-α-fenchocamphorone. A method for producing at least one compound selected from the group consisting of 1,8-cineole, 1-methyl-1, 4-cyclohexadiene, and (+)-α-methylene-α-fenchocamphorone is also described. The method includes culturing a fungus on or within a culturing media in a container under conditions sufficient for producing the at least one compound. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/757325 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/01 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 5/002 (20130101) C12P 7/26 (20130101) C12P 17/06 (20130101) C12P 17/181 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses C12C - C12Q, Relating to Microorganisms C12R 1/645 (20130101) |
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| US 09624870 | Ress, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert A. Ress, Jr. (Carmel, Indiana); Steve Stratton (Indianapolis, Indiana); Matthew J. Starr (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc. (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. Ress, Jr. (Carmel, Indiana); Steve Stratton (Indianapolis, Indiana); Matthew J. Starr (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | An adaptive fan system for a variable cycle turbofan engine having at least one turbine, includes a shaft structured to receive mechanical power from a turbine in the variable cycle turbofan engine and a first fan stage that is coupled directly to the shaft and is driven directly by the shaft. A transmission system is coupled to the shaft and a second fan stage is coupled to the shaft via the transmission system and is driven by the shaft via the transmission system. The transmission system is structured to selectively vary a speed between high and low speeds at which power is supplied from the shaft to the second fan stage relative to at least one of the shaft and the first fan stage, wherein the first fan stage and the second fan stage are configured to rotate in the same direction and at the same high speed to increase the mechanical power of the turbine. |
| FILED | Sunday, March 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/637619 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 3/113 (20130101) F02C 7/32 (20130101) F02C 7/36 (20130101) Jet-propulsion Plants F02K 3/06 (20130101) F02K 3/075 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F02K 3/077 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2260/40 (20130101) F05D 2260/4023 (20130101) F05D 2260/40311 (20130101) Couplings for Transmitting Rotation; Clutches; Brakes F16D 21/06 (20130101) F16D 47/04 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/671 (20130101) |
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| US 09625242 | Elalem et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mohamed Elalem (East Orange, New Jersey); Gregory C. Burke (Hanover, New Hampshire); Viral Panchal (Parlin, New Jersey); Philip Abbate (Long Valley, New Jersey); Chong Peng (Harrison, New Jersey); Fei Shen (North Arlington, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohamed Elalem (East Orange, New Jersey); Gregory C. Burke (Hanover, New Hampshire); Viral Panchal (Parlin, New Jersey); Philip Abbate (Long Valley, New Jersey); Chong Peng (Harrison, New Jersey); Fei Shen (North Arlington, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A modular artillery charge system module includes a central igniter container and cap end and body end igniter containers fixed to the central igniter container. The central igniter container is a rigid, longitudinal tube with opposing ends. The end igniter containers are fixed to the opposing ends of the central igniter container. Each end igniter container includes a large container portion and a small container portion that extends from the large container portion toward the central igniter container. The central igniter container and end igniter containers are made of a rigid material, such as foamed celluloid. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/620796 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 5/38 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09625243 | Haddon 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) | Michael D. Haddon (Ridgecrest, California); Paul E. Anderson (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments relate to fuze setback validation. An electronic setback validator for a launched munition safe-arm fuze includes a transient voltage suppressor. A piezoceramic element is electrically-connected to the transient voltage suppressor. A first electronic circuit is electrically-connected to the piezoceramic element and is a constant 1 milliamp discharge circuit. The first electronic circuit is configured to determine setback magnitude of acceleration. A second electronic circuit is electrically-connected to the piezoceramic element. The second electronic circuit is a constant 122 microamp charge circuit and is configured to determine setback duration of acceleration. A microcontroller is electrically-connected to the first and second electronic circuits. |
| FILED | Monday, June 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 13/999558 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition Fuzes; Arming or Safety Means Therefor F42C 11/02 (20130101) F42C 15/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 7/0052 (20130101) H02J 7/345 (20130101) |
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| US 09625287 | Slagle |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glenn B. Slagle (McLean, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A reel-based curved boom that follows a predetermined arch or trajectory is disclosed. Such a disappearing controllable-arch sensor boom or crane can enable a sensor on the end of the boom to be extended from a vehicle over obstacles such as walls or low buildings. It can also be extended to view the underside of bridges, or of the vehicle itself. It can be used to view targets of interest that are not within the direct field of view of the vehicle or from directly above said vehicle. |
| FILED | Friday, June 10, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/179072 |
| ART UNIT | 2852 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Frames, Casings or Beds of Engines, Machines or Apparatus, Not Specific to Engines, Machines or Apparatus Provided for Elsewhere; Stands; Supports F16M 11/04 (20130101) Measuring Not Specially Adapted for a Specific Variable; Arrangements for Measuring Two or More Variables Not Covered in a Single Other Subclass; Tariff Metering Apparatus; Measuring or Testing Not Otherwise Provided for G01D 11/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Apparatus or Arrangements for Taking Photographs or for Projecting or Viewing Them; Apparatus or Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical Waves; Accessories Therefor G03B 17/56 (20130101) Electrically-conductive Connections; Structural Associations of a Plurality of Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting Elements; Coupling Devices; Current Collectors H01R 43/26 (20130101) |
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| US 09625333 | Jentoft 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) | Leif Jentoft (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Yaroslav Tenzer (Somerville, Massachusetts); Robert Howe (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A tactile sensor includes a pressure transducer encapsulated in an elastic material that defines a contact surface and provides a transmission path that transmits contact forces or pressure distributions applied to the contact surface to the pressure transducer. The pressure transducer can be enclosed in a protective housing that defines a chamber around the transducer. The housing can include one or more openings that expose the chamber to the exterior pressure. The tactile sensor can be made by applying the elastic material in liquid form and exposing the housing to a vacuum that removes air inside the chamber allowing the liquid elastic material to flow into the chamber. Once cured, the elastic material defines a contact surface of the tactile sensor and serves to transfer contact forces applied to the contact surface to the transducer. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/212609 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 1/02 (20130101) G01L 5/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01L 5/228 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49007 (20150115) |
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| US 09625404 | Sorgenfrei 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) | Sebastian Sorgenfrei (Portland, Oregon); Kenneth Shepard (Ossining, New York); Chien-Yang Chiu (Goleta, California); Colin Nuckolls (New York, New York); Steven Warren (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for single-molecule detection is provided and uses a carbon nanotube having a probe entity attached thereto to define a first state of the carbon nanotube. The carbon nanotube is introduced to a target entity to define a second state of the carbon nanotube. The electrical conductance of the carbon nanotube in the first and second states is compared to detect the presence of a biomolecular entity. A system for single-molecule detection including a carbon nanotube is also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/801834 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6816 (20130101) C12Q 1/6816 (20130101) C12Q 1/6874 (20130101) C12Q 1/6874 (20130101) C12Q 2563/116 (20130101) C12Q 2563/116 (20130101) C12Q 2563/157 (20130101) C12Q 2563/157 (20130101) C12Q 2565/607 (20130101) C12Q 2565/607 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/041 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 27/3278 (20130101) |
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| US 09625444 | Warren et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sanofi Pasteur VaxDesign Corporation (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SANOFI PASTEUR VAXDESIGN CORPORATION (Orlando, Florida); THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (La Jolla, California); MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts); THE WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH (Cambridge, Massachusetts); MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OF NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William L Warren (Orlando, Florida); Heather Fahlenkamp (Cleveland, Oklahoma); Russell Higbee (Orlando, Florida); Anatoly Kachurin (Orlando, Florida); Conan Li (Los Altos, California); Mike Nguyen (Orlando, Florida); Robert Parkhill (Orlando, Florida); Guzman Sanchez-Schmitz (Orlando, Florida); Darrell J. Irvine (Arlington, Massachusetts); Gwendalyn J. Randolph (New York, New York); Nir Hacohen (Brookline, Massachusetts); Bruce Torbett (Encinitas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of constructing an integrated artificial immune system that comprises appropriate in vitro cellular and tissue constructs or their equivalents to mimic the normal tissues that interact with vaccines in mammals. The artificial immune system can be used to test the efficacy of vaccine candidates in vitro and thus, is useful to accelerate vaccine development and testing drug and chemical interaction with the immune system. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/221018 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0697 (20130101) C12N 5/0698 (20130101) C12N 2501/21 (20130101) C12N 2502/11 (20130101) C12N 2502/28 (20130101) C12N 2502/094 (20130101) C12N 2502/1107 (20130101) C12N 2502/1114 (20130101) C12N 2502/1121 (20130101) C12N 2502/1157 (20130101) C12N 2502/1192 (20130101) C12N 2502/1323 (20130101) C12N 2503/04 (20130101) C12N 2513/00 (20130101) C12N 2531/00 (20130101) C12N 2533/50 (20130101) C12N 2533/54 (20130101) C12N 2535/10 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/5088 (20130101) G01N 2500/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09625458 | Hellinga et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Homme W. Hellinga (Durham, North Carolina); Loren L. Looger (Madison, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Homme W. Hellinga (Durham, North Carolina); Loren L. Looger (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Biosensors are made by attaching covalently or non-covalently at least one reporter group to one or more specific positions of a bacterial periplasmic binding protein (bPBP). Upon binding of ligand to the biosensor, there is a change in the signal transduced by the reporter group. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/686529 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/001 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/542 (20130101) G01N 33/566 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/54373 (20130101) G01N 2333/195 (20130101) |
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| US 09625566 | Broad |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John T. Broad (Aberdeen, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. Broad (Aberdeen, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A direct geolocation approach for estimating a location of a stationary emitter located on the Earth surface is provided. The approach uses data collected during a plurality of time periods including Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) and Frequency Difference of Arrival (FDOA) measurements of a radar pulse sent from the emitter, and altitude measurements of an aircraft above the Earth surface. The approach includes estimating a location of the emitter for each of the time periods based on the TDOA, FDOA, and altitude measurements associated with a respective time period. The estimated location of the stationary emitter includes possible longitude and latitude of the emitter. The approach further includes averaging the estimated locations associated with the plurality of time periods to form an averaged estimated location of the emitter. A convenient example of the approach computes the location of the emitter based on the averaged estimated location. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/283826 |
| ART UNIT | 3648 — 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 5/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01S 5/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09625590 | Bellinger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the Univesity of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri); Kansas State University Research Foundation (Manhattan, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven L. Bellinger (Manhattan, Kansas); Anthony N. Caruso (Overland Park, Kansas); Brian Cooper (Manhattan, Kansas); William L. Dunn (Manhattan, Kansas); Ryan G. Fronk (Manhattan, Kansas); Douglas S. McGregor (Riley, Kansas); William H. Miller (Rocheport, Missouri); Eliot R. Myers (Kansas City, Missouri); Thomas M. Oakes (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Philip B. Ugorowski (Manhattan, Kansas); John K. Shultis (Manhattan, Kansas); Timothy J. Sobering (Manhattan, Kansas); Cory B. Hoshor (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A neutron detection system may include a neutron detector including a plurality of neutron detection devices, a plurality of discrete neutron moderating elements, wherein each of the neutron moderating elements is disposed between two or more neutron detection devices, the plurality of neutron detection devices and the plurality of discrete neutron moderating elements disposed along a common axis, a control system configured to generate a detector response library, wherein the detector response library includes one or more sets of data indicative of a response of the detector to a known neutron source, receive one or more measured neutron response signals from each of the neutron devices, the one or more measured response signals response to a detected neutron event, and determine one or more characteristics of neutrons emanating from a measured neutron source by comparing the one or more measured neutron response signals to the detector response library. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 19, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/716678 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 3/085 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09626297 | Palframan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David John Palframan (Madison, Wisconsin); Nam Sung Kim (Middleton, Wisconsin); Mikko Lipasti (Lake Mills, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer architecture addresses intermittent memory faults by exploiting redundancy inherent in a hierarchical memory structure, for example, as data moves through various cache levels and registers before use by the processor. Accesses to data from faulted memory areas is diverted to a secondary memory structure holding that data and the secondary memory structure is flagged to increase the persistence of the stored data used for patching against normal updating policies. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/509327 |
| ART UNIT | 2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/20 (20130101) G06F 11/1666 (20130101) G06F 12/0897 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 2212/1032 (20130101) |
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| US 09626334 | Kaul et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Himanshu Kaul (Portland, Oregon); Mark A. Anders (Hillsboro, Oregon); Sanu K. Mathew (Hillsboro, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, apparatuses, and methods for k-nearest neighbor (KNN) searches are described. In particular, embodiments of a KNN accelerator and its uses are described. In some embodiments, the KNN accelerator includes a plurality of vector partial distance computation circuits each to calculate a partial sum, a minimum sort network to sort partial sums from the plurality of vector partial distance computation circuits to find k nearest neighbor matches and a global control circuit to control aspects of operations of the plurality of vector partial distance computation circuits. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/582607 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 7/00 (20130101) G06F 15/8092 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 17/3033 (20130101) |
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| US 09626533 | Kultran et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RAYTHEON COMPANY (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Denpol Kultran (Hawthorne, California); Won Chon (Torrance, California); Harry B. Marr (Manhattan Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided a programmable multiplier circuit for multiplying an input voltage signal by a binary coefficient, the multiplier circuit including a transconductor including a first amplifying transistor configured to convert the input voltage signal to a current signal, the first amplifying transistor having a gate configured to receive the input voltage signal, and a coefficient multiplier coupled to the transconductor and configured to multiply the current signal by the binary coefficient to generate an amplified current signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 09, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/849529 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Analogue Computers G06G 7/163 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Amplifiers H03F 1/301 (20130101) H03F 1/304 (20130101) Impedance Networks, e.g Resonant Circuits; Resonators H03H 15/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09626566 | Versace et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Neurala, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Neurala, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Massimiliano Versace (Boston, Massachusetts); Anatoly Gorshechnikov (Newton, Massachusetts); Gennady Livitz (Belmont, Massachusetts); Jesse Palma (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Sensory processing of visual, auditory, and other sensor information (e.g., visual imagery, LIDAR, RADAR) is conventionally based on “stovepiped,” or isolated processing, with little interactions between modules. Biological systems, on the other hand, fuse multi-sensory information to identify nearby objects of interest more quickly, more efficiently, and with higher signal-to-noise ratios. Similarly, examples of the OpenSense technology disclosed herein use neurally inspired processing to identify and locate objects in a robot's environment. This enables the robot to navigate its environment more quickly and with lower computational and power requirements. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 19, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/662657 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 9/1697 (20130101) Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 2219/39082 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00664 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/3241 (20130101) G06K 9/4628 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/008 (20130101) G06N 3/049 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/004 (20130101) G06T 7/0044 (20130101) G06T 7/0081 (20130101) G06T 7/2093 (20130101) G06T 2207/20141 (20130101) G06T 2207/20144 (20130101) G06T 2207/30244 (20130101) |
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| US 09626624 | Bernstein et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeffrey Bernstein (Middleton, Massachusetts); Benjamin Vigoda (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ANALOG DEVICES, INC. (Norwood, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Bernstein (Middleton, Massachusetts); Benjamin Vigoda (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An inference task is performed using a computation device having a plurality of processing elements operable in parallel and connected via a connectivity system. Performing the task includes accepting at the device a specification of at least part of the inference task. The specification characterizes a plurality of variables and a plurality of factors, each factor being associated with a subset of the variables. Each of the processing elements is configured with data defining one or more of the plurality of factors. At each of the processing elements, computation associated with one of the factors is performed concurrently with other of the processing elements performing computation associated with different ones of the factors. Messages are exchanged via a connectivity system. The messages provide inputs and/or outputs to the processing elements for the computations associated with the factors and provide a result of performing of the at least the part of the inference task. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/187466 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/0635 (20130101) G06N 5/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09627042 | Mazumder et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents Of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pinaki Mazumder (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jaeyoung Kim (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Nan Zheng (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A static random access memory (SRAM) cell is provided with improved write margin. The SRAM cell includes: a pair of inverters cross coupled to each other and forming two storage nodes; read access switches electrically coupled between a read bit line and the two storage nodes; write access switches electrically coupled between write bit lines and two storage nodes; and supply switches electrically coupled between a supply voltage and the pair of inverters and operable, in response to a signal on at least one of the write bit lines, to selectively connect the supply voltage to at least one of the inverters in the pair of inverters. During a write operation, the supply switches operate to cut off the supply voltage to the inverter in the pair of inverters having a charged state. |
| FILED | Monday, December 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 15/033456 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 11/412 (20130101) G11C 11/419 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09627199 | Motayed et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Maryland); Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Falls Church, Virginia); The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Commerce (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Maryland); Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Falls Church, Virginia); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abhishek Motayed (Rockville, Maryland); Sergiy Krylyuk (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Albert V. Davydov (North Potomac, Maryland); Matthew King (Linthicum, Maryland); Jong-Yoon Ha (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of fabricating micro- and nanostructures comprise top-down etching of lithographically patterned GaN layer to form an array of micro- or nanopillar structures, followed by selective growth of GaN shells over the pillar structures via selective epitaxy. Also provided are methods of forming micro- and nanodisk structures and microstructures formed from thereby. |
| FILED | Friday, December 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/568576 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0237 (20130101) H01L 21/0254 (20130101) H01L 21/0257 (20130101) H01L 21/0259 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/0262 (20130101) H01L 21/02381 (20130101) H01L 21/02433 (20130101) H01L 21/02458 (20130101) H01L 21/02639 (20130101) H01L 21/3065 (20130101) H01L 21/30612 (20130101) H01L 21/30617 (20130101) H01L 21/30621 (20130101) H01L 33/007 (20130101) H01L 33/18 (20130101) H01L 33/32 (20130101) |
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| US 09627434 | Atwater et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harry A. Atwater (South Pasadena, California); Stanley Burgos (San Jose, California); Sozo Yokogawa (Tokyo, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for color imaging including an optical sensor having light sensitive pixels with a metal film disposed over the light sensitive pixels. The metal film has a group of nano-holes arranged over the pixels according to a periodic lattice formation and is configured to pass light of a preselected first range of wavelengths. The group of nano-holes arranged over an adjoining group of pixels is configured to pass light having ranges of wavelengths different from the first range of wavelengths. |
| FILED | Monday, January 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/148672 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/14621 (20130101) H01L 27/14629 (20130101) H01L 27/14685 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/0232 (20130101) H01L 31/02327 (20130101) |
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| US 09627439 | 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); Chieh-Jen Ku (Edison, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A ZnO based display pixel structure that includes system-on-glass (SOG) substrates with embedded non-volatile resistive random access memory iNV-RRAM) is provided. Such pixels feature high frame rates and low power consumption. The entire SOG is based on ZnO devices. Different devices including TFT, TCO, RRAM, inverters, and shift registers are obtained through doping of different elements into selected ZnO active regions. This reduces the cost to package control circuitry onto a backplane of a display system, resulting in a low cost, light weight and uUra-thin display. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/399367 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/2436 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/7869 (20130101) H01L 45/08 (20130101) H01L 45/146 (20130101) |
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| US 09627485 | Zhou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chongwu Zhou (San Marino, California); Yi Zhang (Beaverton, Oregon); Luyao Zhang (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chongwu Zhou (San Marino, California); Yi Zhang (Beaverton, Oregon); Luyao Zhang (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for growing a graphene layer on a metal foil includes placing a vessel into a chemical vapor deposition chamber, the vessel having a metal foil positioned therein. The method includes evacuating the chemical vapor deposition chamber, introducing hydrogen gas into the chamber to achieve a first pressure less than atmospheric pressure, heating the atmosphere in the chamber to anneal the metal foil, introducing methane and hydrogen into the chamber to achieve a second pressure less than atmospheric pressure. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/214173 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0453 (20130101) C01B 2204/02 (20130101) C01B 2204/32 (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 16/26 (20130101) Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 25/02 (20130101) C30B 25/10 (20130101) C30B 29/02 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/7624 (20130101) H01L 29/1606 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/66742 (20130101) H01L 29/78603 (20130101) H01L 29/78684 (20130101) |
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| US 09627490 | Eom et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Chang-Beom Eom (Madison, Wisconsin); Daesu Lee (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Layered oxide structures comprising an overlayer of high quality VO2 and methods of fabricating the layered oxide structures are provided. Also provided are high-speed switches comprising the layered structures and methods of operating the high-speed switches. The layered oxide structures include high quality VO2 epitaxial films on isostructural SnO2 growth templates. |
| FILED | Friday, December 18, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/974178 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/02414 (20130101) H01L 21/02483 (20130101) H01L 21/02565 (20130101) H01L 29/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/78 (20130101) H01L 29/1033 (20130101) H01L 29/1079 (20130101) H01L 29/66969 (20130101) H01L 45/146 (20130101) H01L 45/1206 (20130101) Pulse Technique H03K 17/51 (20130101) H03K 17/687 (20130101) |
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| US 09627580 | Liao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yitao Liao (Brookline, Massachusetts); Theodore D. Moustakas (Dover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of growing an AlGaN semiconductor material utilizes an excess of Ga above the stoichiometric amount typically used. The excess Ga results in the formation of band structure potential fluctuations that improve the efficiency of radiative recombination and increase light generation of optoelectronic devices, in particular ultraviolet light emitting diodes, made using the method. Several improvements in UV LED design and performance are also provided for use together with the excess Ga growth method. Devices made with the method can be used for water purification, surface sterilization, communications, and data storage and retrieval. |
| FILED | Friday, October 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/646038 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0237 (20130101) H01L 21/0242 (20130101) H01L 21/0254 (20130101) H01L 21/0259 (20130101) H01L 21/02458 (20130101) H01L 21/02507 (20130101) H01L 21/02573 (20130101) H01L 21/02625 (20130101) H01L 33/06 (20130101) H01L 33/007 (20130101) H01L 33/025 (20130101) H01L 33/32 (20130101) H01L 33/0075 (20130101) H01L 33/145 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09627622 | Lai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William W. Lai (Ridgecrest, California); Alfred J. Baca (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for making electronic devices based on derivatized ladder polymer (Pz-BBL) including photovoltaic modules and simple thin film transistors in planar and mechanically flexible and stretchable constructs. |
| FILED | Friday, April 29, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/142290 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0002 (20130101) H01L 51/0035 (20130101) H01L 51/0044 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/0048 (20130101) H01L 51/055 (20130101) H01L 51/0096 (20130101) H01L 51/441 (20130101) H01L 51/0558 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09627744 | Handy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SI2 Technologies, Inc. (North Billerica, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SI2 Technologies, Inc. (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik S. Handy (Malden, Massachusetts); Joseph Michael Kunze (Chelmsford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Multifunctional structures and methods of manufacturing multifunctional structures which function as both electronic devices and load-bearing elements are disclosed. The load-bearing elements are designed to have electronic functionality using electronics designed to be load-bearing. The method of manufacturing the multifunctional structure comprises forming an electronic element directly on at least one ply of arbitrarily shaped load-bearing material using conventional lithographic techniques and/or direct write fabrication techniques, and assembling at least two plies of arbitrarily shaped load-bearing material into a multifunctional structure. The multifunctional structure may be part of an aerospace structure, part of a land vehicle, pan of a watercraft or part of a spacecraft. |
| FILED | Monday, March 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/849932 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 1/27 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01Q 21/065 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49016 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09628105 | Veeder |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Senseeker Engineering Inc. (Goleta, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SENSEEKER ENGINEERING INC. (Goleta, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenton Veeder (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides a delta-sigma modulator circuit for use in a pixelated image sensor or a readout integrated circuit. In one aspect, the modulator circuit includes a dynamic resistance element configured to have a variable resistance that changes in accordance with a voltage difference across the dynamic resistance element. |
| FILED | Friday, October 02, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/873886 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 3/39 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/37455 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09628122 | Clark et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher J. Clark (Hermosa Beach, California); Robert B. Dybdal (Palos Verdes Estates, California); Fei Wang (San Gabriel, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is provided with circuits and methods for dynamically reducing interference to maintain linear system operation and mitigate interference degradation to desired signal components. The system can include a binning subcircuit system configured to divide the digitized input signal into a plurality of spectral bins each having a power level. A power analysis subcircuit can be coupled to the binning subcircuit and configured to compare a collective power level of spectral bins to a threshold level that would produce nonlinear system operation. Based upon the collective power level exceeding the threshold level, outputting a gain control signal to a variable gain amplifier so that the system remains linear. This dynamic gain control can be applied to systems that receive and/or transmit signals. Residual interference components that degrade signal components can be dynamically removed by excision and the distortion introduced by the excision process can be reduced with equalization circuitry. |
| FILED | Monday, July 25, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/219079 |
| ART UNIT | 2631 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 1/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 1/0475 (20130101) H04B 2001/0416 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 27/265 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09628162 | Chieh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jia-Chi Samuel Chieh (San Diego, California); Michael Civerolo (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A phased array receiver for use with a first received analog signal and a second received analog signal, the phased array receiver including: a first analog to digital converter to generate a first received digital signal; a second analog to digital converter to generate a second received digital signal; a first down-sampler to generate a first down-sampled digital signal; a second down-sampler to generate a second down-sampled digital signal; a first polyphase low pass filter to generate a first filtered down-sampled received digital signal; a second polyphase low pass filter to generate a second filtered down-sampled received digital signal; and a beamforming core to generate a beamformed signal, wherein the first received signal is related to the first filtered down-sampled received digital signal, and wherein the second received signal is related to the second filtered down-sampled received digital signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 21, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/271958 |
| ART UNIT | 2632 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 1/0025 (20130101) H04B 7/043 (20130101) H04B 7/0617 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09628179 | Fleischer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason W Fleischer (Princeton, New Jersey); Dmitry V Dylov (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for filtering and enhancing signals from a noise background based on the nonlinear interaction of waves. The system and method amplify low-level signals, hide information in the signals, and then nonlinearly recover the signals. With the present invention, this can be performed for both spatial beams and temporal pulses. The signal self-filters and self-amplifies at the expense of the surrounding noise via the nonlinear medium. |
| FILED | Friday, March 22, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/849317 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/0029 (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 1/3511 (20130101) G02F 2202/13 (20130101) G02F 2203/15 (20130101) Transmission H04B 10/2507 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09628217 | Rockway et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Office of Intellectual Property, Code 36000 (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. Rockway (San Diego, California); Jia-Chi Chieh (San Diego, California); Jeanne Quimby (Erie, Colorado); John D. Rockway (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Aspects of the present invention provide a system and method for using a filter controller and an adjustable narrow-band filter within each sub-band of a communication system. If a channel of the sub-band is being jammed, the filter controller will adjust the adjustable narrow-band filter to notch-filter out only the channel of the sub-band that is being jammed. In this manner, the remaining channel of the sub-band may be used for communication. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 08, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/260052 |
| ART UNIT | 2647 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 1/713 (20130101) Secret Communication; Jamming of Communication H04K 3/25 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09628266 | Rohloff et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | RAYTHEON BBN TECHNOLOGIES CORP. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RAYTHEON BBN TECHNOLOGIES CORP. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kurt Ryan Rohloff (South Hadley, Massachusetts); David Bruce Cousins (Barrington, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for encoding encrypted data for further processing includes: receiving an input data vector of length m; splitting the input data vector to k multiple vectors; multiplying each of the multiple vectors by a power of 2 to obtain k number of intermediate vectors; summing the k number of intermediate vectors to obtain a single summed vector; encrypting the single summed vector to obtain an encrypted vector; sending the encrypted vector to an operational unit to have the encrypted vector operated on to obtain a processed encrypted vector; receiving the processed encrypted vector; decrypting the received encrypted vector; dividing the processed decrypted vector by a power of 2, modulus a power of 2 to obtain multiple transitional vectors of the same dynamic range and the same length; and concatenating the multiple transitional vectors to obtain a recovered vector of length m. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 26, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/191021 |
| ART UNIT | 2436 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09628272 | Rostami et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY (Houston, Texas); MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY (Houston, Texas); MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Masoud Rostami (Houston, Texas); Mehrdad Majzoobi (Houston, Texas); Farinaz Koushanfar (Houston, Texas); Daniel S. Wallach (Houston, Texas); Srinivas Devadas (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Mechanisms for operating a prover device and a verifier device so that the verifier device can verify the authenticity of the prover device. The prover device generates a data string by: (a) submitting a challenge to a physical unclonable function (PUF) to obtain a response string, (b) selecting a substring from the response string, (c) injecting the selected substring into the data string, and (d) injecting random bits into bit positions of the data string not assigned to the selected substring. The verifier: (e) generates an estimated response string by evaluating a computational model of the PUF based on the challenge; (f) performs a search process to identify the selected substring within the data string using the estimated response string; and (g) determines whether the prover device is authentic based on a measure of similarity between the identified substring and a corresponding substring of the estimated response string. |
| FILED | Friday, January 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/147230 |
| ART UNIT | 2491 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Ciphering or Deciphering Apparatus for Cryptographic or Other Purposes Involving the Need for Secrecy G09C 1/00 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/0866 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 9/3271 (20130101) H04L 9/3278 (20130101) H04L 2209/24 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Mellick (Hayden, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Mellick (Hayden, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A digital I/Q reprocessing demodulator and a process for significantly reducing arctangent computational loads. This is done by ensuring that all calculations are carried out in the linear part of the curve. The architecture of the demodulator is such that the demodulator 100 utilizes two I/Q stages. The first stage is utilized to determine a phase offset with regards to the free-running I/Q clocks. In the second processing stage, the phase of the I/Q reference signals are phase shifted based on the initial estimate such that the incoming carrier signal is nearly in-phase. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/871721 |
| ART UNIT | 2632 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 1/123 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 27/22 (20130101) H04L 27/2275 (20130101) H04L 27/2277 (20130101) H04L 27/2338 (20130101) H04L 27/2657 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 27/3863 (20130101) H04L 47/6245 (20130101) H04L 2027/0059 (20130101) H04L 2027/0061 (20130101) H04L 2027/0067 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09628365 | Gelvin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Borgia/Cummins, LLC (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BENHOV GMBH, LLC (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Gelvin (Escandido, California); Lewis D. Girod (Arlington, Massachusetts); William J. Kaiser (Los Angeles, California); Fredric Newberg (Playa Vista, California); Gregory J. Pottie (Los Angeles, California); Anton I. Sipos (Los Angeles, California); Sandeep Vardhan (Diamond Bar, California); William M. Merrill (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The Wireless Integrated Network Sensor Next Generation (WINS NG) nodes provide distributed network and Internet access to sensors, controls, and processors that are deeply embedded in equipment, facilities, and the environment. The WINS NG network is a new monitoring and control capability for applications in transportation, manufacturing, health care, environmental monitoring, and safety and security. The WINS NG nodes combine microsensor technology, low power distributed signal processing, low power computation, and low power, low cost wireless and/or wired networking capability in a compact system. The WINS NG networks provide sensing, local control, remote reconfigurability, and embedded intelligent systems in structures, materials, and environments. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/474864 |
| ART UNIT | 2478 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 15/173 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 19/04 (20130101) G06K 19/0717 (20130101) Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 1/22 (20130101) H01Q 1/125 (20130101) H01Q 9/0407 (20130101) H01Q 9/0414 (20130101) H01Q 9/0464 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 29/08351 (20130101) H04L 43/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 67/12 (20130101) H04L 67/1051 (20130101) H04L 2012/40273 (20130101) Systems Integrating Technologies Related to Power Network Operation, Communication or Information Technologies for Improving the Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management or Usage, i.e Smart Grids Y04S 40/16 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09628450 | Rohloff |
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| APPLICANT(S) | RAYTHEON BBN TECHNOLOGIES CORP. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RAYTHEON BBN TECHNOLOGIES CORP. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kurt Ryan Rohloff (South Hadley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for data privacy in a distributed communication system including a plurality of client terminals merges encrypted streaming data using tree-like encryption key switching and without sharing any private keys in a distributed communication system. The merged data is then sent to client terminals to be further process by respective client terminals. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/254666 |
| ART UNIT | 2436 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/061 (20130101) H04L 63/0428 (20130101) H04L 63/0442 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09628682 | Pollock et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David B. Pollock (Guntersville, Alabama); Patrick J. Reardon (Madison, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama, fo (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David B. Pollock (Guntersville, Alabama); Patrick J. Reardon (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A camera concurrently produces an orthographic map and map spectral content. Illumination from an image passes through a phase modulator and the resulting rotating photo-flux phase is converted to an electrical signal by multiple adjacent sensors of detectors of array of detectors. The amount of unwanted illumination reaching the sensors is reduced by a set of baffles that shield and protect the transducers from unwanted out-of-field light and other light sources. |
| FILED | Friday, July 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/548801 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/0208 (20130101) G01J 3/0262 (20130101) G01J 3/433 (20130101) G01J 3/447 (20130101) G01J 3/2803 (20130101) G01J 3/2823 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 26/0891 (20130101) G02B 27/0018 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/349 (20130101) H04N 5/2254 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04N 5/23229 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edward F. Downs, Jr. (Lynn Haven, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward F. Downs, Jr. (Lynn Haven, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A radiant heat barrier insulation system includes a first substrate with a first layer of aluminum thereon. The system also includes a second substrate with a second layer of aluminum thereon. The first substrate is positioned to oppose the second substrate such that a gap is defined between the first substrate and the second substrate. The gap is filled with a randomly-oriented nest of carbon nanotube fibers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/224928 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Heating; Electric Lighting Not Otherwise Provided for H05B 1/0272 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09629232 | Reilly 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) | Sean Reilly (Los Angeles, California); Jacob Supowit (Valencia, California); Michael J. Stubblebine (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Thermally actuated printed circuit board (PCB) retainer assemblies that utilize at least one thermally actuated element to secure a received PCB to a heat sink in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, a thermally actuated PCB retainer assembly includes a heat sink having an elongated groove configured to receive a PCB and a PCB retainer that includes a pair of complementary elongated bodies each having a first elongated face and a second elongated face where the second elongated faces of the elongated bodies are disposed in a cooperative sliding relation and at least one thermally actuated element in contact with at least one of the elongated bodies such that the thermally actuated element applies a force on the at least one elongated body in response to temperature changes such that the elongated bodies move in the cooperative sliding relation. |
| FILED | Friday, May 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/897336 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 1/0201 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05K 1/0203 (20130101) H05K 7/1404 (20130101) H05K 7/2039 (20130101) H05K 2201/068 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09629251 | Currie 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) | Marc Currie (Gaithersburg, Maryland); David Kurt Gaskill (Alexandria, Virginia); Anindya Nath (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An appropriately configured pulsed laser is focused onto a graphene sheet and is used to form a desired pattern in the graphene. When the laser pulse strikes the graphene, it modifies the bonding state of the carbon atoms in the graphene lattice, acting as a “blade” and causing a separation in the graphene sheet at the site of the laser pulse without causing damage to the surrounding graphene. The width of the separation, or “cut” in the graphene sheet can be controlled by controlling characteristics of the laser pulse such as beam shape, beam intensity, pulse width, repetition rate, and wavelength to produce a graphene material having desired electrical, optical, thermal, and/or mechanical properties. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/565734 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Soldering or Unsoldering; Welding; Cladding or Plating by Soldering or Welding; Cutting by Applying Heat Locally, e.g Flame Cutting; Working by Laser Beam B23K 26/364 (20151001) B23K 26/402 (20130101) B23K 2203/30 (20151001) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 3/027 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05K 2201/0145 (20130101) H05K 2201/0323 (20130101) H05K 2203/016 (20130101) H05K 2203/107 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49155 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 09622472 | Eulgem 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) | Thomas Eulgem (Riverside, California); Melinda Rodriguez-Salus (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Colleen M. Knoth (Costa Mesa, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are methods and compositions for enhancing pathogen immunity in plants and improving plant growth. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/205103 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 35/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01N 37/18 (20130101) A01N 37/22 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 251/24 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09622909 | Kulstad et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Erik Kulstad (Chicago, Illinois); Hugh Patrick Caherty (Plymouth, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Cooling Therapy, Inc. (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik Kulstad (Chicago, Illinois); Hugh Patrick Caherty (Plymouth, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Relatively non-invasive devices and methods for heating or cooling a patient's body are disclosed. Devices and methods for treating ischemic conditions by inducing therapeutic hypothermia are disclosed. Devices and methods for inducing therapeutic hypothermia through esophageal cooling are disclosed. Devices and methods for operative temperature management are disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/482581 |
| ART UNIT | 3739 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 2017/00084 (20130101) 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 7/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61F 2007/126 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09623147 | Kaplan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medord, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Ung-Jin Kim (Daejeon, South Korea); Jaehyung Park (Decatur, Georgia); Hyoung-Joon Jin (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for concentrated aqueous silk fibroin solutions and an all-aqueous mode for preparation of concentrated aqueous fibroin solutions that avoids the use of organic solvents, direct additives, or harsh chemicals. The invention further provides for the use of these solutions in production of materials, e.g., fibers, films, foams, meshes, scaffolds and hydrogels. |
| FILED | Monday, June 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/293308 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/38 (20130101) A61L 27/52 (20130101) A61L 27/227 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 27/3604 (20130101) A61L 2430/02 (20130101) Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 39/003 (20130101) B29C 39/203 (20130101) B29C 55/005 (20130101) Producing Particular Articles From Plastics or From Substances in a Plastic State B29D 7/01 (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 2089/00 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29C, Relating to Particular Articles B29L 2007/00 (20130101) B29L 2009/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/43536 (20130101) C07K 14/43586 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 3/07 (20130101) C08J 3/075 (20130101) C08J 5/18 (20130101) C08J 9/26 (20130101) C08J 9/28 (20130101) C08J 9/0061 (20130101) C08J 2201/0444 (20130101) C08J 2201/0504 (20130101) C08J 2205/022 (20130101) C08J 2389/00 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 89/00 (20130101) Mechanical Methods or Apparatus in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons D01D 5/0007 (20130101) Chemical Features in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons; Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture of Carbon Filaments D01F 4/02 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/249921 (20150401) Y10T 442/10 (20150401) Y10T 442/60 (20150401) |
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| US 09623364 | Hernandez-Maldonado et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arturo J Hernandez-Maldonado (Mayaguez, Puerto Rico); Milton E Rivera-Ramos (Ponce, Puerto Rico); Ana G Arevalo-Hidalgo (Mayaguez, Puerto Rico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Puerto Rico (San Juan, Puerto Rico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arturo J Hernandez-Maldonado (Mayaguez, Puerto Rico); Milton E Rivera-Ramos (Ponce, Puerto Rico); Ana G Arevalo-Hidalgo (Mayaguez, Puerto Rico) |
| ABSTRACT | Na+-SAPO-34 sorbents were ion-exchanged with several individual metal cations for CO2 absorption at different temperatures (273-348 K) and pressures (<1 atm). In general, the overall adsorption performance of the exchanged materials increased as follows: Ce3+<Ti3+<Mg2+<Ca2+<Ag+<Na+<Sr2+. The strontium exchanged materials excelled at low-pressure ranges, exhibiting very sharp isotherms slopes at all temperatures. The Sr2+ species were responsible for the surface strong interaction and the cations were occupying exposed sites (SII′) in the materials Chabazite cages. All the sorbent materials exhibited higher affinity for CO2 over the other gases tested (i.e., CH4, H2, N2 and O2) due to strong ion-quadrupole interactions. Sr2+-SAPO-34 sorbents are by far the best option for CO2 removal from CH4 mixtures, especially at low concentrations. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 24, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/245588 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 2253/25 (20130101) B01D 2253/108 (20130101) B01D 2253/308 (20130101) B01D 2257/504 (20130101) |
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| US 09623875 | Beyene et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affair (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nahom Minassie Beyene (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Amy Karas Lane (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Rory Alan Cooper (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania); Joshua D. Brown (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for evaluation of an operator of a vehicle including a steering system under observation of an evaluator within the vehicle includes a steering sensor system adapted to measure intervention of the evaluator in operating the steering system. A method for evaluating vehicle control of a driving entity of a vehicle under observation of an evaluator in the vehicle includes providing at least one sensor system adapted to measure intervention of the evaluator in operating the vehicle. |
| FILED | Friday, June 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/738007 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Conjoint Control of Vehicle Sub-units of Different Type or Different Function; Control Systems Specially Adapted for Hybrid Vehicles; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems for Purposes Not Related to the Control of a Particular Sub-unit B60W 40/09 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B60W 50/14 (20130101) B60W 2540/12 (20130101) B60W 2540/18 (20130101) |
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| US 09624098 | Rosenblatt 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) | Sami Rosenblatt (White Plains, New York); James Hone (New York, New York); Changyao Chen (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A fabricated electromechanical device is disclosed herein. An exemplary device includes, a substrate, at least one layer of a high-transconductance material separated from the substrate by a dielectric medium, a first electrode in electrical contact with the at least one layer of a high-transconductance material and separated from the substrate by at least one first supporting member, a second electrode in electrical contact with the layer of a high-transconductance material and separated from the substrate by at least one second supporting member, where the first electrode is electrically separate from the second electrode, and a third electrode separated from the at least one layer of high-transconductance material by a dielectric medium and separated from each of the first electrode and the second electrode by a dielectric medium. |
| FILED | Monday, July 27, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/809934 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00142 (20130101) B81C 1/00341 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/16 (20130101) H01L 29/84 (20130101) H01L 29/86 (20130101) H01L 29/1606 (20130101) H01L 51/0045 (20130101) Generation of Oscillations, Directly or by Frequency-changing, by Circuits Employing Active Elements Which Operate in a Non-switching Manner; Generation of Noise by Such Circuits H03B 5/30 (20130101) |
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| US 09624203 | Arora et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paramjit S. Arora (Cold Spring Harbor, New York); Petra To{hacek over (s)}ovská (New York, New York); Danielle Guarracino (Princeton, New Jersey); Brooke Bullock Lao (Leesville, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to oligooxopiperazines and their use. Methods for preparing oligooxopiperazines are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, April 11, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/096013 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/496 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 241/08 (20130101) C07D 403/06 (20130101) C07D 403/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09624314 | Dichtel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William R. Dichtel (Wilmette, Illinois); Alaaeddin Alsbaiee (King of Prussia, Pennsylvania); Brian J. Smith (Ithaca, New York); Juan Hinestroza (Ithaca, New York); Diego Alzate-Sanchez (Ithaca, New York); Leilei Xiao (Ithaca, New York); Yuhan Ling (Ithaca, New York); Damian Helbling (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A nucleophilic substitution reaction to crosslink cyclodextrin (CD) polymer with rigid aromatic groups, providing a high surface area, mesoporous CD-containing polymers (P-CDPs). The P-CDPs can be used for removing organic contaminants from water. By encapsulating pollutants to form well-defined host-guest complexes with complementary selectivities to activated carbon (AC) sorbents. The P-CDPs can rapidly sequester pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and other organic micropollutants, achieving equilibrium binding capacity in seconds with adsorption rate constants 15-200 times greater than ACs and nonporous CD sorbents. The CD polymer can be regenerated several times, through a room temperature washing procedure, with no loss in performance. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 20, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/134030 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/285 (20130101) Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 15/00 (20130101) C08B 37/0012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 30/02 (20130101) G01N 30/7206 (20130101) G01N 30/7233 (20130101) G01N 2030/025 (20130101) G01N 2030/027 (20130101) |
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| US 09624338 | Sampson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (Albany, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicole S. Sampson (Setauket, New York); Li Tan (Centereach, New York); Kathlyn Parker (Setauket, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to the field of polymers and olefin polymerization, and more specifically olefin metathesis polymerization. The invention provides regioregular alternating polymers and methods of synthesizing such polymers. To demonstrate, polymers were synthesized and modified with a FRET pair (Trp/Dansyl) post-polymerization. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/906834 |
| ART UNIT | 1613 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/1075 (20130101) A61K 31/74 (20130101) A61K 31/74 (20130101) A61K 47/32 (20130101) A61K 47/48176 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 232/04 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 61/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 61/12 (20130101) C08G 61/128 (20130101) C08G 2261/74 (20130101) C08G 2261/124 (20130101) C08G 2261/418 (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 5/1637 (20130101) |
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| US 09624340 | Mialon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laurent Mialon (Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom); Stephen A. Miller (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A biorenewable thermoplastic, poly(dihydroferulic acid) (PHFA), which is an effective polyethylene terephthalate (PET) mimic is disclosed. The PHFA can be prepared by the self-condensation of acetyldihydroferulic acid as the monomer that can be synthesized from the starting material-ferulic acid, which can be isolated from lignin, rice bran, or other biorenewable sources. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 09, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/734360 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 63/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 63/065 (20130101) C08G 63/66 (20130101) C08G 63/83 (20130101) |
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| US 09624344 | Dong 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) | Jiajia Dong (Shanghai, China PRC); Valery Fokin (Oceanside, California); Larisa Krasnova (San Diego, California); Luke R. Kwisnek (San Diego, California); James S. Oakdale (San Diego, California); K. Barry Sharpless (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Condensation of fluoro-substituted and silyl-substituted monomers provides polymers suitable for use, e.g., as engineering polymers. A monomer composition is condensed in the presence of a basic catalyst. The monomer composition contains a compound of formula F—X—F and a compound of formula (R1)3Si—Z—Si(R1)3, and forms an alternating X—Z polymer chain and a silyl fluoride byproduct. X has the formula -A(-R2-A)n-; each A is SO2, C(═O) or Het; R2 is an organic moiety; n is 0 or 1; Het is an aromatic nitrogen heterocycle; Z has the formula -L-R3-L-; each L is O, S, or N(R4); and each R3 is an organic moiety, and R4 comprises H or an organic moiety. |
| FILED | Monday, September 19, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/269468 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 75/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09624500 | Stacey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gary Stacey (Columbia, Missouri); Minviluz G. Stacey (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Stacey (Columbia, Missouri); Minviluz G. Stacey (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and compositions for modifying tocochromanol biosynthesis in plants. The present invention thus surprisingly and beneficially provides for increasing desired tocochromanol compounds in plants and enhancing the nutritional quality of human food and animal feed, without associate deleterious plant phenotypes. |
| FILED | Friday, August 02, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/958397 |
| ART UNIT | 1663 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | New Plants or Processes for Obtaining Them; Plant Reproduction by Tissue Culture Techniques A01H 5/10 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/0069 (20130101) C12N 15/8216 (20130101) C12N 15/8218 (20130101) C12N 15/8243 (20130101) C12N 15/8247 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/8274 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 113/11005 (20130101) |
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| US 09624515 | Strobel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gary A. Strobel (Bozeman, Montana); Angela R. Tomsheck (Oilmont, Montana) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Gary A. Strobel (Bozeman, Montana); Angela R. Tomsheck (Oilmont, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | An isolated fungus is described. The isolated fungus produces at least one compound selected from the group consisting of 1,8-cineole, 1-methyl-1, 4-cyclohexadiene, and (+)-α-methylene-α-fenchocamphorone. A method for producing at least one compound selected from the group consisting of 1,8-cineole, 1-methyl-1, 4-cyclohexadiene, and (+)-α-methylene-α-fenchocamphorone is also described. The method includes culturing a fungus on or within a culturing media in a container under conditions sufficient for producing the at least one compound. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/757325 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/01 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 5/002 (20130101) C12P 7/26 (20130101) C12P 17/06 (20130101) C12P 17/181 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses C12C - C12Q, Relating to Microorganisms C12R 1/645 (20130101) |
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| US 09624600 | Kelber |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of North Texas (Denton, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS (Denton, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffry A. Kelber (Denton, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Direct growth of graphene on Co3O4(111) at 1000 K was achieved by molecular beam epitaxy from a graphite source. Auger spectroscopy shows a characteristic sp2 carbon lineshape, at average carbon coverages from 0.4-3 monolayers. Low energy electron diffraction (LEED) indicates (111) ordering of the sp2 carbon film with a lattice constant of 2.5 (±0.1) Å characteristic of graphene. Six-fold symmetry of the graphene diffraction spots is observed at 0.4, 1 and 3 monolayers. The LEED data also indicate an average domain size of ˜1800 Å, and show an incommensurate interface with the Co3O4(111) substrate, where the latter exhibits a lattice constant of 2.8 (±0.1) Å. Core level photoemission shows a characteristically asymmetric C(1s) feature, with the expected lr to lr* satellite feature, but with a binding energy for the three monolayer film of 284.9 (±0.1) eV, indicative of substantial graphene-to-oxide charge transfer. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/362619 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0461 (20130101) Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 23/02 (20130101) C30B 23/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C30B 23/066 (20130101) C30B 29/02 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 41/32 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/02381 (20130101) H01L 21/02395 (20130101) H01L 21/02488 (20130101) H01L 21/02527 (20130101) H01L 21/02658 (20130101) H01L 29/82 (20130101) H01L 29/1606 (20130101) |
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| US 09625320 | Chitgarha et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohammad Reza Chitgarha (Los Angeles, California); Alan E. Willner (Los Angeles, California); Amirhossein Mohajerin-Ariaei (Los Angeles, California); Morteza Ziyadi (Los Angeles, California); Salman Khaleghi (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and techniques relating to automatically-locked homodyne detection are described. A described system includes a first nonlinear element, a filter, and second nonlinear elements. The first nonlinear element can produce, based on an input signal and a first continuous wave (CW) signal, a first output signal that includes the input signal and a phase conjugate copy of the input signal. The filter can produce a filtered signal based on the first output signal and can be programmable to adjust an induced delay between the input signal and the phase conjugate signal. The second nonlinear elements can produce second output signals based on a second CW signal and differently weighted combinations of signal components within the filtered signal. The second output signals can include an in-phase output signal based on an in-phase version of the filtered signal and a quadrature output signal based on a quadrature version of the filtered signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 16, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/856389 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/45 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09625333 | Jentoft 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) | Leif Jentoft (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Yaroslav Tenzer (Somerville, Massachusetts); Robert Howe (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A tactile sensor includes a pressure transducer encapsulated in an elastic material that defines a contact surface and provides a transmission path that transmits contact forces or pressure distributions applied to the contact surface to the pressure transducer. The pressure transducer can be enclosed in a protective housing that defines a chamber around the transducer. The housing can include one or more openings that expose the chamber to the exterior pressure. The tactile sensor can be made by applying the elastic material in liquid form and exposing the housing to a vacuum that removes air inside the chamber allowing the liquid elastic material to flow into the chamber. Once cured, the elastic material defines a contact surface of the tactile sensor and serves to transfer contact forces applied to the contact surface to the transducer. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/212609 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 1/02 (20130101) G01L 5/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01L 5/228 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49007 (20150115) |
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| US 09625404 | Sorgenfrei 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) | Sebastian Sorgenfrei (Portland, Oregon); Kenneth Shepard (Ossining, New York); Chien-Yang Chiu (Goleta, California); Colin Nuckolls (New York, New York); Steven Warren (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for single-molecule detection is provided and uses a carbon nanotube having a probe entity attached thereto to define a first state of the carbon nanotube. The carbon nanotube is introduced to a target entity to define a second state of the carbon nanotube. The electrical conductance of the carbon nanotube in the first and second states is compared to detect the presence of a biomolecular entity. A system for single-molecule detection including a carbon nanotube is also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/801834 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6816 (20130101) C12Q 1/6816 (20130101) C12Q 1/6874 (20130101) C12Q 1/6874 (20130101) C12Q 2563/116 (20130101) C12Q 2563/116 (20130101) C12Q 2563/157 (20130101) C12Q 2563/157 (20130101) C12Q 2565/607 (20130101) C12Q 2565/607 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/041 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 27/3278 (20130101) |
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| US 09625454 | Strey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Helmut Strey (Stony Brook, New York); Robert Kimmerling (Shirley, New York); Tomasz Bakowski (Levittown, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Helmut Strey (Stony Brook, New York); Robert Kimmerling (Shirley, New York); Tomasz Bakowski (Levittown, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The compositions and methods described herein are designed to introduce functionalized microparticles into droplets that can be manipulated in microfluidic devices by fields, including electric (dielectrophoretic) or magnetic fields, and extracted by splitting a droplet to separate the portion of the droplet that contains the majority of the microparticles from the part that is largely devoid of the microparticles. Within the device, channels are variously configured at Y- or T junctions that facilitate continuous, serial isolation and dilution of analytes in solution. The devices can be limited in the sense that they can be designed to output purified analytes that are then further analyzed in separate machines or they can include additional channels through which purified analytes can be further processed and analyzed. |
| FILED | Friday, September 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/875914 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 3/502776 (20130101) B01L 3/502784 (20130101) B01L 7/52 (20130101) B01L 2200/0647 (20130101) B01L 2300/0864 (20130101) B01L 2400/043 (20130101) B01L 2400/0487 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/686 (20130101) C12Q 1/686 (20130101) C12Q 2563/159 (20130101) C12Q 2565/629 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/54313 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09625588 | Frisch et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois); Minotech Engineering, Inc. (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois); Minotech Engineering, Inc. (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henry Frisch (Chicago, Illinois); Fukun Tang (Chicago, Illinois); Herve Grabas (Louvecienne, France); Eric J. Oberla (Chicago, Illinois); Michael Minot (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Large-area, flat-panel photo-detectors with sub-nanosecond time resolution based on microchannel plates are provided. The large-area, flat-panel photo-detectors enable the economic construction of sampling calorimeters with, for example, enhanced capability to measure local energy deposition, depth-of-interaction, time-of-flight, and/or directionality of showers. In certain embodiments, sub-nanosecond timing resolution supplies correlated position and time measurements over large areas. The use of thin flat-panel viewing radiators on both sides of a radiation-creating medium allows simultaneous measurement of Cherenkov and scintillation radiation in each layer of the calorimeter. The detectors may be used in a variety of applications including, for example, medical imaging, security, and particle and nuclear physics. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 29, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/982387 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/208 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01T 1/363 (20130101) G01T 1/2928 (20130101) G01T 1/2985 (20130101) |
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| US 09625705 | Dean et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University Of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University Of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth A. Dean (Phoenix, Arizona); Jason C. Heikenfeld (Cincinnati, Ohio); Kaichang Zhou (Cincinnati, Ohio); Hari Mukunda Atkuri (Edina, Minnesota); Wyatt Austin Black Rodgers (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for manufacturing an electrofluidic device comprising the steps of providing a first plate with features for holding a first fluid, filling a first fluid into features on a first plate; providing a second plate and sealing a second plate onto the first plate forming stacked plates with at least one cavity between the plates, and leaving at least one fill port for a second fluid. Thereafter, the stacked plates are cooled to increase the viscosity of the first fluid so that the first fluid maintains a fixed position as a second fluid is filled into the cavity. Methods are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 02, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/676927 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 26/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09625918 | Kim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yong-Tae Kim (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Matthew Brandon Kuczenski (Santa Barbara, California); Philip LeDuc (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); William Messner (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A fluid-pressure regulator for regulating the pressure of a fluid. The regulator includes a variable-resistance fluid element and a variable-volume fluid element located downstream of the variable-resistance element. Pressure in the fluid at the outlet of the regulator is controlled by substantially simultaneously changing the resistance of the variable-resistance element and the volume of the variable-volume element. In one example, a decrease in pressure is effected at the outlet by simultaneously increasing the resistance of the variable-resistance element and increasing the volume of the variable-volume element. Some embodiments of the regulator are particularly useful to effect long-term and high-speed pressure changes in high-resistance fluidic channel networks. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 17, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/857290 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/50273 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 35/1095 (20130101) Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 15/02 (20130101) Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 16/202 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G05D 16/2066 (20130101) G05D 16/2086 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 137/0396 (20150401) Y10T 137/7761 (20150401) Y10T 137/87249 (20150401) |
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| US 09626297 | Palframan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David John Palframan (Madison, Wisconsin); Nam Sung Kim (Middleton, Wisconsin); Mikko Lipasti (Lake Mills, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer architecture addresses intermittent memory faults by exploiting redundancy inherent in a hierarchical memory structure, for example, as data moves through various cache levels and registers before use by the processor. Accesses to data from faulted memory areas is diverted to a secondary memory structure holding that data and the secondary memory structure is flagged to increase the persistence of the stored data used for patching against normal updating policies. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/509327 |
| ART UNIT | 2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/20 (20130101) G06F 11/1666 (20130101) G06F 12/0897 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 2212/1032 (20130101) |
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| US 09626521 | Gupta et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandeep Gupta (Phoenix, Arizona); Ayan Banerjee (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sandeep Gupta (Phoenix, Arizona); Ayan Banerjee (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are provided for encoding and decoding data (such as, for example, an encryption key) using a physiological signal. A data item string is separated into a defined number of component segments and each component segment is used as a coefficient of a polynomial equation. A plurality of signal features are then identified from a physiological signal and a plurality of ordered pairs are created based on the plurality of identified signal features using the polynomial equation. A data package including the plurality of ordered pairs and obfuscated by a plurality of chaff points is transmitted to another system. The receiver system uses a corresponding physiological signal to filter out the chaff points and to reconstruct the polynomial equation, for example, by LaGrangian interpolation. The coefficients of the reconstructed polynomial equation are then used to derive the encoded data item string. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 16, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/688181 |
| ART UNIT | 2435 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0004 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/606 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 2221/2107 (20130101) Transmission H04B 13/005 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/0866 (20130101) H04L 63/0428 (20130101) H04L 2209/34 (20130101) H04L 2209/88 (20130101) H04L 2209/805 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 4/008 (20130101) H04W 12/02 (20130101) H04W 12/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09627024 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yiran Chen (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Enes Eken (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Hai Li (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Wujie Wen (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Xiuyuan Bi (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of reading a memory cell of a magneto-resistive random access memory device, wherein the memory cell has a ferromagnetic free layer having a first magnetization orientation and a ferromagnetic reference layer, includes applying a first read current from the ferromagnetic free layer to the ferromagnetic reference layer and storing a first voltage generated by the memory cell in response to the first read current, generating a magnetic field adjacent to the memory cell, the magnetic field having a second magnetization orientation that is not parallel to the first magnetization orientation, while the magnetic field is being generated, applying a second read current from the ferromagnetic free layer to the ferromagnetic reference layer and storing a second voltage generated by the memory cell in response to the second read current, and determining a state of the memory cell based on the first voltage and the second voltage. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/917410 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 11/16 (20130101) G11C 11/161 (20130101) G11C 11/1673 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09627200 | Onicha et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | US Nano LLC (South Bend, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | US Nano LLC (Sarasota, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony C. Onicha (Bradenton, Florida); Louise E. Sinks (Sarasota, Florida); Stefanie L. Weber (Sarasota, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides systems, processes, articles of manufacture, and compositions that relate to core/shell semiconductor nanowires. Specifically, the disclosure provides a novel semiconductor material, CdSe/ZnS core/shell nanowires, as well as a method of preparation thereof. The disclosure also provides a new continuous flow method of preparing core/shell nanowires, including CdSe/CdS core/shell nanowire and CdSe/ZnS core/shell nanowires. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/446313 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0256 (20130101) H01L 21/02477 (20130101) H01L 21/02513 (20130101) H01L 21/02557 (20130101) H01L 21/02603 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/02628 (20130101) |
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| US 09627439 | 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); Chieh-Jen Ku (Edison, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A ZnO based display pixel structure that includes system-on-glass (SOG) substrates with embedded non-volatile resistive random access memory iNV-RRAM) is provided. Such pixels feature high frame rates and low power consumption. The entire SOG is based on ZnO devices. Different devices including TFT, TCO, RRAM, inverters, and shift registers are obtained through doping of different elements into selected ZnO active regions. This reduces the cost to package control circuitry onto a backplane of a display system, resulting in a low cost, light weight and uUra-thin display. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/399367 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/2436 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/7869 (20130101) H01L 45/08 (20130101) H01L 45/146 (20130101) |
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| US 09627558 | Tracy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Clarence J. Tracy (Tempe, Arizona); Stanislau Herasimenka (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clarence J. Tracy (Tempe, Arizona); Stanislau Herasimenka (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatuses for manufacturing self-aligned integrated back contact heterojunction solar cells are provided. In some embodiments, systems for forming a solar cell on a substrate are provided, the systems comprising: a master shadow mask positioned adjacent to the substrate on a first side of the master shadow mask; a first blocking mask placed adjacent to a second side of the master shadow mask; and a deposition machine that deposits material on the substrate through holes in the master shadow mask and the first blocking mask. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 09, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/682833 |
| ART UNIT | 2898 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/0747 (20130101) H01L 31/022441 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09627614 | Lu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Lu (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Sung Hyun Jo (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of suppressing propagation of leakage current in an array of switching devices. The method includes providing a dielectric breakdown element integrally and serially connected to a switching element within each of the switching device. A read voltage (for example) is applied to a selected cell. The propagation of leakage current is suppressed by each of the dielectric breakdown element in unselected cells in the array. The read voltage is sufficient to cause breakdown in the selected cells but insufficient to cause breakdown in the serially connected, unselected cells in a specific embodiment. Methods to fabricate of such devices and to program, to erase and to read the device are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, April 03, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/678112 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 13/003 (20130101) G11C 13/004 (20130101) G11C 13/0007 (20130101) G11C 13/0069 (20130101) G11C 13/0097 (20130101) G11C 2213/33 (20130101) G11C 2213/76 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/2409 (20130101) H01L 27/2463 (20130101) H01L 45/04 (20130101) H01L 45/08 (20130101) H01L 45/12 (20130101) H01L 45/14 (20130101) H01L 45/085 (20130101) H01L 45/141 (20130101) H01L 45/146 (20130101) H01L 45/148 (20130101) H01L 45/1233 (20130101) H01L 45/1616 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements H02H 9/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09628086 | He et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ting He (Cleveland, Ohio); Fengchao Zhang (Cleveland, Ohio); Swarup Bhunia (Cleveland, Ohio); Philip X. -L. Feng (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An antifuse apparatus can include a cantilever extending from a first electrode portion to terminate in a distal end. A second electrode portion can be spaced apart from the cantilever by an air gap. In response to a program voltage across the first and second electrode portions, the cantilever can be adapted to move from an unprogrammed condition, corresponding to an open circuit condition where the cantilever is spaced apart from the second electrode portion, to at least one permanent programmed condition, corresponding to a short circuit condition between the first and second electrode portions where the cantilever engages the second electrode portion. |
| FILED | Friday, November 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/542343 |
| ART UNIT | 2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 27/025 (20130101) Static Stores G11C 17/16 (20130101) G11C 17/18 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/62 (20130101) H01L 23/544 (20130101) H01L 23/573 (20130101) H01L 23/576 (20130101) H01L 23/5252 (20130101) H01L 23/5382 (20130101) H01L 24/32 (20130101) H01L 24/48 (20130101) H01L 24/49 (20130101) H01L 24/73 (20130101) H01L 2223/5444 (20130101) H01L 2224/49 (20130101) H01L 2224/05554 (20130101) H01L 2224/29099 (20130101) H01L 2224/32225 (20130101) H01L 2224/32225 (20130101) H01L 2224/32225 (20130101) H01L 2224/45099 (20130101) H01L 2224/48091 (20130101) H01L 2224/48091 (20130101) H01L 2224/48227 (20130101) H01L 2224/48227 (20130101) H01L 2224/48227 (20130101) H01L 2224/73265 (20130101) H01L 2224/73265 (20130101) H01L 2224/73265 (20130101) H01L 2924/00012 (20130101) H01L 2924/00012 (20130101) H01L 2924/00012 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/181 (20130101) H01L 2924/181 (20130101) H01L 2924/15184 (20130101) H01L 2924/15311 (20130101) H01L 2924/15311 (20130101) H01L 2924/19107 (20130101) Pulse Technique H03K 19/17704 (20130101) H03K 19/17724 (20130101) H03K 19/17768 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09628179 | Fleischer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason W Fleischer (Princeton, New Jersey); Dmitry V Dylov (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for filtering and enhancing signals from a noise background based on the nonlinear interaction of waves. The system and method amplify low-level signals, hide information in the signals, and then nonlinearly recover the signals. With the present invention, this can be performed for both spatial beams and temporal pulses. The signal self-filters and self-amplifies at the expense of the surrounding noise via the nonlinear medium. |
| FILED | Friday, March 22, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/849317 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/0029 (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 1/3511 (20130101) G02F 2202/13 (20130101) G02F 2203/15 (20130101) Transmission H04B 10/2507 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09628272 | Rostami et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY (Houston, Texas); MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY (Houston, Texas); MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Masoud Rostami (Houston, Texas); Mehrdad Majzoobi (Houston, Texas); Farinaz Koushanfar (Houston, Texas); Daniel S. Wallach (Houston, Texas); Srinivas Devadas (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Mechanisms for operating a prover device and a verifier device so that the verifier device can verify the authenticity of the prover device. The prover device generates a data string by: (a) submitting a challenge to a physical unclonable function (PUF) to obtain a response string, (b) selecting a substring from the response string, (c) injecting the selected substring into the data string, and (d) injecting random bits into bit positions of the data string not assigned to the selected substring. The verifier: (e) generates an estimated response string by evaluating a computational model of the PUF based on the challenge; (f) performs a search process to identify the selected substring within the data string using the estimated response string; and (g) determines whether the prover device is authentic based on a measure of similarity between the identified substring and a corresponding substring of the estimated response string. |
| FILED | Friday, January 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/147230 |
| ART UNIT | 2491 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Ciphering or Deciphering Apparatus for Cryptographic or Other Purposes Involving the Need for Secrecy G09C 1/00 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/0866 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 9/3271 (20130101) H04L 9/3278 (20130101) H04L 2209/24 (20130101) |
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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 (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith P. Johnston (Austin, Texas); Joshua Engstrom (Spotswood, New Jersey); Robert O. Williams, III (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes compositions and methods for preparing micron-sized or submicron-sized particles by dissolving a water soluble effective ingredient in one or more solvents; spraying or dripping droplets solvent such that the effective ingredient is exposed to a vapor-liquid interface of less than 50, 100, 150, 200, 250, 200, 400 or 500 cm−1 area/volume to, e.g., increase protein stability; and contacting the droplet with a freezing surface that has a temperature differential of at least 30° C. between the droplet and the surface, wherein the surface freezes the droplet into a thin film with a thickness of less than 500 micrometers and a surface area to volume between 25 to 500 cm−1. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/603211 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/1658 (20130101) A61K 9/1682 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Separation B01D 9/005 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2982 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
09623369 — Hollow fiber apparatus and use thereof for fluids separations and heat and mass transfers
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| APPLICANT(S) | Benjamin Bikson (Newton, Massachusetts); Stephen Etter (Hamden, Connecticut); Nathaniel Ching (Middletown, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | POROGEN CORPORATION (Woburn, Massachusetts); VALCOR ENGINEERING CORPORATION (Springfield Township, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Bikson (Newton, Massachusetts); Stephen Etter (Hamden, Connecticut); Nathaniel Ching (Middletown, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A hollow fiber fluid separation device includes a hollow fiber cartridge, comprising a plurality of hollow fiber membranes arranged around a central tubular core, a first tubesheet and a second tubesheet encapsulating respective distal ends of the hollow fiber bundle. The tubesheets have boreholes in fluid communication with bores of the hollow fiber membrane. In at least one of the tubesheets, the boreholes are formed radially and are in communication with the central tubular core. The hollow fiber fluid separation device can be utilized in liquid separation applications such as ultrafiltration and in gas separation processes such as air separation. The design disclosed herein is light weight and compact and is particularly advantageous at high operating temperatures when the pressure of the feed fluid introduced into the bores of hollow fibers is higher than the pressure on the shell side of the device. |
| FILED | Friday, June 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/492757 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 1/22 (20130101) B01D 53/228 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 63/02 (20130101) B01D 2313/10 (20130101) B01D 2313/12 (20130101) Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 37/32 (20130101) Heat-exchange Apparatus, Not Provided for in Another Subclass, in Which the Heat-exchange Media Do Not Come into Direct Contact F28D 7/024 (20130101) F28D 7/1669 (20130101) F28D 15/00 (20130101) F28D 21/0015 (20130101) F28D 2021/0021 (20130101) Details of Heat-exchange and Heat-transfer Apparatus, of General Application F28F 1/00 (20130101) F28F 9/026 (20130101) F28F 21/062 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/44 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/139 (20150115) Y10T 428/1393 (20150115) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. Pierce (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for digestion and gasification of graphite for removal from an underlying surface is described. The method can be utilized to remove graphite remnants of a formation process from the formed metal piece in a cleaning process. The method can be particularly beneficial in cleaning castings formed with graphite molding materials. The method can utilize vaporous nitric acid (HNO3) or vaporous HNO3 with air/oxygen to digest the graphite at conditions that can avoid damage to the underlying surface. |
| FILED | Monday, September 28, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/867644 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/62 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 2251/604 (20130101) B01D 2252/20484 (20130101) B01D 2258/0216 (20130101) |
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| US 09623404 | Hupp et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph T. Hupp (Northfield, Illinois); Omar K. Farha (Morton Grove, Illinois); Michael J. Katz (Evanston, Illinois); Joseph E. Mondloch (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of using a metal organic framework (MOF) comprising a metal ion and an at least bidendate organic ligand to catalytically detoxify chemical warfare nerve agents including exposing the metal-organic-framework (MOF) to the chemical warfare nerve agent and catalytically decomposing the nerve agent with the MOF. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/585718 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices, Apparatus or Methods for Life-saving A62B 7/10 (20130101) Chemical Means for Extinguishing Fires or for Combating or Protecting Against Harmful Chemical Agents; Chemical Materials for Use in Breathing Apparatus A62D 3/35 (20130101) A62D 9/00 (20130101) A62D 2101/02 (20130101) Separation B01D 53/04 (20130101) B01D 2253/204 (20130101) B01D 2253/306 (20130101) B01D 2253/308 (20130101) B01D 2257/408 (20130101) B01D 2259/4583 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/226 (20130101) B01J 31/1691 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 35/023 (20130101) B01J 35/1019 (20130101) B01J 35/1023 (20130101) B01J 35/1028 (20130101) B01J 35/1057 (20130101) B01J 35/1061 (20130101) B01J 2531/46 (20130101) B01J 2531/48 (20130101) B01J 2531/49 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 7/006 (20130101) |
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| US 09623761 | Gale et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Allan Roy Gale (Livonia, Michigan); Paul Theodore Momcilovich (Tecumseh, Michigan); Michael W. Degner (Novi, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Dearborn, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allan Roy Gale (Livonia, Michigan); Paul Theodore Momcilovich (Tecumseh, Michigan); Michael W. Degner (Novi, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A vehicle may include a battery that receives energy from a charge station remote from the vehicle, and a controller. The controller may request that the station provide information about an electrical parameter associated with energy being supplied by the station, may determine information about an electrical parameter associated with energy received by the battery, and may prevent the battery from further receiving energy if the provided information is different than the determined information. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/975926 |
| ART UNIT | 2684 — Telemetry and Code Generation Vehicles and System Alarms |
| CURRENT CPC | Propulsion of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Supplying Electric Power for Auxiliary Equipment of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Electrodynamic Brake Systems for Vehicles in General; Magnetic Suspension or Levitation for Vehicles; Monitoring Operating Variables of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Electric Safety Devices for Electrically-propelled Vehicles B60L 3/04 (20130101) B60L 3/0046 (20130101) B60L 11/1816 (20130101) B60L 11/1838 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B60L 11/1846 (20130101) B60L 2210/30 (20130101) B60L 2240/80 (20130101) B60L 2240/547 (20130101) B60L 2240/549 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 7/0004 (20130101) H02J 7/0027 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/7005 (20130101) Y02T 10/7055 (20130101) Y02T 10/7072 (20130101) Y02T 10/7241 (20130101) Y02T 90/14 (20130101) Y02T 90/121 (20130101) Y02T 90/127 (20130101) Y02T 90/128 (20130101) Y02T 90/163 (20130101) Y02T 90/169 (20130101) Systems Integrating Technologies Related to Power Network Operation, Communication or Information Technologies for Improving the Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management or Usage, i.e Smart Grids Y04S 30/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09624481 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Novozymes Inc. (Davis, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ye Liu (Beijing, China PRC); Lan Tang (Beijing, China PRC); Yu Zhang (Beijing, China PRC); Junxin Duan (Beijing, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are isolated polypeptides having beta-xylosidase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. Also provided are nucleic acid constructs, vectors and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/357611 |
| ART UNIT | 1663 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/2434 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 19/14 (20130101) C12P 2203/00 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 302/01037 (20130101) |
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| US 09624482 | Sapra et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rajat Sapra (Berkeley, California); Joshua I. Park (El Cerrito, California); Supratim Datta (Oakland, California); Blake A. Simmons (San Francisco, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajat Sapra (Berkeley, California); Joshua I. Park (El Cerrito, California); Supratim Datta (Oakland, California); Blake A. Simmons (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a composition comprising a polypeptide comprising a first amino acid sequence having at least 70% identity with the amino acid sequence of Csac GH5 wherein said first amino acid sequence has a thermostable or thermophilic cellobiohydrolase (CBH) or exoglucanase activity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/892724 |
| 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 9/2437 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/14 (20130101) C12P 2201/00 (20130101) C12P 2203/00 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 302/01091 (20130101) |
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| US 09624518 | Shaghasi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tarana Shaghasi (Dixon, California); Brett McBrayer (Sacramento, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tarana Shaghasi (Dixon, California); Brett McBrayer (Sacramento, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for degrading or converting a cellulosic material and for producing substances from the cellulosic material under high temperature conditions. |
| FILED | Friday, April 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/112023 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/37 (20130101) Detergent Compositions; Use of Single Substances as Detergents; Soap or Soap-making; Resin Soaps; Recovery of Glycerol C11D 3/386 (20130101) C11D 3/3869 (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 19/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09624538 | Church et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | George M. Church (Brookline, Massachusetts); Gregory J. Porreca (Ocean City, New Jersey); Jay Shendure (Chagrin Fall, Ohio); Abraham Meir Rosenbaum (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George M. Church (Brookline, Massachusetts); Gregory J. Porreca (Ocean City, New Jersey); Jay Shendure (Chagrin Fall, Ohio); Abraham Meir Rosenbaum (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for sequencing a polynucleotide immobilized on an array having a plurality of specific regions each having a defined diameter size, including synthesizing a concatemer of a polynucleotide by rolling circle amplification, wherein the concatemer has a cross-sectional diameter greater than the diameter of a specific region, immobilizing the concatemer to the specific region to make an immobilized concatemer, and sequencing the immobilized concatemer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/120541 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6874 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6874 (20130101) C12Q 2531/125 (20130101) C12Q 2563/155 (20130101) C12Q 2565/513 (20130101) |
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| US 09624598 | Wong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanislaus Wong (Stony Brook, New York); Christopher Koenigsmann (Mahopac, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes a method of producing a segmented 1D nanostructure. The method includes providing a vessel containing a template wherein on one side of the template is a first metal reagent solution and on the other side of the template is a reducing agent solution, wherein the template comprises at least one pore; allowing a first segment of a 1D nanostructure to grow within a pore of the template until a desired length is reached; replacing the first metal reagent solution with a second metal reagent solution; allowing a second segment of a 1D nanostructure to grow from the first segment until a desired length is reached, wherein a segmented 1D nanostructure is produced. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/011864 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 1/0025 (20130101) B22F 9/24 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 7/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C30B 29/02 (20130101) C30B 29/52 (20130101) C30B 29/60 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/12493 (20150115) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Jay Pasch (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure is directed to a cascaded recompression closed Brayton cycle (CRCBC) system and method of operation thereof, where the CRCBC system includes a compressor for compressing the system fluid, a separator for generating fluid feed streams for each of the system's turbines, and separate segments of a heater that heat the fluid feed streams to different feed temperatures for the system's turbines. Fluid exiting each turbine is used to preheat the fluid to the turbine. In an embodiment, the amount of heat extracted is determined by operational costs. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/266184 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Steam Engine Plants; Steam Accumulators; Engine Plants Not Otherwise Provided For; Engines Using Special Working Fluids or Cycles F01K 7/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F01K 19/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09625373 | Tate et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James D. Tate (Lake Jackson, Texas); Christopher J. Reed (Port Allen, Louisiana); Christopher H. Domke (Rosharon, Texas); Linh Le (Lake Jackson, Texas); Mary Beth Seasholtz (Sanford, Michigan); Andy Weber (Brazoria, Texas); Charles Lipp (Lake Jackson, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dow Global Technology LLC (Midland, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James D. Tate (Lake Jackson, Texas); Christopher J. Reed (Port Allen, Louisiana); Christopher H. Domke (Rosharon, Texas); Linh Le (Lake Jackson, Texas); Mary Beth Seasholtz (Sanford, Michigan); Andy Weber (Brazoria, Texas); Charles Lipp (Lake Jackson, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus for spectroscopic analysis which includes a tunable diode laser spectrometer having a digital output signal and a digital computer for receiving the digital output signal from the spectrometer, the digital computer programmed to process the digital output signal using a multivariate regression algorithm. In addition, a spectroscopic method of analysis using such apparatus. Finally, a method for controlling an ethylene cracker hydrogenator. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/885212 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/39 (20130101) G01N 21/3504 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/10 (20130101) G06F 17/11 (20130101) G06F 19/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09625387 | Demos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California); THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stavros Demos (Livermore, California); Richard Levenson (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to a method for analyzing tissue specimens. In one implementation the method involves obtaining a tissue sample and exposing the sample to one or more fluorophores as contrast agents to enhance contrast of subcellular compartments of the tissue sample. The tissue sample is illuminated by an ultraviolet (UV) light having a wavelength between about 200 nm to about 400 nm, with the wavelength being selected to result in penetration to only a specified depth below a surface of the tissue sample. Inter-image operations between images acquired under different imaging parameters allow for improvement of the image quality via removal of unwanted image components. A microscope may be used to image the tissue sample and provide the image to an image acquisition system that makes use of a camera. The image acquisition system may create a corresponding image that is transmitted to a display system for processing and display. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/487997 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0071 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6428 (20130101) G01N 21/6445 (20130101) G01N 21/6458 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/6486 (20130101) G01N 2021/6419 (20130101) G01N 2021/6421 (20130101) G01N 2021/6441 (20130101) G01N 2201/062 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles Keith Sword (North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Keith Sword (North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A scanner system and method for acquisition of position-based ultrasonic inspection data are described. The scanner system includes an inspection probe and a first non-contact linear encoder having a first sensor and a first scale to track inspection probe position. The first sensor is positioned to maintain a continuous non-contact interface between the first sensor and the first scale and to maintain a continuous alignment of the first sensor with the inspection probe. The scanner system may be used to acquire two-dimensional inspection probe position data by including a second non-contact linear encoder having a second sensor and a second scale, the second sensor positioned to maintain a continuous non-contact interface between the second sensor and the second scale and to maintain a continuous alignment of the second sensor with the first sensor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/254058 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 29/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 29/225 (20130101) G01N 29/262 (20130101) G01N 29/265 (20130101) G01N 2291/106 (20130101) |
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| US 09625454 | Strey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Helmut Strey (Stony Brook, New York); Robert Kimmerling (Shirley, New York); Tomasz Bakowski (Levittown, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Helmut Strey (Stony Brook, New York); Robert Kimmerling (Shirley, New York); Tomasz Bakowski (Levittown, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The compositions and methods described herein are designed to introduce functionalized microparticles into droplets that can be manipulated in microfluidic devices by fields, including electric (dielectrophoretic) or magnetic fields, and extracted by splitting a droplet to separate the portion of the droplet that contains the majority of the microparticles from the part that is largely devoid of the microparticles. Within the device, channels are variously configured at Y- or T junctions that facilitate continuous, serial isolation and dilution of analytes in solution. The devices can be limited in the sense that they can be designed to output purified analytes that are then further analyzed in separate machines or they can include additional channels through which purified analytes can be further processed and analyzed. |
| FILED | Friday, September 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/875914 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 3/502776 (20130101) B01L 3/502784 (20130101) B01L 7/52 (20130101) B01L 2200/0647 (20130101) B01L 2300/0864 (20130101) B01L 2400/043 (20130101) B01L 2400/0487 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/686 (20130101) C12Q 1/686 (20130101) C12Q 2563/159 (20130101) C12Q 2565/629 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/54313 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kevin L. Gering (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BATTELLE ENERGY ALLIANCE, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin L. Gering (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system, and computer-readable medium are described for characterizing performance loss of an object undergoing an arbitrary aging condition. Baseline aging data may be collected from the object for at least one known baseline aging condition over time, determining baseline multiple sigmoid model parameters from the baseline data, and performance loss of the object may be determined over time through multiple sigmoid model parameters associated with the object undergoing the arbitrary aging condition using a differential deviation-from-baseline approach from the baseline multiple sigmoid model parameters. The system may include an object, monitoring hardware configured to sample performance characteristics of the object, and a processor coupled to the monitoring hardware. The processor is configured to determine performance loss for the arbitrary aging condition from a comparison of the performance characteristics of the object deviating from baseline performance characteristics associated with a baseline aging condition. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/598290 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 31/3651 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 31/3679 (20130101) |
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| US 09625588 | Frisch et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois); Minotech Engineering, Inc. (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois); Minotech Engineering, Inc. (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henry Frisch (Chicago, Illinois); Fukun Tang (Chicago, Illinois); Herve Grabas (Louvecienne, France); Eric J. Oberla (Chicago, Illinois); Michael Minot (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Large-area, flat-panel photo-detectors with sub-nanosecond time resolution based on microchannel plates are provided. The large-area, flat-panel photo-detectors enable the economic construction of sampling calorimeters with, for example, enhanced capability to measure local energy deposition, depth-of-interaction, time-of-flight, and/or directionality of showers. In certain embodiments, sub-nanosecond timing resolution supplies correlated position and time measurements over large areas. The use of thin flat-panel viewing radiators on both sides of a radiation-creating medium allows simultaneous measurement of Cherenkov and scintillation radiation in each layer of the calorimeter. The detectors may be used in a variety of applications including, for example, medical imaging, security, and particle and nuclear physics. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 29, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/982387 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/208 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01T 1/363 (20130101) G01T 1/2928 (20130101) G01T 1/2985 (20130101) |
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| US 09625785 | Zortman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William A. Zortman (Corrales, New Mexico); Anthony L. Lentine (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A photonic device is provided for impressing a modulation pattern on an optical carrier. The device includes a unit in which a photodetector and an optical microresonator are monolithically integrated. The device further includes an optical waveguide evanescently coupled to the optical microresonator and having at least an upstream portion configured to carry at least one optical carrier toward the microresonator. The optical microresonator is tunable so as to resonate with the optical carrier frequency. The optical microresonator and the photodetector are mutually coupled such that in operation, charge carriers photogenerated in the photodetector are injected into the microresonator, where the photocurrent changes the resonant conditions. In some embodiments the device is operable as an optical-to-optical frequency converter. In other embodiments the device is operable as an oscillator. |
| FILED | Monday, December 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/563860 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/43 (20130101) G02B 6/356 (20130101) G02B 6/3598 (20130101) G02B 6/4274 (20130101) G02B 6/4291 (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 1/3132 (20130101) G02F 1/3136 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09626608 | Bobbitt, III |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC. (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. Bobbitt, III (Evans, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for forming an identifying mark in a structure are described. The method is used in conjunction with an additive manufacturing method and includes the alteration of a process parameter during the manufacturing process. The method can form in a unique identifying mark within or on the surface of a structure that is virtually impossible to be replicated. Methods can provide a high level of confidence that the identifying mark will remain unaltered on the formed structure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 01, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/955222 |
| ART UNIT | 2876 — Optics |
| 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 67/0055 (20130101) B29C 67/0077 (20130101) B29C 67/0081 (20130101) Additive Manufacturing, i.e Manufacturing of Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects by Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration or Additive Layering, e.g by 3-d Printing, Stereolithography or Selective Laser Sintering B33Y 10/00 (20141201) B33Y 80/00 (20141201) Printing, Duplicating, Marking, or Copying Processes; Colour Printing, B41M 3/14 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 7/10722 (20130101) G06K 19/06037 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | LightSpin Technologies, Inc. (Endicott, New York) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Eric S. Harmon (Norfolk, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure includes devices for detecting photons, including avalanche photon detectors, arrays of such detectors, and circuits including such arrays. In some aspects, the detectors and arrays include a virtual beveled edge mesa structure surrounded by resistive material damaged by ion implantation and having side wall profiles that taper inwardly towards the top of the mesa structures, or towards the direction from which the ion implantation occurred. Other aspects are directed to masking and multiple implantation and/or annealing steps. Furthermore, methods for fabricating and using such devices, circuits and arrays are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/718352 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/1446 (20130101) H01L 27/14609 (20130101) H01L 27/14643 (20130101) H01L 27/14683 (20130101) H01L 31/107 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/0352 (20130101) H01L 31/1844 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/544 (20130101) |
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| US 09627652 | Bhandari et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vitro S.A.B. de C.V. (Neuvo Leon, Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vitro, S.A.B. de C.V. (Nuevo León, Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abhinav Bhandari (Cranberry, Pennsylvania); Harry Buhay (Allison Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An organic light emitting diode (10) includes a substrate (20), a first electrode (12), an emissive active stack (14), and a second electrode (18). At least one of the first and second electrodes (12, 18) is a light extracting electrode (26) having a metallic layer (28). The metallic layer (28) includes light scattering features (29) on and/or in the metallic layer (28). The light extracting features (29) increase light extraction from the organic light emitting diode (10). |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/519773 |
| ART UNIT | 2898 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/56 (20130101) H01L 51/5203 (20130101) H01L 51/5215 (20130101) H01L 51/5262 (20130101) H01L 51/5268 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 2251/5369 (20130101) |
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| US 09627671 | Lu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. (Camas, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. (Camas, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuhao Lu (Vancouver, Washington); Long Wang (Vancouver, Washington); Jong-Jan Lee (Camas, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for forming a metal battery electrode with a pyrolyzed coating. The method provides a metallorganic compound of metal (Me) and materials such as carbon (C), sulfur (S), nitrogen (N), oxygen (O), and combinations of the above-listed materials, expressed as MeXCYNZSXXOYY, where Me is a metal such as tin (Sn), antimony (Sb), or lead (Pb), or a metal alloy. The method heats the metallorganic compound, and as a result of the heating, decomposes materials in the metallorganic compound. In one aspect, decomposing the materials in the metallorganic compound includes forming a chemical reaction between the Me particles and the materials. An electrode is formed of Me particles coated by the materials. In another aspect, the Me particles coated with a material such as a carbide, a nitride, a sulfide, or combinations of the above-listed materials. |
| FILED | Friday, February 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/193782 |
| ART UNIT | 1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 17/02 (20130101) C01B 19/02 (20130101) C01B 25/003 (20130101) C01B 31/00 (20130101) C01B 33/021 (20130101) Ammonia; Cyanogen; Compounds Thereof C01C 3/12 (20130101) Compounds of Alkali Metals, i.e Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, Caesium, or Francium C01D 1/02 (20130101) C01D 15/02 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 2/1653 (20130101) H01M 2/1686 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/04 (20130101) H01M 4/38 (20130101) H01M 4/049 (20130101) H01M 4/56 (20130101) H01M 4/58 (20130101) H01M 4/131 (20130101) H01M 4/133 (20130101) H01M 4/134 (20130101) H01M 4/136 (20130101) H01M 4/381 (20130101) H01M 4/382 (20130101) H01M 4/387 (20130101) H01M 4/0404 (20130101) H01M 4/0416 (20130101) H01M 4/0452 (20130101) H01M 4/0471 (20130101) H01M 4/485 (20130101) H01M 4/0495 (20130101) H01M 4/0497 (20130101) H01M 4/505 (20130101) H01M 4/587 (20130101) H01M 4/628 (20130101) H01M 4/1391 (20130101) H01M 4/1395 (20130101) H01M 4/1397 (20130101) H01M 4/5825 (20130101) H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 10/054 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) H01M 10/0565 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 7/0042 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49108 (20150115) |
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| US 09627691 | Xing et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ADA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ADA Technologies, Inc. (Littleton, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Weibing Xing (Littleton, Colorado); Josh Buettner-Garrett (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates generally to cathode materials for electrochemical energy cells, more particularly to metal/air electrochemical energy cell cathode materials containing silver vanadium oxide and methods of making and using the same. The metal/air electrochemical energy cell can be a lithium/air electrochemical energy cell. Moreover the silver vanadium oxide can be a catalyst for one or more of oxidation and reduction processes of the electrochemical energy cell. |
| FILED | Friday, February 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/175873 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/02 (20130101) H01M 4/382 (20130101) H01M 4/9016 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 12/08 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/50 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/298 (20150115) Y10T 428/2982 (20150115) |
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| US 09627712 | Cheng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gang Cheng (Naperville, Illinois); Daniel P. Abraham (Bolingbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an electrolyte for lithium and/or lithium-ion batteries comprising a lithium salt in a liquid carrier comprising heteroaromatic compound including a five-membered or six-membered heteroaromatic ring moiety selected from the group consisting of a furan, a pyrazine, a triazine, a pyrrole, and a thiophene, the heteroaromatic ring moiety bearing least one carboxylic ester or carboxylic anhydride substituent bound to at least one carbon atom of the heteroaromatic ring. Preferred heteroaromatic ring moieties include pyridine compounds, pyrazine compounds, pyrrole compounds, furan compounds, and thiophene compounds. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/179051 |
| ART UNIT | 1729 — 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) Original (OR) Class H01M 10/0525 (20130101) H01M 10/0567 (20130101) H01M 10/0568 (20130101) H01M 10/0569 (20130101) H01M 2300/0028 (20130101) |
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| US 09627777 | Benzel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David M. Benzel (Livermore, California); Richard E. Twogood (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California); Dirac Solutions, Inc. (Pleasanton, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Benzel (Livermore, California); Richard E. Twogood (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Two or more Vivaldi antennas, consisting of two plates each, each with the antenna's natural impedance of approximately 100 ohms, are placed in parallel to achieve a 50 ohm impedance in the case of two antennas or other impedances (100/n ohms) for more than two antennas. A single Vivaldi antenna plate (half Vivaldi antenna) over a ground plane can also be used to achieve a 50 ohm impedance, or two or more single plates over a ground plane to achieve other impedances. Unbalanced 50 ohm transmission lines, e.g. coaxial cables, can be used to directly feed, the dual Vivaldi (four plate) antenna in a center fed angled center departure, or more desirably, a center fed offset departure configuration. |
| FILED | Friday, August 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/572234 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 13/085 (20130101) H01Q 21/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09628179 | Fleischer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason W Fleischer (Princeton, New Jersey); Dmitry V Dylov (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for filtering and enhancing signals from a noise background based on the nonlinear interaction of waves. The system and method amplify low-level signals, hide information in the signals, and then nonlinearly recover the signals. With the present invention, this can be performed for both spatial beams and temporal pulses. The signal self-filters and self-amplifies at the expense of the surrounding noise via the nonlinear medium. |
| FILED | Friday, March 22, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/849317 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/0029 (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 1/3511 (20130101) G02F 2202/13 (20130101) G02F 2203/15 (20130101) Transmission H04B 10/2507 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09628339 | Thai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tan Q. Thai (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Vincent Urias (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Brian P. Van Leeuwen (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Kristopher K. Watts (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Andrew John Sweeney (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of network testbed creation and validation processes are described herein. A “network testbed” is a replicated environment used to validate a target network or an aspect of its design. Embodiments describe a network testbed that comprises virtual testbed nodes executed via a plurality of physical infrastructure nodes. The virtual testbed nodes utilize these hardware resources as a network “fabric,” thereby enabling rapid configuration and reconfiguration of the virtual testbed nodes without requiring reconfiguration of the physical infrastructure nodes. Thus, in contrast to prior art solutions which require a tester manually build an emulated environment of physically connected network devices, embodiments receive or derive a target network description and build out a replica of this description using virtual testbed nodes executed via the physical infrastructure nodes. This process allows for the creation of very large (e.g., tens of thousands of network elements) and/or very topologically complex test networks. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 22, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/359416 |
| ART UNIT | 2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 12/4641 (20130101) H04L 41/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 67/10 (20130101) H04L 67/42 (20130101) |
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| US 09629230 | Douglas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | JEFFERSON SCIENCE ASSOCIATES, LLC (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | JEFFERSON SCIENCE ASSOCIATES, LLC (Newport News, Virginia); ASML NETHERLANDS B.V. (Veldhoven, Netherlands) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Douglas (Yorktown, Virginia); Lucas J. P. Ament (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of controlling e-beam transport where electron bunches with different characteristics travel through the same beam pipe. An RF kicker cavity is added at the beginning of the common transport pipe or at various locations along the common transport path to achieve independent control of different bunch types. RF energy is applied by the kicker cavity kicks some portion of the electron bunches, separating the bunches in phase space to allow independent control via optics, or separating bunches into different beam pipes. The RF kicker cavity is operated at a specific frequency to enable kicking of different types of bunches in different directions. The phase of the cavity is set such that the selected type of bunch passes through the cavity when the RF field is at a node, leaving that type of bunch unaffected. Beam optics may be added downstream of the kicker cavity to cause a further separation in phase space. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 24, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/051758 |
| ART UNIT | 2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Plasma Technique; Production of Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles or of Neutrons; Production or Acceleration of Neutral Molecular or Atomic Beams H05H 7/02 (20130101) H05H 7/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05H 7/22 (20130101) H05H 2007/025 (20130101) |
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| US 09629231 | Douglas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | JEFFERSON SCIENCE ASSOCIATES, LLC (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | JEFFERSON SCIENCE ASSOCIATES, LLC (Newport News, Virginia); ASML NETHERLANDS B.V. (Veldhoven, Netherlands) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Douglas (Yorktown, Virginia); Lucas J. P. Ament (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for achieving independent control of multiple beams in close proximity to one another, such as in a multi-pass accelerator where coaxial beams are at different energies, but moving on a common axis, and need to be split into spatially separated beams for efficient recirculation transport. The method for independent control includes placing a magnet arrangement in the path of the barely separated beams with the magnet arrangement including at least two multipole magnets spaced closely together and having a multipole distribution including at least one odd multipole and one even multipole. The magnetic fields are then tuned to cancel out for a first of the barely separated beams to allow independent control of the second beam with common magnets. The magnetic fields may be tuned to cancel out either the dipole component or tuned to cancel out the quadrupole component in order to independently control the separate beams. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 24, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/051782 |
| ART UNIT | 2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Plasma Technique; Production of Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles or of Neutrons; Production or Acceleration of Neutral Molecular or Atomic Beams H05H 7/04 (20130101) H05H 7/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05H 9/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09623324 | Pope 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) | Alan T. Pope (Poquoson, Virginia); Chad L. Stephens (Poquoson, Virginia); Nina Marie Blanson (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | New types of controllers allow a player to make inputs to a video game or simulation by moving the entire controller itself or by gesturing or by moving the player's body in whole or in part. This capability is typically accomplished using a wireless input device having accelerometers, gyroscopes, and a camera. The present invention exploits these wireless motion-sensing technologies to modulate the player's movement inputs to the videogame based upon physiological signals. Such biofeedback-modulated video games train valuable mental skills beyond eye-hand coordination. These psychophysiological training technologies enhance personal improvement, not just the diversion, of the user. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/212159 |
| ART UNIT | 3715 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Card, Board, or Roulette Games; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing Bodies; Video Games; Games Not Otherwise Provided for A63F 13/42 (20140902) A63F 13/211 (20140902) Original (OR) Class A63F 13/212 (20140902) A63F 13/213 (20140902) |
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| US 09623364 | Hernandez-Maldonado et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arturo J Hernandez-Maldonado (Mayaguez, Puerto Rico); Milton E Rivera-Ramos (Ponce, Puerto Rico); Ana G Arevalo-Hidalgo (Mayaguez, Puerto Rico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Puerto Rico (San Juan, Puerto Rico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arturo J Hernandez-Maldonado (Mayaguez, Puerto Rico); Milton E Rivera-Ramos (Ponce, Puerto Rico); Ana G Arevalo-Hidalgo (Mayaguez, Puerto Rico) |
| ABSTRACT | Na+-SAPO-34 sorbents were ion-exchanged with several individual metal cations for CO2 absorption at different temperatures (273-348 K) and pressures (<1 atm). In general, the overall adsorption performance of the exchanged materials increased as follows: Ce3+<Ti3+<Mg2+<Ca2+<Ag+<Na+<Sr2+. The strontium exchanged materials excelled at low-pressure ranges, exhibiting very sharp isotherms slopes at all temperatures. The Sr2+ species were responsible for the surface strong interaction and the cations were occupying exposed sites (SII′) in the materials Chabazite cages. All the sorbent materials exhibited higher affinity for CO2 over the other gases tested (i.e., CH4, H2, N2 and O2) due to strong ion-quadrupole interactions. Sr2+-SAPO-34 sorbents are by far the best option for CO2 removal from CH4 mixtures, especially at low concentrations. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 24, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/245588 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 2253/25 (20130101) B01D 2253/108 (20130101) B01D 2253/308 (20130101) B01D 2257/504 (20130101) |
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| US 09623952 | Jones et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael G. Jones (Newport News, Virginia); Russell H. Thomas (Yorktown, Virginia); Douglas M. Nark (Norfolk, Virginia); Brian M. Howerton (Newport News, Virginia); Michael J. Czech (Issaquah, Washington) |
| 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) | Michael G. Jones (Newport News, Virginia); Russell H. Thomas (Yorktown, Virginia); Douglas M. Nark (Norfolk, Virginia); Brian M. Howerton (Newport News, Virginia); Michael J. Czech (Issaquah, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Acoustic liners for aircraft noise reduction include one or more chambers that are configured to provide a pressure-release surface such that the engine noise generation process is inhibited and/or absorb sound by converting the sound into heat energy. The size and shape of the chambers can be selected to inhibit the noise generation process and/or absorb sound at selected frequencies. |
| FILED | Monday, March 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/417351 |
| ART UNIT | 3647 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 1/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B64C 2025/003 (20130101) B64C 2220/00 (20130101) B64C 2230/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09624791 | Weir |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Don Weir (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A noise suppression apparatus includes a body portion including a plurality of nested channels, each channel of the plurality of nested channels including a first end opening and a second end opening, and a surface portion including each first end opening and each second end opening of each channel. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/483730 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| 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 67/0055 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29C, Relating to Particular Articles B29L 2009/00 (20130101) Additive Manufacturing, i.e Manufacturing of Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects by Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration or Additive Layering, e.g by 3-d Printing, Stereolithography or Selective Laser Sintering B33Y 10/00 (20141201) Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 33/06 (20130101) B64D 2033/0206 (20130101) General Building Constructions; Walls, e.g Partitions; Roofs; Floors; Ceilings; Insulation or Other Protection of Buildings E04B 1/84 (20130101) Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 9/04 (20130101) F01D 25/24 (20130101) F01D 25/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 7/045 (20130101) Jet-propulsion Plants F02K 1/827 (20130101) Non-positive-displacement Pumps F04D 29/526 (20130101) F04D 29/545 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2260/96 (20130101) Sound-producing Devices; Methods or Devices for Protecting Against, or for Damping, Noise or Other Acoustic Waves in General; Acoustics Not Otherwise Provided for G10K 11/172 (20130101) G10K 11/175 (20130101) |
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| US 09625878 | Fontecchio et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Adam K. Fontecchio (Exton, Pennsylvania); Kashma Rai (Malden, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam K. Fontecchio (Exton, Pennsylvania); Kashma Rai (Malden, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is a new holographic polymer dispersed liquid crystal (HPDLC) medium with broadband reflective properties, and a new technique for fabrication of broadband HPDLC mediums. The new technique involves dynamic variation of the holography setup during HPDLC formation, enabling the broadening of the HPDLC medium's wavelength response. Dynamic variation of the holography setup may include the rotation and/or translation of one or more motorized stages, allowing for time and spatial, or angular, multiplexing through variation of the incident angles of one or more laser beams on a pre-polymer mixture during manufacture. An HPDLC medium manufactured using these techniques exhibits improved optical response by reflecting a broadband spectrum of wavelengths. A new broadband holographic polymer dispersed liquid crystal thin film polymeric mirror stack with electrically-switchable beam steering capability is disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/721161 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/29 (20130101) G02F 1/13342 (20130101) Holographic Processes or Apparatus G03H 1/04 (20130101) G03H 1/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G03H 2001/0439 (20130101) G03H 2001/0491 (20130101) G03H 2001/2263 (20130101) G03H 2222/36 (20130101) G03H 2250/38 (20130101) |
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| US 09625886 | Garg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanjay Garg (Westlake, Ohio); Ryan D. May (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A conditionally active limit regulator may be used to regulate the performance of engines or other limit regulated systems. A computing system may determine whether a variable to be limited is within a predetermined range of a limit value as a first condition. The computing system may also determine whether a current rate of increase or decrease of the variable to be limited is great enough that the variable will reach the limit within a predetermined period of time with no other changes as a second condition. When both conditions are true, the computing system may activate a simulated or physical limit regulator. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/900642 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 15/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09626566 | Versace et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Neurala, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Neurala, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Massimiliano Versace (Boston, Massachusetts); Anatoly Gorshechnikov (Newton, Massachusetts); Gennady Livitz (Belmont, Massachusetts); Jesse Palma (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Sensory processing of visual, auditory, and other sensor information (e.g., visual imagery, LIDAR, RADAR) is conventionally based on “stovepiped,” or isolated processing, with little interactions between modules. Biological systems, on the other hand, fuse multi-sensory information to identify nearby objects of interest more quickly, more efficiently, and with higher signal-to-noise ratios. Similarly, examples of the OpenSense technology disclosed herein use neurally inspired processing to identify and locate objects in a robot's environment. This enables the robot to navigate its environment more quickly and with lower computational and power requirements. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 19, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/662657 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 9/1697 (20130101) Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 2219/39082 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00664 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/3241 (20130101) G06K 9/4628 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/008 (20130101) G06N 3/049 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/004 (20130101) G06T 7/0044 (20130101) G06T 7/0081 (20130101) G06T 7/2093 (20130101) G06T 2207/20141 (20130101) G06T 2207/20144 (20130101) G06T 2207/30244 (20130101) |
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| US 09628263 | Baranauskas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pacific MicroCHIP Corp. (Culver City, California); California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PACIFIC MICROCHIP CORP. (Culver City, California); CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dalius Baranauskas (Culver City, California); Gytis Baranauskas (Culver City, California); Denis Zelenin (Culver City, California); Pekka Kangaslahti (Culver City, California); Alan B. Tanner (Culver City, California); Boon H. Lim (Culver City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one embodiment, a cross-correlator comprises a plurality of analog front ends (AFEs), a cross-correlation circuit and a data serializer. Each of the AFEs comprises a variable gain amplifier (VGA) and a corresponding analog-to-digital converter (ADC) in which the VGA receives and modifies a unique analog signal associates with a measured analog radio frequency (RF) signal and the ADC produces digital data associated with the modified analog signal. Communicatively coupled to the AFEs, the cross-correlation circuit performs a cross-correlation operation on the digital data produced from different measured analog RF signals. The data serializer is communicatively coupled to the summing and cross-correlating matrix and continuously outputs a prescribed amount of the correlated digital data. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/505428 |
| ART UNIT | 2182 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 7/185 (20130101) H04B 7/0848 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 7/042 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 09622479 | Sarker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Majher I. Sarker (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Lin S. Liu (Blue Bell, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds having one of the following formulae: wherein R1 and R2 are alkyl or aryl and R1 and R2 may be the same or different, wherein R1 is alkyl or aryl, or wherein alkyl is a linear or branched, saturated or unsaturated alkyl having C1-20 and wherein aryl is an aromatic ring having C1-15. Also methods of using the compounds, including method of inhibiting an ethylene response in a plant. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/749122 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 3/02 (20130101) A01N 55/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/027 (20130101) C07F 7/2212 (20130101) |
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| US 09622487 | Meyer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Susan Elizabeth Meyer (Elk Ridge, Utah); Suzette Clement (Mapleton, Utah); Julie Beckstead (Spokane, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); Gonzaga University (Spokane, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan Elizabeth Meyer (Elk Ridge, Utah); Suzette Clement (Mapleton, Utah); Julie Beckstead (Spokane, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Formulations having a selective, mycoherbicide activity for killing ungerminated seeds of invasive grass species are provided. An agricultural, mycoherbicide formulation is taught for killing ungerminated seeds of invasive grass species. The formulations can comprise, for example, a slow-growing strain of Pyrenophora semeniperda, a fast-growing strain of Pyrenophora semeniperda, or a combination thereof, and an agriculturally acceptable carrier. As such, the teachings include a composition comprising a mixture of a slow-growing strain of Pyrenophora semeniperda and a fast-growing strain of Pyrenophora semeniperda. The mixture of strains can be used to provide a mixture of virulence that is useful for killing carryover seed banks, with regard to both type and level of virulence. |
| FILED | Friday, July 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/560828 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 25/08 (20130101) A01N 63/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01N 63/04 (20130101) A01N 63/04 (20130101) A01N 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09623031 | Prabhu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE PENN STATE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE PENN STATE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kumble Sandeep Prabhu (State College, Pennsylvania); Robert Frank Paulson (State College, Pennsylvania); Shailaja Hegde (Union, Kentucky); Naveen Kaushal (Chandigarh, India); Ujjawal Hitendra Gandhi (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions, kits and methods for treating leukemia in a subject (e.g., human) include a first anti-cancer drug consisting of: Δ12-prostaglandin J3 or a derivative thereof, or a prostaglandin D receptor (DP) agonist. The compositions may further include a second anti-cancer drug. Δ12-prostaglandin J3 is a stable metabolite of omega-3 fatty acid, eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), and was discovered to have anti-leukemic properties. Δ12-prostaglandin J3 was shown to be highly effective in eradicating the leukemia stem cells (LSC) in two murine models of leukemia, thus increasing the survival of the mice. DP agonists were shown to induce apoptosis of human primary Acute Myelogenous Leukemia cells and may be used in compositions, kits and methods for treating leukemia in a subject. The compositions, kits and methods may be particularly useful for treating human subjects who are resistant to one or more anti-cancer drugs. |
| FILED | Friday, February 26, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/054403 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/202 (20130101) A61K 31/202 (20130101) A61K 31/506 (20130101) A61K 31/506 (20130101) A61K 31/5575 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09623123 | Liu |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michigan Technological University (Houghton, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (Houghton, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Haiying Liu (Houghton, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides various fluorescent conjugated polymers with a BODIPY-based backbone. The invention also provides methods of using the polymers of the invention, such as for imaging and detection of cells, tumors, bacteria and viruses. |
| FILED | Friday, July 22, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/217133 |
| 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 31/785 (20130101) A61K 31/787 (20130101) A61K 49/0054 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 61/124 (20130101) C08G 2261/3241 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6428 (20130101) G01N 33/574 (20130101) G01N 33/582 (20130101) G01N 33/56911 (20130101) G01N 33/56916 (20130101) G01N 33/56983 (20130101) G01N 2021/6439 (20130101) G01N 2333/11 (20130101) G01N 2333/33 (20130101) G01N 2333/245 (20130101) |
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| US 09624270 | Smith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE TEXAS A and M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (College Station, Texas); MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY (Starkville, Mississippi) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY (Starkville, Mississippi); THE TEXAS A and M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Leif Smith (College Station, Texas); Akshaya Ravichandran (College Station, Texas); Shien Lu (College Station, Texas); Ganyu Gu (Painter, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Occidiofungin is a cyclic nonribosomally synthesized antifungal peptide with submicromolar activity. This invention is directed to compositions enriched for particular occidiofungin diastereomers/conformers, methods of making compositions enriched for particular diastereomers/conformers and microorganisms suitable for producing enriched compositions of particular diastereomers/conformers. Methods of treating fungal infections or plants infected by fungi are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/090679 |
| 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 43/713 (20130101) A01N 63/00 (20130101) A01N 63/02 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/12 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/54 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 7/56 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/16 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 301/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09624311 | Edgar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kevin Edgar (Blacksburg, Virginia); Daiqiang Xu (Newark, Delaware); Xueyan Zheng (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | VTIP Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Edgar (Blacksburg, Virginia); Daiqiang Xu (Newark, Delaware); Xueyan Zheng (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention provide regioselectively substituted carbohydrate and polysaccharide derivatives, such as cellulose esters, and methods for preparing them. Particular methods of the invention include deacylation of esters using tetrabutylammonium fluoride to obtain selective substitution at desired hydroxyl position(s) of the ester. Preferred is deacylation of an ester, which shows selectivity for removal of acyl groups from the ester of the secondary alcohols at C-2 and C-3, and which affords cellulose-6-O-esters with high regioselectivity by a simple one-step process employing no protective groups. Inventive regioselectively substituted cellulose esters can be prepared by such methods to obtain esters with the following anhydroglucose repeating units: wherein R1, R2, and R3 are each independently chosen from a hydrogen atom, and, whether substituted or unsubstituted, branched or unbranched, an alkanoyl group, an aroyl group, and a heteroaroyl group. In embodiments, the alkanoyl, aroyl and heteroaroyl groups can comprise from 1-20 carbon atoms. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/513855 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 3/00 (20130101) C08B 3/06 (20130101) C08B 3/08 (20130101) C08B 3/16 (20130101) C08B 3/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 5/18 (20130101) C08J 2301/10 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 1/10 (20130101) |
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Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 09624567 | Bryan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ATI Properties, Inc. (Albany, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ATI PROPERTIES LLC (Albany, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Bryan (Indian Trail, North Carolina); John V. Mantione (Indian Trail, North Carolina); Jean-Philippe Thomas (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of refining the grain size of a titanium alloy workpiece include beta annealing the workpiece, cooling the beta annealed workpiece to a temperature below the beta transus temperature of the titanium alloy, and high strain rate multi-axis forging the workpiece. High strain rate multi-axis forging is employed until a total strain of at least 1 is achieved in the titanium alloy workpiece, or until a total strain of at least 1 and up to 3.5 is achieved in the titanium alloy workpiece. The titanium alloy of the workpiece may comprise at least one of grain pinning alloying additions and beta stabilizing content effective to decrease alpha phase precipitation and growth kinetics. |
| FILED | Monday, October 26, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/922750 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Forging; Hammering; Pressing Metal; Riveting; Forge Furnaces B21J 1/06 (20130101) B21J 1/025 (20130101) B21J 5/00 (20130101) Making Forged or Pressed Metal Products, e.g Horse-shoes, Rivets, Bolts or Wheels B21K 29/00 (20130101) Alloys C22C 14/00 (20130101) Changing the Physical Structure of Non-ferrous Metals and Non-ferrous Alloys C22F 1/183 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09624601 | Bondokov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert T. Bondokov (Watervliet, New York); Kenneth E. Morgan (Castleton, New York); Leo J. Schowalter (Latham, New York); Glen A. Stack (Scotia, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CRYSTAL IS, INC. (Green Island, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert T. Bondokov (Watervliet, New York); Kenneth E. Morgan (Castleton, New York); Leo J. Schowalter (Latham, New York); Glen A. Stack (Scotia, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Bulk single crystal of aluminum nitride (AlN) having an areal planar defect density≦100 cm−2. Methods for growing single crystal aluminum nitride include melting an aluminum foil to uniformly wet a foundation with a layer of aluminum, the foundation forming a portion of an AlN seed holder, for an AlN seed to be used for the AlN growth. The holder may consist essentially of a substantially impervious backing plate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/458861 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 23/00 (20130101) C30B 23/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C30B 29/403 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/02389 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2982 (20150115) |
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| US 09625313 | Lehman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY (Gaithersbrug, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE (Washington, District of Columbia); SCIENTECH INCORPORATED (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Lehman (Boulder, Colorado); Paul Williams (Erie, Colorado); Robert Lee (Longmont, Colorado); Frank Maring (Lafayette, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical meter includes a force member to receive a force and a reflector disposed on the force member to receive radiation and to communicate a pressure of the radiation to the force member. The reflector includes a reflective surface, and the force member is configured to be displaced in response to receiving the force comprising the pressure. The optical meter is configured to measure a power of the radiation, an energy of the radiation, or a combination thereof based on the pressure. A process for measuring a property of radiation includes receiving radiation by the reflector, reflecting radiation from the reflective surface, communicating a pressure from the reflector to the force member, and displacing the force member. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/313999 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 1/56 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09627199 | Motayed et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Maryland); Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Falls Church, Virginia); The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Commerce (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Maryland); Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Falls Church, Virginia); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abhishek Motayed (Rockville, Maryland); Sergiy Krylyuk (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Albert V. Davydov (North Potomac, Maryland); Matthew King (Linthicum, Maryland); Jong-Yoon Ha (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of fabricating micro- and nanostructures comprise top-down etching of lithographically patterned GaN layer to form an array of micro- or nanopillar structures, followed by selective growth of GaN shells over the pillar structures via selective epitaxy. Also provided are methods of forming micro- and nanodisk structures and microstructures formed from thereby. |
| FILED | Friday, December 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/568576 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0237 (20130101) H01L 21/0254 (20130101) H01L 21/0257 (20130101) H01L 21/0259 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/0262 (20130101) H01L 21/02381 (20130101) H01L 21/02433 (20130101) H01L 21/02458 (20130101) H01L 21/02639 (20130101) H01L 21/3065 (20130101) H01L 21/30612 (20130101) H01L 21/30617 (20130101) H01L 21/30621 (20130101) H01L 33/007 (20130101) H01L 33/18 (20130101) H01L 33/32 (20130101) |
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| US 09627406 | Cheung |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kim P. Cheung (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A memory cell includes: a polarizable member including an electret to store a plurality of bits; a thermal electrode to heat the polarizable member; and a program electrode opposing the thermal electrode to program the polarizable member in a bit comprising a polarized state or a non-polarized state, the polarizable member being interposed between the thermal electrode and the program electrode. A random access memory includes: a plurality of addressable memory cells, the memory cell including: a thermal electrode; a program electrode opposing the thermal electrode; a polarizable member interposed between the thermal electrode and the program electrode, the polarizable member including an electret to store a plurality of bits. |
| FILED | Saturday, September 26, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/866855 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/1159 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 27/11585 (20130101) |
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Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09626566 | Versace et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Neurala, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Neurala, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Massimiliano Versace (Boston, Massachusetts); Anatoly Gorshechnikov (Newton, Massachusetts); Gennady Livitz (Belmont, Massachusetts); Jesse Palma (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Sensory processing of visual, auditory, and other sensor information (e.g., visual imagery, LIDAR, RADAR) is conventionally based on “stovepiped,” or isolated processing, with little interactions between modules. Biological systems, on the other hand, fuse multi-sensory information to identify nearby objects of interest more quickly, more efficiently, and with higher signal-to-noise ratios. Similarly, examples of the OpenSense technology disclosed herein use neurally inspired processing to identify and locate objects in a robot's environment. This enables the robot to navigate its environment more quickly and with lower computational and power requirements. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 19, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/662657 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 9/1697 (20130101) Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 2219/39082 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00664 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/3241 (20130101) G06K 9/4628 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/008 (20130101) G06N 3/049 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/004 (20130101) G06T 7/0044 (20130101) G06T 7/0081 (20130101) G06T 7/2093 (20130101) G06T 2207/20141 (20130101) G06T 2207/20144 (20130101) G06T 2207/30244 (20130101) |
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| US 09627200 | Onicha et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | US Nano LLC (South Bend, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | US Nano LLC (Sarasota, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony C. Onicha (Bradenton, Florida); Louise E. Sinks (Sarasota, Florida); Stefanie L. Weber (Sarasota, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides systems, processes, articles of manufacture, and compositions that relate to core/shell semiconductor nanowires. Specifically, the disclosure provides a novel semiconductor material, CdSe/ZnS core/shell nanowires, as well as a method of preparation thereof. The disclosure also provides a new continuous flow method of preparing core/shell nanowires, including CdSe/CdS core/shell nanowire and CdSe/ZnS core/shell nanowires. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/446313 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0256 (20130101) H01L 21/02477 (20130101) H01L 21/02513 (20130101) H01L 21/02557 (20130101) H01L 21/02603 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/02628 (20130101) |
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| US 09627569 | Harmon |
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| APPLICANT(S) | LightSpin Technologies, Inc. (Endicott, New York) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Eric S. Harmon (Norfolk, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure includes devices for detecting photons, including avalanche photon detectors, arrays of such detectors, and circuits including such arrays. In some aspects, the detectors and arrays include a virtual beveled edge mesa structure surrounded by resistive material damaged by ion implantation and having side wall profiles that taper inwardly towards the top of the mesa structures, or towards the direction from which the ion implantation occurred. Other aspects are directed to masking and multiple implantation and/or annealing steps. Furthermore, methods for fabricating and using such devices, circuits and arrays are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/718352 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/1446 (20130101) H01L 27/14609 (20130101) H01L 27/14643 (20130101) H01L 27/14683 (20130101) H01L 31/107 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/0352 (20130101) H01L 31/1844 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/544 (20130101) |
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| US 09627691 | Xing et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ADA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ADA Technologies, Inc. (Littleton, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Weibing Xing (Littleton, Colorado); Josh Buettner-Garrett (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates generally to cathode materials for electrochemical energy cells, more particularly to metal/air electrochemical energy cell cathode materials containing silver vanadium oxide and methods of making and using the same. The metal/air electrochemical energy cell can be a lithium/air electrochemical energy cell. Moreover the silver vanadium oxide can be a catalyst for one or more of oxidation and reduction processes of the electrochemical energy cell. |
| FILED | Friday, February 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/175873 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/02 (20130101) H01M 4/382 (20130101) H01M 4/9016 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 12/08 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/50 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/298 (20150115) Y10T 428/2982 (20150115) |
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| US 09628105 | Veeder |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Senseeker Engineering Inc. (Goleta, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SENSEEKER ENGINEERING INC. (Goleta, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenton Veeder (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides a delta-sigma modulator circuit for use in a pixelated image sensor or a readout integrated circuit. In one aspect, the modulator circuit includes a dynamic resistance element configured to have a variable resistance that changes in accordance with a voltage difference across the dynamic resistance element. |
| FILED | Friday, October 02, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/873886 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 3/39 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/37455 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 09626581 | Gao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dashan Gao (Rexford, New York); Ting Yu (Albany, New York); Li Guan (Clifton Park, New York); Yi Yao (Rexford, New York); Kedar Anil Patwardhan (Latham, New York); Peter Henry Tu (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for detecting and tracking a target includes detecting the target using a plurality of feature cues, fusing the plurality of feature cues to form a set of target hypotheses, tracking the target based on the set of target hypotheses and a scene context analysis, and updating the tracking of the target based on a target motion model. |
| FILED | Monday, September 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/493044 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/46 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/629 (20130101) G06K 9/00711 (20130101) G06K 9/00771 (20130101) G06K 9/00785 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/2033 (20130101) G06T 2207/10016 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09629288 | Zablocki et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BAE SYSTEMS INFORMATION AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS INTEGRATION INC. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward G. Zablocki (North Andover, Massachusetts); James A. Cirillo (Windham, New Hampshire); Donald W. Clarke (Hudson, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A faceted dome assembly for airborne optical sensors to enhance EMI shielding and lightning protection is disclosed. In one embodiment, the faceted dome assembly includes a faceted dome. An optical sensor and a gimbal are housed in the faceted dome. Further, a conductor is disposed substantially in the facets of the faceted dome to provide the enhanced electromagnetic shielding and lightning protection. |
| FILED | Monday, April 22, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/867147 |
| ART UNIT | 2848 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 1/04 (20130101) G01J 1/0271 (20130101) G01J 2001/0276 (20130101) G01J 2001/0285 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 9/0058 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 09623875 | Beyene et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affair (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nahom Minassie Beyene (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Amy Karas Lane (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Rory Alan Cooper (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania); Joshua D. Brown (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for evaluation of an operator of a vehicle including a steering system under observation of an evaluator within the vehicle includes a steering sensor system adapted to measure intervention of the evaluator in operating the steering system. A method for evaluating vehicle control of a driving entity of a vehicle under observation of an evaluator in the vehicle includes providing at least one sensor system adapted to measure intervention of the evaluator in operating the vehicle. |
| FILED | Friday, June 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/738007 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Conjoint Control of Vehicle Sub-units of Different Type or Different Function; Control Systems Specially Adapted for Hybrid Vehicles; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems for Purposes Not Related to the Control of a Particular Sub-unit B60W 40/09 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B60W 50/14 (20130101) B60W 2540/12 (20130101) B60W 2540/18 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09624304 | Braun 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) | Jonathan Braun (Tarzana, California); Lynn K. Gordon (Tarzana, California); Kaori Shimazaki Dadgostar (Los Angeles, California); Madhuri Wadehra (Manhattan Beach, California); Kathy A. Kelly (Pacific Palisades, California); Anna M. Wu (Sherman Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and compositions useful in the treatment or prevention of Chlamydia infections and cancer. The methods and compositions inhibit the entry of Chlamydia into a host cell expressing EMP2 by interfering with the interaction between the Chlamydia and EMP2. The methods and compositions target cancers which express or overexpress EMP2 nucleic acids and polypeptides by targeting EMP2. |
| FILED | Monday, March 23, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/666091 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — 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) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/28 (20130101) C07K 16/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/125 (20130101) C07K 2316/96 (20130101) C07K 2317/21 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) C07K 2317/52 (20130101) C07K 2317/73 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of the Interior (DOI)
| US 09625444 | Warren et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sanofi Pasteur VaxDesign Corporation (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SANOFI PASTEUR VAXDESIGN CORPORATION (Orlando, Florida); THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (La Jolla, California); MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts); THE WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH (Cambridge, Massachusetts); MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OF NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William L Warren (Orlando, Florida); Heather Fahlenkamp (Cleveland, Oklahoma); Russell Higbee (Orlando, Florida); Anatoly Kachurin (Orlando, Florida); Conan Li (Los Altos, California); Mike Nguyen (Orlando, Florida); Robert Parkhill (Orlando, Florida); Guzman Sanchez-Schmitz (Orlando, Florida); Darrell J. Irvine (Arlington, Massachusetts); Gwendalyn J. Randolph (New York, New York); Nir Hacohen (Brookline, Massachusetts); Bruce Torbett (Encinitas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of constructing an integrated artificial immune system that comprises appropriate in vitro cellular and tissue constructs or their equivalents to mimic the normal tissues that interact with vaccines in mammals. The artificial immune system can be used to test the efficacy of vaccine candidates in vitro and thus, is useful to accelerate vaccine development and testing drug and chemical interaction with the immune system. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/221018 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0697 (20130101) C12N 5/0698 (20130101) C12N 2501/21 (20130101) C12N 2502/11 (20130101) C12N 2502/28 (20130101) C12N 2502/094 (20130101) C12N 2502/1107 (20130101) C12N 2502/1114 (20130101) C12N 2502/1121 (20130101) C12N 2502/1157 (20130101) C12N 2502/1192 (20130101) C12N 2502/1323 (20130101) C12N 2503/04 (20130101) C12N 2513/00 (20130101) C12N 2531/00 (20130101) C12N 2533/50 (20130101) C12N 2533/54 (20130101) C12N 2535/10 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/5088 (20130101) G01N 2500/10 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09628682 | Pollock et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David B. Pollock (Guntersville, Alabama); Patrick J. Reardon (Madison, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama, fo (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David B. Pollock (Guntersville, Alabama); Patrick J. Reardon (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A camera concurrently produces an orthographic map and map spectral content. Illumination from an image passes through a phase modulator and the resulting rotating photo-flux phase is converted to an electrical signal by multiple adjacent sensors of detectors of array of detectors. The amount of unwanted illumination reaching the sensors is reduced by a set of baffles that shield and protect the transducers from unwanted out-of-field light and other light sources. |
| FILED | Friday, July 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/548801 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/0208 (20130101) G01J 3/0262 (20130101) G01J 3/433 (20130101) G01J 3/447 (20130101) G01J 3/2803 (20130101) G01J 3/2823 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 26/0891 (20130101) G02B 27/0018 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/349 (20130101) H04N 5/2254 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04N 5/23229 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 09623396 | Kim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State board of higher education on behalf of OSU (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STATE OF OREGON ACTING BY AND THROUGH THE STATE BOARD OF HIGHER EDUCATION ON BEHALF OF OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ki-Joong Kim (Corvallis, Oregon); Eric Bradley Hostetler (Corvallis, Oregon); Gregory Scott Herman (Albany, Oregon); Daniel Alan Peterson (Corvallis, Oregon); Chih-hung Chang (Corvallis, Oregon); Brendan Thomas Flynn (Corvallis, Oregon); Brian Kevin Paul (Corvallis, Oregon); Richard Paul Oleksak (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for synthesizing high-quality nanocrystals via segmented, continuous flow microwave-assisted reactor were developed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/582514 |
| 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 19/126 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 2219/0871 (20130101) B01J 2219/0877 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 19/002 (20130101) C01B 19/007 (20130101) Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 9/08 (20130101) C01G 15/006 (20130101) C01G 19/006 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/01 (20130101) C01P 2002/72 (20130101) C01P 2002/78 (20130101) C01P 2002/80 (20130101) C01P 2002/82 (20130101) C01P 2002/84 (20130101) C01P 2004/04 (20130101) C01P 2004/51 (20130101) C01P 2004/64 (20130101) C01P 2004/80 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 15/045 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09627117 | Petuskey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS, A BODY CORPORATE OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA ACTING FOR AND ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William T. Petuskey (Phoenix, Arizona); Nicole M. Ray (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Forming a ferrite thin film laminate includes heating a layered assembly to form a laminate. The layered assembly includes a first coated substrate having a first ferrite layer opposite a first thermoplastic surface and a second coated substrate having a second ferrite layer opposite a second thermoplastic surface to form a laminate. Each coated substrate is formed by forming a ferrite layer on a surface of a thermoplastic substrate. The coated substrates are arranged such that the first ferrite layer contacts the second thermoplastic surface. Heating the layered assembly includes bonding the first coated substrate to the second coated substrate such that the first ferrite layer is sandwiched between a first thermoplastic substrate and a second thermoplastic substrate. The ferrite thin film laminate may include a multiplicity of coated substrates. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/354409 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 37/14 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 1/344 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01F 10/20 (20130101) H01F 10/265 (20130101) H01F 41/16 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/32 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 09626334 | Kaul et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Himanshu Kaul (Portland, Oregon); Mark A. Anders (Hillsboro, Oregon); Sanu K. Mathew (Hillsboro, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, apparatuses, and methods for k-nearest neighbor (KNN) searches are described. In particular, embodiments of a KNN accelerator and its uses are described. In some embodiments, the KNN accelerator includes a plurality of vector partial distance computation circuits each to calculate a partial sum, a minimum sort network to sort partial sums from the plurality of vector partial distance computation circuits to find k nearest neighbor matches and a global control circuit to control aspects of operations of the plurality of vector partial distance computation circuits. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/582607 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 7/00 (20130101) G06F 15/8092 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 17/3033 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 09624600 | Kelber |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of North Texas (Denton, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS (Denton, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffry A. Kelber (Denton, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Direct growth of graphene on Co3O4(111) at 1000 K was achieved by molecular beam epitaxy from a graphite source. Auger spectroscopy shows a characteristic sp2 carbon lineshape, at average carbon coverages from 0.4-3 monolayers. Low energy electron diffraction (LEED) indicates (111) ordering of the sp2 carbon film with a lattice constant of 2.5 (±0.1) Å characteristic of graphene. Six-fold symmetry of the graphene diffraction spots is observed at 0.4, 1 and 3 monolayers. The LEED data also indicate an average domain size of ˜1800 Å, and show an incommensurate interface with the Co3O4(111) substrate, where the latter exhibits a lattice constant of 2.8 (±0.1) Å. Core level photoemission shows a characteristically asymmetric C(1s) feature, with the expected lr to lr* satellite feature, but with a binding energy for the three monolayer film of 284.9 (±0.1) eV, indicative of substantial graphene-to-oxide charge transfer. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/362619 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0461 (20130101) Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 23/02 (20130101) C30B 23/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C30B 23/066 (20130101) C30B 29/02 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 41/32 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/02381 (20130101) H01L 21/02395 (20130101) H01L 21/02488 (20130101) H01L 21/02527 (20130101) H01L 21/02658 (20130101) H01L 29/82 (20130101) H01L 29/1606 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 09623975 | Burton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brett Burton (Columbus, Ohio); Andrew Cox (Columbus, Ohio); Darren Wolfe (Hilliard, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A low profile pass-through electrical connector is designed for aerospace applications. The connector allows voltage and current to pass-thru a conductive wing surface, while maintaining a low profile height for aerodynamic performance considerations. Examples of applications of the electrical connector include power for thin film heaters and communication antennae applications. |
| FILED | Monday, June 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/909061 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 1/36 (20130101) Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 15/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 7/00 (20130101) Electric Heating; Electric Lighting Not Otherwise Provided for H05B 3/02 (20130101) H05B 2203/016 (20130101) H05B 2214/02 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49016 (20150115) Y10T 29/49083 (20150115) Y10T 29/49826 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09625702 | Hodges et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph T. Hodges (Washington Grove, Maryland); Jeremie Courtois (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph T. Hodges (Washington Grove, Maryland); Jeremie Courtois (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A coupled-cavity ring-down spectrometer utilizes an optical resonator to increase the reflectivity of ring-down cavity mirrors by adding external optical cavities that recycle light to the main cavity. These input and output cavities are made up of at least one coupling mirror and at least one movable recycling mirror. The movable recycling mirrors are coupled to at least one piezoelectric transducer, which generates movement of the recycling mirrors. The coupled-cavity ring-down configuration achieves higher spectrometer finesse, sensitivity and dynamic range. |
| FILED | Friday, May 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/902415 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/021 (20130101) G01J 3/42 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 26/001 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09628044 | Backes 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) | Glen Backes (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Lisa Lust (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Kelly Muldoon (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Doug Carlson (Woodbury, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Generally discussed herein are techniques, software, apparatuses, and systems configured for tuning an antenna. In one or more embodiments, a method can include sending, by processing circuitry, one or more signals to an antenna tuner to sweep the tuner through a plurality of tuner states, determining a plurality of power values, each power value corresponding to a signal received from an antenna and each power value corresponding to the tuner being in a state of the plurality of tuner states, and sending one or more signals to the tuner to set the tuner to a tuner state of the plurality of tuner states, the tuner state determined using the determined powers. |
| FILED | Monday, November 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/537584 |
| ART UNIT | 2649 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 7/025 (20130101) Impedance Networks, e.g Resonant Circuits; Resonators H03H 7/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09628762 | Farritor |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shane Farritor (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices, systems, and methods for imaging and measuring deflections in structures such as railroad rail are disclosed. One exemplary embodiment relates to a vision system having a high-speed, visible-light imaging camera and an evaluation unit configured for analyzing images from the camera to detect geometric variations in the structure. In a second example, additional sensors are used to identify the wheel location(s) in the same reference frame as the measurement system. In analyzing structures such as railroad track rail, the imaging camera can be coupled to a moving rail vehicle and configured for generating images of the rail as the vehicle moves along the track. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/832413 |
| ART UNIT | 2487 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Auxiliary Equipment Specially Adapted for Railways, Not Otherwise Provided for B61K 9/08 (20130101) Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 11/2518 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/209 (20130101) G06K 9/2036 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 7/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
HOW DO I FIND A SPECIFIC PATENT ON A PAGE?
You can use the Command F or Control F to find a specific patent you are interested in.
HOW DO I GET HERE?
You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.
You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2017/fedinvent-patents-20170418.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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