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Patent Details for Tuesday, May 02, 2017
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| US 09636007 | Hoberman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alejandro Hoberman (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Jelena Kovacevic (New York, New York); Nader Shaikh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Anupama Kuruvilla (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of aiding the diagnosis of otitis media in a patient includes obtaining image data in a processor apparatus of a computing device, the image data being associated with at least one electronic image of a tympanic membrane of the patient, calculating a plurality of image features, each image feature being calculated based on at least a portion of the image data, classifying the at least one electronic image as a particular type of otitis media using the plurality of image features, and outputting an indication of the particular type of otitis media. Also, a system for implementing such a method that includes an output device and a computing device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/418509 |
| ART UNIT | 2669 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 1/04 (20130101) A61B 1/06 (20130101) A61B 1/00009 (20130101) A61B 1/00045 (20130101) A61B 1/227 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/12 (20130101) A61B 5/1032 (20130101) A61B 5/7264 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/321 (20130101) G06F 19/345 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) G06T 7/40 (20130101) G06T 7/408 (20130101) G06T 2207/10024 (20130101) G06T 2207/20076 (20130101) G06T 2207/30004 (20130101) |
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| US 09636021 | Pang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yi Pang (Copley, Ohio); Bin Liu (Akron, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Akron (Akron, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi Pang (Copley, Ohio); Bin Liu (Akron, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Flavonoid compounds that are selective for a protein, a portion or a living cell, or a portion of an organism may be used as biological imaging agents. The flavonoid compounds are useful for methods of imaging organisms such as zebrafish embryos and zebra fish. Flavonoid compounds may also be used to detect protein. Advantageously, flavonoids that selectively bind protein, a portion of a living cell, or a portion of an organism may exhibit a florescence “turn-on” mechanism, where the flavonoids that are selectively bound exhibit a florescence response when excited. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 16, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/740914 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0071 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/02007 (20130101) A61B 2503/02 (20130101) A61B 2503/40 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 311/30 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/582 (20130101) G01N 33/5088 (20130101) G01N 2333/4603 (20130101) |
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| US 09636075 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Huai-Ping Lee (Plantation, Florida); Mark Stephen Foskey (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Marc Niethammer (Carrboro, North Carolina); Ming Lin (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Simulation-based estimation of elasticity parameters and use of same for non-invasive cancer detection and cancer staging are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method for simulation-based estimation of elasticity parameters includes constructing a 3D model of an object comprising biological tissue, the model having a first shape and an elasticity value. A simulation iteration is then performed, which includes simulating the application of an external force to the model, causing the model to have a second shape, measuring the difference between the second shape and a target shape, and determining whether the measured difference between the second shape and the target shape is within a threshold of error. If the measured difference is not within the threshold of error, the process performs additional iterations using adjusted elasticity or force values until the measured difference is within the threshold of error, at which time the final elasticity and force values are reported. In one embodiment, the elasticity value is mapped to a diagnostic parameter, such as an indication of the possibility, presence, or stage of cancer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/420239 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 6/032 (20130101) A61B 6/50 (20130101) A61B 6/466 (20130101) A61B 6/5217 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) G06T 7/0032 (20130101) G06T 15/00 (20130101) G06T 19/20 (20130101) G06T 2207/10081 (20130101) G06T 2207/30081 (20130101) G06T 2210/41 (20130101) G06T 2219/2021 (20130101) |
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| US 09636109 | Murphy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William L. Murphy (Madison, Wisconsin); Jae Sung Lee (Madison, Wisconsin); Mark D. Markel (Middleton, Wisconsin); Ben K. Graf (Madison, Wisconsin); Geoffrey Baer (Madison, Wisconsin); Yan Lu (Fitchburg, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William L. Murphy (Madison, Wisconsin); Jae Sung Lee (Madison, Wisconsin); Mark D. Markel (Middleton, Wisconsin); Ben K. Graf (Madison, Wisconsin); Geoffrey Baer (Madison, Wisconsin); Yan Lu (Fitchburg, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure generally relates to biodegradable and bioresorbable materials having a mineral layer on the surface of the material. More particularly, the disclosure relates to biodegradable and bioresorbable orthopedic devices having a degradable mineral layer on the surface thereof that can be used as a delivery vehicle for biological substances. Also provided are various methods of using the mineralized devices in tissue regeneration, including bone tissue engineering, and methods for producing the mineralized devices. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/507635 |
| ART UNIT | 3731 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 17/06166 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 2017/00889 (20130101) A61B 2017/00893 (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 17/005 (20130101) A61L 17/06 (20130101) A61L 17/145 (20130101) A61L 27/32 (20130101) A61L 27/54 (20130101) A61L 27/58 (20130101) A61L 29/16 (20130101) A61L 29/106 (20130101) A61L 29/148 (20130101) A61L 31/16 (20130101) A61L 31/086 (20130101) A61L 31/148 (20130101) |
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| US 09636133 | Hall 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) | Timothy L. Hall (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Adam Maxwell (Seattle, Washington); Charles A. Cain (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Yohan Kim (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Zhen Xu (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultrasound therapy system is provided that can include any number of features. In some embodiments, the custom transducer housings can be manufactured using a rapid-prototyping method to arrange a plurality of single-element, substantially flat transducers to share a common focal point. The rapid-prototyping method can include, for example, fused-deposition modeling, 3D printing, and stereolithography. In some embodiments, the therapy system can include a plurality of transducer modules insertable into the openings of the transducer housing. Methods of manufacture are also described, including designing a transducer housing shell to a desired geometry and a plurality of acoustic focusing lenses integral to the transducer housing shell in a 3D computer aided design software, and constructing the transducer housing shell and the plurality of acoustic focusing lenses integral to the transducer housing shell using a rapid-prototyping method. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/874083 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 17/225 (20130101) A61B 17/320068 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 2017/00526 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 7/02 (20130101) A61N 2007/006 (20130101) A61N 2007/0039 (20130101) A61N 2007/0065 (20130101) A61N 2007/0091 (20130101) A61N 2007/0095 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 29/223 (20130101) G01N 29/225 (20130101) G01N 29/226 (20130101) G01N 29/2437 (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 11/004 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 41/04 (20130101) H01L 41/23 (20130101) H01L 41/25 (20130101) H01L 41/053 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/42 (20150115) Y10T 29/49005 (20150115) Y10T 29/49007 (20150115) |
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| US 09636238 | Sanders et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington Through Its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joan E. Sanders (Sammamish, Washington); Michael R. Severance (Seattle, Washington); Katheryn J. Allyn (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods, and software are provided for assessing manufacturing errors of a prosthetic socket to facilitate a clinical assessment of the socket. The embodiments disclosed herein may align and compare a manufactured socket shape to a desired socket shape to determine whether clinically significant errors are present in the manufactured socket. A mean radial error (MRE) may be calculated and compared to a set threshold. If the MRE falls below the threshold an interquartile range (IQR) may be calculated and compared to an IQR threshold. If the IQR falls below the IQR threshold, surface normal angle errors (SNAE) may be calculated and plotted to the surface model. If the SNAE plot does not include closed contour regions, the socket may proceed to patient fitting. If the MRE or IQR thresholds are exceeded, or if the SNAE plot indicates closed contour regions, the socket may be reshaped accordingly, prior to fitting. |
| FILED | Monday, May 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/888147 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| 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 2/76 (20130101) A61F 2/80 (20130101) A61F 2/5046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61F 2002/505 (20130101) |
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| US 09636354 | Bloom 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) | David C. Bloom (Gainesville, Florida); Antonio L. Amelio (Pittsboro, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are genetic expression cassettes, and vectors comprising them useful for the delivery of isolated nucleic acid segments including those expressing or encoding one or more selected therapeutic constructs (including, without limitation, therapeutic peptides, polypeptides, ribozymes, or catalytic RNA molecules), to one or more selected cells or tissues of a vertebrate animal. Methods employing the disclosed genetic constructs in the development of gene therapy-based viral vector systems are also disclosed. The expression cassettes and viral vectors disclosed herein provide new tools for methods of treating mammalian, and in particular, human diseases, disorders, and/or dysfunctions. The disclosed compositions and methods find particular utility in a variety of investigative, diagnostic, and therapeutic regimens, including, for example, in the treatment or amelioration of symptoms of a variety of mammalian, and particularly, human conditions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/686541 |
| 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 31/713 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 48/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 2710/16622 (20130101) C12N 2710/16633 (20130101) |
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| US 09636374 | Messersmith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip B. Messersmith (Clarendon Hills, Illinois); Jing Su (Chicago, Illinois); Vincent L. Cryns (Deerfield, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Polymeric delivery systems for boronic acid-containing therapeutics, related compounds and methods of use, for a pH-sensitive chemoselective approach to delivery of such a therapeutic. |
| FILED | Monday, May 18, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/714986 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/69 (20130101) A61K 38/05 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/183 (20130101) A61K 47/48061 (20130101) A61K 47/48215 (20130101) A61K 47/48246 (20130101) |
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| US 09636379 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhou-feng Chen (St. Louis, Missouri); Yan-gang Sun (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention encompasses methods and compositions for alleviating pruritus. The compositions may comprise an analgesic agent. |
| FILED | Monday, December 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/579545 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 31/00 (20130101) A61K 31/485 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 38/105 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/168 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 47/10 (20130101) A61K 47/44 (20130101) |
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| US 09636380 | Lammel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephan Lammel (Stanford, California); ByungKook Lim (La Jolla, California); Robert C. Malenka (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides a method of inducing or modulating reward- or aversive-related behaviors in animals using light-responsive opsins. The present disclosure provides methods of identifying or screening compounds that may be used to treating mental disorders, or are relevant to disrupt or improve reward- or aversive related behaviors. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/209004 |
| 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 38/177 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 49/0008 (20130101) |
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| US 09636419 | Peterson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas); Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Inc. (Bronx, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Universit of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas); Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Inc. (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Blake R. Peterson (Lawrence, Kansas); Liang Xu (Lawrence, Kansas); Matthew Levy (New Rochelle, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of delivering a cargo agent into cytosol of a cell can include: providing the delivery system of one of the embodiments described herein having the first and second delivery platforms; and administering the delivery system to a cell so as to cause targeting of two features on the cell so as to: cause endocytosis of the first and second delivery platforms of the delivery system into a common endosome, destabilize the endosome of the cell having the delivery system, release the cargo agent from the second linker; and release the cargo agent from the destabilized endosome into cytosol of the cell. A method of treating a disease can include: performing the method of method of delivering a cargo agent into cytosol of a cell in a subject having a disease, wherein the cargo agent is a therapeutic agent for the disease. |
| FILED | Monday, October 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/512862 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/48038 (20130101) A61K 47/48569 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/48746 (20130101) |
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| US 09636423 | Hilderbrand et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Scott A. Hilderbrand (Swampscott, Massachusetts); Ralph Weissleder (Peabody, Massachusetts); Peter Panizzi (Auburn, Alabama); Jason R. McCarthy (Townsend, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott A. Hilderbrand (Swampscott, Massachusetts); Ralph Weissleder (Peabody, Massachusetts); Peter Panizzi (Auburn, Alabama); Jason R. McCarthy (Townsend, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and compositions based on optical sensor conjugates that are useful for detecting reactive oxygen, reactive nitrogen, or both species that are a direct result of inflammation caused by tissue damage. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/700255 |
| 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 49/003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 49/0028 (20130101) A61K 49/0054 (20130101) A61K 49/0093 (20130101) |
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| US 09636424 | Pertsov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York); The University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York); University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arkady M. Pertsov (Manlius, New York); Arvydas Matiukas (Syracuse, New York); Leslie M. Loew (West Hartford, Connecticut); Joseph P. Wuskell (West Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of optical electrophysiological probing, including: providing a fluorescing chemical probe; contacting a thick portion of tissue with the fluorescing chemical probe to create a thick portion of treated tissue; applying a first range of wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation to the treated portion of tissue; and detecting a plurality of depth-specific emission wavelengths emitted from the thick portion of treated tissue. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 19, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/159376 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/04 (20130101) A61B 5/0059 (20130101) A61B 5/0071 (20130101) A61B 2503/40 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/10 (20130101) A61K 49/006 (20130101) A61K 49/0017 (20130101) A61K 49/0019 (20130101) A61K 49/0032 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Organic Dyes or Closely-related Compounds for Producing Dyes; Mordants; Lakes C09B 23/0075 (20130101) C09B 23/107 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/4795 (20130101) G01N 21/6428 (20130101) |
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| US 09636496 | Greenberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (San Fernando, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Mark S Humayun (Glendale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The artificial percept of light may be created by electrically stimulating the neurons of the retina. While a photolithographed array internal to the retina provides superior resolution, an array external to the retina provides easier implantation and improved manufacturability. Therefore it is advantageous to supply a high-resolution electrode array internal to the sclera, near the fovea and a lower-resolution electrode array eternal to the sclera near the periphery of the retina. It is advantageous to encourage current to flow through the retina by providing a physically separate and distinct electrode array and return electrode. The high-resolution electrode array and lower-resolution electrode array may be return electrodes for the other, or completely separate return electrodes may be provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/516466 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| 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 9/08 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0543 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/36046 (20130101) |
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| US 09636501 | Wheeler Moss et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christa Wheeler Moss (Chagrin Falls, Ohio); Paul Hunter Peckham (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Multiple designs, systems, methods and processes for control using electrical signals recorded from clinically paralyzed muscles and nerves are presented. The discomplete neural prosthesis system and method for clinically paralyzed humans utilizes a controller. The controller is adapted to receive a volitional electrical signal generated by the human that is manifest below the lesion that causes the clinical paralysis. The controller uses at least the volitional electrical signal to generate a control signal that is output back to a plant to change the state of the plant, which in one aspect is one or more of the user's paralyzed muscles to achieve a functional result or to devices in the environment around the user that are adapted to receive commands from the controller. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/310302 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/36003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/36017 (20130101) A61N 1/36135 (20130101) |
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| US 09637450 | Petrukhin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Konstantin Petrukhin (New Windsor, New York); Christopher Cioffi (Albany, New York); Graham Johnson (Sanbornton, New Hampshire); Nicoleta Dobri (New York, New York); Emily Freeman (Albany, New York); Ping Chen (Albany, New York); Michael Conlon (Albany, New York); Lei Zhu (Albany, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Konstantin Petrukhin (New Windsor, New York); Christopher Cioffi (Albany, New York); Graham Johnson (Sanbornton, New Hampshire); Nicoleta Dobri (New York, New York); Emily Freeman (Albany, New York); Ping Chen (Albany, New York); Michael Conlon (Albany, New York); Lei Zhu (Albany, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides Octahydrocyclopentapyrrole compounds having the structure: (structurally represented) wherein psi is absent or present, and when present is a bond; R1, R2, R3, R4, and R5 are each independently H, halogen, CF, or C1-C4 alkyl; R6 is absent or present, and when present is H, OH, or halogen; A is absent or present, and when present is C(O) or C(O)NH; B is substituted or unsubstituted monocycle, bicycle, heteromonocycle, heterobicycle, benzyl, CO2H or (C1-C4 alkyl)-CO2H, wherein when B is CO2H, then A is present and is C(O); and when psi is present, then R6 is absent and when psi is absent, then R6 is present, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, for treatment of diseases characterized by excessive lipofuscin accumulation in the retina. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/775540 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/454 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 209/52 (20130101) C07D 401/04 (20130101) C07D 401/06 (20130101) C07D 401/12 (20130101) C07D 403/04 (20130101) C07D 403/06 (20130101) C07D 403/12 (20130101) C07D 471/04 (20130101) C07D 487/04 (20130101) C07D 498/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09637498 | Lindsley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig W. Lindsley (Brentwood, Tennessee); P. Jeffrey Conn (Nashville, Tennessee); Michael R. Wood (Brentwood, Tennessee); Michael S. Poslusney (Nashville, Tennessee); James C. Tarr (Nashville, Tennessee); Bruce J. Melancon (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the invention relates to substituted 5-aminothieno[2,3-c]pyridazine-6-carboxamide analogs, derivatives thereof, and related compounds, which are useful as positive allosteric modulators of the muscarinic acetylcholine receptor M4 (mAChR M4); synthesis methods for making the compounds; pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds; and methods of treating neurological and psychiatric disorders associated with muscarinic acetylcholine receptor dysfunction using the compounds and compositions. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention. |
| FILED | Friday, August 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/913266 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 495/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09637504 | Burns et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | VenatoRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Malvern, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | VENATORX PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (Malvern, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher J. Burns (Malvern, Pennsylvania); Denis Daigle (Street, Maryland); Bin Liu (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Randy W. Jackson (Livingston, Montana); Jodie Hamrick (New Holland, Pennsylvania); Daniel McGarry (Malvern, Pennsylvania); Daniel C. Pevear (Downingtown, Pennsylvania); Robert E. Lee Trout (Collegeville, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are compounds and compositions that modulate the activity of beta-lactamases. In some embodiments, the compounds described herein inhibit beta-lactamase. In certain embodiments, the compounds described herein are useful in the treatment of bacterial infections. |
| FILED | Monday, May 23, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/162395 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/69 (20130101) A61K 31/69 (20130101) A61K 31/198 (20130101) A61K 31/198 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09637522 | Lu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuan Lu (Palo Alto, California); James R. Swartz (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Vaccine compositions and methods of producing and using the same are provided, which compositions comprise a modified HA stem domain in a trimeric configuration. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/401758 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 2039/64 (20130101) A61K 2039/5258 (20130101) A61K 2039/6075 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/00 (20130101) C07K 14/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2319/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/42 (20130101) C07K 2319/50 (20130101) C07K 2319/70 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2760/16134 (20130101) |
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| US 09637524 | Cheng 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) | R. Holland Cheng (Davis, California); Li Xing (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a peptide/nucleic acid composition for oral/mucosal, dual-modal activation of immune protection systems. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/533531 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/5184 (20130101) A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/21 (20130101) A61K 39/29 (20130101) A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/541 (20130101) A61K 2039/542 (20130101) A61K 2039/5258 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/10 (20130101) C07K 16/1063 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) C07K 2317/55 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/40 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2710/14143 (20130101) C12N 2740/16122 (20130101) C12N 2740/16134 (20130101) C12N 2740/16234 (20130101) C12N 2770/28123 (20130101) C12N 2770/28134 (20130101) C12N 2770/28142 (20130101) |
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| US 09637530 | Cox, III |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BOLDER BIOTECHNOLOGY, INC. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bolder Biotechnology, Inc. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George N. Cox, III (Louisville, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are cysteine variants of interleukin-11 (IL-11) and methods of making and using such proteins in therapeutic applications. |
| FILED | Friday, April 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/262260 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/52 (20130101) C07K 14/61 (20130101) C07K 14/475 (20130101) C07K 14/505 (20130101) C07K 14/5431 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09637543 | Zhou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE UAB RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Birmingham, Alabama); BEIJING COTIMES BIOTECH CO., LTD. (Beijing, China PRC) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UAB RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Birmingham, Alabama); BEIJING COTIMES BIOTECH CO., LTD. (Beijing, China PRC) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tong Zhou (Birmingham, Alabama); Donald J. Buchsbaum (Alabaster, Alabama); Enyun Shen (Beijing, China PRC); Xian Chen (Beijing, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are antibodies specific for HER3. Also provided are methods of treating cancer in a subject comprising administering an effective amount of the antibodies described herein to the subject. |
| FILED | Friday, November 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/357524 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/517 (20130101) A61K 39/3955 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/32 (20130101) C07K 16/2863 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/574 (20130101) |
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| US 09637550 | Gruber et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon); Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon); Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andras Gruber (Portland, Oregon); Erik I. Tucker (Portland, Oregon); David Gailani (Franklin, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are monoclonal antibodies specific for factor XI (fXI) that prevent activation of fXI by factor XIIa (fXIIa). The monoclonal antibodies are universal fXI antibodies, capable of binding all mammalian species tested. The anti-fXI monoclonal antibodies prolong clotting time in mammalian plasmas. Moreover, administration of the fXI monoclonal antibodies disclosed herein results in inhibition of thrombosis without altering hemostasis in animal models of thrombosis. Thus, provided herein are monoclonal antibodies specific for fXI that block activation of fXI by fXIIa, compositions and immunoconjugates comprising such antibodies and their methods of use. |
| FILED | Friday, December 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/568483 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2316/96 (20130101) C07K 2317/24 (20130101) C07K 2317/73 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2317/569 (20130101) |
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| US 09637554 | Conklin 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) | Douglas S. Conklin (Niskayuna, New York); Cheryl Eifert (Huntington Station, New York); Antonis Kourtidis (Saint Augustine, Florida); Xianhui Wang (Albany, New York); Leila Kokabee (Albany, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Receptor protein kinases (RPTKs) transmit extracellular signals across the plasma membrane to cytosolic proteins, stimulating formation of complexes that regulate key cellular functions. Over half of the known tyrosine kinases are implicated in human cancers and are therefore highly promising drug targets. A large-scale loss-of-function analysis of tyrosine kinases using RNA interference in the clinically relevant Erb-B2 positive, BT474 breast cancer cell line showed that Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK), a cytosolic, non-receptor tyrosine kinase that has been extensively studied for its role in B cell development, is required, in altered form, for BT474 breast cancer survival. This alternative form contains an amino-terminal extension that is also present in tumorigenic breast cells at significantly higher levels than in normal breast cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 04, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/817754 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 31/704 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/705 (20130101) C07K 16/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/1205 (20130101) C12N 15/1137 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 207/10001 (20130101) C12Y 207/10002 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/573 (20130101) G01N 33/57415 (20130101) G01N 2333/9121 (20130101) |
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| US 09637597 | Messersmith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip B. Messersmith (Clarendon Hills, Illinois); Jinghao Kuang (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of synthesizing a DOPA-melanin (DM) polymer are disclosed, as well as compositions comprising the DM polymer and uses thereof. The method comprises contacting a reactant such as 3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (DOPA) with a high concentration aqueous salt solution under oxidative conditions. The resulting DM polymer may form as insoluble particles or as a coating on a substrate surface. Exemplary uses for the DM polymers include removing heavy metal ions from contaminated solutions or capturing and delivering cationic drugs such as gentamicin. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/666905 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0024 (20130101) A61K 9/1641 (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 31/10 (20130101) A61L 31/16 (20130101) A61L 2300/23 (20130101) A61L 2300/404 (20130101) A61L 2420/06 (20130101) Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/285 (20130101) C02F 2101/20 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 61/124 (20130101) C08G 73/0672 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 179/04 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/265 (20150115) |
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| US 09637718 | Vanapalli et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Siva A. Vanapalli (Lubbock, Texas); Swastika S. Bithi (Lubbock, Texas); Meng Sun (Lubbock, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Texas Tech University System (Lubbock, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Siva A. Vanapalli (Lubbock, Texas); Swastika S. Bithi (Lubbock, Texas); Meng Sun (Lubbock, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes a microfluidic device comprising one or more parking loops 12, each parking loop 12 comprising a bypass channel 14 and a lower branch 16 capable of retaining one or more drops, wherein bypass channel 14 has a smaller hydrodynamic resistance than the lower branch 16. |
| FILED | Monday, May 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/114304 |
| ART UNIT | 1798 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502784 (20130101) B01L 2200/0668 (20130101) B01L 2200/0673 (20130101) B01L 2300/088 (20130101) B01L 2400/0487 (20130101) Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 47/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 35/1002 (20130101) G01N 2035/1034 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49 (20150115) |
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| US 09637723 | Rafii et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CORNELL UNIVERSITY Q (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shahin Rafii (New York, New York); Sina Y. Rabbany (Great Neck, New York); Michael Ginsberg (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure is directed to methods for reproducibly generating substantial amounts of endothelial cells from amniotic cells. The endothelial cells generated in accordance with the present methodology, as well as therapeutic methods utilizing these cells, are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/404739 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/44 (20130101) A61K 48/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/069 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2501/15 (20130101) C12N 2501/60 (20130101) C12N 2501/115 (20130101) C12N 2501/155 (20130101) C12N 2501/165 (20130101) C12N 2501/999 (20130101) C12N 2506/02 (20130101) C12N 2506/025 (20130101) C12N 2510/00 (20130101) C12N 2510/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09637740 | Merbl 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) | Yifat Merbl (Boston, Massachusetts); Marc W. Kirschner (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are methods of inhibiting mitosis, treating cancer and/or treating immune disorders through the use of agents that inhibit FAT 10 and/or the FAT 10 pathway. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 02, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/390265 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 67/0276 (20130101) A01K 2217/075 (20130101) A01K 2227/105 (20130101) A01K 2267/0331 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 31/7105 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/11 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2320/30 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/68 (20130101) G01N 33/5011 (20130101) G01N 2333/70539 (20130101) G01N 2500/02 (20130101) G01N 2800/24 (20130101) G01N 2800/7028 (20130101) |
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| US 09637748 | Johnson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric A. Johnson (Madison, Wisconsin); Kristin M. Marshall (Madison, Wisconsin); Marite Bradshaw (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel C. botulinum conjugatively transmissible plasmids and methods of use thereof. Specifically, described herein are novel, conjugatively transmissible clostridial plasmids which are capable of being transferred among and between clostridial species. The novel plasmids of the present invention therefore permits the delivery of heterologous clostridial genes into a clostridial host, such as C. botulinum, and the expression of genes of interest in that host, including clostridial toxins and the nontoxigenic components of the toxin complex, toxin fragments, or antigenic portions thereof, in a way both that ensures abundant expression and facilitates purification. Furthermore, toxins with altered structures, chimeric, hybrid toxins, and other toxin derivatives valuable in medicine could be synthesized in this system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/096584 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/74 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09637749 | Jacobs et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE OF YESHIVA UNIVERSITY (Bronx, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Inc. (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William R. Jacobs (Pelham, New York); JoAnn M. Tufariello (Hastings On Hudson, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Isolated mutant Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria comprising a deletion in the ESAT-6 gene cluster region 3 (esx-3 region) are provided, as well as compositions comprising such, methods of production thereof and methods of use thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, May 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/399557 |
| 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) A61K 2039/522 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/74 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses C12C - C12Q, Relating to Microorganisms C12R 1/34 (20130101) |
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| US 09637758 | Hurwitz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Julia Lea Hurwitz (Germantown, Tennessee); Toru Takimoto (West Henrietta, New York); Charles John Russell (Arlington, Tennessee); Allen Portner (Memphis, Tennessee); Karen Slobod (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Julia Lea Hurwitz (Germantown, Tennessee); Toru Takimoto (West Henrietta, New York); Charles John Russell (Arlington, Tennessee); Allen Portner (Memphis, Tennessee); Karen Slobod (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a Sendai virus or recombinant Sendai virus vector. In particular the present invention provides methods, vectors, formulations, compositions, and kits for a modified Enders strain Sendai viral vector. An immunogenic vector can be used in any in vitro or in vivo system. Moreover, some embodiments include vectors for imaging virus growth, location and transmission. |
| FILED | Friday, April 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/113769 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/5254 (20130101) A61K 2039/5256 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 16/08 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 15/86 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2760/18534 (20130101) C12N 2760/18634 (20130101) C12N 2760/18734 (20130101) C12N 2760/18821 (20130101) C12N 2760/18822 (20130101) C12N 2760/18834 (20130101) C12N 2760/18843 (20130101) |
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| US 09637779 | Vogelstein et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bert Vogelstein (Baltimore, Maryland); Kenneth W. Kinzler (Baltimore, Maryland); Yiping He (Baltimore, Maryland); Victor Velculescu (Dayton, Maryland); Nickolas Papadopoulos (Towson, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bert Vogelstein (Baltimore, Maryland); Kenneth W. Kinzler (Baltimore, Maryland); Yiping He (Baltimore, Maryland); Victor Velculescu (Dayton, Maryland); Nickolas Papadopoulos (Towson, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Transcription in mammalian cells can be assessed at a genome-wide level, but it has been difficult to reliably determine whether individual transcripts are derived from the Plus- or Minus-strands of chromosomes. This distinction can be critical for understanding the relationship between known transcripts (sense) and the complementary antisense transcripts that may regulate them. Here we describe a technique that can be used to (i) identify the DNA strand of origin for any particular RNA transcript and (ii) quantify the number of sense and antisense transcripts from expressed genes at a global level. We examined five different human cell types and in each case found evidence for antisense transcripts in 2900 to 6400 human genes. The distribution of antisense transcripts was distinct from that of sense transcripts, was non-random across the genome, and differed among cell types. Antisense transcripts thus appear to be a pervasive feature of human cells, suggesting that they are a fundamental component of gene regulation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/131413 |
| 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 1/6844 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6844 (20130101) C12Q 2521/107 (20130101) C12Q 2523/125 (20130101) C12Q 2539/113 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/22 (20130101) |
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| US 09637781 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tza-Huei Wang (Timonium, Maryland); Kelvin J. Liu (Baltimore, Maryland); Yunke Song (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a PCR-free, multiplexed ligation assay for miRNA expression analysis that produces highly quantitative, 10-100 plex miRNA profiling in a single reaction. The inventive methods use a 2-step ligation assay to generate an array of miRNA specific ligation products that can be decoded and quantified by a size discrimination method such as gel electrophoresis or single molecule separation. One embodiment is a low-cost assay that can be performed using standard tools available in nearly all molecular biology laboratories. This assay requires nothing more than a gel apparatus and reader for detection. Other embodiments include use of magnetic beads and other size exclusion apparatus which give increasingly higher sensitivity, lower sample consumption, and reduced processing steps. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/378675 |
| 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 | 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 1/25 (20130101) C12Q 1/6806 (20130101) C12Q 1/6813 (20130101) C12Q 1/6813 (20130101) C12Q 1/6818 (20130101) C12Q 1/6862 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6862 (20130101) C12Q 2521/501 (20130101) C12Q 2525/191 (20130101) C12Q 2525/191 (20130101) C12Q 2525/207 (20130101) C12Q 2525/207 (20130101) C12Q 2537/143 (20130101) C12Q 2565/125 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2333/9015 (20130101) |
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| US 09637784 | Drmanac |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Complete Genomics, Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Complete Genomics, Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Radoje Drmanac (Los Altos Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and kits for ordering sequence information derived from one or more target polynucleotides. In one aspect, one or more tiers or levels of fragmentation and aliquoting are generated, after which sequence information is obtained from fragments in a final level or tier. Each fragment in such final tier is from a particular aliquot, which, in turn, is from a particular aliquot of a prior tier, and so on. For every fragment of an aliquot in the final tier, the aliquots from which it was derived at every prior tier is known, or can be discerned. Thus, identical sequences from overlapping fragments from different aliquots can be distinguished and grouped as being derived from the same or different fragments from prior tiers. When the fragments in the final tier are sequenced, overlapping sequence regions of fragments in different aliquots are used to register the fragments so that non-overlapping regions are ordered. In one aspect, this process is carried out in a hierarchical fashion until the one or more target polynucleotides are characterized, e.g. by their nucleic acid sequences, or by an ordering of sequence segments, or by an ordering of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), or the like. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/971801 |
| 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 21/04 (20130101) Peptides C07K 1/047 (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 1/682 (20130101) C12Q 1/682 (20130101) C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 1/6874 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2521/307 (20130101) C12Q 2525/151 (20130101) C12Q 2525/151 (20130101) C12Q 2525/151 (20130101) C12Q 2525/151 (20130101) C12Q 2525/313 (20130101) C12Q 2525/313 (20130101) C12Q 2525/313 (20130101) C12Q 2525/313 (20130101) C12Q 2531/125 (20130101) C12Q 2531/125 (20130101) C12Q 2531/125 (20130101) C12Q 2565/513 (20130101) C12Q 2565/513 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/88 (20130101) Y10S 977/778 (20130101) Y10S 977/789 (20130101) Y10S 977/792 (20130101) Y10S 977/882 (20130101) |
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| US 09637785 | Drmanac |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Complete Genomics, Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Complete Genomics, Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Radoje Drmanac (Los Altos Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and kits for ordering sequence information derived from one or more target polynucleotides. In one aspect, one or more tiers or levels of fragmentation and aliquoting are generated, after which sequence information is obtained from fragments in a final level or tier. Each fragment in such final tier is from a particular aliquot, which, in turn, is from a particular aliquot of a prior tier, and so on. For every fragment of an aliquot in the final tier, the aliquots from which it was derived at every prior tier is known, or can be discerned. Thus, identical sequences from overlapping fragments from different aliquots can be distinguished and grouped as being derived from the same or different fragments from prior tiers. When the fragments in the final tier are sequenced, overlapping sequence regions of fragments in different aliquots are used to register the fragments so that non-overlapping regions are ordered. In one aspect, this process is carried out in a hierarchical fashion until the one or more target polynucleotides are characterized, e.g. by their nucleic acid sequences, or by an ordering of sequence segments, or by an ordering of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), or the like. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/971806 |
| 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 21/04 (20130101) Peptides C07K 1/047 (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 1/682 (20130101) C12Q 1/682 (20130101) C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 1/6874 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2521/307 (20130101) C12Q 2525/151 (20130101) C12Q 2525/151 (20130101) C12Q 2525/151 (20130101) C12Q 2525/151 (20130101) C12Q 2525/313 (20130101) C12Q 2525/313 (20130101) C12Q 2525/313 (20130101) C12Q 2525/313 (20130101) C12Q 2531/125 (20130101) C12Q 2531/125 (20130101) C12Q 2531/125 (20130101) C12Q 2565/513 (20130101) C12Q 2565/513 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/88 (20130101) Y10S 977/778 (20130101) Y10S 977/789 (20130101) Y10S 977/792 (20130101) Y10S 977/882 (20130101) |
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| US 09637787 | Rustgi |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anil K. Rustgi (Villanova, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A 3D organotypic culture which phenocopies aggressive, invasive cancer and methods of use thereof are provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/477224 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0679 (20130101) C12N 5/0697 (20130101) C12N 2500/25 (20130101) C12N 2500/32 (20130101) C12N 2500/40 (20130101) C12N 2501/39 (20130101) C12N 2501/392 (20130101) C12N 2501/395 (20130101) C12N 2502/23 (20130101) C12N 2502/30 (20130101) C12N 2502/1323 (20130101) C12N 2503/04 (20130101) C12N 2533/54 (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 1/6876 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/16 (20130101) C12Q 2600/112 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5044 (20130101) G01N 33/54306 (20130101) G01N 2333/4706 (20130101) |
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| US 09637796 | Vogelstein et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bert Vogelstein (Baltimore, Maryland); Kenneth W. Kinzler (Baltimore, Maryland); Nickolas Papadopoulos (Towson, Maryland); Jian Wu (Baltimore, Maryland); Ralph Hruban (Baltimore, Maryland); Anirban Maitra (Baltimore, Maryland); Marco Dal Molin (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | More than 2% of adults harbor a pancreatic cyst, a subset of which progress to invasive lesions with lethal consequences. To assess the genomic landscapes of neoplastic cysts of the pancreas, we determined the exomic sequences of DNA from the neoplastic epithelium of eight surgically resected cysts of each of the major neoplastic cyst types: serous cystadenomas (SCAs), intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMNs), mucinous cystic neoplasms (MCNs) and solid pseudo-papillary neoplasms (SPNs). SPNs are low-grade malignancies, and IPMNs and MCNs, but not SCAs, have the capacity to progress to cancer. We found that SCAs, IPMNs, MCNs, and SPNs contained 10=4.6, 27=12, 16=7.6, and 2.9=2.1 somatic mutations per tumor, respectively. Among the mutations identified, E3 ubiquitin ligase components were of particular note. Four of the eight SCAs contained mutations of VHL, a key component of the VHL ubiquitin ligase complex that has previously been associated both with renal cell carcinomas, SCAs, and other neoplasms. Six of the eight IPMNs and three of the eight MCNs harbored mutations of RNF43, a gene coding for a protein with intrinsic E3 ubiquitin ligase activity that has not previously been found to be genetically altered in any human cancer. The preponderance of inactivating mutations in RNF43 unequivocally establish it as a suppressor of both IPMNs and MCNs. SPNs contained remarkably few genetic alterations, but always contained mutations of CTNNB1, previously demonstrated to inhibit degradation of the encoded protein (β-catenin) by E3 ubiquitin ligases. These results highlight the essential role of ubiquitin ligases in these neoplasms and have important implications for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with cystic tumors. |
| FILED | Monday, November 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/359149 |
| 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 1/6883 (20130101) C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) |
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| US 09638511 | Boppart et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen A. Boppart (Champaign, Illinois); Ryan L. Shelton (Champaign, Illinois); Nathan Shemonski (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for tomographic imaging of a sample. Low-coherence light is split into a sample path and a reference path. A steering optic recombines light in the reference path with light scattered by a sample onto a camera having an areal focal plane array of detector elements such that light in the reference path and light scattered by the sample are characterized by respectively offset propagation vectors at incidence upon the camera. A processor derives depth information from light scattered by the sample on the basis of interference fringes between light in the reference path and light scattered by the sample. The apparatus tracks lateral motion and may be hand-held or attached to a mobile device such as a smartphone, thus enabling 3-D imaging with the mobile device. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/819551 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 9/02091 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09638639 | Fan 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) | Donglei Fan (Austin, Texas); Xiaobin Xu (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes nanotubes or rods, methods and arrays using plasmonic-magnetic bifunctional nanotubes or rods comprising: one or more silica nanotubes or rods; one or more nanomagnets embedded in a portion of the silica nanotubes or rods; and plasmonic metal nanoparticles uniformly coating in or on at least a portion of the surface of the nanomagnets and the silica nanotubes surface-coated. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/296134 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0092 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 25/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/658 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 1/0063 (20130101) H01F 1/0072 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2956 (20150115) |
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| US 09638653 | Potyrailo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electricity Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Radislav Alexandrovich Potyrailo (Niskayuna, New York); Cheryl Margaret Surman (Albany, New York); Andrew Arthur Paul Burns (Schenectady, New York); Nandini Nagraj (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and sensors for selective fluid sensing are provided. Each sensor includes a resonant inductor-capacitor-resistor (LCR) sensor that is coated with a sensing material. In order to collect data, an impedance spectrum is acquired over a relatively narrow frequency range, such as the resonant frequency range of the LCR circuit. A multivariate signature may be calculated from the acquired spectrum to discern the presence of certain fluids and/or fluid mixtures. The presence of fluids is detected by measuring the changes in dielectric, dimensional, resistance, charge transfer, and other changes in the properties of the materials employed by observing the changes in the resonant electronic properties of the circuit. By using a mathematical procedure, such as principal components analysis (PCA) and others, multiple fluids and mixtures can be detected in the presence of one another, even in a high humidity environment or an environment wherein one or more fluids has a substantially higher concentration (e.g. 10×, 1,000,000×) compared to other components in the mixture. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/710299 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/02 (20130101) G01N 27/026 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/483 (20130101) G01N 33/48792 (20130101) |
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| US 09638661 | Aksimentiev |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aleksei Aksimentiev (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method for generating an electric or pressure difference force that induces a plurality of particles to flow through a through-hole. Independently adjustable heat source in a vicinity of the through-hole induces a thermodynamic force for modifying the flow of the plurality of particles through the through-hole. Additional embodiments are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, February 22, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/773863 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/1404 (20130101) G01N 27/447 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 27/44791 (20130101) G01N 33/48721 (20130101) G01N 2015/1422 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 137/7722 (20150401) |
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| US 09638705 | Kalantar-Zadeh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh (Torrance, California); Michael P. Caulfield (San Clemente, California); Wael A. Salameh (San Juan Capistrano, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INVESTMENTS INCORPORATED (Wilmington, Delaware); LOS ANGELES BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Torrance, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh (Torrance, California); Michael P. Caulfield (San Clemente, California); Wael A. Salameh (San Juan Capistrano, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are methods for determining the overall survival of maintenance hemodialysis patients. The methods include measuring low density lipoprotein (LDL) particle size and subfraction concentrations as prognostic tools for early mortality risk detection. For example, the presence of increased very small LDL concentration or decreased LDL particle size in blood-serum serves as a useful means for prognostic risk assessment and monitoring. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/283536 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/92 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2800/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09638717 | Lieber et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles M. Lieber (Lexington, Massachusetts); Ruixuan Gao (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Steffen Strehle (Ulm, Germany); Xiaojie Duan (Somerville, Massachusetts); Bozhi Tian (Chicago, Illinois); Itzhaq Cohen-Karni (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ping Xie (Needham, Massachusetts); Quan Qing (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to nanoscale wires for use in sensors and other applications. In various embodiments, a probe comprising a nanotube (or other nanoscale wire) is provided that can be directly inserted into a cell to determine a property of the cell, e.g., an electrical property. In some cases, only the tip of the nanoscale wire is inserted into the cell; this tip may be very small relative to the cell, allowing for very precise study. In some aspects, the tip of the probe is held by a holding member positioned on a substrate, e.g., at an angle, which makes it easier for the probe to be inserted into the cell. The nanoscale wire may also be connected to electrodes and/or form part of a transistor, such that a property of the nanoscale wire, and thus of the cell, may be determined. Such probes may also be useful for studying other samples besides cells. Other aspects of the invention are generally directed to methods of making or using such probes, kits involving such probes, devices involving such probes, or the like. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 02, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/396542 |
| ART UNIT | 2868 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 40/00 (20130101) B82Y 99/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/4146 (20130101) G01N 33/48728 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 1/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 1/06705 (20130101) G01R 1/06755 (20130101) G01R 3/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/283 (20130101) H01L 29/413 (20130101) H01L 29/772 (20130101) H01L 29/42316 (20130101) |
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| US 09639107 | Blaauw 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) | David T. Blaauw (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Dennis Sylvester (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Myungjoon Choi (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Inhee Lee (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Taekwang Jang (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A temperature insensitive sub-nA current reference is presented with pA-range power overhead. The main concept is to linearly reduce the gate voltage of a sub-threshold-biased MOSFET as temperature increases, in order to compensate for exponential dependence of drain current on temperature. For example, a MOSFET-only, 20 pA, 780 ppm/° C. current reference that consumes 23 pW is disclosed, marking the lowest reported power among current references. The circuit exploits sub-threshold-biased MOSFETs and a complementary-to-absolute temperature (CTAT) gate voltage to compensate for temperature dependency. The design shows high immunity to supply voltage of 0.58%/V and a load sensitivity of 0.25%/V. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 19, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/662615 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Systems for Regulating Electric or Magnetic Variables G05F 1/468 (20130101) G05F 1/575 (20130101) G05F 3/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G05F 3/242 (20130101) |
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| US 09639665 | Everson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a Body Corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Thomas Everson (Englewood, Colorado); Michael Anthony Martucci (Highlands Ranch, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure concerns methods of administering and detecting a distinguishable agent in a sample from and assessing the condition of an organ in a subject. In a particular embodiment, the present invention concerns methods of detecting and comparing the cholate shunt, in a subject, preferably in a subject with chronic hepatitis C. In certain embodiments, the methods may comprise obtaining a sample from a subject such as a blood or saliva sample after administering an oral and intravenous dose of a distinguishable agent such as cholate and analyzing the sample clearance of the distinguishable agent from the subject and comparing the clearance levels in order to assess hepatic health. In another embodiment, the methods may comprise analyzing a sample from a subject for the presence of a distinguishable agent such as cholate and applying information obtained from analyzing the presence of the distinguishable agent to determine a treatment for a medical condition of the subject. |
| FILED | Friday, November 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/075714 |
| 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 | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 51/1206 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2800/085 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09639933 | Liang 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) | Jerome Zheng Liang (Stony Brook, New York); William H. Moore (Setauket, New York); FangFang Han (East Setauket, New York); Bowen Song (Selden, New York); Huafeng Wang (Port Jefferson Station, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are an apparatus and method for fast and adaptive computer-aided detection of pulmonary nodules and differentiation of malignancy from benignancy in thoracic CT images using a hierarchical vector quantization scheme. Anomalous pulmonary nodules are detected by obtaining a two-dimensional (2D) feature model of a pulmonary nodule, segmenting the pulmonary nodule by performing vector quantification to expand the 2D feature model to a three-dimensional (3D) model, and displaying image information representing whether the pulmonary nodule is benign, based upon the 3D model expanded from the 2D feature model, with duplicate information eliminated by performing feature reduction performed using a principal component analysis and a receiver operating characteristics area under the curve merit analysis. A textural feature analysis detects an anomalous pulmonary nodule, and 2D texture features are calculated from 3D volumetric data to provide improved gain compared to calculation from a single slice of 3D data. |
| FILED | Friday, February 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/767780 |
| 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) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 7/40 (20130101) G06T 7/60 (20130101) G06T 7/0081 (20130101) G06T 11/006 (20130101) G06T 2207/10081 (20130101) G06T 2207/20104 (20130101) G06T 2207/30064 (20130101) |
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| US 09640069 | Gulani et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vikas Gulani (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Yong Chen (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Nicole Seiberlich (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Mark Griswold (Shaker Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Example apparatus and methods provide improved spatial and temporal resolution over conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for a large (e.g., 500 cm3) three dimensional (3D) volume. Example apparatus and methods reconstruct under-sampled 3D data associated with nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signals acquired from the volume using a 3D through-time non-Cartesian generalized auto-calibrating partially parallel acquisitions (GRAPPA) approach. The NMR signals are produced in response to a 3D non-Cartesian (e.g., stack-of-spirals) pulse sequence. Example apparatus and methods produce a quantified value for T1 relaxation, T2 relaxation, diffusion, or other NMR parameters in the volume from signal intensities in the data. The quantified value may describe, for example, a perfusion parameter, a blood flow parameter, a blood volume parameter, or other value. Greater precision is achieved for the NMR parameter in the volume as a result of the quantization performed on data acquired with greater spatial resolution and temporal resolution. |
| FILED | Friday, January 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/169543 |
| ART UNIT | 2852 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0017 (20130101) A61B 5/055 (20130101) A61B 5/0073 (20130101) A61B 5/4244 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/06 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/56 (20130101) G01R 33/58 (20130101) G01R 33/3614 (20130101) G01R 33/3692 (20130101) G01R 33/4822 (20130101) G01R 33/5608 (20130101) G01R 33/56366 (20130101) Transmission Systems for Measured Values, Control or Similar Signals G08C 23/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09640070 | Griswold et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Griswold (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Vikas Gulani (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Greg Lee (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Nicole Seiberlich (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Three-dimensional (3D) projections of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signals are acquired from a liver experiencing NMR in response to a 3D multi-echo non-Cartesian pulse sequence. The projections are reconstructed into two sets of images having different resolutions. Bins associated with the different positions to which the liver moves during respiration are identified in lower resolution images, and then higher resolution images are binned into the position dependent bins based on navigator data in the lower resolution images. A combined image for a bin is made from images located in the bin and then registered to a reference image. An overall combined image is made by summing the combined bin images. Quantized data for a contrast agent concentration in the liver is produced using signal intensity in the overall combined image. The quantized value may describe a liver perfusion parameter. A diagnosis may be made from the quantized value. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/177244 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0017 (20130101) A61B 5/055 (20130101) A61B 5/0073 (20130101) A61B 5/4244 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/06 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/56 (20130101) G01R 33/58 (20130101) G01R 33/3614 (20130101) G01R 33/3692 (20130101) G01R 33/4822 (20130101) G01R 33/5608 (20130101) G01R 33/56366 (20130101) Transmission Systems for Measured Values, Control or Similar Signals G08C 23/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09640376 | Becker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Protein Metrics Inc. (San Carlos, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Protein Metrics Inc. (San Carlos, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Becker (San Carlos, California); Marshall Bern (San Carlos, California); Yong Joo Kil (San Carlos, California); Michael Taejong Kim (South San Francisco, California); Boyan Zhang (Foster City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to graphical user-interactive displays for use in MS-based analysis of protein impurities, as well as methods and software for generating and using such. One aspect provides a user-interactive display comprising an extracted mass chromatogram (XIC), an MS1 spectrum and an MS2 spectrum, all simultaneously representing a user-selected peptide. Another aspect provides a user interactive display simultaneously presenting paired spectra (XIC, MS1 and/or MS2) for a variant peptide and its corresponding wildtype counterpart. |
| FILED | Monday, June 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/306020 |
| ART UNIT | 2619 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 11/206 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/02 (20130101) H01J 49/0036 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09640826 | Yan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yushan Yan (Hockessin, Delaware); Shuang Gu (Newark, Delaware); Ke Gong (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A redox flow battery is provided. The redox flow battery involves multiple-membrane (at least one cation exchange membrane and at least one anion exchange membrane), multiple-electrolyte (one electrolyte in contact with the negative electrode, one electrolyte in contact with the positive electrode, and at least one electrolyte disposed between the two membranes) as the basic characteristic, such as a double-membrane, triple electrolyte (DMTE) configuration or a triple-membrane, quadruple electrolyte (TMQE) configuration. The cation exchange membrane is used to separate the negative or positive electrolyte and the middle electrolyte, and the anion exchange membrane is used to separate the middle electrolyte and the positive or negative electrolyte. |
| FILED | Friday, June 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/918452 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 2/00 (20130101) H01M 2/40 (20130101) H01M 8/04 (20130101) H01M 8/18 (20130101) H01M 8/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/188 (20130101) H01M 8/04186 (20130101) H01M 10/4242 (20130101) H01M 2300/0082 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/528 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49108 (20150115) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin A. Flusberg (Palo Alto, California); Eric David Cocker (Palo Alto, California); Juergen Claus Jung (Palo Alto, California); Mark Jacob Schnitzer (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Analysis of live beings is facilitated. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, a light-directing arrangement such as an endoscope is mounted to a live being. Optics in the light-directing arrangement are implemented to pass source light (e.g., laser excitation light) into the live being, and to pass light from the live being for detection thereof. The light from the live being may include, for example, photons emitted in response to the laser excitation light (i.e., fluoresced). The detected light is then used to detect a characteristic of the live being. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/322517 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0013 (20130101) A61B 5/0059 (20130101) A61B 5/0062 (20130101) A61B 5/0064 (20130101) A61B 5/0068 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/0071 (20130101) A61B 5/0075 (20130101) A61B 5/0079 (20130101) A61B 5/4064 (20130101) A61B 5/6814 (20130101) A61B 2503/40 (20130101) A61B 2576/026 (20130101) Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/44 (20130101) G01J 3/4406 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/65 (20130101) G01N 21/6408 (20130101) G01N 21/6428 (20130101) G01N 21/6456 (20130101) G01N 21/6458 (20130101) G01N 21/6486 (20130101) |
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| US 09636075 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Huai-Ping Lee (Plantation, Florida); Mark Stephen Foskey (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Marc Niethammer (Carrboro, North Carolina); Ming Lin (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Simulation-based estimation of elasticity parameters and use of same for non-invasive cancer detection and cancer staging are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method for simulation-based estimation of elasticity parameters includes constructing a 3D model of an object comprising biological tissue, the model having a first shape and an elasticity value. A simulation iteration is then performed, which includes simulating the application of an external force to the model, causing the model to have a second shape, measuring the difference between the second shape and a target shape, and determining whether the measured difference between the second shape and the target shape is within a threshold of error. If the measured difference is not within the threshold of error, the process performs additional iterations using adjusted elasticity or force values until the measured difference is within the threshold of error, at which time the final elasticity and force values are reported. In one embodiment, the elasticity value is mapped to a diagnostic parameter, such as an indication of the possibility, presence, or stage of cancer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/420239 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 6/032 (20130101) A61B 6/50 (20130101) A61B 6/466 (20130101) A61B 6/5217 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) G06T 7/0032 (20130101) G06T 15/00 (20130101) G06T 19/20 (20130101) G06T 2207/10081 (20130101) G06T 2207/30081 (20130101) G06T 2210/41 (20130101) G06T 2219/2021 (20130101) |
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| US 09636362 | Gurtner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Geoffrey C. Gurtner (Palo Alto, California); Kirit Bhatt (Evans, Georgia); Jayakumar Rajadas (Cupertino, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of The Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey C. Gurtner (Palo Alto, California); Kirit Bhatt (Evans, Georgia); Jayakumar Rajadas (Cupertino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods are provided for the manufacture and use of a pullulan-based collagen hydrogel film with controlled porosity. The hydrogel is fabricated with salt-induced phase inversion and cross-linking to form a reticular scaffold. This soft collagen scaffold displays excellent handling characteristics, durability, and a porous dermal-like ultrastructure that is maintained in vitro. Cells, including cells involved in tissue repair, are viably sustained within the scaffold. The hydrogel films are biodegradable, and find particular use in wound healing, where the hydrogel scaffold can be replaced by dermal cells over time. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/932736 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 8/732 (20130101) A61K 9/7007 (20130101) A61K 35/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/39 (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 15/40 (20130101) A61L 15/44 (20130101) A61L 15/60 (20130101) A61L 15/225 (20130101) A61L 15/225 (20130101) A61L 15/225 (20130101) A61L 15/425 (20130101) A61L 27/26 (20130101) A61L 27/26 (20130101) A61L 27/26 (20130101) A61L 27/48 (20130101) A61L 27/48 (20130101) A61L 27/48 (20130101) A61L 27/52 (20130101) A61L 27/54 (20130101) A61L 27/56 (20130101) A61L 27/3804 (20130101) A61L 2300/404 (20130101) A61L 2300/414 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 5/00 (20130101) C08L 5/00 (20130101) C08L 5/00 (20130101) C08L 89/06 (20130101) C08L 89/06 (20130101) C08L 89/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09636460 | Jaeger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Creare LLC (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Creare LLC (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. Jaeger (Plainfield, New Hampshire); Mark C. Bagley (Grafton, New Hampshire); Roger W. Hill (Grantham, New Hampshire); Sandra J. Graveson (Enfield, New Hampshire); Robert T. Payne (Montpelier, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | A pneumatic autoinjector that, once activated, automatically mixes at least two components in a pre-filled chamber and then ejects the mixture in a manner suitable for medicament injection. The mixable components may be a dry/wet combination (e.g., powder and solvent), wet/wet combination (e.g., two pre-diluted medicaments), wet/gas combination (e.g., chemical A and gas B), or gas/gas combination. In some embodiments, autoinjectors made in accordance with the teachings of the present disclosure may automatically perform a sequence comprising thorough medicament mixing (e.g., reconstitution of a dried medicament with solvent), an optional pause to enhance medicament dissolution or suspension, optional needle insertion into the patient (not required in needle-free embodiments), medicament injection into the patient, and optional needle retraction for safe storage. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 28, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/392200 |
| ART UNIT | 3763 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 5/322 (20130101) A61M 5/2033 (20130101) A61M 5/2053 (20130101) A61M 5/2066 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61M 5/3146 (20130101) A61M 5/3287 (20130101) A61M 5/31566 (20130101) A61M 5/31578 (20130101) A61M 5/31591 (20130101) A61M 5/31596 (20130101) A61M 2005/206 (20130101) A61M 2005/208 (20130101) A61M 2005/2026 (20130101) A61M 2202/02 (20130101) A61M 2202/04 (20130101) A61M 2202/06 (20130101) A61M 2205/581 (20130101) A61M 2205/582 (20130101) |
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| US 09636635 | Benton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | PORIFERA, INC. (Hayward, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Porifera, Inc. (Hayward, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Benton (Berkeley, California); Olgica Bakajin (San Leandro, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An example separation system includes a stack of membrane plate assemblies. An example membrane plate assembly may include membranes bonded to opposite sides of a spacer plate. The spacer plate may include a first opening in fluid communication with a region between the membranes, and a second opening in fluid communication with a region between membrane plate assemblies. Adjacent membrane plate assemblies in the stack may have alternating orientations such that bonding areas for adjacent membranes in the stack may be staggered. Accordingly, two isolated flows may be provided which may be orthogonal from one another. |
| FILED | Friday, December 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/137903 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 61/002 (20130101) B01D 63/082 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 63/084 (20130101) B01D 63/085 (20130101) B01D 2313/14 (20130101) B01D 2319/00 (20130101) B01D 2319/02 (20130101) B01D 2319/04 (20130101) Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/445 (20130101) |
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| US 09637223 | DiCocco et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jack DiCocco (Granger Township, Ohio); Troy Prince (Cleveland, Ohio); Mehul Patel (Chandler, Ohio); Tsun Ming Terry Ng (Sylvania, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Orbital Reseach Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jack DiCocco (Granger Township, Ohio); Troy Prince (Cleveland, Ohio); Mehul Patel (Chandler, Ohio); Tsun Ming Terry Ng (Sylvania, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An afterbody flow control system is used for aircraft or missile flow control to provide enhanced maneuverability and stabilization. A method of operating the flow control system is also described. The missile or aircraft comprises an afterbody and a forebody; at least one activatable flow effector on the missile or aircraft afterbody; at least one sensor having a signal, the at least one sensor being positioned to detect forces or flow conditions on the missile or aircraft afterbody; and a closed loop control system; wherein the closed loop control system is used for activating and deactivating the at least one activatable flow effector based on at least in part the signal of the at least one sensor. |
| FILED | Friday, April 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/457686 |
| 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 21/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09637416 | Keller 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) | Teddy M. Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Andrew P. Saab (Washington, District of Columbia); Matthew Laskoski (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition having nanoparticles of a refractory-metal boride and a carbonaceous matrix. The composition is not in the form of a powder. A composition comprising a metal component, boron, and an organic component. The metal component is nanoparticles or particles of a refractory metal or a refractory-metal compound capable of decomposing into refractory metal nanoparticles. The organic component is an organic compound having a char yield of at least 60% by weight or a thermoset made from the organic compound. A method of combining particles of a refractory metal or a refractory-metal compound capable of reacting or decomposing into refractory-metal nanoparticles, boron, and an organic compound having a char yield of at least 60% by weight to form a precursor mixture. A composition having nanoparticles of a refractory-metal boride that is not in the form of a powder. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 15, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/266194 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/52 (20130101) C04B 35/65 (20130101) C04B 35/76 (20130101) C04B 35/80 (20130101) C04B 35/83 (20130101) C04B 35/522 (20130101) C04B 35/524 (20130101) C04B 35/58064 (20130101) C04B 35/58071 (20130101) C04B 35/58078 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C04B 2235/77 (20130101) C04B 2235/95 (20130101) C04B 2235/404 (20130101) C04B 2235/421 (20130101) C04B 2235/422 (20130101) C04B 2235/526 (20130101) C04B 2235/656 (20130101) C04B 2235/781 (20130101) C04B 2235/3813 (20130101) C04B 2235/3839 (20130101) C04B 2235/3843 (20130101) C04B 2235/3847 (20130101) C04B 2235/3886 (20130101) C04B 2235/5216 (20130101) C04B 2235/5248 (20130101) C04B 2235/5288 (20130101) C04B 2235/6562 (20130101) C04B 2235/6567 (20130101) |
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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) | Douglas S. Conklin (Niskayuna, New York); Cheryl Eifert (Huntington Station, New York); Antonis Kourtidis (Saint Augustine, Florida); Xianhui Wang (Albany, New York); Leila Kokabee (Albany, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Receptor protein kinases (RPTKs) transmit extracellular signals across the plasma membrane to cytosolic proteins, stimulating formation of complexes that regulate key cellular functions. Over half of the known tyrosine kinases are implicated in human cancers and are therefore highly promising drug targets. A large-scale loss-of-function analysis of tyrosine kinases using RNA interference in the clinically relevant Erb-B2 positive, BT474 breast cancer cell line showed that Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK), a cytosolic, non-receptor tyrosine kinase that has been extensively studied for its role in B cell development, is required, in altered form, for BT474 breast cancer survival. This alternative form contains an amino-terminal extension that is also present in tumorigenic breast cells at significantly higher levels than in normal breast cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 04, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/817754 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 31/704 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/705 (20130101) C07K 16/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/1205 (20130101) C12N 15/1137 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 207/10001 (20130101) C12Y 207/10002 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/573 (20130101) G01N 33/57415 (20130101) G01N 2333/9121 (20130101) |
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| US 09637777 | Seul et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BioArray Solutions, Ltd. (Warren, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BioArray Solutions, Ltd. (Warren, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Seul (Fanwood, New Jersey); Sukanta Banerjee (Pennington, New Jersey); Jiacheng Yang (Hillsboro, New Jersey); Tatiana Vener (Stirling, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods of multiplexed analysis of oligonucleotides in a sample, including a method of preventing a significant reduction in duplexes detectable in a hybridization assay involving (i) selecting probe lengths for sets of oligonucleotide probes, wherein probes include different subsequences such that at least one subsequence is complementary to a subsequence in a cognate target; wherein probes for longer cognate targets are longer in length than probes for shorter cognate targets, (ii) selecting, for each set of probes, a density of oligonucleotides probes attached per unit area on a solid phase carrier which is below a limit at which the significant reduction in detectable duplexes is predicated to take place, (iii) producing the probes and affixing them to different solid phase carriers at the selected density, and (iv) annealing targets to the probes, wherein signal intensities of probes and targets of different lengths are about the same. |
| FILED | Monday, April 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/257294 |
| 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 | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 2219/00459 (20130101) B01J 2219/00576 (20130101) B01J 2219/00608 (20130101) B01J 2219/00648 (20130101) B01J 2219/00722 (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 1/6809 (20130101) C12Q 1/6809 (20130101) C12Q 1/6809 (20130101) C12Q 1/6809 (20130101) C12Q 1/6832 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6832 (20130101) C12Q 1/6834 (20130101) C12Q 1/6834 (20130101) C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) C12Q 2533/101 (20130101) C12Q 2537/143 (20130101) C12Q 2537/143 (20130101) C12Q 2565/501 (20130101) C12Q 2565/507 (20130101) C12Q 2565/507 (20130101) C12Q 2565/507 (20130101) C12Q 2565/507 (20130101) C12Q 2565/514 (20130101) C12Q 2565/519 (20130101) |
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| US 09637783 | Benner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven Benner (Gainesville, Florida); Roberto Laos (Gainesville, Florida); Nicole Leal (Gainesville, Florida); Nilesh Karalkar (Gainesville, Florida); Zunyi Yang (Gainesville, Florida) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Benner (Gainesville, Florida); Roberto Laos (Gainesville, Florida); Nicole Leal (Gainesville, Florida); Nilesh Karalkar (Gainesville, Florida); Zunyi Yang (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to processes that amplify, in a polymerase chain reaction architecture, oligonucleotide analogs that incorporate non-standard nucleobase analogs from an artificially expanded genetic information system. These pair in DNA duplexes via patterns of hydrogen bonds that are different from patterns that join the thymine-adenine and guanine-cytosine nucleobase pairs. |
| FILED | Monday, June 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/746243 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/1252 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/34 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2525/117 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 207/07007 (20130101) |
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| US 09637832 | Sutto |
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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) | Thomas E. Sutto (Woodbridge, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for recovering heavy metals and rare earth elements from fly ash, coal ash, and unrefined mineral ores containing rare earth metals using an ionic liquid and an organic acid to solubilize the metals. The solubilized components are removed from the ionic liquid by electrochemical deposition. The heavy metals and rare earth elements are deposited onto an electrode, and then purified via electrochemical processing. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 02, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/013016 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Manufacture of Iron or Steel C21B 15/00 (20130101) Production and Refining of Metals; Pretreatment of Raw Materials C22B 1/005 (20130101) C22B 7/02 (20130101) C22B 59/00 (20130101) C22B 60/00 (20130101) C22B 60/0291 (20130101) Processes for the Electrolytic Production, Recovery or Refining of Metals; Apparatus Therefor C25C 1/20 (20130101) C25C 1/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C25C 7/02 (20130101) C25C 7/08 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 10/138 (20151101) Y02P 10/212 (20151101) |
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| US 09638483 | Hoffman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brian Hoffman (Bangor, Pennsylvania); Alexander Smith (Long Valley, New Jersey); Hansen Lukman (Rockaway, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Hoffman (Bangor, Pennsylvania); Alexander Smith (Long Valley, New Jersey); Hansen Lukman (Rockaway, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An ammunition magazine is used with a reciprocally-cycled weapon for delinking and firing cartridges in close-end linked ammunition belts. The magazine includes a housing with an ammunition indexing mechanism fixed to one side of the housing. A magazine feed box is disposed above the ammunition indexing mechanism. The magazine feed box includes a movable follower having an upper and a lower position and cam pins that engage cam slots in the magazine feed box. The movable follower is configured to receive a cartridge from the weapon. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 17, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/659739 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Functional Features or Details Common to Both Smallarms and Ordnance, e.g Cannons; Mountings for Smallarms or Ordnance F41A 7/08 (20130101) F41A 9/30 (20130101) F41A 9/79 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09638500 | Blyskal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tomasz Blyskal (Flemington, New Jersey); Peter Rottinger (Sussex, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tomasz Blyskal (Flemington, New Jersey); Peter Rottinger (Sussex, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A fragmentation warhead with a flexible liner enables increased control of the warhead's fragmentation pattern. The flexible liner is fixed to a rigid portion of the warhead housing. Explosive material is contained in the housing. A fluid is disposed between the explosive material and the flexible liner to function as a shock transition material. The fluid is contiguous with and bears on an inner surface of the flexible liner. A plurality of rigid fragments or a plurality of explosively formed projectile (EFP) liners are fixed to an outer surface of the flexible liner opposite the fluid. Initiation of the explosive material propels the fragments or EFP liners in directions that may be varied by varying the shape of the flexible liner. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 01, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/267067 |
| 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 12/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F42B 12/72 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09638503 | Andrews et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William J. Andrews (Tampa, Florida); Carl J. Campagnuolo (Sarasota, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Andrews (Tampa, Florida); Carl J. Campagnuolo (Sarasota, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A hand grenade fuze includes a secondary safety feature in the form of a trigger pin inserted through the striker lever. One end of the trigger pin has an undercut portion. A slide bar is disposed in the fuze body and has a keyhole opening at one end for selectively engaging the undercut portion of the trigger pin. A trigger has one end connected to the slide bar and another end rotatably fixed to the fuze body. A spring biases the trigger away from the fuze body. When the trigger is depressed, the slide bar translates and releases the trigger pin, which releases the restraint on the striker lever. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/462702 |
| 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 14/02 (20130101) F42C 15/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F42C 15/21 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09638504 | Sutherland et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gerrit Sutherland (Churchville, Maryland); Harold W. Sandusky (Fulton, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerrit Sutherland (Churchville, Maryland); Harold W. Sandusky (Fulton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A warhead fuse mechanism is used to prevent an accidental explosive event of a warhead by separating the booster lead into a plurality of booster lead segments, with each of the individual booster lead segments having a diameter less than the failure diameter of the booster lead explosive. A separating device separates the booster lead segments from each other to maintain the failure diameter until detonation is desired. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/924796 |
| 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 15/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09638518 | Marocchini et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis P. Marocchini (Somers, Connecticut); Gregory DiVincenzo (Wethersfield, Connecticut); Mike R. Lyon (South Windsor, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and method for measuring the rotational position of a rotating feature, the device employing rotary to linear magnification. A connecting member is operatively connected to the rotating feature, the connecting member extending through one or more structural layers of an enclosure. An arm is operatively connected to the connecting member and located outside the enclosure. A target is arranged with respect to a position sensor, with the position sensor configured to measure the linear position of the target with respect to the position sensor. A cable is connected to the arm at an attachment point, the cable also being connected to the target. One or more pulleys are arranged to control the path of the cable between the attachment point on the arm and the target. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/504547 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 21/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Testing Static or Dynamic Balance of Machines or Structures; Testing of Structures or Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G01M 15/14 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09638620 | Di Carlo 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) | Dino Di Carlo (Los Angeles, California); Daniel R. Gossett (Los Angeles, California); Henry T. K. Tse (San Francisco, California); Aram Chung (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for deforming and analyzing a plurality of particles carried in a sample volume includes a substrate defining an inlet, configured to receive the sample volume, and an outlet; and a fluidic pathway fluidly coupled to the inlet and the outlet. The fluidic pathway includes a delivery region configured to receive the plurality of particles from the inlet and focus the plurality of particles from a random distribution to a focused state, a deformation region defining an intersection located downstream of the delivery region and coupled to the outlet, and wherein the deformation region is configured to receive the plurality of particles from the delivery region and to transmit each particle in the plurality of particles into the intersection from a single direction, a first branch fluidly coupled to the deformation region and configured to transmit a first flow into the intersection, and a second branch fluidly coupled to the deformation region and configured to transmit a second flow, substantially opposing the first flow, into the intersection, wherein the first flow and the second flow are configured to induce extension of one or more particles in the plurality of particles. |
| FILED | Friday, July 17, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/802293 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/147 (20130101) G01N 15/1404 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 15/1434 (20130101) G01N 15/1436 (20130101) G01N 15/1459 (20130101) G01N 15/1484 (20130101) G01N 21/645 (20130101) G01N 21/6428 (20130101) G01N 33/50 (20130101) G01N 33/5091 (20130101) G01N 2015/0065 (20130101) G01N 2015/1006 (20130101) G01N 2015/1415 (20130101) G01N 2015/1495 (20130101) G01N 2021/6439 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09638634 | Zanni |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin Thomas Zanni (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A multidimensional spectrometer provides broadband white light pump and probe pulses to allow acquisition of multidimensional spectral information over a wide range commensurate with solar-related chemical processes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/804965 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/636 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09638653 | Potyrailo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electricity Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Radislav Alexandrovich Potyrailo (Niskayuna, New York); Cheryl Margaret Surman (Albany, New York); Andrew Arthur Paul Burns (Schenectady, New York); Nandini Nagraj (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and sensors for selective fluid sensing are provided. Each sensor includes a resonant inductor-capacitor-resistor (LCR) sensor that is coated with a sensing material. In order to collect data, an impedance spectrum is acquired over a relatively narrow frequency range, such as the resonant frequency range of the LCR circuit. A multivariate signature may be calculated from the acquired spectrum to discern the presence of certain fluids and/or fluid mixtures. The presence of fluids is detected by measuring the changes in dielectric, dimensional, resistance, charge transfer, and other changes in the properties of the materials employed by observing the changes in the resonant electronic properties of the circuit. By using a mathematical procedure, such as principal components analysis (PCA) and others, multiple fluids and mixtures can be detected in the presence of one another, even in a high humidity environment or an environment wherein one or more fluids has a substantially higher concentration (e.g. 10×, 1,000,000×) compared to other components in the mixture. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/710299 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/02 (20130101) G01N 27/026 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/483 (20130101) G01N 33/48792 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09638661 | Aksimentiev |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aleksei Aksimentiev (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method for generating an electric or pressure difference force that induces a plurality of particles to flow through a through-hole. Independently adjustable heat source in a vicinity of the through-hole induces a thermodynamic force for modifying the flow of the plurality of particles through the through-hole. Additional embodiments are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, February 22, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/773863 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/1404 (20130101) G01N 27/447 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 27/44791 (20130101) G01N 33/48721 (20130101) G01N 2015/1422 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 137/7722 (20150401) |
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| US 09638768 | Foley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Twinleaf LLC (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TWINLEAF LLC (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elizabeth L. Foley (Princeton, New Jersey); Thomas W. Kornack (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Magnetometers, atomic sensors and related systems, methods and devices are disclosed. In one configuration, an assembly for use in a high-sensitivity atomic sensor can include an alkali vapor cell, at least one illumination source configured to emit light when activated, the emitted light having a first predetermined range of wavelengths, a light collector capable of collecting light in the first predetermined range of wavelengths, and a plurality of optical elements arranged such that (a) light emitted from the at least one illumination source is directed to the alkali vapor cell, and (b) light emerging from the alkali vapor cell is directed to the light collector. |
| FILED | Friday, February 05, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/016985 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 19/62 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 33/032 (20130101) |
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| US 09638858 | Luo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Oracle International Corporation (Redwood City, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ying L. Luo (San Diego, California); Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California); Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A hybrid optical source that provides an optical signal having a wavelength (or a narrow band of wavelengths) is described. This hybrid optical source includes an optical amplifier (such as a III-V semiconductor optical amplifier) that is butt-coupled or vertically coupled to a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform, and which outputs an optical signal. The SOI platform includes an optical waveguide that conveys the optical signal. A temperature-compensation element included in the optical waveguide compensates for temperature dependence of the indexes of refraction of the optical amplifier and the optical waveguide. In addition, a reflector, adjacent to the optical waveguide after the temperature-compensation element, reflects a portion of the optical signal and transmits another portion of the optical signal that has the wavelength. |
| FILED | Monday, August 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/451105 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/124 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/1228 (20130101) G02B 2006/12061 (20130101) G02B 2006/12104 (20130101) G02B 2006/12135 (20130101) Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/106 (20130101) H01S 5/141 (20130101) H01S 5/0612 (20130101) |
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| US 09639085 | Hellman |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barry M. Hellman (Bexely, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A new apparatus and method for determining trajectories for hypersonic glide vehicles significantly reduces integrated, or total, heat load, with little reduction in time to distance and maximum range. The new approach identifies a trajectory having large phugoid oscillations and plotting a glide trajectory along the peaks of the phugoid oscillations. The glide trajectory is determined by calculating a first altitude that results in a maximum lift to drag ratio trajectory having damped or small phugoid oscillations, then calculating a different altitude that results in larger phugoid oscillations, and higher phugoid peaks, and finally plotting a trajectory from the first altitude that follows the peaks of the higher phugoid oscillation trajectory. The thus calculated trajectory can be input into a glide vehicle guidance system for controlling the trajectory of the glide vehicle from a point where it reaches the first altitude. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 05, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/818559 |
| ART UNIT | 3665 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 30/00 (20130101) B64C 31/00 (20130101) Cosmonautics; Vehicles or Equipment Therefor B64G 1/24 (20130101) B64G 1/242 (20130101) B64G 2001/245 (20130101) Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 23/005 (20130101) Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 1/0607 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/80 (20130101) Y02T 50/84 (20130101) |
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| US 09639802 | Modha |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, the present invention provides a neural network comprising multiple modalities. Each modality comprises multiple neurons. The neural network further comprises an interconnection lattice for cross-associating signaling between the neurons in different modalities. The interconnection lattice includes a plurality of perception neuron populations along a number of bottom-up signaling pathways, and a plurality of action neuron populations along a number of top-down signaling pathways. Each perception neuron along a bottom-up signaling pathway has a corresponding action neuron along a reciprocal top-down signaling pathway. An input neuron population configured to receive sensory input drives perception neurons along a number of bottom-up signaling pathways. A first set of perception neurons along bottom-up signaling pathways drive a first set of action neurons along top-down signaling pathways. Action neurons along a number of top-down signaling pathways drive an output neuron population configured to generate motor output. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/596274 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/04 (20130101) G06N 3/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09640170 | Cipolla et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeffrey Cipolla (Alexandria, Virginia); Nachiket Gokhale (Jersey City, New Jersey); Andrew Norris (Mountainside, New Jersey); Adam Nagy (Bridgewater, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THORNTON TOMASETTI, INC. (New York, New York); RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Cipolla (Alexandria, Virginia); Nachiket Gokhale (Jersey City, New Jersey); Andrew Norris (Mountainside, New Jersey); Adam Nagy (Bridgewater, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed an acoustically transparent material including an acoustic wave steering material, and methods for fabrication and use thereof. The materials are specially designed structures of homogenous isotropic metals. These structures are constructed to propagate waves according to Pentamode elastic theory. The metamaterial structures are two-dimensional, intended to propagate acoustic waves in the plane in a manner which closely emulates the propagation of waves in water. The acoustically transparent materials described herein have particular utility as acoustic wave steering materials and acoustic cloaks. |
| FILED | Friday, May 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/464385 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Sound-producing Devices; Methods or Devices for Protecting Against, or for Damping, Noise or Other Acoustic Waves in General; Acoustics Not Otherwise Provided for G10K 11/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49995 (20150115) |
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| US 09640333 | Kumar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Satish Kumar (Atlanta, Georgia); Kishor Kumar Gupta (Duluth, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | In a method of making a high surface area carbon material, a precursor organic material is prepared. The precursor organic material is subjected to a first elevated temperature while applying a gaseous purge thereto for a first predetermined time. The precursor organic material is subjected to a second elevated temperature while not applying the gaseous purge thereto for a second predetermined time after the first predetermined time. A high surface area carbon material includes carbon and has a surface area in a range between 3029 m2/g to 3565 m2/g and a pore volume in a range between 1.66 cm3/g and 1.90 cm3/g. The high surface area carbon material may be employed in an electrode for a supercapacitor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/042842 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/02 (20130101) C01B 31/08 (20130101) C01B 31/12 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2006/12 (20130101) C01P 2006/14 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 11/24 (20130101) H01G 11/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01G 11/34 (20130101) H01G 11/44 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/13 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2982 (20150115) |
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| US 09640652 | Hull et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brett Adam Hull (Raleigh, North Carolina); Qingchun Zhang (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brett Adam Hull (Raleigh, North Carolina); Qingchun Zhang (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor device may include a semiconductor layer having a first conductivity type, a well region of a second conductivity type in the semiconductor layer wherein the first and second conductivity types are different, and a terminal region of the first conductivity type in the well region. An epitaxial semiconductor layer may be on the surface of the semiconductor layer including the well region and the terminal region with the epitaxial semiconductor layer having the first conductivity type across the well and terminal regions. A gate electrode may be on the epitaxial semiconductor layer so that the epitaxial semiconductor layer is between the gate electrode and portions of the well region surrounding the terminal region at the surface of the semiconductor layer. |
| FILED | Monday, September 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/608350 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/45 (20130101) H01L 29/0623 (20130101) H01L 29/0847 (20130101) H01L 29/1608 (20130101) H01L 29/7828 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09640686 | Bawendi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Moungi Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Venda J. Porter (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Marc Kastner (Newton, Massachusetts); Tamar Mentzel (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An electro-optical device can include a plurality of nanocrystals positioned between a first electrode and a second electrode. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/167415 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/02538 (20130101) H01L 21/02551 (20130101) H01L 21/02562 (20130101) H01L 21/02565 (20130101) H01L 21/02568 (20130101) H01L 21/02595 (20130101) H01L 21/02628 (20130101) H01L 31/09 (20130101) H01L 31/0296 (20130101) H01L 31/1126 (20130101) H01L 31/1836 (20130101) H01L 31/022408 (20130101) H01L 31/035218 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09640698 | Dutta |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Banpil Photonics, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BANPIL PHOTONICS, INC. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Achyut Dutta (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method pertaining to a perpetual energy harvester. The harvester absorbs ambient infrared radiation and provides continual power regardless of the environment. The device seeks to harvest the largely overlooked blackbody radiation through use of a semiconductor thermal harvester. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/831840 |
| ART UNIT | 1758 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/076 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/0687 (20130101) H01L 31/1828 (20130101) H01L 31/03529 (20130101) H01L 31/022441 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/543 (20130101) Y02E 10/544 (20130101) |
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| US 09640706 | Woods et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. (Thornton, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ASCENT SOLAR TECHNOLOGIES, INC (Thornton, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence M. Woods (Littleton, Colorado); Rosine M. Ribelin (Lakewood, Colorado); Prem Nath (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-junction photovoltaic cell includes a substrate and a back contact layer formed on the substrate. A low bandgap Group IB-IIIB-VIB2 material solar absorber layer is formed on the back contact layer. A heterojunction partner layer is formed on the low bandgap solar absorber layer, to help form the bottom cell junction, and the heterojunction partner layer includes at least one layer of a high resistivity material having a resistivity of at least 100 ohms-centimeter. The high resistivity material has the formula (Zn and/or Mg)(S, Se, O, and/or OH). A conductive interconnect layer is formed above the heterojunction partner layer, and at least one additional single-junction photovoltaic cell is formed on the conductive interconnect layer, as a top cell. The top cell may have an amorphous Silicon or p-type Cadmium Selenide solar absorber layer. Cadmium Selenide may be converted from n-type to p-type with a chloride doping process. |
| FILED | Monday, April 25, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/137696 |
| ART UNIT | 1758 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0256 (20130101) H01L 21/385 (20130101) H01L 21/02579 (20130101) H01L 31/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/0336 (20130101) H01L 31/0725 (20130101) H01L 31/1828 (20130101) H01L 31/1884 (20130101) |
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| US 09640959 | Pickard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc. (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc. (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Charles Pickard (Indianapolis, Indiana); Philip Martin Green (Indianapolis, Indiana); Kimberly Nicole Merrill (Waterford, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present invention is a unique platform. Another embodiment is a unique engine system. Another embodiment is a unique wiring harness system. Other embodiments include apparatuses, systems, devices, hardware, methods, and combinations for one or more of various types of platforms, such as aircraft, ground vehicles, water-borne vessels and stationary platforms; engine systems; and wiring harness systems. Further embodiments, forms, features, aspects, benefits, and advantages of the present application will become apparent from the description and figures provided herewith. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/319422 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 2221/00 (20130101) Controlling Combustion Engines F02D 2400/22 (20130101) Electrically-conductive Connections; Structural Associations of a Plurality of Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting Elements; Coupling Devices; Current Collectors H01R 13/658 (20130101) H01R 13/719 (20130101) H01R 13/6666 (20130101) Installation of Electric Cables or Lines, or of Combined Optical and Electric Cables or Lines H02G 3/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09641156 | Kang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HRL LABORATORIES, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jongchan Kang (Moorpark, California); Hasan Sharifi (Agoura Hills, California); Eric M. Prophet (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-port active circulator includes a plurality of cascode circuits coupled to one another in a ring. Each respective cascode circuit of the plurality of cascode circuits is coupled to a respective port of a plurality of ports. Each respective cascode circuit includes a common source transistor, a common gate transistor coupled to the common source transistor, and a feedback circuit coupled from the common gate transistor to the common source transistor. Each common source transistor of each respective cascode circuit is coupled to a common junction point. |
| FILED | Monday, November 23, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/949044 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Impedance Networks, e.g Resonant Circuits; Resonators H03H 11/38 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09641160 | Agarwal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amit Agarwal (Hillsboro, Oregon); Steven Hsu (Lake Oswego, Oregon); Ram Krishnamurthy (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments include apparatuses, methods, and systems for state retention electronic devices. In embodiments, an electronic device may include a state retention flip-flop having a plurality of P-type metal oxide semiconductor (PMOS) devices coupled with a common N-well, with one or more of the plurality of PMOS devices powered by an always-on supply and one or more of the plurality of PMOS devices powered by a power-gated supply. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. |
| FILED | Monday, March 02, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/635849 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse Technique H03K 3/012 (20130101) H03K 3/0372 (20130101) H03K 3/35625 (20130101) H03K 3/356008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09641280 | Shen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intelligent Fusion Technology, Inc (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTELLIGENT FUSION TECHNOLOGY, INC (Germantown, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan Shen (Germantown, Maryland); Gang Wang (Germantown, Maryland); Genshe Chen (Germantown, Maryland); Khanh D. Pham (Kirtland AFB, New Mexico); Erik Blasch (Rome, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments provide an anti-jamming method in a satellite communication (SATCOM) system. A waveform modulation is performed on a waveform of a source data to provide a modulated waveform transmitted to a transmitter and then to a receiver. The modulated waveform transmitted from the receiver is demodulated to provide a demodulated waveform. In response to interference, a game reasoning process is performed on the demodulated waveform to provide an anti-jamming adaptive waveform. By performing a game-optimal waveform modulation on the anti-jamming adaptive waveform, a frequency hopping process is used to guide the data transmission, such that the source data is transmitted with a minimal probability of being interfered. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/965758 |
| ART UNIT | 2631 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 1/715 (20130101) H04B 7/18515 (20130101) Secret Communication; Jamming of Communication H04K 3/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09642258 | Diao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brewer Science Inc. (Rolla, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brewer Science Inc. (Rolla, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Liyong Diao (Springfield, Missouri); Wu-Sheng Shih (Ozark, Missouri); James E. Lamb, III (Rolla, Missouri); Christopher Landorf (Springfield, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel tank circuits that are totally passive, and they are made of conductive-grade carbon nanotubes (CNTs) on substrates, and preferably flexible substrates. These components and structures contain no traditional electronic materials such as silicon, metal oxides, or ceramics, and they are totally organic. They may be used in applications where the resonant frequency and amplitude of the sensor can be modulated by a thermal, mechanical, or chemical signal, such as temperature, strain, pressure, vibration, or humidity. All-organic, and consequently combustible, passive RF sensors have unique applications for defense and consumer industries. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/865841 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 27/2804 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 4/008 (20130101) H01G 4/14 (20130101) H01G 4/40 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 1/097 (20130101) H05K 1/162 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05K 1/165 (20130101) H05K 1/0313 (20130101) H05K 2201/026 (20130101) H05K 2201/0323 (20130101) H05K 2201/10128 (20130101) H05K 2201/10151 (20130101) H05K 2201/10159 (20130101) H05K 2201/10166 (20130101) H05K 2201/10174 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09642265 | Dresser |
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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) | Timothy M. Dresser (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A hermetically sealed module which comprises a central core housing including a perimeter side wall and a central core with opposed primary and secondary support surfaces. At least one coupling passageway is formed within the central core adjacent the perimeter side wall. The side wall has an sealed internal/external electrical connector which facilitates communication with the module. A multilayer substrate, with at least one flexible coupling tab, is supported by the primary support surface and at least one surface mounted component is supported by the secondary support surface. The flexible coupling tab passes through the at least one coupling passageway to facilitate coupling of a plurality of components of the multilayer substrate with a plurality of components of the at least one surface mounted component via a SMT connector. Primary and secondary lids are secured to opposed sides of the perimeter side wall and forming the hermetically sealed module. |
| FILED | Friday, June 19, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/744382 |
| 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 5/0026 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05K 5/069 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Maurice (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Maurice (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides an apparatus and method for the separation of a paramagnetic component from a mixture using a mechanical membrane apparatus. The mechanical membrane comprises a supporting material having a plurality of pores where each pore is surrounded by a plurality of magnetic regions. The magnetic regions augment a magnetic field on one side of the supporting material while mitigating the field to near zero on the opposite side. In operation, a flow of fluid such as air comprising a paramagnetic component such as O2 is directed toward the mechanical membrane, and the paramagnetic component is typically attracted toward a magnetic field surrounding a pore while dimagnetic components such as N2 are generally repelled. As some portion of the fluid passes through the plurality of magnetic apertures to the opposite side of the mechanical membrane, the mechanical membrane generates a fluid enriched in the paramagnetic component. Alternately, the magnetic field may act to repel the paramagnetic component while diamagnetic components such as N2 are generally unaffected and pass to the opposite side of the mechanical membrane. |
| FILED | Monday, April 13, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/684475 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/228 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 63/00 (20130101) B01D 69/02 (20130101) B01D 2325/46 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09636664 | Habas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan Ellen Habas (Arvada, Colorado); Jun Wang (Highlands Ranch, Colorado); Daniel A. Ruddy (Arvada, Colorado); Frederick Raymond Gabriel Baddour (Denver, Colorado); Joshua Schaidle (Arvada, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to a method that includes heating a mixture that includes a metal phenylphosphine-containing precursor that includes at least one of Mo(PPh3)2(CO)4, Pd(PPh3)4, Ru(PPh3)3Cl2, Ru(PPh3)2(CO)2Cl2, Co(PPh3)(CO)2(NO), and/or Rh(PPh3)2(CO)Cl, a surfactant, and a solvent. The heating is to a target temperature to form a heated mixture containing a metal phosphide nanoparticle that includes at least one of MoP, Ru2P, Co2P, Rh2P, and/or Pd3P, and the metal phosphide nanoparticle is not hollow. |
| FILED | Monday, June 06, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/174691 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 27/19 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 27/1853 (20130101) B01J 27/1856 (20130101) B01J 35/0013 (20130101) B01J 37/086 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 25/08 (20130101) C01B 25/088 (20130101) Cracking Hydrocarbon Oils; Production of Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g by Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation; Recovery of Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, or Gases; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting of Hydrocarbons; Reforming of Naphtha; Mineral Waxes C10G 3/45 (20130101) C10G 3/46 (20130101) C10G 3/47 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09636887 | Russell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas P. Russell (Amherst, Massachusetts); Soojin Park (Amherst, Massachusetts); Jia-Yu Wang (Chicago, Illinois); Bokyung Kim (Amherst, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanopatterned surfaces are prepared by a method that includes forming a block copolymer film on a substrate, annealing and surface reconstructing the block copolymer film to create an array of cylindrical voids, depositing a metal on the surface-reconstructed block copolymer film, and heating the metal-coated block copolymer film to redistribute at least some of the metal into the cylindrical voids. When very thin metal layers and low heating temperatures are used, metal nanodots can be formed. When thicker metal layers and higher heating temperatures are used, the resulting metal structure includes nanoring-shaped voids. The nanopatterned surfaces can be transferred to the underlying substrates via etching, or used to prepare nanodot- or nanoring-decorated substrate surfaces. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 26, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/138343 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 3/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B32B 5/16 (20130101) B32B 2264/105 (20130101) Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00031 (20130101) B81C 2201/0149 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/12049 (20150115) Y10T 428/24355 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09636997 | Kolhouse et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Steven Kolhouse (Columbus, Indiana); Vivek Anand Sujan (Columbus, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | System, apparatus, and methods are disclosed for opening one or more louvers of an engine cooling system to provide an airflow to the radiator to reduce a radiator fan on time. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/294862 |
| ART UNIT | 3618 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Arrangement or Mounting of Propulsion Units or of Transmissions in Vehicles; Arrangement or Mounting of Plural Diverse Prime-movers in Vehicles; Auxiliary Drives for Vehicles; Instrumentation or Dashboards for Vehicles; Arrangements in Connection With Cooling, Air Intake, Gas Exhaust or Fuel Supply of Propulsion Units in Vehicles B60K 11/085 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Cooling of Machines or Engines in General; Cooling of Internal-combustion Engines F01P 7/12 (20130101) F01P 2025/13 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09637019 | Bassham et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Marjorie A. Bassham (Burton, Michigan); Ciro A. Spigno, Jr. (Waterford, Michigan); Brett T. Muller (Milford, Michigan); Vernon L. Newhouse (Farmington, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marjorie A. Bassham (Burton, Michigan); Ciro A. Spigno, Jr. (Waterford, Michigan); Brett T. Muller (Milford, Michigan); Vernon L. Newhouse (Farmington, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A charging system and method that may be used to automatically apply customized charging settings to a plug-in electric vehicle, where application of the settings is based on the vehicle's location. According to an exemplary embodiment, a user may establish and save a separate charging profile with certain customized charging settings for each geographic location where they plan to charge their plug-in electric vehicle. Whenever the plug-in electric vehicle enters a new geographic area, the charging method may automatically apply the charging profile that corresponds to that area. Thus, the user does not have to manually change or manipulate the charging settings every time they charge the plug-in electric vehicle in a new location. |
| FILED | Monday, January 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/346109 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| 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 11/1837 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B60L 11/1861 (20130101) B60L 2240/62 (20130101) B60L 2240/64 (20130101) B60L 2240/70 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/705 (20130101) Y02T 10/7005 (20130101) Y02T 10/7044 (20130101) Y02T 10/7072 (20130101) Y02T 10/7291 (20130101) Y02T 90/14 (20130101) Y02T 90/16 (20130101) Y02T 90/121 (20130101) Y02T 90/128 (20130101) Y02T 90/162 (20130101) |
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| US 09637385 | Biris et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexandru S. Biris (Little Rock, Arkansas); Enkeleda Dervishi (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect of the invention, a method for growth of carbon nanotubes includes providing a graphitic composite, decorating the graphitic composite with metal nanostructures to form graphene-contained powders, and heating the graphene-contained powders at a target temperature to form the carbon nanotubes in an argon/hydrogen environment that is devoid of a hydrocarbon source. In one embodiment, the target temperature can be as low as about 150° C. (±5° C.). |
| FILED | Monday, November 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/531543 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0226 (20130101) C01B 31/0233 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09637528 | Bradbury et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrew M. Bradbury (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Csaba Kiss (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Geoffrey S. Waldo (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew M. Bradbury (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Csaba Kiss (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Geoffrey S. Waldo (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides directed evolution methods for improving the folding, solubility and stability (including thermostability) characteristics of polypeptides. In one aspect, the invention provides a method for generating folding and stability-enhanced variants of proteins, including but not limited to fluorescent proteins, chromophoric proteins and enzymes. In another aspect, the invention provides methods for generating thermostable variants of a target protein or polypeptide via an internal destabilization baiting strategy. Internally destabilization a protein of interest is achieved by inserting a heterologous, folding-destabilizing sequence (folding interference domain) within DNA encoding the protein of interest, evolving the protein sequences adjacent to the heterologous insertion to overcome the destabilization (using any number of mutagenesis methods), thereby creating a library of variants. The variants in the library are expressed, and those with enhanced folding characteristics selected. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/286967 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/43595 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/00 (20130101) C07K 2317/565 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1058 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/533 (20130101) G01N 33/582 (20130101) |
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| US 09637725 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Novozymes Inc. (, None) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ye Liu (Beijing, China PRC); Junxin Duan (Beijing, China PRC); Yu Zhang (Beijing, China PRC); Lan Tang (Beijing, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are isolated polypeptides having catalase 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 | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/366127 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/0065 (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 3/00 (20130101) C12P 19/02 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 111/01006 (20130101) Dry-cleaning, Washing or Bleaching Fibres, Filaments, Threads, Yarns, Fabrics, Feathers or Made-up Fibrous Goods; Bleaching Leather or Furs D06L 3/11 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09637727 | Spodsberg |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Novozymes Inc. (Davis, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nikolaj Spodsberg (Bagsvaerd, Denmark) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having xylanase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides. |
| FILED | Monday, October 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/513057 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/248 (20130101) C12N 9/2482 (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) Enzymes C12Y 302/01008 (20130101) |
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| US 09637766 | Kirby et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Kirby (Berkeley, California); Jeffrey L. Fortman (San Francisco, California); Minobu Nishimoto (El Cerrito, California); Jay D. Keasling (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a genetically modified host cell capable of producing 1-deoxyxylulose 5-phosphate or 1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate (DXP) (12), and optionally one or more DXP derived compounds, comprising: (a) a mutant RibB, or functional variant thereof, capable of catalyzing xylulose 5-phoshpate and/or ribulose 5-phospate to DXP, or (b) a YajO, or functional variant thereof, and a XylB, or functional variant thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, June 17, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/186202 |
| 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 9/0006 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 5/007 (20130101) C12P 19/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/52 (20151101) |
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| US 09637828 | Rondinone et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam Justin Rondinone (Knoxville, Tennessee); Ilia N. Ivanov (Knoxville, Tennessee); Sean Campbell Smith (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Chengdu Liang (Knoxville, Tennessee); Dale K. Hensley (Kingston, Tennessee); Ji-Won Moon (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Tommy Joe Phelps (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to a method for producing metal-containing (e.g., non-oxide, oxide, or elemental) nano-objects, which may be nanoparticles or nanowires, the method comprising contacting an aqueous solution comprising a metal salt and water with an electrically powered electrode to form said metal-containing nano-objects dislodged from the electrode, wherein said electrode possesses a nanotextured surface that functions to confine the particle growth process to form said metal-containing nano-objects. The invention is also directed to the resulting metal-containing compositions as well as devices in which they are incorporated. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/205718 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Processes for the Production of Compounds or Non-metals; Apparatus Therefor C25B 1/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C25B 1/21 (20130101) C25B 11/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09637830 | Wang 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, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xudong Wang (Middleton, Wisconsin); Zhaodong Li (Shaanxi, China PRC); Zhiyong Cai (Madison, Wisconsin); Chunhua Yao (Jiangxi, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Photocatalytic structures having a capillary-force based electrolyte delivery system are provided. Also provided are photoelectrochemical and photocatalytic cells incorporating the structures and methods for using the cells to generate hydrogen and/or oxygen from water. The photocatalytic structures use an electrolyte-transporting strip comprising a porous network of cellulose nanofibers to transport electrolyte from a body of the electrolyte to a porous photoelectrode or a porous photocatalytic substrate via capillary force. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/166740 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Processes for the Production of Compounds or Non-metals; Apparatus Therefor C25B 1/003 (20130101) C25B 11/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C25B 11/035 (20130101) C25B 15/08 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/135 (20151101) |
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| US 09638809 | Stowe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ashley C. Stowe (Knoxville, Tennessee); Arnold Burger (Nashville, Tennessee); Pijush Bhattacharya (Nashville, Tennessee); Yevgeniy Tupitsyn (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Fisk University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ashley C. Stowe (Knoxville, Tennessee); Arnold Burger (Nashville, Tennessee); Pijush Bhattacharya (Nashville, Tennessee); Yevgeniy Tupitsyn (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A combined thermal neutron detector and gamma-ray spectrometer system, including: a first detection medium including a lithium chalcopyrite crystal operable for detecting neutrons; a gamma ray shielding material disposed adjacent to the first detection medium; a second detection medium including one of a doped metal halide, an elpasolite, and a high Z semiconductor scintillator crystal operable for detecting gamma rays; a neutron shielding material disposed adjacent to the second detection medium; and a photodetector coupled to the second detection medium also operable for detecting the gamma rays; wherein the first detection medium and the second detection medium do not overlap in an orthogonal plane to a radiation flux. Optionally, the first detection medium includes a 6LiInSe2 crystal. Optionally, the second detection medium includes a SrI2(Eu) scintillation crystal. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/453768 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/202 (20130101) G01T 1/208 (20130101) G01T 1/2023 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01T 3/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09638813 | Stowe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ashley Stowe (Knoxville, Tennessee); Arnold Burger (Nashville, Tennessee); Eric Lukosi (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Fisk University (Nashville, Tennessee); University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ashley Stowe (Knoxville, Tennessee); Arnold Burger (Nashville, Tennessee); Eric Lukosi (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A combined thermal neutron detector and gamma-ray spectrometer system, including: a detection medium including a lithium chalcopyrite crystal operable for detecting thermal neutrons in a semiconductor mode and gamma-rays in a scintillator mode; and a photodetector coupled to the detection medium also operable for detecting the gamma rays. Optionally, the detection medium includes a 6LiInSe2 crystal. Optionally, the detection medium comprises a compound formed by the process of: melting a Group III element; adding a Group I element to the melted Group III element at a rate that allows the Group I and Group III elements to react thereby providing a single phase I-III compound; and adding a Group VI element to the single phase I-III compound and heating; wherein the Group I element includes lithium. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/871162 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| 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 11/06 (20130101) C30B 11/12 (20130101) C30B 29/46 (20130101) Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/361 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01T 1/362 (20130101) G01T 3/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09638827 | Reagor et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Wesley Reagor (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Doan Ngoc Nguyen (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Stephen Paul Ashworth (Gallicano, Italy) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico); CHEVRON U.S.A. INC. (San Ramon, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Wesley Reagor (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Doan Ngoc Nguyen (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Stephen Paul Ashworth (Gallicano, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | A bottom hole assembly used for a field operation is disclosed herein. The bottom hole assembly can include at least one directional antenna disposed on an outer surface of a first tubing pipe of a tubing string, where the at least one directional antenna receives a first electric current from at least one power source, where the first electric current generates a first magnetic field that radiates from the at least one directional antenna into a formation. The bottom hole assembly can also include at least one receiver disposed on a second tubing pipe of the tubing string, where the at least one receiver receives the first magnetic field returning from the formation. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/498511 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Geophysics; Gravitational Measurements; Detecting Masses or Objects; Tags G01V 3/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09638842 | Jorgensen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SkyFuel, Inc. (Lakewood, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SKYFUEL, INC. (Lakewood, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Jorgensen (Pine, Colorado); Randall C. Gee (Arvada, Colorado); David White (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are reflective thin film constructions including a reduced number of layers, which provides for increased solar-weighted hemispherical reflectance and durability. Reflective films include those comprising an ultraviolet absorbing abrasion resistant coating over a metal layer. Also provided are ultraviolet absorbing abrasion resistant coatings and methods for optimizing the ultraviolet absorption of an abrasion resistant coating. Reflective films disclosed herein are useful for solar reflecting, solar collecting, and solar concentrating applications, such as for the generation of electrical power. |
| FILED | Friday, March 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/790099 |
| ART UNIT | 3749 — Selective Communication |
| CURRENT CPC | Producing or Use of Heat Not Otherwise Provided For F24J 2/1057 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/0808 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Generation of Electric Power by Conversion of Infra-red Radiation, Visible Light or Ultraviolet Light, e.g Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules H02S 40/22 (20141201) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/46 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/264 (20150115) Y10T 428/265 (20150115) Y10T 428/269 (20150115) Y10T 428/2804 (20150115) Y10T 428/12549 (20150115) Y10T 428/31678 (20150401) |
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| US 09639926 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xing Chen (Plainfield, Illinois); Ryan J. Stoddard (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xing Chen (Plainfield, Illinois); Ryan J. Stoddard (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for defining structures within an image is described. The system includes reading of an input file, preprocessing the input file while preserving metadata such as scale information and then detecting features of the input file. In one version the detection first uses an edge detector followed by identification of features using a Hough transform. The output of the process is identified elements within the image. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 13, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/263626 |
| ART UNIT | 2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0004 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 7/0095 (20130101) G06T 2207/10061 (20130101) G06T 2207/30124 (20130101) |
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| US 09640334 | Yu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zhenning Yu (Fairborn, Ohio); Jinjun Shi (Columbus, Ohio); Chen-guang Liu (Fairborn, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio); Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhenning Yu (Fairborn, Ohio); Jinjun Shi (Columbus, Ohio); Chen-guang Liu (Fairborn, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio); Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A flexible, asymmetric electrochemical cell comprising: (A) A sheet of graphene paper as first electrode comprising nano graphene platelets having a platelet thickness less than 1 nm, wherein the first electrode has electrolyte-accessible pores; (B) A thin-film or paper-like first separator and electrolyte; and (C) A thin-film or paper-like second electrode which is different in composition than the first electrode; wherein the separator is sandwiched between the first and second electrode to form a flexible laminate configuration. The asymmetric supercapacitor cells with different NGP-based electrodes exhibit an exceptionally high capacitance, specific energy, and stable and long cycle life. |
| FILED | Monday, January 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/657579 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 11/26 (20130101) H01G 11/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01G 11/40 (20130101) H01G 11/50 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/133 (20130101) H01M 4/583 (20130101) H01M 4/587 (20130101) H01M 16/00 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/13 (20130101) |
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| US 09640824 | Haug et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY (Saint Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew T. Haug (St. Paul, Minnesota); Steven J. Hamrock (Stillwater, Minnesota); Gregory M. Haugen (Edina, Minnesota); Mark A. Schonewill (Bloomington, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel cell electrode layer may include a catalyst, an electronic conductor, and an ionic conductor. Within the electrode layer are a plurality of electronic conductor rich networks and a plurality of ionic conductor rich networks that are interspersed with the electronic conductor rich networks. A volume ratio of the ionic conductor to the electronic conductor is greater in the ionic conductor rich networks than in the electronic conductor rich networks. During operation of a fuel cell that includes the electrode layer, conduction of electrons occurs predominantly within the electronic conductor rich networks and conduction of ions occurs predominantly within the ionic conductor rich networks. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/294936 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/8652 (20130101) H01M 4/8668 (20130101) H01M 4/8673 (20130101) H01M 4/8828 (20130101) H01M 8/1004 (20130101) H01M 8/1044 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/1067 (20130101) H01M 2008/1095 (20130101) H01M 2300/0082 (20130101) H01M 2300/0091 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/521 (20130101) |
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| US 09640826 | Yan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yushan Yan (Hockessin, Delaware); Shuang Gu (Newark, Delaware); Ke Gong (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A redox flow battery is provided. The redox flow battery involves multiple-membrane (at least one cation exchange membrane and at least one anion exchange membrane), multiple-electrolyte (one electrolyte in contact with the negative electrode, one electrolyte in contact with the positive electrode, and at least one electrolyte disposed between the two membranes) as the basic characteristic, such as a double-membrane, triple electrolyte (DMTE) configuration or a triple-membrane, quadruple electrolyte (TMQE) configuration. The cation exchange membrane is used to separate the negative or positive electrolyte and the middle electrolyte, and the anion exchange membrane is used to separate the middle electrolyte and the positive or negative electrolyte. |
| FILED | Friday, June 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/918452 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 2/00 (20130101) H01M 2/40 (20130101) H01M 8/04 (20130101) H01M 8/18 (20130101) H01M 8/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/188 (20130101) H01M 8/04186 (20130101) H01M 10/4242 (20130101) H01M 2300/0082 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/528 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49108 (20150115) |
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| US 09640851 | Nantista et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher D. Nantista (Redwood City, California); Valery A. Dolgashev (San Carlos, California); Sami G. Tantawi (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | High power RF phase-directed power combiners include magic H hybrid and/or superhybrid circuits oriented in orthogonal H-planes and connected using E-plane bends and/or twists to produce compact 3D waveguide circuits, including 8×8 and 16×16 combiners. Using phase control at the input ports, RF power can be directed to a single output port, enabling fast switching between output ports for applications such as multi-angle radiation therapy. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 26, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/722048 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Waveguides; Resonators, Lines, or Other Devices of the Waveguide Type H01P 1/165 (20130101) H01P 5/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09640976 | Chambon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul H. Chambon (Knoxville, Tennessee); Perry T. Jones (Knoxville, Tennessee); John M. Miller (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Omer C. Onar (Knoxville, Tennessee); Lixin Tang (Knoxville, Tennessee); Clifford P. White (Seymour, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A wireless power transfer overvoltage protection system is provided. The system includes a resonant receiving circuit. The resonant receiving circuit includes an inductor, a resonant capacitor and a first switching device. The first switching device is connected the ends of the inductor. The first switching device has a first state in which the ends of the inductor are electrically coupled to each other through the first switching device, and a second state in which the inductor and resonant capacitor are capable of resonating. The system further includes a control module configured to control the first switching device to switching between the first state and the second state when the resonant receiving circuit is charging a load and a preset condition is satisfied and otherwise, the first switching device is maintained in the first state. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 26, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/631903 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| 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 11/182 (20130101) B60L 11/1851 (20130101) Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements H02H 3/202 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09640982 | Chi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Song Chi (Clifton Park, New York); Dong Dong (Schenectady, New York); Rixin Lai (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An over-voltage protection system includes an electronic valve connected across two terminals of a circuit and an over-voltage detection circuit connected across one of the plurality of semiconductor devices for detecting an over-voltage across the circuit. The electronic valve includes a plurality of semiconductor devices connected in series. The over-voltage detection circuit includes a voltage divider circuit connected to a break-over diode in a way to provide a representative low voltage to the break-over diode and an optocoupler configured to receive a current from the break-over diode when the representative low voltage exceeds a threshold voltage of the break-over diode indicating an over-voltage condition. The representative low voltage provided to the break-over diode represents a voltage across the one semiconductor device. A plurality of self-powered gate drive circuits are connected to the plurality of semiconductor devices, wherein the plurality of self-powered gate drive circuits receive over-voltage triggering pulses from the optocoupler during the over-voltage condition and switch on the plurality of semiconductor devices to bypass the circuit. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/533762 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements H02H 7/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H02H 9/041 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 3/36 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/60 (20130101) |
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| US 09641125 | Johnston |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Johnston (Golden, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to optical methods and systems for detecting defects in photovoltaic (PV) devices such as PV cells, PV panels, PV modules, and PV arrays. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 21, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/002628 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/63 (20130101) G01N 21/956 (20130101) G01N 21/6489 (20130101) G01N 2021/646 (20130101) Generation of Electric Power by Conversion of Infra-red Radiation, Visible Light or Ultraviolet Light, e.g Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules H02S 50/15 (20141201) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09641154 | Olsson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roy H. Olsson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Thomas A. Friedmann (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Sara Jensen Homeijer (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Michael Wiwi (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Khalid Mikhiel Hattar (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Blythe Clark (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Todd Bauer (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Stuart B. Van Deusen (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A single crystal micromechanical resonator includes a suspended plate of lithium niobate or lithium tantalate. The suspended plate and a support structure are formed from a single crystal. |
| FILED | Friday, November 11, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/349593 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Impedance Networks, e.g Resonant Circuits; Resonators H03H 3/02 (20130101) H03H 9/17 (20130101) H03H 9/54 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03H 9/205 (20130101) H03H 9/02228 (20130101) H03H 2003/027 (20130101) |
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| US 09641216 | Derr et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kurt W. Derr (Idaho Falls, Idaho); John G. Richardson (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BATTELLE ENERGY ALLIANCE, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kurt W. Derr (Idaho Falls, Idaho); John G. Richardson (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Monitoring devices and systems comprise a plurality of data channel modules coupled to processing circuitry. Each data channel module of the plurality of data channel modules is configured to capture wireless communications for a selected frequency channel. The processing circuitry is configured to receive captured wireless communications from the plurality of data channel modules and to organize received wireless communications according to at least one parameter. Related methods of monitoring wireless communications are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/419901 |
| ART UNIT | 2631 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 1/713 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09642239 | Kephart |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Kephart (Batavia, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (Batavia, Israel) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Kephart (Batavia, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A conduction cooling system for linear accelerator cavities. The system conducts heat from the cavities to a refrigeration unit using at least one cavity cooler interconnected with a cooling connector. The cavity cooler and cooling connector are both made from solid material having a very high thermal conductivity of approximately 1×104 W m−1 K−1 at temperatures of approximately 4 degrees K. This allows for very simple and effective conduction of waste heat from the linear accelerator cavities to the cavity cooler, along the cooling connector, and thence to the refrigeration unit. |
| FILED | Friday, April 17, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/689695 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Plasma Technique; Production of Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles or of Neutrons; Production or Acceleration of Neutral Molecular or Atomic Beams H05H 7/20 (20130101) H05H 7/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09636020 | Flusberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin A. Flusberg (Palo Alto, California); Eric David Cocker (Palo Alto, California); Juergen Claus Jung (Palo Alto, California); Mark Jacob Schnitzer (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Analysis of live beings is facilitated. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, a light-directing arrangement such as an endoscope is mounted to a live being. Optics in the light-directing arrangement are implemented to pass source light (e.g., laser excitation light) into the live being, and to pass light from the live being for detection thereof. The light from the live being may include, for example, photons emitted in response to the laser excitation light (i.e., fluoresced). The detected light is then used to detect a characteristic of the live being. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/322517 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0013 (20130101) A61B 5/0059 (20130101) A61B 5/0062 (20130101) A61B 5/0064 (20130101) A61B 5/0068 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/0071 (20130101) A61B 5/0075 (20130101) A61B 5/0079 (20130101) A61B 5/4064 (20130101) A61B 5/6814 (20130101) A61B 2503/40 (20130101) A61B 2576/026 (20130101) Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/44 (20130101) G01J 3/4406 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/65 (20130101) G01N 21/6408 (20130101) G01N 21/6428 (20130101) G01N 21/6456 (20130101) G01N 21/6458 (20130101) G01N 21/6486 (20130101) |
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| US 09636632 | Merkel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Membrane Technology and Research, Inc. (Newark, California); New York University (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Membrane Technology and Research, Inc (Newark, California); New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy C Merkel (San Jose, California); Hao Zhang (Fremont, California); Zhenjie He (Fremont, California); Yoshiyuki Okamoto (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for separating components of a gas mixture using gas-separation copolymer membranes. These membranes use a selective layer made from copolymers of an amorphous perfluorinated dioxolane and a fluorovinyl monomer. The resulting membranes have superior selectivity performance for gas pairs of interest while maintaining fast gas permeance compared to membranes prepared using conventional perfluoropolymers such as Teflon® AF, Hlyflon® AD, and Cytop®. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 28, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/141303 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/228 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 71/32 (20130101) B01D 71/38 (20130101) B01D 2256/245 (20130101) B01D 2257/11 (20130101) B01D 2257/102 (20130101) B01D 2257/108 (20130101) B01D 2257/504 (20130101) Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 10/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09636799 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | OMAX Corporation (Kent, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | OMAX Corporation (Kent, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter H.-T. Liu (Bellevue, Washington); Ernst H. Schubert (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Abrasive-delivery apparatuses for use in abrasive-jet systems and associated apparatuses, systems, and methods are disclosed. An abrasive-delivery apparatus configured in accordance with a particular embodiment includes a first funnel segment and a second funnel segment downstream from the first funnel segment. The first funnel segment can have a first inlet, a first outlet, and a first interior region extending between the first inlet and the first outlet. Similarly, the second funnel segment can have a second inlet, a second outlet, and a second interior region extending between the second inlet and the second outlet. The first interior region can have a first inward taper toward the first outlet, and the second interior region can have a second inward taper toward the second outlet. The second inward taper can be steeper than the first inward taper when the abrasive-delivery apparatus is vertically oriented. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 02, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/728822 |
| ART UNIT | 3723 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Abrasive or Related Blasting With Particulate Material B24C 1/045 (20130101) B24C 7/00 (20130101) B24C 7/0015 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09636887 | Russell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas P. Russell (Amherst, Massachusetts); Soojin Park (Amherst, Massachusetts); Jia-Yu Wang (Chicago, Illinois); Bokyung Kim (Amherst, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanopatterned surfaces are prepared by a method that includes forming a block copolymer film on a substrate, annealing and surface reconstructing the block copolymer film to create an array of cylindrical voids, depositing a metal on the surface-reconstructed block copolymer film, and heating the metal-coated block copolymer film to redistribute at least some of the metal into the cylindrical voids. When very thin metal layers and low heating temperatures are used, metal nanodots can be formed. When thicker metal layers and higher heating temperatures are used, the resulting metal structure includes nanoring-shaped voids. The nanopatterned surfaces can be transferred to the underlying substrates via etching, or used to prepare nanodot- or nanoring-decorated substrate surfaces. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 26, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/138343 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 3/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B32B 5/16 (20130101) B32B 2264/105 (20130101) Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00031 (20130101) B81C 2201/0149 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/12049 (20150115) Y10T 428/24355 (20150115) |
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| US 09637385 | Biris et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexandru S. Biris (Little Rock, Arkansas); Enkeleda Dervishi (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect of the invention, a method for growth of carbon nanotubes includes providing a graphitic composite, decorating the graphitic composite with metal nanostructures to form graphene-contained powders, and heating the graphene-contained powders at a target temperature to form the carbon nanotubes in an argon/hydrogen environment that is devoid of a hydrocarbon source. In one embodiment, the target temperature can be as low as about 150° C. (±5° C.). |
| FILED | Monday, November 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/531543 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0226 (20130101) C01B 31/0233 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09637425 | McGowan 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) | Kevin P. McGowan (Gainesville, Florida); Adam S. Veige (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A catalyst comprising a NCN pincer ligand group VI complex is capable of being used as an olefin polymerization or isomerization catalyst that does not require an expensive cocatalyst. The complex has the NCN pincer ligand in a trianionic form with the group VI in the +3 oxidation state or the +4 oxidation state and complexed to an anionic hydrocarbon group, or the complex has the NCN pincer ligand in a dianionic form with the group VI in the +2 oxidation state. The complex is capable of initiating the polymerization of alkenes without an added activator. The presence of a water scavenger and activator or cocatalyst, such as triisobutylaluminum, increases the catalytic activity. The complex is capable of selectively isomerizing 1-alkenes to cis/trans 2-alkenes. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/852611 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 23/24 (20130101) B01J 31/143 (20130101) B01J 31/183 (20130101) B01J 31/1805 (20130101) B01J 31/2208 (20130101) B01J 2231/52 (20130101) B01J 2231/122 (20130101) B01J 2531/62 (20130101) B01J 2531/0244 (20130101) General Methods of Organic Chemistry; Apparatus Therefor C07B 2200/09 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 2/32 (20130101) C07C 2/32 (20130101) C07C 2/34 (20130101) C07C 5/2581 (20130101) C07C 5/2581 (20130101) C07C 5/2587 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 11/02 (20130101) C07C 11/02 (20130101) C07C 2531/22 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 11/00 (20130101) C07F 11/005 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 4/69353 (20130101) C08F 110/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09637443 | Zhao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of North Dakota (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of North Dakota (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Julia Xiaojun Zhao (Grand Forks, North Dakota); Xu Wu (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for forming a graphene quantum dot product includes adding an organic starting material to a vessel and heating the organic starting material to a temperature within 20° C. of the organic starting material's boiling temperature for a time no longer than ten minutes to form graphene quantum dots. A method for sensing a graphene quantum dot includes forming a graphene quantum dot, exciting the graphene quantum dot with light having a first wavelength, measuring light emitted by the excited graphene quantum dot at a second wavelength different from the first wavelength. A graphene quantum dot includes carbon atoms and nitrogen atoms where the nitrogen atoms are present within the graphene quantum dot at a level between 6.0% and 11.0% of a level of carbon atoms present in the graphene quantum dot. |
| FILED | Friday, April 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/261936 |
| 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 49/0017 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 31/04 (20130101) B01J 2231/62 (20130101) 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 31/0438 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 231/00 (20130101) C07C 235/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/588 (20130101) G01N 33/5005 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/127 (20130101) H01L 29/1606 (20130101) H01L 51/0045 (20130101) H01L 51/502 (20130101) |
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| US 09637599 | Roth et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen Roth (Gladwyne, Pennsylvania); Daeyeon Lee (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Stephen Roth (Gladwyne, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Roth (Gladwyne, Pennsylvania); Daeyeon Lee (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure describes methods and biomimetic catalysts useful for hydrolyzing glucose polymers, such as cellulose, and oligomers, such as cellobiose, to glucose for the subsequent production of ethanol. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/259912 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 21/08 (20130101) B01J 31/10 (20130101) B01J 31/067 (20130101) B01J 31/069 (20130101) B01J 31/0225 (20130101) B01J 31/0277 (20130101) B01J 31/0284 (20130101) B01J 37/0018 (20130101) B01J 2231/40 (20130101) B01J 2531/96 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 77/02 (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 7/10 (20130101) C12P 2203/00 (20130101) Saccharides Obtained From Natural Sources or by Hydrolysis of Naturally Occurring Disaccharides, Oligosaccharides or Polysaccharides C13K 1/02 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/16 (20130101) |
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| US 09637615 | Fini |
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| APPLICANT(S) | North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (Greensboro, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (Greensboro, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elham H. Fini (Asheboro, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application relates generally to bio-adhesive components isolated from bio-oil prepared from animal waste, methods of preparation of the bio-adhesive components and uses thereof. Such uses include, but are not limited to, asphalt bio-binders, bio-adhesion promoters, asphalt bio-rejuvenators, asphalt bio-extenders, bio-asphalt as well as uses in roofing, soil stabilization, crack and joint sealing and flooring adhesives. |
| FILED | Friday, September 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/032445 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 3/10 (20130101) B01D 3/40 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 11/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 91/00 (20130101) C08L 91/00 (20130101) C08L 95/00 (20130101) C08L 95/00 (20130101) C08L 2555/64 (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 191/00 (20130101) C09D 195/00 (20130101) C09D 195/00 (20130101) Construction Of, or Surfaces For, Roads, Sports Grounds, or the Like; Machines or Auxiliary Tools for Construction or Repair E01C 7/35 (20130101) E01C 7/262 (20130101) |
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| US 09637837 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xudong Wang (Madison, Wisconsin); Fei Wang (Madison, Wisconsin); Alexander V. Kvit (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of making electrically conductive, doped zinc oxide nanowires and nanowire films are provided. The methods comprises the steps of forming an aqueous solution comprising a dopant-containing precursor salt, a zinc-containing precursor salt and a pH buffering agent and heating the aqueous solution to a temperature below its boiling point in the presence of seed crystals, whereby doped zinc oxide nanowires are grown in situ from the seed crystals in the aqueous solution. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/968356 |
| 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 7/04 (20130101) C30B 7/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C30B 29/16 (20130101) C30B 29/60 (20130101) |
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| US 09637839 | Kong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jing Kong (Winchester, Massachusetts); Lain-Jong Li (Jubei, Taiwan); Yi-Hsien Lee (New Taipei, Taiwan) |
| ABSTRACT | Aromatic molecules are seeded on a surface of a growth substrate; and a layer (e.g., a monolayer) of a metal dichalcogenide is grown via chemical vapor deposition on the growth substrate surface seeded with aromatic molecules. The seeded aromatic molecules are contacted with a solvent that releases the metal dichalcogenide layer from the growth substrate. The metal dichalcogenide layer can be released with an adhered transfer medium and can be deposited on a target substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, February 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/193962 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Turning; Boring B23B 9/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/04 (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 16/00 (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 25/186 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C30B 29/46 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/58 (20130101) |
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| US 09638511 | Boppart et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen A. Boppart (Champaign, Illinois); Ryan L. Shelton (Champaign, Illinois); Nathan Shemonski (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for tomographic imaging of a sample. Low-coherence light is split into a sample path and a reference path. A steering optic recombines light in the reference path with light scattered by a sample onto a camera having an areal focal plane array of detector elements such that light in the reference path and light scattered by the sample are characterized by respectively offset propagation vectors at incidence upon the camera. A processor derives depth information from light scattered by the sample on the basis of interference fringes between light in the reference path and light scattered by the sample. The apparatus tracks lateral motion and may be hand-held or attached to a mobile device such as a smartphone, thus enabling 3-D imaging with the mobile device. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/819551 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 9/02091 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09638620 | Di Carlo 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) | Dino Di Carlo (Los Angeles, California); Daniel R. Gossett (Los Angeles, California); Henry T. K. Tse (San Francisco, California); Aram Chung (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for deforming and analyzing a plurality of particles carried in a sample volume includes a substrate defining an inlet, configured to receive the sample volume, and an outlet; and a fluidic pathway fluidly coupled to the inlet and the outlet. The fluidic pathway includes a delivery region configured to receive the plurality of particles from the inlet and focus the plurality of particles from a random distribution to a focused state, a deformation region defining an intersection located downstream of the delivery region and coupled to the outlet, and wherein the deformation region is configured to receive the plurality of particles from the delivery region and to transmit each particle in the plurality of particles into the intersection from a single direction, a first branch fluidly coupled to the deformation region and configured to transmit a first flow into the intersection, and a second branch fluidly coupled to the deformation region and configured to transmit a second flow, substantially opposing the first flow, into the intersection, wherein the first flow and the second flow are configured to induce extension of one or more particles in the plurality of particles. |
| FILED | Friday, July 17, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/802293 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/147 (20130101) G01N 15/1404 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 15/1434 (20130101) G01N 15/1436 (20130101) G01N 15/1459 (20130101) G01N 15/1484 (20130101) G01N 21/645 (20130101) G01N 21/6428 (20130101) G01N 33/50 (20130101) G01N 33/5091 (20130101) G01N 2015/0065 (20130101) G01N 2015/1006 (20130101) G01N 2015/1415 (20130101) G01N 2015/1495 (20130101) G01N 2021/6439 (20130101) |
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| US 09638634 | Zanni |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin Thomas Zanni (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A multidimensional spectrometer provides broadband white light pump and probe pulses to allow acquisition of multidimensional spectral information over a wide range commensurate with solar-related chemical processes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/804965 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/636 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09638639 | Fan 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) | Donglei Fan (Austin, Texas); Xiaobin Xu (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes nanotubes or rods, methods and arrays using plasmonic-magnetic bifunctional nanotubes or rods comprising: one or more silica nanotubes or rods; one or more nanomagnets embedded in a portion of the silica nanotubes or rods; and plasmonic metal nanoparticles uniformly coating in or on at least a portion of the surface of the nanomagnets and the silica nanotubes surface-coated. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/296134 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0092 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 25/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/658 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 1/0063 (20130101) H01F 1/0072 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2956 (20150115) |
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| US 09638661 | Aksimentiev |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aleksei Aksimentiev (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method for generating an electric or pressure difference force that induces a plurality of particles to flow through a through-hole. Independently adjustable heat source in a vicinity of the through-hole induces a thermodynamic force for modifying the flow of the plurality of particles through the through-hole. Additional embodiments are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, February 22, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/773863 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/1404 (20130101) G01N 27/447 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 27/44791 (20130101) G01N 33/48721 (20130101) G01N 2015/1422 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 137/7722 (20150401) |
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| US 09638695 | Fu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaoan Fu (Louisville, Kentucky); Michael Nantz (Louisville, Kentucky); Michael Bousamra (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-invasive method of detecting or screening for lung cancer in a subject specimen is provided. The method includes detecting elevated levels of one or more carbonyl-containing volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that are biomarkers for lung cancer in exhaled breath from the subject specimen. The method may further include obtaining exhaled breath from the subject specimen; forming adducts of the carbonyl-containing VOCs with a reactive chemical compound; quantifying the adducts of the carbonyl-containing VOCs to establish a subject value for each of the adducts; and comparing each subject value to a threshold healthy specimen value for each of the adducts of the carbonyl-containing VOCs. One or more subject values at quantities greater than threshold healthy specimen values are also useful for screening for lung cancer in the subject specimen. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/471793 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/405 (20130101) G01N 33/64 (20130101) G01N 33/543 (20130101) G01N 33/57423 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/57484 (20130101) G01N 2033/4975 (20130101) G01N 2033/57453 (20130101) |
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| US 09639107 | Blaauw 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) | David T. Blaauw (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Dennis Sylvester (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Myungjoon Choi (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Inhee Lee (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Taekwang Jang (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A temperature insensitive sub-nA current reference is presented with pA-range power overhead. The main concept is to linearly reduce the gate voltage of a sub-threshold-biased MOSFET as temperature increases, in order to compensate for exponential dependence of drain current on temperature. For example, a MOSFET-only, 20 pA, 780 ppm/° C. current reference that consumes 23 pW is disclosed, marking the lowest reported power among current references. The circuit exploits sub-threshold-biased MOSFETs and a complementary-to-absolute temperature (CTAT) gate voltage to compensate for temperature dependency. The design shows high immunity to supply voltage of 0.58%/V and a load sensitivity of 0.25%/V. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 19, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/662615 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Systems for Regulating Electric or Magnetic Variables G05F 1/468 (20130101) G05F 1/575 (20130101) G05F 3/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G05F 3/242 (20130101) |
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| US 09639328 | Narayanamoorthy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Srinivasan Narayanamoorthy (Hillsboro, Oregon); Nam Sung Kim (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A fixed-point multiplier providing reduced energy usage dynamically truncates received operands according to the location of computationally important bits in the operands and provides the truncated operands to a reduced width multiplier offering reduced energy usage. Information about the location of the dynamic truncation is used to properly shift the result of the multiplier to provide an approximation of full multiplication of the operands. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/453172 |
| ART UNIT | 2182 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 1/32 (20130101) G06F 7/523 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 7/49936 (20130101) |
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| US 09640073 | Gueziec |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MUDDY RIVER, SERIES 97 OF ALLIED SECURITY TRUST I (San Francisco, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PELMOREX CANADA INC. (Oakville, Ontario, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andre Gueziec (Sunnyvale, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a traveler information monitoring and dissemination system. The system disclosed herein provides real time information to a traveler, wherein the real time information may be pre-selected by the traveler. The system ensures consistent and quality data are produced and issued to the traveler. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/793879 |
| ART UNIT | 2685 — Selective Communication |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 21/36 (20130101) G01C 21/3407 (20130101) G01C 21/3492 (20130101) G01C 21/3694 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 5/04 (20130101) Traffic Control Systems G08G 1/093 (20130101) G08G 1/0125 (20130101) G08G 1/0967 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G08G 1/09675 (20130101) G08G 1/096716 (20130101) G08G 1/096741 (20130101) G08G 1/096775 (20130101) G08G 1/096816 (20130101) G08G 1/096827 (20130101) G08G 1/096866 (20130101) G08G 1/096888 (20130101) |
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| US 09640200 | Espy-Wilson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carol Espy-Wilson (Washington, District of Columbia); Srikanth Vishnubhotla (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus includes a function module, a strength module, and a filter module. The function module compares an input signal, which has a component, to a first delayed version of the input signal and a second delayed version of the input signal to produce a multi-dimensional model. The strength module calculates a strength of each extremum from a plurality of extrema of the multi-dimensional model based on a value of at least one opposite extremum of the multi-dimensional model. The strength module then identifies a first extremum from the plurality of extrema, which is associated with a pitch of the component of the input signal, that has the strength greater than the strength of the remaining extrema. The filter module extracts the pitch of the component from the input signal based on the strength of the first extremum. |
| FILED | Monday, March 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/195774 |
| ART UNIT | 2657 — Linguistics, Speech Processing and Audio Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Speech Analysis or Synthesis; Speech Recognition; Speech or Voice Processing; Speech or Audio Coding or Decoding G10L 15/14 (20130101) G10L 15/063 (20130101) G10L 25/90 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09640686 | Bawendi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Moungi Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Venda J. Porter (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Marc Kastner (Newton, Massachusetts); Tamar Mentzel (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An electro-optical device can include a plurality of nanocrystals positioned between a first electrode and a second electrode. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/167415 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/02538 (20130101) H01L 21/02551 (20130101) H01L 21/02562 (20130101) H01L 21/02565 (20130101) H01L 21/02568 (20130101) H01L 21/02595 (20130101) H01L 21/02628 (20130101) H01L 31/09 (20130101) H01L 31/0296 (20130101) H01L 31/1126 (20130101) H01L 31/1836 (20130101) H01L 31/022408 (20130101) H01L 31/035218 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09640867 | Behdad et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nader Behdad (Madison, Wisconsin); John Booske (McFarland, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A tunable phase shifter is provided that includes a spatial phase shift element and a conducting sheet. The spatial phase shift element includes a dielectric substrate and a conductive antenna element mounted on the dielectric substrate. The conducting sheet is mounted a distance from the spatial phase shift element and configured to reflect an electromagnetic wave through the spatial phase shift element. The conductive antenna element is configured to radiate a second electromagnetic wave in response to receipt of the reflected electromagnetic wave. The distance between the conducting sheet and the spatial phase shift element can be changed to adjust a phase shift of the reflected electromagnetic wave. |
| FILED | Monday, March 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/672632 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Waveguides; Resonators, Lines, or Other Devices of the Waveguide Type H01P 1/18 (20130101) Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 3/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01Q 3/36 (20130101) H01Q 21/061 (20130101) |
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| US 09641951 | Atkins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joshua David Atkins (Baltimore, Maryland); James Edward West (Plainfield, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua David Atkins (Baltimore, Maryland); James Edward West (Plainfield, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment in accordance with the present invention provides a system and method for binaural rendering of complex acoustic scenes. The system includes a computing device configured to process a sound recording of the acoustic scene to produce a binaurally rendered scene for the listener. The system also includes a position sensor configured to collect motion and position data for a head of the user and also configured to transmit said motion and position data to the computing device. A sound delivery device is configured to receive the binaurally rendered acoustic scene from the computing device and to transmit the acoustic scene to the ears of the listener. In the system, the computing device is further configured to utilize the motion and position data from the inertial motion sensor to process the sound recording of the acoustic scene with respect to the motion and position of the user's head. |
| FILED | Friday, August 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/571917 |
| ART UNIT | 2651 — Videophones and Telephonic Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups or Like Acoustic Electromechanical Transducers; Deaf-aid Sets; Public Address Systems H04R 3/005 (20130101) H04R 2203/12 (20130101) Stereophonic Systems H04S 7/301 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04S 7/304 (20130101) H04S 2420/01 (20130101) |
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| US 09642254 | Prud'Homme 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) | Robert K. Prud'Homme (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Ilhan A. Aksay (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A conductive circuit containing a polymer composite, which contains at least one polymer and a modified graphite oxide material, containing thermally exfoliated graphite oxide having a surface area of from about 300 m2/g to 2600 m2/g, and a method of making the same. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/515019 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/043 (20130101) C01B 31/0423 (20130101) C01B 31/0476 (20130101) C01B 2204/32 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 4/206 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 1/095 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05K 3/10 (20130101) H05K 3/0091 (20130101) H05K 2201/0323 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/324 (20130101) Y02E 60/325 (20130101) Y02E 60/328 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/13 (20150115) Y10T 428/1341 (20150115) Y10T 428/1379 (20150115) Y10T 428/2982 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 09637218 | Suciu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel L. Suciu (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Jesse M. Chandler (South Windsor, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An aircraft includes a propulsor supported within an aft portion of the fuselage. A thrust reverser is supported proximate the propulsor for redirecting thrust forward to slow the aircraft upon landing. A tail extending from the aft portion of the fuselage is angled forward away from the aft portion and out of the discharge of airflow from the thrust reverser. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/440753 |
| 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 5/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B64C 5/06 (20130101) Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 27/20 (20130101) B64D 33/04 (20130101) B64D 41/00 (20130101) Jet-propulsion Plants F02K 1/62 (20130101) |
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| US 09638521 | Arumugam |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darmindra D. Arumugam (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for non-line-of-sight positioning are disclosed for arbitrarily short to long ranges, where positioning is achieved using a single anchor not requiring tri-/multi-lateration or tri-/multi-angulation. Magnetoquasistatic fields can be used to determine position and orientation of a device in two or three dimensions. Two or three axis coils can be used in receivers and transmitters. The magnetoquasistatic equations are solved in different scenarios, taking into consideration the image signals originating from the interaction between the fields and ground/earth. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/876736 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 7/14 (20130101) Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 15/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 1/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09638829 | Davoodi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Faranak Davoodi (San Marino, California); Farhooman Davoudi (Roissy-en-Brie, France) |
| ABSTRACT | An autonomous and controllable system of sensors and methods for using such a system of sensors are described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/538771 |
| ART UNIT | 2685 — Selective Communication |
| CURRENT CPC | Geophysics; Gravitational Measurements; Detecting Masses or Objects; Tags G01V 11/002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission Systems for Measured Values, Control or Similar Signals G08C 19/00 (20130101) Selecting H04Q 9/00 (20130101) H04Q 2209/25 (20130101) H04Q 2209/40 (20130101) H04Q 2209/886 (20130101) |
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| US 09640746 | Ma et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Ma (Pasadena, California); Sabah K. Bux (Chino Hills, California); Jean-Pierre Fleurial (Altadena, California); Vilupanur A. Ravi (Claremont, California); Samad A. Firdosy (La Crescenta, California); Kurt Star (Bellflower, California); Richard B. Kaner (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a composite thermoelectric material. The composite thermoelectric material can include a semiconductor material comprising a rare earth metal. The atomic percent of the rare earth metal in the semiconductor material can be at least about 20%. The composite thermoelectric material can further include a metal forming metallic inclusions distributed throughout the semiconductor material. The present invention also provides a method of forming this composite thermoelectric material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/161641 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 35/16 (20130101) H01L 35/18 (20130101) H01L 35/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09641797 | Devereaux et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Throop, LLC (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THROOP, LLC (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ann Devereaux (Tujunga, California); Thomas Jedrey (Pasadena, California); Martin Agan (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A portable unit is for video communication to select a user name in a user name network. A transceiver wirelessly accesses a communication network through a wireless connection to a general purpose node coupled to the communication network. A user interface can receive user input to log on to a user name network through the communication network. The user name network has a plurality of user names, at least one of the plurality of user names is associated with a remote portable unit, logged on to the user name network and available for video communication. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 07, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/258950 |
| ART UNIT | 2692 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 19/006 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 65/1069 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 7/147 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Wireless Communication Networks H04W 76/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09642254 | Prud'Homme 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) | Robert K. Prud'Homme (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Ilhan A. Aksay (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A conductive circuit containing a polymer composite, which contains at least one polymer and a modified graphite oxide material, containing thermally exfoliated graphite oxide having a surface area of from about 300 m2/g to 2600 m2/g, and a method of making the same. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/515019 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/043 (20130101) C01B 31/0423 (20130101) C01B 31/0476 (20130101) C01B 2204/32 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 4/206 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 1/095 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05K 3/10 (20130101) H05K 3/0091 (20130101) H05K 2201/0323 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/324 (20130101) Y02E 60/325 (20130101) Y02E 60/328 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/13 (20150115) Y10T 428/1341 (20150115) Y10T 428/1379 (20150115) Y10T 428/2982 (20150115) |
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Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09636460 | Jaeger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Creare LLC (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Creare LLC (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. Jaeger (Plainfield, New Hampshire); Mark C. Bagley (Grafton, New Hampshire); Roger W. Hill (Grantham, New Hampshire); Sandra J. Graveson (Enfield, New Hampshire); Robert T. Payne (Montpelier, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | A pneumatic autoinjector that, once activated, automatically mixes at least two components in a pre-filled chamber and then ejects the mixture in a manner suitable for medicament injection. The mixable components may be a dry/wet combination (e.g., powder and solvent), wet/wet combination (e.g., two pre-diluted medicaments), wet/gas combination (e.g., chemical A and gas B), or gas/gas combination. In some embodiments, autoinjectors made in accordance with the teachings of the present disclosure may automatically perform a sequence comprising thorough medicament mixing (e.g., reconstitution of a dried medicament with solvent), an optional pause to enhance medicament dissolution or suspension, optional needle insertion into the patient (not required in needle-free embodiments), medicament injection into the patient, and optional needle retraction for safe storage. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 28, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/392200 |
| ART UNIT | 3763 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 5/322 (20130101) A61M 5/2033 (20130101) A61M 5/2053 (20130101) A61M 5/2066 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61M 5/3146 (20130101) A61M 5/3287 (20130101) A61M 5/31566 (20130101) A61M 5/31578 (20130101) A61M 5/31591 (20130101) A61M 5/31596 (20130101) A61M 2005/206 (20130101) A61M 2005/208 (20130101) A61M 2005/2026 (20130101) A61M 2202/02 (20130101) A61M 2202/04 (20130101) A61M 2202/06 (20130101) A61M 2205/581 (20130101) A61M 2205/582 (20130101) |
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| US 09640334 | Yu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zhenning Yu (Fairborn, Ohio); Jinjun Shi (Columbus, Ohio); Chen-guang Liu (Fairborn, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio); Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhenning Yu (Fairborn, Ohio); Jinjun Shi (Columbus, Ohio); Chen-guang Liu (Fairborn, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio); Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A flexible, asymmetric electrochemical cell comprising: (A) A sheet of graphene paper as first electrode comprising nano graphene platelets having a platelet thickness less than 1 nm, wherein the first electrode has electrolyte-accessible pores; (B) A thin-film or paper-like first separator and electrolyte; and (C) A thin-film or paper-like second electrode which is different in composition than the first electrode; wherein the separator is sandwiched between the first and second electrode to form a flexible laminate configuration. The asymmetric supercapacitor cells with different NGP-based electrodes exhibit an exceptionally high capacitance, specific energy, and stable and long cycle life. |
| FILED | Monday, January 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/657579 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 11/26 (20130101) H01G 11/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01G 11/40 (20130101) H01G 11/50 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/133 (20130101) H01M 4/583 (20130101) H01M 4/587 (20130101) H01M 16/00 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/13 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 09637830 | Wang 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, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xudong Wang (Middleton, Wisconsin); Zhaodong Li (Shaanxi, China PRC); Zhiyong Cai (Madison, Wisconsin); Chunhua Yao (Jiangxi, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Photocatalytic structures having a capillary-force based electrolyte delivery system are provided. Also provided are photoelectrochemical and photocatalytic cells incorporating the structures and methods for using the cells to generate hydrogen and/or oxygen from water. The photocatalytic structures use an electrolyte-transporting strip comprising a porous network of cellulose nanofibers to transport electrolyte from a body of the electrolyte to a porous photoelectrode or a porous photocatalytic substrate via capillary force. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/166740 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Processes for the Production of Compounds or Non-metals; Apparatus Therefor C25B 1/003 (20130101) C25B 11/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C25B 11/035 (20130101) C25B 15/08 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/135 (20151101) |
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Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 09640706 | Woods et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. (Thornton, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ASCENT SOLAR TECHNOLOGIES, INC (Thornton, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence M. Woods (Littleton, Colorado); Rosine M. Ribelin (Lakewood, Colorado); Prem Nath (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-junction photovoltaic cell includes a substrate and a back contact layer formed on the substrate. A low bandgap Group IB-IIIB-VIB2 material solar absorber layer is formed on the back contact layer. A heterojunction partner layer is formed on the low bandgap solar absorber layer, to help form the bottom cell junction, and the heterojunction partner layer includes at least one layer of a high resistivity material having a resistivity of at least 100 ohms-centimeter. The high resistivity material has the formula (Zn and/or Mg)(S, Se, O, and/or OH). A conductive interconnect layer is formed above the heterojunction partner layer, and at least one additional single-junction photovoltaic cell is formed on the conductive interconnect layer, as a top cell. The top cell may have an amorphous Silicon or p-type Cadmium Selenide solar absorber layer. Cadmium Selenide may be converted from n-type to p-type with a chloride doping process. |
| FILED | Monday, April 25, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/137696 |
| ART UNIT | 1758 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0256 (20130101) H01L 21/385 (20130101) H01L 21/02579 (20130101) H01L 31/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/0336 (20130101) H01L 31/0725 (20130101) H01L 31/1828 (20130101) H01L 31/1884 (20130101) |
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Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 09637765 | Luterbacher et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeremy Luterbacher (Ithaca, New York); Larry P. Walker (Ithaca, New York); Jefferson W. Tester (Hingham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeremy Luterbacher (Ithaca, New York); Larry P. Walker (Ithaca, New York); Jefferson W. Tester (Hingham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for pretreatment of a biomass material, comprising subjecting a biomass material to a biphasic mixture of water and supercritical CO2 at a temperature in the range of 150° C. to 250° C. under high pressure for a time of from 10 seconds to 100 minutes. In particular embodiments, the process is performed as a two-stage temperature process wherein an initial short high-temperature stage is conducted at a temperature of at least 200° C. for up to 20 minutes and a subsequent longer low-temperature stage is conducted at a temperature of at least 140° C. and up to 190° C. for 10-120 minutes. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/638338 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 17/04 (20130101) C12P 19/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 2201/00 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/16 (20130101) Y02E 50/17 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/544 (20151101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of the Treasury (TREASURY)
| US 09636067 | Kron et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Reuben E. Kron (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Stephen J Kron (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BioFluid Technology, Inc (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Reuben E. Kron (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Stephen J Kron (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are devices and methods suitable for immobilizing tissue and for use in non-invasive methods of assessing lower urinary tract symptoms as well as in surgical application. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 03, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/729319 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/205 (20130101) A61B 5/208 (20130101) A61B 5/6834 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
| US 09640680 | Son et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kyung-Ah Son (Moorpark, California); Hasan Sharifi (Agoura Hills, California); Jeong-Sun Moon (Moorpark, California); Wah S. Wong (Montebello, California); Hwa Chang Seo (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical device includes an optically transparent and electrically conducting conductor including graphene, a network of metal nanowires, or graphene integrated with a network of metal nanowires. The optical device includes a II VI compound semiconductor, a III V compound semiconductor, or InAsSb. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/183237 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/1469 (20130101) H01L 27/14634 (20130101) H01L 27/14636 (20130101) H01L 31/022466 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/022491 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 09636501 | Wheeler Moss et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christa Wheeler Moss (Chagrin Falls, Ohio); Paul Hunter Peckham (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Multiple designs, systems, methods and processes for control using electrical signals recorded from clinically paralyzed muscles and nerves are presented. The discomplete neural prosthesis system and method for clinically paralyzed humans utilizes a controller. The controller is adapted to receive a volitional electrical signal generated by the human that is manifest below the lesion that causes the clinical paralysis. The controller uses at least the volitional electrical signal to generate a control signal that is output back to a plant to change the state of the plant, which in one aspect is one or more of the user's paralyzed muscles to achieve a functional result or to devices in the environment around the user that are adapted to receive commands from the controller. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/310302 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/36003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/36017 (20130101) A61N 1/36135 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 09639610 | Jurgens et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Jurgens (Montreal, Canada); Tsai-Ching Lu (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Veronika Stmadova (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is system and method for gauging public interest in a topic using network analysis of online discussions. A message from an online discussion related to a specific topic is received as input. The message is analyzed for information related to the message, and a graph comprised of nodes is generated where each node represents information related to the message, such as user name, location, hyperlinks, and annotations. The graph is updated over time as additional messages from the online discussion are received. Additional nodes are generated and linked with at least one of the existing nodes in the graph to form at least one connected component. A normalized diameter of the largest connected component in the graph is determined, and a level of collective focus in the online discussion related to the topic based on the normalized diameter is output to a user. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/452129 |
| ART UNIT | 2163 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30864 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 17/30958 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 51/32 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09640283 | Walters |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC (Reston, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC (Chevy Chase, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leon C. Walters (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Nuclear reactor systems and methods are described having many unique features tailored to address the special conditions and needs of emerging markets. The fast neutron spectrum nuclear reactor system may include a reactor having a reactor tank. A reactor core may be located within the reactor tank. The reactor core may include a fuel column of metal or cermet fuel using liquid sodium as a heat transfer medium. A pump may circulate the liquid sodium through a heat exchanger. The system may include a balance of plant with no nuclear safety function. The reactor may be modular, and may produce approximately 100 MWe. |
| FILED | Friday, May 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/291890 |
| ART UNIT | 3648 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Nuclear Reactors G21C 1/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G21C 5/06 (20130101) G21C 7/08 (20130101) G21C 9/027 (20130101) G21C 19/205 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 30/34 (20130101) Y02E 30/39 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
How To Use This Page
THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, May 02, 2017.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
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You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
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