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09642566 — Flexible embedded sensor arrays and methods of making the same

US 09642566	Kapusta et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC)
APPLICANT(S)	General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Christopher James Kapusta (Delanson, New York); Eric Patrick Davis (Niskayuna, New York); Jason Harris Karp (Niskayuna, New York)
ABSTRACT	A flexible embedded sensor array includes a first substrate, an electrically conductive pad disposed on at least a portion of the first substrate, and a plurality of sensors disposed on at least a portion of electrically conductive pads. Further, the flexible embedded sensor array includes an electrically non-conductive adhesive material disposed in proximity to one or more of the plurality of sensors, a second substrate, and an electrical contact disposed between at least a portion of the sensor and at least a portion of the second substrate.
FILED	Friday, October 04, 2013
APPL NO	14/045809
ART UNIT	3777 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion
CURRENT CPC	Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/14552 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 2562/12 (20130101) A61B 2562/046 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49004 (20150115) Y10T 29/49126 (20150115)
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09642798 — Monovalent metal cation dry powders for inhalation

US 09642798	Lipp et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL)
APPLICANT(S)	Michael M. Lipp (Framingham, Massachusetts); Jean C. Sung (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Pulmatrix, Inc. (Lexington, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael M. Lipp (Framingham, Massachusetts); Jean C. Sung (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is directed toward respirable dry powders and particles for systemic delivery of pharmaceutically active agents or delivery to the respiratory tract. The dry powders contain one or more monovalent metal cations (such as Na+), are small and dispersible.
FILED	Thursday, September 29, 2011
APPL NO	13/876312
ART UNIT	1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0073 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 9/0075 (20130101) A61K 31/56 (20130101) A61K 31/56 (20130101) A61K 31/137 (20130101) A61K 31/137 (20130101) A61K 31/407 (20130101) A61K 31/407 (20130101) A61K 31/4745 (20130101) A61K 31/5383 (20130101) A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/28 (20130101) A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101)
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09642925 — Magnetic nanoparticle formulations, methods for making such formulations, and methods for their use

US 09642925	Chauhan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	Subhash Chauhan (Sioux Falls, South Dakota); Meena Jaggi (Sioux Falls, South Dakota); Murali Mohan Yallapu (Sioux Falls, South Dakota)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Sanford Research/USD (Sioux Falls, South Dakota)
INVENTOR(S)	Subhash Chauhan (Sioux Falls, South Dakota); Meena Jaggi (Sioux Falls, South Dakota); Murali Mohan Yallapu (Sioux Falls, South Dakota)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides derivatized magnetic nanoparticles, methods for making such nanoparticles, and methods for their use.
FILED	Monday, February 07, 2011
APPL NO	13/884625
ART UNIT	1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/5161 (20130101) A61K 9/5192 (20130101) A61K 31/12 (20130101) A61K 41/0052 (20130101) A61K 41/0057 (20130101) A61K 49/1824 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 49/1845 (20130101) A61K 49/1857 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 2/002 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 25/00 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 1/0054 (20130101)
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09642948 — Compositions and methods for delivering an agent to a wound

US 09642948	Haggard et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Army Medical Department (AMEDD)
APPLICANT(S)	University of Memphis Research Foundation (Memphis, Tennessee)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The University of Memphis Research Foundation (Memphis, Tennessee)
INVENTOR(S)	Warren O. Haggard (Bartlett, Tennessee); Scott P. Noel (Arlington, Tennessee); Joel D. Bumgardner (Memphis, Tennessee)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides compositions featuring chitosan and methods for using such compositions for the local delivery of biologically active agents to an open fracture, complex wound or other site of infection. Advantageously, the degradation and drug elution profiles of the chitosan compositions can be tailored to the needs of particular patients at the point of care (e.g., in a surgical suite, clinic, physician's office, or other clinical setting).
FILED	Tuesday, February 10, 2015
APPL NO	14/618722
ART UNIT	1673 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0024 (20130101) A61K 9/7007 (20130101) A61K 31/00 (20130101) A61K 31/00 (20130101) A61K 47/36 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 15/28 (20130101) A61L 15/28 (20130101) A61L 15/44 (20130101) A61L 27/20 (20130101) A61L 27/20 (20130101) A61L 27/58 (20130101) A61L 31/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 31/042 (20130101) A61L 31/042 (20130101) A61L 31/148 (20130101) A61L 2300/406 (20130101) Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 37/003 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 5/08 (20130101) C08L 5/08 (20130101) C08L 5/08 (20130101) C08L 5/08 (20130101)
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09643168 — Metal entrapped compounds

US 09643168	Avnir et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
APPLICANT(S)	David Avnir (Jerusalem, Israel); Raed Abu-Reziq (Jatt Hamesholash, Israel); Rachael Ben Knaz (Rehovot, Israel); Itzik Yosef (Modiin, Israel); Guy Nesher (Efrat, Israel); Gad Marom (Jerusalem, Israel)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ltd. (Jerusalem, Israel)
INVENTOR(S)	David Avnir (Jerusalem, Israel); Raed Abu-Reziq (Jatt Hamesholash, Israel); Rachael Ben Knaz (Rehovot, Israel); Itzik Yosef (Modiin, Israel); Guy Nesher (Efrat, Israel); Gad Marom (Jerusalem, Israel)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides a composite comprising at least one hydrophobic organic compound and a matrix of at least one metal; wherein said at least one hydrophobic compound is entrapped within said matrix, compositions comprising at least one composite and methods of its preparation.
FILED	Thursday, May 20, 2010
APPL NO	12/783916
ART UNIT	1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 23/50 (20130101) B01J 31/003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 31/06 (20130101) B01J 31/2269 (20130101) B01J 31/2273 (20130101) B01J 31/2278 (20130101) B01J 31/2295 (20130101) B01J 31/2404 (20130101) B01J 31/2409 (20130101) B01J 2231/645 (20130101) B01J 2531/0252 (20130101) B01J 2531/0263 (20130101) B01J 2531/0266 (20130101) B01J 2531/822 (20130101) B01J 2531/824 (20130101) B01J 2531/827 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 5/03 (20130101) C07C 5/03 (20130101) C07C 15/073 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 11/14 (20130101)
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09643211 — Passive chemical system for detection of gamma irradiation

US 09643211	Trammell et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Scott A. Trammell (Springfield, Virginia); Brett D. Martin (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Scott A. Trammell (Springfield, Virginia); Brett D. Martin (Washington, District of Columbia)
ABSTRACT	Encapsulated fluorescent metal nanoparticles for radiation detection comprising metal ions in an aqueous solution encapsulated in a nanocapsule, wherein the metal ions form atoms when exposed to gamma-ray initiated reduction of the ions and then aggregate to form fluorescent nanoparticles.
FILED	Monday, April 29, 2013
APPL NO	13/872428
ART UNIT	1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 3/068 (20130101) B05D 7/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 7/00 (20130101)
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09643279 — Fabrication tools for exerting normal forces on feedstock

US 09643279	Schultz et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)	Aeroprobe Corporation (Christiansburg, Virginia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	AEROPROBE CORPORATION (Christiansburg, Virginia)
INVENTOR(S)	Jeffrey Patrick Schultz (Blacksburg, Virginia); Kevin D. Creehan (Blacksburg, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to tooling and methods for disposing, coating, building up, repairing, or otherwise modifying the surface of a metal substrate using frictional heating and compressive loading of a consumable metal material against the substrate. Embodiments of the invention include friction-based fabrication tooling comprising a non-consumable member with a throat and a consumable member disposed in the throat, wherein the throat is operably configured such that during rotation of the non-consumable member at a selected speed, the throat exerts normal forces on and rotates the consumable member at the selected speed; and comprising means for dispensing the consumable member through the throat and onto a substrate using frictional heating and compressive loading. Embodiments of the invention also include fabrication methods using the tools described herein.
FILED	Thursday, October 29, 2015
APPL NO	14/926447
ART UNIT	1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 2998/00 (20130101) B22F 2998/00 (20130101) B22F 2998/00 (20130101) Soldering or Unsoldering; Welding; Cladding or Plating by Soldering or Welding; Cutting by Applying Heat Locally, e.g Flame Cutting; Working by Laser Beam B23K 20/128 (20130101) B23K 20/1205 (20130101) B23K 20/1215 (20130101) B23K 20/1245 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B23K 20/1255 (20130101) B23K 20/1275 (20130101) Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 41/36 (20130101) Alloys C22C 29/00 (20130101) C22C 32/00 (20130101) Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 24/06 (20130101) C23C 24/045 (20130101) C23C 26/00 (20130101)
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09643316 — Semi-autonomous multi-use robot system and method of operation

US 09643316	Krasny et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)	Darren P. Krasny (Gahanna, Ohio); Richard L. Shoaf (Westerville, Ohio); Jeffrey D. Keip (Columbus, Ohio); Scott A. Newhouse (Grove City, Ohio); Timothy J. Lastrapes (Powell, Ohio)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Battelle Memorial Institute (Columbus, Ohio)
INVENTOR(S)	Darren P. Krasny (Gahanna, Ohio); Richard L. Shoaf (Westerville, Ohio); Jeffrey D. Keip (Columbus, Ohio); Scott A. Newhouse (Grove City, Ohio); Timothy J. Lastrapes (Powell, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	A semi-autonomous robot system (10) that includes scanning and scanned data manipulation that is utilized for controlling remote operation of a robot system within an operating environment.
FILED	Wednesday, October 27, 2010
APPL NO	13/503122
ART UNIT	3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
CURRENT CPC	Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 9/1666 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 2219/40183 (20130101) G05B 2219/40418 (20130101) G05B 2219/40424 (20130101)
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09643379 — Microstructured reconfigurable composite material

US 09643379	McKnight et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
APPLICANT(S)	HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Geoffrey P. McKnight (Los Angeles, California); Christopher Paul Henry (Thousand Oaks, California); Guillermo Herrera (Winnetka, California)
ABSTRACT	A microstructured reconfigurable or morphing composite material with controlled anisotropic deformation properties. The composite material provides highly controlled deformation and stiffness properties. Microscopic three dimensional structures are included in the composite material to control its deformation kinematics and stiffness properties. The composite material has highly segregated in-plane and out-of-plane stiffness properties.
FILED	Tuesday, August 25, 2015
APPL NO	14/835455
ART UNIT	1783 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material
CURRENT CPC	Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 3/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B32B 2260/046 (20130101) B32B 2307/544 (20130101)
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09643385 — Layered heusler alloys and methods for the fabrication and use thereof

US 09643385	Butler et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Alabama)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of The University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Alabama)
INVENTOR(S)	William H. Butler (Tuscaloosa, Alabama); Kamaram Munira (Tuscaloosa, Alabama); Javad G. Azadani (Tuscaloosa, Alabama)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed herein are layered Heusler alloys. The layered Heusler alloys can comprise a first layer comprising a first Heusler alloy with a face-centered cubic (fcc) crystal structure and a second layer comprising a second Heusler alloy with a fcc crystal structure, the second Heusler alloy being different than the first Heusler alloy, wherein the first layer and the second layer are layered along a layering direction, the layering direction being the [110] or [111] direction of the fcc crystal structure, thereby forming the layered Heusler alloy.
FILED	Wednesday, December 02, 2015
APPL NO	14/956827
ART UNIT	1785 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material
CURRENT CPC	Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 15/01 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Alloys C22C 5/04 (20130101) C22C 19/03 (20130101) C22C 19/07 (20130101) C22C 27/00 (20130101) C22C 38/002 (20130101) C22C 38/02 (20130101) C22C 38/04 (20130101) C22C 38/06 (20130101) C22C 38/14 (20130101)
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09643937 — One-pot process for preparation of ammonium and hydroxyl ammonium derivatives of bis 5,5′-tetrazole-1,1′-dihydroxide

US 09643937	Damavarapu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Reddy S. Damavarapu (Hackettstown, New Jersey); Raja G. Duddu (Hackettstown, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	A one-pot process for preparing ammonium and hydroxylammonium salts of bis 5,5′-tetrazole-1,1′-dihydroxide, specifically, diammonium bis 5,5′-tetrazole-1,1′-diolate (ABTOX) and dihydroxylammonium 5,5′-bistetrazole-1,1′-diolate (TKX-50). The process requires the reaction of sodium azide, dichloroglyoxime, HCl in dioxane solution to form bis 5,5′-tetrazole-1,1′-dihydroxide and treating this product with either ammonium chloride to produce ABTOX or hydroxylamine hydrochloride to produce TKX-50.
FILED	Thursday, March 31, 2016
APPL NO	15/086994
ART UNIT	1626 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 257/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09644059 — Renewable bio-based (meth)acrylated monomers as vinyl ester cross-linkers

US 09644059	Palmese et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL)
APPLICANT(S)	Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Giuseppe R. Palmese (Hainesport, New Jersey); John Joseph La Scala (Wilmington, Delaware); Joshua Matthew Sadler (Middle River, Maryland); Anh-Phuong Thy Lam (Newark, Delaware)
ABSTRACT	Anhydrosugar-based monomers prepared from isosorbide, isomannide, and isoidide and resin systems containing these anhydrosugar-based monomers that are partially to fully bio-based, which may produce materials having properties that meet or exceed the properties of similar petroleum derived vinyl ester resins.
FILED	Friday, April 15, 2016
APPL NO	15/130165
ART UNIT	1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 493/04 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 122/20 (20130101) C08F 124/00 (20130101) C08F 220/32 (20130101) C08F 222/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08F 224/00 (20130101) C08F 2220/325 (20130101)
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09644071 — Bis(azobenzene) diamines and photomechanical polymers made therefrom

US 09644071	Tan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF)
APPLICANT(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Loon-Seng Tan (Centerville, Ohio); David Huabin Wang (Beavercreek, Ohio); Jeong Jae Wie (Gyeonggi, South Korea); Timothy J. White (Centerville, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	Bis(azo-benzene) diamine monomers and a method of synthesizing the monomers are provided. The bis(azo-benzene) diamine monomers, in combination with amine reactive monomers, form polymers, such as polyimides and copolyimides, having photomechanical and thermomechanical properties.
FILED	Friday, September 04, 2015
APPL NO	14/845450
ART UNIT	1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 245/08 (20130101) C07C 323/48 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 73/1007 (20130101) C08G 73/1042 (20130101) C08G 73/1067 (20130101) C08G 73/1071 (20130101) C08G 73/1085 (20130101) C08G 73/1096 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Organic Dyes or Closely-related Compounds for Producing Dyes; Mordants; Lakes C09B 43/16 (20130101) Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/004 (20130101)
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09644114 — Silane endcapped polyamide resins

US 09644114	Webb et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
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)	Arthur A. Webb (Bethesda, Maryland); Jozef Verborgt (Dunedin, Florida)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed herein are compounds having the formula: R¹—(CO—NH—R²—R³)_nand polymers made by moisture curing the compound. R¹is an organic group, a dimeric fatty acid chain, a dimeric linoleic fatty acid chain, a trimeric fatty acid chain, a saturated form of any thereof, a residue of a phenalkamine compound, or a residue of a polyamine. Each R²is an aliphatic group or an aminoaliphatic group. Each R³comprises an alkoxysilane group. The value n is a positive integer. The compound may be made by reacting a polyester with an amine having an alkoxysilane group or reacting a polyacid with an isocyanate having an alkoxysilane group. Also disclose are compounds made by reacting an amido amine with an epoxy compound.
FILED	Wednesday, April 20, 2016
APPL NO	15/133604
ART UNIT	1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 77/54 (20130101) C08G 77/455 (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 183/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C09D 183/10 (20130101)
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09644141 — Halide-based scintillator nanomaterial

US 09644141	Osinski et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems (CBET)
APPLICANT(S)	Marek A. Osinski (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Nathan J. Withers (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Brian A. Akins (Edgewood, New Mexico); Gennady A. Smolyakov (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Krishnaprasad Sankar (Hillsboro, Oregon)
ASSIGNEE(S)	STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
INVENTOR(S)	Marek A. Osinski (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Nathan J. Withers (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Brian A. Akins (Edgewood, New Mexico); Gennady A. Smolyakov (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Krishnaprasad Sankar (Hillsboro, Oregon)
ABSTRACT	A heterogeneous scintillator material is provided comprising core/shell nanoparticles having a highly hygroscopic or deliquescent halide-based core activated with trivalent Ln³⁺ or divalent Ln²⁺ lanthanide ions (Ln=La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu) and a stable non-hygroscopic shell thereon. The heterogeneous nanoparticles can comprise highly hygroscopic lanthanide halide (LaBr₃, LuI₃) cores protected with stable non-hygroscopic LaF₃shells. The heterogeneous nanoparticles can comprise deliquescent alkaline earth halide (SrI₂, BaI₂) cores protected with stable non-hygroscopic (SrF₂, BaF₂) shells.
FILED	Tuesday, March 26, 2013
APPL NO	13/986039
ART UNIT	1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/664 (20130101) C09K 11/7772 (20130101) C09K 11/7773 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/20 (20130101) G01T 1/202 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/256 (20150115) Y10T 428/2982 (20150115)
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09644200 — Method and system for sample preparation

US 09644200	Connolly et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Design, Manufacture, and Industrial Innovation (DMII) Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP)
APPLICANT(S)	Integrated Nano-Technologies, LLC (Henrietta, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Integrated Nano-Technologies, LLC (Henrietta, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Dennis M. Connolly (Rochester, New York); Tara Holz (Henrietta, New York); Vera Tannous (Penfield, New York); Christopher Kilcoin (Boulder Creek, California); Konstantin Aptekarev (Santa Cruz, California); David B. Bailey (Webster, New York); Richard S. Murante (Henrietta, New York); Nathaniel E. Wescott (West Henrietta, New York)
ABSTRACT	A method for preparing a sample by utilizing a shearing force in the presence of a size stabilizer to break apart the sample to obtain nucleic acid molecules in a usable size range. Once nucleic acid molecules are obtained, magnetic nanoparticles are used to concentrate and clean the nucleic acid molecules for further testing.
FILED	Wednesday, May 18, 2016
APPL NO	15/157584
ART UNIT	1798 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 47/06 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/066 (20130101) C12N 15/1013 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6806 (20130101)
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09644215 — AAV1-caspase gene therapy induced pyroptosis for the treatment of tumors

US 09644215	Brenner et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
APPLICANT(S)	THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION (Boston, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Gary J. Brenner (Winchester, Massachusetts); Xandra O. Breakefield (Newton, Massachusetts); Giulia Fulci (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Described herein are compositions and methods for treating, inhibiting, preventing, reducing the severity of and/or reducing the progression of schwannoma, as well as any disease or physiological disease-state in which schwannoma plays a role. The compositions comprise an rAAV vector that includes a caspase-1 gene or a variant thereof and a Schwann cell specific promoter.
FILED	Thursday, January 30, 2014
APPL NO	14/169112
ART UNIT	1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 48/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/16 (20130101) C12N 15/86 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2750/14143 (20130101) C12N 2830/008 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 304/22036 (20130101)
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09644287 — Pretreatment method for reduction and/or elimination of basal plane dislocations close to epilayer/substrate interface in growth of SiC epitaxial films

US 09644287	Sudarshan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)	University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Tangali S. Sudarshan (Columbia, South Carolina); Haizheng Song (Columbia, South Carolina); Tawhid Rana (Columbia, South Carolina)
ABSTRACT	Non-destructive pretreatment methods are generally provided for a surface of a SiC substrate with substantially no degradation of surface morphology thereon. In one particular embodiment, a molten mixture (e.g., including KOH and a buffering agent) is applied directly onto the surface of the SiC substrate to form a treated surface thereon. An epitaxial film (e.g., SiC) can then be grown on the treated surface to achieve very high (e.g., up to and including 100%) BPD to TED conversion rate close to the epilayer/substrate interface.
FILED	Tuesday, December 02, 2014
APPL NO	14/557907
ART UNIT	2817 — Semiconductors/Memory
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 25/14 (20130101) C30B 25/20 (20130101) C30B 25/165 (20130101) C30B 25/183 (20130101) C30B 25/186 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C30B 29/36 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0262 (20130101) H01L 21/02019 (20130101) H01L 21/02082 (20130101) H01L 21/02378 (20130101) H01L 21/02447 (20130101) H01L 21/02516 (20130101) H01L 21/02529 (20130101) H01L 21/02658 (20130101) H01L 21/30608 (20130101) H01L 29/1608 (20130101)
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09644288 — Pretreatment method for reduction and/or elimination of basal plane dislocations close to epilayer/substrate interface in growth of SiC epitaxial films

US 09644288	Sudarshan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)	University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Tangali S. Sudarshan (Columbia, South Carolina); Haizheng Song (Columbia, South Carolina); Tawhid Rana (Columbia, South Carolina)
ABSTRACT	Non-destructive pretreatment methods are generally provided for a surface of a SiC substrate with substantially no degradation of surface morphology thereon. In one particular embodiment, a molten suspension mixture (e.g., including KOH (or KOH eutectic) and a buffering agent) is applied directly onto the surface of the SiC substrate to form a treated surface thereon. An epitaxial film (e.g., SiC) can then be grown on the treated surface to achieve very high (e.g., up to and including 100%) BPD to TED conversion rate close to the epilayer/substrate interface.
FILED	Tuesday, December 02, 2014
APPL NO	14/557993
ART UNIT	2817 — Semiconductors/Memory
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 25/14 (20130101) C30B 25/20 (20130101) C30B 25/165 (20130101) C30B 25/183 (20130101) C30B 25/186 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C30B 29/36 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0262 (20130101) H01L 21/02019 (20130101) H01L 21/02082 (20130101) H01L 21/02378 (20130101) H01L 21/02447 (20130101) H01L 21/02516 (20130101) H01L 21/02529 (20130101) H01L 21/02658 (20130101) H01L 21/30608 (20130101)
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09644716 — Belt wave drives

US 09644716	Koenig et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)	SRI International (Menlo Park, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	SRI International (Menlo Park, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Karen Shakespear Koenig (San Francisco, California); Pablo Eduardo Garcia Kilroy (Menlo Park, California)
ABSTRACT	A belt wave drive transmission system and method are shown involving a first rotor (10) having a first drum configured to rotate about its axis of rotation and a second rotor (20) having a second drum configured to rotate about its axis of rotation, where the first rotor (10) is constrained to orbit concentrically about the axis of rotation of the second drum. A belt (30) encircles the first and second drums to couple the first (10) and second (20) rotors such that the first rotor (10) moves concentrically around the second rotor (20) as the belt (30) advances about a circumference of the second drum. In further refinements, the system and method involve electrically controllably coupling at least one of the first and second rotors to the belt.
FILED	Monday, June 22, 2015
APPL NO	14/746708
ART UNIT	3654 — Material and Article Handling
CURRENT CPC	Gearing F16H 7/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F16H 57/08 (20130101)
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09644925 — Explosive device for breaching doors and walls

US 09644925	Hollis et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)	Michael Hollis (Flanders, New Jersey); Ryan Gorman (Mountain Lakes, New Jersey); Stephen Recchia (Flanders, New Jersey); Gary Dundon (Rockaway, New Jersey)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael Hollis (Flanders, New Jersey); Ryan Gorman (Mountain Lakes, New Jersey); Stephen Recchia (Flanders, New Jersey); Gary Dundon (Rockaway, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	An explosive breaching device is made from a surplus bomblet. The bomblet includes a shaped-charge liner, a steel fragmentation case with an open end, explosive material disposed between the shaped-charge liner and the steel fragmentation case, and a fuze. The fuze of the bomblet is removed and a shock-attenuating case is fixed adjacent to and coaxial with the steel fragmentation case. The shock-attenuating case may be made of a material having a speed of sound that differs from the speed of sound in the steel fragmentation case. A mild steel housing is fixed around the shock-attenuating case. A retaining sleeve may be fixed to the mild steel housing. The explosive breaching device may be mounted in an aiming device to direct the shaped-charge jet in a desired direction.
FILED	Thursday, June 19, 2014
APPL NO	14/309222
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 1/028 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F42B 1/036 (20130101) Blasting F42D 3/00 (20130101)
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09645085 — Optical emission collection and detection device and method

US 09645085	Ja
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)	FLIR DETECTION, INC. (Stillwater, Oklahoma)
ASSIGNEE(S)	FLIR Detection, Inc. (Stillwater, Oklahoma)
INVENTOR(S)	Shiou-jyh Ja (Stillwater, Oklahoma)
ABSTRACT	This invention generally relates to optical devices that can collect and detect signal emissions effectively while allowing the excitation light path and the sample flow path to coexist non-obstructively in a compact format. More specifically, this invention relates to a compact device having a multilayer coating on the structure surface and a wave guiding structure. In the device, using the surface plasmon coupling effect, the majority of the optical emission from the emitter on top of the multilayer coating is distributed toward the wave guiding structure. The wave guiding structure then further directs on signal to the detector with a high efficiency.
FILED	Thursday, February 14, 2013
APPL NO	13/767509
ART UNIT	2886 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/645 (20130101) G01N 21/6428 (20130101) G01N 21/6486 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09645101 — Bacteria identification by phage induced impedance fluctuation analysis

US 09645101	Schmera et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR)
APPLICANT(S)	Gabor Schmera (San Diego, California); Laszlo Kish (College Station, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Gabor Schmera (San Diego, California); Laszlo Kish (College Station, Texas)
ABSTRACT	Methods for detection and identification of bacteria within a sample include the step of inserting a pair of electrodes into the sample. A first impedance across the electrodes is established with a first AC voltage source having a first frequency. A phage is introduced into the sample, and impedance fluctuations that are caused by ion release by the bacteria due to the phage introduction are measured. The use of impedance fluctuations instead of voltage fluctuations to detect and identify bacteria minimizes 1/f noise effects and increases system sensitivity. To further increase system sensitivity by eliminating thermal noise, a second impedance across the electrodes can be established using a second AC voltage source at a second frequency. Second impedance fluctuations are cross-correlated to the first impedance fluctuations, and the cross-correlation results are analyzed to determine whether or not bacteria are present in the sample based on phage electrical activity.
FILED	Monday, July 08, 2013
APPL NO	13/936631
ART UNIT	1677 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/021 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/48735 (20130101) G01N 33/56911 (20130101)
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09645147 — Recombinant polypeptide construct comprising Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein HLA class I restricted T-cell epitopes

US 09645147	Sedegah et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Martha Sedegah (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Thomas Richie (Glenelg, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Martha Sedegah (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Thomas Richie (Glenelg, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	The invention relates to a recombinant polypeptide construct comprising epitopes from Plasmodium falciparum protein circumsporozoite protein (CSP). The epitopes contain HLA class I binding motifs and stimulate an anti-malaria CD8⁺T-cell response. The polypeptides can be incorporated into immunogenic formulations against malaria. Additionally, the antigens are useful for facilitating evaluation of immunogenicity of candidate malaria vaccines.
FILED	Friday, November 01, 2013
APPL NO	14/069656
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/015 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/445 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/505 (20130101) G01N 33/56905 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/445 (20130101)
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09645167 — Calibration apparatus, methods and applications

US 09645167	Lal et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of the Army (DOA) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Amit Lal (Ithaca, New York); Sarvani Piratla (Ithaca, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Amit Lal (Ithaca, New York); Sarvani Piratla (Ithaca, New York)
ABSTRACT	An inertial sensor calibration method and inertial sensor calibration apparatus. One or more diffraction patterns are generated by one or more fixed and/or moveable gratings (inertial sensors) illuminated by an atomically stabilized source attached to a base and detected by an imager. The grating and/or inertial sensor has a designed parameter value and an actual respective parameter value, such as motion or distance that can be determined upon ultra-precise measurement. Such ultra-precise measurement can be used to calibrate the grating or inertial sensor.
FILED	Thursday, May 03, 2012
APPL NO	14/112356
ART UNIT	2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring Linear or Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, or Shock; Indicating Presence, Absence, or Direction, of Movement G01P 21/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09645233 — Cavity length determination apparatus

US 09645233	Hintz
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)	Kenneth J Hintz (Fairfax Station, Virginia)
ASSIGNEE(S)
INVENTOR(S)	Kenneth J Hintz (Fairfax Station, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	Embodiments include an apparatus comprising a frequency selective electromagnetic receiver and a signal analyzing module. The frequency selective electromagnetic receiver is configured to receive a reradiating electromagnetic signal resulting from a cavity induced modulation phenomenon occurring within cavit(ies). The signal analyzing module is configured to: determine a power spectral density of the reradiating electromagnetic signal. Frequencies are observed at which the amplitude modulation of the power spectral density peaks. A cavity length is determined employing the frequencies of the power spectral density peaks.
FILED	Thursday, October 31, 2013
APPL NO	14/068165
ART UNIT	3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Weapon Sights; Aiming F41G 3/147 (20130101) Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 5/0278 (20130101) G01S 13/88 (20130101) G01S 13/347 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09645311 — Optical component with angled-facet waveguide

US 09645311	Budd et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL)
APPLICANT(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Russell A. Budd (North Salem, New York); Daniel M. Kuchta (Patterson, New York); Benjamin Giles Lee (New York, New York); Laurent Schares (Sleepy Hollow, New York); Clint Lee Schow (Ossining, New York)
ABSTRACT	An optical component includes a component body, and at least one angled-facet waveguide formed in the component body, wherein the angled-facet waveguide is substantially mirror-symmetrical in shape relative to a line at or near the center of the angled-facet waveguide.
FILED	Tuesday, May 21, 2013
APPL NO	13/898890
ART UNIT	2874 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/125 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/423 (20130101) G02B 6/3652 (20130101) G02B 2006/12119 (20130101) G02B 2006/12166 (20130101) G02B 2006/12173 (20130101) G02B 2006/12176 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 156/10 (20150115)
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09645349 — Compact mounting for local oscillator laser launch

US 09645349	Hwang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
APPLICANT(S)	LOCKHEED MARTIN COHERENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Louisville, Colorado)
ASSIGNEE(S)	LOCKHEED MARTIN COHERENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Louisville, Colorado)
INVENTOR(S)	David Hwang (Louisville, Colorado); Jesse William Fisher (Boulder, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	A compact LIDAR pointing assembly can comprise a body, first and second ferrules, and a clip component that can be used to maintain an engagement between the first and second ferrules and an alignment of light emanating from the first and second ferrules relative to received light propagating along an optical axis of the assembly. The ferrules can be pivoted to adjust the orientation of the light emanating from the ferrules.
FILED	Thursday, November 05, 2015
APPL NO	14/934055
ART UNIT	2872 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 7/026 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09645395 — Dynamic field of view throttling as a means of improving user experience in head mounted virtual environments

US 09645395	Bolas et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) Army Research Office (CCDC ARO)
APPLICANT(S)	Mark Bolas (Los Angeles, California); J. Adam Jones (Torrance, California); Ian McDowall (Woodside, California); Evan Suma (Culver City, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)
INVENTOR(S)	Mark Bolas (Los Angeles, California); J. Adam Jones (Torrance, California); Ian McDowall (Woodside, California); Evan Suma (Culver City, California)
ABSTRACT	A head-mounted display (HMD) allows a user to view a virtual environment. The HMD displays a field of view to the user. However, the user may experience simulator sickness or motion sickness from viewing the field of view. The HMD is connected to a sensor which can monitor the user. By monitoring the user's physiological state, the user's simulator sickness can be detected or predicted. To reduce the negative effects, the field of view can be throttled. The field of view can also be throttled in order to provide a better user experience even if the user does not experience sickness.
FILED	Monday, March 17, 2014
APPL NO	14/216220
ART UNIT	2872 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 27/017 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 27/0093 (20130101) G02B 2027/014 (20130101) G02B 2027/0123 (20130101) G02B 2027/0178 (20130101) G02B 2027/0187 (20130101)
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09645417 — Preparation cell systems and methods of a preparing a state of laser light

US 09645417	Goeders et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)	Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Honeywell International Inc. (Morris Plains, New Jersey)
INVENTOR(S)	James Goeders (Plymouth, Minnesota); Matthew Edward Lewis Jungwirth (Golden Valley, Minnesota)
ABSTRACT	Preparation cell systems and methods are described herein. One example of a system for a preparation cell includes a laser coupled to a fiber bundle comprising a plurality of fibers, a preparation cell to prepare a state of laser light received by the fiber bundle, and an exiting fiber bundle coupled to the preparation cell.
FILED	Tuesday, April 14, 2015
APPL NO	14/686481
ART UNIT	2874 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/645 (20130101) G01N 2021/6484 (20130101) G01N 2201/067 (20130101) Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/035 (20130101) G02F 1/113 (20130101) G02F 1/0115 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02F 1/125 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 99/002 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/424 (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 3/0085 (20130101)
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09645586 — Pressure regulating valve assembly

US 09645586	Lemmers, Jr. et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (Charlotte, North Carolina)
ASSIGNEE(S)	HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION (Charlotte, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Glenn C. Lemmers, Jr. (Loves Park, Illinois); David S. Behling (Belvidere, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	A pressure regulating valve assembly includes a housing. Also included is a valve sleeve mounted within a bore of the housing, the valve sleeve having a first portion and a second portion, the second portion having a diameter less than the first portion and received in a sense piston bore of the housing. Further included is a valve spool mounted within the valve sleeve. Yet further included is a sense piston disposed within the second portion of the valve sleeve. Also included is a damping orifice extending through an end portion of the second portion of the valve sleeve.
FILED	Friday, February 28, 2014
APPL NO	14/193175
ART UNIT	3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing
CURRENT CPC	Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 16/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 137/777 (20150401) Y10T 137/86775 (20150401)
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09645802 — Technique for grouping instructions into independent strands

US 09645802	Mehrara et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	NVIDIA CORPORATION (Santa Clara, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	NVIDIA Corporation (Santa Clara, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Mojtaba Mehrara (San Francisco, California); Michael Garland (Lake Elmo, Minnesota); Gregory Diamos (San Jose, California)
ABSTRACT	A device compiler and linker is configured to group instructions into different strands for execution by different threads based on the dependence of those instructions on other, long-latency instructions. A thread may execute a strand that includes long-latency instructions, and then hardware resources previously allocated for the execution of that thread may be de-allocated from the thread and re-allocated to another thread. The other thread may then execute another strand while the long-latency instructions are in flight. With this approach, the other thread is not required to wait for the long-latency instructions to complete before acquiring hardware resources and initiating execution of the other strand, thereby eliminating at least a portion of the time that the other thread would otherwise spend waiting.
FILED	Wednesday, August 07, 2013
APPL NO	13/961097
ART UNIT	2191 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 8/41 (20130101) G06F 8/45 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 8/433 (20130101) G06F 9/3851 (20130101)
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09645842 — Cybernaut: a cloud-oriented energy-efficient intrusion-tolerant hypervisor

US 09645842	Bathen
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR)
APPLICANT(S)	United States Government as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	United States of America as represented by Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Luis Angel D. Bathen (San Jose, California)
ABSTRACT	An apparatus comprising: a virtual machine (VM) base image database; a VM image generator configured to build in the VM base image database a corpus of possible VMs that may run on a cloud service provider; an energy profiler configured to generate energy profiles offline of each permutation in the VM base image database under several different operating conditions; an energy profile database populated with the energy profiles generated by the energy profiler; and a monitor configured to monitor energy patterns in side-channels at the VM level and to compare the energy patterns for each VM operating on the cloud service provider with the energy profiles stored in the energy profile database, and further configured to trigger a self-cleansing cycle when a given real-time energy pattern deviates from its corresponding energy profile by a predetermined threshold amount.
FILED	Tuesday, April 28, 2015
APPL NO	14/697743
ART UNIT	2195 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/45558 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 17/3089 (20130101) G06F 21/53 (20130101) G06F 2009/45591 (20130101) G06F 2009/45595 (20130101)
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09645882 — Field repairable logic

US 09645882	Bertacco et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	Valeria Bertacco (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Todd Michael Austin (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Ilya Wagner (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Valeria Bertacco (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Todd Michael Austin (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Ilya Wagner (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	A state matcher for a logic circuit may detect at least one of a buggy state of the logic circuit, a precursor to a buggy state of the logic circuit and a verified state of the logic circuit based on a plurality of signal values indicative of a state of the logic circuit. A recovery controller for a microprocessor may reconfigure the microprocessor to a trusted feature mode in response to receiving a signal indicating that the microprocessor is in a predefined state and operate the microprocessor in the trusted feature mode for a predetermined period of time.
FILED	Wednesday, July 23, 2008
APPL NO	12/178257
ART UNIT	2114 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09645935 — Intelligent bandwidth shifting mechanism

US 09645935	Bose et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Pradip Bose (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alper Buyuktosunoglu (White Plains, New York); Victor Javier Jimenez Perez (White Plains, New York); Francis P. O'Connell (Austin, Texas)
ABSTRACT	In an approach for sharing memory bandwidth in one or more processors, a processor receives a first set of monitored usage information for one or more processors executing one or more threads. A processor calculates impact of hardware data prefetching for each thread of the one or more threads, based on the first set of monitored usage information. A processor adjusts prefetch settings for the one or more threads, based on the calculated impact of hardware data prefetching for each thread of the one or more threads.
FILED	Tuesday, January 13, 2015
APPL NO	14/595737
ART UNIT	2139 — Memory Access and Control
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/46 (20130101) G06F 11/30 (20130101) G06F 12/0862 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 2212/602 (20130101)
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09646056 — Rank-ordering and cognitive saliency schema-based selection

US 09646056	Phillips et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Inbound, Controlled, Air-Releasable, Unrecoverable Systems (ICARUS) Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Matthew E. Phillips (Calabasas, California); Matthias Ziegler (Agoura Hills, California); Rajan Bhattacharyya (Sherman Oaks, California)
ABSTRACT	Described is a system for rank-ordered and cognitive saliency schema-based object selection. The system receives a set of unnormalized probabilities corresponding to a set of objects competing for attentional selection in a current environment. Each unnormalized probability in the set of unnormalized probabilities is based on a likelihood estimation of encountering the corresponding object in the current environment. The set of objects is ranked based on a set of cognitive saliency values corresponding to the set of objects to generate a rank-ordered list of cognitive saliency values. The rank-ordered list of cognitive saliency values is analyzed to detect a schema of the current environment by which the set of objects is ranked. The schema is learned and stored along with a reward measure of the schema's utility. A maximum saliency object in the set of objects is selected based on the rank-ordered list of cognitive saliency values.
FILED	Thursday, July 17, 2014
APPL NO	14/334637
ART UNIT	2168 — Data Bases & File Management
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/3053 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09646147 — Method and apparatus of three-type or form authentication with ergonomic positioning

US 09646147	Lam et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC)
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)	Jack Lam (Burbank, California); Jacky Wong (Chino Hills, California); Bryan Stewart (Oxnard, California)
ABSTRACT	A system and methods for authenticating a user for access to a system input terminal that includes an infrared imager, a user input terminal, and a processing section including a plurality of processing instructions operable to perform image capture for wrist areas of a user in proximity to an input terminal or other structures requiring authentication and comparison to determine access or deny access. An aspect of an embodiment of the invention permits initial and frequent authentication that reduces or eliminates user action to perform such authentication. Also provided are user interfaces, and additional authentication sections operable with the infrared imager. Alternative embodiments of the invention include a mobile embodiment as well as an embodiment-including a sensor positioned with respect to a user in an operational position where the user is performing a task in relation to an input terminal or structure requiring authentication (e.g. a keyboard).
FILED	Thursday, August 20, 2015
APPL NO	14/831520
ART UNIT	2497 — Cryptography and Security
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/0227 (20130101) G06F 21/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 21/6218 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00006 (20130101) G06K 9/00013 (20130101) G06K 9/00892 (20130101) G06K 2009/00932 (20130101)
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09646469 — Visual and touch interaction display

US 09646469	Gwilliam et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC)
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)	James C Gwilliam (Taylorsville, Utah); Allison M Okamura (Mountain View, California); Andrew A Stanley (Stanford, California)
ABSTRACT	A sensory display for experiencing rigidity and local shape in the display is provided. Rigidity and local shape of cells in an array of cells forming the display is controlled by three independent and different control mechanisms. Cell rigidity controllers control the rigidity of the cells. A shape array controller controls the shape of the array of cells. Cell pinning controllers controls the height of the cells. A computer control interface could control the respective control functionalities of each of the controllers. The display experience could be further enhanced with audio, images or video.
FILED	Friday, March 07, 2014
APPL NO	14/770440
ART UNIT	2682 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory
CURRENT CPC	Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 34/30 (20160201) A61B 34/76 (20160201) A61B 2090/372 (20160201) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/016 (20130101) Signalling or Calling Systems; Order Telegraphs; Alarm Systems G08B 6/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Educational or Demonstration Appliances; Appliances for Teaching, or Communicating With, the Blind, Deaf or Mute; Models; Planetaria; Globes; Maps; Diagrams G09B 21/003 (20130101)
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09646803 — Transmission electron microscopy supports and methods of making

US 09646803	Kidwell
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
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)	David A. Kidwell (Alexandria, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	A method of making a Transmission Electron Microscopy support comprising depositing a sacrificial layer to the top side of a lacey or holey carbon structure or support or wire mesh, depositing an Atomic Layer Deposition layer to the bottom side of the sacrificial layer, removing the sacrificial layer, forming a Transmission Electron Microscopy support. The Transmission Electron Microscopy support comprises an Atomic Layer Deposition layer which is carbon-less, thin, flexible, can be thermally cleaned, can be plasma cleaned, and contains chemical functionalities to immobilize particles.
FILED	Thursday, March 17, 2016
APPL NO	15/073296
ART UNIT	2881 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	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 16/01 (20130101) C23C 16/403 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/28 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 37/20 (20130101) H01J 37/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09647055 — Devices, systems, and methods for ion trapping

US 09647055	Youngner
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)	Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Honeywell International Inc. (Morris Plains, New Jersey)
INVENTOR(S)	Daniel Youngner (Maple Grove, Minnesota)
ABSTRACT	Devices, methods, and systems for ion trapping are described herein. One device includes a through-silicon via (TSV) and a trench capacitor formed around the TSV.
FILED	Wednesday, February 03, 2016
APPL NO	15/014709
ART UNIT	2829 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/02164 (20130101) H01L 21/2885 (20130101) H01L 21/7684 (20130101) H01L 21/32055 (20130101) H01L 21/76831 (20130101) H01L 21/76898 (20130101) H01L 23/481 (20130101) H01L 23/642 (20130101) H01L 23/5223 (20130101) H01L 24/03 (20130101) H01L 24/08 (20130101) H01L 28/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/945 (20130101) H01L 2224/03462 (20130101) H01L 2224/05144 (20130101) H01L 2224/08225 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/01022 (20130101) H01L 2924/01029 (20130101) H01L 2924/01074 (20130101)
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09647155 — Long wave photo-detection device for used in long wave infrared detection, materials, and method of fabrication

US 09647155	Maimon
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Missile Defense Agency (MDA)
APPLICANT(S)	Shimon Maimon (Rochester, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)
INVENTOR(S)	Shimon Maimon (Rochester, New York)
ABSTRACT	The disclosure provides a photo-detection device for use in long-wave infrared detection and a method of fabrication. The device comprises a GaSb substrate, a photo absorbing layer comprising InAs/InAsSb superlattice type-II, a barrier layer comprising AlAsSb, and a contact layer comprising InAs/InAsSb superlattice type-II. The barrier layer is configured to allow minority carrier holes current flow while blocking majority carrier electrons current flow between the photo-absorbing and contact layers. The disclosure further provides a method of producing the photo-detector using photolithography which includes selective etching of the contact layer that stops on the top of the barrier so no etching is made to the barrier layer so the barrier may operate as a passivator too. The disclosure presents an x-ray and photoluminescence results for InAs/InAsSb superlattice type-II material. Also present a measurement of a single element, Long-Wave photo-detector, showing very low dark current and very high Quantum efficiency, as predicted.
FILED	Monday, September 09, 2013
APPL NO	14/022092
ART UNIT	2896 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/1844 (20130101) H01L 31/03046 (20130101) H01L 31/035236 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/035281 (20130101)
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09647156 — Heteroepitaxial growth of orientation-patterned materials on orientation-patterned foreign substrates

US 09647156	Tassev et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF)
APPLICANT(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Vladimir L. Tassev (Beavercreek, Ohio); Rita D. Peterson (Bellbrook, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	A layered OP material is provided that comprises an OPGaAs template, and a layer of GaP on the OPGaAs template. The OPGaAs template comprises a patterned layer of GaAs having alternating features of inverted crystallographic polarity of GaAs. The patterned layer of GaAs comprises a first feature comprising a first crystallographic polarity form of GaAs having a first dimension, and a second feature comprising a second crystallographic polarity form of GaAs having a second dimension. The layer of GaP on the patterned layer of GaAs comprises alternating regions of inverted crystallographic polarity that generally correspond to their underlying first and second features of the patterned layer of GaAs. Additionally, each of the alternating regions of inverted crystallographic polarity of GaP are present at about 100 micron thickness or more. A method of forming the OPGaP is also provided.
FILED	Friday, November 06, 2015
APPL NO	14/934636
ART UNIT	2818 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/036 (20130101) H01L 31/109 (20130101) H01L 31/1844 (20130101) H01L 31/03046 (20130101) H01L 31/035236 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09647187 — Multi-slice two-dimensional phased array assembly

US 09647187	Yap et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)	HRL LABORATORIES LLC (Malibu, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Daniel Yap (Newbury Park, California); Kevin Geary (Los Angeles, California); James Schaffner (Chatsworth, California)
ABSTRACT	A two-dimensional phased array beam former comprising at least first and second chips having each top and bottom surfaces, the bottom surface of the first chip being attached to the top surface of the second chip; the first and second chips having each an emitter side surface, the emitter side surfaces of the first and second chips facing a same direction and comprising each a plurality of emitters; wherein each of said first and second chips comprises at least one conductive post extending between said top and bottom surfaces; the at least one conductive post of the first chip being vertically aligned with and connected to the at least one conductive post of the second chip.
FILED	Friday, May 30, 2014
APPL NO	14/290986
ART UNIT	2883 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 7/4815 (20130101) G01S 13/4463 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/76879 (20130101) H01L 23/481 (20130101) H01L 23/5226 (20130101) H01L 23/49827 (20130101) H01L 33/62 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 33/64 (20130101)
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09647194 — Superconductive multi-chip module for high speed digital circuits

US 09647194	Dotsenko
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)	Hypres, Inc. (Elmsford, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Hypres, Inc. (Elmsford, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Vladimir V. Dotsenko (Mahopac, New York)
ABSTRACT	An electrical module having electrically interconnecting substrates, each having a corresponding set of preformed electrical contacts, the substrates comprising an electronic circuit, and the resulting module, is provided. A liquid curable adhesive is provided over the set of contacts of a first substrate, and the set of electrical contacts of the second substrate is aligned with the set of electrical contacts of the first substrate. The sets of electrical contacts of the first and second substrate are compressed to displace the liquid curable adhesive from the inter-contact region, and provide electrical communication between the respective sets of electrical contacts. The liquid curable adhesive is then cured to form a solid matrix which maintains a relative compression between the respective sets of electrical contacts. One embodiment of the module comprises a high-speed superconducting circuit which operates at cryogenic temperatures.
FILED	Friday, August 01, 2014
APPL NO	14/449410
ART UNIT	2848 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 39/025 (20130101) H01L 39/045 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 39/2493 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 13/0469 (20130101)
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09647288 — Phosphoric acid-based electrolytes and applications thereof

US 09647288	Angell et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) U.S. State Government State of Arizona
APPLICANT(S)	C. Austen Angell (Mesa, Arizona); Younes Ansari (Medford, Massachusetts); Telpriore Greg Tucker (Phoenix, Arizona)
ASSIGNEE(S)	ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS, A BODY CORPORATE OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA ACTING FOR AND ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Arizona)
INVENTOR(S)	C. Austen Angell (Mesa, Arizona); Younes Ansari (Medford, Massachusetts); Telpriore Greg Tucker (Phoenix, Arizona)
ABSTRACT	A liquid electrolyte formed by reacting phosphoric acid (H₃PO₄) in the liquid state with silicon tetrachloride (SiCl₄), thereby forming a fluid suspension. The fluid suspension is heated to yield a liquid electrolyte including phosphoric acid (H₃PO₄), pyrophosphoric acid (H₄P₂O₇), and a particulate solid comprising a silicophosphoric acid, wherein the silicophosphoric acid is an acidic molecular compound including silicon and phosphorus. A concentrated silicophosphoric acid composition prepared by removing most of the liquid from the liquid electrolyte is dissolved in water to yield a homogeneous solution. The homogeneous solution is dried to yield a solid electrolyte. In some cases, the homogenous solution is dried on a substrate to coat at least a portion of the substrate with a proton conductive solid electrolyte. A fuel cell may include the liquid electrolyte, the solid electrolyte, or the coated substrate.
FILED	Friday, February 13, 2015
APPL NO	14/621707
ART UNIT	1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/06 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/0289 (20130101) H01M 8/1016 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/1048 (20130101) H01M 2300/0068 (20130101) H01M 2300/0085 (20130101) H01M 2300/0091 (20130101)
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09647343 — Process for assembling different categories of multi-element assemblies to predetermined tolerances and alignments using a reconifigurable assembling and alignment apparatus

US 09647343	Waters
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC)
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)	Jeffrey M. Waters (Solsberry, Indiana)
ABSTRACT	Systems and methods for assembling different multi-element items with different specifications using a reconfigurable apparatus are provided. One embodiment includes a base plate, a back plate coupled to the base plate in a predetermined angle relationship. The exemplary back plate comprises a plurality of alignment pins adapted to engage with alignment locations of multiple element assembly items. The exemplary base plate and alignment mounting structures couple to end cap parts disposed on opposing ends of the multiple element assembly items holding the items together. A clamping mechanism maintains/releases pressure on the multiple element assembly items against the back plate. The back plate holds alignment pins in a first back plate location in a first orientation for one type of multiple element assembly items and hold the alignment pins in a second location when the back plate is in a second orientation for a different type of multiple element assembly items.
FILED	Monday, January 11, 2016
APPL NO	14/992456
ART UNIT	3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units
CURRENT CPC	Tools or Bench Devices Not Otherwise Provided For, for Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging or Holding B25B 5/12 (20130101) B25B 11/02 (20130101) Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 1/1207 (20130101) H01Q 13/0283 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01Q 21/064 (20130101) H01Q 21/0087 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/4902 (20150115) Y10T 29/49016 (20150115) Y10T 29/49899 (20150115) Y10T 29/53961 (20150115)
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09647414 — Optically pumped micro-plasma

US 09647414	Rawlins et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF)
APPLICANT(S)	Physical Sciences, Inc. (Andover, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Physical Sciences, Inc. (Andover, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	W. Terry Rawlins (Reading, Massachusetts); Steven J. Davis (Londonberry, New Hampshire); Kristin Galbally-Kinney (Littleton, Massachusetts); Jeffrey Hopwood (Needham, Massachusetts); Alan Hoskinson (Lexington, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A laser and methods for providing a continuous wave output beam. The laser and method includes positioning a micro-plasma chip capable of creating micro-plasmas within a resonant cavity. A gas is input into the resonant cavity and flows around the micro-plasma chip. Micro-plasmas ignite and excite the gas to create metastables. The metastables are further excited by an optical pump having an energy sufficient to cause the metastables to lase.
FILED	Thursday, January 30, 2014
APPL NO	14/168851
ART UNIT	2828 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/073 (20130101) H01S 3/095 (20130101) H01S 3/0943 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 3/2207 (20130101) H01S 3/2237 (20130101)
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09647418 — Laser generation using dual seeded nested and/or in-series Raman resonators, for telecommunications applications

US 09647418	Henry et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF)
APPLICANT(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Leanne J. Henry (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Thomas M. Shay (Saint George, Utah); Gerald T. Moore (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jacob R. Grosek (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
ABSTRACT	A desired N^th-order Stokes output and zeroth-order Stokes pump input are seeded into a rare-earth doped amplifier where the power of the zeroth-order Stokes signal is amplified prior to both signals entering a Raman amplifier comprised of N−1 Raman resonators, each uniquely tuned to one of the N−1 Stokes orders, in various configurations to include one or more nested and/or in-series Raman resonators. The zeroth-order Stokes signal is converted to the N^th−1-order Stokes wavelength in steps and the power level of the N^th-order Stokes wavelength is amplified as the two signals propagate through the Raman resonators. Each Raman resonator includes a photosensitive Raman fiber located between a pair of Bragg gratings. The linewidths of the Stokes orders can be controlled by offsetting the reflectivity bandwidths of each pair of Bragg gratings respectively located in the Raman resonators.
FILED	Thursday, November 17, 2016
APPL NO	15/354389
ART UNIT	2828 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/30 (20130101) H01S 3/108 (20130101) H01S 3/302 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 3/0675 (20130101) H01S 3/1086 (20130101) H01S 3/1655 (20130101) H01S 3/2316 (20130101) H01S 3/06725 (20130101) H01S 3/06754 (20130101) H01S 5/5027 (20130101)
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09647424 — Single mode reflector using a nanobeam cavity

US 09647424	Lin et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	Oracle International Corporation (Redwood Shores, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (Redwood Shores, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Shiyun Lin (San Diego, California); Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California); Ying Luo (San Diego, California); Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	An integrated circuit includes an optical reflector with one or two bus optical waveguides and a one-dimensional, photonic crystal nanobeam cavity to provide single-mode reflection with a narrow bandwidth. In particular, the nanobeam cavity may be implemented on a nanobeam-cavity optical waveguide (such as a channel or ridge optical waveguide), which is optically coupled to the one or two bus optical waveguides. The nanobeam-cavity optical waveguide may include notches along a symmetry axis of the nanobeam-cavity optical waveguide that are partially etched from edges of the nanobeam-cavity optical waveguide toward a center of the nanobeam-cavity optical waveguide. Furthermore, a fill factor of the notches may vary as a function of location along the symmetry axis, while a pitch of the notches is unchanged, to define the nanobeam cavity.
FILED	Tuesday, October 13, 2015
APPL NO	14/881741
ART UNIT	2828 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/107 (20130101) G02B 6/125 (20130101) G02B 6/136 (20130101) G02B 6/1228 (20130101) G02B 6/12007 (20130101) G02B 6/29332 (20130101) G02B 2006/12104 (20130101) Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 5/12 (20130101) H01S 5/14 (20130101) H01S 5/026 (20130101) H01S 5/101 (20130101) H01S 5/141 (20130101) H01S 5/223 (20130101) H01S 5/0268 (20130101) H01S 5/1014 (20130101) H01S 5/1017 (20130101) H01S 5/1042 (20130101) H01S 5/1209 (20130101) H01S 5/1212 (20130101) H01S 5/1215 (20130101) H01S 5/1231 (20130101) H01S 5/2031 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 5/4068 (20130101)
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09647483 — Closed magnetic wireless power transfer system

US 09647483	Bana et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR)
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)	Viktor Bana (San Diego, California); Greg Anderson (San Diego, California); Alex Phipps (San Diego, California); Doeg Rodriguez (San Diego, California); John D. Rockway (San Diego, California); Peder Hansen (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	A wireless power transfer system includes a receive coil system nested within a transmit coil system forming a closed magnetic circuit. The transmit coil system includes a non-planar tapered transmit coil disposed within a tapered ferrite housing and a layer of insulating material surrounding the non-planar tapered transmit coil and the tapered ferrite housing. The receive coil system includes a ferrite plug comprising a column portion centrally secured to a plate portion, a non-planar receive coil wound around the column portion, a layer of insulating material surrounding the column portion and the non-planar receive coil, and a hemispherical covering surrounding the insulated column portion and non-planar receive coil. The non-planar receive coil has a smaller diameter than the non-planar tapered transmit coil. The maximum outside diameter of the hemispherical covering is less than or equal to the minimum inside diameter of the non-planar tapered transmit coil.
FILED	Monday, June 29, 2015
APPL NO	14/754471
ART UNIT	2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 5/005 (20130101) H02J 7/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09647523 — Levitated-micro manipulator system

US 09647523	Pelrine et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	SRI INTERNATIONAL (Menlo Park, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	SRI INTERNATIONAL (Menlo Park, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Ronald E. Pelrine (Longmont, Colorado); Annjoe Wong-Foy (Pacifica, California)
ABSTRACT	A system has a first operation substrate, the operation substrate having at least one sliding surface and at least one conductive trace in a layer in the substrate, at least one flex circuit magnetically coupled to the operation substrate, the flex circuit having at least one sliding surface and at least one conductive trace in the substrate, and at least one manipulator moveable across the sliding surfaces of the operation substrate and the flex circuit by magnetic fields generated by application of current to the conductive traces.
FILED	Tuesday, March 04, 2014
APPL NO	14/196720
ART UNIT	2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Dynamo-electric Machines H02K 41/03 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H02K 2201/18 (20130101)
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09647655 — Current to frequency converter

US 09647655	Denham et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR)
APPLICANT(S)	RAYTHEON COMPANY (Waltham, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	RAYTHEON COMPANY (Waltham, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Martin S. Denham (Bend, Oregon); Bruce E. Bozovich (Northridge, California)
ABSTRACT	According to one aspect, embodiments herein provide a current to frequency converter comprising a node configured to be coupled to a photodetector and to receive a photo-current from the photodetector, a capacitor having a first terminal and a second terminal and configured to accumulate electrical charge derived from the photo-current on the first terminal and the second terminal, a switch network configured to selectively couple one of the first terminal and the second terminal to the node, and a Master-Slave (MS) Flip Flop (FF) coupled to the switch network and configured to operate the switch network to toggle which of the first terminal and the second terminal is coupled to the node based on a voltage at the node.
FILED	Friday, March 27, 2015
APPL NO	14/670628
ART UNIT	2878 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Pulse Technique H03K 7/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/357 (20130101) H04N 5/37455 (20130101)
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09647719 — Method, system, and apparatus for spectrum sensing of radar signals

US 09647719	MacMullan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)	FEDERATED WIRELESS, INC. (Arlington, Virginia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Federated Wireless, Inc. (Arlington, Virginia)
INVENTOR(S)	Samuel Jay MacMullan (Carlisle, Massachusetts); Etty Lee (Winchester, Massachusetts); Jeff Winston (Sudbury, Massachusetts); Rohan Grover (Medford, Massachusetts); Kurt Schaubach (Arlington, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	An improved technique for detecting the presence or absence of one or more predetermined signals in a shared spectrum. In accordance with the disclosed embodiments, a received RF signal may be down-converted to a baseband signal, which is subsequently processed by a spectrum sensor to detect the presence or absence of a predetermined signal, such as a predetermined radar signal. The spectrum sensor may transform the baseband signal to the frequency domain, for example using a fast Fourier transform, to generate a corresponding set of frequency components. The spectrum sensor multiplies the frequency components of the baseband signal with the frequency response of a matched filter having a set of coefficients corresponding to the predetermined signal. The spectrum sensor may convert the matched-filter output signal to the time domain, for example using an inverse fast Fourier transform, and then may determine a value indicative of the signal power that it compares with a known threshold value. The spectrum sensor may determine the presence or absence of the predetermined signal in the received RF signal based on the result of the comparison, and may use the results of its determination to cause the reconfiguration of a transmitter that may be used to transmit RF signals in the same shared spectrum as the received RF signal.
FILED	Monday, February 15, 2016
APPL NO	15/043848
ART UNIT	2633 — Digital Communications
CURRENT CPC	Transmission H04B 1/69 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 1/1027 (20130101) H04B 2001/6912 (20130101)
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09647762 — Integrated parallel optical transceiver

US 09647762	Arvelo et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) National Security Agency (NSA) Maryland Procurement Office (MPO)
APPLICANT(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Amilcar Arvelo (Poughkeepsie, New York); Alan F. Benner (Poughkeepsie, New York); Michael J. Ellsworth (Poughkeepsie, New York); Eric J. McKeever (Poughkeepsie, New York); Thong N. Nguyen (Poughkeepsie, New York); Edward J. Seminaro (Milton, New York)
ABSTRACT	Aspects of the present invention include an optical transceiver for providing transmission and reception of optical signals. The optical transceiver includes a carrier having two opposing surfaces and one or more openings extending from a first of the two opposing surfaces to a second of the two opposing surfaces. The optical transceiver includes a laser driver chip coupled to the first surface. The optical transceiver includes a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) array chip coupled to the first surface. The optical transceiver includes a photodetector array chip coupled to the first surface. The optical transceiver includes a receiver amplifier chip coupled to the first surface. The optical transceiver includes an optical coupling element coupled to the second surface. The VCSEL array chip and the photodetector array chip are disposed such that optical signals can pass through the one or more openings in the carrier.
FILED	Thursday, September 03, 2015
APPL NO	14/844661
ART UNIT	2636 — Optical Communications
CURRENT CPC	Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/43 (20130101) G02B 6/425 (20130101) G02B 6/428 (20130101) G02B 6/4246 (20130101) G02B 6/4272 (20130101) G02B 6/4286 (20130101) G02B 6/4292 (20130101) G02B 6/4295 (20130101) G02B 6/4296 (20130101) Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 5/0228 (20130101) H01S 5/0261 (20130101) H01S 5/423 (20130101) H01S 5/02476 (20130101) Transmission H04B 10/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 10/503 (20130101)
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09647765 — Method and apparatus for transmitting phase shift keyed optical signals

US 09647765	Caplan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD R&E) MIT Lincoln Laboratory (MITLL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at Lexington, MA
APPLICANT(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	David O. Caplan (Westford, Massachusetts); Neal W. Spellmeyer (Arlington, Massachusetts); Bryan S. Robinson (Arlington, Massachusetts); Scott A. Hamilton (Lexington, Massachusetts); Don M. Boroson (Needham, Massachusetts); Hemonth G. Rao (Bedford, Massachusetts); Marc C. Norvig (Melrose, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A burst-mode phase shift keying (PSK) communications apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention enables practical, power-efficient, multi-rate communications between an optical transmitter and receiver. Embodiments may operate on differential PSK (DPSK) signals. An embodiment of the apparatus includes an average power limited optical transmitter that transmits at a selectable data rate with data transmitted in bursts, the data rate being a function of a burst-on duty cycle. DPSK symbols are transmitted in bursts, and the data rate may be varied by changing the ratio of the burst-on time to the burst-off time. This approach offers a number of advantages over conventional DPSK implementations, including near-optimum photon efficiency over a wide range of data rates, simplified multi-rate transceiver implementation, and relaxed transmit laser line-width requirements at low data rates.
FILED	Monday, December 28, 2015
APPL NO	14/981175
ART UNIT	2636 — Optical Communications
CURRENT CPC	Transmission H04B 10/677 (20130101) H04B 10/5561 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 27/223 (20130101) H04L 27/2075 (20130101) H04L 27/2096 (20130101) H04L 27/2601 (20130101)
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09647771 — Wavelength optimization for underwater optical communications

US 09647771	Neuner, III et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR)
APPLICANT(S)	Burton H. Neuner, III (San Diego, California); Alexandru Hening (San Diego, California); Bienvenido Melvin Pascoguin (La Mesa, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Burton H. Neuner, III (San Diego, California); Alexandru Hening (San Diego, California); Bienvenido Melvin Pascoguin (La Mesa, California)
ABSTRACT	Systems and methods for wavelength optimization for underwater optical communication can include a plurality of n lasers having different wavelengths λ_ifor i=1 to n, a beam splitter and a corner retro-reflector. The plurality of n lasers can simultaneously illuminate the beam splitter along a coincident axis. The plurality of n lasers can be selectively blocked so that only one laser wavelength λ_iat a time impinges on the beam splitter. A portion passes through the beam splitter to establish a reference signal, while the remainder is reflected off the corner retro-reflector. A portion of return illumination passes through the beam splitter to establish a return signal. The process can be repeated for each of n lasers for i=1 to n. The λ_iwavelength where the normalized signal-to-noise differential between the reference signal and return signal is the minimum can be the optimum communication wavelength.
FILED	Tuesday, March 29, 2016
APPL NO	15/083563
ART UNIT	2637 — Optical Communications
CURRENT CPC	Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/0078 (20130101) H01S 3/2391 (20130101) Transmission H04B 10/80 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 10/503 (20130101)
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09647857 — Digital transmitter

US 09647857	Dally
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
APPLICANT(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	William J. Dally (Los Altos Hills, California)
ABSTRACT	An equalizer provided in a digital transmitter compensates for attenuation in a signal channel to a digital receiver. The equalizer generates signal levels as a logical function of bit history to emphasize transition signal levels relative to repeated signal levels. The preferred equalizer includes an FIR transition filter using a look-up table. Parallel circuits including FIR filters and digital-to-analog converters provide a high speed equalizer with lower speed circuitry. The equalizer is particularly suited to in-cabinet and local area network transmissions where feedback circuitry facilitates adaptive training of the equalizer.
FILED	Thursday, July 14, 2016
APPL NO	15/210422
ART UNIT	2634 — Digital Communications
CURRENT CPC	Transmission H04B 1/16 (20130101) H04B 1/0483 (20130101) H04B 3/04 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 25/03019 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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D0786131 — Vehicle gunner protection turret

US D786131	Kiel et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)	Thomas J. Kiel (Bernardsville, New Jersey); Kris J. Mayer (Blairstown, New Jersey); Edward S. Zuckerman (Denville, New Jersey)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Thomas J. Kiel (Bernardsville, New Jersey); Kris J. Mayer (Blairstown, New Jersey); Edward S. Zuckerman (Denville, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT
FILED	Tuesday, November 03, 2015
APPL NO	29/544386
ART UNIT	2914 — Design
CURRENT CPC	Transportation D12/12
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09642600 — Shear wave attenuation from k-space analysis system

US 09642600	Nenadic et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
APPLICANT(S)	MAYO FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH (Rochester, Minnesota)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota)
INVENTOR(S)	Ivan Z. Nenadic (Rochester, Minnesota); Shigao Chen (Rochester, Minnesota); James F. Greenleaf (Rochester, Minnesota); Matthew W. Urban (Rochester, Minnesota); Bo Qiang (Rochester, Minnesota); Heng Zhao (Rochester, Minnesota)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides a system and method for ultrasound processes using wave attenuation derived from k-space analysis by analyzing spatial frequency domain data.
FILED	Monday, September 30, 2013
APPL NO	14/432312
ART UNIT	3737 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion
CURRENT CPC	Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 8/485 (20130101) A61B 8/4483 (20130101) A61B 8/5223 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 7/5202 (20130101) G01S 7/52033 (20130101) G01S 7/52042 (20130101) G01S 15/8915 (20130101)
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09642634 — Pulsed cavitational ultrasound therapy

US 09642634	Cain et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
APPLICANT(S)	Charles A. Cain (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Zhen Xu (Ann Arbor, Michigan); J. Brian Fowlkes (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Timothy L. Hall (Ann Arbor, Michigan); William W. Roberts (Saline, Michigan)
ASSIGNEE(S)	THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Charles A. Cain (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Zhen Xu (Ann Arbor, Michigan); J. Brian Fowlkes (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Timothy L. Hall (Ann Arbor, Michigan); William W. Roberts (Saline, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	Therapy methods using pulsed cavitational ultrasound therapy can include the subprocesses of initiation, maintenance, therapy, and feedback of the histotripsy process, which involves the creation and maintenance of ensembles of microbubbles and the use of feedback in order to optimize the process based on observed spatial-temporal bubble cloud dynamics. The methods provide for the subdivision or erosion of tissue, liquification of tissue, and/or the enhanced delivery of therapeutic agents. Various feedback mechanisms allow variation of ultrasound parameters and provide control over the pulsed cavitational process, permitting the process to be tuned for a number of applications. Such applications can include specific tissue erosion, bulk tissue homogenization, and delivery of therapeutic agents across barriers.
FILED	Thursday, September 22, 2011
APPL NO	13/241076
ART UNIT	3777 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion
CURRENT CPC	Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/055 (20130101) A61B 5/0536 (20130101) A61B 8/00 (20130101) A61B 8/08 (20130101) A61B 8/485 (20130101) A61B 8/4272 (20130101) A61B 17/225 (20130101) A61B 17/22004 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 2017/00154 (20130101) A61B 2017/00172 (20130101) A61B 2017/22008 (20130101) A61B 2017/22088 (20130101) A61B 2017/22089 (20130101) A61B 2090/378 (20160201) Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 37/0092 (20130101)
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09642805 — Aptamer-loaded, biocompatible nanoconstructs for nuclear-targeted cancer therapy

US 09642805	Odom et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) NIH Office of the Director (NIHOD) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center (ARC) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)	Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Teri W. Odom (Chicago, Illinois); Duncan-Hieu M. Dam (Chicago, Illinois); Jung Heon Lee (Evanston, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed herein is a nanoconstruct comprising an aptamer and a gold nanostar. The nanoconstruct can be used in a method of inducing changes to a nuclear phenotype of a cell comprising transporting the nanoconstruct to a nucleus of a cell, and releasing the aptamer from a surface of the gold nanostar into the nucleus of the cell to afford deformations or invaginations in the nuclear membrane, thereby inducing changes to the nuclear phenotype. The method can be used to treat certain hyperproliferative disorders such as cancer.
FILED	Wednesday, November 07, 2012
APPL NO	13/671347
ART UNIT	1674 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/711 (20130101) A61K 41/0042 (20130101) A61K 47/48861 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/773 (20130101) Y10S 977/906 (20130101)
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09642819 — Low dosage serotonin 5-HT2A receptor agonist to suppress inflammation

US 09642819	Nichols et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
APPLICANT(S)	Charles D. Nichols (New Orleans, Louisiana); Bangning Yu (New Orleans, Louisiana)
ASSIGNEE(S)	BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AND AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
INVENTOR(S)	Charles D. Nichols (New Orleans, Louisiana); Bangning Yu (New Orleans, Louisiana)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is directed to a method for the treatment of an inflammatory disorder in a mammal, said method comprising administering to a mammal in need of such treatment a therapeutically effective amount of (R)-1-(2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodophenyl)-2-aminopropane ((R)-DOI) in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or salt thereof, wherein said inflammatory disorder is associated with a disease selected from asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, irritable bowel syndrome, and Crohn's disease.
FILED	Friday, July 10, 2009
APPL NO	12/501105
ART UNIT	1621 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/48 (20130101) A61K 31/138 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/397 (20130101)
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09642822 — Methods for treating and preventing neutrophil-derived net toxicity and thrombosis

US 09642822	Wagner et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
APPLICANT(S)	Denisa D. Wagner (Dover, Massachusetts); Tobias A. Fuchs (Gunzenbach, Germany); Simon De Meyer (Zwevegem, Belgium); Kimberly Martinod (Boston, Massachusetts); Alexander Brill (Brookline, Massachusetts); Grace M. Thomas (Boston, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Denisa D. Wagner (Dover, Massachusetts); Tobias A. Fuchs (Gunzenbach, Germany); Simon De Meyer (Zwevegem, Belgium); Kimberly Martinod (Boston, Massachusetts); Alexander Brill (Brookline, Massachusetts); Grace M. Thomas (Boston, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Embodiments of the technology described herein are based upon the discoveries that neturophil extracellular traps (NETs) provide a stimulus for thrombus formation and that NETs are present in stored blood products. Accordingly, some embodiments relate to methods of treating and preventing toxicity of NETs and thrombosis caused by NETs. Additional embodiments are directed towards methods of treating stored blood products to prevent transfusion-related injuries.
FILED	Friday, May 25, 2012
APPL NO	14/119499
ART UNIT	1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/155 (20130101) A61K 31/155 (20130101) A61K 31/166 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/49 (20130101) A61K 38/49 (20130101) A61K 38/465 (20130101) A61K 38/465 (20130101) A61K 39/3955 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 1/34 (20130101)
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09642830 — Use of sting agonists to treat hepatitis B virus infection

US 09642830	Chang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)	DREXEL UNIVERSITY (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Jinhong Chang (Chalfont, Pennsylvania); Fang Guo (Doylestown, Pennsylvania); Timothy M. Block (Doylestown, Pennsylvania); Ju-Tao Guo (Lansdale, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	The invention includes methods of treating a subject having hepatitis B viral (HBV) infection. In certain embodiments, the method of the invention comprises stimulating the innate cytokine response in macrophages, dendritic cells and/or liver non-parenchymal cells with small molecular STING agonists, thus suppressing HBV replication in hepatocytes. In other embodiments, the method of the invention can be used to treat chronic HBV infections. The invention further provides methods of identifying compounds useful in treating HBV infection in a subject.
FILED	Tuesday, October 21, 2014
APPL NO	15/028813
ART UNIT	1629 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/352 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/473 (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 1/706 (20130101) C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5067 (20130101) G01N 2333/02 (20130101)
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09642835 — Modulators of GTPase and use in relevant treatment

US 09642835	Wandinger-Ness et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
APPLICANT(S)	STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico); University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico); UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS (Lawrence, Kansas)
INVENTOR(S)	Angela Wandinger-Ness (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Larry Sklar (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Zurab Surviladze (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Tudor Oprea (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Laurie Hudson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jeffrey Aube (Lawrence, Kansas); Jennifer E. Golden (Olathe, Kansas); Chad E. Schroeder (Lawrence, Kansas); Denise S. Simpson (Fairborn, Kansas); Julica J. Noth (Munich, Germany)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to molecules which function as selective modulators (i.e., inhibitors and agonists, preferably inhibitors) of the Ras-homologous (Rho) family of small GTPases, in particular, Cdc42 GTPase and their use to treat diseases, for example cancers, including metastatic cancer, where Cdc42 GTPase is overexpressed or hyperactivated, genetic and acquired diseases where activation of Cdc42 GTPase plays a pivotal role (e.g., neurodegenerative diseases), rheumatoid arthritis, atherosclerosis, diabetes type I, autosomal polycystic kidney diease, cystic kidney disease, precystic kidney disease and microbial infections. Additionally, compounds according to the present invention may be used to inhibit rejection (graft host response) in transplant patients (pursuant to transplantation), to promote immunosuppression, anti-inflammatory response and to mobilize stem cell (migration) in patients in need, among others.
FILED	Monday, April 22, 2013
APPL NO	13/867658
ART UNIT	1626 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/403 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/407 (20130101) A61K 31/415 (20130101) A61K 31/415 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 231/06 (20130101)
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09642843 — Pharmaceutical compounds and use of same in cancer and tauopathies

US 09642843	Gestwicki
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
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)	Jason E. Gestwicki (Moss Beach, California)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed are compounds of formula (1)-(V): where the substituents are as provided herein. Further disclosed are methods of inhibiting tau aggregation, treating or ameliorating a tauopathy or cancer by administration of such a compound. Tau is a microtubule-binding protein that accumulates in a number of neurodegenerative disorders, including frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease (AD). The presence of abnormal tau correlates with neuron loss and memory deficits in patients with AD and other neurodegenerative disorders that involve tau accumulation.
FILED	Thursday, February 27, 2014
APPL NO	14/770850
ART UNIT	1625 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/395 (20130101) A61K 31/428 (20130101) A61K 31/4439 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/05 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 277/64 (20130101) C07D 417/14 (20130101)
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09642846 — Antifungal drugs

US 09642846	Calderone et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)	GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Richard A. Calderone (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Nuo Sun (Bethesda, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to the administration of compounds of formula (I) for the treatment and/or prevention of fungal infections in subjects in need thereof. The methods of the invention also relates to the administration of pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of formula (I) for the treatment and/or prevention of fungal infections in subjects in need thereof. Subjects suffering from fungal infection and immunocompromised subjects may particularly benefit from the methods and compositions of the invention.
FILED	Friday, March 14, 2014
APPL NO	14/776398
ART UNIT	1672 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/4745 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101)
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09642865 — Angiogenesis inhibitors

US 09642865	Liu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Jun Liu (Clarksville, Maryland); Curtis Chong (Baltimore, Maryland); David J. Sullivan (Baltimore, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	Described herein are methods of inhibiting angiogenesis, and treating or preventing a disease or disorder (or symptoms thereof) associated with angiogenesis, wherein an anti-angiogenesis compound is administered to a subject.
FILED	Friday, October 31, 2014
APPL NO	14/530398
ART UNIT	1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 9/0008 (20130101) A61F 9/0017 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/00 (20130101) A61K 31/47 (20130101) A61K 31/58 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/365 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/4164 (20130101) A61K 31/4196 (20130101) A61K 31/7072 (20130101) A61K 38/50 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101)
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09642890 — Autologous HIV-1 proteins for the treatment of latent HIV-1 infection

US 09642890	Arts
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Cleveland, Ohio)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio)
INVENTOR(S)	Eric J. Arts (Cleveland, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	A method of reducing a latent HIV-specific memory-CD4+ T cell pool in a subject includes the steps of: preparing at least one HIV-1 protein coding sequence from a sample obtained from the subject, wherein the sample includes HIV-1 RNA; introducing the at least one HIV-1 protein coding sequence into at least one expression construct using yeast homologous recombination; transfecting a cell with the at least one expression construct, wherein the HIV-1 protein is secreted by the cell and administering a therapeutically effective amount of the secreted HIV-1 protein and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier to the subject, wherein the secreted HIV-1 protein stimulates latent HIV-specific memory-CD4+ T cells to induce latent HIV-1 replication resulting in HIV-specific memory-CD4+ T cell death in the subject.
FILED	Wednesday, June 10, 2015
APPL NO	14/735662
ART UNIT	1676 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/162 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2740/16033 (20130101)
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09642899 — Implantation of a cardiac xenograft from a B4GALNT2KO and GTKO transgenic pig to reduce immunogenicity

US 09642899	McGregor et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)	Christopher G. A. McGregor (Rochester, Minnesota); Guerard W. Byrne (Rochester, Minnesota)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota)
INVENTOR(S)	Christopher G. A. McGregor (Rochester, Minnesota); Guerard W. Byrne (Rochester, Minnesota)
ABSTRACT	This document provides methods and materials involved in reducing cardiac xenograft rejection. For example, methods and materials for preparing transgenic pigs expressing reduced or no endogenous Sd^aor SDa-like glycans derived from the porcine β1,4 N-acetyl-galactosaminyl transferase 2 (B4GALNT2) glycosyltransferase and/or reduced or no endogenous α-Gal antigens, methods and materials for modifying the xenograft recipient's immunological response to non-Gal antigens (e.g. CD46, CD59, CD9, PROCR, and ANXA2) to reduce cardiac xenograft rejection, and methods and materials for monitoring the progress of xenotransplant immunologic rejection are provided.
FILED	Monday, April 11, 2011
APPL NO	13/696478
ART UNIT	1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 67/0276 (20130101) A01K 2207/30 (20130101) A01K 2227/108 (20130101) A01K 2267/02 (20130101) A01K 2267/025 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/34 (20130101) A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 39/001 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/8509 (20130101)
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09642906 — Generation of HPV-specific T-cells

US 09642906	Ramos et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Carlos A. Ramos (Houston, Texas); Cliona M. Rooney (Bellaire, Texas); Neeharika Narala (The Woodlands, Texas)
ABSTRACT	Embodiments of the disclosure concern methods and compositions for immunotherapy for human papillomavirus infection and diseases associated therewith. In specific embodiments, methods concern production of immune cells that target one or more antigens of HPV16 and/or HPV18, including methods with stimulation steps that employ IL-7 and IL-15, but not IL-6 and/or IL-12. Other specific embodiments utilize stimulations in the presence of certain cells, such as costimulatory cells and certain antigen presenting cells.
FILED	Friday, October 21, 2016
APPL NO	15/331659
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/5158 (20130101)
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09642916 — Porphyrin modified telodendrimers

US 09642916	Lam et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Kit S. Lam (Davis, California); Yuanpei Li (Davis, California); Chong-Xian Pan (Sacramento, California); Tzu-yin Lin (Sacramento, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides amphiphilic telodendrimers that aggregate to form nanocarriers characterized by a hydrophobic core and a hydrophilic exterior. The nanocarrier core may include amphiphilic functionality such as cholic acid or cholic acid derivatives, and the exterior may include branched or linear poly(ethylene glycol) segments. Nanocarrier cargo such as hydrophobic drugs and other materials may be sequester in the core via non-covalent means or may be covalently bound to the telodendrimer building blocks. Telodendrimer structure may be tailored to alter loading properties, interactions with materials such as biological membranes, and other characteristics.
FILED	Thursday, March 14, 2013
APPL NO	13/803878
ART UNIT	1619 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/704 (20130101) A61K 41/0033 (20130101) A61K 41/0052 (20130101) A61K 41/0057 (20130101) A61K 41/0071 (20130101) A61K 41/0076 (20130101) A61K 47/488 (20130101) A61K 47/48015 (20130101) A61K 47/48069 (20130101) A61K 47/48123 (20130101) A61K 47/48215 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/48253 (20130101) A61K 47/48815 (20130101) A61K 49/00 (20130101) A61K 49/0036 (20130101) A61K 49/0423 (20130101) A61K 51/08 (20130101) A61K 51/1244 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 5/062 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101)
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09642920 — Therapeutic agent delivery system and method

US 09642920	von Recum
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems (CBET)
APPLICANT(S)	Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio)
INVENTOR(S)	Horst A. von Recum (Cleveland Hts., Ohio)
ABSTRACT	A therapeutic agent delivery system includes a therapeutic agent delivery platform and a therapeutic guest agent. The therapeutic agent delivery platform is capable of being implanted in a tissue being treated. The platform includes a substrate and at least one host molecule coupled to the substrate. The therapeutic guest agent is capable of reversibly coupling with the host molecule when administered to the tissue being treated. The reversible coupling is defined by the binding affinity between the host molecule and the therapeutic guest agent. The therapeutic guest agent is delivered at a rate determined by the affinity release rate between the host molecule and the therapeutic guest agent. The degradation rate of the therapeutic guest agent may be slower than the affinity release rate between the host molecule and the therapeutic guest agent.
FILED	Tuesday, August 05, 2014
APPL NO	14/451527
ART UNIT	1676 — 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 31/704 (20130101) A61K 47/36 (20130101) A61K 47/40 (20130101) A61K 47/48969 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 37/0015 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 5/16 (20130101)
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09642922 — Caspase-triggered nano-aggregation probes and methods of use

US 09642922	Rao et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
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)	Jianghong Rao (Sunnyvale, California); Deju Ye (Mountain View, California); Adam Shuhendler (Palo Alto, California); Frederick Te-Ning Chin (Sunnyvale, California); Jongho Jeon (Palo Alto, California); Bin Shen (Mountain View, California)
ABSTRACT	Provided is an activatable probe that undergoes intramolecular cyclization and subsequent aggregation in apoptotic tumor cells upon peptidase-initiated, and most advantageously caspase-3, activation. These caspase-sensitive nano-aggregation probes (C-SNAFs) are generally biocompatible, possess NIR spectral properties or may serve as PET or MRI imaging agents, and have a mechanism of target-mediated nanostructure self-assembly amenable to in vivo use. The probes encompass biocompatible condensation chemistry products that comprise D-cysteine and 2-cyano-6-hydroxyquinoline (CHQ) moieties linked to an amino-luciferin scaffold, and which can be activated by a two-step reaction requiring caspase-3/7-mediated cleavage of an aspartate-glutamate-valine-aspartate (L-DEVD) capping peptide and the free intracellular thiol-mediated reduction of the disulfide bond.
FILED	Wednesday, August 20, 2014
APPL NO	14/464111
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 49/0002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 49/0021 (20130101) A61K 49/0032 (20130101) A61K 49/0041 (20130101) A61K 49/0052 (20130101) A61K 49/085 (20130101) A61K 49/101 (20130101) A61K 51/0455 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5005 (20130101) G01N 2333/96469 (20130101) G01N 2510/00 (20130101)
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09642924 — Contrast agents based on long-lived nuclear singlet states and related methods

US 09642924	Warren
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE)
APPLICANT(S)	Duke University (Durham, North Carolina)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Duke University (Durham, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Warren S. Warren (Durham, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	Methods are described for preparing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and/or magnetic resonance spectroscopy contrast agents where the contrast agents are prepared from precursor molecules having at least four non-zero-spin nuclei that form two pairs of chemically equivalent or effectively equivalent nuclei, e.g., diphenylacetylene or diethyl oxalate. The precursor molecule is hyperpolarized and a sequence of one or more radiofrequency pulses is applied to transfer spin state population between the first and second pair of nuclei, thereby providing a non-equilibrium single state nuclear spin population. To detect the contrast agent, another sequence of one or more radiofrequency pulses is applied to transfer singlet order to polarization. No transformation of the molecular structure of the contrast agent is necessary for detection. Also described are methods of imaging targets using the contrast agents.
FILED	Friday, August 29, 2014
APPL NO	14/472790
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 49/06 (20130101) A61K 49/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09642925 — Magnetic nanoparticle formulations, methods for making such formulations, and methods for their use

US 09642925	Chauhan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	Subhash Chauhan (Sioux Falls, South Dakota); Meena Jaggi (Sioux Falls, South Dakota); Murali Mohan Yallapu (Sioux Falls, South Dakota)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Sanford Research/USD (Sioux Falls, South Dakota)
INVENTOR(S)	Subhash Chauhan (Sioux Falls, South Dakota); Meena Jaggi (Sioux Falls, South Dakota); Murali Mohan Yallapu (Sioux Falls, South Dakota)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides derivatized magnetic nanoparticles, methods for making such nanoparticles, and methods for their use.
FILED	Monday, February 07, 2011
APPL NO	13/884625
ART UNIT	1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/5161 (20130101) A61K 9/5192 (20130101) A61K 31/12 (20130101) A61K 41/0052 (20130101) A61K 41/0057 (20130101) A61K 49/1824 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 49/1845 (20130101) A61K 49/1857 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 2/002 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 25/00 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 1/0054 (20130101)
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09642941 — Implantable modular hydrogel for salivary gland restoration

US 09642941	Witt et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
APPLICANT(S)	WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY (Houston, Texas); UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE (Newark, Delaware)
ASSIGNEE(S)	WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY (Houston, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert L. Witt (Kennett Square, Pennsylvania); Xinqiao Jia (Newark, Delaware); Swati Pradham Bhatt (Newark, Delaware); Mary C. Farach-Carson (Houston, Texas); Daniel A. Harrington (Houston, Texas)
ABSTRACT	Implantable modular hydrogels to aid in salivary gland restoration and associated methods are provided. In one embodiment, the present disclosure provides for a hydrogel network comprising: a hyaluronic acid macromer crosslinked with a multiblock copolymer.
FILED	Monday, June 16, 2014
APPL NO	14/305424
ART UNIT	1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/26 (20130101) A61L 27/26 (20130101) A61L 27/38 (20130101) A61L 27/48 (20130101) A61L 27/48 (20130101) A61L 27/52 (20130101) A61L 27/54 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 27/3813 (20130101) A61L 2430/34 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 5/08 (20130101) C08L 5/08 (20130101)
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09642957 — Diastolic recoil method and device for treatment of cardiac pathologies

US 09642957	Criscione et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
APPLICANT(S)	The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas); CorInnova Incorporated (Houston, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas); CorInnova Incorporated (Houston, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	John C. Criscione (College Station, Texas); Saurabh Biswas (College Station, Texas); Michael R. Moreno (Bryan, Texas); Lewis D. Harrison (Flower Mound, Texas); Dennis I. Robbins (Richardson, Texas)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides methods and direct cardiac contact device to improve the diastole phase and the systolic phase of a heart and includes a biocompatible film pneumatic locked to the heart to aid in heart compression and relaxation.
FILED	Wednesday, February 04, 2015
APPL NO	14/613432
ART UNIT	3762 — 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 2/2481 (20130101) Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 1/106 (20130101) A61M 1/122 (20140204) Original (OR) Class A61M 1/1068 (20130101)
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09643002 — Method of manufacturing a flexible circuit electrode array with at least one tack opening

US 09643002	Greenberg et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Eye Institute (NEI)
APPLICANT(S)	Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Neil Hamilton Talbot (La Crescenta, California); Jordan Matthew Neysmith (Pasadena, California); James Singleton Little (Saugus, California); Brian V. Mech (Stevenson Ranch, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Neil Hamilton Talbot (La Crescenta, California); Jordan Matthew Neysmith (Pasadena, California); James Singleton Little (Saugus, California); Brian V. Mech (Stevenson Ranch, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides a flexible circuit electrode array adapted for neural stimulation, comprising: a polymer base layer; metal traces deposited on the polymer base layer, including electrodes suitable to stimulate neural tissue; a polymer top layer deposited on the polymer base layer and the metal traces at least one tack opening. The present invention provides further a method of making a flexible circuit electrode array comprising depositing a polymer base layer; depositing metal on the polymer base layer; patterning the metal to form metal traces; depositing a polymer top layer on the polymer base layer and the metal traces; and preparing at least one tack opening.
FILED	Thursday, June 23, 2011
APPL NO	13/167074
ART UNIT	3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units
CURRENT CPC	Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0543 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/36046 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 1/118 (20130101) H05K 3/0014 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49002 (20150115) Y10T 29/49117 (20150115) Y10T 29/49155 (20150115) Y10T 29/49174 (20150115) Y10T 29/49176 (20150115)
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09643136 — Microfluidic free interface diffusion techniques

US 09643136	Hansen et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Fluidigm Corporation (South San Francisco, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Carl L. Hansen (Pasadena, California); Stephen R. Quake (Stanford, California); James M. Berger (Kensington, California)
ABSTRACT	A static fluid and a second fluid are placed into contact along a microfluidic free interface and allowed to mix by diffusion without convective flow across the interface. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, the fluids are static and initially positioned on either side of a closed valve structure in a microfluidic channel having a width that is tightly constrained in at least one dimension. The valve is then opened, and no-slip layers at the sides of the microfluidic channel suppress convective mixing between the two fluids along the resulting interface. Applications for microfluidic free interfaces in accordance with embodiments of the present invention include, but are not limited to, protein crystallization studies, protein solubility studies, determination of properties of fluidics systems, and a variety of biological assays such as diffusive immunoassays, substrate turnover assays, and competitive binding assays.
FILED	Friday, April 25, 2014
APPL NO	14/262424
ART UNIT	1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
CURRENT CPC	Mixing, e.g Dissolving, Emulsifying, Dispersing B01F 5/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01F 13/0093 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 2219/005 (20130101) B01J 2219/0061 (20130101) B01J 2219/00355 (20130101) B01J 2219/00378 (20130101) B01J 2219/00396 (20130101) B01J 2219/00398 (20130101) B01J 2219/00439 (20130101) B01J 2219/00527 (20130101) B01J 2219/00605 (20130101) B01J 2219/00612 (20130101) B01J 2219/00619 (20130101) B01J 2219/00621 (20130101) B01J 2219/00635 (20130101) B01J 2219/00637 (20130101) B01J 2219/00659 (20130101) B01J 2219/00707 (20130101) B01J 2219/00722 (20130101) B01J 2219/00725 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502738 (20130101) B01L 3/502746 (20130101) B01L 3/502769 (20130101) B01L 7/54 (20130101) B01L 9/527 (20130101) B01L 2200/10 (20130101) B01L 2200/025 (20130101) B01L 2200/027 (20130101) B01L 2200/0605 (20130101) B01L 2300/14 (20130101) B01L 2300/18 (20130101) B01L 2300/123 (20130101) B01L 2300/0681 (20130101) B01L 2300/0861 (20130101) B01L 2400/0481 (20130101) B01L 2400/0655 (20130101) B01L 2400/0688 (20130101) Microstructural Devices or Systems, e.g Micromechanical Devices B81B 1/00 (20130101) Positive-displacement Machines for Liquids; Pumps F04B 43/043 (20130101) Valves; Taps; Cocks; Actuating-floats; Devices for Venting or Aerating F16K 99/0001 (20130101) F16K 99/0015 (20130101) F16K 99/0017 (20130101) F16K 99/0059 (20130101) F16K 2099/008 (20130101) F16K 2099/0074 (20130101) F16K 2099/0078 (20130101) F16K 2099/0084 (20130101) F16K 2099/0086 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 117/1004 (20150115) Y10T 117/1008 (20150115) Y10T 117/1012 (20150115) Y10T 137/0318 (20150401) Y10T 137/0324 (20150401) Y10T 137/2224 (20150401) Y10T 436/25 (20150115)
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09643184 — e-Petri dishes, devices, and systems having a light detector for sampling a sequence of sub-pixel shifted projection images

US 09643184	Zheng et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)	Guoan Zheng (Pasadena, California); Samuel Yang (San Dimas, California); Seung Ah Lee (Pasadena, California); Shuo Pang (Pasadena, California); Changhuei Yang (Pasadena, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Guoan Zheng (Pasadena, California); Samuel Yang (San Dimas, California); Seung Ah Lee (Pasadena, California); Shuo Pang (Pasadena, California); Changhuei Yang (Pasadena, California)
ABSTRACT	An e-Petri dish comprising a transparent layer having a specimen surface and a light detector configured to sample a sequence of sub-pixel shifted projection images of a specimen located on the specimen surface. The sub-pixel shifted projection images associated with light from a plurality of illumination angles provided by an illumination source.
FILED	Friday, March 02, 2012
APPL NO	13/411302
ART UNIT	2485 — Recording and Compression
CURRENT CPC	Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/508 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 3/502792 (20130101) B01L 2300/0654 (20130101) Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 23/10 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/03 (20130101) G01N 21/25 (20130101) G01N 21/272 (20130101) G01N 2201/10 (20130101)
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09643919 — Cycloalkyl-dione derivatives and methods of their use

US 09643919	Ballatore et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Aging (NIA)
APPLICANT(S)	The Trustees of The University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Carlo Ballatore (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Kurt R. Brunden (Media, Pennsylvania); Virginia M. Y. Lee (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Amos B. Smith, III (Merion, Pennsylvania); John Q. Trojanowski (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Xiaozhao Wang (Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is directed to compounds of formula I: wherein A is n is 0, 1, or 2; m is 0 or 1; R₁is H or C_1-6alkyl and R₂is H, C_1-6alkyl, C_1-6alkaryl, aryl, or heteroaryl; and X is O or NH. Tautomers, enantiomers, and diastereomers, as well as pharmaceutically acceptable salt forms, of compounds of formula I are also within the scope of the invention. Methods of preparing and using the compounds of formula I are also described. wherein A is
FILED	Thursday, April 03, 2014
APPL NO	14/781424
ART UNIT	1627 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 311/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 2101/10 (20130101) C07C 2102/10 (20130101)
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09643922 — MIF modulators

US 09643922	Jorgensen et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)	William L. Jorgensen (Deep River, Connecticut); Richard J. Bucala (Cos Cob, Connecticut)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut)
INVENTOR(S)	William L. Jorgensen (Deep River, Connecticut); Richard J. Bucala (Cos Cob, Connecticut)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides novel heterocyclic compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment that modulate levels of MIF expression and treat disorders associated with high or low levels of MIF expression.
FILED	Tuesday, May 04, 2010
APPL NO	12/773430
ART UNIT	1627 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 235/12 (20130101) C07D 235/24 (20130101) C07D 263/58 (20130101) C07D 275/04 (20130101) C07D 307/80 (20130101) C07D 307/83 (20130101) C07D 401/06 (20130101) C07D 403/04 (20130101) C07D 405/06 (20130101) C07D 413/04 (20130101) C07D 417/04 (20130101)
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09643947 — 7-membered fused heterocycles and methods of their synthesis

US 09643947	Scheidt et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)	Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Karl A. Scheidt (Evanston, Illinois); Javier Izquierdo Ferrer (Evanston, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed are a new method for synthesizing 7-membered fused heterocycles and compounds synthesized by the new method. The method involves a dual activation strategy using an N-heterocyclic carbene catalyst as a first Lewis base and another second Lewis base. Compounds synthesized by the disclosed method may include new benzoxopinone compounds, as well as benzoxepane compounds and benzoazepinone compounds that optionally may be derived from the disclosed benzoxopinone compounds.
FILED	Friday, August 22, 2014
APPL NO	14/466677
ART UNIT	1624 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 223/16 (20130101) C07D 223/32 (20130101) C07D 313/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09643960 — Procaspase activating compounds

US 09643960	Hergenrother et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
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)	Paul J. Hergenrother (Champaign, Illinois); Quinn Patrick Peterson (Savoy, Illinois); Danny Chung Hsu (Urbana, Illinois); Diana C. West (Champaign, Illinois); Timothy M. Fan (Mahomet, Illinois); Chris J. Novotny (Naperville, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	Compositions and methods are disclosed in embodiments relating to induction of cell death such as in cancer cells. Compounds and related methods for synthesis and use thereof, including the use of compounds in therapy for the treatment of cancer and selective induction of apoptosis in cells are disclosed. Compounds are disclosed that have lower neurotoxicity effects than other compounds.
FILED	Monday, August 10, 2015
APPL NO	14/822830
ART UNIT	1625 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/445 (20130101) A61K 31/454 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 211/34 (20130101) C07D 211/60 (20130101) C07D 211/62 (20130101) C07D 213/56 (20130101) C07D 295/15 (20130101) C07D 405/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 405/14 (20130101)
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09643977 — Necroptosis inhibitors and methods of use therefor

US 09643977	Yuan
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) NIH Office of the Director (NIHOD)
APPLICANT(S)	Junying Yuan (Newton, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Junying Yuan (Newton, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Described herein are compositions that inhibit the production of TNFα downstream of CD40 activation. As such, also described are various methods of using compositions exhibiting this activity for the treatment or prevention of inflammatory diseases associated with TNFα production or CD40 activation.
FILED	Monday, March 12, 2012
APPL NO	14/004474
ART UNIT	1624 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 211/52 (20130101) C07C 235/38 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/82 (20130101) C07D 215/08 (20130101) C07D 231/14 (20130101) C07D 231/40 (20130101) C07D 233/56 (20130101) C07D 235/30 (20130101) C07D 237/18 (20130101) C07D 261/14 (20130101) C07D 261/20 (20130101) C07D 263/58 (20130101) C07D 277/46 (20130101) C07D 277/54 (20130101) C07D 403/06 (20130101) C07D 403/12 (20130101) C07D 405/06 (20130101) C07D 409/06 (20130101) C07D 417/12 (20130101) C07D 487/04 (20130101) C07D 495/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09644002 — Allosteric modulators of EGFR and constitutively active mutants

US 09644002	Schepartz
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)	YALE UNIVERSITY (New Haven, Connecticut)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut)
INVENTOR(S)	Alanna Schepartz (Wilton, Connecticut)
ABSTRACT	The present invention includes a novel class of allosteric modulators that target a protein having a juxtamembrane segment. In another embodiment, the allosteric modulator is a peptide mimetic that is capable of interacting with an α-helix or a coiled coil domain of a protein. In one embodiment, the peptide mimetic binds to at least an α-helix or a coiled coil domain of EGFR and modulates its activity.
FILED	Friday, July 25, 2014
APPL NO	14/341529
ART UNIT	1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/10 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 7/50 (20130101)
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09644037 — Antibodies that specifically bind ataxia telangiectasia-mutated and RAD3-related kinase phosphorylated at position 1989 and their use

US 09644037	Pfister et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
APPLICANT(S)	THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Thomas D. Pfister (Toronto, Canada); Allison M. Marrero (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Ralph E. Parchment (Hagerstown, Maryland); James H. Doroshow (Bethesda, Maryland); Robert J. Kinders (Frederick, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	Monoclonal antibodies that specifically bind ataxia telangiectasia-mutated and RAD3-related kinase phosphorylated at position 1989 (pT1989 ATR), antigen binding fragments, conjugates thereof, and the use of these antibodies, antigen binding fragments and conjugates are disclosed herein. Also disclosed are nucleic acids encoding these antibodies, vectors including these antibodies, and isolated host cells transformed with these nucleic acids and vectors. Methods are also disclosed for using these antibodies, such as to detect pT1989 ATR, or to determine the dose of an agent of use to treat a subject. The antibodies are also of use for identifying ATR inhibitors.
FILED	Wednesday, October 08, 2014
APPL NO	15/027997
ART UNIT	1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Peptides C07K 16/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/54 (20130101) C07K 2317/55 (20130101) C07K 2317/565 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/16 (20130101) C12N 2501/06 (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 1/485 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 207/11001 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/573 (20130101) G01N 33/6896 (20130101) G01N 2333/91205 (20130101) G01N 2440/14 (20130101) G01N 2500/04 (20130101) G01N 2500/10 (20130101) G01N 2800/52 (20130101) G01N 2800/2814 (20130101)
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09644038 — Apolipoprotein nanodiscs with telodendrimer

US 09644038	Luo et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (LLNS) at Livermore, CA Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Juntao Luo (Jamesville, New York); Wei He (Davis, California); Kit S. Lam (Davis, California); Paul Henderson (Dublin, California); Matthew Coleman (Oakland, California); R. Holland Cheng (Davis, California); Li Xing (Davis, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides a nanodisc with a membrane scaffold protein. The nanodisc includes a membrane scaffold protein, a telodendrimer and a lipid. The membrane scaffold protein can be apolipoprotein. The telodendrimer has the general formula PEG-L-D-(R)_n, wherein D is a dendritic polymer; L is a bond or a linker linked to the focal point group of the dendritic polymer; each PEG is a poly(ethylene glycol) polymer; each R is and end group of the dendritic polymer, or and end group with a covalently bound hydrophobic group, hydrophilic group, amphiphilic compound, or drug; and subscript n is an integer from 2 to 20. Cell free methods of making the nanodiscs are also provided.
FILED	Wednesday, December 19, 2012
APPL NO	13/719785
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Peptides C07K 14/775 (20130101) C07K 17/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09644039 — Acid-degradable and bioerodible modified polyhydroxylated materials

US 09644039	Frechet et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by University of California (UC BERKELEY) at Berkeley, CA Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
APPLICANT(S)	Jean M. J. Frechet (Oakland, California); Eric M. Bachelder (Dublin, Ohio); Tristan T. Beaudette (San Francisco, California); Kyle E. Broaders (Berkeley, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Jean M. J. Frechet (Oakland, California); Eric M. Bachelder (Dublin, Ohio); Tristan T. Beaudette (San Francisco, California); Kyle E. Broaders (Berkeley, California)
ABSTRACT	Compositions and methods of making a modified polyhydroxylated polymer comprising a polyhydroxylated polymer having reversibly modified hydroxyl groups, whereby the hydroxyl groups are modified by an acid-catalyzed reaction between a polydroxylated polymer and a reagent such as acetals, aldehydes, vinyl ethers and ketones such that the modified polyhydroxylated polymers become insoluble in water but freely soluble in common organic solvents allowing for the facile preparation of acid-sensitive materials. Materials made from these polymers can be made to degrade in a pH-dependent manner. Both hydrophobic and hydrophilic cargoes were successfully loaded into particles made from the present polymers using single and double emulsion techniques, respectively. Due to its ease of preparation, processability, pH-sensitivity, and biocompatibility, of the present modified polyhydroxylated polymers should find use in numerous drug delivery applications.
FILED	Monday, January 10, 2011
APPL NO	12/987679
ART UNIT	1619 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/1652 (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 17/10 (20130101) A61L 17/10 (20130101) A61L 17/145 (20130101) A61L 17/145 (20130101) A61L 27/14 (20130101) A61L 27/14 (20130101) A61L 27/34 (20130101) A61L 27/34 (20130101) A61L 27/58 (20130101) A61L 31/10 (20130101) A61L 31/10 (20130101) A61L 31/148 (20130101) Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 30/18 (20130101) C08B 37/0006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08B 37/0021 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 1/02 (20130101) C08L 1/08 (20130101) C08L 3/02 (20130101) C08L 5/00 (20130101) C08L 5/02 (20130101) C08L 5/06 (20130101) C08L 101/02 (20130101) C08L 101/02 (20130101) C08L 101/02 (20130101) C08L 101/02 (20130101) C08L 101/02 (20130101)
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09644179 — Use of PDL1 expressing cells to convert T cells into regulatory T cells

US 09644179	Riley et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)	THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); The United States of America, as Represented By The Secretary, Department of Health And Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	James L. Riley (Downingtown, Pennsylvania); Daniel H. Fowler (Bethesda, Maryland); Shoba Amarnath (Washington, District of Columbia)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides methods and compositions for converting a T cell into a cell that exhibits at least one regulatory T cell phenotype. The converted T cell is generated by contacting a T cell with a cell that is modified to comprise an agent capable of activating PD1 signaling in a T cell. The converted T cell is useful for preventing, suppressing, blocking or inhibiting an immune response. For example the converted T cell is useful for preventing rejection of a transplanted tissue in a human or other animal host, or protecting against graft versus host disease. The converted T cell can also be used to treat autoimmune diseases.
FILED	Tuesday, November 20, 2012
APPL NO	14/359764
ART UNIT	1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0637 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2501/998 (20130101) C12N 2502/99 (20130101) C12N 2506/11 (20130101)
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09644186 — Simplified basic media for human pluripotent cell culture

US 09644186	Chen et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
APPLICANT(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Guokai Chen (Rockville, Maryland); James A. Thomson (Madison, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	Fully defined media that support pluripotent cell viability, proliferation, cloning, and derivation, as well as methods and compositions including these media are described. Methods for deriving iPS cells from adult individuals under defined, xeno-free conditions are also described.
FILED	Monday, March 07, 2016
APPL NO	15/063046
ART UNIT	1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0606 (20130101) C12N 5/0696 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2500/02 (20130101) C12N 2500/32 (20130101) C12N 2500/38 (20130101) C12N 2500/90 (20130101) C12N 2500/98 (20130101) C12N 2501/15 (20130101) C12N 2501/33 (20130101) C12N 2501/105 (20130101) C12N 2501/115 (20130101) C12N 2501/119 (20130101) C12N 2501/727 (20130101) C12N 2501/845 (20130101) C12N 2501/998 (20130101)
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09644188 — Methods and molecules for suppression of RNA silencing

US 09644188	Rao et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	Aln Rao (Riverside, California); Jang-Kyung Seo (Riverside, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)
INVENTOR(S)	Aln Rao (Riverside, California); Jang-Kyung Seo (Riverside, California)
ABSTRACT	Certain embodiments of the invention relate to mutant forms of flock house virus B2 protein characterized by having enhanced suppressor of RNA silencing activity as compared to wild type flock house virus B2 protein. Certain embodiments of the invention relate to nucleic acid sequences and vectors that encode and/or direct expression of such mutant forms of flock house virus B2 protein in eukaryotic cells. Certain embodiments of the invention relate to methods of using such mutant forms of flock house virus B2 protein and/or nucleic acid sequences and vectors that encode and/or direct expression thereof in eukaryotic cells to increase a replication rate of a plant or animal virus in a plant or animal cell.
FILED	Wednesday, April 16, 2014
APPL NO	14/254886
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 7/025 (20130101) C12N 2770/30022 (20130101) C12N 2770/30043 (20130101) C12N 2770/30052 (20130101)
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09644205 — Synthetic promoter for modulating gene expression

US 09644205	Brunicardi et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Los Angeles, California); BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE (Houston, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Francis C. Brunicardi (Pacific Palisades, California); Shi-He Liu (Sugarland, Texas)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides nucleic acid constructs, expression vectors, transgenic cell and methods of making and using the same, wherein the nucleic acid construct includes a synthetic promoter designed using selected PDX-1 activation sites such as those observed in the human insulin promoter (HIP). In illustrative working embodiments of the invention, an exogenous nucleic acid fragment encoding thymidine kinase is operably linked to the synthetic promoter which is then shown to regulate the expression of this polypeptide.
FILED	Wednesday, April 24, 2013
APPL NO	14/396967
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 15/70 (20130101) C12N 15/81 (20130101) C12N 15/85 (20130101) C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 15/113 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2330/51 (20130101) C12N 2830/008 (20130101) C12N 2840/105 (20130101)
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09644215 — AAV1-caspase gene therapy induced pyroptosis for the treatment of tumors

US 09644215	Brenner et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
APPLICANT(S)	THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION (Boston, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Gary J. Brenner (Winchester, Massachusetts); Xandra O. Breakefield (Newton, Massachusetts); Giulia Fulci (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Described herein are compositions and methods for treating, inhibiting, preventing, reducing the severity of and/or reducing the progression of schwannoma, as well as any disease or physiological disease-state in which schwannoma plays a role. The compositions comprise an rAAV vector that includes a caspase-1 gene or a variant thereof and a Schwann cell specific promoter.
FILED	Thursday, January 30, 2014
APPL NO	14/169112
ART UNIT	1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 48/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/16 (20130101) C12N 15/86 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2750/14143 (20130101) C12N 2830/008 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 304/22036 (20130101)
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09644216 — Adeno-associated virus vectors for treatment of glycogen storage disease

US 09644216	Chou et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
APPLICANT(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated (Gainesville, Florida)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated (Gainesville, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Janice J. Chou (North Bethesda, Maryland); Barry J. Byrne (Gainsville, Florida)
ABSTRACT	The present disclosure describes improved adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors for gene therapy applications in the treatment of glycogen storage disease, particularly glycogen storage disease type Ia (GSD-Ia). Described are recombinant nucleic acid molecules, vectors and recombinant AAV that include a G6PC promoter/enhancer, a synthetic intron, a G6PC coding sequence (such as a wild-type or codon-optimized G6PC coding sequence), and stuffer nucleic acid sequence situated between the G6PC promoter/enhancer and the intron, as well as between the intron and the G6PC coding sequence. The recombinant AAVs disclosed herein exhibit highly efficient liver transduction and are capable of correcting metabolic abnormalities in an animal model of GSD-Ia.
FILED	Tuesday, November 25, 2014
APPL NO	15/038979
ART UNIT	1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 48/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 9/16 (20130101) C12N 15/86 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2750/14143 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 301/03009 (20130101)
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09644238 — Methods of isolating non-senescent cardiac stem cells and uses thereof

US 09644238	Anversa et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) National Institute on Aging (NIA)
APPLICANT(S)	AUTOLOGOUS REGENERATION, LLC (New York, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	AUTOLOGOUS REGENERATION, LLC (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Piero Anversa (New York, New York); Annarosa Leri (New York, New York); Jan Kajstura (New York, New York)
ABSTRACT	The invention describes the isolation and methods of use of a non-senescent pool of adult cardiac stem cells. In particular, a subset of adult cardiac stem cells with superior regenerative capacity is disclosed. Such cells were found to have immortal DNA. Compositions comprising the non-senescent stem cells are also described. In addition, the present invention provides methods for repairing aged myocardium or damaged myocardium using the isolated non-senescent adult cardiac stem cells.
FILED	Monday, August 19, 2013
APPL NO	13/970352
ART UNIT	1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/12 (20130101) A61K 35/34 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0657 (20130101) C12N 2501/12 (20130101) C12N 2501/105 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6881 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09644241 — Methods and compositions involving miR-135B for distinguishing pancreatic cancer from benign pancreatic disease

US 09644241	Adai et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	Alex Adai (Austin, Texas); Anna Szafransak-Schwarzbach (Austin, Texas); Bernard Andruss (Austin, Texas); Stephan Albrecht Hahn (Bochum, Germany)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Interpace Diagnostics, LLC (Parsippany, New Jersey)
INVENTOR(S)	Alex Adai (Austin, Texas); Anna Szafransak-Schwarzbach (Austin, Texas); Bernard Andruss (Austin, Texas); Stephan Albrecht Hahn (Bochum, Germany)
ABSTRACT	Provided are methods and compositions for identifying a miRNA profile for a particular condition, such as pancreatic disease, and using the profile in assessing the condition of a patient.
FILED	Thursday, September 13, 2012
APPL NO	13/615066
ART UNIT	1674 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) C12Q 2600/178 (20130101)
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09644623 — Fluid control structures in microfluidic devices

US 09644623	Mathies et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)	Richard A. Mathies (San Francisco, California); William H. Grover (Medford, Massachusetts); Alison Skelley (Berkeley, California); Eric Lagally (Santa Barbara, California); Chung N. Liu (Albany, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Richard A. Mathies (San Francisco, California); William H. Grover (Medford, Massachusetts); Alison Skelley (Berkeley, California); Eric Lagally (Santa Barbara, California); Chung N. Liu (Albany, California)
ABSTRACT	Methods and apparatus for implementing microfluidic analysis devices are provided. A monolithic elastomer membrane associated with an integrated pneumatic manifold allows the placement and actuation of a variety of fluid control structures, such as structures for pumping, isolating, mixing, routing, merging, splitting, preparing, and storing volumes of fluid. The fluid control structures can be used to implement a variety of sample introduction, preparation, processing, and storage techniques.
FILED	Tuesday, May 18, 2010
APPL NO	12/782598
ART UNIT	1799 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Mixing, e.g Dissolving, Emulsifying, Dispersing B01F 5/10 (20130101) B01F 11/0071 (20130101) B01F 13/0059 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/5025 (20130101) B01L 3/50273 (20130101) B01L 3/502707 (20130101) B01L 3/502738 (20130101) B01L 7/52 (20130101) B01L 2200/10 (20130101) B01L 2300/087 (20130101) B01L 2300/088 (20130101) B01L 2300/0654 (20130101) B01L 2300/0803 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0819 (20130101) B01L 2300/0861 (20130101) B01L 2300/0887 (20130101) B01L 2300/1827 (20130101) B01L 2400/0409 (20130101) B01L 2400/0421 (20130101) B01L 2400/0487 (20130101) B01L 2400/0638 (20130101) B01L 2400/0655 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/689 (20130101) C12Q 1/6806 (20130101) C12Q 1/6806 (20130101) C12Q 2565/629 (20130101) C12Q 2565/629 (20130101) Positive-displacement Machines for Liquids; Pumps F04B 43/06 (20130101) F04B 43/043 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Valves; Taps; Cocks; Actuating-floats; Devices for Venting or Aerating F16K 99/0001 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 35/00069 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 137/0318 (20150401) Y10T 137/2224 (20150401) Y10T 137/87716 (20150401)
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09645010 — Fluidic flow cytometry devices and methods

US 09645010	Lo et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
APPLICANT(S)	Yu-Hwa Lo (San Diego, California); Sung Hwan Cho (La Jolla, California); Jose Morachis (San Diego, California); Will Alaynick (San Diego, California); Kendall Chuang (San Diego, California); Nam Kim (San Diego, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents Of The University Of California (Oakland, California); NanoCellect Biomedical, Inc. (San Diego, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Yu-Hwa Lo (San Diego, California); Sung Hwan Cho (La Jolla, California); Jose Morachis (San Diego, California); Will Alaynick (San Diego, California); Kendall Chuang (San Diego, California); Nam Kim (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	Devices, systems and methods facilitate analyzing, identifying and sorting particles in fluids, including cytometry devices and techniques. The described techniques can be used in a variety of applications such as in chemical or biological testing and diagnostic measurements. One exemplary flow cytometry device includes a channel that is capable of conducting a fluid containing at least one particle and also capable of allowing light be transmitted to and from the channel. The flow cytometry device also includes a lens that is positioned between the channel and a color filter. The lens directs at least a portion of light transmitted from the channel to the color filter. The color filter includes a plurality of zones, where each zone is adapted to allow transmission of only a particular spectral range of light. The flow cytometry device further includes a detector configured to receive the light that is transmitted through the color filter.
FILED	Thursday, August 23, 2012
APPL NO	13/593488
ART UNIT	2886 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/28 (20130101) G01J 3/46 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01J 3/51 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/1434 (20130101) G01N 15/1459 (20130101) G01N 2015/0065 (20130101) G01N 2015/144 (20130101) G01N 2015/149 (20130101) Measuring Linear or Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, or Shock; Indicating Presence, Absence, or Direction, of Movement G01P 5/26 (20130101)
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09645139 — Neuroprotective chemicals and methods for identifying and using same

US 09645139	McKnight et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
APPLICANT(S)	Board of Regents of The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Board of Regents of The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Steven L. McKnight (Dallas, Texas); Joseph M. Ready (Carrollton, Texas); Andrew A. Pieper (Iowa City, Iowa); Gelin Wang (Plano, Texas); Ting Han (Dallas, Texas)
ABSTRACT	Provided herein are methods for identifying a compound having cell-protective (e.g., neuroprotective) activity. Compounds identified therefrom are also provided. These compounds can be used to treat various diseases, disorders, or conditions associated with, for example, unwanted cell death.
FILED	Thursday, November 19, 2015
APPL NO	14/945629
ART UNIT	1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5014 (20130101) G01N 33/5038 (20130101) G01N 33/5058 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/91142 (20130101)
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09645151 — Targeting phosphofructokinase and its glycosylation form for cancer

US 09645151	Hsieh-Wilson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Linda C. Hsieh-Wilson (South Pasadena, California); Wen Yi (Hangzhou, China PRC)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to methods of treating cancer, suppressing or inhibiting tumorigenesis, tumor growth or cancer progression, and suppressing or inhibiting cancer cells from altering cellular metabolism in favor of cancerous growth. Also provided are compositions comprising an agent that decreases glycosylation of phosphofructokinase 1 or increases phosphofructokinase 1 expression or activity.
FILED	Monday, August 19, 2013
APPL NO	14/417889
ART UNIT	1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Peptides C07K 16/40 (20130101) C07K 2317/21 (20130101) C07K 2317/24 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/574 (20130101) G01N 33/57423 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/912 (20130101)
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09645212 — Fiber tractography using entropy spectrum pathways

US 09645212	Frank et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI)
APPLICANT(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Lawrence R. Frank (San Diego, California); Vitaly L. Galinsky (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	A method for fiber tractography processes multi-shell diffusion weighted MRI data to identify fiber tracts by calculating intravoxel diffusion characteristics from the MRI data. A transition probability is calculated for each possible path on the lattice, with the transition probability weighted according the intravoxel characteristics. Entropy is calculated for each path and the paths are ranked according to entropy. A geometrical optics algorithm is applied to the entropy data to define pathways, which are ranked according to their significance to generate a map of the pathways.
FILED	Wednesday, October 21, 2015
APPL NO	14/919605
ART UNIT	2667 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation
CURRENT CPC	Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0042 (20130101) A61B 5/055 (20130101) A61B 5/742 (20130101) A61B 5/4064 (20130101) A61B 5/7278 (20130101) A61B 2576/026 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/4806 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 33/56341 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0081 (20130101) G06T 7/0087 (20130101) G06T 2207/10088 (20130101) G06T 2207/30016 (20130101)
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09645214 — Systems and methods for determining electrical properties using magnetic resonance imaging

US 09645214	Hancu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Ileana Hancu (Clifton Park, New York); Selaka Bandara Bulumulla (Niskayuna, New York); Florian Wiesinger (Bavaria, Germany); Laura Irene Sacolick (Bavaria, Germany); Seung Kyun Lee (Niskayuna, New York)
ABSTRACT	Systems and methods for determining electrical properties using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) are provided. One method includes applying an ultra-short echo time (TE) pulse sequence in a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) system and acquiring a complex B₁⁺B₁⁻ quantity from an object following the application of the ultra-short TE pulse sequence, where B₁⁺ is a complex amplitude of a transmit radio-frequency (RF) magnetic field and B₁⁻ is a complex amplitude of a receive RF magnetic field. The method also includes estimating, with a processor, one or more electrical properties of the object using the complex amplitudes of the transmit RF magnetic field and the receive RF magnetic field.
FILED	Tuesday, December 03, 2013
APPL NO	14/095707
ART UNIT	2852 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/246 (20130101) G01R 33/4816 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09646134 — Bambam: parallel comparative analysis of high-throughput sequencing data

US 09646134	Sanborn et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	John Zachary Sanborn (Santa Cruz, California); David Haussler (Santa Cruz, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	John Zachary Sanborn (Santa Cruz, California); David Haussler (Santa Cruz, California)
ABSTRACT	A differential sequence object is constructed on the basis of alignment of sub-strings via incremental synchronization of sequence strings using known positions of the sub-strings relative to a reference genome sequence. An output file is then generated that comprises only relevant changes with respect to the reference genome.
FILED	Friday, November 18, 2011
APPL NO	13/373550
ART UNIT	3686 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/04845 (20130101) G06F 17/241 (20130101) G06F 19/18 (20130101) G06F 19/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 19/28 (20130101) G06F 19/345 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 7/005 (20130101) Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 50/24 (20130101)
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09646138 — Bioimaging grid

US 09646138	Mori et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Aging (NIA) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
APPLICANT(S)	The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Susumu Mori (Ellicott City, Maryland); Michael I. Miller (Towson, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A method may include standardizing an input image to produce a standardized input image; structurizing the standardized input image to be characterized by a plurality of anatomical properties; mapping the input image to one or more reference cases of a plurality of reference cases using the plurality of anatomical properties, wherein the one or more reference cases are associated with first non-image clinical information; and determining second non-image clinical information for the input image based on the one or more reference cases and the first non-image clinical information.
FILED	Monday, December 31, 2012
APPL NO	14/367593
ART UNIT	2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/321 (20130101) G06F 19/3443 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0014 (20130101) G06T 2207/10072 (20130101) G06T 2207/20128 (20130101) G06T 2207/30016 (20130101)
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09646377 — Methods and systems for optical imaging or epithelial luminal organs by beam scanning thereof

US 09646377	Tearney et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	Guillermo J. Tearney (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Milen Shishkov (Watertown, Massachusetts); Brett Eugene Bouma (Quincy, Massachusetts); Benjamin J. Vakoc (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Norman S. Nishioka (Wayland, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Guillermo J. Tearney (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Milen Shishkov (Watertown, Massachusetts); Brett Eugene Bouma (Quincy, Massachusetts); Benjamin J. Vakoc (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Norman S. Nishioka (Wayland, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Arrangements, apparatus, systems and systems are provided for obtaining data for at least one portion within at least one luminal or hollow sample. The arrangement, system or apparatus can be (insertable via at least one of a mouth or a nose of a patient. For example, a first optical arrangement can be configured to transceive at least one electromagnetic (e.g., visible) radiation to and from the portion. A second arrangement may be provided at least partially enclosing the first arrangement. Further, a third arrangement can be configured to be actuated so as to position the first arrangement at a predetermined location within the luminal or hollow sample. The first arrangement may be configured to compensate for at least one aberration (e.g., astigmatism) caused by the second arrangement and/or the third arrangement. The second arrangement can include at least one portion which enables a guiding arrangement to be inserted there through. Another arrangement can be provided which is configured to measure a pressure within the at least one portion. The data may include a position and/or an orientation of the first arrangement with respect to the luminal or hollow sample.
FILED	Wednesday, April 02, 2014
APPL NO	14/243508
ART UNIT	3777 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory
CURRENT CPC	Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0062 (20130101) A61B 5/0066 (20130101) A61B 5/0084 (20130101) A61B 5/6852 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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National Science Foundation (NSF)

09642543 — Systems and methods for model-based non-contact physiological data acquisition

US 09642543	Banerjee et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS)
APPLICANT(S)	Ayan Banerjee (Tempe, Arizona); Sandeep K. S. Gupta (Phoenix, Arizona)
ASSIGNEE(S)	ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS (Scottsdale, Arizona)
INVENTOR(S)	Ayan Banerjee (Tempe, Arizona); Sandeep K. S. Gupta (Phoenix, Arizona)
ABSTRACT	System and method for non-contact acquisition of current physiological data representing a subject. A first electromagnetic wave representing current physiological status of a first subject is modified by a second electromagnetic wave representing current physiological status of a second subject in proximity to the first subject. A parameter of the first electromagnetic wave representing a first physiological status of a first subject is measured with electronic circuitry to extract a parameter of the second electromagnetic wave. Historical physiological data associated with the second subject is acquired. The current physiological data representing current physiological status of the second subject is then derived based on historical physiological data of the second subject and a comparison between the first and second parameters.
FILED	Friday, November 14, 2014
APPL NO	14/542172
ART UNIT	3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion
CURRENT CPC	Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0006 (20130101) A61B 5/0024 (20130101) A61B 5/0452 (20130101) A61B 5/02405 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09642545 — Neural probe with optical stimulation capability

US 09642545	Yoon et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC)
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)	Euisik Yoon (Superior Township, Michigan); Il-Joo Cho (Seoul, South Korea)
ABSTRACT	A neural probe is disclosed for optically stimulating or silencing neurons and recording electrical responses to the stimulus. Using patterning techniques, an integral optical waveguide may be fabricated on the probe for transmitting neuron-affecting light from a light source to a probe tip. The probe tip may include one or more electrodes to receive electrical responses from stimulated neurons for recording or further processing. According to various embodiments, the disclosed neural probes may utilize multiple light sources simultaneously, switch between multiple light sources, or utilize a single light source to stimulate or silence multiple neuron locations simultaneously via multiple probe tips or via multiple light-emitting sites located along the length of the probe. Neural probes are thereby provided that have sufficient spatial resolution to accurately target, stimulate, and record the reaction of neurons, or as few as a single neuron, utilizing a slim, compact structure.
FILED	Monday, February 01, 2016
APPL NO	15/012334
ART UNIT	3739 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion
CURRENT CPC	Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0048 (20130101) A61B 5/04001 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0529 (20130101) A61N 1/0551 (20130101) A61N 5/0601 (20130101) A61N 5/0622 (20130101) A61N 2005/063 (20130101) A61N 2005/0612 (20130101) A61N 2005/0651 (20130101) A61N 2005/0653 (20130101)
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09642694 — Device with electrospray coating to deliver active ingredients

US 09642694	Hoerr et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	NANOCOPOEIA, INC. (St. Paul, Minnesota); REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
ASSIGNEE(S)	REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (Minneapolis, Minnesota); NANOCOPOEIA, INC. (St. Paul, Minnesota)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert A. Hoerr (St. Paul, Minnesota); Da-Ren Chen (Creve Coeur, Missouri); John V. Carlson (St. Michael, Minnesota); David Y. H. Pui (Plymouth, Minnesota)
ABSTRACT	Devices to deliver one or more active ingredients for medical treatment may include a body of material presenting a surface including a polymer adapted to be rendered conductive such that one or more layers of electrospray particles are formable thereon or a body of conductive material presenting a surface upon which one or more layers of electrospray particles are formable thereon. A coating formed of electrospray particles may be deposited to adhere on the surface of the body of material (e.g., the coating may include one or more layers of coating material, at least one layer of the one or more layers of coating material may include an open matrix coating, the open matrix coating may include one or more active ingredients, the open matrix coating may include one or more polymers and one or more active ingredients, etc.).
FILED	Monday, December 22, 2014
APPL NO	14/579116
ART UNIT	1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Spraying Apparatus; Atomising Apparatus; Nozzles B05B 1/06 (20130101) B05B 1/14 (20130101) B05B 5/08 (20130101) B05B 5/025 (20130101) B05B 7/061 (20130101) Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 1/04 (20130101) B05D 1/06 (20130101) Processes for the Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Production of Coatings; Electroforming; Apparatus Therefor C25D 5/003 (20130101) C25D 5/006 (20130101) C25D 17/007 (20130101) C25D 21/12 (20130101)
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09642805 — Aptamer-loaded, biocompatible nanoconstructs for nuclear-targeted cancer therapy

US 09642805	Odom et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) NIH Office of the Director (NIHOD) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center (ARC) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)	Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Teri W. Odom (Chicago, Illinois); Duncan-Hieu M. Dam (Chicago, Illinois); Jung Heon Lee (Evanston, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed herein is a nanoconstruct comprising an aptamer and a gold nanostar. The nanoconstruct can be used in a method of inducing changes to a nuclear phenotype of a cell comprising transporting the nanoconstruct to a nucleus of a cell, and releasing the aptamer from a surface of the gold nanostar into the nucleus of the cell to afford deformations or invaginations in the nuclear membrane, thereby inducing changes to the nuclear phenotype. The method can be used to treat certain hyperproliferative disorders such as cancer.
FILED	Wednesday, November 07, 2012
APPL NO	13/671347
ART UNIT	1674 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/711 (20130101) A61K 41/0042 (20130101) A61K 47/48861 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/773 (20130101) Y10S 977/906 (20130101)
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09642920 — Therapeutic agent delivery system and method

US 09642920	von Recum
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems (CBET)
APPLICANT(S)	Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio)
INVENTOR(S)	Horst A. von Recum (Cleveland Hts., Ohio)
ABSTRACT	A therapeutic agent delivery system includes a therapeutic agent delivery platform and a therapeutic guest agent. The therapeutic agent delivery platform is capable of being implanted in a tissue being treated. The platform includes a substrate and at least one host molecule coupled to the substrate. The therapeutic guest agent is capable of reversibly coupling with the host molecule when administered to the tissue being treated. The reversible coupling is defined by the binding affinity between the host molecule and the therapeutic guest agent. The therapeutic guest agent is delivered at a rate determined by the affinity release rate between the host molecule and the therapeutic guest agent. The degradation rate of the therapeutic guest agent may be slower than the affinity release rate between the host molecule and the therapeutic guest agent.
FILED	Tuesday, August 05, 2014
APPL NO	14/451527
ART UNIT	1676 — 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 31/704 (20130101) A61K 47/36 (20130101) A61K 47/40 (20130101) A61K 47/48969 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 37/0015 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 5/16 (20130101)
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09642924 — Contrast agents based on long-lived nuclear singlet states and related methods

US 09642924	Warren
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE)
APPLICANT(S)	Duke University (Durham, North Carolina)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Duke University (Durham, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Warren S. Warren (Durham, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	Methods are described for preparing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and/or magnetic resonance spectroscopy contrast agents where the contrast agents are prepared from precursor molecules having at least four non-zero-spin nuclei that form two pairs of chemically equivalent or effectively equivalent nuclei, e.g., diphenylacetylene or diethyl oxalate. The precursor molecule is hyperpolarized and a sequence of one or more radiofrequency pulses is applied to transfer spin state population between the first and second pair of nuclei, thereby providing a non-equilibrium single state nuclear spin population. To detect the contrast agent, another sequence of one or more radiofrequency pulses is applied to transfer singlet order to polarization. No transformation of the molecular structure of the contrast agent is necessary for detection. Also described are methods of imaging targets using the contrast agents.
FILED	Friday, August 29, 2014
APPL NO	14/472790
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 49/06 (20130101) A61K 49/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09642933 — Compositions comprising bioadhesives and methods of making the same

US 09642933	Yang et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	The Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Jian Yang (State College, Pennsylvania); Mohammadreza Mehdizadeh (Dallas, Texas)
ABSTRACT	In one aspect, compositions are described herein. In some embodiments, a composition comprises a polymer or oligomer formed from one or more polycarboxylic acids, one or more alcohols, and one or more catechol-containing species. In another aspect, methods of making a composition are described herein. In some embodiments, a method of making a composition comprises providing a polycarboxylic acid; providing an alcohol; combining the polycarboxylic acid with the alcohol; adding a catechol-containing species to the combination of the polycarboxylic acid and the alcohol; and forming a polymer or oligomer from the polycarboxylic acid, the alcohol, and the catechol-containing species. In some embodiments, the catechol-containing species comprises an amine moiety, a carboxylic acid moiety, or a hydroxyl moiety that is not part of the catechol group.
FILED	Wednesday, January 30, 2013
APPL NO	13/753683
ART UNIT	1611 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 24/0031 (20130101) A61L 24/0042 (20130101) A61L 24/046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 27/52 (20130101) A61L 27/58 (20130101) A61L 2400/12 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 63/668 (20130101) C08G 63/6854 (20130101)
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09643124 — Gas separation membranes based on fluorinated and perfluorinated polymers

US 09643124	Zhang et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP)
APPLICANT(S)	Hao Zhang (Union City, California); Zhenjie He (Fremont, California); Timothy C Merkel (Menlo Park, California); Yoshiyuki Okamoto (Brooklyn, New York); Yasuhiro Koike (Yokohama, Japan)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Membrane Technology and Research, Inc. (Newark, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Hao Zhang (Union City, California); Zhenjie He (Fremont, California); Timothy C Merkel (Menlo Park, California); Yoshiyuki Okamoto (Brooklyn, New York); Yasuhiro Koike (Yokohama, Japan)
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 partially fluorinated or perfluorinated dioxolane monomers and a second monomer, such as dioxane or a partially fluorinated dioxolane. 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, Hyflon® AD, and Cytop®.
FILED	Friday, October 23, 2015
APPL NO	14/921382
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 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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09643252 — Electrically controlled catalytic nanowire growth based on surface charge density

US 09643252	Dorn et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE)
APPLICANT(S)	August Dorn (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Cliff R. Wong (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	August Dorn (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Cliff R. Wong (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A population of nanowires can be prepared by a method involving electric field catalyzed growth and alteration based on surface charge density.
FILED	Tuesday, December 01, 2009
APPL NO	12/628788
ART UNIT	2894 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 1/02 (20130101) B22F 1/0025 (20130101) B22F 9/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/02 (20130101) H01L 29/04 (20130101) H01L 29/06 (20130101)
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09643314 — Robot control, training and collaboration in an immersive virtual reality environment

US 09643314	Guerin et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) National Robotics Initiative (NRI)
APPLICANT(S)	The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Kelleher Guerin (Baltimore, Maryland); Gregory D. Hager (Baltimore, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	System and methods to create an immersive virtual environment using a virtual reality system that receives parameters corresponding to a real-world robot. The real-world robot may be simulated to create a virtual robot based on the received parameters. The immersive virtual environment may be transmitted to a user. The user may supply input and interact with the virtual robot. Feedback such as the current state of the virtual robot or the real-world robot may be provided to the user. The user may train the virtual robot. The real-world robot may be programmed based on the virtual robot training.
FILED	Wednesday, March 04, 2015
APPL NO	14/638973
ART UNIT	3669 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
CURRENT CPC	Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 9/1605 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B25J 9/1671 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 901/05 (20130101)
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09643385 — Layered heusler alloys and methods for the fabrication and use thereof

US 09643385	Butler et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Alabama)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of The University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Alabama)
INVENTOR(S)	William H. Butler (Tuscaloosa, Alabama); Kamaram Munira (Tuscaloosa, Alabama); Javad G. Azadani (Tuscaloosa, Alabama)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed herein are layered Heusler alloys. The layered Heusler alloys can comprise a first layer comprising a first Heusler alloy with a face-centered cubic (fcc) crystal structure and a second layer comprising a second Heusler alloy with a fcc crystal structure, the second Heusler alloy being different than the first Heusler alloy, wherein the first layer and the second layer are layered along a layering direction, the layering direction being the [110] or [111] direction of the fcc crystal structure, thereby forming the layered Heusler alloy.
FILED	Wednesday, December 02, 2015
APPL NO	14/956827
ART UNIT	1785 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material
CURRENT CPC	Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 15/01 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Alloys C22C 5/04 (20130101) C22C 19/03 (20130101) C22C 19/07 (20130101) C22C 27/00 (20130101) C22C 38/002 (20130101) C22C 38/02 (20130101) C22C 38/04 (20130101) C22C 38/06 (20130101) C22C 38/14 (20130101)
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09643687 — Self-installing anchor

US 09643687	Gilbert et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI)
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)	Robert B. Gilbert (Austin, Texas); Jose Eugenio Iturriaga Flores (Austin, Texas); Hande Gerkus (Austin, Texas)
ABSTRACT	The self-installing anchor is configured for falling vertically through the water, embedding vertically into the soil, rotating and translating diagonally deeper through the soil in response to the anchor line load being transmitted to it, and achieving its maximum holding capacity with the anchor line acting normal to the fluke. In various implementations, a coupling mechanism at one end of the shank is engaged with a bearing surface at an entry end of the fluke to hold the shank close to the fluke while falling through the water and embedding vertically into the soil. The coupling mechanism provides eccentricity to the load applied and allows for the rotation of the anchor. The coupling mechanism is disengaged at a predetermined angle, liberating one end of the shank, and the point of application of the force on the anchor is modified to make it dive deeper into the soil.
FILED	Friday, March 04, 2016
APPL NO	15/061399
ART UNIT	3617 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material
CURRENT CPC	Ships or Other Waterborne Vessels; Equipment for Shipping B63B 21/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B63B 21/38 (20130101) B63B 21/50 (20130101)
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09643835 — Microfluidic devices and applications thereof

US 09643835	Akella et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS)
APPLICANT(S)	University of North Carolina At Charlotte (Charlotte, North Carolina)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Srinivas Akella (Charlotte, North Carolina); Vasanthsekar Shekar (Bloomington, Minnesota)
ABSTRACT	In one aspect, single-sided microfluidic devices are described herein. In some embodiments, a single-sided microfluidic device comprises a substrate, a photoconductive layer positioned over the substrate, electrical contacts in electrical communication with the photoconductive layer, and a dielectric assembly positioned over the photoconductive layer. The dielectric assembly comprises a hydrophobic surface for receiving a liquid. In some embodiments, the dielectric assembly has an effective capacitance of about 10 μF/m²to about 10,000 μF/m²and/or an average thickness between about 20 nm and about 2000 nm.
FILED	Tuesday, September 03, 2013
APPL NO	14/016837
ART UNIT	1759 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material
CURRENT CPC	Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502792 (20130101) B01L 2300/089 (20130101) B01L 2300/165 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0819 (20130101) B01L 2400/082 (20130101) B01L 2400/0406 (20130101) B01L 2400/0454 (20130101) Microstructural Devices or Systems, e.g Micromechanical Devices B81B 1/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09643988 — Compounds having low ionization energy

US 09643988	Lichtenberger et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE)
APPLICANT(S)	THE ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Tucson, Arizona)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona)
INVENTOR(S)	Dennis Lichtenberger (Tucson, Arizona); Carlos Murillo (College Station, Texas)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides compounds that are soluble in a non-polar solvent and having a low ionization energy and negative oxidation potentials in tetrahydrofuran (THF). The present invention also provides a method for producing and using the same.
FILED	Thursday, September 18, 2014
APPL NO	14/490628
ART UNIT	1624 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 31/2295 (20130101) B01J 2231/005 (20130101) B01J 2531/66 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 487/04 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 11/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07F 11/005 (20130101)
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09644072 — Controlled radical polymerization, and catalysts useful therein

US 09644072	Nesterov et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)	Evgueni E. Nesterov (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Jinwoo Choi (Su-won, South Korea); Carlos A. Chavez (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University And Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
INVENTOR(S)	Evgueni E. Nesterov (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Jinwoo Choi (Su-won, South Korea); Carlos A. Chavez (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
ABSTRACT	A catalyst is prepared in situ by reaction between an aryl halide and a Ni(0) complex. The catalyst may be used to promote chain-growth polymerization of halogen-substituted Mg or Zn monomers by a controlled radical mechanism. Polymers, co-polymers, block copolymers, polymer thin films, and surface-confined polymer brushes may be produced using the catalyst.
FILED	Thursday, June 28, 2012
APPL NO	14/126514
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 31/2409 (20130101) B01J 31/2428 (20130101) B01J 2231/14 (20130101) B01J 2531/847 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 7/1856 (20130101) C07F 15/045 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 293/005 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 61/126 (20130101) C08G 75/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 2261/126 (20130101) C08G 2261/144 (20130101) C08G 2261/417 (20130101) C08G 2261/1412 (20130101) C08G 2261/3223 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 65/00 (20130101)
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09644141 — Halide-based scintillator nanomaterial

US 09644141	Osinski et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems (CBET)
APPLICANT(S)	Marek A. Osinski (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Nathan J. Withers (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Brian A. Akins (Edgewood, New Mexico); Gennady A. Smolyakov (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Krishnaprasad Sankar (Hillsboro, Oregon)
ASSIGNEE(S)	STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
INVENTOR(S)	Marek A. Osinski (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Nathan J. Withers (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Brian A. Akins (Edgewood, New Mexico); Gennady A. Smolyakov (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Krishnaprasad Sankar (Hillsboro, Oregon)
ABSTRACT	A heterogeneous scintillator material is provided comprising core/shell nanoparticles having a highly hygroscopic or deliquescent halide-based core activated with trivalent Ln³⁺ or divalent Ln²⁺ lanthanide ions (Ln=La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu) and a stable non-hygroscopic shell thereon. The heterogeneous nanoparticles can comprise highly hygroscopic lanthanide halide (LaBr₃, LuI₃) cores protected with stable non-hygroscopic LaF₃shells. The heterogeneous nanoparticles can comprise deliquescent alkaline earth halide (SrI₂, BaI₂) cores protected with stable non-hygroscopic (SrF₂, BaF₂) shells.
FILED	Tuesday, March 26, 2013
APPL NO	13/986039
ART UNIT	1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/664 (20130101) C09K 11/7772 (20130101) C09K 11/7773 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/20 (20130101) G01T 1/202 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/256 (20150115) Y10T 428/2982 (20150115)
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09644200 — Method and system for sample preparation

US 09644200	Connolly et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Design, Manufacture, and Industrial Innovation (DMII) Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP)
APPLICANT(S)	Integrated Nano-Technologies, LLC (Henrietta, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Integrated Nano-Technologies, LLC (Henrietta, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Dennis M. Connolly (Rochester, New York); Tara Holz (Henrietta, New York); Vera Tannous (Penfield, New York); Christopher Kilcoin (Boulder Creek, California); Konstantin Aptekarev (Santa Cruz, California); David B. Bailey (Webster, New York); Richard S. Murante (Henrietta, New York); Nathaniel E. Wescott (West Henrietta, New York)
ABSTRACT	A method for preparing a sample by utilizing a shearing force in the presence of a size stabilizer to break apart the sample to obtain nucleic acid molecules in a usable size range. Once nucleic acid molecules are obtained, magnetic nanoparticles are used to concentrate and clean the nucleic acid molecules for further testing.
FILED	Wednesday, May 18, 2016
APPL NO	15/157584
ART UNIT	1798 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 47/06 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/066 (20130101) C12N 15/1013 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6806 (20130101)
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09644213 — Method of enhancing plant drought tolerance by expression of NDR1

US 09644213	Day et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS)
APPLICANT(S)	BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY (East Lansing, Michigan)
ASSIGNEE(S)	BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY (East Lansing, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Brad Day (DeWitt, Michigan); Patricia Santos (Okemos, Michigan); Caleb Knepper (Salinas, California)
ABSTRACT	A method of producing improved drought tolerance in a plant by introducing into a plant or plant part a vector having a nucleic acid molecule which expresses or increases a polypeptide that confers drought tolerance compared to a plant in which no vector with the nucleic acid is introduced. The polypeptide is a NON-RACE-SPECIFIC DISEASE RESISTANCE 1 (NDR1).
FILED	Friday, March 08, 2013
APPL NO	14/384094
ART UNIT	1663 — Plants
CURRENT CPC	Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/8273 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09644295 — Centrifugal electrospinning apparatus and methods and fibrous structures produced therefrom

US 09644295	Zhang et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)	University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Miqin Zhang (Bothell, Washington); Ashleigh Cooper (Gainesville, Florida); Dennis Edmondson (Marysville, Washington)
ABSTRACT	A centrifugal electrospinning apparatus, centrifugal electrospinning method for the production of fibrous structures, and electrospun fibrous structures are provided.
FILED	Friday, August 16, 2013
APPL NO	13/969389
ART UNIT	1789 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material
CURRENT CPC	Producing Particular Articles From Plastics or From Substances in a Plastic State B29D 99/0078 (20130101) Mechanical Methods or Apparatus in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons D01D 5/18 (20130101) D01D 5/0061 (20130101) D01D 5/0076 (20130101) Making Textile Fabrics, e.g From Fibres or Filamentary Material; Fabrics Made by Such Processes or Apparatus, e.g Felts, Non-woven Fabrics; Cotton-wool; Wadding D04H 1/74 (20130101) Original (OR) Class D04H 1/728 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 442/681 (20150401)
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09645045 — SHG imaging technique for assessing hybrid EO polymer/silicon photonic integrated circuits

US 09645045	Norwood et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC)
APPLICANT(S)	The Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert A. Norwood (Tucson, Arizona); Khanh Q. Kieu (Tucson, Arizona); Roland Himmelhuber (Tucson, Arizona)
ABSTRACT	Probe beams are scanned with respect to waveguide substrates to generate optical harmonics. Detection of the optical harmonic radiation is used to image waveguide cores, claddings, or other structures such as electrodes. The detected optical radiation can also be used to provide estimates of linear electrooptic coefficients, or ratios of linear electrooptic coefficients. In some cases, the poling of polymer waveguide structures is monitored during fabrication based on a second harmonic of the probe beam. In some examples, third harmonic generation is used for imaging of conductive layers.
FILED	Tuesday, October 22, 2013
APPL NO	14/437776
ART UNIT	2886 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Testing Static or Dynamic Balance of Machines or Structures; Testing of Structures or Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G01M 11/37 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/23 (20130101) G01N 21/636 (20130101) G01N 2021/218 (20130101) G01N 2021/637 (20130101) G01N 2021/653 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/002 (20130101) G02B 21/0016 (20130101)
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09645070 — Nanoparticle analyzer

US 09645070	Stramski et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Dariusz Stramski (San Diego, California); Jan J. Tatarkiewicz (San Diego, California); Rick A. Reynolds (San Diego, California); Monette Karr (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	Methods for detecting and analyzing individual nanoparticles of the same, similar, or different sizes co-existing in a fluid sample using multi-spectral analysis are disclosed. A plurality of light sources may be configured to produce a plurality of light beams at different spectral wavebands. An optical assembly may be configured to combine the plurality of light beams into one or more incident light sheets. Each incident light sheet may illuminate one or more nanoparticles in a liquid sample. One or more image detectors may be configured to detect, using a plurality of wavelengths, light scattered or emitted by one or more nanoparticles. The plurality of wavelengths may correspond to the different spectral wavebands of the plurality of light beams. Related apparatus, systems, techniques, and articles are also described.
FILED	Wednesday, June 03, 2015
APPL NO	14/730138
ART UNIT	2667 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation
CURRENT CPC	Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/0227 (20130101) G01N 15/1429 (20130101) G01N 15/1434 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 15/1463 (20130101) G01N 2015/0038 (20130101) G01N 2015/0238 (20130101) G01N 2015/1493 (20130101)
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09645212 — Fiber tractography using entropy spectrum pathways

US 09645212	Frank et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI)
APPLICANT(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Lawrence R. Frank (San Diego, California); Vitaly L. Galinsky (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	A method for fiber tractography processes multi-shell diffusion weighted MRI data to identify fiber tracts by calculating intravoxel diffusion characteristics from the MRI data. A transition probability is calculated for each possible path on the lattice, with the transition probability weighted according the intravoxel characteristics. Entropy is calculated for each path and the paths are ranked according to entropy. A geometrical optics algorithm is applied to the entropy data to define pathways, which are ranked according to their significance to generate a map of the pathways.
FILED	Wednesday, October 21, 2015
APPL NO	14/919605
ART UNIT	2667 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation
CURRENT CPC	Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0042 (20130101) A61B 5/055 (20130101) A61B 5/742 (20130101) A61B 5/4064 (20130101) A61B 5/7278 (20130101) A61B 2576/026 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/4806 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 33/56341 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0081 (20130101) G06T 7/0087 (20130101) G06T 2207/10088 (20130101) G06T 2207/30016 (20130101)
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09645234 — RFID device, methods and applications

US 09645234	Khan et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI)
APPLICANT(S)	Edwin C. Khan (Ithaca, New York); Yunfei Ma (Ithaca, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Cornell University (Ithaca, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Edwin C. Khan (Ithaca, New York); Yunfei Ma (Ithaca, New York)
ABSTRACT	Systems and methods for ranging in indoor environment that are accurate and that are substantially undisturbed by multipath interference. The method includes illuminating a sensor tag with electromagnetic radiation generated from a transceiver; the transceiver are being located a distance away from the sensor tag; the sensor tag comprising at least one nonlinear transmission line (NLTL) for broadband harmonic generation, receiving backscattered electromagnetic radiation from the at least one NLTL at three or more locations; coordinates of the three or more locations being known, obtaining from the phase and magnitude outputs at a second harmonic and at least one sub harmonic of second harmonic, a distance from the sensor tag to each of the three or more locations and trilaterating a location of the sensor tag.
FILED	Friday, July 12, 2013
APPL NO	14/413523
ART UNIT	3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 13/38 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01S 13/84 (20130101) G01S 13/878 (20130101) G01S 2013/466 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 7/10366 (20130101)
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09645377 — Compressive imaging systems and methods

US 09645377	Bosworth et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS)
APPLICANT(S)	The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Bryan T. Bosworth (Baltimore, Maryland); Mark A. Foster (Baltimore, Maryland); Jasper R. Stroud (Baltimore, Maryland); Trac Tran (Baltimore, Maryland); Sang Chin (Baltimore, Maryland); Dung Tran (Baltimore, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A compressive imaging system includes an illumination system arranged to illuminate an object of interest with illumination light, and a detection system configured to detect at least a portion of the illumination light after being at least one of reflected from, scattered from, or transmitted through the object of interest or to detect fluorescent light from the object of interest and to provide an imaging signal. The compressive imaging system further includes an image processing system configured to communicate with the detection system to receive the imaging signal. The illumination light from the illumination system comprises a plurality of light pulses such that each light pulse has a preselected spectrum that is distinguishable from spectra of all other pulses. The image processing system is configured to form an image of the object of interest using information concerning the preselected spectra of the plurality of light pulses.
FILED	Monday, February 08, 2016
APPL NO	15/018404
ART UNIT	2886 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 21/0032 (20130101) G02B 21/0076 (20130101)
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09646226 — Instance-weighted mixture modeling to enhance training collections for image annotation

US 09646226	Wang et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI)
APPLICANT(S)	The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	James Z. Wang (State College, Pennsylvania); Neela Sawant (Seattle, Washington); Jia Li (State College, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	Automatic selection of training images is enhanced using an instance-weighted mixture modeling framework called ARTEMIS. An optimization algorithm is derived that in addition to mixture parameter estimation learns instance-weights, essentially adapting to the noise associated with each example. The mechanism of hypothetical local mapping is evoked so that data in diverse mathematical forms or modalities can be cohesively treated as the system maintains tractability in optimization. Training examples are selected from top-ranked images of a likelihood-based image ranking. Experiments indicate that ARTEMIS exhibits higher resilience to noise than several baselines for large training data collection. The performance of ARTEMIS-trained image annotation system is comparable to using manually curated datasets.
FILED	Wednesday, April 16, 2014
APPL NO	14/254437
ART UNIT	2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation
CURRENT CPC	Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/62 (20130101) G06K 9/6256 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09646266 — Feature type spectrum technique

US 09646266	McCaffrey
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP)
APPLICANT(S)	University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Anthony McCaffrey (West Brookfield, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Sensors are used to generate sample set data representing objects in a sample set. A computer system analyzes the sample set data to determine the frequencies with which features in a feature set are observed in the objects in the sample set. An example of such output is a bar chart representing the frequency of observation of features in the feature set in a particular object. The feature output may be used to identify one or more obscure (i.e., low frequency) features in the particular object. Machine learning may be used to learn associations between sample set data and features in the feature set.
FILED	Friday, April 29, 2016
APPL NO	15/142099
ART UNIT	2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/28 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 99/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 11/206 (20130101)
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09646423 — Systems and methods for providing augmented reality in minimally invasive surgery

US 09646423	Sun et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	Yu Sun (Tampa, Florida); Jaime E. Sanchez (Tampa, Florida); Xiaoning Qian (Austin, Texas); Bingxiong Lin (Tampa, Florida)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Yu Sun (Tampa, Florida); Jaime E. Sanchez (Tampa, Florida); Xiaoning Qian (Austin, Texas); Bingxiong Lin (Tampa, Florida)
ABSTRACT	In one embodiment, a method for providing augmented reality in minimally invasive surgery includes capturing pre-operative image data of internal organs of a patient, capturing intra-operative image data of the internal organs with an endoscope during a surgical procedure, registering the pre-operative image data and the intra-operative data in real time during the surgical procedure, tracking the position and orientation of the endoscope during the surgical procedure, and augmenting the intra-operative image data captured by the endoscope in real time with a rendering of at least a portion of an internal organ of the patient that is in registration with the real time intra-operative image data from the endoscope but outside of the field of view of the endoscope.
FILED	Friday, September 23, 2016
APPL NO	15/273926
ART UNIT	2616 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory
CURRENT CPC	Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 1/04 (20130101) A61B 1/00147 (20130101) A61B 1/3132 (20130101) A61B 6/032 (20130101) A61B 34/20 (20160201) A61B 2034/2046 (20160201) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0032 (20130101) G06T 7/0046 (20130101) G06T 15/60 (20130101) G06T 17/00 (20130101) G06T 19/006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2207/10068 (20130101) G06T 2207/10081 (20130101) G06T 2207/30004 (20130101)
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09647171 — Printed assemblies of ultrathin, microscale inorganic light emitting diodes for deformable and semitransparent displays

US 09647171	Rogers et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Ralph Nuzzo (Champaign, Illinois); Hoon-sik Kim (Champaign, Illinois); Eric Brueckner (Champaign, Illinois); Sang Il Park (Savoy, Illinois); Rak Hwan Kim (Champaign, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	Described herein are printable structures and methods for making, assembling and arranging electronic devices. A number of the methods described herein are useful for assembling electronic devices where one or more device components are embedded in a polymer which is patterned during the embedding process with trenches for electrical interconnects between device components. Some methods described herein are useful for assembling electronic devices by printing methods, such as by dry transfer contact printing methods. Also described herein are GaN light emitting diodes and methods for making and arranging GaN light emitting diodes, for example for display or lighting systems.
FILED	Friday, September 05, 2014
APPL NO	14/479100
ART UNIT	2822 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/6835 (20130101) H01L 24/83 (20130101) H01L 24/95 (20130101) H01L 25/50 (20130101) H01L 25/0753 (20130101) H01L 33/54 (20130101) H01L 33/62 (20130101) H01L 33/0079 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 33/486 (20130101) H01L 33/507 (20130101) H01L 2221/6835 (20130101) H01L 2221/68322 (20130101) H01L 2221/68354 (20130101) H01L 2221/68363 (20130101) H01L 2221/68386 (20130101) H01L 2224/8312 (20130101) H01L 2224/83868 (20130101) H01L 2224/83871 (20130101) H01L 2224/83874 (20130101) H01L 2224/95085 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/06 (20130101) H01L 2924/14 (20130101) H01L 2924/14 (20130101) H01L 2924/181 (20130101) H01L 2924/181 (20130101) H01L 2924/01322 (20130101) H01L 2924/01322 (20130101) H01L 2924/1461 (20130101) H01L 2924/2064 (20130101) H01L 2924/05432 (20130101) H01L 2924/12033 (20130101) H01L 2924/12033 (20130101) H01L 2924/12036 (20130101) H01L 2924/12041 (20130101) H01L 2924/12041 (20130101) H01L 2924/12042 (20130101) H01L 2924/12043 (20130101) H01L 2924/13063 (20130101) H01L 2924/13064 (20130101) H01L 2924/13064 (20130101) H01L 2924/13091 (20130101) H01L 2924/13091 (20130101) H01L 2924/15787 (20130101) H01L 2924/15787 (20130101) H01L 2924/15788 (20130101) H01L 2924/15788 (20130101) H01L 2924/20641 (20130101) H01L 2933/005 (20130101) H01L 2933/0041 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 438/977 (20130101)
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09647745 — Channel tracking and transmit beamforming with frugal feedback

US 09647745	Sidiropoulos et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Astronomical Sciences (AST)
APPLICANT(S)	Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
INVENTOR(S)	Nikolaos D. Sidiropoulos (Edina, Minnesota); Omar A. Mehanna (San Jose, California)
ABSTRACT	In general, this disclosure describes techniques for beamforming using limited feedback that exploit the spatio-temporal channel correlation and avoid the limitations of codebook-based feedback and Markov chain modeling. In one example, a receiving device includes a plurality of receive antennas for receiving communication information, a memory for storing the communication information, and one or more processors for processing the communication information. The one or more processors are configured to receive, through a wireless communication channel, a pilot signal transmitted by a transmitting device, determine, based on the received pilot signal, channel state feedback comprising a quantized representation of the pilot signal as received at the receiving device, and send, through the wireless communication.
FILED	Wednesday, October 14, 2015
APPL NO	14/883044
ART UNIT	2633 — Digital Communications
CURRENT CPC	Transmission H04B 7/0626 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 7/0639 (20130101) H04B 7/0695 (20130101)
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09643123 — High performance hydrophobic solvent, carbon dioxide capture

US 09643123	Nulwala et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM)
APPLICANT(S)	CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Hunaid Nulwala (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); David Luebke (Bethel Park, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	Methods and compositions useful, for example, for physical solvent carbon capture. A method comprising: contacting at least one first composition comprising carbon dioxide with at least one second composition to at least partially dissolve the carbon dioxide of the first composition in the second composition, wherein the second composition comprises at least one siloxane compound which is covalently modified with at least one non-siloxane group comprising at least one heteroatom. Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) materials and ethylene-glycol based materials have high carbon dioxide solubility but suffer from various problems. PDMS is hydrophobic but suffers from low selectivity. Ethylene-glycol based systems have good solubility and selectivity, but suffer from high affinity to water. Solvents were developed which keep the desired combinations of properties, and result in a simplified, overall process for carbon dioxide removal from a mixed gas stream.
FILED	Monday, October 27, 2014
APPL NO	14/525011
ART UNIT	1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Separation B01D 53/1475 (20130101) B01D 53/1493 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 2252/204 (20130101) B01D 2252/502 (20130101) B01D 2258/0283 (20130101) B01D 2259/4533 (20130101) Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 10/06 (20130101)
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09643159 — Catalyst support structure, catalyst including the structure, reactor including a catalyst, and methods of forming same

US 09643159	Van Norman et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
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)	Staci A. Van Norman (Broomfield, Colorado); Victoria J. Aston (Boulder, Colorado); Alan W. Weimer (Niwot, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	Structures, catalysts, and reactors suitable for use for a variety of applications, including gas-to-liquid and coal-to-liquid processes and methods of forming the structures, catalysts, and reactors are disclosed. The catalyst material can be deposited onto an inner wall of a microtubular reactor and/or onto porous tungsten support structures using atomic layer deposition techniques.
FILED	Thursday, September 26, 2013
APPL NO	14/436433
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 19/0093 (20130101) B01J 23/22 (20130101) B01J 23/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 23/34 (20130101) B01J 23/44 (20130101) B01J 23/75 (20130101) B01J 23/462 (20130101) B01J 23/464 (20130101) B01J 23/466 (20130101) B01J 23/745 (20130101) B01J 23/755 (20130101) B01J 23/888 (20130101) B01J 23/892 (20130101) B01J 23/6527 (20130101) B01J 23/8993 (20130101) B01J 31/06 (20130101) B01J 35/006 (20130101) B01J 37/08 (20130101) B01J 37/0225 (20130101) B01J 37/0244 (20130101) B01J 37/349 (20130101) B01J 2219/0086 (20130101) B01J 2219/00792 (20130101) B01J 2219/00822 (20130101) B01J 2219/00835 (20130101) B01J 2219/00873 (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 2/332 (20130101) C10G 2/333 (20130101) C10G 2/341 (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 16/45555 (20130101)
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09643165 — Doped-carbon composites, synthesizing methods and applications of the same

US 09643165	Viswanathan
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
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)	Tito Viswanathan (Little Rock, Arkansas)
ABSTRACT	A method of synthesizing a doped carbon composite includes preparing a solution having a carbon source material and a heteroatom containing additive, evaporating the solution to yield a plurality of powders, and subjecting the plurality of powders to a heat treatment for a duration of time effective to produce the doped carbon composite.
FILED	Thursday, February 14, 2013
APPL NO	13/767076
ART UNIT	1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 27/16 (20130101) B01J 27/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/02 (20130101)
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09644038 — Apolipoprotein nanodiscs with telodendrimer

US 09644038	Luo et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (LLNS) at Livermore, CA Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Juntao Luo (Jamesville, New York); Wei He (Davis, California); Kit S. Lam (Davis, California); Paul Henderson (Dublin, California); Matthew Coleman (Oakland, California); R. Holland Cheng (Davis, California); Li Xing (Davis, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides a nanodisc with a membrane scaffold protein. The nanodisc includes a membrane scaffold protein, a telodendrimer and a lipid. The membrane scaffold protein can be apolipoprotein. The telodendrimer has the general formula PEG-L-D-(R)_n, wherein D is a dendritic polymer; L is a bond or a linker linked to the focal point group of the dendritic polymer; each PEG is a poly(ethylene glycol) polymer; each R is and end group of the dendritic polymer, or and end group with a covalently bound hydrophobic group, hydrophilic group, amphiphilic compound, or drug; and subscript n is an integer from 2 to 20. Cell free methods of making the nanodiscs are also provided.
FILED	Wednesday, December 19, 2012
APPL NO	13/719785
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Peptides C07K 14/775 (20130101) C07K 17/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09644039 — Acid-degradable and bioerodible modified polyhydroxylated materials

US 09644039	Frechet et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by University of California (UC BERKELEY) at Berkeley, CA Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
APPLICANT(S)	Jean M. J. Frechet (Oakland, California); Eric M. Bachelder (Dublin, Ohio); Tristan T. Beaudette (San Francisco, California); Kyle E. Broaders (Berkeley, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Jean M. J. Frechet (Oakland, California); Eric M. Bachelder (Dublin, Ohio); Tristan T. Beaudette (San Francisco, California); Kyle E. Broaders (Berkeley, California)
ABSTRACT	Compositions and methods of making a modified polyhydroxylated polymer comprising a polyhydroxylated polymer having reversibly modified hydroxyl groups, whereby the hydroxyl groups are modified by an acid-catalyzed reaction between a polydroxylated polymer and a reagent such as acetals, aldehydes, vinyl ethers and ketones such that the modified polyhydroxylated polymers become insoluble in water but freely soluble in common organic solvents allowing for the facile preparation of acid-sensitive materials. Materials made from these polymers can be made to degrade in a pH-dependent manner. Both hydrophobic and hydrophilic cargoes were successfully loaded into particles made from the present polymers using single and double emulsion techniques, respectively. Due to its ease of preparation, processability, pH-sensitivity, and biocompatibility, of the present modified polyhydroxylated polymers should find use in numerous drug delivery applications.
FILED	Monday, January 10, 2011
APPL NO	12/987679
ART UNIT	1619 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/1652 (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 17/10 (20130101) A61L 17/10 (20130101) A61L 17/145 (20130101) A61L 17/145 (20130101) A61L 27/14 (20130101) A61L 27/14 (20130101) A61L 27/34 (20130101) A61L 27/34 (20130101) A61L 27/58 (20130101) A61L 31/10 (20130101) A61L 31/10 (20130101) A61L 31/148 (20130101) Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 30/18 (20130101) C08B 37/0006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08B 37/0021 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 1/02 (20130101) C08L 1/08 (20130101) C08L 3/02 (20130101) C08L 5/00 (20130101) C08L 5/02 (20130101) C08L 5/06 (20130101) C08L 101/02 (20130101) C08L 101/02 (20130101) C08L 101/02 (20130101) C08L 101/02 (20130101) C08L 101/02 (20130101)
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09644192 — Variant Humicola grisea CBH1.1

US 09644192	Goedegebuur et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (ASE) at Golden, CO
APPLICANT(S)	Danisco US Inc. (Palo Alto, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Danisco US Inc., Genencor Division (, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Frits Goedegebuur (Vlaardingen, Netherlands); Peter Gualfetti (San Francisco, California); Colin Mitchinson (Half Moon Bay, California); Edmund Larenas (Moss Beach, California)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed are variants of Humicola grisea CeI7A (CBH1.1), H. jecorina CBH1 variant or S. thermophilium CBH1, nucleic acids encoding the same and methods for producing the same. The variant cellulases have the amino acid sequence of a glycosyl hydrolase of family 7A wherein one or more amino acid residues are substituted.
FILED	Wednesday, August 20, 2014
APPL NO	14/464150
ART UNIT	1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/2437 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/02 (20130101) C12P 19/14 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 302/01091 (20130101)
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09644222 — Methods for pretreating biomass

US 09644222	Balan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Department of Agriculture (USDA)
APPLICANT(S)	Venkatesh Balan (East Lansing, Michigan); Bruce E Dale (Mason, Michigan); Shishir Chundawat (Piscataway, New Jersey); Leonardo Sousa (Lansing, Michigan)
ASSIGNEE(S)	BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY (East Lansing, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Venkatesh Balan (East Lansing, Michigan); Bruce E Dale (Mason, Michigan); Shishir Chundawat (Piscataway, New Jersey); Leonardo Sousa (Lansing, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	A method for pretreating biomass is provided, which includes, in a reactor, allowing gaseous ammonia to condense on the biomass and react with water present in the biomass to produce pretreated biomass, wherein reactivity of polysaccharides in the biomass is increased during subsequent biological conversion as compared to the reactivity of polysaccharides in biomass which has not been pretreated. A method for pretreating biomass with a liquid ammonia and recovering the liquid ammonia is also provided. Related systems which include a biochemical or biofuel production facility are also disclosed.
FILED	Thursday, December 22, 2011
APPL NO	13/997043
ART UNIT	1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 1/003 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/10 (20130101) C12P 19/02 (20130101) C12P 19/14 (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) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 30/20 (20151101)
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09644623 — Fluid control structures in microfluidic devices

US 09644623	Mathies et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)	Richard A. Mathies (San Francisco, California); William H. Grover (Medford, Massachusetts); Alison Skelley (Berkeley, California); Eric Lagally (Santa Barbara, California); Chung N. Liu (Albany, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Richard A. Mathies (San Francisco, California); William H. Grover (Medford, Massachusetts); Alison Skelley (Berkeley, California); Eric Lagally (Santa Barbara, California); Chung N. Liu (Albany, California)
ABSTRACT	Methods and apparatus for implementing microfluidic analysis devices are provided. A monolithic elastomer membrane associated with an integrated pneumatic manifold allows the placement and actuation of a variety of fluid control structures, such as structures for pumping, isolating, mixing, routing, merging, splitting, preparing, and storing volumes of fluid. The fluid control structures can be used to implement a variety of sample introduction, preparation, processing, and storage techniques.
FILED	Tuesday, May 18, 2010
APPL NO	12/782598
ART UNIT	1799 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Mixing, e.g Dissolving, Emulsifying, Dispersing B01F 5/10 (20130101) B01F 11/0071 (20130101) B01F 13/0059 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/5025 (20130101) B01L 3/50273 (20130101) B01L 3/502707 (20130101) B01L 3/502738 (20130101) B01L 7/52 (20130101) B01L 2200/10 (20130101) B01L 2300/087 (20130101) B01L 2300/088 (20130101) B01L 2300/0654 (20130101) B01L 2300/0803 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0819 (20130101) B01L 2300/0861 (20130101) B01L 2300/0887 (20130101) B01L 2300/1827 (20130101) B01L 2400/0409 (20130101) B01L 2400/0421 (20130101) B01L 2400/0487 (20130101) B01L 2400/0638 (20130101) B01L 2400/0655 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/689 (20130101) C12Q 1/6806 (20130101) C12Q 1/6806 (20130101) C12Q 2565/629 (20130101) C12Q 2565/629 (20130101) Positive-displacement Machines for Liquids; Pumps F04B 43/06 (20130101) F04B 43/043 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Valves; Taps; Cocks; Actuating-floats; Devices for Venting or Aerating F16K 99/0001 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 35/00069 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 137/0318 (20150401) Y10T 137/2224 (20150401) Y10T 137/87716 (20150401)
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09645077 — Spectroscopic quantification of extremely rare molecular species in the presence of interfering optical absorption

US 09645077	Ognibene et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (LLNS) at Livermore, CA
APPLICANT(S)	Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California); Picarro, Inc. (Santa Clara, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California); Picarro, Inc. (Santa Clara, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Ted Ognibene (Oakland, California); Graham Bench (Livermore, California); Alan Daniel McCartt (San Francisco, California); Kenneth Turteltaub (Livermore, California); Chris W. Rella (Sunnyvale, California); Sze Tan (Sunnyvale, California); John A. Hoffnagle (San Jose, California); Nabil Saad (Menlo Park, California); Eric Crosson (Livermore, California)
ABSTRACT	Optical spectrometer apparatus, systems, and methods for analysis of carbon-14 including a resonant optical cavity configured to accept a sample gas including carbon-14, an optical source configured to deliver optical radiation to the resonant optical cavity, an optical detector configured to detect optical radiation emitted from the resonant cavity and to provide a detector signal; and a processor configured to compute a carbon-14 concentration from the detector signal, wherein computing the carbon-14 concentration from the detector signal includes fitting a spectroscopic model to a measured spectrogram, wherein the spectroscopic model accounts for contributions from one or more interfering species that spectroscopically interfere with carbon-14.
FILED	Monday, May 18, 2015
APPL NO	14/714658
ART UNIT	2877 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/027 (20130101) G01J 3/28 (20130101) G01J 3/42 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/39 (20130101) G01N 21/3103 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2021/391 (20130101) G01N 2021/399 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/0086 (20130101)
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09645108 — Scanning drop sensor

US 09645108	Jin et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by University of California (UC BERKELEY) at Berkeley, CA
APPLICANT(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY (Berkeley, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Jian Jin (Berkeley, California); Chengxiang Xiang (Costa Mesa, California); John Gregoire (Sierra Madre, California)
ABSTRACT	Electrochemical experiments are performed on a collection of samples by suspending a drop of electrolyte solution between an electrochemical experiment probe and one of the samples that serves as a test sample. During the electrochemical experiment, the electrolyte solution is added to the drop and an output solution is removed from the drop. The probe and collection of samples can be moved relative to one another so the probe can be scanned across the samples.
FILED	Friday, May 31, 2013
APPL NO	13/907512
ART UNIT	1759 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/416 (20130101) G01N 27/417 (20130101) G01N 27/4035 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09645109 — Scanning drop sensor

US 09645109	Jin et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by University of California (UC BERKELEY) at Berkeley, CA
APPLICANT(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY (Berkeley, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Jian Jin (Berkeley, California); Chengxiang Xiang (Costa Mesa, California); John M. Gregoire (Sierra Madre, California); Aniketa A. Shinde (Upland, California); Dan W. Guevarra (Norwalk, California); Ryan J. Jones (Pasadena, California); Martin R. Marcin (Simi Valley, California); Slobodan Mitrovic (Pasadena, California)
ABSTRACT	Electrochemical or electrochemical and photochemical experiments are performed on a collection of samples by suspending a drop of electrolyte solution between an electrochemical experiment probe and one of the samples that serves as a test sample. During the electrochemical experiment, the electrolyte solution is added to the drop and an output solution is removed from the drop. The probe and collection of samples can be moved relative to one another so the probe can be scanned across the samples.
FILED	Friday, April 10, 2015
APPL NO	14/683596
ART UNIT	1759 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/416 (20130101) G01N 27/417 (20130101) G01N 27/4035 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09645129 — Process-based approach for the detection of deep gas invading the surface

US 09645129	Romanak et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)
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)	Katherine Romanak (Austin, Texas); Philip C. Bennett (Austin, Texas)
ABSTRACT	The present invention includes a method for determining the level of deep gas in a near surface formation that includes: measuring CO₂, O₂, CH₄, and N₂levels in percent by volume from one or more surface or near surface geological samples; adding the water vapor content to the measured CO₂, O₂, CH₄, and N₂levels in percent by volume; normalizing the gas mixture to 100% by volume or 1 atmospheric total pressure; and determining the ratios of: O₂versus CO₂to distinguish in-situ vadose zone CO₂from exogenous deep leakage CO₂; CO₂versus N₂to distinguish whether CO₂is being removed from the near surface formation or CO₂is added from an exogenous deep leakage input; or CO₂versus N₂/O₂to determine the degree of oxygen influx, consumption, or both; wherein the ratios are indicative of natural in situ CO₂or CO₂from the exogenous deep leakage input.
FILED	Friday, June 27, 2014
APPL NO	14/318087
ART UNIT	1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09645227 — Waveform frequency notching

US 09645227	Doerry et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (NTESS) at Albuquerque, NM
APPLICANT(S)	Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico); John Andrews (La Jolla, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
INVENTOR(S)	Armin W. Doerry (Albuquerque, New Mexico); John Andrews (La Jolla, California)
ABSTRACT	The various technologies presented herein relate to incorporating one or more notches into a radar spectrum, whereby the notches relate to one or more frequencies for which no radar transmission is to occur. An instantaneous frequency is monitored and if the frequency is determined to be of a restricted frequency, then a radar signal can be modified. Modification can include replacing the signal with a signal having a different instantaneous amplitude, a different instantaneous phase, etc. The modification can occur in a WFS prior to a DAC, as well as prior to a sin ROM component and/or a cos ROM component. Further, the notch can be dithered to enable formation of a deep notch. The notch can also undergo signal transitioning to enable formation of a deep notch. The restricted frequencies can be stored in a LUT against which an instantaneous frequency can be compared.
FILED	Thursday, November 20, 2014
APPL NO	14/548676
ART UNIT	3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 7/023 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09645228 — Shaping the spectrum of random-phase radar waveforms

US 09645228	Doerry et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (NTESS) at Albuquerque, NM
APPLICANT(S)	Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico); General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (San Diego, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
INVENTOR(S)	Armin W. Doerry (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Brandeis Marquette (Escondido, California)
ABSTRACT	The various technologies presented herein relate to generation of a desired waveform profile in the form of a spectrum of apparently random noise (e.g., white noise or colored noise), but with precise spectral characteristics. Hence, a waveform profile that could be readily determined (e.g., by a spoofing system) is effectively obscured. Obscuration is achieved by dividing the waveform into a series of chips, each with an assigned frequency, wherein the sequence of chips are subsequently randomized. Randomization can be a function of the application of a key to the chip sequence. During processing of the echo pulse, a copy of the randomized transmitted pulse is recovered or regenerated against which the received echo is correlated. Hence, with the echo energy range-compressed in this manner, it is possible to generate a radar image with precise impulse response.
FILED	Wednesday, December 11, 2013
APPL NO	14/102928
ART UNIT	3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 7/292 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01S 13/284 (20130101)
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09645258 — Segmented scintillation antineutrino detector

US 09645258	Reyna
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (NTESS) at Albuquerque, NM
APPLICANT(S)	Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
INVENTOR(S)	David Reyna (Livermore, California)
ABSTRACT	The various technologies presented herein relate to incorporating a wavelength-shifting material in a scintillator to facilitate absorption of a first electromagnetic particle (e.g., a first photon) having a first wavelength and subsequent generation and emission of a second electromagnetic particle (e.g., a second photon) having a second wavelength. The second electromagnetic particle can be emitted isotropically, with a high probability that the direction of emission of the second electromagnetic particle is disparate to the direction of travel of the first electromagnetic particle (and according angle of incidence). Isotropic emission of the second electromagnetic particle enables the second electromagnetic particle to be retained in the scintillator owing to internal reflection. Accordingly, longer length scintillators can be constructed, and accordingly, the scintillator array has a greater area (and volume) over which to detect electromagnetic particles (e.g., antineutrinos) being emitted from a nuclear reaction.
FILED	Tuesday, November 25, 2014
APPL NO	14/553792
ART UNIT	2884 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01T 1/208 (20130101)
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09645262 — Capacitance reduction for pillar structured devices

US 09645262	Shao et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (LLNS) at Livermore, CA
APPLICANT(S)	Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California); Ishwara B. Bhat (Clifton Park, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Qinghui Shao (Fremont, California); Adam Conway (Livermore, California); Rebecca J. Nikolic (Oakland, California); Lars Voss (Livermore, California); Ishwara B. Bhat (Clifton Park, New York); Sara E. Harrison (Fremont, California)
ABSTRACT	In one embodiment, an apparatus includes: a first layer including a n+ dopant or p+ dopant; an intrinsic layer formed above the first layer, the intrinsic layer including a planar portion and pillars extending above the planar portion, cavity regions being defined between the pillars; and a second layer deposited on a periphery of the pillars thereby forming coated pillars, the second layer being substantially absent on the planar portion of the intrinsic layer between the coated pillars. The second layer includes an n+ dopant when the first layer includes a p+ dopant. The second layer includes a p+ dopant when the first layer includes an n+ dopant. The apparatus includes a neutron sensitive material deposited between the coated pillars and above the planar portion of the intrinsic layer. In additional embodiments, an upper portion of each of the pillars includes a same type of dopant as the second layer.
FILED	Wednesday, November 26, 2014
APPL NO	14/555463
ART UNIT	2884 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 3/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/117 (20130101)
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09645802 — Technique for grouping instructions into independent strands

US 09645802	Mehrara et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	NVIDIA CORPORATION (Santa Clara, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	NVIDIA Corporation (Santa Clara, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Mojtaba Mehrara (San Francisco, California); Michael Garland (Lake Elmo, Minnesota); Gregory Diamos (San Jose, California)
ABSTRACT	A device compiler and linker is configured to group instructions into different strands for execution by different threads based on the dependence of those instructions on other, long-latency instructions. A thread may execute a strand that includes long-latency instructions, and then hardware resources previously allocated for the execution of that thread may be de-allocated from the thread and re-allocated to another thread. The other thread may then execute another strand while the long-latency instructions are in flight. With this approach, the other thread is not required to wait for the long-latency instructions to complete before acquiring hardware resources and initiating execution of the other strand, thereby eliminating at least a portion of the time that the other thread would otherwise spend waiting.
FILED	Wednesday, August 07, 2013
APPL NO	13/961097
ART UNIT	2191 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 8/41 (20130101) G06F 8/45 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 8/433 (20130101) G06F 9/3851 (20130101)
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09646074 — Method for discovering relationships in data by dynamic quantum clustering

US 09646074	Weinstein et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Stanford University (LSJU) at Menlo Park, CA
APPLICANT(S)	The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California); Ramot at Tel Aviv University Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California); Ramot at Tel Aviv University Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel)
INVENTOR(S)	Marvin Weinstein (Palo Alto, California); David Horn (Tel Aviv, Israel)
ABSTRACT	Data clustering is provided according to a dynamical framework based on quantum mechanical time evolution of states corresponding to data points. To expedite computations, we can approximate the time-dependent Hamiltonian formalism by a truncated calculation within a set of Gaussian wave-functions (coherent states) centered around the original points. This allows for analytic evaluation of the time evolution of all such states, opening up the possibility of exploration of relationships among data-points through observation of varying dynamical-distances among points and convergence of points into clusters. This formalism may be further supplemented by preprocessing, such as dimensional reduction through singular value decomposition and/or feature filtering.
FILED	Wednesday, September 10, 2014
APPL NO	14/482961
ART UNIT	2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30598 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 17/30713 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/622 (20130101) G06K 9/6247 (20130101)
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09646723 — Thermoacoustic enhancements for nuclear fuel rods and other high temperature applications

US 09646723	Garrett et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE) Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (BEA) at Idaho Falls, ID
APPLICANT(S)	The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Steven L. Garrett (State College, Pennsylvania); James A. Smith (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Dale K. Kotter (Shelley, Idaho)
ABSTRACT	A nuclear thermoacoustic device includes a housing defining an interior chamber and a portion of nuclear fuel disposed in the interior chamber. A stack is disposed in the interior chamber and has a hot end and a cold end. The stack is spaced from the portion of nuclear fuel with the hot end directed toward the portion of nuclear fuel. The stack and portion of nuclear fuel are positioned such that an acoustic standing wave is produced in the interior chamber. A frequency of the acoustic standing wave depends on a temperature in the interior chamber.
FILED	Friday, August 16, 2013
APPL NO	13/968936
ART UNIT	3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Measuring Temperature; Measuring Quantity of Heat; Thermally-sensitive Elements Not Otherwise Provided for G01K 11/22 (20130101) Nuclear Reactors G21C 3/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G21C 17/102 (20130101) Protection Against X-radiation, Gamma Radiation, Corpuscular Radiation or Particle Bombardment; Treating Radioactively Contaminated Material; Decontamination Arrangements Therefor G21F 5/005 (20130101) G21F 5/06 (20130101) G21F 9/28 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 30/40 (20130101)
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09646742 — Electricity transmission cooling system

US 09646742	Yuan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	American Superconductor Corporation (Devens, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	American Superconductor Corporation (Devens, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Jie Yuan (South Grafton, Massachusetts); James F. Maguire (Andover, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A method for cooling high temperature superconducting (HTS) cable comprising receiving a first flow of coolant at a first section of HTS cable and permitting the first flow of coolant to flow therethrough. The method also includes receiving a second flow of coolant at a second section of HTS cable and permitting the second flow of coolant to flow therethrough. The first section of HTS cable and said second section of HTS cable are coupled via a cable joint, the cable joint electrically connecting the first and second sections of HTS cable. The cable joint is in fluid communication with at least one refrigeration module. The cable joint includes at least one conduit configured to permit a third flow of coolant between the cable joint and the at least one refrigeration module through a coolant line separate from the first and second sections of HTS cable.
FILED	Thursday, April 16, 2015
APPL NO	14/688394
ART UNIT	1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 12/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 39/00 (20130101) H01L 39/02 (20130101) Installation of Electric Cables or Lines, or of Combined Optical and Electric Cables or Lines H02G 15/34 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 40/647 (20130101) Y02E 40/648 (20130101)
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09646766 — Method of making dielectric capacitors with increased dielectric breakdown strength

US 09646766	Ma et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by UChicago Argonne, LLC (UCHICAGO) at Argonne, IL
APPLICANT(S)	Beihai Ma (Naperville, Illinois); Uthamalingam Balachandran (Willowbrook, Illinois); Shanshan Liu (Naperville, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Beihai Ma (Naperville, Illinois); Uthamalingam Balachandran (Willowbrook, Illinois); Shanshan Liu (Naperville, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	The invention is directed to a process for making a dielectric ceramic film capacitor and the ceramic dielectric laminated capacitor formed therefrom, the dielectric ceramic film capacitors having increased dielectric breakdown strength. The invention increases breakdown strength by embedding a conductive oxide layer between electrode layers within the dielectric layer of the capacitors. The conductive oxide layer redistributes and dissipates charge, thus mitigating charge concentration and micro fractures formed within the dielectric by electric fields.
FILED	Thursday, June 14, 2012
APPL NO	13/523335
ART UNIT	2848 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 4/008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01G 4/10 (20130101) H01G 4/12 (20130101) H01G 4/30 (20130101) H01G 4/1209 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/435 (20150115)
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09646874 — Thermally-isolated silicon-based integrated circuits and related methods

US 09646874	Wojciechowski et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (NTESS) at Albuquerque, NM
APPLICANT(S)	Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
INVENTOR(S)	Kenneth Wojciechowski (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Roy H. Olsson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Peggy J. Clews (Tijeras, New Mexico); Todd Bauer (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
ABSTRACT	Thermally isolated devices may be formed by performing a series of etches on a silicon-based substrate. As a result of the series of etches, silicon material may be removed from underneath a region of an integrated circuit (IC). The removal of the silicon material from underneath the IC forms a gap between remaining substrate and the integrated circuit, though the integrated circuit remains connected to the substrate via a support bar arrangement that suspends the integrated circuit over the substrate. The creation of this gap functions to release the device from the substrate and create a thermally-isolated integrated circuit.
FILED	Monday, August 05, 2013
APPL NO	13/959136
ART UNIT	2891 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/764 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/0649 (20130101)
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09647158 — Photovoltaic sub-cell interconnects

US 09647158	van Hest et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (ASE) at Golden, CO
APPLICANT(S)	Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado)
INVENTOR(S)	Marinus Franciscus Antonius Maria van Hest (Lakewood, Colorado); Heather Anne Swinger Platt (Golden, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	Photovoltaic sub-cell interconnect systems and methods are provided. In one embodiment, a photovoltaic device comprises a thin film stack of layers deposited upon a substrate, wherein the thin film stack layers are subdivided into a plurality of sub-cells interconnected in series by a plurality of electrical interconnection structures; and wherein the plurality of electrical interconnection structures each comprise no more than two scribes that penetrate into the thin film stack layers.
FILED	Wednesday, May 21, 2014
APPL NO	14/283349
ART UNIT	2826 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/0463 (20141201) H01L 31/0465 (20141201) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/50 (20130101)
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09647171 — Printed assemblies of ultrathin, microscale inorganic light emitting diodes for deformable and semitransparent displays

US 09647171	Rogers et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Ralph Nuzzo (Champaign, Illinois); Hoon-sik Kim (Champaign, Illinois); Eric Brueckner (Champaign, Illinois); Sang Il Park (Savoy, Illinois); Rak Hwan Kim (Champaign, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	Described herein are printable structures and methods for making, assembling and arranging electronic devices. A number of the methods described herein are useful for assembling electronic devices where one or more device components are embedded in a polymer which is patterned during the embedding process with trenches for electrical interconnects between device components. Some methods described herein are useful for assembling electronic devices by printing methods, such as by dry transfer contact printing methods. Also described herein are GaN light emitting diodes and methods for making and arranging GaN light emitting diodes, for example for display or lighting systems.
FILED	Friday, September 05, 2014
APPL NO	14/479100
ART UNIT	2822 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/6835 (20130101) H01L 24/83 (20130101) H01L 24/95 (20130101) H01L 25/50 (20130101) H01L 25/0753 (20130101) H01L 33/54 (20130101) H01L 33/62 (20130101) H01L 33/0079 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 33/486 (20130101) H01L 33/507 (20130101) H01L 2221/6835 (20130101) H01L 2221/68322 (20130101) H01L 2221/68354 (20130101) H01L 2221/68363 (20130101) H01L 2221/68386 (20130101) H01L 2224/8312 (20130101) H01L 2224/83868 (20130101) H01L 2224/83871 (20130101) H01L 2224/83874 (20130101) H01L 2224/95085 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/06 (20130101) H01L 2924/14 (20130101) H01L 2924/14 (20130101) H01L 2924/181 (20130101) H01L 2924/181 (20130101) H01L 2924/01322 (20130101) H01L 2924/01322 (20130101) H01L 2924/1461 (20130101) H01L 2924/2064 (20130101) H01L 2924/05432 (20130101) H01L 2924/12033 (20130101) H01L 2924/12033 (20130101) H01L 2924/12036 (20130101) H01L 2924/12041 (20130101) H01L 2924/12041 (20130101) H01L 2924/12042 (20130101) H01L 2924/12043 (20130101) H01L 2924/13063 (20130101) H01L 2924/13064 (20130101) H01L 2924/13064 (20130101) H01L 2924/13091 (20130101) H01L 2924/13091 (20130101) H01L 2924/15787 (20130101) H01L 2924/15787 (20130101) H01L 2924/15788 (20130101) H01L 2924/15788 (20130101) H01L 2924/20641 (20130101) H01L 2933/005 (20130101) H01L 2933/0041 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 438/977 (20130101)
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09647266 — Amorphous titania/carbon composite electrode materials

US 09647266	Vaughey et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by UChicago Argonne, LLC (UCHICAGO) at Argonne, IL
APPLICANT(S)	UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	John T. Vaughey (Elmhurst, Illinois); Andrew Jansen (Bolingbrook, Illinois); Christopher D. Joyce (Columbus, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	An isolated salt comprising a compound of formula (H₂X)(TiO(Y)₂) or a hydrate thereof, wherein X is 1,4-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane (DABCO), and Y is oxalate anion (C₂O₄⁻²), when heated in an oxygen-containing atmosphere at a temperature in the range of at least about 275° C. to less than about 400° C., decomposes to form an amorphous titania/carbon composite material comprising about 40 to about 50 percent by weight titania and about 50 to about 60 percent by weight of a carbonaceous material coating the titania. Heating the composite material at a temperature of about 400 to 500° C. crystallizes the titania component to anatase. The titania materials of the invention are useful as components of the cathode or anode of a lithium or lithium ion electrochemical cell.
FILED	Friday, October 24, 2014
APPL NO	14/523431
ART UNIT	1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 23/047 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/72 (20130101) C01P 2002/88 (20130101) C01P 2004/03 (20130101) C01P 2006/40 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 7/006 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/131 (20130101) H01M 4/133 (20130101) H01M 4/364 (20130101) H01M 4/366 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/483 (20130101) H01M 4/485 (20130101) H01M 4/587 (20130101) H01M 4/625 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101)
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09647563 — Active energy recovery clamping circuit to improve the performance of power converters

US 09647563	Whitaker et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
APPLICANT(S)	Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc. (Fayetteville, Arkansas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Cree Fayetteville, Inc. (Fayetteville, Arkansas)
INVENTOR(S)	Bret Whitaker (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Adam Barkley (Springdale, Arkansas)
ABSTRACT	A regenerative clamping circuit for a power converter using clamping diodes to transfer charge to a clamping capacitor and a regenerative converter to transfer charge out of the clamping capacitor back to the power supply input connection. The regenerative converter uses a switch connected to the midpoint of a series connected inductor and capacitor. The ends of the inductor and capacitor series are connected across the terminals of the power supply to be in parallel with the power supply.
FILED	Friday, February 27, 2015
APPL NO	14/634252
ART UNIT	2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Apparatus for Conversion Between AC and AC, Between AC and DC, or Between DC and DC, and for Use With Mains or Similar Power Supply Systems; Conversion of DC or AC Input Power into Surge Output Power; Control or Regulation Thereof H02M 3/33507 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09648713 — High-gain thompson-scattering X-ray free-electron laser by time-synchronic laterally tilted optical wave

US 09648713	Chang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Stanford University (LSJU) at Menlo Park, CA
APPLICANT(S)	The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California); Tsinghua University (Beijing, China PRC)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California); Tsinghua University (Beijing, China PRC)
INVENTOR(S)	Chao Chang (Beijing, China PRC); Chuanxiang Tang (Beijing, China PRC); Juhao Wu (Palo Alto, California)
ABSTRACT	An improved optical undulator for use in connection with free electron radiation sources is provided. A tilt is introduced between phase fronts of an optical pulse and the pulse front. Two such pulses in a counter-propagating geometry overlap to create a standing wave pattern. A line focus is used to increase the intensity of this standing wave pattern. An electron beam is aligned with the line focus. The relative angle between pulse front and phase fronts is adjusted such that there is a velocity match between the electron beam and the overlapping optical pulses along the line focus. This allows one to provide a long interaction length using short and intense optical pulses, thereby greatly increasing the radiation output from the electron beam as it passes through this optical undulator.
FILED	Friday, March 14, 2014
APPL NO	14/775838
ART UNIT	2884 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/005 (20130101) H01S 3/30 (20130101) H01S 3/0903 (20130101) H01S 4/00 (20130101) X-ray Technique H05G 2/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Plasma Technique; Production of Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles or of Neutrons; Production or Acceleration of Neutral Molecular or Atomic Beams H05H 2007/041 (20130101)
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09648740 — Ceramic substrate including thin film multilayer surface conductor

US 09648740	Wolf et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Kansas City National Security Campus (KCNSC) NNSA Critical Mission Site Operated by Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, LLC (FM&T) at Kansas City, MO Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (NTESS) at Albuquerque, NM
APPLICANT(S)	Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, LLC (Kansas City, Missouri)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, LLC (Kansas City, Missouri)
INVENTOR(S)	Joseph Ambrose Wolf (Kansas City, Missouri); Kenneth A. Peterson (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
ABSTRACT	A ceramic substrate comprises a plurality of ceramic sheets, a plurality of inner conductive layers, a plurality of vias, and an upper conductive layer. The ceramic sheets are stacked one on top of another and include a top ceramic sheet. The inner conductive layers include electrically conductive material that forms electrically conductive features on an upper surface of each ceramic sheet excluding the top ceramic sheet. The vias are formed in each of the ceramic sheets with each via being filled with electrically conductive material. The upper conductive layer includes electrically conductive material that forms electrically conductive features on an upper surface of the top ceramic sheet. The upper conductive layer is constructed from a stack of four sublayers. A first sublayer is formed from titanium. A second sublayer is formed from copper. A third sublayer is formed from platinum. A fourth sublayer is formed from gold.
FILED	Tuesday, September 30, 2014
APPL NO	14/502745
ART UNIT	2847 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 1/115 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05K 3/4629 (20130101) H05K 2201/0338 (20130101)
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

09642805 — Aptamer-loaded, biocompatible nanoconstructs for nuclear-targeted cancer therapy

US 09642805	Odom et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) NIH Office of the Director (NIHOD) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center (ARC) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)	Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Teri W. Odom (Chicago, Illinois); Duncan-Hieu M. Dam (Chicago, Illinois); Jung Heon Lee (Evanston, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed herein is a nanoconstruct comprising an aptamer and a gold nanostar. The nanoconstruct can be used in a method of inducing changes to a nuclear phenotype of a cell comprising transporting the nanoconstruct to a nucleus of a cell, and releasing the aptamer from a surface of the gold nanostar into the nucleus of the cell to afford deformations or invaginations in the nuclear membrane, thereby inducing changes to the nuclear phenotype. The method can be used to treat certain hyperproliferative disorders such as cancer.
FILED	Wednesday, November 07, 2012
APPL NO	13/671347
ART UNIT	1674 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/711 (20130101) A61K 41/0042 (20130101) A61K 47/48861 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/773 (20130101) Y10S 977/906 (20130101)
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09644537 — Free stream intake with particle separator for reverse core engine

US 09644537	Suciu et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC)
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); Steven H Zysman (Amston, Connecticut)
ABSTRACT	A gas turbine engine has a fairing and an air intake that includes an air inlet embedded within the fairing for supplying free stream atmospheric air to a gas generator.
FILED	Monday, December 30, 2013
APPL NO	14/142968
ART UNIT	3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power 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 27/14 (20130101) B64D 27/20 (20130101) B64D 33/02 (20130101) B64D 2033/0246 (20130101) Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 3/10 (20130101) F02C 7/04 (20130101) F02C 7/052 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2250/314 (20130101)
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09644623 — Fluid control structures in microfluidic devices

US 09644623	Mathies et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)	Richard A. Mathies (San Francisco, California); William H. Grover (Medford, Massachusetts); Alison Skelley (Berkeley, California); Eric Lagally (Santa Barbara, California); Chung N. Liu (Albany, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Richard A. Mathies (San Francisco, California); William H. Grover (Medford, Massachusetts); Alison Skelley (Berkeley, California); Eric Lagally (Santa Barbara, California); Chung N. Liu (Albany, California)
ABSTRACT	Methods and apparatus for implementing microfluidic analysis devices are provided. A monolithic elastomer membrane associated with an integrated pneumatic manifold allows the placement and actuation of a variety of fluid control structures, such as structures for pumping, isolating, mixing, routing, merging, splitting, preparing, and storing volumes of fluid. The fluid control structures can be used to implement a variety of sample introduction, preparation, processing, and storage techniques.
FILED	Tuesday, May 18, 2010
APPL NO	12/782598
ART UNIT	1799 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Mixing, e.g Dissolving, Emulsifying, Dispersing B01F 5/10 (20130101) B01F 11/0071 (20130101) B01F 13/0059 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/5025 (20130101) B01L 3/50273 (20130101) B01L 3/502707 (20130101) B01L 3/502738 (20130101) B01L 7/52 (20130101) B01L 2200/10 (20130101) B01L 2300/087 (20130101) B01L 2300/088 (20130101) B01L 2300/0654 (20130101) B01L 2300/0803 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0819 (20130101) B01L 2300/0861 (20130101) B01L 2300/0887 (20130101) B01L 2300/1827 (20130101) B01L 2400/0409 (20130101) B01L 2400/0421 (20130101) B01L 2400/0487 (20130101) B01L 2400/0638 (20130101) B01L 2400/0655 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/689 (20130101) C12Q 1/6806 (20130101) C12Q 1/6806 (20130101) C12Q 2565/629 (20130101) C12Q 2565/629 (20130101) Positive-displacement Machines for Liquids; Pumps F04B 43/06 (20130101) F04B 43/043 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Valves; Taps; Cocks; Actuating-floats; Devices for Venting or Aerating F16K 99/0001 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 35/00069 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 137/0318 (20150401) Y10T 137/2224 (20150401) Y10T 137/87716 (20150401)
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09644844 — Multipoint fuel injection arrangements

US 09644844	Prociw
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center (GLENN)
APPLICANT(S)	Delavan Inc (West Des Moines, Iowa)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Delavan Inc. (West Des Moines, Iowa)
INVENTOR(S)	Lev Alexander Prociw (Johston, Iowa)
ABSTRACT	A multipoint fuel injection system includes a plurality of fuel manifolds. Each manifold is in fluid communication with a plurality of injectors arranged circumferentially about a longitudinal axis for multipoint fuel injection. The injectors of separate respective manifolds are spaced radially apart from one another for separate radial staging of fuel flow to each respective manifold.
FILED	Wednesday, October 31, 2012
APPL NO	13/664795
ART UNIT	3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Methods or apparatus for combustion using fluid fuel or Solid Fuel Suspended In Air F23C 2201/20 (20130101) Generating Combustion Products of High Pressure or High Velocity, e.g Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers F23R 3/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F23R 3/346 (20130101)
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09644903 — Shaped recess flow control

US 09644903	Shyam et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Vikram Shyam (Cleveland, Ohio); Philip Poinsatte (Cleveland, Ohio); Douglas Thurman (Cleveland, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	One or more embodiments of techniques or systems for shaped recess flow control are provided herein. A shaped recess or cavity can be formed on a surface associated with fluid flow. The shaped recess can be configured to create or induce fluid effects, temperature effects, or shedding effects that interact with a free stream or other structures. The shaped recess can be formed at an angle to a free stream flow and may be substantially “V” shaped. The shaped recess can be coupled with a cooling channel, for example. The shaped recess can be upstream or downstream from a cooling channel and aligned in a variety of manners. Due to the fluid effects, shedding effects, and temperature effects created by a shaped recess, lift-off or separation of cooling jets of cooling channels can be mitigated, thereby enhancing film cooling effectiveness.
FILED	Wednesday, May 29, 2013
APPL NO	13/904513
ART UNIT	3744 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/186 (20130101) F01D 5/187 (20130101) F01D 9/06 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2260/202 (20130101) F05D 2260/2212 (20130101) F05D 2260/2214 (20130101) F05D 2260/22141 (20130101) Fluid Dynamics, i.e Methods or Means for Influencing the Flow of Gases or Liquids F15D 1/0005 (20130101) Details of Heat-exchange and Heat-transfer Apparatus, of General Application F28F 13/18 (20130101) F28F 13/185 (20130101) F28F 19/02 (20130101) F28F 23/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09646811 — Miniaturized ion mobility spectrometer

US 09646811	Kaye et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)	Rapiscan Systems, Inc. (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Rapiscan Systems, Inc. (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)	William J Kaye (Lake Worth, Florida); Robert M. Stimac (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida)
ABSTRACT	By utilizing the combination of a unique electronic ion injection control circuit in conjunction with a particularly designed drift cell construction, the instantly disclosed ion mobility spectrometer achieves increased levels of sensitivity, while achieving significant reductions in size and weight. The instant IMS is of a much simpler and easy to manufacture design, rugged and hermetically sealed, capable of operation at high temperatures to at least 250° C., and is uniquely sensitive, particularly to explosive chemicals.
FILED	Wednesday, January 14, 2015
APPL NO	14/597132
ART UNIT	2881 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/622 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/00 (20130101) H01J 49/0013 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 49/022 (20130101)
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09647164 — Single-band and dual-band infrared detectors

US 09647164	Ting et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
INVENTOR(S)	David Z. Ting (Arcadia, California); Sarath D. Gunapala (Stevenson Ranch, California); Alexander Soibel (South Pasadena, California); Jean Nguyen (Los Angeles, California); Arezou Khoshakhlagh (Pasadena, California)
ABSTRACT	Bias-switchable dual-band infrared detectors and methods of manufacturing such detectors are provided. The infrared detectors are based on a back-to-back heterojunction diode design, where the detector structure consists of, sequentially, a top contact layer, a unipolar hole barrier layer, an absorber layer, a unipolar electron barrier, a second absorber, a second unipolar hole barrier, and a bottom contact layer. In addition, by substantially reducing the width of one of the absorber layers, a single-band infrared detector can also be formed.
FILED	Thursday, October 16, 2014
APPL NO	14/516359
ART UNIT	2829 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/101 (20130101) H01L 31/109 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/1013 (20130101) H01L 31/02016 (20130101) H01L 31/02019 (20130101)
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09647379 — Dust and debris tolerant dual poppet valve connector

US 09647379	Townsend, III et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Ivan I. Townsend, III (Cocoa, Florida); Robert P. Mueller (Cocoa Beach, Florida); Gary L. Bastin (Palm Bay, Florida); Jeffrey W. Carlson (Merritt Island, Florida); Kevin A. Murtland (Mims, Florida)
ABSTRACT	A debris exclusion and removal apparatus for connectors which have a dual-poppet value configuration containing a pressurized substance. Coupling of the female and male connectors causes the poppet valve to eject a cleaning substance which will eliminate debris from the male connector prior to mating with the female connector.
FILED	Thursday, July 21, 2016
APPL NO	15/216226
ART UNIT	2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Pipes; Joints or Fittings for Pipes; Supports for Pipes, Cables or Protective Tubing; Means for Thermal Insulation in General F16L 25/01 (20130101) F16L 55/24 (20130101) F16L 55/115 (20130101) Electrically-conductive Connections; Structural Associations of a Plurality of Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting Elements; Coupling Devices; Current Collectors H01R 13/005 (20130101) H01R 13/52 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01R 13/447 (20130101) H01R 13/533 (20130101) H01R 13/5213 (20130101) H01R 13/5219 (20130101) H01R 13/6392 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 137/87925 (20150401)
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Department of Agriculture (USDA)

09642372 — Trichoderma microsclerotia and methods of making

US 09642372	Jackson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA)
APPLICANT(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); Empresa Brasileira De Pesquisa Agropecuaria-Embrapa (Brasilia, Brazil)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by The Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria (Embrapa, Brazil)
INVENTOR(S)	Mark A. Jackson (Peoria, Illinois); Gabriel M. Mascarin (Goiania, Brazil); Nilce Naomi Kobori (Goiania, Brazil)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed is an invention that relates to the formation of microsclerotial propagules by mycoparasitic fungi and the use of those microsclerotia for plant disease control. Representative microsclerotia propagules formed are from fungal species Trichoderma harzianum, Trichoderma lignorum, Trichoderma viridae, Trichoderma reesei, Trichoderma koningii, Trichoderma pseudokoningii, Trichoderma polysporum, Trichoderma hamatum, and Trichoderma asperellum.
FILED	Friday, July 17, 2015
APPL NO	14/801998
ART UNIT	1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 63/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Organic Fertilisers Not Covered by Subclasses C05B, C05C, e.g Fertilisers From Waste or Refuse C05F 11/08 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/04 (20130101) C12N 1/14 (20130101)
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09644190 — Modified glucansucrase and related methods

US 09644190	Cote et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA)
APPLICANT(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by The Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Gregory L. Cote (Edwards, Illinois); Christopher D. Skory (Washington, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed is a genetically modified enzyme belonging to glycosyltransferases type of glucansucrase comprising at least one mutation at position 654 of said enzyme, wherein modified enzyme is capable to producing a glucan polymer.
FILED	Tuesday, January 27, 2015
APPL NO	14/606720
ART UNIT	1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 37/0009 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/1048 (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 19/04 (20130101) C12P 19/18 (20130101)
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09644214 — Enhanced disease resistance by introduction of NH3

US 09644214	Chern et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
APPLICANT(S)	Mawsheng Chern (Davis, California); Wei Bai (Hohhot, China PRC); Pamela Ronald (Davis, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Mawsheng Chern (Davis, California); Wei Bai (Hohhot, China PRC); Pamela Ronald (Davis, California)
ABSTRACT	Methods and compositions for improving plant resistance by expression of NPR homolog 3 (NH3) polypeptides are provided.
FILED	Wednesday, May 25, 2011
APPL NO	13/640040
ART UNIT	1663 — Plants
CURRENT CPC	Peptides C07K 14/415 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/8263 (20130101) C12N 15/8279 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/8281 (20130101)
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09644222 — Methods for pretreating biomass

US 09644222	Balan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Department of Agriculture (USDA)
APPLICANT(S)	Venkatesh Balan (East Lansing, Michigan); Bruce E Dale (Mason, Michigan); Shishir Chundawat (Piscataway, New Jersey); Leonardo Sousa (Lansing, Michigan)
ASSIGNEE(S)	BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY (East Lansing, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Venkatesh Balan (East Lansing, Michigan); Bruce E Dale (Mason, Michigan); Shishir Chundawat (Piscataway, New Jersey); Leonardo Sousa (Lansing, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	A method for pretreating biomass is provided, which includes, in a reactor, allowing gaseous ammonia to condense on the biomass and react with water present in the biomass to produce pretreated biomass, wherein reactivity of polysaccharides in the biomass is increased during subsequent biological conversion as compared to the reactivity of polysaccharides in biomass which has not been pretreated. A method for pretreating biomass with a liquid ammonia and recovering the liquid ammonia is also provided. Related systems which include a biochemical or biofuel production facility are also disclosed.
FILED	Thursday, December 22, 2011
APPL NO	13/997043
ART UNIT	1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 1/003 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/10 (20130101) C12P 19/02 (20130101) C12P 19/14 (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) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 30/20 (20151101)
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09644228 — Protein concentrate from starch containing grains: composition, method of making, and uses thereof

US 09644228	Barrows et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA)
APPLICANT(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agricutlure (Washington, District of Columbia); University of Idaho (Moscow, Idaho); Montana Microbial Products LLC (Missoula, Montana)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Frederic T Barrows (Bozeman, Montana); Clifford A Bradley (Missoula, Montana); Robert D Kearns (Melrose, Montana); Brian D Wasicek (Butte, Montana); Ronald W Hardy (Twin Falls, Idaho)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to methods of producing a protein concentrate from a starch containing grain and uses thereof. In an exemplary embodiment, the protein concentrate produced is used to prepare an aquaculture feed.
FILED	Friday, June 07, 2013
APPL NO	13/912388
ART UNIT	1656 — 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 7/06 (20130101) C12P 21/00 (20130101) C12P 21/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/17 (20130101)
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Department of Transportation (USDOT)

09645571 — Reliability maintaining serial number credit process

US 09645571	Cappelli et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Transportation (USDOT) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
APPLICANT(S)	Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, Connecticut)
ASSIGNEE(S)	SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (Stratford, Connecticut)
INVENTOR(S)	Marcus D. Cappelli (Shelton, Connecticut); Jack Z. Zhao (Woodbridge, Connecticut)
ABSTRACT	Embodiments are directed to receiving, by a computing device comprising a processor, an anticipated usage input, a load input and a strength input associated with a unit, calculating, by the computing device, a baseline reliability value based at least in part on the anticipated usage input, the load input and the strength input, receiving, by the computing device, usage data associated with use of the unit, generating, by the computing device, an updated reliability value based on at least some of the inputs used to calculate the baseline reliability value and the usage data, and determining, by the computing device, a lifetime for the unit based on the updated reliability value.
FILED	Thursday, March 14, 2013
APPL NO	13/826701
ART UNIT	2865 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 19/4065 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/06395 (20130101) Time or Attendance Registers; Registering or Indicating the Working of Machines; Generating Random Numbers; Voting or Lottery Apparatus; Arrangements, Systems or Apparatus for Checking Not Provided for Elsewhere G07C 3/00 (20130101)
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09646505 — Method of automatically controlling the descent phase of an aircraft using aircraft avionics executing a descent algorithm

US 09646505	Ali et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Transportation (USDOT) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
APPLICANT(S)	GE Aviation Systems LLC (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
ASSIGNEE(S)	GE AVIATION SYSTEMS LLC (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Sherif Fouad Ali (Safety Harbor, Florida); Mark Lawrence Darnell (Byron Center, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	A method of controlling the flight of an aircraft by automatically controlling the descent phase of an aircraft using a Flight Management System and Flight Guidance System (FMS & FGS) to control the air speed of the air craft and respond to an over speed condition.
FILED	Tuesday, December 23, 2014
APPL NO	14/581709
ART UNIT	3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
CURRENT CPC	Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 1/0088 (20130101) Traffic Control Systems G08G 5/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)

09642522 — Methods and kits for assessing central nervous system integrity

US 09642522	Samadani et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
APPLICANT(S)	NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (New York, New York); THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	New York University (New York, New York); The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Afffairs (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Uzma Samadani (New York, New York); Shani Offen (New York, New York); Marisa Carrasco-Queijeiro (New York, New York); David Heeger (New York, New York)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides methods and kits for detecting, screening, quantifying or localizing the etiology for reduced or impaired cranial nerve function or conduction or associated cranial nucleus or supranuclear input, useful for detecting, diagnosing or screening for increased intracranial pressure, or useful for detecting, diagnosing, monitoring progression of or screening for a disease or condition featuring increased intracranial pressure by tracking eye movement of the subject. The methods may be performed by a) analyzing eye movement of the subject; b) comparing eye movement of the subject to eye movement of a control or the subject's own baseline eye movement; and c) identifying the subject as having eye movement significantly different from the control or the subject's own baseline eye movement.
FILED	Monday, March 25, 2013
APPL NO	14/387892
ART UNIT	3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting
CURRENT CPC	Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 3/024 (20130101) A61B 3/0025 (20130101) A61B 3/113 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/031 (20130101) A61B 5/4064 (20130101) A61B 5/4076 (20130101) A61B 5/7246 (20130101) A61B 5/7264 (20130101) A61B 5/7275 (20130101)
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09642916 — Porphyrin modified telodendrimers

US 09642916	Lam et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Kit S. Lam (Davis, California); Yuanpei Li (Davis, California); Chong-Xian Pan (Sacramento, California); Tzu-yin Lin (Sacramento, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides amphiphilic telodendrimers that aggregate to form nanocarriers characterized by a hydrophobic core and a hydrophilic exterior. The nanocarrier core may include amphiphilic functionality such as cholic acid or cholic acid derivatives, and the exterior may include branched or linear poly(ethylene glycol) segments. Nanocarrier cargo such as hydrophobic drugs and other materials may be sequester in the core via non-covalent means or may be covalently bound to the telodendrimer building blocks. Telodendrimer structure may be tailored to alter loading properties, interactions with materials such as biological membranes, and other characteristics.
FILED	Thursday, March 14, 2013
APPL NO	13/803878
ART UNIT	1619 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/704 (20130101) A61K 41/0033 (20130101) A61K 41/0052 (20130101) A61K 41/0057 (20130101) A61K 41/0071 (20130101) A61K 41/0076 (20130101) A61K 47/488 (20130101) A61K 47/48015 (20130101) A61K 47/48069 (20130101) A61K 47/48123 (20130101) A61K 47/48215 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/48253 (20130101) A61K 47/48815 (20130101) A61K 49/00 (20130101) A61K 49/0036 (20130101) A61K 49/0423 (20130101) A61K 51/08 (20130101) A61K 51/1244 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 5/062 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101)
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Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

09646056 — Rank-ordering and cognitive saliency schema-based selection

US 09646056	Phillips et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Inbound, Controlled, Air-Releasable, Unrecoverable Systems (ICARUS) Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Matthew E. Phillips (Calabasas, California); Matthias Ziegler (Agoura Hills, California); Rajan Bhattacharyya (Sherman Oaks, California)
ABSTRACT	Described is a system for rank-ordered and cognitive saliency schema-based object selection. The system receives a set of unnormalized probabilities corresponding to a set of objects competing for attentional selection in a current environment. Each unnormalized probability in the set of unnormalized probabilities is based on a likelihood estimation of encountering the corresponding object in the current environment. The set of objects is ranked based on a set of cognitive saliency values corresponding to the set of objects to generate a rank-ordered list of cognitive saliency values. The rank-ordered list of cognitive saliency values is analyzed to detect a schema of the current environment by which the set of objects is ranked. The schema is learned and stored along with a reward measure of the schema's utility. A maximum saliency object in the set of objects is selected based on the rank-ordered list of cognitive saliency values.
FILED	Thursday, July 17, 2014
APPL NO	14/334637
ART UNIT	2168 — Data Bases & File Management
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/3053 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09646166 — Masking query data access pattern in encrypted data

US 09646166	Cash et al.
FUNDED BY	Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Charles D. Cash (Highland Park, New Jersey); Stanislaw Jarecki (Irvine, California); Charanjit S. Jutla (Elmsford, New York); Hugo M. Krawczyk (Tarrytown, New York); Marcel C. Rosu (Ossining, New York); Michael Steiner (New York, New York)
ABSTRACT	A method for encrypting a database includes the following step. Keywords in the database are encrypted to obtain encrypted search tags for the keywords. A table of reverse indices is generated for the encrypted search tags. A table of cross keyword indices is generated. A method for searching in an encrypted database includes the following steps. A search is formulated as a conjunct of two or more atomic search queries. One of the conjuncts is selected as a primary atomic search query. Search capabilities are generated for a secondary atomic search query using the primary atomic search query and the secondary atomic search query. Such methods mask query data and the actual composition of the database to reduce computation complexity and privacy leakage.
FILED	Monday, August 05, 2013
APPL NO	13/958730
ART UNIT	2437 — Cryptography and Security
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30864 (20130101) G06F 21/602 (20130101) G06F 21/6218 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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Small Business Administration (SBA)

09642888 — Compositions and methods for preventing or treating diseases, conditions, or processes characterized by aberrant fibroblast proliferation and extracellular matrix deposition

US 09642888	Lander et al.
FUNDED BY	Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)	Cynthia Lander (Mendham, New Jersey); Colleen Brophy (Nashville, Tennessee)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Moerae Matrix, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey)
INVENTOR(S)	Cynthia Lander (Mendham, New Jersey); Colleen Brophy (Nashville, Tennessee)
ABSTRACT	The described invention provides compositions and methods for preventing or treating a disease, condition, or pathologic process characterized by aberrant fibroblast proliferation and extracellular matrix deposition in a tissue of a subject. The method includes administering a therapeutic amount of a pharmaceutical composition comprising a polypeptide having the amino acid sequence YARAAARQARAKALARQLGVAA (SEQ ID NO: 1) or functional equivalent thereof, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
FILED	Thursday, April 12, 2012
APPL NO	13/445759
ART UNIT	1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/10 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101)
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09647194 — Superconductive multi-chip module for high speed digital circuits

US 09647194	Dotsenko
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)	Hypres, Inc. (Elmsford, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Hypres, Inc. (Elmsford, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Vladimir V. Dotsenko (Mahopac, New York)
ABSTRACT	An electrical module having electrically interconnecting substrates, each having a corresponding set of preformed electrical contacts, the substrates comprising an electronic circuit, and the resulting module, is provided. A liquid curable adhesive is provided over the set of contacts of a first substrate, and the set of electrical contacts of the second substrate is aligned with the set of electrical contacts of the first substrate. The sets of electrical contacts of the first and second substrate are compressed to displace the liquid curable adhesive from the inter-contact region, and provide electrical communication between the respective sets of electrical contacts. The liquid curable adhesive is then cured to form a solid matrix which maintains a relative compression between the respective sets of electrical contacts. One embodiment of the module comprises a high-speed superconducting circuit which operates at cryogenic temperatures.
FILED	Friday, August 01, 2014
APPL NO	14/449410
ART UNIT	2848 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 39/025 (20130101) H01L 39/045 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 39/2493 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 13/0469 (20130101)
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U.S. State Government

09645180 — System and method for estimating photovoltaic energy generation for use in photovoltaic fleet operation with the aid of a digital computer

US 09645180	Hoff
FUNDED BY	U.S. State Government State of California California Public Utilities Commission (PUC)
APPLICANT(S)	Clean Power Research, L.L.C. (Napa, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	CLEAN POWER RESEARCH, L.L.C. (Napa, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Thomas E. Hoff (Napa, California)
ABSTRACT	The accuracy of photovoltaic simulation modeling is predicated upon the selection of a type of solar resource data appropriate to the form of simulation desired. Photovoltaic power simulation requires irradiance data. Photovoltaic energy simulation requires normalized irradiation data. Normalized irradiation is not always available, such as in photovoltaic plant installations where only point measurements of irradiance are sporadically collected or even entirely absent. Normalized irradiation can be estimated through several methodologies, including assuming that normalized irradiation simply equals irradiance, directly estimating normalized irradiation, applying linear interpolation to irradiance, applying linear interpolation to clearness index values, and empirically deriving irradiance weights. The normalized irradiation can then be used to forecast photovoltaic fleet energy production.
FILED	Thursday, October 17, 2013
APPL NO	14/056898
ART UNIT	2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 21/1331 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09647288 — Phosphoric acid-based electrolytes and applications thereof

US 09647288	Angell et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) U.S. State Government State of Arizona
APPLICANT(S)	C. Austen Angell (Mesa, Arizona); Younes Ansari (Medford, Massachusetts); Telpriore Greg Tucker (Phoenix, Arizona)
ASSIGNEE(S)	ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS, A BODY CORPORATE OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA ACTING FOR AND ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Arizona)
INVENTOR(S)	C. Austen Angell (Mesa, Arizona); Younes Ansari (Medford, Massachusetts); Telpriore Greg Tucker (Phoenix, Arizona)
ABSTRACT	A liquid electrolyte formed by reacting phosphoric acid (H₃PO₄) in the liquid state with silicon tetrachloride (SiCl₄), thereby forming a fluid suspension. The fluid suspension is heated to yield a liquid electrolyte including phosphoric acid (H₃PO₄), pyrophosphoric acid (H₄P₂O₇), and a particulate solid comprising a silicophosphoric acid, wherein the silicophosphoric acid is an acidic molecular compound including silicon and phosphorus. A concentrated silicophosphoric acid composition prepared by removing most of the liquid from the liquid electrolyte is dissolved in water to yield a homogeneous solution. The homogeneous solution is dried to yield a solid electrolyte. In some cases, the homogenous solution is dried on a substrate to coat at least a portion of the substrate with a proton conductive solid electrolyte. A fuel cell may include the liquid electrolyte, the solid electrolyte, or the coated substrate.
FILED	Friday, February 13, 2015
APPL NO	14/621707
ART UNIT	1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/06 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/0289 (20130101) H01M 8/1016 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/1048 (20130101) H01M 2300/0068 (20130101) H01M 2300/0085 (20130101) H01M 2300/0091 (20130101)
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Department of the Interior (DOI)

09644761 — Desalination system with energy recovery and related pumps, valves and controller

US 09644761	Childs
FUNDED BY	Department of the Interior (DOI) Bureau of Reclamation (USBR)
APPLICANT(S)	Willard D. Childs (Encinitas, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Schenectady, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Willard D. Childs (Encinitas, California)
ABSTRACT	A fluid pumping system with energy recovery features may be used to provide feed water to a reverse osmosis unit. The system includes an electronic controller unit that regulates the output of three hydraulic pumps. Each hydraulic pump drives the movement of a piston in a cylinder. The pistons collectively deliver a generally constant flow of high pressure feed water to the reverse osmosis unit. Concentrate valve bodies direct concentrate from the reverse osmosis unit to the back sides of the pistons to reduce the work required from the hydraulic pumps. The concentrate valve bodies are designed to open and close based upon the flow of concentrate through the valve bodies. The piston and cylinder are designed for exposure to sea water and RO brine.
FILED	Friday, September 30, 2011
APPL NO	13/250674
ART UNIT	3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing
CURRENT CPC	Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/441 (20130101) Valves; Taps; Cocks; Actuating-floats; Devices for Venting or Aerating F16K 31/363 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F16K 31/383 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 137/86493 (20150401)
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General Services Administration (GSA)

09645796 — Systems and methods for realtime creation and modification of a dynamically responsive media player

US 09645796	Petro et al.
FUNDED BY	General Services Administration (GSA)
APPLICANT(S)	Piksel, Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware)
ASSIGNEE(S)	PIKSEL, INC. (Wilmington, Delaware)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael Anthony Petro (Rockaway, New Jersey); Keith David Schnable (Redmond, Washington); David Persing (Issaquah, Washington); Maxim Gubin (Forest Hills, New York); Leonid Geller (Secaucus, New Jersey); Joseph Jacques-Andre Chamberland (Toronto, Canada); David Martin Anderson (Lynnwood, Washington)
ABSTRACT	Methods and systems for a disabled user compliant video player for an end-to-end streaming web video solution affording accessibility for disabled users, including blind users and those with partial or poor vision, colorblind users, deaf users and those limited to only keyboard/voice input. Another embodiment of the present invention is directed to systems and methods for real-time creation and modification of specialized media players, to be used as stand-alone applications or as embedded data display applications.
FILED	Tuesday, December 16, 2014
APPL NO	14/572105
ART UNIT	2199 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/0482 (20130101) G06F 3/04842 (20130101) G06F 8/20 (20130101) G06F 8/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 8/38 (20130101) G06F 8/41 (20130101) G06F 8/60 (20130101) G06F 8/65 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 65/4084 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 21/4884 (20130101) H04N 21/8193 (20130101) H04N 21/8543 (20130101)
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National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)

09647857 — Digital transmitter

US 09647857	Dally
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
APPLICANT(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	William J. Dally (Los Altos Hills, California)
ABSTRACT	An equalizer provided in a digital transmitter compensates for attenuation in a signal channel to a digital receiver. The equalizer generates signal levels as a logical function of bit history to emphasize transition signal levels relative to repeated signal levels. The preferred equalizer includes an FIR transition filter using a look-up table. Parallel circuits including FIR filters and digital-to-analog converters provide a high speed equalizer with lower speed circuitry. The equalizer is particularly suited to in-cabinet and local area network transmissions where feedback circuitry facilitates adaptive training of the equalizer.
FILED	Thursday, July 14, 2016
APPL NO	15/210422
ART UNIT	2634 — Digital Communications
CURRENT CPC	Transmission H04B 1/16 (20130101) H04B 1/0483 (20130101) H04B 3/04 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 25/03019 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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National Security Agency (NSA)

09647762 — Integrated parallel optical transceiver

US 09647762	Arvelo et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) National Security Agency (NSA) Maryland Procurement Office (MPO)
APPLICANT(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Amilcar Arvelo (Poughkeepsie, New York); Alan F. Benner (Poughkeepsie, New York); Michael J. Ellsworth (Poughkeepsie, New York); Eric J. McKeever (Poughkeepsie, New York); Thong N. Nguyen (Poughkeepsie, New York); Edward J. Seminaro (Milton, New York)
ABSTRACT	Aspects of the present invention include an optical transceiver for providing transmission and reception of optical signals. The optical transceiver includes a carrier having two opposing surfaces and one or more openings extending from a first of the two opposing surfaces to a second of the two opposing surfaces. The optical transceiver includes a laser driver chip coupled to the first surface. The optical transceiver includes a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) array chip coupled to the first surface. The optical transceiver includes a photodetector array chip coupled to the first surface. The optical transceiver includes a receiver amplifier chip coupled to the first surface. The optical transceiver includes an optical coupling element coupled to the second surface. The VCSEL array chip and the photodetector array chip are disposed such that optical signals can pass through the one or more openings in the carrier.
FILED	Thursday, September 03, 2015
APPL NO	14/844661
ART UNIT	2636 — Optical Communications
CURRENT CPC	Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/43 (20130101) G02B 6/425 (20130101) G02B 6/428 (20130101) G02B 6/4246 (20130101) G02B 6/4272 (20130101) G02B 6/4286 (20130101) G02B 6/4292 (20130101) G02B 6/4295 (20130101) G02B 6/4296 (20130101) Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 5/0228 (20130101) H01S 5/0261 (20130101) H01S 5/423 (20130101) H01S 5/02476 (20130101) Transmission H04B 10/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 10/503 (20130101)
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Government Rights Acknowledged

09642870 — Composition for preventing or alleviating atopic dermatitis comprising immunosuppressant and transglutaminase 2 inhibitor

US 09642870	Lee
FUNDED BY
APPLICANT(S)	Dongguk University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation (Seoul, South Korea)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Dongguk University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation (Seoul, South Korea)
INVENTOR(S)	Ai-Young Lee (Jongno-gu Seoul, South Korea)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to a composition for preventing, treating or alleviating atopic dermatitis comprising an immunosuppressant and a transglutaminase 2 inhibitor as active ingredients. Conjoint administration of an immunosuppressant and a transglutaminase 2 inhibitor according to the present invention makes it possible to achieve far better therapeutic effects than with administration of either an immunosuppressant or a transglutaminase 2 inhibitor alone, since there is a reduction in the dose of an immunosuppressant which is difficult to administer for a long time because of side effects and with which, when discontinued, lesions are liable to become exacerbated to the original state, and since an immunosuppressant is mixed with a transglutaminase 2 inhibitor which in some patients has a lackluster effect in treating atopic dermatitis.
FILED	Tuesday, November 20, 2012
APPL NO	14/360104
ART UNIT	1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/436 (20130101) A61K 31/7008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/13 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101)
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

09644495 — Thermal isolating service tubes and assemblies thereof for gas turbine engines

US 09644495	Zurmehly et al.
FUNDED BY
APPLICANT(S)	HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. (Morristown, New Jersey)
ASSIGNEE(S)	HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. (Morris Plains, New Jersey)
INVENTOR(S)	Ed Zurmehly (Phoenix, Arizona); Cristopher Frost (Scottsdale, Arizona); Michael O'Brien (Goodyear, Arizona); Donald G Godfrey (Phoenix, Arizona)
ABSTRACT	Thermal isolating service tubes and assemblies thereof for gas turbine engines are provided. The thermal isolating service tube comprises an inner tubular member defining a fluid passage and at least one outer tubular member disposed about the inner tubular member. A spacing volume is defined between at least the inner tubular member and an adjacent outer tubular member. The thermal isolating service tube comprises a unitary structure and has at least one portion with a curved configuration, a non-circular cross-sectional shape, or both.
FILED	Tuesday, August 20, 2013
APPL NO	13/971671
ART UNIT	3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 9/065 (20130101) F01D 25/18 (20130101) F01D 25/26 (20130101) F01D 25/125 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F01D 25/145 (20130101)
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

09645617 — Compact memory device

US 09645617	Martinez et al.
FUNDED BY
APPLICANT(S)	Renae Martinez (Lake Zurich, Illinois); Anthony J. Zychal (Downers Grove, Illinois); Meredith L. Chow (Gurnee, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Falls Church, Virginia)
INVENTOR(S)	Renae Martinez (Lake Zurich, Illinois); Anthony J. Zychal (Downers Grove, Illinois); Meredith L. Chow (Gurnee, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	A memory device comprising a temperature sensor mounted on a surface of a substrate, the temperature sensor in electrical communication with a heating element and configured to activate the heating element in response to detecting a temperature below a predetermined temperature threshold. The heating element is in thermal communication with a solid state memory configured to store computer readable data. A universal serial bus (USB) driver is also mounted to the substrate, in electrical communication with the memory, and configured to communicate with another USB device via a USB channel in order to transfer data to and from the memory. The memory device can be enclosed in a protective backshell canister connected to the MIL-DTL-38999 type connector to provide a fully ruggedized, fully sealed device to withstand and operate effectively in extreme environmental conditions.
FILED	Wednesday, November 06, 2013
APPL NO	14/073432
ART UNIT	2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 1/182 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 1/206 (20130101)
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

09646057 — System for discovering important elements that drive an online discussion of a topic using network analysis

US 09646057	Jurgens et al.
FUNDED BY
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 Strnadova (Goleta, California)
ABSTRACT	Described is system and method for discovering important elements that drive an online discussion. The system receives, as input, a message from an online discussion related to a topic. The message is analyzed for information related to the message. A graph comprising a plurality of nodes is generated, where each of the plurality of nodes represents an entity. The graph is updated over time as additional messages from the online discussion are received, such that additional nodes are generated and linked with at least one of the plurality of nodes by paths. A closeness value for each node is determined based on the path lengths. The entities are ranked based on the closeness values, thereby providing a ranking of the entities by level of importance in the online discussion to a user.
FILED	Tuesday, August 05, 2014
APPL NO	14/452012
ART UNIT	2163 — Data Bases & File Management
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/3053 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 51/32 (20130101) H04L 65/403 (20130101) H04L 67/30 (20130101)
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

09647662 — Superconducting tunable coupler

US 09647662	Abutaleb et al.
FUNDED BY
APPLICANT(S)	Mohamed O. Abutaleb (Laurel, Maryland); Anthony Joseph Przybysz (Highland, Maryland); Joel D. Strand (Ellicott City, Maryland); Ofer Naaman (Ellicott City, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Falls Church, Virginia)
INVENTOR(S)	Mohamed O. Abutaleb (Laurel, Maryland); Anthony Joseph Przybysz (Highland, Maryland); Joel D. Strand (Ellicott City, Maryland); Ofer Naaman (Ellicott City, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A superconducting system is provided that includes a coplanar superconducting circuit. The coplanar superconducting circuit includes a first ground plane region, a second ground plane region electrically isolated from the first ground plane region by portions of the coplanar superconducting circuit, and a tunable coupler having a first port and a second port. The tunable coupler comprises a variable inductance coupling element coupled between the first port and the second port, a first termination inductor having a first end coupled between a first end of the variable inductance element and a second end coupled to the first ground plane region, and a second termination inductor having a first end coupled between a second end of the variable inductance element and a second end coupled to the second ground plane region.
FILED	Friday, June 24, 2016
APPL NO	15/192756
ART UNIT	2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 99/002 (20130101) Pulse Technique H03K 19/0005 (20130101) H03K 19/017545 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE

Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.

This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, May 09, 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
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FUNDED BY
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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)
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ABSTRACT
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FILED
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APPL NO
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ART UNIT
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3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices

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CURRENT CPC
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The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.

The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.

A61B 1/149 (20130101)
A61B 1/71 (20130101)
A61B 1/105 (20130101)

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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