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| US 09686971 | Diacovo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Diacovo (Larchmont, New York); Jianchun Chen (Edgewater, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a transgenic non-human animal expressing von Willebrand Factor A1 protein containing at least one mutation selected from the group consisting of: 1263P>S, 1269N>D, 1274K>R, 1287M>R, 1302G>D, 1308H>R, 1313R>W, 1314I>V, 1326R>H, 1329L>I, 1330E>G, 1333A>D, 1344T>A, 1347I>V, 1350T>A, 1370G>S, 1379H>R, 1381T>A, 1385T>M 1391P>Q, 1394A>S, 1397L>F, 1421S>N, 1439L>V, 1442G>S, 1449R>Q, 1466A>P, 1469Q>L, 1472Q>H, 1473V>M, 1475H>Q, 1479S>G, and any combination thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, February 19, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/047978 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 67/0275 (20130101) A01K 67/0278 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01K 2207/15 (20130101) A01K 2217/072 (20130101) A01K 2227/105 (20130101) A01K 2267/0381 (20130101) A01K 2267/0393 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/755 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/8509 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/566 (20130101) G01N 2333/70596 (20130101) G01N 2500/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09687145 | Larin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Houston System (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kirill V. Larin (Friendswood, Texas); Jiasong Li (Houston, Texas); Manmohan Singh (Houston, Texas); Chen Wu (Houston, Texas); Salavat Aglyamov (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An excitation force (internal or external) and phase-sensitive optical coherence elastography (OCE) system, used in conjunction with a data analyzing algorithm, is capable of measuring and quantifying biomechanical parameters of tissues in situ and in vivo. The method was approbated and demonstrated on an example of the system that combines a pulsed ultrasound system capable of producing an acoustic radiation force on the crystalline lens surface and a phase-sensitive optical coherence tomography (OCT) system for measuring the lens displacement caused by the acoustic radiation force. The method allows noninvasive and nondestructive quantification of tissue mechanical properties. The noninvasive measurement method also utilizes phase-stabilized swept source optical coherence elastography (PhS-SSOCE) to distinguish between tissue stiffness, such as that attributable to disease, and effects on measured stiffness that result from external factors, such as pressure applied to the tissue. Preferably, the method is used to detect tissue stiffness and to evaluate the presence of its stiffness even if it is affected by other factors such as intraocular pressure (IOP) in the case of cornea, sclera, or the lens. This noninvasive method can evaluate the biomechanical properties of the tissues in vivo for detecting the onset and progression of degenerative or other diseases (such as keratoconus). |
| FILED | Friday, November 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/934663 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 3/0025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 3/102 (20130101) A61B 3/165 (20130101) A61B 5/0051 (20130101) A61B 5/0053 (20130101) A61B 5/0066 (20130101) A61B 5/0093 (20130101) A61B 5/0097 (20130101) |
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| US 09687153 | Milner |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas E. Milner (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are systems, methods, and compositions for the use of optical coherence tomography for detection of cells. |
| FILED | Monday, November 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/954936 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/05 (20130101) A61B 5/026 (20130101) A61B 5/0035 (20130101) A61B 5/0066 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/0261 (20130101) A61B 5/0275 (20130101) A61B 5/0515 (20130101) A61B 5/725 (20130101) A61B 5/6852 (20130101) A61B 8/06 (20130101) A61B 8/13 (20130101) A61B 8/488 (20130101) A61B 2576/00 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 2/02 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/1717 (20130101) G01N 21/4795 (20130101) |
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| US 09687157 | Wax et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam Wax (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); John W. Pyhtila (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of assessing tissue health comprises the steps of obtaining depth-resolved spectra of a selected area of in vivo tissue, and assessing the health of the selected area based on the depth-resolved structural information of the scatterers. Obtaining depth-resolved spectra of the selected area comprises directing a sample beam towards the selected area at an angle, and receiving an angle-resolved scattered sample beam. The angle-resolved scattered sample beam is cross-correlated with the reference beam to produce an angle-resolved cross-correlated signal about the selected area, which is spectrally dispersed to yield an angle-resolved, spectrally-resolved cross-correlation profile having depth-resolved information about the selected area. The angle-resolved, spectrally-resolved cross-correlation profile is processed to obtain depth-resolved information about scatterers in the selected area. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/494080 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 1/00165 (20130101) A61B 1/00172 (20130101) A61B 5/0066 (20130101) A61B 5/0075 (20130101) A61B 5/0084 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 9/0209 (20130101) G01B 9/02043 (20130101) G01B 9/02044 (20130101) G01B 9/02084 (20130101) G01B 9/02087 (20130101) G01B 9/02091 (20130101) Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/45 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/31 (20130101) G01N 21/4795 (20130101) G01N 2021/4704 (20130101) G01N 2021/4709 (20130101) G01N 2021/4735 (20130101) G01N 2201/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09687172 | Bhat et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Himanshu Bhat (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Andre Jan Willem Van Der Kouwe (Woburn, Massachusetts); Matthew Dylan Tisdall (Somerville, Massachusetts); Keith Aaron Heberlein (Charlestown, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Institute of Health (NIH), The United States of America, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (DHHS) (Washington, District of Columbia); Siemens Healthcare GmbH (Erlangen, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Himanshu Bhat (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Andre Jan Willem Van Der Kouwe (Woburn, Massachusetts); Matthew Dylan Tisdall (Somerville, Massachusetts); Keith Aaron Heberlein (Charlestown, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system determines motion correction data for use in diffusion MR imaging using an RF signal generator and magnetic field gradient generator which sequentially acquire in a single first direction through a volume, first and second slice sets individually comprising multiple individual diffusion image slices. The first set of slices and the second set of slices are spatially interleaved within the volume, by providing in acquiring the second slice set, a low flip angle RF pulse successively followed by a non-diffusion image data readout magnetic field gradient for acquisition of data representing a two dimensional (2D) non-diffusion image used for motion detection of the first slice set successively followed by, a first diffusion imaging RF pulse followed by a first diffusion imaging phase encoding magnetic field gradient for preparation for acquiring data representing a diffusion image slice of the second slice set. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/527706 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/055 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/5676 (20130101) G01R 33/56341 (20130101) |
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| US 09687198 | Hsu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Ambrose Hsu (Middleton, Wisconsin); Murielle Aline Hsu (Middleton, Wisconsin); Gregory A Worrell (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Ambrose Hsu (Middleton, Wisconsin); Murielle Aline Hsu (Middleton, Wisconsin); Gregory A Worrell (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for time-frequency analysis in which acquired signals are modeled as frictionally damped harmonic oscillators having a friction factor that is not a free parameter are provided. The friction factor is selected as a function of the frequency value of the associated oscillator, such that an increase in both temporal and spectral resolution are provided over existing time-frequency analysis methods. The friction factor is also selected to define a spectral band, within which the given oscillator can detect data oscillations. The properly selected friction factor thereby provides the analysis over a broad spectral range that can span many orders of magnitude. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/903001 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/726 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/04001 (20130101) A61B 5/04014 (20130101) A61B 5/4094 (20130101) Speech Analysis or Synthesis; Speech Recognition; Speech or Voice Processing; Speech or Audio Coding or Decoding G10L 25/48 (20130101) |
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| US 09687199 | Ithapu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vamsi K Ithapu (Madison, Wisconsin); Vikas Singh (Madison, Wisconsin); Sterling C Johnson (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); Ozioma C Okonkwo (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A medical imaging system that processes input data (imaging and/or non imaging) having high dimensionality and few samples to learn from, by using multiple ranks of machine learning modules each dealing with a separate portion of the clinical data. The outputs of the individual machine learning modules are the combined to provide a result reflective of the complete image data set. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 09, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/848903 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — 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 5/7203 (20130101) A61B 5/7267 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/7271 (20130101) A61B 6/037 (20130101) A61B 6/501 (20130101) A61B 6/4417 (20130101) A61B 6/5247 (20130101) A61B 2560/0475 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/6217 (20130101) G06K 9/6293 (20130101) |
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| US 09687303 | Simaan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nabil Simaan (Nashville, Tennessee); Roger E. Goldman (New York, New York); Andrea Bajo (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A rotatable wrist connecting a gripper tool to the distal end of a continuum robot shaft. The rotatable wrist includes a wrist hub that is non-rotatably connected to the distal end of the shaft. A wrist capstan is rotatably connected to the wrist hub and non-rotatably connected to the gripper. A flexible wire loop extends through the wrist hub and partially contacts the wrist capstan. Linear movement of the flexible wire loop through the shaft of the continuum robot causes rotation of the wrist capstan due to friction between the flexible wire loop and the wrist capstan. The wrist also supports selective detachability and control of roll, pitch and roll, pitch yaw and roll according to different embodiments. |
| FILED | Friday, April 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/391659 |
| ART UNIT | 3731 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 19/2203 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 34/30 (20160201) A61B 34/71 (20160201) A61B 2034/305 (20160201) |
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| US 09687348 | Vunjak-Novakovic et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic (New York, New York); Warren L. Grayson (Reisterstown, Maryland); Keith Yeager (Jersey City, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic (New York, New York); Warren L. Grayson (Reisterstown, Maryland); Keith Yeager (Jersey City, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An anatomically-shaped, human bone graft may be cultivated ex vivo using a bioreactor capable of perfusing large complex porous scaffolds. Scaffolds derived from image-based modeling of a target are seeded with human mesenchymal stem cells and cultivated. A bioreactor configured to house complex three-dimensional scaffold geometries provides controlled flow for perfusion of the cells. Dense uniform cellular growth can be attained throughout the entire scaffold as a result of the medium perfusion. In an embodiment, the bioreactor has a mold into which perfusion medium is pumped under pressure and multiple ports through which the medium exits the mold. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/148735 |
| 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 | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2/28 (20130101) A61F 2/3099 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 21/08 (20130101) C12M 25/14 (20130101) C12M 29/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09687467 | Zetter et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bruce R. Zetter (Wayland, Massachusetts); Amy Holleman (Woudenberg, Netherlands); Ivy Chung (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce R. Zetter (Wayland, Massachusetts); Amy Holleman (Woudenberg, Netherlands); Ivy Chung (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods and assays relating to the diagnosis and treatment of a taxane-resistant cancer. Such methods and assays comprise determining the level of expression of miR-135a in a biological sample from a subject having or suspected of having a taxane-resistant cancer or from a subject that was or is being treated with a taxane anti-cancer agent. Also provided herein are methods for treating such cancers by administering an inhibitor of the miR-135a pathway and a taxane to a subject in need thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/009686 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/337 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/337 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) C12Q 2600/106 (20130101) C12Q 2600/112 (20130101) |
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| US 09687477 | Hahm et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bumsuk Hahm (Columbia, Missouri); Young-Jin Seo (Atlanta, Georgia); Stephen Alexander (Columbia, Missouri); Vijayan Madhuvanthi (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bumsuk Hahm (Columbia, Missouri); Young-Jin Seo (Atlanta, Georgia); Stephen Alexander (Columbia, Missouri); Vijayan Madhuvanthi (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compounds and methods for the prevention or treatment of infections by negative strand RNA viruses, such as influenza virus and measles virus, wherein said compounds delay or inhibit viral replication by modulating the level or activity of a polypeptide involved in the synthesis or degradation of sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) in a cell, tissue, or subject. The methods involve administration of one or more compounds which modulate the level of gene expression, where the gene encodes a polypeptide involved in regulating the metabolic level of S1P, or modulate the level or activity of a polypeptide involved in regulating the metabolic level of S1P, such as sphingosine kinase (SK) and S1P lyase (SPL). Exemplary methods are directed towards reducing the level of SW by reducing the level or activity of one or more SKs, increasing the level or activity of one or more SPLs, or a combination of both steps. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/122399 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/133 (20130101) A61K 31/426 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 48/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/88 (20130101) C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 15/1137 (20130101) C12N 15/1138 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2760/16111 (20130101) C12N 2760/18411 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 401/02027 (20130101) |
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| US 09687486 | Tall et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alan R. Tall (New York, New York); Nan Wang (Flushing, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan R. Tall (New York, New York); Nan Wang (Flushing, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a method of treating a subject suffering from atherosclerosis or a myeloproliferative neoplasm which comprises administering to the subject an amount of a Lyn kinase activator effective to activate Lyn kinase so as to thereby treat the subject. |
| FILED | Friday, December 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/650685 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/513 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09687493 | Weglicki et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William B. Weglicki (Potomac, Maryland); Iu Tong Mak (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides methods for alleviating or preventing the negative physiological side effects associated with the administration of EGFR blocking therapeutics. The disclosure provides, inter alia, methods for treating or preventing: hypomagnesemia, cardiac dysfunction, and skin lesions, which are induced by EGFR blocking drugs, by administering an NK-1 receptor antagonist. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 28, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/278192 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/00 (20130101) A61K 31/444 (20130101) A61K 31/495 (20130101) A61K 31/4035 (20130101) A61K 31/4985 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09687502 | Shi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Riyi Shi (West Lafayette, Indiana); Richard B. Borgens (Delphi, Indiana); Raphael C. Lee (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (Chicago, Illinois); PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Riyi Shi (West Lafayette, Indiana); Richard B. Borgens (Delphi, Indiana); Raphael C. Lee (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | To achieve, an in vivo repair of injured mammalian nerve tissue, an effective amount of a biomembrane fusion agent is administered to the injured nerve tissue. The application of the biomembrane fusion agent may be performed by directly contacting the agent with the nerve tissue at the site of the injury. Alternatively, the biomembrane fusion agent is delivered to the site of the injury through the blood supply after administration of the biomembrane fusion agent to the patient. The administration is preferably by parenteral administration including including intravascular, intramuscular, subcutaneous, or intraperitoneal injection of an effective quantity of the biomembrane fusion agent so that an effective amount is delivered to the site of the nerve tissue injury. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/901481 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/00 (20130101) A61K 31/74 (20130101) A61K 31/74 (20130101) A61K 31/77 (20130101) A61K 31/77 (20130101) A61K 31/765 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/765 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09687512 | Gaballa |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Banner Health (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Banner Health (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohamed A. Gaballa (Peoria, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to isolated populations of cardiac stem cells. The invention provides methods for characterizing, isolating, and culturing cardiac stem cells from human tissue samples. The invention also provides compositions and methods useful for treating cardiac disease. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/645420 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/34 (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 5/0668 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56966 (20130101) G01N 2333/71 (20130101) G01N 2333/78 (20130101) G01N 2333/916 (20130101) G01N 2333/4703 (20130101) G01N 2333/4739 (20130101) G01N 2333/7055 (20130101) G01N 2333/70503 (20130101) G01N 2333/70539 (20130101) G01N 2333/70596 (20130101) G01N 2800/325 (20130101) |
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| US 09687523 | Hamm-Alvarez |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sarah Hamm-Alvarez (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sarah Hamm-Alvarez (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a method of inducing a lacrimal acinar cell in a tissue to degrade a secretory vesicle and its content protein or proteins from the trans-Golgi network (TGN) by contacting the cells with an effective amount of an agent that induces autophagy. Also provided is a method for treating a mammal suffering from defective trans-Golgi network-secretory vesicle (TGN-SV) sorting by administering to the mammal an effective amount of an agent that induces autophagy in the tissue having the defective TGN-SV. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/931601 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/436 (20130101) A61K 38/17 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09687527 | Prestrelski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven Prestrelski (San Diego, California); Wei-Jie Fang (Aurora, Colorado); John F. Carpenter (Littleton, Colorado); John Kinzell (San Rafael, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, A BODY CORPORATE (Denver, Colorado); XERIS PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Prestrelski (San Diego, California); Wei-Jie Fang (Aurora, Colorado); John F. Carpenter (Littleton, Colorado); John Kinzell (San Rafael, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The delivery of biopharmaceutical and other therapeutic agents parenterally to an animal via a minimally invasive, low pain administration is provided. The agents are delivered to the patient via, e.g., the epidermal, dermal, or subcutaneous layer of the skin in a concentrated form of injectable glucagon that is dissolved in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. |
| FILED | Friday, February 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/186367 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 9/19 (20130101) A61K 38/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/02 (20130101) A61K 47/12 (20130101) A61K 47/26 (20130101) A61K 47/36 (20130101) A61K 47/40 (20130101) A61K 47/183 (20130101) |
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| US 09687529 | Sullenger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bruce A Sullenger (Durham, North Carolina); Jens Lohrmann (Durham, North Carolina); James Frederiksen (Durham, North Carolina); Kristin Bompiani (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce A Sullenger (Durham, North Carolina); Jens Lohrmann (Durham, North Carolina); James Frederiksen (Durham, North Carolina); Kristin Bompiani (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates, in general, to methods of controlling coagulation, and in particular, to methods of effecting neutralizable rapid onset anticoagulation, and to compounds and compositions suitable for use in such methods. |
| FILED | Monday, May 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/115797 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/702 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 38/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/58 (20130101) A61K 38/58 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/115 (20130101) C12N 2310/16 (20130101) C12N 2310/51 (20130101) C12N 2310/113 (20130101) C12N 2320/31 (20130101) C12N 2320/53 (20130101) |
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| US 09687542 | Dodd et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | 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 Government of the United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kimberly A. Dodd (Decatur, Georgia); Brian H. Bird (Atlanta, Georgia); Cesar G. Albarino (Atlanta, Georgia); Stuart T. Nichol (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a robust system for the reverse genetics generation of a Rift Valley fever (RVF) virus replicon particle (VRPRVF) vaccine candidate. VRPRVF can actively synthesize viral RNA and proteins, but lack structural glycoprotein genes, preventing spread within immunized individuals and reducing the risk of vaccine-induced pathogenicity. Is it disclosed herein that VRPRVF immunization is both safe and efficacious, resulting in a robust immune response that is protective against RVF virus challenge within 24 hours of immunization. Provided herein are VRPRVF, methods of producing VRPRVF, and method of using VRPRVF for immunization against RVF virus infection. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/408389 |
| 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 2039/5254 (20130101) A61K 2039/5258 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2760/12223 (20130101) C12N 2760/12232 (20130101) C12N 2760/12234 (20130101) C12N 2760/12251 (20130101) C12N 2760/12252 (20130101) C12N 2760/12271 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56983 (20130101) G01N 2469/20 (20130101) |
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| US 09687548 | Lu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xin Lu (Houston, Texas); Sarit S. Agasti (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ronald A. DePinho (Houston, Texas); Ralph Weissleder (Peabody, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are compositions containing photoactivatable caged tamoxifen and tamoxifen derivative molecules. Also provided are kits containing one of these compositions and a light source. Also provided are methods of optically inducing nuclear translocation of a fusion protein containing a mammalian estrogen receptor ligand binding domain in a eukaryotic cell and methods of optically inducing recombination in a eukaryotic cell that include contacting a eukaryotic cell with at least one of these compositions. Also provided are methods of treating breast cancer in a subject that include administering a photoactivatable caged tamoxifen or tamoxifen derivative molecule to a subject having breast cancer. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/395210 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/40 (20130101) A61K 31/137 (20130101) A61K 31/155 (20130101) A61K 31/495 (20130101) A61K 31/4453 (20130101) A61K 31/5375 (20130101) A61K 35/30 (20130101) A61K 35/32 (20130101) A61K 35/34 (20130101) A61K 35/35 (20130101) A61K 35/36 (20130101) A61K 35/44 (20130101) A61K 41/0057 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 47/48023 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 5/062 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 217/18 (20130101) C07C 279/08 (20130101) C07C 2101/14 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 295/088 (20130101) Peptides C07K 2319/09 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09687553 | Almutairi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adah Almutairi (La Jolla, California); Jagadis Sankaranarayanan (San Diego, California); Enas Mahmoud (San Diego, California); Eric Schopf (Solana Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanocarriers are synthesized with polymers that respond to lower pH and/or ROS by being degraded. The compositions may be utilized to selectively deliver payloads within patients by responding to lower pH and/or ROS at localities within the patient. The present invention also features methods of synthesizing nanocarriers that are degraded by lower pH and/or ROS. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/272429 |
| 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 9/19 (20130101) A61K 9/5153 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 38/16 (20130101) A61K 47/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 48/0041 (20130101) A61K 49/0093 (20130101) A61K 49/126 (20130101) A61K 49/128 (20130101) A61K 49/1818 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) B82Y 15/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 63/672 (20130101) C08G 63/6856 (20130101) C08G 63/6886 (20130101) C08G 73/0627 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/87 (20130101) |
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| US 09687567 | Frangioni et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Brookline, Massachusetts); Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc. (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John V. Frangioni (Wayland, Massachusetts); Maged M. Henary (Lawrenceville, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions for and methods of optically imaging tissues or cells using imaging agents having desirable in vivo properties that result in improved signal-to-background ratio. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 07, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/681068 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 6/00 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/0032 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/02 (20130101) C07D 209/42 (20130101) C07D 255/02 (20130101) Organic Dyes or Closely-related Compounds for Producing Dyes; Mordants; Lakes C09B 23/0066 (20130101) C09B 23/086 (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 1/02 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/582 (20130101) |
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| US 09687569 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Miqin Zhang (Bothell, Washington); Chen Fang (Lynwood, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanoparticle having a poly(beta-amino ester) coating. The poly(beta-amino ester) coating includes one or more therapeutic agents that can be delivered by the particle and one or more anchoring groups that couple the polymer to the nanoparticle's core surface. In certain embodiments, the poly(beta-amino ester) includes one or more polyalkylene oxide groups. The poly(beta-amino ester) can further include a targeting agent to target the nanoparticle to a site of interest and a diagnostic agent that allows for imaging of the particle. Methods for making and using the nanoparticles are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, August 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/969362 |
| 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 9/51 (20130101) A61K 47/48861 (20130101) A61K 47/48907 (20130101) A61K 49/0093 (20130101) A61K 49/1857 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09687582 | Messersmith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip B. Messersmith (Clarendon Hills, Illinois); Devin G. Barrett (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides adhesive hydrogels that negatively swell at physiological temperature. By combining mussel-mimetic chemistry and the thermosensitive nature of poly(ethylene oxide)-poly(propylene oxide) copolymers, novel materials were designed that are suitable as medical sealants and adhesives. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/056281 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| 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 24/046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 24/046 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 65/324 (20130101) C08G 65/332 (20130101) C08G 65/3317 (20130101) C08G 65/3332 (20130101) C08G 65/33303 (20130101) C08G 65/33306 (20130101) C08G 2210/00 (20130101) C08G 2650/30 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 3/20 (20130101) C08K 3/20 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 71/02 (20130101) C08L 71/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09687672 | Brown et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tyler C. Brown (Quincy, Massachusetts); Christopher I. Moore (Pawtucket, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features methods for regulating vascular properties by controlling the membrane properties of endothelial cells using optogenetics and light. The invention features methods to transport therapeutics across the vascular barrier into tissues such as the brain and the lung, with high spatial and temporal precision, and for controlling vascular properties such as vascular tone, arterial diameter, and vascular growth. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/421744 |
| 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 | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 67/0275 (20130101) A01K 2217/052 (20130101) A01K 2217/206 (20130101) A01K 2227/105 (20130101) A01K 2267/0393 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 41/0057 (20130101) A61K 48/005 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 5/062 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 5/0601 (20130101) A61N 5/0618 (20130101) A61N 2005/063 (20130101) A61N 2005/067 (20130101) A61N 2005/0602 (20130101) A61N 2005/0652 (20130101) A61N 2005/0663 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/4702 (20130101) C07K 2319/60 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2799/021 (20130101) |
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| US 09687834 | Malcolmson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven J. Malcolmson (Brighton, Massachusetts); Amir H. Hoveyda (Lincoln, Massachusetts); Simon J. Meek (Newtonville, Massachusetts); Richard R. Schrock (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven J. Malcolmson (Brighton, Massachusetts); Amir H. Hoveyda (Lincoln, Massachusetts); Simon J. Meek (Newtonville, Massachusetts); Richard R. Schrock (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions comprising metal complexes, and related methods. In some embodiments, metal complexes of the invention may be useful as catalysts for chemical reactions, including metathesis reactions, wherein the catalysts exhibit enhanced activity and stereoselectivity. In some embodiments, the invention may advantageously provide metal complexes comprising a stereogenic metal atom. Such metal complexes may be useful in enantioselective catalysis. |
| FILED | Friday, January 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/864261 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 31/181 (20130101) B01J 31/1805 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 31/2208 (20130101) B01J 31/2265 (20130101) B01J 2231/54 (20130101) B01J 2531/64 (20130101) B01J 2531/66 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 11/005 (20130101) |
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| US 09688023 | Dean et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | H. David Dean (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Jonathan E. Wallace (Chardon, Ohio); Antonios G. Mikos (Houston, Texas); Martha Wang (Fulton, Maryland); Ali Siblani (Dearborn Heights, Michigan); Kyobum Kim (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); John P. Fisher (Kensington, Maryland) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | H. David Dean (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Jonathan E. Wallace (Chardon, Ohio); Antonios G. Mikos (Houston, Texas); Martha Wang (Fulton, Maryland); Ali Siblani (Dearborn Heights, Michigan); Kyobum Kim (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); John P. Fisher (Kensington, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for additive manufacturing of a resorbable implant to be implanted into a patient includes providing a biocompatible resin including a liquid light-polymerizable material that is resorbable after polymerization and an initiator. The process further includes actuating an additive manufacturing apparatus to expose an amount of the biocompatible resin to light to at least partially cure the exposed amount of biocompatible resin to form a layer of the resorbable implant and actuating the additive manufacturing apparatus to expose at least some additional amount of biocompatible resin to light to at least partially cure the exposed additional amount of biocompatible resin to form an additional layer of the resorbable implant and to at least partially overcure previously cured layers to cause at least some interlayer binding between the previously cured layers and the additional layer. |
| FILED | Monday, August 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/817612 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| 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 27/50 (20130101) A61L 27/56 (20130101) A61L 27/60 (20130101) Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 67/0066 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 26/0833 (20130101) |
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| US 09688617 | Trauner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dirk Trauner (Munich, Germany); Ehud Y. Isacoff (Berkeley, California); Richard H. Kramer (Oakland, California); Matthew R. Banghart (Oakland, California); Doris L. Fortin (Ottawa, Canada); Alexandre Mourot (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides a photoreactive synthetic regulator of protein function. The present disclosure further provides a light-regulated polypeptide that includes a subject synthetic regulator. Also provided are cells and membranes comprising a subject light-regulated polypeptide. The present disclosure further provides methods of modulating protein function, involving use of light. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 19, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/132553 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 245/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 14/705 (20130101) Organic Dyes or Closely-related Compounds for Producing Dyes; Mordants; Lakes C09B 44/04 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 13/00 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/025 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/566 (20130101) G01N 33/5008 (20130101) G01N 2500/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09688644 | Myers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew G. Myers (Boston, Massachusetts); David A. Kummer (La Jolla, California); Derun Li (Roselle Park, New Jersey); Evan Hecker (Arlington, Massachusetts); Amelie Dion (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Peter M. Wright (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The tetracycline class of antibiotics has played a major role in the treatment of infectious diseases for the past 50 years. However, the increased use of the tetracyclines in human and veterinary medicine has led to resistance among many organisms previously susceptible to tetracycline antibiotics. The recent development of a modular synthesis of tetracycline analogs through a chiral enone intermediate has allowed for the efficient synthesis of novel tetracycline analogs never prepared before. The present invention provides more efficient routes for preparing the enone intermediate and allows for substituents at positions 4a, 5, 5a, and 12a of the tetracycline ring system. |
| FILED | Monday, July 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/792493 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | General Methods of Organic Chemistry; Apparatus Therefor C07B 2200/07 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 29/32 (20130101) C07C 45/00 (20130101) C07C 45/29 (20130101) C07C 45/67 (20130101) C07C 45/69 (20130101) C07C 45/69 (20130101) C07C 45/673 (20130101) C07C 45/673 (20130101) C07C 49/637 (20130101) C07C 49/637 (20130101) C07C 49/637 (20130101) C07C 237/26 (20130101) C07C 311/05 (20130101) C07C 2101/02 (20130101) C07C 2101/08 (20130101) C07C 2103/46 (20130101) C07C 2103/66 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/16 (20130101) C07D 209/58 (20130101) C07D 213/30 (20130101) C07D 213/74 (20130101) C07D 233/61 (20130101) C07D 261/18 (20130101) C07D 261/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 277/24 (20130101) C07D 277/64 (20130101) C07D 295/15 (20130101) C07D 295/155 (20130101) C07D 498/04 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 7/188 (20130101) C07F 7/0814 (20130101) |
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| US 09688653 | Seed et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina); The University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas); Southern Research Institute (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina); University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas); Southern Research Institute (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick C. Seed (Durham, North Carolina); Carlos C. Goller (Durham, North Carolina); Steven Rogers (Dallas, Texas); Brooks Maki (Las Vegas, Nevada); Frank Schoenen (Lawrence, Kansas); James Noah (Birmingham, Alabama); E. Lucile White (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates generally to the discovery of a method of inhibiting, preventing or treating bacterial infections. The invention also relates to a method of inhibiting bacterial capsule biogenesis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/514725 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/43 (20130101) A61K 31/381 (20130101) A61K 31/545 (20130101) A61K 31/4439 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 333/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 409/12 (20130101) C07D 417/12 (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 1/025 (20130101) |
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| US 09688668 | Santos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PATENT FOUNDATION (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Webster L. Santos (Blacksburg, Virginia); Kevin R. Lynch (Charlottesville, Virginia); Timothy L. Macdonald (Charlottesville, Virginia); Andrew Kennedy (Charlottesville, Virginia); Yugesh Kharel (Charlottesville, Virginia); Mithun Rajendra Raje (Baltimore, Maryland); Joseph Houck (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to inhibitors of Sphingosine Kinase enzymatic activity, and methods of treating diseases and disorders by administering inhibitors of Sphingosine Kinase enzymatic activity. |
| FILED | Friday, February 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/377300 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 251/02 (20130101) C07C 251/12 (20130101) C07C 257/14 (20130101) C07C 257/16 (20130101) C07C 271/20 (20130101) C07C 275/70 (20130101) C07C 279/00 (20130101) C07C 279/16 (20130101) C07C 279/18 (20130101) C07C 281/16 (20130101) C07C 2101/02 (20130101) C07C 2101/14 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 249/08 (20130101) C07D 263/32 (20130101) C07D 271/06 (20130101) C07D 271/10 (20130101) C07D 413/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 413/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09688673 | Radu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Caius G. Radu (Los Angeles, California); Hsiang-I Liao (Arcadia, California); Nagichettiar Satyamurthy (Los Angeles, California); Johannes Czernin (Pacific Palisades, California); Jennifer M. Murphy (Los Angeles, California); David A. Nathanson (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Caius G. Radu (Los Angeles, California); Hsiang-I Liao (Arcadia, California); Nagichettiar Satyamurthy (Los Angeles, California); Johannes Czernin (Pacific Palisades, California); Jennifer M. Murphy (Los Angeles, California); David A. Nathanson (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compounds that bind to deoxycytidine kinase (dCK) and compositions including pharmaceutically acceptable compositions containing the compounds. The compounds are useful in treating diseases and disorders where dCK activity is implicated such as cancer and immune disorders. The compounds also find use in clinical methodologies including positron emission tomography (PET) imaging. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/002964 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/44 (20130101) A61K 31/426 (20130101) A61K 31/506 (20130101) A61K 31/513 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 417/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 417/14 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5088 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duquesne University of the Holy Ghost (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aleem Gangjee (Allison Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses a compound comprising the formula: wherein R is hydrogen or an alkyl group having from one to ten carbon atoms, or a compound of the formula wherein the S is replaced by CH2, and optionally comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrate, or solvate thereof. A method of treating a patient having cancer or a disease comprising administering to a patient an effective amount of the compound or pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrate, or solvate thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, August 07, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/820725 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/343 (20130101) A61K 31/505 (20130101) A61K 31/4709 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 239/48 (20130101) C07D 403/02 (20130101) C07D 405/02 (20130101) C07D 487/04 (20130101) C07D 495/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09688708 | Etchenique et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University In The City of New York (New York, New York); Universidad de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York, New York); Universidad de Buenos Aires (Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roberto Etchenique (Buenos Aires, Argentina); Rafael Yuste (New York, New York); Luis Baraldo (Buenos Aires, Argentina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes Photolabile Compounds methods for use of the compounds. The Photolabile Compounds have a photoreleasable ligand, which can be biologically active, and which is photoreleased from the compound upon exposure to light. In one embodiment, the light is visible light, which is not detrimental to the viability of biological samples, such as cells and tissues, in which the released organic molecule is bioactive and can have a therapeutic effect. |
| FILED | Monday, February 29, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/056340 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 401/14 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 15/06 (20130101) C07F 15/0046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5008 (20130101) |
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| US 09688717 | Cheng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ji-xin Cheng (West Lafayette, Indiana); Mingji Dai (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel Raman tags for exploring membrane interactions in cells. The tags comprise a phenyl diyne probe where in the dyine is capped with the phenyl group. Methods for using the tags are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/850949 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Steroids C07J 9/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07J 9/005 (20130101) C07J 17/00 (20130101) C07J 41/0094 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/52 (20130101) |
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| US 09688722 | McKee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick A. McKee (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma); Kenneth W. Jackson (Edmond, Oklahoma); Victoria J. Christiansen (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | Inhibitors of fibroblast activation protein alpha (FAP) and Prolyl Oligopeptidase (POP) are disclosed, along with their use in various therapies related to conditions, diseases, and disorders involving abnormal cell proliferation such as malignancies and angiogenesis, and in neural disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. Stalk portions of the inhibitor molecules, and substrates of FAP and POP, are also disclosed and may be used, for example, in screening methods for identifying such inhibitors. |
| FILED | Friday, May 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/398886 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/21 (20130101) A61K 38/21 (20130101) A61K 38/28 (20130101) A61K 38/28 (20130101) A61K 38/30 (20130101) A61K 38/30 (20130101) A61K 38/1825 (20130101) A61K 38/1825 (20130101) A61K 38/1858 (20130101) A61K 38/1858 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 5/0202 (20130101) C07K 5/0815 (20130101) C07K 5/0817 (20130101) C07K 5/0819 (20130101) C07K 5/0821 (20130101) C07K 5/1019 (20130101) C07K 5/06069 (20130101) C07K 5/06086 (20130101) C07K 5/06095 (20130101) C07K 5/06104 (20130101) C07K 5/06113 (20130101) C07K 5/06147 (20130101) C07K 7/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09688724 | Rodgers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kathleen E. Rodgers (Long Beach, California); Gere S. diZerega (San Luis Obispo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for limiting development of skin wounds, and also for treatment of one or more of erythemas, blisters, rashes, pruritis, contact dermatitis, psoriasis, eczema, acne, and athlete's foot. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/401013 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| 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 2013/0051 (20130101) A61F 2013/00365 (20130101) A61F 2013/00404 (20130101) A61F 2013/00519 (20130101) A61F 2013/00902 (20130101) A61F 2013/00927 (20130101) A61F 2013/00982 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/06 (20130101) A61K 9/0014 (20130101) A61K 38/085 (20130101) A61K 47/14 (20130101) A61K 47/38 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09688727 | Lieber et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON THROUGH ITS CENTER FOR COMMERCIALIZATION (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andre Lieber (Seattle, Washington); Hongjie Wang (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides recombinant adenoviral compositions and methods for their use in treating disorders associated with epithelial tissues. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/429803 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 47/42 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) C07K 14/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2319/74 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0652 (20130101) C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 15/10 (20130101) C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 2501/998 (20130101) C12N 2506/00 (20130101) C12N 2710/10321 (20130101) C12N 2710/10322 (20130101) C12N 2710/10333 (20130101) |
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| US 09688731 | Klein et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Klein (Madison, Wisconsin); Theodore Brandhorst (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for obtaining highly pure native, recombinant or modified BAD-1 protein include the steps of culturing a population of microbes expressing BAD-1 protein in a culture medium, collecting the population of microbes from the culture medium, obtaining a BAD-1 protein-containing solution, and purifying the BAD-1 protein from the solution by combining the BAD-1 protein-containing solution with a nickel-chelating resin, washing the nickel-chelating resin to remove unbound matter, and eluting the BAD-1 protein from the nickel-chelating resin. Highly pure native BAD-1 protein may be used in diagnostic kits for detecting Blastomyces dermatitidis infections in animals. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/720513 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/37 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2319/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/02 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6893 (20130101) G01N 33/56961 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven A. Rosenberg (Potomac, Maryland); Richard A. Morgan (Columbia, Maryland); Timothy L. Frankel (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides T cell receptors (TCRs) having antigenic specificity for a cancer antigen, e.g., tyrosinase. Also provided are related polypeptides, proteins, nucleic acids, recombinant expression vectors, isolated host cells, populations of cells, and pharmaceutical compositions. The invention further provides a method of detecting the presence of cancer in a host and a method of treating or preventing cancer in a host using the inventive TCRs or related materials. |
| FILED | Friday, March 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/221823 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/705 (20130101) C07K 14/7051 (20130101) C07K 14/70503 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57492 (20130101) |
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| US 09688743 | Schmidt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brigitte F. Schmidt (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Christopher S. Szent-Gyorgyi (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Alan S. Waggoner (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Peter B. Berget (Glenshaw, Pennsylvania); Marcel P. Bruchez (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Jonathan W. Jarvik (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are biosensors, compositions comprising biosensors, and methods of using biosensors in living cells and organisms. The biosensors are able to be selectively targeted to certain regions or structures within a cell. The biosensors may provide a signal when the biosensor is targeted and/or in response to a property of the cell or organism such as membrane potential, ion concentration or enzyme activity. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/146575 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/0021 (20130101) A61K 49/0023 (20130101) A61K 49/0032 (20130101) A61K 49/0056 (20130101) A61K 49/0058 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/44 (20130101) C07K 2317/21 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) Organic Dyes or Closely-related Compounds for Producing Dyes; Mordants; Lakes C09B 69/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/52 (20130101) G01N 33/5308 (20130101) |
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| US 09688747 | Lu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kun Ping Lu (Newton, Massachusetts); Xiao Zhen Zhou (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention features methods and compositions for the generation and use of conformation-specific anti-bodies or fragments thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/776924 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 16/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/20 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) C07K 2317/56 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2317/565 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101) |
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| US 09688772 | Cheung et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nai-Kong Cheung (New York, New York); Mahiuddin Ahmed (Verona, New Jersey); Hong Xu (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In this application are described chimeric, humanized, affinity matured, stability enhanced, and bispecific Anti-GD2 antibodies and fragments thereof. Also provided are methods of using individual antibodies or compositions thereof for the detection, prevention, and/or therapeutical treatment of GD2-related diseases, in particular, neuroblastoma. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 19, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/946577 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/44 (20130101) C07K 16/46 (20130101) C07K 16/461 (20130101) C07K 16/468 (20130101) C07K 16/2803 (20130101) C07K 16/3084 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/24 (20130101) C07K 2317/31 (20130101) C07K 2317/33 (20130101) C07K 2317/72 (20130101) C07K 2317/73 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) C07K 2317/567 (20130101) C07K 2317/732 (20130101) C07K 2317/734 (20130101) |
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| US 09688812 | Gu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank X. Gu (Waterloo, Canada); Omid C. Farokhzad (Waban, Massachusetts); Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts); Benjamin A. Teply (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | A method includes producing libraries of nanoparticles having highly controlled properties, which can be formed by mixing together two or more macromolecules in different ratios. One or more of the macromolecules may be a polymeric conjugate of a moiety to a biocompatible polymer. The nanoparticle may contain a drug. The moiety may include a polypeptide or a polynucleotide, such as an aptamer. The moiety may be a targeting moiety, an imaging moiety, a chelating moiety, a charged moiety, or a therapeutic moiety. Another aspect is directed to systems and methods of producing such polymeric conjugates. In some embodiments, a solution containing a polymer is contacted with a liquid, such as an immiscible liquid, to form nanoparticles containing the polymeric conjugate. Other methods use such libraries, use or administer such polymeric conjugates, or promote the use of such polymeric conjugates. Kits involving such polymeric conjugates are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, February 13, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/621551 |
| 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 9/5153 (20130101) A61K 47/482 (20130101) A61K 47/48092 (20130101) A61K 47/48215 (20130101) A61K 47/48246 (20130101) A61K 47/48907 (20130101) A61K 47/48915 (20130101) A61K 49/00 (20130101) A61K 51/1244 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 63/912 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/773 (20130101) Y10S 977/906 (20130101) Y10S 977/915 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2982 (20150115) |
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| US 09688957 | Murphy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William L. Murphy (Waunakee, Wisconsin); Ngoc Nhi Le (Norcross, Georgia); Michael P. Schwartz (Madison, Wisconsin); Eric Huy Dang Nguyen (Madison, Wisconsin); Stefan Zorn (Madison, Wisconsin); Hamisha Ardalani (Madison, Wisconsin); Matthew Zanotelli (Muskego, Wisconsin); Matthew Brian Parlato (Madison, Wisconsin); David Gregory Belair (Madison, Wisconsin); William T. Daly (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Hydrogel Compositions and methods of using hydrogel compositions are disclosed. Advantageously, the hydrogel compositions offer the ability to rapidly screen substrate components for influencing cell attachment, spreading, proliferation, migration, and differentiation. In particularly suitable embodiments, the hydrogel compositions of the present disclosure may be used to promote tubulogenesis of endothelial cells. |
| FILED | Friday, April 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/684062 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/0046 (20130101) B01J 2219/00596 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0606 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2533/20 (20130101) C12N 2533/30 (20130101) C12N 2537/10 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6452 (20130101) G01N 33/4833 (20130101) G01N 2610/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09688962 | Dalecki et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Diane Dalecki (Rochester, New York); Denise Hocking (Rochester, New York); Kelley Garvin (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Diane Dalecki (Rochester, New York); Denise Hocking (Rochester, New York); Kelley Garvin (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods of inducing spatial organization of cells an in vitro culture system using ultrasound technology. The invention is further directed to methods of inducing extracellular matrix remodeling and neovessel formation in an in vitro culture system and generating vascularized engineered tissue constructs using ultrasound technology. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/321218 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0062 (20130101) C12N 5/069 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 5/0656 (20130101) C12N 2521/10 (20130101) C12N 2533/52 (20130101) C12N 2533/54 (20130101) |
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| US 09688971 | Doudna et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer A. Doudna (Berkeley, California); Martin Jinek (Zurich, Switzerland); Samuel H. Sternberg (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides variant Cas endoribonucleases, nucleic acids encoding the variant Cas endoribonucleases, and host cells genetically modified with the nucleic acids. The variant Cas endoribonucleases find use in a variety of applications, which are also provided. The present disclosure also provides methods of detecting a specific sequence in a target polyribonucleotide; and methods of regulating production of a target RNA in a eukaryotic cell. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/403413 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/22 (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 1/6834 (20130101) |
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| US 09688976 | Woo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Korea Institute of Science and Technology (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Korea Institute of Science and Technology (Seoul, South Korea) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Han Min Woo (Seoul, South Korea); Youngsoon Um (Seoul, South Korea); Jun Won Chwa (Seoul, South Korea); Gyeongtaek Gong (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are a transformed Synechococcus elongatus strain having improved capability of producing acetone and a method for producing acetone and a method for removing carbon dioxide using the same. In an aspect, the transformed Synechococcus elongatus strain of the present disclosure can produce acetone with high selectivity using carbon dioxide as a carbon source. The present disclosure is economical because the Synechococcus elongatus strain can economically produce high value-added acetone using carbon dioxide existing in the atmosphere as a carbon source without requiring an additional catalytic reaction. Also, the present disclosure is environment-friendly because carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can be removed or reduced using the microorganism. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 01, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/057551 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/13 (20130101) C12N 9/88 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 9/93 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 208/03009 (20130101) C12Y 401/01004 (20130101) C12Y 602/01001 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 60/247 (20151101) |
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| US 09688981 | Dekker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Job Dekker (Princeton, Massachusetts); Josee Dostie (Montreal, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to genomic analysis. In particular, the present invention provides methods and compositions for mapping genomic interactions. |
| FILED | Friday, February 26, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/054305 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1072 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/1093 (20130101) |
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| US 09688982 | Yu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | City of Hope (Duarte, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CITY OF HOPE (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hua Yu (Glendora, California); Marcin Kortylewski (Monrovia, California); Richard Jove (Glendora, California); Piotr Marek Swiderski (San Dimas, California); John J. Rossi (Alta Loma, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and compositions for the treatment of diseases, including cancer, infectious diseases and autoimmune diseases. The present invention also relates to methods and compositions for improving immune function. More particularly, the present invention relates to multifunctional molecules that are capable of being delivered to cells of interest for the treatment of diseases and for the improvement in immune function. |
| FILED | Friday, October 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/052621 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 31/7105 (20130101) A61K 47/481 (20130101) A61K 47/48092 (20130101) Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 21/02 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/1135 (20130101) |
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| US 09688991 | Levy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE OF YESHIVA UNIVERSITY (Bronx, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Inc. (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Levy (New Rochelle, New York); Deborah Palliser (Bronx, New York); Brian Christopher Wengerter (Bronx, New York); Steven Craig Almo (Pelham, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition is provided comprising an oligonucleotide aptamer conjugated to an antigen, wherein the aptamer is directed against a cell-surface target of an antigen-presenting cell. Also provided are methods of delivering an antigen to a dendritic cell and of eliciting an immune response in a subject. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/413727 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/385 (20130101) A61K 47/48092 (20130101) A61K 2039/6025 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/115 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/1138 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/16 (20130101) C12N 2310/3513 (20130101) C12N 2320/32 (20130101) |
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| US 09688994 | Lajoie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc J. Lajoie (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Christopher J. Gregg (Roslindale, Massachusetts); Joshua A. Mosberg (Cambridge, Massachusetts); George M. Church (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of introducing a nucleic acid sequence into a cell is provided where the cell has impaired or inhibited or disrupted DnaG primase activity or impaired or inhibited or disrupted DnaB helicase activity, or larger or increased gaps or distance between Okazaki fragments or lowered or reduced frequency of Okazaki fragment initiation, or the cell has increased single stranded DNA (ssDNA) on the lagging strand of the replication fork including transforming the cell through recombination with a nucleic acid oligomer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/954351 |
| 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) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/102 (20130101) C12N 15/1024 (20130101) |
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| US 09689022 | Hsieh-Wilson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Linda Hsieh-Wilson (San Marino, California); Nelly Khidekel (Pasadena, California); Hwan-Ching Tai (Pasadena, California); Sabine Arndt (Dortmund, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and compositions for the rapid and sensitive detection of post-translationally modified proteins, and particularly of those with posttranslational glycosylations. The methods can be used to detect O-GlcNAc posttranslational modifications on proteins on which such modifications were undetectable using other techniques. In one embodiment, the method exploits the ability of an engine˜red mutant of β-1,4-galactosyltransferase to selectively transfer an unnatural ketone functionality onto O-GlcNAc glycosylated proteins. Once transferred, the ketone moiety serves as a versatile handle for the attachment of biotin, thereby enabling detection of the modified protein. The approach permits the rapid visualization of proteins that are at the limits of detection using traditional methods. Further, the preferred embodiments can be used for detection of certain disease states, such as cancer, Alzheimer's disease, neurodegeneration, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/581603 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 19/10 (20130101) Peptides C07K 19/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/96 (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 1/48 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/68 (20130101) G01N 33/6803 (20130101) G01N 33/6842 (20130101) |
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| US 09689027 | Cushing et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anna McGinty Cushing (New York, New York); Billy Tsz Cheong Lau (Palo Alto, California); Hanlee P. Ji (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein is a method for sample analysis. In some embodiments, the method may involve: a) enzymatically attaching a reactive group to nucleic acid molecules in a sample; b) covalently reacting the reactive group with surface exposed reactive sites on a porous support, thereby covalently tethering the nucleic acid molecules to the porous support; c) performing a primer extension reaction using the tethered nucleic acid molecules as a template to produce primer extension products; and d) eluting the primer extension products from the porous support, while leaving the tethered nucleic acid molecules tethered to the porous support. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/533996 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/5021 (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 1/6834 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6834 (20130101) C12Q 2523/32 (20130101) C12Q 2527/156 (20130101) |
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| US 09689028 | Cawthon |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard M. Cawthon (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF UTAH FOUNDATION (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard M. Cawthon (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for determining the copy number of a first target nucleic acid as compared to the copy number of a second target nucleic acid in a single well with a single detection label. For example, disclosed herein are methods and compositions for determining the copy number of a first target nucleic acid as compared to the copy number of a second target nucleic acid by a monochrome multiplex quantitative PCR (MMQPCR) in a single well with a single detection label. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/141429 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/686 (20130101) C12Q 1/686 (20130101) C12Q 1/6851 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6851 (20130101) C12Q 2525/155 (20130101) C12Q 2527/107 (20130101) C12Q 2537/143 (20130101) C12Q 2545/101 (20130101) C12Q 2563/173 (20130101) C12Q 2563/173 (20130101) |
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| US 09689039 | Wong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David T. Wong (Beverly Hills, California); Lei Zhang (Los Angeles, California); Hua Xiao (Irvine, California); Hui Zhou (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David T. Wong (Beverly Hills, California); Lei Zhang (Los Angeles, California); Hua Xiao (Irvine, California); Hui Zhou (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Presented herein are biomarkers related to lung cancer. The presently identified salivary biomarkers create the basis for a lung cancer detection bioassay with sensitivity and specificity. Means and methods for evaluating the data generated using multiple biomarkers in order to validate findings and further use of the multiplexed lung cancer assay in clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic uses is also included. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/025130 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/689 (20130101) C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57423 (20130101) |
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| US 09689044 | Blumberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard S. Blumberg (Waltham, Massachusetts); Arthur Kaser (Cambrideshire, United Kingdom) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard S. Blumberg (Waltham, Massachusetts); Arthur Kaser (Cambrideshire, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are MiIP-Seq assays and methods for detecting and/or identifying an immune-stimulating microbe in a patient sample. Also provided herein are methods for diagnosing an infectious disease or identifying a previously uncharacterized microbe in a patient sample. The methods and assays described herein are advantageous over existing methods in that they (i) do not require a culture step for microbe expansion, (ii) are not specific for a particular microbe and can be used to identify a previously uncharacterized microbe, and (iii) permits rapid processing due to the lack of a microbe culture step. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/981388 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/04 (20130101) C12Q 1/689 (20130101) C12Q 1/6806 (20130101) C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) C12Q 1/6888 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/68 (20130101) G01N 2800/26 (20130101) |
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| US 09689745 | Wax et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam Wax (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Robert N. Graf (Durham, North Carolina); Francisco E. Robles (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Current apparatuses and methods for analysis of spectroscopic optical coherence tomography (SOCT) signals suffer from an inherent tradeoff between time (depth) and frequency (wavelength) resolution. In one non-limiting embodiment, multiple or dual window (DW) apparatuses and methods for reconstructing time-frequency distributions (TFDs) that applies two windows that independently determine the optical and temporal resolution is provided. For example, optical resolution is provided. For example, optical resolution may relate to scattering information about a sample, and temporal resolution may be related to absorption or depth related information. The effectiveness of the apparatuses and methods is demonstrated in simulations and in processing of measured OCT signals that contain fields which vary in time and frequency. The DW technique may yield TFDs that maintain high spectral and temporal resolution and are free from the artifacts and limitations commonly observed with other processing methods. |
| FILED | Monday, February 22, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/050368 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 9/02044 (20130101) G01B 9/02084 (20130101) G01B 9/02087 (20130101) G01B 9/02091 (20130101) Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/45 (20130101) G01J 3/453 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01J 2003/4538 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/49 (20130101) |
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| US 09689872 | Steyaert et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | VIB VZW (Gent, Belgium); Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels, Belgium); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | VIB VZW (Ghent, Belgium); Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels, Belgium); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jan Steyaert (Beersel, Belgium); Juan Jose Fung (San Jose, California); Brian Kobilka (Palo Alto, California); Toon Laeremans (Dworp, Belgium); Els Pardon (Lubbeek, Belgium); Soren G. F. Rasmussen (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the field of GPCR structure biology and signaling. In particular, the present invention relates to protein binding domains directed against or capable of specifically binding to a functional conformational state of a G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR). More specifically, the present invention provides protein binding domains that are capable of increasing the stability of a functional conformational state of a GPCR, in particular, increasing the stability of a GPCR in its active conformational state. The protein binding domains of the present invention can be used as a tool for the structural and functional characterization of G-protein-coupled receptors bound to various natural and synthetic ligands, as well as for screening and drug discovery efforts targeting GPCRs. Moreover, the invention also encompasses the diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic usefulness of these protein binding domains for GPCR-related diseases. |
| FILED | Saturday, August 13, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/236398 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/705 (20130101) C07K 16/28 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/68 (20130101) G01N 33/566 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/726 (20130101) |
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| US 09689876 | Krogsgaard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michelle Krogsgaard (New York, New York); Iman Osman (Jersey City, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to method for predicting a subject's relative response to cancer immunotherapy treatment. The methods involve providing a sample comprising a tumor cell or a peripheral blood cell from the subject; measuring the expression level of matrix metalloproteinase-23 (“MMP-23”) by the tumor cell or the peripheral blood cell; comprising the measured expression level of MMP-23 with a control or standard value; and determining the subject's predicted response to cancer immunotherapy, where, based on said comparing, a higher MMP-23 expression level compared to the control or standard value predicts the subject will have a poor response to cancer immunotherapy. The present invention also relates to methods for increasing production of tumor infiltrating leucocytes (“TILs”) in a subject, methods of identifying a subject as a candidate for adoptive T-cell therapy using T-cells that primarily express KCa3.1 channels, and methods of treating a subject having melanoma by administering an MMP-23 inhibitor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/398377 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57407 (20130101) G01N 33/57496 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/96494 (20130101) G01N 2800/52 (20130101) |
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| US 09689939 | Potter et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Athens, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William M. Potter (Athens, Georgia); Qun Zhao (Watkinsville, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure describes, in one aspect, a device that includes a dual-tuned birdcage coil. The dual-tuned birdcage coil generally includes an inner multinuclear coil and a plurality of outer 1H coils separated from the inner coil. Also, the dual-tuned birdcage coil is generally configured so that the inner coil may be tuned independently of one or more of the outer coils. In some embodiments, the device may be configured to provide inductive coupling between the inner coil and the plurality of outer coils. In some embodiments, the multinuclear coil can include 31P, 13C, 23Na, 15N, 17O, or 19F, etc. In another aspect, this disclosure describes using the device to a generate magnetic resonance in a target. In some of cases, the method can further include creating an image of the target from the magnetic resonance generated by the device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/048148 |
| ART UNIT | 2852 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/3415 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 33/3635 (20130101) G01R 33/34076 (20130101) |
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| US 09689948 | Ugurbil et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kamil Ugurbil (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Edward Auerbach (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for producing images depicting a plurality of slice locations in a subject using a magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”} system is provided. In particular, the system and method utilize time-shifted multiband radio frequency (“RF”} pulses to lower peak voltage and peak power requirements when using conventional multiband RF pulses. A time-shifted multiband RF pulse includes at least two component RF pulses, which may be single-band or multiband pulses. The component RF pulses are designed such that they do not have temporal footprints that completely overlap; although, they may have temporal foot-prints that partially overlap or do not overlap at all. The MRI system is used to acquire magnetic resonance signals formed in response to a time-shifted multiband RF pulse and, from these acquired signals, images depicting each of the plurality of slice locations in the subject are reconstructed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/349195 |
| ART UNIT | 2852 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/055 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/4835 (20130101) G01R 33/5615 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09691017 | Lu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy Kuan-Ta Lu (Charlestown, Massachusetts); Piro Siuti (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides, inter alia, recombinase-based systems that provide for integrated logic and memory in living cells. |
| FILED | Friday, December 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/105994 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09691147 | Krishna et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico); SKINfrared LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico); SKINfrared LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanjay Krishna (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Sanchita Krishna (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Majeed M. Hayat (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Pradeep Sen (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Maziar Yaesoubi (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Sebastian Eugenio Godoy (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Ajit Vijay Barve (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods comprise examination of a subject using images of the subject. The images can provide a non-invasive analysis technique and can include a plurality of images of a portion of the subject at different times a temperature stimulus applied to the subject. An image of the portion of the subject can be aligned such that each pixel of the image corresponds to the same point on the subject over a sequence of images of the portion. The sequence of images can be processed after aligning the images such that data is extracted from the images. The extracted data can be used to make decisions regarding the health status of the subject. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, September 23, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/274028 |
| ART UNIT | 2667 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/321 (20130101) G06F 19/345 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/46 (20130101) G06K 9/4604 (20130101) G06K 9/6267 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 3/00 (20130101) G06T 3/0068 (20130101) G06T 7/0012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 7/0016 (20130101) G06T 7/30 (20170101) G06T 7/337 (20170101) G06T 2207/10024 (20130101) G06T 2207/10048 (20130101) G06T 2207/30088 (20130101) G06T 2207/30096 (20130101) G06T 2207/30204 (20130101) |
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| US 09693034 | Lew et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew D. Lew (East Palo Alto, California); William E. Moerner (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward methods, systems, and apparatus that include an optical detection node to pass light through the optical pathway to the optical detection node where the light is detectable. At least one focusing element is provided to pass the light along the optical pathway, and at least one optical mask is used to provide spatially-varying modulation on the light passing along the optical pathway. The light passing along the optical pathway is redirected and modified to create a spiral point spread function at the optical detection node for estimating a distance to an object that is characterized at least in part by the light passing along the optical pathway. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/712728 |
| ART UNIT | 2481 — Recording and Compression |
| 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 11/12 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 13/0203 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09693152 | Sabin |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Sabin (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A hearing assistance device may be a hearing aid worn on a person or a mobile device. The hearing assistance device may perform a hearing assistance algorithm based on signal processing parameters. A set of audiological values for a population may be identified. The set of audiological values has a first number of dimensions. The set of audiological values is converted to a reduced data set. The reduced data has set has a second number of dimensions less than the first number of dimensions. A processor calculates a trajectory for the reduced data set. The trajectory provides signal processing parameters for the hearing assistance device. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 13, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/825705 |
| ART UNIT | 2652 — Videophones and Telephonic Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups or Like Acoustic Electromechanical Transducers; Deaf-aid Sets; Public Address Systems H04R 25/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04R 25/70 (20130101) H04R 2225/55 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Houston System (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kirill V. Larin (Friendswood, Texas); Jiasong Li (Houston, Texas); Manmohan Singh (Houston, Texas); Chen Wu (Houston, Texas); Salavat Aglyamov (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An excitation force (internal or external) and phase-sensitive optical coherence elastography (OCE) system, used in conjunction with a data analyzing algorithm, is capable of measuring and quantifying biomechanical parameters of tissues in situ and in vivo. The method was approbated and demonstrated on an example of the system that combines a pulsed ultrasound system capable of producing an acoustic radiation force on the crystalline lens surface and a phase-sensitive optical coherence tomography (OCT) system for measuring the lens displacement caused by the acoustic radiation force. The method allows noninvasive and nondestructive quantification of tissue mechanical properties. The noninvasive measurement method also utilizes phase-stabilized swept source optical coherence elastography (PhS-SSOCE) to distinguish between tissue stiffness, such as that attributable to disease, and effects on measured stiffness that result from external factors, such as pressure applied to the tissue. Preferably, the method is used to detect tissue stiffness and to evaluate the presence of its stiffness even if it is affected by other factors such as intraocular pressure (IOP) in the case of cornea, sclera, or the lens. This noninvasive method can evaluate the biomechanical properties of the tissues in vivo for detecting the onset and progression of degenerative or other diseases (such as keratoconus). |
| FILED | Friday, November 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/934663 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 3/0025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 3/102 (20130101) A61B 3/165 (20130101) A61B 5/0051 (20130101) A61B 5/0053 (20130101) A61B 5/0066 (20130101) A61B 5/0093 (20130101) A61B 5/0097 (20130101) |
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| US 09687180 | Deninger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yotta Navigation Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | YOTTA NAVIGATION CORPORATION (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William James Deninger (San Mateo, California); Andrew John Zaydak (Sunnyvale, California); Joseph Martin Schlesselman (Santa Clara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for identifying human motion of a subject may comprise: a sensor platform attached to the subject; an attitude filter that receives sensor data and calculates the attitude and heading of the platform; a feature construction and aggregation unit that receives the sensor data and the attitude and heading to calculate a feature vector for a human motion model, an evaluation unit that receives feature vectors and calculates the probability that an instance of a specific human motion occurred; wherein the feature vector comprises: one or more feature constructions, X, such as: forces along and perpendicular to the gravity field direction; a magnitude of rotations perpendicular to the gravity field direction; an adjusted pressure altitude; one or more feature constructions which are time derivatives dX/dt; and one or more feature constructions which are derivatives V(dX/dt), wherein: V(x)=2*H(x)−1, H(x)=+1 (x>0), 0 (x<0), and x is dX/dt. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 29, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/983441 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/725 (20130101) A61B 5/1123 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/6823 (20130101) A61B 5/6831 (20130101) A61B 2562/0219 (20130101) Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 5/06 (20130101) G01C 21/14 (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 19/42 (20130101) |
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| US 09687195 | Sims et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); 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); THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathaniel M. Sims (Milton, Massachusetts); Nhedti Colquitt (Aloha, Oregon); Michael Wollowitz (Chatham, New York); Matt Hickcox (Devens, Massachusetts); Michael Dempsey (Groton, Massachusetts); Reed J. Hoyt (Framingham, Massachusetts); Mark J. Buller (Douglas, Massachusetts); John S. Ames (Wayland, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A wearable platform embodied in a belt or patch provides physiological monitoring of soldiers during field operations or trauma victims at accident sites and makes health state assessments. The platform includes sensors for heart rate, body motion, respiration rate and intensity, and temperature and further contains a microprocessor and short range transmitter. An analog circuit running an algorithm obtains the R-wave period from the EKG signal and produces electrical pulses with the period between pulses corresponding to the R-wave period. A rule based processing engine having an evaluation algorithm is capable of making a medical evaluation of subject condition and determines a confidence level for the evaluation. The rules are subject to variation depending upon the subject population. The information is communicated wirelessly to a local hub for relay to a remote monitor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/049001 |
| ART UNIT | 3769 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/72 (20130101) A61B 5/113 (20130101) A61B 5/1135 (20130101) A61B 5/02055 (20130101) A61B 5/6804 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/6831 (20130101) A61B 2562/0261 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/34 (20130101) G06F 19/345 (20130101) G06F 19/3418 (20130101) G06F 19/3431 (20130101) G06F 19/3487 (20130101) G06F 19/3493 (20130101) |
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| US 09687461 | Venn-Watson |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephanie Venn-Watson (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephanie Venn-Watson (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for detecting risks for and/or causes of metabolic syndrome or hyperferritinemia in accordance with several embodiments can include the step of measuring the level of heptadecanoic acid in a blood sample of a subject. The methods of several embodiments can further include the step of deeming the subject as having or being at risk of metabolic syndrome if the amount of heptadecanoic acid is below 0.4% of all fatty acids in the sera or plasma. The methods for treating metabolic syndrome or hyperferritinemia according to several embodiments can also include the step of administering a daily dose of heptadecanoic acid to a subject suffering from metabolic syndrome or hyperferritinemia for a period of time from three weeks to twenty-four weeks, wherein the minimum daily dose comprises about 3 mg per lb (or 6 mg per kg) of body weight. |
| FILED | Monday, December 28, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/980695 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/201 (20130101) A61K 31/202 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/92 (20130101) G01N 2405/00 (20130101) G01N 2800/04 (20130101) G01N 2800/22 (20130101) G01N 2800/042 (20130101) G01N 2800/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09687502 | Shi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Riyi Shi (West Lafayette, Indiana); Richard B. Borgens (Delphi, Indiana); Raphael C. Lee (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (Chicago, Illinois); PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Riyi Shi (West Lafayette, Indiana); Richard B. Borgens (Delphi, Indiana); Raphael C. Lee (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | To achieve, an in vivo repair of injured mammalian nerve tissue, an effective amount of a biomembrane fusion agent is administered to the injured nerve tissue. The application of the biomembrane fusion agent may be performed by directly contacting the agent with the nerve tissue at the site of the injury. Alternatively, the biomembrane fusion agent is delivered to the site of the injury through the blood supply after administration of the biomembrane fusion agent to the patient. The administration is preferably by parenteral administration including including intravascular, intramuscular, subcutaneous, or intraperitoneal injection of an effective quantity of the biomembrane fusion agent so that an effective amount is delivered to the site of the nerve tissue injury. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/901481 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/00 (20130101) A61K 31/74 (20130101) A61K 31/74 (20130101) A61K 31/77 (20130101) A61K 31/77 (20130101) A61K 31/765 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/765 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09687563 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | I-Wei Chen (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania); Hoon Choi (Newtown Square, Pennsylvania); Rong Zhou (Cherry Hill, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A new nanoscale carrier made by one or more pH-sensitive peptides is provided for delivery of a biologically active substance. The peptides are composed of pH-sensitive hydrophilic and hydrophobic amino acids in the backbone. As the pH environment changes from physiological pH level to a weakly acidic environment such as near a tumor site (pH˜6.5-6.9), the peptides may dissolve, releasing the biological substance. Also provided are the delivery methods and related kits. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/914787 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/5169 (20130101) A61K 31/337 (20130101) A61K 31/416 (20130101) A61K 31/433 (20130101) A61K 47/48215 (20130101) A61K 47/48315 (20130101) A61K 47/48807 (20130101) A61K 47/48884 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/48907 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/08 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/141 (20130101) C12N 2310/3513 (20130101) C12N 2320/32 (20130101) C12N 2320/51 (20130101) |
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| US 09687840 | Gin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, A BODY CORPORATE (Denver, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas Gin (Longmont, Colorado); Trevor Carlisle (Boulder, Colorado); Richard Noble (Boulder, Colorado); Garret Nicodemus (Broomfield, Colorado); William McDanel (Boulder, Colorado); Matthew Cowan (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes compositions comprising curable imidazolium-functionalized poly(room-temperature ionic liquid) copolymers and homopolymers. The invention further includes methods of preparing and using the compositions of the invention. The invention further includes novel methods of preparing thin, supported, room-temperature ionic liquid-containing polymeric films on a porous support. In certain embodiments, the methods of the invention avoid the use of a gutter layer, which greatly reduces the overall gas permeance and selectivity of the composite membrane. In other embodiments, the films of the invention have increased gas selectivity and permeance over films prepared using methods described in the prior art. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/413772 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/228 (20130101) B01D 67/0013 (20130101) B01D 69/12 (20130101) B01D 71/34 (20130101) B01D 71/64 (20130101) B01D 2053/221 (20130101) B01D 2323/46 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 39/19 (20170101) B01J 39/185 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 41/09 (20170101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 8/30 (20130101) C08F 8/30 (20130101) C08F 12/18 (20130101) C08F 12/26 (20130101) C08F 12/32 (20130101) C08F 112/14 (20130101) C08F 112/32 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 59/26 (20130101) C08G 59/5006 (20130101) |
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| US 09688152 | Reichard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Karl Martin Reichard (State College, Pennsylvania); Christopher Mark Rogan (State College, Pennsylvania); Elisha M. Hughes (State College, Pennsylvania); Nathaniel John Hobbs (State College, Pennsylvania); Heath Fred Hofmann (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl Martin Reichard (State College, Pennsylvania); Christopher Mark Rogan (State College, Pennsylvania); Elisha M. Hughes (State College, Pennsylvania); Nathaniel John Hobbs (State College, Pennsylvania); Heath Fred Hofmann (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Advances in robot performance have been limited by a lack of advances in the mature field of battery technology. The focus of robotic power systems must expand from the use of single energy devices to the inclusion of multiple devices which can be optimized for a robotic platform. The challenge lies in the development of the hardware and control algorithms for a scalable power delivery architecture which satisfies the power and energy requirements of most unmanned ground vehicles. This invention is directed to an architecture which is easily scalable and facilitates the use of a wide variety of energy storage/generation devices, while focusing on the system control algorithm and its stability. The experimental results for an example system are presented demonstrating that the architecture functions properly when faced with real world robotic power demands. |
| FILED | Friday, July 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/554148 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Propulsion of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Supplying Electric Power for Auxiliary Equipment of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Electrodynamic Brake Systems for Vehicles in General; Magnetic Suspension or Levitation for Vehicles; Monitoring Operating Variables of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Electric Safety Devices for Electrically-propelled Vehicles B60L 11/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B60L 11/1861 (20130101) B60L 2200/40 (20130101) B60L 2210/14 (20130101) B60L 2210/30 (20130101) B60L 2240/547 (20130101) B60L 2240/549 (20130101) B60L 2260/32 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/705 (20130101) Y02T 10/7005 (20130101) Y02T 10/7022 (20130101) Y02T 10/7044 (20130101) Y02T 10/7225 (20130101) Y02T 10/7241 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anthony A Ruffa (Hope Valley, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony A Ruffa (Hope Valley, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A neutrally buoyant underwater vehicle is provided in which a length of the vehicle is up to one tenth the length of a predetermined acoustic wavelength. The vehicle includes an inertial navigation system with an accelerometer capable of measuring velocity in a multi-axis direction. The navigation system is operationally connected to a hydrophone which measures acoustic energy of the wavelength arriving at the underwater vehicle. A processor gathers the data from the accelerometer and the hydrophone to convert the data into usable units. The operation of the vehicle-based components is similar to a vector sensor for frequencies of 250 Hz or lower. |
| FILED | Monday, September 28, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/867220 |
| ART UNIT | 3669 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Offensive or Defensive Arrangements on Vessels; Mine-laying; Mine-sweeping; Submarines; Aircraft Carriers B63G 8/001 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B63G 2008/002 (20130101) Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups or Like Acoustic Electromechanical Transducers; Deaf-aid Sets; Public Address Systems H04R 1/44 (20130101) |
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| US 09688533 | Bozorgi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Payam Bozorgi (Santa Barbara, California); Noel C. MacDonald (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Payam Bozorgi (Santa Barbara, California); Noel C. MacDonald (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A new packaging method for a wide range of MEMS for application on both the wafer and device scale. Titanium is used as the packaging material and both silicon and titanium MEMS devices are integrated on to a titanium substrate. A Nd:YAG pulsed laser is used to micro-weld the titanium cap to the substrate. A three-dimensional time dependent model of heat flow during laser beam welding is presented. The heat transfer and parametric design capabilities of COMSOL were employed for this purpose. Model calculations are compared and calibrated with experimental results of pulsed laser welds. The functionality and hermiticity of the proposed packaging was evaluated by packaging a self actuated Veeco Instrument AFM cantilever tip. The experimental measurements show that the resonance frequency and quality factor of the device stay the same before and after packaging and the applied technique has no effect on the device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/982427 |
| ART UNIT | 2848 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Soldering or Unsoldering; Welding; Cladding or Plating by Soldering or Welding; Cutting by Applying Heat Locally, e.g Flame Cutting; Working by Laser Beam B23K 26/24 (20130101) B23K 26/32 (20130101) B23K 26/206 (20130101) B23K 26/0622 (20151001) B23K 2203/14 (20130101) Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00269 (20130101) B81C 3/001 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B81C 2203/038 (20130101) B81C 2203/0118 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/50 (20130101) H01L 23/10 (20130101) H01L 24/97 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/01019 (20130101) H01L 2924/01065 (20130101) H01L 2924/01322 (20130101) H01L 2924/01322 (20130101) H01L 2924/1461 (20130101) H01L 2924/1461 (20130101) H01L 2924/12041 (20130101) H01L 2924/12042 (20130101) H01L 2924/12042 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 1/18 (20130101) |
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| US 09688536 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mei Zhang (Plano, Texas); Shaoli Fang (Richardson, Texas); Ray H. Baughman (Dallas, Texas); Anvar A. Zakhidov (McKinney, Texas); Kenneth Ross Atkinson (Victoria, Australia); Ali E. Aliev (Dallas, Texas); Sergey Li (Dallas, Texas); Chris Williams (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A process of producing a yarn, ribbon or sheet comprising nanofibers that includes infiltrating a liquid into the yarn, ribbon or sheet and evaporating the liquid from the yarn, ribbon, or sheet to strengthen the yarn, ribbon or sheet. The yarn, ribbon, or sheet can be formed by solid-state draw from a carbon nanotube forest. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 07, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/204643 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502707 (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 47/0059 (20130101) Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 5/02 (20130101) B32B 5/12 (20130101) B32B 18/00 (20130101) B32B 37/12 (20130101) B32B 2262/106 (20130101) B32B 2307/202 (20130101) B32B 2310/00 (20130101) B32B 2313/04 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0226 (20130101) C01B 31/0253 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C01B 31/0293 (20130101) C01B 2202/06 (20130101) Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/62231 (20130101) C04B 35/62272 (20130101) C04B 35/62281 (20130101) C04B 35/62855 (20130101) C04B 35/62892 (20130101) C04B 35/62897 (20130101) C04B 2235/422 (20130101) C04B 2235/526 (20130101) C04B 2235/5248 (20130101) C04B 2235/5264 (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 16/50 (20130101) Chemical Features in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons; Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture of Carbon Filaments D01F 9/12 (20130101) D01F 9/127 (20130101) D01F 9/1275 (20130101) Crimping or Curling Fibres, Filaments, Threads, or Yarns; Yarns or Threads D02G 3/16 (20130101) D02G 3/28 (20130101) D02G 3/44 (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 3/002 (20130101) Treating Textile Materials Using Liquids, Gases or Vapours D06B 15/00 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses of Section D, Relating to Textiles D10B 2101/122 (20130101) Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 1/2287 (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 1/133308 (20130101) G02F 2001/1515 (20130101) G02F 2001/133334 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 5/08 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 11/36 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0048 (20130101) H01L 51/5206 (20130101) H01L 51/5234 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/8605 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 9/0081 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) Y02E 60/13 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/521 (20151101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/742 (20130101) Y10S 977/745 (20130101) Y10S 977/746 (20130101) Y10S 977/752 (20130101) Y10S 977/843 (20130101) Y10S 977/847 (20130101) Y10S 977/848 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/30 (20150115) |
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| US 09688538 | Curran et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Seamus Curran (Pearland, Texas); Kang-Shyang Liao (Houston, Texas); Alexander Wang (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seamus Curran (Pearland, Texas); Kang-Shyang Liao (Houston, Texas); Alexander Wang (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved graft polymerization method from general graphitic structures with organic based monomers through the mechanism of Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT) polymerization was developed. Organic hybrid nanomaterials comprising graphitic structures are covalently bonded via chemically reactive groups on the outer walls of the structure. Methods for forming the covalently bonded structures to many organic based monomers and/or polymers may occur through RAFT polymerization utilizing dithioester as a chain transfer agent. The method may also comprise nanocomposite formation of such organic hybrid nanomaterials with common plastic(s) to form graphitic nanocomposite reinforced plastic articles. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 05, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/614982 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0273 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C01B 31/0484 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 5/005 (20130101) C08J 2323/06 (20130101) C08J 2333/12 (20130101) C08J 2355/02 (20130101) C08J 2369/00 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/24 (20130101) |
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| US 09688618 | Johnson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HAWAII BIOTECH, INC. (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HAWAII BIOTECH, INC. (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Thomas Johnson (Kaneohe, Hawaii); Seong Jin Kim (Honolulu, Hawaii); Sean O'Malley (Honolulu, Hawaii); Henry Lee Jackson (Pearl City, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds of formula I are provided: R1 is an alkoxy or O(CH2)pX, p is an integer from 2 to 3 and X is OH, NH2, or CO2H, m is an integer from 0 to 5, n is an integer from 0 to 5, each R2 is independently selected from hydrogen, alkenyl, hydroxyalkyl, alkoxymethyl, heterocyclyl, hetereocyclylmethyl, amino, amido, hydroxamido, any of which may be optionally substituted with one or more of acyl, alkyl, alkoxy, hydroxyalkyl, or halogen, each R3 is independently selected from hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, alkenyl, carboxy, hydroxymethyl, amido, and at least one of R2 and R3 is not hydrogen. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 29, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/280817 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 259/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 259/10 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/337 (20130101) C07D 213/56 (20130101) C07D 231/12 (20130101) C07D 239/26 (20130101) C07D 239/42 (20130101) C07D 295/16 (20130101) C07D 295/155 (20130101) C07D 295/205 (20130101) C07D 303/46 (20130101) |
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| US 09688722 | McKee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick A. McKee (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma); Kenneth W. Jackson (Edmond, Oklahoma); Victoria J. Christiansen (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | Inhibitors of fibroblast activation protein alpha (FAP) and Prolyl Oligopeptidase (POP) are disclosed, along with their use in various therapies related to conditions, diseases, and disorders involving abnormal cell proliferation such as malignancies and angiogenesis, and in neural disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. Stalk portions of the inhibitor molecules, and substrates of FAP and POP, are also disclosed and may be used, for example, in screening methods for identifying such inhibitors. |
| FILED | Friday, May 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/398886 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/21 (20130101) A61K 38/21 (20130101) A61K 38/28 (20130101) A61K 38/28 (20130101) A61K 38/30 (20130101) A61K 38/30 (20130101) A61K 38/1825 (20130101) A61K 38/1825 (20130101) A61K 38/1858 (20130101) A61K 38/1858 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 5/0202 (20130101) C07K 5/0815 (20130101) C07K 5/0817 (20130101) C07K 5/0819 (20130101) C07K 5/0821 (20130101) C07K 5/1019 (20130101) C07K 5/06069 (20130101) C07K 5/06086 (20130101) C07K 5/06095 (20130101) C07K 5/06104 (20130101) C07K 5/06113 (20130101) C07K 5/06147 (20130101) C07K 7/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09688970 | Pogue et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kentucky BioProcessing, Inc. (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Tsafrir Mor (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kentucky BioProcessing, Inc. (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Greg Pogue (Austin, Texas); Ernie Hiatt (Maceo, Kentucky); Romy Kandzia (Halle, Germany); Stefan Werner (Halle, Germany); Frank Thieme (Halle, Germany); Tsafrir Mor (Tempe, Arizona); Steven Hume (Owensboro, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A new, reliable, easily scalable and reproducible method for the production of recombinant butyrylcholinesterase (rBuChE) is provided. Through the utilization of a plant transfection procedure, various plant strains have been shown to generate effective and scalable amounts of rBuChE under acceptable manufacturing processes to permit reliable levels of such enzymes for desired nerve agent protection requirements (including tetrameric products). As well, such methods in engineered plant lines have shown suitable production of these enzymes in tetramer form with glycan formation and sialyalation (for terminal groups) to allow for optimal potency against organophosphorus agent exposure as well as proper immunogenic response within the plant sources. The overall production method, including the transfection and production within mammalian cells, as well as the process steps involved for such a reliable sourcing platform from plants is thus encompassed within the invention. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/448545 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/465 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Enzymes C12Y 301/01008 (20130101) |
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| US 09689040 | Lieberman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Judy Lieberman (Brookline, Massachusetts); Fabio Petrocca (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Judy Lieberman (Brookline, Massachusetts); Fabio Petrocca (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are novel malignancy associated gene signature biomarkers, and assays and methods thereof, to classify prognosis or malignant potential of a cancer and identify cancer-initiating cells. The malignancy associated gene signature biomarkers, assays and methods described herein provide, in part, new methodologies to screen for novel drugs for treating cancers and tumors, such as, for example, triple-negative breast tumors. Using the assays and methods described herein proteasome inhibitors, histone deacetylase inhibitors, and glycolysis inhibitors, were identified as being highly effective in altering gene expression signatures specifically in malignant or cancer-initiating cells. |
| FILED | Friday, March 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/003021 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/165 (20130101) A61K 31/167 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 38/05 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57415 (20130101) G01N 2500/10 (20130101) G01N 2800/52 (20130101) G01N 2800/56 (20130101) |
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| US 09689111 | White et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brandy J. White (Washington, District of Columbia); Brian Melde (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brandy J. White (Washington, District of Columbia); Brian Melde (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are modification of fabrics using a microwave initiation technique to produce a porous coating on the fibers providing adsorbent properties as well as the potential for further modification. In embodiments, the fabric incorporates a periodic mesoporous organosilica compound (PMO) optionally bound to a porphyrin or other functional group, and/or a catalyst or optical indicator. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/209728 |
| ART UNIT | 1786 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices, Apparatus or Methods for Life-saving A62B 17/006 (20130101) Treatment, Not Provided for Elsewhere in Class D06, of Fibres, Threads, Yarns, Fabrics, Feathers or Fibrous Goods Made From Such Materials D06M 10/003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class D06M 10/08 (20130101) D06M 13/352 (20130101) D06M 13/507 (20130101) D06M 15/643 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 442/2516 (20150401) |
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| US 09689277 | Klusman |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rolls-Royce Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ROLLS-ROYCE CORPORATION (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven A. Klusman (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine engine including a compressor, a turbine and a static structure is disclosed herein. The gas turbine engine further includes a foil bearing system operative to transmit rotor loads from at least one of the compressor and the turbine to the static structure. The foil bearing system includes a foil bearing and a self-aligning foil bearing mount to align the foil bearing with an axis of rotation of the compressor and the turbine. A snubber operative to transmit rotor loads to the static structure in parallel with the foil bearing is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, January 15, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 14/997039 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 25/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F01D 25/22 (20130101) F01D 25/166 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2230/64 (20130101) F05D 2240/50 (20130101) F05D 2240/53 (20130101) F05D 2250/241 (20130101) Shafts; Flexible Shafts; Elements or Crankshaft Mechanisms; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing Elements; Bearings F16C 17/024 (20130101) F16C 23/045 (20130101) F16C 2360/23 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/672 (20130101) |
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| US 09689631 | Xiao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rong Xiao (Houston, Texas); Nenad Milikovic (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Evelyn N. Wang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ryan Enright (Whitestone, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Condensation can be an important process in both emerging and traditional power generation and water desalination technologies. Superhydrophobic nanostructures can promise enhanced condensation heat transfer by reducing the characteristic size of departing droplets via a surface-tension-driven mechanism. A superhydrophobic surface can include a heterogeneous surface. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/519931 |
| ART UNIT | 1785 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 5/02 (20130101) Cleaning in General; Prevention of Fouling in General B08B 17/065 (20130101) Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 5/00 (20130101) Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 15/00 (20130101) Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00206 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 5/1681 (20130101) Treatment, Not Provided for Elsewhere in Class D06, of Fibres, Threads, Yarns, Fabrics, Feathers or Fibrous Goods Made From Such Materials D06M 2200/05 (20130101) Details of Heat-exchange and Heat-transfer Apparatus, of General Application F28F 13/187 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24355 (20150115) Y10T 428/24802 (20150115) Y10T 428/24851 (20150115) |
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| US 09689648 | Kostka et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Kostka (Denville, New Jersey); Luis M. Lavrador (Stanhope, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A large caliber, frangible, training projectile imitates, for training purposes, the corresponding tactical projectile. To enable fragmentation of the training projectile at impact, some embodiments of the frangible projectile are partially or entirely made of a material with a lower yield strength than the material used in the counterpart tactical projectile. Some embodiments of the frangible projectile may include portions that are sectioned, welded, or provided with stress risers. Some embodiments of the frangible projectile may include high density particles suspended in a weaker medium. The fragmentation methods may be applied to the overall mass of the projectile, or to a portion of the projectile. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 07, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/175440 |
| 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 8/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F42B 12/22 (20130101) |
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| US 09689649 | Hooke et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ryan Hooke (Bangor, Pennsylvania); Christopher Stout (Hoboken, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan Hooke (Bangor, Pennsylvania); Christopher Stout (Hoboken, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A high efficiency, blow-by reducing obturator for a 105 mm tube-launched projectile is a generally annular ring having a central longitudinal axis and an outer circumferential surface. The outer surface has a first portion parallel to the central longitudinal axis and a second portion adjacent to the first portion. The second portion extends forward and radially inward at an angle of about six degrees with the central longitudinal axis. In some embodiments, one or more grooves are formed in the inner circumferential surface of the ring. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/464141 |
| 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 14/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09689679 | Budker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dmitry Budker (El Cerrito, California); Micah Ledbetter (Oakland, California); Kasper Jensen (Berkeley, California); Andrey Jarmola (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A solid-state gyroscope apparatus based on ensembles of negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV−) centers in diamond and methods of detection are provided. In one method, rotation of the NV− symmetry axis will induce Berry phase shifts in the NV− electronic ground-state coherences proportional to the solid angle subtended by the symmetry axis. A second method uses a modified Ramsey scheme where Berry phase shifts in the 14N hyperfine sublevels are employed. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/504720 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 19/58 (20130101) G01C 19/62 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/46 (20130101) |
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| US 09689744 | Chrisp |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael P. Chrisp (Burlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An imaging spectrometer, covering the visible through infrared wavelengths, which disperses the light by a plane diffraction grating behind a wedged optical element. This design uses an achromatic doublet lens with a reflective coating on its convex back surface to produce the spectra on a flat detector. Spatial keystone distortion and spectral smile are controlled to less than one tenth of a pixel over the full wavelength range, facilitating the use of simple retrieval algorithms. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/327704 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/021 (20130101) G01J 3/0205 (20130101) G01J 3/0208 (20130101) G01J 3/0256 (20130101) G01J 3/1804 (20130101) G01J 3/2823 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01J 2003/1204 (20130101) G01J 2003/1273 (20130101) |
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| US 09689747 | Stone |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas W. Stone (Hellertown, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wavefront Research, Inc. (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas W. Stone (Hellertown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems that enable observing celestial bodies during daylight or in under cloudy conditions. |
| FILED | Monday, May 16, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/155939 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — 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 5/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01J 5/0862 (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 3/78 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/208 (20130101) |
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| US 09689792 | Sickenberger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David W. Sickenberger (Bel Air, Maryland); Christopher J. Karwacki (Churchville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Sickenberger (Bel Air, Maryland); Christopher J. Karwacki (Churchville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A particle detection apparatus and method includes an excitation source having a first emission band that excites a sample and a second emission band; a first optical device connected to the excitation source and attenuates radiation emitted in the second emission band; an optical cavity adjacent to the first optical device, which includes a sample excited by radiation from the excitation source; a substrate coupled to the optical cavity and exposed to the radiation from the excitation source; a binding compound coupled to the substrate, which includes a ligand coupled to the substrate; and a capture material coupled to the ligand and capturing the sample; a second optical device connected to the substrate and attenuates radiation emitted in the first emission band; and an optical detector connected to the second optical device and detects radiation emitted in the second emission band. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/010190 |
| ART UNIT | 1798 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09689829 | Farrow et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Reginald C. Farrow (Somerset, New Jersey); Camelia Prodan (Montclair, New Jersey); Alokik Kanwal (Princeton, New Jersey); Gordon A. Thomas (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for determining the presence of a single cell and/or determining a state of a single cell includes a first nanotube disposed on a first electrode, and a second nanotube disposed on a second electrode, wherein the first and second nanotubes are spaced apart at a length that is smaller than a cell size to be detected. A method for determining the presence of a single biological cell includes sensing impedance between a first nanotube and a second nanotube. A method of manufacturing includes providing a nanotube, providing an electrode coated with an insulating material, wherein an aperture is defined in the insulating material through to the electrode, and using electrophoresis deposition to deposit a nanotube within the aperture and in electrical communication with the electrode. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/206191 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for the Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Production of Coatings; Electroforming; Apparatus Therefor C25D 13/02 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/02 (20130101) G01N 27/308 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/483 (20130101) G01N 33/48728 (20130101) |
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| US 09689964 | Sarangapani et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jagannathan Sarangapani (Rolla, Missouri); Maciej Jan Zawodniok (Rolla, Missouri); Vivek Thotla (Rolla, Missouri); Mohammad Tayeb Ghasr (Rolla, Missouri); Jake Hertenstein (Chesterfield, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A super regenerative receiver detection system and method that includes a computing system that stores and executes a cross modulation correlation component to modulate a radio-frequency (RF) stimulation signal that is transmitted in an area using a modulating signal having a first modulating mode, and receive a response UEE signal from the area in which the response UEE signal includes a cross modulated signal emitted from a super regenerative receiver (SRR). The cross modulated signal having a second modulation mode that is different from the first modulation mode. Using this information, the cross modulation correlation component processes the received UEE signal to determine a cross modulation correlation level of a cross modulation signal relative to the modulating signal, and generates an alert signal when the determined cross modulation correlation level exceeds a specified threshold. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/259668 |
| ART UNIT | 3648 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 5/12 (20130101) G01S 5/0226 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01S 7/41 (20130101) Geophysics; Gravitational Measurements; Detecting Masses or Objects; Tags G01V 3/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09689966 | Damarla |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Research Laboratory ATTN: RDRL-LOC-I (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) | Thyagaraju Damarla (Laurel, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for identifying the location of gunfire from a moving object in which at least two spaced apart microphones are positioned on the moving object. The output from the microphones is decomposed into intrinsic mode functions by using empirical mode decomposition. A transient pulse is then identified in the intrinsic mode function representative of the gunfire. The location of the origin of the gunfire is then determined from the transient pulses through multilateration using time difference of arrival of the transient pulses by the microphones. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 31, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/086125 |
| ART UNIT | 2688 — Dynamic Storage Systems; Mechanical parts of Disk Drives |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 5/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups or Like Acoustic Electromechanical Transducers; Deaf-aid Sets; Public Address Systems H04R 3/005 (20130101) H04R 2499/13 (20130101) |
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| US 09689987 | Jannson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Physical Optics Corporation (Torrance, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Physical Optics Corporation (Torrance, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tomasz Jannson (Torrance, California); Ranjit Pradhan (Torrance, California); Andrew Kostrzewski (Garden Grove, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser is used to emit a diverging laser flash configured to illuminate a detection zone. A pseudoimaging optical receiver system is used to detect reflections from objects in the detection zone. The receiver system includes a time-gated photodetector array that is used to record signatures in a voxel array. A voxel processing module receives the voxel array and detects a reference clutter signal within the array. Potential targets are then detected according to target signals in relation to the reference clutter signal. |
| FILED | Friday, June 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/913090 |
| ART UNIT | 2484 — Recording and Compression |
| 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 17/66 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09690009 | Asher |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanford A. Asher (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A photonic bandgap crystal or photonic bandgap crystal material comprising a self-assembled crystalline colloidal array (CCA) of monodisperse spherical particles having a face-centered-cubic (fcc) or a body-centered-cubic (bcc) lattice dispersed in a medium. The photonic bandgap crystal or photonic bandgap crystal material has a photonic bandgap for light in the visible and near-IR or a photonic bandgap for light in the visible range of wavelengths less than about 700 nm. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/161436 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 1/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09690213 | Ummethala et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Upendra Ummethala (Cupertino, California); Layton Hale (Castro Valley, California); Joshua Clyne (Sunnyvale, California); Samir Nayfeh (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Mark Williams (Beaufort, South Carolina); Joseph A. Di Regolo (Livermore, California); Andrew Wilson (Forest Hills, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | KLA-Tencor Corporation (Milpitas, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Upendra Ummethala (Cupertino, California); Layton Hale (Castro Valley, California); Joshua Clyne (Sunnyvale, California); Samir Nayfeh (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Mark Williams (Beaufort, South Carolina); Joseph A. Di Regolo (Livermore, California); Andrew Wilson (Forest Hills, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A linear stacked stage suitable for REBL may include a first upper fast stage configured to translate a first plurality of wafers in a first direction along a first axis, the first upper fast stage configured to secure a first plurality of wafers; a second upper fast stage configured to translate a second plurality of wafers in a second direction along the first axis, the second upper fast stage configured to secure the second plurality of wafers, the second direction opposite to the first direction, wherein the translation of the first upper fast stage and the translation of the second upper fast stage are configured to substantially eliminate inertial reaction forces generated by motion of the first upper fast stage and the second upper fast stage; and a carrier stage configured to translate the first and second upper fast stages along a second axis. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/824079 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/70716 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G03F 7/70758 (20130101) G03F 7/70766 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 37/20 (20130101) H01J 37/3174 (20130101) H01J 2237/20221 (20130101) H01J 2237/31774 (20130101) H01J 2237/31789 (20130101) |
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| US 09690286 | Hovsepian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sarah Hovsepian (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Neil Adam Gershenfeld (Somerville, Massachusetts); Kenneth Cheung (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sarah Hovsepian (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Neil Adam Gershenfeld (Somerville, Massachusetts); Kenneth Cheung (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A digital material skin is made of a set of discrete units with a finite set of parts and joints. The discrete units are assembled into a layer according to a regular geometry, with each of the discrete units being reversibly connected to at least one other unit in the set. The reversibly connected set of units forms an exterior structure surface that is larger than the individual discrete units. Digital material skins may be used to construct any shape or interior volume, whether regular or amorphous. The skin surface may be enclosed or open. The skin may rely on an interior digital material structure for support or may be self-supported. The skin may be part of a larger assembly or apparatus, enclosing an interior volume or structure. |
| FILED | Friday, June 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/924530 |
| ART UNIT | 1781 — 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 1/08 (20130101) B32B 3/06 (20130101) B32B 2439/00 (20130101) Vessels for Containing or Storing Compressed, Liquefied or Solidified Gases; Fixed-capacity Gas-holders; Filling Vessels With, or Discharging From Vessels, Compressed, Liquefied, or Solidified Gases F17C 2203/0663 (20130101) F17C 2203/0685 (20130101) Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 19/4097 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G05B 2219/35012 (20130101) G05B 2219/45067 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09690315 | Baker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Everett E. Baker (Fort Wayne, Indiana); Bashirul A. Polash (Fort Wayne, Indiana); Christopher D. Ballard (Fort Wayne, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Everett E. Baker (Fort Wayne, Indiana); Bashirul A. Polash (Fort Wayne, Indiana); Christopher D. Ballard (Fort Wayne, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A system includes a capacitor and a current source configured to draw a constant input current from a power source and to generate an output current. The current source includes an n-type field effect transistor that is biased to operate as a constant current source. The current source is configured to provide the output current to the capacitor and charge the capacitor during a first time period associated with operation of a load. The current source is also configured to provide the output current to the load and the capacitor is configured to provide an additional current to the load during a second time period associated with operation of the load. The load could represent an electronic device having a time-varying output power characteristic, such as a wireless radio. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/302125 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Systems for Regulating Electric or Magnetic Variables G05F 3/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G05F 3/20 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 7/345 (20130101) Apparatus for Conversion Between AC and AC, Between AC and DC, or Between DC and DC, and for Use With Mains or Similar Power Supply Systems; Conversion of DC or AC Input Power into Surge Output Power; Control or Regulation Thereof H02M 3/155 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09690555 | Bertran Monfort et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramon Bertran Monfort (Bronx, New York); Pradip Bose (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alper Buyuktosunoglu (White Plains, New York); Chen-Yong Cher (Port Chester, New York); Hans M. Jacobson (White Plains, New York); William J. Song (Atlanta, Georgia); Karthik V. Swaminathan (Ossing, New York); Augusto J. Vega (Astoria, New York); Liang Wang (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An aspect includes optimizing an application workflow. The optimizing includes characterizing the application workflow by determining at least one baseline metric related to an operational control knob of an embedded system processor. The application workflow performs a real-time computational task encountered by at least one mobile embedded system of a wirelessly connected cluster of systems supported by a server system. The optimizing of the application workflow further includes performing an optimization operation on the at least one baseline metric of the application workflow while satisfying at least one runtime constraint. An annotated workflow that is the result of performing the optimization operation is output. |
| FILED | Monday, June 29, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/753685 |
| ART UNIT | 2194 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 8/443 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 9/4843 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09690906 | Fishel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SYNTOUCH, LLC (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SYNTOUCH, LLC (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeremy A. Fishel (Fullerton, California); Gerald E. Loeb (South Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An object investigation and classification system may include an object test system, a data storage system, and a data processing system. The object test system may receive a command to perform at least one action with a test object, perform the at least one action with the test object, and return test information indicative of at least one percept resulting from the at least one action. The data storage system may contain an experience database containing data indicative of multiple classifications and, for each classification, at least one action that was performed with at least one previously-observed reference object having this classification, and at least one percept value that is based in whole or in part on the test information resulting from the at least one action. |
| FILED | Monday, September 19, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/269408 |
| ART UNIT | 2124 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/01 (20130101) A61B 5/0048 (20130101) A61B 5/0077 (20130101) A61B 5/6897 (20130101) Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 21/30 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/3443 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/6277 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09691017 | Lu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy Kuan-Ta Lu (Charlestown, Massachusetts); Piro Siuti (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides, inter alia, recombinase-based systems that provide for integrated logic and memory in living cells. |
| FILED | Friday, December 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/105994 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09691034 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kyong Ho Lee (Plano, Texas); Naveen Verma (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A machine-learning accelerator (MLA) integrated circuit for extracting features from signals and performing inference computations is disclosed. The MLA integrated circuit includes a framework of finite state machine (FSM) kernels that are machine-learning algorithms implemented in hardware. The MLA integrated circuit further includes a kernel controller having mathematical structures implemented in hardware in communication with the framework of FSM kernels. An arithmetic engine implemented in hardware within the MLA integrated circuit is in communication with the kernel controller to perform computations for the mathematical structures. In at least one embodiment, the MLA integrated circuit includes a compression decompression accelerator (CDA) implemented in hardware and coupled between a memory and the kernel controller for compressing data to be stored in the memory and for decompressing data retrieved from the memory. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/277484 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 5/04 (20130101) G06N 99/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09691042 | Ahern et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Marybeth Ahern (Oak Hill, Virginia); Michael J. Law (Herndon, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marybeth Ahern (Oak Hill, Virginia); Michael J. Law (Herndon, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system is provided to manage and track changes in enterprise architectures. The invention provides a hierarchical visual management tool to manage and update relational information within an enterprise in a controlled fashion. The relationship may be maintained in a database and displayed via graphical user interface. Enterprise assets are categorized into such categories as goals, customer values or requirements, capabilities, resources, and the like. A hierarchy is constructed so that relationships between these various categories are identified and captured using the invention. Weights may be assigned to each element of the categories so that any proposed change to an enterprise architecture may be viewed so that a value can be ascertained and compared between other values of other proposed changes. In this manner, tracking and management of evolutionary changes to an architecture may be accomplished using relational information. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/479407 |
| ART UNIT | 3623 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/06 (20130101) G06Q 10/0631 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06Q 10/0639 (20130101) G06Q 10/06312 (20130101) G06Q 10/06375 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 47/783 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09691458 | Ralph et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel C. Ralph (Ithaca, New York); Robert A. Buhrman (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A device based on a spin Hall effect and spin-transfer torque (STT) effect is provided to include a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) element including a free magnetic layer structured to have a magnetization direction that can be changed by spin-transfer torque; an electrically conducting magnetic layer structure exhibiting a spin Hall effect (SHE) and, in response to an applied in-plane charge current, generating a spin-polarized current of a magnetic moment oriented in a predetermined direction having both an in-plane magnetic moment component parallel to a surface of the electrically conducting magnetic layer structure and a perpendicular magnetic moment component perpendicular to the surface of the electrically conducting magnetic layer structure. The magnetization direction of the free magnetic layer is capable of being switched by the spin-polarized current via a spin-transfer torque (STT) effect. This device can be configured in a 3-terminal configuration. |
| FILED | Monday, October 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 15/030291 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 11/18 (20130101) G11C 11/161 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G11C 11/1673 (20130101) G11C 11/1675 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 10/329 (20130101) H01F 10/3263 (20130101) H01F 10/3286 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/222 (20130101) H01L 27/226 (20130101) H01L 43/06 (20130101) H01L 43/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09691712 | Marchand et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hugues Marchand (Somerville, Massachusetts); Brendan J. Moran (San Jose, California); Umesh K. Mishra (Montecito, California); James S. Speck (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of controlling stress in GaN films deposited on silicon and silicon carbide substrates and the films produced therefrom are disclosed. A typical method comprises providing a substrate and depositing a graded gallium nitride layer on the substrate having a varying composition of a substantially continuous grade from an initial composition to a final composition formed from a supply of at least one precursor in a growth chamber without any interruption in the supply. A typical semiconductor film comprises a substrate and a graded gallium nitride layer deposited on the substrate having a varying composition of a substantially continuous grade from an initial composition to a final composition formed from a supply of at least one precursor in a growth chamber without any interruption in the supply. |
| FILED | Friday, August 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/466420 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — 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 25/02 (20130101) C30B 29/403 (20130101) C30B 29/406 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0251 (20130101) H01L 21/0254 (20130101) H01L 21/0262 (20130101) H01L 21/02378 (20130101) H01L 21/02381 (20130101) H01L 21/02458 (20130101) H01L 23/562 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/205 (20130101) H01L 29/2003 (20130101) H01L 33/12 (20130101) H01L 33/0025 (20130101) H01L 33/32 (20130101) H01L 33/0066 (20130101) H01L 33/0075 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) |
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| US 09691873 | Rogers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Illinois); TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois); Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Fiorenzo G. Omenetto (Wakefield, Massachusetts); Suk-Won Hwang (Urbana, Illinois); Hu Tao (Medford, Massachusetts); Dae-Hyeong Kim (Urbana, Illinois); David Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides transient devices, including active and passive devices that electrically and/or physically transform upon application of at least one internal and/or external stimulus. Materials, modeling tools, manufacturing approaches, device designs and system level examples of transient electronics are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, September 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/624096 |
| ART UNIT | 2899 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Information Storage Based on Relative Movement Between Record Carrier and Transducer G11B 23/282 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/293 (20130101) H01L 27/016 (20130101) H01L 28/10 (20130101) H01L 28/20 (20130101) H01L 28/40 (20130101) H01L 29/66 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/0669 (20130101) H01L 29/812 (20130101) H01L 29/861 (20130101) H01L 29/872 (20130101) H01L 29/7787 (20130101) H01L 29/7869 (20130101) H01L 29/66007 (20130101) H01L 29/78603 (20130101) H01L 29/78696 (20130101) H01L 31/08 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 1/2283 (20130101) H01Q 7/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 257/922 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09691928 | Cho et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SolAero Technologies Corp. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SolAreo Technologies Corp. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Cho (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Yong Lin (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Pravin Patel (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mark A. Stan (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Arthur Cornfeld (Sandia Park, New Mexico); Daniel McGlynn (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Fred Newman (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a multijunction solar cell comprising at least an upper subcell, a middle subcell, and a lower subcell, the method including forming a first alpha layer over said middle solar subcell using a surfactant and dopant including selenium, the first alpha layer configured to prevent threading dislocations from propagating; forming a metamorphic grading interlayer over and directly adjacent to said first alpha layer; forming a second alpha layer using a surfactant and dopant including selenium over and directly adjacent to said grading interlayer to prevent threading dislocations from propagating; and forming a lower solar subcell over said grading interlayer such that said lower solar subcell is lattice mismatched with respect to said middle solar subcell. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 02, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/044147 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/078 (20130101) H01L 31/184 (20130101) H01L 31/1844 (20130101) H01L 31/06875 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/544 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/521 (20151101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09691929 | Cornfeld et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SolAero Technologies Corp. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SolAero Technologies Corp. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur Cornfeld (Sandia Park, New Mexico); Benjamin Cho (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A multijunction solar cell including an upper first solar subcell having a first band gap; a second solar subcell adjacent to the first solar subcell and having a second band gap smaller than the first band gap; a first graded interlayer adjacent to the second solar subcell; the first graded interlayer having a third band gap greater than the second band gap; and a third solar subcell adjacent to the first graded interlayer, the third subcell having a fourth band gap smaller than the second band gap such that the third subcell is lattice mismatched with respect to the second subcell. A second graded interlayer is provided adjacent to the third solar subcell; the second graded interlayer having a fifth band gap greater than the fourth band gap; and a lower fourth solar subcell is provided adjacent to the second graded interlayer, the lower fourth subcell having a sixth band gap smaller than the fourth band gap such that the fourth subcell is lattice mismatched with respect to the third subcell. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/243732 |
| ART UNIT | 1758 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/078 (20130101) H01L 31/1844 (20130101) H01L 31/1892 (20130101) H01L 31/06875 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/544 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/521 (20151101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09691939 | Jain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc. (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SENSOR ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY, INC. (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rakesh Jain (Columbia, South Carolina); Wenhong Sun (Columbia, South Carolina); Jinwei Yang (Columbia, South Carolina); Maxim S. Shatalov (Columbia, South Carolina); Alexander Dobrinsky (Loudonville, New York); Michael Shur (Latham, New York); Remigijus Gaska (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating a device using a layer with a patterned surface for improving the growth of semiconductor layers, such as group III nitride-based semiconductor layers with a high concentration of aluminum, is provided. The patterned surface can include a substantially flat top surface and a plurality of stress reducing regions, such as openings. The substantially flat top surface can have a root mean square roughness less than approximately 0.5 nanometers, and the stress reducing regions can have a characteristic size between approximately 0.1 microns and approximately five microns and a depth of at least 0.2 microns. A layer of group-III nitride material can be grown on the first layer and have a thickness at least twice the characteristic size of the stress reducing regions. A device including one or more of these features also is provided. |
| FILED | Monday, August 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/822508 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0242 (20130101) H01L 21/0243 (20130101) H01L 21/0254 (20130101) H01L 21/0265 (20130101) H01L 21/02458 (20130101) H01L 21/02639 (20130101) H01L 29/518 (20130101) H01L 29/2003 (20130101) H01L 29/7786 (20130101) H01L 33/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 33/22 (20130101) H01L 33/24 (20130101) H01L 33/32 (20130101) H01L 2933/0091 (20130101) |
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| US 09692209 | Bessette et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonathan T. Bessette (Montpelier, Vermont); Yan Cai (Stoughton, Massachusetts); Rodolfo E. Camacho-Aguilera (Portland, Oregon); Jifeng Liu (Hanover, New Hampshire); Lionel Kimerling (Concord, Massachusetts); Jurgen Michel (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan T. Bessette (Montpelier, Vermont); Yan Cai (Stoughton, Massachusetts); Rodolfo E. Camacho-Aguilera (Portland, Oregon); Jifeng Liu (Hanover, New Hampshire); Lionel Kimerling (Concord, Massachusetts); Jurgen Michel (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In a method of forming a photonic device, a first silicon electrode is formed, and then a germanium active layer is formed on the first silicon electrode while including n-type dopant atoms in the germanium layer, during formation of the layer, to produce a background electrical dopant concentration that is greater than an intrinsic dopant concentration of germanium. A second silicon electrode is then formed on a surface of the germanium active layer. The formed germanium active layer is doped with additional dopant for supporting an electrically-pumped guided mode as a laser gain medium with an electrically-activated n-type electrical dopant concentration that is greater than the background dopant concentration to overcome electrical losses of the photonic device. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 01, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/124004 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0237 (20130101) H01L 21/0245 (20130101) H01L 21/0262 (20130101) H01L 21/2254 (20130101) H01L 21/02532 (20130101) H01L 21/02576 (20130101) H01L 21/02661 (20130101) H01L 21/02664 (20130101) H01L 21/26513 (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 5/227 (20130101) H01S 5/0421 (20130101) H01S 5/0422 (20130101) H01S 5/2214 (20130101) H01S 5/3027 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 5/3054 (20130101) H01S 5/3086 (20130101) H01S 5/3223 (20130101) |
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| US 09692744 | Bent et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Graham A. Bent (Southampton, United Kingdom); Dominic P. Harries (Winchester, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, apparatus and/or computer program provides secure user authentication in a network having a dynamic set of services. The method comprises a client authenticating with an edge service and generating a query key. The edge service issues a request to the dynamic set of services. The request comprises (i) an encrypted identifier associated with the client, (ii) a private portion of the request being encrypted with the query key, and (iii) a public portion of the request. In response to ascertaining from the public portion of the request that it is able to respond to the request, one or more of the dynamic set of services respond to the edge service with (i) an identifier associated with the dynamic set of services, and (ii) the identifier associated with the client. The edge service then authenticates that it is able to respond to the request, including generating a session key. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 16, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/183995 |
| ART UNIT | 2493 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/0822 (20130101) H04L 63/0807 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09692827 | Agrawal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dakshi Agrawal (Monsey, New York); Chatschik Bisdikian (Chappaqua, New York); Murtaza Zafer (White Plains, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dakshi Agrawal (Monsey, New York); Chatschik Bisdikian (Chappaqua, New York); Murtaza Zafer (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An aspect of this invention is a method that includes a computing apparatus estimating geographic locations as a function of time for each of a plurality of sensor nodes. The method further includes estimating a quality of information as a function of time for sensed data to be sensed by the plurality of sensor nodes at the estimated geographic locations; and sending the estimated quality of information as a function of time to one or more applications or consumers of the sensed data. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/432337 |
| ART UNIT | 2684 — Telemetry and Code Generation Vehicles and System Alarms |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 5/02 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 67/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 67/125 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 64/00 (20130101) H04W 84/18 (20130101) |
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| US 09693124 | Robinson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Oracle International Corporation (Redwood Shores, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leick D. Robinson (Austin, Texas); Avadh Pratham Patel (Cedar Park, California); Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California); Alan P. Wood (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A macro-switch is described. This macro-switch includes facing integrated circuits, one of which implements optical waveguides that convey optical signals, and the other which implements control logic, electrical switches and memory buffers at each of multiple switch sites. Moreover, the macro-switch has a fully connected topology between the switch sites. Furthermore, the memory buffers at each switch site provide packet buffering and congestion relief without causing undue scheduling/routing complexity. Consequently, the macro-switch can be scaled to an arbitrarily large switching matrix (i.e., an arbitrary number of switch sites and/or switching stages). |
| FILED | Friday, May 13, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/154619 |
| ART UNIT | 2637 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/3542 (20130101) G02B 6/3596 (20130101) Transmission H04B 10/40 (20130101) H04B 10/2504 (20130101) Multiplex Communication H04J 14/02 (20130101) H04J 14/0212 (20130101) Selecting H04Q 11/0005 (20130101) H04Q 11/0062 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04Q 2011/009 (20130101) |
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| US 09693325 | Park et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sung C. Park (San Marcos, California); Murali Tummala (Monterey, California); John C. McEachen (Carmel, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Synchronizing a plurality of sensors of a wireless sensor network includes initiating, by a first sensor, a flood broadcast of a sequence discovery packet in the wireless sensor network; creating, by the first sensor in response to receiving back the sequence discovery packet, an initial broadcast sequence, wherein the initial broadcast sequence includes a list of sensor identifications, and wherein an adjacent pair of sensor identifications in the initial broadcast sequence correspond to a pair of neighbor sensors, and wherein the pair of neighbor sensors are able to communicate directly with each other; broadcasting, by the first sensor, the initial broadcast sequence, wherein the initial broadcast sequence specifies an initial order for the plurality of sensors to broadcast synchronization information to eliminate collisions in the wireless sensor network; and broadcasting, by the first sensor, a first timestamp, using a location of the first sensor in the initial broadcast sequence. |
| FILED | Friday, September 11, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/851404 |
| ART UNIT | 2463 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Wireless Communication Networks H04W 4/005 (20130101) H04W 48/16 (20130101) H04W 56/0005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09693351 | Learned |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rachel E. Learned (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are described for determining rates and other parameters for users associated with a multiple access channel (MAC). In at least one embodiment, a rate determination tool having a GUI interface is provided. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/437350 |
| ART UNIT | 2464 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 1/0003 (20130101) H04L 1/24 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 24/02 (20130101) H04W 28/18 (20130101) H04W 72/0453 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09693361 | Learned et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rachel E. Learned (Waltham, Massachusetts); Nicholas J. Kaminski (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An SUOC radio employs: (1) Spectrum sensing and parameter estimation methods to characterize potential FUOCs; (2) A rate pair prediction tool to guide it's choice of FUOC to target along with the appropriate rate pair (SUOC and FUOC achievable rates); (3) Machine learning methods to automatically and on the fly advantage experience/history; (4) A decision maker with multiple possible procedures that govern steps of interaction; (5) Multiuser detection receiver to deal with the interference once information-bearing transmission has commenced by the SUOC radios. (6) a radio capable of full transmit-processing chain to accomplish modulation and full receive-processing chain to accomplish demodulation, as well as other radio functions necessary for successful wireless communications such as medium access control, networking and other functions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/437882 |
| ART UNIT | 2464 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 27/0006 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 16/14 (20130101) H04W 72/082 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04W 84/18 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina); Clemson University Research Foundation (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fanglin Chen (Irmo, South Carolina); Shumin Fang (Columbia, South Carolina); Kyle S. Brinkman (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A hydrogen permeation membrane is provided that can include a metal and a ceramic material mixed together. The metal can be Ni, Zr, Nb, Ta, Y, Pd, Fe, Cr, Co, V, or combinations thereof, and the ceramic material can have the formula: BaZr1-x-yYxTyO3-δ where 0≦x≦0.5, 0≦y≦0.5, (x+y)>0; 0≦δ≦0.5, and T is Sc, Ti, Nb, Ta, Mo, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ga, In, Sn, or combinations thereof. A method of forming such a membrane is also provided. A method is also provided for extracting hydrogen from a feed stream. |
| FILED | Friday, April 03, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/678372 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 53/228 (20130101) B01D 67/0041 (20130101) B01D 67/0083 (20130101) B01D 69/12 (20130101) B01D 69/141 (20130101) B01D 71/022 (20130101) B01D 71/024 (20130101) B01D 2256/16 (20130101) B01D 2323/08 (20130101) B01D 2323/12 (20130101) B01D 2325/20 (20130101) Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 3/12 (20130101) B22F 3/101 (20130101) B22F 3/1017 (20130101) B22F 5/006 (20130101) B22F 2201/02 (20130101) B22F 2201/11 (20130101) B22F 2201/013 (20130101) B22F 2998/10 (20130101) B22F 2998/10 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 3/503 (20130101) C01B 2203/0233 (20130101) C01B 2203/0405 (20130101) C01B 2203/0475 (20130101) C01B 2203/0495 (20130101) Alloys C22C 1/05 (20130101) C22C 29/12 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/124 (20130101) H01M 2300/0091 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/56 (20151101) |
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| US 09687840 | Gin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, A BODY CORPORATE (Denver, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas Gin (Longmont, Colorado); Trevor Carlisle (Boulder, Colorado); Richard Noble (Boulder, Colorado); Garret Nicodemus (Broomfield, Colorado); William McDanel (Boulder, Colorado); Matthew Cowan (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes compositions comprising curable imidazolium-functionalized poly(room-temperature ionic liquid) copolymers and homopolymers. The invention further includes methods of preparing and using the compositions of the invention. The invention further includes novel methods of preparing thin, supported, room-temperature ionic liquid-containing polymeric films on a porous support. In certain embodiments, the methods of the invention avoid the use of a gutter layer, which greatly reduces the overall gas permeance and selectivity of the composite membrane. In other embodiments, the films of the invention have increased gas selectivity and permeance over films prepared using methods described in the prior art. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/413772 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/228 (20130101) B01D 67/0013 (20130101) B01D 69/12 (20130101) B01D 71/34 (20130101) B01D 71/64 (20130101) B01D 2053/221 (20130101) B01D 2323/46 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 39/19 (20170101) B01J 39/185 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 41/09 (20170101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 8/30 (20130101) C08F 8/30 (20130101) C08F 12/18 (20130101) C08F 12/26 (20130101) C08F 12/32 (20130101) C08F 112/14 (20130101) C08F 112/32 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 59/26 (20130101) C08G 59/5006 (20130101) |
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| US 09688718 | Baker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sarah E. Baker (Pleasanton, California); Brett A. Chromy (Danville, California); Paul Henderson (Dublin, California); Paul D. Hoeprich, Jr. (Pleasanton, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sarah E. Baker (Pleasanton, California); Brett A. Chromy (Danville, California); Paul Henderson (Dublin, California); Paul D. Hoeprich, Jr. (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are nanolipoprotein particles that comprise a membrane associated hydrogenase and related assemblies, devices, methods and systems. |
| FILED | Monday, January 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/352472 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 1/145 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 11/02 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 3/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/799 (20130101) |
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| US 09688845 | Dumesic et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Dumesic (Verona, Wisconsin); Ali Hussain Motagamwala (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to produce an aqueous solution of carbohydrates containing C5- and/or C6-sugar-containing oligomers and/or C5- and/or C6-sugar monomers in which biomass or a biomass-derived reactant is reacted with a solvent system having an organic solvent, and organic co-solvent, and water, in the presence of an acid. The method produces the desired product, while a substantial portion of any lignin present in the reactant appears as a precipitate in the product mixture. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/686086 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 5/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08L 97/005 (20130101) Saccharides Obtained From Natural Sources or by Hydrolysis of Naturally Occurring Disaccharides, Oligosaccharides or Polysaccharides C13K 1/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09688863 | Maghsoodi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Enki Technology, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Enki Technology, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sina Maghsoodi (San Jose, California); Brenor L. Brophy (San Jose, California); Thomas E. Colson (Sunnyvale, California); Peter R. Gonsalves (Santa Clara, California); Ze'ev R. Abrams (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are polysilsesquioxane-based anti-reflective coating (ARC) compositions, methods of preparation, and methods of deposition on a substrate. In one embodiment, the polysilsesquioxane of this disclosure is prepared in a two-step process of acid catalyzed hydrolysis of organoalkoxysilane followed by addition of tetralkoxysilane that generates silicone polymers with >40 mol % silanol based on Si-NMR. These high silanol siloxane polymers are stable and have a long shelf-life in polar organic solvents at room temperature. Also disclosed are low refractive index ARC made from these compositions with and without additives such as porogens, templates, thermal radical initiator, photo radical initiators, crosslinkers, Si—OH condensation catalyst and nano-fillers. Also disclosed are methods and apparatus for applying coatings to flat substrates including substrate pre-treatment processes, coating processes and coating curing processes including skin-curing using hot-air knives. Also disclosed are coating compositions and formulations for highly tunable, durable, highly abrasion-resistant functionalized anti-reflective coatings. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 15, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/182729 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical Composition of Glasses, Glazes or Vitreous Enamels; Surface Treatment of Glass; Surface Treatment of Fibres or Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals or Slags; Joining Glass to Glass or Other Materials C03C 17/30 (20130101) C03C 2217/20 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 3/36 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 5/006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C09D 7/1216 (20130101) C09D 173/00 (20130101) C09D 183/04 (20130101) C09D 183/08 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 1/11 (20130101) G02B 1/12 (20130101) G02B 1/14 (20150115) G02B 1/111 (20130101) G02B 5/021 (20130101) G02B 5/0215 (20130101) G02B 5/0221 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/18 (20130101) H01L 31/02168 (20130101) H01L 33/005 (20130101) H01L 33/44 (20130101) |
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| US 09688920 | Gordon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | FIELD UPGRADING LIMITED (Calgary, Canada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | FIELD UPGRADING LIMITED (Calgary, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Howard Gordon (Salt Lake City, Utah); Javier Alvare (Cottonwood Heights, Utah); Dennis Larsen (Salt Lake City, Utah); Jeff Killpack (Sandy, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A process to facilitate gravimetric separation of alkali metal salts, such as alkali metal sulfides and polysulfides, from alkali metal reacted hydrocarbons. The disclosed process is part of a method of upgrading a hydrocarbon feedstock by removing heteroatoms and/or one or more heavy metals from the hydrocarbon feedstock composition. This method reacts the oil feedstock with an alkali metal and an upgradant hydrocarbon. The alkali metal reacts with a portion of the heteroatoms and/or one or more heavy metals to form an inorganic phase containing alkali metal salts and reduced heavy metals, and an upgraded hydrocarbon feedstock. The inorganic phase may be gravimetrically separated from the upgraded hydrocarbon feedstock after mixing at a temperature between about 350° C. to 400° C. for a time period between about 15 minutes and 2 hours. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/253286 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | 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 29/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10G 2300/202 (20130101) C10G 2300/205 (20130101) C10G 2300/1025 (20130101) C10G 2300/1081 (20130101) C10G 2300/1088 (20130101) Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Processes for the Production of Compounds or Non-metals; Apparatus Therefor C25B 1/00 (20130101) Processes for the Electrolytic Production, Recovery or Refining of Metals; Apparatus Therefor C25C 1/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09688975 | Wogulis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark Wogulis (Davis, California); Paul Harris (Carnation, Washington); David Osborn (Sacramento, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Wogulis (Davis, California); Paul Harris (Carnation, Washington); David Osborn (Sacramento, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to beta-glucosidase variants, e.g. beta-glucosidase variants of a parent Family GH3A beta-glucosidase from Aspergillus fumigatus. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the beta-glucosidase variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the beta-glucosidase variants. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/876802 |
| ART UNIT | 1663 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/2445 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/14 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 302/01021 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/16 (20130101) |
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| US 09688994 | Lajoie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc J. Lajoie (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Christopher J. Gregg (Roslindale, Massachusetts); Joshua A. Mosberg (Cambridge, Massachusetts); George M. Church (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of introducing a nucleic acid sequence into a cell is provided where the cell has impaired or inhibited or disrupted DnaG primase activity or impaired or inhibited or disrupted DnaB helicase activity, or larger or increased gaps or distance between Okazaki fragments or lowered or reduced frequency of Okazaki fragment initiation, or the cell has increased single stranded DNA (ssDNA) on the lagging strand of the replication fork including transforming the cell through recombination with a nucleic acid oligomer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/954351 |
| 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) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/102 (20130101) C12N 15/1024 (20130101) |
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| US 09689042 | Onodera et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yasuhito Onodera (Sapporo, Japan); Mina Bissell (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods in which glucose metabolism is correlated to oncogenesis through certain specific pathways; inhibition of certain enzymes is shown to interfere with oncogenic signaling, and measurement of certain enzyme levels is correlated with patient survival. The present methods comprise measuring level of expression of at least one of the enzymes involved in glucose uptake or metabolism, wherein increased expression of the at least one of the enzymes relative to expression in a normal cell correlates with poor prognosis of disease in a patient. Preferably the genes whose expression level is measured include GLUT3, PFKP, GAPDH, ALDOC, LDHA and GFPT2. Also disclosed are embodiments directed towards downregulating the expression of some genes in glucose uptake and metabolism. |
| FILED | Friday, September 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/020361 |
| 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 2039/517 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6854 (20130101) G01N 33/57415 (20130101) |
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| US 09689085 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jia Xu Wang (East Setauket, New York); Radoslav R. Adzic (East Setauket, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of depositing contiguous, conformal submonolayer-to-multilayer thin films with atomic-level control is described. The process involves electrochemically exchanging a mediating element on a substrate with a noble metal film by alternatingly sweeping potential in forward and reverse directions for a predetermined number of times in an electrochemical cell. By cycling the applied voltage between the bulk deposition potential for the mediating element and the material to be deposited, repeated desorption/adsorption of the mediating element during each potential cycle can be used to precisely control film growth on a layer-by-layer basis. |
| FILED | Friday, April 17, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/689708 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 21/18 (20130101) B01J 23/42 (20130101) B01J 23/44 (20130101) B01J 37/0215 (20130101) B01J 37/0228 (20130101) B01J 37/341 (20130101) Processes for the Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Production of Coatings; Electroforming; Apparatus Therefor C25D 3/50 (20130101) C25D 5/18 (20130101) C25D 5/34 (20130101) C25D 7/006 (20130101) C25D 21/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/921 (20130101) H01M 4/926 (20130101) H01M 4/8657 (20130101) H01M 4/8853 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/50 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter de Diego (Saluda, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter de Diego (Saluda, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A hollow ceramic matrix composite (CMC) turbine bucket with an internal reinforcement lattice structure has improved vibration properties and stiffness. The lattice structure is formed of thin-walled plies made of CMC. The wall structures are arranged and located according to high stress areas within the hollow bucket. After the melt infiltration process, the mandrels melt away, leaving the wall structure to become the internal lattice reinforcement structure of the bucket. |
| FILED | Monday, April 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/442077 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/147 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F01D 5/282 (20130101) F01D 5/284 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2220/30 (20130101) F05D 2230/60 (20130101) F05D 2260/96 (20130101) F05D 2300/20 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49339 (20150115) |
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| US 09689514 | Leslie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Advanced Composite Products and Technology, Inc. (Huntington Beach, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Composite Products and Technology, Inc. (Huntington Beach, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James C. Leslie (Fountain Valley, California); James C. Leslie, II (Mission Viejo, California); James Heard (Huntington Beach, California); Liem V. Truong (Anaheim, California); Marvin Josephson (Huntington Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for making a metal to composite tube joint including selecting an elongated interior fitting constructed with an exterior barrel, reduced in exterior diameter to form a distally facing annular shoulder and then projecting still further distally to form an interior sleeve having a radially outwardly facing bonding surface. Selecting an elongated metal outer sleeve formed proximally with a collar constructed for receipt over the barrel and increased in interior diameter and projecting distally to form an exterior sleeve having a radially inwardly facing bonding surface cooperating with the first bonding surface to form an annulus receiving an extremity of a composite tube and a bond bonding the extremity of the tube to the bonding surfaces. |
| FILED | Monday, April 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/251831 |
| ART UNIT | 3679 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Earth Drilling, e.g Deep Drilling; Obtaining Oil, Gas, Water, Soluble or Meltable Materials or a Slurry of Minerals From Wells E21B 17/003 (20130101) E21B 17/028 (20130101) E21B 17/206 (20130101) Pipes; Joints or Fittings for Pipes; Supports for Pipes, Cables or Protective Tubing; Means for Thermal Insulation in General F16L 13/103 (20130101) F16L 15/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F16L 25/0018 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49826 (20150115) |
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| US 09689572 | Johnson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Edward Johnson (Greer, South Carolina); Johnie Franklin McConnaughhay (Greenville, South Carolina); Chrisophter Paul Keener (Woodruff, South Carolina); Heath Michael Ostebee (Piedmont, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application provides a variable volume combustor for use with a gas turbine engine. The variable volume combustor may include a liner, a number of micro-mixer fuel nozzles positioned within the liner, and a conical liner support supporting the liner. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/760095 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Generating Combustion Products of High Pressure or High Velocity, e.g Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers F23R 3/46 (20130101) F23R 3/283 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F23R 3/286 (20130101) F23R 2900/00017 (20130101) |
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| US 09689799 | Riot |
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| APPLICANT(S) | LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vincent J. Riot (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides a system and a method for measuring fluorescence of a sample. The sample may be a polymerase-chain-reaction (PCR) array, a loop-mediated-isothermal amplification array, etc. LEDs are used to excite the sample, and a photodiode is used to collect the sample's fluorescence. An electronic offset signal is used to reduce the effects of background fluorescence and the noises from the measurement system. An integrator integrates the difference between the output of the photodiode and the electronic offset signal over a given period of time. The resulting integral is then converted into digital domain for further processing and storage. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/602076 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| 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 1/6851 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/64 (20130101) G01N 21/6428 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2021/6439 (20130101) G01N 2201/062 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09689814 | Caffrey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Augustine J. Caffrey (Idaho Falls, Idaho); David L. Chichester (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Ann E. Egger (Pocatello, Idaho); Kenneth M. Krebs (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Edward H. Seabury (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Clinton D. Van Siclen (Idaho Falls, Idaho); C. Jayson Wharton (Idaho Falls, Idaho); John M. Zabriskie (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A chemical detection system includes a frame, an emitter coupled to the frame, and a detector coupled to the frame proximate the emitter. The system also includes a shielding system coupled to the frame and positioned at least partially between the emitter and the detector, wherein the frame positions a sensing surface of the detector in a direction substantially parallel to a plane extending along a front portion of the frame. A method of analyzing composition of a suspect object includes directing neutrons at the object, detecting gamma rays emitted from the object, and communicating spectrometer information regarding the gamma rays. The method also includes presenting a GUI to a user with a dynamic status of an ongoing neutron spectroscopy process. The dynamic status includes a present confidence for a plurality of compounds being present in the suspect object responsive to changes in the spectrometer information during the ongoing process. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/847266 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 23/222 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09689820 | Caruthers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Michael Caruthers (Lafayette, Indiana); Douglas E. Adams (Brentwood, Tennessee); Anand David (Woodbury, Minnesota); Peter R. O'Regan (West Lafayette, Indiana); Farshid Sadeghi (West Lafayette, Indiana); Nathan Daniel Sharp (West Lafayette, Indiana); Mark David Suchomel (Sugar Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for the detection of irregularities in a thin film by measurement of transient thermal response. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 25, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/353713 |
| ART UNIT | 2852 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 25/72 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 10/058 (20130101) H01M 10/345 (20130101) H01M 10/0413 (20130101) H01M 10/0436 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) |
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| US 09689822 | King et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Danny J. King (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Susan Babinec (Midland, Michigan); Patrick L. Hagans (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Lonnie C. Maxey (Powell, Tennessee); Edward A. Payzant (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Claus Daniel (Knoxville, Tennessee); Adrian S. Sabau (Knoxville, Tennessee); Ralph B. Dinwiddie (Knoxville, Tennessee); Beth L. Armstrong (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Jane Y. Howe (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); David L. Wood, III (Knoxville, Tennessee); Nicole S. Nembhard (Richmond, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and a method for characterizing a dielectric material are provided. The system and method generally include applying an excitation signal to electrodes on opposing sides of the dielectric material to evaluate a property of the dielectric material. The method can further include measuring the capacitive impedance across the dielectric material, and determining a variation in the capacitive impedance with respect to either or both of a time domain and a frequency domain. The measured property can include pore size and surface imperfections. The method can still further include modifying a processing parameter as the dielectric material is formed in response to the detected variations in the capacitive impedance, which can correspond to a non-uniformity in the dielectric material. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/602370 |
| ART UNIT | 2853 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/24 (20130101) G01N 27/221 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09689995 | Taleyarkhan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rusi P. Taleyarkhan (Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West LaFayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rusi P. Taleyarkhan (Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Alpha particle detecting devices are disclosed that have a chamber that can hold a fluid in a tensioned metastable state. The chamber is tuned with a suitable fluid and tension such that alpha emitting materials such as radon and one or more of its decay products can be detected. The devices can be portable and can be placed in areas, such as rooms in dwellings or laboratories and used to measure radon in these areas, in situ and in real time. The disclosed detectors can detect radon at and below 4 pCi/L in air; also, at and below 4,000 pCi/L or 300 pCi/L in water. |
| FILED | Monday, August 05, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/419808 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01T 1/178 (20130101) G01T 5/06 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 47/001 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09690161 | Lavrentovich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kent State University (Kent, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | KENT STATE UNIVERSITY (Kent, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oleg D. Lavrentovich (Kent, Ohio); Sergij V. Shiyanovsii (Stow, Ohio); Jie Xiang (Kent, Ohio); Young-Ki Kim (Kent, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A diffraction grating comprises a liquid crystal (LC) cell configured to apply an electric field through a cholesteric LC material that induces the cholesteric LC material into a heliconical state with an oblique helicoid director. The applied electric field produces diffracted light from the cholesteric LC material within the visible, infrared or ultraviolet. The axis of the heliconical state is in the plane of the liquid crystal cell or perpendicular to the plane, depending on the application. A color tuning device operates with a similar heliconical state liquid crystal material but with the heliconical director axis oriented perpendicular to the plane of the cell. A power generator varies the strength of the applied electric field to adjust the wavelength of light reflected from the cholesteric liquid crystal material within the visible, infrared or ultraviolet. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 29, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/812397 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 19/0208 (20130101) C09K 19/586 (20130101) C09K 2019/122 (20130101) C09K 2019/123 (20130101) C09K 2019/0444 (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 1/13718 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02F 2001/134381 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09691511 | Coats et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard L. Coats (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Edward J. Parma (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard L. Coats (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Edward J. Parma (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A small, low-enriched, passively safe, low-power nuclear reactor comprises a core of target and fuel pins that can be processed to produce the medical isotope 99Mo and other fission product isotopes. The fuel for the reactor and the targets for the 99Mo production are the same. The fuel can be low enriched uranium oxide, enriched to less than 20% 235U. The reactor power level can be 1 to 2 MW. The reactor is passively safe and maintains negative reactivity coefficients. The total radionuclide inventory in the reactor core is minimized since the fuel/target pins are removed and processed after 7 to 21 days. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/845497 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Conversion of Chemical Elements; Radioactive Sources G21G 1/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09691545 | Mccall et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott K. Mccall (Livermore, California); Joshua D. Kuntz (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a bulk exchange spring magnet by providing a magnetically soft material, providing a hard magnetic material, and producing a composite of said magnetically soft material and said hard magnetic material to make the bulk exchange spring magnet. The step of producing a composite of magnetically soft material and hard magnetic material is accomplished by electrophoretic deposition of the magnetically soft material and the hard magnetic material to make the bulk exchange spring magnet. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 27, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/007412 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for the Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Production of Coatings; Electroforming; Apparatus Therefor C25D 13/02 (20130101) C25D 13/12 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 1/0302 (20130101) H01F 1/0579 (20130101) H01F 41/00 (20130101) H01F 41/0253 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49 (20150115) |
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| US 09692075 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tae H. Lee (Naperville, Illinois); Stephen E. Dorris (LaGrange Park, Illinois); Uthamalingam Balachandran (Willowbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a multilayer anode/electrolyte assembly comprising a porous anode substrate and a layered solid electrolyte in contact therewith. The layered solid electrolyte includes a first dense layer of yttrium-doped barium zirconate (BZY), optionally including another metal besides Y, Ba, and Zr (e.g., a lanthanide metal such as Pr) on one surface thereof, a second dense layer of yttrium-doped barium cerate (BCY), and an interfacial layer between and contacting the BZY and BCY layers. The interfacial layer comprises a solid solution of the BZY and BCY electrolytes. The porous anode substrate comprises at least one porous ceramic material that is stable to carbon dioxide and water (e.g., porous BZY), as well as an electrically conductive metal and/or metal oxide (e.g., Ni, NiO, and the like). |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 26, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/006661 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/8621 (20130101) H01M 8/126 (20130101) H01M 8/1007 (20160201) H01M 8/1226 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/1253 (20130101) H01M 2008/1293 (20130101) H01M 2300/0074 (20130101) H01M 2300/0077 (20130101) H01M 2300/0094 (20130101) |
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| US 09692078 | Farmer |
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| APPLICANT(S) | LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph C. Farmer (Tracy, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A high-performance rechargeable battery using ultra-fast ion conductors. In one embodiment the rechargeable battery apparatus includes an enclosure, a first electrode operatively connected to the enclosure, a second electrode operatively connected to the enclosure, a nanomaterial in the enclosure, and a heat transfer unit. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 22, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/358518 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/227 (20130101) H01M 12/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09692079 | Haltiner, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Karl J. Haltiner, Jr. (Fairport, New York); Charles J. Badura (Penfield, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | DELPHI TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl J. Haltiner, Jr. (Fairport, New York); Charles J. Badura (Penfield, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved SOFC repeating fuel cell unit comprising three flat plates and a cell retainer. The three flat plates are metallurgically joined (brazed or laser welded) into a subassembly to which is added the fuel cell and cell retainer (which may also be joined as a second subassembly). Each flat plate performs a specific set of functions and can be optimized for those functions. Since the plates are flat and designed to overlap in loaded areas, the fuel cell unit is not prone to dimensional collapse which eliminates the internal reinforcements of the prior art design. The cell retainer is formed to provide a self-locating and locking feature for the fuel cell and decouples thermal stresses from the thin ceramic fuel cell. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/538964 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/247 (20130101) H01M 8/248 (20130101) H01M 8/249 (20130101) H01M 8/2425 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49108 (20150115) |
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| US 09692086 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gao Liu (Piedmont, California); Hui Zhao (Emeryville, California); Sang-Jae Park (Walnut Creek, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gao Liu (Piedmont, California); Hui Zhao (Emeryville, California); Sang-Jae Park (Walnut Creek, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A homologous series of cyclic carbonate or propylene carbonate (PC) analogue solvents with increasing length of linear alkyl substitutes were synthesized and used as co-solvents with PC for graphite based lithium ion half cells. A graphite anode reaches a capacity around 310 mAh/g in PC and its analogue co-solvents with 99.95% Coulombic efficiency. Cyclic carbonate co-solvents with longer alkyl chains are able to prevent exfoliation of graphite when used as co-solvents with PC. The cyclic carbonate co-solvents of PC compete for solvation of Li ion with PC solvent, delaying PC co-intercalation. Reduction products of PC on graphite surfaces via single-electron path form a stable Solid Electrolyte Interphase (SEI), which allows the reversible cycling of graphite. |
| FILED | Friday, October 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/506158 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/382 (20130101) H01M 4/386 (20130101) H01M 4/587 (20130101) H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) H01M 10/0569 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 2220/20 (20130101) H01M 2300/0037 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/7011 (20130101) |
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| US 09692234 | Mammoli et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrea A. Mammoli (Corrales, New Mexico); Olga Lavrova (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Brian Arellano (Rio Rancho, New Mexico); Feng Cheng (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Wesley Greenwood (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jonathan Hawkins (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Steve Willard (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is an apparatus and method for delivering energy using a renewable resource. The method includes providing a photovoltaic energy source and applying energy storage to the photovoltaic energy source via a battery storage unit. The energy output from the photovoltaic energy source and the battery system is controlled using a battery control system. The battery control system predicts peak load, develops a schedule that includes when to begin discharging power and when to stop discharging power, shifts power to the battery storage unit when excess power is available, and prioritizes the functionality of the battery storage unit and the photovoltaic energy source. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 15/031125 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 3/12 (20130101) H02J 3/32 (20130101) H02J 3/383 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H02J 3/386 (20130101) H02J 7/0068 (20130101) Apparatus for Conversion Between AC and AC, Between AC and DC, or Between DC and DC, and for Use With Mains or Similar Power Supply Systems; Conversion of DC or AC Input Power into Surge Output Power; Control or Regulation Thereof H02M 3/04 (20130101) H02M 7/44 (20130101) Generation of Electric Power by Conversion of Infra-red Radiation, Visible Light or Ultraviolet Light, e.g Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules H02S 40/38 (20141201) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/563 (20130101) Y02E 10/566 (20130101) Y02E 70/30 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 09686987 | Toenjes et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Montana State University Billings (Billings, Montana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Montana State University Billings (Billings, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kurt A. Toenjes (Billings, Montana); David K. Butler (Billings, Montana); Joy Goffena (Roundup, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for controlling conidial germination and mycelial growth in fungi comprising contacting a fungal cell with anti-fungal small molecules in an amount effective to reduce or inhibit conidial germination and mycelial growth. A method for controlling bark beetle infestations of pine trees comprising contacting one or more fungal cells with anti-fungal small molecules in an amount effective to reduce or inhibit conidial germination and mycelial growth. The anti-fungal small molecules are 5-(p-Bromobenzylidine)-α-isopropyl-4-oxo-2-thioxo-3-thiozolidineacetic acid, 2-[5-(4-chlorobenzylidene)-4-oxo-2-thioxo-1,3-thiazolidin-3-yl]-3-methylbutanoic acid, 2-[5-(4-hydroxybenzylidene)-4-oxo-2-thioxo-1,3-thiazolidin-3-yl]pentanoic acid, [5-(4-isopropylbenzylidene)-4-oxo-2-thioxo-1,3-thiazolidin-3-yl]acetic acid or 2-[5-(2-chlorobenzylidene)-4-oxo-2-thioxo-1,3-thiazolidin-3-yl]pentanoic acid. The species of the fungal cell is selected from a group that has an obligate symbiosis with the mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) and the western pine beetle (Dendroctonus brevicomis). |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 12, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/208312 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 43/78 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09687157 | Wax et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam Wax (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); John W. Pyhtila (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of assessing tissue health comprises the steps of obtaining depth-resolved spectra of a selected area of in vivo tissue, and assessing the health of the selected area based on the depth-resolved structural information of the scatterers. Obtaining depth-resolved spectra of the selected area comprises directing a sample beam towards the selected area at an angle, and receiving an angle-resolved scattered sample beam. The angle-resolved scattered sample beam is cross-correlated with the reference beam to produce an angle-resolved cross-correlated signal about the selected area, which is spectrally dispersed to yield an angle-resolved, spectrally-resolved cross-correlation profile having depth-resolved information about the selected area. The angle-resolved, spectrally-resolved cross-correlation profile is processed to obtain depth-resolved information about scatterers in the selected area. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/494080 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 1/00165 (20130101) A61B 1/00172 (20130101) A61B 5/0066 (20130101) A61B 5/0075 (20130101) A61B 5/0084 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 9/0209 (20130101) G01B 9/02043 (20130101) G01B 9/02044 (20130101) G01B 9/02084 (20130101) G01B 9/02087 (20130101) G01B 9/02091 (20130101) Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/45 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/31 (20130101) G01N 21/4795 (20130101) G01N 2021/4704 (20130101) G01N 2021/4709 (20130101) G01N 2021/4735 (20130101) G01N 2201/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09687199 | Ithapu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vamsi K Ithapu (Madison, Wisconsin); Vikas Singh (Madison, Wisconsin); Sterling C Johnson (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); Ozioma C Okonkwo (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A medical imaging system that processes input data (imaging and/or non imaging) having high dimensionality and few samples to learn from, by using multiple ranks of machine learning modules each dealing with a separate portion of the clinical data. The outputs of the individual machine learning modules are the combined to provide a result reflective of the complete image data set. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 09, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/848903 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — 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 5/7203 (20130101) A61B 5/7267 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/7271 (20130101) A61B 6/037 (20130101) A61B 6/501 (20130101) A61B 6/4417 (20130101) A61B 6/5247 (20130101) A61B 2560/0475 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/6217 (20130101) G06K 9/6293 (20130101) |
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| US 09687502 | Shi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Riyi Shi (West Lafayette, Indiana); Richard B. Borgens (Delphi, Indiana); Raphael C. Lee (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (Chicago, Illinois); PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Riyi Shi (West Lafayette, Indiana); Richard B. Borgens (Delphi, Indiana); Raphael C. Lee (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | To achieve, an in vivo repair of injured mammalian nerve tissue, an effective amount of a biomembrane fusion agent is administered to the injured nerve tissue. The application of the biomembrane fusion agent may be performed by directly contacting the agent with the nerve tissue at the site of the injury. Alternatively, the biomembrane fusion agent is delivered to the site of the injury through the blood supply after administration of the biomembrane fusion agent to the patient. The administration is preferably by parenteral administration including including intravascular, intramuscular, subcutaneous, or intraperitoneal injection of an effective quantity of the biomembrane fusion agent so that an effective amount is delivered to the site of the nerve tissue injury. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/901481 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/00 (20130101) A61K 31/74 (20130101) A61K 31/74 (20130101) A61K 31/77 (20130101) A61K 31/77 (20130101) A61K 31/765 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/765 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09687559 | DeAngelis |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul L. DeAngelis (Edmond, Oklahoma) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul L. DeAngelis (Edmond, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes compositions, methods, and systems for the development and use of heparosan, a natural polymer related to heparin, as a new therapeutic modifying agent or vehicle which can modulate drug cargo pharmacokinetics and behavior within a mammalian patient. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/556324 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/4823 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09687816 | Suri |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Temple University-Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Temple University Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rominder P. S. Suri (Audubon, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to systems and methods for regenerating β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) adsorbent after it has been used in a water decontamination process. The regeneration process of the present invention is based on treating β-CD with ozone gas, i.e., ozonation. In one embodiment, the regeneration process of the present invention comprises the steps of providing a β-CD adsorbent that has been used in a water decontamination process and removing at least a portion of the contaminants from the β-CD adsorbent by contacting the contaminants bound to the β-CD adsorbent with a gas comprising ozone. |
| FILED | Friday, February 27, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 15/121593 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/3204 (20130101) B01J 20/3274 (20130101) B01J 20/3425 (20130101) B01J 20/3458 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/281 (20130101) C02F 1/285 (20130101) C02F 1/288 (20130101) C02F 2101/36 (20130101) C02F 2101/305 (20130101) C02F 2101/345 (20130101) C02F 2303/16 (20130101) |
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| US 09688326 | Xiao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Research Foundation of the City University of New York (New York, New York); InnovBot, LLC (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Foundation of The City University of New York (New York, New York); InnovBot, LLC (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jizhong Xiao (River Edge, New Jersey); Kenshin Ushiroda (Forest Hills, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A drive unit for driving a robot along an inclined surface is disclosed. An endless tread engages a pair of wheels to define a planar bottom surface of the endless tread. A vacuum motor pulls air through holes in the endless tread when the holes are aligned with a vacuum opening. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/769183 |
| ART UNIT | 3611 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Motor Vehicles; Trailers B62D 55/265 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 901/01 (20130101) |
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| US 09688617 | Trauner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dirk Trauner (Munich, Germany); Ehud Y. Isacoff (Berkeley, California); Richard H. Kramer (Oakland, California); Matthew R. Banghart (Oakland, California); Doris L. Fortin (Ottawa, Canada); Alexandre Mourot (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides a photoreactive synthetic regulator of protein function. The present disclosure further provides a light-regulated polypeptide that includes a subject synthetic regulator. Also provided are cells and membranes comprising a subject light-regulated polypeptide. The present disclosure further provides methods of modulating protein function, involving use of light. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 19, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/132553 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 245/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 14/705 (20130101) Organic Dyes or Closely-related Compounds for Producing Dyes; Mordants; Lakes C09B 44/04 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 13/00 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/025 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/566 (20130101) G01N 33/5008 (20130101) G01N 2500/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09688789 | Mahanthappa et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (Arlington, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mahesh Kalyana Mahanthappa (Madison, Wisconsin); Glen Bradley Thomas (Madison, Wisconsin); Corinne Elizabeth Lipscomb (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are the synthesis and polymerization of a series of N-Boc-protected amino acid vinyl ester (BAAVE) monomers. Homopolymers and heteropolymers containing the monomers are described, particularly heteropolymers with vinyl ester monomers such as vinyl acetate. Deprotection can be used to produce hydrophilic and hydrophobic polymers that are particular useful in biological applications such as cellular delivery of biological materials. |
| FILED | Monday, June 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/305039 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 18/04 (20130101) C08F 18/22 (20130101) C08F 22/26 (20130101) C08F 26/02 (20130101) C08F 26/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08F 216/1458 (20130101) C08F 218/04 (20130101) C08F 218/08 (20130101) C08F 218/10 (20130101) C08F 226/02 (20130101) C08F 226/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09688997 | Yang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Ames, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bing Yang (Ames, Iowa); Ting Li (Ames, Iowa); Bo Liu (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Applicants have successfully generated heritable phenotypes in plants making them resistant to bacterial blight. TAL effector binding elements, (EBEs) of bacterial pathogen disease susceptibility genes are modified to prevent induction of expression associated with disease states caused by the bacterial pathogens. Surprisingly, Applicants have found that modifications may be made in the EBEs of these genes which prevent bacterial pathogen induction, but still allow for normal plant development and seed production. Nucleic acid sequences for generating such plants, amino acid sequences, cells, vectors and expression constructs are included as well as resistant plants, seeds and lines. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/362529 |
| ART UNIT | 1662 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/415 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/16 (20130101) C12N 15/8281 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09689022 | Hsieh-Wilson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Linda Hsieh-Wilson (San Marino, California); Nelly Khidekel (Pasadena, California); Hwan-Ching Tai (Pasadena, California); Sabine Arndt (Dortmund, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and compositions for the rapid and sensitive detection of post-translationally modified proteins, and particularly of those with posttranslational glycosylations. The methods can be used to detect O-GlcNAc posttranslational modifications on proteins on which such modifications were undetectable using other techniques. In one embodiment, the method exploits the ability of an engine˜red mutant of β-1,4-galactosyltransferase to selectively transfer an unnatural ketone functionality onto O-GlcNAc glycosylated proteins. Once transferred, the ketone moiety serves as a versatile handle for the attachment of biotin, thereby enabling detection of the modified protein. The approach permits the rapid visualization of proteins that are at the limits of detection using traditional methods. Further, the preferred embodiments can be used for detection of certain disease states, such as cancer, Alzheimer's disease, neurodegeneration, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/581603 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 19/10 (20130101) Peptides C07K 19/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/96 (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 1/48 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/68 (20130101) G01N 33/6803 (20130101) G01N 33/6842 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dmitry Budker (El Cerrito, California); Micah Ledbetter (Oakland, California); Kasper Jensen (Berkeley, California); Andrey Jarmola (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A solid-state gyroscope apparatus based on ensembles of negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV−) centers in diamond and methods of detection are provided. In one method, rotation of the NV− symmetry axis will induce Berry phase shifts in the NV− electronic ground-state coherences proportional to the solid angle subtended by the symmetry axis. A second method uses a modified Ramsey scheme where Berry phase shifts in the 14N hyperfine sublevels are employed. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/504720 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 19/58 (20130101) G01C 19/62 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/46 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam Wax (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Robert N. Graf (Durham, North Carolina); Francisco E. Robles (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Current apparatuses and methods for analysis of spectroscopic optical coherence tomography (SOCT) signals suffer from an inherent tradeoff between time (depth) and frequency (wavelength) resolution. In one non-limiting embodiment, multiple or dual window (DW) apparatuses and methods for reconstructing time-frequency distributions (TFDs) that applies two windows that independently determine the optical and temporal resolution is provided. For example, optical resolution is provided. For example, optical resolution may relate to scattering information about a sample, and temporal resolution may be related to absorption or depth related information. The effectiveness of the apparatuses and methods is demonstrated in simulations and in processing of measured OCT signals that contain fields which vary in time and frequency. The DW technique may yield TFDs that maintain high spectral and temporal resolution and are free from the artifacts and limitations commonly observed with other processing methods. |
| FILED | Monday, February 22, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/050368 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 9/02044 (20130101) G01B 9/02084 (20130101) G01B 9/02087 (20130101) G01B 9/02091 (20130101) Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/45 (20130101) G01J 3/453 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01J 2003/4538 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/49 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanford A. Asher (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A photonic bandgap crystal or photonic bandgap crystal material comprising a self-assembled crystalline colloidal array (CCA) of monodisperse spherical particles having a face-centered-cubic (fcc) or a body-centered-cubic (bcc) lattice dispersed in a medium. The photonic bandgap crystal or photonic bandgap crystal material has a photonic bandgap for light in the visible and near-IR or a photonic bandgap for light in the visible range of wavelengths less than about 700 nm. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/161436 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 1/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09690026 | Escuti et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Escuti (Cary, North Carolina); Matthew N. Miskiewicz (Raleigh, North Carolina); Jihwan Kim (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A direct-write lithography apparatus includes a polarization selector stage configured to vary a polarization orientation angle of light from a light source, a focusing element configured to focus the light from the light source into a spot at a focal plane thereof, and a scanning stage configured to scan the spot in at least two dimensions along a surface of a polarization-sensitive recording medium that is arranged proximate to the focal plane such that neighboring scans substantially overlap. The polarization selector stage and the scanning stage are configured to be operated independently of one another. Related fabrication methods of and optical elements fabricated thereby are also discussed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/435005 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/32 (20130101) G02B 5/3016 (20130101) G02B 5/3083 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 26/101 (20130101) G02B 27/286 (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 7/70191 (20130101) G03F 7/70383 (20130101) G03F 7/70566 (20130101) Holographic Processes or Apparatus G03H 1/08 (20130101) G03H 1/0248 (20130101) G03H 1/0476 (20130101) G03H 2001/0478 (20130101) G03H 2222/31 (20130101) G03H 2240/15 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kent State University (Kent, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | KENT STATE UNIVERSITY (Kent, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oleg D. Lavrentovich (Kent, Ohio); Sergij V. Shiyanovsii (Stow, Ohio); Jie Xiang (Kent, Ohio); Young-Ki Kim (Kent, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A diffraction grating comprises a liquid crystal (LC) cell configured to apply an electric field through a cholesteric LC material that induces the cholesteric LC material into a heliconical state with an oblique helicoid director. The applied electric field produces diffracted light from the cholesteric LC material within the visible, infrared or ultraviolet. The axis of the heliconical state is in the plane of the liquid crystal cell or perpendicular to the plane, depending on the application. A color tuning device operates with a similar heliconical state liquid crystal material but with the heliconical director axis oriented perpendicular to the plane of the cell. A power generator varies the strength of the applied electric field to adjust the wavelength of light reflected from the cholesteric liquid crystal material within the visible, infrared or ultraviolet. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 29, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/812397 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 19/0208 (20130101) C09K 19/586 (20130101) C09K 2019/122 (20130101) C09K 2019/123 (20130101) C09K 2019/0444 (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 1/13718 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02F 2001/134381 (20130101) |
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| US 09691290 | Reiley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carol E. Reiley (Baltimore, Maryland); Gregory D. Hager (Baltimore, Maryland); Balakrishnan Varadarajann (Baltimore, Maryland); Sanjeev Pralhad Khudanpur (Baltimore, Maryland); Rajesh Kumar (Baltimore, Maryland); Henry C. Lin (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems for quantifying clinical skill of a user, comprising: collecting data relating to a surgical task done by a user using a surgical device; comparing the data for the surgical task to other data for another similar surgical task; quantifying the clinical skill of the user based on the comparing of the data for the surgical task to the other data for the other similar surgical task; outputting the clinical skill of the user. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 07, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/877588 |
| ART UNIT | 3715 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Educational or Demonstration Appliances; Appliances for Teaching, or Communicating With, the Blind, Deaf or Mute; Models; Planetaria; Globes; Maps; Diagrams G09B 5/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G09B 7/00 (20130101) G09B 19/00 (20130101) G09B 23/28 (20130101) |
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| US 09691458 | Ralph et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel C. Ralph (Ithaca, New York); Robert A. Buhrman (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A device based on a spin Hall effect and spin-transfer torque (STT) effect is provided to include a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) element including a free magnetic layer structured to have a magnetization direction that can be changed by spin-transfer torque; an electrically conducting magnetic layer structure exhibiting a spin Hall effect (SHE) and, in response to an applied in-plane charge current, generating a spin-polarized current of a magnetic moment oriented in a predetermined direction having both an in-plane magnetic moment component parallel to a surface of the electrically conducting magnetic layer structure and a perpendicular magnetic moment component perpendicular to the surface of the electrically conducting magnetic layer structure. The magnetization direction of the free magnetic layer is capable of being switched by the spin-polarized current via a spin-transfer torque (STT) effect. This device can be configured in a 3-terminal configuration. |
| FILED | Monday, October 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 15/030291 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 11/18 (20130101) G11C 11/161 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G11C 11/1673 (20130101) G11C 11/1675 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 10/329 (20130101) H01F 10/3263 (20130101) H01F 10/3286 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/222 (20130101) H01L 27/226 (20130101) H01L 43/06 (20130101) H01L 43/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09691554 | Ladanov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mikhail Ladanov (Tampa, Florida); Paula C. Algarin Amaris (Greensboro, North Carolina); Garrett Matthews (Temple Terrace, Florida); Manoj Kumar Ram (Palm Harbor, Florida); Sylvia W. Thomas (Orlando, Florida); Ashok Kumar (Tampa, Florida); Jing Wang (Tampa, Florida); Arash Takshi (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming an ordered nanorods array in a confined space is used to form a high surface area device where an ensemble of parallel trenches has micrometer dimensions for the width and depth of the trenches, which are decorated with crystalline nanowires radiating from the sidewalls and bases of the trenches. The high surface area device is formed by depositing a conformal crystalline seed coating in the trenches, forming microchannels from these trenches by placing a barrier layer on the open surface of the trenches, contacting the conformal coating with a crystal precursor solution that is caused to flow through the microchannels. In an embodiment, a very high surface area electrode is constructed with ZnO nanowires radiating from the sidewalls and base of trenches formed on a silicon substrate. The device can be a dye-sensitized solar cell. |
| FILED | Friday, August 12, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/235153 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 33/02 (20130101) Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 9/02 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2004/16 (20130101) C01P 2006/40 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 9/204 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01G 9/2036 (20130101) H01G 9/2045 (20130101) H01G 9/2059 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/542 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24099 (20150115) |
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| US 09691912 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jing Wang (Tampa, Florida); I-Tsang Wu (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jing Wang (Tampa, Florida); I-Tsang Wu (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a device includes a substrate having a top surface and cavity that defines generally vertical walls, a thin film of material that has been deposited on the walls of the cavity, and a further material that fills the cavity, wherein a top edge of the thin film is exposed and forms a trace that is flush with the top surface of the substrate and has substrate material on one side and the further material on the other side. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 07, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/792966 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/88 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/0665 (20130101) |
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| US 09691998 | Lay et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marcus D. Lay (Bishop, Georgia); Pornnipa Vichchulada (Winder, Georgia); Darya Asheghali (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Briefly described, embodiments of the present disclosure relate to structures including single-walled carbon nanotube/quantum dot networks, devices including the structures, and methods of making devices including the single-walled carbon nanotube/quantum dot networks. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 05, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/097530 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0048 (20130101) H01L 51/0049 (20130101) H01L 51/105 (20130101) H01L 51/0545 (20130101) H01L 51/0566 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09692423 | McDermott, III et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Francis McDermott, III (Madison, Wisconsin); Britton Louis Thomas Plourde (Jamesville, New York); Maxim George Vavilov (Middleton, Wisconsin); Frank Karsten Wilhelm-Mauch (Saarbruecken, Germany); Luke Colin Gene Govia (Saarland, Germany); Emily Joy Pritchett (Santa Monica, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin); UNIVERSITAET DES SAARLANDES (Saarbruecken, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Francis McDermott, III (Madison, Wisconsin); Britton Louis Thomas Plourde (Jamesville, New York); Maxim George Vavilov (Middleton, Wisconsin); Frank Karsten Wilhelm-Mauch (Saarbruecken, Germany); Luke Colin Gene Govia (Saarland, Germany); Emily Joy Pritchett (Santa Monica, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for quantum computation and a readout method using the same are provided. In some aspects, the system includes at least one qubit circuit coupled to a resonant cavity, wherein each of the at least one qubit circuit is described by multiple quantum states, and a controller configured to provide microwave irradiation to the resonant cavity such that a quantum state information of the at least one qubit circuit is transferred to a resonant cavity occupation. The system also includes a readout circuit, coupled to the resonant cavity, configured to receive signals corresponding to the resonant cavity occupation, and generate an output indicative of the quantum states of the at least one qubit circuit. Optionally, the system further includes at least one single flux quantum (“SFQ”) circuit coupled to the readout circuit and configured to receive the output therefrom. |
| FILED | Monday, December 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/584659 |
| ART UNIT | 2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 99/002 (20130101) Pulse Technique H03K 19/19 (20130101) H03K 19/195 (20130101) H03K 19/1954 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03K 19/1958 (20130101) |
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Department of Commerce (DOC)
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| APPLICANT(S) | BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas E. Milner (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are systems, methods, and compositions for the use of optical coherence tomography for detection of cells. |
| FILED | Monday, November 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/954936 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/05 (20130101) A61B 5/026 (20130101) A61B 5/0035 (20130101) A61B 5/0066 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/0261 (20130101) A61B 5/0275 (20130101) A61B 5/0515 (20130101) A61B 5/725 (20130101) A61B 5/6852 (20130101) A61B 8/06 (20130101) A61B 8/13 (20130101) A61B 8/488 (20130101) A61B 2576/00 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 2/02 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/1717 (20130101) G01N 21/4795 (20130101) |
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| US 09687945 | Steines et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ConforMIS, Inc. (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ConforMIS, Inc. (Billerica, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Steines (Lexington, Massachusetts); Bijan Timsari (San Diego, California); Konstantinos Tsougarakis (Sunnyvale, California); Philipp Lang (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with the present invention there is provided methods for generating an isotropic or near-isotropic three-dimensional images from two-dimensional images. In accordance with the present invention the method includes, obtaining a first image of a body part in a first plane, wherein the first image generates a first image data volume; obtaining a second image of the body part in a second plane, wherein the second image generates a second image data volume; and combining the first and second image data volumes to form a resultant image data volume, wherein the resultant image data volume is isotropic or near-isotropic. |
| FILED | Monday, January 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/148511 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal-working Not Otherwise Provided For; Combined Operations; Universal Machine Tools B23P 19/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/56 (20130101) G01R 33/5608 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49 (20150115) |
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| US 09688536 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mei Zhang (Plano, Texas); Shaoli Fang (Richardson, Texas); Ray H. Baughman (Dallas, Texas); Anvar A. Zakhidov (McKinney, Texas); Kenneth Ross Atkinson (Victoria, Australia); Ali E. Aliev (Dallas, Texas); Sergey Li (Dallas, Texas); Chris Williams (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A process of producing a yarn, ribbon or sheet comprising nanofibers that includes infiltrating a liquid into the yarn, ribbon or sheet and evaporating the liquid from the yarn, ribbon, or sheet to strengthen the yarn, ribbon or sheet. The yarn, ribbon, or sheet can be formed by solid-state draw from a carbon nanotube forest. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 07, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/204643 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502707 (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 47/0059 (20130101) Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 5/02 (20130101) B32B 5/12 (20130101) B32B 18/00 (20130101) B32B 37/12 (20130101) B32B 2262/106 (20130101) B32B 2307/202 (20130101) B32B 2310/00 (20130101) B32B 2313/04 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0226 (20130101) C01B 31/0253 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C01B 31/0293 (20130101) C01B 2202/06 (20130101) Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/62231 (20130101) C04B 35/62272 (20130101) C04B 35/62281 (20130101) C04B 35/62855 (20130101) C04B 35/62892 (20130101) C04B 35/62897 (20130101) C04B 2235/422 (20130101) C04B 2235/526 (20130101) C04B 2235/5248 (20130101) C04B 2235/5264 (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 16/50 (20130101) Chemical Features in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons; Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture of Carbon Filaments D01F 9/12 (20130101) D01F 9/127 (20130101) D01F 9/1275 (20130101) Crimping or Curling Fibres, Filaments, Threads, or Yarns; Yarns or Threads D02G 3/16 (20130101) D02G 3/28 (20130101) D02G 3/44 (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 3/002 (20130101) Treating Textile Materials Using Liquids, Gases or Vapours D06B 15/00 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses of Section D, Relating to Textiles D10B 2101/122 (20130101) Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 1/2287 (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 1/133308 (20130101) G02F 2001/1515 (20130101) G02F 2001/133334 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 5/08 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 11/36 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0048 (20130101) H01L 51/5206 (20130101) H01L 51/5234 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/8605 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 9/0081 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) Y02E 60/13 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/521 (20151101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/742 (20130101) Y10S 977/745 (20130101) Y10S 977/746 (20130101) Y10S 977/752 (20130101) Y10S 977/843 (20130101) Y10S 977/847 (20130101) Y10S 977/848 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/30 (20150115) |
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| US 09688867 | Zammarano et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mauro Zammarano (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Douglas Fox (Reston, Virginia); Philipp Grützmacher (Rathsberg, Germany); Rick Davis (Ijamsville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | AMERICAN UNIVERSITY (Washington, District of Columbia); THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE, THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mauro Zammarano (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Douglas Fox (Reston, Virginia); Philipp Grützmacher (Rathsberg, Germany); Rick Davis (Ijamsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A flame retardant coating composition comprising poly(dopamine) and either tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane) or gaseous ammonia, as well as an article comprising a substrate and the flame retardant coating composition, is provided. In various embodiments, the poly(dopamine) is substantially water insoluble. The coating composition can further comprise at least one additional component selected from the group consisting of melamine, an anionic clay, a phosphorus-containing compound, an amine-containing compound, aluminosilicates, silicon oxides, and combinations thereof. Also provided are methods for forming the flame retardant coating composition and methods for increasing flame retardant properties of a substrate. |
| FILED | Monday, July 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/336581 |
| ART UNIT | 1768 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 2261/334 (20130101) C08G 2261/344 (20130101) C08G 2261/592 (20130101) C08G 2261/3241 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 3/28 (20130101) C08K 3/28 (20130101) C08K 5/17 (20130101) C08K 5/17 (20130101) C08K 5/52 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 65/00 (20130101) C08L 65/00 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 5/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C09D 7/1233 (20130101) C09D 165/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09692056 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Amprius, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Amprius, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zuqin Liu (Sunnyvale, California); Song Han (Foster City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Batteries having improved current collection are provided. In some implementations, an electrode structure of a battery may include an active material and two or more current collectors in electrical communication with the active material. In some implementations, an electrode structure of a battery may include two or more current collector layers. According to various implementations, the electrode structure may or may not include a current collector substrate. In some implementations, a battery anode includes a current collector substrate in electronic contact with nanostructured active material. In order to ensure that electronic communication between the active material and the current collector substrate is maintained throughout the life of the battery, a second electronically conductive path is provided in the form of a current collector layer over the nanostructured active material. The additional layer is thin and electronically conductive, and does not interfere adversely with battery operation. |
| FILED | Monday, April 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/863358 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/13 (20130101) H01M 4/38 (20130101) H01M 4/42 (20130101) H01M 4/045 (20130101) H01M 4/58 (20130101) H01M 4/64 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/66 (20130101) H01M 4/72 (20130101) H01M 4/75 (20130101) H01M 4/136 (20130101) H01M 4/366 (20130101) H01M 4/0402 (20130101) H01M 4/0416 (20130101) H01M 4/0428 (20130101) H01M 4/661 (20130101) H01M 4/667 (20130101) H01M 4/1395 (20130101) |
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| US 09692413 | Bird et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (Amherst, New York); The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (Amherst, New York); Board of Regents, the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan P. Bird (Buffalo, New York); Andrew Marshall (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A configurable ME MTJ XOR/XNOR gate includes an insulator separating a top and bottom FM layer, a top ME layer with a first boundary magnetism at an interface of the top ME layer and the top FM layer, a bottom ME layer with a second boundary magnetism at an interface of the bottom ME layer and the bottom FM layer, and a top electrode coupled to the top ME layer and a bottom electrode coupled to the bottom ME layer. A voltage between the top electrode and FM layer is a first input, a voltage between the bottom electrode and FM layer is a second input, and a resistance between the top and bottom FM layer is indicative of the XOR or the XNOR of the inputs. The configurable ME MTJ XOR/XNOR gate has reduced energy consumption, smaller area, faster switching times, is non-volatile, and is configurable. |
| FILED | Friday, October 28, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/337962 |
| ART UNIT | 2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 43/08 (20130101) Pulse Technique H03K 19/0008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03K 19/18 (20130101) H03K 19/21 (20130101) |
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| US 09688052 | Stewart et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Adminstrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Stewart (Santa Cruz, California); Daniel B. Leiser (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermal protection system that reduces a mismatch of thermal expansion coefficients CTE between a first material layer (CTE1) and a second material layer (CTE2) at a first layer-second layer interface. A portion of aluminum borosilicate (abs) or another suitable additive (add), whose CTE value, CTE(add), satisfies (CTE(add)−CTE1)(CTE(add)−CTE2)<0, is distributed with variable additive density, ρ(z;add), in the first material layer and/or in the second material layer, with ρ(z;add) near the materials interface being relatively high (alternatively, relatively low) and ρ(z;add) in a region spaced apart from the interface being relatively low (alternatively, relatively high). |
| FILED | Monday, August 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/010355 |
| ART UNIT | 1781 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 2203/05 (20130101) B22F 2207/17 (20130101) Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 7/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 2235/775 (20130101) C04B 2237/58 (20130101) |
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| US 09688881 | Jolley |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott T. Jolley (Titusville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method for powder coating a metal substrate using a low-melt polyamic acid (PAA) polymer that readily imidizes to polyimides. These low-melt PAAs have been shown to be useful in resins applied as powder coatings to metal surfaces. The resin includes an end-capping material capable of providing crosslinking functionality to at least one end of the low-melt PAA polymer. The end-capping material functions dually as a polymerization chain terminator and crosslinking agent, thus producing resins that have molecular weights low enough to flow well and form good cured films applicable for use in powder coating. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/199975 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 179/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09688922 | deMayo |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Benjamin deMayo (Carrollton, Georgia) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin deMayo (Carrollton, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system, and device for separating oil from oil sands or oil shale is disclosed. The method includes heating the oil sands, spinning the heated oil sands, confining the sand particles mechanically, and recovering the oil substantially free of the sand. The method can be used without the addition of chemical extraction agents. The system includes a source of centrifugal force, a heat source, a separation device, and a recovery device. The separation device includes a method of confining the sands while allowing the oil to escape, such as through an aperture. |
| FILED | Monday, June 09, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/299986 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 21/009 (20130101) B01D 21/262 (20130101) B01D 2221/04 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/5021 (20130101) Separating Solid Materials Using Liquids or Using Pneumatic Tables or Jigs B03B 9/02 (20130101) Centrifuges B04B 3/00 (20130101) B04B 3/04 (20130101) B04B 3/025 (20130101) B04B 5/0414 (20130101) B04B 5/0421 (20130101) B04B 15/02 (20130101) B04B 2005/0435 (20130101) Cracking Hydrocarbon Oils; Production of Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g by Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation; Recovery of Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, or Gases; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting of Hydrocarbons; Reforming of Naphtha; Mineral Waxes C10G 1/00 (20130101) C10G 31/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09690286 | Hovsepian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sarah Hovsepian (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Neil Adam Gershenfeld (Somerville, Massachusetts); Kenneth Cheung (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sarah Hovsepian (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Neil Adam Gershenfeld (Somerville, Massachusetts); Kenneth Cheung (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A digital material skin is made of a set of discrete units with a finite set of parts and joints. The discrete units are assembled into a layer according to a regular geometry, with each of the discrete units being reversibly connected to at least one other unit in the set. The reversibly connected set of units forms an exterior structure surface that is larger than the individual discrete units. Digital material skins may be used to construct any shape or interior volume, whether regular or amorphous. The skin surface may be enclosed or open. The skin may rely on an interior digital material structure for support or may be self-supported. The skin may be part of a larger assembly or apparatus, enclosing an interior volume or structure. |
| FILED | Friday, June 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/924530 |
| ART UNIT | 1781 — 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 1/08 (20130101) B32B 3/06 (20130101) B32B 2439/00 (20130101) Vessels for Containing or Storing Compressed, Liquefied or Solidified Gases; Fixed-capacity Gas-holders; Filling Vessels With, or Discharging From Vessels, Compressed, Liquefied, or Solidified Gases F17C 2203/0663 (20130101) F17C 2203/0685 (20130101) Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 19/4097 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G05B 2219/35012 (20130101) G05B 2219/45067 (20130101) |
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| US 09691933 | Bensaoula et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Houston System (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abdelhak Bensaoula (Houston, Texas); David Starikov (Houston, Texas); Rajeev Pillai (Manvel, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The structure and method of fabricating a radiation and temperature hard avalanche photodiode with integrated radiation and temperature hard readout circuit, comprising a substrate, an avalanche region, an absorption region, and a plurality of Ohmic contacts are presented. The present disclosure provides for tuning of spectral sensitivity and high device efficiency, resulting in photon counting capability with decreased crosstalk and reduced dark current. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/667024 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/1446 (20130101) H01L 31/1075 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/1856 (20130101) H01L 31/03044 (20130101) H01L 31/035236 (20130101) |
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Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09689987 | Jannson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Physical Optics Corporation (Torrance, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Physical Optics Corporation (Torrance, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tomasz Jannson (Torrance, California); Ranjit Pradhan (Torrance, California); Andrew Kostrzewski (Garden Grove, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser is used to emit a diverging laser flash configured to illuminate a detection zone. A pseudoimaging optical receiver system is used to detect reflections from objects in the detection zone. The receiver system includes a time-gated photodetector array that is used to record signatures in a voxel array. A voxel processing module receives the voxel array and detects a reference clutter signal within the array. Potential targets are then detected according to target signals in relation to the reference clutter signal. |
| FILED | Friday, June 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/913090 |
| ART UNIT | 2484 — Recording and Compression |
| 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 17/66 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09691933 | Bensaoula et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Houston System (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abdelhak Bensaoula (Houston, Texas); David Starikov (Houston, Texas); Rajeev Pillai (Manvel, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The structure and method of fabricating a radiation and temperature hard avalanche photodiode with integrated radiation and temperature hard readout circuit, comprising a substrate, an avalanche region, an absorption region, and a plurality of Ohmic contacts are presented. The present disclosure provides for tuning of spectral sensitivity and high device efficiency, resulting in photon counting capability with decreased crosstalk and reduced dark current. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/667024 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/1446 (20130101) H01L 31/1075 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/1856 (20130101) H01L 31/03044 (20130101) H01L 31/035236 (20130101) |
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| US 09693152 | Sabin |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Sabin (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A hearing assistance device may be a hearing aid worn on a person or a mobile device. The hearing assistance device may perform a hearing assistance algorithm based on signal processing parameters. A set of audiological values for a population may be identified. The set of audiological values has a first number of dimensions. The set of audiological values is converted to a reduced data set. The reduced data has set has a second number of dimensions less than the first number of dimensions. A processor calculates a trajectory for the reduced data set. The trajectory provides signal processing parameters for the hearing assistance device. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 13, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/825705 |
| ART UNIT | 2652 — Videophones and Telephonic Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups or Like Acoustic Electromechanical Transducers; Deaf-aid Sets; Public Address Systems H04R 25/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04R 25/70 (20130101) H04R 2225/55 (20130101) |
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United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 09689459 | Close et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald R. Close (Fairfax, Virginia); Scott R. Bombaugh (Burke, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The technology disclosed provides a joint for connecting carrier units together so as to dissipate and absorb axial forces experienced by the carrier units. The joint may be comprised of a joint housing and an elastomeric insert. The housing may be comprised of a body portion and a head portion and the head portion may include an annular flange in which the elastomeric insert is configured to be secured. The elastomeric joint is capable of absorbing and dissipating horizontal, rotational, and vertical forces experienced by the carrier units in non-linear travel along a track. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 26, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/670155 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Transport or Storage Devices, e.g Conveyors for Loading or Tipping, shop Conveyor Systems Or pneumatic Tube Conveyors B65G 17/06 (20130101) B65G 17/22 (20130101) B65G 17/30 (20130101) B65G 17/066 (20130101) B65G 17/385 (20130101) B65G 47/96 (20130101) Shafts; Flexible Shafts; Elements or Crankshaft Mechanisms; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing Elements; Bearings F16C 11/06 (20130101) F16C 11/08 (20130101) F16C 11/083 (20130101) Springs; Shock-absorbers; Means for Damping Vibration F16F 15/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/4984 (20150115) Y10T 29/49826 (20150115) Y10T 29/49872 (20150115) Y10T 403/54 (20150115) Y10T 403/455 (20150115) Y10T 403/32713 (20150115) |
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| US 09689691 | Bonnell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clayton C. Bonnell (Fairfax, Virginia); Neri G. Terry, Jr. (Springfield, Virginia); Kurt J. Schulz (Ballwin, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for generating a location identification grid and for using a location identification grid. The location identification grid can include a first geographic area that correspond to a pre-existing area. This pre-existing area can correspond to a postal code such as a zip code, a telephone code such as, an area code, or any other desired pre-existing area. The location identification grid can be subdivided into smaller geographic areas to allow more accurate identification of a location. The location identification grid can include a second geographic area. The second geographic area can be a subdivision of the first geographic area. The location identification grid can be used with signals that identify a location within a location identification grid. These signals can include a first component corresponding to the first geographic area and the second component corresponding to one or more second geographic areas. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/848016 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 21/00 (20130101) G01C 21/20 (20130101) G01C 21/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01C 21/3667 (20130101) Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/10 (20130101) Educational or Demonstration Appliances; Appliances for Teaching, or Communicating With, the Blind, Deaf or Mute; Models; Planetaria; Globes; Maps; Diagrams G09B 29/007 (20130101) |
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| US 09691116 | Bonnell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clayton Bonnell (Fairfax, Virginia); Jeffrey L. Freeman (Purcellville, Virginia); Michael Lyons (Port Saint Lucie, Florida); Stephen M. Dearing (Herndon, Virginia); Margaret L. Choiniere (Gainesville, Virginia); Daryl S. Hamilton (Upper Marlboro, Maryland); Himesh Patel (Centerville, Virginia); Carla Fern Sherry (Annandale, Virginia); David James Payne (Collierville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods using intelligent barcodes for processing mail, packages, or other items in transport are provided. Systems and methods allowing end-to-end visibility of a mail stream by uniquely identifying and tracking mail pieces are also provided. Systems and methods include the use of standardized intelligent barcodes on mail pieces, a seamless process for mail acceptance, continuous mail piece tracking, and feedback on mail quality in real time. In one embodiment, systems and methods using intelligent barcodes allow a mailing service to provide enhanced acceptance, sorting, tracking, address correction, forwarding, and delivery services. In another embodiment, systems and methods using intelligent barcodes allow a mailing service to identify a mail piece as undeliverable-as-addressed (UAA) and determine a final disposition for the mail piece. In yet another embodiment, systems and methods using intelligent barcodes allow mailers more visibility into the mail stream and information on the quality of their mailings. |
| FILED | Friday, April 17, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/690173 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Postal Sorting; Sorting Individual Articles, or Bulk Material Fit to be Sorted Piece-meal, e.g by Picking B07C 3/00 (20130101) B07C 3/18 (20130101) Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/083 (20130101) G06Q 50/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06Q 2220/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 209/90 (20130101) |
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Department of the Interior (DOI)
| US 09688551 | Adams et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPT. OF THE INTERIOR (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Interior (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Noah S. Adams (Carson, Washington); Barnaby J. Watten (Winchester, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system, method, and apparatus for treating ship or barge ballast water. The system includes a ballast tank storing ballast water and one or more nozzles located in the ballast tank. One or more pumps supply a chemical into the ballast tank and water to the nozzles. The nozzles are strategically located in the ballast tank to circulate the ballast water and mix the chemical with the ballast water without removing the ballast water from the ballast tank to a separate mixing and treatment area located outside the tank either onboard or off of the ship or barge. A controller receives a signal from a flow sensor in the ballast tank to control the one or more pumps to enable operating the nozzles alternately and intermittently to circulate the ballast water and the mix the chemical with the ballast water to minimize energy consumption. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/402131 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Mixing, e.g Dissolving, Emulsifying, Dispersing B01F 5/0206 (20130101) B01F 15/00136 (20130101) B01F 15/00253 (20130101) Auxiliaries on Vessels B63J 4/002 (20130101) Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C02F 2103/008 (20130101) |
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| US 09689235 | Ayotte |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph D. Ayotte (Concord, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Department of the Interior (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph D. Ayotte (Concord, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A well structure for providing drinking water. The well structure includes slotted horizontal collectors connected laterally to a fitting connector. A well casing is connected to a top of the fitting connector. The fitting connector is positioned in a bottom of the well bore such that the horizontal collectors are perpendicular to groundwater flow. Crushed stones are deposited in a lower portion of the well bore and allow groundwater to flow down and into the slots of the horizontal collectors. A geotextile filter fabric is placed over the crushed-stone fill. A pump is placed in the well casing to pump the groundwater to the land surface. A loam soil fill is deposited over the geotextile filter fabric. A seal is placed around the well casing under the land surface. A vented, removable cap with a rubber seal is placed over a top of the well casing and secured. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/488097 |
| ART UNIT | 3678 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Earth Drilling, e.g Deep Drilling; Obtaining Oil, Gas, Water, Soluble or Meltable Materials or a Slurry of Minerals From Wells E21B 7/04 (20130101) E21B 43/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class E21B 43/10 (20130101) |
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Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 09688933 | Glenn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory M. Glenn (American Canyon, California); Syed Hussain Imam (Walnut Creek, California); Artur Klamczynski (Orinda, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by The Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory M. Glenn (American Canyon, California); Syed Hussain Imam (Walnut Creek, California); Artur Klamczynski (Orinda, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The charcoal-foam heating material is formed by combining a charcoal mixture with an aqueous surfactant and water to create a semi-homogenous charcoal-foam slurry. The slurry is poured into shaping molds so that the slurry dries into the charcoal-foam heating material. In the preferred embodiment, a concrete surfactant is used during the mixing process and the charcoal-foam slurry is formed into briquettes and used as a cooking fuel. |
| FILED | Friday, September 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/558146 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Fuels Not Otherwise Provided for; Natural Gas; Synthetic Natural Gas Obtained by Processes Not Covered by Subclasses C10G, C10K; Liquefied Petroleum Gas; Adding Materials to Fuels or Fires to Reduce Smoke or Undesirable Deposits or to Facilitate Soot Removal; Firelighters C10L 5/14 (20130101) C10L 5/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10L 5/361 (20130101) C10L 5/365 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/10 (20130101) Y02E 50/30 (20130101) |
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Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 09689760 | Lanza di Scalea et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents Of The University Of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francesco Lanza di Scalea (San Diego, California); Claudio Nucera (San Diego, California); Robert Phillips (El Cajon, California); Stefano Coccia (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for determining rail stress. The method may include generating at least one ultrasonic guided wave to enable the at least one ultrasonic guided wave to propagate through a rail; detecting at least one of a fundamental frequency component of the at least one ultrasonic guided wave, one or more harmonics of the at least one ultrasonic guided wave, and/or a mixing component of the at least one ultrasonic guided wave; and determining a stress of the rail based on at least a nonlinearity parameter determined from the detected at least one of the fundamental frequency component, the one or more harmonics, and the mixing component. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/356615 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 1/255 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Testing Static or Dynamic Balance of Machines or Structures; Testing of Structures or Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G01M 5/0025 (20130101) G01M 5/0066 (20130101) |
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National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
| US 09691930 | Stan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SolAero Technologies Corp. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SolAero Technologies Corp. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Stan (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Chelsea Mackos (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jeff Steinfeldt (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a solar cell including: providing a first substrate and a second substrate; depositing on the first substrate a sequence of layers of semiconductor material forming a solar cell including a top subcell and a bottom subcell; forming a back metal contact over the bottom subcell; applying a conductive polyimide adhesive to the second substrate; attaching the second substrate on top of the back metal contact; and removing the first substrate to expose the surface of the top subcell. |
| FILED | Friday, November 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/934262 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/078 (20130101) H01L 31/0481 (20130101) H01L 31/1892 (20130101) H01L 31/06875 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/544 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/521 (20151101) |
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National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 09692879 | Lack |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Invincea, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Invincea, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Nathan Lack (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus includes a memory of a mobile compute device, and a hardware processor of the mobile compute device. The hardware processor is configured to implement an operating system and an authentication module. The operating system is configured to receive a first authentication identifier, and is also configured to authorize use of the mobile compute device based on the first authentication identifier meeting a first criterion. The authentication module is configured to, in response to the operating system authorizing use of the mobile compute device, disable at least one function of the mobile compute device and request a second authentication identifier. The authentication module is also configured to receive the second authentication identifier. The authentication module is also configured to enable the at least one function in response to the second authentication identifier meeting a second criterion. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/717422 |
| ART UNIT | 2641 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/34 (20130101) Transmission H04B 5/0031 (20130101) Telephonic Communication H04M 1/72577 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Wireless Communication Networks H04W 4/008 (20130101) H04W 12/04 (20130101) H04W 12/06 (20130101) |
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Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 09688536 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mei Zhang (Plano, Texas); Shaoli Fang (Richardson, Texas); Ray H. Baughman (Dallas, Texas); Anvar A. Zakhidov (McKinney, Texas); Kenneth Ross Atkinson (Victoria, Australia); Ali E. Aliev (Dallas, Texas); Sergey Li (Dallas, Texas); Chris Williams (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A process of producing a yarn, ribbon or sheet comprising nanofibers that includes infiltrating a liquid into the yarn, ribbon or sheet and evaporating the liquid from the yarn, ribbon, or sheet to strengthen the yarn, ribbon or sheet. The yarn, ribbon, or sheet can be formed by solid-state draw from a carbon nanotube forest. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 07, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/204643 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502707 (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 47/0059 (20130101) Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 5/02 (20130101) B32B 5/12 (20130101) B32B 18/00 (20130101) B32B 37/12 (20130101) B32B 2262/106 (20130101) B32B 2307/202 (20130101) B32B 2310/00 (20130101) B32B 2313/04 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0226 (20130101) C01B 31/0253 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C01B 31/0293 (20130101) C01B 2202/06 (20130101) Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/62231 (20130101) C04B 35/62272 (20130101) C04B 35/62281 (20130101) C04B 35/62855 (20130101) C04B 35/62892 (20130101) C04B 35/62897 (20130101) C04B 2235/422 (20130101) C04B 2235/526 (20130101) C04B 2235/5248 (20130101) C04B 2235/5264 (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 16/50 (20130101) Chemical Features in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons; Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture of Carbon Filaments D01F 9/12 (20130101) D01F 9/127 (20130101) D01F 9/1275 (20130101) Crimping or Curling Fibres, Filaments, Threads, or Yarns; Yarns or Threads D02G 3/16 (20130101) D02G 3/28 (20130101) D02G 3/44 (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 3/002 (20130101) Treating Textile Materials Using Liquids, Gases or Vapours D06B 15/00 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses of Section D, Relating to Textiles D10B 2101/122 (20130101) Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 1/2287 (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 1/133308 (20130101) G02F 2001/1515 (20130101) G02F 2001/133334 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 5/08 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 11/36 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0048 (20130101) H01L 51/5206 (20130101) H01L 51/5234 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/8605 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 9/0081 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) Y02E 60/13 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/521 (20151101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/742 (20130101) Y10S 977/745 (20130101) Y10S 977/746 (20130101) Y10S 977/752 (20130101) Y10S 977/843 (20130101) Y10S 977/847 (20130101) Y10S 977/848 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/30 (20150115) |
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U.S. State Government
| US 09688638 | Duarte et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NEKTAR THERAPEUTICS (INDIA) PVT.LTD. (Andhra Pradesh, India); NEKTAR THERAPEUTICS (Incorporated under the Laws of Delaware and domiclled in the State of California) (South San Francisco, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nektar Therapeutics (San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Franco J. Duarte (Millbrae, California); Neel K. Anand (San Mateo, California); Pankaj Sharma (New Delhi, India); Devendrapratap Singh (Mumbai, India) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are compounds, including those of Formula I; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and solvates thereof. The compounds described herein relate to and/or have application(s) in (among others) the fields of drug discovery, pharmacotherapy, physiology, organic chemistry and polymer chemistry. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 15/039686 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 221/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 401/12 (20130101) C07D 513/08 (20130101) |
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Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 09687488 | Beale |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Saint Louis College of Pharmacy (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ST. LOUIS COLLEGE OF PHARMACY (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. Beale (Manchester, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A pharmaceutical composition is provided which includes a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient and a pharmaceutically and physically acceptable amount of a compound selected from the group consisting of Chemical Formulas I-IV as described herein, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Also provided are methods of increasing a level of a defined neurotrophic peptide in an organism or tissue comprising the administration of a pharmaceutically and physically acceptable amount of one or more of the compositions described above, and a method for treating a neurodegenerative disease in a subject in need thereof, the method comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of the pharmaceutical composition of claim 1. |
| FILED | Friday, May 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/398704 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/18 (20130101) A61K 31/095 (20130101) A61K 31/167 (20130101) A61K 31/381 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09690831 | Isaacs et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ellen Isaacs (San Jose, California); Mudita Singhal (Sunnyvale, California); Ignacio Solis (South San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented system and method for visual search construction, document triage, and coverage tracking is provided. One or more search topics are received from a user. The search topics are positioned along a graph to generate a query. A search for resulting topics that are related to one or more of the search topics is conducted using the query. The topic results are displayed in the graph in relation to the placed search topics of the query. |
| FILED | Friday, April 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/866912 |
| ART UNIT | 2153 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30554 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 17/30637 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09691506 | Tan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel Qi Tan (Rexford, New York); Michael Joseph Krok (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Qi Tan (Rexford, New York); Michael Joseph Krok (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A boiling water reactor core power level monitoring system includes a desired length of high dielectric, non-linear material insulated coaxial type cable in close proximity to the reactor core and a time domain reflectometry apparatus configured to measure a temporary characteristic impedance change associated with the coaxial type cable in response to at least one of neutron or gamma irradiation generated via the reactor core. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/283796 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Nuclear Reactors G21C 17/108 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme Relating to Nuclear Reactors, Power Plants and Explosives, to Protection Against Radiation, to the Treatment of Radioactively Contaminated Material, to Applications of Radioactive Sources and to the Utilisation of Cosmic Radiation G21Y 2002/10 (20130101) G21Y 2002/202 (20130101) G21Y 2002/204 (20130101) G21Y 2002/304 (20130101) G21Y 2004/10 (20130101) G21Y 2004/30 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09692465 | Shanholtz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Exelis Inc. (Herndon, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eagle Technology, LLC (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Lee Shanholtz (Chester, Maryland); Michael L. Davis (Davidsonville, Maryland); Michael L. Haberman (Gambrills, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer implemented hybrid method determines a modeled aggregate interference power distribution at a receiver resulting from multiple radio frequency (RF) interferers. The method determines a respective interference power distribution for each interferer. The method also determines, among the interference power distributions, (i) first interference power distributions that meet a Central Limit Theorem (CLT) criterion, and (ii) second interference power distributions that do not meet the CLT criterion. The method combines the first interference power distributions using the CLT to produce the normal combined interference power distribution, and convolves the second interference power distributions with each other and the normal combined interference power distribution to produce the aggregate interference power distribution. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/850461 |
| ART UNIT | 2466 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 1/109 (20130101) H04B 1/1027 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Wireless Communication Networks H04W 24/10 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, June 27, 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
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
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FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
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ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
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