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Patent Details for Tuesday, July 18, 2017
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| US 09706959 | McCully 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) | Kevin K. McCully (Athens, Georgia); Terence E. Ryan (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, measuring mitochondrial capacity includes performing arterial occlusions on a patient, measuring oxygenated hemoglobin/myoglobin and deoxygenated hemoglobin/myoglobin within the patient's body during the occlusions, calculating a blood volume correction factor that accounts for a change in blood volume that occurs during the arterial occlusions, and applying the correction factor to the measured oxygenated hemoglobin/myoglobin and deoxygenated hemoglobin/myoglobin measurements to obtain correct oxygenated hemoglobin/myoglobin and deoxygenated hemoglobin/myoglobin measurements. |
| FILED | Monday, March 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/793558 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/702 (20130101) A61B 5/02028 (20130101) A61B 5/4519 (20130101) A61B 5/4866 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/4884 (20130101) A61B 5/6828 (20130101) A61B 5/7225 (20130101) A61B 5/7278 (20130101) A61B 5/14546 (20130101) A61B 5/14551 (20130101) A61B 17/1355 (20130101) |
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| US 09707195 | Tavazoie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sohail F. Tavazoie (New York, New York); Nora Pencheva (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses novel agents and methods for diagnosis and treatment of melanoma. Also disclosed are related arrays, kits, and screening methods. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 04, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/228643 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/18 (20130101) A61K 31/47 (20130101) A61K 31/136 (20130101) A61K 31/136 (20130101) A61K 31/195 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/265 (20130101) A61K 31/415 (20130101) A61K 31/416 (20130101) A61K 31/416 (20130101) A61K 31/675 (20130101) A61K 31/4155 (20130101) A61K 31/4155 (20130101) A61K 31/4164 (20130101) A61K 31/4174 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) A61K 38/177 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 217/54 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 233/64 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 9/65061 (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 2600/118 (20130101) C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) C12Q 2600/178 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5743 (20130101) G01N 2500/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09707210 | Burkin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION, ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO (Reno, Nevada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dean Burkin (Sparks, Nevada); Ryan Wuebbles (Sparks, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are α7β1 integrin modulatory agents and methods of using such to treat conditions associated with decreased α7β1 integrin expression or activity, including muscular dystrophy. In one example, methods for treating a subject with muscular dystrophy are disclosed. The methods include administering an effective amount of an α7β1 integrin modulatory agent to the subject with muscular dystrophy, wherein the α7β1 integrin modulatory agent increases α7β1 integrin expression or activity as compared to α7β1 integrin expression or activity prior to treatment, thereby treating the subject with muscular dystrophy. Also disclosed are methods of enhancing muscle regeneration, repair, or maintenance in a subject and methods of enhancing α7β1 integrin expression by use of the disclosed α7β1 integrin modulatory agents. Methods of prospectively preventing or reducing muscle injury or damage in a subject are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/776898 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/404 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/404 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09707220 | Furey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Dept. 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 (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maura L. Furey (Silver Spring, Maryland); Wayne C. Drevets (Tulsa, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods and compositions for the treatment of depression and anxiety. The compositions contain scopolamine, or an analog thereof, and can optionally include one or more psychoactive agents. Further provided is an inhaler containing scopolamine, or an analog thereof, in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. |
| FILED | Friday, September 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/478442 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0073 (20130101) A61K 31/46 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09707230 | Thomas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig J. Thomas (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Douglas S. Auld (Beverly, Massachusetts); James Inglese (Bethesda, Maryland); Amanda P. Skoumbourdis (Langhorne, Pennsylvania); Jian-Kang Jiang (Columbia, Maryland); Matthew B. Boxer (New Market, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are pyruvate kinase M2 activators, which are, bis sulfonamide piperazinyl compounds of Formula (I) and 2,4-disubstituted 4H-thieno[3,2-b]pyrrole-2-(substituted benzyl)pyridazin-3(2H)ones of Formula (II), wherein L and R1 to R16 are as defined herein, that are useful in treating a number of diseases that are treatable by the activation of PKM2, for example, cancer and anemia, |
| FILED | Monday, March 21, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/076258 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/445 (20130101) A61K 31/495 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/5025 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 295/26 (20130101) C07D 319/18 (20130101) C07D 495/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09707235 | Ambati |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jayakrishna Ambati (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | Therapeutic uses P2X7 inhibition and inhibition of IRAK1 and/or IRAK4, methods protecting a cell, and screening methods for identifying inhibitors are described herein. |
| FILED | Monday, January 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/740828 |
| 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 31/5377 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09707248 | Zebala et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Syntrix Biosystems Inc. (Auburn, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Syntrix Biosystems Inc. (Auburn, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Zebala (Issaquah, Washington); Dean Y. Maeda (Seattle, Washington); Aaron D. Schuler (Auburn, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | There is disclosed is a method of treating cancer using compound having formula SX-682 alone or in combination with an antineoplastic agent, microtubule affecting agents, antineoplastic agents, anti-angiogenesis agents, VEGF receptor kinase inhibitors, antibodies against the VEGF receptor, interferon, or radiation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 28, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/279361 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0053 (20130101) A61K 31/69 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/69 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/025 (20130101) |
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| US 09707271 | Spees |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Vermont and State Agriculture College (Burlington, Vermont) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Vermont and State Agriculture College (Burlington, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Spees (Colchester, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features compositions featuring (a) one or more of connective tissue growth factor (CTGF) and human C-terminal CTGF peptide; and (b) one or more of insulin and IGF-1; and methods of using such compositions to reduce cardiac tissue damage associated with an ischemic event or to enhance engraftment of a cell in a cardiac tissue. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/771747 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/34 (20130101) A61K 38/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/18 (20130101) A61K 38/28 (20130101) A61K 38/28 (20130101) A61K 38/30 (20130101) A61K 38/30 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/62 (20130101) C07K 14/65 (20130101) C07K 14/475 (20130101) |
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| US 09707284 | Albani |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Salvatore Albani (Encinitas, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Salvatore Albani (Encinitas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention concerns a pharmaceutical formulation and method for treating autoimmune disorders. The formulation and method provide for a combination therapy regimen wherein two separate substances are administered to a patient having or predisposed to having the disorder. The two components comprise at least one immunomodulatory peptide and a chloroquine derivative. The combination of the two components can be administered together or separately. |
| FILED | Friday, June 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/302685 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/164 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 39/0008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/55511 (20130101) |
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09707287 — Attenuated mutant dengue viruses comprising a mutation in the NS4B non-structural protein
| US 09707287 | Whitehead et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen S. Whitehead (Bethesda, Maryland); Brian R. Murphy (Bethesda, Maryland); Kathryn A. Hanley (Las Cruces, New Mexico); Joseph E. Blaney (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania); Ching-Juh Lai (Bethesda, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features novel attenuated dengue virus mutants and compositions thereof. The invention further features an attenuated dengue virus comprising a proline to leucine change at amino acid position 2343 of non-structural protein 4B (NS4B), wherein the numbering is based upon the prototypic isolate DEN4 Dominica 1981 and the attenuated mutant DEN virus has at least one of the following properties: improved replication in Vero cells or restricted replication in mosquito cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/096424 |
| 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 39/295 (20130101) A61K 2039/54 (20130101) A61K 2039/70 (20130101) A61K 2039/575 (20130101) A61K 2039/5252 (20130101) A61K 2039/5254 (20130101) A61K 2039/5256 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2770/24121 (20130101) C12N 2770/24134 (20130101) C12N 2770/24161 (20130101) C12N 2770/24162 (20130101) C12N 2770/24171 (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 1/701 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2333/18 (20130101) G01N 2500/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09707289 | Harrison et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen C. Harrison (Brighton, Massachusetts); Bing Chen (Westwood, Massachusetts); Dan C. Barouch (Brookline, Massachusetts); Joseph P. Nkolola (Watertown, Massachusetts); Michael Scott Seaman (West Roxbury, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION (Boston, Massachusetts); NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIH), THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DEPT. OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (DHHS). (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen C. Harrison (Brighton, Massachusetts); Bing Chen (Westwood, Massachusetts); Dan C. Barouch (Brookline, Massachusetts); Joseph P. Nkolola (Watertown, Massachusetts); Michael Scott Seaman (West Roxbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Stabilized trimers of a clade A strain and a clade C strain of HIV-1 are provided. Broadly neutralizing antisera against HIV-1, methods of making broadly neutralizing antisera against HIV-1, broadly neutralizing vaccines against HIV-1, as well as methods of treating subjects infected with HIV, preventing HIV infection, and inhibiting HIV-mediated activities are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, April 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/082601 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/21 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/54 (20130101) A61K 2039/545 (20130101) A61K 2039/575 (20130101) A61K 2039/55566 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2740/16122 (20130101) C12N 2740/16134 (20130101) |
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| US 09707292 | Manoharan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ARBUTUS BIOPHARMA CORPORATION (Burnaby, Canada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arbutus Biopharma Corporation (Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Muthiah Manoharan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Muthusamy Jayaraman (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Kallanthottathil G. Rajeev (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Laxman Eltepu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Steven Ansell (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jianxin Chen (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides lipids that are advantageously used in lipid particles for the in vivo delivery of therapeutic agents to cells. In particular, the invention provides lipids having the following structure wherein: R1 and R2 are each independently for each occurrence optionally substituted C10-C30 alkyl, optionally substituted C10-C30 alkenyl, optionally substituted C10-C30 alkynyl, optionally substituted C10-C30 acyl, or -linker-ligand; R3 is H, optionally substituted C1-C10 alkyl, optionally substituted C2-C10 alkenyl, optionally substituted C2-C10 alkynyl, alkylhetrocycle, alkylphosphate, alkylphosphorothioate, alkylphosphorodithioate, alkylphosphonates, alkylamines, hydroxyalkyls, ω-aminoalkyls, ω-(substituted)aminoalkyls, ω-phosphoalkyls, ω-thiophosphoalkyls, optionally substituted polyethylene glycol (PEG, mw 100-40 K), optionally substituted mPEG (mw 120-40 K), heteroaryl, heterocycle, or linker-ligand; and E is C(O)O or OC(O). |
| FILED | Thursday, October 15, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/884489 |
| 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 9/1272 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 39/39 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/10 (20130101) A61K 47/18 (20130101) A61K 47/20 (20130101) A61K 47/28 (20130101) A61K 2039/55555 (20130101) A61K 2039/55561 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 229/08 (20130101) C07C 229/30 (20130101) C07C 237/16 (20130101) C07C 251/38 (20130101) C07C 251/78 (20130101) C07C 271/12 (20130101) C07C 271/20 (20130101) C07C 323/25 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 203/10 (20130101) C07D 317/28 (20130101) C07D 319/06 (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 2310/3515 (20130101) C12N 2320/32 (20130101) |
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| US 09707304 | Blanks et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Florida Atlantic University Research Corporation (Boca Raton, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION (Boca Raton, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Janet C. Blanks (Boca Raton, Florida); Howard M. Prentice (Boca Raton, Florida); C. Kathleen Dorey (Roanoke, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention provides materials and methods useful in safely and effectively preventing pathological proliferation of blood vessels. The prevention of the over-proliferation of blood vessels according to the subject invention is particularly advantageous for treatment of certain ocular conditions including age-related macular degeneration (AMD), retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) and diabetic retinopathy. In preferred embodiments, the subject invention provides materials and methods for effective treatment of pathological ocular neovascularization using gene therapy. In a specific embodiment the materials and methods of the subject invention can be used to treat AMD. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 15, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/970459 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0048 (20130101) A61K 38/39 (20130101) A61K 48/005 (20130101) A61K 48/0058 (20130101) A61K 48/0066 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 14/78 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/062 (20130101) C12N 5/0621 (20130101) C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 15/63 (20130101) C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 2710/10041 (20130101) C12N 2710/10071 (20130101) C12N 2750/14121 (20130101) C12N 2750/14143 (20130101) C12N 2750/14171 (20130101) C12N 2830/002 (20130101) C12N 2830/008 (20130101) C12N 2830/32 (20130101) |
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| US 09707397 | Grill et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | DUKE UNIVERSITY (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Warren M. Grill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Amorn Wongsarnpigoon (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for stimulation of neurological tissue apply a stimulation waveform that is derived by a developed genetic algorithm (GA), which may be coupled to a computational model of extracellular stimulation of a mammalian myelinated axon. The waveform is optimized for energy efficiency. |
| FILED | Friday, July 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/796216 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0529 (20130101) A61N 1/3606 (20130101) A61N 1/36146 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/36175 (20130101) |
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| US 09707550 | Goodson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee); Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University (Carbondale, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee); Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois Univeristy (Carbondale, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Boyd M. Goodson (Carbondale, Illinois); Eduard Y. Chekmenev (Brentwood, Tennessee); Fan Shi (Energy, Illinois); Aaron M. Coffey (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Heterogeneous iridium catalysts for nuclear spin polarization enhancement in solution via signal amplification by reversible exchange are provided. Also provided are methods for preparing heterogeneous iridium catalysts, and methods of using heterogeneous iridium catalysts for nuclear spin polarization enhancement in solution via signal amplification by reversible exchange. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 16, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/801541 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 31/1616 (20130101) B01J 31/1658 (20130101) B01J 31/2273 (20130101) B01J 31/2295 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 2531/827 (20130101) |
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| US 09708267 | Boxer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew B. Boxer (New Market, Maryland); Min Shen (Boyds, Maryland); Douglas S. Auld (Beverly, Massachusetts); Craig J. Thomas (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Martin J. Walsh (Carmel, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are pyruvate kinase M2 activators which are compounds of Formula (I), including those of Formula (II), wherein A1, A2, L, R, R1 to R3, X1 to X3, k, n, and m are as defined herein, that are useful in treating a number of diseases that are treatable by the activation of PKM2, for example, cancer. A1-NR-L-A2(I). |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/643107 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/12 (20130101) C07D 209/30 (20130101) C07D 209/34 (20130101) C07D 215/36 (20130101) C07D 215/227 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 223/16 (20130101) C07D 235/26 (20130101) C07D 265/36 (20130101) |
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| US 09708278 | Lindsley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig W. Lindsley (Brentwood, Tennessee); P. Jeffrey Conn (Brentwood, Tennessee); Shaun R. Stauffer (Brentwood, Tennessee); Joseph D. Panarese (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the invention relates to N-substituted 3,4-dihydro-benzo[£][1,4]oxazine-2-carboxamide analogs, derivatives thereof, and related compounds, which are useful as positive allosteric modulators of the muscarinic acetylcholine receptor M1 (mAChR M1); synthesis methods for making the compounds; pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds; and methods of treating neurological and psychiatric disorders associated with muscarinic acetylcholine receptor dysfunction using the compounds and compositions. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 15/039763 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 265/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 413/06 (20130101) C07D 413/10 (20130101) C07D 413/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09708339 | Miller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC (Notre Dame, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC (Notre Dame, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marvin J. Miller (South Bend, Indiana); Rohit Tiwari (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound, having the following formula: or resonance form thereof, or salt thereof, or salt of resonance form thereof is provided, wherein E includes an electrophilic site, and wherein R1-R4 and n are defined herein. Compositions and methods including the compound are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 09, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/734657 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 279/08 (20130101) C07D 491/113 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09708344 | Kiessling et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin); THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laura L. Kiessling (Madison, Wisconsin); Virginia A. Kincaid (Madison, Wisconsin); Nir London (Rehovot, Israel); Brian K. Shoichet (Kentfield, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds and salts thereof which inhibit microbial growth or attenuate the virulence of pathogenic microorganisms and which inhibit UDP-galactopyranose mutase (UGM). Compounds of the invention include triazolothiadiazines, particularly 3,6,7-substituted-7H-[1,2,4]triazolo[3,4-b][1,3,4]thiadiazines, and 4-(1H-pyrrol-3-yl) thiazoles, particularly 4-(1,2,5-substituted-1H-pyrrol-3-yl)-2-substituted thiazoles, and salts thereof. Methods for inhibiting growth or attenuating virulence of microbial pathogens including mycobacterium, for example, M. tuberculosis and M. smegmatis and Klebsiella, for example, Klebsiella pneumoniae. Methods for inhibiting eukaryotic human and animal pathogens, and fungi and nematodes in particular. Methods for treatment of infections by prokaryotic and eukaryotic pathogens employing compounds of the invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 02, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/728914 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 417/04 (20130101) C07D 513/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09708359 | Bougher, III et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chimerix, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina); The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Chimerix, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina); The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Henry Bougher, III (Durham, North Carolina); Ramamurty V S Changalvala (Morrisville, North Carolina); Aaron Leigh Downey (Durham, North Carolina); John C. Drach (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Ernest Randall Lanier, Jr. (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Andrew Louis McIver (Durham, North Carolina); Bradley David Robertson (Durham, North Carolina); Dean Wallace Selleseth (Cary, North Carolina); Phiroze Behram Sethna (Durham, North Carolina); Leroy Townsend (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Roy W. Ware (Releigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides pyrrolopyrimidine nucleoside analogs of the Formula I, Formula IA, Formula IB, or Formula II and phospholipid conjugates and pharmaceutical compositions thereof wherein Rc and A are defined herein. Also presented are methods of treating and/or preventing viral infection and/or viral infection-associated disease or disorder with one or more compounds of Formula I, Formula IA, Formula IB, or Formula II. |
| FILED | Monday, August 08, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/231528 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 239/70 (20130101) Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 19/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07H 19/16 (20130101) |
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| US 09708373 | Garcia-Sastre et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Adolfo Garcia-Sastre (New York, New York); Peter Palese (Leonia, New Jersey); John Steel (Decatur, Georgia); Anice C. Lowen (Decatur, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adolfo Garcia-Sastre (New York, New York); Peter Palese (Leonia, New Jersey); John Steel (Decatur, Georgia); Anice C. Lowen (Decatur, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are influenza hemagglutinin stem domain polypeptides, compositions comprising the same, vaccines comprising the same and methods of their use. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/638148 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/145 (20130101) A61K 2039/5256 (20130101) A61K 2039/5258 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 14/11 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2319/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2760/16022 (20130101) C12N 2760/16034 (20130101) |
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| US 09708374 | Mechaly 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) | Adva Mechaly (Ness-Ziona, Israel); Andrew J. McCluskey (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); R. John Collier (Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | We described a novel system of targeted cell therapy with a protein toxin, such as anthrax toxin, that has been modified to re-direct it to a desired cell target instead of its natural cell target. The system can be used for, e.g., targeted killing of undesired cells in a population of cells, such as cancer or overly active immune system cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 18, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/625386 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/21 (20130101) C07K 14/25 (20130101) C07K 14/28 (20130101) C07K 14/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/33 (20130101) C07K 14/34 (20130101) C07K 16/32 (20130101) C07K 16/40 (20130101) C07K 16/2863 (20130101) C07K 2317/73 (20130101) C07K 2318/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/33 (20130101) C07K 2319/55 (20130101) C07K 2319/75 (20130101) |
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| US 09708392 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Dept. 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) | Zhaochun Chen (Potomac, Maryland); Patricia Earl (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Bernard Moss (Bethesda, Maryland); Suzanne U. Emerson (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Robert H. Purcell (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to monoclonal antibodies that bind or neutralize Orthopoxviruses. The invention provides such antibodies, fragments of such antibodies retaining B5 or A33 binding ability, fully human antibodies retaining B5 or A33 binding ability, and pharmaceutical compositions including such antibodies. The invention further provides for isolated nucleic acids encoding the antibodies of the invention and host cells transformed therewith. Additionally, the invention provides for prophylactic, therapeutic, and diagnostic methods employing the antibodies and nucleic acids of the invention. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 19, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/663168 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) A61K 2039/545 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 16/081 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/21 (20130101) C07K 2317/24 (20130101) C07K 2317/51 (20130101) C07K 2317/55 (20130101) C07K 2317/56 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) C07K 2317/565 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2710/24122 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56983 (20130101) G01N 2333/07 (20130101) |
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| US 09708411 | Shi |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuguang Shi (Hershey, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions of modulators of acyl-CoA lysocardiolipin acyf transferase 1 (ALCAT1) expression, function or activity are provided. In particular, inhibitors of ALCAT1 are useful in treating metabolic diseases, cardiac diseases and, in general diseases associated with mitochondrial dysfunction. Assays for identification of novel ALCAT1 modulators are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, February 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/378525 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/46 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 39/3955 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/21 (20130101) C07K 2317/24 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1137 (20130101) C12N 2310/111 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 306/05 (20130101) |
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| US 09708455 | Kennedy 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) | Stephen Michael Kennedy (Somerville, Massachusetts); Sidi Ahmed Bencherif (Boston, Massachusetts); David J. Mooney (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides cryogels whose porosity, pore size, pore connectivity, swelling agent concentration, and/or specific volume undergoes a change from a first value to a second value in response to an electrical stimulus. The cryogels have interconnected macropores which greatly enhance their ability to rapidly undergo volumetric collapse when subjected to moderate electric fields. The cryogels of the invention can be easily integrated into arrays capable of rapid configurational and chromatic optical modulations, and when loaded with drugs, are able to coordinate the delivery profile of multiple drugs. The cryogel can be prepared by polymerizing an aqueous solution of charged monomers and cross-linker monomers at a temperature below the freezing temperature of the solvent. |
| FILED | Friday, August 02, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/418599 |
| ART UNIT | 1619 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/06 (20130101) A61K 9/0009 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 220/06 (20130101) C08F 220/56 (20130101) C08F 2222/1013 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 9/28 (20130101) C08J 9/286 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08J 2201/0484 (20130101) C08J 2205/022 (20130101) C08J 2207/10 (20130101) C08J 2333/02 (20130101) C08J 2333/26 (20130101) C08J 2343/00 (20130101) C08J 2347/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09708585 | Mason et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Seqirus UK Limited (Berkshire, United Kingdom); Synthetic Genomics Vaccines, Inc. (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Seqirus UK Limited (Berkshire, United Kingdom) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Mason (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Philip Ralph Dormitzer (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Heidi Trusheim (Marburg, Germany); Pirada Suphaphiphat (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | New influenza donor strains for the production of reassortant influenza A viruses are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, December 02, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/648886 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/145 (20130101) A61K 2039/5252 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2760/16121 (20130101) C12N 2760/16134 (20130101) C12N 2760/16151 (20130101) C12N 2760/16152 (20130101) |
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| US 09708599 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | IQuum, Inc. (Marlborough, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. (Pleasanton, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shuqi Chen (Framingham, Massachusetts); Lingjun Chen (Framingham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of processing a sample may include introducing a sample into a vessel, the vessel having proximal and distal ends, the sample being introduced into the proximal end of the vessel; incubating the sample in the vessel with a substance capable of specific binding to a preselected component of the sample; propelling components of the incubated sample, other than the preselected component, toward the proximal end of the vessel by clamping the vessel distal to the incubated sample and compressing the vessel where the incubated sample is contained; propelling the preselected component toward a distal segment of the vessel by clamping the vessel proximal to the preselected component and compressing the vessel where the preselected component is contained; and mixing the preselected component with a reagent in the distal segment of the vessel. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/574030 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502 (20130101) B01L 3/505 (20130101) B01L 2200/10 (20130101) B01L 2200/0621 (20130101) B01L 2300/10 (20130101) B01L 2300/042 (20130101) B01L 2300/046 (20130101) B01L 2300/047 (20130101) B01L 2300/069 (20130101) B01L 2300/087 (20130101) B01L 2300/0681 (20130101) B01L 2400/0481 (20130101) B01L 2400/0677 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/10 (20130101) G01N 33/543 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 435/81 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/25 (20150115) |
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| US 09708612 | de la Chapelle et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Albert de la Chapelle (Delaware, Ohio); Ann-Kathrin Eisfeld (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions comprising therapeutic oligonucleotide miR-3151 compounds that target the expression of genes associated with tumorigenesis or cell transformation are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, February 12, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/042468 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/141 (20130101) C12N 2320/11 (20130101) C12N 2320/30 (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 2600/158 (20130101) C12Q 2600/178 (20130101) |
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| US 09708629 | Wiles et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, Maine) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, Maine) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael V. Wiles (Mount Desert, Maine); Benjamin E. Low (Brewer, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | Genetically engineered mice having a corrected Crb1rd8 mutation and methods for correcting the Crb1rd8 mutation to produce the genetically engineered mice are provided according to aspects of the present invention. Kits, expression vectors and fusion proteins according to aspects of the invention are provided for use to produce the genetically engineered mice characterized by a corrected Crb1rd8 mutation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/294779 |
| 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 2217/072 (20130101) A01K 2227/105 (20130101) A01K 2267/02 (20130101) A01K 2267/0306 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/907 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09708646 | Haurwitz 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) | Rachel E. Haurwitz (Berkeley, California); Jennifer A. Doudna (Berkeley, California); Blake Wiedenheft (Oakland, California); Martin Jinek (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides variant Csy4 endoribonucleases, nucleic acids encoding the variant Csy4 endoribonucleases, and host cells genetically modified with the nucleic acids. The variant Csy4 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 | Friday, February 10, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/430054 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/22 (20130101) C12N 15/1003 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/34 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6823 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09708648 | Dekker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Job Dekker (Princeton, Massachusetts); Erez Lieberman Aiden (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Nynke Van Berkum (NW Den Haag, Netherlands); Andreas Gnirke (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Eric Lander (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Chad Nusbaum (Newton, Massachusetts); Louise Williams (Reading, Massachusetts); Alexandre Melnikov (Bellingham, Massachusetts); Georgia Giannoukos (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosed Hi-C protocol can identify genomic loci that are spatially co-located in vivo. These spatial co-locations may include, but are not limited to, intrachromosomal interactions and/or interchromosomal interactions. Hi-C techniques may be applied to many different scales of interest. For example, on a large scale, Hi-C techniques can be used to identify long-range interactions between distant genomic loci. |
| FILED | Monday, April 25, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/137988 |
| 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 1/68 (20130101) C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09708664 | Felder 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) | Robin A. Felder (Charlottesville, Virginia); Robert M. Carey (Charlottesville, Virginia); John E. Jones (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Pedro A. Jose (Lorton, Virginia); Scott M. Williams (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | It was determined whether SNPs in SLC4A5 are associated with salt sensitivity of blood pressure (BP). Subjects consumed an isocaloric constant diet with a randomized order of 7 days low Na+ (10 mmol/d) and 7 days high Na+ (300 mmol/d) intake. Salt sensitivity was defined as a ≧7 mm Hg increase in mean arterial pressure (MAP). 35 polymorphisms in 17 candidate genes were assayed. Association analyses with salt sensitivity revealed three variants that associated with salt sensitivity, two in SLC4A5 (rs7571842, rs10177833; P<0.001), and one in GRK4 (rs1801058; P=0.020). Paradoxical changes in blood pressure in response to changes in salt intake were also found associated with a SNP for DRD2 (rs6276). In conclusion, SLC4A5 variants are strongly associated with salt sensitivity of BP in Caucasian and a DRD2 SNP is a marker for paradoxical response to salt intake. |
| FILED | Monday, April 22, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/395596 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Foods, Foodstuffs, or Non-alcoholic Beverages, Not Covered by Subclasses A23B - A23J; Their Preparation or Treatment, e.g Cooking, Modification of Nutritive Qualities, Physical Treatment; Preservation of Foods or Foodstuffs, in General A23L 33/30 (20160801) Indexing Scheme Relating to Foods, Foodstuffs or Non-alcoholic Beverages A23V 2002/00 (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 1/6883 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/118 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/84 (20130101) G01N 33/6893 (20130101) G01N 2800/321 (20130101) |
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| US 09708665 | Salaita et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Khalid S. Salaita (Decatur, Georgia); Pradeep M. Nair (San Francisco, California); Joe W. Gray (Lake Osewego, Oregon); John T. Groves (Berkeley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Khalid S. Salaita (Decatur, Georgia); Pradeep M. Nair (San Francisco, California); Debopriya Das (Albany, California); Joe W. Gray (Lake Osewego, Oregon); John T. Groves (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A signature of a condition of a live cell is established in an assay that allows distribution of the receptors on the cell surface in response to binding a ligand. The receptors can be optically detected and quantified to provide a value for the condition, Test drugs can be screened for therapeutic potential in the assay: a potentially efficacious drug is identified by an ability to modulate an established signature. The receptor distribution signature can be corroborated with an mRNA expression profile of several genes, indicating, for example, metastasis. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/194577 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) |
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| US 09708671 | Alland et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Alland (Bernardsville, New Jersey); Soumitesh Chakravorty (Somerset, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to nucleic acids, reagents and methods for detecting Rifampicin-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a sample from a subject. In one aspect, the invention provides methods of detecting Rifampicin resistant M. tuberculosis in a sample comprising (a) amplifying a nucleic acid containing the rifampicin resistance determining region (RRDR) of the rpoB gene in a sample to provide an amplified nucleic acid; (b) probing the amplified nucleic acid with at least three molecular beacon probes for an RRDR mutant target; (c) conducting melting temperature (Tm) analysis to determine a Tm value for each probe; and (d) comparing the Tm value for each probe with a Tm value for a wild-type RRDR region, wherein a Tm value for at least one of the molecular beacon probes that is greater than the Tm value for the wildtype RRDR indicates the presence of rifampicin resistant M. tuberculosis in the sample. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/391437 |
| 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 1/689 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) |
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| US 09709511 | Lee 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) | Jae Seung Lee (Corona, New York); Ravinder R. Regatte (Monroe, New Jersey); Alexej Jerschow (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus, system, method and computer-readable medium for isolating chemical exchange saturation transfer contrast from magnetization transfer asymmetry under two-frequency RF irradiation. A two-pool model for magnetization transfer (MT) can be established fully based on Provotorov's theory of saturation, and then extended to the situation of simultaneous two-frequency RF irradiation. Numerical simulations and experimental results demonstrate that two-frequency RF irradiation can make MT effects independent of irradiation frequency over a wide range, and thus can suppress MT asymmetry. Exemplary embodiments can be provided to isolate chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) contrast from MT asymmetry contrast by using the two-frequency RF irradiation technique. A further embodiment can isolate a narrow-frequency spectrum MT mechanism from a broad-frequency spectrum MT mechanism. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/687342 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 23/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/5605 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/707 (20130101) |
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| US 09709526 | Petering et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UWM Research Foundation, Inc. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UWM Research Foundation, Inc. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David H. Petering (Fox Point, Wisconsin); William J. Wobig (Jackson, Wisconsin); Andrew Nowakowski (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of characterizing proteins has been developed that includes providing a sample that contains a plurality of proteins to be characterized, wherein at least a first protein of the plurality of proteins is in its native form. Additionally, the method includes contacting the sample containing the plurality of proteins with a solution to form a sample solution, and then contacting the sample solution with a gel. The plurality of proteins is subsequently separated via electrophoresis within the gel, which includes an electrophoresis solution. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/258160 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 1/26 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/447 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 27/44747 (20130101) |
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| US 09709541 | Rodes et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Research Triangle Institute (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Triangle Institute (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles E. Rodes (Cary, North Carolina); J. Randall Newsome (Apex, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas processing device includes a sample inlet defining a gas flow path into a housing, and a pump and a noise dampening device disposed in the housing. The noise dampening device includes an inlet chamber, an outlet chamber, and an elastomeric membrane interposed between and fluidly isolating the inlet chamber and the outlet chamber. The inlet chamber is interposed between the sample inlet and the pump inlet, and the outlet chamber communicates with the pump outlet. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 03, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/060573 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/2273 (20130101) G01N 15/0255 (20130101) G01N 21/51 (20130101) G01N 21/53 (20130101) G01N 33/0016 (20130101) G01N 33/0027 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09709553 | Goldman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven Goldman (Webster, New York); Fraser J. Sim (Buffalo, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Goldman (Webster, New York); Fraser J. Sim (Buffalo, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure relates to oligodendrocyte-biased glial progenitor cells and methods of making, isolating, and using such cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/990874 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/12 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0622 (20130101) C12N 5/0623 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5058 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09709554 | Yarmush et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin L. Yarmush (Newton, Massachusetts); Nir I. Nativ (West Orange, New Jersey); Francois Berthiaume (Metuchen, New Jersey); Gabriel A. Yarmush (Linden, New Jersey); Tim Maguire (Piscataway, New Jersey); Rene S. Schloss (East Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a system and methods for identifying a compound for de-fatting and functional recovery of macrosteatotic hepatocytes. |
| FILED | Friday, January 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/169605 |
| 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 5/067 (20130101) C12N 2533/54 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5067 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09709564 | Ahearn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Allegheny-Singer Research Institute (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Allegheny-Singer Research Institute (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph M. Ahearn (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Chau-Ching Liu (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Susan M. Manzi (Wexford, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods, systems, and kits for diagnosing or monitoring systemic lupus erythematosus in an individual. In particular aspects, in a blood sample containing white blood cells from the individual, autoantibodies deposited on or contacting with the surface of a T lymphocyte in the sample are quantitated. |
| FILED | Friday, August 07, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/821670 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/505 (20130101) G01N 33/536 (20130101) G01N 33/564 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/5047 (20130101) G01N 33/5052 (20130101) G01N 33/5055 (20130101) G01N 33/6854 (20130101) G01N 2333/7051 (20130101) G01N 2333/70514 (20130101) G01N 2333/70517 (20130101) G01N 2800/104 (20130101) G01N 2800/7095 (20130101) |
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| US 09709567 | Jayaraman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Akila Jayaraman (Waltham, Massachusetts); Karthik Viswanathan (Waltham, Massachusetts); Rahul Raman (Waltham, Massachusetts); Zachary H. Shriver (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ram Sasisekharan (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides HA polypeptides (e.g., H1 HA polypeptides) that bind to umbrella-topology glycans, and reagents and methods relating thereto. The present invention provides binding agents that bind to HA polypeptides (e.g., H1 HA polypeptides), and reagents and methods relating thereto. The present invention provides interfering agents that inhibit the binding of HA polypeptides (e.g., H1 HA polypeptides) to HA receptors, and reagents and methods relating thereto. The present invention provides compositions and methods for treating, preventing, and/or diagnosing influenza infection utilizing HA polypeptides, HA polypeptide binding agents, HA polypeptide interfering agents, and/or vaccine compositions comprising any of the foregoing. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 28, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/009270 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2760/16122 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56983 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/11 (20130101) G01N 2800/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09709572 | Strongin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Portland State University (Portland, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Portland State University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Strongin (Portland, Oregon); Xiaofeng Yang (Xi'an, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of probes for selectively detecting compounds having a thiol group and an amino group, e.g., cysteine and/or homocysteine, are disclosed, along with methods and kits for detecting the compounds in neutral media with the probes. The probes have a structure according to the general formula where R1-R4 independently are hydrogen hydroxyl, halogen, thiol, thioether, lower aliphatic, or lower alkoxy, x is an integer from 0 to 4, and each R5 independently is halogen, hydroxyl, thiol, thioether, lower aliphatic, or lower alkoxy. Embodiments of the disclosed probes are capable of undergoing condensation/cyclization reactions with cysteine and/or homocysteine. Cysteine and/or homocysteine can be selectively detected and identified by determining fluorescence emission of the probes at characteristic wavelengths. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/950961 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 277/66 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6428 (20130101) G01N 33/68 (20130101) G01N 33/6815 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2021/6439 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/17 (20150115) Y10T 436/173845 (20150115) |
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| US 09709573 | Van Eyk et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer E. Van Eyk (Baltimore, Maryland); Allen Dale Everett (Glenwood, Maryland); Zhicheng Jin (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the field of biomarkers. More specifically, the present invention relates to biomarkers useful in diagnosing brain injury or neurodegeneration. In one embodiment, a method for diagnosing brain injury in a patient comprises the steps of (a) obtaining a sample from the patient; (b) determining the ratio of citrullinated to unmodified arginine residues at one or more arginine residues of one or more brain injury biomarker proteins; and (c) correlating the ratio to a patient having brain injury or to a patient not having brain injury, thereby providing the diagnosis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/384848 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5306 (20130101) G01N 33/6842 (20130101) G01N 33/6848 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2440/18 (20130101) G01N 2800/28 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/0027 (20130101) H01J 49/0077 (20130101) |
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| US 09709574 | Sutkowski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MUSC Foundation for Research Development (Charleston, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MUSC Foundation for Research Development (Charleston, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Natalie Sutkowski (Charleston, South Carolina); Semyon Rubinchik (Mount Pleasant, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for methods of producing human monoclonal antibodies against a wide variety of antigens including bacterial and viral antigens, as well as tumor antigens, and various autoantigens. Also provided are the antibodies themselves, nucleic acids encoding such antibodies, cells producing such antibodies, and methods of using such antibodies for diagnostic assays and passive immunity against disease states such as infection and cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/205983 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/00 (20130101) C07K 16/16 (20130101) C07K 16/22 (20130101) C07K 16/244 (20130101) C07K 16/1018 (20130101) C07K 16/1271 (20130101) C07K 2317/21 (20130101) C07K 2317/75 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0635 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6854 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09709578 | Everett et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allen Dale Everett (Baltimore, Maryland); Jun Yang (Baltimore, Maryland); Zongming Fu (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the field of biomarkers. More specifically, the present invention relates to assay reagents useful in detecting neurogranin. In a specific embodiment, the present invention provides an isolated antibody or fragment thereof that specifically binds to neurogranin. In another embodiment, the present invention provides a polynucleotide aptamer that specifically binds neurogranin. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 29, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/280780 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 16/18 (20130101) C07K 2317/30 (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) 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 1/68 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/566 (20130101) G01N 33/6896 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/47 (20130101) G01N 2800/28 (20130101) |
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| US 09709649 | Xiong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Qiang Xiong (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jianyi Zhang (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qiang Xiong (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jianyi Zhang (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for acquiring and using inversion-recovery data and spectral data. In particular, the inversion-recovery data and spectral data can be used to determine adenosine triphosphate (ATP) hydrolysis rate of a subject without a quantification of inorganic phosphate. |
| FILED | Friday, February 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/175518 |
| ART UNIT | 2852 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/485 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09712234 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xinyu Zhang (Madison, Wisconsin); Suman Banerjee (Madison, Wisconsin); Jialiang Zhang (Madison, Wisconsin); Chi Zhang (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A visible light communication system identifies the location of a mobile device using light intensities corrected by mobile device orientation. This location can be used to generate a dynamic cluster of visible light transmitters about the mobile device providing improved “handoff” between transmitters and reduced shadowing. |
| FILED | Monday, December 28, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/980103 |
| ART UNIT | 2636 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 10/116 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Wireless Communication Networks H04W 4/023 (20130101) H04W 4/026 (20130101) |
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| US 09712805 | Zhuang 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) | Xiaowei Zhuang (Lexington, Massachusetts); Bo Huang (San Francisco, California); Wilfred M. Bates (Gottingen, Germany); Wenqin Wang (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to sub-diffraction limit image resolution and other imaging techniques, including imaging in three dimensions. In one aspect, the invention is directed to determining and/or imaging light from two or more entities separated by a distance less than the diffraction limit of the incident light. For example, the entities may be separated by a distance of less than about 1000 nm, or less than about 300 nm for visible light. In some cases, the position of the entities can be determined in all three spatial dimensions (i.e., in the x, y, and z directions), and in certain cases, the positions in all three dimensions can be determined to an accuracy of less than about 1000 nm. In one set of embodiments, the entities may be selectively activatable, i.e., one entity can be activated to produce light, without activating other entities. A first entity may be activated and determined (e.g., by determining light emitted by the entity), then a second entity may be activated and determined. The emitted light may be used to determine the x and y positions of the first and second entities, for example, by determining the positions of the images of these entities, and in some cases, with sub-diffraction limit resolution. In some cases, the z positions may be determined using one of a variety of techniques that uses intensity information or focal information (e.g., a lack of focus) to determine the z position. Non-limiting examples of such techniques include astigmatism imaging, off-focus imaging, or multi-focal-plane imaging. Other aspects of the invention relate to systems for sub-diffraction limit image resolution, computer programs and techniques for sub-diffraction limit image resolution, methods for promoting sub-diffraction limit image resolution, and the like. |
| FILED | Friday, August 07, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/821569 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/64 (20130101) G01N 21/6428 (20130101) G01N 21/6458 (20130101) G01N 2021/6419 (20130101) G01N 2021/6421 (20130101) G01N 2021/6439 (20130101) G01N 2021/6441 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/16 (20130101) G02B 21/361 (20130101) G02B 21/367 (20130101) G02B 27/58 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 7/18 (20130101) H04N 13/0203 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SPAWAR SYSTEMS CENTER PACIFIC (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 | 14/980304 |
| 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 09707280 | Siegel 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) | Justin Siegel (Seattle, Washington); David Baker (Seattle, Washington); Sydney Rin Anna Gordon (Seattle, Washington); Ingrid Swanson Pultz (Seattle, Washington); Elizabeth Joy Stanley (Bothell, Washington); Sarah Jane Wolf (Camas, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions and methods for treating celiac sprue. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 26, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/006341 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/48 (20130101) A61K 38/482 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/50 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 304/21 (20130101) |
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| US 09707550 | Goodson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee); Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University (Carbondale, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee); Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois Univeristy (Carbondale, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Boyd M. Goodson (Carbondale, Illinois); Eduard Y. Chekmenev (Brentwood, Tennessee); Fan Shi (Energy, Illinois); Aaron M. Coffey (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Heterogeneous iridium catalysts for nuclear spin polarization enhancement in solution via signal amplification by reversible exchange are provided. Also provided are methods for preparing heterogeneous iridium catalysts, and methods of using heterogeneous iridium catalysts for nuclear spin polarization enhancement in solution via signal amplification by reversible exchange. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 16, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/801541 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 31/1616 (20130101) B01J 31/1658 (20130101) B01J 31/2273 (20130101) B01J 31/2295 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 2531/827 (20130101) |
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| US 09708035 | Czepizak et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kurt M Czepizak (Portsmouth, Rhode Island); Ryan F Galego (Barrington, Rhode Island); Eric H Kirchoff (Newport, Rhode Island); Joseph M Muhitch (Exeter, Rhode Island); Paul V Cavallaro (Raynham, Massachusetts); Andrew W Hulton (Mansfield, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kurt M Czepizak (Portsmouth, Rhode Island); Ryan F Galego (Barrington, Rhode Island); Eric H Kirchoff (Newport, Rhode Island); Joseph M Muhitch (Exeter, Rhode Island); Paul V Cavallaro (Raynham, Massachusetts); Andrew W Hulton (Mansfield, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A launch and recovery system for a towed body is provided in which uninflated air beams extrude from winches where the beams enter a deployment frame and are inflated. Sealing rollers near the winches seal the air beams when the desired length of the air beams is inflated. To deploy the towed body, a positioning cart moves along the inflated air beams from an end of a deployment frame. A translating arch moves from the forward to the aft end of the positioning cart on the rails to where the tow body is released from the capture boom and swing support. The positioning cart can retract back into the deployment frame when not in use. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 22, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/272536 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships or Other Waterborne Vessels; Equipment for Shipping B63B 21/16 (20130101) B63B 21/56 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B63B 21/66 (20130101) B63B 27/28 (20130101) B63B 2021/566 (20130101) |
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| US 09708057 | Birchette et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Terrence S. Birchette (Chandler, Arizona); Akif O. Bolukbasi (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOEING COMPANY (Chicago, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terrence S. Birchette (Chandler, Arizona); Akif O. Bolukbasi (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | An active landing gear damping system and method for decelerating a vehicle during a terrain impact event, such as an aircraft landing or crash. The system monitors aircraft state data and terrain information to predict an impact of the vehicle with the terrain. The system can then determine a target damper force for each landing gear of the vehicle and a predicted damper velocity at the time of impact. Each landing gear can include an adjustable damper valve, wherein adjustment of the damper valves varies the damping coefficient of the respective dampers. The system can adjust valves of the respective dampers to provide the target force based on the predicted damper velocity. After an impact begins, the system can continuously monitor and adjust the valve to maintain the target force. |
| FILED | Monday, February 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/188589 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 25/58 (20130101) B64C 25/60 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 45/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09708210 | Nguyen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vinh Q. Nguyen (Fairfax, Virginia); Mikhail Kotov (Silver Spring, Maryland); Daniel J. Gibson (Cheverly, Maryland); Shyam S. Bayya (Ashburn, Virginia); Jasbinder S. Sanghera (Ashburn, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vinh Q. Nguyen (Fairfax, Virginia); Mikhail Kotov (Silver Spring, Maryland); Daniel J. Gibson (Cheverly, Maryland); Shyam S. Bayya (Ashburn, Virginia); Jasbinder S. Sanghera (Ashburn, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to synthesize striae-free chalcogenide glass using melt processing. A striae-free chalcogenide glass with uniform refractive index. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/712338 |
| ART UNIT | 1741 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Manufacture, Shaping, or Supplementary Processes C03B 5/06 (20130101) C03B 5/16 (20130101) C03B 2201/86 (20130101) Chemical Composition of Glasses, Glazes or Vitreous Enamels; Surface Treatment of Glass; Surface Treatment of Fibres or Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals or Slags; Joining Glass to Glass or Other Materials C03C 3/321 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09708257 | Liao |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi Liao (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A photoacid includes a nucleophilic (NuH) moiety having a photodissociable proton, an electron accepting (EA) moiety, and a bridge structure (X) bonded to both the NuH moiety and EA moiety positioned between the NuH and EA moieties. The NuH and EA moieties each include respective structure so that the EA moiety bonds to a proton photodissociated form of the NuH moiety during a reversible photoinduced intramolecular reaction to form a ring, which has been found to significantly increase the lifetime of the proton dissociation state. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/748253 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09708443 | Xia et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | 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) | Yan Xia (Stanford, California); Sheng Liu (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A molecule includes at least one moiety represented by: where R1, R2, R3, and R4 are independently selected from hydride group and groups different from hydride group, and X1 and X2 are bridging moieties including a carbon atom or a heteroatom. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/871691 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 493/22 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 61/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 61/126 (20130101) C08G 2261/31 (20130101) C08G 2261/41 (20130101) C08G 2261/62 (20130101) C08G 2261/1336 (20130101) C08G 2261/3325 (20130101) C08G 2261/3342 (20130101) |
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| US 09708455 | Kennedy 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) | Stephen Michael Kennedy (Somerville, Massachusetts); Sidi Ahmed Bencherif (Boston, Massachusetts); David J. Mooney (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides cryogels whose porosity, pore size, pore connectivity, swelling agent concentration, and/or specific volume undergoes a change from a first value to a second value in response to an electrical stimulus. The cryogels have interconnected macropores which greatly enhance their ability to rapidly undergo volumetric collapse when subjected to moderate electric fields. The cryogels of the invention can be easily integrated into arrays capable of rapid configurational and chromatic optical modulations, and when loaded with drugs, are able to coordinate the delivery profile of multiple drugs. The cryogel can be prepared by polymerizing an aqueous solution of charged monomers and cross-linker monomers at a temperature below the freezing temperature of the solvent. |
| FILED | Friday, August 02, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/418599 |
| ART UNIT | 1619 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/06 (20130101) A61K 9/0009 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 220/06 (20130101) C08F 220/56 (20130101) C08F 2222/1013 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 9/28 (20130101) C08J 9/286 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08J 2201/0484 (20130101) C08J 2205/022 (20130101) C08J 2207/10 (20130101) C08J 2333/02 (20130101) C08J 2333/26 (20130101) C08J 2343/00 (20130101) C08J 2347/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09708529 | Pei 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) | Qibing Pei (Calabasas, California); Qi Chen (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the synthesis and use of transparent bulk conjugated polymers prepared from liquid monomers via bulk polymerization. The liquid monomer contains pi-electron conjugated moieties and polymerizable moieties. The monomer solution may also have functionalizing additives such as a luminescence additive that includes organic dyes, luminescent molecules, fluorescent compounds, phosphorescent compounds, and luminescent quantum dots. The monomer solution may also have sensitizing additives such as high-energy photo sensitizing compounds, nanoparticles of compounds containing atoms with atomic numbers greater than 52 and neutron sensitizing additives. The monomer solution is polymerized by heating to an elevated temperature with or without addition of an initiator. Alternatively, the monomer is polymerized by photo-induced polymerization. A photoinitiator may be employed to initiate the photopolymerization. Scintillation materials with significant light yields are illustrated. |
| FILED | Monday, June 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/293102 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 2/02 (20130101) C08F 2/44 (20130101) C08F 2/50 (20130101) C08F 20/10 (20130101) C08F 212/08 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C09K 11/025 (20130101) C09K 2211/1416 (20130101) Electric Heating; Electric Lighting Not Otherwise Provided for H05B 33/14 (20130101) H05B 33/20 (20130101) |
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| US 09708599 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | IQuum, Inc. (Marlborough, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. (Pleasanton, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shuqi Chen (Framingham, Massachusetts); Lingjun Chen (Framingham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of processing a sample may include introducing a sample into a vessel, the vessel having proximal and distal ends, the sample being introduced into the proximal end of the vessel; incubating the sample in the vessel with a substance capable of specific binding to a preselected component of the sample; propelling components of the incubated sample, other than the preselected component, toward the proximal end of the vessel by clamping the vessel distal to the incubated sample and compressing the vessel where the incubated sample is contained; propelling the preselected component toward a distal segment of the vessel by clamping the vessel proximal to the preselected component and compressing the vessel where the preselected component is contained; and mixing the preselected component with a reagent in the distal segment of the vessel. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/574030 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502 (20130101) B01L 3/505 (20130101) B01L 2200/10 (20130101) B01L 2200/0621 (20130101) B01L 2300/10 (20130101) B01L 2300/042 (20130101) B01L 2300/046 (20130101) B01L 2300/047 (20130101) B01L 2300/069 (20130101) B01L 2300/087 (20130101) B01L 2300/0681 (20130101) B01L 2400/0481 (20130101) B01L 2400/0677 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/10 (20130101) G01N 33/543 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 435/81 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/25 (20150115) |
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| US 09708633 | Arnold et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frances H. Arnold (La Canada, California); Pete Heinzelman (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to CBH I chimera fusion polypeptides, nucleic acids encoding the polypeptides, and host cells for producing the polypeptides. |
| FILED | Friday, March 11, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/068521 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 2319/35 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/2437 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/02 (20130101) C12P 19/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Enzymes C12Y 302/01004 (20130101) C12Y 302/01074 (20130101) C12Y 302/01091 (20130101) |
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| US 09708665 | Salaita et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Khalid S. Salaita (Decatur, Georgia); Pradeep M. Nair (San Francisco, California); Joe W. Gray (Lake Osewego, Oregon); John T. Groves (Berkeley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Khalid S. Salaita (Decatur, Georgia); Pradeep M. Nair (San Francisco, California); Debopriya Das (Albany, California); Joe W. Gray (Lake Osewego, Oregon); John T. Groves (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A signature of a condition of a live cell is established in an assay that allows distribution of the receptors on the cell surface in response to binding a ligand. The receptors can be optically detected and quantified to provide a value for the condition, Test drugs can be screened for therapeutic potential in the assay: a potentially efficacious drug is identified by an ability to modulate an established signature. The receptor distribution signature can be corroborated with an mRNA expression profile of several genes, indicating, for example, metastasis. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/194577 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) |
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| US 09708755 | Koene et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bryan Edward Koene (Blacksburg, Virginia); Ruya Ozer (Tulsa, Oklahoma) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | LUNA INNOVATIONS INCORPORATED (Roanoke, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryan Edward Koene (Blacksburg, Virginia); Ruya Ozer (Tulsa, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | Coating compositions which include a blend of a fluorochemical and a particulate additive comprising a bimodal size distribution of inorganic nanoparticles are provided. The bimodal distribution of inorganic nanoparticles may include a quantity of smaller nanoparticles having an average size distribution of between about 1 to about 15 nm, and a quantity of larger nanoparticles having an average size distribution of between about 40 to about 500 nm. The smaller and larger nanoparticles may be present in a ratio of the smaller sized particles to the larger sized particles of at least 1.2, with the total amount of nanoparticles being present in an amount of between about 0.1 to about 10 wt. % based on total composition weight. |
| FILED | Friday, June 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/131110 |
| ART UNIT | 1786 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Treating Textile Materials Using Liquids, Gases or Vapours D06B 1/00 (20130101) Treatment, Not Provided for Elsewhere in Class D06, of Fibres, Threads, Yarns, Fabrics, Feathers or Fibrous Goods Made From Such Materials D06M 11/36 (20130101) D06M 11/53 (20130101) D06M 11/58 (20130101) D06M 11/74 (20130101) D06M 11/78 (20130101) D06M 11/79 (20130101) D06M 15/277 (20130101) Original (OR) Class D06M 23/08 (20130101) D06M 2200/11 (20130101) D06M 2200/12 (20130101) D06M 2200/35 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 442/2172 (20150401) |
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| US 09709359 | Robbins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James Travis Robbins (Dahlgren, Virginia); Luis J. Rodriguez (King George, Virginia); Danny L. Wilson (Spotsylvania, Virginia) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | James Travis Robbins (Dahlgren, Virginia); Luis J. Rodriguez (King George, Virginia); Danny L. Wilson (Spotsylvania, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A significantly simplified sight unit for a mortar is provided consisting of a gauge tool for boresight procedures containing a frame with two legs, each containing a level secured to the frame by a securing bracket. A plurality of C-brackets and screw assemblies stabilize and help further secure the levels to the frame. |
| FILED | Monday, December 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/374178 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus for Launching Projectiles or Missiles From Barrels, e.g Cannons; Launchers for Rockets or Torpedoes; Harpoon Guns F41F 1/06 (20130101) Weapon Sights; Aiming F41G 1/44 (20130101) F41G 1/50 (20130101) F41G 1/393 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09709440 | Englund et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dirk Robert Englund (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Edward H. Chen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Fan Meng (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Tim Schroder (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Noel Heng Loon Wang (New York, New York); Ren-Jye Shiue (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Multimode interference can be used to achieve ultra-high resolving powers (e.g., Q>105) with linewidths down to 10 pm at 1500 nm and a broad spectroscopy range (e.g., 400-2400 nm) within a monolithic, millimeter-scale device. For instance, multimode interference (MMI) in a tapered waveguide enables fine resolution and broadband spectroscopy in a compact, monolithic device. The operating range is limited by the transparency of the waveguide material and the sensitivity of the camera; thus, the technique can be easily extended into the ultraviolet and mid- and deep-infrared spectrum. Experiments show that a tapered fiber multimode interference spectrometer can operate across a range from 500 nm to 1600 nm (B=1.0576) without moving parts. The technique is suitable for on-chip tapered multimode waveguides, which could be fabricated in high volume by printing or optical lithography, for applications from biochemical sensing to the life and physical sciences. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/325502 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/0205 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01J 3/0218 (20130101) G01J 3/0256 (20130101) G01J 3/453 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/4287 (20130101) G02B 6/29344 (20130101) |
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| US 09709538 | Wu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wei Wu (Palo Alto, California); Zhiyong Li (Palo Alto, California); Ansoon Kim (Palo Alto, California); Min Hu (Palo Alto, California); Michael Josef Stuke (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Wu (Palo Alto, California); Zhiyong Li (Palo Alto, California); Ansoon Kim (Palo Alto, California); Min Hu (Palo Alto, California); Michael Josef Stuke (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices to detect a substance and methods of producing such a device are disclosed. An example device to detect a substance includes a housing defining an externally accessible chamber and a seal to enclose at least a portion of the chamber. The example device also includes a substrate includes nanoparticles positioned within the chamber. The nanoparticles to react to the substance when exposed thereto. The example device also includes a non-analytic solution within the chamber to protect the nanoparticles from premature exposure. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 14/239330 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/5085 (20130101) B01L 3/50853 (20130101) B01L 2200/141 (20130101) B01L 2300/069 (20130101) B01L 2300/0636 (20130101) B01L 2300/0819 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/648 (20130101) G01N 21/658 (20130101) G01N 31/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2201/023 (20130101) G01N 2201/0227 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/25 (20150115) |
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| US 09709559 | Banerjee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sukanta Banerjee (North Brunswick, New Jersey); Michael Seul (Fanwood, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BioArray Solutions, Ltd. (Warren, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sukanta Banerjee (North Brunswick, New Jersey); Michael Seul (Fanwood, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for the generation of novel libraries of encoded magnetic particles from sub-libraries of by the generation of novel sub-libraries of magnetic nanoparticles and encoded particles. The sub-libraries are functionalized on demand are useful in the formation of arrays. The present invention is especially useful for performing multiplexed (parallel) assays for qualitative and/or quantitative analysis of binding interactions of a number of analyte molecules in a sample. |
| FILED | Friday, December 28, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/032657 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — 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 2219/005 (20130101) B01J 2219/00545 (20130101) B01J 2219/00576 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/588 (20130101) G01N 33/54326 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/54333 (20130101) |
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| US 09709564 | Ahearn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Allegheny-Singer Research Institute (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Allegheny-Singer Research Institute (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph M. Ahearn (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Chau-Ching Liu (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Susan M. Manzi (Wexford, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods, systems, and kits for diagnosing or monitoring systemic lupus erythematosus in an individual. In particular aspects, in a blood sample containing white blood cells from the individual, autoantibodies deposited on or contacting with the surface of a T lymphocyte in the sample are quantitated. |
| FILED | Friday, August 07, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/821670 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/505 (20130101) G01N 33/536 (20130101) G01N 33/564 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/5047 (20130101) G01N 33/5052 (20130101) G01N 33/5055 (20130101) G01N 33/6854 (20130101) G01N 2333/7051 (20130101) G01N 2333/70514 (20130101) G01N 2333/70517 (20130101) G01N 2800/104 (20130101) G01N 2800/7095 (20130101) |
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| US 09709667 | Herbel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raytheon Command and Control Solutions LLC (Fullerton, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Command and Control Solutions LLC (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard S. Herbel (Anaheim, California); James W. Rakeman (Brea, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A synchronization time delay due to a time synchronization protocol between a first sensing system (e.g., a radar system) and a second sensing system (e.g., an optical sensing system) is evaluated. A timing validation system generates a signal and calculates the total time delay between generation of the test signal and receipt of a detection notification communication transmitted from the second sensing system to the timing validation system, via the first sensing system. for the second sensing system to communicate its detection to the timing validation system, via the first sensing system. The synchronization time delay is extracted from the total time delay by removing contributions to the total time delay from additional sources. The calculated synchronization time delay is compared to a threshold delay and, based upon the comparison, generates a result validating or invalidating the time synchronization protocol. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/448736 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 7/4052 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09709668 | Kondratko et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies, Inc. (Louisville, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies, Inc. (Louisville, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Piotr Konrad Kondratko (Broomfield, Colorado); Philip Gatt (Berthoud, Colorado); John Glennon (Boulder, Colorado); Brian Carroll Redman (Lafayette, Colorado); Paul J. M. Suni (Berthoud, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A reconfigurable photonic integrated circuit focal plane array (RPIC-FPA) includes detectors and photonic integrated circuit coupled to the detectors that are configured to mix a return signal beam with local oscillator (LO) beams to produce a combined beam and direct the combined beam to the detectors. The LO beams have reconfigurable optical properties enabled by the RTIC-FPA. The LO beams are individually addressed to switch the detectors between a direct detection mode and various coherent detection modes based on adjustments to the optical properties of the LO beams. In the coherent detection mode, the controller is configured to mix the return signal beam with the LO beam having adjusted optical properties to produce the combined beam, and, in the direct detection mode, the controller is configured to disable the LO beams based on adjustments to the optical properties and to direct the return signal beam to the detectors without mixing. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 16, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/072305 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 7/499 (20130101) G01S 7/4811 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01S 17/02 (20130101) Transmission H04B 10/61 (20130101) H04B 10/63 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 1/0042 (20130101) |
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| US 09709737 | Ptasinski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joanna N. Ptasinski (San Diego, California); Stephen D. Russell (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Photonic devices may include a first ring resonator and a second ring resonator located within the first ring resonator, the second ring resonator separated from and optically coupled to the first ring resonator. A waveguide structure is optically coupled to the first ring resonator and may be parallel bus waveguides optically coupled on opposite ends of the first ring resonator or a u-shaped waveguide wrapped substantially around the first ring resonator. A third ring resonator may located within the second ring resonator and may be separated from and optically coupled to the first ring resonator and the second ring resonator. A sensing medium may be disposed within the interior of the third ring resonator and optically coupled to the third ring resonator. The sensing medium is configured to undergo a change in refractive index responsive to one or more analytes bound to the sensing medium. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/552783 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/125 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/29338 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Roy Meade (Boise, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roy Meade (Boise, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are a method and structure providing a silicon-on-insulator substrate on which photonic devices are formed and in which a core material of a waveguide is optically decoupled from a support substrate by a shallow trench isolation region. |
| FILED | Monday, June 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/487573 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/122 (20130101) G02B 6/136 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 2006/12061 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/84 (20130101) H01L 21/76283 (20130101) |
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| US 09709771 | Corrigan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3M Innovative Properties Company (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas R. J. Corrigan (St. Paul, Minnesota); Timothy L. Quinn (Maplewood, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure generally relates to concentrating daylight collectors and in particular to a light concentrator alignment system that can detect and correct for misalignment of the solar concentrator. The present disclosure generally relates to concentrating daylight collectors that can be used for illuminating interior spaces of a building with sunlight, and in particular to a light concentrator alignment system that can detect and correct for misalignment of the solar concentrator. |
| FILED | Friday, October 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/435852 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Producing or Use of Heat Not Otherwise Provided For F24J 2/12 (20130101) F24J 2/18 (20130101) F24J 2/38 (20130101) F24J 2/067 (20130101) F24J 2/402 (20130101) F24J 2/542 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 7/183 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 10/20 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/42 (20130101) Y02E 10/47 (20130101) |
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| US 09709793 | Seltzer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aaron J. Seltzer (Boulder, Colorado); David M Waller (Westminster, Colorado); Lawrence J. Campbell (Westminster, Colorado); Ryan T. Thompson (Longmont, Colorado); Dustin S. Putnam (Broomfield, Colorado); William D. Tandy (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A deployable structure having a plurality of panel elements is provided. Adjacent panel elements are connected to one another by hinges. The hinges allow the panel elements to be placed in a stowed or folded configuration, in which adjacent pairs of panel elements are folded against one another to provide a relatively compact assembly. Biasing members can be provided to transition the deployable structure from the stowed configuration to a deployed configuration. When in the deployed configuration, the relative positions of the panel elements of the deployable structure are maintained, at least in part, by locating interface assemblies. The deployable structure may have a generally annular configuration when deployed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/587342 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/18 (20130101) G02B 23/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 27/4205 (20130101) G02B 2005/1804 (20130101) |
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| US 09710004 | Stanczak et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark Stanley Stanczak (Sterling Heights, Michigan); Louis Stephen Smutek (Livonia, Michigan); Alan Wayne Brown (Canton, Michigan); David Allen Backus (Milford, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Global Embedded Technologies, Inc. (Farmington Hills, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Stanley Stanczak (Sterling Heights, Michigan); Louis Stephen Smutek (Livonia, Michigan); Alan Wayne Brown (Canton, Michigan); David Allen Backus (Milford, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention relate generally to power management and the like, and more particularly, to an apparatus, a system, a method, and a computer-readable medium for providing power controlling functionality to generate configurable power signals and to deliver power during fault conditions. In at least some embodiments, a power control unit can generate power signals having configurable attributes as a function of a mode of operation, a fault type, and the like. |
| FILED | Monday, November 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/083431 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Systems for Regulating Electric or Magnetic Variables G05F 1/66 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G05F 3/02 (20130101) Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements H02H 1/0092 (20130101) H02H 3/006 (20130101) H02H 3/10 (20130101) H02H 3/207 (20130101) H02H 5/04 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 4/00 (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 1/32 (20130101) H02M 1/36 (20130101) |
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| US 09710111 | Boser 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) | Bernhard E. Boser (Berkeley, California); Richard J. Przybyla (Berkeley, California); Andre Guedes (San Francisco, California); David A. Horsley (Albany, California); Stefon E. Shelton (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for determining location of a moveable object in relation to an input device includes an array of one or more piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer (pMUT) elements and a processor. The array is formed from a common substrate. The one or more pMUT elements include one or more transmitters and one or more receivers. The processor configured to determine a location of a moveable object in relation to an input device using sound waves that are emitted from the one or more transmitters, reflected from the moveable object, and received by the one or more receivers. |
| FILED | Monday, April 04, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/090253 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/043 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 2203/04101 (20130101) |
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| US 09710463 | Prasad et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rohit Prasad (Acton, Massachusetts); Rohit Kumar (Belmont, Massachusetts); Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan (Waltham, Massachusetts); Sanjika Hewavitharana (Waltham, Massachusetts); Matthew Roy (Arlington, Massachusetts); Frederick Choi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A two-way speech-to-speech (S2S) translation system actively detects a wide variety of common error types and resolves them through user-friendly dialog with the user(s). Examples include features including one or more of detecting out-of-vocabulary (OOV) named entities and terms, sensing ambiguities, homophones, idioms, ill-formed input, etc. and interactive strategies for recovering from such errors. In some examples, different error types are prioritized and systems implementing the approach can include an extensible architecture for implementing these decisions. |
| FILED | Friday, December 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/099079 |
| ART UNIT | 2658 — Linguistics, Speech Processing and Audio Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/289 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Speech Analysis or Synthesis; Speech Recognition; Speech or Voice Processing; Speech or Audio Coding or Decoding G10L 15/01 (20130101) G10L 2015/225 (20130101) |
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| US 09710917 | Freeman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William T. Freeman (Acton, Massachusetts); Frederic Durand (Somerville, Massachusetts); Tianfan Xue (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Michael Rubinstein (Somerville, Massachusetts); Neal Wadhwa (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An imaging method and corresponding apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention enables measurement and visualization of fluid flow. An embodiment method includes obtaining video captured by a video camera with an imaging plane. Representations of motions in the video are correlated. A textured background of the scene can be modeled as stationary, with a refractive field translating between background and video camera. This approach offers multiple advantages over conventional fluid flow visualization, including an ability to use ordinary video equipment outside a laboratory without particle injection. Even natural backgrounds can be used, and fluid motion can be distinguished from refraction changes. Depth and three-dimensional information can be recovered using stereo video, and uncertainty methods can enhance measurement robustness where backgrounds are less textured. Example applications can include avionics and hydrocarbon leak detection. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/279254 |
| ART UNIT | 2667 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Linear or Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, or Shock; Indicating Presence, Absence, or Direction, of Movement G01P 5/001 (20130101) G01P 5/26 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 27/54 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 7/246 (20170101) G06T 2207/10016 (20130101) G06T 2207/10021 (20130101) G06T 2207/10056 (20130101) G06T 2207/30241 (20130101) |
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| US 09710925 | Held et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Held (Stanford, California); Jesse Levinson (Stanford, California); Sebastian Thrun (Stanford, California); Silvio Savarese (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Velocity controllers in accordance with embodiments of the invention enable velocity estimation for tracked objects. One embodiment includes a tracker controller, including: a processor; and a memory containing: a velocity tracker application; a state space describing relationships between measured locations, calculated locations, and changes in locations, where the calculated locations in the state space correspond to unoccluded points on the surface of the tracked object; wherein the processor is configured by the velocity tracker application to: pre-process the state space to identify a tracked object; estimate a velocity of the tracked object using a location history calculated from the measured locations of the tracked object within the state space and a motion model calculated from the state space; and return the velocity of the tracked object. |
| FILED | Monday, June 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/733902 |
| ART UNIT | 2667 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/207 (20170101) G06T 7/277 (20170101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2207/10016 (20130101) G06T 2207/20016 (20130101) G06T 2207/20076 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravish Mehra (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Dinesh Manocha (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject matter described herein includes an approach for wave-based sound propagation suitable for large, open spaces spanning hundreds of meters, with a small memory footprint. The scene is decomposed into disjoint rigid objects. The free-field acoustic behavior of each object is captured by a compact per-object transfer-function relating the amplitudes of a set of incoming equivalent sources to outgoing equivalent sources. Pairwise acoustic interactions between objects are cornuted analytically, yielding compact inter-object transfer functions. The global sound field accounting for all orders of interaction is computed using these transfer functions. The runtime system uses fast summation over the outgoing equivalent source amplitudes for all objects to auralize the sound field at a moving listener in real-time. We demonstrate realistic acoustic effects such as diffraction, low-passed sound behind obstructions, focusing, scattering, high-order reflections, and echoes, on a variety of scenes. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/387127 |
| ART UNIT | 3716 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Card, Board, or Roulette Games; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing Bodies; Video Games; Games Not Otherwise Provided for A63F 13/54 (20140902) A63F 13/60 (20140902) A63F 2300/6081 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/5009 (20130101) Sound-producing Devices; Methods or Devices for Protecting Against, or for Damping, Noise or Other Acoustic Waves in General; Acoustics Not Otherwise Provided for G10K 11/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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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) | Jonathan Phillips (Pacific Grove, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A capacitor has two electrodes, one having a porous, electrically non-conductive material formed on a surface of the electrode, for example, by subjecting the conductive material of the first electrode to an anodization process. The porous, electrically non-conductive material is infused with an ionic solution and then covered by the second electrode to form the capacitor. In one implementation, the first electrode is made of titanium, and the porous, electrically non-conductive material is an array of titania tubes that grow perpendicularly from the titanium surface during the anodization process. After infusing the array of titania tubes with a saturated solution of sodium nitrate, the array is covered with a sheet of conductive material that forms the second electrode. The presence of the ionic solution greatly increases the effective dielectric constant of the titania array, thereby greatly increasing the amount of charge that can be stored in the capacitor. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/850410 |
| ART UNIT | 2848 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 9/035 (20130101) H01G 9/0036 (20130101) H01G 9/145 (20130101) H01G 9/0425 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Michael Ramsey (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Kevin Philip Schultze (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Bruno Jean-Bernard Coupier (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Mass spectrometry systems include an ionizer, mass analyzer and the detector, with a high pressure chamber holding the mass analyzer and a separate chamber holding the detector to allow for differential background pressures where P2<P1 which generates gas flow through an unsealed, sealed or partially sealed ion trap and enhances detected signal relative to when P2=P1. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 09, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/734623 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/0022 (20130101) H01J 49/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 49/424 (20130101) |
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| US 09711556 | Jerome et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rick Jerome (Washougal, Washington); David T. Price (Gresham, Oregon); Sungkwon C. Hong (Boise, Idaho); Gordon M. Grivna (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | An image sensor structure includes a region of semiconductor material having a first major surface and a second major surface. A pixel structure is within the region of semiconductor material and includes a plurality of doped regions and a plurality of conductive structures. A metal-filled trench structure extends from the first major surface to the second major surface. A first contact structure is electrically connected to a first surface of the conductive trench structure, and a second contact structure electrically connected to a second surface of the conductive trench structure. In one embodiment, the second major surface is configured to receive incident light. |
| FILED | Monday, December 12, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/375764 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/481 (20130101) H01L 27/1462 (20130101) H01L 27/1463 (20130101) H01L 27/1464 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 27/14636 (20130101) H01L 27/14643 (20130101) H01L 27/14683 (20130101) H01L 27/14687 (20130101) |
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| US 09711594 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dong Seup Lee (Farmers Branch, Texas); Tomas Apostol Palacios (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A field effect transistor that has a source, a drain, a gate and a semiconductor region. The semiconductor region has a source access region between the gate and the source, a drain access region between the gate and the drain, and a channel region under the gate. The channel region under the gate has a maximum current-carrying capability that is lower than a maximum current-carrying capability of the source access region. |
| FILED | Friday, August 28, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/838401 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/0649 (20130101) H01L 29/0657 (20130101) H01L 29/0673 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/775 (20130101) H01L 29/2003 (20130101) H01L 29/7786 (20130101) H01L 29/7787 (20130101) H01L 29/42316 (20130101) H01L 29/66469 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Scott T. Sheppard (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); R. Peter Smith (Carrboro, North Carolina); Yifeng Wu (Goleta, California); Sten Heikman (Goleta, California); Matthew Jacob-Mitos (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott T. Sheppard (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); R. Peter Smith (Carrboro, North Carolina); Yifeng Wu (Goleta, California); Sten Heikman (Goleta, California); Matthew Jacob-Mitos (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of forming a semiconductor device include forming a dielectric layer on a Group III-nitride semiconductor layer, selectively removing portions of the dielectric layer over spaced apart source and drain regions of the semiconductor layer, implanting ions having a first conductivity type directly into the source and drain regions of the semiconductor layer, annealing the semiconductor layer and the dielectric layer to activate the implanted ions, and forming metal contacts on the source and drain regions of the semiconductor layer. |
| FILED | Friday, May 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/118243 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/291 (20130101) H01L 23/3171 (20130101) H01L 29/0843 (20130101) H01L 29/2003 (20130101) H01L 29/7787 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/66462 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) |
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| US 09711833 | Shapoury et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Physical Optics Corporation (Torrance, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Physical Optics Corporation (Torrance, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alireza Shapoury (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Daniel Mark Bock (Los Angeles, California); Andrew Kostrzewski (Garden Grove, California); Thomas Nielsen (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are provided for tunable band pass filtering for Tunable RF Anti-Jamming Systems. A tunable notch filter includes a transmission line coupled to an antenna, a splitter, a band-stop filter, a polarity inverter, and a combiner. In operation, the band-stop filter suppresses predetermined frequency bands of a received signal creating a filtered signal, the polarity inverter creates an inverted signal, and the combiner combines the filtered and inverted signals to create a pass band including the predetermined frequency bands and suppressing frequency bands adjacent the predetermined frequency bands. Alternatively, a tunable multiband bandpass filter includes first and second bandpass filters and a plurality of tunable passive components adapted to tune the first and second bandpass filters to first and second frequency bands, thereby creating a multiband pass band signal including the first and second frequency bands and attenuating frequency bands adjacent to the first and second frequency bands. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/169078 |
| ART UNIT | 2649 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Waveguides; Resonators, Lines, or Other Devices of the Waveguide Type H01P 1/22 (20130101) H01P 1/203 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01P 5/12 (20130101) H01P 7/082 (20130101) |
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| US 09711836 | Vela |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as requested by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Russell Vela (Fairborn, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for improving port isolation of a three port circulator device includes a power splitter having a power splitter input and two power splitter outputs. A first circulator has a first circulator first port, a first circulator second port, and a first circulator third port, and the first circulator first port is electrically coupled to the first of the two power splitter outputs. A second circulator has a second circulator first port, a second circulator second port, and a second circulator third port, and the second circulator first port is electrically coupled to the second of the two power splitter outputs. A first trimmer is electrically coupled to the first circulator third port and a second trimmer is electrically coupled to the second circulator third port. The system further includes a power combiner having two power combiner inputs and one power combiner output, and the first of the two power combiner inputs is electrically coupled to the first trimmer and the second of the two power combiner inputs is electrically coupled to the second trimmer. |
| FILED | Friday, October 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/927610 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Waveguides; Resonators, Lines, or Other Devices of the Waveguide Type H01P 1/36 (20130101) H01P 1/383 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09711839 | Morton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew A. Morton (Reading, Massachusetts); Gerhard Sollner (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure is directed towards a frequency selective limiter having a first magnetic material disposed over a first dielectric material and a strip conductor disposed over the magnetic material. In some embodiments, the frequency selective limiter includes a second magnetic material disposed over the strip conductor and a second dielectric material disposed over the second magnetic material. The first and second dielectric material may have a lower relative permittivity than the first and second magnetic material. In an embodiment, the frequency selective limiter includes a slow wave structure disposed to magnetically couple a magnetic field, produced by electromagnetic energy propagating through the slow wave structure, into the magnetic material. |
| FILED | Friday, January 15, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 14/996881 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Waveguides; Resonators, Lines, or Other Devices of the Waveguide Type H01P 1/227 (20130101) H01P 1/365 (20130101) H01P 1/2039 (20130101) H01P 9/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01P 9/02 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shawn David Rogers (Johns Creek, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for an antenna conformal to a sphere are provided. In certain implementations, an apparatus comprises a sphere having a recessed portion formed therein, the sphere enclosing instrumentation that produces a transmittable electronic signal; central conductor placed within the recessed portion, wherein the central conductor is coupled to the instrumentation to receive the transmittable electronic signal, wherein the transmittable electronic signal is emitted outside of the sphere; and an insulator cap located over the recessed portion, wherein locations on the external surface of the insulator cap and an external facing surface of the central conductor are substantially equidistant from a center point of the sphere. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/918425 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 1/243 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01Q 1/405 (20130101) |
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| US 09711928 | Kolis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Clemson University Research Foundation (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Kolis (Central, South Carolina); Colin McMillen (Liberty, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Single heterogeneous crystals are described that contain multiple regimes, adjacent regimes varying from one another with regard to function. Also disclosed is a hydrothermal epitaxial growth process that can be utilized to form the single heterogeneous crystals. The single heterogeneous crystals can exhibit enhanced performance when used as a laser gain medium as compared to previously known single crystals and multi-crystal constructs. The heterogeneous single crystal can be utilized for thin disk lasers and can minimize the thermal distortion effects at high powers. The heterogeneous crystal can also serve as an embedded waveguide. |
| FILED | Friday, June 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/923942 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 7/10 (20130101) C30B 29/28 (20130101) C30B 29/34 (20130101) C30B 29/64 (20130101) C30B 29/68 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/10 (20130101) G02B 6/131 (20130101) Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/063 (20130101) H01S 3/0604 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/21 (20150115) |
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| US 09712136 | Rinaldi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matteo Rinaldi (Boston, Massachusetts); Cristian Cassella (East Boston, Massachusetts); Zhenyun Qian (Boston, Massachusetts); Yu Hui (Billerica, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A resonator includes a piezoelectric plate and interdigitated electrode(s). The interdigitated electrode includes a plurality of conductive strips disposed over a top surface of the piezoelectric plate. A two-dimensional mode of mechanical vibration is excited in a cross sectional plane of the piezoelectric plate in response to an alternating voltage applied through the interdigitated electrode. The two-dimensional mode of mechanical vibration is a cross-sectional Lamé mode resonance (CLMR) or a degenerate cross-sectional Lamé mode resonance (dCLMR). |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 16, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/238221 |
| 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 5/44 (20130101) G01J 5/046 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 41/18 (20130101) Impedance Networks, e.g Resonant Circuits; Resonators H03H 3/02 (20130101) H03H 9/13 (20130101) H03H 9/15 (20130101) H03H 9/17 (20130101) H03H 9/02244 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03H 2003/027 (20130101) H03H 2009/155 (20130101) H03H 2009/241 (20130101) |
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| US 09712146 | Sedighi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Notre Dame du Lac (Notre Dame, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Notre Dame du Lac (South Bend, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Behnam Sedighi (Notre Dame, Indiana); Michael Niemier (Granger, Indiana); Xiaobo Sharon Hu (Granger, Indiana); Indranil Palit (South Bend, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Various processor architectures for mixed signal computation exploit the unique characteristics of advanced CMOS technologies, such as fin-based, multi-gate field effect transistors, and/or emerging technologies such as tunnel field effect transistors (TFETs). The example processors disclosed herein are cellular neural network (CNN)-inspired and eliminate the need for voltage controlled current sources (VCCSs), which have previously been utilized to realize feedback and feed-forward templates in CNNs and are the dominant source of power consumption in a CNN array. The example processors replace VCCSs with comparators, which can be efficiently realized with TFETs given their high intrinsic gain. Power efficiencies are in the order of 10,000 giga-operations per second per Watt (GOPS/W), which represents an improvement of more than ten times over state-of-the-art architectures seeking to accomplish similar information processing tasks. |
| FILED | Friday, September 18, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/858749 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse Technique H03K 3/012 (20130101) H03K 5/2472 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation, or Stabilisation of Generators of Electronic Oscillations or Pulses H03L 7/18 (20130101) |
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| US 09712233 | Deng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bascom Hunter Technologies, Inc. (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bascom Hunter Technologies, Inc. (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yanhua Deng (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Andrew McCandless (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for cancelling interference of an interfering transmit signal. The method includes the steps of (a) transmitting an RF transmit signal from a transceiver, (b) optically modulating the RF transmit signal, (c) optically modulating a RF receive signal; (d) demodulating an optical signal back to an RF signal using an optical-electrical balanced receiver and directing to the transceiver, and (e) demodulating the optical transmit signal back to RF transmit signal. |
| FILED | Friday, September 11, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/851743 |
| ART UNIT | 2636 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 10/11 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 10/40 (20130101) H04B 10/112 (20130101) H04B 10/114 (20130101) H04B 10/1123 (20130101) H04B 10/1143 (20130101) |
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| US 09712501 | Okhravi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hamed Okhravi (Billerica, Massachusetts); Richard W. Skowyra (Somerville, Massachusetts); Kevin Bauer (Westford, Massachusetts); William W. Streilein (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for the randomization of packet headers is disclosed. A controller is used to provide random values, also referred to as nonces, that replace the source and destination addresses that typically appear in a packet header. The controller also provides routing rules to the switches and routers in the network that allow these devices to properly route packets, even though the source and destination addresses are not present. In some embodiments, network devices that support software-defined networking (SDN) are employed. The number of times that a particular nonce is used may be variable. In some embodiments, a nonce is used for exactly one packet header. In this way, packets may traverse a network using nonces in place of actual source and destination addresses. Because the nonces are changed periodically, detection of traffic patterns is made significantly more difficult. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/919246 |
| ART UNIT | 2431 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/0428 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 69/22 (20130101) |
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| US 09712771 | Kelly et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Kelly (North Reading, Massachusetts); Daniel Mooney (Dracut, Massachusetts); Curtis Colonero (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Robert Berger (Lexington, Massachusetts); Lawrence Candell (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Kelly (North Reading, Massachusetts); Daniel Mooney (Dracut, Massachusetts); Curtis Colonero (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Robert Berger (Lexington, Massachusetts); Lawrence Candell (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Autonomously operating analog to digital converters are formed into a two dimensional array. The array may incorporate digital signal processing functionality. Such an array is particularly well-suited for operation as a readout integrated circuit and in combination with a sensor array, forms a digital focal plane array. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 09, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/178439 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 1/12 (20130101) H03M 1/60 (20130101) H03M 1/145 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/378 (20130101) H04N 5/3355 (20130101) H04N 5/37455 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09713286 | Chainer 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) | Timothy J. Chainer (Putnam Valley, New York); Pritish R. Parida (Stamford, Connecticut); Joel A. Silberman (Somers, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for active control for two-phase cooling include a cooling volume that has cavities and active coolant flow controls in the cavities configured to adjust coolant flow through the cavities. A reservoir in fluid communication with the cavities and there is a two-phase coolant in the reservoir and cavities. The two-phase coolant has a phase transition temperature between an ambient temperature and an expected device temperature. A coolant sensor is configured to determine a coolant phase condition in the cavities. A control module is configured to adjust the active coolant flow controls in response to the determined coolant phase condition. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 03, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/636648 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat-exchange Apparatus, Not Provided for in Another Subclass, in Which the Heat-exchange Media Do Not Come into Direct Contact F28D 15/06 (20130101) F28D 15/025 (20130101) F28D 15/0266 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 7/20327 (20130101) H05K 7/20336 (20130101) H05K 7/20381 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05K 7/20809 (20130101) H05K 7/20827 (20130101) H05K 7/20836 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hannah Coakley (Boston, Massachusetts); Andrew Gouldstone (Dorchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A zipper guide is provided to facilitate closure of an open-ended zipper. The zipper guide includes a base to which a zipper tape pin end is attached and a slider to which a zipper tape box end is attached. A key on a lower surface of the slider slides in a trench in an upper surface of the base at an orientation that guides the attached zipper tape box end toward the attached zipper tape pin end by planar sliding movements of the slider lower surface with respect to the base upper surface. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/681751 |
| ART UNIT | 3677 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Outerwear; Protective Garments; Accessories A41D 13/129 (20130101) Buttons, Pins, Buckles, Slide Fasteners, or the Like A44B 19/24 (20130101) A44B 19/38 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29C, Relating to Particular Articles B29L 2005/00 (20130101) B29L 2009/00 (20130101) Additive Manufacturing, i.e Manufacturing of Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects by Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration or Additive Layering, e.g by 3-d Printing, Stereolithography or Selective Laser Sintering B33Y 80/00 (20141201) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 24/2593 (20150115) Y10T 24/2595 (20150115) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Emil Jovanov (Huntsville, Alabama); Aleksander Milenkovic (Madison, Alabama); Mladen Milosevic (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama, for and on behalf of the University of Alabama in Huntsville (Hunstville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Emil Jovanov (Huntsville, Alabama); Aleksander Milenkovic (Madison, Alabama); Mladen Milosevic (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for automatically quantifying mobility of a person performing a mobility diagnostic procedure. In one exemplary embodiment, the system measures a posture change test procedure with integrated inertial, location, and navigation type sensors found in a mobile computing device worn by a patient during the posture change test procedure, such as a timed-up-and-go (TUG) procedure. The measurements captured during the posture change inform a health care provider about the mobility of a patient. For example, a determination about the likelihood of the patient experiencing a fall can be assessed from measurable parameters produced from the inertial, location, and navigation-type sensors. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/192642 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0022 (20130101) A61B 5/024 (20130101) A61B 5/112 (20130101) A61B 5/1116 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/1117 (20130101) A61B 5/1118 (20130101) A61B 5/1121 (20130101) A61B 5/1122 (20130101) A61B 5/6823 (20130101) A61B 5/6898 (20130101) A61B 5/7264 (20130101) A61B 5/7275 (20130101) A61B 2503/08 (20130101) A61B 2562/0219 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00342 (20130101) G06K 9/00348 (20130101) |
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| US 09706963 | Gupta et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandeep Gupta (Phoenix, Arizona); Ayan Banerjee (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sandeep Gupta (Phoenix, Arizona); Ayan Banerjee (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A heterogeneous multiple core control system for predictive medical monitoring is provided. The system includes a first processor platform that is optimized for serialized computation and a second processor platform that is optimized for parallelized computation. A memory stores instructions that are executed by either the first processor platform or the second processor platform to provide the functionality of the system. By executing the instructions, the system determines whether a condition of a first patient is to be monitored using a primarily parallelized model or a primarily serialized model. The predicted condition is calculated using the primarily parallelized model by executing the primarily parallelized model on the second processor platform. The predicted condition is calculated using the primarily serialized model by executing the primarily serialized model on the first processor platform. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/573802 |
| 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 | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0024 (20130101) A61B 5/7275 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/14546 (20130101) Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 5/1723 (20130101) A61M 2005/14208 (20130101) A61M 2230/04 (20130101) A61M 2230/30 (20130101) A61M 2230/201 (20130101) A61M 2230/205 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/28 (20130101) |
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| US 09707000 | Hoke et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ahmet Hoke (Towson, Maryland); Shawn H. Lim (Baltimore, Maryland); Xingyu Liu (Baltimore, Maryland); Hai-Quan Mao (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to the compositions and methods of preparing hydrogel-grafted nerve guides for peripheral nerve regeneration. Particularly, the present invention describes the nerve guides and methods for preparation of hydrogel-grafted nerve guides with encapsulated neurotrophic factors and a nanofiber mesh lining the inner surface of the guide. The present invention also provides methods for peripheral nerve repair using these hydrogel-grafted nerve guides. |
| FILED | Friday, November 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/081381 |
| ART UNIT | 3731 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 17/1128 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 2/02 (20130101) A61F 2/0063 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/48 (20130101) A61L 27/52 (20130101) A61L 27/54 (20130101) A61L 27/56 (20130101) A61L 27/58 (20130101) A61L 27/383 (20130101) A61L 27/3878 (20130101) A61L 2300/414 (20130101) A61L 2300/602 (20130101) A61L 2300/608 (20130101) A61L 2400/12 (20130101) A61L 2430/32 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 156/10 (20150115) Y10T 156/1043 (20150115) |
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| US 09707550 | Goodson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee); Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University (Carbondale, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee); Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois Univeristy (Carbondale, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Boyd M. Goodson (Carbondale, Illinois); Eduard Y. Chekmenev (Brentwood, Tennessee); Fan Shi (Energy, Illinois); Aaron M. Coffey (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Heterogeneous iridium catalysts for nuclear spin polarization enhancement in solution via signal amplification by reversible exchange are provided. Also provided are methods for preparing heterogeneous iridium catalysts, and methods of using heterogeneous iridium catalysts for nuclear spin polarization enhancement in solution via signal amplification by reversible exchange. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 16, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/801541 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 31/1616 (20130101) B01J 31/1658 (20130101) B01J 31/2273 (20130101) B01J 31/2295 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 2531/827 (20130101) |
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| US 09708184 | Chan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | YinThai Chan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); John P. Zimmer (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | YinThai Chan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); John P. Zimmer (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A microparticle can include a central region and a peripheral region. The peripheral region can include a nanoparticle, such as a metal nanoparticle, a metal oxide nanoparticle, or a semiconductor nanocrystal. The microparticle can be a member of a monodisperse population of particles. |
| FILED | Friday, December 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/971751 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 13/02 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/02 (20130101) C09K 11/025 (20130101) C09K 11/565 (20130101) C09K 11/883 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/773 (20130101) Y10S 977/778 (20130101) Y10S 977/779 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2982 (20150115) Y10T 428/2991 (20150115) Y10T 428/2993 (20150115) |
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| US 09708236 | Grotjahn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | San Diego State University Research Foundation (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | San Diego State University Research Foundation (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas Grotjahn (San Diego, California); Casey Larsen (Bolingbrook, Illinois); Gulin Erdogan (La Mesa, California); Erik Paulson (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides novel catalysts and methods of using catalysts for controlling the position of a double bond and cis/trans-selectivity in isomerization of terminal alkenes to their 2-isomers. Catalysts such as (pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)Ru formulas 1 and 3 having a bifunctional phosphine can be used in the methods. A catalyst loading of 1 mol % of formulas 1+3 can be employed for the production of (E)-2-alkenes at 40-70° C.; lower temperatures can be used with higher catalyst loading. Acetonitrile-free catalysts can be used at lower loadings, room temperature, and in less than a day to accomplish the same results as catalysts 1+3. The novel catalyst systems minimize thermodynamic equilibration of alkene isomers, so that the trans-2-alkenes of both non-functionalized and functionalized alkenes can be generated. |
| FILED | Friday, January 09, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/593924 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 31/189 (20130101) B01J 31/2295 (20130101) B01J 2231/50 (20130101) B01J 2531/821 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 5/2593 (20130101) C07C 5/2593 (20130101) C07C 5/2593 (20130101) C07C 11/02 (20130101) C07C 11/107 (20130101) C07C 29/56 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 29/56 (20130101) C07C 33/025 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 7/1852 (20130101) C07F 7/1892 (20130101) C07F 9/65066 (20130101) C07F 15/0046 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi Liao (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A photoacid includes a nucleophilic (NuH) moiety having a photodissociable proton, an electron accepting (EA) moiety, and a bridge structure (X) bonded to both the NuH moiety and EA moiety positioned between the NuH and EA moieties. The NuH and EA moieties each include respective structure so that the EA moiety bonds to a proton photodissociated form of the NuH moiety during a reversible photoinduced intramolecular reaction to form a ring, which has been found to significantly increase the lifetime of the proton dissociation state. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/748253 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09708351 | Alabugin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor V. Alabugin (Tallahassee, Florida); Sayantan Mondal (Tallahassee, Florida); Rana K. Mohamed (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods for rerouting radical cascade cyclizations by using alkenes as alkyne equivalents. The reaction sequence is initiated by a novel 1,2 stannyl shift which achieves chemo- and regioselectivity in the process. The radical “hopping” leads to the formation of the radical center necessary for the sequence of selective cyclizations and fragmentations to follow. In the last step of the cascade, the elimination of a rationally designed radical leaving group via β-C—C bond scission aromatizes the product without the need for external oxidant. The Bu3Sn moiety, which is installed during the reaction sequence, allows further functionalization of the product via facile reactions with electrophiles as well as Stille and Suzuki cross-coupling reactions. This selective radical transformation opens a new approach for the controlled transformation of enynes into extended polycyclic structures of tunable dimensions. |
| FILED | Monday, May 02, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/143669 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 1/325 (20130101) C07C 17/093 (20130101) C07C 29/42 (20130101) C07C 29/42 (20130101) C07C 33/28 (20130101) C07C 41/01 (20130101) C07C 41/01 (20130101) C07C 41/16 (20130101) C07C 41/16 (20130101) C07C 41/16 (20130101) C07C 41/30 (20130101) C07C 41/30 (20130101) C07C 41/30 (20130101) C07C 41/30 (20130101) C07C 43/20 (20130101) C07C 43/166 (20130101) C07C 43/166 (20130101) C07C 43/166 (20130101) C07C 43/225 (20130101) C07C 43/1787 (20130101) C07C 45/00 (20130101) C07C 67/333 (20130101) C07C 67/333 (20130101) C07C 69/618 (20130101) C07C 253/30 (20130101) C07C 253/30 (20130101) C07C 255/50 (20130101) C07C 2103/10 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/16 (20130101) C07D 239/26 (20130101) C07D 333/08 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 7/2212 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09708358 | Ju 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) | Jingyue Ju (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey); Zengmin Li (Flushing, New York); John Robert Edwards (St. Louis, Missouri); Yasuhiro Itagaki (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods for attaching a nucleic acid to a solid surface and for sequencing nucleic acid by detecting the identity of each nucleotide analog after the nucleotide analog is incorporated into a growing strand of DNA in a polymerase reaction. The invention also provides nucleotide analogs which comprise unique labels attached to the nucleotide analog through a cleavable linker, and a cleavable chemical group to cap the —OH group at the 3′-position of the deoxyribose. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 15, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/380284 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 19/10 (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 1/6872 (20130101) C12Q 1/6874 (20130101) |
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| US 09708415 | Edgar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kevin J. Edgar (Blacksburg, Virginia); Nilanjana Kar (Dossenheim Heidelberg, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin J. Edgar (Blacksburg, Virginia); Nilanjana Kar (Dossenheim Heidelberg, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to esters of diacids and cellulosic materials and methods for making thereof. The ester has the chemical composition of Formula (I) Formula I where R1, R2, and R3 can be the same or different, and each of which is selected from —H, —COR′, —R′″, or —COR″ COOH, with the proviso that at least one of the R1, R2, or R3 is —COR″ COOH; R′ is an alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, or aromatic group; R″ is an alkyl, alkenyl, or alkynyl group having 4 or more carbon atoms (≧C4); and R′″ is an alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, polyol, or aromatic group. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/497171 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 3/12 (20130101) C08B 3/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08B 13/00 (20130101) C08B 15/005 (20130101) |
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| US 09708455 | Kennedy 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) | Stephen Michael Kennedy (Somerville, Massachusetts); Sidi Ahmed Bencherif (Boston, Massachusetts); David J. Mooney (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides cryogels whose porosity, pore size, pore connectivity, swelling agent concentration, and/or specific volume undergoes a change from a first value to a second value in response to an electrical stimulus. The cryogels have interconnected macropores which greatly enhance their ability to rapidly undergo volumetric collapse when subjected to moderate electric fields. The cryogels of the invention can be easily integrated into arrays capable of rapid configurational and chromatic optical modulations, and when loaded with drugs, are able to coordinate the delivery profile of multiple drugs. The cryogel can be prepared by polymerizing an aqueous solution of charged monomers and cross-linker monomers at a temperature below the freezing temperature of the solvent. |
| FILED | Friday, August 02, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/418599 |
| ART UNIT | 1619 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/06 (20130101) A61K 9/0009 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 220/06 (20130101) C08F 220/56 (20130101) C08F 2222/1013 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 9/28 (20130101) C08J 9/286 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08J 2201/0484 (20130101) C08J 2205/022 (20130101) C08J 2207/10 (20130101) C08J 2333/02 (20130101) C08J 2333/26 (20130101) C08J 2343/00 (20130101) C08J 2347/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09708646 | Haurwitz 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) | Rachel E. Haurwitz (Berkeley, California); Jennifer A. Doudna (Berkeley, California); Blake Wiedenheft (Oakland, California); Martin Jinek (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides variant Csy4 endoribonucleases, nucleic acids encoding the variant Csy4 endoribonucleases, and host cells genetically modified with the nucleic acids. The variant Csy4 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 | Friday, February 10, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/430054 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/22 (20130101) C12N 15/1003 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/34 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6823 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09708672 | Mackenzie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sally Ann Mackenzie (Lincoln, Nebraska); Roberto De la Rosa Santamaria (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NUtech Ventures (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sally Ann Mackenzie (Lincoln, Nebraska); Roberto De la Rosa Santamaria (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for obtaining plants that exhibit useful traits by transient suppression of the MSH1 gene of the plants. Methods for identifying genetic loci that provide for useful traits in plants and plants produced with those loci are also provided. In addition, plants that exhibit the useful traits, parts of the plants including seeds, and products of the plants are provided as well as methods of using the plants. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/114945 |
| ART UNIT | 1662 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | New Plants or Processes for Obtaining Them; Plant Reproduction by Tissue Culture Techniques A01H 1/04 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 15/8218 (20130101) C12N 15/8241 (20130101) C12N 15/8261 (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 1/6895 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/13 (20130101) C12Q 2600/154 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) |
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| US 09708716 | Hamers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert John Hamers (Madison, Wisconsin); Di Zhu (Madison, Wisconsin); Nigel Hajj Becknell (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the photoreduction of molecules are provided. The methods use diamond having a negative electron affinity as a photocatalyst, taking advantage of its ability to act as a solid-state electron emitter that is capable of inducing reductions without the need for reactants to adsorb onto its surface. The methods comprise illuminating a fluid sample comprising the molecules to be reduced and hydrogen surface-terminated diamond having a negative electron affinity with light comprising a wavelength that induces the emission of electrons from the diamond directly into the fluid sample. The emitted electrons induce the reduction of the molecules to form a reduction product. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/585444 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/123 (20130101) B01J 19/127 (20130101) B01J 21/18 (20130101) B01J 27/24 (20130101) B01J 35/004 (20130101) B01J 37/18 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 21/1409 (20130101) C01B 31/18 (20130101) Ammonia; Cyanogen; Compounds Thereof C01C 1/02 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 1/02 (20130101) C07C 1/02 (20130101) C07C 9/04 (20130101) C07C 2101/16 (20130101) Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Processes for the Production of Compounds or Non-metals; Apparatus Therefor C25B 1/003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/52 (20151101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dirk Robert Englund (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Edward H. Chen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Fan Meng (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Tim Schroder (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Noel Heng Loon Wang (New York, New York); Ren-Jye Shiue (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Multimode interference can be used to achieve ultra-high resolving powers (e.g., Q>105) with linewidths down to 10 pm at 1500 nm and a broad spectroscopy range (e.g., 400-2400 nm) within a monolithic, millimeter-scale device. For instance, multimode interference (MMI) in a tapered waveguide enables fine resolution and broadband spectroscopy in a compact, monolithic device. The operating range is limited by the transparency of the waveguide material and the sensitivity of the camera; thus, the technique can be easily extended into the ultraviolet and mid- and deep-infrared spectrum. Experiments show that a tapered fiber multimode interference spectrometer can operate across a range from 500 nm to 1600 nm (B=1.0576) without moving parts. The technique is suitable for on-chip tapered multimode waveguides, which could be fabricated in high volume by printing or optical lithography, for applications from biochemical sensing to the life and physical sciences. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/325502 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/0205 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01J 3/0218 (20130101) G01J 3/0256 (20130101) G01J 3/453 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/4287 (20130101) G02B 6/29344 (20130101) |
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| US 09709469 | Zhong 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) | Wenwan Zhong (Riverside, California); Runtao Zhong (Riverside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods, devices and systems for analyte detection using a microfluidic device. |
| FILED | Sunday, November 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/674054 |
| 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 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 3/502784 (20130101) B01L 7/525 (20130101) B01L 2200/0647 (20130101) B01L 2200/0673 (20130101) B01L 2300/087 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2400/043 (20130101) B01L 2400/0487 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1013 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09709476 | Arnold et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen Arnold (New York, New York); Ta Kang Keng (Rego Park, New York); Siyka Shopova (Staten Island, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Arnold (New York, New York); Ta Kang Keng (Rego Park, New York); Siyka Shopova (Staten Island, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Example systems and methods are provided to determine the size and/or mass of a particle, such as a nanoparticle for example, deterministically (i.e., non-statistically). At least two resonances of the same radial order, having the same angular momentum number l but different azimuthal numbers m (−l<m<l) are excited in a WGM resonator. The particle's latitude angle on the WGM resonator is located using a ratio of detected resonance wavelength shifts. Finally, at least one of (A) the particle's size, and (B) the particle's mass, is determined from the latitude angle of the particle. |
| FILED | Friday, September 18, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/858342 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/0205 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/31 (20130101) G01N 2015/0038 (20130101) |
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| US 09709511 | Lee 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) | Jae Seung Lee (Corona, New York); Ravinder R. Regatte (Monroe, New Jersey); Alexej Jerschow (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus, system, method and computer-readable medium for isolating chemical exchange saturation transfer contrast from magnetization transfer asymmetry under two-frequency RF irradiation. A two-pool model for magnetization transfer (MT) can be established fully based on Provotorov's theory of saturation, and then extended to the situation of simultaneous two-frequency RF irradiation. Numerical simulations and experimental results demonstrate that two-frequency RF irradiation can make MT effects independent of irradiation frequency over a wide range, and thus can suppress MT asymmetry. Exemplary embodiments can be provided to isolate chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) contrast from MT asymmetry contrast by using the two-frequency RF irradiation technique. A further embodiment can isolate a narrow-frequency spectrum MT mechanism from a broad-frequency spectrum MT mechanism. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/687342 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 23/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/5605 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/707 (20130101) |
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| US 09710462 | Sanders et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Donald H. Sanders (Williamstown, Massachusetts); Eben Gay (Southborough, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Learning Sites, Inc. (Williamstown, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald H. Sanders (Williamstown, Massachusetts); Eben Gay (Southborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a graphical representation of an object surface having a number of inscriptions indicative of information encoded upon the object surface. The graphical representation of the object surface is transcribed by the system to determine markings from the inscriptions. A number of alternative corresponding symbols are determined by the system. The alternative corresponding cuneiform symbols are determined from a number of the markings. A number of alternative transliterations are determined by the system. The alternative transliterations are determined from of a symbol of the multiple alternative corresponding symbols. A number of alternative translations are also determined by the system of a transliteration of the multiple translations transliterations. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/167988 |
| ART UNIT | 2669 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/2863 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 19/00 (20130101) G06T 2219/021 (20130101) |
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| US 09710746 | Werner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas H. Werner (State College, Pennsylvania); Zhihao Jiang (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of an RFID tag antenna apparatus can include a ground plane, a first patch, and a second patch. The first and second patches can be positioned to define a radiating slot that is located between the first and second patches. The radiating slot can be configured to receive an RFID chip for attachment of the RFID chip to the antenna apparatus such that the chip is positioned in the slot between the first and second patches and the ground plane. Embodiments of the RFID tag apparatus may be included in a communication system that utilizes one or more RFID antenna apparatuses and/or a RFID device utilizing one or more RFID antenna apparatuses. |
| FILED | Monday, May 16, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/155442 |
| ART UNIT | 2887 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 7/10326 (20130101) G06K 7/10366 (20130101) G06K 19/07788 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09711126 | Mehra et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravish Mehra (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Dinesh Manocha (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject matter described herein includes an approach for wave-based sound propagation suitable for large, open spaces spanning hundreds of meters, with a small memory footprint. The scene is decomposed into disjoint rigid objects. The free-field acoustic behavior of each object is captured by a compact per-object transfer-function relating the amplitudes of a set of incoming equivalent sources to outgoing equivalent sources. Pairwise acoustic interactions between objects are cornuted analytically, yielding compact inter-object transfer functions. The global sound field accounting for all orders of interaction is computed using these transfer functions. The runtime system uses fast summation over the outgoing equivalent source amplitudes for all objects to auralize the sound field at a moving listener in real-time. We demonstrate realistic acoustic effects such as diffraction, low-passed sound behind obstructions, focusing, scattering, high-order reflections, and echoes, on a variety of scenes. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/387127 |
| ART UNIT | 3716 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Card, Board, or Roulette Games; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing Bodies; Video Games; Games Not Otherwise Provided for A63F 13/54 (20140902) A63F 13/60 (20140902) A63F 2300/6081 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/5009 (20130101) Sound-producing Devices; Methods or Devices for Protecting Against, or for Damping, Noise or Other Acoustic Waves in General; Acoustics Not Otherwise Provided for G10K 11/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09711201 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois); BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY (DeKalb, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois); BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY (Dekalb, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yong-Lei Wang (Westmont, Illinois); Zhi-Li Xiao (Naperville, Illinois); Wai-Kwong Kwok (Downers Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Artificial ices enable the study of geometrical frustration by design and through direct observation. It has, however, proven difficult to achieve tailored long-range ordering of their diverse configurations, limiting both fundamental and applied research directions. An artificial spin structure design is described that produces a magnetic charge ice with tunable long-range ordering of eight different configurations. A technique is also developed to precisely manipulate the local magnetic charge states and demonstrate write-read-erase multi-functionality at room temperature. This globally reconfigurable and locally writable magnetic charge ice provides a setting for designing magnetic monopole defects, tailoring magnetics and controlling the properties of other two-dimensional materials. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 29, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/280915 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (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 7/039 (20130101) Static Stores G11C 11/14 (20130101) G11C 11/56 (20130101) G11C 11/161 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G11C 11/1673 (20130101) G11C 11/1675 (20130101) |
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| US 09711296 | Bandaru et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Prabhakar R. Bandaru (San Diego, California); Mark Hoefer (Malibu, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Prabhakar R. Bandaru (San Diego, California); Mark Hoefer (Malibu, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An energy storage device includes a first electrode and a second electrode comprising nanostructures. The nanostructures comprise defects that increase charge storage capabilities of the energy storage device. A method of fabricating an energy storage device includes producing a nanomaterial comprising nanostructures and generating defects in the nanomaterial using an electrophilic or nucleophilic additive for increasing charge storage capability of the nanomaterial. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/883258 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0253 (20130101) C01B 31/0273 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 9/0029 (20130101) H01G 11/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01G 11/24 (20130101) H01G 11/30 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/13 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/417 (20150115) |
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| US 09711594 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dong Seup Lee (Farmers Branch, Texas); Tomas Apostol Palacios (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A field effect transistor that has a source, a drain, a gate and a semiconductor region. The semiconductor region has a source access region between the gate and the source, a drain access region between the gate and the drain, and a channel region under the gate. The channel region under the gate has a maximum current-carrying capability that is lower than a maximum current-carrying capability of the source access region. |
| FILED | Friday, August 28, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/838401 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/0649 (20130101) H01L 29/0657 (20130101) H01L 29/0673 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/775 (20130101) H01L 29/2003 (20130101) H01L 29/7786 (20130101) H01L 29/7787 (20130101) H01L 29/42316 (20130101) H01L 29/66469 (20130101) |
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| US 09711741 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jian Li (Tempe, Arizona); Eric Turner (Chandler, Arizona); Liang Huang (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian Li (Tempe, Arizona); Eric Turner (Chandler, Arizona); Liang Huang (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are metal compounds, compositions, and devices related thereto, such as full color displays or OLEDs. |
| FILED | Friday, August 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/421634 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 15/006 (20130101) C07F 15/0086 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/06 (20130101) C09K 2211/185 (20130101) C09K 2211/188 (20130101) C09K 2211/1007 (20130101) C09K 2211/1029 (20130101) C09K 2211/1044 (20130101) C09K 2211/1088 (20130101) C09K 2211/1092 (20130101) C09K 2211/1096 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0083 (20130101) H01L 51/0084 (20130101) H01L 51/0087 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/5016 (20130101) Electric Heating; Electric Lighting Not Otherwise Provided for H05B 33/14 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Clemson University Research Foundation (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Kolis (Central, South Carolina); Colin McMillen (Liberty, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Single heterogeneous crystals are described that contain multiple regimes, adjacent regimes varying from one another with regard to function. Also disclosed is a hydrothermal epitaxial growth process that can be utilized to form the single heterogeneous crystals. The single heterogeneous crystals can exhibit enhanced performance when used as a laser gain medium as compared to previously known single crystals and multi-crystal constructs. The heterogeneous single crystal can be utilized for thin disk lasers and can minimize the thermal distortion effects at high powers. The heterogeneous crystal can also serve as an embedded waveguide. |
| FILED | Friday, June 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/923942 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 7/10 (20130101) C30B 29/28 (20130101) C30B 29/34 (20130101) C30B 29/64 (20130101) C30B 29/68 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/10 (20130101) G02B 6/131 (20130101) Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/063 (20130101) H01S 3/0604 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/21 (20150115) |
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| US 09711948 | Belkin 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) | Mikhail Belkin (Austin, Texas); Robert Adams (Austin, Texas); Markus Christian Amann (Garching, Germany); Augustinas Vizbaras (Garching, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A terahertz source implementing a {hacek over (C)}erenkov difference-frequency generation scheme in a quantum cascade laser. The laser includes an undoped or semi-insulating InP substrate with an exit facet that is polished at an angle between 10° to 40°. The laser further includes a first waveguide cladding layer(s) in contact with an active layer (arranged as a multiple quantum well structure) and a current extraction layer on top of the substrate. Furthermore, the laser includes a second waveguide cladding layer(s) on top of the active layer, where the first and second waveguide cladding layers are disposed to form a waveguide structure by which terahertz radiation generated in the active layer is guided inside the laser. The terahertz radiation is emitted into the substrate at a {hacek over (C)}erenkov angle relative to a direction of the nonlinear polarization wave in the active layer, and once in the substrate, propagates towards the exit facet. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/949379 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (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 5/18 (20130101) H01S 5/0208 (20130101) H01S 5/0421 (20130101) H01S 5/0604 (20130101) H01S 5/1085 (20130101) H01S 5/2031 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 5/3401 (20130101) H01S 5/3402 (20130101) H01S 5/34313 (20130101) H01S 5/34346 (20130101) H01S 2301/145 (20130101) H01S 2302/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09712136 | Rinaldi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matteo Rinaldi (Boston, Massachusetts); Cristian Cassella (East Boston, Massachusetts); Zhenyun Qian (Boston, Massachusetts); Yu Hui (Billerica, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A resonator includes a piezoelectric plate and interdigitated electrode(s). The interdigitated electrode includes a plurality of conductive strips disposed over a top surface of the piezoelectric plate. A two-dimensional mode of mechanical vibration is excited in a cross sectional plane of the piezoelectric plate in response to an alternating voltage applied through the interdigitated electrode. The two-dimensional mode of mechanical vibration is a cross-sectional Lamé mode resonance (CLMR) or a degenerate cross-sectional Lamé mode resonance (dCLMR). |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 16, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/238221 |
| 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 5/44 (20130101) G01J 5/046 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 41/18 (20130101) Impedance Networks, e.g Resonant Circuits; Resonators H03H 3/02 (20130101) H03H 9/13 (20130101) H03H 9/15 (20130101) H03H 9/17 (20130101) H03H 9/02244 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03H 2003/027 (20130101) H03H 2009/155 (20130101) H03H 2009/241 (20130101) |
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| US 09712234 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xinyu Zhang (Madison, Wisconsin); Suman Banerjee (Madison, Wisconsin); Jialiang Zhang (Madison, Wisconsin); Chi Zhang (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A visible light communication system identifies the location of a mobile device using light intensities corrected by mobile device orientation. This location can be used to generate a dynamic cluster of visible light transmitters about the mobile device providing improved “handoff” between transmitters and reduced shadowing. |
| FILED | Monday, December 28, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/980103 |
| ART UNIT | 2636 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 10/116 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Wireless Communication Networks H04W 4/023 (20130101) H04W 4/026 (20130101) |
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| US 09712854 | Steiner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Moritz M. Steiner (Montclair, New Jersey); Yao Liu (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alcatel Lucent (Boulogne-Billancourt, France) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Moritz M. Steiner (Montclair, New Jersey); Yao Liu (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A capability is provided for determining a fraction of content item versions to cache for use in responding to requests for content items. The fraction of content item versions to cache is determined based on a popularity distribution of the content item versions and cost model information associated with the content item versions. The cost model information may include information indicative of a cost of storing one of the content item versions and at least one of a cost of transcoding one of the content item versions or a cost of transferring one of the content item versions. The fraction of content item versions to cache may be determined based a skewness factor of the popularity distribution of the content item versions. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/604756 |
| ART UNIT | 2456 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 21/222 (20130101) H04N 21/231 (20130101) H04N 21/23103 (20130101) H04N 21/23439 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | World Force Technologies, LLC (Newport, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WORLD FORCE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC (Newport, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas W. Konowalchuk (Newport, Oregon); Jack Konowalchuk (Newport, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a high molecular weight polysaccharide capable of binding to and inhibiting virus and related pharmaceutical formulations and methods of inhibiting viral infectivity and/or pathogenicity, as well as immunogenic compositions. The invention further includes methods of inhibiting the growth of cancer cells and of ameliorating a symptom of aging. Additionally, the invention provides methods of detecting and/or quantifying and/or isolating viruses. |
| FILED | Monday, December 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/107553 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0014 (20130101) A61K 9/0095 (20130101) A61K 31/353 (20130101) A61K 31/353 (20130101) A61K 31/715 (20130101) A61K 31/715 (20130101) A61K 36/87 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 7/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56983 (20130101) |
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| US 09707508 | Heldebrant et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David J. Heldebrant (Richland, Washington); Ward E. Tegrotenhuis (Kennewick, Washington); Charles J. Freeman (West Richland, Washington); Michael L. Elliott (Kennewick, Washington); Phillip K. Koech (Richland, Washington); Paul H. Humble (Kennewick, Washington); Feng Zheng (Richland, Washington); Jian Zhang (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Heldebrant (Richland, Washington); Ward E. Tegrotenhuis (Kennewick, Washington); Charles J. Freeman (West Richland, Washington); Michael L. Elliott (Kennewick, Washington); Phillip K. Koech (Richland, Washington); Paul H. Humble (Kennewick, Washington); Feng Zheng (Richland, Washington); Jian Zhang (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A polarity swing-assisted regeneration (PSAR) process is disclosed for improving the efficiency of releasing gases chemically bound to switchable ionic liquids. Regeneration of the SWIL involves addition of a quantity of non-polar organic compound as an anti-solvent to destabilize the SWIL, which aids in release of the chemically bound gas. The PSAR decreases gas loading of a SWIL at a given temperature and increases the rate of gas release compared to heating in the absence of anti-solvent. |
| FILED | Friday, September 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/224680 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/1425 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 53/1475 (20130101) B01D 53/1481 (20130101) B01D 53/1493 (20130101) B01D 2252/30 (20130101) B01D 2257/308 (20130101) B01D 2258/0233 (20130101) B01D 2258/0283 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 30/52 (20130101) Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 10/06 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/129 (20151101) |
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| US 09707716 | Demortiere et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arnaud Demortiere (Oak Park, Illinois); Oleksiy (Alexey) Snezhko (Naperville, Illinois); Maksim Sapozhnikov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Federation); Nicholas G. Becker (Chicago, Illinois); Thomas Proslier (Woodridge, Illinois); Igor S. Aronson (Darien, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Self-assembled tunable networks of microscopic polymer fibers ranging from wavy colloidal “fur” to highly interconnected networks are created from polymer systems and an applied electric field. The networks emerge via dynamic self-assembly in an alternating (ac) electric field from a non-aqueous suspension of “sticky” polymeric colloidal particles with a controlled degree of polymerization. The resulting architectures are tuned by the frequency and amplitude of the electric field and surface properties of the particles. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/473003 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/087 (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 67/0055 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29B, B29C or B29D, Relating to Moulding Materials or to Materials for Reinforcements, Fillers or Preformed Parts, e.g Inserts B29K 2063/00 (20130101) B29K 2105/24 (20130101) B29K 2105/0058 (20130101) Additive Manufacturing, i.e Manufacturing of Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects by Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration or Additive Layering, e.g by 3-d Printing, Stereolithography or Selective Laser Sintering B33Y 10/00 (20141201) B33Y 70/00 (20141201) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 40/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09708080 | Judd et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Judd (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Nicholas Dallmann (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Daniel Seitz (Los Alamos, New Mexico); John Martinez (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Steven Storms (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Gayle Kestell (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A modular space vehicle chassis may facilitate convenient access to internal components of the space vehicle. Each module may be removable from the others such that each module may be worked on individually. Multiple panels of at least one of the modules may swing open or otherwise be removable, exposing large portions of the internal components of the space vehicle. Such chassis architectures may reduce the time required for and difficulty of performing maintenance or modifications, may allow multiple space vehicles to take advantage of a common chassis design, and may further allow for highly customizable space vehicles. |
| FILED | Monday, June 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/745698 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Cosmonautics; Vehicles or Equipment Therefor B64G 1/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B64G 1/42 (20130101) B64G 1/44 (20130101) B64G 1/54 (20130101) B64G 1/66 (20130101) B64G 1/363 (20130101) B64G 1/503 (20130101) B64G 2001/1092 (20130101) |
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| US 09708249 | Goyal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Southern Research Institute (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southern Research Institute (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amit Goyal (Cary, North Carolina); Jadid Samad (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are a catalyst and method useful in the process of converting sugars to acrylonitrile. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 24, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/245835 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 21/04 (20130101) B01J 23/30 (20130101) B01J 23/888 (20130101) B01J 23/892 (20130101) B01J 23/8926 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 29/103 (20130101) C07C 45/002 (20130101) C07C 45/66 (20130101) C07C 253/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09708355 | Trovitch et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan J. Trovitch (Phoenix, Arizona); Tufan K. Mukhopadhyay (Tempe, Arizona); Raja Pal (Tempe, Arizona); Hagit Ben-Daat Levin (Scottsdale, Arizona); Tyler M. Porter (Cave Creek, Arizona); Chandrani Ghosh (Wolkata, India) |
| ABSTRACT | Transition metal compounds, and specifically transition metal compounds having a tetradentate and/or pentadentate supporting ligand are described, together with methods for the preparation thereof and the use of such compounds as hydrogenation and/or hydrosilylation catalysts. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/896813 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 31/00 (20130101) B01J 31/24 (20130101) B01J 31/1815 (20130101) B01J 2231/323 (20130101) B01J 2531/72 (20130101) B01J 2531/842 (20130101) B01J 2531/845 (20130101) B01J 2531/847 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 7/0809 (20130101) C07F 7/0896 (20130101) C07F 7/1836 (20130101) C07F 7/1868 (20130101) C07F 9/5045 (20130101) C07F 13/005 (20130101) C07F 15/025 (20130101) C07F 15/045 (20130101) C07F 15/065 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09708451 | Lewicki 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) | James Lewicki (Oakland, California); Marcus A. Worsley (Hayward, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is a highly effective route towards the controlled and isotropic reduction in size-scale, of complex 3D structures using silicone network polymer chemistry. In particular, a class of silicone structures were developed that once patterned and cured can ‘shrink’ micron scale additive manufactured and lithographically patterned structures by as much as 1 order of magnitude while preserving the dimensions and integrity of these parts. This class of silicone materials is compatible with existing additive manufacture and soft lithographic fabrication processes and will allow access to a hitherto unobtainable dimensionality of fabrication. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/189964 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 77/20 (20130101) C08G 77/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 2383/04 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 5/56 (20130101) C08K 5/56 (20130101) C08K 5/5419 (20130101) C08K 5/5419 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 83/04 (20130101) C08L 83/04 (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 7/0002 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24802 (20150115) |
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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) | John D. Coates (Walnut Creek, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of reversibly altering the rock hydrology in systems, such as oil reservoirs, by inducing authigenic mineral-precipitating bacteria to produce authigenic rock mineral. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/353267 |
| ART UNIT | 3674 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 8/582 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Earth Drilling, e.g Deep Drilling; Obtaining Oil, Gas, Water, Soluble or Meltable Materials or a Slurry of Minerals From Wells E21B 43/16 (20130101) |
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| US 09708591 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Novozymes Inc. (Davis, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu Zhang (Beijing, China PRC); Ye Liu (Beijing, China PRC); Junxin Duan (Beijing, China PRC); Lan Tang (Beijing, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are isolated polypeptides having endoglucanase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. Also provided are nucleic acid constructs, vectors and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides. |
| FILED | Friday, November 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/349833 |
| 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 9/2437 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/00 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09708624 | Bartley 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) | Laura E. Bartley (Norman, Oklahoma); Pamela Ronald (Davis, California); Henrik Vibe Scheller (Millbrae, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods of engineering plants to modulate hydroxycinnamic acid content. The invention additionally provides compositions and methods comprising such plants. |
| FILED | Monday, June 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/746779 |
| ART UNIT | 1663 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/1025 (20130101) C12N 15/8246 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09708630 | Pfleger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian F. Pfleger (Madison, Wisconsin); J. Tyler Youngquist (Medina, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Recombinant cells and methods for improved yield of fatty alcohols. The recombinant cells harbor a recombinant thioesterase gene, a recombinant acyl-CoA synthetase gene, and a recombinant acyl-CoA reductase gene. In addition, a gene product from one or more of an acyl-CoA dehydrogenase gene, an enoyl-CoA hydratase gene, a 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase gene, and a 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase gene in the recombinant cells is functionally deleted. Culturing the recombinant cells produces fatty alcohols at high yields. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/509408 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/0008 (20130101) C12N 9/93 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Enzymes C12Y 102/0105 (20130101) C12Y 602/01003 (20130101) |
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| US 09708641 | Klunder 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) | Gregory Klunder (Oakland, California); Chadway R. Cooper (Corvallis, Oregon); Joe H. Satcher, Jr. (Patterson, California); Ephraim A. Tekle (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention incorporates the camera from a mobile device (phone, iPad, etc.) to capture an image from a chemical test kit and process the image to provide chemical information. A simple user interface enables the automatic evaluation of the image, data entry, gps info, and maintain records from previous analyses. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/742536 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| 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 1/68 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/78 (20130101) |
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| US 09708665 | Salaita et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Khalid S. Salaita (Decatur, Georgia); Pradeep M. Nair (San Francisco, California); Joe W. Gray (Lake Osewego, Oregon); John T. Groves (Berkeley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Khalid S. Salaita (Decatur, Georgia); Pradeep M. Nair (San Francisco, California); Debopriya Das (Albany, California); Joe W. Gray (Lake Osewego, Oregon); John T. Groves (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A signature of a condition of a live cell is established in an assay that allows distribution of the receptors on the cell surface in response to binding a ligand. The receptors can be optically detected and quantified to provide a value for the condition, Test drugs can be screened for therapeutic potential in the assay: a potentially efficacious drug is identified by an ability to modulate an established signature. The receptor distribution signature can be corroborated with an mRNA expression profile of several genes, indicating, for example, metastasis. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/194577 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) |
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| US 09708672 | Mackenzie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sally Ann Mackenzie (Lincoln, Nebraska); Roberto De la Rosa Santamaria (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NUtech Ventures (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sally Ann Mackenzie (Lincoln, Nebraska); Roberto De la Rosa Santamaria (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for obtaining plants that exhibit useful traits by transient suppression of the MSH1 gene of the plants. Methods for identifying genetic loci that provide for useful traits in plants and plants produced with those loci are also provided. In addition, plants that exhibit the useful traits, parts of the plants including seeds, and products of the plants are provided as well as methods of using the plants. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/114945 |
| ART UNIT | 1662 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | New Plants or Processes for Obtaining Them; Plant Reproduction by Tissue Culture Techniques A01H 1/04 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 15/8218 (20130101) C12N 15/8241 (20130101) C12N 15/8261 (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 1/6895 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/13 (20130101) C12Q 2600/154 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) |
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| US 09709685 | Feng |
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| APPLICANT(S) | National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick L. Feng (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An ionizing radiation detector or scintillator system includes a scintillating material comprising an organic crystalline compound selected to generate photons in response to the passage of ionizing radiation. The organic compound has a crystalline symmetry of higher order than monoclinic, for example an orthorhombic, trigonal, tetragonal, hexagonal, or cubic symmetry. A photodetector is optically coupled to the scintillating material, and configured to generate electronic signals having pulse shapes based on the photons generated in the scintillating material. A discriminator is coupled to the photon detector, and configured to discriminate between neutrons and gamma rays in the ionizing radiation based on the pulse shapes of the output signals. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 10, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/591996 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/208 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01T 1/2018 (20130101) |
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| US 09709720 | El-Kady et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ihab F. El-Kady (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Charles M. Reinke (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The topology of the elements of a metamaterial can be engineered from its desired electromagnetic constitutive tensor using an inverse group theory method. Therefore, given a desired electromagnetic response and a generic metamaterial elemental design, group theory is applied to predict the various ways that the element can be arranged in three dimensions to produce the desired functionality. An optimizer can then be applied to an electromagnetic modeling tool to fine tune the values of the electromagnetic properties of the resulting metamaterial topology. |
| FILED | Monday, January 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/594998 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 1/002 (20130101) G02B 5/3083 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 15/0086 (20130101) |
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| US 09711201 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois); BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY (DeKalb, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois); BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY (Dekalb, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yong-Lei Wang (Westmont, Illinois); Zhi-Li Xiao (Naperville, Illinois); Wai-Kwong Kwok (Downers Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Artificial ices enable the study of geometrical frustration by design and through direct observation. It has, however, proven difficult to achieve tailored long-range ordering of their diverse configurations, limiting both fundamental and applied research directions. An artificial spin structure design is described that produces a magnetic charge ice with tunable long-range ordering of eight different configurations. A technique is also developed to precisely manipulate the local magnetic charge states and demonstrate write-read-erase multi-functionality at room temperature. This globally reconfigurable and locally writable magnetic charge ice provides a setting for designing magnetic monopole defects, tailoring magnetics and controlling the properties of other two-dimensional materials. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 29, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/280915 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (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 7/039 (20130101) Static Stores G11C 11/14 (20130101) G11C 11/56 (20130101) G11C 11/161 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G11C 11/1673 (20130101) G11C 11/1675 (20130101) |
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| US 09711251 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | JEFFERSON SCIENCE ASSOCIATES, LLC (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | JEFFERSON SCIENCE ASSOCIATES, LLC (Newport News, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seung Joon Lee (Poquoson, Virginia); Brian J. Kross (Yorktown, Virginia); John E. McKisson (Williamsburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A variable angle slant hole (VASH) collimator for providing collimation of high energy photons such as gamma rays during radiological imaging of humans. The VASH collimator includes a stack of multiple collimator leaves and a means of quickly aligning each leaf to provide various projection angles. Rather than rotate the detector around the subject, the VASH collimator enables the detector to remain stationary while the projection angle of the collimator is varied for tomographic acquisition. High collimator efficiency is achieved by maintaining the leaves in accurate alignment through the various projection angles. Individual leaves include unique angled cuts to maintain a precise target collimation angle. Matching wedge blocks driven by two actuators with twin-lead screws accurately position each leaf in the stack resulting in the precise target collimation angle. A computer interface with the actuators enables precise control of the projection angle of the collimator. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 05, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/818839 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Techniques for Handling Particles or Ionising Radiation Not Otherwise Provided For; Irradiation Devices; Gamma Ray or X-ray Microscopes G21K 1/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G21K 1/025 (20130101) |
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| US 09711297 | Raman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Maxwell Technologies, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Maxwell Technologies, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Santhanam Raman (San Diego, California); Xiaomei Xi (Carlsbad, California); Xiang-Rong Ye (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of pre-doping an anode of an energy storage device can include immersing the anode and a dopant source in an electrolyte, and coupling a substantially constant current between the anode and the dopant source. A method of pre-doping an anode of an energy storage device can include immersing the anode and a dopant source in an electrolyte, and coupling a substantially constant voltage across the anode and the dopant source. An energy storage device can include an anode having a lithium ion pre-doping level of about 60% to about 90%. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/258784 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 11/06 (20130101) H01G 11/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01G 11/86 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/133 (20130101) H01M 4/0459 (20130101) H01M 4/587 (20130101) H01M 4/1393 (20130101) H01M 6/5005 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/13 (20130101) |
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| US 09711352 | Han et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jung Han (Woodbridge, Connecticut); Jie Song (New Haven, Connecticut); Danti Chen (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Structures and methods for confined lateral-guided growth of a large-area semiconductor layer on an insulating layer are described. The semiconductor layer may be formed by heteroepitaxial growth from a selective growth area in a vertically-confined, lateral-growth guiding structure. Lateral-growth guiding structures may be formed in arrays over a region of a substrate, so as to cover a majority of the substrate region with laterally-grown epitaxial semiconductor tiles. Quality regions of low-defect, stress-free GaN may be grown on silicon. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/776634 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — 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 25/04 (20130101) C30B 29/406 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0254 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/0262 (20130101) H01L 21/02381 (20130101) H01L 21/02422 (20130101) H01L 21/02433 (20130101) H01L 21/02458 (20130101) H01L 21/02639 (20130101) H01L 21/02647 (20130101) H01L 23/49827 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) |
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| US 09711728 | Facchetti et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); Polyera Corporation (Skokie, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); Flexterra, Inc. (Skokie, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Antonio Facchetti (Chicago, Illinois); Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Atsuro Takai (Evanston, Illinois); Mark Seger (Chicago, Illinois); Zhihua Chen (Skokie, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present teachings relate to polymeric compounds and their use as organic semiconductors in organic and hybrid optical, optoelectronic, and/or electronic devices such as photovoltaic cells, light emitting diodes, light emitting transistors, and field effect transistors. The disclosed compounds generally include as repeating units at least one annulated thienyl-vinylene-thienyl (TVT) unit and at least one other pi-conjugated unit. The annulated TVT unit can be represented by the formula: where Cy1 and Cy2 can be a five- or six-membered carbocyclic ring. The annulated TVT unit can be optionally substituted at any available ring atom(s), and can be covalently linked to the other pi-conjugated unit via either the thiophene rings or the carbocyclic rings Cy1 and Cy2. The other pi-conjugated unit can be a conjugated linear linker including one or more unsaturated bonds, or a conjugated cyclic linker including one or more carbocyclic and/or heterocyclic rings. |
| FILED | Friday, October 16, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/884986 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 61/122 (20130101) C08G 61/126 (20130101) C08G 2261/12 (20130101) C08G 2261/18 (20130101) C08G 2261/91 (20130101) C08G 2261/122 (20130101) C08G 2261/1412 (20130101) C08G 2261/3223 (20130101) C08G 2261/3241 (20130101) C08G 2261/3243 (20130101) C08G 2261/3246 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0035 (20130101) H01L 51/0036 (20130101) H01L 51/0043 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/441 (20130101) H01L 51/0512 (20130101) H01L 51/4253 (20130101) |
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| US 09711741 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jian Li (Tempe, Arizona); Eric Turner (Chandler, Arizona); Liang Huang (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian Li (Tempe, Arizona); Eric Turner (Chandler, Arizona); Liang Huang (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are metal compounds, compositions, and devices related thereto, such as full color displays or OLEDs. |
| FILED | Friday, August 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/421634 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 15/006 (20130101) C07F 15/0086 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/06 (20130101) C09K 2211/185 (20130101) C09K 2211/188 (20130101) C09K 2211/1007 (20130101) C09K 2211/1029 (20130101) C09K 2211/1044 (20130101) C09K 2211/1088 (20130101) C09K 2211/1092 (20130101) C09K 2211/1096 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0083 (20130101) H01L 51/0084 (20130101) H01L 51/0087 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/5016 (20130101) Electric Heating; Electric Lighting Not Otherwise Provided for H05B 33/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09711743 | Allendorf et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark D. Allendorf (Pleasanton, California); Albert Alec Talin (Dublin, California); Francois Leonard (Brentwood, California); Vitalie Stavila (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A device including a porous metal organic framework (MOF) disposed between two terminals, the device including a first state wherein the MOF is infiltrated by a guest species to form an electrical path between the terminals and a second state wherein the electrical conductivity of the MOF is less than the electrical conductivity in the first state. A method including switching a porous metal organic framework (MOF) between two terminals from a first state wherein a metal site in the MOF is infiltrated by a guest species that is capable of charge transfer to a second state wherein the MOF is less electrically conductive than in the first state. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 07, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/591550 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0002 (20130101) H01L 51/0091 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/0558 (20130101) |
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| US 09711748 | Chichak et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kelly Scott Chichak (Clifton Park, New York); Jie Jerry Liu (Niskayuna, New York); Joseph John Shiang (Niskayuna, New York); Arunkumar Natarajan (Niskayuna, New York); Christian Maria Anton Heller (Albany, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. (Beijing, China PRC) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kelly Scott Chichak (Clifton Park, New York); Jie Jerry Liu (Niskayuna, New York); Joseph John Shiang (Niskayuna, New York); Arunkumar Natarajan (Niskayuna, New York); Christian Maria Anton Heller (Albany, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Optoelectronic devices with enhanced internal outcoupling include a substrate, an anode, a cathode, an electroluminescent layer, and electron transporting layer comprising a fluoro compound of formula I (Ar2)n—Ar1—(Ar2)n I wherein Ar1 is C5-C40 aryl, C5-C40 substituted aryl, C5-C40 heteroaryl, or C5-C40 substituted heteroaryl; Ar2 is, independently at each occurrence, fluoro- or fluoroalkyl-substituted C5-40 heteroaryl; and n is 1, 2, or 3. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/599477 |
| ART UNIT | 1786 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0067 (20130101) H01L 51/5072 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/5088 (20130101) H01L 51/5268 (20130101) H01L 2251/5369 (20130101) |
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| US 09711797 | Singh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Seeo, Inc (Hayward, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Seeo, Inc. (Hayward, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohit Singh (Berkeley, California); Hany Basam Eitouni (Oakland, California); Russell Clayton Pratt (Foster City, California); Scott Allen Mullin (San Leandro, California); Xiao-Liang Wang (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Particles of cathodic materials are coated with polymer to prevent direct contact between the particles and the surrounding electrolyte. The polymers are held in place either by a) growing the polymers from initiators covalently bound to the particle, b) attachment of the already-formed polymers by covalently linking to functional groups attached to the particle, or c) electrostatic interactions resulting from incorporation of cationic or anionic groups in the polymer chain. Carbon or ceramic coatings may first be formed on the surfaces of the particles before the particles are coated with polymer. The polymer coating is both electronically and ionically conductive. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/889335 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 1/34 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/366 (20130101) H01M 4/485 (20130101) H01M 4/505 (20130101) H01M 4/525 (20130101) H01M 4/622 (20130101) H01M 4/623 (20130101) H01M 4/624 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/5825 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) |
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| US 09711816 | Lochhaas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kai H. Lochhaas (Neuotting, Germany); Steven J. Hamrock (Stillwater, Minnesota); Klaus Hintzer (Kastl, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3M Innovative Properties Company (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kai H. Lochhaas (Neuotting, Germany); Steven J. Hamrock (Stillwater, Minnesota); Klaus Hintzer (Kastl, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is a composition comprising: a polymer derived from (a) a fluorinated olefin monomer; (b) a highly fluorinated sulfur-containing monomer of the formula: CX1X2═CX3[(CX4X5)w—O—R1—SO2Y] where X1, X2, X3, X4, and X5 are independently selected from H, Cl, or F; w is 0 or 1; R1 is a non-fluorinated or fluorinated alkylene group; and Y is selected from F, Cl, Br, I, or OM, where M is a cation; and (c) a polyfunctional monomer comprising at least two functional groups, wherein the functional groups are selected from the group consisting of: (i) a fluorovinyl ether group, (ii) a fluoroallyl ether group, (iii) a fluorinated olefinic group, and (iv) combinations thereof; articles thereof; and a method of making such polymers. |
| FILED | Friday, July 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/234464 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 214/18 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 5/2237 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 41/00 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/102 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/109 (20130101) H01M 8/1023 (20130101) H01M 8/1032 (20130101) H01M 8/1039 (20130101) H01M 8/1051 (20130101) H01M 8/1072 (20130101) H01M 2300/0082 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/56 (20151101) |
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| US 09711818 | Stahl et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shannon S. Stahl (Madison, Wisconsin); James B. Gerken (Madison, Wisconsin); Colin W. Anson (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are systems for the electrocatalytic reduction of oxygen, having redox mediator/redox catalyst pairs and an electrolyte solution in contact with an electrode. The redox mediator is included in the electrolyte solution, and the redox catalyst may be included in the electrolyte solution, or alternatively, may be in contact with the electrolyte solution. In one form a cobalt redox catalyst is used with a quinone redox mediator. In another form a nitrogen oxide redox catalyst is used with a nitroxyl type redox mediator. The systems can be used in electrochemical cells wherein neither the anode nor the cathode comprise an expensive metal such as platinum. |
| FILED | Friday, March 13, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/657531 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Processes for the Production of Compounds or Non-metals; Apparatus Therefor C25B 1/00 (20130101) C25B 9/08 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/9008 (20130101) H01M 4/9041 (20130101) H01M 8/20 (20130101) H01M 8/188 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/528 (20130101) |
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| US 09711943 | Telford |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven Telford (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Telford (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for controlling a plurality of laser diodes includes an optical transmitter coupled to the laser diode driver for each laser diode. An optical signal including bi-phase encoded data is provided to each laser diode driver. The optical signal includes current level and pulse duration information at which each of the diodes is to be driven. Upon receiving a trigger signal, the laser diode drivers operate the laser diodes using the current level and pulse duration information to output a laser beam. |
| FILED | Monday, November 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/290416 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 5/0021 (20130101) H01S 5/0428 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 5/4025 (20130101) H01S 5/06216 (20130101) |
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| US RE46479 | Sansinena et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jose-Maria Sansinena (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Antonio Redondo (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Virginia Olazabal (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Mark A. Hoffbauer (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Elshan A. Akhadov (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jose-Maria Sansinena (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Antonio Redondo (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Virginia Olazabal (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Mark A. Hoffbauer (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Elshan A. Akhadov (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A barrier structure for use in an electrochemical stochastic membrane sensor for single molecule detection. The sensor is based upon inorganic nanopores having electrically tunable dimensions. The inorganic nanopores are formed from inorganic materials and an electrically conductive polymer. Methods of making the barrier structure and sensing single molecules using the barrier structure are also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/339010 |
| ART UNIT | 3991 — Central Reexamination Unit (Chemical) |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/48721 (20130101) |
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Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 09706789 | Schmidt |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by The Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Walter F Schmidt (Glenn Dale, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel method of reducing the melting point of a peptide-based biopolymer using a nitrogen-containing compound as a plasticizer is provided. The peptide-based biopolymer can be keratin or silk. The nitrogen-containing compound can be one or more amino acids or other nitrogen-containing compounds (except urea), all of which have a melting temperature above approximately 133° C., the decomposition temperature of urea. Pellets made using this novel process can be used as animal feed and soil amendments (fertilizer) to increase the adsorption of amino acids in the animal or in the soil, respectively. |
| FILED | Friday, January 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/610661 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Fodder A23K 1/18 (20130101) A23K 1/182 (20130101) A23K 1/188 (20130101) A23K 1/1634 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A23K 10/26 (20160501) A23K 20/142 (20160501) A23K 50/10 (20160501) A23K 50/15 (20160501) A23K 50/80 (20160501) Organic Fertilisers Not Covered by Subclasses C05B, C05C, e.g Fertilisers From Waste or Refuse C05F 1/005 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 89/00 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/145 (20151101) |
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| US 09707283 | Suarez et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washinton, District of Columbia); Washington State University (Pullman, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); Washington State University (Pullman, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlos E. Suarez (Pullman, Washington); Donald P. Knowles, Jr. (Pullman, Washington); Terry McElwain (Pullman, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for stable transfection of Babesia parasites, and for vaccines conferring immunity against parasitic arthropods. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 14, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 14/995870 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 39/018 (20130101) A61K 2039/522 (20130101) A61K 2039/523 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/43527 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/79 (20130101) |
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| US 09708200 | Vanotti et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by The Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matias B Vanotti (Florence, South Carolina); Ariel A Szogi (Florence, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for passive capture of ammonia in an ammonia-containing liquid effluent. The invention allows for the passage of ammonia through microporous hydrophobic gas-permeable membranes and its capture in a circulated stripping solution with concomitant production of a concentrated non-volatile ammonium salt. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 25, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/631367 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/58 (20130101) Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/008 (20130101) C02F 1/20 (20130101) C02F 1/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C02F 1/66 (20130101) C02F 1/448 (20130101) C02F 3/301 (20130101) C02F 3/307 (20130101) C02F 3/2866 (20130101) C02F 11/04 (20130101) C02F 2001/007 (20130101) C02F 2101/16 (20130101) C02F 2101/105 (20130101) C02F 2103/20 (20130101) C02F 2209/06 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/343 (20130101) |
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| US 09708417 | Cormier et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan Cormier (Morton, Illinois); Gregory L. Cote (Edwards, Illinois); Christopher D. Skory (Washington, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanoparticles composed of water insoluble glucans and films composed of tile above nanoparticles, in addition, there is disclosed a process for producing nanoparticles composed of water insoluble glucans. Furthermore, surfactant stabilized nanoparticles composed of water insoluble glucans and films composed of the above nanoparticles. In addition, a process for producing surfactant stabilized nanoparticles composed of water insoluble glucans. |
| FILED | Monday, May 04, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/702960 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 37/0006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08B 37/0009 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 5/00 (20130101) |
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| US PP28200 | Mehlenbacher et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shawn A. Mehlenbacher (Corvallis, Oregon); David C. Smith (Corvallis, Oregon); Rebecca L. McCluskey (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A new and distinct Corylus plant named ‘McDonald’ characterized by moderate vigor and upright-spreading plant habit, yellowish-green developing and fully expanded leaves during the spring and summer, resistance to eastern filbert blight caused by the fungus Anisogramma anomala (Peck) E. Müller, presence of random amplified polymorphic DNA markers 152-800 and 268-580 in DNA, expression of incompatibility alleles S2 and S15 in the styles, and DNA fingerprints at 14 of 21 microsatellite marker loci differ from both parents, ‘Tonda Pacifica’ and ‘Santiam’, and from one parent at an additional 5 marker loci. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 13, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/544504 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/152 |
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 09708059 | Logan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINSTRATOR OF THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Logan (Chesapeake, Virginia); Mark A. Motter (Williamsburg, Virginia); Richard Deloach (Hampton, Virginia); Thomas L. Vranas (Hampton, Virginia); Joseph M. Prendergast (Boulder, Colorado); Brittney N. Lipp (Playa Del Rey, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods, and devices are provided that enable robust operations of a small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS) using a compound wing. The various embodiments may provide a sUAS with vertical takeoff and landing capability, long endurance, and the capability to operate in adverse environmental conditions. In the various embodiments a sUAS may include a fuselage and a compound wing comprising a fixed portion coupled to the fuselage, a wing lifting portion outboard of the fixed portion comprising a rigid cross member and a controllable articulating portion configured to rotate controllable through a range of motion from a horizontal position to a vertical position, and a freely rotating wing portion outboard of the wing lifting portion and configured to rotate freely based on wind forces incident on the freely rotating wing portion. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 19, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/625806 |
| ART UNIT | 3647 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 15/00 (20130101) B64C 39/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B64C 39/024 (20130101) B64C 2201/021 (20130101) B64C 2201/088 (20130101) B64C 2201/165 (20130101) |
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| US 09708075 | Dudley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kenneth L. Dudley (Newport News, Virginia); George N. Szatkowski (Charlottesville, Virginia); Marie Woodard (Hampton, Virginia); Truong X. Nguyen (Hampton, Virginia); Jay J. Ely (Yorktown, Virginia); Chuantong Wang (Yorktown, Virginia); John J. Mielnik (North, Virginia); Sandra V. Koppen (Suffolk, Virginia); Laura J. Smith (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| 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) | Kenneth L. Dudley (Newport News, Virginia); George N. Szatkowski (Charlottesville, Virginia); Marie Woodard (Hampton, Virginia); Truong X. Nguyen (Hampton, Virginia); Jay J. Ely (Yorktown, Virginia); Chuantong Wang (Yorktown, Virginia); John J. Mielnik (North, Virginia); Sandra V. Koppen (Suffolk, Virginia); Laura J. Smith (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A lightning protection and detection system includes a non-conductive substrate material of an apparatus; a sensor formed of a conductive material and deposited on the non-conductive substrate material of the apparatus. The sensor includes a conductive trace formed in a continuous spiral winding starting at a first end at a center region of the sensor and ending at a second end at an outer corner region of the sensor, the first and second ends being open and unconnected. An electrical measurement system is in communication with the sensor and receives a resonant response from the sensor, to perform detection, in real-time, of lightning strike occurrences and damage therefrom to the sensor and the non-conductive substrate material. |
| FILED | Monday, April 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/453717 |
| ART UNIT | 2867 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 45/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 19/08 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 29/0814 (20130101) G01R 29/0842 (20130101) G01R 31/2642 (20130101) |
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| US 09711680 | Park et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yeonjoon Park (Yorktown, Virginia); Sang Hyouk Choi (Poquoson, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated hybrid crystal Light Emitting Diode (“LED”) display device that may emit red, green, and blue colors on a single wafer. The various embodiments may provide double-sided hetero crystal growth with hexagonal wurtzite III-Nitride compound semiconductor on one side of (0001) c-plane sapphire media and cubic zinc-blended III-V or II-VI compound semiconductor on the opposite side of c-plane sapphire media. The c-plane sapphire media may be a bulk single crystalline c-plane sapphire wafer, a thin free standing c-plane sapphire layer, or crack-and-bonded c-plane sapphire layer on any substrate. The bandgap energies and lattice constants of the compound semiconductor alloys may be changed by mixing different amounts of ingredients of the same group into the compound semiconductor. The bandgap energy and lattice constant may be engineered by changing the alloy composition within the cubic group IV, group III-V, and group II-VI semiconductors and within the hexagonal III-Nitrides. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 13, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/264083 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/15 (20130101) H01L 33/007 (20130101) H01L 33/08 (20130101) H01L 33/16 (20130101) H01L 33/0066 (20130101) H01L 33/0075 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 33/0087 (20130101) |
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| US 09712250 | Pierrottet et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Diego F. Pierrottet (Poquoson, Virginia); Larry B. Petway (Hampton, Virginia); Farzin Amzajerdian (Yorktown, Virginia); Bruce W. Barnes (Yorktown, Virginia); George E. Lockard (Newport News, Virginia); Glenn D. Hines (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for generating a frequency modulated linear laser waveform includes a single frequency laser generator to produce a laser output signal. An electro-optical modulator modulates the frequency of the laser output signal to define a linear triangular waveform. An optical circulator passes the linear triangular waveform to a band-pass optical filter to filter out harmonic frequencies created in the waveform during modulation of the laser output signal, to define a pure filtered modulated waveform having a very narrow bandwidth. The optical circulator receives the pure filtered modulated laser waveform and transmits the modulated laser waveform to a target. |
| FILED | Friday, November 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/550028 |
| ART UNIT | 2637 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 7/4911 (20130101) G01S 17/32 (20130101) Transmission H04B 10/548 (20130101) H04B 10/2575 (20130101) H04B 10/5563 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 09710677 | Mosholder |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Director, National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Gary S. Mosholder (Sykesville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A port protector is provided by a base member that engages the port and a slidably mounted slide member. Locking members are provided on the base member and the slide member such that when the locking members are engage the slide member does not slide relative to the base member. Unlocking of the port protector is achieved by removing or perforating a tongue of the base. Removal of the tongue provides evidence that access to the port was achieved. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 02, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/790137 |
| ART UNIT | 2437 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/60 (20130101) G06F 21/86 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electrically-conductive Connections; Structural Associations of a Plurality of Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting Elements; Coupling Devices; Current Collectors H01R 13/443 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 5/0208 (20130101) |
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| US 09713258 | Kwark |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Young Hoon Kwark (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Young Hoon Kwark (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrical circuit device that includes a circuit board with an integrated circuit chip in a cavity that extends from a surface of the circuit board to an embedded conductor, and an electrical connection between the integrated circuit chip and the embedded conductor. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/411920 |
| ART UNIT | 2896 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/13 (20130101) H01L 23/66 (20130101) H01L 23/3677 (20130101) H01L 24/48 (20130101) H01L 24/49 (20130101) H01L 24/73 (20130101) H01L 25/165 (20130101) H01L 2223/6627 (20130101) H01L 2224/16 (20130101) H01L 2224/05599 (20130101) H01L 2224/16225 (20130101) H01L 2224/16235 (20130101) H01L 2224/45014 (20130101) H01L 2224/45099 (20130101) H01L 2224/48091 (20130101) H01L 2224/48091 (20130101) H01L 2224/48091 (20130101) H01L 2224/49109 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/014 (20130101) H01L 2924/14 (20130101) H01L 2924/01006 (20130101) H01L 2924/01027 (20130101) H01L 2924/01029 (20130101) H01L 2924/01033 (20130101) H01L 2924/01047 (20130101) H01L 2924/01078 (20130101) H01L 2924/01079 (20130101) H01L 2924/1903 (20130101) H01L 2924/3011 (20130101) H01L 2924/3025 (20130101) H01L 2924/15192 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 1/183 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05K 2201/092 (20130101) H05K 2201/09845 (20130101) H05K 2203/049 (20130101) |
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Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 09709491 | Murphy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, represented by the Secretary of Commerce (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel M. Murphy (Boulder, Colorado); Timothy D. Gordon (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention relates to a system for measuring trace species in a sample gas. The present invention uses an open-path configuration including an optical cell with mirrors at each end, a long slotted rod with holes in the end for an optical bean to pass through, and a slotted tube surrounding the slotted rod such that air can pass through the rod in a transverse direction when the slots are aligned. Embodiments of the present invention further includes a flow configuration for purging sample gas from the optical cell, and cleaning mirrors, with calibrated or zero air through inlets in front of each mirror. |
| FILED | Monday, March 28, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/082112 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/474 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2021/4742 (20130101) |
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Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 09708821 | Azizinamini |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Atorod Azizinamini (Miramar, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES (Miami, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Atorod Azizinamini (Miramar, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention provides materials and methods for repairing and/or improving the performance of concrete structures. In preferred embodiments, the methods comprise attaching a thin shell of ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) over the area of interest, the shape of the shell substantially conforming to that of the area itself, and subsequently filling a cavity defined by the shell with UHPC. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/984708 |
| ART UNIT | 3633 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Scaffolding; Forms; Shuttering; Building Implements or Aids, or Their Use; Handling Building Materials on the Site; Repairing, Breaking-up or Other Work on Existing Buildings E04G 23/0211 (20130101) Original (OR) Class E04G 23/0218 (20130101) |
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Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 09707207 | Finegold |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sydney Martin Finegold (Marina del Rey, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sydney Martin Finegold (Marina del Rey, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides for methods of treating autism associated with Desulfovibrio overgrowth in the gastrointestinal tract of a patient, said method comprising administering to the patient suffering from said autism a treatment course of aztreonam in an amount effective to treat autism in the patient, thereby treating autism. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/117073 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/43 (20130101) A61K 31/43 (20130101) A61K 31/397 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/397 (20130101) A61K 31/424 (20130101) A61K 31/424 (20130101) A61K 31/427 (20130101) A61K 31/427 (20130101) A61K 31/431 (20130101) A61K 31/431 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (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 1/18 (20130101) |
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National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 09712771 | Kelly et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Kelly (North Reading, Massachusetts); Daniel Mooney (Dracut, Massachusetts); Curtis Colonero (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Robert Berger (Lexington, Massachusetts); Lawrence Candell (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Kelly (North Reading, Massachusetts); Daniel Mooney (Dracut, Massachusetts); Curtis Colonero (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Robert Berger (Lexington, Massachusetts); Lawrence Candell (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Autonomously operating analog to digital converters are formed into a two dimensional array. The array may incorporate digital signal processing functionality. Such an array is particularly well-suited for operation as a readout integrated circuit and in combination with a sensor array, forms a digital focal plane array. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 09, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/178439 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 1/12 (20130101) H03M 1/60 (20130101) H03M 1/145 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/378 (20130101) H04N 5/3355 (20130101) H04N 5/37455 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09709459 | Guthrie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael J. Guthrie (Huntsville, Alabama); Michael C. Zari (Madison, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | FREENT TECHNOLOGIES, Inc. (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Guthrie (Huntsville, Alabama); Michael C. Zari (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A multiple energetic penetration and damage progression sensor is disclosed. A grid of sensing lines, such as passive optical fibers, is formed by laying the sensing lines in a crossing pattern to form a 2-Dimensional or 3-Dimensional coordinate grid. Signal receivers such as photo-detectors are connected to one or both ends of the sensing lines, and a data processor interprets received signals. When an impact or energetic penetration occurs at a location on or near a sensing line, energy passes down the sensing line in both directions away from the point of impact or penetration. Each pair of “X-Y” or “X-Y-Z” recordings from receivers receiving the energy is processed to determine a location, penetration volume and progression in time of the impact or penetration. This sensor can be made conformal to any regular and continuous surface geometry, volume geometry, or surfaces or volumes of physical objects of interest. |
| FILED | Friday, March 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/664638 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Armour; Armoured Turrets; Armoured or Armed Vehicles; Means of Attack or Defence, e.g Camouflage, in General F41H 1/02 (20130101) Measuring Not Specially Adapted for a Specific Variable; Arrangements for Measuring Two or More Variables Not Covered in a Single Other Subclass; Tariff Metering Apparatus; Measuring or Testing Not Otherwise Provided for G01D 5/26 (20130101) Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 5/0052 (20130101) Testing Static or Dynamic Balance of Machines or Structures; Testing of Structures or Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G01M 5/0033 (20130101) G01M 5/0091 (20130101) G01M 11/085 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 3/30 (20130101) G01N 3/313 (20130101) |
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U.S. State Government
| US 09710916 | Thiagarajan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jayaraman Jayaraman Thiagarajan (Dublin, California); Karthikeyan Ramamurthy (Yorktown Heights, New York); Andreas Spanias (Tempe, Arizona); David Frakes (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS, A BODY CORPORATE OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA, ACTING FOR AND ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jayaraman Jayaraman Thiagarajan (Dublin, California); Karthikeyan Ramamurthy (Yorktown Heights, New York); Andreas Spanias (Tempe, Arizona); David Frakes (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A robust method to automatically segment and identify tumor regions in medical images is extremely valuable for clinical diagnosis and disease modeling. In various embodiments, an efficient algorithm uses sparse models in feature spaces to identify pixels belonging to tumorous regions. By fusing both intensity and spatial location information of the pixels, this technique can automatically localize tumor regions without user intervention. Using a few expert-segmented training images, a sparse coding-based classifier is learned. For a new test image, the sparse code obtained from every pixel is tested with the classifier to determine if it belongs to a tumor region. Particular embodiments also provide a highly accurate, low-complexity procedure for cases when the user can provide an initial estimate of the tumor in a test image. |
| FILED | Monday, September 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/853617 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/055 (20130101) A61B 2576/026 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/11 (20170101) G06T 7/0012 (20130101) G06T 7/0081 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2207/10088 (20130101) G06T 2207/20081 (20130101) G06T 2207/30096 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 09710780 | Anderson 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) | Mary P. Anderson (Washington, District of Columbia); James D. Wilson (Memphis, Tennessee); Angela D. Lawson (Memphis, Tennessee); Rosemarie Bolha (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for coordinating item delivery is disclosed. The system includes a control hub configured to receive item information, a dynamic routing system configured to provide routing instructions, and a handheld device configured to receive routing instructions. The control hub controls and coordinates receiving and transmitting item information, including pick-up and delivery schedules, and other item information. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/108680 |
| ART UNIT | 3628 — 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 10/0836 (20130101) G06Q 10/08355 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 09709405 | Sotak et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Milos Sotak (Slavkov u Brna, Czech Republic); Pavol Malinak (Markusovce, Slovakia); Zdenek Kana (Dubnany, Czech Republic); Jindrich Dunik (Plzen, Czech Republic) |
| ABSTRACT | An attitude and heading reference system (AHRS) for a vehicle is provided along with methods for mitigating vehicle acceleration effects in the AHRS. The AHRS comprises an inertial measurement unit configured to generate inertial measurements from at least one accelerometer and at least one gyroscope, a heading source configured to generate heading measurements, and an adaptive statistical filter configured to mitigate the impact of vehicle acceleration effects on attitude and heading. |
| FILED | Monday, November 23, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/949437 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 43/02 (20130101) Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 19/00 (20130101) G01C 21/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01C 23/00 (20130101) Measuring Linear or Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, or Shock; Indicating Presence, Absence, or Direction, of Movement G01P 15/18 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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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, July 18, 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.
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Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
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3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
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The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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