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Patent Details for Tuesday, August 22, 2017
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| US 09737205 | Rubin 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) | Daniel L. Rubin (Stanford, California); Luis de Sisternes Garcia (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method for analyzing retinal image data obtained using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). The image data comprise a cross-section of the retina and an en face image of the retina of a subject having AMD (age-related macular degeneration). The image data are processed to obtain an accurate structure showing locations, shape, size, and other data on drusen (deposits under the retina). This structural information is processed to extract quantitative drusen features that are indicative of a risk of progression of AMD from the dry form to the wet form of the disease in a given subject and defined time period, including short time intervals (one year or less). Relevant drusen features used include number, en face area and volume of drusen detected; shape of drusen detected; density of drusen; and reflectivity of drusen. The method uses the extracted drusen features in combination with clinical data and measurement of the changes of the quantitative image features over time to derive a risk score for whether or not the subject will progress from dry AMD to wet AMD in a defined time period. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/908519 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 3/0025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 3/102 (20130101) A61B 3/1225 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) G06T 2207/10101 (20130101) G06T 2207/30041 (20130101) |
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| US 09737258 | Poon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chi-Sang Poon (Lexington, Massachusetts); Zhi-De Deng (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and associated apparatus combine a calculation of chaos of a quantifiable cardiac characteristic associated with a patient with a measurement of a non-increasing parasympathetic activity of the patient to detect a physiological abnormality of the patient. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 31, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/755345 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0205 (20130101) A61B 5/0456 (20130101) A61B 5/743 (20130101) A61B 5/746 (20130101) A61B 5/1102 (20130101) A61B 5/1455 (20130101) A61B 5/02405 (20130101) A61B 5/04012 (20130101) A61B 5/4035 (20130101) A61B 5/4812 (20130101) A61B 5/4818 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/7275 (20130101) A61B 5/7405 (20130101) A61B 5/14551 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/345 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/0053 (20130101) |
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| US 09737469 | Christiano 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) | Angela M. Christiano (Mahwah, New Jersey); Raphael Clynes (West Nyack, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides for methods for treating a hair loss disorder in a subject by administering a Janus Kinase/Signal Transducers and Activators of Transcription inhibitor. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 10, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/066479 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 8/41 (20130101) A61K 8/64 (20130101) A61K 8/4953 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/52 (20130101) A61K 31/63 (20130101) A61K 31/137 (20130101) A61K 31/277 (20130101) A61K 31/407 (20130101) A61K 31/437 (20130101) A61K 31/506 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 31/529 (20130101) A61K 31/553 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) A61K 31/7052 (20130101) A61K 2800/782 (20130101) Specific Use of Cosmetics or Similar Toilet Preparations A61Q 7/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09737478 | Carvalho et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Leonardo Jose de Moura Carvalho (La Jolla, California); Pedro Cabrales (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (DHHS), The United States of America NIH Division of Extramural Inventions and Technology Resources (DEITR) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonardo Jose de Moura Carvalho (La Jolla, California); Pedro Cabrales (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention contemplates compositions for the treatment of malaria comprising an anti-malaria drug and an adjuvant which promotes vasodilation and methods of using same. |
| FILED | Monday, September 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/881124 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0004 (20130101) A61K 9/0019 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 9/2004 (20130101) A61K 9/2806 (20130101) A61K 31/49 (20130101) A61K 31/49 (20130101) A61K 31/137 (20130101) A61K 31/137 (20130101) A61K 31/155 (20130101) A61K 31/155 (20130101) A61K 31/357 (20130101) A61K 31/357 (20130101) A61K 31/365 (20130101) A61K 31/365 (20130101) A61K 31/505 (20130101) A61K 31/505 (20130101) A61K 31/4706 (20130101) A61K 31/4706 (20130101) A61K 31/4709 (20130101) A61K 31/4709 (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) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09737480 | Lu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Standford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Quan Lu (Newton, Massachusetts); Joseph F. Nabhan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Stanley N. Cohen (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provide isolated arrestin domain-containing protein 1 (ARRDC1)-mediated micro vesicles (ARMMs). Methods for generating and for isolating ARMMs are also provided herein. ARMMs can be used to deliver agents, for example, nucleic acids (e.g., siRNAs, microRNAs, lincRNAs), proteins (e.g., transcription factors, chromatin modulators, kinases, phosphorylases, or recombinases), or small molecules to target cells in vitro and in vivo, and methods for such ARMM-mediated delivery are provided herein. Diagnostic and therapeutic methods using ARMMs are also described herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/376967 |
| 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 9/107 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/42 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/70 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6893 (20130101) G01N 2333/47 (20130101) G01N 2333/726 (20130101) |
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| US 09737486 | Bright et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland); 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); THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Corinne Bright (Los Gatos, California); Rachel Bright (Palo Alto, California); Eric Churchill (Long Beach, California); Kam W. Leong (Durham, North Carolina); Daria Mochly-Rosen (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for protection of tissues subject to ischemic and/or reperfusion damage is provided. The method includes administering to the tissue a composition comprising nanodevices. The nanodevices can take the form of, for example, polymeric nanoparticles or lipidic nanoparticles. The nanodevices also find use in methods for reducing ischemic injury in tissue at risk of such injury, such as heart and brain tissue. |
| FILED | Friday, February 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/194559 |
| 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 9/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 9/5138 (20130101) A61K 31/78 (20130101) A61K 31/765 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09737487 | Geschwind et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jean-Francois Geschwind (Potomac, Maryland); Shanmugasundaram Ganapathy-Kanniappan (Baltimore, Maryland); Surojit Sur (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Bert Vogelstein (Baltimore, Maryland); Kenneth W. Kinzler (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions comprising cyclodextrins encapsulating a selective ATP inhibitor, as well as uses thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/643603 |
| ART UNIT | 1613 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/08 (20130101) A61K 9/19 (20130101) A61K 9/146 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/02 (20130101) A61K 31/02 (20130101) A61K 31/19 (20130101) A61K 31/19 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 47/40 (20130101) A61K 47/48969 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 37/0012 (20130101) C08B 37/0015 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 5/16 (20130101) |
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| US 09737491 | Popov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexey Popov (Waltham, Massachusetts); Elizabeth M. Enlow (Waltham, Massachusetts); James Bourassa (Somerville, Massachusetts); Colin R. Gardner (Concord, Massachusetts); Hongming Chen (Belmont, Massachusetts); Laura M. Ensign (Towson, Maryland); Samuel K. Lai (Carrboro, North Carolina); Tao Yu (Baltimore, Maryland); Justin Hanes (Baltimore, Maryland); Ming Yang (Towson, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanocrystals, compositions, and methods that aid particle transport in mucus are provided. In some embodiments, the compositions and methods involve making mucus-penetrating particles (MPP) without any polymeric carriers, or with minimal use of polymeric carriers. The compositions and methods may include, in some embodiments, modifying the surface coatings of particles formed of pharmaceutical agents that have a low water solubility. Such methods and compositions can be used to achieve efficient transport of particles of pharmaceutical agents though mucus barriers in the body for a wide spectrum of applications, including drug delivery, imaging, and diagnostic applications. In certain embodiments, a pharmaceutical composition including such particles is well-suited for administration routes involving the particles passing through a mucosal barrier. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 17, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/354704 |
| ART UNIT | 1613 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/5031 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/12 (20130101) A61K 31/56 (20130101) A61K 31/58 (20130101) A61K 31/405 (20130101) A61K 31/409 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/522 (20130101) A61K 31/573 (20130101) A61K 31/635 (20130101) A61K 31/675 (20130101) |
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| US 09737492 | Mao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | EMORY UNIVERSITY (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hui Mao (Johns Creek, Georgia); Jing Huang (Decatur, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates to nanoparticle drug delivery systems composed of casein (CN) coated nanoparticles, e.g., iron oxide nanoparticles coated with an inner layer and an out layer comprising the milk protein casein. In certain embodiments, drug molecules are incorporated into an inner polymeric layer coating the nanoparticles, which are subsequently coated with a casein containing outer layer, i.e., a layer-by-layer (LBL) construction. Oral administration of these casein coated nanoparticles are contemplated as experiments indicated sufficiently stability in conditions that simulate the conditions of the gut. Drugs that were loaded into the nanoparticle systems were released when the casein outer layer was gradually degraded in the presence of an intestinal protease meant to simulate conditions of the intestine. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/882482 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/5115 (20130101) A61K 9/5138 (20130101) A61K 9/5169 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/704 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09737512 | Cheng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xiaodong Cheng (Houston, Texas); Fang Mei (Houston, Texas); Annemieke Kavelaars (Houston, Texas); Cobi J. Heijnen (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaodong Cheng (Houston, Texas); Fang Mei (Houston, Texas); Annemieke Kavelaars (Houston, Texas); Cobi J. Heijnen (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain embodiments are directed to methods of treating pain, e.g., chronic or neuropathic pain, comprising administering an effective amount of an EPAC inhibitor. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 10, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/066416 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/33 (20130101) A61K 31/42 (20130101) A61K 31/275 (20130101) A61K 31/422 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09737514 | Bischoff et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joyce Bischoff (Weston, Massachusetts); Shoshana Greenberger (Modin, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | The technology described herein is directed to methods and compositions for the treatment of proliferative vascular disorders, e.g. hemangioma. In some aspects, the methods and compositions described herein related to a mTOR inhibitor or nifedipine. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 19, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/945581 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0014 (20130101) A61K 9/0053 (20130101) A61K 31/138 (20130101) A61K 31/138 (20130101) A61K 31/165 (20130101) A61K 31/165 (20130101) A61K 31/436 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/436 (20130101) A61K 31/573 (20130101) A61K 31/573 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (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) |
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| US 09737525 | Kazantsev et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aleksey G. Kazantsev (Brighton, Massachusetts); Leslie M. Thompson (Irvine, California); Ruben Abagyan (La Jolla, California); Malcolm Casale (Mission Viejo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates to compounds that act as activators of the NRF2/KEAP1/ARE pathway. Specifically, the compounds provided herein can act as high affinity reversible bindings for the NRF2 inhibitor, KEAP1. In some cases, NRF2/KEAP1/ARE pathway activation compounds are capable of repressing expression of inflammatory markers and/or reducing levels of TNFa to provide neuroprotective anti-inflammatory effects in the CNS. Such compounds are useful in the treatment of a variety of diseases including Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, inflammation, and cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, June 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/892353 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/4196 (20130101) A61K 31/4439 (20130101) A61K 31/4709 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09737546 | Amaro 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) | Rommie E. Amaro (San Clemente, California); Roberta Baronio (Oxford, United Kingdom); Ozlem Demir (San Diego, California); Peter Kaiser (Irvine, California); Richard H. Lathrop (Irvine, California); Seyedey-Faezeh Salehi-Amin (Pasadena, California); Christopher D. Wassman (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of enhancing p53 activity of a p53 mutant polypeptide is provided. The method includes interacting a compound to an open L1/S3 binding site of the p53 mutant polypeptide, where the p53 activity of the p53 mutant polypeptide is enhanced in the presence of the compound. Compounds were identified from databases of compounds for virtual drug screening. Methods of screening for compounds that enhance p53 activity by binding to the open L1/S3 binding site, and methods of treatment using the identified compounds, are also provided. |
| FILED | Saturday, August 09, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/910976 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/44 (20130101) A61K 31/47 (20130101) A61K 31/416 (20130101) A61K 31/429 (20130101) A61K 31/472 (20130101) A61K 31/538 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/4155 (20130101) A61K 31/4184 (20130101) A61K 31/4704 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/75 (20130101) C07D 215/38 (20130101) C07D 217/24 (20130101) C07D 231/54 (20130101) C07D 265/36 (20130101) C07D 405/04 (20130101) C07D 513/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09737592 | Bermudes et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Gordon Bermudes (Woodland Hills, California); David Quintero (Northridge, California) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | David Gordon Bermudes (Woodland Hills, California); David Quintero (Northridge, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides purified protease inhibitors derived from microorganisms alone or in combination with bacteriocins and/or antibodies. The protease inhibitors may also be expressed by microbiome or probiotic microorganisms alone or in combination with bacteriocins and/or antibodies. The invention also provides methods and compositions for improving the expression of endogenous or heterologous protease inhibitors alone or in combination with bacteriocins and/or antibodies. The invention is useful for treating a variety of inflammatory disorders including acne, psoriasis, eczema, atopic dermatitis and inflammatory bowel disease. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 17, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/624460 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — 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 38/55 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 14/81 (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 1/37 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2333/81 (20130101) G01N 2500/04 (20130101) G01N 2500/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09737601 | Schwarz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edward M. Schwarz (Rochester, New York); Mark A. Sullivan (Fairport, New York); John L. Daiss (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward M. Schwarz (Rochester, New York); Mark A. Sullivan (Fairport, New York); John L. Daiss (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a monoclonal antibody that binds specifically to a Staphylococcus aureus glucosaminidase and inhibits in vivo growth of S. aureus. Also disclosed are monoclonal antibody binding portions, recombinant or hybridoma cell lines, pharmaceutical compositions containing the monoclonal antibody or binding portions thereof, and methods of treating 5*. aureus infection and osteomyelitis, and methods for introducing an orthopedic implant into a patient using the monoclonal antibody, binding portion, or pharmaceutical composition of the present invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/696019 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2/28 (20130101) A61F 2/30 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/1271 (20130101) C07K 2317/24 (20130101) C07K 2317/56 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) |
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| US 09737604 | Liu 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) | David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); John Anthony Zuris (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David B. Thompson (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions, methods, strategies, kits, and systems for the supercharged protein-mediated delivery of functional effector proteins into cells in vivo, ex vivo, or in vitro are provided. Compositions, methods, strategies, kits, and systems for delivery of functional effector proteins using cationic lipids and cationic polymers are also provided. Functional effector proteins include, without limitation, transcriptional modulators (e.g., repressors or activators), recombinases, nucleases (e.g., RNA-programmable nucleases, such as Cas9 proteins; TALE nuclease, and zinc finger nucleases), deaminases, and other gene modifying/editing enzymes. Functional effector proteins include TALE effector proteins, e.g., TALE transcriptional activators and repressors, as well as TALE nucleases. Compositions, methods, strategies, and systems for the delivery of functional effector proteins into cells is useful for therapeutic and research purposes, including, but not limited to, the targeted manipulation of a gene associated with disease, the modulation of the expression level of a gene associated with disease, and the programming of cell fate. |
| FILED | Monday, August 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/462189 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/127 (20130101) A61K 38/45 (20130101) A61K 38/465 (20130101) A61K 38/1767 (20130101) A61K 47/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 14/00 (20130101) C07K 14/195 (20130101) C07K 14/463 (20130101) C07K 14/4702 (20130101) C07K 14/43595 (20130101) C07K 2319/60 (20130101) C07K 2319/80 (20130101) C07K 2319/85 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/14 (20130101) C12N 9/22 (20130101) C12N 9/96 (20130101) C12N 9/1241 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 207/07 (20130101) C12Y 301/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09737614 | Heller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel A. Heller (New York, New York); Yosef Shamay (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are polymeric drug-carrying nanogels that are capable of targeting to P-selectin for the treatment of cancer and other diseases and conditions associated with P-selectin. Furthermore, in certain embodiments, the nanogels presented here offer a drug release mechanism based on acidic pH in the microenvironment of a tumor, thereby providing improved treatment targeting capability and allowing use of lower drug doses, thereby reducing toxicity. |
| FILED | Monday, March 14, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/069311 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/06 (20130101) A61K 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 9/5146 (20130101) A61K 31/337 (20130101) A61K 31/704 (20130101) A61K 31/737 (20130101) A61K 31/4412 (20130101) A61K 41/0038 (20130101) A61K 47/4823 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/48215 (20130101) A61K 47/48284 (20130101) A61K 47/48907 (20130101) A61K 49/00 (20130101) A61K 51/065 (20130101) |
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| US 09737615 | Castillo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | PharmaIN Corporation (Bothell, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PharmalN Corporation (Bothell, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerardo M. Castillo (Bothell, Washington); Elijah M. Bolotin (Bothell, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates, in part, to a biocompatible hydrophobic-core carrier comprising a carrier, and a plurality of hydrophobic groups covalently linked to the polymeric carrier. The hydrophobic groups are capable of dissociably linking load molecules such as therapeutic agents. The hydrophobic-core carrier may also comprise protective side chains, orienting molecules, and targeting molecules. |
| FILED | Friday, November 22, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/087523 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/4439 (20130101) A61K 38/26 (20130101) A61K 38/1808 (20130101) A61K 38/1841 (20130101) A61K 38/2207 (20130101) A61K 47/488 (20130101) A61K 47/48215 (20130101) A61K 47/48315 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09737618 | Wilson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Wilson (Glen Mills, Pennsylvania); Guangping Gao (Westborough, Massachusetts); Mauricio R. Alvira (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Luk H. Vandenberghe (Weston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Sequences of novel adeno-associated virus capsids and vectors and host cells containing these sequences are provided. Also described are methods of using such host cells and vectors in production of rAAV particles. AAV-mediated delivery of therapeutic and immunogenic genes using the vectors of the invention is also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, July 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/803683 |
| 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 48/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 2750/14121 (20130101) C12N 2750/14122 (20130101) C12N 2750/14142 (20130101) C12N 2750/14143 (20130101) C12N 2750/14151 (20130101) C12N 2830/008 (20130101) C12N 2830/48 (20130101) C12N 2830/85 (20130101) |
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| US 09737620 | Williams |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nature Technology Corporation (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NATURE TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Williams (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved DNA vaccine plasmids are disclosed that contain novel immunostimulatory RNA compositions. The improved plasmids eliminate all extraneous sequences, incorporate a novel antibiotic free short RNA based selectable marker, increase eukaryotic expression using a novel chimeric promoter, improve yield and stability during bacterial production, and improve immunostimulation. These vectors are utilized in immunization to elicit improved immune responses or therapy to induce type 1 interferon production. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/748846 |
| 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 48/00 (20130101) A61K 48/0066 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/55561 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/85 (20130101) C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 15/117 (20130101) C12N 2310/11 (20130101) C12N 2310/17 (20130101) C12N 2310/111 (20130101) C12N 2310/532 (20130101) C12N 2320/30 (20130101) C12N 2320/50 (20130101) C12N 2710/10322 (20130101) C12N 2760/16122 (20130101) C12N 2760/16134 (20130101) C12N 2800/106 (20130101) C12N 2800/107 (20130101) C12N 2830/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09737711 | Twyford et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Perry Twyford (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Changsi Cai (Braband, Denmark); Shelley Fried (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Perry Twyford (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Changsi Cai (Braband, Denmark); Shelley Fried (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method is provided for preferentially stimulating a portion of neural tissue including a first type of neurons and a second type of neurons. The method includes defining a waveform characterizing an electrical stimulus, wherein the waveform includes an amplitude-modulated wave of the electric stimulus. The method also includes applying the electrical stimulus having the defined waveform to a stimulating element located in proximity to the neural tissue to selectively activate the first type of neurons while leaving the second type of neurons one of substantially unaffected and suppressed in response to the electrical stimulus. |
| FILED | Friday, May 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/893549 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/06 (20130101) A61N 1/36046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/36057 (20130101) A61N 1/36139 (20130101) Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 15/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09738604 | Zhou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pei Zhou (Cary, North Carolina); Eric J. Toone (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pei Zhou (Cary, North Carolina); Eric J. Toone (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compounds of formulae (I), (II), and (II)I: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein the variables, R, R1, R2, R3, R101, L, D, Q, Y, X, and Z are defined herein. These compounds are useful for treating Gram-negative bacteria infections. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/820404 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 237/34 (20130101) C07C 259/06 (20130101) C07C 275/14 (20130101) C07C 275/24 (20130101) C07C 275/28 (20130101) C07C 311/19 (20130101) C07C 311/37 (20130101) C07C 311/39 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 205/085 (20130101) C07D 207/273 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 209/20 (20130101) C07D 213/73 (20130101) C07D 231/12 (20130101) C07D 233/64 (20130101) C07D 249/04 (20130101) C07D 257/04 (20130101) C07D 261/08 (20130101) C07D 263/16 (20130101) C07D 265/30 (20130101) C07D 275/03 (20130101) C07D 277/22 (20130101) C07D 295/155 (20130101) C07D 307/36 (20130101) C07D 333/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09738610 | Vincent et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Broad Institute, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Broad Institute, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Vincent (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Luke Whitesell (Somerville, Massachusetts); Susan L. Lindquist (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Willmen Youngsaye (Cumberland, Rhode Island); Stephen L. Buchwald (Newton, Massachusetts); Jean-Baptiste Langlois (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Partha P. Nag (Somerville, Massachusetts); Amal Ting (Newton, Massachusetts); Barbara J. Morgan (Mayfield Heights, Ohio); Benito Munoz (Newtonville, Massachusetts); Sivaraman Dandapani (Malden, Massachusetts); Bruce Tidor (Lexington, Massachusetts); Raja R. Srinivas (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel compounds (e.g., compounds of Formula (I)), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, hydrates, polymorphs, co-crystals, tautomers, stereoisomers, isotopically labeled derivatives, prodrugs, and compositions thereof. Also provided are methods and kits comprising the inventive compounds, or compositions thereof, for treating and/or preventing a fungal or protozoan infection, inhibiting the activity of a fungal or protozoan enzyme, killing a fungus or protozoon, or inhibiting the growth of a fungus or protozoon. The fungus may be a Candida species, Aspergillus species, or other pathogenic fungal species. The compounds of the invention may inhibit the activity of fungal or protozoan cytochrome b and/or fungal or protozoan Hsp90. The present invention also provides synthetic methods of the inventive compounds. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/430308 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 231/56 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 401/04 (20130101) C07D 401/06 (20130101) C07D 403/06 (20130101) C07D 405/04 (20130101) C07D 409/04 (20130101) C07D 413/06 (20130101) C07D 417/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09738615 | Yan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shirley ShiDu Yan (Leawood, Kansas); Koteswara Rao Valasani (Kadapa, India) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound that can function as a Cyclophilin D can include a structure of Formula 1 or Formula 2 or Formula 3 or Formula 4 or Formula 5 or Formula 6 or Formula 7 or Formula 8, derivative thereof, prodrug thereof, salt thereof, or stereoisomer thereof, or having any chirality at any chiral center, or tautomer, polymorph, solvate, or combination thereof, as presented herein. The Cyclophilin D inhibitors can inhibit onset or treat neurodegenerative disease, such as Alzheimer's disease, or can be used for inhibiting progression or treating diabetes. An example of such a compound is provided by Formula 1A |
| FILED | Friday, September 11, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/851835 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 277/56 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 513/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09738623 | Ran et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chongzhao Ran (Winchester, Massachusetts); Xueli Zhang (Malden, Massachusetts); Anna Moore (Stoneham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are curcumin analogues that are able to interact with amyloid β (Aβ) and to attenuate the copper-induced crosslinking of Aβ. Also provided herein are methods of using the compounds in the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease or a related disorder. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/419985 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 49/248 (20130101) C07C 49/252 (20130101) C07C 225/16 (20130101) C07C 225/22 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/74 (20130101) C07D 213/89 (20130101) C07D 231/12 (20130101) C07D 233/60 (20130101) C07D 277/64 (20130101) C07D 401/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 405/14 (20130101) C07D 471/06 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/022 (20130101) |
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| US 09738643 | Haystead et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy Haystead (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Philip Floyd Hughes (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are substituted indazoles that may selectively bind to Hsp90, methods of using the compounds, and kits including the compounds. The compounds may include detection moieties such as fluorophores that may allow for selective detection of Hsp90 in a sample. Suitable compounds include those of formula (II): |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/419965 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 231/54 (20130101) C07D 405/14 (20130101) C07D 413/12 (20130101) C07D 473/24 (20130101) C07D 473/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 487/04 (20130101) C07D 493/10 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/574 (20130101) G01N 33/56988 (20130101) G01N 33/57496 (20130101) G01N 2333/47 (20130101) |
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| US 09738664 | Raines et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald T. Raines (Madison, Wisconsin); Ian Windsor (Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin); Michael Palte (Melrose, Massachusetts); John Lukesh (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Protease inhibitors, particularly aspartyl protease inhibitors, and more particularly HIV protease inhibitors which are boronated to enhance activity or to enhance entry into cells. Compounds, prodrugs and salts thereof of this invention contain phenylboronate groups, in particular p -B(OH)2-phenyl groups, benzoxaborole groups or borono-pyridyl groups or analogous groups in which the boronate group is protected. Methods for treating AIDS and ARC as well as providing a method for treating or preventing HIV infection. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 29, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/927390 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/00 (20130101) A61K 31/34 (20130101) A61K 31/69 (20130101) A61K 31/427 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09738668 | Yan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | ShiDu Yan (Lawrence, Kansas); Koteswara Rao Valasani (Kadapa, India) |
| ABSTRACT | Benzothiazole phosphonate analogs and methods of using the same to inhibit the activity of Amyloid Binding Alcohol Dehydrogenase and in the amelioration or treatment of Alzheimer's disease are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 24, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/163275 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/675 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 9/4056 (20130101) C07F 9/6541 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07F 9/65583 (20130101) C07F 9/65586 (20130101) |
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| US 09738677 | Burke et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin D. Burke (Champaign, Illinois); Brice E. Uno (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a derivative of amphotericin B (AmB), denoted C2′epiAmB, with an improved therapeutic index over amphotericin B, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the AmB derivative, methods of making the AmB derivative and the pharmaceutical composition, and their use in methods of inhibiting growth of a yeast or fungus and treating a yeast or fungal infection. C2′epiAmB is an epimer of the parent compound. Specifically, C2′epiAmB differs from the parent compound at the C2′ stereogenic center on mycosamine. This difference in structure results in (i) retained capacity to bind ergosterol and inhibit growth of yeast, (ii) greatly reduced capacity to bind cholesterol, and (iii) essentially no toxicity to human cells. |
| FILED | Friday, May 15, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 15/310815 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0014 (20130101) A61K 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 9/0053 (20130101) A61K 31/7048 (20130101) Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 17/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09738686 | Ba et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of California State University (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the California State University (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yong Ba (Monrovia, California); Yougang Mao (Monterey Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Spin labeled ice binding compounds (IBCs) including ice binding proteins (IBPs), also called antifreeze proteins (AFPs) and their analogs are exploited to carry the paramagnetic centers for dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP), for enhancing nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signal intensities. Use of spin labeled IBCs to perform DNP exploits the IBCs' ability to homogeneously distribute the paramagnetic centers in frozen water solution at low temperature, leading to high DNP efficiency. Other advantages of using spin labeled IBCs include: (1) ability to cryo-protect biological samples; (2) the relative positions and orientations of the spin labeling groups in an IBC may also be cryo-preserved; (3) positions and orientations of spin labeling groups to an IBC can be selected with great freedom and without technical barrier to making multiple spin labels in an IBC; and (4) water solubilities of spin labeled IBCs are potentially high, enabling use of a solvent that is primarily water for DNP at low temperatures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 03, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/014978 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/00 (20130101) A61K 49/14 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/46 (20130101) |
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| US 09738688 | Caulfield et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | INTERNATIONAL AIDS VACCINE INITIATIVE (New York, New York); CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, New York); THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTERNATIONAL AIDS VACCINE INITIATIVE (New York, New York); THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (La Jolla, California); CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Caulfield (Fort Washington, Pennsylvania); Albert Cupo (Stamford, Connecticut); Hansi Dean (New York, New York); Simon Hoffenberg (Hartsdale, New York); C. Richter King (Washington, District of Columbia); P. J. Klasse (New York, New York); Andre Marozsan (Milford, Connecticut); John P. Moore (New York, New York); Rogier W. Sanders (New York, New York); Andrew Ward (San Diego, California); Ian Wilson (La Jolla, California); Jean-Philippe Julien (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application relates to novel HIV-1 envelope glycoproteins, which may be utilized as HIV-1 vaccine immunogens, and antigens for crystallization, electron microscopy and other biophysical, biochemical and immunological studies for the identification of broad neutralizing antibodies. The present invention encompasses the preparation and purification of immunogenic compositions, which are formulated into the vaccines of the present invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 05, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/072209 |
| 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) A61K 39/39 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2740/16034 (20130101) C12N 2740/16122 (20130101) |
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| US 09738689 | Kwong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Kwong (Washington, District of Columbia); Barney Graham (Rockville, Maryland); Jason McLellan (Norwich, Vermont); Man Chen (Bethesda, Maryland); Michael Gordon Joyce (Washington, District of Columbia); Baoshan Zhang (Bethesda, Maryland); Tongqing Zhou (Boyds, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are immunogens including a recombinant RSV F protein stabilized in a prefusion conformation. Also disclosed are nucleic acids encoding the immunogens and methods of producing the immunogens. Methods for generating an immune response in a subject are also disclosed. In some embodiments, the method is a method for treating or preventing a RSV infection in a subject by administering a therapeutically effective amount of the immunogen to the subject. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/207372 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2319/03 (20130101) C07K 2319/21 (20130101) C07K 2319/40 (20130101) C07K 2319/50 (20130101) C07K 2319/70 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2760/18522 (20130101) C12N 2760/18534 (20130101) |
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| US 09738697 | Gellman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin); President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin); President and Fellows Of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel H. Gellman (Madison, Wisconsin); Lisa M. Johnson (Glendale, California); Alan Attie (Madison, Wisconsin); Mark P. Keller (McFarland, Wisconsin); Alan Saghatelian (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are peptide analogs of glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) that retain agonist activity, but are more resistant to proteolytic degradation than native GLP-1. In the analogs, at least one α-amino acid found in the native GLP-1 is replaced with a β-amino acid residue, which may or may not be cyclically constrained. Pharmaceutical compositions containing the analogs are described, as are methods to treat diabetes, and methods to make proteolytically resistant GLP-1 analogs. |
| FILED | Monday, June 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/312081 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/605 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09738703 | Mascola 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); University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Mascola (Rockville, Maryland); Richard Wyatt (San Diego, California); Xueling Wu (Potomac, Maryland); Yuxing Li (Boyds, Maryland); Carl-Magnus Hogerkorp (Vellinge, Sweden); Mario Roederer (Washington, District of Columbia); Zhi-yong Yang (Potomac, Maryland); Gary Nabel (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Peter Kwong (Washington, District of Columbia); Tongqing Zhou (Boyds, Maryland); Mark Connors (Bethesda, Maryland); William Schief (Encinitas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Monoclonal neutralizing antibodies are disclosed that specifically bind to the CD4 binding site of HIV-1 gp120. Monoclonal neutralizing antibodies also are disclosed that specifically bind to HIV-1 gp41. The identification of these antibodies, and the use of these antibodies are also disclosed. Methods are also provided for enhancing the binding and neutralizing activity of any antibody using epitope scaffold probes. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/864705 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/42 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/1063 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 2740/10011 (20130101) C12N 2740/16011 (20130101) C12N 2740/16111 (20130101) |
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| US 09738708 | Kitajewski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jan Kitajewski (Ridgewood, New Jersey); Carrie Shawber (Township of Washington, New Jersey); Thaned Kangsamaksin (Lampang, Thailand) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jan Kitajewski (Ridgewood, New Jersey); Carrie Shawber (Township of Washington, New Jersey); Thaned Kangsamaksin (Lampang, Thailand) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are Notch1 fusion proteins. These fusion proteins comprise consecutive amino acids the sequence of which, commencing at the N-terminus of the fusion protein, is identical to the sequence of the amino acids in an extracellular domain of a human Notch1 receptor protein and an Fc portion of an antibody. The amino acid sequence of the extracellular domain (ECD) of the human Notch1 receptor protein commences with the amino acid present at the N-terminus of BGF-like repeat 10 and extends at least through the C-terminal amino acid of EGF-like repeat 23. The N-terminal portion of the ECD of the human Notch1 receptor protein may extend up to the C-terminal amino acid of EGF-like repeat 24 or may extend up to the C-terminal amino acid of EGF-like repeat 36. Compositions of these fusion proteins are also provided. Also provided are methods of treating age-related macular degeneration (AND), diabetic retinopathy and cancer using the fusion proteins described herein. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/349975 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/177 (20130101) A61K 38/179 (20130101) A61K 38/1774 (20130101) A61K 38/1793 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/71 (20130101) C07K 14/705 (20130101) C07K 14/715 (20130101) C07K 16/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/283 (20130101) C07K 19/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/30 (20130101) C07K 2319/32 (20130101) |
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| US 09738709 | Kuret et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio); University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio); University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey A. Kuret (Dublin, Ohio); Kristen E. Funk (St. Louis, Missouri); Jyanyu Austin Yang (Columbia, Maryland); Stefani Thomas (Parkville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | In sporadic Alzheimer's disease, neurofibrillary lesion formation is preceded by extensive post-translational modification of the microtubule associated protein tau. Immunoassays have been developed recently that detect tau in biological specimens, thus providing a means for pre-mortem diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, which has remained elusive. These assays have been improved by the analysis of relevant post-translational modifications, such as phosphorylation, however opportunity for improvement remains. The present invention addresses this issue by disclosing synthetic methylated peptides derived from the tau protein of paired helical filaments and non-diseased control brain. Alzheimer's disease specificity is provided by the presence or absence of methyl moieties on lysine residues and differences between mono-, di-, and tri-methylation. The methylated peptide is useful as an antigen and a binding partner for identifying compounds that interact with the peptide and the methylated tau protein, including antibodies that can distinguish non-diseased brain from that affected by Alzheimer's disease. The resulting antibodies are useful diagnostically and therapeutically. The compounds that specifically bind to methylated tau proteins are useful for eliminating abnormally methylated tau. |
| FILED | Monday, October 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/353069 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0007 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/435 (20130101) C07K 16/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/30 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6848 (20130101) G01N 33/6896 (20130101) G01N 2800/2821 (20130101) |
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| US 09738725 | Hallahan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (St. Louis, Missouri); VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis E. Hallahan (St. Louis, Missouri); Heping Yan (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed towards isolated antibodies that bind to GRP78 and TIP-1. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/166251 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 90/361 (20160201) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/3955 (20130101) A61K 49/0058 (20130101) A61K 51/1045 (20130101) A61K 51/1066 (20130101) A61K 51/1093 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 5/10 (20130101) A61N 2005/1098 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/18 (20130101) C07K 16/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/3053 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) C07K 2317/73 (20130101) C07K 2317/94 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101) |
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| US 09738726 | Dimitrov 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) | Dimiter S. Dimitrov (Frederick, Maryland); Zhongyu Zhu (Frederick, Maryland); Pradman K. Qasba (Frederick, Maryland); Boopathy Ramakrishnan (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The identification of Her2-specific monoclonal antibody m860 is described. The m860 antibody was identified from a human naïve phage display Fab library by panning against the extracellular domain of human Her2. M860 binds to cell surface-associated Her2 with an affinity comparable to that of trastuzumab (Herceptin®), but binds to a different epitope. Using site-specific glycan engineering, m860 was conjugated to the small molecule drug auristatin F. The antibody-drug conjugate was stable, bound cell-surface expressed Her2 and exhibited potent cell killing of Her2-positive cancer cells, including trastuzumab-resistant breast cancer cells. |
| FILED | Monday, June 09, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/897389 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/48415 (20130101) A61K 47/48484 (20130101) A61K 47/48569 (20130101) A61K 47/48584 (20130101) A61K 47/48715 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/30 (20130101) C07K 16/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/3015 (20130101) C07K 2317/21 (20130101) C07K 2317/41 (20130101) C07K 2317/52 (20130101) C07K 2317/55 (20130101) C07K 2317/73 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57492 (20130101) G01N 2333/82 (20130101) |
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| US 09738860 | Vacanti et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph P. Vacanti (Boston, Massachusetts); Young-Moon M. Shin (Somerville, Massachusetts); Jennifer Ogilvie (San Francisco, California); Alexander Sevy (Houston, Texas); Tomoyuki Maemura (Boston, Massachusetts); Osamu Ishii (Arlington, Massachusetts); Mohammad R. Kaazempur-Mofrad (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jeffrey T. Borenstein (Holliston, Massachusetts); Kevin R. King (Western Springs, Illinois); Chiao-Chun Wang (Baltimore, Maryland); Eli Weinberg (Needham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and materials for making complex, living, vascularized tissues for organ and tissue replacement, especially complex and/or thick, structures, such as liver tissue is provided. Tissue lamina is made in a system comprising an apparatus having (a) a first mold or polymer scaffold, a semi-permeable membrane, and a second mold or polymer scaffold, wherein the semi-permeable membrane is disposed between the first and second molds or polymer scaffolds, wherein the first and second molds or polymer scaffolds have means defining microchannels positioned toward the semi-permeable membrane, wherein the first and second molds or polymer scaffolds are fastened together; and (b) animal cells. Methods for producing complex, three-dimensional tissues or organs from tissue lamina are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, January 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/153591 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/3604 (20130101) A61L 27/3804 (20130101) Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 21/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12M 23/06 (20130101) C12M 23/30 (20130101) C12M 25/02 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0062 (20130101) C12N 5/0697 (20130101) C12N 2533/12 (20130101) C12N 2533/30 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49826 (20150115) |
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| US 09738872 | Reisner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yair Reisner (Old Jaffa, Israel); Eran Ophir (Rehovot, Israel); Yaki Eidelstein (Rehovot, Israel); Esther Bachar-Lustig (Rehovot, Israel) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yair Reisner (Old Jaffa, Israel); Eran Ophir (Rehovot, Israel); Yaki Eidelstein (Rehovot, Israel); Esther Bachar-Lustig (Rehovot, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | An isolated population of cells comprising non-GVHD inducing anti-third party cells having a central memory T-lymphocyte (Tcm) phenotype is provided. The cells being tolerance-inducing cells and capable of homing to the lymph nodes following transplantation. Methods of generating same, use of same and methods of treatment are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/126472 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/001 (20130101) A61K 2035/122 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0636 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2501/23 (20130101) |
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| US 09738873 | Cooke et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John P. Cooke (Houston, Texas); Eduard Yakubov (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The nuclear reprogramming of somatic cells with mRNA encoding reprogramming factors is shown to be greatly accelerated by activation of innate immune responses in the somatic cell. Methods of activating innate immunity include activation of PKR, of toll-like receptors, e.g. TLR3, etc. In some embodiments the mRNA provides the activator of innate immunity. |
| FILED | Friday, February 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/615955 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0696 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2501/602 (20130101) C12N 2501/603 (20130101) C12N 2501/604 (20130101) C12N 2501/606 (20130101) C12N 2501/608 (20130101) C12N 2501/998 (20130101) C12N 2506/28 (20130101) |
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| US 09738879 | Gersbach et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Gersbach (Durham, North Carolina); David Ousterout (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are transcription activator-like effector nuclease (TALEN)-related compositions and methods of using said TALENs for correcting mutant genes. |
| FILED | Friday, April 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/397420 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 2320/30 (20130101) |
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| US 09738880 | Grabowski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory A. Grabowski (Wheat Ridge, Colorado); Benjamin Liou (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to methods of treating diseases states such as lysosomal storage diseases and/or neurodegenerative diseases. Also disclosed are one or more compositions that may be useful for one or more of the disclosed methods, including compositions that may comprise acid β-glucosidase (GCase) protein comprising one or more mutations, peptides of acid β-glucosidase, and DNA vectors and cell lines related to acid β-glucosidase peptides or proteins. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 05, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/399165 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/2402 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Enzymes C12Y 302/01045 (20130101) |
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| US 09738895 | Swayze et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Carlsbad, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric E. Swayze (Encinitas, California); Balkrishen Bhat (Carlsbad, California); Walter F. Lima (San Diego, California); Thazha P. Prakash (Carlsbad, California); Garth A. Kinberger (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides oligomeric compounds and uses thereof. In certain embodiments, such oligomeric compounds are useful as antisense compounds. Certain such antisense compounds are useful as RNase H antisense compounds or as RNAi compounds. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/618853 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 21/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1137 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/11 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/31 (20130101) C12N 2310/141 (20130101) C12N 2310/315 (20130101) C12N 2310/321 (20130101) C12N 2310/351 (20130101) |
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| US 09738898 | Lindquist et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Susan L. Lindquist (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Aaron D. Gitler (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan L. Lindquist (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Aaron D. Gitler (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are yeast cells expressing TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) and methods of screening yeast cells to identify compounds that prevent or suppress TDP-43-induced toxicity, compounds that inhibit the formation or maintenance of cytoplasmic inclusions of TDP-43, genetic suppressors or enhancers of TDP-43-induced toxicity, and genetic suppressors or enhancers of the formation or maintenance of cytoplasmic inclusions of TDP-43. Compounds identified by such screens can be used to treat or prevent TDP-43 proteinopathies such as frontotemporal lobar degeneration or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. |
| FILED | Friday, February 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/867724 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/81 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/1079 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6872 (20130101) G01N 33/6896 (20130101) G01N 2500/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09738934 | Brennan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Clinical Reference Laboratory, Inc. (Lenexa, Kansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Clinical Reference Laboratory, Inc. (Lenexa, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark David Brennan (Jeffersonville, Indiana); Timothy Lynn Ramsey (Shelbyville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to genetic markers of mental illness, e.g., schizophrenia (SZ), and methods of use thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, December 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/968333 |
| 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 | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/16 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 31/551 (20130101) A61K 31/554 (20130101) A61K 31/5415 (20130101) A61K 31/5513 (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 2600/106 (20130101) C12Q 2600/118 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) C12Q 2600/172 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/18 (20130101) G06F 19/325 (20130101) G06F 19/326 (20130101) |
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| US 09739714 | Moll et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | mBio Diagnostics, Inc. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MBio Diagnostics, Inc. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin D. Moll (Boulder, Colorado); Marie J. Delaney (Boulder, Colorado); Kurt R. Vogel (Boulder, Colorado); Michael J. Lochhead (Boulder, Colorado); Jeffrey Ives (Arvada, Colorado); John S. Dunn (Arvada, Colorado); Keagan B. Rowley (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A particle identification system includes: a cartridge for containing a sample with fluorescently labeled particles; illumination for illuminating a region within the cartridge to stimulate emission from particles; imager for generating wavelength-filtered electronic images of the emission within at least one measurement field of the region; and particle identifier for processing the electronic images to determine a superset of particles of interest, and fluorescently labeled particles within the superset based on properties of the particles in the at least one measurement field. A method determines fluorescently labeled particles within a sample, by: processing at least one electronic image from at least one focal position within the sample; determining dimmest separation lines between brighter areas in the electronic image; and, for each of the brighter areas, determining local background level based on pixel values of the separation lines forming a perimeter therearound, to determine each of the fluorescently labeled particles. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/831757 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502723 (20130101) B01L 2200/12 (20130101) B01L 2200/16 (20130101) B01L 2200/0684 (20130101) B01L 2300/044 (20130101) B01L 2300/045 (20130101) B01L 2300/046 (20130101) B01L 2300/048 (20130101) B01L 2300/161 (20130101) B01L 2300/0672 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2400/0406 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6428 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/6456 (20130101) |
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| US 09739718 | Woolley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Adam T. Woolley (Orem, Utah); Debolina Chatterjee (Provo, Utah); Danielle Scarlet Mansfield (Mapleton, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam T. Woolley (Orem, Utah); Debolina Chatterjee (Provo, Utah); Danielle Scarlet Mansfield (Mapleton, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for detecting concentration of a target in a solution where sample fluid is passed into a microchannel with wall coated with the receptor that reacts and crosslinks with the target to constrict the channel and slow or stop sample flow through the microchannel. Concentration of the target is determined by measuring length of the sample filled channel. |
| FILED | Monday, February 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/170941 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502746 (20130101) B01L 2400/084 (20130101) B01L 2400/0672 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/78 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/54366 (20130101) |
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| US 09739734 | Messerli et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY (Woods Hole, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY (Woods Hole, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Alan Messerli (Brookings, South Dakota); Emma Heart (Tampa, Florida); Munan Xu (East Falmouth, Massachusetts); Shanta Menon Messerli (Sioux Falls, South Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of detecting exocytosis of a target molecule from a population of cells derived from a human subject, includes applying first and second electrical signals, each having a respective frequency, across the population of cells. Each of the first and second electrical signals being either an alternating current or an alternating voltage. The method includes measuring a first voltage change if the first electrical signal is an alternating current or measuring a first current change if the first electrical signal is an alternating voltage, and measuring a second voltage change if the second electrical signal is an alternating current or measuring a second current change if the second electrical signal is an alternating voltage. The method includes determining an electrical impedance of the population of cells, a change in that impedance indicating an amount of the target molecule released from the population of cells. |
| FILED | Monday, May 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/889568 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/39 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/026 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/4833 (20130101) G01N 33/5005 (20130101) |
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| US 09739765 | Bodenmiller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bernd Bodenmiller (Zurich, Switzerland); Erin F. Simonds (Stanford, California); Harris G. Fienberg (Stanford, California); Garry P. Nolan (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a robust viability stain for methods utilizing elemental analysis. A population of cells is contacted with an effective dose of a non-chelated biomacromolecule-reactive metal derivative, which selectively crosses the plasma membrane of non-viable cells, and which covalently modifies a biological macromolecule within the cell, for a period of time sufficient to permit entry into non-viable cells. The population of cells is then washed free of unbound viability reagent; and the presence of the metal within the cells is detected, wherein non-viable cells are selectively labeled with the viability reagent. |
| FILED | Friday, May 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/268997 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09739770 | Su |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Tsu-Te Judith Su (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are provided for detecting one or more particles such as individual unlabeled molecules or single nanoparticles. In examples described herein, optical energy is introduced into a microtoroid or other microcavity to generate an evanescent field. The microcavity has a functionalized outer surface that has been functionalized with a chemically or biologically active substance such as an antibody, antigen or protein. An indication of a particle bound to the functionalized outer surface of the microcavity is then detected based on a reactive interaction between the particle and the evanescent field while using frequency locking, balanced detection and various filtering techniques. The frequency locking, balanced detection and filtering techniques reduce the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the detection system so that single nanoparticles (e.g. 2.5 nanometers (nm) in radius) and individual molecules (e.g. 15.5 kilo-Dalton (kDa) in size) can be detected in aqueous solution in some examples. |
| FILED | Friday, March 13, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/658063 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/31 (20130101) G01N 21/7746 (20130101) G01N 33/54313 (20130101) G01N 33/54373 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09739771 | Fahmy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tarek M. Fahmy (New Haven, Connecticut); Eric D. Stern (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Mark A. Reed (Monroe, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | YALE UNIVERSITY (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tarek M. Fahmy (New Haven, Connecticut); Eric D. Stern (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Mark A. Reed (Monroe, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a microfluidic purification chip for capturing a biomarker from a physiological solution. The present invention also provides a method of capturing and releasing a biomarker, wherein the biomarker is originally in a physiological solution. The present invention further provides a method of pre-purifying and measuring the concentration of a biomarker in a physiological solution. |
| FILED | Friday, August 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/218846 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 2200/0652 (20130101) B01L 2300/0636 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0864 (20130101) B01L 2300/0896 (20130101) B01L 2400/086 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 30/6095 (20130101) G01N 33/54386 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09739780 | Raftery et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Daniel Raftery (Seattle, Washington); Jeremiah Bowers (DePere, Wisconsin); Siwei Wei (Richland, Washington); Hamid Reza Baniasadi (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the detection and screening of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients and for the monitoring of HCC treatment using a panel or panels of small molecule metabolite biomarkers are disclosed. In other aspects, methods for detection and screening for the progression of high-risk conditions, such as HCV infections, to HCC and to monitoring treatment using a panel or panels of small molecule metabolite biomarkers are disclosed. The biomarkers are sensitive and specific for the detection of HCC, and can also be used to classify HCV infections that are regarded as precursors of HCC. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/401135 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57438 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09739784 | Kontrogianni-Konstantopoulos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aikaterini Kontrogianni-Konstantopoulos (Ellicott City, Maryland); Konstantinos Konstantopoulos (Ellicott City, Maryland); Marey Shriver (Nottingham, Maryland); Nicole Perry (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BA (Baltimore, Maryland); JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aikaterini Kontrogianni-Konstantopoulos (Ellicott City, Maryland); Konstantinos Konstantopoulos (Ellicott City, Maryland); Marey Shriver (Nottingham, Maryland); Nicole Perry (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods and kits for evaluating potential for invasiveness, metastasis, or recurrence of an epithelial cell cancer. In the methods the expression profile of giant obscurins is detected in a tissue sample of tumor cells or suspected tumor cells and assessed for giant obscuring expression level and distribution therein. Decreased levels or altered distribution of giant obscurins in the cells compared to a control non-invasive standard or to a sample taken at a different point in time is indicative of increased potential of at least one of the invasiveness, metastasis, or recurrence of the epithelial cell cancer. The kit comprises a detection reagent suitable for detecting the presence and distribution of giant obscurins or an amount of the gene product(s) encoding giant obscurins in cells of a tissue sample and instructions for using the detection reagent. |
| FILED | Friday, March 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/221755 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/18 (20130101) C07K 16/40 (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 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57415 (20130101) G01N 33/57496 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09741870 | Shepard 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) | Kenneth L. Shepard (Ossining, New York); Jacob Rosenstein (New York, New York); Ryan Michael Field (New York, New York); Dan Fleischer (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS)-integrated junction field effect transistor (JFET) has reduced scale and reduced noise. An exemplary JFET has a substrate layer of one dopant type with a gate layer of that dopant type disposed on the substrate, a depletion channel of a second dopant type disposed on the first gate layer, and a second gate layer of the first dopant type disposed on the depletion channel and proximate a surface of the transistor. The second gate layer can separate the depletion channel from the surface, and the depletion channel separates the first gate layer from the second gate layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/681753 |
| ART UNIT | 2899 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/762 (20130101) H01L 21/8232 (20130101) H01L 27/098 (20130101) H01L 29/0649 (20130101) H01L 29/0696 (20130101) H01L 29/808 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/42316 (20130101) H01L 29/66893 (20130101) |
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| US 09741975 | Laulicht et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryan Laulicht (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Janet Freilich (Washington, District of Columbia); Jeffrey M. Karp (Brookline, Massachusetts); Robert Langer (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A battery for use in electronic devices and which is safely ingested into a body and a related method of making the battery. The battery includes an anode, a cathode and a quantum tunneling composite coating. The quantum tunneling composite coating covers at least a portion of at least one of the anode or the cathode and provides pressure sensitive conductive properties to the battery including a compressive stress threshold for conduction. The compressive stress threshold may be greater than a pre-determined applied stress in a digestive tract of the body in order to prevent harm if the battery is ingested. The battery may include a waterproof seal that extends between the quantum tunneling composite coating and a gasket separating the anode and cathode to inhibit the battery from short circuiting in a conductive fluid below the compressive stress threshold. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/774984 |
| ART UNIT | 1729 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 2/08 (20130101) H01M 2/18 (20130101) H01M 2/025 (20130101) H01M 2/30 (20130101) H01M 2/34 (20130101) H01M 2/0222 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 2/0267 (20130101) H01M 10/4235 (20130101) H01M 2200/00 (20130101) H01M 2220/00 (20130101) H01M 2220/30 (20130101) |
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| US 09742993 | Seibel 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) | Eric J. Seibel (Seattle, Washington); Brian T. Schowengerdt (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for acquiring and/or projecting images from and/or to a target area are provided. Such a method or system can includes an optical fiber assembly which may be driven to scan the target area in a scan pattern. The optical fiber assembly may provide multiple effective light sources (e.g., via a plurality of optical fibers) that are axially staggered with respect to an optical system located between the optical fiber and the target area. The optical system may be operable to focus and/or redirect the light from the multiple light sources onto separate focal planes. A composite image may be generated based on light reflected from and/or projected onto the separate focal planes. The composite image may have an extended depth of focus or field spanning over a distance between the separate focal planes while maintaining or improving image resolution. |
| FILED | Friday, February 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/379270 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 1/07 (20130101) A61B 1/00167 (20130101) A61B 1/00172 (20130101) A61B 1/00188 (20130101) A61B 1/0623 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 23/26 (20130101) G02B 23/2469 (20130101) G02B 26/103 (20130101) G02B 27/40 (20130101) Apparatus or Arrangements for Taking Photographs or for Projecting or Viewing Them; Apparatus or Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical Waves; Accessories Therefor G03B 21/142 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/23212 (20130101) H04N 5/23235 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph Wang (San Diego, California); Joshua Ray Windmiller (Del Mar, California); Roger Narayan (Raleigh, North Carolina); Philip Miller (Greensboro, North Carolina); Ronen Polsky (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Thayne L. Edwards (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina); National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Wang (San Diego, California); Joshua Ray Windmiller (Del Mar, California); Roger Narayan (Raleigh, North Carolina); Philip Miller (Greensboro, North Carolina); Ronen Polsky (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Thayne L. Edwards (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, structures, and systems are disclosed for biosensing and drug delivery techniques. In one aspect, a^ device for detecting an analyte and/or releasing a biochemical into a biological fluid can include an array of hollowed needles, in which each needle includes a protruded needle structure including an exterior wall forming a hollow interior and an opening at a terminal end of the protruded needle structure that exposes the hollow interior, and a probe inside the exterior wall to interact with one or more chemical or biological substances that come in contact with the probe via the opening to produce a probe sensing signal, and an array of wires that are coupled to probes of the array of hollowed needles, respectively, each wire being electrically conductive to transmit the probe sensing signal produced by a respective probe. |
| FILED | Friday, August 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/342536 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/157 (20130101) A61B 5/685 (20130101) A61B 5/1473 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/4845 (20130101) A61B 5/6833 (20130101) A61B 5/7282 (20130101) A61B 5/14514 (20130101) A61B 5/14532 (20130101) A61B 5/14546 (20130101) A61B 5/14865 (20130101) A61B 5/150984 (20130101) A61B 10/0045 (20130101) A61B 2010/008 (20130101) A61B 2562/028 (20130101) A61B 2562/046 (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 5/158 (20130101) A61M 5/1723 (20130101) A61M 2005/1726 (20130101) A61M 2037/003 (20130101) A61M 2037/0023 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/48785 (20130101) |
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| US 09737350 | Solomon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel J. Solomon (Tiburon, California); Matthew T. Provencher (Coronado, California); Colin Gregersen (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Rep. by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel J. Solomon (Tiburon, California); Matthew T. Provencher (Coronado, California); Colin Gregersen (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a system and a method for affixing soft tissue to bones. The system for fixing soft tissue within a bone tunnel comprising a first fixation member having a proximal end and a distal end and a bore extending from said proximal end to said distal end, said first fixation member is adapted for insertion against a first portion of a soft tissue positioned within a bone tunnel, a second portion of said soft tissue emerging from said bone tunnel; a second fixation member adapted to engage said bore of said first fixation member, having means for restraining disengagement therewith and a proximal end; and a third fixation member adapted to engage said second portion of said soft tissue, having means for coupling onto said proximal end of said second fixation member and restraining disengagement therewith. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/855071 |
| ART UNIT | 3775 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 17/864 (20130101) A61B 17/8605 (20130101) A61B 17/8685 (20130101) A61B 17/8695 (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 2/0811 (20130101) A61F 2002/0835 (20130101) A61F 2002/0858 (20130101) A61F 2002/0888 (20130101) |
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| US 09737480 | Lu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Standford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Quan Lu (Newton, Massachusetts); Joseph F. Nabhan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Stanley N. Cohen (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provide isolated arrestin domain-containing protein 1 (ARRDC1)-mediated micro vesicles (ARMMs). Methods for generating and for isolating ARMMs are also provided herein. ARMMs can be used to deliver agents, for example, nucleic acids (e.g., siRNAs, microRNAs, lincRNAs), proteins (e.g., transcription factors, chromatin modulators, kinases, phosphorylases, or recombinases), or small molecules to target cells in vitro and in vivo, and methods for such ARMM-mediated delivery are provided herein. Diagnostic and therapeutic methods using ARMMs are also described herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/376967 |
| 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 9/107 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/42 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/70 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6893 (20130101) G01N 2333/47 (20130101) G01N 2333/726 (20130101) |
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| US 09737596 | Peoples et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Peoples (San Antonio, Texas); Sathibalan Ponniah (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods to induce and maintain a protective cytotoxic T-lymphocyte response to a peptide of the HER2/neu oncogene, GP2, with the effect of inducing and maintaining protective or therapeutic immunity against breast cancer in a patient in clinical remission, including patients having low to intermediate levels of HER2/neu expression. The methods comprise administering to the patient an effective amount of a vaccine composition comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, an adjuvant such as GM-CSF, and the GP2 peptide. The methods may further comprise administering a periodic booster vaccine dose as needed due to declining GP2-specific T cell immunity. Also provided are vaccine compositions for use in the methods. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/813927 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 38/193 (20130101) A61K 39/0011 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/545 (20130101) A61K 2039/572 (20130101) A61K 2039/55522 (20130101) |
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| US 09737980 | Schroeder |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eaton Corporation (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eaton Corporation (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan Joseph Schroeder (Van Wert, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An installation tool for one or more components of a fluid filter includes a first body portion configured to engage a filter socket to advance the tool and filter components into the socket, and a second body portion configured to apply a direct force to one or more filter components. The first and second body portions can rotationally move relative to each other, such that the filter components may not grind against the socket or other filter components, which can, among other things, reduce or eliminate the creation of foreign object debris and/or minimize the amount of human force required to install the filter components. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/209104 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 46/008 (20130101) Tools or Bench Devices Not Otherwise Provided For, for Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging or Holding B25B 27/026 (20130101) B25B 27/0042 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49718 (20150115) Y10T 29/53848 (20150115) |
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| US 09737988 | Pham et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intelligent Fusion Technology, Inc (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intelligent Fusion Technology, Inc (Germantown, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Khanh D. Pham (Kirtland AFB, New Mexico); Dan Shen (Germantown, Maryland); Genshe Chen (Germantown, Maryland); Haibin Ling (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Erik Blasch (Rome, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for demonstrating three-player pursuit-evasion (PE) game are provided using a hardware-in-loop test-bed. Robots including pursuer robots and an evader robot are arranged on a solid surface. A drone is positioned flying above to oversee the robots to capture a video or an image sequence of the robots. A robot thread process and a drone thread process are implemented by a computer. In the robot thread process, a tracking-by-detection process is perform to provide a state of the robot including a location and a heading direction of the robot; a delay compensation is conducted; and a PE game is called to calculate a robot command. In the drone thread process, a drone control is calculated to make the drone follow an evader robot, the drone control is sent to the drone, and user commands are also checked. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/529153 |
| ART UNIT | 3717 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Card, Board, or Roulette Games; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing Bodies; Video Games; Games Not Otherwise Provided for A63F 13/56 (20140902) A63F 13/573 (20140902) Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 9/163 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 2219/31008 (20130101) G05B 2219/34348 (20130101) Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 1/0094 (20130101) Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/00 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/74 (20170101) G06T 7/248 (20170101) G06T 7/254 (20170101) G06T 2207/10032 (20130101) G06T 2207/30204 (20130101) G06T 2207/30236 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 901/00 (20130101) Y10S 901/01 (20130101) |
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| US 09738046 | Parker 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) | Kevin Kit Parker (Waltham, Massachusetts); Mohammad Reza Badrossamay (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Josue Adrian Goss (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with an exemplary embodiment, a method is provided for forming a micron, submicron and/or nanometer dimension polymeric fiber. The method includes providing a stationary deposit of a polymer. The method also includes contacting a surface of the polymer to impart sufficient force in order to decouple a portion of the polymer from the contact and to fling the portion of the polymer away from the contact and from the deposit of the polymer, thereby forming a micron, submicron and/or nanometer dimension polymeric fiber. |
| FILED | Friday, November 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/359005 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Producing Particular Articles From Plastics or From Substances in a Plastic State B29D 99/0078 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Mechanical Methods or Apparatus in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons D01D 5/00 (20130101) D01D 5/18 (20130101) D01D 5/0985 (20130101) Chemical Features in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons; Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture of Carbon Filaments D01F 6/625 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/249921 (20150401) |
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| US 09738363 | Parsley |
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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) | Adam Parsley (Bedford, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A watercraft propulsion system configured to be coupled to the transom of a boat. A continuous track is supported by a suspension frame and operably coupled to an outboard motor. |
| FILED | Friday, March 25, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/080968 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Vehicles for Use Both on Rail and on Road; Amphibious or Like Vehicles; Convertible Vehicles B60F 3/0015 (20130101) Ships or Other Waterborne Vessels; Equipment for Shipping B63B 2745/04 (20130101) Marine Propulsion or Steering B63H 1/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B63H 20/06 (20130101) B63H 20/32 (20130101) B63H 2001/348 (20130101) |
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| US 09738541 | Cheung et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NUtech Ventures (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NUtech Ventures (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chin Li Cheung (Lincoln, Nebraska); Zane Charles Gernhart (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | Cerium oxide nanorods having a variety of aspect ratios can be produced by providing a first mixture that includes a cerium precursor material, and using microwave to heat the first mixture to a first temperature for a period of time to produce first plurality of cerium oxide nanorods having a first range of aspect ratios. A second mixture that includes a cerium precursor material heated using microwave to a second temperature for a period of time to produce second plurality of cerium oxide nanorods having a second range of aspect ratios. The first plurality of cerium oxide nanorods and the second plurality of cerium oxide nanorods are mixed to produce third plurality of cerium oxide nanorods having the third range of aspect ratios that is broader than the first range or the second range. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/515493 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 37/346 (20130101) Compounds of the Metals Beryllium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium, Thorium, or of the Rare-earth Metals C01F 17/0043 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2004/04 (20130101) C01P 2004/16 (20130101) C01P 2004/54 (20130101) C01P 2004/61 (20130101) C01P 2004/64 (20130101) C01P 2006/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09738560 | Cabral, Jr. 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) | Cyril Cabral, Jr. (Mahopac, New York); Fuad E. Doany (Katonah, New York); Gregory M. Fritz (Wakefield, Massachusetts); Michael S. Gordon (Yorktown Heights, New York); Qiang Huang (Croton on Hudson, New York); Eric P. Lewandowski (Morristown, New Jersey); Xiao Hu Liu (Briarcliff Manor, New York); Kenneth P. Rodbell (Sandy Hook, Connecticut); Thomas M. Shaw (Peekskill, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of manufacturing a glass substrate to control the fragmentation characteristics by etching and filling trenches in the glass substrate is disclosed. An etching pattern may be determined. The etching pattern may outline where trenches will be etched into a surface of the glass substrate. The etching pattern may be configured so that the glass substrate, when fractured, has a smaller fragmentation size than chemically strengthened glass that has not been etched. A mask may be created in accordance with the etching pattern, and the mask may be applied to a surface of the glass substrate. The surface of the glass substrate may then be etched to create trenches. A filler material may be deposited into the trenches. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 24, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/163260 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Manufacture, Shaping, or Supplementary Processes C03B 23/203 (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 15/00 (20130101) C03C 17/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C03C 17/34 (20130101) C03C 21/002 (20130101) C03C 23/0055 (20130101) C03C 27/06 (20130101) C03C 2217/252 (20130101) C03C 2217/261 (20130101) C03C 2218/32 (20130101) C03C 2218/34 (20130101) C03C 2218/328 (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 7/20 (20130101) |
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| US 09738609 | Martin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brett D. Martin (Washington, District of Columbia); Scott A. Trammell (Springfield, Virginia); Jeffrey R. Deschamps (Laurel, Maryland); Jawad Naciri (Arlington, Virginia); Jeffrey DePriest (Stanley, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrically conducting organic oligomer comprising 3-amino-1H-pyrazole-4-carbonitrile, 3-amino-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxylic acid, 3-amino-4-nitro-1H-pyrazole, or 3-amino-1H-pyrazole-4-sulfonic acid. An electrically conducting organic oligomer comprising 4-nitro-1H-pyrazole-3-yl-amine, 4-trifluoromethyl-1H-pyrazol-3-yl-amine, 4-trichloromethyl-1H-pyrazol-3-yl-amine, 4-tribromomethyl-1H-pyrazol-3-yl-amine, 4-ammonium-1H-pyrazol-3-yl-amine, 4-trimethylammonium-1H-pyrazol-3-yl-amine, 4-triethylammonium-1H-pyrazol-3-yl-amine, or 4-tripropylammonium-1H-pyrazol-3-yl-amine, methods of making and products of the method thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 02, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/013851 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 231/38 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09738780 | Jiang 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) | Shaoyi Jiang (Redmond, Washington); Hong Xue (Pleasanton, California); Wei Yang (Seattle, Washington); Louisa R. Carr (Schenectady, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Zwitterionic crosslinking agents, crosslinked zwitterionic hydrogels prepared from copolymerization of zwitterionic monomers with the zwitterionic crosslinking agent, methods for making crosslinked zwitterionic hydrogels, and devices that include and methods that use the crosslinked zwitterionic hydrogels. |
| FILED | Friday, July 15, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/211278 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 41/0019 (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 27/34 (20130101) A61L 27/52 (20130101) A61L 29/085 (20130101) A61L 29/145 (20130101) A61L 31/10 (20130101) A61L 31/145 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 229/12 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 26/02 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 3/075 (20130101) C08J 2433/14 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 33/10 (20130101) C08L 33/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08L 2201/54 (20130101) C08L 2312/00 (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 1/54 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 101/03004 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2333/904 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/31786 (20150401) |
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| US 09738843 | Harvey |
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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) | Benjamin G. Harvey (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for making high density fuels including, heating a renewable plant oil, triglyceride, or fatty acid with at least one first acid catalyst to generate a first mixture of alkyladamantanes, increasing reaction time or adding at least one second catalysts to a first mixture of alkyladamantanes to produce a second alkyladamantane mixture, separating methyl, ethyl, propyl, and/or butyl adamantanes from a second alkyladamantane mixture to produce a third adamantane mixture to produce fuels. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 14, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/099190 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 1/2076 (20130101) C07C 4/06 (20130101) Fuels Not Otherwise Provided for; Natural Gas; Synthetic Natural Gas Obtained by Processes Not Covered by Subclasses C10G, C10K; Liquefied Petroleum Gas; Adding Materials to Fuels or Fires to Reduce Smoke or Undesirable Deposits or to Facilitate Soot Removal; Firelighters C10L 1/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10L 10/12 (20130101) C10L 2200/0469 (20130101) C10L 2270/04 (20130101) C10L 2270/026 (20130101) C10L 2290/06 (20130101) C10L 2290/24 (20130101) C10L 2290/543 (20130101) |
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| US 09738860 | Vacanti et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph P. Vacanti (Boston, Massachusetts); Young-Moon M. Shin (Somerville, Massachusetts); Jennifer Ogilvie (San Francisco, California); Alexander Sevy (Houston, Texas); Tomoyuki Maemura (Boston, Massachusetts); Osamu Ishii (Arlington, Massachusetts); Mohammad R. Kaazempur-Mofrad (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jeffrey T. Borenstein (Holliston, Massachusetts); Kevin R. King (Western Springs, Illinois); Chiao-Chun Wang (Baltimore, Maryland); Eli Weinberg (Needham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and materials for making complex, living, vascularized tissues for organ and tissue replacement, especially complex and/or thick, structures, such as liver tissue is provided. Tissue lamina is made in a system comprising an apparatus having (a) a first mold or polymer scaffold, a semi-permeable membrane, and a second mold or polymer scaffold, wherein the semi-permeable membrane is disposed between the first and second molds or polymer scaffolds, wherein the first and second molds or polymer scaffolds have means defining microchannels positioned toward the semi-permeable membrane, wherein the first and second molds or polymer scaffolds are fastened together; and (b) animal cells. Methods for producing complex, three-dimensional tissues or organs from tissue lamina are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, January 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/153591 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/3604 (20130101) A61L 27/3804 (20130101) Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 21/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12M 23/06 (20130101) C12M 23/30 (20130101) C12M 25/02 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0062 (20130101) C12N 5/0697 (20130101) C12N 2533/12 (20130101) C12N 2533/30 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49826 (20150115) |
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| US 09738947 | Deshpande et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nishkamraj U. Deshpande (Novi, Michigan); Eric Scheid (Bloomington, Indiana); James E. Schwabe (Bedford, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of modifying material properties of a fragmentation device, includes providing a fragmentation device with a first surface, a first section, a second section, a second surface spaced apart from the first surface, a third section, and a fourth section disposed between the first, second, and third sections. The method further includes positioning the fragmentation device within a carbon-rich environment, and absorbing carbon from the carbon-rich environment into the first and second surfaces of the fragmentation device. Additionally, the method further includes increasing a content of carbon at the first and second surfaces of 0.06 wt. % carbon to 1.0 wt. % carbon and maintaining an original content of carbon of 0.01 wt. % carbon to 0.05 wt. % carbon at the fourth section of the fragmentation device by controlling penetration of the carbon into the fourth section. |
| FILED | Friday, April 17, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/689696 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Modifying the Physical Structure of Ferrous Metals; General Devices for Heat Treatment of Ferrous or Non-ferrous Metals or Alloys; Making Metal Malleable, e.g by Decarburisation or Tempering C21D 1/06 (20130101) C21D 9/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C21D 2211/008 (20130101) Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 8/22 (20130101) Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 12/24 (20130101) |
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| US 09738948 | Gwaltney et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Josh Gwaltney (Sandborn, Indiana); Lucas Allison (Bloomington, Indiana); Eric Scheid (Bloomington, Indiana); Nishkamraj Deshpande (Novi, Michigan); Alan Wolf (Evansville, Indiana); Eddie Schisler (Evansville, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods associated with an enclosure or structure including two sections that are adapted with a snap-fit interlocking structure. Various embodiments of the enclosure or structures are formed with various case hardening or embrittlement processes to increase embrittlement or hardness of the enclosure or structure so as to create a structure or enclosure which has a desired fragmentation capacity while still maintaining sufficient material properties to permit snap-fit insertion of one section into another section and withstand substantial impacts. Embodiments also provide an interlocking structure that minimizes differences in fragmentation or fracturing capacity as contrasted with other portions of the structure or enclosure. An embodiment of the invention includes an enclosure where one section of the enclosure or structure has a first thickness and the second section has a second thickness, wherein the first and second thicknesses are different. In some embodiments, one section is thinner than another section. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 31, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/087245 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Modifying the Physical Structure of Ferrous Metals; General Devices for Heat Treatment of Ferrous or Non-ferrous Metals or Alloys; Making Metal Malleable, e.g by Decarburisation or Tempering C21D 1/06 (20130101) C21D 9/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 8/04 (20130101) C23C 8/22 (20130101) Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 12/22 (20130101) F42B 12/24 (20130101) F42B 12/28 (20130101) F42B 12/207 (20130101) F42B 33/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09738987 | Guo 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) | Lian Guo (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Shu-Jen Han (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Xuesong Li (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An electroplating etching apparatus includes a power to output current, and a container configured to contain an electrolyte. A cathode is coupled to the container and configured to fluidly communicate with the electrolyte. An anode is electrically connected to the output, and includes a graphene layer. A metal substrate layer is formed on the graphene layer, and is etched from the graphene layer in response to the current flowing through the anode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/666876 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 38/10 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0446 (20130101) C01B 31/0453 (20130101) Processes for the Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Production of Coatings; Electroforming; Apparatus Therefor C25D 17/007 (20130101) Processes for the Electrolytic Removal of Materials From Objects; Apparatus Therefor C25F 3/02 (20130101) C25F 5/00 (20130101) C25F 7/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09739202 | Vetters |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc. (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc. (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel K. Vetters (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel nozzle for use in a gas turbine engine is provided. The fuel nozzle has a fuel nozzle tip with an outer tip housing. The tip housing has a recess formed at an inner surface of the tip housing. A shim is disposed within the recess and a surface of the shim contacts a diaphragm of the fuel nozzle tip. A thermal adjustment member is disposed within the recess against the shim. The tip housing, diaphragm and shim are formed of a base material having a coefficient of thermal expansion (α1) and the thermal adjustment member is formed of a different material having a coefficient of thermal expansion (α2) higher than the coefficient of thermal expansion (α1) of the base material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/710308 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 7/222 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2300/50212 (20130101) |
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| US 09739571 | Winker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | TELEDYNE SCIENTIFIC and IMAGING, LLC (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TELEDYNE SCIENTIFIC and IMAGING, LLC (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Winker (Ventura, California); Milind Mahajan (Thousand Oaks, California); Don Taber (Newbury Park, California); Brian Gregory (Newbury Park, California); John Mansell (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A moving object command link system includes a transmitter which outputs a EM beam and a steering mechanism which directs the beam toward one or more objects, at least one of which is moving. The system may include a variable attenuator which modulates the average output power of the beam, and/or a divergence controller to maintain a desired beam size. The beam may be polarized, and the system may include a polarization modulator which changes the beam's polarization in accordance with a predetermined sequence and schedule. The system may include a 1×2 switch to selectively provide the beam to one of first and second outputs. A tiltable dichroic beam splitter may be used to couple beams received from first and second objects to track cameras having respective boresights that are offset with respect to each other. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/590627 |
| ART UNIT | 3648 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Weapon Sights; Aiming F41G 7/001 (20130101) F41G 7/306 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F41G 7/308 (20130101) |
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| US 09739584 | Chua et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Physical Optics Corporation (Torrance, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Physics Optics Corporation (Torrance, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kang-Bin Chua (Torrance, California); Ranjit Pradhan (Torrance, California); Jerald A. Cole (Long Beach, California); Gibum Kim (Fullerton, California); Joseph Rustick (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Tracer ammunition is disclosed and includes a projectile having a body; a chamber in the body having a front end and a rear end, the rear end of the chamber being open; an aperture at a rear end of the body providing an opening to the open end of the chamber; and a tracer material disposed within the chamber, wherein the tracer material is configured to combust when ignited and emit optical energy through the aperture as a result of the combustion process. The tracer material may be configured to include a rear-facing surface having a concave contour to aid in directivity of light output from the tracer material. |
| FILED | Monday, August 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/451231 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Crushing, Pulverising, or Disintegrating in General; Milling Grain B02C 19/18 (20130101) Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 12/38 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F42B 12/382 (20130101) |
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| US 09739635 | Funk et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | TRX Systems, Inc. (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TRX Systems, Inc. (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin E. Funk (Hanover, Maryland); Dan Hakim (Silver Spring, Maryland); John Karvounis (Bowie, Maryland); Travis Young (Rockville, Maryland); Carole Teolis (Glenn Dale, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for calibrating a body-worn magnetic sensor by spinning the magnetic sensor 360 degrees to capture magnetic data; if the spin failed to produce a circle contained in an x-y plane fit a sphere to the captured data; determining offsets based on the center of the sphere; and removing the offsets that are in the z-direction. Computing a magnetic heading reliability of a magnetic sensor by determining an orientation of the sensor at one location; transforming the orientation between two reference frames; measuring a first vector associated with the magnetic field of Earth at the location; processing the first vector to generate a virtual vector when a second location is detected; measuring a second vector associated with the magnetic field of Earth at the second location; and calculating the magnetic heading reliability at the second location based on a comparison of the virtual vector and the second vector. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/915998 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 17/38 (20130101) G01C 25/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09739670 | Ubelhor et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan Ubelhor (Solsberry, Indiana); Daniel Ellison (Odon, Indiana); Cecilia Pierce (Bedford, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods are provided for providing flexible and repairable testing capabilities for systems that generate or absorb heat such as energy storage systems. One embodiment can include a temperature bath structure adapted to contain and maintain a fluid bath at a predetermined temperature, an outer containment structure adapted to insert into the temperature bath structure, heat sinks, thermal sensor assemblies, and an internal containment structure where the thermal sensor assemblies and heat sinks removeably attach to different sections of the inner containment structure so as to measure heat flow into or out of the inner containment structure's different sections. Embodiments of the invention enable rapid insertion/removal of samples as well as replacement of sections of the system including embodiments or parts of thermal sensor assemblies as well as enabling separate thermal measurements associated with different sections of a sample under test within the inner containment structure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/539241 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Temperature; Measuring Quantity of Heat; Thermally-sensitive Elements Not Otherwise Provided for G01K 17/00 (20130101) G01K 19/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 25/20 (20130101) |
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| US 09739711 | Hamilton |
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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) | John S Hamilton (Solsberry, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A rain and fog testing apparatus, comprising a fluid channel that runs between a first fluid shutoff coupler and a second fluid shutoff coupler and has at least one dispersion head fluidly coupled to the fluid channel. A liquid pump can be fluidly coupled to the fluid channel at an output end. A liquid heater may also be fluidly coupled to the system along with a controller that provides electrical control of the first fluid shutoff coupler, the second fluid shutoff coupler, the dispersion head, the liquid pump, and the heater. Further, the second fluid shutoff coupler is capable of fluidly coupling a first fluid channel to a plurality of fluid channels and the controller can adjust the orientation of the first fluid shutoff coupler, the second fluid shutoff coupler, the dispersion head, the liquid pump, and the liquid heater to create a simulation of a plurality of rain or fog events. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 26, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/225540 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Horticulture; Cultivation of Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops or Seaweed; Forestry; Watering A01G 15/00 (20130101) Devices for Theatres, Circuses, or the Like; Conjuring Appliances or the Like A63J 5/025 (20130101) Armour; Armoured Turrets; Armoured or Armed Vehicles; Means of Attack or Defence, e.g Camouflage, in General F41H 9/06 (20130101) Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 2001/4247 (20130101) Testing Static or Dynamic Balance of Machines or Structures; Testing of Structures or Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G01M 11/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/534 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/538 (20130101) |
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| US 09739712 | Hamilton |
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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) | John S. Hamilton (Solsberry, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A rain and fog testing apparatus, comprising a fluid channel that runs between a first fluid shutoff coupler and a second fluid shutoff coupler and has at least one dispersion head fluidly coupled to the fluid channel. A liquid pump can be fluidly coupled to the fluid channel at an output end. A liquid heater may also be fluidly coupled to the system along with a controller that provides electrical control of the first fluid shutoff coupler, the second fluid shutoff coupler, the dispersion head, the liquid pump, and the heater. Further, the second fluid shutoff coupler is capable of fluidly coupling a first fluid channel to a plurality of fluid channels and the controller can adjust the orientation of the first fluid shutoff coupler, the second fluid shutoff coupler, the dispersion head, the liquid pump, and the liquid heater to create a simulation of a plurality of rain or fog events. |
| FILED | Friday, December 30, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/395424 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Horticulture; Cultivation of Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops or Seaweed; Forestry; Watering A01G 15/00 (20130101) Devices for Theatres, Circuses, or the Like; Conjuring Appliances or the Like A63J 5/025 (20130101) Armour; Armoured Turrets; Armoured or Armed Vehicles; Means of Attack or Defence, e.g Camouflage, in General F41H 9/06 (20130101) Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 2001/4247 (20130101) Testing Static or Dynamic Balance of Machines or Structures; Testing of Structures or Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G01M 11/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/534 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/538 (20130101) Meteorology G01W 1/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09739737 | Swager et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy M. Swager (Newton, Massachusetts); Birgit Esser (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jan M. Schnorr (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor device can include a transition metal complex capable of interacting with a carbon-carbon multiple bond moiety. The sensor can detect the fruit-ripening hormone ethylene with high sensitivity. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/832430 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 27/125 (20130101) G01N 27/127 (20130101) G01N 33/0047 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49117 (20150115) Y10T 436/216 (20150115) |
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| US 09739741 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | YuHuang Wang (Laurel, Maryland); Jia Huang (Shanghai, China PRC); Allen Ng (Silver Spring, Maryland); Yanmei Piao (College Park, Maryland); Cheng S. Lee (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | YuHuang Wang (Laurel, Maryland); Jia Huang (Shanghai, China PRC); Allen Ng (Silver Spring, Maryland); Yanmei Piao (College Park, Maryland); Cheng S. Lee (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to tube-in-a-tube electronic materials and electronic chemical sensors comprising tube-in-a-tube configurations such as covalently functionalized double-walled carbon nanotubes. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/213015 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/121 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/227 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/0057 (20130101) G01N 33/54373 (20130101) |
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| US 09739754 | Banks et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anton G. Banks (Manchester, Connecticut); Steven Taffet (South Windsor, Connecticut); Christopher Laxton (Vernon, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates generally to a transducer position guide. The transducer position guide may be attached to a component to be measured, such as an airfoil, and controls a path traversed by the transducer during a measurement process. |
| FILED | Friday, August 01, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/449813 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 29/265 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2291/044 (20130101) G01N 2291/101 (20130101) G01N 2291/2638 (20130101) G01N 2291/2693 (20130101) |
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| US 09739851 | Hoppensteadt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York Univeristy (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank C. Hoppensteadt (Carefree, Arizona); Andrew D. Kent (New York, New York); Ferran Macià Bros (Barcelona, Spain) |
| ABSTRACT | A nano-oscillator magnetic wave propagation system has a group of aggregated spin-torque nano-oscillators (ASTNOs), which share a magnetic propagation material. Each of the group of ASTNOs is disposed about an emanating point in the magnetic propagation material. During a non-wave propagation state of the nano-oscillator magnetic wave propagation system, the magnetic propagation material receives a polarizing magnetic field. During a wave propagation state of the nano-oscillator magnetic wave propagation system, each of the group of ASTNOs initiates spin waves through the magnetic propagation material, such that a portion of the spin waves initiated from each of the group of ASTNOs combine to produce an aggregation of spin waves emanating from the emanating point. The aggregation of spin waves may provide a sharper wave front than wave fronts of the individual spin waves initiated from each of the group of ASTNOs. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/140878 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 25/00 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/06 (20130101) G01R 33/36 (20130101) G01R 33/093 (20130101) G01R 33/1284 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Generation of Oscillations, Directly or by Frequency-changing, by Circuits Employing Active Elements Which Operate in a Non-switching Manner; Generation of Noise by Such Circuits H03B 9/10 (20130101) H03B 15/006 (20130101) |
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| US 09739878 | Gudim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | RAYTHEON COMPANY (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RAYTHEON COMPANY (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric J. Gudim (Goleta, California); William H. Wellman (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for determining an angle of arrival in a radar warning system that uses tracking to provide a more accurate angle of arrival than conventional systems. In exemplary embodiments, angle of arrival and range are mapped from measured body angles to a 3D coordinate system where modern tracking techniques are applied to improve accuracy and stabilization of measurements, then mapped back into body angles for display. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/224667 |
| 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 3/26 (20130101) G01S 3/36 (20130101) G01S 5/02 (20130101) G01S 5/04 (20130101) G01S 5/12 (20130101) G01S 7/021 (20130101) G01S 13/66 (20130101) G01S 13/4472 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09739891 | Kennedy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph P. Kennedy (Great Falls, Virginia); John P. Carlson (Sterling, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Echo Ridge LLC (Sterling, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph P. Kennedy (Great Falls, Virginia); John P. Carlson (Sterling, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method to opportunistically use measurements on a priori unknown radio signals, not intended for radio navigation or geolocation, to improve navigation/geolocation position estimation yield accuracy and efficiency. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/328180 |
| 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 5/0242 (20130101) G01S 5/0252 (20130101) G01S 5/0289 (20130101) G01S 19/46 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09739918 | Arbabi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amir Arbabi (Pasadena, California); Andrei Faraon (La Canada Flintridge, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and device for controlling optical scattering are disclosed. An array of 4-fold asymmetric cylinders can act as optical elements scattering electromagnetic waves, where the orientation and dimension of each optical element is determined according to the desired polarization and phase shift response of the device. A Jones matrix can be calculated to determine the fabrication parameters of the optical elements. |
| FILED | Friday, September 11, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/852450 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/021 (20130101) G02B 5/0215 (20130101) G02B 5/0278 (20130101) G02B 5/3025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 5/3083 (20130101) |
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| US 09740031 | Abouraddy et al. |
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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) | Ayman F. Abouraddy (Orlando, Florida); Lorelle N. Pye (Orlando, Florida); Massimo Maximilian L. Villinger (Orlando, Florida); Soroush Shabahang (Orlando, Florida); Walker D. Larson (Orlando, Florida); Lane Martin (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A thin film photonic structure that enables segregation of the effective absorption of the thin film and its intrinsic absorption while substantially eliminating bandwidth restrictions. In the form of an optical resonator, the structure includes two, multi-layer, aperiodic dielectric mirrors and a lossy, dielectric thin film and characterized by an intrinsic optical absorption over at least a one octave bandwidth. The two, multi-layer, aperiodic dielectric mirrors are characterized by a reflectivity amplitude that increases in-step with increasing wavelength over the at least one octave bandwidth. Upon a single incoherent beam of optical radiation having a spectrum over the at least one octave bandwidth incident on one side of the resonator structure, the lossy, dielectric thin film is characterized by an effective optical absorption over the at least one octave bandwidth that is greater than the intrinsic optical absorption over the at least one octave bandwidth. |
| FILED | Monday, March 14, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/068960 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/0126 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09740287 | Braun et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | IMMERSION CORPORATION (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | IMMERSION CORPORATION (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam C. Braun (Sunnyvale, California); Jonathan L. Beamer (Menlo Park, California); Louis B. Rosenberg (San Jose, California); Dean C. Chang (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A force feedback system provides components for use in a force feedback system including a host computer and a force feedback interface device. An architecture for a host computer allows multi-tasking application programs to interface with the force feedback device without conflicts, where a single active application may output forces. A background application also provides force effects to be output and allows a user to assign force effects to graphical objects in a graphical user interface. Force feedback effects and structures are further described, such as events and enclosures. |
| FILED | Monday, July 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/953101 |
| ART UNIT | 2143 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 19/00 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/016 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 3/0338 (20130101) G06F 3/03543 (20130101) G06F 3/03548 (20130101) G06F 3/04842 (20130101) G06F 2203/013 (20130101) G06F 2203/014 (20130101) G06F 2203/0333 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 67/02 (20130101) H04L 67/36 (20130101) H04L 69/329 (20130101) |
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| US 09740617 | Sury et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samantika Sury (Westford, Massachusetts); Simon Steely, Jr. (Hudson, New Hampshire); William Hasenplaugh (Boston, Massachusetts); Joel Emer (Acton, Massachusetts); David Webb (Groton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatuses to control cache line coherence are described. A hardware processor may include a first processor core with a cache to store a cache line, a second set of processor cores that each include a cache to store a copy of the cache line, and cache coherence logic to aggregate in a tag directory an acknowledgment message from each of the second set of processor cores in response to a request from the first processor core to modify the copy of the cache line in each of the second set of processor cores and send a consolidated acknowledgment message to the first processor core. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/581097 |
| ART UNIT | 2138 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 12/0822 (20130101) G06F 12/0833 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 2212/283 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 60/1225 (20130101) |
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| US 09740949 | Khosla et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Deepak Khosla (Camarillo, California); Matthew Keegan (Marina Del Ray, California); Lei Zhang (Los Angeles, California); Kevin R. Martin (Oak Park, California); Darrel J. VanBuer (Los Angeles, California); David J. Huber (Calabasas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a system for detecting objects of interest in imagery. The system is configured to receive an input video and generate an attention map. The attention map represents features found in the input video that represent potential objects-of-interest (OI). An eye-fixation map is generated based on a subject's eye fixations. The eye-fixation map also represents features found in the input video that are potential OI. A brain-enhanced synergistic attention map is generated by fusing the attention map with the eye-fixation map. The potential OI in the brain-enhanced synergistic attention map are scored, with scores that cross a predetermined threshold being used to designate potential OI as actual or final OI. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/054584 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/3233 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09740963 | Sawhney et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harpreet Singh Sawhney (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Jayakrishnan Eledath (Robbinsville, New Jersey); Mayank Bansal (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Bogdan C. Matei (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Xutao Lv (East Windsor, New Jersey); Chaitanya Desai (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Timothy Shields (Lumberton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A computing system for realizing visual content of an image collection executes feature detection algorithms and semantic reasoning techniques on the images in the collection to elicit a number of different types of visual features of the images. The computing system indexes the visual features and provides technologies for multi-dimensional content-based clustering, searching, and iterative exploration of the image collection using the visual features and/or the visual feature indices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/452244 |
| ART UNIT | 2669 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/3064 (20130101) G06F 17/30244 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00684 (20130101) G06K 9/6215 (20130101) G06K 9/6218 (20130101) G06K 9/6224 (20130101) G06K 9/6255 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 2209/25 (20130101) |
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| US 09740978 | Hassanzadeh 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) | Oktie Hassanzadeh (Port Chester, New York); Anton V. Riabov (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Shirin Sohrabi Araghi (Port Chester, New York); Octavian Udrea (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A mechanism is provided for identifying a set of top-m clusters from a set of top-k plans. A planning problem and an integer value k indicating a number of top plans to be identified are received. A set of top-k plans are generated with at most size k, where the set of top-k plans is with respect to a given measure of plan quality. Each plan in the set of top-k plans is clustered based on a similarity between plans such that each cluster contains similar plans and each plan is grouped only into one cluster thereby forming the set of top-m clusters. A representative plan from each top-m cluster is presented to the user. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/525790 |
| ART UNIT | 2124 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30598 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 5/022 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06N 99/005 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alfred W. Hübler (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for storing information or energy. An array of nano-capacitors is provided, where each nano-capacitor has a plurality of cathodic regions and an anode separated from each of the cathodic regions by one or more intervening dielectrics. Each nano-capacitor acts as a quantum resonator thereby suppressing electron emission. The thickness of the intervening dielectric is in the range between 0.1 nanometers and 1000 nanometers and is shorter than an electron mean free path within the dielectric. Each cathodic region is at least 100 times larger than the thickness of the intervening dielectric in every direction transverse to the thickness of the intervening dielectric. An excess of electrons is stored on the cathodic regions. The dielectric may be a metal oxide, particularly a native oxide of the cathode material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 17, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/943439 |
| ART UNIT | 2848 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 4/06 (20130101) H01G 4/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01G 4/12 (20130101) H01G 4/38 (20130101) |
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| US 09741899 | Shatalov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc. (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc. (Columbia, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maxim S. Shatalov (Columbia, South Carolina); Alexander Dobrinsky (Loudonville, New York); Michael Shur (Latham, New York); Remigijus Gaska (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | An interface including roughness components for improving the propagation of radiation through the interface is provided. The interface includes a first profiled surface of a first layer comprising a set of large roughness components providing a first variation of the first profiled surface having a first characteristic scale and a second profiled surface of a second layer comprising a set of small roughness components providing a second variation of the second profiled surface having a second characteristic scale. The first characteristic scale is approximately an order of magnitude larger than the second characteristic scale. The surfaces can be bonded together using a bonding material, and a filler material also can be present in the interface. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 02, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/728435 |
| ART UNIT | 2896 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 29/68 (20130101) C30B 29/403 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 33/20 (20130101) H01L 33/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 33/0079 (20130101) H01L 2933/0083 (20130101) H01L 2933/0091 (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 5/0224 (20130101) H01S 5/34333 (20130101) |
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| US 09741921 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Government of 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) | Xiao Liu (Fairfax, Virginia); Daniel R. Queen (Silver Spring, Maryland); Frances Hellman (Berkeley, California); Thomas H. Metcalf (Washington, District of Columbia); Matthew R. Abernathy (Washington, District of Columbia); Glenn G. Jernigan (Waldorf, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A hydrogen-free amorphous dielectric insulating film having a high material density and a low density of tunneling states. The film is prepared by deposition of a dielectric material on a substrate having a high substrate temperature Tsub under high vacuum and at a controlled low deposition rate. In one embodiment, the film is amorphous silicon while in another embodiment the film is amorphous germanium. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 16, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/352639 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Modifying the Physical Structure of Ferrous Metals; General Devices for Heat Treatment of Ferrous or Non-ferrous Metals or Alloys; Making Metal Malleable, e.g by Decarburisation or Tempering C21D 1/40 (20130101) C21D 1/773 (20130101) C21D 2201/03 (20130101) Alloys C22C 45/00 (20130101) Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 14/06 (20130101) C23C 14/14 (20130101) C23C 14/541 (20130101) C23C 14/0605 (20130101) C23C 14/0652 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 3/02 (20130101) H01B 19/04 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/02112 (20130101) H01L 21/02123 (20130101) H01L 39/02 (20130101) H01L 39/24 (20130101) H01L 39/025 (20130101) H01L 39/2493 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09742061 | Knight |
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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) | Barry W. Knight (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A swivel mount apparatus and method for installing a swivel mount apparatus on a vehicle. The swivel mount apparatus includes a first member, a second member rotatably coupled to the first member, and a mounting post affixed to the first member and extending upwardly relative to the first member, wherein the mounting post receives the second member. A receiving space is defined by the second member and receives an accessory, such that the accessory may be adjusted relative to the vehicle. |
| FILED | Friday, December 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/569594 |
| ART UNIT | 3632 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 1/12 (20130101) H01Q 1/3275 (20130101) H01Q 3/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01Q 19/30 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49826 (20150115) |
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| US 09742075 | Woollen |
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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) | David P. Woollen (Ellettsville, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A hybrid active array approach can combine aspects of a passive and active array architecture with transmitter, high power, and cooling components positioned in one location, e.g., below a ship deck, apart from a radiating location. Waveguides or signal transmission lines can convey a transmit signal from the transmitter to the radiating location, e.g., to a beamforming network (BFN), hybrid transmit/receive modules (HTRM), and a plurality of antenna elements. The exemplary BFN can set an amplitude distribution of an antenna aperture associated with the BFN, HTRMs, and plurality of antenna elements to control both transmit and receive sidelobes where low or reduced sidelobes on transmit reduces radiation outside of the main beam further reducing signal returns in one or more sidelobes sections of the antenna elements. In a receive mode, a reverse can occur and additional beamformers can be utilized for beamforming the receive beams. |
| FILED | Friday, August 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/827188 |
| ART UNIT | 3648 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 7/032 (20130101) G01S 2013/0254 (20130101) Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 1/34 (20130101) H01Q 3/24 (20130101) H01Q 3/34 (20130101) H01Q 21/0025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09742136 | Plickys |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark R. Plickys (Unionville, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A brush block assembly and a method of assembling the same are described. The brush block assembly includes two or more brushes arranged in one or more rows, each of the two or more brushes comprised of a pressed electrically conductive material with an integral lead wire and a terminal, and one or more terminal studs, each of the two or more brush blocks within a same one of the one or more rows being separated by one of the one or more terminal studs, a helical spring coupled respectively to each of the two or more brushes, and insulated wires from a power supply and the respective terminal of each of the two or more brushes within the same one of the one or more rows being retained by the one of the one or more terminal studs in the one of the one or more rows. |
| FILED | Monday, August 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/450847 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 15/12 (20130101) Electrically-conductive Connections; Structural Associations of a Plurality of Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting Elements; Coupling Devices; Current Collectors H01R 39/34 (20130101) H01R 39/41 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01R 39/381 (20130101) H01R 39/383 (20130101) H01R 39/388 (20130101) H01R 43/12 (20130101) H01R 43/24 (20130101) |
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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) | Scott L. Small (Newberry, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | An illustrative cable connector hand tool and associated methods are provided that include hand tool members having a side opening that allow cable connection sections to pass into a center aperture of the tool members. In one example, the hand tool members are formed with a recessed portion that receives an end of one of a pair of cable connectors such that mating edges of the cable connectors used to couple the cable connection sections are visible when the cable connectors are in a coupled configuration abutting each other. An exemplary recessed portion formed with a number of keyway indentions or recesses spaced apart in the center aperture that are operable to engage keys, protrusions, or lugs on an outer wall of the cable connectors. |
| FILED | Friday, March 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/640449 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Tools or Bench Devices Not Otherwise Provided For, for Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging or Holding B25B 13/04 (20130101) B25B 13/50 (20130101) B25B 23/0085 (20130101) Electrically-conductive Connections; Structural Associations of a Plurality of Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting Elements; Coupling Devices; Current Collectors H01R 13/622 (20130101) H01R 13/6392 (20130101) H01R 43/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49 (20150115) Y10T 29/4978 (20150115) Y10T 29/49194 (20150115) Y10T 29/53209 (20150115) |
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| US 09742143 | Manke, II |
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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) | Gerald C Manke, II (Bedford, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and related modular laser systems, e.g., distributed aperture, ultra short pulsed laser, are provided on a host platform having multiple compartments and groups of components where each group has a different environmental sensitivity such as temperature, humidity, vibration, etc or other installation constraints. Each component group is placed in different compartments of the host platform based on constraints comprising equipment, size, available installation footprint, equipment interconnection, and location constraints. For example, one group with one temperature sensitivity falling within environments provided for aircraft passengers or crews can be placed in the crew or passenger compartments. Other components having a greater temperature tolerance might be placed in an equipment bay having a different temperature range than a crew/passenger cabin. Other components might be placed in an area without any environmental controls or even pressurization (e.g., a cargo bay). Components can be located based on single, multiple, or combinations of constraints. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 09, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/231910 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/02 (20130101) H01S 3/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 3/0057 (20130101) H01S 3/0071 (20130101) H01S 3/0085 (20130101) H01S 3/0941 (20130101) H01S 3/2316 (20130101) |
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| US 09742151 | Botez et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan Botez (Madison, Wisconsin); Christopher A. Sigler (Madison, Wisconsin); Thomas L. Earles (Verona, Wisconsin); Jeremy D. Kirch (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A terahertz quantum cascade laser device is provided comprising a substrate having a top substrate surface, a bottom substrate surface, and an exit facet extending between the top substrate surface and the bottom substrate surface at an angle θtap. The device comprises a waveguide structure having a top surface, a bottom surface, a front facet extending between the top surface and the bottom surface and positioned proximate to the exit facet, and a back facet extending between the top surface and the bottom surface and oppositely facing the front facet. The waveguide structure comprises a quantum cascade laser structure configured to generate light comprising light of a first frequency ω1, light of a second frequency ω2, and light of a third frequency ωTHz, wherein ωTHz=ω1−ω2; an upper cladding layer; and a lower cladding layer. The device comprises a distributed feedback grating layer configured to provide optical feedback for one or both of the light of the first frequency ω1 and the light of the second frequency ω2 and to produce lasing at one or both of the first frequency ω1 and the second frequency ω2, thereby resulting in laser emission at the third frequency ωTHz at a Cherenkov angle θTHz through the bottom surface of the waveguide structure into the substrate and exiting the substrate through the exit facet. The device comprises a high-reflectivity coating on the front facet of the waveguide structure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 04, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/145951 |
| 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 5/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 5/0287 (20130101) H01S 5/3402 (20130101) H01S 5/34313 (20130101) |
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| US 09742429 | Inamdar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hypres, Inc. (Elmsford, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hypres, Inc. (Elmsford, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amol Inamdar (Elmsford, New York); Deepnarayan Gupta (Briarcliff Manor, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Superconductor analog-to-digital converters (ADC) offer high sensitivity and large dynamic range. One approach to increasing the dynamic range further is with a subranging architecture, whereby the output of a coarse ADC is converted back to analog and subtracted from the input signal, and the residue signal fed to a fine ADC for generation of additional significant bits. This also requires a high-gain broadband linear amplifier, which is not generally available within superconductor technology. In a preferred embodiment, a distributed digital fluxon amplifier is presented, which also integrates the functions of integration, filtering, and flux subtraction. A subranging ADC design provides two ADCs connected with the fluxon amplifier and subtractor circuitry that would provide a dynamic range extension by about 30-35 dB. |
| FILED | Monday, April 11, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/095730 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 1/0854 (20130101) H03M 1/1245 (20130101) H03M 3/458 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09742441 | Whitaker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Whitaker (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jeff Maas (Bloomington, Indiana); Andrew Christianson (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method associated with exploiting a characteristic in super-heterodyne receivers such that a modulated signal will be received on all channels simultaneously regardless of the channel selected on the receiver. |
| FILED | Friday, April 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/244947 |
| ART UNIT | 2649 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 5/0205 (20130101) Transmission H04B 1/28 (20130101) H04B 1/0053 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 67/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09742460 | Kwon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wichita State University (Wichita, Kansas); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wichita State University (Wichita, Kansas); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hyuck M. Kwon (Wichita, Kansas); Khanh D. Pham (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for transmitting data over a wireless communication network. The method broadly includes generating a frequency hopping pattern spanning a plurality of time hops and a plurality of signal frequencies; generating a signal including a number of data symbols, the signal incorporating the frequency hopping pattern such that the symbols are distributed across the signal frequencies according to the frequency hopping pattern; transmitting the signal from a transmitting unit to a receiving unit over the wireless communication network; and generating an exact symbol error rate for the signal as received by the receiving unit. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 29, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/926746 |
| ART UNIT | 2631 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 1/692 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 7/0857 (20130101) H04B 2001/6908 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 1/0071 (20130101) H04L 27/2003 (20130101) H04L 27/2082 (20130101) H04L 27/2695 (20130101) |
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| US 09742556 | Bacon 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) | David F. Bacon (Sleepy Hollow, New York); Graham A. Bent (Hursley, United Kingdom); Flavio A. Bergamaschi (Southampton, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | Searching for desired data within an encrypted set of data (using a fully homomorphic encryption) without decrypting the set of data. A lookup key is compared against a set of encrypted data, employing characteristics of the fully homomorphic encryption, to locate and return desired data correlated to the lookup key. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 25, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/834485 |
| ART UNIT | 2431 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09742566 | Gentry et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York); University of Bristol (Bristol, United Kingdom) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig B. Gentry (New York, New York); Shai Halevi (Elmsford, New York); Nigel P. Smart (Bristol, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | Homomorphic evaluation of a function is performed on input ciphertext(s), which were encrypted using a public key of an encryption scheme that also includes multiple secret keys and multiple integer moduli. The homomorphic evaluation of the function includes performing operations(s) on the input ciphertexts. The function includes operation(s) including one or more of addition, multiplication, and automorphism. A key-switching transformation is performed on selected input ciphertext(s), and includes converting a first version of a selected ciphertext with respect to a first of the multiple secret keys and a first modulus to a second version of the selected ciphertext with respect to a second of the multiple secret keys and a second modulus, where the second modulus is an integer factor p times the first modulus, p>1. Each of the key switching transformations is performed prior to or after the operation(s) are evaluated. Results of the operation(s) are output. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 28, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/008718 |
| ART UNIT | 2439 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/008 (20130101) H04L 9/08 (20130101) H04L 9/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 9/30 (20130101) H04L 9/0618 (20130101) H04L 2209/24 (20130101) H04L 2209/34 (20130101) |
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| US 09742869 | Bolotin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NVIDIA CORPORATION (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NVIDIA Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Evgeny Bolotin (San Jose, California); Zvi Guz (San Jose, California); Adwait Jog (State College, Pennsylvania); Stephen William Keckler (Austin, Texas); Michael Allen Parker (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A request management subsystem is configured to establish service classes for clients that issue requests for a shared resource on a computer system. The subsystem also is configured to determine the state of the system with respect to bandwidth, current latency, frequency and voltage levels, among other characteristics. Further, the subsystem is configured to evaluate the requirements of each client with respect to latency sensitivity and required bandwidth, among other characteristics. Finally, the subsystem is configured to schedule access to shared resources, based on the priority class of each client, the demands of the application, and the state of the system. With this approach, the subsystem may enable all clients to perform optimally or, alternatively, may cause all clients to experience an equal reduction in performance. |
| FILED | Monday, December 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/101255 |
| ART UNIT | 2457 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 67/327 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09743024 | Tyrrell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brian M. Tyrrell (Brookline, New Hampshire); Christy Fernandez Cull (Concord, Massachusetts); Andrew K. Bolstad (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian M. Tyrrell (Brookline, New Hampshire); Christy Fernandez Cull (Concord, Massachusetts); Andrew K. Bolstad (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Conventional methods for imaging transient targets are constrained by a trade-off between resolution and frame rate, and transient targets moving faster than the detector frame typically result in image blurring. Imagers using digital-pixel focal plane arrays (“DFPAs”) have on-chip global pixel operation capability for extracting a single transient-feature (i.e., single-frequency discrimination) in a snapshot that depends on the number of counters implemented per pixel. However, these DFPA systems are not capable of multi-target and multi-frequency discrimination. Imagers described herein achieve multi-target transient signature discrimination orders of magnitude faster than the readout frame rate using in-pixel electronic shuttering with a known time-encoded modulation. Three-dimensional (x,y,t) data cube reconstruction is performed using compressive sensing algorithms. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 01, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/789601 |
| ART UNIT | 2662 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/335 (20130101) H04N 5/37455 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04N 7/18 (20130101) |
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| US 09743046 | Giuffrida et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pictometry International Corp. (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pictometry International Corp. (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank D. Giuffrida (Honeoye Falls, New York); Mark A. Winkelbauer (Rochester, New York); Charles Mondello (Pittsford, New York); Robert S. Bradacs (Rochester, New York); Craig D. Woodward (Rochester, New York); Stephen L. Schultz (West Henrietta, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure describes a method for displaying data products onto a geospatial map in real-time using a computer program. In one version, the method includes the steps of monitoring the one or more directories of one or more computer readable media for newly created data products, automatically reading the newly created data products, correlating positional information of the data products with the geospatial map of the computer program for mapping and exploitation, and rendering information onto the geospatial map indicative of the area covered by each newly created data product. |
| FILED | Friday, December 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/730340 |
| ART UNIT | 2455 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 11/02 (20130101) Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 17/89 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 17/05 (20130101) Arrangements or Circuits for Control of Indicating Devices Using Static Means to Present Variable Information G09G 5/377 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 7/005 (20130101) H04N 7/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04N 7/181 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 4/046 (20130101) |
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| US 09743362 | Tian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intelligent Fusion Technology, Inc (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | intelligent Fusion Technology, INC (Germantown, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xin Tian (Niskayuna, New York); Genshe Chen (Germantown, Maryland); Khanh Pham (Germantown, Maryland); Erik Blasch (Rome, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A joint transmission power control and a transponder communication system, transmitting a plurality of uplink signals to a bent pipe transponder, combining the plurality of uplink signals to generate a combined downlink signal, transmitting the combined downlink signal to a ground hub, performing an estimate and pre-qualification process by the plurality of down link signals to determine a selected waveform, perform the join transmission power control of uplink margins are satisfied. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 13, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/292303 |
| ART UNIT | 2649 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 7/18513 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 52/223 (20130101) H04W 52/243 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of The University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan S. Maltz (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus are provided for assessing endothelial function in a mammal. In certain embodiments the methods involve using a cuff to apply pressure to an artery in a subject to determine a plurality of baseline values for a parameter related to endothelial function as a function of applied pressure (Pm); b) applying a stimulus to the subject; and applying external pressure Pm to the artery to determine a plurality of stimulus-effected values for the parameter related to endothelial function as a function of applied pressure (Pm); where the baseline values are determined from measurements made when said mammal is not substantially effected by said stimulus and differences in said baseline values and said stimulus-effected values provide a measure of endothelial function in said mammal. |
| FILED | Friday, August 12, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/236250 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0225 (20130101) A61B 5/1075 (20130101) A61B 5/02021 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/02116 (20130101) A61B 5/02208 (20130101) A61B 5/02225 (20130101) A61B 5/02233 (20130101) A61B 5/7225 (20130101) A61B 5/7278 (20130101) A61B 8/06 (20130101) A61B 8/58 (20130101) A61B 17/1355 (20130101) |
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| US 09737247 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph Wang (San Diego, California); Joshua Ray Windmiller (Del Mar, California); Roger Narayan (Raleigh, North Carolina); Philip Miller (Greensboro, North Carolina); Ronen Polsky (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Thayne L. Edwards (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina); National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Wang (San Diego, California); Joshua Ray Windmiller (Del Mar, California); Roger Narayan (Raleigh, North Carolina); Philip Miller (Greensboro, North Carolina); Ronen Polsky (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Thayne L. Edwards (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, structures, and systems are disclosed for biosensing and drug delivery techniques. In one aspect, a^ device for detecting an analyte and/or releasing a biochemical into a biological fluid can include an array of hollowed needles, in which each needle includes a protruded needle structure including an exterior wall forming a hollow interior and an opening at a terminal end of the protruded needle structure that exposes the hollow interior, and a probe inside the exterior wall to interact with one or more chemical or biological substances that come in contact with the probe via the opening to produce a probe sensing signal, and an array of wires that are coupled to probes of the array of hollowed needles, respectively, each wire being electrically conductive to transmit the probe sensing signal produced by a respective probe. |
| FILED | Friday, August 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/342536 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/157 (20130101) A61B 5/685 (20130101) A61B 5/1473 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/4845 (20130101) A61B 5/6833 (20130101) A61B 5/7282 (20130101) A61B 5/14514 (20130101) A61B 5/14532 (20130101) A61B 5/14546 (20130101) A61B 5/14865 (20130101) A61B 5/150984 (20130101) A61B 10/0045 (20130101) A61B 2010/008 (20130101) A61B 2562/028 (20130101) A61B 2562/046 (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 5/158 (20130101) A61M 5/1723 (20130101) A61M 2005/1726 (20130101) A61M 2037/003 (20130101) A61M 2037/0023 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/48785 (20130101) |
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| US 09737880 | Hill et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | EMORY UNIVERSITY (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig L. Hill (Atlanta, Georgia); Iourii V. Gueletii (Decatur, Georgia); Jie Song (Atlanta, Georgia); Hongjin Lv (Atlanta, Georgia); Djamaladdin Musaev (Atlanta, Georgia); Zhen Luo (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates to photocatalytic polyoxometalate compositions of tungstovanadates and uses as water oxidation catalysts. In certain embodiments, the disclosure relates to compositions comprising water, a complex of a tetra-metal oxide cluster and VW9O34 ligands, and a photosensitizer. Typically, the metal oxide cluster is Co. In certain embodiments, the disclosure relates to electrodes and other devices comprising water oxidation catalysts disclosed herein and uses in generating fuels and electrical power from solar energy. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/387745 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 23/75 (20130101) B01J 23/888 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 27/188 (20130101) B01J 31/1815 (20130101) B01J 35/004 (20130101) B01J 35/0013 (20130101) B01J 35/0033 (20130101) B01J 37/04 (20130101) B01J 2523/00 (20130101) B01J 2523/00 (20130101) B01J 2523/00 (20130101) B01J 2523/12 (20130101) B01J 2523/13 (20130101) B01J 2523/55 (20130101) B01J 2523/55 (20130101) B01J 2523/69 (20130101) B01J 2523/69 (20130101) B01J 2523/845 (20130101) B01J 2523/845 (20130101) B01J 2531/74 (20130101) B01J 2531/821 (20130101) Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 51/006 (20130101) Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Processes for the Production of Compounds or Non-metals; Apparatus Therefor C25B 1/003 (20130101) C25B 1/04 (20130101) C25B 9/08 (20130101) C25B 11/0452 (20130101) C25B 11/0468 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 9/2027 (20130101) H01G 9/2031 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/134 (20151101) |
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| US 09738529 | Huber et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George W. Huber (Middleton, Wisconsin); Aniruddha A. Upadhye (Madison, Wisconsin); Hyung Ju Kim (Madison, Wisconsin); Insoo Ro (Madison, Wisconsin); M. Isabel Tejedor-Anderson (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a method of reducing CO2 to CO using visible radiation and plasmonic photocatalysts. The method includes contacting CO2 with a catalyst, in the presence of H2, wherein the catalyst has plasmonic photocatalytic reductive activity when exposed to radiation having a wavelength between 380 nm and 780 nm. The catalyst, CO2, and H2 are exposed to non-coherent radiation having a wavelength between 380 nm and 780 nm such that the catalyst undergoes surface plasmon resonance. The surface plasmon resonance increases the rate of CO2 reduction to CO as compared to the rate of CO2 reduction to CO without surface plasmon resonance in the catalyst. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 09, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/248729 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 21/04 (20130101) B01J 21/063 (20130101) B01J 23/10 (20130101) B01J 23/52 (20130101) B01J 23/66 (20130101) B01J 23/72 (20130101) B01J 35/004 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09738621 | Seo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS, A BODY CORPORATE OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA ACTING FOR AND ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (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) | Dong-Kyun Seo (Chandler, Arizona); Ki-Wan Jeon (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Forming multifunctional materials and composites thereof includes contacting a first material having a plurality of oxygen-containing functional groups with a chalcogenide compound, and initiating a chemical reaction between the first material and the chalcogenide compound, thereby replacing oxygen in some of the oxygen-containing functional groups with chalcogen from the chalcogen-containing compound to yield a second material having chalcogen-containing functional groups and oxygen-containing functional groups. The first material is a carbonaceous material or a macromolecular material. A product including the second material is collected and may be processed further to yield a modified product or a composite. |
| FILED | Friday, February 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/379021 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Organic Chemistry |
| 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 19/00 (20130101) C01B 31/026 (20130101) C01B 31/0484 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 331/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 345/00 (20130101) Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 11/02 (20130101) C08B 11/20 (20130101) C08B 15/00 (20130101) C08B 15/05 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 1/08 (20130101) C08L 1/28 (20130101) C08L 101/06 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/134 (20151101) |
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| US 09738665 | Bury et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wojciech Bury (Evanston, Illinois); Omar K. Farha (Glenview, Illinois); Joseph T. Hupp (Northfield, Illinois); Joseph E. Mondloch (Park Ridge, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Porous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and metallated porous MOFs are provided. Also provided are methods of metallating porous MOFs using atomic layer deposition and methods of using the metallated MOFs as catalysts and in remediation applications. |
| FILED | Friday, December 09, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/374218 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/226 (20130101) B01J 31/1691 (20130101) B01J 2531/31 (20130101) B01J 2531/48 (20130101) Reclamation of Contaminated Soil B09C 1/08 (20130101) Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/281 (20130101) C02F 1/285 (20130101) C02F 1/288 (20130101) C02F 2101/20 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 253/30 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 7/006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09738688 | Caulfield et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | INTERNATIONAL AIDS VACCINE INITIATIVE (New York, New York); CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, New York); THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTERNATIONAL AIDS VACCINE INITIATIVE (New York, New York); THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (La Jolla, California); CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Caulfield (Fort Washington, Pennsylvania); Albert Cupo (Stamford, Connecticut); Hansi Dean (New York, New York); Simon Hoffenberg (Hartsdale, New York); C. Richter King (Washington, District of Columbia); P. J. Klasse (New York, New York); Andre Marozsan (Milford, Connecticut); John P. Moore (New York, New York); Rogier W. Sanders (New York, New York); Andrew Ward (San Diego, California); Ian Wilson (La Jolla, California); Jean-Philippe Julien (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application relates to novel HIV-1 envelope glycoproteins, which may be utilized as HIV-1 vaccine immunogens, and antigens for crystallization, electron microscopy and other biophysical, biochemical and immunological studies for the identification of broad neutralizing antibodies. The present invention encompasses the preparation and purification of immunogenic compositions, which are formulated into the vaccines of the present invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 05, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/072209 |
| 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) A61K 39/39 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2740/16034 (20130101) C12N 2740/16122 (20130101) |
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| US 09738784 | Allen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Scott D. Allen (Ithaca, New York); Sanjeev Naik (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novomer, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott D. Allen (Ithaca, New York); Sanjeev Naik (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides, among other things, extruded blends of aliphatic polycarbonates and polyolefins. In one aspect, provided blends comprise aliphatic polycarbonates such as poly(propylene carbonate) and a lesser amount of a crystalline or semicrystalline polymer. In certain embodiments, provided blends are characterized in that they exhibit unexpected improvements in their elongation properties. In another aspect, the invention provides methods of making such materials and applications of the materials in applications such as the manufacture of consumer packaging materials. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/878582 |
| ART UNIT | 1783 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 47/0057 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 5/18 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 23/02 (20130101) C08L 23/04 (20130101) C08L 23/04 (20130101) C08L 23/04 (20130101) C08L 23/06 (20130101) C08L 23/06 (20130101) C08L 23/10 (20130101) C08L 23/10 (20130101) C08L 23/10 (20130101) C08L 23/12 (20130101) C08L 67/04 (20130101) C08L 69/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08L 69/00 (20130101) C08L 69/00 (20130101) C08L 69/00 (20130101) C08L 69/00 (20130101) C08L 69/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/31507 (20150401) |
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| US 09738827 | Zidan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ragaiy Zidan (Aiken, South Carolina); Joseph A. Teprovich (Aiken, South Carolina); Aaron L. Washington (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method of preparing a carbon quantum dot. The carbon quantum dot can be prepared from a carbon precursor, such as a fullerene, and a complex metal hydride. The present invention also discloses a carbon quantum dot made by reacting a carbon precursor with a complex metal hydride and a polymer containing a carbon quantum dot made by reacting a carbon precursor with a complex metal hydride. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 28, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/141415 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0206 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2006/60 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 3/38 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/65 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09738874 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Novozymes Inc. (Davis, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ye Liu (Beijing, China PRC); Lan Tang (Beijing, China PRC); Junxin Duan (Beijing, China PRC); Yu Zhang (Beijing, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having laccase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides. |
| FILED | Friday, December 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/363490 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Detergent Compositions; Use of Single Substances as Detergents; Soap or Soap-making; Resin Soaps; Recovery of Glycerol C11D 3/38636 (20130101) C11D 3/38645 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/0061 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/10 (20130101) C12P 19/02 (20130101) C12P 19/14 (20130101) C12P 2203/00 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/16 (20130101) |
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09738881 — Host cell capable of producing enzymes useful for degradation of lignocellulosic material
| US 09738881 | Los et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | DSM IP ASSETS B.V. (Heerlen, Netherlands) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | DSM IP ASSETS B.V. (Heerlen, Netherlands) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alrik Pieter Los (Echt, Netherlands); Cornelis Maria Jacobus Sagt (Echt, Netherlands); Margot Elisabeth Francoise Schoonneveld-Bergmans (Echt, Netherlands); Robbertus Antonius Damveld (Echt, Netherlands) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a host cell comprising at least four different heterologous polynucleotides chosen from the group of polynucleotides encoding cellulases, hemicellulases and pectinases, wherein the host cell is capable of producing the at least four different enzymes chosen from the group of cellulases, hemicellulases and pectinases, wherein the host cell is a filamentous fungus and is capable of secretion of the at least four different enzymes. This host cell can suitably be used for the production of an enzyme composition that can be used in a process for the saccharification of cellulosic material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/793786 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/2437 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 9/2477 (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) Enzymes C12Y 302/01004 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/343 (20130101) |
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| US 09738901 | Scheller 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) | Henrik Vibe Scheller (Millbrae, California); Joshua L. Heazlewood (Fitzroy North, Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides methods of engineering plants to modulate galactan content. Specifically, the disclosure provides methods for engineering a plant to increase the galactan content in a plant tissue by inducing expression of beta-1,4-galactan synthase (GALS), modulated by a heterologous promoter. Further disclosed are the methods of modulating expression level of GALS under the regulation of a transcription factor, as well as overexpression of UDP-galactose epimerse in the same plant tissue. Tissue specific promoters and transcription factors can be used in the methods are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, May 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/399880 |
| ART UNIT | 1663 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/1051 (20130101) C12N 15/8246 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09739061 | Brockwell |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Ian Brockwell (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Ian Brockwell (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Structural members having enhanced load bearing capacity per unit mass include a skeleton structure formed from strips of material. Notches may be placed on the strips and a weave of tensile material placed in the notches and woven around the skeleton structure. At least one pair of structural members can be jointed together to provide very strong joints due to a weave patterns of tensile material, such as Kevlar, that distributes stress throughout the structure, preventing stress from concentrating in one area. Methods of manufacturing such structural members include molding material into skeletons of desired cross section using a matrix of molding segments. Total catastrophic failures in composite materials are substantially avoided and the strength to weight ratio of structures can be increased. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/806599 |
| ART UNIT | 3633 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 70/28 (20130101) B29C 70/86 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29B, B29C or B29D, Relating to Moulding Materials or to Materials for Reinforcements, Fillers or Preformed Parts, e.g Inserts B29K 2105/08 (20130101) B29K 2715/003 (20130101) Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 37/02 (20130101) B32B 37/18 (20130101) B32B 37/24 (20130101) B32B 38/0004 (20130101) B32B 2419/00 (20130101) B32B 2605/18 (20130101) Woven Fabrics; Methods of Weaving; Looms D03D 3/00 (20130101) Making Textile Fabrics, e.g From Fibres or Filamentary Material; Fabrics Made by Such Processes or Apparatus, e.g Felts, Non-woven Fabrics; Cotton-wool; Wadding D04H 3/02 (20130101) Structural Elements; Building Materials E04C 3/02 (20130101) E04C 3/29 (20130101) Original (OR) Class E04C 3/36 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/4998 (20150115) Y10T 29/49625 (20150115) Y10T 29/49826 (20150115) Y10T 428/23 (20150115) Y10T 428/24273 (20150115) |
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| US 09739307 | Post |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard F Post (Walnut Creek, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A new non-contacting magnetic “snubber” bearing is provided for application to rotating systems such as vehicular electromechanical battery systems subject to frequent accelerations. The design is such that in the equilibrium position the drag force of the snubber is very small (milliwatts). However in a typical case, if the rotor is displaced by as little as 2 millimeters a large restoring force is generated without any physical contact between the stationary and rotating parts of the snubber bearing. |
| FILED | Friday, November 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/556029 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Shafts; Flexible Shafts; Elements or Crankshaft Mechanisms; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing Elements; Bearings F16C 15/00 (20130101) F16C 32/0425 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F16C 32/0429 (20130101) F16C 2361/55 (20130101) |
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| US 09739418 | Elgowainy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amgad Elgowainy (Lisle, Illinois); Krishna Reddi (Westmont, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus are provided for operating a refueling station including source tube-trailers and at least one compressor to reduce refueling cost. The refueling station includes a gaseous fuel supply source including a plurality of tanks on a tube trailer coupled to a first control unit, and high pressure buffer storage having predefined capacity coupled to a second control unit and the first tanks by a pressure control valve and the first control unit, and at least one compressor. The refueling station is operated at different modes depending on a state of the refueling station at the beginning of each operational mode. The refueling system is assessed at the end of each operational mode to identify the state of the system and select a next mode of operation. The operational modes include consolidating hydrogen, or any gaseous fuel, within the tubes mounted on the trailer. |
| FILED | Friday, September 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/039120 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Vessels for Containing or Storing Compressed, Liquefied or Solidified Gases; Fixed-capacity Gas-holders; Filling Vessels With, or Discharging From Vessels, Compressed, Liquefied, or Solidified Gases F17C 5/04 (20130101) F17C 5/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F17C 5/007 (20130101) F17C 2205/0107 (20130101) F17C 2205/0134 (20130101) F17C 2205/0326 (20130101) F17C 2221/012 (20130101) F17C 2223/035 (20130101) F17C 2223/0123 (20130101) F17C 2225/036 (20130101) F17C 2225/0123 (20130101) F17C 2227/043 (20130101) F17C 2227/0157 (20130101) F17C 2227/0185 (20130101) F17C 2227/0337 (20130101) F17C 2250/01 (20130101) F17C 2250/03 (20130101) F17C 2260/046 (20130101) F17C 2265/065 (20130101) F17C 2270/0139 (20130101) F17C 2270/0171 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/321 (20130101) |
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| US 09739473 | Halas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nancy J. Halas (Houston, Texas); Peter Nordlander (Houston, Texas); Oara Neumann (Neve Yarak, Israel) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nancy J. Halas (Houston, Texas); Peter Nordlander (Houston, Texas); Oara Neumann (Neve Yarak, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | In general, in one aspect, the invention relates to a system to create vapor for generating electric power. The system includes a vessel comprising a fluid and a complex and a turbine. The vessel of the system is configured to concentrate EM radiation received from an EM radiation source. The vessel of the system is further configured to apply the EM radiation to the complex, where the complex absorbs the EM radiation to generate heat. The vessel of the system is also configured to transform, using the heat generated by the complex, the fluid to vapor. The vessel of the system is further configured to sending the vapor to a turbine. The turbine of the system is configured to receive, from the vessel, the vapor used to generate the electric power. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/514762 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Machines, Devices, or Processes for Grinding or Polishing; Dressing or Conditioning of Abrading Surfaces; Feeding of Grinding, Polishing, or Lapping Agents B24B 49/105 (20130101) Steam Engine Plants; Steam Accumulators; Engine Plants Not Otherwise Provided For; Engines Using Special Working Fluids or Cycles F01K 3/186 (20130101) F01K 25/06 (20130101) F01K 25/065 (20130101) Spring, Weight, Inertia or Like Motors; Mechanical-power Producing Devices or Mechanisms, Not Otherwise Provided for or Using Energy Sources Not Otherwise Provided for F03G 6/00 (20130101) F03G 6/06 (20130101) F03G 6/065 (20130101) Methods of Steam Generation; Steam Boilers F22B 1/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F22B 1/28 (20130101) F22B 33/18 (20130101) Producing or Use of Heat Not Otherwise Provided For F24J 2/07 (20130101) F24J 2/4649 (20130101) 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 10/41 (20130101) Y02E 10/46 (20130101) |
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| US 09739501 | Klett et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James W. Klett (Knoxville, Tennessee); Orlando Rios (Knoxville, Tennessee); Roger Kisner (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A magneto-energy apparatus includes an electromagnetic field source for generating a time-varying electromagnetic field. A graphite foam conductor is disposed within the electromagnetic field. The graphite foam when exposed to the time-varying electromagnetic field conducts an induced electric current, the electric current heating the graphite foam. An energy conversion device utilizes heat energy from the heated graphite foam to perform a heat energy consuming function. A device for heating a fluid and a method of converting energy are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, August 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/466532 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid Heaters, e.g Water or Air Heaters, Having Heat Generating Means, in General F24H 1/0018 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Heating; Electric Lighting Not Otherwise Provided for H05B 6/105 (20130101) |
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| US 09739509 | Buscheck |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas A. Buscheck (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A geo-energy production method for extracting thermal energy from a reservoir formation. A production well extracts brine from the reservoir formation. A plurality of working fluid injection (“WFI”) wells may be arranged proximate to the production well to at least partially circumscribe the production well. A plurality of brine production (“BP”) wells may be arranged in a vicinity of the WFI wells to at least partially circumscribe the WFI wells. A working fluid is injected into the WFI wells to help drive a flow of the brine up through the production and BP wells, together with at least a portion of the injected working fluid. Parasitic-load time-shifting and to storing of excess solar thermal energy may also be performed. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/310070 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 1/00 (20130101) Wind Motors F03D 9/17 (20160501) Spring, Weight, Inertia or Like Motors; Mechanical-power Producing Devices or Mechanisms, Not Otherwise Provided for or Using Energy Sources Not Otherwise Provided for F03G 7/04 (20130101) Producing or Use of Heat Not Otherwise Provided For F24J 3/085 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F24J 2003/089 (20130101) Heat-exchange Apparatus, Not Provided for in Another Subclass, in Which the Heat-exchange Media Do Not Come into Direct Contact F28D 20/0052 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/14 (20130101) Y02E 10/72 (20130101) Y02E 60/15 (20130101) Y02E 60/142 (20130101) Y02E 70/30 (20130101) |
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| US 09739510 | Hassen |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles N. Hassen (Tucson, Arizona) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Charles N. Hassen (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved method to manage the flow of heat in an active regenerator in a magnetocaloric or an electrocaloric heat-pump refrigeration system, in which heat exchange fluid moves synchronously with the motion of a magnetic or electric field. Only a portion of the length of the active regenerator bed is introduced to or removed from the field at one time, and the heat exchange fluid flows from the cold side toward the hot side while the magnetic or electric field moves along the active regenerator bed. |
| FILED | Friday, September 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/261218 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration Machines, Plants or Systems; Combined Heating and Refrigeration Systems; Heat-pump Systems F25B 21/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F25B 30/00 (20130101) F25B 2321/001 (20130101) F25B 2321/002 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 30/52 (20130101) Y02B 30/66 (20130101) |
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| US 09739908 | Hosking 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) | Jonathan R. M. Hosking (Scarsdale, New York); Ramesh Natarajan (Pleasantville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The computer creates a utility demand forecast model for weather parameters by receiving a plurality of utility parameter values, wherein each received utility parameter value corresponds to a weather parameter value. Determining that a range of weather parameter values lacks a sufficient amount of corresponding received utility parameter values. Determining one or more utility parameter values that corresponds to the range of weather parameter values. Creating a model which correlates the received and the determined utility parameter values with the corresponding weather parameters values. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/149205 |
| ART UNIT | 2852 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Meteorology G01W 1/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09740079 | Davids 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) | Paul Davids (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Christopher DeRose (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Anna Tauke-Pedretti (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A beam-steering optical transceiver is provided. The transceiver includes one or more modules, each comprising an antenna chip and a control chip bonded to the antenna chip. Each antenna chip has a feeder waveguide, a plurality of row waveguides that tap off from the feeder waveguide, and a plurality of metallic nanoantenna elements arranged in a two-dimensional array of rows and columns such that each row overlies one of the row waveguides. Each antenna chip also includes a plurality of independently addressable thermo-optical phase shifters, each configured to produce a thermo-optical phase shift in a respective row. Each antenna chip also has, for each row, a row-wise heating circuit configured to produce a respective thermo-optic phase shift at each nanoantenna element along its row. The control chip includes controllable current sources for the independently addressable thermo-optical phase shifters and the row-wise heating circuits. |
| FILED | Friday, October 28, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/337179 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/1226 (20130101) G02B 6/1347 (20130101) G02B 2006/12188 (20130101) Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/2955 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02F 2001/291 (20130101) G02F 2203/24 (20130101) Transmission H04B 10/40 (20130101) |
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| US 09740081 | Kaminski |
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| APPLICANT(S) | IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Ames, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam Kaminski (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus to generate harmonically related laser wavelengths includes a pair of lenses at opposing faces of a non-linear optical material. The lenses are configured to promote incoming and outgoing beams to be normal to each outer lens surface over a range of acceptance angles of the incoming laser beam. This reduces reflection loss for higher efficiency operation. Additionally, the lenses allow a wider range of wavelengths for lasers for more universal application. Examples of the lenses include plano-cylindrical and plano-spherical form factors. |
| FILED | Friday, February 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/627925 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 7/005 (20130101) G02B 7/023 (20130101) Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/37 (20130101) G02F 1/3501 (20130101) G02F 1/3544 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02F 1/3551 (20130101) G02F 2001/3503 (20130101) |
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| US 09740214 | Joshi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ALSTOM Technology Ltd (Baden, Switzerland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GENERAL ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY GMBH (Baden, Switzerland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abhinaya Joshi (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Hao Lei (Mason, Ohio); Xinsheng Lou (West Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A control system for optimizing a chemical looping (“CL”) plant includes a reduced order mathematical model (“ROM”) that is designed by eliminating mathematical terms that have minimal effect on the outcome. A non-linear optimizer provides various inputs to the ROM and monitors the outputs to determine the optimum inputs that are then provided to the CL plant. An estimator estimates the values of various internal state variables of the CL plant. The system has one structure adapted to control a CL plant that only provides pressure measurements in the CL loops A and B, a second structure adapted to a CL plant that provides pressure measurements and solid levels in both loops A, and B, and a third structure adapted to control a CL plant that provides full information on internal state variables. A final structure provides a neural network NMPC controller to control operation of loops A and B. |
| FILED | Friday, July 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/946115 |
| ART UNIT | 2126 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 13/042 (20130101) G05B 17/02 (20130101) Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 7/0617 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09740846 | Smith |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ANGEL SECURE NETWORKS, INC. (Old Town, Maine) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ANGEL SECURE NETWORKS, INC. (Old Town, Maine) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fred Hewitt Smith (Old Town, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are devices and techniques for remotely controlling user access to a restricted computer resource. The process includes obtaining an image from a communication device of a user. An individual and a landmark are identified within the image. Determinations are made that the individual is the user and that the landmark is a predetermined landmark. Access to a restricted computing resource is granted based on the determining that the individual is the user and that the landmark is the predetermined landmark. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, May 25, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/720970 |
| ART UNIT | 2433 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/31 (20130101) G06F 21/35 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 21/42 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/3231 (20130101) H04L 63/107 (20130101) |
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| US 09741561 | Sumant et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anirudha V. Sumant (Plainfield, Illinois); Adam Khan (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for coating a substrate comprises producing a plasma ball using a microwave plasma source in the presence of a mixture of gases. The plasma ball has a diameter. The plasma ball is disposed at a first distance from the substrate and the substrate is maintained at a first temperature. The plasma ball is maintained at the first distance from the substrate, and a diamond coating is deposited on the substrate. The diamond coating has a thickness. Furthermore, the diamond coating has an optical transparency of greater than about 80%. The diamond coating can include nanocrystalline diamond. The microwave plasma source can have a frequency of about 915 MHz. |
| FILED | Friday, July 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/796527 |
| ART UNIT | 2897 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 16/274 (20130101) C23C 16/511 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0262 (20130101) H01L 21/02527 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/02576 (20130101) H01L 21/02579 (20130101) H01L 29/04 (20130101) H01L 29/1602 (20130101) |
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| US 09741945 | Nenoff 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) | Tina M. Nenoff (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Dorina Florentina Sava Gallis (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Lauren E.S. Rohwer (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure is directed to new photoluminescent metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). The newly developed MOFs include either non rare earth element (REE) transition metal atoms or limited concentrations of REE atoms, including: Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ga, Ge, Y, Ru, Ag, Cd, Sn, Sb, Ir, Pb, Bi, that are located in the MOF framework in site isolated locations, and have emission colors ranging from white to red, depending on the metal concentration levels and/or choice of ligand. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/319675 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0079 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/0089 (20130101) |
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| US 09742027 | Vail et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. (Camas, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. (Camas, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sean Vail (Vancouver, Washington); Yuhao Lu (Vancouver, Washington); Long Wang (Vancouver, Washington); Motoaki Nishijima (Kanmaki-tyo, Japan); Jong-Jan Lee (Camas, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A first method for fabricating an anode for use in sodium-ion and potassium-ion batteries includes mixing a conductive carbon material having a low surface area, a hard carbon material, and a binder material. A carbon-composite material is thus formed and coated on a conductive substrate. A second method for fabricating an anode for use in sodium-ion and potassium-ion batteries mixes a metal-containing material, a hard carbon material, and binder material. A carbon-composite material is thus formed and coated on a conductive substrate. A third method for fabricating an anode for use in sodium-ion and potassium-ion batteries provides a hard carbon material having a pyrolyzed polymer coating that is mixed with a binder material to form a carbon-composite material, which is coated on a conductive substrate. Descriptions of the anodes and batteries formed by the above-described methods are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, March 13, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/656808 |
| ART UNIT | 1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammonia; Cyanogen; Compounds Thereof C01C 3/11 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/38 (20130101) H01M 4/58 (20130101) H01M 4/131 (20130101) H01M 4/133 (20130101) H01M 4/364 (20130101) H01M 4/366 (20130101) H01M 4/0404 (20130101) H01M 4/0471 (20130101) H01M 4/483 (20130101) H01M 4/587 (20130101) H01M 4/622 (20130101) H01M 4/625 (20130101) H01M 4/1391 (20130101) H01M 4/1393 (20130101) H01M 10/054 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 2004/021 (20130101) |
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| US 09742228 | Reddy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | GENERAL ELECTGRIC COMPANY (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patel Bhageerath Reddy (Niskayuna, New York); Kum-Kang Huh (Niskayuna, New York); Ayman Mohamed Fawzi El-Refaie (Niskayuna, New York); Steven Joseph Galioto (Waterford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An electric machine, such as an Internal Permanent magnet or Synchronous Reluctance machine, having X phases, that includes a stator assembly, having M slots, with a stator core and stator teeth, that is further configured with stator windings to generate a stator magnetic field when excited with alternating currents and extends along a longitudinal axis with an inner surface that defines a cavity; and a rotor assembly, having N poles, disposed within the cavity which is configured to rotate about the longitudinal axis, wherein the rotor assembly includes a shaft, a rotor core located circumferentially around the shaft. The machine is configured such that a value k=M/(X*N) wherein k is a non-integer greater than about 1.3. The electric machine may alternatively, or additionally, include a non-uniformed gap between the exterior surface of the rotor spokes and the interior stator surface of the stator. |
| FILED | Friday, October 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/057591 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamo-electric Machines H02K 1/27 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H02K 1/146 (20130101) H02K 1/2733 (20130101) H02K 1/2773 (20130101) H02K 21/16 (20130101) H02K 29/03 (20130101) H02K 2213/03 (20130101) |
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| US 09742394 | Focia |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Jeffrey Focia (Edgewood, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A high-voltage, high-current, solid-state closing switch uses a field-effect transistor (e.g., a MOSFET) to trigger a high-voltage stack of thyristors. The switch can have a high hold-off voltage, high current carrying capacity, and high time-rate-of-change of current, di/dt. The fast closing switch can be used in pulsed power applications. |
| FILED | Monday, June 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/305148 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse Technique H03K 17/56 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03K 17/72 (20130101) |
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| US 09742804 | Urias 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) | Vincent Urias (Albuquerque, New Mexico); William M. S. Stout (Alburquerque, New Mexico); Caleb Loverro (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for protecting virtual machines. A computer system creates a copy of a group of the virtual machines in an operating network in a deception network to form a group of cloned virtual machines in the deception network when the group of the virtual machines is accessed by an adversary. The computer system creates an emulation of components from the operating network in the deception network. The components are accessible by the group of the cloned virtual machines as if the group of the cloned virtual machines was in the operating network. The computer system moves network connections for the group of the virtual machines in the operating network used by the adversary from the group of the virtual machines in the operating network to the group of the cloned virtual machines, enabling protecting the group of the virtual machines from actions performed by the adversary. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 28, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/925645 |
| ART UNIT | 2434 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/45558 (20130101) G06F 2009/45587 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/1425 (20130101) H04L 63/1491 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09742869 | Bolotin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NVIDIA CORPORATION (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NVIDIA Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Evgeny Bolotin (San Jose, California); Zvi Guz (San Jose, California); Adwait Jog (State College, Pennsylvania); Stephen William Keckler (Austin, Texas); Michael Allen Parker (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A request management subsystem is configured to establish service classes for clients that issue requests for a shared resource on a computer system. The subsystem also is configured to determine the state of the system with respect to bandwidth, current latency, frequency and voltage levels, among other characteristics. Further, the subsystem is configured to evaluate the requirements of each client with respect to latency sensitivity and required bandwidth, among other characteristics. Finally, the subsystem is configured to schedule access to shared resources, based on the priority class of each client, the demands of the application, and the state of the system. With this approach, the subsystem may enable all clients to perform optimally or, alternatively, may cause all clients to experience an equal reduction in performance. |
| FILED | Monday, December 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/101255 |
| ART UNIT | 2457 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 67/327 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09743501 | Ciasulli et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Ciasulli (San Francisco, California); Jason Jones (Berkeley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Ciasulli (San Francisco, California); Jason Jones (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatuses to support photovoltaic (“PV”) modules are described. A saddle bracket has a mounting surface to support one or more PV modules over a tube, a gusset coupled to the mounting surface, and a mounting feature coupled to the gusset to couple to the tube. A grounding washer has a first portion to couple to a support; and a second portion coupled to the first portion to provide a ground path to a PV module. A PV system has a saddle bracket; a PV module over the saddle bracket; and a grounding washer coupled to the saddle bracket and the PV module. Saddle brackets can be coupled to a torque tube at predetermined locations. PV modules can be coupled to the saddle brackets. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/272794 |
| ART UNIT | 3632 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Frames, Casings or Beds of Engines, Machines or Apparatus, Not Specific to Engines, Machines or Apparatus Provided for Elsewhere; Stands; Supports F16M 13/02 (20130101) Producing or Use of Heat Not Otherwise Provided For F24J 2/525 (20130101) F24J 2/526 (20130101) F24J 2/5252 (20130101) F24J 2/5256 (20130101) Generation of Electric Power by Conversion of Infra-red Radiation, Visible Light or Ultraviolet Light, e.g Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules H02S 20/00 (20130101) H02S 20/30 (20141201) Static Electricity; Naturally-occurring Electricity H05F 3/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/47 (20130101) Y02E 10/50 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49002 (20150115) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana); Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana); Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Babak Ziaie (West Lafayette, Indiana); Ronald A. Siegel (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor for detecting a condition includes a hydrogel configured to change thickness or volume in response to the condition. Magnetic particles are arranged in the hydrogel so that a magnetic property of the hydrogel changes with changes of thickness or volume of the hydrogel. Some such sensors include a magnetic-field detector that measures the magnetic field of the hydrogel. Other such sensors include a device coil is arranged with respect to the hydrogel so that changes in the magnetic property modulate an electrical property of the sensor. A sensing system using such a sensor includes a reader spaced apart from the sensor and including a reader coil and a resonance detector coupled to the reader coil to detect a the resonant frequency of the sensor. Changes in the magnetic property detectably modulate the resonant frequency. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/800860 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/05 (20130101) A61B 5/14503 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/14532 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/72 (20130101) |
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| US 09737557 | Hammond et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paula T. Hammond (Newton, Massachusetts); Jong Bum Lee (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Young Hoon Roh (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides, among other things, a particle which includes a core comprised of self-assembled one or more nucleic acid molecules, the core being characterized by an ability to adopt at least two configurations: a first configuration having a first greatest dimension greater than 2 μm and; a second configuration having a second greatest dimension less than 500 nm, wherein addition of a film coating converts the core from its first configuration to its second configuration. Methods of making and using of provided particles are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 28, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/811263 |
| 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 9/50 (20130101) A61K 9/167 (20130101) A61K 9/5089 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/88 (20130101) C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2320/32 (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 1/6844 (20130101) |
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| US 09737593 | Fahmy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tarek M. Fahmy (New Haven, Connecticut); Lisa D. Pfefferle (Branford, Connecticut); Gary L. Haller (Hamden, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Carbon nanotube (CNT)-based compositions for activating cellular immune responses are provided. The CNTs function as high surface area scaffolds for the attachment of T cell ligands and/or antigens. The CNT compositions function as artificial antigen-presenting cells (aAPCs) or as modular vaccines. The disclosed CNT aAPCs are efficient at activating T cells and may be used to activate T cells ex vivo or in vivo for adoptive or active immunotherapy. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/842782 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/17 (20130101) A61K 39/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 39/0011 (20130101) A61K 39/39 (20130101) A61K 39/385 (20130101) A61K 2039/5158 (20130101) A61K 2039/6093 (20130101) A61K 2039/55555 (20130101) |
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| US 09738524 | Levendis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts); Nano-C, Inc. (Westwood, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nano-C, Inc. (Westwood, Massachusetts); Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yiannis Levendis (Boston, Massachusetts); Henning Richter (Newton, Massachusetts); Chuanwei Zhuo (Malden, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus to generate carbon nanostructures from organic materials are described. Certain embodiments provide solid waste materials into a furnace, that pyrolyzes the solid waste materials into gaseous decomposition products, which are then converted to carbon nanostructures. Methods and apparatuses described herein provide numerous advantages over conventional methods, such as cost savings, reduction of handling risks, optimization of process conditions, and the like. |
| FILED | Monday, June 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/733019 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0226 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C01B 31/0233 (20130101) C01B 33/1071 (20130101) C01B 2202/06 (20130101) C01B 2202/34 (20130101) C01B 2202/36 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/842 (20130101) Y10S 977/843 (20130101) |
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| US 09738753 | Sivaguru et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jayaraman Sivaguru (Fargo, North Dakota); Mukund P. Sibi (Fargo, North Dakota); Dean C. Webster (Fargo, North Dakota); Saravana Kumar Rajendran (Trichy, India); Ramya Raghunathan (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jayaraman Sivaguru (Fargo, North Dakota); Mukund P. Sibi (Fargo, North Dakota); Dean C. Webster (Fargo, North Dakota); Saravana Kumar Rajendran (Trichy, India); Ramya Raghunathan (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | Photodegradable polymers derived from biomass are provided, together with methods of making and methods of using the polymers. The photodegradable polymers can be derived from at least a first monomeric unit and a second monomeric unit and an optional third monomeric unit. The first monomeric unit is a dicarboxylic acid and includes a furan group and the second monomeric unit includes a nitrobenzyl group. Methods of recycling the polymers including irradiating the polymers to yield recycled monomers and oligomers are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 15, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/883798 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 307/68 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 63/6856 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09738799 | Agrawal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rakesh Agrawal (West Lafayette, Indiana); Ruihong Zhang (West Lafayette, Indiana); Bryce Chryst Walker (Hillsboro, Oregon); Carol Handwerker (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A direct solution method based on a versatile amine-thiol solvent mixture which dissolves elemental metals, metal salts, organometallic complexes, metal chalcogenides, and metal oxides is described. The metal containing and metal chalcogenide precursors can be prepared by dissolving single or multiple metal sources, chalcogens, and/or metal chalcogenide compounds separately, simultaneously, or stepwise. Multinary metal chalcogenides containing at least one of copper, zinc, tin, indium, gallium, cadmium, germanium, and lead, with at least one of sulfur, selenium, or both are obtained from the above-mentioned metal chalcogenide precursors in the form of thin films, nanoparticles, inks, etc. Furthermore, infiltration of metal containing compounds into a porous structure can be achieved using the amine-thiol based precursors. In addition, due to the appreciable solubility of metal sources, metal chalcogenides, and metal oxides in the mixture of amine(s) and thiol(s), this solvent mixture can be used to remove these materials from a system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/824913 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 19/002 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 7/1233 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0256 (20130101) H01L 21/02557 (20130101) H01L 21/02568 (20130101) H01L 21/02601 (20130101) H01L 21/02628 (20130101) H01L 31/072 (20130101) H01L 31/0326 (20130101) H01L 31/1864 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09738830 | Tao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mingjiang Tao (Worcester, Massachusetts); Mo Zhang (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mingjiang Tao (Worcester, Massachusetts); Mo Zhang (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Geopolymers are one type of aluminosilicate materials formed through the polymerization of silicate and aluminate tetrahedrons. Geopolymer is used as a non-calcium-based stabilizer to mix with sulfate-rich soils. The stabilized soils were exposed to deionized water for 7 days until the volume of soil samples reached constant. Volumetric expansion of the sulfate-rich soil samples stabilized with metakaolin based geopolymer was 7 times lower than those stabilized with lime while the mechanical strength of stabilized soil samples were significantly improved. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/920074 |
| ART UNIT | 3678 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 28/006 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 17/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Foundations; Excavations; Embankments; Underground or Underwater Structures E02D 3/123 (20130101) |
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| US 09738866 | Lipkens et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | FloDesign Sonics, Inc. (Wilbraham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | FloDesign Sonics, Inc. (Wilbraham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bart Lipkens (Hampden, Massachusetts); Erik Miller (Belchertown, Massachusetts); Benjamin Ross-Johnsrud (Wilbraham, Massachusetts); Walter M. Presz, Jr. (Wilbraham, Massachusetts); Kedar Chitale (West Hartford, Connecticut); Thomas J. Kennedy, III (Wilbraham, Massachusetts); Lauren Winiarski (Agawam, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Acoustic perfusion devices for separating biological cells from other material in a fluid mixture are disclosed. The devices include an inlet port, an outlet port, and a collection port that are connected to an acoustic chamber. An ultrasonic transducer creates an acoustic standing wave in the acoustic chamber that permits a continuous flow of fluid to be recovered through the collection port while keeping the biological cells within the acoustic chamber to be returned to the bioreactor from which the fluid mixture is being drawn. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 26, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/139248 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 17/04 (20130101) B01D 17/06 (20130101) B01D 21/283 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Generating or Transmitting Mechanical Vibrations of Infrasonic, Sonic, or Ultrasonic Frequency, for Performing Mechanical Work in General B06B 1/0644 (20130101) Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 29/10 (20130101) C12M 29/18 (20130101) C12M 33/08 (20130101) C12M 35/04 (20130101) C12M 47/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 13/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 41/0973 (20130101) |
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| US 09738966 | Geiger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Franz M. Geiger (Evanston, Illinois); Danielle Faurie-Wisniewski (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of forming chemically pure metal films are provided. The methods use electron beam deposition at a high mean deposition rate to form high purity metal films on deposition substrates. By using a high mean deposition rate, the melting point of the metal to be deposited is reached at the metal source surface during the deposition. As a result, the rate of transfer of impurities present in the metal source to the surface of the deposition substrate is so small that the deposited metal films are substantially free of impurity elements. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 03, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/844612 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 14/14 (20130101) C23C 14/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09739679 | Pan 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) | Tingrui Pan (Woodland, California); Baoqing Nie (Davis, California); Siyuan Xing (Davis, California); James D. Brandt (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A pressure sensing apparatus which utilizes an electrolytic droplet retained between a first and second sensing electrode within a housing. Contact between the electrolyte droplet and the electrodes form electric double layers (EDL) having interfacial EDL capacitance proportional to interface contact area which varies in response to mechanical pressure applied to deform exterior portions of the housing. The electrolyte contains a sufficient percentage of glycerol to prevent evaporative effects. Preferably, the sensing electrodes are modified with depressions, hydrophilic and/or hydrophobic portions to increase central anchoring of the electrolyte droplet within the housing. The inventive pressure sensor provides high sensitivity and resolution which is beneficial to numerous applications, and is particularly well-suited for medical sensing applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 22, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/272806 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 9/0072 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01L 9/0092 (20130101) G01L 9/0095 (20130101) |
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09739710 — Optical sensing and separation based on ordered three-dimensional nanostructured surfaces
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| APPLICANT(S) | NUtech Ventures (Lincoln, Nebraska); Andrea Holmes (Crete, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NUtech Ventures (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mathias M. Schubert (Lincoln, Nebraska); Tino Hofmann (Lincoln, Nebraska); Daniel Schmidt (Lincoln, Nebraska); Patrick H. Dussault (Lincoln, Nebraska); Andrea Holmes (Crete, Nebraska); Rebecca Y. Lai (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor having a substrate is provided in which structures are disposed on a surface of the substrate. The structures can be, e.g., nanostructures. Polarized light is directed toward the sensor, and birefringence of the structures with respect to the light is measured. Target particles that interact with the structures are detected based on changes in the measured birefringence. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/054504 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/23 (20130101) G01N 21/47 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/211 (20130101) G01N 21/253 (20130101) G01N 21/3581 (20130101) |
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| US 09739741 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | YuHuang Wang (Laurel, Maryland); Jia Huang (Shanghai, China PRC); Allen Ng (Silver Spring, Maryland); Yanmei Piao (College Park, Maryland); Cheng S. Lee (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | YuHuang Wang (Laurel, Maryland); Jia Huang (Shanghai, China PRC); Allen Ng (Silver Spring, Maryland); Yanmei Piao (College Park, Maryland); Cheng S. Lee (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to tube-in-a-tube electronic materials and electronic chemical sensors comprising tube-in-a-tube configurations such as covalently functionalized double-walled carbon nanotubes. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/213015 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/121 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/227 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/0057 (20130101) G01N 33/54373 (20130101) |
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| US 09740353 | Hu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yingzhe Hu (Princeton, New Jersey); Liechao Huang (Princeton, New Jersey); Naveen Verma (Princeton, New Jersey); Sigurd Wagner (Princeton, New Jersey); James C. Sturm (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A three dimensional touch sensing system having a touch surface configured to detect a touch input located above the touch surface is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of capacitive touch sensing electrodes disposed on the touch surface, each electrode having a baseline capacitance and a touch capacitance based on the touch input. An oscillating plane is disposed below the touch surface. A touch detector is configured to drive one of the touch sensing electrodes with an AC signal having a frequency that shifts from a baseline frequency to a touch frequency based on the change in electrode capacitance from the baseline capacitance to the touch capacitance. The touch detector is configured to drive the oscillating plane to the touch frequency. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 04, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/932581 |
| ART UNIT | 2696 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/017 (20130101) G06F 3/044 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 2203/04101 (20130101) G06F 2203/04104 (20130101) |
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| US 09740977 | Moon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hankyu Moon (State College, Pennsylvania); Rajeev Sharma (State College, Pennsylvania); Namsoon Jung (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | VideoMining Corporation (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hankyu Moon (State College, Pennsylvania); Rajeev Sharma (State College, Pennsylvania); Namsoon Jung (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method and system for automatically recognizing which products a shopper intends to find or purchase based on the shopper's trajectory in a retail aisle. First, the system detects and tracks the person to generate the trajectory of the shopper. Then some of the dynamic features are extracted from the shopper trajectory. The shopper trajectory features of a given trajectory are typically the positions, the motion orientations, and speeds at each point of the trajectory. A shopper behavior model is designed based on some of the primitive actions of shoppers. The last step of the method is to analyze a given shopper trajectory to estimate the shopper's intention. The step either utilizes decision rules based on the extracted shopper trajectory features, or utilizes a trained Hidden Markov Model, to estimate the progression of the primitive actions from the trajectory. The decoded progression of the shopper behavior states is then interpreted to finally determine the shopper's intention. |
| FILED | Friday, May 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/455295 |
| ART UNIT | 3687 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 5/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06N 7/005 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09741492 | Hübler |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alfred W. Hübler (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for storing information or energy. An array of nano-capacitors is provided, where each nano-capacitor has a plurality of cathodic regions and an anode separated from each of the cathodic regions by one or more intervening dielectrics. Each nano-capacitor acts as a quantum resonator thereby suppressing electron emission. The thickness of the intervening dielectric is in the range between 0.1 nanometers and 1000 nanometers and is shorter than an electron mean free path within the dielectric. Each cathodic region is at least 100 times larger than the thickness of the intervening dielectric in every direction transverse to the thickness of the intervening dielectric. An excess of electrons is stored on the cathodic regions. The dielectric may be a metal oxide, particularly a native oxide of the cathode material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 17, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/943439 |
| ART UNIT | 2848 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 4/06 (20130101) H01G 4/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01G 4/12 (20130101) H01G 4/38 (20130101) |
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| US 09741878 | Hardin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | PLANT PV, Inc. (Alameda, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PLANT PV, Inc. (Alameda, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian E. Hardin (San Carlos, California); Erik Sauar (Oslo, Norway); Dhea Suseno (Oakland, California); Jesse J. Hinricher (Pipestone, Minnesota); Jennifer Huang (Saratoga, California); Tom Yu-Tang Lin (Berkeley, California); Stephen T. Connor (San Francisco, California); Daniel J. Hellebusch (Oakland, California); Craig H. Peters (Belmont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Intercalation pastes for use with semiconductor devices are disclosed. The pastes contain precious metal particles, intercalating particles, and an organic vehicle and can be used to improve the material properties of metal particle layers. Specific formulations have been developed to be screen-printed directly onto a dried metal particle layer and fired to make a fired multilayer stack. The fired multilayer stack can be tailored to create a solderable surface, high mechanical strength, and low contact resistance. In some embodiments, the fired multilayer stack can etch through a dielectric layer to improve adhesion to a substrate. Such pastes can be used to increase the efficiency of silicon solar cells, specifically multi- and mono-crystalline silicon back-surface field (BSF), and passivated emitter and rear contact (PERC) photovoltaic cells. Other applications include integrated circuits and more broadly, electronic devices. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 23, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/360952 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/049 (20141201) H01L 31/0201 (20130101) H01L 31/0203 (20130101) H01L 31/022433 (20130101) H01L 31/022441 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09741999 | Prieto et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amy L. Prieto (Fort Collins, Colorado); James M. Mosby (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A lithium-ion battery having an anode including an array of nanowires electrochemically coated with a polymer electrolyte, and surrounded by a cathode matrix, forming thereby interpenetrating electrodes, wherein the diffusion length of the Li+ ions is significantly decreased, leading to faster charging/discharging, greater reversibility, and longer battery lifetime, is described. The battery design is applicable to a variety of battery materials. Methods for directly electrodepositing Cu2Sb from aqueous solutions at room temperature using citric acid as a complexing agent to form an array of nanowires for the anode, are also described. Conformal coating of poly-[Zn(4-vinyl-4′methyl-2,2′-bipyridine)3](PF6)2 by electroreductive polymerization onto films and high-aspect ratio nanowire arrays for a solid-state electrolyte is also described, as is reductive electropolymerization of a variety of vinyl monomers, such as those containing the acrylate functional group. Such materials display limited electronic conductivity but significant lithium ion conductivity. Cathode materials may include oxides, such as lithium cobalt oxide, lithium magnesium oxide, or lithium tin oxide, as examples, or phosphates, such as LiFePO4, as an example. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 26, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/316574 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for the Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Production of Coatings; Electroforming; Apparatus Therefor C25D 1/006 (20130101) C25D 3/58 (20130101) C25D 5/18 (20130101) C25D 9/04 (20130101) C25D 9/08 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/04 (20130101) H01M 4/131 (20130101) H01M 4/134 (20130101) H01M 4/0404 (20130101) H01M 4/0452 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 2004/021 (20130101) H01M 2004/024 (20130101) H01M 2004/025 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/762 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49115 (20150115) |
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| US 09742348 | Francis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY (Provo, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY (Provo, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Campbell Francis (Provo, Utah); Cory Nelson Newton (Provo, Utah); Mary E. Wilson (Bakersfield, California); Shannon Alisa Zirbel (Provo, Utah); Spencer P. Megleby (Provo, Utah); Larry L. Howell (Orem, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a foldable array of three-dimensional panels, which may include one or more functional electrical components. For instance, the three-dimensional multi-panel array may be reconfigured from a substantially planar configuration into a three-dimensional configuration. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/484006 |
| ART UNIT | 1757 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/0201 (20130101) Generation of Electric Power by Conversion of Infra-red Radiation, Visible Light or Ultraviolet Light, e.g Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules H02S 30/20 (20141201) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/50 (20130101) |
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| 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 Americas as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shaun Azimi (Houston, Texas); Darby Magruder (Dickinson, Texas); Justin Ridley (Houston, Texas); Anthony Lapp (Houston, Texas); Jodi Graf (Seabrook, Texas); Ross Pettinger (Friendswood, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method is provided for traversing inside one or more pipes. In an embodiment, a fluid is injected into the one or more pipes thereby promoting a fluid flow. An inspection device is deployed into the one or more pipes at least partially filled with a flowing fluid. The inspection device comprises a housing wherein the housing is designed to exploit the hydrokinetic effects associated with a fluid flow in one or more pipes as well as maneuver past a variety of pipe configurations. The inspection device may contain one or more sensors capable of performing a variety of inspection tasks. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 05, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/818799 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Transport or Storage Devices, e.g Conveyors for Loading or Tipping, shop Conveyor Systems Or pneumatic Tube Conveyors B65G 51/04 (20130101) Pipes; Joints or Fittings for Pipes; Supports for Pipes, Cables or Protective Tubing; Means for Thermal Insulation in General F16L 55/38 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F16L 55/40 (20130101) Pipe-line Systems; Pipe-lines F17D 5/00 (20130101) Testing Static or Dynamic Balance of Machines or Structures; Testing of Structures or Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G01M 3/005 (20130101) |
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| US 09739898 | Hoenk et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Hoenk (Valencia, California); John Hennessy (Los Angeles, California); David Hitlin (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A scintillation detector, including a scintillator that emits scintillation; a semiconductor photodetector having a surface area for receiving the scintillation, wherein the surface area has a passivation layer configured to provide a peak quantum efficiency greater than 40% for a first component of the scintillation, and the semiconductor photodetector has built in gain through avalanche multiplication; a coating on the surface area, wherein the coating acts as a bandpass filter that transmits light within a range of wavelengths corresponding to the first component of the scintillation and suppresses transmission of light with wavelengths outside said range of wavelengths; and wherein the surface area, the passivation layer, and the coating are controlled to increase the temporal resolution of the semiconductor photodetector. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 26, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/670365 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/247 (20130101) G01T 1/248 (20130101) G01T 1/249 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01T 1/2018 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/14663 (20130101) H01L 27/14685 (20130101) |
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| US 09741922 | Wilkie 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) | William K. Wilkie (Williamsburg, Virginia); Robert G. Bryant (Williamsburg, Virginia); Christopher S. Lynch (Sherman Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A self-latching piezocomposite actuator includes a plurality of shape memory ceramic fibers. The actuator can be latched by applying an electrical field to the shape memory ceramic fibers. The actuator remains in a latched state/shape after the electrical field is no longer present. A reverse polarity electric field may be applied to reset the actuator to its unlatched state/shape. Applied electric fields may be utilized to provide a plurality of latch states between the latched and unlatched states of the actuator. The self-latching piezocomposite actuator can be used for active/adaptive airfoils having variable camber, trim tabs, active/deformable engine inlets, adaptive or adjustable vortex generators, active optical components such as mirrors that change shapes, and other morphing structures. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/571823 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 3/48 (20130101) B64C 27/72 (20130101) B64C 2027/7211 (20130101) Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 7/042 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2260/407 (20130101) F05D 2300/603 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 26/0858 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 41/09 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 41/082 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/672 (20130101) |
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| US 09742348 | Francis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY (Provo, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY (Provo, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Campbell Francis (Provo, Utah); Cory Nelson Newton (Provo, Utah); Mary E. Wilson (Bakersfield, California); Shannon Alisa Zirbel (Provo, Utah); Spencer P. Megleby (Provo, Utah); Larry L. Howell (Orem, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a foldable array of three-dimensional panels, which may include one or more functional electrical components. For instance, the three-dimensional multi-panel array may be reconfigured from a substantially planar configuration into a three-dimensional configuration. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/484006 |
| ART UNIT | 1757 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/0201 (20130101) Generation of Electric Power by Conversion of Infra-red Radiation, Visible Light or Ultraviolet Light, e.g Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules H02S 30/20 (20141201) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09743290 | Barsoum et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Constellation Designs, Inc. (Pacific Palisades, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Constellation Designs, Inc. (Pacific Palisades, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maged F. Barsoum (Saratoga, California); Christopher R. Jones (Pacific Palisades, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Communication systems are described that use signal constellations, which have unequally spaced (i.e. ‘geometrically’ shaped) points. In many embodiments, the communication systems use specific geometric constellations that are capacity optimized at a specific SNR, over the Raleigh fading channel. In addition, ranges within which the constellation points of a capacity optimized constellation can be perturbed and are still likely to achieve a given percentage of the optimal capacity increase compared to a constellation that maximizes dmin, are also described. Capacity measures that are used in the selection of the location of constellation points include, but are not limited to, parallel decode (PD) capacity and joint capacity. |
| FILED | Monday, November 16, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/943003 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 1/0003 (20130101) H04L 1/0009 (20130101) H04L 5/006 (20130101) H04L 27/3405 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 24/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04W 72/0453 (20130101) H04W 72/0473 (20130101) |
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09743292 — Methodology and method and apparatus for signaling with capacity optimized constellations
| US 09743292 | Barsoum et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Constellation Designs, Inc. (Pacific Palisades, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Constellation Designs, Inc. (Pacific Palisades, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maged F. Barsoum (Saratoga, California); Christopher R. Jones (Pacific Palisades, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Communication systems are described that use geometrically shaped constellations that have increased capacity compared to conventional constellations operating within a similar SNR band. In several embodiments, the geometrically shaped is optimized based upon a capacity measure such as parallel decoding capacity or joint capacity. In many embodiments, a capacity optimized geometrically shaped constellation can be used to replace a conventional constellation as part of a firmware upgrade to transmitters and receivers within a communication system. In a number of embodiments, the geometrically shaped constellation is optimized for an Additive White Gaussian Noise channel or a fading channel. |
| FILED | Friday, July 01, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/200800 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 15/00 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 1/0003 (20130101) H04L 1/0009 (20130101) H04L 27/3405 (20130101) H04L 27/3483 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 24/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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U.S. State Government
| US 09738621 | Seo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS, A BODY CORPORATE OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA ACTING FOR AND ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (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) | Dong-Kyun Seo (Chandler, Arizona); Ki-Wan Jeon (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Forming multifunctional materials and composites thereof includes contacting a first material having a plurality of oxygen-containing functional groups with a chalcogenide compound, and initiating a chemical reaction between the first material and the chalcogenide compound, thereby replacing oxygen in some of the oxygen-containing functional groups with chalcogen from the chalcogen-containing compound to yield a second material having chalcogen-containing functional groups and oxygen-containing functional groups. The first material is a carbonaceous material or a macromolecular material. A product including the second material is collected and may be processed further to yield a modified product or a composite. |
| FILED | Friday, February 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/379021 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Organic Chemistry |
| 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 19/00 (20130101) C01B 31/026 (20130101) C01B 31/0484 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 331/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 345/00 (20130101) Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 11/02 (20130101) C08B 11/20 (20130101) C08B 15/00 (20130101) C08B 15/05 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 1/08 (20130101) C08L 1/28 (20130101) C08L 101/06 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/134 (20151101) |
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| US 09738934 | Brennan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Clinical Reference Laboratory, Inc. (Lenexa, Kansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Clinical Reference Laboratory, Inc. (Lenexa, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark David Brennan (Jeffersonville, Indiana); Timothy Lynn Ramsey (Shelbyville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to genetic markers of mental illness, e.g., schizophrenia (SZ), and methods of use thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, December 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/968333 |
| 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 | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/16 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 31/551 (20130101) A61K 31/554 (20130101) A61K 31/5415 (20130101) A61K 31/5513 (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 2600/106 (20130101) C12Q 2600/118 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) C12Q 2600/172 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/18 (20130101) G06F 19/325 (20130101) G06F 19/326 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Clean Power Research, L.L.C. (Napa, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CLEAN POWER RESEARCH, L.L.C. (Napa, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas E. Hoff (Napa, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Operational specifications of a photovoltaic plant configuration can be inferred through evaluation of historical measured system production data and measured solar resource data. Based upon the location of the photovoltaic plant, a time-series power generation data set is simulated based on a normalized and preferably substantially linearly-scalable solar power simulation model. The simulation is run for a range of hypothetical photovoltaic system configurations. The simulation can be done probabilistically. A power rating is derived for each system configuration by comparison of the measured versus simulated production data, which is applied to scale up the simulated time-series data. The simulated energy production is statistically compared to actual historical data, and the system configuration reflecting the lowest overall error is identified as the inferred (and optimal) system configuration. Inferred configurations of photovoltaic plants in a photovoltaic fleet can be aggregated into a configuration of the fleet. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/223926 |
| ART UNIT | 2864 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Meteorology G01W 1/12 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/5009 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/04 (20130101) G06Q 50/06 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 3/383 (20130101) H02J 2003/007 (20130101) Generation of Electric Power by Conversion of Infra-red Radiation, Visible Light or Ultraviolet Light, e.g Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules H02S 50/10 (20141201) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/563 (20130101) Y02E 60/76 (20130101) Systems Integrating Technologies Related to Power Network Operation, Communication or Information Technologies for Improving the Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management or Usage, i.e Smart Grids Y04S 10/54 (20130101) Y04S 40/22 (20130101) |
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| US 09741742 | Smith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph Smith (Tempe, Arizona); Emmett Howard (Tempe, Arizona); Jennifer Blain Christen (Chandler, 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) | Joseph Smith (Tempe, Arizona); Emmett Howard (Tempe, Arizona); Jennifer Blain Christen (Chandler, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Some embodiments include a method of providing an electronic device. The method includes: (i) providing a carrier substrate, (ii) providing a device substrate comprising a first side and a second side opposite the first side, the device substrate having a flexible substrate, (iii) coupling the first side of the device substrate to the carrier substrate; and (iv) after coupling the first side of the device substrate to the carrier substrate, providing two or more active sections over the second side of the device substrate, each active section of the two or more active sections being spatially separate from each other and having at least one semiconductor device. Other embodiments of related methods and devices are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/979087 |
| ART UNIT | 2897 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 2562/02 (20130101) A61B 2562/164 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/768 (20130101) H01L 21/6835 (20130101) H01L 21/30604 (20130101) H01L 23/15 (20130101) H01L 23/3192 (20130101) H01L 23/4985 (20130101) H01L 27/153 (20130101) H01L 27/1218 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 27/1262 (20130101) H01L 27/14636 (20130101) H01L 29/78603 (20130101) H01L 2221/6835 (20130101) H01L 2221/68381 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) |
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Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 09738805 | Landorf et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brewer Science Inc. (Rolla, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brewer Science Inc. (Rolla, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Landorf (Springfield, Missouri); Carissa Jones (Springfield, Missouri); Marriana Nelson (Springfield, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | New methods for preparing carbon nanotube films having enhanced properties are provided. The method broadly provides reacting carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and compounds comprising a polyaromatic moieties in the presence a strong acid. During the reaction process, the polyaromatic moieties noncovalently bond with the carbon nanotubes. Additionally, the functionalizing moieties are further functionalized by the strong acid. This dual functionalization allows the CNTs to be dispersed at concentrations greater than 0.5 g/L in solution without damaging their desirable electronic and physical properties. The resulting solutions are stable on the shelf for months without observable bundling, and can be incorporated into solutions for printing conductive traces by a variety of means, including inkjet, screen, flexographic, gravure printing, or spin and spray coating. |
| FILED | Saturday, January 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/164156 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0273 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 11/52 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/24 (20130101) |
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| US 09738944 | Qiao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Virent, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virent, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ming Qiao (Pewaukee, Wisconsin); Randy D. Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin); Elizabeth Woods (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides processes for catalytic deconstruction of biomass using a solvent produced in a bioreforming reaction. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 30, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/364764 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 23/52 (20130101) B01J 23/464 (20130101) B01J 23/687 (20130101) Cracking Hydrocarbon Oils; Production of Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g by Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation; Recovery of Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, or Gases; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting of Hydrocarbons; Reforming of Naphtha; Mineral Waxes C10G 1/06 (20130101) C10G 1/065 (20130101) C10G 3/47 (20130101) C10G 2300/44 (20130101) C10G 2300/1011 (20130101) Saccharides Obtained From Natural Sources or by Hydrolysis of Naturally Occurring Disaccharides, Oligosaccharides or Polysaccharides C13K 1/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09741416 | Vandenberghe 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) | William G. Vandenberghe (Murphy, Texas); Christopher L. Hinkle (Richardson, Texas); Massimo V. Fischetti (Richardson, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Memory devices based on gate controlled ferromagnetism and spin-polarized current injection are provided. The device structure can include a two dimensional (2D) topological insulator (TI) having an active area body. One or a pair of ferromagnetic storage units are provided on top of the 2D TI with a dielectric and a gate thereon. A first contact can be at one end of the 2D TI and a second contact can be at the other end of the 2D TI, with the one or pair of ferromagnetic storage units on the 2D TI between the two contacts to facilitate 2D TI transport along a one-dimensional edge of the first and/or second lateral side. Application of biases via the gate and the first and second contacts enable read and write operations. |
| FILED | Monday, September 12, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/263199 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 11/161 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G11C 11/1673 (20130101) G11C 11/1675 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/228 (20130101) |
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National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 09740617 | Sury et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samantika Sury (Westford, Massachusetts); Simon Steely, Jr. (Hudson, New Hampshire); William Hasenplaugh (Boston, Massachusetts); Joel Emer (Acton, Massachusetts); David Webb (Groton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatuses to control cache line coherence are described. A hardware processor may include a first processor core with a cache to store a cache line, a second set of processor cores that each include a cache to store a copy of the cache line, and cache coherence logic to aggregate in a tag directory an acknowledgment message from each of the second set of processor cores in response to a request from the first processor core to modify the copy of the cache line in each of the second set of processor cores and send a consolidated acknowledgment message to the first processor core. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/581097 |
| ART UNIT | 2138 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 12/0822 (20130101) G06F 12/0833 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 2212/283 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 60/1225 (20130101) |
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| US 09740978 | Hassanzadeh 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) | Oktie Hassanzadeh (Port Chester, New York); Anton V. Riabov (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Shirin Sohrabi Araghi (Port Chester, New York); Octavian Udrea (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A mechanism is provided for identifying a set of top-m clusters from a set of top-k plans. A planning problem and an integer value k indicating a number of top plans to be identified are received. A set of top-k plans are generated with at most size k, where the set of top-k plans is with respect to a given measure of plan quality. Each plan in the set of top-k plans is clustered based on a similarity between plans such that each cluster contains similar plans and each plan is grouped only into one cluster thereby forming the set of top-m clusters. A representative plan from each top-m cluster is presented to the user. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/525790 |
| ART UNIT | 2124 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30598 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 5/022 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06N 99/005 (20130101) |
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Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09739510 | Hassen |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles N. Hassen (Tucson, Arizona) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Charles N. Hassen (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved method to manage the flow of heat in an active regenerator in a magnetocaloric or an electrocaloric heat-pump refrigeration system, in which heat exchange fluid moves synchronously with the motion of a magnetic or electric field. Only a portion of the length of the active regenerator bed is introduced to or removed from the field at one time, and the heat exchange fluid flows from the cold side toward the hot side while the magnetic or electric field moves along the active regenerator bed. |
| FILED | Friday, September 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/261218 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration Machines, Plants or Systems; Combined Heating and Refrigeration Systems; Heat-pump Systems F25B 21/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F25B 30/00 (20130101) F25B 2321/001 (20130101) F25B 2321/002 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 30/52 (20130101) Y02B 30/66 (20130101) |
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| US 09743046 | Giuffrida et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pictometry International Corp. (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pictometry International Corp. (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank D. Giuffrida (Honeoye Falls, New York); Mark A. Winkelbauer (Rochester, New York); Charles Mondello (Pittsford, New York); Robert S. Bradacs (Rochester, New York); Craig D. Woodward (Rochester, New York); Stephen L. Schultz (West Henrietta, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure describes a method for displaying data products onto a geospatial map in real-time using a computer program. In one version, the method includes the steps of monitoring the one or more directories of one or more computer readable media for newly created data products, automatically reading the newly created data products, correlating positional information of the data products with the geospatial map of the computer program for mapping and exploitation, and rendering information onto the geospatial map indicative of the area covered by each newly created data product. |
| FILED | Friday, December 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/730340 |
| ART UNIT | 2455 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 11/02 (20130101) Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 17/89 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 17/05 (20130101) Arrangements or Circuits for Control of Indicating Devices Using Static Means to Present Variable Information G09G 5/377 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 7/005 (20130101) H04N 7/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04N 7/181 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 4/046 (20130101) |
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Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 09740799 | Herdt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Julee Ann Herdt (Boulder, Colorado); Kellen Scott Schauermann (Longmont, Colorado); John F. Hunt (Mount Horeb, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a Body Corporate (Denver, Colorado); The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Julee Ann Herdt (Boulder, Colorado); Kellen Scott Schauermann (Longmont, Colorado); John F. Hunt (Mount Horeb, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A three-dimensional engineered shaped fiber configuration is formed using determined structural requirements for a three-dimensional engineered shaped fiber configuration and ascertained properties of an engineered molded fiber fiberboard material. A first cut on a top surface and a second cut on a bottom surface of the fiberboard material are calculated. These calculations are based, at least in part, on the structural requirements properties of the fiberboard material. The first cut and the second cut each have a depth, a width, and a position. The first cut and the second cut have a spacing between them such that the flat piece of fiberboard material can be folded at a point located in the spacing between the first cut and second cut to position a first portion of the fiberboard material at a particular angle with respect to a second portion of the fiberboard material. |
| FILED | Friday, December 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/991092 |
| ART UNIT | 2125 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 53/063 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29B, B29C or B29D, Relating to Moulding Materials or to Materials for Reinforcements, Fillers or Preformed Parts, e.g Inserts B29K 2105/08 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 09743046 | Giuffrida et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pictometry International Corp. (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pictometry International Corp. (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank D. Giuffrida (Honeoye Falls, New York); Mark A. Winkelbauer (Rochester, New York); Charles Mondello (Pittsford, New York); Robert S. Bradacs (Rochester, New York); Craig D. Woodward (Rochester, New York); Stephen L. Schultz (West Henrietta, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure describes a method for displaying data products onto a geospatial map in real-time using a computer program. In one version, the method includes the steps of monitoring the one or more directories of one or more computer readable media for newly created data products, automatically reading the newly created data products, correlating positional information of the data products with the geospatial map of the computer program for mapping and exploitation, and rendering information onto the geospatial map indicative of the area covered by each newly created data product. |
| FILED | Friday, December 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/730340 |
| ART UNIT | 2455 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 11/02 (20130101) Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 17/89 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 17/05 (20130101) Arrangements or Circuits for Control of Indicating Devices Using Static Means to Present Variable Information G09G 5/377 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 7/005 (20130101) H04N 7/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04N 7/181 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 4/046 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 09738934 | Brennan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Clinical Reference Laboratory, Inc. (Lenexa, Kansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Clinical Reference Laboratory, Inc. (Lenexa, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark David Brennan (Jeffersonville, Indiana); Timothy Lynn Ramsey (Shelbyville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to genetic markers of mental illness, e.g., schizophrenia (SZ), and methods of use thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, December 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/968333 |
| 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 | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/16 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 31/551 (20130101) A61K 31/554 (20130101) A61K 31/5415 (20130101) A61K 31/5513 (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 2600/106 (20130101) C12Q 2600/118 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) C12Q 2600/172 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/18 (20130101) G06F 19/325 (20130101) G06F 19/326 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
| US 09738678 | Doncel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eastern Virginia Medical School (Norfolk, Virginia); Board of Governors for Higher Education, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eastern Virginia Medical School (Norfolk, Virginia); Board of Governors for Higher Education, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gustavo F. Doncel (Norfolk, Virginia); Keykavous Parang (Irvine, California); Hitesh Kumar Agarwal (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to fatty acid and fatty alcohol substituted nucleoside derivatives and nucleoside and nucleoside derivatives substituted on multivalent scaffolds (e.g., polymers, peptides, polycarboxylic acid substituted compounds, compounds containing polycycloSaligenyl groups) that display potent anti-HIV activity. Furthermore, they show enhanced activity against multi-drug resistant, R5, and cell-associated virus. Some of them also display activity against other sexually transmitted pathogens and sperm. The present invention provides their methods of synthesis, composition of matter, and methods of use. Emphasis is placed on their application as topical microbicides to treat or prevent sexual transmission of disease, especially HIV/AIDS. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 24, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/079918 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 411/04 (20130101) Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 19/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07H 19/10 (20130101) C07H 19/16 (20130101) C07H 19/20 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US D795524 | Tartal 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) | William Albert Tartal (Baltimore, Maryland); Donald Eugene Irwin (Fredericksburg, Virginia) |
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| FILED | Thursday, April 07, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 29/560570 |
| ART UNIT | 2912 — Design |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous D99/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 09737887 | Eshoo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ibis Biosciences, Inc. (Carlsbad, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | IBIS BIOSCIENCES, INC. (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Eshoo (San Diego, California); John Picuri (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides integrated sample preparation systems and stabilized enzyme mixtures. In particular, the present invention provides microfluidic cards configured for processing a sample and generating DNA libraries that are suitable for use in sequencing methods (e.g., next generation sequencing methods) or other suitable nucleic acid analysis methods. The present invention also provides stabilized enzyme mixtures containing an enzyme (e.g., an enzyme used in whole genome amplification), BSA, and a sugar. Such enzyme mixtures may be lyophilized and stored at room temperature without significant loss of enzyme activity for months. |
| FILED | Monday, February 23, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/629047 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/5027 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 3/502753 (20130101) B01L 7/52 (20130101) B01L 2200/10 (20130101) B01L 2300/087 (20130101) B01L 2300/0672 (20130101) B01L 2300/0681 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0864 (20130101) B01L 2300/0867 (20130101) B01L 2300/0887 (20130101) B01L 2400/0481 (20130101) B01L 2400/0487 (20130101) B01L 2400/0683 (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 1/6806 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09741095 | Gohlke et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | RAYTHEON COMPANY (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RAYTHEON COMPANY (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Gohlke (McKinney, Texas); Christopher J. Baker (McKinney, Texas); Trent A. Jacobs (McKinney, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for interpolating between pixels of an image for providing zoom and pan features. A piecewise cubic spline is used to find the values of each of four provisional interpolation points in each of four rows of an image and, similarly, a piecewise cubic spline is used to interpolate between the provisional interpolation points to find the value of a point in the output image. Boundary conditions used to constrain the coefficients of the piecewise cubic spline provide enhanced quality in the output image. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/167708 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 3/4007 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 3/4092 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09741636 | Starkovich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Starkovich (Redondo Beach, California); Jesse B. Tice (Torrance, California); Edward M. Silverman (Encino, California); Hsiao-Hu Peng (Rancho Palo Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermal interface material (TIM) using high thermal conductivity nano-particles, particularly ones with large aspect ratios, for enhancing thermal transport across boundary or interfacial layers that exist at bulk material interfaces is disclosed. The nanoparticles do not need to be used in a fluid carrier or as filler material within a bonding adhesive to enhance thermal transport, but simply in a dry solid state. The nanoparticles may be equiaxed or acicular in shape with large aspect ratios like nanorods and nanowires. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 20, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/270078 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/373 (20130101) H01L 23/3733 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 23/3737 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, August 22, 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)
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- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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