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Patent Details for Tuesday, August 29, 2017
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| US 09743879 | Inoue et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rush University Medical Center (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rush University Medical Center (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nozomu Inoue (Chicago, Illinois); Alejandro A. Espinoza Orias (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of a measuring kinematic parameter in a subject is provided. The method includes obtaining a first magnetic resonance (MR) image set of a bone marrow segment of the subject in a first position and obtaining a second MR image set of the bone marrow segment of the subject in a second position where the second position different from the first position. The method further includes registering the first image set with the second image set and measuring a kinematic parameter. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/861773 |
| ART UNIT | 2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/055 (20130101) A61B 5/458 (20130101) A61B 5/459 (20130101) A61B 5/1128 (20130101) A61B 5/4504 (20130101) A61B 5/4566 (20130101) A61B 5/4571 (20130101) A61B 5/4576 (20130101) A61B 5/4585 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/4595 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/248 (20170101) G06T 7/337 (20170101) G06T 2200/04 (20130101) G06T 2207/10088 (20130101) G06T 2207/30012 (20130101) |
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| US 09743909 | Sapozhnikov 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) | Oleg A. Sapozhnikov (Seattle, Washington); Michael R. Bailey (Seattle, Washington); Joo Ha Hwang (Bellevue, Washington); Tatiana D. Khokhlova (Seattle, Washington); Vera Khokhlova (Seattle, Washington); Matthew O'Donnell (Seattle, Washington); Tong Li (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for imaging a cavitation bubble includes producing a vibratory wave that induces a cavitation bubble in a medium, producing one or more detection waves directed toward the induced cavitation bubble, receiving one or more reflection waves, identifying a change in one or more characteristics of the induced cavitation bubble, and generating an image of the induced cavitation bubble using a computing device on the basis of the identified change in the one or more characteristics. The one or more received reflection waves correspond to at least one of the one or more produced detection waves reflection from the induced cavitation bubble. The identified change in one or more characteristics corresponds to the one or more received reflection waves. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/278197 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0062 (20130101) A61B 5/0507 (20130101) A61B 8/481 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09744141 | Ortac 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) | Inanc Ortac (San Diego, California); Sadik C. Esener (Solana Beach, California); Jian Yang (Kingston, Canada); William Trogler (Del Mar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, structures, devices and systems are disclosed for fabricating and implementing nanoparticles with hollow core and sealable holes. In one aspect, a nanoparticle device can includes a shell structure including at least two layers including an internal layer and an external layer, the internal layer structured to enclose a hollow interior region and include one or more holes penetrating the internal layer, the external layer is of a porous material and formed around the internal layer and sealing the one or more holes, and a substance contained within the hollow interior region, the substance incapable of passing through the external layer. |
| FILED | Monday, July 27, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/810069 |
| 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 9/5073 (20130101) A61K 9/5115 (20130101) A61K 9/5146 (20130101) A61K 9/5192 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 13/22 (20130101) B01J 20/28021 (20130101) Casting of Metals; Casting of Other Substances by the Same Processes or Devices B22D 25/02 (20130101) B22D 29/001 (20130101) Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 67/202 (20130101) B29C 67/205 (20130101) Nanostructures Formed by Manipulation of Individual Atoms, Molecules, or Limited Collections of Atoms or Molecules as Discrete Units; Manufacture or Treatment Thereof B82B 3/0019 (20130101) Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/14 (20130101) C04B 35/624 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/773 (20130101) Y10S 977/896 (20130101) Y10S 977/906 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2989 (20150115) |
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| US 09744147 | Stock et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SIGNUM BIOSCIENCES, INC. (Monmouth Junction, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Signum Biosciences, Inc. (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffry B. Stock (Princeton, New Jersey); Maxwell Stock (Rocky Hill, New Jersey); Keshava Rapole (Edison, New Jersey); Seung-Yub Lee (Princeton, New Jersey); Michael Voronkov (Pennington, New Jersey); Eduardo Perez (Somerset, New Jersey); Joel Gordon (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Shuyi Chen (Somerset, New Jersey); Jinglong Chen (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | Among other things, the present invention provides novel isoprenyl compounds capable of effectively modulating inflammatory responses and pharmaceutical, cosmetic, cosmeceutical and topical compositions comprising these isoprenyl compounds. Anti-inflammatory compounds of the present invention are useful in treating or preventing diseases or conditions associated with inflammation. Proinflammatory compounds of the present invention are useful in treating or preventing diseases or conditions associated with suppression of inflammatory responses. Thus, the present invention also provides methods useful in the treatment or prevention of diseases or conditions associated with inflammation as well as methods useful in the treatment or prevention of diseases or conditions associated with suppression of inflammatory responses. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 10, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/151221 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0014 (20130101) A61K 31/197 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 243/34 (20130101) C07C 321/18 (20130101) C07C 323/59 (20130101) C07C 335/08 (20130101) C07C 2601/02 (20170501) C07C 2601/14 (20170501) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/16 (20130101) C07D 209/18 (20130101) C07D 209/48 (20130101) C07D 217/26 (20130101) C07D 243/34 (20130101) C07D 295/145 (20130101) C07D 307/54 (20130101) C07D 333/24 (20130101) |
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| US 09744154 | Tyavanagimatt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Siga Technologies, Inc. (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SIGA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shanthakumar R. Tyavanagimatt (Corvallis, Oregon); Melialani A.C.L.S. Anderson (Corvallis, Oregon); William C. Weimers (Corvallis, Oregon); Dylan Nelson (Portland, Oregon); Tove′ C. Bolken (Keizer, Oregon); Dennis E. Hruby (Albany, Oregon); Michael H. O'Neill (Painesville, Ohio); Gary Sweetapple (Madison, Ohio); Kelley A. McCloughan (South Haven, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Polymorph forms of 4-trifluoromethyl-N-(3,3a,4,4a,5,5a,6,6a-octahydro-1,3-dioxo-4,6-ethenocycloprop[f]isoindol-2(1H)-yl)-benzamide are disclosed as well as their methods of synthesis and pharmaceutical compositions. |
| FILED | Friday, December 04, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/959180 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/1652 (20130101) A61K 9/4866 (20130101) A61K 31/404 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/70 (20130101) C07D 209/76 (20130101) |
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| US 09744164 | Schubert et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Schubert (La Jolla, California); Pamela A. Maher (La Jolla, California); Chandramouli Chiruta (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides neuroprotective polyphenol compounds, which can be synthetic analogs of fisetin, baicalein or chlorogenic acid, that maintain neuroprotective, anti-inflammatory, glutathione promoting, and/or antioxidant properties. The neuroprotective polyphenol compounds are useful for promoting, enhancing and/or increasing neuron protection, growth and/or regeneration. The polyphenol compounds further find use for increasing and or maintaining intracellular glutathione (GSH) levels. The polyphenol compounds are also useful for treating, preventing, mitigating and/or delaying neurodegenerative conditions, including diabetes, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, Alzheimer's disease, non-Alzheimer's dementias, multiple sclerosis, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury or ALS. |
| FILED | Friday, February 26, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/054906 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/12 (20130101) A61K 31/47 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/352 (20130101) A61K 31/353 (20130101) A61K 31/4025 (20130101) A61K 31/4709 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 49/84 (20130101) C07C 49/835 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 215/233 (20130101) C07D 311/30 (20130101) C07D 311/60 (20130101) C07D 311/62 (20130101) C07D 311/78 (20130101) |
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| US 09744172 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaodong Wang (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Jing Liu (Jersey City, New Jersey); Chao Yang (Franklin Park, New Jersey); Weihe Zhang (Vestavia, Alabama); Stephen Frye (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Dmitri Kireev (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Compound of Formula I: are described, along with pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, compositions containing the same, and methods of use thereof in the treatment of cancer. |
| FILED | Monday, February 29, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/055756 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/519 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/551 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 487/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09744188 | Flanagan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John G. Flanagan (Weston, Massachusetts); Yingjie Shen (Brighton, Massachusetts); Edith Yvonne Jones (Oxford, United Kingdom); Alexandru Radu Aricescu (Oxford, United Kingdom); Charlotte Hannah Coles (Bonn, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (Cambridge, Massachusetts); THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Oxford, United Kingdom) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John G. Flanagan (Weston, Massachusetts); Yingjie Shen (Brighton, Massachusetts); Edith Yvonne Jones (Oxford, United Kingdom); Alexandru Radu Aricescu (Oxford, United Kingdom); Charlotte Hannah Coles (Bonn, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods of inducing neuronal outgrowth of a neuron. The methods comprise contacting the neuron with an agent that binds receptor protein tyrosine phosphatase δ (RPTPδ), to thereby induce neuronal outgrowth of the neuron. The agent may induces clustering of RPTPδ and/or inhibit binding of chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan (CSPG) to RPTPδ. Examples of suitable agents are heparan sulfate proteoglycan, heparan sulfate, heparan sulfate oligosaccharides, or heparin oligosaccharides. Additional agents are also disclosed. The neuron can be a CNS neuron or peripheral neuron. Also disclosed herein are methods of treating neuronal injury in a subject comprising, administering to the subject an agent that binds RPTPδ. Administration may be to a site of neuronal injury, to thereby induce neuronal outgrowth at the site of neuronal injury. |
| FILED | Friday, February 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/985629 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/727 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/727 (20130101) A61K 31/737 (20130101) A61K 31/737 (20130101) A61K 38/177 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09744191 | Breaker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald R. Breaker (Guilford, Connecticut); Sanshu Li (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods for antimicrobial use. The compositions contain a small antimicrobial agent and a permeabilizing agent. The antimicrobial compositions can be antifungal or antibacterial compositions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/384106 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/55 (20130101) A61K 31/55 (20130101) A61K 31/70 (20130101) A61K 31/70 (20130101) A61K 31/167 (20130101) A61K 31/167 (20130101) A61K 31/381 (20130101) A61K 31/381 (20130101) A61K 31/4196 (20130101) A61K 31/4196 (20130101) A61K 31/4427 (20130101) A61K 31/4427 (20130101) A61K 31/7048 (20130101) A61K 31/7048 (20130101) A61K 33/00 (20130101) A61K 33/14 (20130101) A61K 33/14 (20130101) A61K 33/16 (20130101) A61K 33/16 (20130101) A61K 33/18 (20130101) A61K 33/18 (20130101) A61K 33/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09744194 | Johe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Neuralstem, Inc. (Germantown, Maryland); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Neuralstem, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl K. Johe (Sunny Isles, Florida); Thomas G. Hazel (North Potomac, Maryland); Martin Marsala (San Diego, California); Osamu Kakinohana (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates generally to methods of treating spasticity, rigidity, or muscular hyperactivity conditions by introducing a portion of an expanded population of neural stem cells into an area of a recipient spinal cord. |
| FILED | Monday, November 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/954105 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0085 (20130101) A61K 35/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0623 (20130101) C12N 2501/11 (20130101) C12N 2501/113 (20130101) C12N 2501/115 (20130101) C12N 2501/148 (20130101) |
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| US 09744212 | Chiriva-Internati et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Texas Tech University System (Lubbock, Texas); MandalMed, Inc. (San Francisco, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Texas Tech University System (Lubbock, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maurizio Chiriva-Internati (Lubbock, Texas); Everardo Cobos (Lubbock, Texas); Constance John (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a novel composition of matter useful for the treatment of neoplastic diseases. The novel composition is synergistic and comprised of galectin-3C in combination with a proteasome inhibitor, the combination having a pharmacologic activity greater than the expected additive effect of its individual components. Other embodiments of the invention provide novel synergistic compositions of galectin-3C with a proteasome inhibitor capable of reducing or overcoming resistance that develops to the proteasome inhibitor or reducing the adverse side effects from the proteasome inhibitor through increasing the therapeutic efficacy of lower doses. |
| FILED | Monday, February 08, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/017856 |
| 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 31/69 (20130101) A61K 31/69 (20130101) A61K 31/407 (20130101) A61K 31/407 (20130101) A61K 38/05 (20130101) A61K 38/07 (20130101) A61K 38/07 (20130101) A61K 38/1732 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09744215 | Kim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. (Ardsley, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. (Ardsley, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Haesun Kim (Teaneck, New Jersey); Anthony O. Caggiano (Larchmont, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to administering glial growth factor 2 (GGF2) to a patient in need thereof, to achieve serum levels of GGF2 within a desired therapeutic window determined based on the disease or disorder afflicting the patient. In a particular embodiment, the patient is suffering from a disease or disorder associated with reduced levels of myelination and the GGF2 is administered to promote myelination in the patient. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 21, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/002608 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/18 (20130101) A61K 38/18 (20130101) A61K 38/1883 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/1883 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6872 (20130101) G01N 33/6896 (20130101) G01N 2333/4756 (20130101) G01N 2800/285 (20130101) |
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| US 09744220 | Perrin |
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| APPLICANT(S) | TUFTS UNIVERSITY (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tufts University (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mercio A. Perrin (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions and methods for treating inflammatory diseases, such as cardiac or hepatic inflammatory diseases, involving the use of parasite-derived neurotrophic factor (PDNF), or fragment of PDNF. The invention also provides compositions featuring PDNF, or a fragment thereof, and methods for using such compositions for the proliferation and/or mobilization of a stem cell (e.g., cardiac stem cell) or progenitor cell (e.g., hepatic progenitor cell). In one aspect, the invention provides a method of decreasing inflammation in a nonneuronal tissue of a subject. In another aspect, the invention provides a method of decreasing inflammation in a cardiac, liver, pancreas, or gastrointestinal tissue of a subject. In still another aspect, the invention provides a method of increasing expression of an anti-inflammatory factor in a non-neuronal cell or tissue. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/768157 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/16 (20130101) A61K 38/47 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Enzymes C12Y 302/01018 (20130101) |
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| US 09744227 | Bronshtein |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Universal Stabilization Technologies, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Universal Stabilization Technologies, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor Bronshtein (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure concerns compositions containing inactivated but therapeutically active biopharmaceuticals, and methods for formulation thereof. Biopharmaceuticals are encapsulated and immobilized in dry amorphous carbohydrate-glass and irradiated for inactivation while in the dry state. The resulting compositions provide ambient-temperature stable, therapeutically active but inactivated biopharmaceuticals for use in vaccines and other applications. |
| FILED | Monday, March 23, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/665107 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/07 (20130101) A61K 39/09 (20130101) A61K 39/205 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2760/20134 (20130101) C12N 2760/20161 (20130101) |
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| US 09744236 | Yuste et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rafael Yuste (New York, New York); Roberto Etchenique (Buenos Aires, Argentina); Luis Baraldo (Buenos Aires, Argentina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York); Universidad de Buenos Aires (Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rafael Yuste (New York, New York); Roberto Etchenique (Buenos Aires, Argentina); Luis Baraldo (Buenos Aires, Argentina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes Photolabile Compounds methods for use of the compounds. The Photolabile Compounds have a photoreleasable ligand, which can be biologically active, and which is photoreleased from the compound upon exposure to light. In some embodiments, the Photolabile Compounds comprise a light antenna, such as a labeling molecule or an active derivative thereof. In one embodiment, the light is visible light, which is not detrimental to the viability of biological samples, such as cells and tissues, in which the released organic molecule is bioactive and can have a therapeutic effect. In another embodiment, the photoreleasable ligand can be a labeling molecule, such as a fluorescent molecule. |
| FILED | Friday, December 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/336643 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/41 (20130101) A61K 31/198 (20130101) A61K 31/465 (20130101) A61K 31/675 (20130101) A61K 31/4045 (20130101) A61K 31/4409 (20130101) A61K 41/0042 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/48076 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 5/062 (20130101) A61N 2005/067 (20130101) A61N 2005/0657 (20130101) A61N 2005/0659 (20130101) A61N 2005/0661 (20130101) A61N 2005/0662 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/12 (20130101) B01J 2219/12 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 15/0053 (20130101) |
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| US 09744265 | Schmuck et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric G. Schmuck (Deforest, Wisconsin); Kurt W. Saupe (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A bioscaffold made from an isolated cardiac fibroblast-derived 3-dimensional extracellular matrix (ECM) is disclosed. The bioscaffold can be used as an epicardial patch for the delivery of therapeutic cells into myocardial tissue. Methods of making the 3-dimensional extracellular matrix using cultured cardiac fibroblasts are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, July 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/330486 |
| 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 35/28 (20130101) A61K 35/28 (20130101) A61K 35/33 (20130101) A61K 35/33 (20130101) A61K 35/34 (20130101) A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/54 (20130101) A61L 27/3633 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 27/3687 (20130101) A61L 27/3834 (20130101) A61L 2300/414 (20130101) A61L 2430/20 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0657 (20130101) C12N 5/0663 (20130101) C12N 2513/00 (20130101) C12N 2533/90 (20130101) |
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| US 09744267 | Chancellor et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael B. Chancellor (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Johnny Huard (Houston, Texas); Christopher C. Capelli (Houston, Texas); Steve Chung (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Michael S. Sacks (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A rapid method for preparing stem cell and physiologically acceptable matrix compositions for use in tissue and organ repair is described. Compared with previous tissue engineering materials, the stem cell-matrix compositions of the present invention do not require long-term incubation or cultivation in vitro prior to use in in vivo applications. The stem cells can be from numerous sources and may be homogeneous, heterogeneous, autologous, and/or allogeneic in the matrix material. The stem cell-matrix compositions provide point of service utility for the practitioner, wherein the stem cells and matrix can be combined not long before use, thereby alleviating costly and lengthy manufacturing procedures. In addition, the stem cells offer unique structural properties to the matrix composition which improves outcome and healing after use. Use of stem cells obtained from muscle affords contractility to the matrix composition. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 17, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/972402 |
| 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 35/12 (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 27/225 (20130101) A61L 27/3629 (20130101) A61L 27/3679 (20130101) A61L 27/3834 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 2430/22 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0068 (20130101) C12N 5/0658 (20130101) C12N 5/0668 (20130101) C12N 5/0697 (20130101) C12N 2533/56 (20130101) C12N 2533/74 (20130101) C12N 2533/90 (20130101) C12N 2533/92 (20130101) |
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| US 09744282 | Rosenberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerson Rosenberg (Lebanon, Pennsylvania); Joshua P. Cysyk (Hershey, Pennsylvania); William J. Weiss (Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania); Raymond K. Newswanger (Terre Hill, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention provide a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) cannula that includes multiple independent sensors may help decrease the incidence of ventricular collapse and provide automatic speed control. A cannula may include two or more independent sensors. One sensor may measure ventricular pressure, while another may measure ventricular volume and/or ventricular wall location. With this information an automatic control system may be configured to adjust pump speed to minimize the likelihood of ventricular collapse and maximize LVAD flow in response to physiologic demand. Typically the volume sensors are conductance sensors. Further embodiments provide LVADs that are powered by RF energy. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 04, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/398002 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 1/122 (20140204) Original (OR) Class A61M 1/127 (20130101) A61M 1/1086 (20130101) A61M 2205/3303 (20130101) A61M 2205/3334 (20130101) A61M 2205/3344 (20130101) A61M 2205/3523 (20130101) A61M 2230/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09744293 | Abdulreda et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Midhat H. Abdulreda (Hollywood, Florida); Per-Olof Berggren (Solina, Sweden); Conrado Freites (Miami, Florida) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Midhat H. Abdulreda (Hollywood, Florida); Per-Olof Berggren (Solina, Sweden); Conrado Freites (Miami, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A motorized injection and aspiration system and methods for its use, where the motorized injection and aspiration system comprises (a) a syringe coupled to a needle, wherein the syringe includes a plunger, (b) a cannula, (c) a tube having first and second ends, wherein the first end is coupled to the needle and the second end is coupled to the cannula, (d) a syringe driver to drive the plunger, (e) at least one foot pedal, (f) a step motor, and (g) a control unit in communication with the step motor, the syringe driver and the at least one foot pedal. |
| FILED | Friday, May 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/469327 |
| ART UNIT | 3763 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 2017/00973 (20130101) A61B 2017/00977 (20130101) Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 1/0058 (20130101) A61M 1/0062 (20130101) A61M 5/1456 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61M 5/1458 (20130101) A61M 5/3148 (20130101) A61M 2205/586 (20130101) A61M 2209/01 (20130101) |
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| US 09744359 | Vyas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neha Vyas (San Jose, California); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Arup Roy (Valencia, California); Donald Webber (Encino, California); Richard Agustin Castro (Santa Monica, California); John Reinhold (Tarzana, California); Kelly McClure (Simi Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for verifying that proper visual stimulation is applied to the visual prostheses are described. In one of the methods, a visual stimulation system implanted on a subject is simulated externally. An external testing device is also discussed. |
| FILED | Friday, June 10, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/179725 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0543 (20130101) A61N 1/36046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/37241 (20130101) A61N 1/37247 (20130101) Educational or Demonstration Appliances; Appliances for Teaching, or Communicating With, the Blind, Deaf or Mute; Models; Planetaria; Globes; Maps; Diagrams G09B 21/00 (20130101) G09B 23/28 (20130101) |
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| US 09744373 | Hernandez-Garcia et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Luis Hernandez-Garcia (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Anthony Grbic (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Eric Michielssen (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Luis Gomez (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Luis Hernandez-Garcia (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Anthony Grbic (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Eric Michielssen (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Luis Gomez (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved apparatus is provided for transcranial magnetic stimulation in a brain of a subject. The apparatus is comprised of: a plurality of coils electrically connected in series to each other; and a single source of current electrically coupled to one of the plurality of coils. Each coil may include one or more windings of similar dimensions although the size of the windings varies between coils. Each of the coils is further dimensioned to stimulate brain tissue at a given distance while minimizing volume of the brain tissue excited by the magnetic field. During operation, the current source injects time varying current into the coils to create a magnetic field which in turn induces electric fields and eddy-currents inside the brain tissue of the subject. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/130707 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/40 (20130101) A61N 2/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 2/006 (20130101) |
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| US 09744379 | Bharat et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shyam Bharat (Creve Coeur, Missouri); Karl Antonin Bzdusek (Madison, Wisconsin); Parag Jitendra Parikh (St. Louis, Missouri); Camille Elizabeth Noel (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands); WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shyam Bharat (Creve Coeur, Missouri); Karl Antonin Bzdusek (Madison, Wisconsin); Parag Jitendra Parikh (St. Louis, Missouri); Camille Elizabeth Noel (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A treatment planning system (106) for generating patient-specific treatment margins. The system (106) includes one or more processors (142). The processors (142) are programmed to receive a radiation treatment plan (RTP) for irradiating a target (122) over the course of one or more treatment fractions. The RTP including one or more treatment margins around the target (122) and a planned dose distribution for the target (122). The processors (142) are further programmed to receive motion data for at least one of the treatment fractions of the RTP from one or more target surrogates (124), calculate a motion-compensated dose distribution for the target (122) using the motion data and the planned dose distribution, compare the motion-compensated dose distribution to the planned dose distribution, and adjust the treatment margins based on dosimetric differences between the motion-compensated dose distribution and the planned dose distribution. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/004504 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 5/1031 (20130101) A61N 5/1037 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 2005/1072 (20130101) |
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| US 09745248 | Sang |
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| APPLICANT(S) | North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (Greensboro, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (Greensboro, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shengmin Sang (Concord, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel aspirin derivatives useful for preventing and/or treating cancer. The novel compounds of this invention may be particularly useful for the prevention and/or treatment of cancers affecting the gastrointestinal system, such as colorectal cancer. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 15, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/883852 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 49/86 (20130101) C07C 49/835 (20130101) C07C 69/78 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 69/86 (20130101) |
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| US 09745255 | Piomelli et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Genoa, Italy); Universita Degli Studi di Urbino “Carlo Bo” (Urbino, Italy); Universita Degli Studi di Parma (Parma, Italy) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Technologia (Genoa, Italy); Universita Degli Studi di Urbino “Carlo Bo” (Urbino, Italy); Universita Degli Studi di Parma (Parma, Italy) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniele Piomelli (Irvine, California); Guillermo Moreno-Sanz (Irvine, California); Tiziano Bandiera (Gambolo, Italy); Marco Mor (Ghedi, Italy); Giorgio Tarzia (Petriano, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of making and using peripherally restricted inhibitors of fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH). The present invention provides compounds and compositions that suppress FAAH activity and increases anandamide levels outside the central nervous system (CNS). The present invention also sets forth methods for inhibiting FAAH as well as methods for treating conditions such as, but not limited to, pain, inflammation, immune disorders, dermatitis, mucositis, the over reactivity of peripheral sensory neurons, neurodermatitis, and an overactive bladder. Accordingly, the invention also provides compounds, methods, and pharmaceutical compositions for treating conditions in which the selective inhibition of peripheral FAAH (as opposed to CNS FAAH) would be of benefit. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/183073 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 269/02 (20130101) C07C 269/02 (20130101) C07C 271/56 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 271/56 (20130101) C07C 2101/04 (20130101) C07C 2101/08 (20130101) C07C 2101/14 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 309/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09745261 | Faloon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION (Boston, Massachusetts); THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION (Boston, Massachusetts); THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick Faloon (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Warren S. Weiner (Phoenix, Arizona); Robert A. Smith (Lawrence, Kansas); Frank John Schoenen (Lawrence, Kansas); David E. Fisher (Newton, Massachusetts); Rizwan Haq (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are compounds of the formula (IV) as well as pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein the substituents are as those disclosed in the specification. These compounds, and the pharmaceutical compositions containing them, are useful as MITF inhibitors, MITF pathway inhibitors and for the treatment of cancer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/897445 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/4184 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 311/17 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/48 (20130101) C07D 307/68 (20130101) C07D 307/91 (20130101) C07D 333/34 (20130101) C07D 409/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09745288 | Meroueh |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Samy O. Meroueh (Carmel, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samy O. Meroueh (Carmel, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds and methods for treating or preventing cancer associated with binding to the urokinase receptor are provided. Biological processes affected by the compounds include cell migration, cell growth, cell adhesion, angiogenesis, cancer cell invasion, apoptosis, tumor formation, tumor progression, metastasis, degradation of the extracellular matrix, pericellular proteolysis, activation of plasminogen, changes in the levels of an extracellular protease, and changes in the levels of a VEGF receptor. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/238504 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/36 (20130101) A61K 31/402 (20130101) A61K 31/445 (20130101) A61K 31/453 (20130101) A61K 31/454 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/277 (20130101) C07D 211/94 (20130101) C07D 317/50 (20130101) C07D 401/04 (20130101) C07D 405/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09745312 | Krasinski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ChemoCentryx, Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ChemoCentryx, Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Antoni Krasinski (Mountain View, California); Sreenivas Punna (Sunnyvale, California); Solomon Ungashe (Fremont, California); Qiang Wang (Union City, California); Yibin Zeng (San Mateo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds are provided that act as potent antagonists of the CCR2 receptor. The compounds are generally aryl sulfonamide derivatives and are useful in pharmaceutical compositions, methods for the treatment of CCR2-mediated diseases and as controls in assays for the identification of CCR2 antagonists. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 28, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/195777 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/79 (20130101) C07D 213/81 (20130101) C07D 213/84 (20130101) C07D 471/04 (20130101) C07D 471/12 (20130101) C07D 473/00 (20130101) C07D 487/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09745334 | Spiegel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | YALE UNIVERSITY (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | YALE UNIVERSITY (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Spiegel (New Haven, Connecticut); Christopher Parker (Medina, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to new bifunctional compounds and methods for treating HIV infections. The bifunctional small molecules, generally referred to as CDM-Hs, function through orthogonal pathways, by inhibiting the gp120-CD4 interaction, and by introducing cytotoxic moieties to gp120-expressing cells, thereby causing cell death and preventing cell infection and spread of HIV. It is shown that CDM-Hs bind to gp120 and gp-120 expressing cells competitively with CD4, and these compounds cause cell death of HIV-infected cells, thereby decreasing viral infectivity. Compounds and methods are described herein. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/396956 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/67 (20130101) A61K 31/67 (20130101) A61K 31/704 (20130101) A61K 31/706 (20130101) A61K 31/706 (20130101) A61K 31/7028 (20130101) A61K 31/7034 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 47/481 (20130101) A61K 47/48215 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 405/14 (20130101) Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 15/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09745352 | Raman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rahul Raman (Waltham, Massachusetts); Xiaoying Koh (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Karthik Viswanathan (Waltham, Massachusetts); Ram Sasisekharan (Bedford, Massachusetts); Aarthi Chandrasekaran (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides, among other things, methods, reagents, and systems for the treatment, detection, analysis, and/or characterization of influenza infections. |
| FILED | Friday, July 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/341285 |
| 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) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/1018 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2760/16122 (20130101) C12N 2760/16133 (20130101) C12N 2760/16134 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56983 (20130101) G01N 2333/11 (20130101) |
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| US 09745353 | Krebs et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph Krebs (Austin, Texas); Paul Morrison (Austin, Texas); Jun Wang (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bioo Scientific Corporation (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Krebs (Austin, Texas); Paul Morrison (Austin, Texas); Jun Wang (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Anti-peptide antibodies (APAs) are extremely important tools for biomedical research. Many important techniques, such as immunoblots, ELISA immunoassays, immunocytochemistry, and protein microarrays are intrinsically linked to APA function and completely dependent on APA quality. Unfortunately, not all commercially-available APAs have good antigen binding characteristics; as a result, researchers are often unable to perform high quality protein analysis experiments. This disclosure describes a new method for the scalable production of polyclonal APAs using recombinant antigens. These recombinant peptide antigens have several advantages over traditional peptide antigens which improve the ease and speed of antibody production. The recombinant antigens can be scalably produced and purified much faster than traditional synthetic peptide-conjugates. These recombinant antigen-carriers are designed to specifically aggregate in vivo after administration into the host; this aggregation greatly enhances immunogenicity and may eliminate the need for the use of chemical adjuvants which cause physical irritation and discomfort to the host. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/990344 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/6031 (20130101) A61K 2039/6043 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/195 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/00 (20130101) C07K 16/40 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/0008 (20130101) |
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| US 09745355 | Zion et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SmartCells, Inc. (Whitehouse Station, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SmartCells, Inc. (Kenilworth, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd C. Zion (Marblehead, Massachusetts); Thomas M. Lancaster (Stoneham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the disclosure provides cross-linked materials that include multivalent lectins with at least two binding sites for glucose, wherein the lectins include at least one covalently linked affinity ligand which is capable of competing with glucose for binding with at least one of said binding sites; and conjugates that include two or more separate affinity ligands bound to a conjugate framework, wherein the two or more affinity ligands compete with glucose for binding with the lectins at said binding sites and wherein conjugates are cross-linked within the material as a result of non-covalent interactions between lectins and affinity ligands on different conjugates. These materials are designed to release amounts of conjugate in response to desired concentrations of glucose. Depending on the end application, in various embodiments, the conjugates may also include a drug and/or a detectable label. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/446422 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/28 (20130101) A61K 47/4823 (20130101) A61K 47/48253 (20130101) A61K 47/48261 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/42 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/4726 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/66 (20130101) G01N 2333/4724 (20130101) |
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| US 09745356 | Simon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Roger P. Simon (Portland, Oregon); Zhi-Gang Xiong (Beaverton, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger P. Simon (Portland, Oregon); Zhi-Gang Xiong (Beaverton, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A system, including methods and compositions, for treatment of ischemia. |
| FILED | Friday, October 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/284166 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/439 (20130101) A61K 31/498 (20130101) A61K 31/4418 (20130101) A61K 31/4965 (20130101) A61K 38/16 (20130101) A61K 38/17 (20130101) A61K 38/1767 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/43518 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09745364 | Messmer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bradley T. Messmer (La Jolla, California); Nicholas Chiorazzi (Tenafly, New Jersey); Emilia Albesiano (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research (Manhasset, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bradley T. Messmer (La Jolla, California); Nicholas Chiorazzi (Tenafly, New Jersey); Emilia Albesiano (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides an anti-idiotype antibody that binds to the antigen-binding region of an antibody encoded by antibody genes selected from the group consisting of Set I, Set II, Set III, Set IV, Set V, Set VIa, Set VIb, Set VIc, Set VId, Set VIe, Set VII, and Set VIII, hybridomas and methods of treatments using such. |
| FILED | Friday, January 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/354774 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 16/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6878 (20130101) |
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| US 09745367 | Bansal |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rekha Bansal (Twinsburg, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novelmed Theraputics, Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rekha Bansal (Twinsburg, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of selecting a genus of therapeutic antibodies includes selecting antibodies with the following criteria; a) do inhibit cell lysis under conditions wherein the alternative pathway is isolated from the classical pathway; and b) do not inhibit cell lysis under conditions wherein the classical pathway is isolated from the alternative pathway; and c) do not inhibit cell lysis under conditions wherein the classical pathway and alternative pathway are active; and d) do inhibit C3b produced exclusively by the alternative pathway. |
| FILED | Friday, October 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/646286 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2317/565 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/566 (20130101) G01N 33/6854 (20130101) G01N 2333/4716 (20130101) G01N 2333/96433 (20130101) |
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| US 09745368 | Milone et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Novartis AG (Basel, Switzerland); The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Novartis AG (Basel, Switzerland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael C. Milone (Cherry Hill, New Jersey); Enxiu Wang (Upper Darby, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating the specificity and activity of T cells. In one embodiment, the invention provides a type of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) wherein the CAR is termed a “KIR-CAR” which is a CAR design comprising a component of a receptor naturally found on natural killer (NK) cells. In one embodiment, the NK receptor includes but is not limited to a naturally occurring activating and inhibitory receptor of NK cells known as a killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR). |
| FILED | Saturday, March 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/214824 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/70503 (20130101) C07K 14/70535 (20130101) C07K 16/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2319/03 (20130101) |
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| US 09745377 | Pohlmann et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paula R. Pohlmann (Nashville, Tennessee); Raymond L. Mernaugh (Franklin, Tennessee); Carlos L. Arteaga (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns antibodies that react immunologically with an epitope comprising VDKSRWQQG (SEQ ID NO: 1), including those that bind to cancer cells, and methods relating thereto. In particular, the antibodies that react immunologically with a particular epitope found in anti-tumor antigen antibodies are not only indicative of favorable therapy using the anti-tumor antigen antibodies, but are therapeutic in and of themselves. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 05, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/704541 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/19 (20130101) A61K 39/3955 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) A61K 2039/507 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/18 (20130101) C07K 16/32 (20130101) C07K 16/40 (20130101) C07K 16/2863 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/14 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) C07K 2317/73 (20130101) |
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| US 09745384 | Shi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yujiang Geno Shi (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Rui Fang (West Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | We described peptides and peptide fragments that can be used to inhibit cyclin D1 and cyclin E1, function of both of which is involved in malignant growth. Methods of treatment of cancer by inhibiting interaction between NPAC and LSD2 are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, December 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/653915 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/08 (20130101) C07K 14/4702 (20130101) C07K 16/18 (20130101) C07K 16/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/34 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/0006 (20130101) C12N 15/1137 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/531 (20130101) |
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| US 09745546 | Aviles et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rapid Micro Biosystems, Inc. (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rapid Micro Biosystems, Inc. (Lowell, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert C. Aviles (Merrimack, New Hampshire); Devin T. Michaud (Billerica, Massachusetts); Douglas J. Browne (Groton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a device for growing cells—referred to as a cassette. The cell culturing device includes a housing that contains a lid having an optically clear window; a fluid distribution channel; a sample injection port fluidically connected to the fluid distribution channel; a base housing a porous media pad; and a media injection port fluidically connected to the media pad. The lid mates to the base to form a sterile seal; the fluid distribution channel is disposed over the media pad, which is viewable through the optical window; and sample fluid introduced into the fluid distribution channel is distributed evenly to the media pad, e.g., via a plurality of channels. The invention also provides kits that include cassettes of the invention and a tube set. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/355152 |
| ART UNIT | 1799 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 23/00 (20130101) C12M 23/10 (20130101) C12M 23/22 (20130101) C12M 23/38 (20130101) C12M 23/42 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12M 25/02 (20130101) C12M 25/14 (20130101) C12M 29/00 (20130101) C12M 33/00 (20130101) C12M 41/36 (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 1/22 (20130101) |
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| US 09745553 | Keller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gordon Keller (Toronto, Canada); Paul Gadue (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides cell populations that are enriched for mesendoderm and mesoderm, and cell populations that are enriched for endoderm. The cell populations of the invention are useful for generating cells for cell replacement therapy. The present invention further provides a method of generating hepatocytes, cell populations enriched for hepatocytes, and a method of hepatocyte replacement therapy. |
| FILED | Friday, March 11, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/067728 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/067 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 5/0603 (20130101) C12N 5/0606 (20130101) C12N 5/0607 (20130101) C12N 2500/90 (20130101) C12N 2501/11 (20130101) C12N 2501/12 (20130101) C12N 2501/16 (20130101) C12N 2501/40 (20130101) C12N 2501/115 (20130101) C12N 2501/148 (20130101) C12N 2501/155 (20130101) C12N 2501/385 (20130101) C12N 2501/415 (20130101) C12N 2506/02 (20130101) C12N 2506/03 (20130101) |
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| US 09745561 | Dekkers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Ames, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jack C. M. Dekkers (Ames, Iowa); Christopher K. Tuggle (Ames, Iowa); Emily H. Waide (Ames, Iowa); Jason W. Ross (Cambridge, Iowa); N. Matthew Ellinwood (Ames, Iowa); Martine Schroyen (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The genetic basis for severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCID) in pigs is described. In addition, tests for detecting pigs that are carriers for SCID or pigs with SCID are also described. Further, methods for producing pigs or herds of pigs with SCID are also described. Further, methods and compositions for treating, ameilioraing, inhibiting or correcting SCID are provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/592586 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 67/0275 (20130101) A01K 2227/108 (20130101) A01K 2267/0387 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) C12Q 2600/16 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) |
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| US 09745578 | Chung et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leland W. K. Chung (Beverly Hills, California); Sajni Josson (Los Angeles, California); Murali Gururajan (Los Angeles, California); Anjali Jain (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes methods of treating cancer, cancer metastasis, and drug resistant cancers using miRNA inhibitors; for example, inhibitors of miR-409-5p, miR-409-3p, miR-154*. Also described are methods of using the miRNA as biomarkers; for example, to predict responsiveness to a cancer drug, to detect a disease state of cancer. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/863828 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/531 (20130101) C12N 2310/3233 (20130101) |
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| US 09745586 | Bowser et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael T. Bowser (Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota); Gianluigi Veglia (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Meng Jing (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Raffaello Verardi (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Joseph M. Metzger (St. Paul, Minnesota); Brian Raymond Thompson (Hugo, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure describes, in one aspect, a composition that generally includes an xNA molecule comprising at least six nucleotides, in an amount effective to improve at least one indicator of myocyte function and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. In another aspect, this disclosure describes a method of treating cardiac disease. Generally, the method includes administering to a subject a composition that includes an xNA molecule having at least six nucleotides, in an amount effective to improve at least one indicator of myocyte function, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. In another aspect, this disclosure describes a method for evaluating the efficacy of treatment of cardiac disease. Generally, the method includes administering to a subject a composition that includes a first xNA molecule comprising a predetermined length in an amount effective to increase myocyte relaxation, then selecting a predetermined length of a second xNA molecule for at least one subsequent treatment. If treatment with the first xNA results in more myocyte relaxation than is desired, then the predetermined length of the second xNA molecule is shorter than the predetermined length of the first xNA. If, on the other hand, treatment with the first xNA results in less myocyte relaxation than is desired then the predetermined length of the second xNA molecule is longer than the predetermined length of the first xNA. |
| FILED | Monday, February 29, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/056761 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 15/115 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/16 (20130101) C12N 2310/18 (20130101) C12N 2310/321 (20130101) C12N 2310/3521 (20130101) C12N 2320/30 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5308 (20130101) G01N 2500/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09745590 | Kay 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) | Mark A. Kay (Los Altos, California); Zhi-Ying Chen (Shenzhen, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Circular nucleic acid vectors that provide for persistently high levels of protein expression are provided. The circular vectors of the subject invention are characterized by being devoid of expression-silencing bacterial sequences, where in many embodiments the subject vectors include a unidirectional site-specific recombination product hybrid sequence in addition to an expression cassette. Also provided are methods of using the subject vectors for introduction of a nucleic acid, e.g., an expression cassette, into a target cell, as well as preparations for use in practicing such methods. The subject methods and compositions find use in a variety of different applications, including both research and therapeutic applications. Also provided is a highly efficient and readily scalable method for producing the vectors employed in the subject methods, as well as reagents and kits/systems for practicing the same. |
| FILED | Monday, September 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/480420 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 48/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/64 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/70 (20130101) C12N 15/85 (20130101) C12N 2800/30 (20130101) C12N 2800/80 (20130101) C12N 2800/108 (20130101) C12N 2830/002 (20130101) C12N 2830/55 (20130101) |
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| US 09745599 | Yao |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Feng Yao (Needham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to HSV-1 vectors which rely on the tetracycline repressor and operator as a means for regulating expression. The vectors utilize VP-16 responsive promoters of HSV to control expression of the tetracycline repressor. The vectors are of particular interest as vehicles for recombinantly expressing genes in vivo. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 11, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/823669 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 48/0008 (20130101) 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) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/635 (20130101) C12N 2710/16643 (20130101) |
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| US 09745613 | Holson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Broad Institute, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Broad Institute, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward Holson (Newton, Massachusetts); David Olson (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods for the identification of compounds, peptides and proteins that can act as substrates for histone deacetylases. The invention further relates to compounds of Formula I: F1-X1-L1-X2-P1-X3-G1 (Formula I) The invention relates to the treatment of diseases or disorders mediated by ARID1A (BAF250A). |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/805867 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/00 (20130101) A61K 31/185 (20130101) A61K 31/365 (20130101) A61K 31/397 (20130101) A61K 31/404 (20130101) A61K 31/495 (20130101) A61K 31/4192 (20130101) A61K 31/4439 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/08 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2333/98 (20130101) |
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| US 09745616 | Terbrueggen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Terbrueggen (Manhattan Beach, California); Yenbou Liu (Arcadia, California); John Ray Childers, Jr. (Long Beach, California); Chang Hee Kim (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Majid R. Abedi (Anaheim, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | DXTERITY DIAGNOSTICS INCORPORATED (Rancho Dominguez, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Terbrueggen (Manhattan Beach, California); Yenbou Liu (Arcadia, California); John Ray Childers, Jr. (Long Beach, California); Chang Hee Kim (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Majid R. Abedi (Anaheim, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions, apparatuses and methods for detecting one or more nucleic acid targets present in a sample. Methods of the invention include utilizing two or more ligation probes that reversibly bind a target nucleic acid in close proximity to each other and possess complementary reactive ligation moieties. When such probes have bound to the target in the proper orientation, they are able to undergo a spontaneous chemical ligation reaction that yields a ligation product that is directly detected or that is amplified to produce amplicons that are then detected. The present invention also provides methods to stabilize sample RNA so that degradation does not significantly affect the results of the analysis. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/118524 |
| 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 | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6809 (20130101) C12Q 1/6809 (20130101) C12Q 1/6813 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6834 (20130101) C12Q 1/6834 (20130101) C12Q 1/6855 (20130101) C12Q 1/6855 (20130101) C12Q 1/6862 (20130101) C12Q 1/6862 (20130101) C12Q 1/6862 (20130101) C12Q 2523/109 (20130101) C12Q 2523/109 (20130101) C12Q 2523/109 (20130101) C12Q 2523/109 (20130101) C12Q 2523/109 (20130101) C12Q 2525/15 (20130101) C12Q 2525/155 (20130101) C12Q 2525/155 (20130101) C12Q 2525/155 (20130101) C12Q 2525/155 (20130101) C12Q 2525/155 (20130101) C12Q 2525/161 (20130101) C12Q 2525/161 (20130101) C12Q 2525/161 (20130101) C12Q 2525/197 (20130101) C12Q 2525/197 (20130101) C12Q 2525/197 (20130101) C12Q 2525/204 (20130101) C12Q 2525/204 (20130101) C12Q 2525/204 (20130101) C12Q 2525/204 (20130101) C12Q 2525/204 (20130101) C12Q 2533/107 (20130101) C12Q 2533/107 (20130101) C12Q 2533/107 (20130101) C12Q 2537/143 (20130101) C12Q 2537/143 (20130101) C12Q 2537/143 (20130101) C12Q 2563/131 (20130101) C12Q 2563/131 (20130101) C12Q 2563/131 (20130101) C12Q 2563/179 (20130101) C12Q 2563/179 (20130101) C12Q 2563/179 (20130101) C12Q 2565/125 (20130101) C12Q 2565/125 (20130101) C12Q 2565/125 (20130101) |
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| US 09745631 | DePinho et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald A. DePinho (Houston, Texas); Lewis Cantley (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Alec C. Kimmelman (Weston, Massachusetts); Haoqiang Ying (Houston, Texas); Costas A. Lyssiotis (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for diagnosing and treating cancer associated with an oncogenic Kras mutation in a subject are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/367341 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/436 (20130101) A61K 31/4412 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/112 (20130101) C12Q 2600/118 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) |
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| US 09745635 | Tomlins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan); THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan); THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott Tomlins (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Daniel Rhodes (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Arul Chinnaiyan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Rohit Mehra (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Mark A. Rubin (New York, New York); Xiao-Wei Sun (New York, New York); Sven Perner (Ellwaugen, Germany); Charles Lee (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Francesca Demichelis (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Recurrent gene fusions of androgen regulated genes and ETS family member genes in prostate cancer are described. Compositions and methods having utility in prostate cancer diagnosis, research, and therapy are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/864466 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/11 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/112 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57434 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 435/81 (20130101) |
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| US 09746457 | Hare et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | VESTION, INC. (Miami, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vestion, Inc. (Miami, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua Hare (Miami Beach, Florida); Konstantinos Chatzistergos (Miami Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of isolating cardiac cells, including cardiac cells capable of regenerating cardiac tissue are provided. Compositions comprising cardiac cells, including cardiac cells capable of regenerating cardiac tissue are also provided. Methods of using cardiac cells, cardiac progenitor cells, including cardiac cells capable of regenerating cardiac tissue, are provided. Methods of identifying the prognosis of patients treated for heart disease and/or methods of predicting the regeneration of cardiac cells in a subject are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, December 02, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/648621 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/34 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0657 (20130101) C12N 5/0662 (20130101) C12N 2506/02 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/5073 (20130101) |
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| US 09746458 | Kirsch et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wolff M. Kirsch (Redlands, California); Matthew Schrag (Grand Terrace, California); Andrew Crofton (Loma Linda, California); Matthew Zabel (Loma Linda, California); Claudius Mueller (Warrenton, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Loma Linda University Medical Center (Loma Linda, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wolff M. Kirsch (Redlands, California); Matthew Schrag (Grand Terrace, California); Andrew Crofton (Loma Linda, California); Matthew Zabel (Loma Linda, California); Claudius Mueller (Warrenton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and kits for identifying neurological conditions in a patient by determining a level of expression of dynactin subunit p62 are disclosed. The neurological conditions may include, for example, Alzheimer's Disease (AD) without cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA). |
| FILED | Thursday, April 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/457352 |
| 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 | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/84 (20130101) G01N 33/566 (20130101) G01N 33/5058 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2500/10 (20130101) G01N 2800/2821 (20130101) |
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| US 09746459 | Sindhi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rakesh Sindhi (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Chethan AshokKumar (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods for diagnosing or predicting acute cellular and/or humoral rejection in a subject. In one example, a method of assessing organ rejection includes contacting a first sample comprising antigen presenting cells (APCs) obtained from a subject in need of or having received an organ transplant with a donor antigen from a donor under conditions sufficient to induce uptake of the donor antigen; contacting a second sample comprising APCs obtained from the subject in need of or having received an organ transplant with a third-party antigen under conditions sufficient to induce uptake of the third-party antigen; and determining an antigen presenting index by determining a ratio of uptake of the donor antigen in the first sample to uptake of the third-party antigen in the second sample, wherein the ratio of greater than one indicates organ rejection and the APCs are monocytes or monocyte-derived cells. |
| FILED | Friday, October 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/052391 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5091 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2800/245 (20130101) |
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| US 09746463 | Karsenty 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) | Gerard Karsenty (New York, New York); Patricia F. Ducy (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and compositions for treating and diagnosing disorders related to energy metabolism and the OST-PTP signaling pathway involving gamma-carboxylase, osteocalcin and adiponectin. Such disorders include, but are not limited to, metabolic syndrome, glucose intolerance, diabetes types 1 and 2, atherosclerosis and obesity. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/032008 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/16 (20130101) A61K 38/39 (20130101) A61K 47/48215 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/502 (20130101) G01N 33/5008 (20130101) G01N 33/5023 (20130101) G01N 33/5038 (20130101) G01N 33/5088 (20130101) G01N 33/54306 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/78 (20130101) G01N 2333/916 (20130101) G01N 2333/988 (20130101) |
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| US 09746468 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph Wang (San Diego, California); Susana Campuzano-Ruiz (Madrid, Spain) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Wang (San Diego, California); Susana Campuzano-Ruiz (Madrid, Spain) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, devices and materials are disclosed for implementing a bioaffinity sensor having a self-assembled monolayer interface for detection of a target molecule. In one aspect, a sensor device for detecting a target molecule includes a surface capable of attaching a thiol and a molecular monolayer formed on the surface that includes a molecular capture probe having a thiol region, a linear alkanethiol molecule having one thiol region, and a linear alkanedithiol molecule having two thiol regions, in which the molecular capture probe includes a region for receiving a target substance having a complimentary region that couples with the region of the molecular capture probe to generate a detectable signal. |
| FILED | Friday, January 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/982258 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/689 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/30 (20130101) G01N 27/327 (20130101) G01N 27/3277 (20130101) G01N 33/54386 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09746475 | Arnold et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Don B. Arnold (Santa Monica, California); Richard W. Roberts (South Pasadena, California); Garrett G. Gross (Los Angeles, California); Rudy Mora (Pasadena, California); Jason Junge (South Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Don B. Arnold (Santa Monica, California); Richard W. Roberts (South Pasadena, California); Garrett G. Gross (Los Angeles, California); Rudy Mora (Pasadena, California); Jason Junge (South Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are compositions and methods for labeling an endogenous protein, in particular, in a live cell, or for ablating an endogenous or target protein. The compositions relate to a fusion protein having a binding moiety such as an antibody, an antigen binding fragment of an antibody or an antibody mimetic that recognizes the endogenous or target protein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/004879 |
| 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 | Peptides C07K 14/78 (20130101) C07K 16/18 (20130101) C07K 16/40 (20130101) C07K 2317/80 (20130101) C07K 2317/81 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) C07K 2318/20 (20130101) C07K 2319/60 (20130101) C07K 2319/70 (20130101) C07K 2319/81 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/62 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/581 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/582 (20130101) |
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| US 09746479 | Suthanthiran et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Manikkam Suthanthiran (Scarsdale, New York); Abraham Shaked (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York); The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manikkam Suthanthiran (Scarsdale, New York); Abraham Shaked (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | In some embodiments, a method to detect acute rejection in allograft from is described. In some embodiments, a method to anticipate an episode of acute rejection in allografts is also described. In some embodiments, a kit for detecting or predicting acute transplant rejection of a transplanted organ is described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/583750 |
| 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 | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) C12Q 2600/118 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6893 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2800/245 (20130101) |
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| US 09746481 | Everett et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Allen Dale Everett (Glenwood, Maryland); James Francis Casella (Baltimore, Maryland); Jennifer Van Eyk (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allen Dale Everett (Glenwood, Maryland); James Francis Casella (Baltimore, Maryland); Jennifer Van Eyk (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the field of biomarkers. More specifically, the present invention relates to biomarkers useful in diagnosing brain injuries. Brain injury can include overt or traumatic brain injury, as well as subclinical brain injury (SCI). In one embodiment, a method for diagnosing SCI in a patient comprises (a) collecting a sample from the patient; (b) measuring the levels of a panel of biomarkers in the sample collected from the patient, wherein the panel of biomarkers comprises ASTN1, BAI3, CNDP1, ERMIN, GFAP, GRM3, KLH32, MAGE2, NRG3, NRGN, OMG, SLC39A12, RTN1, and MT3; and (c) comparing the levels of the panel of biomarkers with predefined levels of the same panel of biomarkers that correlate to a patient having SCI and predefined levels of the same panel of biomarkers that correlate to a patient not having SCI, wherein a correlation to one of the predefined levels provides the diagnosis. |
| FILED | Friday, October 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/879470 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 16/18 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6896 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2800/2871 (20130101) |
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| US 09746985 | Humayun et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ahmed A. Humayun (Washington, District of Columbia); Steven J. Silverstein (Somerville, Massachusetts); Gregory P. Zalasky (Norfolk, Virginia); Kevin D. Jones (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ahmed A. Humayun (Washington, District of Columbia); Steven J. Silverstein (Somerville, Massachusetts); Gregory P. Zalasky (Norfolk, Virginia); Kevin D. Jones (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method involves detecting operational social disruptive events on a global scale, assigning disease or non-disease event staging and warnings to express data in more simplistic terms, modeling data in conjunction with linguistics analysis to establish responsive actions, generating visualization and modeling capabilities for communicating information, and modeling disease or non-disease propagation for containment and forecasting purposes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/090742 |
| ART UNIT | 2174 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/005 (20130101) G06F 3/0481 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 3/0482 (20130101) |
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| US 09747490 | Quarles et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Chad Quarles (Nashville, Tennessee); John C. Gore (Nashville, Tennessee); Natenael B. Semmineh (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | In the various embodiments, cell size imaging is performed using a method that relies upon the acquisition of gradient echo and spin echo data during contrast agent (CA) passage through tissue and estimation of “perturber” size using the ratio of ΔR2* and ΔR2. When measured at CA equilibrium, the magnetic field perturbations, and associated MRI signal changes, are determined by the cellular features and not the vasculature. Thus, in cell size imaging the cells act as the perturbers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 04, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/932386 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/50 (20130101) G01R 33/5601 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00127 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09749758 | Puria et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | EARLENS CORPORATION (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | EARLENS CORPORATION (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sunil Puria (Sunnyvale, California); Micha Rosen (Tzur Hadassah, Israel); Jonathan P. Fay (San Mateo, California); Paul Rucker (San Francisco, California); James Stone (Saratoga, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A device to transmit an audio signal to a user comprises a transducer and a support. The support is configured for placement on the eardrum to drive the eardrum. The transducer is coupled to the support at a first location to decrease occlusion and a second location to drive the eardrum. The transducer may comprise one or more of an electromagnetic balanced armature transducer, a piezoelectric transducer, a magnetostrictive transducer, a photostrictive transducer, or a coil and magnet. The device may find use with open canal hearing aids. |
| FILED | Friday, September 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/491572 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups or Like Acoustic Electromechanical Transducers; Deaf-aid Sets; Public Address Systems H04R 17/00 (20130101) H04R 25/65 (20130101) H04R 25/554 (20130101) H04R 25/606 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04R 2225/025 (20130101) H04R 2460/09 (20130101) H04R 2460/13 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | APPLIED MINDS, LLC (Glendale, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Invention, LLC (Glendale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Keesling (Agoura Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments relate to apparatuses and methods of using light transmission thought living tissue, such as a finger, to detect the flexure of a joint. Light is introduced into the tissue at one point, passes through the tissue, and exits the tissue at a second point where a sensor receives the light as it exits the tissue. Transmission of light through living tissue such as a finger can be affected by movement of the finger. As the finger flexes and, for example, the joints of the finger change angle, the characteristics of the light exiting the tissue, such as the intensity of the light, can change. These changes in characteristics can be used as an indirect means of determining the flexure of the joint. |
| FILED | Friday, November 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/076160 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/1071 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/4528 (20130101) A61B 5/6806 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/014 (20130101) |
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| US 09743870 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina); Sandia Corporation (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, New Mexico) |
| 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 | Thursday, December 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/965755 |
| 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 09743891 | Maidment et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); REAL TIME TOMOGRAPHY, LLC (Villanova, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Real Time Tomography, LLC (Villanova, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew D. A. Maidment (Villanova, Pennsylvania); Raymond J. Acciavatti (Newtown Square, Pennsylvania); Predrag Bakic (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Susan Ng (Villanova, Pennsylvania); Peter A. Ringer (Allentown, Pennsylvania); Johnny Kuo (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Tomosynthesis imaging methods, systems, and apparatus include a source to emit penetrating particles toward an object, a detector to acquire a series of projection images responsive to the penetrating particles, and a positioning system to position the source with respect to the object and the detector. An imaging system controls the positioning apparatus, source, and detector to acquire images along a primary scan direction with offsets in a secondary scan direction. An oscillatory velocity may be applied to the source to reduce focal spot blur. Tomographic volumes are constructed that are capable of exhibiting super-resolution from data representing the acquired series of projection images taking the primary scan direction and the offsets into consideration. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/413279 |
| ART UNIT | 2667 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 6/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 6/54 (20130101) A61B 6/502 (20130101) A61B 6/4233 (20130101) A61B 6/4452 (20130101) |
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| US 09743987 | Farritor et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shane Farritor (Lincoln, Nebraska); Thomas Frederick (Omaha, Nebraska); Joe Bartels (Lincoln, Nebraska); Eric Markvicka (Ravenna, Nebraska); Jack Mondry (Stillwater, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The various embodiments disclosed herein relate to improved robotic surgical systems, including robotic surgical devices having improved arm components and/or biometric sensors, contact detection systems for robotic surgical devices, gross positioning systems and devices for use in robotic surgical systems, and improved external controllers and consoles. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/208515 |
| ART UNIT | 3731 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 19/2203 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 34/30 (20160201) A61B 2034/302 (20160201) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 901/28 (20130101) |
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| US 09744041 | Henderson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY (Syracuse, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Syracuse University (Syracuse, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Henderson (Syracuse, New York); Patrick T. Mather (Oxford, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A three component system for repairing critically sized bone defects having a first shape memory polymer (SMP) component formed as a scaffold that fills the defects, a second SMP component formed as a restricting sleeve that stabilizes and supports osseointegration and osteoconduction, and a third SMP component formed as a two-dimensional cell culture substrate for engineering periosteal grafts. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/899316 |
| ART UNIT | 3738 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| 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 2/2846 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61F 2002/285 (20130101) A61F 2002/2817 (20130101) A61F 2002/2839 (20130101) A61F 2002/30092 (20130101) A61F 2210/0014 (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 27/14 (20130101) A61L 27/16 (20130101) A61L 27/18 (20130101) A61L 27/50 (20130101) A61L 27/56 (20130101) A61L 27/3847 (20130101) A61L 2400/16 (20130101) A61L 2430/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09744056 | Kuiken et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd Kuiken (Oak Park, Illinois); Timothy Reissman (Chicago, Illinois); Elizabeth Halsne (Chicago, Illinois); Robert Lipschutz (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic and electrical interface that may be used with an assistive device. The interface comprises a proximal connector and a distal connector. The proximal connector may be attached to a liner for a residual limb and the distal connector may be attached to a hard socket or other aspect of an assistive device. Other aspects of and uses for the connector interface are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/453278 |
| ART UNIT | 3738 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0492 (20130101) A61B 5/04888 (20130101) 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 2/72 (20130101) A61F 2/76 (20130101) A61F 2/80 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61F 2/7812 (20130101) A61F 2002/5007 (20130101) A61F 2002/5072 (20130101) A61F 2002/5083 (20130101) A61F 2002/5089 (20130101) A61F 2002/6863 (20130101) A61F 2002/7875 (20130101) A61F 2002/7887 (20130101) A61F 2220/0008 (20130101) |
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| US 09744328 | Billingsley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3M Innovative Properties Company (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Britton G. Billingsley (St. Paul, Minnesota); David M. Blomberg (Lino Lakes, Minnesota); Joy L. Manske (Menomonie, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A filtering device 10 that includes a housing 12 having a plurality of subsections 32, 34, and 36 where each subsection is adapted to receive a filter element 26, 28, and 30. An inlet 18 is disposed at a first location on the housing 12, and an upstream air distribution system is placed in fluid communication with the inlet 18 and with each of the subsections 32, 34, and 36. A downstream air distribution system is located in fluid communication with each subsection 32, 34, and 36, and an outlet 20 in fluid communication with the downstream air distribution system. The upstream and downstream air distribution systems are constructed to cause the same airflow velocity through each subsection. Using such a construction, overall product service life may be increased while minimizing pressure resistance of the total filter. |
| FILED | Monday, November 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/531251 |
| ART UNIT | 3778 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 16/0003 (20140204) A61M 16/105 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61M 16/107 (20140204) A61M 16/0683 (20130101) A61M 16/0858 (20140204) A61M 2016/0027 (20130101) A61M 2205/75 (20130101) A61M 2205/3331 (20130101) Devices, Apparatus or Methods for Life-saving A62B 7/10 (20130101) A62B 18/045 (20130101) Separation B01D 29/0059 (20130101) B01D 46/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09744329 | Billingsley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3M Innovative Properties Company (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Britton G. Billingsley (St. Paul, Minnesota); David M. Blomberg (Lino Lakes, Minnesota); Joy L. Manske (Menomonie, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A filtering device 10 that includes a housing 12 having a plurality of subsections 32, 34, and 36 where each subsection contains a filter element 26, 28, and 30. An inlet 18 is disposed at a first location on the housing 12, and an upstream air distribution system is placed in fluid communication with the inlet 18 and with each of the subsections 32, 34, and 36. A downstream air distribution system is located in fluid communication with each subsection 32, 34, and 36, and an outlet 20 is in fluid communication with the downstream air distribution system. The subsections are fashioned such that each subsection 32, 34, and 36 is not in fluid communication with each other. Using a filtering device so constructed, airflow through the device may be better managed to enable overall product service life to be increased while minimizing pressure resistance of the total filter. |
| FILED | Monday, November 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/531372 |
| ART UNIT | 3778 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 16/0003 (20140204) A61M 16/105 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61M 16/0683 (20130101) A61M 2016/0027 (20130101) A61M 2205/75 (20130101) A61M 2205/3331 (20130101) Devices, Apparatus or Methods for Life-saving A62B 7/10 (20130101) A62B 18/045 (20130101) Separation B01D 29/0059 (20130101) B01D 46/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09745056 | Leahy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin P. Leahy (Naugatuck, Connecticut); Richard Joseph Simkulak (Meriden, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A main rotor blade assembly is provided including a spar which comprises a main section. A main core is positioned adjacent a trailing side of the main section of the spar. A tip assembly includes a main tip core and a tip end pocket core. The tip assembly is positioned adjacent an outboard end of the main core and the spar such that the main tip core is substantially aligned with a longitudinal axis of the main core and the tip end pocket core is substantially aligned with a longitudinal axis of the spar. At least a portion of both the main tip core and the tip end pocket core comprises a high density core. An upper composite skin and a lower composite skin extend over the spar, the main core, the main tip core, and the tip end pocket core. A portion of the upper composite skin and the lower composite skin has a thickness sufficient to be load bearing. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/894046 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 27/463 (20130101) B64C 27/473 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49337 (20150115) |
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| US 09745063 | London et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ventions, LLC (San Francisco, California) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Adam P. London (San Francisco, California); Lucas A. Hundley (Daly City, California); Lloyd J. Droppers (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for air-launching a liquid fueled rocket launch vehicle using a tubular rocket support structure for holding the launch vehicle and for supplying the launch vehicle with make-up cryogenics, electrical power, and control signals, and for providing coupling to a launch-assist aircraft. The tubular rocket support structure contains cryogenic fluids, in addition to fuel and oxidizer, to cool the fuel and oxidizer during the pre-launch phase. The tubular rocket support structure has features that keep the liquid fuel and oxidizer from sloshing away from the tank outlet ports to the launch vehicle's rocket engine after release from the aircraft but before rocket launch. In operation, the aircraft controllably releases the tubular rocket support structure containing the launch vehicle, and the launch vehicle then launches from the rocket support structure. |
| FILED | Saturday, May 09, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/708197 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — 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 5/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B64D 7/08 (20130101) Cosmonautics; Vehicles or Equipment Therefor B64G 1/005 (20130101) |
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| US 09745070 | Brouwers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward W. Brouwers (Havertown, Pennsylvania); Andrew A. Peterson (Media, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Within examples, systems for multiple zone heaters for rotor craft are provided and methods for operation. An example system for a rotor craft comprises multiple blades coupled to a rotor and areas of the multiple blades divided into sections. A given blade includes an inboard section extending from the rotor outward and an outboard section extending from the inboard section to a tip of the given blade. The system also includes a plurality of first spanwise heater systems included on respective outboard sections of the multiple blades, a plurality of second spanwise heater systems included on respective inboard sections of the multiple blades, and a control unit coupled to the plurality of first spanwise heater systems and the plurality of second spanwise heater systems. Respective heater systems of the sections of multiple blades are energized in a sequence based on outside air temperature. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/538468 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 15/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B64D 15/14 (20130101) Electric Heating; Electric Lighting Not Otherwise Provided for H05B 1/0236 (20130101) H05B 3/34 (20130101) H05B 2214/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09745190 | Jelliss et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul Jelliss (St. Louis, Missouri); Steven Buckner (St. Louis, Missouri); Stephen W. Chung (St. Louis, Missouri); Brandon J. Thomas (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Saint Louis University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Jelliss (St. Louis, Missouri); Steven Buckner (St. Louis, Missouri); Stephen W. Chung (St. Louis, Missouri); Brandon J. Thomas (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides metal nanoparticles (e.g., aluminum, chromium, iron and magnesium) having an epoxide-based oligomer coating, compositions thereof, method of making the same, and methods of use thereof, including for energy related applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/178398 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 13/14 (20130101) Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 1/0018 (20130101) B22F 1/0018 (20130101) B22F 1/0062 (20130101) B22F 2301/35 (20130101) B22F 2301/052 (20130101) B22F 2301/058 (20130101) B22F 2304/054 (20130101) B22F 2304/056 (20130101) B22F 2304/058 (20130101) B22F 2999/00 (20130101) B22F 2999/00 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2991 (20150115) |
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| US 09745226 | Schmidt |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wayde R. Schmidt (Pomfret Center, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of treating a preceramic material includes providing a preceramic polycarbosilane or polycarbosiloxane material that includes a moiety Si—O-M, where Si is silicon, O is oxygen and M is at least one metal that includes at least one transition metal, and thermally converting the preceramic polycarbosilane or polycarbosiloxane that includes the moiety Si—O-M material into a ceramic material. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/863635 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| 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 35/013 (20130101) C04B 35/56 (20130101) C04B 35/563 (20130101) C04B 35/571 (20130101) C04B 35/5156 (20130101) C04B 35/5603 (20130101) C04B 35/5607 (20130101) C04B 35/62645 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C04B 2235/483 (20130101) C04B 2235/3205 (20130101) C04B 2235/3217 (20130101) C04B 2235/3224 (20130101) C04B 2235/3231 (20130101) C04B 2235/3409 (20130101) C04B 2235/3895 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 77/50 (20130101) C08G 77/56 (20130101) C08G 77/58 (20130101) C08G 77/60 (20130101) |
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| US 09745535 | Sawyer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wallace Gregory Sawyer (Gainesville, Florida); Jennifer Vail (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Briefly described, embodiments of this disclosure include articles and methods of making articles. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 11, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/403821 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Lubricating Compositions; Use of Chemical Substances Either Alone or as Lubricating Ingredients in a Lubricating Composition C10M 107/32 (20130101) C10M 147/02 (20130101) C10M 169/041 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10M 2209/1013 (20130101) C10M 2213/02 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass C10M Relating to Lubricating Compositions C10N 2220/08 (20130101) C10N 2220/086 (20130101) C10N 2250/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09745635 | Tomlins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan); THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan); THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott Tomlins (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Daniel Rhodes (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Arul Chinnaiyan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Rohit Mehra (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Mark A. Rubin (New York, New York); Xiao-Wei Sun (New York, New York); Sven Perner (Ellwaugen, Germany); Charles Lee (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Francesca Demichelis (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Recurrent gene fusions of androgen regulated genes and ETS family member genes in prostate cancer are described. Compositions and methods having utility in prostate cancer diagnosis, research, and therapy are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/864466 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/11 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/112 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57434 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 435/81 (20130101) |
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| US 09745668 | Fetzer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOEING COMPANY (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher M. Fetzer (Santa Clarita, California); James H. Ermer (Burbank, California); Richard R. King (Thousand Oaks, California); Peter C. Colter (Canyon Country, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of disordering a layer of an optoelectronic device including; growing a plurality of lower layers; introducing an isoelectronic surfactant; growing a layer; allowing the surfactant to desorb; and growing subsequent layers all performed at a low pressure of 25 torr. |
| FILED | Monday, September 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/499452 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 25/186 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C30B 29/40 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0245 (20130101) H01L 21/02381 (20130101) H01L 21/02458 (20130101) H01L 21/02463 (20130101) H01L 21/02502 (20130101) H01L 21/02521 (20130101) H01L 21/02543 (20130101) H01L 21/02658 (20130101) H01L 31/184 (20130101) H01L 31/0687 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/544 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/521 (20151101) |
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| US 09745856 | Uskert et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc. (Indianapolis, Indiana); Rolls-Royce Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rolls-Royce Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana); Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc. (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard C. Uskert (Timonium, Maryland); Matthew P. Basiletti (Lafayette, Indiana); David J. Thomas (Brownsburg, Indiana); Ted J. Freeman (Danville, Indiana); Michelle L. Tucker (Plainfield, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides for a turbine wheel having a blade platform disposed to compliantly secure ceramic turbine blades to a rotatable disk. The platform includes opposing ends to engage a portion of an airfoil of each turbine blade and radial extensions to engage a portion of a root of each turbine blade. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 31, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/144795 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/225 (20130101) F01D 5/282 (20130101) F01D 5/3007 (20130101) F01D 5/3084 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F01D 5/3092 (20130101) F01D 11/008 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2240/55 (20130101) F05D 2240/80 (20130101) F05D 2260/96 (20130101) F05D 2300/6033 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/672 (20130101) Y02T 50/673 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49321 (20150115) |
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| US 09746288 | McIntosh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scotlund McIntosh (Framingham, Massachusetts); Lisa Bareiss Hepfinger (Holliston, Massachusetts); Cheryl Ann Stewardson (Hopedale, Massachusetts); Anabela Dugas (Rochester, Massachusetts); James George Fairneny (Roslindale, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A garment assembly such as a uniform, a military uniform and a military combat uniform is presented. The garment assembly includes a helmet or head cover being cut from a fabric having a first camouflage pattern with a first set of intermixed colored blotches thereon. The colors of the first set of intermixed colored blotches being selected from a first group of colors including an Olive 527 color, a Dark Green 528 color, a Tan 525 color, a Brown 529 color, a Bark Brown 561 color and a Dark Cream 559 color. The uniform also includes a coat being configured to fit at least a portion of a human torso and a trouser configured to fit at least a portion of human legs, the coat and trouser each being cut from a fabric having a second camouflage pattern with a second set of intermixed colored blotches thereon, the colors of the second set of intermixed colored blotches being selected from a second group of colors comprising an Olive 527 color, a Dark Green 528 color, a Light Sage 560 color, a Tan 525 color, a Brown 529 color, a Bark Brown 561 color and a Dark Cream 559 color. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/717270 |
| ART UNIT | 1785 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Outerwear; Protective Garments; Accessories A41D 29/00 (20130101) A41D 31/00 (20130101) Hats; Head Coverings A42B 3/003 (20130101) Armour; Armoured Turrets; Armoured or Armed Vehicles; Means of Attack or Defence, e.g Camouflage, in General F41H 3/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09746295 | Manole et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Leon Manole (Great Meadows, New Jersey); Wilfredo Toledo (Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey); Arthur Ricardo Pizza (Maywood, New Jersey); Ronny Alzamora (Belleville, New Jersey); Gary Anthony Pacella (Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leon Manole (Great Meadows, New Jersey); Wilfredo Toledo (Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey); Arthur Ricardo Pizza (Maywood, New Jersey); Ronny Alzamora (Belleville, New Jersey); Gary Anthony Pacella (Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An extended range, enhanced lethality 40 mm ammunition round. The round features controlled guidance and camera front end, which can be fired as fin stabilized with no appreciable spin, from an M320 grenade launcher. The round has a launching sleeve with an oversized propellant cup, to essentially double or triple conventional range, with sharp accuracy provided by the guidance system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/870712 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 12/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F42B 14/02 (20130101) F42B 14/06 (20130101) F42B 15/01 (20130101) |
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| US 09746298 | Minnicino, II |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Research Laboratory ATTN: RDRL-LOC-I (Adelphi, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Minnicino, II (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A flechette for use with a gun barrel having a tapered bore with a diameter at the initial bore section greater than the diameter at the emergent bore. The flechette includes a body constructed of a ductile material and having an elongated axis aligned with the axis of the tapered bore when positioned in the load end of the bore. The body also includes a cylindrical bulkhead as well as a bourrelet that are axially spaced from each other along the flechette and have an outside diameter substantially the same as the diameter at the initial bore section of the tapered bore. An elongated boom is attached at the tail end of the body while a penetrator is attached at the forward end of the body. Upon launch, both the bulkhead and bourrelet are compressed radially inward by the bore reduction so that the body is substantially cylindrical upon exit from the discharge end of the bore. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/446370 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 10/08 (20130101) F42B 12/06 (20130101) F42B 12/64 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F42B 12/74 (20130101) |
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| US 09746300 | Anderson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Anderson (Ogdensburg, New Jersey); Alex Paraskos (Sparta, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of selectively increasing the sensitivity of an insensitive munition by inducing porosity or Joule heating in munitions assembly comprising a power source, an explosive apparatus and a fuze apparatus wherein the explosive apparatus contains a sensitized main explosive composition comprising a secondary explosive and a sensitizing agent. As a result, the otherwise insensitive munition is rendered sensitive to a propagating wave shock by approximately 10 to 25%. To this end, a voltage is applied across the main conductive explosive composition within the insensitive munition. Voltages above certain thresholds cause the decomposition of the explosive material or conductive binder, which leads to an increase in porosity, and therefore the shock sensitivity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 09, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/019010 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosives or Thermic Compositions; Manufacture Thereof; Use of Single Substances as Explosives C06B 23/004 (20130101) Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 12/207 (20130101) Ammunition Fuzes; Arming or Safety Means Therefor F42C 11/008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F42C 19/0838 (20130101) |
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| US 09746361 | Zhu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jianzhong Zhu (Crozet, Virginia); Hilary Bart-Smith (Charlottesville, Virginia); Zheng Chen (Andover, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas flow sensing device, and related method of manufacturing, comprising a conductive layer encapsulated in dielectric film, suspended over a cavity to form a diaphragm. The conductive layer functions as both a heating a sensing element and is patterned to provide uniform heat distribution across the diaphragm. The device is designed to sense flow from any direction relative to the device and the design of the dielectric film and diaphragm reduces sensor drift during prolonged operation. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/394223 |
| ART UNIT | 2852 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow or Liquid Level; Metering by Volume G01F 1/684 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01F 1/692 (20130101) G01F 1/696 (20130101) G01F 1/6845 (20130101) G01F 15/006 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 3/0011 (20130101) H05K 3/46 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49155 (20150115) |
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| US 09746381 | Guinn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Witt C. Guinn (Portland, Connecticut); John J. Korzendorfer (Glastonbury, Connecticut); David J. Sander (South Windsor, Connecticut); Kelly A. Vanston (West Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Witt C. Guinn (Portland, Connecticut); John J. Korzendorfer (Glastonbury, Connecticut); David J. Sander (South Windsor, Connecticut); Kelly A. Vanston (West Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An exemplary laser instrumentation bracket includes a support structure providing a recess configured to receive a collar of a laser housing. The laser housing has a main body extending axially through an aperture of the support structure when the recess receives the collar. |
| FILED | Friday, June 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/530208 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 17/085 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2270/80 (20130101) Measuring Temperature; Measuring Quantity of Heat; Thermally-sensitive Elements Not Otherwise Provided for G01K 1/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01K 11/12 (20130101) G01K 13/02 (20130101) G01K 2013/024 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49778 (20150115) |
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| US 09746913 | Lam 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) | Jack Lam (Burbank, California); Philippe Navarro (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Secured remote maintenance, configuration management, and systems engineering apparatuses and methods including wearable augmented reality (AR) interface systems are provided. Embodiments can support secure and remote configuration setting changes (CSC) to a system or subsystem of interest (SSoI) using a head mounted device (HMD), a camera, a visual interface section, and a processing section including a plurality of processing instructions operable to operate a command input (CI) interface using one or more user command input CIs (e.g. voice or motion/gesture input recognition) using a secure user authentication systems. HMD machine vision and pattern recognition systems visually identify a SSoI, displaying a 3D model(s) of the SSoI on the HMD's visual interface using the AR interface system, obtaining a plurality of SSoI data, and displaying one or more of the SSoI data in relation to the 3D model on the HMD visual interface to support various tasks including CI directed CSCs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 29, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/869166 |
| ART UNIT | 2693 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 27/017 (20130101) G02B 2027/014 (20130101) G02B 2027/0138 (20130101) G02B 2027/0178 (20130101) G02B 2027/0187 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/011 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 3/017 (20130101) G06F 3/048 (20130101) G06F 3/167 (20130101) |
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| US 09746985 | Humayun et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ahmed A. Humayun (Washington, District of Columbia); Steven J. Silverstein (Somerville, Massachusetts); Gregory P. Zalasky (Norfolk, Virginia); Kevin D. Jones (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ahmed A. Humayun (Washington, District of Columbia); Steven J. Silverstein (Somerville, Massachusetts); Gregory P. Zalasky (Norfolk, Virginia); Kevin D. Jones (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method involves detecting operational social disruptive events on a global scale, assigning disease or non-disease event staging and warnings to express data in more simplistic terms, modeling data in conjunction with linguistics analysis to establish responsive actions, generating visualization and modeling capabilities for communicating information, and modeling disease or non-disease propagation for containment and forecasting purposes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/090742 |
| ART UNIT | 2174 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/005 (20130101) G06F 3/0481 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 3/0482 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09747545 | Akopyan 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) | Filipp A. Akopyan (New Windsor, New York); Rodrigo Alvarez-Icaza Rivera (Mountain View, California); John V. Arthur (Mountain View, California); Andrew S. Cassidy (San Jose, California); Bryan L. Jackson (Fremont, California); Paul A. Merolla (Palo Alto, California); Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, California); Jun Sawada (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention relate to a system for controlling program execution. The system comprises an event-based core controller including a set of state-preserving elements. The core controller starts and stops the program execution based on one or more control signals. For each instruction of the program, the core controller triggers a target component to execute the instruction by generating and sending an instruction and/or a trigger pulse to the target component. |
| FILED | Friday, September 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/491824 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/049 (20130101) G06N 3/063 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09747550 | 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-in 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 | Monday, June 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/745899 |
| 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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| US 09747996 | Kay et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | 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) | Matthew Kay (Jasper, Indiana); James David Ingalls (Bedford, Indiana); Matthew Gadlage (Bloomington, Indiana); Adam Duncan (Bloomington, Indiana); Andrew Howard (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of improving radiation tolerance of floating gate memories is provided herein. Floating gate memories can include a floating gate transistor or a block of floating gate transistors. A floating gate transistor can include a semiconductor region, a source region, a drain region, a floating gate region, a tunnel oxide region, an oxide-nitride-oxide region, and a control gate region. A floating gate transistor or block of floating gate transistors can be written to multiple times in order to accumulate charge on one or more floating gate regions in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. When exposed to radiation, a floating gate region can retain its charge above a certain voltage threshold. A block of floating gate transistors can communicate with an external device where the external device can read a state of the block of floating gate transistors in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. |
| FILED | Friday, January 27, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/417660 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 16/10 (20130101) G11C 16/26 (20130101) G11C 16/349 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G11C 16/0483 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09748015 | Mrozek et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by Sec. of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randy A. Mrozek (Baltimore, Maryland); Joesph L. Lenhart (Port Deposit, Maryland); Geoffrey A. Slipher (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to deformable polymer composites, and more particularly to, deformable polymer composites with controlled electrical performance during deformation through tailored strain-dependent conductive filler contact. According to embodiments, a deformable elastomeric conductive material includes: an elastomeric polymer matrix; and conductive filler material uniformly dispersed in the elastomeric polymer matrix sufficient to render the material electrically or thermally conductive. The conductive filler material comprises a plurality of substantially non-entangled particles having an aspect ratio sufficiently large to enable the particles to substantially remain in contact and/or in close proximity with adjacent particles so as to maintain conductive pathways in the material when the material is subjected to deformation up to and exceeding 10% strain. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/294252 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 17/02 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/22 (20130101) H01B 1/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01B 3/28 (20130101) H01B 3/30 (20130101) H01B 3/40 (20130101) H01B 3/46 (20130101) H01B 3/305 (20130101) H01B 3/306 (20130101) H01B 3/441 (20130101) H01B 3/442 (20130101) H01B 3/443 (20130101) H01B 3/445 (20130101) H01B 3/447 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09748071 | Guerrera et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Angelo Guerrera (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Akintunde I. Akinwande (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An electron beam apparatus is disclosed that includes a plurality of current source elements disposed in at least one field emitter array. Each current source element can be a gated vertical transistor, an ungated vertical transistor, or a current controlled channel that is proximate to an optically-modulated current source. The electron beam apparatus includes a plurality of field emitter tips, each field emitter tip of the plurality of field emitter tips being coupled to a current source element of the plurality of current source elements. The electron beam apparatus is configured to allow selective activation of one or more of the current source elements. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/765759 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 37/065 (20130101) H01J 37/073 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 37/3007 (20130101) H01J 37/3174 (20130101) H01J 37/3177 (20130101) H01J 2237/063 (20130101) H01J 2237/0473 (20130101) H01J 2237/3175 (20130101) H01J 2237/31781 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09748421 | Mitra et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Subhasish Mitra (Palo Alto, California); Nishant P. Patil (Mountain View, California); Chung Chun Wan (Fremont, California); H.-S. Philip Wong (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Subhasish Mitra (Palo Alto, California); Nishant P. Patil (Mountain View, California); Chung Chun Wan (Fremont, California); H.-S. Philip Wong (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A wafer-scale multiple carbon nanotube transfer process is provided. According to one embodiment of the invention, plasma exposure processes are performed at various stages of the fabrication process of a carbon nanotube device or article to improve feasibility and yield for successive transfers of nanotubes. In one such carbon nanotube transfer process, a carrier material is partially etched by a plasma process before removing the carrier material through, for example, a wet etch. By applying the subject plasma exposure processes, fabrication of ultra-high-density nanotubes and ultra-high-density nanotube grids or fabrics is facilitated. The ultra-high-density nanotubes and ultra-high-density nanotube grids or fabrics fabricated utilizing embodiments of the invention can be used, for example, to make high-performance carbon nanotube field effect transistors (CNFETs) and low cost, highly-transparent, and low-resistivity electrodes for solar cell and flat panel display applications. Further, three-dimensional CNFETs can be provided by utilizing the subject plasma exposure processes. |
| FILED | Friday, March 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/718418 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Cleaning in General; Prevention of Fouling in General B08B 7/0035 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/283 (20130101) H01L 31/035281 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/003 (20130101) H01L 51/0013 (20130101) H01L 51/0048 (20130101) H01L 51/0541 (20130101) H01L 51/0558 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/521 (20151101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09748422 | Allen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter Matthew Allen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Matthew Allen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor nanocrystal include a first I-III-VI semiconductor material and have a luminescence quantum yield of at least 10%, at least 20%, or at least 30%. The nanocrystal can be substantially free of toxic elements. Populations of the nanocrystals can have an emission FWHM of no greater than 0.35 eV. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/864488 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 19/002 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2004/52 (20130101) C01P 2004/64 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/58 (20130101) C09K 11/62 (20130101) C09K 11/88 (20130101) C09K 11/565 (20130101) C09K 11/584 (20130101) C09K 11/623 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/0749 (20130101) H01L 31/03529 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/541 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/521 (20151101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09748427 | Rajavel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajesh D Rajavel (Oak Park, California); Hasan Sharifi (Agoura Hills, California); Terence J De Lyon (Newbury Park, California); Pierre-Yves Delaunay (Santa Monica, California); Brett Z Nosho (Santa Monica, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention describes a device which enables MWIR photodetectors to operate at zero bias and deliver low dark current performance. The performance is achieved by incorporating a p-n junction in the barrier. The device consists of a p-type contact layer, a p-n junction in the compound barrier (CB) with graded composition and/or doping profiles, and an n-type absorber (p-CB-n) device. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 31, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/069232 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/102 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09748430 | Bank et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas); University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas); University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seth Bank (Austin, Texas); Scott Maddox (Austin, Texas); Wenlu Sun (Charlottesville, Virginia); Joe Campbell (Charlottsville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A staircase avalanche photodiode with a staircase multiplication region composed of an AlInAsSb alloy. The photodiode includes a buffer layer adjacent to a substrate and an avalanche multiplication region adjacent to the buffer layer, where the avalanche multiplication region includes a graded AlInAsSb alloy grown lattice-matched or psuedomorphically strained on either InAs or GaSb. The photodiode further includes a photoabsorption layer adjacent to the avalanche multiplication region, where the photoabsorption layer is utilized for absorbing photons. By utilizing AlInAsSb in the multiplication region, the photodiode exhibits a direct bandgap over a wide range of compositions as well as exhibits large conduction band offsets much larger than the smallest achievable bandgap and small valance band offsets. Furthermore, the photodiode is able to detect extremely weak light with a high signal-to-noise ratio. |
| FILED | Friday, June 17, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/185914 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/1075 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/03046 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09748640 | Nance et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brandon L. Nance (San Antonio, Texas); Brad D. Moore (Boerne, Texas); James R. Noll (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna element having a metal pattern with a three-dimensional profile. The metal pattern is at least one helix-loaded helix-loaded meandered loxodromic spiral. The profile is generally that of a domed top adjoined to a rotationally symmetric body such as a conical section. Typically, the metal antenna pattern is fabricated upon or otherwise supported by a dielectric medium. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/928104 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 1/28 (20130101) H01Q 1/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01Q 1/42 (20130101) H01Q 9/27 (20130101) H01Q 21/20 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09748643 | Miller 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) | Gerry Miller (Bedford, Indiana); James Stewart (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | An identification or messaging system is provided that has embodiments including a embodiment with a structure with different faces and a base with reflective or resonance panels which are positioned at different receiving angles to detect direct signals and amplify them including in a sequence to be detected by an active emitter that emits electromagnetic radiation that is reflected and steered or resonated off or with the panels. An emitter can be an aerial platform with the emitter and a library of reflected or resonated signals that are associated with a particular sequence of panels on the structure which are associated with a particular entity identification or message. Thermal patterned and/or magnetic patterned panels (e.g., for backplane beamforming) and return signal steering can also be provided. Embodiments with secondary signaling systems can also be provided. A variety of various embodiments and methods are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 04, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/730795 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 13/751 (20130101) G01S 17/74 (20130101) Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 3/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01Q 15/14 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09748665 | Anderson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph M. Anderson (Tucson, Arizona); Jared W. Jordan (Sahuarita, Arizona); Charles G. Gilbert (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph M. Anderson (Tucson, Arizona); Jared W. Jordan (Sahuarita, Arizona); Charles G. Gilbert (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Presently disclosed is an antenna system having an array of ridged waveguide Vivaldi radiator (RWVR) antenna elements fed through a corporate network of suspended air striplines (SAS) with an electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) ground plane surrounding the ridged waveguide transition. The SAS transfers the electromagnetic energy to the radiating element via the ridged waveguide coupler. The Vivaldi radiator matches the output impedance of the ridged waveguide coupler/SAS to the intrinsic impedance of the surrounding medium. The EBG, which may be comprised of a photonic bandgap material or other metamaterial, allows for better frequency and bandwidth performance in a lower-profile array package, thereby reducing size and weight of the array for applications requiring small size and or low-inertia packaging. In alternate embodiments, radiating elements other than Vivaldi radiators may be used. This configuration also reduces the complexity of the manufacturing process, which in turn lowers cost. |
| FILED | Friday, April 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/457547 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 13/06 (20130101) H01Q 13/085 (20130101) H01Q 15/006 (20130101) H01Q 15/008 (20130101) H01Q 21/0081 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01Q 21/0087 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49016 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09748726 | Morton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul A. Morton (West Friendship, Maryland); Jacob Khurgin (Pikesville, Maryland); Christopher D. Morton (West Friendship, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Morton Photonics (West Friendship, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul A. Morton (West Friendship, Maryland); Jacob Khurgin (Pikesville, Maryland); Christopher D. Morton (West Friendship, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention describes algorithmic and computational approaches to optimize the design and performance of microresonator based ultra-low noise lasers including a reflector or filter comprised of multiple (≧3) microresonator rings with different ring radii coupled together through bus waveguides. The enhanced reflector/filter design optimization provides more control over the key parameters, including the suppression ratio of unwanted modes over both a wide wavelength range (supporting wide wavelength tunability) and over the narrow range around the laser wavelength (improving laser singlemode and noise performance), while also enabling the design of specific reflector/filter bandwidth and effective length (delay), supporting the design of an ultra-low noise laser with specific operating performance parameters. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 08, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/372935 |
| 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 3/083 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 3/10053 (20130101) H01S 5/021 (20130101) H01S 5/142 (20130101) H01S 5/1032 (20130101) |
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| US 09748736 | Ma et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ren-min Ma (Albany, California); Xiang Zhang (Alamo, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ren-min Ma (Albany, California); Xiang Zhang (Alamo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus related to nanometer scale lasers. In one aspect, a device includes a substrate, a line of metal disposed on the substrate, an insulating material disposed on the line of metal, and a line of semiconductor material disposed on the substrate and the insulating material. The line of semiconductor material overlaying the line of metal, disposed on the insulating material, forms a plasmonic cavity. |
| FILED | Friday, October 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/052504 |
| 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 3/0632 (20130101) H01S 5/1042 (20130101) H01S 5/1046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 5/4031 (20130101) |
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| US 09748738 | Krishnamoorthy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Oracle International Corporation (Redwood City, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California); Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In a multiple-wavelength laser source, a multiple-mode laser outputs a set of wavelengths in a range of wavelengths onto an optical waveguide, where a spacing between adjacent wavelengths in the set of wavelengths is smaller than a width of channels in an optical link. Furthermore, a set of ring-resonator filters in the multiple-wavelength laser source, which are optically coupled to the optical waveguide, output corresponding subsets of the set of wavelengths for use in the optical link based on free spectral ranges and quality factors of the set of ring-resonator filters. These subsets may include one or more groups of wavelengths, with another spacing between adjacent groups of wavelengths that is larger than the width of the given channel in the optical link. In addition, the one or more groups of wavelengths may include one or more wavelengths, with the spacing between adjacent wavelengths in the given group of wavelengths. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 19, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/625971 |
| 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 5/0078 (20130101) H01S 5/0085 (20130101) H01S 5/0287 (20130101) H01S 5/1096 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 5/06821 (20130101) Transmission H04B 10/506 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathaniel Benedict Hawes (Milton, New York); Stefan Grubic (Albany, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A switched capacitive device includes a stationary portion including first circuit boards. The device also includes a translatable portion including second circuit boards proximate to, and interdigitated with, the first circuit boards. The second circuit boards are translatable with respect to the first circuit boards. The first circuit boards induce substantially linear motion of the second circuit boards through the use of an electric field induced by the first circuit boards. The device further includes a control system including switching devices and a controller coupled to the switching devices. The switching devices are coupled to at least a portion of at least one first circuit board. The switching device is configured to intermittently energize and de-energize the first circuit board for predetermined periods of time. The controller alternatingly opens and closes the switching devices through transmitted gating commands as a function of a determined load on the switched capacitive device. |
| FILED | Monday, August 03, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/816312 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Machines Not Otherwise Provided for H02N 1/004 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09748937 | Inamdar |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hypres, Inc. (Elmsford, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hypres, Inc. (Elmsford, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amol Ashok Inamdar (Elmsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An important component in digital circuits is a phase rotator, which permits precise time-shifting (or equivalently, phase rotation) of a clock signal within a clock period. A digital phase rotator can access multiple discrete values of phase under digital control. Such a device can have application in digital clock synchronization circuits, and can also be used for a digital phase modulator that encodes a digital signal. A digital phase rotator has been implemented in superconducting integrated circuit technology, using rapid single-flux-quantum logic (RSFQ). This circuit can exhibit positive or negative phase shifts of a multi-phase clock. Arbitrary precision can be obtained by cascading a plurality of phase rotator stages. Such a circuit forms a phase-modulator that is the core of a direct digital synthesizer that can operate at multi-gigahertz radio frequencies. |
| FILED | Monday, May 16, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/155687 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse Technique H03K 3/38 (20130101) H03K 5/131 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03K 2005/00286 (20130101) Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation, or Stabilisation of Generators of Electronic Oscillations or Pulses H03L 7/16 (20130101) |
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| US 09748961 | Cali et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph D. Cali (Nashua, New Hampshire); Lawrence J. Kushner (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are disclosed for managing the timing between two asynchronous clocks. The techniques are particularly well-suited for synchronizing the reference clock with the divided clock in a phase coherent DSM PLL application, but can be more broadly applied to any application that includes a need for synchronizing a data bus across a clock boundary. In one example embodiment, the techniques are implemented in a retime word circuit operatively coupled between a DSM and the divide-by-N integer divider of a PLL application. The retime word circuit receives the divide word from the DSM and generates a retimed divide word that can be applied to the divider. The retime word circuit maintains the reference clock frequency throughput, and forces the divide word seen by the divider to change only at end of a given divide cycle. |
| FILED | Friday, April 15, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/099757 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation, or Stabilisation of Generators of Electronic Oscillations or Pulses H03L 7/1974 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03L 7/1976 (20130101) Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 7/3033 (20130101) |
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| US 09748980 | Whitaker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Crane, Indiana) |
| 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 | Thursday, September 03, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/845248 |
| 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 09749007 | Martin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles E Martin (Thousand Oaks, California); Shankar R. Rao (Agoura Hills, California); Peter Petre (Oak Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a cognitive blind source separator (CBSS). The CBSS includes a delay embedding module that receives a mixture signal (the mixture signal being a time-series of data points from one or more mixtures of source signals) and time-lags the signal to generate a delay embedded mixture signal. The delay embedded mixture signal is then linearly mapped into a reservoir to create a high-dimensional state-space representation of the mixture signal. The state-space representations are then linearly mapped to one or more output nodes in an output layer to generate pre-filtered signals. The pre-filtered signals are passed through a bank of adaptable finite impulse response (FIR) filters to generate separate source signals that collectively formed the mixture signal. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 17, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/073626 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 1/719 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 1/71632 (20130101) |
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| US 09749403 | Agrawal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dakshi Agrawal (Monsey, New York); Sihyung Lee (Seoul, South Korea); Vasileios Pappas (Elmsford, New York); Mudhakar Srivatsa (White Plains, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dakshi Agrawal (Monsey, New York); Sihyung Lee (Seoul, South Korea); Vasileios Pappas (Elmsford, New York); Mudhakar Srivatsa (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system and computer program product for managing content distribution in a mobile communications environment. The communications environment includes a core network and a multitude of end-user devices. In one embodiment, the method comprises downloading content from the core network to the end-user devices; and maintaining a map between the end-user devices, the content downloaded to the end-user devices, and the locations of the end-user devices. When a first of the end-user devices requests a specified content, this map and one or more rules are used to identify a second of the end-user devices having the specified content. The first of the end-user devices fetches the specified content from this identified second of the end-user devices. In one embodiment, object location descriptors embedded in the content are rewritten when the content is downloaded to the end-user devices. |
| FILED | Friday, February 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/370935 |
| ART UNIT | 2493 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 12/0806 (20130101) G06F 17/30209 (20130101) G06F 17/30902 (20130101) Transmission H04B 7/18584 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 67/18 (20130101) H04L 67/104 (20130101) H04L 67/288 (20130101) H04L 67/289 (20130101) H04L 67/1002 (20130101) H04L 67/1014 (20130101) H04L 67/1021 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 67/1095 (20130101) H04L 67/2842 (20130101) H04L 67/2857 (20130101) H04L 2029/06054 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 4/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09749526 | Chuang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel B. Chuang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Lawrence M. Candell (Arlington, Massachusetts); William D. Ross (Westford, Massachusetts); Mark E. Beattie (Westford, Massachusetts); Cindy Y. Fang (Arlington, Massachusetts); Bobby Ren (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jonathan P. Blanchard (Sterling, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel B. Chuang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Lawrence M. Candell (Arlington, Massachusetts); William D. Ross (Westford, Massachusetts); Mark E. Beattie (Westford, Massachusetts); Cindy Y. Fang (Arlington, Massachusetts); Bobby Ren (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jonathan P. Blanchard (Sterling, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Security guards at big facilities, such as airports, monitor multiple screens that display images from individual surveillance cameras dispersed throughout the facility. If a guard zooms with a particular camera, he will lose image resolution, along with perspective on the surrounding area. Embodiments of the inventive Imaging System for Immersive Surveillance (ISIS) solve these problems by combining multiple cameras in one device. When properly mounted, example ISIS systems offer 360-degree, 100-megapixel views on a single screen. (Other resolutions may also be employed.) Image-stitching software merges multiple video feeds into one scene. The system also allows operators to tag and follow targets, and can monitor restricted areas and sound an alert when intruders breach them. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/692482 |
| ART UNIT | 2482 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Signalling or Calling Systems; Order Telegraphs; Alarm Systems G08B 13/19602 (20130101) G08B 13/19619 (20130101) G08B 13/19626 (20130101) G08B 13/19643 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/23216 (20130101) H04N 5/23238 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04N 7/181 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryant G. Heath (Salt Lake City, Utah); Henry F. Moeller, Jr. (Kaysville, Utah); David B. Olsen (Layton, Utah); Dominic J. Kobbeman (Ogden, Utah); Michael K. Strahan (Ogden, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus are provided for generating an amplified pulsed radio frequency (RF) signal used by a particle accelerator. The particle accelerator can generate an attenuation profile. The particle accelerator can determine a waveform and a duration for a pulsed RF signal based on the attenuation profile. The particle accelerator can generate the pulsed RF signal having the waveform and the duration. The particle accelerator can generate an amplified pulsed RF signal using one or more amplifiers of the particle accelerator. The amplifiers can include a pulse forming network (PFN), where the PFN can include a plurality of stages and a plurality of PFN switches, and where PFN stage can include one or more capacitors and inductors. The PFN switches can control the PFN stages. The duration of the amplified pulsed RF signal can be based on settings of the plurality of PFN switches. |
| FILED | Monday, August 01, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/225705 |
| ART UNIT | 2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Plasma Technique; Production of Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles or of Neutrons; Production or Acceleration of Neutral Molecular or Atomic Beams H05H 7/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05H 2007/222 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Kemp (Belmont, California); Erik N. Jongewaard (Sunnyvale, California); Andrew A. Haase (Belmont, California); Matthew Franzi (Burlingame, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A particle accelerator is provided that includes a piezoelectric accelerator element, where the piezoelectric accelerator element includes a hollow cylindrical shape, and an input transducer, where the input transducer is disposed to provide an input signal to the piezoelectric accelerator element, where the input signal induces a mechanical excitation of the piezoelectric accelerator element, where the mechanical excitation is capable of generating a piezoelectric electric field proximal to an axis of the cylindrical shape, where the piezoelectric accelerator is configured to accelerate a charged particle longitudinally along the axis of the cylindrical shape according to the piezoelectric electric field. |
| FILED | Monday, March 28, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/082347 |
| ART UNIT | 2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Plasma Technique; Production of Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles or of Neutrons; Production or Acceleration of Neutral Molecular or Atomic Beams H05H 15/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina); Sandia Corporation (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, New Mexico) |
| 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 | Thursday, December 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/965755 |
| 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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| APPLICANT(S) | Kent E. Wardle (Brookfield, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kent E. Wardle (Brookfield, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an annular centrifugal contactor, having a housing to receive a plurality of liquids; a rotor inside the housing; an annular mixing zone, with a plurality of fluid retention reservoirs; and an adjustable stem that can be raised to restrict the flow of a liquid into the rotor or lowered to increase the flow of liquid into the rotor. The invention also provides a method for transferring moieties from a first liquid to a second liquid, the method having the steps of combining the fluids in a housing whose interior has helically shaped first channels; subjecting the fluids to a spinning rotor to produce a mixture, whereby the channels simultaneously conduct the mixture downwardly and upwardly; and passing the mixture through the rotor to contact second channels, whereby the channels pump the second liquid through a first aperture while the first fluid exits a second aperture. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 10, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/066393 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 11/048 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 15/1807 (20130101) B01D 15/1892 (20130101) B01D 2011/002 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 14/005 (20130101) B01J 19/18 (20130101) B01J 19/185 (20130101) B01J 2219/00024 (20130101) B01J 2219/00094 (20130101) Additive Manufacturing, i.e Manufacturing of Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects by Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration or Additive Layering, e.g by 3-d Printing, Stereolithography or Selective Laser Sintering B33Y 80/00 (20141201) |
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| US 09744515 | Von Keitz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BioCee, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Calysta, Inc. (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc Gregor Von Keitz (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Jimmy Lee Gosse (Burnsville, Minnesota); Stefan Thust (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Thomas Harwood (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | PFRs for running multiphasic processes are disclosed. The PFRs are single or multi-chamber devices having at least three types of regions (a liquid-contacting region, a gas-contacting region and a Ssquid-coSection region), and a porous substrate providing fluid communication at least between the liquid-contacting and gas-contacting regions. Removal of liquid from the porous substrate, such as by collecting the liquid as it flows off the bottom of the porous substrate in the Siquid-coSSection region or such as by evaporation of the liquid from the porous substrate in the evaporation region supports a continuous flow process. Methods of using the PFRs are also disclosed, for example methods of using the PFRs as photobioreactors for cultivating photosynthetic microorganisms, for producing fermentable sugars, for producing ethanol, for fermenting synthesis gas and producing single cell protein from natural gas. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/357767 |
| ART UNIT | 1799 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 15/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 16/005 (20130101) B01J 19/249 (20130101) B01J 2219/2453 (20130101) B01J 2219/2458 (20130101) B01J 2219/2462 (20130101) B01J 2219/2472 (20130101) B01J 2219/2479 (20130101) B01J 2219/2493 (20130101) B01J 2219/2497 (20130101) Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 29/04 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas); Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. (Camas, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, U of Texas System (Austin, Texas); Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc (Camas, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jie Song (Vancouver, Washington); Yuhao Lu (Vancouver, Washington); Long Wang (Vancouver, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for synthesizing metal cyanometallate (MCM). The method provides a solution of AXM1Y(CN)Z; where “A” is selected from a first group of metals and M1 is selected from a second group of metals. The method adds a material including M2 to the solution to form a liquid phase material that may be either a suspension or a solution. M2 is selected from the second group of metals. The method adds acid to the liquid phase material. The addition of acid to the liquid phase material decomposes the M2 material into M2-ions. Simultaneous with the addition of the acid, a precipitate of ANM1PM2Q(CN)R |
| FILED | Friday, June 05, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/731607 |
| ART UNIT | 1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammonia; Cyanogen; Compounds Thereof C01C 3/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/58 (20130101) H01M 10/054 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49108 (20150115) |
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| US 09745402 | Wilson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas S. Wilson (San Leandro, California); Jane P. Bearinger (Berwyn, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | New shape memory polymer compositions, methods for synthesizing new shape memory polymers, and apparatus comprising an actuator and a shape memory polymer wherein the shape memory polymer comprises at least a portion of the actuator. A shape memory polymer comprising a polymer composition which physically forms a network structure wherein the polymer composition has shape-memory behavior and can be formed into a permanent primary shape, re-formed into a stable secondary shape, and controllably actuated to recover the permanent primary shape. Polymers have optimal aliphatic network structures due to minimization of dangling chains by using monomers that are symmetrical and that have matching amine and hydroxl groups providing polymers and polymer foams with clarity, tight (narrow temperature range) single transitions, and high shape recovery and recovery force that are especially useful for implanting in the human body. |
| FILED | Monday, May 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/893033 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 17/3498 (20130101) A61B 2017/00867 (20130101) A61B 2017/00871 (20130101) A61B 2017/2932 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 18/08 (20130101) C08G 18/73 (20130101) C08G 18/3203 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 18/3221 (20130101) C08G 18/3271 (20130101) C08G 18/3281 (20130101) C08G 18/3284 (20130101) C08G 18/3287 (20130101) C08G 18/3851 (20130101) C08G 2280/00 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 9/0085 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 75/04 (20130101) C08L 75/12 (20130101) C08L 75/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09745556 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INCORPORATED (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qingzhao Wang (Scarsdale, New York); Keelnatham T. Shanmugam (Gainesville, Florida); Lonnie O'Neal Ingram (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of designing and generating glycerol dehydrogenase (GlyDH) variants that have altered function as compared to a parent polypeptide. The present invention further provides nucleic acids encoding GlyDH polypeptide variants having altered function as compared to the parent polypeptide. Host cells comprising polynucleotides encoding GlyDH variants and methods of producing lactic acids are also provided in various aspects of the invention. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/347688 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/0006 (20130101) 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 7/26 (20130101) C12P 7/56 (20130101) C12P 2203/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09745560 | McBride et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lallemand Hungary Liquidity Management LLC (Budapest, Hungary) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lallemand Hungary Liquidity Management LLC (Budapest, Hungary) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John E. McBride (Lyme, New Hampshire); Erin Wiswall (Danbury, New Hampshire); Indraneel Shikhare (Houston, Texas); Haowen Xu (Yorktown Heights, New York); Naomi Thorngren (Norwich, Vermont); Heidi H. Hau (St. Paul, Minnesota); Emily Stonehouse (Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a multi-component enzyme system that hydrolyzes hemicellulose oligomers from hardwood which can be expressed, for example, in yeast such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In some embodiments, this invention provides for the engineering of a series of biocatalysts combining the expression and secretion of components of this enzymatic system with robust, rapid xylose utilization, and ethanol fermentation under industrially relevant process conditions for consolidated bioprocessing. In some embodiments, the invention utilizes co-cultures of strains that can achieve significantly improved performance due to the incorporation of additional enzymes in the fermentation system. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/424560 |
| 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 9/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 9/248 (20130101) C12N 9/2402 (20130101) C12N 9/2437 (20130101) C12N 9/2445 (20130101) C12N 9/2465 (20130101) C12N 9/2471 (20130101) C12N 9/2482 (20130101) C12N 9/2491 (20130101) C12N 9/2494 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 3/00 (20130101) C12P 7/10 (20130101) C12P 7/16 (20130101) C12P 7/28 (20130101) C12P 7/52 (20130101) C12P 7/56 (20130101) C12P 19/02 (20130101) C12P 19/14 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 301/01006 (20130101) C12Y 301/01072 (20130101) C12Y 302/01021 (20130101) C12Y 302/01037 (20130101) C12Y 302/01072 (20130101) C12Y 302/01131 (20130101) C12Y 302/01139 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/16 (20130101) |
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| US 09745587 | Gilmore et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joshua M. Gilmore (Emeryville, California); J. Christopher Anderson (San Francisco, California); John E. Dueber (San Francisco, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua M. Gilmore (Emeryville, California); J. Christopher Anderson (San Francisco, California); John E. Dueber (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a recombinant nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence comprising a plurality of constructs, wherein each construct independently comprises a nucleotide sequence of interest flanked by a pair of recombinase recognition sequences. Each pair of recombinase recognition sequences is recognized by a distinct recombinase. Optionally, each construct can, independently, further comprise one or more genes encoding a recombinase capable of recognizing the pair of recombinase recognition sequences of the construct. The recombinase can be an orthogonal (non-cross reacting), site-selective recombinase (OSSR). |
| FILED | Friday, April 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/088288 |
| 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 15/10 (20130101) C12N 15/63 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/8213 (20130101) |
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| US 09745610 | Doudna et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer A. Doudna (Berkeley, California); Lei S. Qi (El Cerrito, California); Rachel E. Haurwitz (Kensington, California); Adam P. Arkin (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides nucleic acids encoding an RNA recognition sequence positioned proximal to an insertion site for the insertion of a sequence of interest; and host cells genetically modified with the nucleic acids. The present disclosure also provides methods of modifying the activity of a target RNA, and kits and compositions for carrying out the methods. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 09, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/248980 |
| 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 15/85 (20130101) C12N 2830/50 (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) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09745853 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SIEMENS ENERGY, INC. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Pang Lee (Cincinnati, Ohio); Nan Jiang (Charlotte, North Carolina); Jae Y. Um (Winter Garden, Florida); Harry Holloman (Cincinnati, Ohio); Steven Koester (Sharonville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine rotor blade includes at least two integrated cooling circuits that are formed within the blade that include a leading edge circuit having a first cavity and a second cavity and a trailing edge circuit that includes at least a third cavity located aft of the second cavity. The trailing edge circuit flows aft with at least two substantially 180-degree turns at the tip end and the root end of the blade providing at least a penultimate cavity and a last cavity. The last cavity is located along a trailing edge of the blade. A tip axial cooling channel connects to the first cavity of the leading edge circuit and the penultimate cavity of the trailing edge circuit. At least one crossover hole connects the penultimate cavity to the last cavity substantially near the tip end of the blade. |
| FILED | Monday, August 31, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/840572 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/147 (20130101) F01D 5/187 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2220/32 (20130101) F05D 2240/303 (20130101) F05D 2240/304 (20130101) F05D 2260/202 (20130101) F05D 2260/2212 (20130101) |
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| US 09745869 | Ernst et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cummins Intellectual Property, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cummins Intellectual Property, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy C. Ernst (Columbus, Indiana); Dave Morris (Columbus, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates to a waste heat recovery (WHR) system and method for regulating exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) cooling, and more particularly, to a Rankine cycle WHR system and method, including a recuperator bypass arrangement to regulate EGR exhaust gas cooling for engine efficiency improvement and thermal management. This disclosure describes other unique bypass arrangements for increased flexibility in the ability to regulate EGR exhaust gas cooling. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/939565 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Steam Engine Plants; Steam Accumulators; Engine Plants Not Otherwise Provided For; Engines Using Special Working Fluids or Cycles F01K 23/065 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Supplying Combustion Engines in General With Combustible Mixtures or Constituents Thereof F02M 25/0735 (20130101) F02M 25/0737 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/16 (20130101) Y02T 10/166 (20130101) |
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| US 09745899 | Wright et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven A. Wright (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Paul S. Pickard (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Milton E. Vernon (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Ross F. Radel (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven A. Wright (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Paul S. Pickard (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Milton E. Vernon (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Ross F. Radel (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Various technologies pertaining to tuning composition of a fluid mixture in a supercritical Brayton cycle power generation system are described herein. Compounds, such as Alkanes, are selectively added or removed from an operating fluid of the supercritical Brayton cycle power generation system to cause the critical temperature of the fluid to move up or down, depending upon environmental conditions. As efficiency of the supercritical Brayton cycle power generation system is substantially optimized when heat is rejected near the critical temperature of the fluid, dynamically modifying the critical temperature of the fluid based upon sensed environmental conditions improves efficiency of such a system. |
| FILED | Friday, August 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/204150 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Steam Engine Plants; Steam Accumulators; Engine Plants Not Otherwise Provided For; Engines Using Special Working Fluids or Cycles F01K 7/32 (20130101) F01K 25/08 (20130101) F01K 25/103 (20130101) Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 1/10 (20130101) F02C 9/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Methods of Steam Generation; Steam Boilers F22B 3/08 (20130101) F22B 29/026 (20130101) F22B 35/086 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/46 (20130101) |
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| US 09746208 | Wu |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Whirlpool Corporation (Benton Harbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Whirlpool Corporation (Benton Harbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guolian Wu (Saint Joseph, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A cooling system for appliances, air conditioners, and other spaces includes a compressor, and a condenser that receives refrigerant from the compressor. The system also includes an evaporator that receives refrigerant from the condenser. Refrigerant received from the condenser flows through an upstream portion of the evaporator. A first portion of the refrigerant flows to the compressor without passing through a downstream portion of the evaporator, and a second portion of the refrigerant from the upstream portion of the condenser flows through the downstream portion of the evaporator after passing through the upstream portion of the evaporator. The second portion of the refrigerant flows to the compressor after passing through the downstream portion of the evaporator. The refrigeration system may be configured to cool an appliance such as a refrigerator and/or freezer, or it may be utilized in air conditioners for buildings, motor vehicles, or other such spaces. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 03, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/636442 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration Machines, Plants or Systems; Combined Heating and Refrigeration Systems; Heat-pump Systems F25B 1/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F25B 1/10 (20130101) F25B 5/04 (20130101) F25B 39/028 (20130101) F25B 41/043 (20130101) F25B 2341/0662 (20130101) F25B 2400/07 (20130101) Refrigerators; Cold Rooms; Ice-boxes; Cooling or Freezing Apparatus Not Otherwise Provided for F25D 11/022 (20130101) |
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| US 09746360 | DeSilva et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Upul P. DeSilva (Oviedo, Florida); Heiko Claussen (North Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Performance of a gas turbine engine is monitored by computing a mass flow rate through the engine. Acoustic time-of-flight measurements are taken between acoustic transmitters and receivers in the flow path of the engine. The measurements are processed to determine average speeds of sound and gas flow velocities along those lines-of-sound. A volumetric flow rate in the flow path is computed using the gas flow velocities together with a representation of the flow path geometry. A gas density in the flow path is computed using the speeds of sound and a measured static pressure. The mass flow rate is calculated from the gas density and the volumetric flow rate. |
| FILED | Monday, July 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/341950 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow or Liquid Level; Metering by Volume G01F 1/66 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01F 25/0007 (20130101) Testing Static or Dynamic Balance of Machines or Structures; Testing of Structures or Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G01M 15/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09748345 | Sharma |
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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) | Peter Anand Sharma (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Ion implantation or deposition can be used to modify the bulk electrical properties of topological insulators. More particularly, ion implantation or deposition can be used to compensate for the non-zero bulk conductivity due to extrinsic charge carriers. The direct implantation of deposition/annealing of dopants allows better control over carrier concentrations for the purposes of achieving low bulk conductivity. Ion implantation or deposition enables the fabrication of inhomogeneously doped structures, enabling new types of device designs. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 08, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/177215 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/385 (20130101) H01L 21/426 (20130101) H01L 21/477 (20130101) H01L 29/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 43/10 (20130101) H01L 43/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09748415 | Okandan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Murat Okandan (Edgewood, New Mexico); Gregory N. Nielson (Lehi, Utah); Jose Luis Cruz-Campa (Waltham, Massachusetts); Carlos Anthony Sanchez (Belen, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method including providing a substrate comprising a device layer on which a plurality of device cells are defined; depositing a first dielectric layer on the device layer and metal interconnect such that the deposited interconnect is electrically connected to at least two of the device cells; depositing a second dielectric layer over the interconnect; and exposing at least one contact point on the interconnect through the second dielectric layer. An apparatus including a substrate having defined thereon a device layer including a plurality of device cells; a first dielectric layer disposed directly on the device layer; a plurality of metal interconnects, each of which is electrically connected to at least two of the device cells; and a second dielectric layer disposed over the first dielectric layer and over the interconnects, wherein the second dielectric layer is patterned in a positive or negative planar spring pattern. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 23, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/360553 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/061 (20130101) H01L 31/1876 (20130101) H01L 31/02021 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09748429 | 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); Andrew Lee Starbuck (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Andrew T. S. Pomerene (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An avalanche diode includes an absorption region in a germanium body epitaxially grown on a silicon body including a multiplication region. Aspect-ratio trapping is used to suppress dislocation growth in the vicinity of the absorption region. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/870195 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/028 (20130101) H01L 31/1075 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/02327 (20130101) |
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| US 09748568 | Abruña et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Héctor D. Abruña (Ithaca, New York); Jie Gao (Ithaca, New York); Michael A. Lowe (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Héctor D. Abruña (Ithaca, New York); Jie Gao (Ithaca, New York); Michael A. Lowe (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Manganese oxide nanoparticles having a chemical composition that includes Mn3O4, a sponge like morphology and a particle size from about 65 to about 95 nanometers may be formed by calcining a manganese hydroxide material at a temperature from about 200 to about 400 degrees centigrade for a time period from about 1 to about 20 hours in an oxygen containing environment. The particular manganese oxide nanoparticles with the foregoing physical features may be used within a battery component, and in particular an anode within a lithium battery to provide enhanced performance. |
| FILED | Friday, June 01, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/122346 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal 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) Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 45/02 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/72 (20130101) C01P 2004/03 (20130101) C01P 2004/64 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/50 (20130101) H01M 4/505 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2982 (20150115) |
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| US 09748572 | Pol et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vilas G. Pol (Naperville, Illinois); Wei Weng (Woodridge, Illinois); Khalil Amine (Oak Brook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A process of preparing an E-carbon nanocomposite includes contacting a porous carbon substrate with an E-containing material to form a mixture; and sonicating the mixture to form the E-carbon nanocomposite; where E is S, Se, SexSy, or Te, x is greater than 0; and y is greater than 0. |
| FILED | Friday, March 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/790521 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 319/14 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/38 (20130101) H01M 4/364 (20130101) H01M 4/583 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/625 (20130101) H01M 4/5815 (20130101) H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 10/0569 (20130101) |
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| US 09748581 | Diankov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Georgi Diankov (Millbrae, California); Jihwan An (Seoul, South Korea); Joonsuk Park (Stanford, California); David J. K. Goldhaber (Palo Alto, California); Friedrich B. Prinz (Woodside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of growing crystals on two-dimensional layered material is provided that includes reversibly hydrogenating a two-dimensional layered material, using a controlled radio-frequency hydrogen plasma, depositing Pt atoms on the reversibly hydrogenated two-dimensional layered material, using Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD), where the reversibly hydrogenated two-dimensional layered material promotes loss of methyl groups in an ALD Pt precursor, and forming Pt-O on the reversibly hydrogenated two-dimensional layered material, using combustion by O2, where the Pt-O is used for subsequent Pt half-cycles of the ALD process, where growth of Pt crystals occurs. |
| FILED | Saturday, February 28, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/634791 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — 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 16/40 (20130101) C23C 16/0272 (20130101) C23C 16/45555 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/925 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/926 (20130101) H01M 4/8817 (20130101) H01M 4/8867 (20130101) |
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| US 09748595 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bin Li (Richland, Washington); Zimin Nie (Richland, Washington); Wei Wang (Kennewick, Washington); Jun Liu (Richland, Washington); Vincent L. Sprenkle (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved metal-based redox flow batteries (RFBs) can utilize a metal and a divalent cation of the metal (M2+) as an active redox couple for a first electrode and electrolyte, respectively, in a first half-cell. For example, the metal can be Zn. The RFBs can also utilize a second electrolyte having I−, anions of Ix (for x≧3), or both in an aqueous solution, wherein the I− and the anions of Ix (for x≧3) compose an active redox couple in a second half-cell. |
| FILED | Monday, November 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/089499 |
| 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 8/20 (20130101) H01M 8/188 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/528 (20130101) |
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| US 09748604 | DeSimone et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph M. DeSimone (Los Gatos, California); Ashish Pandya (Morrisville, North Carolina); Dominica Wong (Carrboro, North Carolina); Alessandra Vitale (Turin, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrolyte compositions for batteries such as lithium ion and lithium air batteries are described. In some embodiments the compositions are liquid compositions comprising (a) a homogeneous solvent system, said solvent system comprising a perfluropolyether (PFPE) and polyethylene oxide (PEO); and (b) an alkali metal salt dissolved in said solvent system. In other embodiments the compositions are solid electrolyte compositions comprising: (a) a solid polymer, said polymer comprising a crosslinked product of a crosslinkable perfluropolyether (PFPE) and a crosslinkable polyethylene oxide (PEO); and (b) an alkali metal ion salt dissolved in said polymer. Batteries containing such compositions as electrolytes are also described. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/436603 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/02 (20130101) H01M 8/1025 (20130101) H01M 8/1039 (20130101) H01M 8/1048 (20130101) H01M 8/1072 (20130101) H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 10/054 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) H01M 10/0565 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 10/0568 (20130101) H01M 10/0569 (20130101) H01M 12/08 (20130101) H01M 2008/1095 (20130101) H01M 2220/10 (20130101) H01M 2220/20 (20130101) H01M 2250/10 (20130101) H01M 2250/20 (20130101) H01M 2300/0034 (20130101) H01M 2300/0037 (20130101) H01M 2300/0082 (20130101) H01M 2300/0091 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/54 (20151101) |
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| US 09748736 | Ma et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ren-min Ma (Albany, California); Xiang Zhang (Alamo, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ren-min Ma (Albany, California); Xiang Zhang (Alamo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus related to nanometer scale lasers. In one aspect, a device includes a substrate, a line of metal disposed on the substrate, an insulating material disposed on the line of metal, and a line of semiconductor material disposed on the substrate and the insulating material. The line of semiconductor material overlaying the line of metal, disposed on the insulating material, forms a plasmonic cavity. |
| FILED | Friday, October 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/052504 |
| 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 3/0632 (20130101) H01S 5/1042 (20130101) H01S 5/1046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 5/4031 (20130101) |
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| US 09748820 | Tomsic et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HYPER TECH RESEARCH, INC (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HYPER TECH RESEARCH, INC. (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Tomsic (Troy, Ohio); Larry Long (Washington, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A superconducting electrical generator or motor having a plurality of cryostats is described. The cryostats contain coolant and a first cryostat encloses at least one of a plurality of superconducting coils. A first coil is in superconducting electrical communication with a second coil contained in a second cryostat through a superconducting conduction cooling cable enclosing a conductor. The first cryostat and the second cryostat may be in fluid communication through at least one cryogen channel within the at least one superconducting conduction cooling cable. In other embodiments, none of the plurality of cryostats may be in fluid communication and the cable may be cooled by conduction along the conductor from the first or second cryostat, or from both. The conductor may have different segments at temperatures equal to or above the temperature of the coolant and the superconducting conduction cooling cables may be connected through quick connect fittings. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/557604 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Wind Motors F03D 9/25 (20160501) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 6/06 (20130101) Dynamo-electric Machines H02K 3/02 (20130101) H02K 3/50 (20130101) H02K 7/1838 (20130101) H02K 9/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H02K 55/04 (20130101) H02K 2201/15 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/725 (20130101) Y02E 40/625 (20130101) |
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| US 09748857 | She et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xu She (Clifton Park, New York); Rahul Shantilal Chokhawala (Niskayuna, New York); James William Bray (Niskayuna, New York); Timothy John Sommerer (Ballston Spa, New York); Rui Zhou (Niskayuna, New York); Di Zhang (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) transmission system includes an alternating current (AC) electrical source and a power converter channel that includes an AC-DC converter electrically coupled to the electrical source and a DC-AC inverter electrically coupled to the AC-DC converter. The AC-DC converter and the DC-AC inverter each include a plurality of legs that includes at least one switching device. The power converter channel further includes a commutating circuit communicatively coupled to one or more switching devices. The commutating circuit is configured to “switch on” one of the switching devices during a first portion of a cycle of the H-bridge switching circuits and “switch off” the switching device during a second portion of the cycle of the first and second H-bridge switching circuits. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/824657 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 3/36 (20130101) Apparatus for Conversion Between AC and AC, Between AC and DC, or Between DC and DC, and for Use With Mains or Similar Power Supply Systems; Conversion of DC or AC Input Power into Surge Output Power; Control or Regulation Thereof H02M 5/456 (20130101) H02M 5/458 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H02M 7/19 (20130101) H02M 7/213 (20130101) H02M 7/219 (20130101) |
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| US 09748858 | Palmer |
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| APPLICANT(S) | OSRAM SYLVANIA Inc. (Danvers, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | OSRAM SYLVANIA Inc. (Wilmington, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fred Palmer (Danvers, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A solid state light source driver circuit that operates in either a buck convertor or a boost convertor configuration is provided. The driver circuit includes a controller, a boost switch circuit and a buck switch circuit, each coupled to the controller, and a feedback circuit, coupled to the light source. The feedback circuit provides feedback to the controller, representing a DC output of the driver circuit. The controller controls the boost switch circuit and the buck switch circuit in response to the feedback signal, to regulate current to the light source. The controller places the driver circuit in its boost converter configuration when the DC output is less than a rectified AC voltage coupled to the driver circuit at an input node. The controller places the driver circuit in its buck converter configuration when the DC output is greater than the rectified AC voltage at the input node. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/629710 |
| ART UNIT | 2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus for Conversion Between AC and AC, Between AC and DC, or Between DC and DC, and for Use With Mains or Similar Power Supply Systems; Conversion of DC or AC Input Power into Surge Output Power; Control or Regulation Thereof H02M 3/1582 (20130101) H02M 7/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Heating; Electric Lighting Not Otherwise Provided for H05B 33/0815 (20130101) H05B 33/0848 (20130101) H05B 33/0896 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 20/347 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 307/858 (20150401) |
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| US 09748859 | Sampayan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Sampayan (Manteca, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A four-terminal circuit element is described that includes a photonic core inside of the circuit element that uses a wide bandgap semiconductor material that exhibits photoconductivity and allows current flow through the material in response to the light that is incident on the wide bandgap material. The four-terminal circuit element can be configured based on various hardware structures using a single piece or multiple pieces or layers of a wide bandgap semiconductor material to achieve various designed electrical properties such as high switching voltages by using the photoconductive feature beyond the breakdown voltages of semiconductor devices or circuits operated based on electrical bias or control designs. The photonic core aspect of the four-terminal circuit element provides unique features that enable versatile circuit applications to either replace the semiconductor transistor-based circuit elements or semiconductor diode-based circuit elements. |
| FILED | Monday, July 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/444980 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus for Conversion Between AC and AC, Between AC and DC, or Between DC and DC, and for Use With Mains or Similar Power Supply Systems; Conversion of DC or AC Input Power into Surge Output Power; Control or Regulation Thereof H02M 1/08 (20130101) H02M 7/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Pulse Technique H03K 17/78 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 307/50 (20150401) |
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| US 09750122 | Elizondo-Decanini |
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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) | Juan M. Elizondo-Decanini (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A compact particle accelerator having an input portion configured to receive power to produce particles for acceleration, where the input portion includes a switch, is provided. In a general embodiment, a vacuum tube receives particles produced from the input portion at a first end, and a plurality of wafer stacks are positioned serially along the vacuum tube. Each of the plurality of wafer stacks include a dielectric and metal-oxide pair, wherein each of the plurality of wafer stacks further accelerate the particles in the vacuum tube. A beam shaper coupled to a second end of the vacuum tube shapes the particles accelerated by the plurality of wafer stacks into a beam and an output portion outputs the beam. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/465698 |
| ART UNIT | 2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Plasma Technique; Production of Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles or of Neutrons; Production or Acceleration of Neutral Molecular or Atomic Beams H05H 5/02 (20130101) H05H 5/03 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05H 5/06 (20130101) H05H 2277/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09750124 | Kemp et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Kemp (Belmont, California); Erik N. Jongewaard (Sunnyvale, California); Andrew A. Haase (Belmont, California); Matthew Franzi (Burlingame, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A particle accelerator is provided that includes a piezoelectric accelerator element, where the piezoelectric accelerator element includes a hollow cylindrical shape, and an input transducer, where the input transducer is disposed to provide an input signal to the piezoelectric accelerator element, where the input signal induces a mechanical excitation of the piezoelectric accelerator element, where the mechanical excitation is capable of generating a piezoelectric electric field proximal to an axis of the cylindrical shape, where the piezoelectric accelerator is configured to accelerate a charged particle longitudinally along the axis of the cylindrical shape according to the piezoelectric electric field. |
| FILED | Monday, March 28, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/082347 |
| ART UNIT | 2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Plasma Technique; Production of Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles or of Neutrons; Production or Acceleration of Neutral Molecular or Atomic Beams H05H 15/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09750165 | Chainer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy J. Chainer (Putnam Valley, New York); Milnes P. David (Fishkill, New York); Madhusudan K. Iyengar (Woodstock, New York); Pritish R. Parida (Fishkill, New York); Robert E. Simons (Poughkeepsie, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Cooling control methods and systems include measuring a temperature of air provided to one or more nodes by an air-to-liquid heat exchanger; measuring a temperature of at least one component of the one or more nodes and finding a maximum component temperature across all such nodes; comparing the maximum component temperature to a first and second component threshold and comparing the air temperature to a first and second air threshold; and controlling a proportion of coolant flow and a coolant flow rate to the air-to-liquid heat exchanger and the one or more nodes based on the comparisons. |
| FILED | Monday, July 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/792196 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Details of Heat-exchange and Heat-transfer Apparatus, of General Application F28F 27/02 (20130101) Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 23/1932 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 1/206 (20130101) G06F 2200/201 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 7/20836 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 60/1275 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Ames, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Reuben John Peters (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods for modification of rhizobacteria to reduce or eliminate gibberellin production. The modified rhizobacteria are used in methods and compositions that alter the physiology of nodulating plants. These methods and compositions involve combining the modified rhizobacteria with a nodulating plant, or a seed or part thereof, or providing the modified rhizobacteria to a nodulating plant, or seed or part thereof. In another aspect, the invention involves the nodulating plants produced by these methods, wherein the nodulating plants have altered physiology as a result of association with the modified rhizobacteria. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/712430 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 63/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09743823 | Gitlin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard D. Gitlin (Tampa, Florida); Gabriel E. Arrobo (Oakland, California); Thomas P. Ketterl (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard D. Gitlin (Tampa, Florida); Gabriel E. Arrobo (Oakland, California); Thomas P. Ketterl (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for performing non-invasive networked medical procedures including a number of in vivo medical devices, a communication path between at least two of the devices, an ex vivo control unit to control the behavior of the devices, and a wireless communication path between the control unit and at least one of the devices. An associated method for performing non-invasive networked medical procedures is also provided. Further included is a simulation method that utilizes accurate electromagnetic field simulations, using a software based test bench, to determine the maximum allowable transmitted power levels from in vivo devices to achieve a required bit error rates (BER) at an in vivo or ex vivo node (receiver) while maintaining the specific absorption rate (SAR) under a required threshold. |
| FILED | Friday, December 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/562140 |
| ART UNIT | 2466 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 1/00006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 1/041 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 40/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09743987 | Farritor et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shane Farritor (Lincoln, Nebraska); Thomas Frederick (Omaha, Nebraska); Joe Bartels (Lincoln, Nebraska); Eric Markvicka (Ravenna, Nebraska); Jack Mondry (Stillwater, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The various embodiments disclosed herein relate to improved robotic surgical systems, including robotic surgical devices having improved arm components and/or biometric sensors, contact detection systems for robotic surgical devices, gross positioning systems and devices for use in robotic surgical systems, and improved external controllers and consoles. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/208515 |
| ART UNIT | 3731 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 19/2203 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 34/30 (20160201) A61B 2034/302 (20160201) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 901/28 (20130101) |
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| US 09744055 | Engeberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Erik D. Engeberg (Boca Raton, Florida); Savas Dilibal (Akron, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Akron (Akron, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik D. Engeberg (Boca Raton, Florida); Savas Dilibal (Akron, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An antagonistically actuated shape memory alloy (SMA) manipulator utilizes a pair of SMA actuators. The SMA actuators are configured, such that one actuator is trained to have a substantially linear or extended shape in its austenite phase, while the other actuator is trained to have a curved or flexed shape in its austenite phase. As such, the manipulator is operated, such that when one SMA actuator is heated and takes on its “trained” shape in the austenite phase, the other SMA actuator is permitted to cool and allowed to return to its original “untrained” shape in the martensite phase, and vice versa. This antagonistic operation of the SMA actuators allows the manipulator to achieve rapid flexion and extension movements. |
| FILED | Friday, April 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/683867 |
| ART UNIT | 3738 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| 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 2/586 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 9/12 (20130101) B25J 9/142 (20130101) B25J 15/12 (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 7/065 (20130101) Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 2219/39486 (20130101) |
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| US 09744066 | Kazerooni 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) | Homayoon Kazerooni (Berkeley, California); Erich Hacker (Portland, Oregon); Lee-Huang Chen (Anaheim, California); Wayne Tung (Berkeley, California); Nathan Poon (Oakland, California); Theerapat Yangyuenthanasan (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A trunk supporting exoskeleton comprises: a supporting trunk; thigh links configured to move in unison with a person's thighs; and first and second torque generators located on both left and right halves of the person substantially close to the person's hip. The torque generators couple the supporting trunk to the thigh links, and generate torque between the thigh links and the supporting trunk. When the person bends forward such that a predetermined portion of the supporting trunk passes beyond a predetermined angle from vertical, a torque generator(s) imposes a resisting torque between the supporting trunk and the thigh link(s), causing the supporting trunk to impose a force against the person's trunk, and the thigh link(s) to impose a force onto the person's thigh. When the predetermined portion does not pass beyond the predetermined angle, the torque generators impose no resisting torques between said supporting trunk and respective thigh links. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 18, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/944635 |
| ART UNIT | 3771 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| 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 5/026 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61F 5/028 (20130101) A61F 2005/0179 (20130101) Physical Therapy Apparatus, e.g Devices for Locating or Stimulating Reflex Points in the Body; Artificial Respiration; Massage; Bathing Devices for Special Therapeutic or Hygienic Purposes or Specific Parts of the Body A61H 1/0244 (20130101) A61H 1/0292 (20130101) A61H 2201/164 (20130101) A61H 2201/165 (20130101) A61H 2201/1246 (20130101) A61H 2201/1261 (20130101) A61H 2201/1619 (20130101) |
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| US 09745198 | Leventis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aerogel Technologies, LLC (Glendale, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aerogel Technologies, LLC (Glendale, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas Leventis (Rolla, Missouri); Chariklia Sotiriou-Leventis (Rolla, Missouri); Chakkaravarthy Chidambareswarapattar (Rolla, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Porous three-dimensional networks of polyimide and porous three-dimensional networks of carbon and methods of their manufacture are described. For example, polyimide aerogels are prepared by mixing a dianhydride and a diisocyanate in a solvent comprising a pyrrolidone and acetonitrile at room temperature to form a sol-gel material and supercritically drying the sol-gel material to form the polyimide aerogel. Porous three-dimensional polyimide networks, such as polyimide aerogels, may also exhibit a fibrous morphology. Having a porous three-dimensional polyimide network undergo an additional step of pyrolysis may result in the three dimensional network being converted to a purely carbon skeleton, yielding a porous three-dimensional carbon network. The carbon network, having been derived from a fibrous polyimide network, may also exhibit a fibrous morphology. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/261399 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — 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 31/00 (20130101) C01B 31/08 (20130101) C01B 31/30 (20130101) C01B 31/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 18/346 (20130101) C08G 18/3243 (20130101) C08G 18/7671 (20130101) C08G 73/1003 (20130101) C08G 73/1035 (20130101) C08G 73/1067 (20130101) C08G 2101/0091 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 9/28 (20130101) C08J 2201/0502 (20130101) C08J 2205/026 (20130101) C08J 2375/04 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 79/08 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 11/38 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/13 (20130101) |
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| US 09745421 | Guan 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) | Zhibin Guan (Irvine, California); Hanxiang Zeng (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides for dendronized polymers, and the use of the polymers as carriers for the intracellular delivery of nucleic acids. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/221249 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 75/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/87 (20130101) C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2320/32 (20130101) |
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| US 09745548 | 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); Rudolf Gilmanshin (Framingham, Massachusetts); Louis Masi (Wilbraham, Massachusetts); Benjamin Ross-Johnsrud (Wilbraham, Massachusetts); Erik Miller (Belchertown, Massachusetts); Walter M. Presz, Jr. (Wilbraham, Massachusetts); Thomas J. Kennedy, III (Wilbraham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are disclosed for separating beads and cells from a host fluid. The method includes flowing a mixture containing the host fluid, the beads, and the cells through an acoustophoretic device having an ultrasonic transducer including a piezoelectric material driven by a drive signal to create a multi-dimensional acoustic standing wave. A drive signal is sent to drive the at least one ultrasonic transducer to create the multi-dimensional acoustic standing wave. A recirculating fluid stream having a tangential flow path is located substantially tangential to the standing wave and separated therefrom by an interface region. A portion of the cells pass through the standing wave, and the beads are held back from the standing wave in the recirculating fluid stream at the interface region. Also disclosed is an acoustophoretic device having a coolant inlet adapted to permit the ingress of a cooling fluid into the device for cooling the transducer. |
| FILED | Monday, January 30, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/420073 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 21/283 (20130101) Peptides C07K 1/14 (20130101) Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 29/10 (20130101) C12M 33/08 (20130101) C12M 41/12 (20130101) C12M 47/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12M 47/10 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 13/00 (20130101) Sound-producing Devices; Methods or Devices for Protecting Against, or for Damping, Noise or Other Acoustic Waves in General; Acoustics Not Otherwise Provided for G10K 9/122 (20130101) G10K 15/043 (20130101) |
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| US 09745591 | Hellmann |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Washington State University (Pullman, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington State University (Pullman, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hanjo Hellmann (Pullman, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Transgenic plants that have enhanced yield-related traits, such as increased seed oil production, are produced by genetically engineering the plants to down-regulate the expression of at least one BPM protein. Such transgenic plants can, for example, be cultivated and yield higher seed oil production than control plants which have not been genetically engineered for down regulation of a BPM protein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/519577 |
| ART UNIT | 1662 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/415 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/8218 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/8247 (20130101) C12N 15/8261 (20130101) |
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| US 09745610 | Doudna et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer A. Doudna (Berkeley, California); Lei S. Qi (El Cerrito, California); Rachel E. Haurwitz (Kensington, California); Adam P. Arkin (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides nucleic acids encoding an RNA recognition sequence positioned proximal to an insertion site for the insertion of a sequence of interest; and host cells genetically modified with the nucleic acids. The present disclosure also provides methods of modifying the activity of a target RNA, and kits and compositions for carrying out the methods. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 09, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/248980 |
| 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 15/85 (20130101) C12N 2830/50 (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) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09745613 | Holson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Broad Institute, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Broad Institute, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward Holson (Newton, Massachusetts); David Olson (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods for the identification of compounds, peptides and proteins that can act as substrates for histone deacetylases. The invention further relates to compounds of Formula I: F1-X1-L1-X2-P1-X3-G1 (Formula I) The invention relates to the treatment of diseases or disorders mediated by ARID1A (BAF250A). |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/805867 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/00 (20130101) A61K 31/185 (20130101) A61K 31/365 (20130101) A61K 31/397 (20130101) A61K 31/404 (20130101) A61K 31/495 (20130101) A61K 31/4192 (20130101) A61K 31/4439 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/08 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2333/98 (20130101) |
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| US 09745621 | Opdahl |
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| APPLICANT(S) | WISYS Technology Foundation, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WISYS Technology Foundation, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aric Martin Opdahl (La Crosse, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for sensitive measurements of molecular binding as a function of time and temperature provided by a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) instrument producing a stable temperature gradient over the sensor surface. Continuous monitoring of reflected light intensity from different locations of the sensor allows simultaneous measurement of time and temperature dependence of binding interactions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 17, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/239155 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6825 (20130101) C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/274 (20130101) G01N 21/0332 (20130101) G01N 21/553 (20130101) G01N 21/648 (20130101) G01N 21/6428 (20130101) G01N 2021/1731 (20130101) G01N 2201/1211 (20130101) |
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| US 09746443 | Chin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bryan A. Chin (Auburn, Alabama); Zhongyang Cheng (Auburn, Alabama); Suiqiong Li (Auburn, Alabama); Mi-Kyung Park (Auburn, Alabama); Shin Horikawa (Auburn, Alabama); Yating Chai (Auburn, Alabama); Kanchana Weerakoon (Auburn, Alabama); Stevie R. Best (Auburn, Alabama); Martin E. Baltazar-Lopez (Auburn, Alabama); Howard C. Wikle (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | AUBURN UNIVERSITY (Auburn, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryan A. Chin (Auburn, Alabama); Zhongyang Cheng (Auburn, Alabama); Suiqiong Li (Auburn, Alabama); Mi-Kyung Park (Auburn, Alabama); Shin Horikawa (Auburn, Alabama); Yating Chai (Auburn, Alabama); Kanchana Weerakoon (Auburn, Alabama); Stevie R. Best (Auburn, Alabama); Martin E. Baltazar-Lopez (Auburn, Alabama); Howard C. Wikle (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | In at least one illustrative embodiment, a method for in-situ pathogen detection may comprise distributing one or more magnetoelastic measurement sensors on a surface of a test object, wherein each of the one or more magnetoelastic measurement sensors includes a biorecognition element configured to bind with a pathogen to cause a shift in a characteristic frequency of the associated measurement sensor; applying a varying magnetic field, using a test coil, to the one or more magnetoelastic measurement sensors distributed on the surface of the test object, wherein the test object is positioned outside of an inner volume defined by the test coil; detecting a frequency response of the one or more magnetoelastic measurement sensors using the test coil, while applying the varying magnetic field; and determining whether the pathogen is present based on the detected frequency response of the one or more magnetoelastic measurement sensors. |
| FILED | Monday, October 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/064308 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/72 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 27/745 (20130101) G01N 33/54373 (20130101) |
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| US 09746468 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph Wang (San Diego, California); Susana Campuzano-Ruiz (Madrid, Spain) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Wang (San Diego, California); Susana Campuzano-Ruiz (Madrid, Spain) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, devices and materials are disclosed for implementing a bioaffinity sensor having a self-assembled monolayer interface for detection of a target molecule. In one aspect, a sensor device for detecting a target molecule includes a surface capable of attaching a thiol and a molecular monolayer formed on the surface that includes a molecular capture probe having a thiol region, a linear alkanethiol molecule having one thiol region, and a linear alkanedithiol molecule having two thiol regions, in which the molecular capture probe includes a region for receiving a target substance having a complimentary region that couples with the region of the molecular capture probe to generate a detectable signal. |
| FILED | Friday, January 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/982258 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/689 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/30 (20130101) G01N 27/327 (20130101) G01N 27/3277 (20130101) G01N 33/54386 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09748019 | Michael et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elizabeth K. Michael (State College, Pennsylvania); Susan Trolier-McKinstry (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Both single phase lead-free cubic pyrochlore bismuth zinc niobate (BZN)-based dielectric materials with a chemical composition of Bi1.5Zn(0.5+y)Nb(1.5−x)Ta(x)O(6.5+y), with 0≦x<0.23 and 0≦y<0.9 and films with these average compositions with Bi2O3 particles in an amorphous matrix and a process of manufacture thereof. The crystalline BZNT-based dielectric material has a relative permittivity of at least 120, a maximum applied electric field of at least 4.0 MV/cm at 10 kHz, a maximum energy storage at 25° C. and 10 kHz of at least 50 J/cm3 and a maximum energy storage at 200° C. and 10 kHz of at least 22 J/cm3. The process is a wet chemical process that produces thin films of Bi1.5Zn(0.5+y)Nb(1.5−x)Ta(x)O(6.5+y) without the use of 2-methoxyethanol and pyridine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 12, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/207653 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| 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 35/495 (20130101) C04B 35/632 (20130101) C04B 35/638 (20130101) C04B 2235/656 (20130101) C04B 2235/3255 (20130101) C04B 2235/3284 (20130101) C04B 2235/3298 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 3/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09748421 | Mitra et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Subhasish Mitra (Palo Alto, California); Nishant P. Patil (Mountain View, California); Chung Chun Wan (Fremont, California); H.-S. Philip Wong (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Subhasish Mitra (Palo Alto, California); Nishant P. Patil (Mountain View, California); Chung Chun Wan (Fremont, California); H.-S. Philip Wong (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A wafer-scale multiple carbon nanotube transfer process is provided. According to one embodiment of the invention, plasma exposure processes are performed at various stages of the fabrication process of a carbon nanotube device or article to improve feasibility and yield for successive transfers of nanotubes. In one such carbon nanotube transfer process, a carrier material is partially etched by a plasma process before removing the carrier material through, for example, a wet etch. By applying the subject plasma exposure processes, fabrication of ultra-high-density nanotubes and ultra-high-density nanotube grids or fabrics is facilitated. The ultra-high-density nanotubes and ultra-high-density nanotube grids or fabrics fabricated utilizing embodiments of the invention can be used, for example, to make high-performance carbon nanotube field effect transistors (CNFETs) and low cost, highly-transparent, and low-resistivity electrodes for solar cell and flat panel display applications. Further, three-dimensional CNFETs can be provided by utilizing the subject plasma exposure processes. |
| FILED | Friday, March 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/718418 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Cleaning in General; Prevention of Fouling in General B08B 7/0035 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/283 (20130101) H01L 31/035281 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/003 (20130101) H01L 51/0013 (20130101) H01L 51/0048 (20130101) H01L 51/0541 (20130101) H01L 51/0558 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/521 (20151101) |
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| US 09748567 | Elhassid et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dror Elhassid (St. Louis, Missouri); William Moller (St. Louis, Missouri); Richard Axelbaum (St. Louis, Missouri); Miklos Lengyel (St. Louis, Missouri); Gal Atlas (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for preparing a metal oxide-containing powder that comprises conducting spray pyrolysis that comprises aerosolizing a slurry that comprises solidphase particles in a liquid that comprises at least one precursor compound, which comprises one or more metallic elements of at least one metal oxide, to form droplets of said slurry, and calcining the droplets to at least partially decompose the at least one precursor compound and form the metal oxide-containing powder having a non-hollow morphology. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/775231 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 2/02 (20130101) Compounds of Alkali Metals, i.e Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, Caesium, or Francium C01D 15/02 (20130101) Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 1/02 (20130101) C01G 45/1228 (20130101) C01G 45/1257 (20130101) C01G 51/42 (20130101) C01G 51/50 (20130101) C01G 51/56 (20130101) C01G 53/42 (20130101) C01G 53/50 (20130101) C01G 53/56 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/32 (20130101) C01P 2002/52 (20130101) C01P 2004/03 (20130101) C01P 2004/30 (20130101) C01P 2004/45 (20130101) C01P 2004/61 (20130101) C01P 2004/62 (20130101) C01P 2004/80 (20130101) C01P 2004/82 (20130101) C01P 2006/11 (20130101) C01P 2006/12 (20130101) C01P 2006/16 (20130101) C01P 2006/40 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/485 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/505 (20130101) H01M 4/525 (20130101) H01M 4/5825 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) |
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| US 09748837 | Kose et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Selcuk Kose (Tampa, Florida); Orhun Aras Uzun (Tampa, Florida); Weize Yu (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Dynamic power management techniques and voltage converter architectures are described to provide a secure and efficient on-chip power delivery system. In aspects of the embodiments, converter-gating is used to adaptively turn individual interleaved switched-capacitor stages of a voltage converter on and off based on workload information to improve voltage conversion efficiency. Further, as a countermeasure against machine learning based differential power analysis attacks, for example, control signals provided to a number of the interleaved switched-capacitor stages are delayed to reduce the risk of low power trace entropy (PTE). A higher PTE value is maintained regardless of the phase difference between an attacker's sampling rate and the operating frequency, providing an additional layer of security. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 28, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/811033 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus for Conversion Between AC and AC, Between AC and DC, or Between DC and DC, and for Use With Mains or Similar Power Supply Systems; Conversion of DC or AC Input Power into Surge Output Power; Control or Regulation Thereof H02M 3/07 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09748863 | Zhou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yan Zhou (Tallahassee, Florida); Hui Li (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The cascaded multilevel inverter is considered to be a promising topology alternative for low-cost and high-efficiency photovoltaic (PV) systems. However, the leakage current issue, resulting from the stray capacitances between the PV panels and the earth, remains a challenge in the photovoltaic cascaded multilevel inverter application. The present invention presents leakage current suppression solutions for the PV cascaded multilevel inverter by introducing properly arranged and designed passive filters. The embodiments of the invention do not include an active semiconductor device, and as such, the leakage current suppression techniques of the present invention retain the simple structure of the cascaded inverter and do not complicate the associated control system. |
| FILED | Friday, August 26, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/248980 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 3/383 (20130101) Apparatus for Conversion Between AC and AC, Between AC and DC, or Between DC and DC, and for Use With Mains or Similar Power Supply Systems; Conversion of DC or AC Input Power into Surge Output Power; Control or Regulation Thereof H02M 7/537 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shane Farritor (Lincoln, Nebraska); Thomas Frederick (Omaha, Nebraska); Joe Bartels (Lincoln, Nebraska); Eric Markvicka (Ravenna, Nebraska); Jack Mondry (Stillwater, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The various embodiments disclosed herein relate to improved robotic surgical systems, including robotic surgical devices having improved arm components and/or biometric sensors, contact detection systems for robotic surgical devices, gross positioning systems and devices for use in robotic surgical systems, and improved external controllers and consoles. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/208515 |
| ART UNIT | 3731 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 19/2203 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 34/30 (20160201) A61B 2034/302 (20160201) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 901/28 (20130101) |
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| US 09745481 | Rolin 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 NASA (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terry D. Rolin (Elkmont, Alabama); Curtis W. Hill (Meridianville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a dielectric ink and means for printing using said ink. Approximately 10-20% of the ink is a custom organic vehicle made of a polar solvent and a binder. Approximately 30-70% of the ink is a dielectric powder having an average particle diameter of approximately 10-750 nm. Approximately 5-15% of the ink is a dielectric constant glass. Approximately 10-35% of the ink is an additional amount of solvent. The ink is deposited on a printing substrate to form at least one printed product, which is then dried and cured to remove the solvent and binder, respectively. The printed product then undergoes sintering in an inert gas atmosphere. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 16, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/971595 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 3/22 (20130101) C08K 3/40 (20130101) C08K 2003/2206 (20130101) C08K 2003/2237 (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 11/14 (20130101) C09D 11/033 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 13/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09745921 | Trefny 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 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles J. Trefny (Olmsted Township, Ohio); Vance F. Dippold (Lakewood, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A new dual-mode ramjet combustor used for operation over a wide flight Mach number range is described. Subsonic combustion mode is usable to lower flight Mach numbers than current dual-mode scramjets. High speed mode is characterized by supersonic combustion in a free-jet that traverses the subsonic combustion chamber to a variable nozzle throat. Although a variable combustor exit aperture is required, the need for fuel staging to accommodate the combustion process is eliminated. Local heating from shock-boundary-layer interactions on combustor walls is also eliminated. |
| FILED | Monday, July 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/941987 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 2033/026 (20130101) Jet-propulsion Plants F02K 7/10 (20130101) F02K 7/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Generating Combustion Products of High Pressure or High Velocity, e.g Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers F23R 3/16 (20130101) F23R 3/18 (20130101) F23R 3/42 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/671 (20130101) |
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| US 09748870 | Sherril et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stewart Sherril (La Crescenta, California); Xiaoqi Bao (San Gabriel, California); Yoseph Bar-Cohen (Seal Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus that passes vibrational energy across a mechanical structure lacking a perforation. The disclosed apparatus and method provide the ability to transfer work (rotary or linear motion) across pressure or thermal barriers or in a sterile environment without generating contaminants; the presence of reflectors in the solid barrier to enhance the efficiency of the energy/power transmission, and the ability to produce a bi-directional driving mechanism using a plurality of different mode resonances, such as a fundamental frequency resonance and a higher frequency resonance. In some instances, a plane within the mechanical structure lacking a perforation is a nodal plane of the vibrational energy field. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/557844 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Machines Not Otherwise Provided for H02N 2/04 (20130101) H02N 2/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H02N 2/026 (20130101) H02N 2/0045 (20130101) H02N 2/103 (20130101) |
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| US 09749342 | Krage 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) | Frederick J. Krage (Bowie, Maryland); Paul A. Westmeyer (Woodbridge, Virginia); Russell F. Wertenberg (Belmont, California); Jack F. Riegel (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An authentication procedure utilizes multiple independent sources of data to determine whether usage of a device, such as a desktop computer, is authorized. When a comparison indicates an anomaly from the base-line usage data, the system, provides a notice that access of the first device is not authorized. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/281988 |
| ART UNIT | 2497 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/10 (20130101) H04L 63/1416 (20130101) H04L 63/1425 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 09744715 | Ermochkine et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Liquidia Technologies, Inc. (Morrisville, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Liquidia Technologies, Inc. (Morrisville, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Ermochkine (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Derek Schorzman (Cary, North Carolina); Jacob Sprague (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A large area patterned film includes a first patterned area; a second patterned area; and a seam joining the first patterned area and the second patterned area, wherein the seam has a width less than about 20 micrometers. A method for tiling patterned areas includes depositing a predetermined thickness of a curable material; contacting a first portion of the curable material with a mold; curing the first portion of the curable material; removing the mold from the cured first portion of the curable material; contacting a second portion of the curable material with the mold, such that the mold contacts a portion of the cured first portion of the curable material; curing the second portion of the curable material; and removing the mold to yield a seam between the cured first portion of the curable material and the cured second portion of the curable material, wherein the seam has a dimension less than about 20 micrometers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/937158 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| 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 35/0266 (20130101) B29C 35/0805 (20130101) B29C 35/0894 (20130101) B29C 37/0053 (20130101) B29C 43/003 (20130101) B29C 43/06 (20130101) B29C 43/021 (20130101) B29C 59/022 (20130101) B29C 59/026 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B29C 2035/0827 (20130101) B29C 2043/023 (20130101) B29C 2043/025 (20130101) B29C 2043/142 (20130101) B29C 2043/144 (20130101) B29C 2059/023 (20130101) B29C 2791/001 (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 2067/003 (20130101) B29K 2105/0002 (20130101) B29K 2871/00 (20130101) B29K 2995/0098 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29C, Relating to Particular Articles B29L 2009/005 (20130101) B29L 2031/104 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (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 1/13336 (20130101) Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/0002 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/19 (20150115) Y10T 428/192 (20150115) |
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| US 09746067 | Cooper et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Clark V. Cooper (Arlington, Virginia); Sonia Tulyani (Manchester, Connecticut); Edward J. Karedes (Chesire, Connecticut); Jefferi J. Covington (South Glastonbury, Connecticut); Alexander Staroselsky (Avon, Connecticut); Harsh Vinayak (Gurgeon, India) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clark V. Cooper (Arlington, Virginia); Sonia Tulyani (Manchester, Connecticut); Edward J. Karedes (Chesire, Connecticut); Jefferi J. Covington (South Glastonbury, Connecticut); Alexander Staroselsky (Avon, Connecticut); Harsh Vinayak (Gurgeon, India) |
| ABSTRACT | There is a gear set. The gear set has a) a first gear having a first surface and b) an intermeshing second gear having a second surface. The first and second surfaces each, independently, have an isotropic arithmetic mean roughness, Ra, of about 0.0762 micrometers/3 microinches or less and are lubricated. There is also a method for increasing the contact surface-fatigue life of a gear set. |
| FILED | Friday, December 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 12/084603 |
| ART UNIT | 3658 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Gearing F16H 55/06 (20130101) F16H 57/041 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 74/19972 (20150115) Y10T 74/19995 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09746399 | Bruno |
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| APPLICANT(S) | National Institute of Standards and Technology (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Unites States of America as represented by the Secretary of Commerce, The National Institute of Standards and Technology (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J. Bruno (Broomfield, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and method for headspace sampling is disclosed herein. The headspace sampling device comprises a sample holding device configured to be sealed in a vial. The sample holding device has a pair of electrodes gap spaced from one another and a basket extending between the electrodes configured to hold a sample. The basket is configured to heat a sample held therewith and volatize at least a portion of the sample upon an electrical current being passed through the electrodes and the basket. |
| FILED | Friday, August 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/974181 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 1/4022 (20130101) G01N 31/12 (20130101) G01N 2001/2229 (20130101) G01N 2030/062 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09746415 | Holm et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason D. Holm (Louisville, Colorado); Robert R. Keller (Louisville, Colorado); Katherine P. Rice (Fitchburg, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A detector mask transmits selectively a plurality of probe particles to a particle detector, the detector mask includes: a plate including a plate wall disposed in the plate and enclosing a transmission orifice arranged in a transmission profile to: transmit probe particles having a trajectory coincident with the transmission orifice, block probe particles having a trajectory external to the transmission orifice, and form a probe particle beam comprising the probe particles transmitted by the transmission orifice to the particle detector, wherein the transmission profile includes a sector, a semi-circle, an annular sector, or a combination including at least one of the foregoing first transmission profiles. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 11, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/403931 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 3/04 (20130101) G01N 21/03 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/361 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09744147 | Stock et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SIGNUM BIOSCIENCES, INC. (Monmouth Junction, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Signum Biosciences, Inc. (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffry B. Stock (Princeton, New Jersey); Maxwell Stock (Rocky Hill, New Jersey); Keshava Rapole (Edison, New Jersey); Seung-Yub Lee (Princeton, New Jersey); Michael Voronkov (Pennington, New Jersey); Eduardo Perez (Somerset, New Jersey); Joel Gordon (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Shuyi Chen (Somerset, New Jersey); Jinglong Chen (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | Among other things, the present invention provides novel isoprenyl compounds capable of effectively modulating inflammatory responses and pharmaceutical, cosmetic, cosmeceutical and topical compositions comprising these isoprenyl compounds. Anti-inflammatory compounds of the present invention are useful in treating or preventing diseases or conditions associated with inflammation. Proinflammatory compounds of the present invention are useful in treating or preventing diseases or conditions associated with suppression of inflammatory responses. Thus, the present invention also provides methods useful in the treatment or prevention of diseases or conditions associated with inflammation as well as methods useful in the treatment or prevention of diseases or conditions associated with suppression of inflammatory responses. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 10, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/151221 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0014 (20130101) A61K 31/197 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 243/34 (20130101) C07C 321/18 (20130101) C07C 323/59 (20130101) C07C 335/08 (20130101) C07C 2601/02 (20170501) C07C 2601/14 (20170501) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/16 (20130101) C07D 209/18 (20130101) C07D 209/48 (20130101) C07D 217/26 (20130101) C07D 243/34 (20130101) C07D 295/145 (20130101) C07D 307/54 (20130101) C07D 333/24 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09745353 | Krebs et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph Krebs (Austin, Texas); Paul Morrison (Austin, Texas); Jun Wang (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bioo Scientific Corporation (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Krebs (Austin, Texas); Paul Morrison (Austin, Texas); Jun Wang (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Anti-peptide antibodies (APAs) are extremely important tools for biomedical research. Many important techniques, such as immunoblots, ELISA immunoassays, immunocytochemistry, and protein microarrays are intrinsically linked to APA function and completely dependent on APA quality. Unfortunately, not all commercially-available APAs have good antigen binding characteristics; as a result, researchers are often unable to perform high quality protein analysis experiments. This disclosure describes a new method for the scalable production of polyclonal APAs using recombinant antigens. These recombinant peptide antigens have several advantages over traditional peptide antigens which improve the ease and speed of antibody production. The recombinant antigens can be scalably produced and purified much faster than traditional synthetic peptide-conjugates. These recombinant antigen-carriers are designed to specifically aggregate in vivo after administration into the host; this aggregation greatly enhances immunogenicity and may eliminate the need for the use of chemical adjuvants which cause physical irritation and discomfort to the host. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/990344 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/6031 (20130101) A61K 2039/6043 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/195 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/00 (20130101) C07K 16/40 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/0008 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09745616 | Terbrueggen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Terbrueggen (Manhattan Beach, California); Yenbou Liu (Arcadia, California); John Ray Childers, Jr. (Long Beach, California); Chang Hee Kim (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Majid R. Abedi (Anaheim, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | DXTERITY DIAGNOSTICS INCORPORATED (Rancho Dominguez, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Terbrueggen (Manhattan Beach, California); Yenbou Liu (Arcadia, California); John Ray Childers, Jr. (Long Beach, California); Chang Hee Kim (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Majid R. Abedi (Anaheim, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions, apparatuses and methods for detecting one or more nucleic acid targets present in a sample. Methods of the invention include utilizing two or more ligation probes that reversibly bind a target nucleic acid in close proximity to each other and possess complementary reactive ligation moieties. When such probes have bound to the target in the proper orientation, they are able to undergo a spontaneous chemical ligation reaction that yields a ligation product that is directly detected or that is amplified to produce amplicons that are then detected. The present invention also provides methods to stabilize sample RNA so that degradation does not significantly affect the results of the analysis. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/118524 |
| 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 | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6809 (20130101) C12Q 1/6809 (20130101) C12Q 1/6813 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6834 (20130101) C12Q 1/6834 (20130101) C12Q 1/6855 (20130101) C12Q 1/6855 (20130101) C12Q 1/6862 (20130101) C12Q 1/6862 (20130101) C12Q 1/6862 (20130101) C12Q 2523/109 (20130101) C12Q 2523/109 (20130101) C12Q 2523/109 (20130101) C12Q 2523/109 (20130101) C12Q 2523/109 (20130101) C12Q 2525/15 (20130101) C12Q 2525/155 (20130101) C12Q 2525/155 (20130101) C12Q 2525/155 (20130101) C12Q 2525/155 (20130101) C12Q 2525/155 (20130101) C12Q 2525/161 (20130101) C12Q 2525/161 (20130101) C12Q 2525/161 (20130101) C12Q 2525/197 (20130101) C12Q 2525/197 (20130101) C12Q 2525/197 (20130101) C12Q 2525/204 (20130101) C12Q 2525/204 (20130101) C12Q 2525/204 (20130101) C12Q 2525/204 (20130101) C12Q 2525/204 (20130101) C12Q 2533/107 (20130101) C12Q 2533/107 (20130101) C12Q 2533/107 (20130101) C12Q 2537/143 (20130101) C12Q 2537/143 (20130101) C12Q 2537/143 (20130101) C12Q 2563/131 (20130101) C12Q 2563/131 (20130101) C12Q 2563/131 (20130101) C12Q 2563/179 (20130101) C12Q 2563/179 (20130101) C12Q 2563/179 (20130101) C12Q 2565/125 (20130101) C12Q 2565/125 (20130101) C12Q 2565/125 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09748726 | Morton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul A. Morton (West Friendship, Maryland); Jacob Khurgin (Pikesville, Maryland); Christopher D. Morton (West Friendship, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Morton Photonics (West Friendship, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul A. Morton (West Friendship, Maryland); Jacob Khurgin (Pikesville, Maryland); Christopher D. Morton (West Friendship, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention describes algorithmic and computational approaches to optimize the design and performance of microresonator based ultra-low noise lasers including a reflector or filter comprised of multiple (≧3) microresonator rings with different ring radii coupled together through bus waveguides. The enhanced reflector/filter design optimization provides more control over the key parameters, including the suppression ratio of unwanted modes over both a wide wavelength range (supporting wide wavelength tunability) and over the narrow range around the laser wavelength (improving laser singlemode and noise performance), while also enabling the design of specific reflector/filter bandwidth and effective length (delay), supporting the design of an ultra-low noise laser with specific operating performance parameters. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 08, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/372935 |
| 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 3/083 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 3/10053 (20130101) H01S 5/021 (20130101) H01S 5/142 (20130101) H01S 5/1032 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 09744226 | Briggs et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); Biotechnology Research and Development Corporation (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert E. Briggs (Boone, Iowa); Fred M. Tatum (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides attenuated M. haemolitica strains that elicit an immune response in animal against M. haemolitica, compositions comprising said strains, methods of vaccination against M. haemolitica, and kits for use with such methods and compositions. The invention further provides multi-valent vaccines, which provide protective immunity when administered in an effective amount to animals susceptible to “shipping fever” or bovine respiratory disease. |
| FILED | Friday, January 08, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 14/990995 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/102 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/70 (20130101) A61K 2039/522 (20130101) A61K 2039/543 (20130101) A61K 2039/552 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/285 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/36 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09745556 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INCORPORATED (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qingzhao Wang (Scarsdale, New York); Keelnatham T. Shanmugam (Gainesville, Florida); Lonnie O'Neal Ingram (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of designing and generating glycerol dehydrogenase (GlyDH) variants that have altered function as compared to a parent polypeptide. The present invention further provides nucleic acids encoding GlyDH polypeptide variants having altered function as compared to the parent polypeptide. Host cells comprising polynucleotides encoding GlyDH variants and methods of producing lactic acids are also provided in various aspects of the invention. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/347688 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/0006 (20130101) 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 7/26 (20130101) C12P 7/56 (20130101) C12P 2203/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09746443 | Chin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bryan A. Chin (Auburn, Alabama); Zhongyang Cheng (Auburn, Alabama); Suiqiong Li (Auburn, Alabama); Mi-Kyung Park (Auburn, Alabama); Shin Horikawa (Auburn, Alabama); Yating Chai (Auburn, Alabama); Kanchana Weerakoon (Auburn, Alabama); Stevie R. Best (Auburn, Alabama); Martin E. Baltazar-Lopez (Auburn, Alabama); Howard C. Wikle (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | AUBURN UNIVERSITY (Auburn, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryan A. Chin (Auburn, Alabama); Zhongyang Cheng (Auburn, Alabama); Suiqiong Li (Auburn, Alabama); Mi-Kyung Park (Auburn, Alabama); Shin Horikawa (Auburn, Alabama); Yating Chai (Auburn, Alabama); Kanchana Weerakoon (Auburn, Alabama); Stevie R. Best (Auburn, Alabama); Martin E. Baltazar-Lopez (Auburn, Alabama); Howard C. Wikle (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | In at least one illustrative embodiment, a method for in-situ pathogen detection may comprise distributing one or more magnetoelastic measurement sensors on a surface of a test object, wherein each of the one or more magnetoelastic measurement sensors includes a biorecognition element configured to bind with a pathogen to cause a shift in a characteristic frequency of the associated measurement sensor; applying a varying magnetic field, using a test coil, to the one or more magnetoelastic measurement sensors distributed on the surface of the test object, wherein the test object is positioned outside of an inner volume defined by the test coil; detecting a frequency response of the one or more magnetoelastic measurement sensors using the test coil, while applying the varying magnetic field; and determining whether the pathogen is present based on the detected frequency response of the one or more magnetoelastic measurement sensors. |
| FILED | Monday, October 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/064308 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/72 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 27/745 (20130101) G01N 33/54373 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 09743857 | Chey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan); THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California); THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William D. Chey (Ann Arbor, Michigan); James A. Ashton-Miller (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Brennan M. R. Spiegel (Los Angeles, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A probe system includes a finger-mountable housing having a distal end and a proximal receptacle end. The proximal receptacle end defines an opening to receive a finger. The probe system also includes a probe assembly disposed on or within the finger-mountable housing and having at least a first sensor. The first sensor is positioned to measure a physical characteristic of a first tissue when the finger-mountable housing and probe assembly are inserted in a rectum of the patient. |
| FILED | Friday, December 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/714728 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/11 (20130101) A61B 5/227 (20130101) A61B 5/1076 (20130101) A61B 5/04884 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/6806 (20130101) A61B 5/6826 (20130101) A61B 5/14503 (20130101) A61B 8/4444 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 09747550 | 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-in 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 | Monday, June 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/745899 |
| 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) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 09747600 | Gullo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United States Postal Service (, None) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United State Poastal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Gullo (Cheektowaga, New York); Jason Hugo (Alexandria, Virginia); Shea R. Felix (Falls Church, Virginia); Mark J. Briganti (Point Roberts, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for tracking the status of a label. The system can include a memory with a database. The database can include an indicator of the label status. The system can additionally include a processor that operates in accordance with instructions stored in the memory. The processor can receive a request to generate a label, update the first database with an identifier that indicates the existence of the label, receive a signal indicating that a service requested by the label has been provided, and update the identifier in the first database to indicate that the requested service has been provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/826644 |
| ART UNIT | 2169 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30365 (20130101) G06F 17/30368 (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 10/0833 (20130101) G06Q 30/01 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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