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Patent Details for Tuesday, September 05, 2017
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| US 09750241 | Lanza et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory M. Lanza (St. Louis, Missouri); Dipanjan Pan (St. Louis, Missouri); Allan Doctor (St. Louis, Missouri); Philip C. Spinella (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides oxygen-carrying nanoparticles, methods of making the nanoparticles, and methods of using the nanoparticles to carry oxygen in blood. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 16, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/460843 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| 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 1/0226 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09750426 | McGee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kiaran P McGee (Rochester, Minnesota); Richard L Ehman (Rochester, Minnesota); Stephen M Ansell (Rochester, Minnesota); Yogesh K Mariappan (Rochester, Minnesota); Jun Chen (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MAYO FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kiaran P McGee (Rochester, Minnesota); Richard L Ehman (Rochester, Minnesota); Stephen M Ansell (Rochester, Minnesota); Yogesh K Mariappan (Rochester, Minnesota); Jun Chen (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for determining a response of a tumor following a chemotherapy process includes the use of a magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) driver and a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. The method includes controlling the MRE driver and the MRI system to acquire raw MRE data from the tumor, inverting the raw MRE data to produce an elastogram of the tumor, and determining a response of the tumor to the chemotherapy process from the elastogram. |
| FILED | Monday, November 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/301300 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0051 (20130101) A61B 5/055 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09750427 | Prisk et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gordon Kim Prisk (San Diego, California); Susan Roberta Hopkins (San Diego, California); Richard Bruce Buxton (La Mesa, California); Rui Carlos Pereira De Sá (San Diego, California); Rebecca Jean Theilmann (San Diego, California); Matthew Vincent Cronin (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gordon Kim Prisk (San Diego, California); Susan Roberta Hopkins (San Diego, California); Richard Bruce Buxton (La Mesa, California); Rui Carlos Pereira De Sá (San Diego, California); Rebecca Jean Theilmann (San Diego, California); Matthew Vincent Cronin (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, devices, and systems are disclosed for implementing a fully quantitative non-injectable contrast proton MRI technique to measure spatial ventilation-perfusion (VA/Q) matching and spatial distribution of ventilation and perfusion. In one aspect, a method using MRI to characterize ventilation and perfusion in a lung includes acquiring an MR image of the lung having MR data in a voxel and obtaining a breathing frequency parameter, determining a water density value, a specific ventilation value, and a perfusion value in at least one voxel of the MR image based on the MR data and using the water density value to determine an air content value, and determining a ventilation-perfusion ratio value that is the product of the specific ventilation value, the air content value, the inverse of the perfusion value, and the breathing frequency. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/992231 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/08 (20130101) A61B 5/055 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/0813 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/5601 (20130101) G01R 33/56366 (20130101) |
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| US 09750693 | Reshetnyak et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rhode Island Council on Postsecondary Education (statutory successor to Board of Governors for Higher Education, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations) (Warwick, Rhode Island); Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rhode Island Council on Postsecondary Education (Statutory Successor to Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education) (Warwick, Rhode Island); Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yana K. Reshetnyak (South Kingstown, Rhode Island); Oleg A. Andreev (South Kingstown, Rhode Island); Donald M. Engelman (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application relates to compositions comprising and methods of using a liposome comprising a pHLIP polypeptide, wherein a lipid bilayer of the liposome is substantially free of the pHLIP polypeptide. |
| FILED | Monday, September 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/499600 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/127 (20130101) A61K 9/1271 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/20 (20130101) A61K 31/337 (20130101) A61K 31/704 (20130101) A61K 31/711 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 31/7105 (20130101) A61K 47/48815 (20130101) |
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| US 09750712 | Pahan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rush University Medical Center (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rush University Medical Center (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kalipada Pahan (Skokie, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods for treatment of a neurodegenerative disease, such as neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis including administering to a subject in need of such treatment a composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of an agent that mediates upregulation of TPP 1. |
| FILED | Friday, December 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/649069 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/192 (20130101) A61K 31/192 (20130101) A61K 31/203 (20130101) A61K 31/203 (20130101) A61K 31/216 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/216 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09750725 | Freeman 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) | Bruce A. Freeman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Francisco J. Schopfer (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds of formula I and their metabolites are potent mediators of an inflammatory response: where a, b, c, d, e, f, V, W, X, Y, Ra, Ra′, Rb, Rb′, Rc, and Rc′ are defined herein. In particular, the compounds of the invention are candidate therapeutics for treating inflammatory conditions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/717954 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/12 (20130101) A61K 31/231 (20130101) A61K 31/232 (20130101) A61K 31/421 (20130101) A61K 31/426 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/4166 (20130101) A61K 31/4192 (20130101) |
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| US 09750731 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lin Chen (La Canada, California); Nimanthi Jayathilaka (Los Angeles, California); Aidong Han (Los Angeles, California); Nicos Petasis (Hacienda Heights, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods and compositions for modulating the function of transcription factors, especially transcription factors that recruit epigenetic regulators (histone modifying enzymes) to specific DNA promoters. The targeted transcription factors include but are not limited to the myocyte enhancing factor (MEF2), the forkhead/winged helix transcription factor FOXP3 and the transcription factor GATA3. Also disclosed are small molecule modulators of MEF2 and its associated factors that include but not limited to histone deacetylases (HDACs), p300/CBP and Cabin1 and the therapeutic applications thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/465644 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/00 (20130101) A61K 31/167 (20130101) A61K 31/444 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 233/43 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/40 (20130101) Peptides C07K 2299/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6875 (20130101) G01N 2500/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09750742 | Mazin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alexander V. Mazin (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Fei Huang (Beijing, China PRC) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander V. Mazin (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Fei Huang (Beijing, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes compositions comprising a selective small-molecule inhibitor of RAD51 recombinase and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The invention further includes methods of treating or preventing cancer in a subject, comprising the step of administering to the subject the compositions contemplated within the invention. |
| FILED | Friday, October 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/928788 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/365 (20130101) A61K 31/365 (20130101) A61K 31/502 (20130101) A61K 31/506 (20130101) A61K 31/517 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/517 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 2005/1098 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 401/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09750749 | Phipps et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard P. Phipps (Pittsford, New York); Naxin Guo (Rochester, New York); Steven Feldon (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard P. Phipps (Pittsford, New York); Naxin Guo (Rochester, New York); Steven Feldon (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a methods and compositions for the treatment of and management of symptoms for thyroid eye disease. The methods include administering to a patient having thyroid eye disease an agent that interferes with hyaluronan synthesis in an amount that is effective to inhibit hyaluronan synthesis in a retro-ocular space. The pharmaceutical compositions that includes a carrier suitable for ophthalmic delivery and an agent that interferes with hyaluronan synthesis. Combination therapies are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, March 04, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/061727 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0048 (20130101) A61K 31/166 (20130101) A61K 31/201 (20130101) A61K 31/403 (20130101) A61K 31/506 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 31/557 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 31/4439 (20130101) A61K 31/5575 (20130101) A61K 31/7105 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1137 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2320/31 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 514/912 (20130101) |
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| US 09750757 | Bray et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul F. Bray (Penn Valley, Pennsylvania); Michael Holinstat (Wallingford, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to methods of affecting platelet activation by the use of a PC-TP inhibitor. The PC-TP inhibitor can be administered to a subject in need thereof in order to prevent or treat pathologic thrombosis, or to treat a disorder treatable by a PAR4 inhibitor. |
| FILED | Monday, October 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 15/032790 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/44 (20130101) A61K 31/53 (20130101) A61K 31/505 (20130101) A61K 31/635 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09750761 | Kottmann et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert M. Kottmann (Rochester, New York); Patricia J. Sime (Pittsford, New York); Richard P. Phipps (Pittsford, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert M. Kottmann (Rochester, New York); Patricia J. Sime (Pittsford, New York); Richard P. Phipps (Pittsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the disclosure relates to methods of treating a fibrotic condition in an individual. The methods include administering to an individual having a fibrotic condition an effective amount of a lactic dehydrogenase (LDH) inhibitor, wherein the fibrotic condition involves an internal organ or tissue, or ocular tissue, and said administering is effective to treat the fibrotic condition. Methods of administration and pharmaceutical compositions and systems for practicing such methods are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/718933 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/12 (20130101) A61K 31/404 (20130101) A61K 31/404 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1137 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2320/31 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 101/01027 (20130101) C12Y 101/01028 (20130101) |
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| US 09750767 | Scadden et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION (Boston, Massachusetts); PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION (Boston, Massachusetts); PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David T. Scadden (Weston, Massachusetts); Lev Silberstein (Brookline, Massachusetts); Peter Kharchenko (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods for enhancing hematopoietic reconstitution of a subject. One method involves administering a therapeutically effective amount of an inhibitor of IL-18 to a recipient subject and also administering hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells to the subject. Another method involves administering an inhibitor of IL-18 to a donor prior to harvest of hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells. Pharmaceutical compositions relating to the methods are also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/760076 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/20 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 2035/124 (20130101) |
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| US 09750768 | Kim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kwang-Soo Kim (Lexington, Massachusetts); Sangmi Chung (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE MCLEAN HOSPITAL CORPORATION (Belmont, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kwang-Soo Kim (Lexington, Massachusetts); Sangmi Chung (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods of isolating a novel cell population of midbrain dopaminergic neuronal progenitor cells derived from stem cells using a novel combination markers. The cell population may be used for cell therapies for the treatment of Parkinson's disease and as substrates in pharmacological assays. |
| FILED | Friday, May 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/118982 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 16/40 (20130101) C07K 16/2863 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0623 (20130101) C12N 2500/25 (20130101) C12N 2501/15 (20130101) C12N 2501/60 (20130101) C12N 2501/115 (20130101) C12N 2501/235 (20130101) C12N 2506/02 (20130101) C12N 2506/45 (20130101) |
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| US 09750771 | Tseng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | TissueTech, Inc. (Doral, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TISSUETECH, INC. (Miami, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scheffer Tseng (Pinecrest, Florida); Hua He (Miami, Florida); Wei Li (Shenzhen, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions having a combination of specific biological components have been found to exert a number of useful effects in mammalian cells, including modulating TGF β signaling, apoptosis, and proliferation of mammalian cells, as well as decreasing inflammation in mice. These components can be obtained commercially, or can be prepared from biological tissues such as placental tissues. Placental amniotic membrane (AM) preparations described herein include AM pieces, AM extracts, AM jelly, AM stroma, and mixtures of these compositions with additional components. The compositions can be used to treat various diseases, such as wound healing, inflammation and angiogenesis-related diseases. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/848153 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/06 (20130101) A61K 9/08 (20130101) A61K 9/0014 (20130101) A61K 9/0048 (20130101) A61K 9/0053 (20130101) A61K 31/738 (20130101) A61K 35/48 (20130101) A61K 35/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/39 (20130101) A61K 38/39 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 38/4886 (20130101) A61K 38/4886 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (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 15/40 (20130101) A61L 15/44 (20130101) A61L 2300/64 (20130101) A61L 2300/412 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/78 (20130101) C07K 14/4702 (20130101) C07K 14/4718 (20130101) C07K 14/8114 (20130101) |
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| US 09750772 | Tseng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | TissueTech, Inc. (Doral, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TISSUETECH, INC. (Miami, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scheffer Tseng (Doral, Florida); Hua He (Doral, Florida); Wei Li (Shenzhen, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions having a combination of specific biological components have been found to exert a number of useful effects in mammalian cells, including modulating TGF β signaling, apoptosis, and proliferation of mammalian cells, as well as decreasing inflammation in mice. These components can be obtained commercially, or can be prepared from biological tissues such as placental tissues. Placental amniotic membrane (AM) preparations described herein include AM pieces, AM extracts, AM jelly, AM stroma, and mixtures of these compositions with additional components. The compositions can be used to treat various diseases, such as wound healing, inflammation and angiogenesis-related diseases. |
| FILED | Friday, October 09, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/880135 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/06 (20130101) A61K 9/08 (20130101) A61K 9/0048 (20130101) A61K 31/728 (20130101) A61K 31/738 (20130101) A61K 35/48 (20130101) A61K 35/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/17 (20130101) A61K 38/17 (20130101) A61K 38/39 (20130101) A61K 38/39 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09750789 | D'armiento et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeanine D'armiento (New York, New York); Paul Elkington (Winchester, United Kingdom); Jon S. Friedland (London, United Kingdom) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeanine D'armiento (New York, New York); Paul Elkington (Winchester, United Kingdom); Jon S. Friedland (London, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for treating a subject suffering from tuberculosis which comprises administering to the subject a composition comprising an amount of an inhibitor of a matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) in an amount effective to treat the subject, such that the therapeutic effect of said composition is different than the therapeutic effect attributable to the antibiotic properties of said composition. The present invention also provides a method for reducing or inhibiting destruction of lung extracellular matrix in a subject comprising administering to the subject at risk for such destruction a composition comprising an amount of an inhibitor of a matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) in an amount effective to reduce or inhibit destruction of lung extracellular matrix in the subject. |
| FILED | Friday, February 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/000134 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/65 (20130101) A61K 31/166 (20130101) A61K 31/197 (20130101) A61K 31/4439 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) A61K 38/55 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/4886 (20130101) |
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| US 09750793 | Dharmasena et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Dept. of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Madushini Nirosha Dharmasena (Germantown, Maryland); Dennis J. Kopecko (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A recombineered Salmonella typhi Ty21a, compositions and vaccines comprising such a Ty21a, and a method for recombineering comprising inserting a large antigenic region into a bacterial chromosome for the purpose of making multivalent vaccines to protect against one or more disease agents are described herein. |
| FILED | Monday, September 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/428870 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0275 (20130101) A61K 39/0283 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/70 (20130101) A61K 2039/522 (20130101) A61K 2039/523 (20130101) A61K 2039/542 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/25 (20130101) C07K 14/255 (20130101) C07K 2319/40 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/20 (20130101) |
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| US 09750801 | Barouch et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Crucell Holland B.V. (Leiden, Netherlands) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Janssen Vaccines and Prevention B.V. (Leiden, Netherlands); Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan Barouch (Newton, Massachusetts); Peter Abbink (Winthrop, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Replicating recombinant adenovirus vectors derived from human adenovirus serotype 26 or human adenovirus serotype 35 are described. The replicating recombinant adenovirus vectors have attenuated replicative capacity as compared to that of the corresponding wild-type adenovirus. They can be used for stable expression of heterologous genes in vivo. Also described are compositions and methods of using these recombinant adenovirus vectors to induce an immune response in a subject, and vaccinate a subject against an immunogenic human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 26, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/632433 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/21 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/5256 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 2710/10052 (20130101) C12N 2710/10143 (20130101) C12N 2710/10171 (20130101) C12N 2710/10343 (20130101) C12N 2710/16143 (20130101) C12N 2710/16171 (20130101) C12N 2740/16134 (20130101) C12N 2740/16171 (20130101) |
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| US 09750803 | Irvine et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darrell J. Irvine (Arlington, Massachusetts); Jaehyun Moon (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides delivery systems comprised of stabilized multilamellar vesicles, as well as compositions, methods of synthesis, and methods of use thereof. The stabilized multilamellar vesicles comprise terminal-cysteine-bearing antigens or cysteine-modified antigens, at their surface and/or internally. |
| FILED | Monday, August 08, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/230736 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/127 (20130101) A61K 9/1271 (20130101) A61K 9/1273 (20130101) A61K 38/20 (20130101) A61K 38/45 (20130101) A61K 38/193 (20130101) A61K 38/208 (20130101) A61K 38/212 (20130101) A61K 38/217 (20130101) A61K 38/2013 (20130101) A61K 38/2046 (20130101) A61K 38/2086 (20130101) A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/015 (20130101) A61K 39/21 (20130101) A61K 39/39 (20130101) A61K 39/385 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 39/39533 (20130101) A61K 47/48815 (20130101) A61K 2039/57 (20130101) A61K 2039/572 (20130101) A61K 2039/575 (20130101) A61K 2039/6018 (20130101) A61K 2039/55511 (20130101) A61K 2039/55555 (20130101) A61K 2039/55572 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/88 (20130101) C12N 2740/15034 (20130101) C12N 2740/16234 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 207/10001 (20130101) |
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| US 09750814 | Procko et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik Procko (Seattle, Washington); David Baker (Seattle, Washington); Geoffrey Y. Berguig (Seattle, Washington); Patrick S. Stayton (Seattle, Washington); Yifan Song (Seattle, Washington); Stephanie Ann Berger (Seattle, Washington); Daniel-Adriano Silva (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides designed polypeptides that selectively bind to and inhibit Epstein Barr protein BHFR1, and B cell lymphoma family proteins, and are thus useful for treating Epstein Barr-related diseases and cancer. |
| FILED | Monday, September 12, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/262716 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/17 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/245 (20130101) A61K 39/395 (20130101) A61K 47/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 14/001 (20130101) C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 14/4747 (20130101) C07K 14/4748 (20130101) C07K 16/085 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0635 (20130101) C12N 5/0636 (20130101) C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2710/16211 (20130101) C12N 2710/16234 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56994 (20130101) G01N 2333/05 (20130101) |
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| US 09750819 | Lee |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Lee (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Lipid nanoparticle formulations, methods of making, and methods of using same are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/403313 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/127 (20130101) A61K 9/1271 (20130101) A61K 9/1272 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 38/08 (20130101) A61K 38/10 (20130101) A61K 38/482 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 47/48046 (20130101) A61K 47/48192 (20130101) A61K 47/48284 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/48815 (20130101) A61K 48/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 15/1135 (20130101) C12N 15/1137 (20130101) C12N 2310/11 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 304/21064 (20130101) |
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| US 09750824 | Kariko et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Katalin Kariko (Rydal, Pennsylvania); Drew Weissman (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides RNA, oligoribonucleotide, and polyribonucleotide molecules comprising pseudouridine or a modified nucleoside, gene therapy vectors comprising same, methods of synthesizing same, and methods for gene replacement, gene therapy, gene transcription silencing, and the delivery of therapeutic proteins to tissue in vivo, comprising the molecules. The present invention also provides methods of reducing the immunogenicity of RNA, oligoribonucleotide, and polyribonucleotide molecules. |
| FILED | Monday, August 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/456302 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/50 (20130101) A61K 38/177 (20130101) A61K 38/1816 (20130101) A61K 48/00 (20130101) A61K 48/005 (20130101) A61K 48/0041 (20130101) A61K 48/0066 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 48/0075 (20130101) Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 21/02 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101) C07K 14/505 (20130101) C07K 14/4712 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/67 (20130101) C12N 15/85 (20130101) C12N 15/117 (20130101) C12N 2310/17 (20130101) C12N 2310/33 (20130101) C12N 2310/3341 (20130101) C12N 2800/95 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/68 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 305/04004 (20130101) |
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| US 09750912 | McCormick et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Laura McCormick (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Douglas Mullen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Sabina Siddiqui (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Michael Deininger (Pinckney, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laura McCormick (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Douglas Mullen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Sabina Siddiqui (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Michael Deininger (Pinckney, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An intubation device having a main body portion defining a first longitudinal axis, a distal tip portion coupled to the main body portion and defining a second longitudinal axis, and a deflection system having a single drive member extending within at least the distal tip portion and coupled thereto. The deflection system is operable to exert a tensile force upon the distal tip portion to articulate the distal tip portion relative to the main body portion between a resting position and a positive incline position and a negative incline position. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/115196 |
| ART UNIT | 3778 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| 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 16/0488 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09750958 | Ebstein |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven M. Ebstein (Newton, Massachusetts) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Steven M. Ebstein (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method are provided for performing Quality Assurance of complex beams of penetrating radiation inside a patient. A detector with a transverse scintillating screen images the radiation inside a tissue phantom with high spatial resolution. The scintillator is comprised of a mixture of two or more scintillators emitting different spectra of light and having different characteristic responses as a function of the beam LET value. The optics relaying the scintillation output have variable transmission with wavelength, further shaping the spectrum of light transmitted to the imaging sensor which also has spectrally varying sensitivity. Parameters of the scintillator construction, the optics, and the imaging sensor are chosen so the output of the composite detector is proportional to a characteristic of the input beam, for example the dose deposited as a function of depth inside the tissue phantom. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/528079 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 5/1075 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 2005/1076 (20130101) |
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| US 09751825 | Davies et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Huw M. L. Davies (Duluth, Georgia); Spandan Chennamadhavuni (Natick, Massachusetts); Andrei Bakin (Buffalo, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Huw M. L. Davies (Duluth, Georgia); Spandan Chennamadhavuni (Natick, Massachusetts); Andrei Bakin (Buffalo, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure relates to TAK1 inhibitors, compositions, and uses related thereto. In certain embodiments, the disclosure relates to compounds of formula (I), pharmaceutical compositions having a compound of formula (I), and methods of treating or preventing cancer by administering an effective amount of a pharmaceutical composition having a compound of formula (I) to a subject in need thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/234127 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/36 (20130101) A61K 31/194 (20130101) A61K 31/216 (20130101) A61K 31/343 (20130101) A61K 31/357 (20130101) A61K 31/405 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 51/00 (20130101) C07C 57/42 (20130101) C07C 67/31 (20130101) C07C 69/65 (20130101) C07C 69/73 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 69/604 (20130101) C07C 69/618 (20130101) C07C 69/732 (20130101) C07C 69/734 (20130101) C07C 69/736 (20130101) C07C 69/738 (20130101) C07C 201/12 (20130101) C07C 205/56 (20130101) C07C 259/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/24 (20130101) C07D 209/26 (20130101) C07D 209/34 (20130101) C07D 307/79 (20130101) C07D 307/80 (20130101) C07D 317/60 (20130101) C07D 317/68 (20130101) C07D 319/18 (20130101) |
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| US 09751832 | Sotomayor et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | H. LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC. (Tampa, Florida); BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc. (Tampa, Florida); Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eduardo M. Sotomayor (Tampa, Florida); Joel A. Bergman (Chicago, Illinois); Alan P. Kozikowski (Chicago, Illinois); Alejandro V. Villagra (Tampa, Florida); Karrune V. Woan (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are selective histone deactylase inhibitors (HDACi) that having Formula I. Specifically, the disclosed subject matter relates to compounds having activity as selective HDAC6 inhibitors, methods of making and using the compounds, and compositions comprising the compounds. In still further aspects, the disclosed subject matter relates to methods for treating oncological disorders in a patient. Methods of making and using these inhibitors for the treatment of cancer, in particular melanoma are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/907321 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/17 (20130101) A61K 31/42 (20130101) A61K 31/44 (20130101) A61K 31/185 (20130101) A61K 31/416 (20130101) A61K 31/437 (20130101) A61K 31/505 (20130101) A61K 31/4045 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 275/28 (20130101) C07C 275/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 275/40 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/14 (20130101) C07D 213/75 (20130101) C07D 231/56 (20130101) C07D 233/26 (20130101) C07D 233/74 (20130101) C07D 233/78 (20130101) C07D 239/42 (20130101) C07D 261/14 (20130101) C07D 295/13 (20130101) |
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| US 09751847 | Schmidt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eric W. Schmidt (Salt Lake City, Utah); Zhenjian Lin (Salt Lake City, Utah); Rowena R. Antemano (Manila, Philippines); Alan Light (Park City, Utah); Baldomero M. Olivera (Salt Lake City, Utah); Gisela P. Concepcion (Quezen, Philippines) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric W. Schmidt (Salt Lake City, Utah); Zhenjian Lin (Salt Lake City, Utah); Rowena R. Antemano (Manila, Philippines); Alan Light (Park City, Utah); Baldomero M. Olivera (Salt Lake City, Utah); Gisela P. Concepcion (Quezen, Philippines) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the invention relates to compounds having a general structure: and methods of using same to modulate calcium release. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention. |
| FILED | Friday, October 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/878189 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/421 (20130101) A61K 31/421 (20130101) A61K 31/426 (20130101) A61K 31/426 (20130101) A61K 31/427 (20130101) A61K 31/427 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 277/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 277/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09751851 | Bassler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (Princeton, New Jersey); Bonnie L. Bassler (Princeton, New Jersey); Martin F. Semmelhack (Princeton, New Jersey); Knut Drescher (Princeton, New Jersey); Albert Siryaporn (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Laura C. Miller (Princeton, New Jersey); Colleen T. O'Loughlin (San Francisco, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bonnie L. Bassler (Princeton, New Jersey); Martin F. Semmelhack (Princeton, New Jersey); Knut Drescher (Princeton, New Jersey); Albert Siryaporn (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Laura C. Conrad-Miller (Princeton, New Jersey); Colleen T. O'Loughlin (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Antivirulence strategies to combat Pseudomonas aeruginosa, are described. One strategy encompasses synthesis of a series of compounds that inhibit the production of pyocyanin, a redox-active virulence factor produced by this pathogen. A related strategy encompasses synthesis of compounds that inhibit the two P. aeruginosa quorum-sensing receptors, LasR and RhlR, inhibit production of pyocyanin, and inhibit biofilm formation. |
| FILED | Friday, September 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 15/023279 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 45/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/75 (20130101) C07D 239/42 (20130101) C07D 239/47 (20130101) C07D 307/33 (20130101) C07D 333/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09751923 | Duffield et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington); Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington Through Its Center For Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeremy Duffield (Seattle, Washington); Shuyu Ren (Shoreline, Washington); Rashmi Hedge (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides molecules, compositions and methods for treating scarring in organs. The molecules, compositions and methods treat scarring by modulating the WNT, platelet-derived growth factor receptor (PDGFR), transforming growth factor-beta (TGF3) and/or connective-tissue growth factor (CTGF) signaling pathways. |
| FILED | Friday, November 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/438860 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/1709 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/4703 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09751928 | Schmitt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas M. Schmitt (Seattle, Washington); Philip D. Greenberg (Mercer Island, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides methods for generating enhanced affinity T cell receptors by agonist selection of hematopoietic progenitor cells expressing an antigen specific TCRα cultured with stromal cells expressing Delta-like-1 or Delta-like-4, compositions prepared from such methods, and uses of thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 02, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/398206 |
| 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 35/17 (20130101) A61K 38/1774 (20130101) A61K 39/0011 (20130101) A61K 2039/5156 (20130101) A61K 2039/5158 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/7051 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/065 (20130101) C12N 5/0636 (20130101) C12N 2501/42 (20130101) C12N 2502/99 (20130101) C12N 2502/1394 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56966 (20130101) G01N 2333/7051 (20130101) |
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| US 09751931 | Major et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Federal Budgetary Research Institution State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology “Vector” (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Federal Budgetary Research Institution State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology “Vector” (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marian Elaine Major (Alexandria, Virginia); Alla Kachko (Silver Spring, Maryland); Galina Vadimovna Kochneva (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel epitope regions on hepatitis C virus E1E2 glycoprotein that induce a neutralizing antibody response in vivo are identified. Cross-neutralizing monoclonal antibodies that bind specifically to the epitopes are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/437593 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/29 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2039/5256 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 16/109 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/21 (20130101) C07K 2317/24 (20130101) C07K 2317/33 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) C07K 2317/565 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2770/24222 (20130101) C12N 2770/24234 (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 1/04 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5767 (20130101) |
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| US 09751950 | Kumar |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ashok Kumar (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for preventing loss and augmenting regeneration of skeletal muscle by decreasing the activity of the TWEAK/Fn14 system. |
| FILED | Friday, May 29, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/725873 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/2875 (20130101) C07K 16/2878 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/76 (20130101) |
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| US 09751970 | Gao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jinming Gao (Plano, Texas); David Boothman (Dallas, Texas); Kejin Zhou (Dallas, Texas); Xiaonan Huang (Beijing, China PRC); Yiguang Wang (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are block copolymers comprising a hydrophilic polymer segment and a hydrophobic polymer segment, wherein the hydrophilic polymer segment comprises a polymer selected from the group consisting of: poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO), poly(methacrylate phosphatidyl choline) (MPC), and polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP), wherein the hydrophobic polymer segment comprises wherein R′ is —H or —CH3, wherein R is —NR1R2, wherein R1 and R2 are alkyl groups, wherein R1 and R2 are the same or different, wherein R1 and R2 together have from 5 to 16 carbons, wherein R1 and R2 may optionally join to form a ring, wherein n is 1 to about 10, and wherein x is about 20 to about 200 in total. Also provided are pH-sensitive micelle compositions for therapeutic and diagnostic applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 17, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/072522 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/1075 (20130101) A61K 9/1273 (20130101) A61K 9/5031 (20130101) A61K 31/337 (20130101) A61K 31/352 (20130101) A61K 31/704 (20130101) A61K 47/48176 (20130101) A61K 47/48215 (20130101) A61K 47/48238 (20130101) A61K 49/005 (20130101) A61K 49/0032 (20130101) A61K 49/0054 (20130101) A61K 49/0056 (20130101) A61K 49/0082 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 311/92 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 220/34 (20130101) C08F 293/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08F 2438/01 (20130101) |
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| US 09752119 | Gamm et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Matthew Gamm (Waunakee, Wisconsin); Jason Stephen Meyer (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for producing substantially pure cultures of human neural retinal progenitor cells, forebrain progenitor cells, and retinal pigment epithelial cells are disclosed. In addition, the successful differentiation of human embryonic stem cells and human induced pluripotent stem cells through the major developmental stages of human retinogenesis is disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, April 29, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/143141 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/30 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0602 (20130101) C12N 5/0621 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2501/11 (20130101) C12N 2501/16 (20130101) C12N 2501/91 (20130101) C12N 2501/115 (20130101) C12N 2506/02 (20130101) C12N 2506/45 (20130101) |
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| US 09752132 | Joung et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Keith Joung (Winchester, Massachusetts); Benjamin Kleinstiver (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Engineered CRISPR-Cas9 nucleases with altered and improved PAM specificities and their use in genomic engineering, epigenomic engineering, and genome targeting. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 12, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/208461 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 2319/71 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/63 (20130101) C12N 15/102 (20130101) C12N 2800/80 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 301/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09752133 | Cox et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael M. Cox (Cregon, Wisconsin); Angela J. Gruber (Madison, Wisconsin); Tayla M. Olsen (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Purified Ref polypeptides with increased nuclease site-specific targeting activity, recombinant nucleic acids and cells for expression of such Ref polypeptides, and methods for using the Ref polypeptides in combination with RecA protein and variants thereof to effect targeted nuclease cleavage of a DNA duplex are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, March 10, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/455255 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/00 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 301/11 (20130101) |
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| US 09752145 | Rodriguez et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paulo Cesar Rodriguez (New Orleans, Louisiana); Augusto C. Ochoa (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are compositions and methods of use thereof that modulate C/EBP homologous stress-related protein (Chop) activity in Myeloid-derived Suppressor Cells (MDSCs). Chop is a key point in the response of MDSCs to tumor-generated stress factors. In turn, the MDSCs release cytokines and other factors that function as immune suppressors, thereby allowing the tumors to thrive and expand. By inhibiting the level of Chop activity, the immunosuppressive function of MDSCs is disrupted. It has also been unexpectedly found that there is a concomitant increase in the ability of MDSCs to act as antigen-presenting and cytokine producing cells so as to act in increasing the efficacy of anti-tumor immune-based therapies. |
| FILED | Monday, March 16, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 15/125737 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/1271 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09752150 | Clarke et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael F. Clarke (Menlo Park, California); Maddalena Adorno (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are provided for the treatment of medical conditions associated with a reduced rate of stem cell self-renewal or that will be responsive to an increased rate of stem cell self-renewal. Aspects of the methods include inhibiting H2A deubiquitinating enzyme activity in cells, e.g. by administering an effective amount of an H2A deubiquitinating enzyme antagonist. Also provided are screens to identify therapeutics for the treatment of medical conditions associated with a reduced rate of stem cell self-renewal or that will be responsive to an increased rate of stem cell self-renewal. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/768864 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/711 (20130101) A61K 31/712 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 31/7105 (20130101) A61K 31/7115 (20130101) A61K 31/7125 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1137 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/531 (20130101) C12N 2310/531 (20130101) C12N 2320/30 (20130101) C12N 2330/51 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) C12Q 2600/178 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 301/02015 (20130101) |
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| US 09752175 | Bassler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bonnie L. Bassler (Princeton, New Jersey); Howard A. Stone (Princeton, New Jersey); Knut Drescher (Princeton, New Jersey); Yi Shen (Zurich, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems of measuring biofilms and/or biofilm streamers are presented. The system has at least one channel, a biofilm streamer promotion element, a fluid capable of moving along the channel, wherein the fluid has a flow driven by a controlled pressure; and a measuring element capable of measuring a flow rate of the fluid through the channel. Additionally, methods of screening for compound(s) that promote and/or inhibit biofilm and/or biofilm streamers using this system are also presented. Uses of the system, methods and identified compounds are presented for medical and/or industrial environments. |
| FILED | Monday, January 05, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/589845 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; 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 1/02 (20130101) C12Q 1/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09752178 | Wu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chao-ting Wu (Brookline, Massachusetts); George M. Church (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for determining the nucleic acid sequence of polynucleotides that are at least 1500 nucleotides in length are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/497776 |
| 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 1/6806 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6874 (20130101) C12Q 1/6874 (20130101) C12Q 2521/301 (20130101) C12Q 2523/107 (20130101) C12Q 2523/319 (20130101) C12Q 2535/113 (20130101) |
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| US 09752180 | Ginsberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc (Menands, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE, INC. (Menands, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen D. Ginsberg (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Shaoli Che (Stony Point, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for amplifying non-coding RNA, microRNA, and small polynucleotide sequences through the generation of a pool of signature sequences to the target sequences. The target sequences can be amplified through DNA synthesis, RNA synthesis, or the combination of DNA and RNA synthesis. The amplification of signature sequences provides an efficient and reproducible mechanism to determine the presence or absence of the target miRNAs, to analyze the quantities of the miRNAs, and for miRNA profiling. The method may also be used for screening for unknown non-coding RNAs, including novel miRNAs. |
| FILED | Monday, November 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/076513 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 2310/141 (20130101) C12N 2330/30 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/34 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6809 (20130101) C12Q 1/6809 (20130101) C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2521/319 (20130101) C12Q 2525/161 (20130101) C12Q 2525/207 (20130101) |
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| US 09752185 | Boronkay et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | IntegenX Inc. (Pleasanton, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | IntegenX Inc. (Pleasanton, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allen Boronkay (San Jose, California); Stevan Bogdan Jovanovich (Livermore, California); Iuliu Ioan Blaga (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for the interfacing of microchips to various types of modules are disclosed. The technology disclosed can be used as sample preparation and analysis systems for various applications, such as DNA sequencing and genotyping, proteomics, pathogen detection, diagnostics and biodefense. Also disclosed in the present disclosure is a flow through, traveling-wave, bead-beating device which comprises a rotating pole piece, a flow through tube, and a magnetic piece. Rotation of the rotating pole piece may create a magnetic wave down the flow through tube, thereby producing sufficient acceleration of beads through the tube to disrupt or lyse target analytes flowing through the tube. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/824333 |
| 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 | Mixing, e.g Dissolving, Emulsifying, Dispersing B01F 11/0071 (20130101) B01F 13/0059 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/5025 (20130101) B01L 3/5027 (20130101) B01L 3/502715 (20130101) B01L 3/502738 (20130101) B01L 3/502753 (20130101) B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 7/52 (20130101) B01L 9/527 (20130101) B01L 2200/10 (20130101) B01L 2200/027 (20130101) B01L 2200/028 (20130101) B01L 2200/0668 (20130101) B01L 2300/087 (20130101) B01L 2300/0627 (20130101) B01L 2300/0636 (20130101) B01L 2300/0654 (20130101) B01L 2300/0803 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0864 (20130101) B01L 2300/0867 (20130101) B01L 2300/0874 (20130101) B01L 2300/0887 (20130101) B01L 2300/1822 (20130101) B01L 2300/1827 (20130101) B01L 2300/1844 (20130101) B01L 2400/0415 (20130101) B01L 2400/0421 (20130101) B01L 2400/0481 (20130101) B01L 2400/0655 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1003 (20130101) C12N 15/1013 (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 1/24 (20130101) C12Q 1/70 (20130101) C12Q 1/686 (20130101) C12Q 1/6806 (20130101) C12Q 1/6844 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2035/00514 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/25875 (20150115) Y10T 436/163333 (20150115) |
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| US 09752188 | Schmitt 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) | Michael Schmitt (Seattle, Washington); Jesse Salk (Seattle, Washington); Lawrence A. Loeb (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Next Generation DNA sequencing promises to revolutionize clinical medicine and basic research. However, while this technology has the capacity to generate hundreds of billions of nucleotides of DNA sequence in a single experiment, the error rate of approximately 1% results in hundreds of millions of sequencing mistakes. These scattered errors can be tolerated in some applications but become extremely problematic when “deep sequencing” genetically heterogeneous mixtures, such as tumors or mixed microbial populations. To overcome limitations in sequencing accuracy, a method Duplex Consensus Sequencing (DCS) is provided. This approach greatly reduces errors by independently tagging and sequencing each of the two strands of a DNA duplex. As the two strands are complementary, true mutations are found at the same position in both strands. In contrast, PCR or sequencing errors will result in errors in only one strand. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/386800 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 1/6876 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2525/179 (20130101) C12Q 2525/185 (20130101) C12Q 2525/191 (20130101) C12Q 2535/119 (20130101) |
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| US 09752189 | Erlich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Roche Molecular Systems (Pleasanton, California); The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. (Pleasanton, California); The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henry Erlich (Oakland, California); Bryan Hoglund (Pleasanton, California); Cherie Holcomb (Oakland, California); Priscilla Moonsamy (Pleasanton, California); Nick Newton (Oakland, California); Melinda Rastrou (Pleasanton, California); Nancy Schoenbrunner (Moraga, California); Alison Tsan (Danville, California); Daniel Salomon (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a method of detecting or assessing solid organ graft (transplant) rejection by detecting donor-specific HLA alleles in a blood sample of a graft (transplant) recipient. The invention further comprises a method of detecting the presence of maternal cells in a blood sample of an offspring. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/272752 |
| 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 1/6881 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/118 (20130101) |
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| US 09752191 | Salomon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel Salomon (San Diego, California); Sunil M. Kurian (San Diego, California); Steven R. Head (Lakeside, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Salomon (San Diego, California); Sunil M. Kurian (San Diego, California); Steven R. Head (Lakeside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | By a genome-wide gene analysis of expression profiles of over 50,000 known or putative gene sequences in peripheral blood, the present inventors have identified a consensus set of gene expression-based molecular biomarkers associated with chronic allograft nephropathy and/or interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy CAN/IFTA and subtypes thereof. These genes sets are useful for diagnosis, prognosis, monitoring and/or subtyping of CAN/IFTA. |
| FILED | Friday, July 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/261130 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/106 (20130101) C12Q 2600/112 (20130101) C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) |
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| US 09752192 | Millonig et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James H. Millonig (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Linda Brzustowicz (Madison, New Jersey); Neda Gharani (North Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Mutations located within the gene encoding the homeobox transcription factor, ENGRAILED 2 (EN2), have now been identified as molecular markers associated with susceptibility for autism and related disorders. Thus, the present invention relates to compositions in the form of diagnostic kits, primers and target sequences, for use in methods for determining the predisposition, the onset or the presence of autism spectrum disorder in a mammal. Moreover, therapeutic methods for treating a person inflicted with, or predisposed to, an autism spectrum disorder based upon modulating the level or activity of EN2 are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, March 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/790309 |
| 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) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) |
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| US 09752194 | Olaru et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexandru V. Olaru (Towson, Maryland); Stephen J. Meltzer (Lutherville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the field of biomarkers. More specifically, the present invention relates to the use of microRNAs to diagnose and monitor various diseases such as cancer. In particular embodiments, microRNA expression levels can serve as diagnostic biomarkers in inflammatory bowel disease-associated neoplasia (IBDN). More specifically, in certain embodiments, the present invention can be used to differentiate or distinguish IBDN from sporadic colorectal cancer (S-CRC), IBD-Dysplasia, IBD and/or normal. |
| FILED | Friday, May 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/398535 |
| 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 15/111 (20130101) C12N 2310/141 (20130101) C12N 2320/10 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) C12Q 2600/16 (20130101) C12Q 2600/178 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57419 (20130101) G01N 2800/065 (20130101) |
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| US 09752964 | Edwards et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce S. Edwards (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Larry A. Sklar (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Ronald D. Salesky (Rio Rancho, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A flow cytometry apparatus includes a flow cytometer having a suction or negative-pressure intake probe, a support for a microplate having a plurality of sample wells, and motive elements operatively connected to at least one of the probe and the support for moving the intake probe and the support relative to one another so that the intake probe is sequentially aligned with different sample wells of the microplate. The apparatus has no fluid pumping elements between the support and the flow cytometer so that a bubble-separated sample stream is forced to the flow cytometer solely by virtue of a negative pressure communicated via the intake probe. |
| FILED | Monday, December 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/717279 |
| ART UNIT | 1798 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09753007 | Chambers 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) | Robert D. Chambers (Lebanon, New Hampshire); Juan G. Santiago (Stanford, California); Alexandre Persat (Princeton, New Jersey); Reto B. Schoch (Gais, Switzerland); Mostafa Ronaghi (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system are presented for fast and efficient isolation, purification and quantitation of nucleic acids from complex biological samples using isotachophoresis in microchannels. In an embodiment, a sieving medium may be used to enhance selectivity. In another embodiment, PCR-friendly chemistries are used to purify nucleic acids from complex biological samples and yield nucleic acids ready for further analysis including for PCR. In another embodiment, small RNAs from biological samples are extracted, isolated, preconcentrated and quantitated using on-chip ITP with a high efficiency sieving medium. The invention enables fast concentration and separation (takes 10s to 100s of seconds) of nucleic acids with high selectivity and using lower volumes of reagents (order of 10s of μL to focus less than 1 μg/μL of nucleic acid). |
| FILED | Thursday, September 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/497050 |
| 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 27/447 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09753035 | Pinkel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel Pinkel (Walnut Creek, California); Donna G. Albertson (Lafayette, California); Joe W. Gray (San Francisco, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Pinkel (Walnut Creek, California); Donna G. Albertson (Lafayette, California); Joe W. Gray (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to DNA sequences from regions of copy number change on chromosome 20. The sequences can be used in hybridization methods for the identification of chromosomal abnormalities associated with various diseases. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/900648 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — 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 1/6841 (20130101) C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57415 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 435/81 (20130101) Y10S 435/975 (20130101) Y10S 436/813 (20130101) |
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| US 09756579 | Zhou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ruogu Zhou (Lansing, Michigan); Guoliang Xing (Okemos, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A near field communication (NFC) system and method for controlling transmission power of the NFC system includes a NFC reader configured to transmit a radio frequency (RF) signal having an initial amount of RF power, a NFC target device in selective communication with the NFC reader, and a NFC transmission power control platform disposed between the NFC reader and the NFC target device. The platform includes a microcontroller and at least one circuit in communication with the microcontroller and configured to determine an actual amount of RF power needed to sustain near field communications between the NFC reader and the NFC target device and configured to regulate the RF signal, where the regulated RF signal contains the actual amount of RF power needed to sustain near field communications between the NFC reader and the NFC target device. |
| FILED | Friday, October 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 15/029236 |
| ART UNIT | 2649 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 7/0008 (20130101) G06K 7/10366 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 4/008 (20130101) H04W 52/246 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09750250 | Whitten et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David G. Whitten (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Harry Craig Pappas (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Eric H. Hill (Donostia, Spain); Kirk S. Schanze (Gainesville, Florida); Anand Parthasarathy (Gainesville, Florida); Yun Huang (Gainesville, Florida); Thomas S. Corbitt (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico); University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David G. Whitten (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Harry Craig Pappas (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Eric H. Hill (Donostia, Spain); Kirk S. Schanze (Gainesville, Florida); Anand Parthasarathy (Gainesville, Florida); Yun Huang (Gainesville, Florida); Thomas S. Corbitt (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments disclosed relate to conjugated polyelectrolytes and methods of using the same. Various embodiments provide a conjugated polyelectrolyte including a subunit having the structure —R1—Y—R2—Z—. At each occurrence, R1 is independently chosen from 1,4-bonded phenylene substituted by —X—R3—R4 j times and 2,5-bonded thiophene substituted by —X—R3—R4 j times. At each occurrence, Y is independently chosen from a bond and —C≡C—. At each occurrence, R2 is independently chosen from a bond, a substituted or unsubstituted phenylene, thiophenylene, azulenylene, heptalenylene, biphenylene, indacenylene, fluorenylene, phenanthrenylene, triphenylenylene, pyrenylene, naphthacenylene, chrysenylene, biphenylenylene, anthracenylene, and naphthylene. At each occurrence, Z is independently chosen from a bond and —C≡C—. The variables j, R3, and R4 are as defined herein. |
| FILED | Monday, February 08, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/018179 |
| ART UNIT | 1619 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| 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 33/08 (20130101) A01N 33/12 (20130101) A01N 43/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01N 43/90 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 15/24 (20130101) A61L 15/46 (20130101) A61L 2300/404 (20130101) A61L 2420/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09750693 | Reshetnyak et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rhode Island Council on Postsecondary Education (statutory successor to Board of Governors for Higher Education, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations) (Warwick, Rhode Island); Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rhode Island Council on Postsecondary Education (Statutory Successor to Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education) (Warwick, Rhode Island); Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yana K. Reshetnyak (South Kingstown, Rhode Island); Oleg A. Andreev (South Kingstown, Rhode Island); Donald M. Engelman (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application relates to compositions comprising and methods of using a liposome comprising a pHLIP polypeptide, wherein a lipid bilayer of the liposome is substantially free of the pHLIP polypeptide. |
| FILED | Monday, September 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/499600 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/127 (20130101) A61K 9/1271 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/20 (20130101) A61K 31/337 (20130101) A61K 31/704 (20130101) A61K 31/711 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 31/7105 (20130101) A61K 47/48815 (20130101) |
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| US 09750803 | Irvine et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darrell J. Irvine (Arlington, Massachusetts); Jaehyun Moon (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides delivery systems comprised of stabilized multilamellar vesicles, as well as compositions, methods of synthesis, and methods of use thereof. The stabilized multilamellar vesicles comprise terminal-cysteine-bearing antigens or cysteine-modified antigens, at their surface and/or internally. |
| FILED | Monday, August 08, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/230736 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/127 (20130101) A61K 9/1271 (20130101) A61K 9/1273 (20130101) A61K 38/20 (20130101) A61K 38/45 (20130101) A61K 38/193 (20130101) A61K 38/208 (20130101) A61K 38/212 (20130101) A61K 38/217 (20130101) A61K 38/2013 (20130101) A61K 38/2046 (20130101) A61K 38/2086 (20130101) A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/015 (20130101) A61K 39/21 (20130101) A61K 39/39 (20130101) A61K 39/385 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 39/39533 (20130101) A61K 47/48815 (20130101) A61K 2039/57 (20130101) A61K 2039/572 (20130101) A61K 2039/575 (20130101) A61K 2039/6018 (20130101) A61K 2039/55511 (20130101) A61K 2039/55555 (20130101) A61K 2039/55572 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/88 (20130101) C12N 2740/15034 (20130101) C12N 2740/16234 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 207/10001 (20130101) |
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| US 09750814 | Procko et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik Procko (Seattle, Washington); David Baker (Seattle, Washington); Geoffrey Y. Berguig (Seattle, Washington); Patrick S. Stayton (Seattle, Washington); Yifan Song (Seattle, Washington); Stephanie Ann Berger (Seattle, Washington); Daniel-Adriano Silva (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides designed polypeptides that selectively bind to and inhibit Epstein Barr protein BHFR1, and B cell lymphoma family proteins, and are thus useful for treating Epstein Barr-related diseases and cancer. |
| FILED | Monday, September 12, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/262716 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/17 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/245 (20130101) A61K 39/395 (20130101) A61K 47/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 14/001 (20130101) C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 14/4747 (20130101) C07K 14/4748 (20130101) C07K 16/085 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0635 (20130101) C12N 5/0636 (20130101) C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2710/16211 (20130101) C12N 2710/16234 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56994 (20130101) G01N 2333/05 (20130101) |
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| US 09750851 | Kokai 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) | Lauren Elizabeth Kokai (Santa Barbara, California); Kacey Gribbin Marra (Canonsburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An implantable medical device including at least one double-walled microsphere containing an active agent, and a biodegradable polymer layer containing the at least one double-walled microsphere. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 26, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/334625 |
| ART UNIT | 1619 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 17/1128 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0024 (20130101) A61K 9/50 (20130101) A61K 9/5031 (20130101) A61K 38/185 (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 27/18 (20130101) A61L 27/18 (20130101) A61L 27/54 (20130101) A61L 27/58 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 2300/414 (20130101) A61L 2430/32 (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 37/00 (20130101) A61M 2205/04 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 13/22 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 67/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09751130 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuliang Wang (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Janet Cravens Dickerson (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention are directed to novel methods for the solution-based production of silver nanowires by adaptation of the polyol process. Some embodiments of the present invention can be practiced at lower temperature and/or at higher concentration than previously described methods. In some embodiments reactants are added in solid form rather than in solution. In some embodiments, an acid compound is added to the reaction. |
| FILED | Saturday, July 26, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/341784 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 1/004 (20130101) B22F 1/0025 (20130101) B22F 1/0044 (20130101) B22F 9/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B22F 2301/255 (20130101) B22F 2998/00 (20130101) B22F 2998/00 (20130101) Production and Refining of Metals; Pretreatment of Raw Materials C22B 11/04 (20130101) Alloys C22C 5/06 (20130101) Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 7/14 (20130101) C30B 29/02 (20130101) C30B 29/605 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/896 (20130101) |
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| US 09751851 | Bassler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (Princeton, New Jersey); Bonnie L. Bassler (Princeton, New Jersey); Martin F. Semmelhack (Princeton, New Jersey); Knut Drescher (Princeton, New Jersey); Albert Siryaporn (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Laura C. Miller (Princeton, New Jersey); Colleen T. O'Loughlin (San Francisco, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bonnie L. Bassler (Princeton, New Jersey); Martin F. Semmelhack (Princeton, New Jersey); Knut Drescher (Princeton, New Jersey); Albert Siryaporn (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Laura C. Conrad-Miller (Princeton, New Jersey); Colleen T. O'Loughlin (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Antivirulence strategies to combat Pseudomonas aeruginosa, are described. One strategy encompasses synthesis of a series of compounds that inhibit the production of pyocyanin, a redox-active virulence factor produced by this pathogen. A related strategy encompasses synthesis of compounds that inhibit the two P. aeruginosa quorum-sensing receptors, LasR and RhlR, inhibit production of pyocyanin, and inhibit biofilm formation. |
| FILED | Friday, September 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 15/023279 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 45/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/75 (20130101) C07D 239/42 (20130101) C07D 239/47 (20130101) C07D 307/33 (20130101) C07D 333/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09751913 | Ratna et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Banahalli R. Ratna (Alexandria, Virginia); Carissa M. Soto (Alexandria, Virginia); Ronald W. Rendell (Washington, District of Columbia); Jake Fontana (Alexandria, Virginia); Jeffrey R. Deschamps (Laurel, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Banahalli R. Ratna (Alexandria, Virginia); Carissa M. Soto (Alexandria, Virginia); Ronald W. Rendell (Washington, District of Columbia); Jake Fontana (Alexandria, Virginia); Jeffrey R. Deschamps (Laurel, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A genetically modified cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV) protein capsid serves as a scaffold for metal nanoparticles, preferably gold nanospheres, of 15 nm to 35 nm, creating plasmonic nanoclusters. The self-assembled nanoclusters gave rise to a 10-fold surface-averaged enhancement of the local electromagnetic field. Other viral capsids or virus-like proteins may also serve as such scaffolds. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/207807 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/554 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/02 (20130101) H01B 1/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09751991 | Harvey |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin G. Harvey (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An eugenol, an abundant natural phenol and the primary component of clove oil, which is converted to a thermoset resin via a high yield, two-step reaction. Modest heating yields a thermoset material with thermal stability above 350° C., a glass transition temperature of 187° C. and water uptake of only 1.8%. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 16, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/688109 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 3/203 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08J 2369/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09752115 | Oxburgh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Maine Medical Center Research Institute (Scarborough, Maine) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Maine Medical Center Research Institute (Scarborough, Maine) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leif Oxburgh (South Portland, Maine); Aaron Brown (Scarborough, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods associated with cocktails of growth factors and small molecules that target specific cell signaling pathways, the cocktails having been formulated to allow/promote the expansion of progenitor cells (e.g., nephron progenitor cells) within a defined culture system. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 26, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/632454 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0018 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 5/0686 (20130101) C12N 5/0687 (20130101) C12N 2501/91 (20130101) C12N 2501/105 (20130101) C12N 2501/119 (20130101) C12N 2501/155 (20130101) C12N 2501/415 (20130101) C12N 2501/727 (20130101) C12N 2501/999 (20130101) |
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| US 09752150 | Clarke et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael F. Clarke (Menlo Park, California); Maddalena Adorno (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are provided for the treatment of medical conditions associated with a reduced rate of stem cell self-renewal or that will be responsive to an increased rate of stem cell self-renewal. Aspects of the methods include inhibiting H2A deubiquitinating enzyme activity in cells, e.g. by administering an effective amount of an H2A deubiquitinating enzyme antagonist. Also provided are screens to identify therapeutics for the treatment of medical conditions associated with a reduced rate of stem cell self-renewal or that will be responsive to an increased rate of stem cell self-renewal. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/768864 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/711 (20130101) A61K 31/712 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 31/7105 (20130101) A61K 31/7115 (20130101) A61K 31/7125 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1137 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/531 (20130101) C12N 2310/531 (20130101) C12N 2320/30 (20130101) C12N 2330/51 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) C12Q 2600/178 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 301/02015 (20130101) |
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| US 09752184 | Ecker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | IBIS BIOSCIENCES, INC. (Carlsbad, California); Nina M. Hofstadler (Vista, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | IBIS BIOSCIENCES, INC. (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Ecker (Encinitas, California); Richard H. Griffey (Vista, California); Rangarajan Sampath (San Diego, California); Steven A. Hofstadler (Vista, California); John McNeil (La Jolla, California); Stanley T. Crooke (Carlsbad, California); Lawrence B. Blyn (Mission Viejo, California); Thomas A. Hall (Oceanside, California); Yun Jiang (Carlsbad, California); James C. Hannis (Vista, California); Neill K. White (Temecula, California); Vivek Samant (Encinitas, California); Mark W. Eshoo (San Diego, California); Jared J. Drader (San Marcos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for rapid forensic analysis of mitochondrial DNA and methods for characterizing heteroplasmy of mitochondrial DNA, which can be used to assess the progression of mitochondrial diseases. |
| FILED | Monday, August 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/456806 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/686 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/686 (20130101) C12Q 1/686 (20130101) C12Q 1/689 (20130101) C12Q 1/6806 (20130101) C12Q 1/6844 (20130101) C12Q 1/6858 (20130101) C12Q 1/6858 (20130101) C12Q 1/6872 (20130101) C12Q 1/6872 (20130101) C12Q 1/6888 (20130101) C12Q 2531/113 (20130101) C12Q 2545/101 (20130101) C12Q 2545/113 (20130101) C12Q 2563/167 (20130101) C12Q 2565/627 (20130101) C12Q 2565/627 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2333/28 (20130101) G01N 2333/32 (20130101) G01N 2333/35 (20130101) G01N 2333/36 (20130101) |
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| US 09752185 | Boronkay et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | IntegenX Inc. (Pleasanton, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | IntegenX Inc. (Pleasanton, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allen Boronkay (San Jose, California); Stevan Bogdan Jovanovich (Livermore, California); Iuliu Ioan Blaga (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for the interfacing of microchips to various types of modules are disclosed. The technology disclosed can be used as sample preparation and analysis systems for various applications, such as DNA sequencing and genotyping, proteomics, pathogen detection, diagnostics and biodefense. Also disclosed in the present disclosure is a flow through, traveling-wave, bead-beating device which comprises a rotating pole piece, a flow through tube, and a magnetic piece. Rotation of the rotating pole piece may create a magnetic wave down the flow through tube, thereby producing sufficient acceleration of beads through the tube to disrupt or lyse target analytes flowing through the tube. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/824333 |
| 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 | Mixing, e.g Dissolving, Emulsifying, Dispersing B01F 11/0071 (20130101) B01F 13/0059 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/5025 (20130101) B01L 3/5027 (20130101) B01L 3/502715 (20130101) B01L 3/502738 (20130101) B01L 3/502753 (20130101) B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 7/52 (20130101) B01L 9/527 (20130101) B01L 2200/10 (20130101) B01L 2200/027 (20130101) B01L 2200/028 (20130101) B01L 2200/0668 (20130101) B01L 2300/087 (20130101) B01L 2300/0627 (20130101) B01L 2300/0636 (20130101) B01L 2300/0654 (20130101) B01L 2300/0803 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0864 (20130101) B01L 2300/0867 (20130101) B01L 2300/0874 (20130101) B01L 2300/0887 (20130101) B01L 2300/1822 (20130101) B01L 2300/1827 (20130101) B01L 2300/1844 (20130101) B01L 2400/0415 (20130101) B01L 2400/0421 (20130101) B01L 2400/0481 (20130101) B01L 2400/0655 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1003 (20130101) C12N 15/1013 (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 1/24 (20130101) C12Q 1/70 (20130101) C12Q 1/686 (20130101) C12Q 1/6806 (20130101) C12Q 1/6844 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2035/00514 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/25875 (20150115) Y10T 436/163333 (20150115) |
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| US 09752215 | Reynolds et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul L. Reynolds (Tolland, Connecticut); Jerry C. Capo (Greensburg, Pennsylvania); Darryl Slade Stolz (Newington, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul L. Reynolds (Tolland, Connecticut); Jerry C. Capo (Greensburg, Pennsylvania); Darryl Slade Stolz (Newington, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition of matter, comprising in combination, in atomic percent contents: a content of nickel as a largest content; 19.0-21.0 percent cobalt; 9.0-13.0 percent chromium; 1.0-3.0 percent tantalum; 0.9-1.5 percent tungsten; 7.0-9.5 percent aluminum; 0.10-0.25 percent boron; 0.09-0.20 percent carbon; 1.5-2.0 percent molybdenum; 1.1-1.5 percent niobium; 3.0-3.6 percent titanium; and 0.02-0.09 percent zirconium. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/372590 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 3/02 (20130101) B22F 3/17 (20130101) B22F 5/009 (20130101) B22F 9/082 (20130101) B22F 2003/247 (20130101) B22F 2003/248 (20130101) B22F 2998/10 (20130101) B22F 2998/10 (20130101) Alloys C22C 1/0433 (20130101) C22C 19/056 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C22C 19/057 (20130101) C22C 30/00 (20130101) Changing the Physical Structure of Non-ferrous Metals and Non-ferrous Alloys C22F 1/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09752252 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Seung-Chang Lee (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Steven R. J. Brueck (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seung-Chang Lee (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Steven R. J. Brueck (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of epitaxially growing nitrogen-based compound semiconductor thin films on a semiconductor substrate, which is periodically patterned with grooves. The method can provide an epitaxial growth of a first crystalline phase epitaxial film on the substrate, and block the growth of an initial crystalline phase with barrier materials prepared at the sides of the grooves. Semiconductor devices employing the epitaxial films are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 21, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/272153 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 25/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C30B 25/18 (20130101) C30B 29/406 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/1222 (20130101) H01L 29/2003 (20130101) |
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| US 09752450 | Duguay et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Duguay (Berwick, Maine); Timothy M. Davis (Kennebunk, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | An assembly is provided for a turbine engine with an axial centerline. This turbine engine assembly may include a blade outer air seal segment, a linkage and an actuation device. The linkage may include a shaft and a head, where the shaft is connected to the blade outer air seal segment and extends radially outward to the head. The actuation device may include a sloped slide block located radially within and engaged with the head. The actuation device may be configured to laterally translate the sloped slide block and thereby radially move the blade outer air seal segment. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 04, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/731155 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 11/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F01D 11/22 (20130101) F01D 25/24 (20130101) |
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| US 09752607 | Muskat |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc. (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc. (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James C. Muskat (Mooresville, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A retention pin assembly may include a stud having a head, a shaft, and a deformable end. The shaft may include a stepped surface having a greater diameter than the deformable end. The assembly may include a support member having an opening for receiving the deformable end. The support member may include a pocket. The stepped surface of the shaft may position the stud in relation to the support member. The deformable end of the stud may be operable to be melted to form a mechanical retainer within the pocket without forming a metallurgical joint between the stud and the pocket. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/204447 |
| ART UNIT | 3679 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Forging; Hammering; Pressing Metal; Riveting; Forge Furnaces B21J 15/08 (20130101) Soldering or Unsoldering; Welding; Cladding or Plating by Soldering or Welding; Cutting by Applying Heat Locally, e.g Flame Cutting; Working by Laser Beam B23K 11/0066 (20130101) B23K 31/02 (20130101) B23K 2201/001 (20130101) Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 9/023 (20130101) F01D 11/005 (20130101) Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 7/28 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2230/23 (20130101) F05D 2240/57 (20130101) Devices for Fastening or Securing Constructional Elements or Machine Parts Together, e.g Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips, Wedges, Joints or Jointing F16B 19/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09752721 | Shimmel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeffrey T. Shimmel (Solsberry, Indiana); Todd Mehringer (Jasper, Indiana); Garric Henry (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey T. Shimmel (Solsberry, Indiana); Todd Mehringer (Jasper, Indiana); Garric Henry (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A mounting system having a base plate, multiple mounting apertures adapted to releasably hold a man-portable equipment item, and non-invasive fasteners for attaching to a structure without damaging the structure. The non-invasive fasteners can include adhesive bonded fasteners which couple to a structure without damaging the structure and permit attachment and removal of the mounting system. The base plate and mounting apertures are designed to minimize mounting footprint and orient the man-portable equipment item in relation to a user structure or aperture such as a turret, egress point, portal, or other structure which requires a user to pass through a structure and have immediate access to the man-portable equipment item. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/249067 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Frames, Casings or Beds of Engines, Machines or Apparatus, Not Specific to Engines, Machines or Apparatus Provided for Elsewhere; Stands; Supports F16M 13/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Functional Features or Details Common to Both Smallarms and Ordnance, e.g Cannons; Mountings for Smallarms or Ordnance F41A 23/26 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49776 (20150115) Y10T 29/49826 (20150115) Y10T 29/49863 (20150115) Y10T 29/49948 (20150115) |
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| US 09752857 | Mehta 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) | Neha Mehta (Succasunna, New Jersey); Gartung Cheng (Edison, New Jersey); Kin Yee (Rahway, New Jersey); Karl Oyler (New York, New York); Akash Shah (Clifton, New Jersey); John Marin (Roseto, Pennsylvania); John W. Fronabarger (Sun Lakes, Arizona); Michael D. Williams (Gilbert, Arizona); Steven H. Marino (Gap, Pennsylvania); Pamela Tran (Shillington, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Lead free microdet electric detonators comprising a bridgewire having milled DBX-1 as a spot charge and unmilled DBX-1 as the intermediate material. Such improved microdet electric detonator is free of lead azide and lead styphnate, but with comparable stability, power and sensitivity to current lead-based M100 electric detonators. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 04, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/015460 |
| 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 3/124 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09752869 | Nayar |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shree K. Nayar (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shree K. Nayar (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems for performing machine vision using diffuse structured light comprising: a linear diffuser having an axis of diffusion; a light source that projects an illumination pattern through the linear diffuser and onto a scene, wherein the illumination pattern has transiationai symmetry in a. direction of translation that is aligned with the axis of diffusion; and an image sensor that detects tight reflecting from the scene and that outputs signals corresponding to the detected light. Methods for performing machine vision using diffuse structured light comprising: projecting an illumination pattern from a light source through a linear diffuser and onto a scene, wherein the linear diffuser has an axis of diffusion and the illumination pattern has transiationai symmetry in a direction of translation that is aligned with the axis of diffusion; and detecting light reflecting from, the scene using an image sensor that outputs signals corresponding to the detected light. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/239083 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 11/25 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09752986 | Algar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | W. Russ Algar (Vancouver, Canada); Niko Hildebrandt (Orsay, France); Alan L. Huston (Aldie, Virginia); Igor L. Medintz (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | W. Russ Algar (Vancouver, Canada); Niko Hildebrandt (Orsay, France); Alan L. Huston (Aldie, Virginia); Igor L. Medintz (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is a time-gated, two-step FRET relay effective to provide temporal transference of a prompt FRET pathway, or provide spectro-temporal encoding analytical signals and other information. A FRET relay assembly includes a long lifetime FRET donor (for example, a lanthanide complex), a semiconductor quantum dot (QD) configured as an intermediate acceptor/donor in FRET, and a fluorescent dye configured as a terminal FRET acceptor, wherein the long lifetime FRET donor has an excited state lifetime of at least one microsecond and the QD and fluorescent dye each have excited state lifetimes of less than 100 nanoseconds. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/911157 |
| ART UNIT | 1798 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6408 (20130101) G01N 21/6428 (20130101) G01N 21/6486 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/542 (20130101) G01N 33/588 (20130101) G01N 2021/6441 (20130101) |
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| US 09752988 | Mazumder et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jyotirmoy Mazumder (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Lijun Song (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Cunshan Wang (Dalian, China PRC) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jyotirmoy Mazumder (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Lijun Song (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Cunshan Wang (Dalian, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | A microstructure detector and in-situ method for real-time determination of the microstructure of a material undergoing alloying or other phase transformation. The method carried out by the detector includes the steps of: (a) detecting light emitted from a plasma plume created during phase transformation of a material; (b) determining at least some of the spectral content of the detected light; and (c) determining an expected microstructure of the transformed material from the determined spectral content. Closed loop control of the phase transformation process can be carried out using feedback from the detector to achieve a desired microstructure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/159955 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/718 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09753185 | Boulais et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kevin A. Boulais (La Plate, Maryland); Francisco Santiago (Spring Hill, Florida); Charles E. Mannix (Ruther Glen, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin A. Boulais (La Plate, Maryland); Francisco Santiago (Spring Hill, Florida); Charles E. Mannix (Ruther Glen, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A metamaterial control device is provided for controlling electromagnetic radiation. The device uses a light-guide film (LGF), with the LGF being capable of receiving light emission along an edge. The device includes a substrate disposed on a non-edges surface of the LGF, electromagnetic cellular structures that are controllable, and an optically sensitive component within some or all cells. The substrate is composed of metamaterial and having an interface that corresponds to an extractor on the non-edge surface for scattering light therefrom. Alternatively, the substrate can constitute the LGF itself. The cell structure is disposed around the extractor. The optically sensitive component is disposed to cover the extractor. The component changes in response to receiving the light from the extractor and changes in response to intensity of the light. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 19, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/830628 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Functional Features or Details of Lighting Devices or Systems Thereof; Structural Combinations of Lighting Devices With Other Articles, Not Otherwise Provided for F21V 7/04 (20130101) F21V 7/0008 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 1/002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/0011 (20130101) G02B 6/0036 (20130101) G02B 6/0043 (20130101) G02B 6/0066 (20130101) G02B 6/0073 (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 1/0009 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/09 (20130101) |
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| US 09753193 | Tabirian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co. (Winter Park, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co. (Orland, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nelson V. Tabirian (Winter Park, Florida); Anna Tabirian (Winter Park, Florida); David E. Roberts (Apopka, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Lenses, devices, apparatus, systems, methods of manufacturing and fabricating an ophthalmic lens device for correction of human vision. The ophthalmic lens device includes at least one diffractive waveplate coating with an optical axis orientation pattern designed to correct the vision of individual patients. The ophthalmic lens device including diffractive waveplate coating may also provide a portion of the required vision correction by means of refraction of light by curved surfaces of a dielectric material. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 16, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/688540 |
| ART UNIT | 3774 — 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 2/1654 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 3/10 (20130101) G02B 3/0081 (20130101) G02B 5/001 (20130101) G02B 5/1828 (20130101) G02B 5/1833 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 5/3083 (20130101) G02B 6/024 (20130101) G02B 6/3534 (20130101) G02B 6/3592 (20130101) G02B 27/4205 (20130101) G02B 27/4211 (20130101) G02B 27/4216 (20130101) G02B 27/4261 (20130101) Spectacles; Sunglasses or Goggles Insofar as They Have the Same Features as Spectacles; Contact Lenses G02C 7/10 (20130101) G02C 7/12 (20130101) G02C 7/022 (20130101) G02C 7/061 (20130101) G02C 7/086 (20130101) G02C 2202/16 (20130101) G02C 2202/20 (20130101) |
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| US 09753224 | Miller |
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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) | David A. B. Miller (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are known for implementing general optical functions using wave splitters. However, these methods rely on these wave splitters having maximal extinction ratio, which is difficult to achieve in practice. The present invention provides methods for automatically adjusting wave splitters to provide maximal extinction ratio. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 24, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/080170 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 9/02015 (20130101) G01B 9/02075 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/2935 (20130101) G02B 6/29355 (20130101) G02B 6/29395 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09753226 | Frish |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harel Frish (Moshav Sede Moshe, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | A structure for coupling an optical signal between an integrated circuit photonic structure and an external optical fiber is disclosed as in a method of formation. The coupling structure is sloped relative to a horizontal surface of the photonic structure such that light entering or leaving the photonic structure is substantially normal to its upper surface. |
| FILED | Monday, December 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/976677 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Producing Particular Articles From Plastics or From Substances in a Plastic State B29D 11/00663 (20130101) Chemical Composition of Glasses, Glazes or Vitreous Enamels; Surface Treatment of Glass; Surface Treatment of Fibres or Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals or Slags; Joining Glass to Glass or Other Materials C03C 3/04 (20130101) C03C 15/00 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/1857 (20130101) G02B 6/13 (20130101) G02B 6/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/34 (20130101) G02B 6/122 (20130101) G02B 6/124 (20130101) G02B 6/132 (20130101) G02B 6/3628 (20130101) G02B 2006/12061 (20130101) G02B 2006/12092 (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 7/0005 (20130101) |
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| US 09753241 | Benischek et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vincent P. Benischek (Shrub Oak, New York); Mark S. Hinrichs (Levittown, New York); Francesco Pellegrino (Cold Spring Harbor, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser autocollimator assembly that provides an objective, unambiguous, and simple means to achieve precise (for example, arc second or sub arc-second) alignment between the laser autocollimator assembly and a reference surface. The laser autocollimator assembly relies on optical parasitic interference between a reflected beam from the reference surface and the laser beam in the laser cavity that, when alignment is achieved, results in a disruption of the action of the laser, resulting in a reduction in the output power level of the laser beam. By monitoring the power level of the laser beam, for example monitoring the power level of the reflected beam, it can be determined that alignment has been achieved when the power level of the laser beam has been reduced to a minimum level. The power level can be automatically monitored, thereby eliminating the need for user interpretation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/847550 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 1/0266 (20130101) G01J 1/4257 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 7/003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 27/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09753353 | McKinstrie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vencore Labs, Inc. (Basking Ridge, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vencore Labs, Inc. (Basking Ridge, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Colin McKinstrie (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); Anjali Agarwal (Basking Ridge, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for separating signal quadratures includes obtaining, by a parametric amplifier, an input signal, amplifying, by the parametric amplifier, the input signal to create an amplified signal and generating an idler. The idler is a conjugate image of the input signal. The system and method also include obtaining, by a frequency converter, the amplified signal and the conjugate image and converting the amplified signal and the conjugate image into a first output and a second output, where the first output includes a first signal quadrature and the second output includes a second output quadrature. |
| FILED | Friday, May 27, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/166883 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/39 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02F 1/3532 (20130101) G02F 2001/392 (20130101) G02F 2203/13 (20130101) Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/0078 (20130101) |
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| US 09753441 | Huynh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vu Anh Huynh (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Emilio Frazzoli (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-based method controls a dynamical system in an uncertain environment within a bounded probability of failure. The dynamical system has a state space and a control space. The method includes diffusing a risk constraint corresponding to the bounded probability of failure into a martingale that represents a level of risk tolerance associated with the dynamical system over time. The state space and the control space of the dynamical system are augmented with the martingale to create an augmented model with an augmented state space and an augmented control space. The method may include iteratively constructing one or more Markov Decision Processes (MDPs), with each iterative MDP represents an incrementally refined model of the dynamical system. The method further includes computing a first solution based on the augmented model or, if additional time was available, based on one of the MDP iterations. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/275933 |
| ART UNIT | 2199 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 13/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G05B 23/0248 (20130101) |
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| US 09753445 | Duncan 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) | Adam Duncan (Bloomington, Indiana); Matthew Gadlage (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for determining short, open, and good connections using digital input and output (TO) structures in a device under test (DUT) continuity test, through the combined methods of using resistance-capacitance (RC) delay, time domain reflectometry (TDR), and forcing voltage on to a single IO pin of the DUT while measuring voltage on remaining IO pins of said DUT. In one embodiment, the combined methods are executed without the DUT in a test socket to produce a first set of test values and also with the DUT in a test socket to produce a second set of test values. The first and second sets of test values are compared to determine if one or more circuits of the DUT have a short circuit, an open circuit, or are a good (have an electrical connection that is not a short circuit or an open circuit) circuit. |
| FILED | Friday, May 12, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/593621 |
| ART UNIT | 2868 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 31/024 (20130101) G01R 31/3167 (20130101) Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 19/0423 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G05B 2219/21114 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 13/385 (20130101) |
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| US 09753526 | Ardanaz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTEL CORPORATION (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Federico Ardanaz (Hillsboro, Oregon); Jonathan M. Eastep (Portland, Oregon); Richard J. Greco (West Linn, Oregon); Ramkumar Nagappan (Chandler, Arizona); Alan B. Kyker (Winters, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus, systems, and methods provide an interface between a plurality of hardware resources of a node and a power manager. The interface is configured to define one or more resource groups to expose to the power manager for power measurement and control, assign the plurality of hardware resources to the one or more resource groups, and provide a power allowance to each resource group. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/581854 |
| ART UNIT | 2115 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 1/325 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 1/3287 (20130101) G06F 1/3293 (20130101) |
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| US 09753542 | Chizeck 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) | Howard Jay Chizeck (Mercer Island, Washington); Fredrik Ryden (Seattle, Washington); Andrew Stewart (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, articles of manufacture, and devices related to generating six degree of freedom (DOF) haptic feedback are provided. A computing device can receive first depth data about an environment. The computing device can generate a first plurality of points from the first depth data. The computing device can determine a virtual tool, where the virtual tool is specified in terms of a translation component for the virtual tool and a rotation component for the virtual tool. The computing device can determine a first force vector between the virtual tool and the first plurality of points. The computing device can send a first indication of haptic feedback based on the first force vector. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 11, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/291060 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 34/25 (20160201) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/016 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 15/04 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/2256 (20130101) |
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| US 09754049 | Tong 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) | Hanghang Tong (Ossining, New York); Fei Wang (Ossining, New York); Yinglong Xia (Rye Brook, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for inferring performance include a chain graph that has multiple nodes, one or more of which has a known value at a first timestamp. A value associated with a first node at the first timestamp influences a value associated with a second node connected to the first node by an edge at the first timestamp. Each node has an associated chain that represents values of the node at different timestamps. Known values of each node in the graph are propagated within each timestamp to all neighboring nodes. Known values of each node in the graph are propagated across different timestamps. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/501960 |
| ART UNIT | 2154 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30958 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/04 (20130101) G06Q 10/0639 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 29/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09754502 | Ott et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SMART INFORMATION FLOW TECHNOLOGIES, LLC (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Smart Information Flow Technologies LLC (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tammy Elizabeth Ott (Saint Paul, Minnesota); Harry Bromberg Funk (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Jesse Albert Hostetler (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of monitoring a trainee to determine when the trainee subconsciously identifies an object previously associated with a desired trainee response includes attaching at least one biological response sensor to the trainee and receiving biological response data of the trainee from the at least one biological response sensor. The method further includes comparing the biological response data of the trainee to biological responses linked to different ones of a plurality of trainee responses using a processor in communication with the at least one biological response sensor, the plurality of trainee responses including the desired trainee response, and detecting trainee recognition of the object previously associated with the desired trainee response based, in part, on the biological response data being linked to the desired trainee response included with the plurality of trainee responses. The desired trainee response is below the conscious awareness of the trainee. |
| FILED | Friday, July 08, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/205932 |
| ART UNIT | 3715 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Educational or Demonstration Appliances; Appliances for Teaching, or Communicating With, the Blind, Deaf or Mute; Models; Planetaria; Globes; Maps; Diagrams G09B 5/00 (20130101) G09B 5/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G09B 19/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09754514 | Gibbs et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Humanetics Innovative Solutions, Inc. (Plymouth, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HUMANETICS INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS, INC. (Plymouth, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Gibbs (Birmingham, Michigan); Zhenwen J. Wang (Northville, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An adjustable friction joint assembly for a crash test dummy includes a first joint member for connection to a first member of the crash test dummy and a second joint member for connection to a second member of the crash test dummy. The adjustable friction joint assembly also includes a shaft operatively connected to the first joint member and the second joint member to allow rotation therebetween. The adjustable friction joint assembly further includes an adjustable friction assembly operatively connected to the shaft and operatively cooperating with the first joint member and the second joint member to adjust a friction tightness of the joint assembly. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/496046 |
| ART UNIT | 3715 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Educational or Demonstration Appliances; Appliances for Teaching, or Communicating With, the Blind, Deaf or Mute; Models; Planetaria; Globes; Maps; Diagrams G09B 23/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 403/32418 (20150115) |
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| US 09754997 | Johnson |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark B. Johnson (Potomac, Maryland) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Mark B. Johnson (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Resistance elements, including Magnetic Tunnel Junction devices are configured as magnetoelectronic (ME) devices. These resistive devices are useable as circuit building blocks in reconfigurable processing systems, including as logic circuits, non-volatile switches and memory cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 11, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/290200 |
| ART UNIT | 2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 11/161 (20130101) G11C 11/1675 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/228 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 43/02 (20130101) H01L 43/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09755133 | Nayfeh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Osama M. Nayfeh (San Diego, California); Son Dinh (San Diego, California); Anna Leese de Escobar (San Diego, California); Kenneth Simonsen (San Diego, California); Shahrokh Naderi (Del Mar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A tunable quantum qubit circuit comprising: a plurality of interconnected Josephson tunneling junctions sculpted in-situ on-chip, wherein each Josephson tunneling junction comprises a pair of high temperature superconductors separated by an active region having a controlled charge density; a capacitive-coupled control gate operatively coupled to the Josephson tunneling junctions and configured to simultaneously modulate energy levels of the Josephson tunneling junctions; and independent control gates operatively coupled to the Josephson tunneling junctions, wherein the independent control gates are reconfigurable on-the-fly by an operator. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 03, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/060290 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 39/025 (20130101) H01L 39/223 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 39/2493 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ADA Technologies, Inc. (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ADA Technologies, Inc. (Littleton, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Weibing Xing (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition containing a carbon monofluoride admixture is provided. The carbon monofluoride admixture is generally in the form of layer having opposing upper and lower surfaces. Usually, an ion conducting or a solid electrolyte layer is position on one of the upper or lower layers of the monofluoride admixture. In some configurations, the ion conducting or a solid electrolyte layer can be alkaline metal aluminum oxide or alkaline metal aluminum fluoride. The alkaline metal is commonly lithium, and the alkaline metal aluminum oxide or alkaline metal aluminum fluoride is more commonly MzAlXy (M is one of alkali metals, X=O, F), Z commonly can have a value from about 0.5 to about 10 and y can have a value from about 1.75 to about 6.5, more commonly z can have a value from about 1 to about 5 and y can have a value from about 2 to about 4. The carbon monofluoride admixture can include a polymeric binder and one or more of a conductive carbon black and conductive graphite. The carbon monofluoride admixture is generally a component one or more electrodes of an electrochemical energy storage device. |
| FILED | Friday, July 17, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/802805 |
| ART UNIT | 1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 2/1613 (20130101) H01M 4/133 (20130101) H01M 4/366 (20130101) H01M 4/622 (20130101) H01M 4/625 (20130101) H01M 4/661 (20130101) H01M 4/662 (20130101) H01M 4/5835 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 10/056 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) H01M 10/0562 (20130101) |
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| US 09755273 | DeSimone et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph M. DeSimone (Los Gatos, California); Ashish Pandya (Morrisville, North Carolina); Dominica Wong (Carrboro, North Carolina); Nitash P. Balsara (El Cerrito, California); Jacob Thelen (Berkeley, California); Didier Devaux (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Liquid or solid electrolyte compositions are described that comprise a homogeneous solvent system and an alkali metal salt dissolved in said solvent system. The solvent system may comprise a fluoropolymer, having one or two terminal carbonate groups covalently coupled thereto. Batteries containing such electrolyte compositions are also described. |
| FILED | Monday, March 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/779460 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 10/05 (20130101) H01M 10/0564 (20130101) H01M 10/0565 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 10/0569 (20130101) H01M 10/4235 (20130101) H01M 12/06 (20130101) H01M 2300/0034 (20130101) H01M 2300/0082 (20130101) |
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| US 09755329 | van der Laan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Advanced Conductor Technologies LLC (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Conductor Technologies LLC (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniël Cornelis van der Laan (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Superconducting cable connector structures include a terminal body (or other structure) onto which the tapes from the superconducting cable extend. The terminal body (or other structure) has a diameter that is sufficiently larger than the diameter of the former of the superconducting cable, so that the tapes spread out over the outer surface of the terminal body. As a result, gaps are formed between tapes on the terminal body (or other structure). Those gaps are filled with solder (or other suitable flowable conductive material), to provide a current path of relatively high conductivity in the radial direction. Other connector structures omit the terminal body. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/302194 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 12/02 (20130101) Electrically-conductive Connections; Structural Associations of a Plurality of Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting Elements; Coupling Devices; Current Collectors H01R 4/023 (20130101) H01R 4/027 (20130101) H01R 4/68 (20130101) H01R 9/0509 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01R 43/02 (20130101) H01R 43/20 (20130101) Installation of Electric Cables or Lines, or of Combined Optical and Electric Cables or Lines H02G 15/003 (20130101) H02G 15/08 (20130101) H02G 15/34 (20130101) H02G 15/046 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 40/648 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Regal Beloit America, Inc. (Beloit, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regal Beloit America, Inc. (Beloit, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Edward Raczek (Weston, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, a stator for use in a liquid cooled electric machine having a rotor is provided. The stator includes a stator body having a radially outer periphery and a radially inner periphery, and at least one first coolant passage extending radially through the stator body from the outer periphery to the inner periphery. The at least one first coolant passage facilitates providing a coolant to an air gap defined between the stator body and the rotor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/796281 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamo-electric Machines H02K 9/19 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09755630 | Urciuoli |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Research Laboratory ATTN: RDRL-LOC-1 (Adelphi, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Government (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Damian P. Urciuoli (Bowie, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Various solid-state circuit breakers and related circuits are presented herein. These include, among other things, a common node bidirectional solid-state circuit breaker (BDSSCB) having diodes connected between terminals of its switches, a shunt voltage actuated driver (SVAD) circuit for use with a BDSSCB, a SVAD circuit for use with a unidirectional solid-state circuit breaker (UDSSCB), a bipolar current actuated driver (BCAD) for use with a BDSSCB, and a multi-directional solid-state circuit breaker (MDSSCB). |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/752956 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/1602 (20130101) H01L 29/1608 (20130101) H01L 29/2003 (20130101) Apparatus for Conversion Between AC and AC, Between AC and DC, or Between DC and DC, and for Use With Mains or Similar Power Supply Systems; Conversion of DC or AC Input Power into Surge Output Power; Control or Regulation Thereof H02M 1/32 (20130101) Pulse Technique H03K 17/00 (20130101) H03K 17/081 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03K 17/785 (20130101) H03K 17/6874 (20130101) H03K 17/08142 (20130101) Telephonic Communication H04M 1/00 (20130101) H04M 11/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 307/74 (20150401) |
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| US 09755680 | Zhu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jianxun Zhu (New York, New York); Peter R. Kinget (Summit, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jianxun Zhu (New York, New York); Peter R. Kinget (Summit, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Circuits for field-programmable receiver front ends are provided. These front ends can include a field programmable common source low noise transconductance amplifier (LNTA), a field programmable common gate LNTA, first and second four-phase I/Q mixers, first, second, third, and fourth transimpedance amplifiers, an I-path complex combiner, and a Q-path complex combiner. Transconductance cells in each of the field programmable common source LNTA and field programmable common gate LNTA can be programmed to operate in one of a class-AB mode, a class-C mode, and an OFF mode. |
| FILED | Monday, September 26, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/276308 |
| ART UNIT | 2656 — Digital Audio Data Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers H03F 3/19 (20130101) H03F 3/45179 (20130101) H03F 2200/294 (20130101) H03F 2200/336 (20130101) H03F 2200/451 (20130101) H03F 2203/45288 (20130101) Transmission H04B 1/1638 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09755869 | Anthony 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) | Michael P. Anthony (Andover, Massachusetts); Jack Chuang (Merrimack, New Hampshire); Apurva N. Mody (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Chad M. Spooner (Carmel, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method use tunnelizing for analyzing frequency spectrum. The method may include the steps of under sampling an input signal to take samples in one or more tunnels each with a tunnel bandwidth that is equal to or less than a total analysis bandwidth of the input signal; detecting one or more cyclostationary features of the input signal based on the samples; and determining one or more signal types of the one or more cyclostationary features based on the one or more cyclostationary features. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/761958 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 5/003 (20130101) H04L 12/4633 (20130101) H04L 27/0006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 27/0012 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Geoffrey Louis Barrows (Washington, District of Columbia) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey Louis Barrows (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A camera configured for a predetermined environment can be made low profile in the following manner. The camera includes an image sensor that has a light sensitive portion that can sense light from the predetermined environment. A substantially opaque mask is disposed above the light sensitive portion of the image sensor and has at least one opening through which the image sensor senses light. The low profile structure of the camera can be realized with substantially transparent material disposed between the substantially opaque mask and the image sensor that has index of refraction that is greater than an index of refraction of the predetermined environment. Accordingly, light through the opening refracts as it passes through the substantially transparent material to the image sensor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 28, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/811606 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 3/266 (20130101) B32B 37/12 (20130101) B32B 37/18 (20130101) B32B 2037/1253 (20130101) B32B 2250/02 (20130101) B32B 2255/00 (20130101) B32B 2307/41 (20130101) B32B 2307/412 (20130101) B32B 2310/0831 (20130101) B32B 2551/00 (20130101) B32B 2559/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/14625 (20130101) H01L 27/14685 (20130101) H01L 31/0203 (20130101) H01L 31/1876 (20130101) H01L 2224/8592 (20130101) H01L 2224/32145 (20130101) H01L 2224/48091 (20130101) H01L 2224/48091 (20130101) H01L 2224/48227 (20130101) H01L 2224/48227 (20130101) H01L 2224/48472 (20130101) H01L 2224/48472 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/2253 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04N 5/2254 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49828 (20150115) Y10T 29/49886 (20150115) Y10T 156/10 (20150115) |
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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) | John V. Sandusky (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Todd A. Pitts (Rio Rancho, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Diffuse optical tomography systems and methods are described herein. In a general embodiment, the diffuse optical tomography system comprises a plurality of sensor heads, the plurality of sensor heads comprising respective optical emitter systems and respective sensor systems. A sensor head in the plurality of sensors heads is caused to act as an illuminator, such that its optical emitter system transmits a transillumination beam towards a portion of a sample. Other sensor heads in the plurality of sensor heads act as observers, detecting portions of the transillumination beam that radiate from the sample in the fields of view of the respective sensory systems of the other sensor heads. Thus, sensor heads in the plurality of sensors heads generate sensor data in parallel. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/045056 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0073 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09751758 | Gang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE ASSOCIATES, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oleg Gang (New York, New York); Fang Lu (Miller Place, New York); Miho Tagawa (Nagoya, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for lattice design via multivalent linkers (LDML) is disclosed that introduces a rationally designed symmetry of connections between particles in order to achieve control over the morphology of their assembly. The method affords the inclusion of different programmable interactions within one linker that allow an assembly of different types of particles. The designed symmetry of connections is preferably provided utilizing DNA encoding. The linkers may include fabricated “patchy” particles, DNA scaffold constructs and Y-shaped DNA linkers, anisotropic particles, which are preferably functionalized with DNA, multimeric protein-DNA complexes, and particles with finite numbers of DNA linkers. |
| FILED | Friday, January 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/373161 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Nanostructures Formed by Manipulation of Individual Atoms, Molecules, or Limited Collections of Atoms or Molecules as Discrete Units; Manufacture or Treatment Thereof B82B 3/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/68 (20130101) C12Q 1/68 (20130101) C12Q 2565/133 (20130101) C12Q 2565/513 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/84 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2982 (20150115) |
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09751781 — Method to separate lignin-rich solid phase from acidic biomass suspension at an acidic pH
| US 09751781 | Yasarla et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Binghamton, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Binghamton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lakshmi Rakesh Kumar Yasarla (Vijayawada, India); Bandaru V. Ramarao (Fayetteveille, New York); Thomas Amidon (Jamesville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of separating a lignin-rich solid phase from a solution suspension, by pretreating a lignocellulosic biomass with a pretreatment fluid having remove soluble components, colloidal material and primarily lignin containing particles; separating the pretreated lignocellulosic biomass from the pretreatment fluid with soluble components, colloidal material and primarily lignin containing particles; flocculating the separated pretreatment fluid with soluble components, colloidal material and primarily lignin containing particles using polyethylene oxide (i.e., PEO) or cationic Poly acrylamide (i.e., CPAM) as a flocculating agent; and filtering the flocculated separated pretreatment fluid with soluble components, colloidal material and primarily lignin containing particles to remove agglomerates. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/387169 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 21/01 (20130101) B01D 21/0012 (20130101) B01D 21/262 (20130101) B01D 36/045 (20130101) Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/5272 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C02F 2001/007 (20130101) C02F 2103/26 (20130101) Compounds of Unknown Constitution C07G 1/00 (20130101) Derivatives of Natural Macromolecular Compounds C08H 6/00 (20130101) C08H 8/00 (20130101) Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 45/04 (20130101) C12M 45/09 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/10 (20130101) C12P 2203/00 (20130101) Saccharides Obtained From Natural Sources or by Hydrolysis of Naturally Occurring Disaccharides, Oligosaccharides or Polysaccharides C13K 13/00 (20130101) C13K 13/002 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/16 (20130101) |
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| US 09751807 | Taxacher et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Glenn Curtis Taxacher (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Peter de Diego (Saluda, North Carolina); Paul Edward Gray (North East, Maryland); Philip Harold Monaghan (Hockessin, Delaware) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glenn Curtis Taxacher (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Peter de Diego (Saluda, North Carolina); Paul Edward Gray (North East, Maryland); Philip Harold Monaghan (Hockessin, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods and devices adapted to ease manufacture of composite articles (e.g., ceramic composite articles), particularly composite articles which include a hollow feature are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes: a consumable core formed to be disposed within an inner portion of a composite precursor, the consumable core adapted to convert into an infiltrant during a manufacturing process and infiltrate the composite precursor. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/586930 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| 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 35/563 (20130101) C04B 35/573 (20130101) C04B 35/653 (20130101) C04B 35/5607 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C04B 2235/404 (20130101) C04B 2235/421 (20130101) C04B 2235/428 (20130101) C04B 2235/616 (20130101) |
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| US 09751815 | Silks et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louis A. Silks (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Andrew Sutton (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Jin Kyung Kim (Los Alamos, New Mexico); John Cameron Gordon (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Ruilian Wu (Los Alamos, New Mexico); David B. Kimball (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention are directed to the conversion of a source material (e.g., a depolymerized oligosaccharide mixture, a monomeric sugar, a hydrolysate, or a mixture of monomeric sugars) to intermediate molecules containing 7 to 26 contiguous carbon atoms. These intermediates may also be converted to saturated hydrocarbons. Such saturated hydrocarbons are useful as, for example, fuels. |
| FILED | Monday, October 03, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/284378 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 1/2076 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 2521/18 (20130101) C07C 2523/44 (20130101) C07C 2523/755 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 407/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09751916 | Brown et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kimberly Brown (Elk Grove, California); Paul Harris (Carnation, Washington); Elizabeth Zaretsky (Reno, Nevada); Edward Re (Davis, California); Elena Vlasenko (Davis, California); Keith McFarland (Davis, California); Alfredo Lopez de Leon (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 21, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/188731 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/37 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Detergent Compositions; Use of Single Substances as Detergents; Soap or Soap-making; Resin Soaps; Recovery of Glycerol C11D 3/38645 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/12 (20130101) C12N 1/14 (20130101) C12N 1/16 (20130101) C12N 1/20 (20130101) C12N 9/2437 (20130101) C12N 9/2445 (20130101) C12N 15/52 (20130101) C12N 15/63 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/14 (20130101) C12P 19/02 (20130101) C12P 19/14 (20130101) C12P 2201/00 (20130101) C12P 2203/00 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 302/01021 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/16 (20130101) Y02E 50/17 (20130101) |
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| US 09751974 | Bowen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, LLC (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, LLC (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Bowen (Olathe, Kansas); Somnath Sarkar (Warrensburg, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Polymeric nanocomposite materials are provided comprising polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon compounds. During polymer synthesis, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon groups are directly incorporated into the polymer network. Free polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon compounds are also dispersed within the polymer matrix. The resulting nanocomposite materials exhibit improvements in the thermal, rheological, and physical properties, including reinforcement, of the polymer material as compared to the unmodified polymer. |
| FILED | Friday, September 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/478917 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 59/5033 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09752049 | Armstrong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Beth L. Armstrong (Clinton, Tennessee); Tolga Aytug (Knoxville, Tennessee); Mariappan Parans Paranthaman (Knoxville, Tennessee); John T. Simpson (Clinton, Tennessee); Daniel A. Hillesheim (Knoxville, Tennessee); Neil E. Trammell (Benton, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | An optically transparent, hydrophobic coating, exhibiting an average contact angle of at least 100 degrees with a drop of water. The coating can be produced using low-cost, environmentally friendly components. Methods of preparing and using the optically transparent, hydrophobic coating. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/185830 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 1/02 (20130101) B05D 1/005 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 283/10 (20130101) C08F 2222/322 (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 4/06 (20130101) C09D 4/06 (20130101) C09D 163/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09752168 | Quinlan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason Quinlan (Woodland, California); Feng Xu (Davis, California); Matthew Sweeney (Sacramento, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions comprising: a polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity and a quinone compound. The present invention also relates to methods of using the compositions. |
| FILED | Monday, February 29, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/056404 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — 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 9/96 (20130101) C12N 9/2437 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 5/002 (20130101) C12P 5/02 (20130101) C12P 5/026 (20130101) C12P 7/10 (20130101) C12P 7/26 (20130101) C12P 7/28 (20130101) C12P 7/40 (20130101) C12P 13/04 (20130101) C12P 19/02 (20130101) C12P 19/12 (20130101) C12P 19/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 2201/00 (20130101) C12P 2203/00 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/16 (20130101) |
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| US 09752440 | Miranda et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlos Miguel Miranda (Greer, South Carolina); Andrew Lee Trimmer (Niskayuna, New York); Srikanth Chandrudu Kottilingam (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Benjamin Paul Lacy (Greer, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A component for a turbine engine includes a substrate that includes a first surface, and an insert coupled to the substrate proximate the substrate first surface. The component also includes a channel. The channel is defined by a first channel wall formed in the substrate and a second channel wall formed by at least one coating disposed on the substrate first surface. The component further includes an inlet opening defined in flow communication with the channel. The inlet opening is defined by a first inlet wall formed in the substrate and a second inlet wall defined by the insert. |
| FILED | Friday, May 29, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/725695 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F01D 5/186 (20130101) F01D 5/187 (20130101) F01D 5/288 (20130101) F01D 9/041 (20130101) F01D 25/12 (20130101) Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 3/04 (20130101) F02C 7/18 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2220/32 (20130101) F05D 2230/10 (20130101) F05D 2240/30 (20130101) F05D 2240/35 (20130101) F05D 2240/128 (20130101) F05D 2260/204 (20130101) F05D 2270/3062 (20130101) Generating Combustion Products of High Pressure or High Velocity, e.g Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers F23R 3/002 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/676 (20130101) |
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| US 09752468 | Muralidharan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Govindarajan Muralidharan (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An Fe—Ni—Cr alloy is composed essentially of, in terms of wt. %: 2.4 to 3.7 Al, up to 1.05 Co, 14.8 to 15.9 Cr, 25 to 36 Fe, up to 1.2 Hf, up to 4 Mn, up to 0.6 Mo, up to 2.2 Nb, up to 1.05 Ta, 1.9 to 3.6 Ti, up to 0.08 W, up to 0.03 Zr, 0.18 to 0.27 C, up to 0.0015 N, balance Ni, wherein, in terms of atomic percent: 8.5≦Al+Ti+Zr+Hf+Ta≦11.5, 0.53≦Al÷(Al+Ti+Zr+Hf+Ta)≦0.65, and 0.16≦Cr÷(Fe+Ni+Cr+Mn)≦0.21, the alloy being essentially free of Cu, Si, and V. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/497550 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Alloys C22C 19/056 (20130101) C22C 30/00 (20130101) C22C 30/02 (20130101) Cyclically Operating Valves for Machines or Engines F01L 3/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09752562 | Marion, III 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) | John E. Marion, III (Livermore, California); Jane P. Bearinger (Berwyn, Pennsylvania); Thomas S. Wilson (San Leandro, California); Duncan J. Maitland (College Station, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A resistively heated shape memory polymer device is made by providing a rod, sheet or substrate that includes a resistive medium. The rod, sheet or substrate is coated with a first shape memory polymer providing a coated intermediate unit. The coated intermediate unit is in turn coated with a conductive material providing a second intermediate unit. The second coated intermediate unit is in turn coated with an outer shape memory polymer. The rod, sheet or substrate is exposed and an electrical lead is attached to the rod, sheet or substrate. The conductive material is exposed and an electrical lead is attached to the conductive material. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 20, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/299213 |
| ART UNIT | 2847 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 2311/005 (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) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49002 (20150115) |
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| US 09752773 | Levasseur et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Armand A. Levasseur (Windsor Locks, Connecticut); Shin G. Kang (Simsbury, Connecticut); James R. Kenney (Windsor, Connecticut); Carl D. Edberg (Stafford Springs, Connecticut); David G. Turek (South Windsor, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GENERAL ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY GMBH (Baden, Switzerland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Armand A. Levasseur (Windsor Locks, Connecticut); Shin G. Kang (Simsbury, Connecticut); James R. Kenney (Windsor, Connecticut); Carl D. Edberg (Stafford Springs, Connecticut); David G. Turek (South Windsor, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a method of controlling the operation of an oxy-fired boiler; the method comprising combusting a fuel in a boiler; producing a heat absorption pattern in the boiler; discharging flue gases from the boiler; recycling a portion of the flue gases to the boiler; combining a first oxidant stream with the recycled flue gases to form a combined stream; splitting the combined stream into several fractions; and introducing each fraction of the combined stream to the boiler at different points of entry to the boiler. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/298147 |
| ART UNIT | 3749 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or apparatus for combustion using fluid fuel or Solid Fuel Suspended In Air F23C 5/12 (20130101) F23C 9/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F23C 2201/101 (20130101) F23C 2202/30 (20130101) Supplying Air or Non-combustible Liquids or Gases to Combustion Apparatus in General; Valves or Dampers Specially Adapted for Controlling Air Supply or Draught in Combustion Apparatus; Inducing Draught in Combustion Apparatus; Tops for Chimneys or Ventilating Shafts; Terminals for Flues F23L 7/007 (20130101) F23L 9/04 (20130101) F23L 2900/07001 (20130101) Regulating or Controlling Combustion F23N 1/022 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 20/322 (20130101) Y02E 20/344 (20130101) |
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| US 09752776 | Saunders |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Timothy Saunders (Canoga Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gas Technology Institute (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy Saunders (Canoga Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A pressure vessel includes a pump having a passage that extends between an inlet and an outlet. A duct at the pump outlet includes at least one dimension that is adjustable to facilitate forming a dynamic seal that limits backflow of gas through the passage. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 31, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/872286 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Feeding Fuel to Combustion Apparatus F23K 3/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F23K 2203/006 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 137/86035 (20150401) |
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| US 09752777 | Taylor et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Curtis Taylor (Gaston, Indiana); Brad Patterson (Dunkirk, Indiana); Jayson Perdue (New Castle, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A burner assembly combines oxygen and fuel to produce a flame. The burner assembly includes an oxygen supply tube adapted to receive a stream of oxygen and a solid fuel conduit arranged to extend through the oxygen tube to convey a stream of fluidized, pulverized, solid fuel into a flame chamber. Oxygen flowing through the oxygen supply tube passes generally tangentially through a first set of oxygen-injection holes formed in the solid fuel conduit and off-tangentially from a second set of oxygen-injection holes formed in the solid fuel conduit and then mixes with fluidized, pulverized, solid fuel passing through the solid fuel conduit to create an oxygen-fuel mixture in a downstream portion of the solid fuel conduit. This mixture is discharged into a flame chamber and ignited in the flame chamber to produce a flame. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 05, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/372309 |
| ART UNIT | 3743 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or apparatus for combustion using fluid fuel or Solid Fuel Suspended In Air F23C 6/045 (20130101) F23C 2201/20 (20130101) Burners F23D 1/00 (20130101) F23D 2201/00 (20130101) F23D 2201/20 (20130101) F23D 2900/00006 (20130101) Supplying Air or Non-combustible Liquids or Gases to Combustion Apparatus in General; Valves or Dampers Specially Adapted for Controlling Air Supply or Draught in Combustion Apparatus; Inducing Draught in Combustion Apparatus; Tops for Chimneys or Ventilating Shafts; Terminals for Flues F23L 7/007 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 20/344 (20130101) |
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| US 09752831 | Tonkovich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Velocys, Inc. (Plain City, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Velocys, Inc. (Plain City, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anna Lee Tonkovich (Gilbert, Arizona); Ravi Arora (Dublin, Ohio); David Kilanowski (Dublin, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention describes features that can be used to control flow to an array of microchannels. The invention also describes methods in which a process stream is distributed to plural microchannels. |
| FILED | Monday, October 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/523952 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Mixing, e.g Dissolving, Emulsifying, Dispersing B01F 3/0807 (20130101) B01F 5/0475 (20130101) B01F 5/0646 (20130101) B01F 5/0647 (20130101) B01F 5/0655 (20130101) B01F 13/0059 (20130101) B01F 13/0064 (20130101) B01F 13/0074 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/0093 (20130101) B01J 2219/0086 (20130101) B01J 2219/00783 (20130101) B01J 2219/00835 (20130101) B01J 2219/00869 (20130101) B01J 2219/00873 (20130101) B01J 2219/00889 (20130101) B01J 2219/00891 (20130101) Heat-exchange Apparatus, Not Provided for in Another Subclass, in Which the Heat-exchange Media Do Not Come into Direct Contact F28D 1/0316 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F28D 1/0341 (20130101) Details of Heat-exchange and Heat-transfer Apparatus, of General Application F28F 1/022 (20130101) F28F 3/04 (20130101) F28F 9/0275 (20130101) F28F 2260/02 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 137/0318 (20150401) Y10T 137/0329 (20150401) Y10T 137/6579 (20150401) Y10T 137/85938 (20150401) Y10T 137/87571 (20150401) Y10T 137/87652 (20150401) |
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| US 09752932 | Fontecchio et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Adam K. Fontecchio (Downingtown, Pennsylvania); Sameet K. Shriyan (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Alyssa Bellingham (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam K. Fontecchio (Downingtown, Pennsylvania); Sameet K. Shriyan (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Alyssa Bellingham (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A holographic polymer dispersed liquid crystal (HPDLC) tunable filter exhibits switching times of no more than 20 microseconds. The HPDLC tunable filter can be utilized in a variety of applications. An HPDLC tunable filter stack can be utilized in a hyperspectral imaging system capable of spectrally multiplexing hyperspectral imaging data acquired while the hyperspectral imaging system is airborne. HPDLC tunable filter stacks can be utilized in high speed switchable optical shielding systems, for example as a coating for a visor or an aircraft canopy. These HPDLC tunable filter stacks can be fabricated using a spin coating apparatus and associated fabrication methods. |
| FILED | Saturday, October 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/881608 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/51 (20130101) G01J 3/0237 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01J 3/502 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 27/0103 (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 1/13342 (20130101) G02F 1/13476 (20130101) G02F 2203/055 (20130101) Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/20 (20130101) G03F 7/26 (20130101) |
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| US 09752959 | 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 | An acoustic transceiver is implemented for measuring acoustic properties of a gas in a turbine engine combustor. The transceiver housing defines a measurement chamber and has an opening adapted for attachment to a turbine engine combustor wall. The opening permits propagation of acoustic signals between the gas in the turbine engine combustor and gas in the measurement chamber. An acoustic sensor mounted to the housing receives acoustic signals propagating in the measurement chamber, and an acoustic transmitter mounted to the housing creates acoustic signals within the measurement chamber. An acoustic measurement system includes at least two such transceivers attached to a turbine engine combustor wall and connected to a controller. |
| FILED | Monday, July 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/341924 |
| 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 1/662 (20130101) G01F 1/667 (20130101) Testing Static or Dynamic Balance of Machines or Structures; Testing of Structures or Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G01M 15/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 29/07 (20130101) |
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| US 09753035 | Pinkel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel Pinkel (Walnut Creek, California); Donna G. Albertson (Lafayette, California); Joe W. Gray (San Francisco, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Pinkel (Walnut Creek, California); Donna G. Albertson (Lafayette, California); Joe W. Gray (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to DNA sequences from regions of copy number change on chromosome 20. The sequences can be used in hybridization methods for the identification of chromosomal abnormalities associated with various diseases. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/900648 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — 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 1/6841 (20130101) C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57415 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 435/81 (20130101) Y10S 435/975 (20130101) Y10S 436/813 (20130101) |
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| US 09753066 | Hafen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan P. Hafen (West Richland, Washington); Terence J. Critchlow (Richland, Washington); Tara D. Gibson (West Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods of processing large-scale data regarding an electrical power grid are described. According to one aspect, a method of processing large-scale data regarding an electrical power grid includes accessing a large-scale data set comprising information regarding an electrical power grid; processing data of the large-scale data set to identify a filter which is configured to remove erroneous data from the large-scale data set; using the filter, removing erroneous data from the large-scale data set; and after the removing, processing data of the large-scale data set to identify an event detector which is configured to identify events of interest in the large-scale data set. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/928108 |
| ART UNIT | 2853 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 19/2513 (20130101) G01R 21/133 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 13/0086 (20130101) H02J 2003/001 (20130101) H02J 2003/007 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/76 (20130101) Y02E 60/728 (20130101) Systems Integrating Technologies Related to Power Network Operation, Communication or Information Technologies for Improving the Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management or Usage, i.e Smart Grids Y04S 10/265 (20130101) Y04S 10/525 (20130101) Y04S 40/22 (20130101) |
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| US 09753155 | Feng |
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| APPLICANT(S) | National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick L. Feng (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An ionizing radiation detector or scintillator system includes a scintillating material comprising an organic crystalline compound selected to generate photons in response to the passage of ionizing radiation. The organic compound has a crystalline symmetry of higher order than monoclinic, for example an orthorhombic, trigonal, tetragonal, hexagonal, or cubic symmetry. A photodetector is optically coupled to the scintillating material, and configured to generate electronic signals having pulse shapes based on the photons generated in the scintillating material. A discriminator is coupled to the photon detector, and configured to discriminate between neutrons and gamma rays in the ionizing radiation based on the pulse shapes of the output signals. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 10, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/591998 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/208 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01T 1/2018 (20130101) |
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| US 09753440 | Pratt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard M. Pratt (Richland, Washington); Donald J. Hammerstrom (West Richland, Washington); Michael C. W. Kintner-Meyer (Richland, Washington); Francis K. Tuffner (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are representative embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems for charging and discharging an energy storage device connected to an electrical power distribution system. In one exemplary embodiment, a controller monitors electrical characteristics of an electrical power distribution system and provides an output to a bi-directional charger causing the charger to charge or discharge an energy storage device (e.g., a battery in a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV)). The controller can help stabilize the electrical power distribution system by increasing the charging rate when there is excess power in the electrical power distribution system (e.g., when the frequency of an AC power grid exceeds an average value), or by discharging power from the energy storage device to stabilize the grid when there is a shortage of power in the electrical power distribution system (e.g., when the frequency of an AC power grid is below an average value). |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/909893 |
| ART UNIT | 2125 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Propulsion of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Supplying Electric Power for Auxiliary Equipment of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Electrodynamic Brake Systems for Vehicles in General; Magnetic Suspension or Levitation for Vehicles; Monitoring Operating Variables of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Electric Safety Devices for Electrically-propelled Vehicles B60L 11/1818 (20130101) B60L 11/1824 (20130101) B60L 11/1842 (20130101) B60L 11/1844 (20130101) B60L 11/1846 (20130101) B60L 11/1862 (20130101) B60L 2210/30 (20130101) B60L 2210/40 (20130101) B60L 2230/16 (20130101) B60L 2230/22 (20130101) B60L 2230/26 (20130101) B60L 2230/30 (20130101) B60L 2240/70 (20130101) B60L 2240/80 (20130101) B60L 2250/12 (20130101) B60L 2260/58 (20130101) Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 13/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 10/44 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 3/24 (20130101) H02J 3/32 (20130101) H02J 13/0013 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 90/2607 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/721 (20130101) Y02E 60/722 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/705 (20130101) Y02T 10/7005 (20130101) Y02T 10/7044 (20130101) Y02T 10/7088 (20130101) Y02T 10/7241 (20130101) Y02T 10/7291 (20130101) Y02T 90/14 (20130101) Y02T 90/16 (20130101) Y02T 90/121 (20130101) Y02T 90/127 (20130101) Y02T 90/128 (20130101) Y02T 90/163 (20130101) Y02T 90/168 (20130101) Y02T 90/169 (20130101) Systems Integrating Technologies Related to Power Network Operation, Communication or Information Technologies for Improving the Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management or Usage, i.e Smart Grids Y04S 10/14 (20130101) Y04S 10/126 (20130101) Y04S 30/12 (20130101) Y04S 30/14 (20130101) Y04S 40/12 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 307/527 (20150401) |
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| US 09754300 | Kempton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Willett Kempton (Newark, Delaware); Fouad Kiamilev (Hockessin, Delaware); Rodney McGee (Georgetown, Delaware); Nick Waite (Newark, Delaware) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Willett Kempton (Newark, Delaware); Fouad Kiamilev (Hockessin, Delaware); Rodney McGee (Georgetown, Delaware); Nick Waite (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and apparatus transferring power between the grid and an electric vehicle are disclosed. The apparatus may include at least one vehicle communication port for interfacing with electric vehicle equipment (EVE) and a processor coupled to the at least one vehicle communication port to establish communication with the EVE, receive EVE attributes from the EVE, and transmit electric vehicle station equipment (EVSE) attributes to the EVE. Power may be transferred between the grid and the electric vehicle by maintaining EVSE attributes, establishing communication with the EVE, and transmitting the EVSE maintained attributes to the EVE. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/887013 |
| ART UNIT | 3625 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Propulsion of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Supplying Electric Power for Auxiliary Equipment of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Electrodynamic Brake Systems for Vehicles in General; Magnetic Suspension or Levitation for Vehicles; Monitoring Operating Variables of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Electric Safety Devices for Electrically-propelled Vehicles B60L 11/184 (20130101) B60L 11/1816 (20130101) B60L 11/1824 (20130101) B60L 11/1842 (20130101) B60L 11/1844 (20130101) B60L 11/1846 (20130101) B60L 11/1848 (20130101) B60L 2240/72 (20130101) B60L 2260/56 (20130101) B60L 2270/32 (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 20/22 (20130101) G06Q 20/085 (20130101) G06Q 30/0601 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06Q 50/06 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 3/38 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/721 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/7005 (20130101) Y02T 10/7072 (20130101) Y02T 10/7088 (20130101) Y02T 10/7291 (20130101) Y02T 90/14 (20130101) Y02T 90/16 (20130101) Y02T 90/121 (20130101) Y02T 90/128 (20130101) Y02T 90/163 (20130101) Y02T 90/169 (20130101) Systems Integrating Technologies Related to Power Network Operation, Communication or Information Technologies for Improving the Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management or Usage, i.e Smart Grids Y04S 10/126 (20130101) Y04S 30/14 (20130101) Y04S 50/10 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 903/93 (20130101) |
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| US 09754469 | Bobbitt, III et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SAVANAH RIVER NUCLEAR SOLUTIONS, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Thomas Bobbitt, III (Evans, Georgia); George E. Weeks (Trenton, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for tamper identification. A fastener has a tamper identification surface with a unique grain structure that is altered if the fastener is removed or otherwise exposed to sufficient torque. After a period of time such as e.g., shipment and/or storage of the sealed container, a determination of whether tampering has occurred can be undertaken by examining the grain structure to determine if it has changed since the fastener was used to seal the container or secure the device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 15, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/799844 |
| ART UNIT | 2669 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Fastening or Securing Constructional Elements or Machine Parts Together, e.g Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips, Wedges, Joints or Jointing F16B 41/005 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/6202 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/001 (20130101) Signalling or Calling Systems; Order Telegraphs; Alarm Systems G08B 13/248 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09754686 | Jarboe 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) | Thomas R. Jarboe (Bellevue, Washington); Derek Sutherland (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A plasma confinement system is provided that includes a confinement chamber that includes one or more enclosures of respective helicity injectors. The one or more enclosures are coupled to ports at an outer radius of the confinement chamber. The system further includes one or more conductive coils aligned substantially parallel to the one or more enclosures and a further set of one or more conductive coils respectively surrounding portions of the one or more enclosures. Currents may be provided to the sets of conductive coils to energize a gas within the confinement chamber into a plasma. Further, a heat-exchange system is provided that includes an inner wall, an intermediate wall, an outer wall, and pipe sections configured to carry coolant through cavities formed by the walls. |
| FILED | Monday, August 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/461821 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Fusion Reactors G21B 1/05 (20130101) G21B 1/11 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G21B 1/17 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 30/126 (20130101) |
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| US 09754687 | Yacout et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | A. M. Yacout (Naperville, Illinois); Michael J. Pellin (Naperville, Illinois); Di Yun (Naperville, Illinois); Mike Billone (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | A. M. Yacout (Naperville, Illinois); Michael J. Pellin (Naperville, Illinois); Di Yun (Naperville, Illinois); Mike Billone (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method of forming a nuclear fuel pellet of a uranium containing fuel alternative to UO2, with the steps of obtaining a fuel form in a powdered state; coating the fuel form in a powdered state with at least one layer of a material; and sintering the powdered fuel form into a fuel pellet. Also provided is a sintered nuclear fuel pellet of a uranium containing fuel alternative to UO2, wherein the pellet is made from particles of fuel, wherein the particles of fuel are particles of a uranium containing moiety, and wherein the fuel particles are coated with at least one layer between about 1 nm to about 4 nm thick of a material using atomic layer deposition, and wherein the at least one layer of the material substantially surrounds each interfacial grain barrier after the powdered fuel form has been sintered. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/017138 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| 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 16/403 (20130101) C23C 16/405 (20130101) C23C 16/45529 (20130101) C23C 16/45555 (20130101) Nuclear Reactors G21C 3/07 (20130101) G21C 3/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G21C 21/02 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 30/40 (20130101) |
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| US 09755023 | Menon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky); The University Of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky); The University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Madhu Menon (Lexington, Kentucky); Michael Sheetz (Lexington, Kentucky); Mahendra Kumar Sunkara (Louisville, Kentucky); Chandrashekhar Pendyala (Chandler, Arizona); Swathi Sunkara (Louisville, Kentucky); Jacek B. Jasinski (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | The composition of matter comprising Ga(Sbx)N1−x where x=0.01 to 0.06 is characterized by a band gap between 2.4 and 1.7 eV. A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer of that composition. A photoelectric cell includes that semiconductor device. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/630875 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Processes for the Production of Compounds or Non-metals; Apparatus Therefor C25B 1/003 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0254 (20130101) H01L 21/0262 (20130101) H01L 21/02425 (20130101) H01L 21/02549 (20130101) H01L 21/02573 (20130101) H01L 29/2003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/135 (20151101) |
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| US 09755124 | Bierhuizen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands); Lumileds LLC (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands); Lumileds LLC (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Serge J. Bierhuizen (Santa Rosa, California); Nanze Patrick Wang (San Jose, California); Gregory W. Eng (Fremont, California); Decai Sun (Los Altos, California); Yajun Wei (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An array of housings with housing bodies and lenses is molded, or an array of housing bodies is molded and bonded with lenses to form an array of housings with housing bodies and lenses. Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are attached to the housings in the array. An array of metal pads may be bonded to the back of the array or insert molded with the housing array to form bond pads on the back of the housings. The array is singulated to form individual LED modules. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 22, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/077255 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 25/13 (20130101) H01L 25/50 (20130101) H01L 33/58 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 33/62 (20130101) H01L 33/486 (20130101) H01L 33/507 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2933/0033 (20130101) H01L 2933/0041 (20130101) H01L 2933/0058 (20130101) H01L 2933/0066 (20130101) H01L 2933/0091 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER INCORPORATED (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Corie Lynn Cobb (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A co-extrusion print head has at least one separator inlet port, at least a first, second and third series of channels arranged to receive a separator material from the separator inlet port, at least one electrode inlet port, a fourth series of channels arranged to receive an electrode material from the electrode inlet port, a first merge portion connected to the first, second, third and fourth series of channels, the merge portion positioned to receive and merge the separator material into a separator flow and the electrode material into an electrode flow, a second merge portion connected to the first merge portion, the second merge portion positioned to receive and merge the separator flows and the electrode flows, and an outlet port connected to the second merge portion, the outlet port arranged to deposit the separator and electrode materials from the merge portion as a stack on a substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, June 26, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/751826 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05C 5/02 (20130101) B05C 5/0254 (20130101) Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 47/00 (20130101) B29C 47/14 (20130101) B29C 47/025 (20130101) B29C 47/062 (20130101) B29C 47/065 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 2/145 (20130101) H01M 2/1673 (20130101) H01M 2/1686 (20130101) H01M 4/0411 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09755229 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xiao-Liang Wang (Hayward, California); Weiqiang Han (Ningbo, China PRC) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiao-Liang Wang (Hayward, California); Weiqiang Han (Ningbo, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel intermetallic materials are provided that are composed of tin and one or more additional metal(s) having a formula M(1-x)-Sn5, where −0.1≦x≦0.5, with 0.01≦x≦0.4 being more preferred and the second metallic element (M) is selected from iron (Fe), copper (Cu), cobalt (Co), nickel (Ni), and a combination of two or more of those metals. Due to low concentration of the second metallic element, the intermetallic compound affords an enhanced capacity applicable for electrochemical cells and may serve as an intermediate phase between Sn and MSn2. A method of synthesizing these intermetallic materials is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/125535 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Production and Refining of Metals; Pretreatment of Raw Materials C22B 25/04 (20130101) Alloys C22C 13/00 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/366 (20130101) H01M 4/387 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/525 (20130101) H01M 4/621 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) |
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| US 09755268 | Fleischmann et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sion Power Corporation (Tucson, Arizona); BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sion Power Corporation (Tucson, Arizona); BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sven Fleischmann (Ludwigshafen, Germany); Christine Bunte (Mainz, Germany); Yuriy V. Mikhaylik (Tucson, Arizona); Veronika G. Viner (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Gel electrolytes, especially gel electrolytes for electrochemical cells, are generally described. In some embodiments, the gel electrolyte layers comprise components a) to c). Component a) may be at least one layer of at least one polymer comprising polymerized units of: a1) at least one monomer containing an ethylenically unsaturated unit and an amido group and a2) at least one crosslinker. Component b) may be at least one conducting salt and component c) may be at least one solvent. Electrodes may comprise the components a), d) and e), wherein component a) may be at least one layer of at least one polymer as described herein. Component d) may be at least one electroactive layer and component e) may be at least one ceramic layer. Furthermore, electrochemical cells comprising component a) which may be at least one layer of at least one polymer as described herein, are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 25, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/668102 |
| ART UNIT | 1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/38 (20130101) H01M 4/136 (20130101) H01M 4/382 (20130101) H01M 4/622 (20130101) H01M 4/1397 (20130101) H01M 10/052 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 10/0565 (20130101) H01M 2300/0025 (20130101) H01M 2300/0085 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/54 (20151101) |
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| US 09755273 | DeSimone et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph M. DeSimone (Los Gatos, California); Ashish Pandya (Morrisville, North Carolina); Dominica Wong (Carrboro, North Carolina); Nitash P. Balsara (El Cerrito, California); Jacob Thelen (Berkeley, California); Didier Devaux (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Liquid or solid electrolyte compositions are described that comprise a homogeneous solvent system and an alkali metal salt dissolved in said solvent system. The solvent system may comprise a fluoropolymer, having one or two terminal carbonate groups covalently coupled thereto. Batteries containing such electrolyte compositions are also described. |
| FILED | Monday, March 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/779460 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 10/05 (20130101) H01M 10/0564 (20130101) H01M 10/0565 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 10/0569 (20130101) H01M 10/4235 (20130101) H01M 12/06 (20130101) H01M 2300/0034 (20130101) H01M 2300/0082 (20130101) |
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| US 09755329 | van der Laan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Advanced Conductor Technologies LLC (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Conductor Technologies LLC (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniël Cornelis van der Laan (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Superconducting cable connector structures include a terminal body (or other structure) onto which the tapes from the superconducting cable extend. The terminal body (or other structure) has a diameter that is sufficiently larger than the diameter of the former of the superconducting cable, so that the tapes spread out over the outer surface of the terminal body. As a result, gaps are formed between tapes on the terminal body (or other structure). Those gaps are filled with solder (or other suitable flowable conductive material), to provide a current path of relatively high conductivity in the radial direction. Other connector structures omit the terminal body. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/302194 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 12/02 (20130101) Electrically-conductive Connections; Structural Associations of a Plurality of Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting Elements; Coupling Devices; Current Collectors H01R 4/023 (20130101) H01R 4/027 (20130101) H01R 4/68 (20130101) H01R 9/0509 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01R 43/02 (20130101) H01R 43/20 (20130101) Installation of Electric Cables or Lines, or of Combined Optical and Electric Cables or Lines H02G 15/003 (20130101) H02G 15/08 (20130101) H02G 15/34 (20130101) H02G 15/046 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 40/648 (20130101) |
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| US 09755428 | Witcher et al. |
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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) | Joseph Brandon Witcher (Blackburg, Virginia); Michael V. Bredemann (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus comprising a steady state sensing circuit, a switching circuit, and a detection circuit. The steady state sensing circuit is connected to a first, a second and a third node. The first node is connected to a first device, the second node is connected to a second device, and the steady state sensing circuit causes a scaled current to flow at the third node. The scaled current is proportional to a voltage difference between the first and second node. The switching circuit limits an amount of current that flows between the first and second device. The detection circuit is connected to the third node and the switching circuit. The detection circuit monitors the scaled current at the third node and controls the switching circuit to limit the amount of the current that flows between the first and second device when the scaled current is greater than a desired level. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 15, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/854169 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Systems for Regulating Electric or Magnetic Variables G05F 1/573 (20130101) Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements H02H 3/087 (20130101) H02H 7/1222 (20130101) H02H 7/1227 (20130101) H02H 9/02 (20130101) H02H 9/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09755964 | Roberts et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Roberts (Sunnyvale, California); Michael Ignatowski (Austin, Texas); Nuwan Jayasena (Sunnyvale, California); Gabriel H. Loh (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A communication device includes a data source that generates data for transmission over a bus, and a data encoder that receives and encodes outgoing data. An encoder system receives outgoing data from a data source and stores the outgoing data in a first queue. An encoder encodes outgoing data with a header type that is based upon a header type indication from a controller and stores the encoded data that may be a packet or a data word with at least one layered header in a second queue for transmission. The device is configured to receive at a payload extractor, a packet protocol change command from the controller and to remove the encoded data and to re-encode the data to create a re-encoded data packet and placing the re-encoded data packet in the second queue for transmission. |
| FILED | Monday, September 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/859844 |
| ART UNIT | 2416 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 45/04 (20130101) H04L 45/52 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 49/9057 (20130101) H04L 69/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09756715 | Biallas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | JEFFERSON SCIENCE ASSOCIATES, LLC (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | JEFFERSON SCIENCE ASSOCIATES, LLC (Newport News, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Herman Biallas (Yorktown, Virginia); Edward Daly (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A flange joint system for SRF cavities. The flange joint system includes a set of high force spring clamps that produce high force on the simple flanges of Superconducting Radio Frequency (SRF) cavities to squeeze conventional metallic seals. The system establishes the required vacuum and RF-tight seal with minimum particle contamination to the inside of the cavity assembly. The spring clamps are designed to stay within their elastic range while being forced open enough to mount over the flange pair. Upon release, the clamps have enough force to plastically deform metallic seal surfaces and continue to a new equilibrium sprung dimension where the flanges remain held against one another with enough preload such that normal handling will not break the seal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/501920 |
| ART UNIT | 3679 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Plasma Technique; Production of Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles or of Neutrons; Production or Acceleration of Neutral Molecular or Atomic Beams H05H 7/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05H 7/20 (20130101) H05H 7/22 (20130101) H05H 2007/225 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Crucell Holland B.V. (Leiden, Netherlands) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Janssen Vaccines and Prevention B.V. (Leiden, Netherlands); Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan Barouch (Newton, Massachusetts); Peter Abbink (Winthrop, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Replicating recombinant adenovirus vectors derived from human adenovirus serotype 26 or human adenovirus serotype 35 are described. The replicating recombinant adenovirus vectors have attenuated replicative capacity as compared to that of the corresponding wild-type adenovirus. They can be used for stable expression of heterologous genes in vivo. Also described are compositions and methods of using these recombinant adenovirus vectors to induce an immune response in a subject, and vaccinate a subject against an immunogenic human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 26, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/632433 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/21 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/5256 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 2710/10052 (20130101) C12N 2710/10143 (20130101) C12N 2710/10171 (20130101) C12N 2710/10343 (20130101) C12N 2710/16143 (20130101) C12N 2710/16171 (20130101) C12N 2740/16134 (20130101) C12N 2740/16171 (20130101) |
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| US 09750814 | Procko et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik Procko (Seattle, Washington); David Baker (Seattle, Washington); Geoffrey Y. Berguig (Seattle, Washington); Patrick S. Stayton (Seattle, Washington); Yifan Song (Seattle, Washington); Stephanie Ann Berger (Seattle, Washington); Daniel-Adriano Silva (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides designed polypeptides that selectively bind to and inhibit Epstein Barr protein BHFR1, and B cell lymphoma family proteins, and are thus useful for treating Epstein Barr-related diseases and cancer. |
| FILED | Monday, September 12, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/262716 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/17 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/245 (20130101) A61K 39/395 (20130101) A61K 47/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 14/001 (20130101) C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 14/4747 (20130101) C07K 14/4748 (20130101) C07K 16/085 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0635 (20130101) C12N 5/0636 (20130101) C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2710/16211 (20130101) C12N 2710/16234 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56994 (20130101) G01N 2333/05 (20130101) |
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| US 09750836 | Stokes et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edward Brittain Stokes (Charlotte, North Carolina); Jennifer Godwin Pagan (Charlotte, North Carolina); Thomas Andrew Schmedake (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | AquiSense Technologies LLC (Erlanger, Kentucky); The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward Brittain Stokes (Charlotte, North Carolina); Jennifer Godwin Pagan (Charlotte, North Carolina); Thomas Andrew Schmedake (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for disinfecting a fluid, including: a flow cell including one or more inlet ports and one or more outlet ports, wherein the flow cell is configured to communicate a fluid containing a biological contaminant from the one or more inlet ports to the one or more outlet portions through an interior portion thereof; and one or more point radiation sources disposed about the flow cell, wherein the one or more point radiation sources are operable for delivering radiation to the biological contaminant; wherein an interior surface of the flow cell is operable for reflecting the radiation delivered to the biological contaminant by the one or more point radiation sources; and wherein the interior surface of the flow cell is operable for reflecting the radiation delivered to the biological contaminant by the one or more point radiation sources such that a radiation intensity is uniform throughout the interior portion of the flow cell. In one exemplary embodiment, the flow cell is an integrating sphere. Optionally, the system also includes a photocatalyzing material disposed on at least a portion of the interior surface of the flow cell. |
| FILED | Friday, June 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/163055 |
| ART UNIT | 1779 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 9/205 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 2209/11 (20130101) Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/325 (20130101) C02F 2201/328 (20130101) C02F 2201/3222 (20130101) C02F 2201/3225 (20130101) C02F 2201/3227 (20130101) C02F 2303/04 (20130101) C02F 2305/10 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/33 (20130101) G01N 2201/065 (20130101) |
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| US 09750851 | Kokai 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) | Lauren Elizabeth Kokai (Santa Barbara, California); Kacey Gribbin Marra (Canonsburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An implantable medical device including at least one double-walled microsphere containing an active agent, and a biodegradable polymer layer containing the at least one double-walled microsphere. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 26, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/334625 |
| ART UNIT | 1619 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 17/1128 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0024 (20130101) A61K 9/50 (20130101) A61K 9/5031 (20130101) A61K 38/185 (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 27/18 (20130101) A61L 27/18 (20130101) A61L 27/54 (20130101) A61L 27/58 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 2300/414 (20130101) A61L 2430/32 (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 37/00 (20130101) A61M 2205/04 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 13/22 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 67/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09751076 | Xiong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Haifeng Xiong (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Abhaya Datye (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Haifeng Xiong (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Abhaya Datye (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel transition element-embedded carbon materials and methods for forming the same. The embedded transition elements can be oxides or hydroxides and may include a transition metal. In some cases the transition element-embedded materials are catalytic material suitable for use in a variety of catalytic systems. According to one specific example, the transition element that is embedded is a niobia species. |
| FILED | Monday, December 02, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/094002 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 23/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09751765 | Johnson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University Of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aaron Johnson (Cincinnati, Ohio); David Mast (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for annealing multi-walled carbon nanotubes includes applying a high-frequency electromagnetic field to the carbon nanotubes and causing the carbon nanotubes to self-heat to a temperature and for a time effective to reduce defects and reduce a number of walls in some of the carbon nanotubes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 16, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/044766 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0253 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09751851 | Bassler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (Princeton, New Jersey); Bonnie L. Bassler (Princeton, New Jersey); Martin F. Semmelhack (Princeton, New Jersey); Knut Drescher (Princeton, New Jersey); Albert Siryaporn (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Laura C. Miller (Princeton, New Jersey); Colleen T. O'Loughlin (San Francisco, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bonnie L. Bassler (Princeton, New Jersey); Martin F. Semmelhack (Princeton, New Jersey); Knut Drescher (Princeton, New Jersey); Albert Siryaporn (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Laura C. Conrad-Miller (Princeton, New Jersey); Colleen T. O'Loughlin (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Antivirulence strategies to combat Pseudomonas aeruginosa, are described. One strategy encompasses synthesis of a series of compounds that inhibit the production of pyocyanin, a redox-active virulence factor produced by this pathogen. A related strategy encompasses synthesis of compounds that inhibit the two P. aeruginosa quorum-sensing receptors, LasR and RhlR, inhibit production of pyocyanin, and inhibit biofilm formation. |
| FILED | Friday, September 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 15/023279 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 45/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/75 (20130101) C07D 239/42 (20130101) C07D 239/47 (20130101) C07D 307/33 (20130101) C07D 333/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09752113 | Lipkens et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | FloDesign Sonics, Inc. (Wilbraham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | FloDesign Sonics, Inc. (Wilbraham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bart Lipkens (Hampden, Massachusetts); Erik Miller (Belchertown, Massachusetts); Benjamin Ross-Johnsrud (Wilbraham, Massachusetts); Walter M. Presz, Jr. (Wilbraham, Massachusetts); Kedar Chitale (West Hartford, Connecticut); Thomas J. Kennedy, III (Wilbraham, Massachusetts); Lauren Winiarski (Agawam, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Acoustic perfusion devices for separating biological cells from other material in a fluid mixture are disclosed. The devices include an inlet port, an outlet port, and a collection port that are connected to an acoustic chamber. An ultrasonic transducer creates an acoustic standing wave in the acoustic chamber that permits a continuous flow of fluid to be recovered through the collection port while keeping the biological cells within the acoustic chamber to be returned to the bioreactor from which the fluid mixture is being drawn. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 26, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/139187 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 17/04 (20130101) B01D 17/06 (20130101) B01D 21/283 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Generating or Transmitting Mechanical Vibrations of Infrasonic, Sonic, or Ultrasonic Frequency, for Performing Mechanical Work in General B06B 1/0644 (20130101) Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 29/10 (20130101) C12M 29/18 (20130101) C12M 33/08 (20130101) C12M 35/04 (20130101) C12M 47/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 13/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 41/0973 (20130101) |
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| US 09752175 | Bassler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bonnie L. Bassler (Princeton, New Jersey); Howard A. Stone (Princeton, New Jersey); Knut Drescher (Princeton, New Jersey); Yi Shen (Zurich, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems of measuring biofilms and/or biofilm streamers are presented. The system has at least one channel, a biofilm streamer promotion element, a fluid capable of moving along the channel, wherein the fluid has a flow driven by a controlled pressure; and a measuring element capable of measuring a flow rate of the fluid through the channel. Additionally, methods of screening for compound(s) that promote and/or inhibit biofilm and/or biofilm streamers using this system are also presented. Uses of the system, methods and identified compounds are presented for medical and/or industrial environments. |
| FILED | Monday, January 05, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/589845 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; 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 1/02 (20130101) C12Q 1/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09752219 | Ma et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TEXAS A and M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ji Ma (Bryan, Texas); Ibrahim Karaman (College Station, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of manufacturing biocompatible, corrosion resistant, self-adaptive, shape-memory titanium-based alloys by using specific ranges of elements in the alloy. Subsequent to melting, the alloy may undergo heat treating, thermo-mechanically processing, and training. Subsequent to training, the alloy has an ultra-low elastic modulus and exhibits self-adaptive, superelastic behavior. |
| FILED | Friday, November 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/442494 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/06 (20130101) A61L 31/022 (20130101) A61L 2400/16 (20130101) A61L 2430/02 (20130101) A61L 2430/12 (20130101) A61L 2430/24 (20130101) A61L 2430/38 (20130101) Alloys C22C 1/02 (20130101) C22C 14/00 (20130101) Changing the Physical Structure of Non-ferrous Metals and Non-ferrous Alloys C22F 1/006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C22F 1/183 (20130101) |
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| US 09752869 | Nayar |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shree K. Nayar (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shree K. Nayar (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems for performing machine vision using diffuse structured light comprising: a linear diffuser having an axis of diffusion; a light source that projects an illumination pattern through the linear diffuser and onto a scene, wherein the illumination pattern has transiationai symmetry in a. direction of translation that is aligned with the axis of diffusion; and an image sensor that detects tight reflecting from the scene and that outputs signals corresponding to the detected light. Methods for performing machine vision using diffuse structured light comprising: projecting an illumination pattern from a light source through a linear diffuser and onto a scene, wherein the linear diffuser has an axis of diffusion and the illumination pattern has transiationai symmetry in a direction of translation that is aligned with the axis of diffusion; and detecting light reflecting from, the scene using an image sensor that outputs signals corresponding to the detected light. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/239083 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 11/25 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09752966 | Almirall et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jose Almirall (Miami, Florida); Anamary Tarifa (Miami, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES (Miami, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jose Almirall (Miami, Florida); Anamary Tarifa (Miami, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A CMV sampling device includes a thermoelectric cooler, a vacuum pump, and one or more holders for one or more capillary microextractor of volatiles (CMV) tubes. The holder thermally contacts the thermoelectric cooler and the vacuum pump is fluidly connected to the CMV tube. The CMV device is useful for sampling of volatile organic compounds from air. The sampling can be carried out rapidly to achieve a sample within the CMV tube that may be placed into a thermal desorption unit (TDU) coupled to an inlet port for introduction of the volatiles into an analytical instrument, such as, a gas chromatograph (GC), an ion mobility spectrometer (IMS), a liquid chromatograph (LC), and/or a mass spectrometer (MS) for analysis of one or more volatiles. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 25, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/246866 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 1/405 (20130101) G01N 1/2273 (20130101) G01N 33/0047 (20130101) G01N 2001/2229 (20130101) G01N 2001/2282 (20130101) G01N 2030/062 (20130101) G01N 2030/122 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/0027 (20130101) H01J 49/0422 (20130101) H01J 49/0431 (20130101) |
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| US 09752973 | Dhaniyala et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Suresh Dhaniyala (Potsdam, New York); Meilu He (Potsdam, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CLARKSON UNIVERSITY (Potsdam, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Suresh Dhaniyala (Potsdam, New York); Meilu He (Potsdam, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for determining particle size distribution from electrical mobility spectrometry (EMS) measurements in the presence of multiply charged particles. EMS data comprising zeroth order singly-charged particle size distribution information for one or more EMS channels is obtained and fitted using a Gumbel distribution function to obtain a fit function value. The obtained fit function value is used to correct for multiply-charged particle contribution to the received EMS data. |
| FILED | Friday, January 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/169697 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/0266 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2015/0003 (20130101) |
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| US 09752983 | Pagan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, North Carolina); AquiSense Technologies LLC (Walton, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | AquiSense Technologies LLC (Erlanger, Kentucky); The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer Godwin Pagan (Charlotte, North Carolina); Edward Brittain Stokes (Charlotte, North Carolina); Paolo Batoni (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for determining the absorption coefficient and the optical density of a fluid as they relate to the wavelength of incident radiation. Specifically, ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (UV LEDs) or the like that emit ultraviolet (UV) radiation or the like are used as sources for irradiating the interior of an integrating chamber that is designed to increase the path length of the radiation through the fluid, thus enhancing the detection limits of the absorption coefficient and the optical density according to Beer's Law. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/271859 |
| ART UNIT | 1779 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 9/205 (20130101) A61L 2209/11 (20130101) Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/32 (20130101) C02F 2209/11 (20130101) C02F 2303/04 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/031 (20130101) G01N 21/33 (20130101) G01N 21/5907 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2201/065 (20130101) |
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| US 09753030 | Kumta 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) | Prashant Nagesh Kumta (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Madhumati Ramanathan (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Mitali Shirish Patil (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to carbon nanotube-containing composites as biosensors to detect the presence of target clinical markers, methods of their preparation and uses in the medical field. The invention is particularly suitable for the detection in patient biological specimens of bone markers and tissue markers. The biosensors of the invention include carbon nanotubes deposited on a substrate, gold nanoparticles deposited on the carbon nanotubes and, binder material and biomolecule deposited on the gold-coated carbon nanotubes. The biomolecule is selected to interact with the target clinical markers. The biosensor can be used as an in-situ or an ex-situ device to detect and measure the presence of the target clinical markers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/197722 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/053 (20130101) A61B 5/4504 (20130101) A61B 5/14503 (20130101) A61B 5/14546 (20130101) A61B 5/14735 (20130101) A61B 2562/12 (20130101) A61B 2562/0285 (20130101) A61B 2562/0295 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/42 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/54373 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/92 (20130101) Y10S 977/748 (20130101) |
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| US 09753131 | Adib et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fadel Adib (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Zachary Edward Kabelac (Somerville, Massachusetts); Dina Katabi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A motion tracking system makes use of a number antennas to transmit and receive radio frequency signals that are reflected from objects (e.g., people) in the environment of the system, which may include one or more rooms of a building, the interior of a vehicle, etc., and may be partitioned, for example, walls or cloth sheets. In general, the objects in the environment include both fixed objects, such as chairs, walls, etc., as well as moving objects, such as but not limited to people. The system can track people, who may be moving around a room, or may be relatively stationary, for instance, sitting in a chair of lying in bed, but may nevertheless exhibit breathing motion that may be detected. The system may detect body or limb gestures made by the people in the environment, and detect physical activity including detection of falls. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 09, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/510263 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 7/023 (20130101) G01S 7/35 (20130101) G01S 7/354 (20130101) G01S 7/415 (20130101) G01S 13/003 (20130101) G01S 13/42 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01S 13/72 (20130101) G01S 13/343 (20130101) G01S 13/584 (20130101) G01S 13/726 (20130101) G01S 13/878 (20130101) |
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| US 09753183 | Hock |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terrence Hock (Arvada, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | An aircraft expendable instrument, an apparatus for launching an aircraft expendable instrument, and a method for detecting the launch of an aircraft expendable instrument are provided. The aircraft expendable instrument launch system an aircraft expendable instrument, a launch tube, a magnetic field generator positioned in the launch tube, a magnetic field detector positioned in the aircraft expendable instrument, and an electronics electrically coupled to the magnetic field detector. The electronics operable to detect a signal provided by the magnetic field detector when the aircraft expendable instrument an air travels through a magnetic field generated by the magnetic field generator. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 03, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/636686 |
| ART UNIT | 2852 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Not Specially Adapted for a Specific Variable; Arrangements for Measuring Two or More Variables Not Covered in a Single Other Subclass; Tariff Metering Apparatus; Measuring or Testing Not Otherwise Provided for G01D 5/145 (20130101) Meteorology G01W 1/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09753219 | Nadovich |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher T. Nadovich (Easton, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Clarkson University (Potsdam, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher T. Nadovich (Easton, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and system for coupling light into and out of a photonic integrated circuit. The forked grating coupler device applies a forked grating structure to the design of the diffracting lines in an integrated optics grating coupler to make the device compatible with vortex light beams to or from free space, bulk optics, or special optical fiber that can propagate vortex modes. These diffracting lines, which can be grooves, or ridges, or a photonic metamaterial discontinuity arranged in a continuous or intermittent curve, follow the forked diffraction pattern lobes over a two-dimensional surface. The resulting device can therefore absorb or radiate a vortex beam mode at near-normal incidence to a PIC and transform that vortex mode to a transverse electric (TE) or transverse magnetic (TM) waveguide mode traveling along a slab or strip optical waveguide parallel to the surface of the IC. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 16, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/044602 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/30 (20130101) G02B 6/34 (20130101) G02B 6/124 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/1225 (20130101) G02B 6/1228 (20130101) |
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| US 09753273 | Kreit et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University Of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University Of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Kreit (Cincinnati, Ohio); John David Rudolph (Cincinnati, Ohio); Kenneth A. Dean (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for manufacturing a freestanding film having at least one population of through holes cumulatively totaling at least 1% of the film area, wherein the standard deviation of hole diameters is less than 25% and a thickness less than 25 micrometers, The film provides a carrier substrate, a photo-curable material, a release agent and deposits a photo-curable material on the substrate, selectively curing the material and leaving uncured material in the pattern of holes, dissolving away the uncured material and removing the cured material from the carrier. Methods and apparatus are described. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 02, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/676956 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 37/003 (20130101) B32B 37/18 (20130101) B32B 37/1292 (20130101) B32B 38/0004 (20130101) B32B 2315/08 (20130101) B32B 2457/20 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 26/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 1/172 (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 7/24 (20130101) |
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| US 09753349 | Wu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hui Wu (Pittsford, New York); Shang Wang (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hui Wu (Pittsford, New York); Shang Wang (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A new photonic integrated circuit in the form of an optical pulse-train generator utilizes a time-interleaved architecture. The circuit can generate multiple optical pulses sequentially from a single trigger pulse, with the timing and amplitude of each pulse determined by circuit design. The circuit has application in optical arbitrary waveform generation and ultrafast electro-optic modulation. |
| FILED | Friday, August 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/213612 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/225 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02F 2203/15 (20130101) G02F 2203/585 (20130101) |
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| US 09753441 | Huynh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vu Anh Huynh (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Emilio Frazzoli (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-based method controls a dynamical system in an uncertain environment within a bounded probability of failure. The dynamical system has a state space and a control space. The method includes diffusing a risk constraint corresponding to the bounded probability of failure into a martingale that represents a level of risk tolerance associated with the dynamical system over time. The state space and the control space of the dynamical system are augmented with the martingale to create an augmented model with an augmented state space and an augmented control space. The method may include iteratively constructing one or more Markov Decision Processes (MDPs), with each iterative MDP represents an incrementally refined model of the dynamical system. The method further includes computing a first solution based on the augmented model or, if additional time was available, based on one of the MDP iterations. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/275933 |
| ART UNIT | 2199 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 13/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G05B 23/0248 (20130101) |
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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) | Howard Jay Chizeck (Mercer Island, Washington); Fredrik Ryden (Seattle, Washington); Andrew Stewart (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, articles of manufacture, and devices related to generating six degree of freedom (DOF) haptic feedback are provided. A computing device can receive first depth data about an environment. The computing device can generate a first plurality of points from the first depth data. The computing device can determine a virtual tool, where the virtual tool is specified in terms of a translation component for the virtual tool and a rotation component for the virtual tool. The computing device can determine a first force vector between the virtual tool and the first plurality of points. The computing device can send a first indication of haptic feedback based on the first force vector. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 11, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/291060 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 34/25 (20160201) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/016 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 15/04 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/2256 (20130101) |
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| US 09754204 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Trustees of The University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of The University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shuhui Li (Northport, Alabama); Michael Fairbank (London, United Kingdom); Xingang Fu (Tuscaloosa, Alabama); Donald Wunsch (Rolla, Missouri); Eduardo Alonso (St Albans, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | An example method for controlling an AC electrical machine can include providing a PWM converter operably connected between an electrical power source and the AC electrical machine and providing a neural network vector control system operably connected to the PWM converter. The control system can include a current-loop neural network configured to receive a plurality of inputs. The current-loop neural network can be configured to optimize the compensating dq-control voltage. The inputs can be d- and q-axis currents, d- and q-axis error signals, predicted d- and q-axis current signals, and a feedback compensating dq-control voltage. The d- and q-axis error signals can be a difference between the d- and q-axis currents and reference d- and q-axis currents, respectively. The method can further include outputting a compensating dq-control voltage from the current-loop neural network and controlling the PWM converter using the compensating dq-control voltage. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/451768 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 13/027 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09754512 | Kotranza et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aaron Andrew Kotranza (Gainesville, Florida); Benjamin Chak Lum Lok (Gainesville, Florida); David Scott Lind (Martinez, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida); Augusta University Research Institute, Inc. (Augusta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aaron Andrew Kotranza (Gainesville, Florida); Benjamin Chak Lum Lok (Gainesville, Florida); David Scott Lind (Martinez, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of providing real-time feedback of task performance includes receiving sensor data from sensors coupled to an object. The sensor data is received in response to tasks performed on the object and references positional data with respect to a location on the object at which tasks are performed. The method also includes applying the sensor data to a model of performance measurements, which reflect a standard of performance. The method further includes identifying any deviations of the sensor data from data in the model, and outputting feedback in real-time. The feedback includes indicators signaling tasks performed are correctly implemented and indicators signaling tasks performed are incorrectly implemented. Corrective indicators include measures for modifying task performance to achieve an outcome that approaches or meets the standard of performance. The indicators correspond to one or more locations on the object as determined by the positional data. |
| FILED | Monday, September 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/499161 |
| ART UNIT | 3715 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Educational or Demonstration Appliances; Appliances for Teaching, or Communicating With, the Blind, Deaf or Mute; Models; Planetaria; Globes; Maps; Diagrams G09B 23/30 (20130101) G09B 23/285 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09755024 | Evans et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul G. Evans (Madison, Wisconsin); Josef W. Spalenka (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Functionalized films are provided comprising a film of ZnO or ZnO alloy disposed over a supporting substrate and a layer of organic molecules comprising terminal carboxylic acid linkage groups, wherein the organic molecules are bound to a surface of the film of ZnO or ZnO alloy via the terminal carboxylic acid linkage groups. Thin film transistors comprising the functionalized films are also provided. The functionalized films may be formed using polycrystalline ZnO and saturated fatty acids, such as stearic acid. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/161819 |
| ART UNIT | 2896 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/4146 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/1222 (20130101) H01L 29/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/7869 (20130101) H01L 29/78606 (20130101) |
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| US 09755273 | DeSimone et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph M. DeSimone (Los Gatos, California); Ashish Pandya (Morrisville, North Carolina); Dominica Wong (Carrboro, North Carolina); Nitash P. Balsara (El Cerrito, California); Jacob Thelen (Berkeley, California); Didier Devaux (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Liquid or solid electrolyte compositions are described that comprise a homogeneous solvent system and an alkali metal salt dissolved in said solvent system. The solvent system may comprise a fluoropolymer, having one or two terminal carbonate groups covalently coupled thereto. Batteries containing such electrolyte compositions are also described. |
| FILED | Monday, March 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/779460 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 10/05 (20130101) H01M 10/0564 (20130101) H01M 10/0565 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 10/0569 (20130101) H01M 10/4235 (20130101) H01M 12/06 (20130101) H01M 2300/0034 (20130101) H01M 2300/0082 (20130101) |
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| US 09755590 | Vigraham et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Baradwaj Vigraham (San Jose, California); Peter R. Kinget (Summit, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Baradwaj Vigraham (San Jose, California); Peter R. Kinget (Summit, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Low noise amplifiers (LNAs) are provided, the LNAs comprising: a common gate matching network; a capacitord; a resistord; a coild, wherein a side1 of coild is coupled to a side1 of capacitord, a side1 of resistord, and a V+ and a side2 of the coild is coupled to a side2 of capacitord, a side2 of resistord, and a network input; a capacitors; a resistors; a coils, wherein a side1 of coils is coupled to an LNA input, a side1 of capacitors, a side1 of resistors, and a network output and a side2 of coils is coupled to a side2 of the capacitors, a side2 of resistors, and ground; and an output coil that is magnetically coupled to coild and coils and having a side1 coupled to a first terminal of an LNA output and a side2 coupled to a second terminal of the LNA output. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 15/107863 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers H03F 1/565 (20130101) H03F 3/19 (20130101) H03F 3/193 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03F 3/211 (20130101) H03F 2200/78 (20130101) H03F 2200/222 (20130101) H03F 2200/294 (20130101) H03F 2200/541 (20130101) Impedance Networks, e.g Resonant Circuits; Resonators H03H 11/28 (20130101) |
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| US 09756316 | Didyk et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Piotr Krzysztof Didyk (Swiebodzice, Poland); Pitchaya Sitthi-Amorn (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Wojciech Matusik (Lexington, Massachusetts); Frederic Durand (Somerville, Massachusetts); William T. Freeman (Acton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Multi-view autostereoscopic displays provide an immersive, glasses-free 3D viewing experience, but they preferably use correctly filtered content from multiple viewpoints. The filtered content, however, may not be easily obtained with current stereoscopic production pipelines. The proposed method and system takes a stereoscopic video as an input and converts it to multi-view and filtered video streams that may be used to drive multi-view autostereoscopic displays. The method combines a phase-based video magnification and an interperspective antialiasing into a single filtering process. The whole algorithm is simple and may be efficiently implemented on current GPUs to yield real-time performance. Furthermore, the ability to retarget disparity is naturally supported. The method is robust and works transparent materials, and specularities. The method provides superior results when compared to the state-of-the-art depth-based rendering methods. The method is showcased in the context of a real-time 3D videoconferencing system. |
| FILED | Monday, November 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/531548 |
| ART UNIT | 2489 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 13/0011 (20130101) H04N 13/0018 (20130101) H04N 13/0022 (20130101) H04N 13/0402 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04N 13/0447 (20130101) |
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| US 09756579 | Zhou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ruogu Zhou (Lansing, Michigan); Guoliang Xing (Okemos, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A near field communication (NFC) system and method for controlling transmission power of the NFC system includes a NFC reader configured to transmit a radio frequency (RF) signal having an initial amount of RF power, a NFC target device in selective communication with the NFC reader, and a NFC transmission power control platform disposed between the NFC reader and the NFC target device. The platform includes a microcontroller and at least one circuit in communication with the microcontroller and configured to determine an actual amount of RF power needed to sustain near field communications between the NFC reader and the NFC target device and configured to regulate the RF signal, where the regulated RF signal contains the actual amount of RF power needed to sustain near field communications between the NFC reader and the NFC target device. |
| FILED | Friday, October 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 15/029236 |
| ART UNIT | 2649 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 7/0008 (20130101) G06K 7/10366 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 4/008 (20130101) H04W 52/246 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gordon Kim Prisk (San Diego, California); Susan Roberta Hopkins (San Diego, California); Richard Bruce Buxton (La Mesa, California); Rui Carlos Pereira De Sá (San Diego, California); Rebecca Jean Theilmann (San Diego, California); Matthew Vincent Cronin (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gordon Kim Prisk (San Diego, California); Susan Roberta Hopkins (San Diego, California); Richard Bruce Buxton (La Mesa, California); Rui Carlos Pereira De Sá (San Diego, California); Rebecca Jean Theilmann (San Diego, California); Matthew Vincent Cronin (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, devices, and systems are disclosed for implementing a fully quantitative non-injectable contrast proton MRI technique to measure spatial ventilation-perfusion (VA/Q) matching and spatial distribution of ventilation and perfusion. In one aspect, a method using MRI to characterize ventilation and perfusion in a lung includes acquiring an MR image of the lung having MR data in a voxel and obtaining a breathing frequency parameter, determining a water density value, a specific ventilation value, and a perfusion value in at least one voxel of the MR image based on the MR data and using the water density value to determine an air content value, and determining a ventilation-perfusion ratio value that is the product of the specific ventilation value, the air content value, the inverse of the perfusion value, and the breathing frequency. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/992231 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/08 (20130101) A61B 5/055 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/0813 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/5601 (20130101) G01R 33/56366 (20130101) |
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| US 09751614 | Nguyen 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) | Nhan T. Nguyen (Santa Clara, California); Kevin Wayne Reynolds (Menlo Park, California); Eric B. Ting (Moffett Field, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An aircraft has wings configured to twist during flight. Inboard and outboard propulsion devices, such as turbofans or other propulsors, are connected to each wing, and are spaced along the wing span. A flight controller independently controls thrust of the inboard and outboard propulsion devices to significantly change flight dynamics, including changing thrust of outboard propulsion devices to twist the wing, and to differentially apply thrust on each wing to change yaw and other aspects of the aircraft during various stages of a flight mission. One or more generators can be positioned upon the wing to provide power for propulsion devices on the same wing, and on an opposite wing. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 31, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/986011 |
| ART UNIT | 3667 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 3/10 (20130101) B64C 3/32 (20130101) B64C 3/52 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B64C 15/02 (20130101) B64C 2009/005 (20130101) Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 27/24 (20130101) |
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| US 09753001 | Miranda 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) | Felix A. Miranda (Olmsted Falls, Ohio); Onoufrios Theofylaktos (Avon Lake, Ohio); Nicholas Pinto (Caguas, Puerto Rico); Carl H. Mueller (Strongsville, Ohio); Javier Santos-Perez (Yauco, Puerto Rico); Michael A. Meador (Strongsville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanostructure device is provided and performs dual functions as a nano-switching/sensing device. The nanostructure device includes a doped semiconducting substrate, an insulating layer disposed on the doped semiconducting substrate, an electrode formed on the insulating layer, and at least one polymer nanofiber deposited on the electrode. The at least one polymer nanofiber provides an electrical connection between the electrode and the substrate and is the electroactive element in the device. |
| FILED | Monday, March 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/672673 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/129 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/42 (20130101) H01L 51/0575 (20130101) H01L 51/0579 (20130101) |
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| US 09753026 | Todd et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Techshot, Inc. (Greenville, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Techshot, Inc. (Greenville, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul W. Todd (Greenville, Indiana); Todd Fricke (New Albany, Indiana); Scott Moyers (New Albany, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present embodiment relates to a miniaturized single-use apparatus for the preparation and analysis of suspensions of cells for flow cytometry. The cartridge apparatus is a unique combination, in order of function, of a miniature single-drive, two-cylinder syringe pump, a dual-channel stopcock valve that also performs volumetric measuring functions, a capillary-based fluid loading and measuring method, a miniaturized multistage interfacial-surface-generator mixer, a microfluidic magnetic cell selector, branching microfluidic channels with widths determined according to function, enclosed absorption-based disposal of potentially biohazardous liquids and a design compatible with manufacturing as a single-use device. In one embodiment the device for processing and labeling samples processes and samples small volumes, such as a drop of blood. The device can exist in hand-held versions, hand-carried versions and bench-scale versions of optical reading devices for flow cytometry. |
| FILED | Monday, December 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/144446 |
| ART UNIT | 1798 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5094 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09754371 | Kateb et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); International Brain Mapping and Intra-Operative Surgical Planning Foundation (West Hollywood, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Babak Kateb (Brentwood, California); Shouleh Nikzad (Valencia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A Multimodality Brain Mapping System (MBMS), comprising one or more scopes (e.g., microscopes or endoscopes) coupled to one or more processors, wherein the one or more processors obtain training data from one or more first images and/or first data, wherein one or more abnormal regions and one or more normal regions are identified; receive a second image captured by one or more of the scopes at a later time than the one or more first images and/or first data and/or captured using a different imaging technique; and generate, using machine learning trained using the training data, one or more viewable indicators identifying one or abnormalities in the second image, wherein the one or more viewable indicators are generated in real time as the second image is formed. One or more of the scopes display the one or more viewable indicators on the second image. |
| FILED | Friday, July 31, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/815768 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0035 (20130101) A61B 5/0042 (20130101) A61B 5/055 (20130101) A61B 5/0084 (20130101) A61B 5/4064 (20130101) A61B 5/4094 (20130101) A61B 5/7203 (20130101) A61B 5/7267 (20130101) A61B 6/5247 (20130101) A61B 8/5261 (20130101) A61B 34/10 (20160201) A61B 90/37 (20160201) A61B 2090/364 (20160201) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/4808 (20130101) G01R 33/5608 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/0012 (20130101) G02B 21/367 (20130101) G02B 23/24 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/0014 (20130101) G06K 9/00147 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0014 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2207/10048 (20130101) G06T 2207/10081 (20130101) G06T 2207/10088 (20130101) G06T 2207/10092 (20130101) G06T 2207/10132 (20130101) G06T 2207/30016 (20130101) |
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| US 09755645 | Krasowski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA (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) | Michael J. Krasowski (Chagrin Falls, Ohio); Norman F. Prokop (Shaker Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A current source logic gate with depletion mode field effect transistor (“FET”) transistors and resistors may include a current source, a current steering switch input stage, and a resistor divider level shifting output stage. The current source may include a transistor and a current source resistor. The current steering switch input stage may include a transistor to steer current to set an output stage bias point depending on an input logic signal state. The resistor divider level shifting output stage may include a first resistor and a second resistor to set the output stage point and produce valid output logic signal states. The transistor of the current steering switch input stage may function as a switch to provide at least two operating points. |
| FILED | Friday, December 09, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/373689 |
| ART UNIT | 2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse Technique H03K 19/20 (20130101) H03K 19/0952 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03K 19/09403 (20130101) |
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Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 09752004 | Patel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bharat Patel (Dublin, Ohio); Yadollah Delaviz (Lewis Center, Ohio); Raymond M. Breindel (Hartiville, Ohio); Mitchell Z. Weekley (Tallmadge, Ohio); Roland R. Loh (Stow, Ohio); Manoj K. Choudhary (Reynoldsburg, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC (Toledo, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bharat Patel (Dublin, Ohio); Yadollah Delaviz (Lewis Center, Ohio); Raymond M. Breindel (Hartiville, Ohio); Mitchell Z. Weekley (Tallmadge, Ohio); Roland R. Loh (Stow, Ohio); Manoj K. Choudhary (Reynoldsburg, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Polymer extruded foams that contain cell size enlarging agents are provided. The inventive composition includes a foamable polymer material, at least one blowing agent, and at least one cell size enlarging agent. The blowing agent utilized in the inventive composition is preferably selected such that the composition has a zero ozone depletion and low global warming potential. Examples include any inorganic blowing agents and/or non-hydrogenated chlorofluorocarbons (non-HCFCs). The foamable polymer material is preferably polystyrene. The cell size enlarging agent may be chosen from ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) and/or ethylene methyl acrylate (EMA). The cell size enlarging agent permits the formation of a foam with large cell sizes that are desirable to achieve a high insulation value and to optimize the physical properties of the foamed product. In addition, the cell size enlarging agent provides an increased cell size to the foamed product without detracting from the physical and thermal properties. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/472772 |
| ART UNIT | 1768 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 9/0014 (20130101) C08J 9/0061 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08J 2325/06 (20130101) C08J 2423/00 (20130101) C08J 2471/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09752176 | Kung et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Li-yun A. Kung (Arlington, Massachusetts); Daniel Schindler (Newton, Massachusetts); Joseph Jacobson (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Li-yun A. Kung (Arlington, Massachusetts); Daniel Schindler (Newton, Massachusetts); Joseph Jacobson (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices relate to the isolation of nucleic acids of interest from within a population of nucleic acids such as libraries of nucleic acid sequences. |
| FILED | Friday, June 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/524164 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6806 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6855 (20130101) C12Q 2525/191 (20130101) C12Q 2533/107 (20130101) |
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| US 09755172 | Kazlas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | QD VISION, INC. (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | QD VISION, INC. (Foxboro, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter T. Kazlas (Sudbury, Massachusetts); Zhaoqun Zhou (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Yuhua Niu (Southborough, Massachusetts); Sang-Jin Kim (Santa Clara, California); Benjamin S. Mashford (Essendon, Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | A device including an emissive material comprising quantum dots is disclosed. In one embodiment, the device includes a first electrode and a second electrode, a layer comprising quantum dots disposed between the first electrode and the second electrodes, and a first interfacial layer disposed at the interface between a surface of the layer comprising quantum dots and a first layer in the device. In certain embodiments, a second interfacial layer is optionally further disposed on the surface of the layer comprising quantum dots opposite to the first interfacial layer. In certain embodiments, a device comprises a light-emitting device. Other light emitting devices and methods are disclosed. |
| FILED | Saturday, November 19, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/356563 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/56 (20130101) H01L 51/502 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/5004 (20130101) H01L 51/5056 (20130101) H01L 51/5072 (20130101) H01L 51/5088 (20130101) H01L 51/5092 (20130101) H01L 51/5221 (20130101) H01L 2251/301 (20130101) H01L 2251/303 (20130101) H01L 2251/552 (20130101) H01L 2251/556 (20130101) |
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National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 09753484 | Marek et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Director of the National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Victor W. Marek (Lexington, Kentucky); Andrew J. Mayer (San Diego, California); Katrina J. Ray (Odenton, Maryland); Sean A. Weaver (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A SAT filter builder and method for building a SAT filter is provided. Hash functions are utilized to map elements of a domain subset to a set of literals which are in turn used to create a set of equations. These equations are conjoined to provide a satisfiability instance. The satisfiability instance is provided to an equation solver and the solution is provided to an array to build the filter. A query tool is also provided which allows the filter built by the SAT filter to test an element for set membership. The query tool utilizes the same hash functions used by the SAT filter builder to map the element to be tested to a set of literals. These literals are used to create an equation. The solution identified by the SAT builder tool is then provided to the equation created by the query tool and set membership is determined by determining whether the equation provided by the query tool is satisfied by the solution provided by the SAT filter builder. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/120626 |
| ART UNIT | 2168 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 1/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09753526 | Ardanaz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTEL CORPORATION (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Federico Ardanaz (Hillsboro, Oregon); Jonathan M. Eastep (Portland, Oregon); Richard J. Greco (West Linn, Oregon); Ramkumar Nagappan (Chandler, Arizona); Alan B. Kyker (Winters, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus, systems, and methods provide an interface between a plurality of hardware resources of a node and a power manager. The interface is configured to define one or more resource groups to expose to the power manager for power measurement and control, assign the plurality of hardware resources to the one or more resource groups, and provide a power allowance to each resource group. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/581854 |
| ART UNIT | 2115 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 1/325 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 1/3287 (20130101) G06F 1/3293 (20130101) |
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| US 09754020 | Kosloski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | National Security Agency (Ft. George G. Meade, Maryland) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Jon T. Kosloski (Cantonsville, Maryland); John W. Thompson (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and device provide a word pair relevancy measure for a seed word-keyword pair. A set of documents is provided from which a co-occurrence matrix is created. The co-occurrence matrix is utilized to determine a transition probability and an expected search depth from which the word pair relevancy is determined. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 13/987284 |
| ART UNIT | 2154 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30684 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 17/30687 (20130101) |
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 09752185 | Boronkay et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | IntegenX Inc. (Pleasanton, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | IntegenX Inc. (Pleasanton, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allen Boronkay (San Jose, California); Stevan Bogdan Jovanovich (Livermore, California); Iuliu Ioan Blaga (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for the interfacing of microchips to various types of modules are disclosed. The technology disclosed can be used as sample preparation and analysis systems for various applications, such as DNA sequencing and genotyping, proteomics, pathogen detection, diagnostics and biodefense. Also disclosed in the present disclosure is a flow through, traveling-wave, bead-beating device which comprises a rotating pole piece, a flow through tube, and a magnetic piece. Rotation of the rotating pole piece may create a magnetic wave down the flow through tube, thereby producing sufficient acceleration of beads through the tube to disrupt or lyse target analytes flowing through the tube. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/824333 |
| 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 | Mixing, e.g Dissolving, Emulsifying, Dispersing B01F 11/0071 (20130101) B01F 13/0059 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/5025 (20130101) B01L 3/5027 (20130101) B01L 3/502715 (20130101) B01L 3/502738 (20130101) B01L 3/502753 (20130101) B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 7/52 (20130101) B01L 9/527 (20130101) B01L 2200/10 (20130101) B01L 2200/027 (20130101) B01L 2200/028 (20130101) B01L 2200/0668 (20130101) B01L 2300/087 (20130101) B01L 2300/0627 (20130101) B01L 2300/0636 (20130101) B01L 2300/0654 (20130101) B01L 2300/0803 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0864 (20130101) B01L 2300/0867 (20130101) B01L 2300/0874 (20130101) B01L 2300/0887 (20130101) B01L 2300/1822 (20130101) B01L 2300/1827 (20130101) B01L 2300/1844 (20130101) B01L 2400/0415 (20130101) B01L 2400/0421 (20130101) B01L 2400/0481 (20130101) B01L 2400/0655 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1003 (20130101) C12N 15/1013 (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 1/24 (20130101) C12Q 1/70 (20130101) C12Q 1/686 (20130101) C12Q 1/6806 (20130101) C12Q 1/6844 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2035/00514 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/25875 (20150115) Y10T 436/163333 (20150115) |
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| US 09756293 | Coulter et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | San Diego State University Research Foundation (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | San Diego State University Research Foundation (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lloyd Lawrence Arthur Coulter (Escondido, California); Christopher Lippitt (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | This application relates to techniques for obtaining wide area intermittent video (WAIV). Some embodiments disclosed herein include a method of obtaining WAIV. The method can include, for example, capturing images at a series of sensor stations having pre-determined locations along a flightline. The flightline can be repeated one or more times, where images are captured at the same sensor stations with each pass of the flightline. The captured images from the same sensor station may have replicated view geometry and may be co-registered and precisely aligned with pixel-level precision. The captured images from multiple sensor stations through time may also be displayed together based upon absolute or relative sensor station locations to create a temporal sequence of wide area intermittent video. The approach provides efficient methods for creating wide area video with reduced temporal imaging frame rates. Systems and devices for forming wide area intermittent video are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/916570 |
| ART UNIT | 2486 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 7/181 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 09751704 | Houston et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward F. Houston (Bristow, Virginia); Juan A. Roman (Fairfax, Virginia); William P. McConnell (Woodstock, Maryland); Robert E. Hume (Woodstock, Maryland); Thomas A. Hillerich (Louisville, Kentucky); Darin Dickey (Owings Mills, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An automatic stack feeder having a moveable stack or product guide is disclosed. The automatic stack feeder may be configured to receive a stack of articles and a container enclosing a stack of articles. To ensure the stack of articles is properly supported following unloading from the container, the stack guide is moveable between a first and a second position, wherein the stack guide is in contact with the stack of articles while in the first position, and not in contact with the stack when in the second position. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 22, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/189918 |
| ART UNIT | 3652 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Postal Sorting; Sorting Individual Articles, or Bulk Material Fit to be Sorted Piece-meal, e.g by Picking B07C 1/025 (20130101) Handling Thin or Filamentary Material, e.g Sheets, Webs, Cables B65H 1/025 (20130101) B65H 1/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B65H 1/263 (20130101) B65H 7/02 (20130101) B65H 2220/01 (20130101) B65H 2220/01 (20130101) B65H 2220/02 (20130101) B65H 2220/11 (20130101) B65H 2220/11 (20130101) B65H 2220/11 (20130101) B65H 2301/422542 (20130101) B65H 2301/422544 (20130101) B65H 2405/214 (20130101) B65H 2511/51 (20130101) B65H 2511/51 (20130101) B65H 2511/515 (20130101) B65H 2511/515 (20130101) B65H 2513/41 (20130101) B65H 2513/41 (20130101) B65H 2701/1916 (20130101) |
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| US 09752353 | Matthews et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Edmund Matthews (Bowie, Maryland); Joram Shenhar (Fairfax, Virginia); Terry Martin Gingell (Spotsylvania, Virginia); Donald Eugene Irwin (Fredericksburg, Virginia); William Albert Tartal (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Receptacle locking devices are disclosed. A receptacle locking device having a contact arm and a pivoting feature can be pivoted from a first, unlocked position to a second, locked position, wherein the contact arm prevents opening of the receptacle door when the locking device is in the second, locked position. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/788650 |
| ART UNIT | 3673 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Household or Table Equipment A47G 29/1245 (20130101) Locks; Accessories Therefor; Handcuffs E05B 65/0071 (20130101) E05B 65/0888 (20130101) Original (OR) Class E05B 65/0894 (20130101) Bolts or Fastening Devices for Wings, Specially for Doors or Windows E05C 19/18 (20130101) E05C 19/184 (20130101) |
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Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
| US 09755172 | Kazlas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | QD VISION, INC. (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | QD VISION, INC. (Foxboro, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter T. Kazlas (Sudbury, Massachusetts); Zhaoqun Zhou (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Yuhua Niu (Southborough, Massachusetts); Sang-Jin Kim (Santa Clara, California); Benjamin S. Mashford (Essendon, Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | A device including an emissive material comprising quantum dots is disclosed. In one embodiment, the device includes a first electrode and a second electrode, a layer comprising quantum dots disposed between the first electrode and the second electrodes, and a first interfacial layer disposed at the interface between a surface of the layer comprising quantum dots and a first layer in the device. In certain embodiments, a second interfacial layer is optionally further disposed on the surface of the layer comprising quantum dots opposite to the first interfacial layer. In certain embodiments, a device comprises a light-emitting device. Other light emitting devices and methods are disclosed. |
| FILED | Saturday, November 19, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/356563 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/56 (20130101) H01L 51/502 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/5004 (20130101) H01L 51/5056 (20130101) H01L 51/5072 (20130101) H01L 51/5088 (20130101) H01L 51/5092 (20130101) H01L 51/5221 (20130101) H01L 2251/301 (20130101) H01L 2251/303 (20130101) H01L 2251/552 (20130101) H01L 2251/556 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 09750188 | Takeda et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by The Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fumiomi Takeda (Martinsburg, West Virginia); Scott D. Wolford (Martinsburg, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The berry catcher system has an elastic catcher sheet that is sandwiched between upper and lower endless hollow rims. A protector sheet is deployed below the catcher sheet. The system is structured so that as berries are dislodged from their respective vines, the catcher sheet catches the berries as the protector sheet simultaneously protects (at least) the underside of the catcher sheet. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 11, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/823277 |
| ART UNIT | 3671 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Harvesting; Mowing A01D 46/264 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01D 2046/262 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 09755250 | O'Neill et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Audi AG (Ingolstadt, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Audi AG (Ingolstadt, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Daniel O'Neill (Manchester, Connecticut); Roopnarine Sukhram (Hartford, Connecticut); Glenn Michael Allen (Vernon, Connecticut); Christopher John Carnevale (Vernon, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | According to an illustrative embodiment, a method of making a fuel cell component includes removing material from a first plurality of locations along at least one surface on a plate to simultaneously establish a plurality of first channels on the surface. Each first channel has a length between a first end near a first edge of the surface and a second end spaced from a second, opposite edge of the surface. Material is also removed from a second plurality of locations along the surface to simultaneously establish a plurality of second channels on the surface. Each second channel has a length beginning at a first end spaced from the first edge and a second end near the second edge. Material is also removed from the surface near the first ends of at least some of the first channels to simultaneously establish an inlet portion for directing a fluid into the corresponding first channels. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/950630 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — 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 8/0258 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/56 (20151101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 09752192 | Millonig et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James H. Millonig (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Linda Brzustowicz (Madison, New Jersey); Neda Gharani (North Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Mutations located within the gene encoding the homeobox transcription factor, ENGRAILED 2 (EN2), have now been identified as molecular markers associated with susceptibility for autism and related disorders. Thus, the present invention relates to compositions in the form of diagnostic kits, primers and target sequences, for use in methods for determining the predisposition, the onset or the presence of autism spectrum disorder in a mammal. Moreover, therapeutic methods for treating a person inflicted with, or predisposed to, an autism spectrum disorder based upon modulating the level or activity of EN2 are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, March 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/790309 |
| 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) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 09750801 | Barouch et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Crucell Holland B.V. (Leiden, Netherlands) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Janssen Vaccines and Prevention B.V. (Leiden, Netherlands); Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan Barouch (Newton, Massachusetts); Peter Abbink (Winthrop, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Replicating recombinant adenovirus vectors derived from human adenovirus serotype 26 or human adenovirus serotype 35 are described. The replicating recombinant adenovirus vectors have attenuated replicative capacity as compared to that of the corresponding wild-type adenovirus. They can be used for stable expression of heterologous genes in vivo. Also described are compositions and methods of using these recombinant adenovirus vectors to induce an immune response in a subject, and vaccinate a subject against an immunogenic human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 26, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/632433 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/21 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/5256 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 2710/10052 (20130101) C12N 2710/10143 (20130101) C12N 2710/10171 (20130101) C12N 2710/10343 (20130101) C12N 2710/16143 (20130101) C12N 2710/16171 (20130101) C12N 2740/16134 (20130101) C12N 2740/16171 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09751130 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuliang Wang (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Janet Cravens Dickerson (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention are directed to novel methods for the solution-based production of silver nanowires by adaptation of the polyol process. Some embodiments of the present invention can be practiced at lower temperature and/or at higher concentration than previously described methods. In some embodiments reactants are added in solid form rather than in solution. In some embodiments, an acid compound is added to the reaction. |
| FILED | Saturday, July 26, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/341784 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 1/004 (20130101) B22F 1/0025 (20130101) B22F 1/0044 (20130101) B22F 9/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B22F 2301/255 (20130101) B22F 2998/00 (20130101) B22F 2998/00 (20130101) Production and Refining of Metals; Pretreatment of Raw Materials C22B 11/04 (20130101) Alloys C22C 5/06 (20130101) Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 7/14 (20130101) C30B 29/02 (20130101) C30B 29/605 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/896 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 09751071 | Kim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State board of higher education on behalf of OSU (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STATE OF OREGON ACTING BY AND THROUGH THE STATE BOARD OF HIGHER EDUCATION ON BEHALF OF OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ki-Joong Kim (Corvallis, Oregon); Eric Bradley Hostetler (Corvallis, Oregon); Gregory Scott Herman (Albany, Oregon); Daniel Alan Peterson (Corvallis, Oregon); Chih-hung Chang (Corvallis, Oregon); Brendan Thomas Flynn (Corvallis, Oregon); Brian Kevin Paul (Corvallis, Oregon); Richard Paul Oleksak (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for synthesizing high-quality nanocrystals via segmented, continuous flow microwave-assisted reactor were developed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/582514 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/126 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 2219/0871 (20130101) B01J 2219/0877 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 19/002 (20130101) C01B 19/007 (20130101) Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 9/08 (20130101) C01G 15/006 (20130101) C01G 19/006 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/01 (20130101) C01P 2002/72 (20130101) C01P 2002/78 (20130101) C01P 2002/80 (20130101) C01P 2002/82 (20130101) C01P 2002/84 (20130101) C01P 2004/04 (20130101) C01P 2004/51 (20130101) C01P 2004/64 (20130101) C01P 2004/80 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 15/045 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 09756519 | Walker |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher W. Walker (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher W. Walker (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One example includes a rate detector system. The rate detector system includes a plurality of energy detectors configured to receive an input signal and to filter separate respective frequency bands associated with the input signal to generate separate respective energy profiles. The system also includes an energy processing component configured to determine a symbol rate of the input signal based on a statistical evaluation of a ratio of the separate respective energy profiles. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 15, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/183407 |
| ART UNIT | 2633 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 25/0262 (20130101) H04L 67/303 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 24/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04W 72/085 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, September 05, 2017.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
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FUNDED BY
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Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
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The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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