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Patent Details for Tuesday, September 12, 2017
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| US 09757021 | Higgins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William E. Higgins (State College, Pennsylvania); Rahul Khare (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William E. Higgins (State College, Pennsylvania); Rahul Khare (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Two system-level bronchoscopy guidance solutions are presented. The first incorporates a global-registration algorithm to provide the physician with updated navigational and guidance information during bronchoscopy. The system can handle general navigation to a region of interest (ROI), as well as adverse events, and it requires minimal commands so that it can be directly controlled by the physician. The second solution visualizes the global picture of all the bifurcations and their relative orientations in advance and suggests the maneuvers needed by the bronchoscope to approach the ROI. Guided bronchoscopy results using human airway-tree phantoms demonstrate the potential of the two solutions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/362252 |
| ART UNIT | 3779 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 1/2676 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/066 (20130101) A61B 6/12 (20130101) A61B 6/583 (20130101) A61B 6/5217 (20130101) A61B 6/5247 (20130101) A61B 2090/365 (20160201) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/03 (20130101) G06K 9/00208 (20130101) G06K 9/00214 (20130101) G06K 9/6206 (20130101) |
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| US 09757022 | Mankowski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland); VOXELERON LLC (Pleasanton, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland); VOXELERON, LLC (Pleasanton, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph L. Mankowski (Severna Park, Maryland); Jonathan D. Oakley (Pleasanton, California); Daniel B. Russakoff (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a software algorithm that measures the number of corneal nerve fibers in images captured by microscopy including images from patients obtained by in vivo corneal confocal microscopy, a noninvasive technique. The present invention solves a complicated segmentation problem, by exploiting the piece wise linear nature of the nerve fibers—i.e., the nerves are made up of a lot of straight line segments. The image is split into sub-regions, where each sub-region contains nerves mostly running in the same, straight direction. Having the nerves all in straight-lines within a single 2d image region dramatically simplifies the segmentation problem. The image intensities are summed in the direction of the nerves to reduce the 2d representation to a 1d signal having pronounced peaks where the nerves are located. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 12, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/152645 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 3/13 (20130101) A61B 3/0025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 3/1025 (20130101) A61B 5/0068 (20130101) A61B 5/4029 (20130101) A61B 5/4047 (20130101) A61B 2576/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09757334 | Lovell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Amherst, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Buffalo, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Lovell (Niagara Falls, Canada); Yumiao Zhang (Buffalo, New York); Wentao Song (Brooklyn, New York); Jumin Geng (Buffalo, New York); Chulhong Kim (Ponhang-si, South Korea); Mansik Jeon (Pohang-si, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are compositions and methods relating to hydrophobic agent loaded-micelle. The micelles comprise surfactant (such as poloxamer) and have hydrophobic agents incorporated therein. The compositions substantially lack surfactant that is not associated with the micelles. The compositions are able to achieve high hydrophobic agent: surfactant molar ratio. The compositions can be used for drug delivery and imaging applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 02, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 15/322593 |
| 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) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/01 (20130101) A61K 31/23 (20130101) A61K 31/122 (20130101) A61K 31/337 (20130101) A61K 31/343 (20130101) A61K 31/355 (20130101) A61K 31/436 (20130101) A61K 31/567 (20130101) A61K 31/568 (20130101) A61K 31/592 (20130101) A61K 31/593 (20130101) A61K 31/7048 (20130101) A61K 38/13 (20130101) A61K 47/34 (20130101) A61K 49/0021 (20130101) A61K 49/0032 (20130101) A61K 49/0041 (20130101) |
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| US 09757350 | Turchi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corp. (Indianapolis, Indiana); Indiana State University (Terre Haute, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana); Indiana State University (Terre Haute, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J. Turchi (Indianapolis, Indiana); Richard Fitch (Terre Haute, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Replication protein A (RPA) is a single-strand DNA-binding protein with essential roles in DNA replication, recombination and repair. Small molecule inhibitors (SMIs) with the ability to disrupt RPA binding activity to ssDNA have been identified and assessed using both lung and ovarian cancer cell lines. Lung cancer cell lines demonstrated increased apoptotic cell death following treatment with the SMI MCI13E, with IC50 values of ˜5 μM. The A2780 ovarian cancer cell line and the p53-null lung cancer cell line HI 299 were particularly sensitive to MCI13E treatment with IC50 values below 3 μM. Sequential treatment with MCI13E and cisplatin resulted in synergism, suggesting that decreasing RPA's DNA binding activity via a SMI may disrupt RPA's role in cell cycle regulation. Thus, RPA SMIs hold the potential to be used as single agent chemotherapeutics or in combination with current chemotherapeutic regimens to increase their efficacy. |
| FILED | Friday, January 16, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/598380 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 33/24 (20130101) |
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| US 09757353 | Brosnan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Brosnan (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of inducing anesthesia in a subject by administering an effective amount of a compound or a mixture of compounds according to Formula I are provided. Compounds of Formula I are a class of halogenated alcohol derivatives with a vapor pressure of at least 0.1 atmospheres (76 mmHg) at 25° C. Compounds of Formula I can be administered by any route sufficient to achieve a desired anesthetic endpoint. |
| FILED | Friday, June 17, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/186335 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Veterinary Instruments, Implements, Tools, or Methods A61D 7/04 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/007 (20130101) A61K 31/02 (20130101) A61K 31/08 (20130101) A61K 31/025 (20130101) A61K 31/045 (20130101) A61K 31/341 (20130101) A61K 31/351 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/357 (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 16/01 (20130101) |
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| US 09757354 | Patterson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Earl Patterson (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Herbert Tsukasa Nagasawa (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Robert Vince (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Alexandre Monteil (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions and methods for treating cyanide poisoning. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 08, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/177150 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/16 (20130101) A61K 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 31/198 (20130101) A61K 31/198 (20130101) A61K 31/385 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/385 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09757375 | Tomkinson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan E. Tomkinson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Helen Xi Chen (Austin, Texas); Barbara Dziegielewska (Charlottesville, Virginia); Alexander D. Mackerell (Baltimore, Maryland); Shijun Zhong (Catonsville, Maryland); Gerald M. Wilson (Middle River, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for treating cancer using compounds that inhibit human DNA ligases. Methods for using compounds that inhibit human DNA ligases to provide insights into the reaction mechanisms of human DNA ligases, for example to identify the human DNA ligase involved in different DNA repair pathways. Screening methods for compounds that inhibit human DNA ligases. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 03, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/729642 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/41 (20130101) A61K 31/165 (20130101) A61K 31/166 (20130101) A61K 31/175 (20130101) A61K 31/255 (20130101) A61K 31/341 (20130101) A61K 31/397 (20130101) A61K 31/404 (20130101) A61K 31/423 (20130101) A61K 31/428 (20130101) A61K 31/433 (20130101) A61K 31/436 (20130101) A61K 31/495 (20130101) A61K 31/505 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/553 (20130101) A61K 31/4184 (20130101) A61K 31/4245 (20130101) A61K 31/4439 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 5/10 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/30 (20130101) C07D 235/28 (20130101) C07D 257/04 (20130101) C07D 263/58 (20130101) C07D 267/18 (20130101) C07D 271/12 (20130101) C07D 277/74 (20130101) C07D 285/14 (20130101) C07D 307/68 (20130101) C07D 401/12 (20130101) C07D 407/12 (20130101) Combinatorial Chemistry; Libraries, e.g Chemical Libraries C40B 30/02 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/64 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/16 (20130101) G06F 19/706 (20130101) |
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| US 09757379 | Bruick 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) | Richard K. Bruick (Dallas, Texas); Charles G. Caldwell (Dallas, Texas); Doug E. Frantz (Boerne, Texas); Kevin H. Gardner (Carrollton, Texas); John B. MacMillan (Dallas, Texas); Thomas H. Scheuermann (Richardson, Texas); Uttam K. Tambar (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is a method of inhibiting heterodimerization of HIF-2α to HIF1β (ARNT) comprising binding certain small molecules to the HIF-2α PAS-B domain cavity but not to HIF1α and inhibiting HIF-2α heterodimerization to HIF1β (ARNT) but not inhibiting HIF1α heterodimerization to HIF1β (ARNT). Those certain small molecules are also referenced synonymously as HIF2-HDI and HIF2α heterodimerization inhibitors and also simply as certain small molecules. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/442485 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/136 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/4184 (20130101) A61K 31/4192 (20130101) A61K 31/4245 (20130101) |
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| US 09757386 | Medina-Kauwe |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lali K. Medina-Kauwe (Porter Ranch, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are compositions comprising a targeted corrole nanoparticle; and an acceptable excipient. Also disclosed are compositions comprising a targeted corrole nanoparticle; and an acceptable carrier. Further, disclosed herein are methods of imaging a condition in a subject, comprising providing a composition comprising a targeted corrole nanoparticle; administering an effective amount of the targeted corrole nanoparticle to the subject; and imaging the condition in the subject. In addition, disclosed herein are methods of treating cancer in a subject, comprising providing a composition comprising a targeted corrole nanoparticle; and administering a therapeutically effective dosage of the targeted corrole nanoparticle to the subject. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/272610 |
| 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 9/5115 (20130101) A61K 31/555 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 33/24 (20130101) A61K 33/26 (20130101) A61K 33/32 (20130101) A61K 49/106 (20130101) A61K 49/1818 (20130101) |
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| US 09757407 | Munger 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) | Josh Munger (Rochester, New York); Bryson Bennett (Metuchen, New Jersey); Thomas Shenk (Princeton, New Jersey); Joshua Rabinowitz (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Alterations of certain metabolite concentrations and fluxes that occur in response to viral infection are described. Host cell enzymes in the involved metabolic pathways are selected as targets for intervention; i.e., to restore metabolic flux to disadvantage viral replication, or to further derange metabolic flux resulting in “suicide” of viral-infected cells (but not uninfected cells) in order to limit viral propagation. While any of the enzymes in the relevant metabolic pathway can be selected, pivotal enzymes at key control points in these metabolic pathways are preferred as candidate antiviral drug targets. Inhibitors of these enzymes are used to reverse, or redirect, the effects of the viral infection. Drug candidates are tested for antiviral activity using screening assays in vitro and host cells, as well as in animal models. Animal models are then used to test efficacy of candidate compounds in preventing and treating viral infections. The antiviral activity of enzyme inhibitors is demonstrated. |
| FILED | Monday, December 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/977424 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/15 (20130101) A61K 31/22 (20130101) A61K 31/44 (20130101) A61K 31/52 (20130101) A61K 31/53 (20130101) A61K 31/122 (20130101) A61K 31/194 (20130101) A61K 31/221 (20130101) A61K 31/336 (20130101) A61K 31/337 (20130101) A61K 31/341 (20130101) A61K 31/341 (20130101) A61K 31/351 (20130101) A61K 31/357 (20130101) A61K 31/365 (20130101) A61K 31/365 (20130101) A61K 31/381 (20130101) A61K 31/403 (20130101) A61K 31/405 (20130101) A61K 31/522 (20130101) A61K 31/675 (20130101) A61K 31/706 (20130101) A61K 31/4545 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) A61K 31/7076 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09757410 | Moon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joong Ho Moon (Weston, Florida); Rajeshkumar Manian (Miami, Florida); Eladio Mendez (Miami, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES (Miami, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joong Ho Moon (Weston, Florida); Rajeshkumar Manian (Miami, Florida); Eladio Mendez (Miami, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel monomer design for the synthesis of PPE-type polymers containing conjugated segments of well-defined length connected by flexible linkers under Sonogashira reaction conditions is presented. The resulting polymers retain the photophysical properties of a fully conjugated PPE. The extent of incorporation of the flexible units along the backbone is governed by the comonomer feed ratio and can be varied in a statistically predictable fashion. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 19, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/000232 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/728 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/728 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 37/0072 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 61/12 (20130101) C08G 61/121 (20130101) C08G 69/42 (20130101) C08G 2261/12 (20130101) C08G 2261/18 (20130101) C08G 2261/19 (20130101) C08G 2261/74 (20130101) C08G 2261/94 (20130101) C08G 2261/126 (20130101) C08G 2261/143 (20130101) C08G 2261/312 (20130101) C08G 2261/415 (20130101) C08G 2261/1424 (20130101) C08G 2261/3328 (20130101) C08G 2261/5222 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 5/08 (20130101) C08L 5/08 (20130101) C08L 5/10 (20130101) C08L 65/00 (20130101) C08L 65/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09757426 | Munger |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven D. Munger (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of using of guanylin family peptides to induce food or odor preferences in mammals are provided, along with methods for inducing feeding responses in mammals, and methods of controlling pest populations of mammals, such as rodents. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/768357 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Catching, Trapping or Scaring of Animals; Apparatus for the Destruction of Noxious Animals or Noxious Plants A01M 25/004 (20130101) 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 25/004 (20130101) A01N 25/004 (20130101) A01N 35/08 (20130101) A01N 43/16 (20130101) A01N 63/00 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 7/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09757428 | Miller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Benjamin L. Miller (Penfield, New York); Anna De Benedetto (Rochester, New York); Lisa A. Beck (Rochester, New York); Elizabeth A. Anderson (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin L. Miller (Penfield, New York); Anna De Benedetto (Rochester, New York); Lisa A. Beck (Rochester, New York); Elizabeth A. Anderson (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | According to aspects illustrated herein, there is provided an agent that transiently disrupts claudin-1 within tight junctions. The agent includes a peptide having at least 40% polar, uncharged amino acid residues and a self-assembled β-sheet secondary structure. According to aspects illustrated herein, there is also provided a transepithelial drug and vaccine formulations, as well as isolated peptides, pharmaceutical compositions, and transdermal delivery devices. Also described herein are methods of disrupting epithelial barrier and methods of administering the transepithelial formulations described herein. |
| FILED | Monday, August 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/912098 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0014 (20130101) A61K 9/0043 (20130101) A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/17 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/44 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/39 (20130101) A61K 39/145 (20130101) A61K 2039/54 (20130101) A61K 2039/543 (20130101) A61K 2039/55516 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2760/16034 (20130101) C12N 2760/16071 (20130101) C12N 2760/16134 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 113/12007 (20130101) |
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| US 09757440 | Bzik et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David J. Bzik (Grantham, New Hampshire); Barbara A. Fox (Grantham, New Hampshire); Steven N. Fiering (Orange, New Hampshire); Jose R. Conejo-Garcia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Jason Baird (Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Bzik (Grantham, New Hampshire); Barbara A. Fox (Grantham, New Hampshire); Steven N. Fiering (Orange, New Hampshire); Jose R. Conejo-Garcia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Jason Baird (Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides attenuated Toxoplasma gondii mutants for use as vaccines in the prevention or treatment of cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/276577 |
| 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 39/002 (20130101) A61K 39/015 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/522 (20130101) A61K 2039/523 (20130101) A61K 2039/585 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/36 (20130101) C12N 9/90 (20130101) C12N 9/93 (20130101) |
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| US 09757448 | Weiner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Howard Weiner (Brookline, Massachusetts); Dan Frenkel (Rehovot, Israel); Veronica Lifshitz (Tel Aviv, Israel) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Ramot At Tel Aviv University Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Howard Weiner (Brookline, Massachusetts); Dan Frenkel (Rehovot, Israel); Veronica Lifshitz (Tel Aviv, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for treating and reducing risk of cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) using nasal vaccination with a proteosome adjuvant. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/579817 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/739 (20130101) A61K 38/164 (20130101) A61K 39/39 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09757468 | Esko et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey D. Esko (San Diego, California); Yitzhak Tor (San Diego, California); Wenyong Tong (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates to intranasal administration of conjugates comprising guanidinylated aminoglycosides (“guanidinoglycosides”) and a polypeptide (e.g., an enzyme, antibody, or polypeptide growth factor). For example, such administration methods are useful for delivering a polypeptide to the brain and/or cerebrospinal fluid. Such methods are useful for treating a lysosomal storage disease through intranasal administration of a conjugate comprising one or more guanidinoglycosides and an enzyme useful for treating a lysosomal storage disease. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/774257 |
| ART UNIT | 1655 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0043 (20130101) A61K 38/46 (20130101) A61K 38/47 (20130101) A61K 39/39533 (20130101) A61K 47/48092 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/48115 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 302/01076 (20130101) C12Y 310/01001 (20130101) |
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| US 09757470 | Narasimhaswamy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manjunath Narasimhaswamy (El Paso, Texas); Premlata Shankar (El Paso, Texas); Priti Kumar (Hamden, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods useful for delivering agents to target cells or tissues, for example nerve cells and other cells in the central nervous system. The compositions and methods are useful for delivering agents across the blood-brain barrier. The present invention also provides methods of using the compositions provided by the present invention to deliver agents, for example therapeutic agents for the treatment of neurologically related disorders. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/265939 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/48238 (20130101) A61K 47/48246 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/48315 (20130101) A61K 47/48323 (20130101) A61K 47/48815 (20130101) A61K 47/48969 (20130101) A61K 49/0056 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09757475 | Mirkin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); David A. Giljohann (Chicago, Illinois); Weston L. Daniel (Evanston, Illinois); Joshua I. Cutler (Evanston, Illinois); Ke Zhang (Chicago, Illinois); Dan Zheng (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure is directed to compositions comprising templated nanoconjugates and methods of their use. |
| FILED | Friday, September 25, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/865848 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/489 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/48861 (20130101) A61K 49/0002 (20130101) A61K 49/0093 (20130101) A61K 51/1251 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) B82Y 15/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/88 (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 1/6876 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/588 (20130101) |
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| US 09757563 | Roy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (San Fernando, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arup Roy (Valencia, California); Robert Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Mark Humayan (Glendale, California); Kelly McClure (Simi Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method of improving the persistence of electrical neural stimulation, and specifically a method of improving the persistence of an image supplied to a retina, or visual cortex, through a visual prosthesis. A continuously stimulated retina, or other neural tissue, will desensitize after a time period in the range of 20 to 150 seconds. However, an interruption of the stimulation on the order of a few milliseconds will restore the retinal sensitivity without the user perceiving the interruption, or with the user barely perceiving the interruption. |
| FILED | Monday, October 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/880830 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/36046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09757587 | Deisseroth et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Karl Deisseroth (Palo Alto, California); Feng Zhang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Viviana Gradinaru (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl Deisseroth (Palo Alto, California); Feng Zhang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Viviana Gradinaru (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Stimulation of target cells using light, e.g., in vivo or in vitro, is implemented using a variety of methods and devices. One example involves a vector for delivering a light-activated NpHR-based molecule comprising a nucleic acid sequence that codes for light-activated NpHR-based molecule and a promoter. Either a high expression of the molecule manifests a toxicity level that is less than about 75%, or the light-activated NpHR-based proteins are expressed using at least two NpHR-based molecular variants. Each of the variants characterized in being useful for expressing a light-activated NpHR-based molecule that responds to light by producing an inhibitory current to dissuade depolarization of the neuron. Other aspects and embodiments are directed to systems, methods, kits, compositions of matter and molecules for ion pumps or for controlling inhibitory currents in a cell (e.g., in in vivo and in vitro environments). |
| FILED | Friday, August 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/208419 |
| 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 | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 67/0333 (20130101) A01K 2217/052 (20130101) A01K 2227/703 (20130101) A01K 2267/0356 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 48/005 (20130101) A61K 48/0058 (20130101) A61K 48/0083 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 5/062 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 5/0613 (20130101) A61N 5/0622 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/00 (20130101) C07K 14/195 (20130101) C07K 14/215 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 13/00 (20130101) C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 2710/10343 (20130101) C12N 2710/16643 (20130101) C12N 2740/16043 (20130101) C12N 2740/16071 (20130101) C12N 2750/14143 (20130101) C12N 2830/002 (20130101) |
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| US 09757699 | Ahmed et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Ahmed (State College, Pennsylvania); Stephen Benkovic (State College, Pennsylvania); Tony Jun Huang (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatuses and methods for generating a chemical gradient within a flow channel include providing at least one bubble support structure within the flow channel. A bubble support structure helps maintain a bubble at a predetermined location in flow channel when a fluid flow passes therethrough. Oscillations are induced in the bubble using acoustic waves, which may be provided by a piezoelectric transducer located proximate the flow channel. Two or more inlets provide fluids of different chemical compositions into the flow channel, and bubble oscillations are used to generate a dynamically controllable mixing process. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/092104 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Mixing, e.g Dissolving, Emulsifying, Dispersing B01F 11/02 (20130101) B01F 11/0283 (20130101) B01F 13/0059 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01F 15/0404 (20130101) B01F 15/00493 (20130101) |
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| US 09757727 | Manalis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott R. Manalis (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Robert John Kimmerling (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Shijie Nigel Chou (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Vivian C. Hecht (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Hydrodynamic Trap Array. The array includes a serpentine bypassing channel including a plurality of trapping pockets disposed therein, the trapping pockets including a ramp entry portion to decrease flow velocity orthogonal to the trapping pocket to increase trapping efficiency. The relative fluid resistances of the trapping pockets and the serpentine bypassing channel are selected such that a slight majority of the flow is diverted to one of the trapping pockets. A pair of microfluidic bypass channels flank the array of traps allowing independent control of upstream and downstream pressures on each side of the array, thereby decoupling flow magnitude in the bypass channels from flow across the trapping pockets. |
| FILED | Monday, May 18, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/714452 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502761 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 2200/0668 (20130101) B01L 2300/12 (20130101) B01L 2300/087 (20130101) B01L 2300/163 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0883 (20130101) B01L 2400/084 (20130101) B01L 2400/0487 (20130101) |
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| US 09757774 | O'Connell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MyExposome, Inc. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MyExposome, Inc. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven O'Connell (Corvallis, Oregon); Kim Anderson (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A method includes receiving a wearable monitoring device worn by a user and information indicative of an amount of time the wearable monitoring device was exposed to an environment; extracting one or more compounds from the wearable monitoring device; analyzing the extracted compounds; and, based on the analysis of the extracted compounds and the information indicative of the amount of time, determining information indicative of the user's exposure to the compounds in the environment. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 15, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/597817 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Cleaning in General; Prevention of Fouling in General B08B 3/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B08B 7/0071 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/2273 (20130101) G01N 30/72 (20130101) G01N 33/24 (20130101) G01N 2001/2276 (20130101) G01N 2030/8813 (20130101) |
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| US 09758453 | Hartwig et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Hartwig (Champaign, Illinois); Hiroyuki Morimoto (Higashi-ku, Japan); Patrick Fier (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition, consisting essentially of copper, a fluoroalkyl group, and a ligand comprising at least one group-V donor. The molar ratio of copper to the fluoroalkyl group is approximately 1. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/919557 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 31/0231 (20130101) B01J 31/0235 (20130101) B01J 31/0244 (20130101) General Methods of Organic Chemistry; Apparatus Therefor C07B 39/00 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 17/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 17/263 (20130101) C07C 17/263 (20130101) C07C 17/263 (20130101) C07C 22/08 (20130101) C07C 22/08 (20130101) C07C 25/13 (20130101) C07C 29/32 (20130101) C07C 29/32 (20130101) C07C 33/46 (20130101) C07C 37/11 (20130101) C07C 41/30 (20130101) C07C 41/30 (20130101) C07C 41/30 (20130101) C07C 41/48 (20130101) C07C 41/48 (20130101) C07C 43/225 (20130101) C07C 43/313 (20130101) C07C 43/1742 (20130101) C07C 45/63 (20130101) C07C 45/68 (20130101) C07C 45/68 (20130101) C07C 45/68 (20130101) C07C 47/55 (20130101) C07C 49/80 (20130101) C07C 67/293 (20130101) C07C 67/293 (20130101) C07C 67/343 (20130101) C07C 67/343 (20130101) C07C 69/63 (20130101) C07C 69/76 (20130101) C07C 201/12 (20130101) C07C 201/12 (20130101) C07C 205/11 (20130101) C07C 209/68 (20130101) C07C 209/68 (20130101) C07C 211/52 (20130101) C07C 231/12 (20130101) C07C 231/12 (20130101) C07C 233/15 (20130101) C07C 253/30 (20130101) C07C 253/30 (20130101) C07C 255/50 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/08 (20130101) C07D 209/10 (20130101) C07D 213/26 (20130101) C07D 213/61 (20130101) C07D 215/12 (20130101) C07D 215/18 (20130101) C07D 239/22 (20130101) C07D 239/54 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 1/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09758472 | Blackwell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Helen E. Blackwell (Middleton, Wisconsin); Christine E. McInnis (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Non-lactone carbocyclic and heterocyclic antagonists and agonists of bacterial quorum sensing. Pharmaceutical composition containing antagonists. Methods employing antagonists and agonists for modulation of quorum sensing. Compounds are exemplified by those of formula: A-[Z]n-L1-[Y]q-W-[V]m-L2-HG, where A is an acyclic aliphatic group, and HG is an optionally substituted phenyl group. Compounds include those where m and n are both 0, W is —NH—, Y is present and is —CO—CH2—CO—, and L1 and L2 independently are —[CH2]p1— and —[CH2]p2—, where p1 and p2, independently, are 0 or integers ranging from 1-10. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/104235 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 37/22 (20130101) A01N 37/42 (20130101) A01N 43/08 (20130101) A01N 43/10 (20130101) A01N 43/38 (20130101) A01N 43/56 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/22 (20130101) A61K 31/164 (20130101) A61K 31/165 (20130101) A61K 31/167 (20130101) A61K 31/221 (20130101) A61K 31/245 (20130101) A61K 31/341 (20130101) A61K 31/381 (20130101) A61K 31/404 (20130101) A61K 31/405 (20130101) A61K 31/415 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 233/11 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 233/51 (20130101) C07C 235/34 (20130101) C07C 235/80 (20130101) C07C 323/62 (20130101) C07C 2101/08 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/18 (20130101) C07D 231/40 (20130101) C07D 307/52 (20130101) C07D 333/36 (20130101) C07D 409/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09758481 | Toretsky et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey A. Toretsky (Silver Spring, Maryland); Aykut Uren (Rockville, Maryland); Milton Lang Brown (Brookville, Maryland); Yali Kong (Centerville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Peptides and compounds are provided that function as EWS-FLI1 protein inhibitors. The peptides and compounds have utility in the treatment of Ewing's sarcoma family of tumors. Also provided are methods of preparing the compounds and assays for identifying inhibitors of EWS-FLI1 protein. |
| FILED | Friday, April 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/696005 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/404 (20130101) A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/38 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 401/06 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) C07K 7/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09758507 | Silverman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard B. Silverman (Winnetka, Illinois); Fengtian Xue (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A chiral synthesis of pyrrolidine compounds en route to selective neuronal nitric oxide synthase inhibitors, and representative inhibitor compounds heretofore unattainable. |
| FILED | Monday, December 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/967871 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 401/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 401/12 (20130101) C07D 493/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09758522 | Gray et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathanael Gray (Boston, Massachusetts); Ting Xie (Boston, Massachusetts); Sang Min Lim (San Diego, California); Pasi A. Janne (Needham, Massachusetts); Craig M. Crews (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are bifunctional small molecules of Formula (I): or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein M represents a small organic molecule which binds, covalently or non-covalently, a kinase, such as Her3 protein kinase; L1 represents a linker; and RH represents a hydrophobic group. An example of a compound of Formula (I) is a compound of Formula (II): Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of Formula (I) or (II) and methods of using such compounds for treating proliferative diseases. |
| FILED | Friday, October 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/436657 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/519 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 487/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09758533 | Tuttle 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) | Susan Bane Tuttle (Vestal, New York); Ozlem Dilek (Istanbul, Turkey); Kamalika Mukherjee (Binghamton, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A reaction method comprising combining a carbonyl-substituted arylboronic acid or ester and an α-effect amine in aqueous solution at a temperature between about −5 C to 55 C, and a pH between 2 and 8 to produce an adduct. A process is also provided comprising: contacting a composition having a boron atom bonded to a sp2 hybridized carbon, the boron having at least one labile substituent, conjugated with a cis-carbonyl, with an α-effect amine, in an aqueous medium for a time sufficient to form an adduct, which may proceed to further products. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 23, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/694744 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/69 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 35/10 (20130101) C01B 35/146 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/02 (20130101) C07F 5/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 21/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/765 (20130101) C07K 16/40 (20130101) C07K 16/2863 (20130101) |
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| US 09758542 | Wirth et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mary J. Wirth (West Lafayette, Indiana); Yimin Hua (Arlington, Massachusetts); Zhaorui Zhang (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A coating of a random copolymer of acrylamide and a second monomer, e.g. glycidoxylmethacrylate, for a silica surface is described. The coating is applied to chromatographic support structures having silica based surfaces. The coating is functionalized to produce protein chromatography matrices that are particularly useful for extracting trace amounts of biomarker molecules from biological samples. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 01, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/355595 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 15/3809 (20130101) B01D 15/3823 (20130101) B01D 15/3828 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/103 (20130101) B01J 20/281 (20130101) B01J 20/283 (20130101) B01J 20/285 (20130101) B01J 20/327 (20130101) B01J 20/3204 (20130101) B01J 20/3276 (20130101) B01J 20/28016 (20130101) Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 1/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 1/22 (20130101) |
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| US 09758551 | Wu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tzyy-Choou Wu (Stevenson, Maryland); Chien-Fu Hung (Timonium, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tzyy-Choou Wu (Stevenson, Maryland); Chien-Fu Hung (Timonium, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Nucleic acids encoding a chimeric or fusion polypeptide which polypeptide comprises a first domain comprising a translocation polypeptide; and a second domain comprising at least one antigenic peptide are disclosed. The preferred translocation polypeptide is a bacterial toxin translocation polypeptide, such as domain II of Pseudomonas aeruginosa exotoxin A (ETA(dII)). Such nucleic acids, expression vectors thereof, and cells expressing these vectors are used as vaccine compositions in a method for enhancing an antigen specific immune response, a method of increasing the numbers of CD8+ CTLs specific for a selected desired antigen in a subject, or a method of inhibiting the growth of a tumor in a subject. |
| FILED | Monday, March 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/412206 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 48/00 (20130101) A61K 2039/53 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/21 (20130101) C07K 14/35 (20130101) C07K 14/475 (20130101) C07K 14/535 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2710/20022 (20130101) |
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| US 09758555 | Greene et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lloyd A. Greene (Larchmont, New York); James Angelastro (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for treating and/or preventing tumors and/or promoting apoptosis in a neoplastic cell comprising contacting the neoplastic cell with an cell-penetrating dominant-negative ATF5 (“CP-d/n-ATF5”), wherein the CP-d/n-ATF5 is capable of inhibiting ATF5 function and/or activity. |
| FILED | Friday, January 27, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/418247 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/495 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/4705 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09758556 | Greene et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lloyd A. Greene (Larchmont, New York); James Angelastro (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for treating and/or preventing tumors and/or promoting apoptosis in a neoplastic cell comprising contacting the neoplastic cell with an cell-penetrating dominant-negative ATF5 (“CP-d/n-ATF5”), wherein the CP-d/n-ATF5 is capable of inhibiting ATF5 function and/or activity. |
| FILED | Friday, January 27, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/418311 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/495 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/4705 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09758563 | Weiss |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Weiss (Moreland Hills, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Weiss (Moreland Hills, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An insulin analog comprises a B-chain polypeptide incorporating a chlorinated phenylalanine. The chlorinated phenylalanine may be located at position B24. The chlorinated phenylalanine may be para-monochloro-phenylalanine. The analog may be of a mammalian insulin, such as human insulin. A nucleic acid encodes such an insulin analog. The chlorinated insulin analogs retain significant activity. A method of treating a patient comprises administering a physiologically effective amount of the insulin analog or a physiologically acceptable salt thereof to a patient. Chlorine substitution-based stabilization of insulin may reduce fibrillation and thereby enhance the treatment of diabetes mellitus in regions of the developing world lacking refrigeration. |
| FILED | Monday, June 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/745859 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/62 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09758566 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhirui Wang (Malden, Massachusetts); David H. Sachs (Newton, Massachusetts); Christene A. Huang (Dover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to recombinant CTLA-4 proteins, e.g., soluble CTLA-4 or CTLA-4 fusion toxins, and methods for making and using them. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/389013 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/21 (20130101) C07K 14/34 (20130101) C07K 14/70521 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2319/21 (20130101) C07K 2319/55 (20130101) |
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| US 09758567 | Lin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Herbert Y. Lin (Watertown, Massachusetts); Jodie Babitt (Newton, Massachusetts); Clifford J. Woolf (Newton, Massachusetts); Tarek A. Samad (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a hemojuvelin (HJV) fusion protein (e.g., a human HJV.Fc) protein, polynucleotides and vectors encoding such proteins, and methods for making such proteins. Also provided are methods for treating iron-related disorders which include administration of a HJV fusion protein to a patient in need thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, October 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/518225 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/71 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2319/30 (20130101) C07K 2319/40 (20130101) |
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| US 09758569 | Raines et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ronald T. Raines (Madison, Wisconsin); Matthew D. Shoulders (Madison, Wisconsin); Jonathan A. Hodges (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald T. Raines (Madison, Wisconsin); Matthew D. Shoulders (Madison, Wisconsin); Jonathan A. Hodges (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel collagen mimics are disclosed with a tripeptide unit having the formula (Xaa-Yaa-Gly)n, where one of the positions Xaa or Yaa is a bulky, non-electron withdrawing proline derivative. By substituting a proline derivative at either the Xaa or Yaa position in the native collagen helix, the stability of the helix is increased due solely to steric effects relative to prior known collagen-related triple helices. Methods are also disclosed for making the novel collagen mimics. |
| FILED | Friday, May 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/807270 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 5/0821 (20130101) C07K 14/001 (20130101) C07K 14/78 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09758570 | Lim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ProThera Biologics, Inc. (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ProThera Biologics, Inc. (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yow-Pin Lim (Providence, Rhode Island); Edward S. Sirya (New York, New York); Peter Brne (Ilirska Bistrica, Slovenia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally provides processes for purification of Inter-alpha inhibitor proteins (IαIp) and compositions thereof from blood. |
| FILED | Monday, September 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/859705 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/811 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09758572 | Schwarz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward M. Schwarz (Rochester, New York); Mark A. Sullivan (Fairport, New York); John L. Daiss (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a monoclonal antibody that binds specifically to a Staphylococcus aureus glucosaminidase and inhibits in vivo growth of S. aureus. Also disclosed are monoclonal antibody binding portions, recombinant or hybridoma cell lines, pharmaceutical compositions containing the monoclonal antibody or binding portions thereof, and methods of treating S. aureus infection and osteomyelitis, and methods for introducing an orthopedic implant into a patient using the monoclonal antibody, binding portion, or pharmaceutical composition of the present invention. |
| FILED | Monday, October 03, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/283901 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/40 (20130101) C07K 16/1271 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/24 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) C07K 2317/56 (20130101) C07K 2317/73 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) |
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| US 09758586 | Rader et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christoph Rader (Jupiter, Florida); Jiahui Yang (Kunming, China PRC) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christoph Rader (Jupiter, Florida); Jiahui Yang (Kunming, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to antibodies having specificity for human ROR1, compositions thereof, and methods for using such antibodies, including in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders associated with aberrant ROR1 expression. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/990977 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 16/2857 (20130101) C07K 16/2869 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/55 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) C07K 2317/624 (20130101) C07K 2317/732 (20130101) C07K 2317/734 (20130101) |
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| US 09758589 | Kohrt 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) | Holbrook Kohrt (San Francisco, California); Roch Houot (Rennes, France); Ronald Levy (Stanford, California); Arash Ash Alizadeh (San Mateo, California); Matthew J. Goldstein (Hillsborough, California); James Torchia (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided to enhance the efficacy of antibody therapy directed to tumor cells. |
| FILED | Friday, November 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/542233 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/507 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/32 (20130101) C07K 16/2863 (20130101) C07K 16/2878 (20130101) C07K 16/2887 (20130101) C07K 16/2893 (20130101) C07K 16/2896 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/3015 (20130101) C07K 16/3023 (20130101) C07K 16/3046 (20130101) C07K 16/3069 (20130101) C07K 2317/21 (20130101) C07K 2317/24 (20130101) C07K 2317/73 (20130101) C07K 2317/75 (20130101) C07K 2317/732 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57492 (20130101) G01N 2333/70578 (20130101) |
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| US 09758591 | Kipps et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas James Kipps (San Diego, California); Jian Yu (San Diego, California); Bing Cui (San Diego, California); Liguang Chen (San Diego, California); George F. Widhopf, II (San Diego, California); Charles Prussak (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions and a method of inhibiting metastasis using anti-ROR1 antibodies or antigen binding fragments, ROR1 binding peptides and ROR1 vaccines. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/422519 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0011 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) A61K 2039/6081 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/435 (20130101) C07K 16/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/34 (20130101) C07K 2317/73 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) |
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| US 09758597 | Bowman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher Bowman (Boulder, Colorado); Diana Leung (Tuscaloosa, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a Body Corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Bowman (Boulder, Colorado); Diana Leung (Tuscaloosa, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods of reducing shrinkage stress in cross-linked polymerized materials by combining an addition-fragmentation chain transfer additive with a resin system prior to polymerization. The methods of the invention can improve the performance of conventional resin systems by reducing the shrinkage stress without significantly degrading the mechanical properties of the polymerized material. The shrinkage stress in the crosslinked polymeric materials produced by the methods of the invention may be from 25% to 75% of that of a control material produced by polymerization of the resin system alone to the same conversion. |
| FILED | Monday, August 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/567706 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 2/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08F 2/38 (20130101) C08F 2/48 (20130101) C08F 2222/102 (20130101) C08F 2222/1013 (20130101) C08F 2438/03 (20130101) |
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| US 09758671 | Becker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthew Becker (Stow, Ohio); Robert A. Weiss (Akron, Ohio) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Becker (Stow, Ohio); Robert A. Weiss (Akron, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a covalently crosslinked hydrogel comprising the strain-promoted reaction product of an 8-member cycloalkyne functionalized polyalkylene glycol and a multi-arm glycerol exytholate triazide and methods for making them. Because the precursor materials can be manipulated without causing crosslinking, provided the strain threshold is not reached, these hydrogels permit mechanical control over when (and where) cross linking occurs and are easier to use than prior strain-activated or temperature-activated systems. These novel hydrogels do not require a catalyst to cross link, thus avoiding the biocompatibility problems common to many catalysts. Nor is the crosslinking process affected by the presence of catalysts or other substances, which have interfered with crosslinking in known strain induced hydrogels. Because of their crosslinking reaction kinetics, these novel hydrogels can encapsulate and transport highly sensitive cells and other biological additives and have no known toxic byproducts. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 31, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/418507 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/06 (20130101) A61K 47/34 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 65/325 (20130101) C08G 65/33389 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 71/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08L 71/02 (20130101) C08L 89/00 (20130101) C08L 2205/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09758724 | Collins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | INTELLIGENT MATERIAL SOLUTIONS, INC. (Princeton, New Jersey); THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTELLIGENT MATERIAL SOLUTIONS, INC. (Princeton, New Jersey); THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PHILADELPHIA (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua E. Collins (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Howard Y. Bell (Princeton, New Jersey); Xingchen Ye (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Christopher Bruce Murray (Montgomery County, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Monodisperse particles having: a single pure crystalline phase of a rare earth-containing lattice, a uniform three-dimensional size, and a uniform polyhedral morphology are disclosed. Due to their uniform size and shape, the monodisperse particles self assemble into superlattices. The particles may be luminescent particles such as down-converting phosphor particles and up-converting phosphors. The monodisperse particles of the invention have a rare earth-containing lattice which in one embodiment may be an yttrium-containing lattice or in another may be a lanthanide-containing lattice. The monodisperse particles may have different optical properties based on their composition, their size, and/or their morphology (or shape). Also disclosed is a combination of at least two types of monodisperse particles, where each type is a plurality of monodisperse particles having a single pure crystalline phase of a rare earth-containing lattice, a uniform three-dimensional size, and a uniform polyhedral morphology; and where the types of monodisperse particles differ from one another by composition, by size, or by morphology. In a preferred embodiment, the types of monodisperse particles have the same composition but different morphologies. Methods of making and methods of using the monodisperse particles are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/878424 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Books; Book Covers; Loose Leaves; Printed Matter Characterised by Identification or Security Features; Printed Matter of Special Format or Style Not Otherwise Provided For; Devices for Use Therewith and Not Otherwise Provided For; Movable-strip Writing or Reading Apparatus B42D 15/00 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Compounds of the Metals Beryllium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium, Thorium, or of the Rare-earth Metals C01F 17/0031 (20130101) C01F 17/0043 (20130101) C01F 17/0062 (20130101) C01F 17/0087 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/52 (20130101) C01P 2002/54 (20130101) C01P 2002/72 (20130101) C01P 2002/84 (20130101) C01P 2004/04 (20130101) C01P 2004/10 (20130101) C01P 2004/11 (20130101) C01P 2004/16 (20130101) C01P 2004/20 (20130101) C01P 2004/32 (20130101) C01P 2004/40 (20130101) C01P 2004/42 (20130101) C01P 2004/52 (20130101) C01P 2004/62 (20130101) C01P 2004/64 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/7773 (20130101) C09K 11/7791 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 7/08 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2933 (20150115) |
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| US 09758763 | Conboy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Irina M. Conboy (El Sobrante, California); Michael J. Conboy (El Sobrante, California); Hanadie Yousef (Berkeley, California); David V. Schaffer (Danville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for somatic cell proliferation as well as increasing viability of somatic cells are provided. The compositions include heparin binding protein isolated from a medium conditioned by growth of pluripotent stem cells, such as, human embryonic stem cells, human embryonic carcinoma cells. The methods include contacting a somatic cell with a heparin binding protein composition for a sufficient period of time to provide for enhanced proliferation and/or viability of the somatic cell as compared to the absence of the heparin binding protein composition. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/288117 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0619 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 5/0659 (20130101) C12N 2501/91 (20130101) C12N 2502/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09758776 | Schellenberger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Amunix Operating Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Amunix Operating Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Volker Schellenberger (Palo Alto, California); Willem P. Stemmer (Los Gatos, California); Nathan C. Geething (Santa Clara, California); Wayne To (Fremont, California); Joshua Silverman (Sunnyvale, California); Chia-wei Wang (Milpitas, California); Benjamin Spink (San Carlos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions comprising factor IX coagulation factors linked to extended recombinant polypeptide (XTEN), isolated nucleic acids encoding the compositions and vectors and host cells containing the same, and methods of making and using such compositions in treatment of coagulation factor-related diseases, disorders, and conditions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 24, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/163603 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/001 (20130101) C07K 2319/31 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/644 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/70 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 304/21022 (20130101) |
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| US 09758780 | Xiao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ming Xiao (Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania); Justin Sibert (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ming Xiao (Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania); Justin Sibert (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to innovative means of generating sequence-linked DNA fragments and subsequent uses of such linked DNA fragments for de novo haplotype-resolved whole genome mapping and massively parallel sequencing. In various embodiments described herein, the methods of the invention relate to methods of generating paired-end nucleic acid fragment sharing common linker nucleic acid sequences using a nicking endonuclease, a T7 endonuclease, a restriction enzyme, or a transposase, methods of analyzing the nucleotides sequences from the linked-paired-end sequenced fragments, and methods of de novo whole genome mapping. Thus, the methods of this invention allow establishing sequence contiguity across the whole genome, and achieving high-quality, low-cost de novo assembly of complex genomes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 02, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/728223 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1068 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6806 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/18 (20130101) |
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| US 09758781 | Smith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard J. H. Smith (Iowa City, Iowa); Seiji Shibata (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides in certain embodiments a method of treating autosomal dominant non-syndromic hearing loss (ADNSHL) in a patient in need thereof comprising: (a) identifying a mutation in an ADNSHL-causing gene, (b) preparing a ADNSHL therapeutic miRNA, and (c) administering to the patient a pharmaceutical composition comprising the ADNSHL therapeutic miRNA and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/850740 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/00 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (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 2310/141 (20130101) C12N 2320/30 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) |
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| US 09758788 | Littleton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Naprogenix, Inc. (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Naprogenix, Inc. (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. Littleton (Lexington, Kentucky); Deane Falcone (Lexington, Kentucky); Dustin Brown (Lexington, Kentucky); Samir Gunjan (Lexington, Kentucky); Trent Rogers (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain embodiments of the invention provide methods of selecting a mutant plant cell that overproduces a compound that activates an estrogen receptor (ER) beta but does not activate an ER alpha. |
| FILED | Friday, August 07, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/821461 |
| ART UNIT | 1662 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/04 (20130101) C12N 15/01 (20130101) C12N 15/821 (20130101) C12N 15/8205 (20130101) C12N 15/8209 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/8243 (20130101) |
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| US 09758809 | Levey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | EMORY UNIVERSITY (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allan I Levey (Atlanta, Georgia); Junmin Peng (Memphis, Tennessee); James Lah (Avondale Estates, Georgia); Bing Bai (Memphis, Tennessee); Chadwick McKinley Hales (Atlanta, Georgia); Ping-Chung Chen (Memphis, Tennessee); Nicholas Thomas Seyfried (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates to methods of diagnosing neurodegenerative disease by analyzing proteins or protein expression profiles in a subject, or RNA or RNA expression profiles in a subject. In certain embodiments, the disclosure contemplates the diagnosis of preclinical or symptomatic stages of Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment, or chronic traumatic encephalopathy by identification of components of U1 small nuclear ribonucleoproteins or fragments thereof which are capable of forming cytoplasmic tangle-like structures. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/199456 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — 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 1/68 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6875 (20130101) G01N 33/6896 (20130101) G01N 2560/00 (20130101) G01N 2800/2821 (20130101) |
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| US 09758820 | Poritz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark Aaron Poritz (Salt Lake City, Utah); Anne Jeannette Blaschke-Bonkowsky (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BioFire Diagnostics, LLC (Salt Lake City, Utah); University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Aaron Poritz (Salt Lake City, Utah); Anne Jeannette Blaschke-Bonkowsky (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and containers are provided for identifying a species, illustratively a bacterial species. Illustrative methods comprise amplifying various genes in the nucleic acid from the bacterial species in a single reaction mixture using pairs of outer first-stage primers designed to hybridize to generally conserved regions of the respective genes to generate a plurality of first-stage amplicons, dividing the reaction mixture into a plurality of second-stage reactions, each using a unique pair of second-stage primers, each pair of second-stage primers specific for a target bacterial species or subset of bacterial species, detecting which of the second-stage reactions amplified, and identifying the bacterial species based on second-stage amplification. Methods for determining antibiotic resistance are also provided, such methods also using first-stage primers for amplifying genes known to affect antibiotic resistance a plurality of the second-stage reactions wherein each pair of second-stage primers specific for a specific gene for conferring antibiotic resistance. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/594478 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/527 (20130101) B01L 3/50273 (20130101) B01L 7/525 (20130101) B01L 2200/16 (20130101) B01L 2200/141 (20130101) B01L 2200/0647 (20130101) B01L 2300/0654 (20130101) B01L 2300/0829 (20130101) B01L 2400/043 (20130101) B01L 2400/0478 (20130101) B01L 2400/0481 (20130101) B01L 2400/0487 (20130101) B01L 2400/0655 (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 1/686 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/689 (20130101) C12Q 2525/15 (20130101) C12Q 2549/119 (20130101) C12Q 2600/16 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) |
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| US 09758826 | Mullen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yoko Mullen (Sherman Oaks, California); Masato Mitsuhashi (Irvine, California); Keiko Omori (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | City of Hope (Duarte, California); Hitachi Chemical Research Center, Inc. (Irvine, California); Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yoko Mullen (Sherman Oaks, California); Masato Mitsuhashi (Irvine, California); Keiko Omori (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | p53-upregulated modulator of apoptosis (PUMA) is a biomarker associated with islet cell health. If PUMA is low, islet cells are typically healthy. If PUMA is high, islet cells are typically unhealthy or dying. PUMA may be measured by either measuring its nucleic or amino acid. PUMA mRNA may be induced by TNF-α stimulation in a time- and dose-dependent manner and β cell apoptosis is induced through a mitochondrial pathway. TNF-α significantly inhibited glucose-induced preproinsulin precursor mRNA synthesis. Such β cell stress signaling in human islets indicates overall state of islet health and, ultimately, the risk of onset and/or degree of severity of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus. |
| FILED | Friday, June 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/163326 |
| 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 1/6883 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/507 (20130101) G01N 2333/525 (20130101) G01N 2333/4748 (20130101) |
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| US 09758828 | Suthanthiran et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Manikkam Suthanthiran (Scarsdale, New York); Ruchuang Ding (Beechurst, New York); Joseph E. Schwartz (East Setauket, New York); Abraham Shaked (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York); The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manikkam Suthanthiran (Scarsdale, New York); Ruchuang Ding (Beechurst, New York); Joseph E. Schwartz (East Setauket, New York); Abraham Shaked (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for prevention and treatment of kidney transplant rejection are described that involve determination, analysis and computation of a 3-gene molecular signature of levels of specific RNAs (IP-10 mRNA, CD3ε mRNA, and 18S rRNA) in urinary sample cells. The methods and devices described herein are diagnostic and prognostic of acute cellular rejection in kidney allografts. |
| FILED | Friday, January 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/170132 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/52 (20130101) A61K 31/56 (20130101) A61K 31/365 (20130101) A61K 31/436 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) |
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| US 09758832 | Fink et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John K. Fink (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Shirley Rainier (Sylvania, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods for research, diagnostic, drug screening, and therapeutic applications related to paroxysmal dystonic choreoathetosis and related conditions. In particular, the present invention provides mutations in the myofibrillogenesis regulator 1 (MR-1) gene associated with such conditions. |
| FILED | Friday, July 15, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/211169 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/4702 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6893 (20130101) G01N 33/6896 (20130101) G01N 2800/2835 (20130101) |
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| US 09758833 | Meltzer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen J. Meltzer (Lutherville, Maryland); Yulan Cheng (Ellicott City, Maryland); Zhe Jin (Towson, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen J. Meltzer (Lutherville, Maryland); Yulan Cheng (Ellicott City, Maryland); Zhe Jin (Towson, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates, e.g., to methods for predicting a subject's risk for developing esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) or high-grade dysplasia (HGD), comprising determining in a sample from the subject the methylation levels of transcriptional promoter regions of various combinations of, among other genes, (a) cadherin 13, H-cadherin (heart) (CDH13); (b) tachykinin-1 (TAC1); (c) nel-like 1 (NELL1); (d) A-kinase anchoring protein 12 (AKAP12); (e) somatostatin (SST); (f) transmembrane protein with EGF-like and two follistatin-like domains (HPP1); (g) CDKN2a, cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 2a (p16); or (h) runt-related transcription factor 3 (RUNX3). |
| FILED | Thursday, February 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/918438 |
| 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 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/154 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) |
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| US 09758835 | Goel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Baylor Research Institute (Dallas, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor Research Institute (Dallas, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ajay Goel (Dallas, Texas); Yuji Toiyama (Mie, Japan); C. Richard Boland (Dallas, Texas); Yoshinaga Okugawa (Mie, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments provide methods and compositions related to detecting neoplasia in ulcerative colitis patients by detection and analysis of the methylation state of miR-1, -9, -124, miR-137 and/or miR-34b/c in samples from UC patients. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/777414 |
| 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 | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 1/31 (20130101) A61B 10/04 (20130101) A61B 10/007 (20130101) A61B 10/0038 (20130101) A61B 10/0051 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/154 (20130101) |
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| US 09758838 | Flavell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | YALE UNIVERSITY (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | YALE UNIVERSITY (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Flavell (Guilford, Connecticut); Noah Palm (New Haven, Connecticut); Marcel de Zoete (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to the identification of secretory antibody-bound bacteria in the microbiota in a subject that influence the development and progression of inflammatory diseases and disorders. Thus, the invention relates to compositions and methods for detecting and identifying the constituents of a subject's microbiota, methods of modifying the constituents of the microbiota, and methods for treating inflammatory diseases and disorders in a subject in need thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/775328 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/741 (20130101) A61K 39/0208 (20130101) A61K 2035/115 (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 1/689 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6806 (20130101) C12Q 1/6806 (20130101) C12Q 2537/159 (20130101) C12Q 2563/131 (20130101) C12Q 2565/113 (20130101) |
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| US 09759544 | An et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. (Dublin, Canada); University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. (Dublin, California); University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lin An (Walnut Creek, California); Ruikang Wang (Bellevue, Washington); Utkarsh Sharma (Dublin, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for reducing motion artifacts in optical coherence tomography (OCT) angiography images is disclosed. The method is applied to the intensity or complex OCT data prior to applying the motion contrast analysis and involves determining sub-pixel level shifts between at least two B-scans repeated approximately at the same location and applying the sub-pixel level shifts to the B-scans to be able to correct for motion and accurately determine motion contrast signal. A preferred embodiment includes the use of 2D cross correlations to register a series of B-scans in both the axial (z-) and lateral (x-) dimensions and a convolution approach to achieve sub-pixel level frame registration. |
| FILED | Friday, August 07, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/821535 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 3/0025 (20130101) A61B 3/102 (20130101) Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 9/02077 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01B 9/02085 (20130101) G01B 9/02091 (20130101) |
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| US 09759657 | Kiesel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER INCORPORATED (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Kiesel (Palo Alto, California); Joerg Martini (San Francisco, California); Michael I. Recht (San Carlos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Analysis of a system and/or sample involves the use of absorption-encoded micro beads. Each type of micro bead is encoded with amounts of the k dyes in a proportional relationship that is different from proportional relationships of the k dyes of others of the n types of absorption-encoded micro beads. A system and/or a sample can be analyzed using information obtained from detecting the one or more types of absorption-encoded micro beads. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/576156 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/0046 (20130101) B01J 2219/00545 (20130101) B01J 2219/00576 (20130101) B01J 2219/00587 (20130101) B01J 2219/00596 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6428 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/6452 (20130101) G01N 33/542 (20130101) G01N 33/582 (20130101) G01N 33/583 (20130101) G01N 33/54313 (20130101) G01N 2021/6419 (20130101) G01N 2021/6421 (20130101) G01N 2021/6441 (20130101) |
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| US 09759723 | Sindhi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rakesh Sindhi (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Chethan Ashokkumar (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods for diagnosing or predicting B-cell rejection in a subject. In one example, for assessing transplant rejection, the method includes determining an antigen presenting index by comparing uptake of a donor antigen to uptake of a reference antigen in a biological sample obtained from the subject. In another example, for assessing GVHD, the method includes determining an antigen presenting index by comparing uptake of a recipient antigen to uptake of a reference antigen in a biological sample obtained from the subject. |
| FILED | Monday, March 21, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/076443 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/582 (20130101) G01N 33/56972 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/56977 (20130101) G01N 2333/70578 (20130101) G01N 2333/70596 (20130101) G01N 2800/50 (20130101) G01N 2800/245 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter S. Nelson (Seattle, Washington); Yu Sun (Lynnwood, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides methods for determining the effectiveness of a cancer therapy, as well as methods for increasing the effectiveness of that therapy and determining a prognosis for a patient receiving that therapy. |
| FILED | Friday, August 02, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/418789 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/531 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) C12Q 2600/118 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57434 (20130101) G01N 33/57488 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/57492 (20130101) G01N 2800/44 (20130101) G01N 2800/52 (20130101) G01N 2800/60 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hee-Sun Han (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Wenhao Liu (Somerville, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hee-Sun Han (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Wenhao Liu (Somerville, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In this invention, polyimidazole ligands (PILs) incorporating pendant imidazole moieties for nanocrystal binding and either sulfonatebetaine, carboxybetaine, or phosphocholinebetaine moieties for water-solubilization have been developed. Greatly enhanced stability of nanocrystals (both over time and in wide pH range) was achieved by incorporating multi-dentate imidazole moieties which provide strong coordination of the ligand to the nanocrystal surface and prevent aggregation of nanocrystals. Synthesis of betaine PILs was developed by modifying the synthesis of recently developed PEG containing poly imidazole ligands (PEG PILs). These nanocrystals are compact, water soluble, and biocompatible. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/069458 |
| 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 49/0041 (20130101) A61K 49/0054 (20130101) A61K 49/0067 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/588 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09759729 | Sylvester 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) | Karl G. Sylvester (Los Altos, California); Guozhong Tao (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC) biomarkers, NEC biomarker panels, and methods for obtaining a NEC signature for a sample are provided. Also provided are methods, compositions, and kits for making a Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC) assessment of an individual, e.g. for diagnosing NEC in a patient, prognosing NEC in a patient, treating an NEC patient, etc. These methods find use in a number of applications, such as diagnosing and treating infants who are suspected of having NEC, intestinal perforation (IP), or sepsis. |
| FILED | Monday, June 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/406098 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6893 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/75 (20130101) G01N 2333/515 (20130101) G01N 2333/91085 (20130101) G01N 2800/52 (20130101) G01N 2800/067 (20130101) |
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| US 09759731 | Everson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a Body Corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Thomas Everson (Englewood, Colorado); Steve Mark Helmke (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A Disease Severity Index (DSI) is provided for assessment of chronic liver disease in a patient using non-invasive liver function test results. A DSI was derived from non-invasive liver function test results based on hepatic blood flow. The DSI is used in methods for prediction of clinical outcomes, prediction of response to antiviral treatment, and assessment of progression of chronic liver diseases. Non-invasive methods to diagnose three distinct categories of patients with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC) are provided. The methods can be used to diagnose PSC patients as Slow Progressors, Moderate Progressors and Rapid Progressors. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 03, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/729987 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/575 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/92 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2800/085 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/345 (20130101) G06F 19/3431 (20130101) |
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| US 09759794 | Bydder et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark Bydder (San Diego, California); Gavin Hamilton (San Diego, California); Michael Middleton (San Diego, California); Claude Sirlin (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Bydder (San Diego, California); Gavin Hamilton (San Diego, California); Michael Middleton (San Diego, California); Claude Sirlin (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques, apparatus and systems are described for using parameters including chain length, number of double bonds and number of double-double bonds of a complex, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-generated fat spectrum to determine the composition and properties of fat and to perform various diagnostic functions. In one aspect, a method using MRI to characterize fat includes acquiring a magnetic resonance (MR) image that includes MR data from a target, determining fat characterization parameters based on the acquired MR data, and using the determined fat characterization parameters to produce a relationship between regions of fat and/or water in the MR image. |
| FILED | Monday, November 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/883273 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/055 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/34 (20130101) G01R 33/54 (20130101) G01R 33/4828 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09760760 | Lloyd et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | H. LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC. (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc. (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Cassidy Cridlin Lloyd (Tampa, Florida); Marilyn M. Bui (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Digital pathology is the concept of capturing digital images from glass microscope slides in order to record, visualize, analyze, manage, report, share and diagnose pathology specimens. The present disclosure is directed to a desktop slide scanner, which enables pathologists to scan slides at a touch of a button. Included is a workflow for reliable imaging, diagnosis, quantification, management, and sharing of a digital pathology library. Also disclosed herein is an analysis framework that provides for pattern recognition of biological samples represented as digital images to automatically quantitatively score normal cell parameters against disease state parameters. The framework provides a pathologist with an opportunity to see what the algorithm is scoring, and simply agree, or edit the result. This framework offers a new tool to enhance the precision of the current standard of care. |
| FILED | Friday, January 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/373277 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5091 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/321 (20130101) G06F 19/366 (20130101) G06F 19/3431 (20130101) G06F 19/3443 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00134 (20130101) G06K 9/00147 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/80 (20170101) G06T 2207/10056 (20130101) G06T 2207/30068 (20130101) |
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| US 09760979 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nan-kuei Chen (Cary, North Carolina); Allen W. Song (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) using a new technique, termed multiplexed sensitivity encoding with inherent phase correction, is proposed and implemented to effectively and reliably provide high-resolution segmented DWI and DTI, where shot-to-shot phase variations are inherently corrected, with high quality and SNR yet without relying on reference and navigator echoes. The performance and consistency of the new technique in enabling high-quality DWI and DTI are confirmed experimentally in healthy adult volunteers on 3 Tesla MRI systems. This newly developed technique should be broadly applicable in neuroscience investigations of brain structure and function. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/928757 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/055 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/543 (20130101) G01R 33/5611 (20130101) G01R 33/5615 (20130101) G01R 33/5616 (20130101) G01R 33/56341 (20130101) G01R 33/56509 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 5/001 (20130101) G06T 5/002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 7/0012 (20130101) G06T 7/20 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 7/18 (20130101) |
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| US 09761060 | Black et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Black (Tuebingen, Germany); Oren Freifeld (Menlo Park, California); Alexander W. Weiss (Shirley, Massachusetts); Matthew M. Loper (Tuebingen, Germany); Peng Guan (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are computer-readable devices, systems and methods for generating a model of a clothed body. The method includes generating a model of an unclothed human body, the model capturing a shape or a pose of the unclothed human body, determining two-dimensional contours associated with the model, and computing deformations by aligning a contour of a clothed human body with a contour of the unclothed human body. Based on the two-dimensional contours and the deformations, the method includes generating a first two-dimensional model of the unclothed human body, the first two-dimensional model factoring the deformations of the unclothed human body into one or more of a shape variation component, a viewpoint change, and a pose variation and learning an eigen-clothing model using principal component analysis applied to the deformations, wherein the eigen-clothing model classifies different types of clothing, to yield a second two-dimensional model of a clothed human body. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 03, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/342225 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/48 (20130101) G06K 9/00214 (20130101) G06K 9/00369 (20130101) G06K 9/6209 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 3/40 (20130101) G06T 3/60 (20130101) G06T 7/13 (20170101) G06T 7/0089 (20130101) G06T 7/149 (20170101) G06T 11/60 (20130101) G06T 15/20 (20130101) G06T 17/00 (20130101) G06T 17/20 (20130101) G06T 19/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2207/20081 (20130101) G06T 2207/30196 (20130101) G06T 2210/16 (20130101) |
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| US 09761789 | Omenetto et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Fiorenzo Omenetto (Lexington, Massachusetts); David Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Tuna Yucel (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tufts University (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fiorenzo Omenetto (Lexington, Massachusetts); David Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Tuna Yucel (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods and compositions for preparing silk-based piezoelectric materials and methods for increasing piezoelectricity in silk matrices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/876472 |
| ART UNIT | 1744 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/3785 (20130101) A61N 1/36578 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/02 (20130101) H01L 41/45 (20130101) H01L 41/193 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 41/1132 (20130101) Electric Machines Not Otherwise Provided for H02N 2/18 (20130101) |
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| US 09757379 | Bruick 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) | Richard K. Bruick (Dallas, Texas); Charles G. Caldwell (Dallas, Texas); Doug E. Frantz (Boerne, Texas); Kevin H. Gardner (Carrollton, Texas); John B. MacMillan (Dallas, Texas); Thomas H. Scheuermann (Richardson, Texas); Uttam K. Tambar (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is a method of inhibiting heterodimerization of HIF-2α to HIF1β (ARNT) comprising binding certain small molecules to the HIF-2α PAS-B domain cavity but not to HIF1α and inhibiting HIF-2α heterodimerization to HIF1β (ARNT) but not inhibiting HIF1α heterodimerization to HIF1β (ARNT). Those certain small molecules are also referenced synonymously as HIF2-HDI and HIF2α heterodimerization inhibitors and also simply as certain small molecules. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/442485 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/136 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/4184 (20130101) A61K 31/4192 (20130101) A61K 31/4245 (20130101) |
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| US 09757689 | Olson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Midwest Energy Emissions Corp. (Lewis Center, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edwin S. Olson (Grand Forks, North Dakota); Michael J. Holmes (Thompson, North Dakota); John Henry Pavlish (East Grand Forks, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A promoted activated carbon sorbent is described that is highly effective for the removal of mercury from flue gas streams. The sorbent comprises a new modified carbon form containing reactive forms of halogen and halides. Optional components may be added to increase reactivity and mercury capacity. These may be added directly with the sorbent, or to the flue gas to enhance sorbent performance and/or mercury capture. Mercury removal efficiencies obtained exceed conventional methods. The sorbent can be regenerated and reused. Sorbent treatment and preparation methods are also described. New methods for in-flight preparation, introduction, and control of the active sorbent into the mercury contaminated gas stream are described. |
| FILED | Friday, June 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/318270 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/10 (20130101) B01D 53/64 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 2253/102 (20130101) B01D 2257/602 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/20 (20130101) B01J 20/22 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 95/901 (20130101) |
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| US 09757820 | De Souza et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Urban J. De Souza (Rochester Hills, Michigan); Frederick W. Rhoads (Holly, Michigan); Justin Hanson (Dearborn Heights, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Urban J. De Souza (Rochester Hills, Michigan); Frederick W. Rhoads (Holly, Michigan); Justin Hanson (Dearborn Heights, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A fixture assembly for welding a plurality of stator wire end pairs may include an anvil, a movable clamp configured to translate between an unclamped state and a clamped state, a first grounding electrode, and a second grounding electrode. The movable clamp may be configured to urge the plurality of stator wire ends against the anvil when in the clamped state. The moveable clamp includes a separator feature that generally extends toward the anvil. Each of the first grounding electrode and second grounding electrodes may be configured to translate between a clamped state and an unclamped state. When in the clamped state, each of the first and second grounding electrodes is configured to urge a pair of the plurality of stator wire end pairs against the separator feature. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/479728 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Soldering or Unsoldering; Welding; Cladding or Plating by Soldering or Welding; Cutting by Applying Heat Locally, e.g Flame Cutting; Working by Laser Beam B23K 37/0435 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B23K 2201/38 (20130101) |
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| US 09757866 | Dilday, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel R. Dilday, Jr. (Plainfield, Illinois); Roberto Reyes (Ottawa, Illinois); Stanley Weidmeyer (Glen Ellyn, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel R. Dilday, Jr. (Plainfield, Illinois); Roberto Reyes (Ottawa, Illinois); Stanley Weidmeyer (Glen Ellyn, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a system for preventing fluid exchange between the interior and exterior of containment enclosures such as process-, hazard-, and research-enclosure systems generally, gloveboxes, containment systems, isolation systems, confinement systems, cleanrooms, negative air systems, and positive air system areas while simultaneously providing material transfer into and out of the enclosures. The invention also provides a method for transporting material into or out of a containment structure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/948953 |
| ART UNIT | 3679 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 1/02 (20130101) Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 21/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Protection Against X-radiation, Gamma Radiation, Corpuscular Radiation or Particle Bombardment; Treating Radioactively Contaminated Material; Decontamination Arrangements Therefor G21F 7/047 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49826 (20150115) |
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| US 09757936 | Lacy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Paul Lacy (Greer, South Carolina); Srikanth Chandrudu Kottilingam (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Christopher Donald Porter (Greenville, South Carolina); David Edward Schick (Greenville, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments of the disclosure include a turbomachine component. and methods of forming such a component. Some embodiments include a turbomachine component including: a first portion including at least one of a stainless steel or an alloy steel; and a second portion joined with the first portion, the second portion including a nickel alloy including an arced cooling feature extending therethrough, the second portion having a thermal expansion coefficient substantially similar to a thermal expansion coefficient of the first portion, wherein the arced cooling feature is located within the second portion to direct a portion of a coolant to a leakage area of the turbomachine component. |
| FILED | Monday, December 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/584442 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 3/1055 (20130101) B22F 5/009 (20130101) B22F 7/062 (20130101) B22F 7/062 (20130101) B22F 2203/05 (20130101) B22F 2999/00 (20130101) B22F 2999/00 (20130101) Additive Manufacturing, i.e Manufacturing of Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects by Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration or Additive Layering, e.g by 3-d Printing, Stereolithography or Selective Laser Sintering B33Y 10/00 (20141201) B33Y 80/00 (20141201) Original (OR) Class Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/225 (20130101) F01D 11/24 (20130101) F01D 25/12 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2230/31 (20130101) F05D 2230/51 (20130101) F05D 2240/11 (20130101) F05D 2240/81 (20130101) F05D 2260/202 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 10/295 (20151101) |
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| US 09758046 | Harper et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason Harper (Plainfield, Illinois); Daniel S. Dobrzynski (Justice, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A smart charging system for charging a plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) includes an electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) configured to supply electrical power to the PEV through a smart charging module coupled to the EVSE. The smart charging module comprises an electronic circuitry which includes a processor. The electronic circuitry includes electronic components structured to receive electrical power from the EVSE, and supply the electrical power to the PEV. The electronic circuitry is configured to measure a charging parameter of the PEV. The electronic circuitry is further structured to emulate a pulse width modulated signal generated by the EVSE. The smart charging module can also include a first coupler structured to be removably couple to the EVSE and a second coupler structured to be removably coupled to the PEV. |
| FILED | Friday, November 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/549758 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| 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 11/1803 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/126 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/7005 (20130101) Y02T 90/14 (20130101) Y02T 90/168 (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 30/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09758392 | Stadermann et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC (Livermore, California); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Stadermann (Pleasanton, California); Yatian Qu (Stanford, California); Juan G. Santiago (Stanford, California); Ali Hemmatifar (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system combines complete, ultra-thin cells into a monolithic and robust framework necessary for desalination applications which yields orders of magnitude faster desalination. The electrode pairs are located so that a flow of feed water flows through or around the electrode pairs with the flow perpendicular to sequentially applied electric potentials. The system is controlled to charge the series of electrode pairs sequentially or phased. That means the charging of the second electrode pair is delayed with regard to the charging of the first electrode pair and the charging of a third electrode pair is delayed with respect to the charging of the second electrode pair. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/951180 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/008 (20130101) C02F 1/4691 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C02F 2103/08 (20130101) C02F 2201/46 (20130101) |
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| US 09758426 | Kabagambe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Benjamin Kabagambe (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Michael J. Buchanan (Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania); Matthew S. Scott (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Brian K. Rearick (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Paul A. Medwick (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); James W. McCamy (Export, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vitro, S.A.B. de C.V. (Nuevo León, Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Kabagambe (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Michael J. Buchanan (Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania); Matthew S. Scott (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Brian K. Rearick (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Paul A. Medwick (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); James W. McCamy (Export, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to reflective articles, such as solar mirrors, that include a sacrificial cathodic layer. The reflective article, more particularly includes a substrate, such as glass, having a multi-layered coating thereon that includes a lead-free sacrificial cathodic layer. The sacrificial cathodic layer includes at least one transition metal, such as a particulate transition metal, which can be in the form of flakes (e.g., zinc flakes). The sacrificial cathodic layer can include an inorganic matrix formed from one or more organo-titanates. Alternatively, the sacrificial cathodic layer can include an organic polymer matrix (e.g., a crosslinked organic polymer matrix formed from an organic polymer and an aminoplast crosslinking agent). The reflective article also includes an outer organic polymer coating, that can be electrodeposited over the sacrificial cathodic layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/171509 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical Composition of Glasses, Glazes or Vitreous Enamels; Surface Treatment of Glass; Surface Treatment of Fibres or Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals or Slags; Joining Glass to Glass or Other Materials C03C 17/38 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C03C 17/42 (20130101) C03C 2217/445 (20130101) C03C 2217/465 (20130101) C03C 2217/479 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/0808 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/0547 (20141201) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/52 (20130101) |
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| US 09758441 | Baird et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lance Awender Baird (Prospect Heights, Illinois); Timothy A. Brandvold (Arlington Heights, Illinois); Stanley Joseph Frey (Palatine, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatuses are provided for deoxygenating pyrolysis oil. A method includes contacting a pyrolysis oil with a deoxygenation catalyst in a first reactor at deoxygenation conditions to produce a first reactor effluent. The first reactor effluent has a first oxygen concentration and a first hydrogen concentration, based on hydrocarbons in the first reactor effluent, and the first reactor effluent includes an aromatic compound. The first reactor effluent is contacted with a dehydrogenation catalyst in a second reactor at conditions that deoxygenate the first reactor effluent while preserving the aromatic compound to produce a second reactor effluent. The second reactor effluent has a second oxygen concentration lower than the first oxygen concentration and a second hydrogen concentration that is equal to or lower than the first hydrogen concentration, where the second oxygen concentration and the second hydrogen concentration are based on the hydrocarbons in the second reactor effluent. |
| FILED | Monday, November 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/551797 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 1/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 5/367 (20130101) C07C 2521/04 (20130101) C07C 2521/06 (20130101) C07C 2523/42 (20130101) C07C 2523/44 (20130101) Cracking Hydrocarbon Oils; Production of Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g by Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation; Recovery of Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, or Gases; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting of Hydrocarbons; Reforming of Naphtha; Mineral Waxes C10G 3/42 (20130101) C10G 3/47 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 30/20 (20151101) |
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| US 09758724 | Collins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | INTELLIGENT MATERIAL SOLUTIONS, INC. (Princeton, New Jersey); THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTELLIGENT MATERIAL SOLUTIONS, INC. (Princeton, New Jersey); THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PHILADELPHIA (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua E. Collins (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Howard Y. Bell (Princeton, New Jersey); Xingchen Ye (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Christopher Bruce Murray (Montgomery County, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Monodisperse particles having: a single pure crystalline phase of a rare earth-containing lattice, a uniform three-dimensional size, and a uniform polyhedral morphology are disclosed. Due to their uniform size and shape, the monodisperse particles self assemble into superlattices. The particles may be luminescent particles such as down-converting phosphor particles and up-converting phosphors. The monodisperse particles of the invention have a rare earth-containing lattice which in one embodiment may be an yttrium-containing lattice or in another may be a lanthanide-containing lattice. The monodisperse particles may have different optical properties based on their composition, their size, and/or their morphology (or shape). Also disclosed is a combination of at least two types of monodisperse particles, where each type is a plurality of monodisperse particles having a single pure crystalline phase of a rare earth-containing lattice, a uniform three-dimensional size, and a uniform polyhedral morphology; and where the types of monodisperse particles differ from one another by composition, by size, or by morphology. In a preferred embodiment, the types of monodisperse particles have the same composition but different morphologies. Methods of making and methods of using the monodisperse particles are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/878424 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Books; Book Covers; Loose Leaves; Printed Matter Characterised by Identification or Security Features; Printed Matter of Special Format or Style Not Otherwise Provided For; Devices for Use Therewith and Not Otherwise Provided For; Movable-strip Writing or Reading Apparatus B42D 15/00 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Compounds of the Metals Beryllium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium, Thorium, or of the Rare-earth Metals C01F 17/0031 (20130101) C01F 17/0043 (20130101) C01F 17/0062 (20130101) C01F 17/0087 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/52 (20130101) C01P 2002/54 (20130101) C01P 2002/72 (20130101) C01P 2002/84 (20130101) C01P 2004/04 (20130101) C01P 2004/10 (20130101) C01P 2004/11 (20130101) C01P 2004/16 (20130101) C01P 2004/20 (20130101) C01P 2004/32 (20130101) C01P 2004/40 (20130101) C01P 2004/42 (20130101) C01P 2004/52 (20130101) C01P 2004/62 (20130101) C01P 2004/64 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/7773 (20130101) C09K 11/7791 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 7/08 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2933 (20150115) |
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| US 09758728 | Elliott et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas C. Elliott (Richland, Washington); Gary G. Neuenschwander (Burbank, Washington); Todd R. Hart (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A combined hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) and catalytic hydrothermal gasification (CHG) system and process are described that convert various biomass-containing sources into separable bio-oils and aqueous effluents that contain residual organics. Bio-oils may be converted to useful bio-based fuels and other chemical feedstocks. Residual organics in HTL aqueous effluents may be gasified and converted into medium-BTU product gases and directly used for process heating or to provide energy. |
| FILED | Monday, May 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/893011 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Destructive Distillation of Carbonageous Materials for Production of Gas, Coke, Tar, or Similar Materials C10B 49/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Cracking Hydrocarbon Oils; Production of Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g by Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation; Recovery of Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, or Gases; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting of Hydrocarbons; Reforming of Naphtha; Mineral Waxes C10G 1/06 (20130101) C10G 1/065 (20130101) C10G 3/40 (20130101) C10G 3/50 (20130101) Production of Producer Gas, Water-gas, Synthesis Gas From Solid Carbonaceous Material, or Mixtures Containing These Gases; Carburetting Air or Other Gases C10J 3/00 (20130101) C10J 2200/06 (20130101) C10J 2300/0916 (20130101) C10J 2300/0973 (20130101) C10J 2300/1681 (20130101) Fuels Not Otherwise Provided for; Natural Gas; Synthetic Natural Gas Obtained by Processes Not Covered by Subclasses C10G, C10K; Liquefied Petroleum Gas; Adding Materials to Fuels or Fires to Reduce Smoke or Undesirable Deposits or to Facilitate Soot Removal; Firelighters C10L 3/08 (20130101) C10L 9/08 (20130101) C10L 9/086 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/14 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/145 (20151101) Y02P 30/20 (20151101) |
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| US 09758760 | Daly et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Daly (Washington, District of Columbia); Elena K. Gaidamakova (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods of producing vaccines directed against microorganisms, with the methods comprising culturing, harvesting and/or suspending the microorganism in the presence of a radiation-protective composition and irradiating the bacteria or viruses with a dose of radiation sufficient to render the microorganism replication-deficient and/or non-infective. The radiation-protective compositions used in the methods of the present invention comprise at least one nucleoside, at least one antioxidant and at least one small peptide. The invention also provides methods of rendering bacteria in culture resistant to ionizing radiation (IR), with these methods comprising culturing the bacteria in the presence of a radiation-protective composition. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/962596 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7072 (20130101) A61K 31/7076 (20130101) A61K 39/02 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/085 (20130101) A61K 39/0258 (20130101) A61K 2039/521 (20130101) A61K 2039/522 (20130101) A61K 2039/5252 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2710/00061 (20130101) C12N 2795/10334 (20130101) |
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| US 09758790 | Bobzin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven Craig Bobzin (Malibu, California); Nestor Apuya (Culver City, California); Karen Chiang (Houston, Texas); Elena Doukhanina (Newbury Park, California); Kenneth Feldmann (Newbury Park, California); Boris Jankowski (Newbury Park, California); Daniel Mumenthaler (Montrose, California); Joon-Hyun Park (Oak Park, California); Amr Saad Ragab (Somerset, New Jersey); Joel Cruz Rarang (Granada Hills, California); Richard Schneeberger (Carlsbad, California); Jennifer E. Van Fleet (Fortuna, California); Ke Zhang (San Clemente, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ceres, Inc. (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Craig Bobzin (Malibu, California); Nestor Apuya (Culver City, California); Karen Chiang (Houston, Texas); Elena Doukhanina (Newbury Park, California); Kenneth Feldmann (Newbury Park, California); Boris Jankowski (Newbury Park, California); Emilio Margolles-Clark (Miami, Florida); Daniel Mumenthaler (Montrose, California); Jack Okamuro (Alexandria, Virginia); Joon-Hyun Park (Oak Park, California); Amr Saad Ragab (Somerset, New Jersey); Joel Cruz Rarang (Granada Hills, California); Richard Schneeberger (Carlsbad, California); Jennifer E. Van Fleet (Fortuna, California); Ke Zhang (San Clemente, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Materials and Methods for identifying lignin regulatory region-regulatory protein associations are disclosed. Materials and methods for modulating lignin accumulation are also disclosed. In addition, methods and materials for modulating (e.g., increasing or decreasing) the level of a component (e.g., protein, oil, lignin, carbon, a carotenoid, or a triterpenoid) in plants are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, August 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/584421 |
| ART UNIT | 1663 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/415 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/8241 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/8247 (20130101) C12N 15/8255 (20130101) |
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| US 09758799 | Rajgarhia et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cargill Incorporated (Wayzata, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cargill Incorporated (Wayzata, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vineet Rajgarhia (Kingsport, Tennessee); Kari Koivuranta (Helsinki, Finland); Merja Penttila (Helsinki, Finland); Marja Ilmen (Helsinki, Finland); Pirkko Suominen (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Aristos Aristidou (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Christopher Kenneth Miller (Cottage Gove, Minnesota); Stacey Olson (St. Bonifacius, Minnesota); Laura Ruohonen (Helsinki, Finland) |
| ABSTRACT | Yeast cells are transformed with an exogenous xylose isomerase gene. Additional genetic modifications enhance the ability of the transformed cells to ferment xylose to ethanol or other desired fermentation products. Those modifications include deletion of non-specific or specific aldose reductase gene(s), deletion of xylitol dehydrogenase gene(s) and/or overexpression of xylulokinase. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 05, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/201913 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/16 (20130101) C12N 9/0006 (20130101) C12N 9/88 (20130101) C12N 9/92 (20130101) C12N 9/248 (20130101) C12N 9/1205 (20130101) C12N 9/1217 (20130101) C12N 15/81 (20130101) C12N 15/815 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/06 (20130101) C12P 7/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 7/56 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 101/01009 (20130101) C12Y 207/01017 (20130101) C12Y 207/02003 (20130101) C12Y 302/01037 (20130101) C12Y 401/01001 (20130101) C12Y 501/03002 (20130101) C12Y 503/01005 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/17 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/52 (20151101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09759073 | Martin, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Siemens Energy Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas F. Martin, Jr. (York, South Carolina); David J. Wiebe (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine airfoil is provided with at least one insert positioned in a cavity in an airfoil interior. The insert extends along a span-wise extent of the turbine airfoil and includes first and second opposite faces. A first near-wall cooling channel is defined between the first face and a pressure sidewall of an airfoil outer wall. A second near-wall cooling channel is defined between the second face and a suction sidewall of the airfoil outer wall. The insert is configured to occupy an inactive volume in the airfoil interior so as to displace a coolant flow in the cavity toward the first and second near-wall cooling channels. A locating feature engages the insert with the outer wall for supporting the insert in position. The locating feature is configured to control flow of the coolant through the first or second near-wall cooling channel. |
| FILED | Friday, February 26, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/055003 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/188 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F01D 9/02 (20130101) F01D 25/12 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2220/32 (20130101) F05D 2230/80 (20130101) F05D 2250/183 (20130101) F05D 2260/20 (20130101) F05D 2300/10 (20130101) F05D 2300/20 (20130101) |
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| US 09759081 | Morgan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor John Morgan (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Gregory Thomas Foster (Greer, South Carolina); Neelesh Nandkumar Sarawate (Niskayuna, New York); David Wayne Weber (Simpsonville, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for sealing between components within a gas turbine is provided. A first recess defined in a first component receives a seal member. A second recess defined in a second component adjacent the first component also receives the seal member. The first and second recesses are located proximate a hot gas path defined through the gas turbine, and define circumferential paths about the turbine axis. The seal member includes a sealing face that extends in a direction substantially parallel to the turbine axis. The seal member also includes a plurality of seal layers, wherein at least one of the seal layers includes at least one stress relief region for facilitating flexing of the first seal member. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/049020 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 9/041 (20130101) F01D 11/003 (20130101) F01D 11/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2230/60 (20130101) F05D 2260/38 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/4932 (20150115) |
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| US 09759263 | Salas 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) | Theodore E. Salas (Los Lunas, New Mexico); Patrick S. Barney (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Aaron M. Ison (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Ronald L Akau (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Nathan Weir (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A flexure bearing includes an inner race, an outer race, and a plurality of substantially planar radially extending blades coupled between the inner and outer race. The blades have a thickness that is thinner than a thickness of the inner and outer races. The inner race, outer race, and blades have substantially the same height. At least one heating element is coupled to the inner race and/or the outer race. The heating element is configured to apply heat to the race that it is coupled to in order to tune the flexure bearing. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/540364 |
| ART UNIT | 3656 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Shafts; Flexible Shafts; Elements or Crankshaft Mechanisms; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing Elements; Bearings F16C 11/12 (20130101) F16C 17/22 (20130101) F16C 19/525 (20130101) F16C 27/04 (20130101) F16C 41/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F16C 2202/20 (20130101) Springs; Shock-absorbers; Means for Damping Vibration F16F 1/185 (20130101) |
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| US 09759426 | Johnson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Edward Johnson (Greer, South Carolina); Christopher Paul Keener (Denver, North Carolina); Jason Thurman Stewart (Greer, South Carolina); Heath Michael Ostebee (Piedmont, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A micro-mixer nozzle for use in a combustor of a combustion turbine engine, the micro-mixer nozzle including: a fuel plenum defined by a shroud wall connecting a periphery of a forward tube sheet to a periphery of an aft tubesheet; a plurality of mixing tubes extending across the fuel plenum for mixing a supply of compressed air and fuel, each of the mixing tubes forming a passageway between an inlet formed through the forward tubesheet and an outlet formed through the aft tubesheet; and a wall mixing tube formed in the shroud wall. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/448321 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Generating Combustion Products of High Pressure or High Velocity, e.g Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers F23R 3/10 (20130101) F23R 3/286 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09759493 | Bharathan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Desikan Bharathan (Lakewood, Colorado); Kevin Bennion (Littleton, Colorado); Kenneth Kelly (Evergreen, Colorado); Sreekant Narumanchi (Littleton, Colombia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Desikan Bharathan (Lakewood, Colorado); Kevin Bennion (Littleton, Colorado); Kenneth Kelly (Evergreen, Colorado); Sreekant Narumanchi (Littleton, Colombia) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides a fluid-cooled heat sink having a heat transfer base, a shroud, and a plurality of heat transfer fins in thermal communication with the heat transfer base and the shroud, where the heat transfer base, heat transfer fins, and the shroud form a central fluid channel through which a forced or free cooling fluid may flow. The heat transfer pins are arranged around the central fluid channel with a flow space provided between adjacent pins, allowing for some portion of the central fluid channel flow to divert through the flow space. The arrangement reduces the pressure drop of the flow through the fins, optimizes average heat transfer coefficients, reduces contact and fin-pin resistances, and reduces the physical footprint of the heat sink in an operating environment. |
| FILED | Friday, February 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/626964 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat-exchange Apparatus, Not Provided for in Another Subclass, in Which the Heat-exchange Media Do Not Come into Direct Contact F28D 15/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F28D 2021/0028 (20130101) F28D 2021/0029 (20130101) Details of Heat-exchange and Heat-transfer Apparatus, of General Application F28F 13/08 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/46 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09759622 | Ivanov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-BATTELLE LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ilia N. Ivanov (Knoxville, Tennessee); David B. Geohegan (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention, in one embodiment, provides a method of measuring pressure or temperature using a sensor including a sensor element composed of a plurality of carbon nanotubes. In one example, the resistance of the plurality of carbon nanotubes is measured in response to the application of temperature or pressure. The changes in resistance are then recorded and correlated to temperature or pressure. In one embodiment, the present invention provides for independent measurement of pressure or temperature using the sensors disclosed herein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/035105 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Measuring Temperature; Measuring Quantity of Heat; Thermally-sensitive Elements Not Otherwise Provided for G01K 7/00 (20130101) G01K 7/18 (20130101) G01K 7/021 (20130101) G01K 7/028 (20130101) G01K 2211/00 (20130101) Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 1/20 (20130101) G01L 9/00 (20130101) G01L 9/0001 (20130101) G01L 9/0002 (20130101) G01L 9/0005 (20130101) G01L 19/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/742 (20130101) Y10S 977/955 (20130101) Y10S 977/956 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09759641 | Oh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hysitron, Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hysitron, Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yunje Oh (Medina, Minnesota); Syed Amanulla Syed Asif (Bloomington, Minnesota); Edward Cyrankowski (Woodbury, Minnesota); Oden Lee Warren (New Brighton, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A sub-micron scale property testing apparatus including a test subject holder and heating assembly. The assembly includes a holder base configured to couple with a sub-micron mechanical testing instrument and electro-mechanical transducer assembly. The assembly further includes a test subject stage coupled with the holder base. The test subject stage is thermally isolated from the holder base. The test subject stage includes a stage subject surface configured to receive a test subject, and a stage plate bracing the stage subject surface. The stage plate is under the stage subject surface. The test subject stage further includes a heating element adjacent to the stage subject surface, the heating element is configured to generate heat at the stage subject surface. |
| FILED | Monday, November 23, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/948549 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/42 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 3/08 (20130101) G01N 3/18 (20130101) G01N 3/42 (20130101) G01N 2203/0226 (20130101) G01N 2203/0286 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 37/20 (20130101) Electric Heating; Electric Lighting Not Otherwise Provided for H05B 1/023 (20130101) H05B 3/22 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09759739 | Strehlow et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Strehlow (Mukilteo, Washington); Doug MacGugan (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Strehlow (Mukilteo, Washington); Doug MacGugan (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A high-temperature drive component for a double-ended tuning fork (DETF). The drive component attaches to a surface of at least one of the tines. The drive component includes at least one piezoelectric trace sandwiched at least partially between two electrical traces. At least one of the tines includes a doped silicon base with drive component located thereon. One of the electrical traces is electrically connected to the doped silicon base and the other is electrically isolated from the doped silicon base. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/019913 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 1/162 (20130101) Measuring Linear or Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, or Shock; Indicating Presence, Absence, or Direction, of Movement G01P 15/097 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Impedance Networks, e.g Resonant Circuits; Resonators H03H 9/02259 (20130101) H03H 9/2473 (20130101) H03H 2009/02496 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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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) | L. Jonathan Dowell (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Directional radiation detectors and systems, methods, and computer-readable media for using directional radiation detectors to locate a radiation source are provided herein. A directional radiation detector includes a radiation sensor. A radiation attenuator partially surrounds the radiation sensor and defines an aperture through which incident radiation is received by the radiation sensor. The aperture is positioned such that when incident radiation is received directly through the aperture and by the radiation sensor, a source of the incident radiation is located within a solid angle defined by the aperture. The radiation sensor senses at least one of alpha particles, beta particles, gamma particles, or neutrons. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/328535 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/202 (20130101) G01T 1/2907 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01T 3/06 (20130101) Geophysics; Gravitational Measurements; Detecting Masses or Objects; Tags G01V 5/0091 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09759862 | DeRose 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) | Christopher DeRose (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Hong Cai (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The various presented herein relate to an on-chip polarization beam splitter (PBS), which is adiabatic for the transverse magnetic (TM) mode and diabatic for the transverse electric (TE) mode. The PBS comprises a through waveguide and a cross waveguide, wherein an electromagnetic beam comprising TE mode and TM mode components is applied to an input port of the through waveguide. The PBS can be utilized to separate the TE mode component from the TM mode component, wherein the TE mode component exits the PBS via an output port of the through waveguide, and the TM mode component exits the PBS via an output port of the cross waveguide. The PBS has a structure that is tolerant to manufacturing variations and exhibits high polarization extinction ratios over a wide bandwidth. |
| FILED | Monday, October 10, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/289608 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/125 (20130101) G02B 6/126 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/1228 (20130101) G02B 6/2726 (20130101) G02B 6/2773 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09759912 | Chilese et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | KLA-Tencor Corporation (Milpitas, California); Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | KLA-Tencor Corporation (Milpitas, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Chilese (San Ramon, California); Gildardo R. Delgado (Livermore, California); Daniel Wack (Fredericksburg, Virginia); John R. Torczynski (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Leonard E. Klebanoff (Dublin, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for contaminant control, having: a first optical assembly including: a first light homogenizer tunnel with: a first end connected to an extreme ultra-violet light source, a second end in communication with a destination chamber, a first enclosed space, and, a first gas input arranged to introduce a first gas such that the first gas flows in a first direction toward the first end and in a second direction toward the second end. The apparatus alternately having: a second optical assembly including: a second light homogenizer tunnel with: a third end connected to an extreme ultra-violet light source, a fourth end in communication with a destination chamber, a second enclosed space, a diffusion barrier tube including: a fifth end facing the fourth end and a sixth end in communication with a destination chamber, and a second gas input between the second light homogenizer tunnel and the diffusion tube. |
| FILED | Monday, September 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/034273 |
| ART UNIT | 1799 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 27/0006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09759924 | Johnson |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (Batavia, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (Batavia, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd R. Johnson (Aurora, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for shaping a beam comprises an emitter for emitting coherent electromagnetic radiation. Birefringent displacers are configured between the emitter and a target wherein the at least two birefringent displacers split the coherent electromagnetic radiation into a plurality of coherent parallel beams of electromagnetic radiation thereby producing a shaped wave front of the coherent parallel beams of electromagnetic radiation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 01, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/675977 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 27/283 (20130101) G02B 27/0905 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 27/0927 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09760382 | Judd et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Judd (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Nicholas Dallmann (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Kevin McCabe (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Jerry Delapp (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Dean Prichard (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Michael Proicou (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Daniel Seitz (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Paul Stein (Los Alamos, New Mexico); John Michel (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Justin Tripp (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Joseph Palmer (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Steven Storms (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A space vehicle may have a modular board configuration that commonly uses some or all components and a common operating system for at least some of the boards. Each modular board may have its own dedicated processing, and processing loads may be distributed. The space vehicle may be reprogrammable, and may be launched without code that enables all functionality and/or components. Code errors may be detected and the space vehicle may be reset to a working code version to prevent system failure. |
| FILED | Monday, June 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/745941 |
| ART UNIT | 2114 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/44505 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 11/0739 (20130101) G06F 11/0757 (20130101) G06F 11/1417 (20130101) G06F 11/1433 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09760487 | Evangelinos 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) | Constantinos Evangelinos (Andover, Massachusetts); Ravi Nair (Briarcliff Manor, New York); Martin Ohmacht (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes encountering a store operation during a compile-time of a program, where the store operation is applicable to a memory line. It is determined, by a computer processor, that no cache coherence action is necessary for the store operation. A store-without-coherence-action instruction is generated for the store operation, responsive to determining that no cache coherence action is necessary. The store-without-coherence-action instruction specifies that the store operation is to be performed without a cache coherence action, and cache coherence is maintained upon execution of the store-without-coherence-action instruction. |
| FILED | Friday, June 19, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/744055 |
| ART UNIT | 2135 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 12/0815 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 12/0842 (20130101) G06F 12/0875 (20130101) G06F 2212/452 (20130101) G06F 2212/622 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09760801 | Bremer 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) | Peer-Timo Bremer (Livermore, California); Hyojin Kim (Livermore, California); Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan (Livermore, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for identifying in an image an object that is commonly found in a collection of images and for identifying a portion of an image that represents an object based on a consensus analysis of segmentations of the image. The system collects images of containers that contain objects for generating a collection of common objects within the containers. To process the images, the system generates a segmentation of each image. The image analysis system may also generate multiple segmentations for each image by introducing variations in the selection of voxels to be merged into a segment. The system then generates clusters of the segments based on similarity among the segments. Each cluster represents a common object found in the containers. Once the clustering is complete, the system may be used to identify common objects in images of new containers based on similarity between segments of images and the clusters. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/709741 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/6215 (20130101) G06K 9/6218 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/6256 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/10 (20170101) G06T 7/11 (20170101) G06T 7/0012 (20130101) G06T 2207/30112 (20130101) |
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| US 09761332 | Speaker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Babcock and Wilcox mPower, Inc. (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BWXT mPower, Inc. (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel P Speaker (Lynchburg, Virginia); Gary W Neeley (Forest, Virginia); James B Inman (Forest, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A nuclear reactor includes a reactor pressure vessel and a nuclear reactor core comprising fissile material disposed in a lower portion of the reactor pressure vessel. The lower portion of the reactor pressure vessel is disposed in a reactor cavity. An annular neutron stop is located at an elevation above the uppermost elevation of the nuclear reactor core. The annular neutron stop comprises neutron absorbing material filling an annular gap between the reactor pressure vessel and the wall of the reactor cavity. The annular neutron stop may comprise an outer neutron stop ring attached to the wall of the reactor cavity, and an inner neutron stop ring attached to the reactor pressure vessel. An excore instrument guide tube penetrates through the annular neutron stop, and a neutron plug comprising neutron absorbing material is disposed in the tube at the penetration through the neutron stop. |
| FILED | Monday, June 09, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/299353 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Nuclear Reactors G21C 11/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G21C 11/028 (20130101) Protection Against X-radiation, Gamma Radiation, Corpuscular Radiation or Particle Bombardment; Treating Radioactively Contaminated Material; Decontamination Arrangements Therefor G21F 3/04 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 30/40 (20130101) |
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| US 09761370 | Wu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Utah State University (North Logan, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hunter Wu (Logan, Utah); Kylee Sealy (Logan, Utah); Aaron Gilchrist (Logan, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for dual side control includes a measurement module that measures a voltage and a current of an IPT system. The voltage includes an output voltage and/or an input voltage and the current includes an output current and/or an input current. The output voltage and the output current are measured at an output of the IPT system and the input voltage and the input current measured at an input of the IPT system. The apparatus includes a max efficiency module that determines a maximum efficiency for the IPT system. The max efficiency module uses parameters of the IPT system to iterate to a maximum efficiency. The apparatus includes an adjustment module that adjusts one or more parameters in the IPT system consistent with the maximum efficiency calculated by the max efficiency module. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/748187 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Propulsion of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Supplying Electric Power for Auxiliary Equipment of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Electrodynamic Brake Systems for Vehicles in General; Magnetic Suspension or Levitation for Vehicles; Monitoring Operating Variables of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Electric Safety Devices for Electrically-propelled Vehicles B60L 11/182 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 38/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 5/005 (20130101) H02J 7/025 (20130101) H02J 17/00 (20130101) H02J 50/10 (20160201) Apparatus for Conversion Between AC and AC, Between AC and DC, or Between DC and DC, and for Use With Mains or Similar Power Supply Systems; Conversion of DC or AC Input Power into Surge Output Power; Control or Regulation Thereof H02M 3/33576 (20130101) H02M 7/53871 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/92 (20130101) Y02T 10/7005 (20130101) Y02T 10/7072 (20130101) Y02T 90/14 (20130101) Y02T 90/122 (20130101) Y02T 90/127 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 307/406 (20150401) |
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| US 09761444 | Nuzzo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph G. Nuzzo (Champaign, Illinois); John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Etienne Menard (Voglans, France); Keon Jae Lee (Daejeon, South Korea); Dahl-Young Khang (Seoul, South Korea); Yugang Sun (Gladwyne, Pennsylvania); Matthew Meitl (Durham, North Carolina); Zhengtao Zhu (Rapid City, South Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and devices for fabricating printable semiconductor elements and assembling printable semiconductor elements onto substrate surfaces. Methods, devices and device components of the present invention are capable of generating a wide range of flexible electronic and optoelectronic devices and arrays of devices on substrates comprising polymeric materials. The present invention also provides stretchable semiconductor structures and stretchable electronic devices capable of good performance in stretched configurations. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/084091 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 2201/0185 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/308 (20130101) H01L 21/02521 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/02603 (20130101) H01L 21/02628 (20130101) H01L 21/6835 (20130101) H01L 24/03 (20130101) H01L 24/05 (20130101) H01L 24/08 (20130101) H01L 24/29 (20130101) H01L 24/32 (20130101) H01L 24/80 (20130101) H01L 24/83 (20130101) H01L 24/94 (20130101) H01L 24/97 (20130101) H01L 25/0753 (20130101) H01L 27/1285 (20130101) H01L 27/1292 (20130101) H01L 29/04 (20130101) H01L 29/06 (20130101) H01L 29/12 (20130101) H01L 29/068 (20130101) H01L 29/0665 (20130101) H01L 29/0673 (20130101) H01L 29/0676 (20130101) H01L 29/78603 (20130101) H01L 29/78681 (20130101) H01L 29/78696 (20130101) H01L 31/0392 (20130101) H01L 31/1804 (20130101) H01L 31/1864 (20130101) H01L 31/1896 (20130101) H01L 31/03926 (20130101) H01L 33/007 (20130101) H01L 33/32 (20130101) H01L 33/0079 (20130101) H01L 2221/68368 (20130101) H01L 2221/68381 (20130101) H01L 2224/03 (20130101) H01L 2224/03 (20130101) H01L 2224/80 (20130101) H01L 2224/83 (20130101) H01L 2224/94 (20130101) H01L 2224/94 (20130101) H01L 2224/95 (20130101) H01L 2224/97 (20130101) H01L 2224/97 (20130101) H01L 2224/97 (20130101) H01L 2224/0332 (20130101) H01L 2224/0332 (20130101) H01L 2224/0345 (20130101) H01L 2224/0362 (20130101) H01L 2224/2919 (20130101) H01L 2224/2919 (20130101) H01L 2224/03614 (20130101) H01L 2224/05073 (20130101) H01L 2224/05073 (20130101) H01L 2224/05082 (20130101) H01L 2224/05082 (20130101) H01L 2224/05124 (20130101) H01L 2224/05124 (20130101) H01L 2224/05144 (20130101) H01L 2224/05144 (20130101) H01L 2224/05144 (20130101) H01L 2224/05155 (20130101) H01L 2224/05155 (20130101) H01L 2224/05155 (20130101) H01L 2224/05166 (20130101) H01L 2224/05166 (20130101) H01L 2224/05166 (20130101) H01L 2224/05552 (20130101) H01L 2224/05552 (20130101) H01L 2224/05553 (20130101) H01L 2224/05553 (20130101) H01L 2224/05554 (20130101) H01L 2224/05554 (20130101) H01L 2224/05555 (20130101) H01L 2224/05555 (20130101) H01L 2224/05644 (20130101) H01L 2224/05644 (20130101) H01L 2224/05644 (20130101) H01L 2224/05644 (20130101) H01L 2224/05666 (20130101) H01L 2224/05666 (20130101) H01L 2224/08225 (20130101) H01L 2224/8385 (20130101) H01L 2224/9202 (20130101) H01L 2224/9202 (20130101) H01L 2224/32225 (20130101) H01L 2224/32225 (20130101) H01L 2224/80006 (20130101) H01L 2224/80121 (20130101) H01L 2224/80121 (20130101) H01L 2224/80862 (20130101) H01L 2224/80895 (20130101) H01L 2224/83005 (20130101) H01L 2224/83121 (20130101) H01L 2224/83121 (20130101) H01L 2224/83192 (20130101) H01L 2224/83192 (20130101) H01L 2224/83193 (20130101) H01L 2224/83862 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00012 (20130101) H01L 2924/00012 (20130101) H01L 2924/00012 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/14 (20130101) H01L 2924/14 (20130101) H01L 2924/0665 (20130101) H01L 2924/01032 (20130101) H01L 2924/01032 (20130101) H01L 2924/1305 (20130101) H01L 2924/1305 (20130101) H01L 2924/1306 (20130101) H01L 2924/1306 (20130101) H01L 2924/1461 (20130101) H01L 2924/1461 (20130101) H01L 2924/1579 (20130101) H01L 2924/10253 (20130101) H01L 2924/10329 (20130101) H01L 2924/12032 (20130101) H01L 2924/12032 (20130101) H01L 2924/12036 (20130101) H01L 2924/12036 (20130101) H01L 2924/12041 (20130101) H01L 2924/12042 (20130101) H01L 2924/12042 (20130101) H01L 2924/12043 (20130101) H01L 2924/12043 (20130101) H01L 2924/12044 (20130101) H01L 2924/12044 (20130101) H01L 2924/13063 (20130101) H01L 2924/13063 (20130101) H01L 2924/13091 (20130101) H01L 2924/13091 (20130101) H01L 2924/15159 (20130101) H01L 2924/15162 (20130101) H01L 2924/15788 (20130101) H01L 2924/15788 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/547 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/521 (20151101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/707 (20130101) Y10S 977/724 (20130101) |
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| US 09761669 | Arnold 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 Scott Arnold (Middleton, Wisconsin); Austin James Way (Madison, Wisconsin); Robert Michael Jacobberger (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Graphene nanoribbon arrays, methods of growing graphene nanoribbon arrays, and electronic and photonic devices incorporating the graphene nanoribbon arrays are provided. The graphene nanoribbons in the arrays are formed using a seed-mediated, bottom-up, chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technique in which the (001) facet of a semiconductor substrate and the orientation of the seed particles on the substrate are used to orient the graphene nanoribbon crystals preferentially along a single [110] direction of the substrate. |
| FILED | Monday, July 18, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/212413 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0259 (20130101) H01L 21/0262 (20130101) H01L 21/02425 (20130101) H01L 21/02433 (20130101) H01L 21/02527 (20130101) H01L 21/02609 (20130101) H01L 21/02645 (20130101) H01L 21/6835 (20130101) H01L 29/045 (20130101) H01L 29/1606 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 2221/68363 (20130101) |
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| US 09761675 | Marinella et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Marinella (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Sandeepan DasGupta (State College, Pennsylvania); Robert Kaplar (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Albert G. Baca (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to resistive field structures that provide improved electric field profiles when used with a semiconductor device. In particular, the resistive field structures provide a uniform electric field profile, thereby enhancing breakdown voltage and improving reliability. In example, the structure is a field cage that is configured to be resistive, in which the potential changes significantly over the distance of the cage. In another example, the structure is a resistive field plate. Using these resistive field structures, the characteristics of the electric field profile can be independently modulated from the physical parameters of the semiconductor device. Additional methods and architectures are described herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 06, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 14/989633 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/3171 (20130101) H01L 27/0629 (20130101) H01L 28/20 (20130101) H01L 29/205 (20130101) H01L 29/405 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/2003 (20130101) H01L 29/7787 (20130101) |
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| US 09761748 | Nielson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory N. Nielson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); William C. Sweatt (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Murat Okandan (Edgewood, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A photovoltaic (PV) module includes an absorber layer coupled to an optic layer. The absorber layer includes an array of PV elements. The optic layer includes a close-packed array of Keplerian telescope elements, each corresponding to one of an array of pupil elements. The Keplerian telescope substantially couple radiation that is incident on their objective surfaces into the corresponding pupil elements. Each pupil element relays radiation that is coupled into it from the corresponding Keplerian telescope element into the corresponding PV element. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/686139 |
| ART UNIT | 1757 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/0543 (20141201) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09761841 | Basil et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vitro S.A.B. de C.V. (, None) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vitro, S.A.B. de C.V. (Nuevo León, Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John D. Basil (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Abhinav Bhandari (Cranberry, Pennsylvania); Harry Buhay (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Mehran Arbab (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Gary J. Marietti (Tidioute, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An organic light emitting diode (10) includes a substrate (12) having a first surface (14) and a second surface (16), a first electrode (32), and a second electrode (38). An emissive layer (36) is located between the first electrode (32) and the second electrode (38). The organic light emitting diode (10) further includes a surface modification layer (18). The surface modification layer (18) includes a non-planar surface (30, 52). |
| FILED | Thursday, April 16, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/688545 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/56 (20130101) H01L 51/0096 (20130101) H01L 51/5012 (20130101) H01L 51/5206 (20130101) H01L 51/5262 (20130101) H01L 51/5268 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 2251/301 (20130101) H01L 2251/5369 (20130101) |
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| US 09761866 | Lu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. (Camas, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. (Carmas, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuhao Lu (Vancouver, Washington); Long Wang (Vancouver, Washington); Jong-Jan Lee (Camas, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for forming a metal battery electrode with a pyrolyzed coating. The method provides a metallorganic compound of metal (Me) and materials such as carbon (C), sulfur (S), nitrogen (N), oxygen (O), and combinations of the above-listed materials, expressed as MeXCYNZSXXOYY, where Me is a metal such as tin (Sn), antimony (Sb), or lead (Pb), or a metal alloy. The method heats the metallorganic compound, and as a result of the heating, decomposes materials in the metallorganic compound. In one aspect, decomposing the materials in the metallorganic compound includes forming a chemical reaction between the Me particles and the materials. An electrode is formed of Me particles coated by the materials. In another aspect, the Me particles coated with a material such as a carbide, a nitride, a sulfide, or combinations of the above-listed materials. |
| FILED | Friday, February 03, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/424549 |
| ART UNIT | 1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 6/008 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/60 (20130101) H01M 4/134 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/136 (20130101) H01M 4/366 (20130101) H01M 4/387 (20130101) H01M 4/0471 (20130101) H01M 4/623 (20130101) H01M 4/5815 (20130101) H01M 10/054 (20130101) H01M 2004/027 (20130101) |
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| US 09761910 | Klaehn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BATTELLE ENERGY ALLIANCE, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Klaehn (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Eric J. Dufek (Ammon, Idaho); Harry W. Rollins (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Mason K. Harrup (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Kevin L. Gering (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrolyte solution comprising at least one phosphoranimine compound and a metal salt. The at least one phosphoranimine compound comprises a compound of the chemical structure where X is an organosilyl group or a tert-butyl group and each of R1, R2, and R3 is independently selected from the group consisting of an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxy group, or an aryloxy group. An energy storage device including the electrolyte solution is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, May 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/720493 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 10/0525 (20130101) H01M 10/0569 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09762060 | Kalsi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karan Kalsi (Richland, Washington); Jason C. Fuller (Richland, Washington); Abhishek Somani (Richland, Washington); Robert G. Pratt (Kennewick, Washington); David P. Chassin (Pasco, Washington); Donald J. Hammerstrom (West Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are representative embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems for facilitating operation and control of a resource distribution system (such as a power grid). Among the disclosed embodiments is a distributed hierarchical control architecture (DHCA) that enables smart grid assets to effectively contribute to grid operations in a controllable manner, while helping to ensure system stability and equitably rewarding their contribution. Embodiments of the disclosed architecture can help unify the dispatch of these resources to provide both market-based and balancing services. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 31, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/145742 |
| ART UNIT | 2125 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Systems for Regulating Electric or Magnetic Variables G05F 5/00 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 3/00 (20130101) H02J 3/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09763370 | Okandan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Murat Okandan (Edgewood, New Mexico); Gregory N. Nielson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jose Luis Cruz-Campa (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Judith Maria Lavin (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Paul J. Resnick (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus including a carrier substrate configured to move a microelectronic device. The apparatus further includes a rotatable body configured to receive the microelectronic device. Additionally, the apparatus includes a second substrate configured to receive the microelectronic device from the rotatable body. |
| FILED | Monday, November 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/088725 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Transport or Storage Devices, e.g Conveyors for Loading or Tipping, shop Conveyor Systems Or pneumatic Tube Conveyors B65G 47/846 (20130101) B65G 47/847 (20130101) B65G 47/848 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/673 (20130101) H01L 21/2007 (20130101) H01L 21/67132 (20130101) H01L 21/67242 (20130101) H01L 21/67796 (20130101) H01L 24/75 (20130101) H01L 24/81 (20130101) H01L 31/188 (20130101) H01L 31/0516 (20130101) H01L 31/0682 (20130101) H01L 31/022441 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/1301 (20130101) H01L 2924/1301 (20130101) H01L 2924/1305 (20130101) H01L 2924/1305 (20130101) H01L 2924/12032 (20130101) H01L 2924/12032 (20130101) H01L 2924/12042 (20130101) H01L 2924/12042 (20130101) H01L 2924/13033 (20130101) H01L 2924/13033 (20130101) H01L 2924/13034 (20130101) H01L 2924/13055 (20130101) H01L 2924/13055 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 3/301 (20130101) H05K 3/303 (20130101) H05K 13/0478 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/547 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49002 (20150115) Y10T 29/53174 (20150115) Y10T 29/53178 (20150115) Y10T 29/53191 (20150115) |
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| US RE46545 | Sansinena 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) | Jose-Maria Sansinena (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Antonio Redondo (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Virginia Olazabal (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Mark A. Hoffbauer (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Elshan A. Akhadov (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A barrier structure for use in an electrochemical stochastic membrane sensor for single molecule detection. The sensor is based upon inorganic nanopores having electrically tunable dimensions. The inorganic nanopores are formed from inorganic materials and an electrically conductive polymer. Methods of making the barrier structure and sensing single molecules using the barrier structure are also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/289388 |
| ART UNIT | 3991 — Central Reexamination Unit (Chemical) |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/48721 (20130101) |
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| US 09757038 | Joos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Karen Joos (Nashville, Tennessee); Jin Hui Shen (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karen Joos (Nashville, Tennessee); Jin Hui Shen (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A miniature intraoperative probe (30) capable of forward-imaging with optical coherence tomography. The probe includes a housing (130), an actuator (150) supported by the housing, and a single mode (146) fiber supported by the housing and configured to laterally scan light data reflected from a sample. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 14/122500 |
| ART UNIT | 3786 — Body Treatment, Kinestherapy, and Exercising |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 1/04 (20130101) A61B 1/07 (20130101) A61B 3/102 (20130101) A61B 5/0066 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/0084 (20130101) A61B 18/20 (20130101) A61B 18/22 (20130101) A61B 18/201 (20130101) A61B 2090/3735 (20160201) Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 9/02091 (20130101) |
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| US 09757041 | Grudic et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory Zlatko Grudic (Longmont, Colorado); Steven Lee Moulton (Littleton, Colorado); Isobel Jane Mulligan (Longmont, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Flashback Technologies, Inc. (Boulder, Colorado); The Regents of The University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Zlatko Grudic (Longmont, Colorado); Steven Lee Moulton (Littleton, Colorado); Isobel Jane Mulligan (Longmont, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Tools and techniques for estimating a probability that a patient is bleeding or has sustained intravascular volume loss (e.g., due to hemodialysis or dehydration) and/or to estimate a patient's current hemodynamic reserve index, track the patient's hemodynamic reserve index over time, and/or predict a patient's hemodynamic reserve index in the future. Tools and techniques for estimating and/or predicting a patient's dehydration state. Tools and techniques for controlling a hemodialysis machine based on the patient's estimated and/or predicted hemodynamic reserve index. |
| FILED | Friday, July 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/554483 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/021 (20130101) A61B 5/029 (20130101) A61B 5/0402 (20130101) A61B 5/02028 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/02042 (20130101) A61B 5/7275 (20130101) A61B 5/14551 (20130101) |
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| US 09757187 | Farritor et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board Of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shane Farritor (Lincoln, Nebraska); Tom Fredrick (Omaha, Nebraska); Joe Bartels (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | The embodiments disclosed herein relate to various medical device components, including components that can be incorporated into robotic and/or in vivo medical devices, and more specifically including end effectors that can be incorporated into such devices. Certain end effector embodiments include various vessel cautery devices that have rotational movement as well as cautery and cutting functions while maintaining a relatively compact structure. Other end effector embodiments include various end effector devices that have more than one end effector. |
| FILED | Monday, June 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/745587 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 18/1445 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 34/30 (20160201) A61B 2018/0063 (20130101) A61B 2018/00345 (20130101) A61B 2018/00595 (20130101) A61B 2018/1455 (20130101) A61B 2034/301 (20160201) |
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| US 09757255 | Caldwell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan J. Caldwell (Long Grove, Illinois); Andrew H. Hansen (Apple Valley, Minnesota); Sean M. Wood (Hermosa Beach, California); Wei Chen (Wilmette, Illinois); Regan A. Radcliffe (San Francisco, California); Kevin A. Yngve (Chicago, Illinois); Bennett E. Kuhar (Concord Township, Ohio); Andrew J. Nelson (Chicago, Illinois); Eric Nickel (Brooklyn Park, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Pump systems for use in suspension of a prosthetic device from a residual limb and methods of suspending a prosthetic device from a residual limb are disclosed. The pump systems include a mechanically activated pump having a first compression member coupled to a second compression member, a compressible bladder disposed between the first and second compression members, and coupling elements that engage and couple together the first and second compression members. The mechanically activated pump may be connected with an electrically activated pump within a fluid circuit of a hybrid pump system to provide vacuum engagement between a prosthetic device and a residual limb. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 04, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/730816 |
| ART UNIT | 3738 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2/60 (20130101) A61F 2/68 (20130101) A61F 2/70 (20130101) A61F 2/80 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61F 2002/501 (20130101) A61F 2002/607 (20130101) A61F 2002/608 (20130101) A61F 2002/689 (20130101) A61F 2002/704 (20130101) A61F 2002/741 (20130101) A61F 2002/742 (20130101) A61F 2002/747 (20130101) A61F 2002/802 (20130101) A61F 2002/5073 (20130101) A61F 2002/6809 (20130101) A61F 2002/7655 (20130101) |
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| US 09757438 | Tang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MicroVAX, LLC (Warrenton, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MICROVAX, LLC (Warrenton, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yucheng Tang (San Diego, California); Albert Deisseroth (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are expression vectors for generating an immune response to a mucin. The vectors comprise a transcription unit encoding a secretable polypeptide, the polypeptide comprising a secretory signal, a mucin antigen and CD40 ligand. Also provided are methods of generating an immune response against cells expressing a mucin by administering an effective amount of the vector. Further provided are methods of generating an immune response against cancer cells expressing a mucin in an individual by administering an effective amount of the vector. Still further provided are methods of overcoming anergy to a mucin self antigen by administering an effective amount of the vector. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 19, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/213688 |
| 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 9/127 (20130101) A61K 39/0011 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 48/00 (20130101) A61K 48/005 (20130101) A61K 2039/6031 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/4727 (20130101) C07K 14/70578 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 15/85 (20130101) C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 2710/10043 (20130101) |
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| US 09757472 | Diehnelt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chris Diehnelt (Chandler, Arizona); Stephen Johnston (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chris Diehnelt (Chandler, Arizona); Stephen Johnston (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved peptide compositions and synbody compositions are disclosed that show improved stability and antibiotic activity. The new antibacterial peptides for S. aureus have particular D-amino acid substitutions in order to increase protease stability while also preserving marked antibiotic activity. Thus, compositions and methods for treating infections related to S. aureus also are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, July 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/808984 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/16 (20130101) A61K 47/48246 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 7/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09757475 | Mirkin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); David A. Giljohann (Chicago, Illinois); Weston L. Daniel (Evanston, Illinois); Joshua I. Cutler (Evanston, Illinois); Ke Zhang (Chicago, Illinois); Dan Zheng (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure is directed to compositions comprising templated nanoconjugates and methods of their use. |
| FILED | Friday, September 25, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/865848 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/489 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/48861 (20130101) A61K 49/0002 (20130101) A61K 49/0093 (20130101) A61K 51/1251 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) B82Y 15/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/88 (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 1/6876 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/588 (20130101) |
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| US 09757678 | Billingsley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Britton G. Billingsley (St. Paul, Minnesota); Larry A. Brey (Woodbury, Minnesota); William Buechter (Fairfax, Virginia); Pierre Legare (Brockville, Canada); Derek M. Maanum (St. Paul, Minnesota); Gregory W. Peterson (Belcamp, Maryland); Joseph A. Rossin (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A filtration device including a fluid-impermeable housing having a gas inlet and outlet, and containing within the housing first filter media particles of an extended surface area substrate and containing at least one metal impregnant, and second filter media particles of an extended surface area zirconium hydroxide substrate and containing zinc (hydr)oxide. The first or second filter media particles also contain an amine-functional material. The device may be used in atmospheres containing various harmful gases, and may provide particularly useful improvements in breakthrough times for nitrogen dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, ammonia and formaldehyde compared to a device containing only the first filter media particles or only the second filter media particles. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/462727 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices, Apparatus or Methods for Life-saving A62B 17/04 (20130101) A62B 18/10 (20130101) A62B 18/025 (20130101) A62B 18/084 (20130101) A62B 19/00 (20130101) A62B 23/02 (20130101) Separation B01D 53/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 2253/20 (20130101) B01D 2253/25 (20130101) B01D 2253/102 (20130101) B01D 2253/112 (20130101) B01D 2253/1124 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/06 (20130101) B01J 20/20 (20130101) B01J 20/22 (20130101) B01J 20/3204 (20130101) B01J 20/3236 (20130101) B01J 20/3265 (20130101) B01J 20/28016 (20130101) B01J 20/28057 (20130101) B01J 2220/62 (20130101) |
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| US 09757684 | Wolford 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) | Matthew F. Wolford (Woodbridge, Virginia); Matthew C. Myers (Beltsville, Maryland); John D. Sethian (Burke, Virginia); Frank Hegeler (Vienna, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved process and for removing NOx from exhaust gases produced by combustion-based energy sources. Catalyst-free exhaust gas is directed into one or more ducts. The gas is cooled and then passes through the duct, wherein the gas flow rate and the electron beam pulse rate are configured to cause each successive volume of gas that flows past the window to be subjected to only a single electron beam pulse in the reaction chamber. A single short, intense electron beam is fired into the exhaust through a window in the reaction chamber as the exhaust flows past the window, with some of the electrons being reflected back into the gas by a reflective plate situated opposite the window. The deposited electron energy causes NOx from the exhaust to be converted into N2 and O2 which are output into the atmosphere with the thus-scrubbed exhaust. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 06, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/256768 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 53/56 (20130101) B01D 53/92 (20130101) B01D 2257/404 (20130101) B01D 2258/012 (20130101) B01D 2258/0283 (20130101) B01D 2259/812 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/081 (20130101) B01J 19/085 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Patrick Shepard (DeKalb, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of mounting a capacitor to a bracket is provided. The method includes the step of providing a capacitor with an outer shell, a capacitor member disposed within the shell and a conductor member disposed within the outer shell and thermally coupled to the capacitor member. A collet is arranged having a first opening sized to slidingly engage the conductor member. A sleeve is provided having a second opening sized to receive a first end of the collet. The collet is slid onto the conductor member. The collet is pressed into the sleeve. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/870716 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal-working Not Otherwise Provided For; Combined Operations; Universal Machine Tools B23P 11/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 2/08 (20130101) H01G 2/106 (20130101) H01G 4/18 (20130101) H01G 4/32 (20130101) H01G 4/33 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49826 (20150115) |
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| US 09758439 | Slocik et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph M. Slocik (Dayton, Ohio); Christopher A. Krouse (Valparaiso, Florida); Rajesh R. Naik (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Reactive nanocomposites comprising a metal nanoparticle functionalized with one or more layers of self-assembled protein cages and methods of making the same. The reactive nanocomposites according to the present invention demonstrate improved reaction kinetics and enhanced exothermic behavior. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/882767 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosives or Thermic Compositions; Manufacture Thereof; Use of Single Substances as Explosives C06B 33/02 (20130101) C06B 33/06 (20130101) C06B 45/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09758628 | Lu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongbing Lu (Plano, Texas); Ray H. Baughman (Dallas, Texas); Mohammad H. Haque (Richardson, Texas); Shaoli D. Fang (Richardson, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel method of fabricating carbon nanotube sheet scrolled fiber and fiber tows (carbon, graphite, glass, natural polymer, synthetic polymer, metallic, silicon carbide, Kevlar, etc.) in composites with improved interfacial shear strength, compressive strength, yield strength, stiffness and toughness has been reported. Single or multiple layers of carbon nanotube sheet, with a bias/wrapping angle of 0° and 90°, has been scrolled around single fiber and fibers tows to improve the above mentioned mechanical properties of the matrix surrounding the fiber. Other common methods of growing CNTs directly on the fibers actually damage the fiber surface during the required precursor deposition and CNTs growth process. This demonstrated solid-state method overcomes such known problems. The CNTs sheet scrolled fiber is embedded into the polymer matrix exhibits significant (80%) increase in interfacial shear strength, compressive strength and toughness. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/775940 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 70/021 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 5/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08J 5/24 (20130101) C08J 5/042 (20130101) C08J 2363/00 (20130101) Crimping or Curling Fibres, Filaments, Threads, or Yarns; Yarns or Threads D02G 3/36 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses of Section D, Relating to Textiles D10B 2101/122 (20130101) |
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| US 09758724 | Collins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | INTELLIGENT MATERIAL SOLUTIONS, INC. (Princeton, New Jersey); THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTELLIGENT MATERIAL SOLUTIONS, INC. (Princeton, New Jersey); THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PHILADELPHIA (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua E. Collins (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Howard Y. Bell (Princeton, New Jersey); Xingchen Ye (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Christopher Bruce Murray (Montgomery County, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Monodisperse particles having: a single pure crystalline phase of a rare earth-containing lattice, a uniform three-dimensional size, and a uniform polyhedral morphology are disclosed. Due to their uniform size and shape, the monodisperse particles self assemble into superlattices. The particles may be luminescent particles such as down-converting phosphor particles and up-converting phosphors. The monodisperse particles of the invention have a rare earth-containing lattice which in one embodiment may be an yttrium-containing lattice or in another may be a lanthanide-containing lattice. The monodisperse particles may have different optical properties based on their composition, their size, and/or their morphology (or shape). Also disclosed is a combination of at least two types of monodisperse particles, where each type is a plurality of monodisperse particles having a single pure crystalline phase of a rare earth-containing lattice, a uniform three-dimensional size, and a uniform polyhedral morphology; and where the types of monodisperse particles differ from one another by composition, by size, or by morphology. In a preferred embodiment, the types of monodisperse particles have the same composition but different morphologies. Methods of making and methods of using the monodisperse particles are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/878424 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Books; Book Covers; Loose Leaves; Printed Matter Characterised by Identification or Security Features; Printed Matter of Special Format or Style Not Otherwise Provided For; Devices for Use Therewith and Not Otherwise Provided For; Movable-strip Writing or Reading Apparatus B42D 15/00 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Compounds of the Metals Beryllium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium, Thorium, or of the Rare-earth Metals C01F 17/0031 (20130101) C01F 17/0043 (20130101) C01F 17/0062 (20130101) C01F 17/0087 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/52 (20130101) C01P 2002/54 (20130101) C01P 2002/72 (20130101) C01P 2002/84 (20130101) C01P 2004/04 (20130101) C01P 2004/10 (20130101) C01P 2004/11 (20130101) C01P 2004/16 (20130101) C01P 2004/20 (20130101) C01P 2004/32 (20130101) C01P 2004/40 (20130101) C01P 2004/42 (20130101) C01P 2004/52 (20130101) C01P 2004/62 (20130101) C01P 2004/64 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/7773 (20130101) C09K 11/7791 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 7/08 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2933 (20150115) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin G. Harvey (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to generate dense, multi-cyclic diamondoid fuels from bio-derived sesquiterpenes. This process can be conducted with both heterogeneous and homogenous catalysts and produces the targeted isomers in high yield. The resulting multi-cyclic structures impart significantly higher densities and volumetric net heats of combustion while maintaining low viscosities which allow for use at low temperature/high altitude. Moreover, bio-derived sesquiterpenes can be produced from renewable biomass sources. Use of these fuels will decrease Navy dependence on fossil fuels and will also reduce net carbon emissions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 19, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/297285 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 5/03 (20130101) C07C 5/31 (20130101) C07C 45/68 (20130101) C07C 2103/74 (20130101) Fuels Not Otherwise Provided for; Natural Gas; Synthetic Natural Gas Obtained by Processes Not Covered by Subclasses C10G, C10K; Liquefied Petroleum Gas; Adding Materials to Fuels or Fires to Reduce Smoke or Undesirable Deposits or to Facilitate Soot Removal; Firelighters C10L 1/1608 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10L 1/1857 (20130101) C10L 10/12 (20130101) C10L 2200/0469 (20130101) C10L 2290/24 (20130101) |
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| US 09758760 | Daly et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Daly (Washington, District of Columbia); Elena K. Gaidamakova (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods of producing vaccines directed against microorganisms, with the methods comprising culturing, harvesting and/or suspending the microorganism in the presence of a radiation-protective composition and irradiating the bacteria or viruses with a dose of radiation sufficient to render the microorganism replication-deficient and/or non-infective. The radiation-protective compositions used in the methods of the present invention comprise at least one nucleoside, at least one antioxidant and at least one small peptide. The invention also provides methods of rendering bacteria in culture resistant to ionizing radiation (IR), with these methods comprising culturing the bacteria in the presence of a radiation-protective composition. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/962596 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7072 (20130101) A61K 31/7076 (20130101) A61K 39/02 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/085 (20130101) A61K 39/0258 (20130101) A61K 2039/521 (20130101) A61K 2039/522 (20130101) A61K 2039/5252 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2710/00061 (20130101) C12N 2795/10334 (20130101) |
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| US 09758808 | Maye et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mathew Maye (Binghamton, New York); Rabeka Alam (Syracuse, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY (Syracuse, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mathew Maye (Binghamton, New York); Rabeka Alam (Syracuse, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A bioluminescence energy transfer (BRET) nanosystem having semiconductive quantum rods (QRs) bound by firefly luciferase Photinus pyralis (Ppy) for improved conversion of chemical energy to light, such as in solid-state lighting, near-infrared imaging systems, and in vivo infrared imaging. The nanosystems are formed by synthesizing CdSe/CdS or CdSe/CdS/ZnS quantum rods, rendering the dots hydrophilic and colloidially stable with a facile His-capping, incubating with a Ppy variant (PpyGRTS) at increasing loading ratios, and adding an excess of the luciferin (LH2) substrate to the PpyGRTS-QRs. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/073463 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/00 (20130101) A61K 49/0013 (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 1/66 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2521/543 (20130101) |
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| US 09759094 | Hutto, Jr. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Walter Decania Hutto, Jr. (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A pump for a gas turbine engine is provided. The pump includes a first drive track having a spline and a first gear each rigidly attached to a first driveshaft. The pump also includes a second drive track having a second gear rigidly attached to a second driveshaft. The second gear is mechanically coupled to the first gear. Additionally, a first lubrication supply pump is mechanically coupled to the first driveshaft and a second lubrication supply pump is mechanically coupled to the second driveshaft. The first and second lubrication supply pumps are together configured to provide a desired amount of lubrication to the gas turbine engine. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/748505 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 25/16 (20130101) F01D 25/18 (20130101) F01D 25/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Non-positive-displacement Pumps F04D 29/056 (20130101) F04D 29/063 (20130101) F04D 29/321 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2220/323 (20130101) F05D 2260/98 (20130101) |
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| US 09759370 | Crosby et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alfred J. Crosby (Amherst, Massachusetts); Michael D. Bartlett (Amherst, Massachusetts); Duncan J. Irschick (Amherst, Massachusetts); Daniel R. King (Sunderland, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Gecko-like adhesive application devices suited for dynamic applications are disclosed, where the device can be easily applied to target substrates, exhibiting a firm hold, and subsequently released therefrom. Gecko-like adhesive application devices that are suited for sustained holding after easy application (e.g., on vertical or inclined surfaces or ceiling) also are disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/883324 |
| ART UNIT | 3632 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 7/12 (20130101) Adhesives; Non-mechanical Aspects of Adhesive Processes in General; Adhesive Processes Not Provided for Elsewhere; Use of Materials as Adhesives C09J 7/00 (20130101) C09J 7/02 (20130101) C09J 2201/626 (20130101) Devices for Fastening or Securing Constructional Elements or Machine Parts Together, e.g Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips, Wedges, Joints or Jointing F16B 11/006 (20130101) F16B 47/003 (20130101) 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 |
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| US 09759378 | Wiedemeier |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brandon J. Wiedemeier (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brandon J. Wiedemeier (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A pressure clamp for connecting pressure vessel segments can include a pair of semi-circular sections, which can be placed around the ends of the segments, so that there is a slight gap between the semi-circular sections. The inner surfaces of the semi-circular sections can be formed with two notches with beveled surfaces. The beveled surfaces can engage corresponding slanted surfaces on the segment ends, to urge the segments towards each other as the clamp is tightened. A pair of jack screws can be threaded through the semi-circular sections so that the jack screws extend slightly outwardly from one of the sections and contact the other section at the beginning of the tightening process, to establish an initial assembly gap. As fasteners tighten the clamp around the segment, the jack screws can be backed out to maintain a uniformly decreasing assembly gap between the semi-circular sections. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/488978 |
| ART UNIT | 3679 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Pipes; Joints or Fittings for Pipes; Supports for Pipes, Cables or Protective Tubing; Means for Thermal Insulation in General F16L 21/065 (20130101) F16L 23/08 (20130101) Vessels for Containing or Storing Compressed, Liquefied or Solidified Gases; Fixed-capacity Gas-holders; Filling Vessels With, or Discharging From Vessels, Compressed, Liquefied, or Solidified Gases F17C 1/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09759501 | Michlin |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Research Laboratory (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) | Alexander E. Michlin (Whiteford, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A breech assembly for an automatic weapon having a barrel extension aligned with and extending outwardly from the rifle bore. The barrel extension has a throughbore aligned with the rifle bore and a non-circular locking recess at a rear end of fee barrel extension. The barrel extension also includes an internal thread in the throughbore. An elongated bolt includes an external thread complementary to the infernal thread hi the barrel extension. The bolt is mounted to a bolt carrier that is longitudinally slidably mounted to the gun body. Longitudinal movement of the bolt carrier simultaneously longitudinally and rotatably drives the bolt so that the bolt thread is threaded into the barrel extension. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 23, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/050756 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Functional Features or Details Common to Both Smallarms and Ordnance, e.g Cannons; Mountings for Smallarms or Ordnance F41A 3/46 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F41A 21/482 (20130101) |
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| US 09759537 | Smith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dynetics, Inc. (Huntsville, Alabama); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dynetics, Inc. (Huntsville, Alabama); The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerry C. Smith (Huntsville, Alabama); Bruce C. Patterson (Niceville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure generally relates to an improved penetrator design and associated arming generator relocator adaptor. In some embodiments, the arming generator relocator adaptor is positioned external to the penetrator, thereby removing the need to mount the FZU inside the warhead or include traditional internal plumbing. The arming generator relocator adaptor allows the FZU to be rotated to an optimal position to arm the penetrator. While the improved penetrator design and arming generator relocator adaptor can be used independently of each other, in the preferred embodiment, they are utilized together. |
| FILED | Friday, February 26, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/054932 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 12/204 (20130101) F42B 12/207 (20130101) Ammunition Fuzes; Arming or Safety Means Therefor F42C 15/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09759552 | Pruessner 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) | Marcel W. Pruessner (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Todd H. Stievater (Arlington, Virginia); William S. Rabinovich (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system described for sensing a displacement by receiving and propagating a laser light signal with an etched waveguide that is configured to enable an evanescent optical field above the waveguide surface. A movable perturber can be positioned so the perturber interacts with the evanescent optical field above the waveguide surface. An optical phase shift can be induced in the waveguide when the movable perturber is displaced in the evanescent optical field, and the optical phase shift can be measured with an optical readout circuit. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 31, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/168921 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 9/02023 (20130101) G01B 9/02051 (20130101) G01B 11/14 (20130101) G01B 11/026 (20130101) G01B 11/161 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 5/35329 (20130101) |
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| US 09759561 | Young et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | TRX Systems, Inc. (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TRX Systems, Inc. (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Travis Young (Rockville, Maryland); John Miller (Ellicott City, Maryland); John Karvounis (Bowie, Maryland); Dan Hakim (Silver Spring, Maryland); Jared Napora (Severn, Maryland); Benjamin Funk (Hanover, Maryland); Carole Teolis (Glenn Dale, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for computing a correction to a compass heading for a portable device worn or carried by a user is described. The method involves determining a heading for the device based on a compass reading, collecting data from one or more sensors, determining if the device is indoors or outdoors based on the collected data, and correcting the heading based on the determination of whether the device is indoors or outdoors. |
| FILED | Friday, May 15, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/714216 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 17/38 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 5/0247 (20130101) G01S 5/0252 (20130101) G01S 5/0278 (20130101) G01S 19/42 (20130101) |
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| US 09759640 | Hill et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Spot on Sciences, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Spot on Sciences, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Hill (Manor, Texas); Jeanette Hill (Manor, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of the claimed invention is directed to a method that greatly streamlines and reduces costs for tissue preparation, preservation, long-term storage and sample retrieval for molecular analysis using a method based on dried blood spot (DBS) technology. In this method, a small needle punch sample of freshly excised tissue will be homogenized in stabilizing reagent and inserted into a device containing absorbent material and drying agent. This device is suitable for long-term sample storage at ambient temperature and allows for easy removal of sections for biomarker analysis. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/776299 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 10/0038 (20130101) A61B 10/0096 (20130101) A61B 10/0233 (20130101) A61B 10/0241 (20130101) A61B 10/0266 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/0231 (20130101) B01L 3/5023 (20130101) B01L 3/5055 (20130101) B01L 2200/141 (20130101) B01L 2300/105 (20130101) B01L 2300/0803 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/08 (20130101) G01N 1/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 1/31 (20130101) G01N 2001/4027 (20130101) |
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| US 09759935 | Luo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Oracle International Corporation (Redwood City, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ying Luo (San Diego, California); Shiyun Lin (San Diego, California); Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California); Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical modulator is described. This optical modulator may be implemented using silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology. In particular, a semiconductor layer in an SOI platform may include a photonic crystal having a group velocity of light that is less than that of the semiconductor layer. Moreover, an optical modulator (such as a Mach-Zehnder interferometer) may be implemented in the photonic crystal with a vertical junction in the semiconductor layer. During operation of the optical modulator, an input optical signal may be split into two different optical signals that feed two optical waveguides, and then subsequently combined into an output optical signal. Furthermore, during operation, time-varying bias voltages may be applied across the vertical junction in the optical modulator using contacts defined along a lateral direction of the optical modulator. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/794457 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — 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 1/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02F 1/0123 (20130101) G02F 1/2255 (20130101) G02F 2001/0151 (20130101) G02F 2001/212 (20130101) G02F 2202/32 (20130101) |
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| US 09760533 | Fick et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Isocline Engineering, LLC (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS ON THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laura Fick (Ann Arbor, Michigan); David T. Blaauw (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Dennis Sylvester (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Michael B. Henry (Ann Arbor, Michigan); David Alan Fick (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A weighted sum is a key computation for many neural networks and other machine learning algorithms. Integrated circuit designs that perform a weighted sum are presented. Weights are stored as threshold voltages in an array of flash transistors. By putting the circuits into a well-defined voltage state, the transistors that hold one set of weights will pass current equal to the desired sum. The current flowing through a given transistor is unaffected by operation of remaining transistors in the circuit. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/459577 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/11 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/063 (20130101) Static Stores G11C 7/1006 (20130101) G11C 16/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09761324 | Lal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amit Lal (Ithaca, New York); Justin C. Kuo (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Delay line memory device, systems and methods are disclosed. In one aspect, a delay line memory device includes a substrate; an electronic unit disposed on the substrate and operable to receive, amplify, and/or synchronize data signals into a bit stream to be transmitted as acoustic pulses carrying data stored in the delay line memory device; a first and a second piezoelectric transducer disposed on the substrate and in communication with the electronic unit, in which the first piezoelectric transducer is operable to transmit the data signals to the acoustic pulses that carry the data through the bulk of the substrate, and the second piezoelectric transducer is operable to transduce the received acoustic pulses to intermediate electrical signals containing the data, which are transferred to the electronic unit via an electrical interconnect to cause refresh of the data in the delay line memory device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 03, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 15/116441 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Generating or Transmitting Mechanical Vibrations of Infrasonic, Sonic, or Ultrasonic Frequency, for Performing Mechanical Work in General B06B 1/0215 (20130101) B06B 2201/20 (20130101) B06B 2201/55 (20130101) B06B 2201/70 (20130101) Static Stores G11C 7/16 (20130101) G11C 19/00 (20130101) G11C 21/023 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09761343 | Frantz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jesse A. Frantz (Landover, Maryland); Jasbinder S. Sanghera (Ashburn, Virginia); Vinh Q. Nguyen (Fairfax, Virginia); Woohong Kim (Lorton, Virginia); Ishwar D. Aggarwal (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jesse A. Frantz (Landover, Maryland); Jasbinder S. Sanghera (Ashburn, Virginia); Vinh Q. Nguyen (Fairfax, Virginia); Woohong Kim (Lorton, Virginia); Ishwar D. Aggarwal (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A p-type transparent conductive material can comprise a thin film of BCSF on a substrate where the film has a conductivity of at least 1 S/cm. The substrate may be a plastic substrate, such as a polyethersulfone, polyethylene terephthalate, polyimide, or some other suitable plastic or polymeric substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, April 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/245025 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 9/08 (20130101) Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 14/06 (20130101) C23C 14/3414 (20130101) C23C 14/5806 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/31533 (20150401) Y10T 428/31721 (20150401) Y10T 428/31786 (20150401) |
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| US 09761368 | Deligianni 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) | Hariklia Deligianni (Alpine, New Jersey); William J. Gallagher (Ardsley, New York); Eugene J. O'Sullivan (Nyack, New York); Naigang Wang (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are magnetic structures, including on-chip inductors comprising laminated layers comprising, in order, a barrier and/or adhesion layer, a antiferromagnetic layer, a magnetic growth layer, a soft magnetic layer, an insulating non-magnetic spacer, a soft magnetic layer, a magnetic growth later, an antiferromagnetic layer. Also disclosed are methods of making such structures. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/978353 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — 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 14/14 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 1/14708 (20130101) H01F 27/24 (20130101) H01F 27/2804 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01F 41/042 (20130101) H01F 2027/2809 (20130101) |
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| US 09761426 | Cooks et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Graham Cooks (West Lafayette, Indiana); Jason Duncan (Dayton, Indiana); Guangming Huang (West Lafayette, Indiana); Guangtao Li (Carmel, Indiana); Xin Yan (West Lafayette, Indiana); Ewa Sokol (West Lafayette, Indiana); Xin Li (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally relates to methods and devices for synchronization of ion generation with cycling of a discontinuous atmospheric interface. In certain embodiments, the invention provides a system for analyzing a sample that includes a mass spectrometry probe that generates sample ions, a discontinuous atmospheric interface, and a mass analyzer, in which the system is configured such that ion formation is synchronized with cycling of the discontinuous atmospheric interface. |
| FILED | Monday, November 09, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/936197 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/62 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 49/0031 (20130101) H01J 49/0445 (20130101) H01J 49/4205 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/24 (20150115) |
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| US 09761443 | Park et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jun Hong Park (San Diego, California); Andrew C. Kummel (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for passivation of various surfaces (metal, polymer, semiconductors) from external contaminants, and the functionalization of inert surfaces. The method of the invention can functionalize 2D semiconductor and other insert surfaces such as non-reactive metals, oxides, insulators, glasses, and polymers. The method includes formation of a monolayer, an ordered bilayer or an ordered multilayer of metal phthalocyanines (MPc). The invention also provides layer structure in a semiconductor device, the layer structure comprising one of an ordered monolayer, ordered bilayer or ordered multi-layer of metal phthalocyanine upon a surface, and one of an ALD deposited layer or 2D semiconductor on the one of a monolayer, ordered bilayer or ordered multi-layer of metal phthalocyanine. |
| FILED | Friday, January 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/170058 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0228 (20130101) H01L 21/02118 (20130101) H01L 21/02178 (20130101) H01L 21/02304 (20130101) H01L 21/02318 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/0673 (20130101) H01L 29/1606 (20130101) H01L 51/0078 (20130101) H01L 51/0562 (20130101) |
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| US 09761444 | Nuzzo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph G. Nuzzo (Champaign, Illinois); John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Etienne Menard (Voglans, France); Keon Jae Lee (Daejeon, South Korea); Dahl-Young Khang (Seoul, South Korea); Yugang Sun (Gladwyne, Pennsylvania); Matthew Meitl (Durham, North Carolina); Zhengtao Zhu (Rapid City, South Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and devices for fabricating printable semiconductor elements and assembling printable semiconductor elements onto substrate surfaces. Methods, devices and device components of the present invention are capable of generating a wide range of flexible electronic and optoelectronic devices and arrays of devices on substrates comprising polymeric materials. The present invention also provides stretchable semiconductor structures and stretchable electronic devices capable of good performance in stretched configurations. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/084091 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 2201/0185 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/308 (20130101) H01L 21/02521 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/02603 (20130101) H01L 21/02628 (20130101) H01L 21/6835 (20130101) H01L 24/03 (20130101) H01L 24/05 (20130101) H01L 24/08 (20130101) H01L 24/29 (20130101) H01L 24/32 (20130101) H01L 24/80 (20130101) H01L 24/83 (20130101) H01L 24/94 (20130101) H01L 24/97 (20130101) H01L 25/0753 (20130101) H01L 27/1285 (20130101) H01L 27/1292 (20130101) H01L 29/04 (20130101) H01L 29/06 (20130101) H01L 29/12 (20130101) H01L 29/068 (20130101) H01L 29/0665 (20130101) H01L 29/0673 (20130101) H01L 29/0676 (20130101) H01L 29/78603 (20130101) H01L 29/78681 (20130101) H01L 29/78696 (20130101) H01L 31/0392 (20130101) H01L 31/1804 (20130101) H01L 31/1864 (20130101) H01L 31/1896 (20130101) H01L 31/03926 (20130101) H01L 33/007 (20130101) H01L 33/32 (20130101) H01L 33/0079 (20130101) H01L 2221/68368 (20130101) H01L 2221/68381 (20130101) H01L 2224/03 (20130101) H01L 2224/03 (20130101) H01L 2224/80 (20130101) H01L 2224/83 (20130101) H01L 2224/94 (20130101) H01L 2224/94 (20130101) H01L 2224/95 (20130101) H01L 2224/97 (20130101) H01L 2224/97 (20130101) H01L 2224/97 (20130101) H01L 2224/0332 (20130101) H01L 2224/0332 (20130101) H01L 2224/0345 (20130101) H01L 2224/0362 (20130101) H01L 2224/2919 (20130101) H01L 2224/2919 (20130101) H01L 2224/03614 (20130101) H01L 2224/05073 (20130101) H01L 2224/05073 (20130101) H01L 2224/05082 (20130101) H01L 2224/05082 (20130101) H01L 2224/05124 (20130101) H01L 2224/05124 (20130101) H01L 2224/05144 (20130101) H01L 2224/05144 (20130101) H01L 2224/05144 (20130101) H01L 2224/05155 (20130101) H01L 2224/05155 (20130101) H01L 2224/05155 (20130101) H01L 2224/05166 (20130101) H01L 2224/05166 (20130101) H01L 2224/05166 (20130101) H01L 2224/05552 (20130101) H01L 2224/05552 (20130101) H01L 2224/05553 (20130101) H01L 2224/05553 (20130101) H01L 2224/05554 (20130101) H01L 2224/05554 (20130101) H01L 2224/05555 (20130101) H01L 2224/05555 (20130101) H01L 2224/05644 (20130101) H01L 2224/05644 (20130101) H01L 2224/05644 (20130101) H01L 2224/05644 (20130101) H01L 2224/05666 (20130101) H01L 2224/05666 (20130101) H01L 2224/08225 (20130101) H01L 2224/8385 (20130101) H01L 2224/9202 (20130101) H01L 2224/9202 (20130101) H01L 2224/32225 (20130101) H01L 2224/32225 (20130101) H01L 2224/80006 (20130101) H01L 2224/80121 (20130101) H01L 2224/80121 (20130101) H01L 2224/80862 (20130101) H01L 2224/80895 (20130101) H01L 2224/83005 (20130101) H01L 2224/83121 (20130101) H01L 2224/83121 (20130101) H01L 2224/83192 (20130101) H01L 2224/83192 (20130101) H01L 2224/83193 (20130101) H01L 2224/83862 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00012 (20130101) H01L 2924/00012 (20130101) H01L 2924/00012 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/14 (20130101) H01L 2924/14 (20130101) H01L 2924/0665 (20130101) H01L 2924/01032 (20130101) H01L 2924/01032 (20130101) H01L 2924/1305 (20130101) H01L 2924/1305 (20130101) H01L 2924/1306 (20130101) H01L 2924/1306 (20130101) H01L 2924/1461 (20130101) H01L 2924/1461 (20130101) H01L 2924/1579 (20130101) H01L 2924/10253 (20130101) H01L 2924/10329 (20130101) H01L 2924/12032 (20130101) H01L 2924/12032 (20130101) H01L 2924/12036 (20130101) H01L 2924/12036 (20130101) H01L 2924/12041 (20130101) H01L 2924/12042 (20130101) H01L 2924/12042 (20130101) H01L 2924/12043 (20130101) H01L 2924/12043 (20130101) H01L 2924/12044 (20130101) H01L 2924/12044 (20130101) H01L 2924/13063 (20130101) H01L 2924/13063 (20130101) H01L 2924/13091 (20130101) H01L 2924/13091 (20130101) H01L 2924/15159 (20130101) H01L 2924/15162 (20130101) H01L 2924/15788 (20130101) H01L 2924/15788 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/547 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/521 (20151101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/707 (20130101) Y10S 977/724 (20130101) |
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| US 09761746 | Kang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yimin Kang (San Jose, California); Han-Din D. Liu (San Jose, California); Ansheng Liu (Cupertino, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yimin Kang (San Jose, California); Han-Din D. Liu (San Jose, California); Ansheng Liu (Cupertino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A low voltage APD is disposed at an end of a waveguide extending laterally within a silicon device layer of a PIC chip. The APD is disposed over an inverted re-entrant mirror co-located at the end of the waveguide to couple light by internal reflection from the waveguide to an under side of the APD. In exemplary embodiments, a 45°-55° facet is formed in the silicon device layer by crystallographic etch. In embodiments, the APD includes a silicon multiplication layer, a germanium absorption layer over the multiplication layer, and a plurality of ohmic contacts disposed over the absorption layer. An overlying optically reflective metal film interconnects the plurality of ohmic contacts and returns light transmitted around the ohmic contacts to the absorption layer for greater detector responsivity. |
| FILED | Monday, March 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/976369 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/028 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/105 (20130101) H01L 31/107 (20130101) H01L 31/1804 (20130101) H01L 31/02327 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/547 (20130101) |
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| US 09761785 | Fox et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Research Laboratory ATTN: RDRL-LOC-I (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glen R Fox (Colorado Springs, Colorado); Ronald G. Polcawich (Derwood, Maryland); Daniel M Potrepka (Silver Spring, Maryland); Luz M Sanchez (Laurel, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A ferroelectric device comprising a substrate; a textured layer; a first electrode comprising a thin layer of metallic material having a crystal lattice structure divided into granular regions; a seed layer; the seed layer being epitaxially deposited so as to form a column-like structure on top of the granular regions of the first electrode; at least one ferroelectric material layer exhibiting spontaneous polarization epitaxially deposited on the seed layer; the ferroelectric material layer, the seed layer, and first electrode each having granular regions in which column-like structures produce a high degree of polarization normal to the growth plane and a method of making. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/219028 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| 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 18/1216 (20130101) C23C 18/1291 (20130101) C23C 18/1295 (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 23/025 (20130101) C30B 25/183 (20130101) C30B 29/32 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 41/081 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 41/316 (20130101) H01L 41/319 (20130101) H01L 41/0815 (20130101) H01L 41/1875 (20130101) H01L 41/1876 (20130101) |
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| US 09761789 | Omenetto et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Fiorenzo Omenetto (Lexington, Massachusetts); David Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Tuna Yucel (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tufts University (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fiorenzo Omenetto (Lexington, Massachusetts); David Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Tuna Yucel (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods and compositions for preparing silk-based piezoelectric materials and methods for increasing piezoelectricity in silk matrices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/876472 |
| ART UNIT | 1744 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/3785 (20130101) A61N 1/36578 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/02 (20130101) H01L 41/45 (20130101) H01L 41/193 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 41/1132 (20130101) Electric Machines Not Otherwise Provided for H02N 2/18 (20130101) |
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| US 09762312 | Hsu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason Hsu (Cerritos, California); Rouh T. Bow (Rolling Hills Estates, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A signal testing apparatus is provided. The signal testing apparatus generally comprises a recording device that is configured to receive a plurality of signals representative of a plurality of electromagnetic waves that correspond to a pre-defined period of time. The recording device is further configured to record a plurality of digital representations of the signals such that each digital representation corresponds to a separate signal. A processing device is coupled to the recording device, wherein the processing device is configured to introduce at least one operational parameter to each of the digital representations. A play-back assembly is coupled to the recording device and to the processing device, wherein the play-back device is configured to play each of the digital representations simultaneously in real-time to facilitate verification of each of the signals. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/874362 |
| ART UNIT | 2633 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 7/18519 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 17/104 (20150115) |
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| US 09762565 | Eilers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hergen Eilers (Spokane, Washington); Benjamin Richard Anderson (Spokane, Washington); Ray Gunawidjaja (Spokane, Washington); Patrick David Price (Spokane, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington State University (Pullman, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hergen Eilers (Spokane, Washington); Benjamin Richard Anderson (Spokane, Washington); Ray Gunawidjaja (Spokane, Washington); Patrick David Price (Spokane, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Unique methods and systems are introduced herein for the determination of unique spatial light modulator based optical signatures of intrinsic and extrinsic scattering surface markers. These techniques can be used to authenticate semiconductor components and systems at various stages during the manufacturing process by measuring and cross correlating the surface marker's unique optical signature. In addition, these techniques can be used with extrinsic surface markers which are added to existing hardware (e.g. containers, locks, doors, etc.). These markers can then be measured for their unique optical signatures, which can be stored and used at a later time for cross-correlation to authenticate the surface marker and verify the hardware's provenance. |
| FILED | Friday, June 24, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/191964 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/95623 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/00 (20130101) H04L 63/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09762957 | Lucani et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Lucani (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Minji Kim (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Fang Zhao (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Xiaomeng Shi (West Roxbury, Massachusetts); Muriel Medard (Belmont, Massachusetts); Marie-Jose Montpetit (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, apparatus and computer program product for utilizing network coding for multi-resolution multicast is presented. A network source partitions source content into a base layer and one or more refinement layers. The network source receives a respective one or more push-back messages from one or more network destination receivers, the push-back messages identifying the one or more refinement layers suited for each one of the one or more network destination receivers. The network source computes a network code involving the base layer and the one or more refinement layers for at least one of the one or more network destination receivers, and transmits the network code to the one or more network destination receivers in accordance with the push-back messages. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 25, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/834878 |
| ART UNIT | 2424 — Cable and Television |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 12/1859 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 21/437 (20130101) H04N 21/6371 (20130101) H04N 21/6405 (20130101) H04N 21/234327 (20130101) H04N 21/234363 (20130101) H04N 21/440227 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09763314 | Roper et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher S. Roper (Oak Park, California); Matthew T. Rakher (Oxnard, California); Logan D. Sorenson (Agoura Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In some variations, a vapor-cell system comprises: a vapor-cell region configured to allow at least one vapor-cell optical path into a vapor phase within the vapor-cell region; a first electrode disposed in contact with the vapor-cell region; a second electrode that is electrically isolated from the first electrode; and a transparent ion-conducting layer interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the transparent ion-conducting layer is optically transparent over a selected optical band of electromagnetic wavelengths. Some embodiments provide a magneto-optical trap or atomic-cloud imaging apparatus, comprising: the disclosed vapor-cell system; a source of laser beams configured to provide three orthogonal vapor-cell optical paths through the vapor-cell gas phase, to trap or image a population of cold atoms; and a magnetic-field source configured to generate magnetic fields within the vapor-cell region. Methods of use are also disclosed herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 06, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/203298 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Plasma Technique; Production of Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles or of Neutrons; Production or Acceleration of Neutral Molecular or Atomic Beams H05H 3/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory Zlatko Grudic (Longmont, Colorado); Steven Lee Moulton (Littleton, Colorado); Isobel Jane Mulligan (Longmont, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Flashback Technologies, Inc. (Boulder, Colorado); The Regents of The University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Zlatko Grudic (Longmont, Colorado); Steven Lee Moulton (Littleton, Colorado); Isobel Jane Mulligan (Longmont, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Tools and techniques for estimating a probability that a patient is bleeding or has sustained intravascular volume loss (e.g., due to hemodialysis or dehydration) and/or to estimate a patient's current hemodynamic reserve index, track the patient's hemodynamic reserve index over time, and/or predict a patient's hemodynamic reserve index in the future. Tools and techniques for estimating and/or predicting a patient's dehydration state. Tools and techniques for controlling a hemodialysis machine based on the patient's estimated and/or predicted hemodynamic reserve index. |
| FILED | Friday, July 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/554483 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/021 (20130101) A61B 5/029 (20130101) A61B 5/0402 (20130101) A61B 5/02028 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/02042 (20130101) A61B 5/7275 (20130101) A61B 5/14551 (20130101) |
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| US 09757410 | Moon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joong Ho Moon (Weston, Florida); Rajeshkumar Manian (Miami, Florida); Eladio Mendez (Miami, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES (Miami, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joong Ho Moon (Weston, Florida); Rajeshkumar Manian (Miami, Florida); Eladio Mendez (Miami, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel monomer design for the synthesis of PPE-type polymers containing conjugated segments of well-defined length connected by flexible linkers under Sonogashira reaction conditions is presented. The resulting polymers retain the photophysical properties of a fully conjugated PPE. The extent of incorporation of the flexible units along the backbone is governed by the comonomer feed ratio and can be varied in a statistically predictable fashion. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 19, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/000232 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/728 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/728 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 37/0072 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 61/12 (20130101) C08G 61/121 (20130101) C08G 69/42 (20130101) C08G 2261/12 (20130101) C08G 2261/18 (20130101) C08G 2261/19 (20130101) C08G 2261/74 (20130101) C08G 2261/94 (20130101) C08G 2261/126 (20130101) C08G 2261/143 (20130101) C08G 2261/312 (20130101) C08G 2261/415 (20130101) C08G 2261/1424 (20130101) C08G 2261/3328 (20130101) C08G 2261/5222 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 5/08 (20130101) C08L 5/08 (20130101) C08L 5/10 (20130101) C08L 65/00 (20130101) C08L 65/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09757417 | Jain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lehigh University (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lehigh Universtiy (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Himanshu Jain (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania); Roman Holovchak (Clarksville, Tennessee); Matthias M. Falk (Emmaus, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A process of preparing a glass comprising: (a) heating a mixture of precursor chemicals to a melt temperature to form a melt, the melt being characterized in that quenching the melt at or above a threshold temperature results in a spinodal phase separation, and quenching the melt below the threshold temperature results in a droplet phase separation; and (b) quenching the melt at or above the threshold temperature in a preheated mold to form the glass composition having the spinodal phase separation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 19, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/297680 |
| ART UNIT | 1619 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 33/00 (20130101) A61K 33/08 (20130101) A61K 33/42 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 27/10 (20130101) A61L 27/54 (20130101) A61L 2430/34 (20130101) Manufacture, Shaping, or Supplementary Processes C03B 19/02 (20130101) C03B 32/02 (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 3/097 (20130101) C03C 4/0007 (20130101) C03C 4/0014 (20130101) C03C 2204/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09757698 | Weitz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David A. Weitz (Bolton, Massachusetts); Adam R. Abate (San Francisco, California); Tony Hung (Peachtree City, Georgia); Pascaline Mary (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Weitz (Bolton, Massachusetts); Adam R. Abate (San Francisco, California); Tony Hung (Peachtree City, Georgia); Pascaline Mary (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to systems and methods for the control of fluids and, in some cases, to systems and methods for flowing a fluid into and/or out of other fluids. As examples, fluid may be injected into a droplet contained within a fluidic channel, or a fluid may be injected into a fluidic channel to create a droplet. In some embodiments, electrodes may be used to apply an electric field to one or more fluidic channels, e.g., proximate an intersection of at least two fluidic channels. For instance, a first fluid may be urged into and/or out of a second fluid, facilitated by the electric field. The electric field, in some cases, may disrupt an interface between a first fluid and at least one other fluid. Properties such as the volume, flow rate, etc. of a first fluid being urged into and/or out of a second fluid can be controlled by controlling various properties of the fluid and/or a fluidic droplet, for example curvature of the fluidic droplet, and/or controlling the applied electric field. |
| FILED | Friday, June 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/379782 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Mixing, e.g Dissolving, Emulsifying, Dispersing B01F 5/0471 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01F 13/0071 (20130101) B01F 13/0076 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/0093 (20130101) B01J 2219/00837 (20130101) B01J 2219/00853 (20130101) B01J 2219/00862 (20130101) B01J 2219/00889 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/50273 (20130101) B01L 3/502784 (20130101) B01L 2300/0867 (20130101) B01L 2400/0415 (20130101) Valves; Taps; Cocks; Actuating-floats; Devices for Venting or Aerating F16K 99/0042 (20130101) F16K 99/0051 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/44791 (20130101) G01N 2035/1034 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 137/206 (20150401) Y10T 137/0391 (20150401) |
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| US 09757699 | Ahmed et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Ahmed (State College, Pennsylvania); Stephen Benkovic (State College, Pennsylvania); Tony Jun Huang (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatuses and methods for generating a chemical gradient within a flow channel include providing at least one bubble support structure within the flow channel. A bubble support structure helps maintain a bubble at a predetermined location in flow channel when a fluid flow passes therethrough. Oscillations are induced in the bubble using acoustic waves, which may be provided by a piezoelectric transducer located proximate the flow channel. Two or more inlets provide fluids of different chemical compositions into the flow channel, and bubble oscillations are used to generate a dynamically controllable mixing process. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/092104 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Mixing, e.g Dissolving, Emulsifying, Dispersing B01F 11/02 (20130101) B01F 11/0283 (20130101) B01F 13/0059 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01F 15/0404 (20130101) B01F 15/00493 (20130101) |
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| US 09757765 | Law et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Law (Irvine, California); Amanda S. Weber (Irvine, California); Sean Seefeld (Irvine, California); James Puthussery (Tustin, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are provided for fabricating pyrite thin films from molecular inks. A process is provided that comprises dissolving simple iron-bearing and sulfur-bearing molecules in an appropriate solvent and then depositing the solution onto an appropriate substrate using one of several methods (roll-to-roll coating, spraying, spin coating, etc.), resulting in a solid film consisting of the molecules. These molecular precursor films are then heated to 200-600° C. in the presence of sulfur-bearing gases (e.g., S2, H2S) to convert the molecular films into films of crystalline iron pyrite (FeS2). |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 02, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/728927 |
| 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) Original (OR) Class B05D 3/0254 (20130101) B05D 3/0453 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/0336 (20130101) H01L 31/0368 (20130101) H01L 31/1864 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/50 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/521 (20151101) |
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| US 09758385 | Subramanian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Munirpallam A. Subramanian (Philomath, Oregon); Arthur W. Sleight (Philomath, Oregon); Jun Li (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel colored compounds with a hibonite structure and a method for making the same are disclosed. The compounds may have a formula AAl12−x−yMaxMbyO19 where A is typically an alkali metal, an alkaline earth metal, a rare earth metal, Pb, Bi or any combination thereof, and Ma is Ni, Fe, Cu, Cr, V, Mn, or Co or any combination thereof, and Mb is Ti, Sn, Ge, Si, Zr, Hf, Ga, In, Zn, Mg, Nb, Ta, Sb, Mo, W or Te or any combination thereof. Compounds with varying colors, such as blue, can be made by varying A, Ma and Mb and their relative amounts. Compositions comprising the compounds and methods for making and using the same are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 16, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/237993 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 8/29 (20130101) A61K 2800/10 (20130101) A61K 2800/43 (20130101) Compounds of the Metals Beryllium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium, Thorium, or of the Rare-earth Metals C01F 7/164 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 53/006 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/72 (20130101) C01P 2002/76 (20130101) C01P 2002/77 (20130101) C01P 2002/84 (20130101) C01P 2006/60 (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 1/04 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 3/22 (20130101) C08K 2003/2206 (20130101) C08K 2003/2227 (20130101) C08K 2003/2237 (20130101) C08K 2003/2293 (20130101) Treatment of Inorganic Materials, Other Than Fibrous Fillers, to Enhance Their Pigmenting or Filling Properties; Preparation of Carbon Black; C09C 1/00 (20130101) C09C 1/0009 (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 1/00 (20130101) C09D 11/00 (20130101) C09D 17/007 (20130101) |
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| US 09758499 | Vidhani et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahessee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dinesh V. Vidhani (Tallahassee, Florida); Marie E. Krafft (Tallahassee, Florida); Igor Alabugin (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel Rh(I)-catalyzed approach to synthesizing functionalized (E,Z) dienal compounds has been developed via tandem transformation where a stereoselective hydrogen transfer follows a propargyl Claisen rearrangement. Z-Stereochemistry of the first double bond suggests the involvement of a six-membered cyclic intermediate whereas the E-stereochemistry of the second double bond stems from the subsequent protodemetallation step giving an (E,Z)-dienal. The reaction may be represented by the following sequence. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 04, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/398094 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 41/08 (20130101) C07C 45/513 (20130101) C07C 253/30 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 307/42 (20130101) C07D 307/46 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09758550 | Saito et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Woods Hole, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Woods Hole, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Makoto Saito (Falmouth, Massachusetts); Erin M. Bertrand (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a cobalamin acquisition protein, compositions containing the cobalamin acquisition protein, and the use of such compositions. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 03, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/958321 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/16 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/405 (20130101) C07K 14/43504 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/82 (20130101) |
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| US 09758724 | Collins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | INTELLIGENT MATERIAL SOLUTIONS, INC. (Princeton, New Jersey); THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTELLIGENT MATERIAL SOLUTIONS, INC. (Princeton, New Jersey); THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PHILADELPHIA (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua E. Collins (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Howard Y. Bell (Princeton, New Jersey); Xingchen Ye (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Christopher Bruce Murray (Montgomery County, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Monodisperse particles having: a single pure crystalline phase of a rare earth-containing lattice, a uniform three-dimensional size, and a uniform polyhedral morphology are disclosed. Due to their uniform size and shape, the monodisperse particles self assemble into superlattices. The particles may be luminescent particles such as down-converting phosphor particles and up-converting phosphors. The monodisperse particles of the invention have a rare earth-containing lattice which in one embodiment may be an yttrium-containing lattice or in another may be a lanthanide-containing lattice. The monodisperse particles may have different optical properties based on their composition, their size, and/or their morphology (or shape). Also disclosed is a combination of at least two types of monodisperse particles, where each type is a plurality of monodisperse particles having a single pure crystalline phase of a rare earth-containing lattice, a uniform three-dimensional size, and a uniform polyhedral morphology; and where the types of monodisperse particles differ from one another by composition, by size, or by morphology. In a preferred embodiment, the types of monodisperse particles have the same composition but different morphologies. Methods of making and methods of using the monodisperse particles are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/878424 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Books; Book Covers; Loose Leaves; Printed Matter Characterised by Identification or Security Features; Printed Matter of Special Format or Style Not Otherwise Provided For; Devices for Use Therewith and Not Otherwise Provided For; Movable-strip Writing or Reading Apparatus B42D 15/00 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Compounds of the Metals Beryllium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium, Thorium, or of the Rare-earth Metals C01F 17/0031 (20130101) C01F 17/0043 (20130101) C01F 17/0062 (20130101) C01F 17/0087 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/52 (20130101) C01P 2002/54 (20130101) C01P 2002/72 (20130101) C01P 2002/84 (20130101) C01P 2004/04 (20130101) C01P 2004/10 (20130101) C01P 2004/11 (20130101) C01P 2004/16 (20130101) C01P 2004/20 (20130101) C01P 2004/32 (20130101) C01P 2004/40 (20130101) C01P 2004/42 (20130101) C01P 2004/52 (20130101) C01P 2004/62 (20130101) C01P 2004/64 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/7773 (20130101) C09K 11/7791 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 7/08 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2933 (20150115) |
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| US 09758775 | Voytas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel F. Voytas (Falcon Heights, Minnesota); Adam J. Bogdanove (Ithaca, New York); Feng Zhang (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Materials and Methods related to gene targeting (e.g., gene targeting with transcription activator-like effector nucleases; “TALENS”) are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, April 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/252019 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/01 (20130101) C12N 15/62 (20130101) C12N 15/63 (20130101) C12N 15/102 (20130101) C12N 15/1082 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 301/21004 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lingjie Jay Guo (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for high speed detection of terahertz radiation are provided. A photoacoustic transducer receives a pulse of terahertz (THz) radiation. The transducer may comprise a solid, liquid, or semi-solid material. For example, the transducer may be a composite material having a polymer and radiation absorbing particles. The photoacoustic transducer produces an acoustic wave (e.g., an ultrasound wave) in response to receiving the pulse of THz radiation. An acoustic sensor receives the acoustic wave produced by the photoacoustic transducer and thus provides detection of the THz wave. |
| FILED | Friday, May 01, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/701806 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 29/221 (20130101) G01N 29/2418 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2291/028 (20130101) G01N 2291/101 (20130101) Transmission H04B 10/27 (20130101) H04B 10/90 (20130101) |
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| US 09759995 | Kirmani et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ghulam Ahmed Kirmani (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Vivek K. Goyal (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ghulam Ahmed Kirmani (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Vivek K. Goyal (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Diffuse image measurement system and digital image formation method. The system includes a source of light with time-varying intensity directed at a scene to be imaged. A time-resolved light meter is provided for receiving light reflected from the scene to generate time-resolved samples of the intensity of light incident at the light meter. The temporal variation in the intensity of light incident at the light meter is associated with a function of a radiometric property of the scene, such as a linear functional of reflectance, and a computer processes the samples to construct a digital image. The spatial resolution of the digital image is finer than the spatial support of the illumination on the scene and finer than the spatial support of the sensitivity of the light meter. Using appropriate light sources instead of impulsive illumination significantly improves signal-to-noise ratio and reconstruction quality. |
| FILED | Monday, August 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/572768 |
| ART UNIT | 2487 — Recording and Compression |
| 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 1/08 (20130101) G01J 1/0437 (20130101) G01J 1/4228 (20130101) Apparatus or Arrangements for Taking Photographs or for Projecting or Viewing Them; Apparatus or Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical Waves; Accessories Therefor G03B 39/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G03B 39/005 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 5/50 (20130101) G06T 2207/10152 (20130101) G06T 2207/20221 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dong Ge Li (Hoffman Estates, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Zienon, LLC (Elk Grove, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dong Ge Li (Hoffman Estates, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for inputting data for an electronic data entry device are provided. In one embodiment, identification of an input object such as the particular fingers of a user that are used to actuate a key region is performed. The symbol associated with the actuated key region and the finger (or other input object) used is determined. In other embodiments, virtual input devices with interfaces such as QWERTY style keyboards, phone keypads, and multi-touch capable touchpads or tablets are provided in input regions. One or more video capturing devices remotely acquire actuation information from the input regions during data entry. User inputted symbols or functions are determined based on the actuations, their locations and identified input object sets that caused the actuations. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/787763 |
| ART UNIT | 2625 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/0423 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 3/04883 (20130101) G06F 3/04886 (20130101) |
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| US 09760533 | Fick et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Isocline Engineering, LLC (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS ON THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laura Fick (Ann Arbor, Michigan); David T. Blaauw (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Dennis Sylvester (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Michael B. Henry (Ann Arbor, Michigan); David Alan Fick (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A weighted sum is a key computation for many neural networks and other machine learning algorithms. Integrated circuit designs that perform a weighted sum are presented. Weights are stored as threshold voltages in an array of flash transistors. By putting the circuits into a well-defined voltage state, the transistors that hold one set of weights will pass current equal to the desired sum. The current flowing through a given transistor is unaffected by operation of remaining transistors in the circuit. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/459577 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/11 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/063 (20130101) Static Stores G11C 7/1006 (20130101) G11C 16/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09760805 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Z. Wang (State College, Pennsylvania); Yu Zhang (Chicago, Illinois); Stephen Wistar (Lemont, Pennsylvania); Michael A. Steinberg (State College, Pennsylvania); Jia Li (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Satellite images from vast historical archives are analyzed to predict severe storms. We extract and summarize important visual storm evidence from satellite image sequences in a way similar to how meteorologists interpret these images. The method extracts and fits local cloud motions from image sequences to model the storm-related cloud patches. Image data of an entire year are adopted to train the model. The historical storm reports since the year 2000 are used as the ground-truth and statistical priors in the modeling process. Experiments demonstrate the usefulness and potential of the algorithm for producing improved storm forecasts. A preferred method applies cloud motion estimation in image sequences. This aspect of the invention is important because it extracts and models certain patterns of cloud motion, in addition to capturing the cloud displacement. |
| FILED | Friday, October 09, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/879758 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Meteorology G01W 1/00 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/46 (20130101) G06K 9/0063 (20130101) G06K 9/66 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/00335 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/20 (20130101) G06T 2207/10032 (20130101) G06T 2207/30192 (20130101) |
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| US 09761008 | Cleveland 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) | Jonas Cleveland (Plainfield, New Jersey); Kostas Daniilidis (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject matter described herein includes methods for visual odometry using rigid structures identified by an antipodal transform. One exemplary method includes receiving a sequence of images captured by a camera. The method further includes identifying rigid structures in the images using an antipodal transform. The method further includes identifying correspondence between rigid structures in different image frames. The method further includes estimating motion of the camera based on motion of corresponding rigid structures among the different image frames. |
| FILED | Monday, March 07, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/063495 |
| ART UNIT | 2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/73 (20170101) G06T 7/246 (20170101) G06T 7/2033 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2207/10016 (20130101) G06T 2207/20016 (20130101) G06T 2207/30244 (20130101) |
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| US 09761036 | Rzeszotarski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey M. Rzeszotarski (Chesterland, Ohio); Aniket D. Kittur (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and corresponding software for allowing a user to manipulate and interactively explore data intuitively by objectifying the data and allowing the user to apply any one or more simulated physical tools to the objectified data. The data can be any suitable type of data, including multivariate data and graph (network) data. In some embodiments, the method displays user-selected charts, such as histograms, scattergrams, and network graphs, in which objectified data points, or simulated physical objects, are attracted to their proper charted locations. In some embodiments, the user can apply one or more simulated physical tools and/or other tools, such as physical-barrier-type filter tools (e.g., sieves) and/or optical filter lens tools, to the simulated physical objects to filter the data. In some embodiments, the user can apply multiple tools, with each tool leaving a visual trace that allows the user to easily retrace their data manipulations. |
| FILED | Friday, April 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/696053 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 11/206 (20130101) G06T 13/20 (20130101) G06T 13/80 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 19/20 (20130101) G06T 2219/2012 (20130101) G06T 2219/2016 (20130101) |
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| US 09761060 | Black et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Black (Tuebingen, Germany); Oren Freifeld (Menlo Park, California); Alexander W. Weiss (Shirley, Massachusetts); Matthew M. Loper (Tuebingen, Germany); Peng Guan (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are computer-readable devices, systems and methods for generating a model of a clothed body. The method includes generating a model of an unclothed human body, the model capturing a shape or a pose of the unclothed human body, determining two-dimensional contours associated with the model, and computing deformations by aligning a contour of a clothed human body with a contour of the unclothed human body. Based on the two-dimensional contours and the deformations, the method includes generating a first two-dimensional model of the unclothed human body, the first two-dimensional model factoring the deformations of the unclothed human body into one or more of a shape variation component, a viewpoint change, and a pose variation and learning an eigen-clothing model using principal component analysis applied to the deformations, wherein the eigen-clothing model classifies different types of clothing, to yield a second two-dimensional model of a clothed human body. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 03, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/342225 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/48 (20130101) G06K 9/00214 (20130101) G06K 9/00369 (20130101) G06K 9/6209 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 3/40 (20130101) G06T 3/60 (20130101) G06T 7/13 (20170101) G06T 7/0089 (20130101) G06T 7/149 (20170101) G06T 11/60 (20130101) G06T 15/20 (20130101) G06T 17/00 (20130101) G06T 17/20 (20130101) G06T 19/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2207/20081 (20130101) G06T 2207/30196 (20130101) G06T 2210/16 (20130101) |
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| US 09761426 | Cooks et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Graham Cooks (West Lafayette, Indiana); Jason Duncan (Dayton, Indiana); Guangming Huang (West Lafayette, Indiana); Guangtao Li (Carmel, Indiana); Xin Yan (West Lafayette, Indiana); Ewa Sokol (West Lafayette, Indiana); Xin Li (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally relates to methods and devices for synchronization of ion generation with cycling of a discontinuous atmospheric interface. In certain embodiments, the invention provides a system for analyzing a sample that includes a mass spectrometry probe that generates sample ions, a discontinuous atmospheric interface, and a mass analyzer, in which the system is configured such that ion formation is synchronized with cycling of the discontinuous atmospheric interface. |
| FILED | Monday, November 09, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/936197 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/62 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 49/0031 (20130101) H01J 49/0445 (20130101) H01J 49/4205 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/24 (20150115) |
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| US 09761446 | Peng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of Houston System (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Haibing Peng (Houston, Texas); Guoxiong Su (Houston, Texas); Debtanu De (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of producing arrays of thin crystal grains of layered semiconductors, including the creation of stable atomic-layer-thick to micron-thick membranes of crystalline semiconductors by chemical vapor deposition. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/270973 |
| ART UNIT | 2896 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0242 (20130101) H01L 21/0259 (20130101) H01L 21/0262 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/02381 (20130101) H01L 21/02488 (20130101) H01L 21/02521 (20130101) H01L 21/02568 (20130101) H01L 23/544 (20130101) H01L 2223/5442 (20130101) H01L 2223/54426 (20130101) H01L 2223/54453 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) |
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| US 09762273 | Kinget et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter R Kinget (Summit, New Jersey); John Wright (New York, New York); Rabia Tugce Yazicigil (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter R Kinget (Summit, New Jersey); John Wright (New York, New York); Rabia Tugce Yazicigil (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Mechanisms for interferer detection can detect interferers by detecting elevated signal amplitudes in one or more of a plurality of bins (or bands) in a frequency range between a maximum frequency (fMAX) and a minimum frequency (fMIN). To perform rapid interferer detection, the mechanisms downconvert an input signal x(t) with a local oscillator (LO) to a complex baseband signal xI(t)+jxQ(t). xI(t) and xQ(t) are then multiplied by m unique pseudorandom noise (PN) sequences (e.g., Gold sequences) gm(t) to produce m branch signals for I and m branch signals for Q. The branch signals are then low pass filtered, converted from analog to digital form, and pairwise combined by a pairwise complex combiner. Finally, a support recovery function is used to identify interferers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 04, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/285474 |
| ART UNIT | 2633 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 1/1027 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 17/345 (20150115) Multiplex Communication H04J 13/0029 (20130101) |
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| US 09763216 | Sayeed |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Akbar Muhammad Sayeed (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of locating a radiator is provided. A channel measurement vector is defined that includes a signal value measured at each of a plurality of antennas in response to a signal transmitted from a radiator. (a) A cell covariance matrix of a first cell from a plurality of cells defined for a region in which the radiator is located is selected. (b) A likelihood value that the radiator is located in the first cell is calculated using the selected cell covariance matrix and the defined channel measurement vector. (a) and (b) are repeated with each cell of the plurality of cells as the first cell. A cell location of the radiator is selected based on the calculated likelihood value for each cell of the plurality of cells. |
| FILED | Friday, August 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/455095 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 5/0252 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 64/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09763325 | Chang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chih-Hung Chang (Corvallis, Oregon); Chang-Ho Choi (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Highly conductive silver may be fabricated at room temperature using in-situ reactive silver precursor inks by microreactor-assisted printing without any post-processing. Reactive silver nanoinks, synthesized in-situ from the microreactor, may be directly delivered onto glass and polymeric substrates without any surface treatment to form a highly dense and uniform silver feature. The distribution of the reactive silver nanoinks can be controlled by adjusting the flow rate of the continuous flow. Silver lines may be fabricated using the in-situ reactive precursors delivered via a micro-channel applicator. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 07, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/093551 |
| ART UNIT | 2847 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/02008 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 1/097 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05K 1/0393 (20130101) H05K 3/1241 (20130101) H05K 2203/0786 (20130101) H05K 2203/1157 (20130101) |
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 09757187 | Farritor et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board Of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shane Farritor (Lincoln, Nebraska); Tom Fredrick (Omaha, Nebraska); Joe Bartels (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | The embodiments disclosed herein relate to various medical device components, including components that can be incorporated into robotic and/or in vivo medical devices, and more specifically including end effectors that can be incorporated into such devices. Certain end effector embodiments include various vessel cautery devices that have rotational movement as well as cautery and cutting functions while maintaining a relatively compact structure. Other end effector embodiments include various end effector devices that have more than one end effector. |
| FILED | Monday, June 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/745587 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 18/1445 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 34/30 (20160201) A61B 2018/0063 (20130101) A61B 2018/00345 (20130101) A61B 2018/00595 (20130101) A61B 2018/1455 (20130101) A61B 2034/301 (20160201) |
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| US 09757729 | Tai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu-Chong Tai (Pasadena, California); Siyang Zheng (Pasadena, California); Jeffrey Chun-Hui Lin (Pasadena, California); Harvey L. Kasdan (Chatsworth, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are particular embodiments relating to a microfluidic device that may be utilized for cell sensing, counting, and/or sorting. Particular aspects relate to a microfabricated device that is capable of differentiating single cell types from dense cell populations. One particular embodiment relates a device and methods of using the same for sensing, counting, and/or sorting leukocytes from whole, undiluted blood samples. |
| FILED | Friday, November 18, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/355696 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502753 (20130101) B01L 3/502761 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 2200/0636 (20130101) B01L 2200/0647 (20130101) B01L 2300/0636 (20130101) B01L 2300/0654 (20130101) B01L 2300/0681 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0822 (20130101) B01L 2300/0864 (20130101) B01L 2300/0877 (20130101) B01L 2400/086 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/582 (20130101) G01N 33/5005 (20130101) G01N 33/5094 (20130101) |
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| US 09758256 | Shafaat et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Syed Tahir Shafaat (Everett, Washington); Tan Nhat Che (Federal Way, Washington); Julian Ametsitsi (Marysville, Washington); Charles Frederick Bell (Tacoma, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A small thin display unit that can be installed in the flight deck for displaying only flight crew-selected tactical information needed for the task at hand. The flight crew can select the tactical information to be displayed by means of any conventional user interface. Whenever the flight crew selects tactical information for display, the user interface sends a corresponding request for tactical information to a computer system. The computer system processes the request, including periodically retrieving measured current values or computing current values for the requested tactical parameters and returning those current tactical parameter values to the display unit for display. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/959803 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 43/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09758262 | Vandervort |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE BOEING COMPANY (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOEING COMPANY (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert E. Vandervort (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A system, method, and apparatus for a vented launch vehicle adaptor (LVA) for a manned spacecraft with a “pusher” launch abort system are disclosed. The disclosed LVA provides a structural interface between a commercial crew vehicle (CCV) crew module/service module (CM/SM) spacecraft and an expendable launch vehicle. The LVA provides structural attachment of the module to the launch vehicle. It also provides a means to control the exhaust plume from a pusher-type launch abort system that is integrated into the module. In case of an on-pad or ascent abort, which requires the module to jettison away from the launch vehicle, the launch abort system exhaust plume must be safely directed away from critical and dangerous portions of the launch vehicle in order to achieve a safe and successful jettison. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/338040 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Cosmonautics; Vehicles or Equipment Therefor B64G 1/002 (20130101) B64G 1/12 (20130101) B64G 1/52 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B64G 1/641 (20130101) B64G 2001/525 (20130101) |
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| US 09758761 | Scott Carnell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lisa A. Scott Carnell (Norfolk, Virginia); Emilie J. Siochi (Newport News, Virginia); Nancy M. Holloway (White Marsh, Virginia); Kam W. Leong (Durham, North Carolina); Karina Kulangara (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of manufacturing and/or using a scaffold assembly for stem cell culture and tissue engineering applications is disclosed. The scaffold at least partially mimics a native biological environment by providing biochemical, topographical, mechanical and electrical cues by using an electroactive material. The assembly includes at least one layer of substantially aligned, electrospun polymer fiber having an operative connection for individual voltage application. A method of cell tissue engineering and/or stem cell differentiation that uses the assembly seeded with a sample of cells suspended in cell culture media, incubates and applies voltage to one or more layers, and thus produces cells and/or a tissue construct. In another aspect, the invention provides a method of manufacturing the assembly including the steps of providing a first pre-electroded substrate surface; electrospinning a first substantially aligned polymer fiber layer onto the first surface; providing a second pre-electroded substrate surface; electrospinning a second substantially aligned polymer fiber layer onto the second surface; and, retaining together the layered surfaces with a clamp and/or an adhesive compound. |
| FILED | Monday, April 13, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/685204 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/12 (20130101) A61K 35/28 (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 27/16 (20130101) A61L 27/16 (20130101) A61L 27/3834 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 27/16 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0068 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 11/08 (20130101) C12N 13/00 (20130101) C12N 2529/00 (20130101) C12N 2533/30 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | KromaTiD, Inc. (Fort Collins, Colorado); Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | KROMATID, INC. (Fort Collins, Colorado); COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | F. Andrew Ray (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A kit for the characterization of chromosomal inversions using single-stranded probes that are either all identical or all complementary to a single-stranded chromatid is described. Reporter species are attached to oligonucleotide strands designed such that they may hybridize to portions of only one of a pair of single-stranded sister chromatids which may be prepared by the CO-FISH procedure. If an inversion has occurred, these marker probes will be detected on the second sister chromatid at the same location as the inversion on the first chromatid. The kit includes non-repetitive probes that are either all identical or all complementary to at least a portion of a target DNA sequence of only one DNA strand of only one chromatid and may in some embodiments include reagents suitable for performing CO-FISH and/or reagents for hybridizing the probes to the target DNA sequence. |
| FILED | Monday, July 27, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/810008 |
| 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 1/6827 (20130101) C12Q 1/6827 (20130101) C12Q 1/6841 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6841 (20130101) C12Q 2537/143 (20130101) C12Q 2537/143 (20130101) |
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| US 09759628 | Mian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Electronic Machines Corporation (Troy, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONIC MACHINES CORPORATION (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zahid F. Mian (Loudonville, New York); Ronald W. Gamache (East Greenbrush, New York); Nicholas Glasser (Troy, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A solution for monitoring an area for the presence of a flame and/or a leak, such as from a pressurized fluid, is provided. An imaging device can be used that acquires image data based on electromagnetic radiation having wavelengths only corresponding to at least one region of the electromagnetic spectrum in which electromagnetic radiation from an ambient light source is less than the electromagnetic radiation emitted by at least one type of flame for which the presence within the area is being monitored. An acoustic device can be used that is configured to acquire acoustic data for the area and enhance acoustic signals in a range of frequencies corresponding to a leak of a pressurized fluid present in the area. |
| FILED | Monday, January 26, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/605945 |
| ART UNIT | 2487 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Testing Static or Dynamic Balance of Machines or Structures; Testing of Structures or Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G01M 3/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Signalling or Calling Systems; Order Telegraphs; Alarm Systems G08B 13/193 (20130101) G08B 13/196 (20130101) G08B 13/1672 (20130101) G08B 17/125 (20130101) G08B 19/00 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/33 (20130101) H04N 7/18 (20130101) |
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| US 09759907 | Danehy |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE NASA (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul M. Danehy (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical device with a light source and a detector is provided. A digital micromirror device positioned between the detector and the light source may deflect light beams projected from the light source. An aperture in front of the detector may block an incoming light beam from the detector when the incoming light beam is incident on the detector outside of a passable incident range and including an aperture opening configured to pass the incoming light beam to the detector when the incoming light beam is incident on the detector within a passable incident range. The digital micromirror device may rotate between a first position causing the light beam to pass through the aperture opening and a second position causing the light beam to be blocked by the aperture. The optical device may be configured to operate as a shutter, chopper, modulator and/or deflector. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 27, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/007796 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/005 (20130101) G02B 26/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 26/0833 (20130101) Apparatus or Arrangements for Taking Photographs or for Projecting or Viewing Them; Apparatus or Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical Waves; Accessories Therefor G03B 9/08 (20130101) G03B 17/17 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/2256 (20130101) |
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| US 09760750 | Fink et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick W. Fink (Missouri City, Texas); Gregory Y. Lin (Houston, Texas); Timothy F. Kennedy (Houston, Texas); Phong H. Ngo (Friendswood, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor and system provide for radio frequency identification (RFID)-enabled information collection. The sensor includes a ring-shaped element and an antenna. The ring-shaped element includes a conductive ring and an RFID integrated circuit. The antenna is spaced apart from the ring-shaped element and defines an electrically-conductive path commensurate in size and shape to at least a portion of the conductive ring. The system may include an interrogator for energizing the ring-shaped element and receiving a data transmission from the RFID integrated circuit that has been energized for further processing by a processor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 12, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 14/993658 |
| ART UNIT | 2632 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 7/10316 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09762501 | Varadarajan 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) | Srivatsan Varadarajan (St. Louis Park, Minnesota); Brendan Hall (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); William Todd Smithgall (League City, Texas); Ted Bonk (Cave Creek, Arizona); Benjamin F. DeLay (McCordsville, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for systematic hybrid network scheduling for multiple traffic classes with host timing and phase constraints are provided. In certain embodiments, a method of scheduling communications in a network comprises scheduling transmission of virtual links pertaining to a first traffic class on a global schedule to coordinate transmission of the virtual links pertaining to the first traffic class across all transmitting end stations on the global schedule; and scheduling transmission of each virtual link pertaining to a second traffic class on a local schedule of the respective transmitting end station from which each respective virtual link pertaining to the second traffic class is transmitted such that transmission of each virtual link pertaining to the second traffic class is coordinated only at the respective end station from which each respective virtual link pertaining to the second traffic class is transmitted. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 01, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/676486 |
| ART UNIT | 2475 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 47/58 (20130101) H04L 47/60 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 09758804 | Obendorf et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph L. Obendorf (Ithaca, New York); Takashi Ueda (Fort Myers, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to an isolated DNA molecule encoding a fagopyritol synthase. A method for producing a fagopyritol, an insulin mediator, an insulin mediator analogue, an insulin mediator homologue, or an insulin mediator inhibitor is also described. The method includes providing a fagopyritol synthase, providing a substrate comprising a galactosyl donor and a galactosyl acceptor, and combining the fagopyritol synthase with the substrate under conditions effective produce a fagopyritol, an insulin mediator, an insulin mediator analogue, an insulin mediator homologue, or an insulin mediator inhibitor. |
| FILED | Monday, June 27, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/194129 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 21/04 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/1051 (20130101) C12N 15/8245 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/26 (20130101) C12P 19/46 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/52 (20151101) |
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| US 09758837 | Duan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); University of Florida Research Foundation (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yong Duan (Fort Pierce, Florida); Lijuan Zhou (Fort Pierce, Florida); John Kent Morgan (Port Saint Lucie, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | DNA amplification methods using primers obtained from the genes hyvI and hyvII from the Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus genome are useful for detecting Ca. L. species in plants and insect hosts. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/073205 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/689 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/16 (20130101) |
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| US PP28369 | Finn |
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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) | Chad E. Finn (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A new and distinct blackberry cultivar that originated from seed produced from a cross between the female blackberry plant ‘NZ 9629-1’ (unpatented) and the male parent blackberry plant ‘ORUS 1350-2’ (unpatented). This new blackberry cultivar can be distinguished by its high yields of extremely large and very uniformly shaped berries with very good firmness, color, and flavor and that are borne on vigorous, completely thornless trailing plants. |
| FILED | Monday, September 28, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/756637 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/203 |
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| US PP28372 | Brand et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Henry Brand (Willington, Connecticut); William Addison Smith (Bristol, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A new and distinct cultivar of Buddleia plant named ‘UCONNBD604’, characterized by its relatively compact, upright and outwardly spreading plant habit; freely branching habit and thick stems with short internodes; dense and bushy appearance; leathery and durable leaves; freely flowering habit; broadly conical inflorescences with numerous blue purple-colored flowers; and good garden performance. |
| FILED | Saturday, June 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/545698 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/242 |
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Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 09756849 | Hassanein et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Department of Veteran Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Department of Veteran Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Waleed H. Hassanein (North Andover, Massachusetts); Shukri Khuri (Westwood, Massachusetts); Michael D. Crittenden (Hyde Park, Massachusetts); Vladimir Birjinuik (Weston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions, methods, systems/devices and media are provided for maintaining a harvested organ in a functioning and viable state prior to implantation. The organ perfusion apparatus includes a preservation chamber for storing the organ during the preservation period. A perfusion circuit is provided having a first line for providing an oxygenated fluid to the organ, and a second line for carrying depleted fluid away from the organ. The perfusion apparatus also includes a device operably associated with the perfusion circuit for maintaining the organ at a substantially normothermic temperature. |
| FILED | Friday, March 27, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/671771 |
| ART UNIT | 1799 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| 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 1/02 (20130101) A01N 1/021 (20130101) A01N 1/0247 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01N 1/0278 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09756850 | Hassanein et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Department of the Veteran Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Department of Veteran Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Waleed H. Hassanein (North Andover, Massachusetts); Shukri Khuri (Westwood, Massachusetts); Michael D. Crittenden (Hyde Park, Massachusetts); Vladimir Birjinuik (Weston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions, methods, systems/devices and media are provided for maintaining a harvested organ in a functioning and viable state prior to implantation. The organ perfusion apparatus includes a preservation chamber for storing the organ during the preservation period. A perfusion circuit is provided having a first line for providing an oxygenated fluid to the organ, and a second line for carrying depleted fluid away from the organ. The perfusion apparatus also includes a device operably associated with the perfusion circuit for maintaining the organ at a substantially normothermic temperature. |
| FILED | Friday, February 10, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/430035 |
| ART UNIT | 1799 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| 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 1/02 (20130101) A01N 1/021 (20130101) A01N 1/0247 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01N 1/0278 (20130101) |
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| US 09756851 | Hassanein et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Department of the Veteran Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERAN AFFAIRS (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Waleed H. Hassanein (North Andover, Massachusetts); Shukri Khuri (Westwood, Massachusetts); Michael D. Crittenden (Hyde Park, Massachusetts); Vladimir Birjinuik (Weston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions, methods, systems/devices and media are provided for maintaining a harvested organ in a functioning and viable state prior to implantation. The organ perfusion apparatus includes a preservation chamber for storing the organ during the preservation period. A perfusion circuit is provided having a first line for providing an oxygenated fluid to the organ, and a second line for carrying depleted fluid away from the organ. The perfusion apparatus also includes a device operably associated with the perfusion circuit for maintaining the organ at a substantially normothermic temperature. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/442176 |
| ART UNIT | 1799 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| 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 1/02 (20130101) A01N 1/021 (20130101) A01N 1/0247 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01N 1/0278 (20130101) |
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| US 09757255 | Caldwell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan J. Caldwell (Long Grove, Illinois); Andrew H. Hansen (Apple Valley, Minnesota); Sean M. Wood (Hermosa Beach, California); Wei Chen (Wilmette, Illinois); Regan A. Radcliffe (San Francisco, California); Kevin A. Yngve (Chicago, Illinois); Bennett E. Kuhar (Concord Township, Ohio); Andrew J. Nelson (Chicago, Illinois); Eric Nickel (Brooklyn Park, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Pump systems for use in suspension of a prosthetic device from a residual limb and methods of suspending a prosthetic device from a residual limb are disclosed. The pump systems include a mechanically activated pump having a first compression member coupled to a second compression member, a compressible bladder disposed between the first and second compression members, and coupling elements that engage and couple together the first and second compression members. The mechanically activated pump may be connected with an electrically activated pump within a fluid circuit of a hybrid pump system to provide vacuum engagement between a prosthetic device and a residual limb. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 04, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/730816 |
| ART UNIT | 3738 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2/60 (20130101) A61F 2/68 (20130101) A61F 2/70 (20130101) A61F 2/80 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61F 2002/501 (20130101) A61F 2002/607 (20130101) A61F 2002/608 (20130101) A61F 2002/689 (20130101) A61F 2002/704 (20130101) A61F 2002/741 (20130101) A61F 2002/742 (20130101) A61F 2002/747 (20130101) A61F 2002/802 (20130101) A61F 2002/5073 (20130101) A61F 2002/6809 (20130101) A61F 2002/7655 (20130101) |
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Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 09759811 | Liu 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) | Haiyang Liu (Plymouth, Minnesota); Xiao Liu (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Radar vehicle tracking is described. One or more embodiments include a device to receive a first determined distance between a first radar transceiver and a vehicle, the first distance determined by the first radar transceiver operating in a first mode, receive a second determined distance between a second radar transceiver and the vehicle, the second distance determined by the second radar transceiver operating in the first mode, receive a first determined distance ellipse between the first radar transceiver and the vehicle, the first distance ellipse determined by the first radar transceiver operating in a second mode, receive a second determined distance ellipse between the second radar transceiver and the vehicle, the second distance ellipse determined by the second radar transceiver operating in the second mode, and determine at least one location estimate of the vehicle based on the first and second determined distances and first and second determined distance ellipses. |
| FILED | Monday, December 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/563669 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 13/003 (20130101) G01S 13/66 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01S 13/91 (20130101) G01S 13/723 (20130101) G01S 13/878 (20130101) |
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| US 09761892 | Boudreau |
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| APPLICANT(S) | AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Georgia (Republic O) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Audi AG (Ingolstadt, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Boudreau (Westfield, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel cell stack (11) includes a plurality of contiguous fuel cells (13), each including a unitized electrode assembly (15) sandwiched between porous, anode (22) and cathode water transport plates (18). In areas where silicone rubber (29) or other elastomer covers edges of the fuel cells in order to form seals with an external manifold (27), adjacent edges of the water transport plates are supplanted by, or augmented with, an elastomer-impervious material (34). This prevents infusion of elastomer to the WTPs which can cause sufficient hydrophobicity as to reduce or eliminate water bubble pressure required to isolate the reactant gases from the coolant water, thereby preventing gaseous inhibition of the coolant pump. A preformed insert (34) may be cast into the water transport plates as molded, or a fusible or curable non-elastomer, elastomer-impervious in fluent form may be deposited into the pores of already formed water transport plates, and then fused or cured. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/646700 |
| 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 8/023 (20130101) H01M 8/028 (20130101) H01M 8/0245 (20130101) H01M 8/0247 (20130101) H01M 8/0267 (20130101) H01M 8/0276 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/0282 (20130101) H01M 8/0284 (20130101) H01M 8/0286 (20130101) H01M 8/2415 (20130101) H01M 8/04171 (20130101) H01M 8/04291 (20130101) H01M 2008/1095 (20130101) |
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| US 09763055 | Fan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yingling Fan (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Julian Wolfson (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Gediminas Adomavicius (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A mobile device includes a positioning module sampling at least a position of the mobile device at a sampling rate when active and a processor capable of determining whether a mobile device is travelling or dwelling based on at least the sampled position of the mobile device. The processor further identifies a travel mode for a trip segment for the mobile device based on at least the sampled position of the mobile device when the mobile device is travelling and identifies an activity when then the mobile device is dwelling. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 26, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/836317 |
| ART UNIT | 2642 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 21/30 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/0484 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 4/04 (20130101) H04W 4/027 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09758724 | Collins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | INTELLIGENT MATERIAL SOLUTIONS, INC. (Princeton, New Jersey); THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTELLIGENT MATERIAL SOLUTIONS, INC. (Princeton, New Jersey); THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PHILADELPHIA (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua E. Collins (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Howard Y. Bell (Princeton, New Jersey); Xingchen Ye (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Christopher Bruce Murray (Montgomery County, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Monodisperse particles having: a single pure crystalline phase of a rare earth-containing lattice, a uniform three-dimensional size, and a uniform polyhedral morphology are disclosed. Due to their uniform size and shape, the monodisperse particles self assemble into superlattices. The particles may be luminescent particles such as down-converting phosphor particles and up-converting phosphors. The monodisperse particles of the invention have a rare earth-containing lattice which in one embodiment may be an yttrium-containing lattice or in another may be a lanthanide-containing lattice. The monodisperse particles may have different optical properties based on their composition, their size, and/or their morphology (or shape). Also disclosed is a combination of at least two types of monodisperse particles, where each type is a plurality of monodisperse particles having a single pure crystalline phase of a rare earth-containing lattice, a uniform three-dimensional size, and a uniform polyhedral morphology; and where the types of monodisperse particles differ from one another by composition, by size, or by morphology. In a preferred embodiment, the types of monodisperse particles have the same composition but different morphologies. Methods of making and methods of using the monodisperse particles are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/878424 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Books; Book Covers; Loose Leaves; Printed Matter Characterised by Identification or Security Features; Printed Matter of Special Format or Style Not Otherwise Provided For; Devices for Use Therewith and Not Otherwise Provided For; Movable-strip Writing or Reading Apparatus B42D 15/00 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Compounds of the Metals Beryllium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium, Thorium, or of the Rare-earth Metals C01F 17/0031 (20130101) C01F 17/0043 (20130101) C01F 17/0062 (20130101) C01F 17/0087 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/52 (20130101) C01P 2002/54 (20130101) C01P 2002/72 (20130101) C01P 2002/84 (20130101) C01P 2004/04 (20130101) C01P 2004/10 (20130101) C01P 2004/11 (20130101) C01P 2004/16 (20130101) C01P 2004/20 (20130101) C01P 2004/32 (20130101) C01P 2004/40 (20130101) C01P 2004/42 (20130101) C01P 2004/52 (20130101) C01P 2004/62 (20130101) C01P 2004/64 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/7773 (20130101) C09K 11/7791 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 7/08 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2933 (20150115) |
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| US 09758776 | Schellenberger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Amunix Operating Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Amunix Operating Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Volker Schellenberger (Palo Alto, California); Willem P. Stemmer (Los Gatos, California); Nathan C. Geething (Santa Clara, California); Wayne To (Fremont, California); Joshua Silverman (Sunnyvale, California); Chia-wei Wang (Milpitas, California); Benjamin Spink (San Carlos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions comprising factor IX coagulation factors linked to extended recombinant polypeptide (XTEN), isolated nucleic acids encoding the compositions and vectors and host cells containing the same, and methods of making and using such compositions in treatment of coagulation factor-related diseases, disorders, and conditions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 24, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/163603 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/001 (20130101) C07K 2319/31 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/644 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/70 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 304/21022 (20130101) |
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| US 09759641 | Oh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hysitron, Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hysitron, Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yunje Oh (Medina, Minnesota); Syed Amanulla Syed Asif (Bloomington, Minnesota); Edward Cyrankowski (Woodbury, Minnesota); Oden Lee Warren (New Brighton, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A sub-micron scale property testing apparatus including a test subject holder and heating assembly. The assembly includes a holder base configured to couple with a sub-micron mechanical testing instrument and electro-mechanical transducer assembly. The assembly further includes a test subject stage coupled with the holder base. The test subject stage is thermally isolated from the holder base. The test subject stage includes a stage subject surface configured to receive a test subject, and a stage plate bracing the stage subject surface. The stage plate is under the stage subject surface. The test subject stage further includes a heating element adjacent to the stage subject surface, the heating element is configured to generate heat at the stage subject surface. |
| FILED | Monday, November 23, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/948549 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/42 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 3/08 (20130101) G01N 3/18 (20130101) G01N 3/42 (20130101) G01N 2203/0226 (20130101) G01N 2203/0286 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 37/20 (20130101) Electric Heating; Electric Lighting Not Otherwise Provided for H05B 1/023 (20130101) H05B 3/22 (20130101) |
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Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 09761431 | Murphy |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NOAA Technology Partnerships Office (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NOAA Technology Partnerships Office (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Murphy (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for expressing an ion path in a time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometer. The present invention uses two successive curved sectors, with the second one reversed, to form S-shaped configuration such that an output ion beam is parallel to an input ion beam, such that the ions makes two identical but opposed turns, and such that the geometry of the entire system folds into a very compact volume. Geometry of a TOF mass spectrometer system in accordance with embodiments of the present invention further includes straight drift regions positioned before and after the S-shaped configuration and, optionally, a short straight region positioned between the two curved sectors with total length equal to about the length of the central arc of both curved sectors. |
| FILED | Saturday, August 27, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/249370 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/408 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09761443 | Park et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jun Hong Park (San Diego, California); Andrew C. Kummel (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for passivation of various surfaces (metal, polymer, semiconductors) from external contaminants, and the functionalization of inert surfaces. The method of the invention can functionalize 2D semiconductor and other insert surfaces such as non-reactive metals, oxides, insulators, glasses, and polymers. The method includes formation of a monolayer, an ordered bilayer or an ordered multilayer of metal phthalocyanines (MPc). The invention also provides layer structure in a semiconductor device, the layer structure comprising one of an ordered monolayer, ordered bilayer or ordered multi-layer of metal phthalocyanine upon a surface, and one of an ALD deposited layer or 2D semiconductor on the one of a monolayer, ordered bilayer or ordered multi-layer of metal phthalocyanine. |
| FILED | Friday, January 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/170058 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0228 (20130101) H01L 21/02118 (20130101) H01L 21/02178 (20130101) H01L 21/02304 (20130101) H01L 21/02318 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/0673 (20130101) H01L 29/1606 (20130101) H01L 51/0078 (20130101) H01L 51/0562 (20130101) |
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Department of Education (ED)
| US 09757255 | Caldwell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan J. Caldwell (Long Grove, Illinois); Andrew H. Hansen (Apple Valley, Minnesota); Sean M. Wood (Hermosa Beach, California); Wei Chen (Wilmette, Illinois); Regan A. Radcliffe (San Francisco, California); Kevin A. Yngve (Chicago, Illinois); Bennett E. Kuhar (Concord Township, Ohio); Andrew J. Nelson (Chicago, Illinois); Eric Nickel (Brooklyn Park, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Pump systems for use in suspension of a prosthetic device from a residual limb and methods of suspending a prosthetic device from a residual limb are disclosed. The pump systems include a mechanically activated pump having a first compression member coupled to a second compression member, a compressible bladder disposed between the first and second compression members, and coupling elements that engage and couple together the first and second compression members. The mechanically activated pump may be connected with an electrically activated pump within a fluid circuit of a hybrid pump system to provide vacuum engagement between a prosthetic device and a residual limb. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 04, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/730816 |
| ART UNIT | 3738 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2/60 (20130101) A61F 2/68 (20130101) A61F 2/70 (20130101) A61F 2/80 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61F 2002/501 (20130101) A61F 2002/607 (20130101) A61F 2002/608 (20130101) A61F 2002/689 (20130101) A61F 2002/704 (20130101) A61F 2002/741 (20130101) A61F 2002/742 (20130101) A61F 2002/747 (20130101) A61F 2002/802 (20130101) A61F 2002/5073 (20130101) A61F 2002/6809 (20130101) A61F 2002/7655 (20130101) |
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 09759699 | Gregory et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rhode Island Board of Education, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Council on Postsecondary Education (Warwick, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Otto J. Gregory (Wakefield, Rhode Island); Daniel Mallin (Cranston, Rhode Island); Zach Caron (Hope, Rhode Island); Mitch Champlin (Narraganset, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas sensor system is disclosed for detection of a compound that decomposes upon exposure to a metal oxide catalyst. The gas sensor system includes a sensor which includes a microheater, and a metal oxide catalyst that covers the microheater. The gas sensor system includes a pre-concentrator upstream from the sensor that lowers the limit of the detection of a compound. |
| FILED | Friday, May 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/719400 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/0013 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/227 (20130101) |
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 09757689 | Olson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Midwest Energy Emissions Corp. (Lewis Center, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edwin S. Olson (Grand Forks, North Dakota); Michael J. Holmes (Thompson, North Dakota); John Henry Pavlish (East Grand Forks, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A promoted activated carbon sorbent is described that is highly effective for the removal of mercury from flue gas streams. The sorbent comprises a new modified carbon form containing reactive forms of halogen and halides. Optional components may be added to increase reactivity and mercury capacity. These may be added directly with the sorbent, or to the flue gas to enhance sorbent performance and/or mercury capture. Mercury removal efficiencies obtained exceed conventional methods. The sorbent can be regenerated and reused. Sorbent treatment and preparation methods are also described. New methods for in-flight preparation, introduction, and control of the active sorbent into the mercury contaminated gas stream are described. |
| FILED | Friday, June 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/318270 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/10 (20130101) B01D 53/64 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 2253/102 (20130101) B01D 2257/602 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/20 (20130101) B01J 20/22 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 95/901 (20130101) |
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National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 09761746 | Kang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yimin Kang (San Jose, California); Han-Din D. Liu (San Jose, California); Ansheng Liu (Cupertino, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yimin Kang (San Jose, California); Han-Din D. Liu (San Jose, California); Ansheng Liu (Cupertino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A low voltage APD is disposed at an end of a waveguide extending laterally within a silicon device layer of a PIC chip. The APD is disposed over an inverted re-entrant mirror co-located at the end of the waveguide to couple light by internal reflection from the waveguide to an under side of the APD. In exemplary embodiments, a 45°-55° facet is formed in the silicon device layer by crystallographic etch. In embodiments, the APD includes a silicon multiplication layer, a germanium absorption layer over the multiplication layer, and a plurality of ohmic contacts disposed over the absorption layer. An overlying optically reflective metal film interconnects the plurality of ohmic contacts and returns light transmitted around the ohmic contacts to the absorption layer for greater detector responsivity. |
| FILED | Monday, March 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/976369 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/028 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/105 (20130101) H01L 31/107 (20130101) H01L 31/1804 (20130101) H01L 31/02327 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/547 (20130101) |
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Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
| US 09761324 | Lal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amit Lal (Ithaca, New York); Justin C. Kuo (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Delay line memory device, systems and methods are disclosed. In one aspect, a delay line memory device includes a substrate; an electronic unit disposed on the substrate and operable to receive, amplify, and/or synchronize data signals into a bit stream to be transmitted as acoustic pulses carrying data stored in the delay line memory device; a first and a second piezoelectric transducer disposed on the substrate and in communication with the electronic unit, in which the first piezoelectric transducer is operable to transmit the data signals to the acoustic pulses that carry the data through the bulk of the substrate, and the second piezoelectric transducer is operable to transduce the received acoustic pulses to intermediate electrical signals containing the data, which are transferred to the electronic unit via an electrical interconnect to cause refresh of the data in the delay line memory device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 03, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 15/116441 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Generating or Transmitting Mechanical Vibrations of Infrasonic, Sonic, or Ultrasonic Frequency, for Performing Mechanical Work in General B06B 1/0215 (20130101) B06B 2201/20 (20130101) B06B 2201/55 (20130101) B06B 2201/70 (20130101) Static Stores G11C 7/16 (20130101) G11C 19/00 (20130101) G11C 21/023 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 09758242 | Wulff et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ole Wulff (Ansonia, Connecticut); Derek Geiger (Wilton, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Lift offset management and control systems are provided for a rotorcraft including main rotor and auxiliary propulsor assemblies, the main rotor assembly including first and second rotors disposed to oppositely rotate relative to an airframe about a same rotational axis, and sensors disposed to generate hub moment, tip clearance and lift offset data of the main rotor assembly. |
| FILED | Friday, December 18, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/974988 |
| ART UNIT | 3668 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 27/008 (20130101) B64C 27/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B64C 27/82 (20130101) B64C 2027/8236 (20130101) Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 1/0858 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09758364 | Shaw et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gordon A. Shaw (Plymouth, Minnesota); Daniel Baseman (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Chris Finn (Maple Lake, Minnesota); Jim G. Hunter (Robbinsdale, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Microstructure plating systems and methods are described herein. One method includes depositing a plating-resistant material between a microstructure and a bonding layer, wherein the microstructure comprises a plating process base material and immersing the microstructure in a plating solution. |
| FILED | Monday, May 23, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/162027 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Microstructural Devices or Systems, e.g Micromechanical Devices B81B 3/0021 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B81B 2201/0292 (20130101) B81B 2203/0118 (20130101) B81B 2207/07 (20130101) B81B 2207/015 (20130101) Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/0015 (20130101) B81C 2201/013 (20130101) B81C 2201/0197 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09759842 | Kinz-Thompson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Colin Kinz-Thompson (New York, New York); Ruben L. Gonzalez, Jr. (New York, New York); James C. Hone (New York, New York); Matteo Palma (New York, New York); Alexander Alexeevich Godarenko (Springfield, Virginia); Daniel Alexandre Chenet (New York, New York); Samuel J. Wind (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosed subject matter provides a nanoaperture having a bottom surface and a side wall comprising gold. A surface of the side wall is passivated with a first functional molecule comprising polyethylene glycol. The bottom surface of the nanoaperture can be functionalized with at least one second molecule comprising polyethylene glycol, for example, a silane-PEG molecule. The second molecule can further include a moiety, such as biotin, which is capable of binding a target biomolecule, which in turn can bind to a biomolecule of interest for single molecule fluorescence imaging analysis. Fabrication techniques of the nanoaperture are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, July 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/444793 |
| ART UNIT | 1798 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/54373 (20130101) G01N 33/54393 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 1/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/107 (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 12, 2017.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
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FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
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FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
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