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| US 09763569 | Fingler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (Los Angeles, California); CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (Los Angeles, California); CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey P. Fingler (Orange, California); Scott E. Fraser (Glendale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates to the field of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT). This disclosure particularly relates to an OCT system with improved motion contrast. This disclosure particularly relates to motion contrast methods for such OCT systems. The OCT system of this disclosure may have a configuration that scans a physical object, which has a surface and a depth, with a beam of light that has a beam width and a direction; acquires OCT signals from the scan; forms at least one A-scan using the acquired OCT signals; forms at least one B-scan cluster set using the acquired OCT signals that includes at least two B-scan clusters that each include at least two B-scans. The B-scans within each B-scan cluster set are parallel to one another and parallel to the direction of the beam of light. The OCT system may have a configuration that calculates OCT motion contrast using the at least one B-scan cluster set. This OCT system may form and display an image of the physical object. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 04, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 15/104491 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 3/0025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 3/0041 (20130101) A61B 3/102 (20130101) A61B 3/1233 (20130101) A61B 5/7203 (20130101) Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 9/02076 (20130101) G01B 9/02091 (20130101) G01B 2290/65 (20130101) |
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| US 09763570 | Fingler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (Los Angeles, California); CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (Los Angeles, California); CALIFRONIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey P. Fingler (Orange, California); Scott E. Fraser (Glendale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates to the field of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT). This disclosure particularly relates to an OCT system having a configuration that uses a phase sensitive B-scan registration method. In this disclosure, an OCT system may have a configuration that scans a physical object, acquires OCT signals to form B-scans, uses these B-scans to determine an optimal shift in an axial direction by using total phase error between B-scans, and align B-scans, thereby minimizing effects of motion that may occur during scanning of the physical object. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 04, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 15/106910 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 3/10 (20130101) A61B 3/0025 (20130101) A61B 3/102 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 3/1233 (20130101) Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 9/02091 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/4795 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/0005 (20130101) |
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| US 09763572 | Sadhasivam |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Senthilkumar Sadhasivam (Mason, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-invasive bedside tool for monitoring central nervous system effects of opioids. The tool illustratively comprises a quantitative pupillometry system for predicting a probability of at least one opioid-related central effect based on detected pupillary effects. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 11, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/042137 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 3/0008 (20130101) A61B 3/14 (20130101) A61B 3/112 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/08 (20130101) A61B 5/4848 (20130101) A61B 5/7275 (20130101) A61B 2560/0475 (20130101) |
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| US 09763597 | Fain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sean Bedilion Fain (Madison, Wisconsin); Krishna N. Kuprad (Madison, Wisconsin); Xu Zhai (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sean Bedilion Fain (Madison, Wisconsin); Krishna N. Kuprad (Madison, Wisconsin); Xu Zhai (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A local breast coil is designed to be tightly coupled to the natural shape of the pendant breast to provide high SNR for diagnostic MR imaging applications, while still providing access for interventional procedures through openings in the coil. In accordance with one configuration, the coil has a symmetrical design, such that the coil can be rotated about the breast to position an opening in the coil proximate to a desired portion of the breast without incurring registration or other alignment or artifact errors due to inhomogeneous B1 excitation. Furthermore, the coil is designed to facilitate medial and lateral imaging of the breast. The coil is combined with a patient support system that facilitates rotation of the coil and interchangeability of the coil to match the configuration of the coil to the position of the breast being imaged. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/108070 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/055 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/341 (20130101) G01R 33/3415 (20130101) G01R 33/34046 (20130101) G01R 33/34053 (20130101) |
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| US 09763713 | Bottlang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zimmer, Inc. (Warsaw, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Zimmer, Inc. (Warsaw, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Bottlang (Happy Valley, Oregon); Steven M. Madey (West Linn, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments provide methods, apparatuses, and systems for fixation of a fractured bone. In various embodiments, the systems and plates may provide elastic suspension of the receiving holes relative to the osteosynthesis plate. This elastic suspension may promote load distribution between the screws that connect a bone segment to the plate, thereby reducing stress risers and load shielding effect. In addition, stress at the screw holes, and within the construct as a whole, is reduced by incorporation of these elastic elements in the plate. Additionally, in some embodiments, for instance if fracture healing by callus formation is desired, elastic suspension of the receiving holes relative to the osteosynthesis plate may enable small, controlled amounts of relative motion between bone fragments connected by the plate, which may promote fracture healing by callus formation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 25, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/630938 |
| ART UNIT | 3775 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 17/8038 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 2560/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09763825 | Tai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California); Doheny Eye Institute (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California); Doheny Eye Institute (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu-Chong Tai (Pasadena, California); Nicholas E. Scianmarello (Pasadena, California); Karthik Murali (Los Angeles, California); Mark S. Humayun (Glendale, California); Ramiro Magalhaes Ribeiro (South Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An implantable medical device is described. The implantable medical device includes a small molecule generator, a small molecule diffusor, and a cannula that connects the two. The small molecule generator includes an electrolyte reservoir and a set of electrodes. A first portion of the electrolyte reservoir is impermeable to a predetermined class of small molecules. A second portion of the electrolyte reservoir is permeable to the small molecules. The set of electrodes is disposed inside the electrolyte reservoir and is configured to facilitate electrolysis of the small molecules based on an electric power application to the set of electrodes and on presence of electrolyte inside the electrolyte reservoir. At least a portion of the small molecule diffusor is permeable to the small molecules. |
| FILED | Friday, September 09, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/261435 |
| ART UNIT | 3763 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| 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 9/0017 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 5/14276 (20130101) A61M 37/00 (20130101) A61M 2005/14204 (20130101) A61M 2205/04 (20130101) A61M 2210/0612 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/20 (20130101) A61N 1/0543 (20130101) A61N 1/3787 (20130101) |
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| US 09763866 | Christiano et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Angela M. Christiano (Mahwah, New Jersey); Raphael Clynes (West Nyack, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides for methods for treating a hair loss disorder in a subject by administering a Janus Kinase/Signal Transducers and Activators of Transcription inhibitor. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 10, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/066554 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 8/41 (20130101) A61K 8/64 (20130101) A61K 8/4953 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/52 (20130101) A61K 31/63 (20130101) A61K 31/137 (20130101) A61K 31/277 (20130101) A61K 31/407 (20130101) A61K 31/437 (20130101) A61K 31/506 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 31/529 (20130101) A61K 31/553 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) A61K 31/7052 (20130101) A61K 2800/782 (20130101) Specific Use of Cosmetics or Similar Toilet Preparations A61Q 7/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09763899 | Nicolls et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California); The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California); The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark R. Nicolls (Palo Alto, California); Xinguo Jiang (Palo Alto, California); Geoffrey C. Gurtner (Woodside, California); Gregg L. Semenza (Reisertown, Maryland); Jayakumar Rajadas (Cupertino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Formulations and methods are provided for improving the function, i.e. clinical outcome, of solid organ transplants. Lung transplantation is of particular interest. In the methods of the invention, a nanoparticle formulation comprising an effective dose of an iron chelator active agent in nanoparticle form, including without limitation, deferoxamine (DFO), deferasirox (DFX), and deferiprone (DFP), etc. is topically applied to the surface of tissues during episodes of graft rejection. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/653245 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/12 (20130101) A61K 9/0073 (20130101) A61K 9/145 (20130101) A61K 9/146 (20130101) A61K 31/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/4196 (20130101) A61K 31/4412 (20130101) |
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| US 09763905 | Puder et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Puder (Medfield, Massachusetts); Deepika Nehra (Boston, Massachusetts); Brian Kalish (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for treating or preventing certain cancers in a subject. In certain embodiments such compositions and methods generally relate to the use of G-coupled protein receptor 40 (GPR40) agonists to inhibit the growth or induce apoptosis of certain cancer cells. The compositions and related methods disclosed herein may be used to treat subjects affected by cancers, such as melanoma, medullary thyroid carcinoma, malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors and neuroblastoma, and to reduce the incidence of metastases in such affected subjects. |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/777485 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/20 (20130101) A61K 31/20 (20130101) A61K 31/192 (20130101) A61K 31/192 (20130101) A61K 31/196 (20130101) A61K 31/196 (20130101) A61K 31/201 (20130101) A61K 31/201 (20130101) A61K 31/202 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/202 (20130101) A61K 31/343 (20130101) A61K 31/343 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09763912 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chu Chen (Harvey, Louisiana); Jian Zhang (Harvey, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for compositions including an antimicrobial agent, pharmaceutical compositions including the composition or pharmaceutical composition, methods of treating a condition or disease, methods of treatment using compositions or pharmaceutical compositions, and the like. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 15/033141 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/352 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/352 (20130101) A61K 31/365 (20130101) A61K 31/365 (20130101) A61K 31/415 (20130101) A61K 31/415 (20130101) A61K 31/616 (20130101) A61K 31/616 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09763956 | Bernstein et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Broad Institute, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Broad Institute, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bradley E. Bernstein (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jon C. Aster (Lexington, Massachusetts); James E. Bradner (Weston, Massachusetts); Birgit Knoechel (Brookline, Massachusetts); Christopher J. Ott (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David Root (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods of treatment and diagnosis of subjects with cancer. In some aspects, the invention relates to methods of treatment and diagnosis of subjects with cancer, wherein the cancer is characterized by a Notch pathway activation mutation or by resistance to a Notch pathway inhibitor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/409138 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/55 (20130101) A61K 31/55 (20130101) A61K 31/551 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 31/5517 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (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) |
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| US 09763961 | Chen |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shiuan Chen (Arcadia, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CITY OF HOPE (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shiuan Chen (Arcadia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions for treating an estrogen receptor (ER) or estrogen related receptor (ERR) mediated disorder, comprising a therapeutically effective amount of a compound selected from the group consisting of Compound Nos. 1-9, 7-2, 7-4, 7-5, 7-7, 7-8, 8-2 and 3-15 set forth herein or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein said compound modulates estrogen receptors and/or estrogen-related receptors and methods for use of said compositions. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/400024 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/56 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09763967 | McDowell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ball State Innovation Corporation (Muncie, Indiana); STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ball State Innovation Corporation (Muncie, Indiana); STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan A. McDowell (Yorktown, Indiana); Robert E. Sammelson (Muncie, Indiana); Larry A. Sklar (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mark K. Haynes (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to molecules which function as selective modulators (i.e., inhibitors and agonists) of the Ras-homologous (Rho) family of small GTPases and, in particular, CDC42 GTPase, and their use to treat bacterial infection including systemic infection from sources such as Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes. |
| FILED | Friday, December 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/561787 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/635 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09763968 | Sinko et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick J. Sinko (Lebanon, New Jersey); Manjeet Deshmukh (Edison, New Jersey); Siva N. Priya Anumolu (Edison, New Jersey); Anupa R. Menjoge (Highland Park, New Jersey); Marion K. Gordon (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Formulations of cross-linkable polymers, capable of forming non-toxic and biocompatible hydrogels in situ, containing at least one of doxycycline or minocycline. Methods of using the hydrogels for treating the skin or ocular tissues of mammals exposed to vesicant compounds such as sulfur mustard (SM), nitrogen mustard (NM) or half mustard (2-chloroethyl ethyl sulfide (CEES)) are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 31, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/168542 |
| ART UNIT | 1619 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/06 (20130101) A61K 9/0014 (20130101) A61K 9/0048 (20130101) A61K 9/0051 (20130101) A61K 31/65 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 33/40 (20130101) A61K 47/10 (20130101) A61K 47/34 (20130101) A61K 47/48215 (20130101) A61K 47/48238 (20130101) A61K 47/48784 (20130101) |
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| US 09763969 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Liu (Los Angeles, California); Pierre Kyme (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes compositions and related methods and kits for treating a variety of inflammatory conditions and infections. The therapeutic compositions include certain hyaluronidases capable of generating hyaluronan disaccharides when combined with hyaluronan, and/or the hyaluronan disaccharides themselves, and/or inflammatory hyaluronidase inhibitors. The invention further discloses the use of hyaluronidase inhibitors to treat certain infections in an individual. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/782269 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7016 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/47 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/2474 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 302/01035 (20130101) |
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| US 09763980 | Zon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Leonard I Zon (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Owen J. Tamplin (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonard I Zon (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Owen J. Tamplin (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present embodiments provide for combinations of modulators that increase hematopoietic stem cell engraftment or increase mobilization in vivo. Methods and compositions for modulating the mobilization of stem cells, particularly for promoting or increasing the mobilization of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) from the bone marrow to the peripheral blood are disclosed. One aspect of the invention relates to the use of a CXCR4 antagonist that act in concert with specific molar ratios of S1P receptor 1 (S1PR1) modulator agents to promote HSC mobilization. The invention also relates to methods of using these combinations of CXCR4 antagonists and S1PR1 modulator agents for enhancing the mobilization of hematopoietic stem cells when harvesting of the stem cells, for example for the treatment of diseases, disabilities or conditions whereby transplantation of such cells would be beneficial in ameliorating a symptom associated with such diseases, disabilities or conditions. Another aspect of the invention relates to the use of a CXCR4 antagonist that act in concert with different, but specific molar ratios of S1P receptor 1 (S1PR1) modulator agents to promote HSC engraftment and methods for promoting HSC engraftment in a subject in need thereof, e.g., a recipient subject of a bone marrow or HSC transplant. Methods of screening for novel agents and pharmaceutical compositions comprising these agents are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, June 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/126768 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/137 (20130101) A61K 31/137 (20130101) A61K 31/138 (20130101) A61K 31/381 (20130101) A61K 31/381 (20130101) A61K 31/395 (20130101) A61K 31/395 (20130101) A61K 31/662 (20130101) A61K 31/662 (20130101) A61K 31/4245 (20130101) A61K 31/4245 (20130101) A61K 35/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 35/28 (20130101) A61K 35/28 (20130101) A61K 38/04 (20130101) A61K 38/04 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09763982 | Jewett |
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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) | Anahid Jewett (Valencia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods are provided for killing of cancer stem cells, and for the transplantation of pluripotent stem cells and differentiated cells derived therefrom. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 03, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/637235 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/198 (20130101) A61K 31/198 (20130101) A61K 31/337 (20130101) A61K 31/337 (20130101) A61K 35/12 (20130101) A61K 35/17 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 35/17 (20130101) A61K 38/212 (20130101) A61K 38/212 (20130101) A61K 38/2013 (20130101) A61K 38/2013 (20130101) A61K 39/3955 (20130101) A61K 39/3955 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2039/577 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/283 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0646 (20130101) |
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| US 09763987 | Portnoy 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) | Daniel A. Portnoy (Albany, California); Joshua J. Woodward (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of modulating type-I interferon production in a cell are provided. Aspects of the methods include modulating cytosolic cyclic di-adenosine monophosphate (c-di-AMP) activity in the cell in a manner sufficient to modulate type-I interferon production in the cell. Additional aspects of the invention include c-di-AMP activity modulatory compositions, e.g., c-di-AMP, mutant Listeria bacteria, cyclase and/or phosphodiesterase nucleic acid or protein compositions, etc. The subject methods and compositions find use in a variety of applications, including therapeutic applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 11, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/737112 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/15 (20130101) A61K 35/74 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 39/0008 (20130101) A61K 39/0011 (20130101) A61K 39/29 (20130101) A61K 2035/11 (20130101) A61K 2039/523 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/63 (20130101) C12N 2501/01 (20130101) |
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| US 09763998 | Kulkarni et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joslin Diabetes Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Joslin Diabetes Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rohit N. Kulkarni (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Abdelfattah El Ouaamari (Boston, Massachusetts); Daniel Margerie (Frankfurt am Main, Germany); Matthias Lohmann (Frankfurt am Main, Germany); Jean Claude Guillemot (Espanes, France); Denis Loyaux (Belbeze, France) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods of use are provided for improving β cell function and promoting pancreatic β cell proliferation in vitro, in vivo and ex vivo. The active agents of the pending invention comprise Serpin family peptides (e.g., SerpinB1), functional and structural analogs of Serpin family peptides and nucleic acids encoding Serpin family peptides, as well as active fragments thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, February 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/186054 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/55 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09764001 | Olefsky 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) | Jerrold M. Olefsky (Solana Beach, California); Yun Sok Lee (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Diagnostic, prognostic, and treatment methods, compositions, and kits for enhancing insulin secretion and beta cell numbers and functions, and controlling glycemia associated with diabetes, obesity, atherosclerosis, stroke, myocardial infarction, and other cardiovascular diseases, by modulating FKN/CX3CR1 expression levels or activities, and its downstream signaling pathways in a subject in need or at risk. |
| FILED | Monday, November 23, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/948539 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/195 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5091 (20130101) G01N 33/6893 (20130101) G01N 2333/46 (20130101) G01N 2333/52 (20130101) G01N 2333/4719 (20130101) G01N 2800/32 (20130101) G01N 2800/042 (20130101) |
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| US 09764013 | Dubensky, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ADURO BIOTECH (Berkeley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ADURO BIOTECH, INC. (Berkeley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas W. Dubensky, Jr. (Peidmont, California); Justin Skoble (Berkeley, California); Peter M. Lauer (Albany, California); David N. Cook (Lafayette, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a bacterium containing a polynucleotide comprising a nucleic acid encoding a heterologous antigen, as well as fusion protein partners. Also provided are vectors for mediating site-specific recombination and vectors comprising removable antibiotic resistance genes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/078208 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0011 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/522 (20130101) A61K 2039/523 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/195 (20130101) C07K 14/705 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/74 (20130101) |
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| US 09764022 | Buck et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher B. Buck (Bethesda, Maryland); Diana V. Pastrana (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher B. Buck (Bethesda, Maryland); Diana V. Pastrana (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods of eliciting an immune response against a polyomavirus (for example, BKV serotype I (BKV-I), BKV serotype II (BKV-II), BKV serotype III (BKV-III) and/or BKV serotype IV (BKV-IV)) and methods of treating or inhibiting polyomavirus-associated pathology (such as polyomavirus-associated nephropathy, BKV-associated hemorrhagic cystitis, or JC virus-associated progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy; PML). Further disclosed are immunogenic compositions of use in the disclosed methods. Also disclosed are methods of selecting an organ transplant donor and/or recipient including detecting whether the prospective donor and/or recipient has BKV serotype-specific (such as BKV serotype IV-specific) neutralizing antibodies. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/233582 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/70 (20130101) A61K 2039/5258 (20130101) A61K 2039/55566 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2710/22023 (20130101) C12N 2710/22034 (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 1/70 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56983 (20130101) G01N 2333/025 (20130101) G01N 2469/20 (20130101) G01N 2800/347 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09764026 | Sampson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John H. Sampson (Durham, North Carolina); Duane A. Mitchell (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions, methods, and kits for eliciting an immune response to at least one CMV antigen expressed by a cancer cell, in particular for treating and preventing cancer. CMV determination methods, compositions, and kits also are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/681534 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7105 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/39 (20130101) A61K 39/245 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/5154 (20130101) A61K 2039/5156 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2710/16122 (20130101) C12N 2710/16134 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09764036 | Manoharan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ARBUTUS BIOPHARMA CORPORATION (Burnaby, Canada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arbutus Biopharma Corporation (Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Muthiah Manoharan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Kallanthottathil G. Rajeev (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David Butler (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jayaprakash K. Nair (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Muthusamy Jayaraman (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Laxman Eltepu (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides lipids that are advantageously used in lipid particles for the in vivo delivery of therapeutic agents to cells. In particular, the invention provides lipids having the following structures: |
| FILED | Monday, November 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/953677 |
| 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 31/713 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 47/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 317/28 (20130101) C07D 317/44 (20130101) C07D 317/46 (20130101) C07D 317/72 (20130101) C07D 405/12 (20130101) C07D 491/056 (20130101) C07D 491/113 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09764043 | Myerson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jacob Myerson (St. Louis, Missouri); Samuel A. Wickline (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jacob Myerson (St. Louis, Missouri); Samuel A. Wickline (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention encompasses an antithrombotic nanoparticle. |
| FILED | Friday, December 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/516528 |
| 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 47/48053 (20130101) A61K 47/48215 (20130101) A61K 47/48807 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09764109 | Brewer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Judson Brewer (New Haven, Connecticut); Dustin Scheinost (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes systems and methods of using real-time neurofeedback to improve the correspondence between first-person experience and specific brain activation patterns in a manner that minimally affects the experience itself. The present invention provides meditators the ability to enhance their control over their own brain activity, such as posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) activation. The present invention also provides methods for treating a disease or disorder of a subject by measuring the subject's brain activity via fMRI, presenting a representation of the measured brain activity to the subject, and instructing the subject to reduce the represented brain activity by altering their meditative state. The present invention also provides a system and method of using fMRI neurofeedback to directly correlate subjective experience with neural activation. |
| FILED | Monday, November 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/680744 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/055 (20130101) A61B 5/0476 (20130101) A61B 5/486 (20130101) A61B 5/4064 (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 21/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09764121 | Fiering et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY, INC. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason O. Fiering (Boston, Massachusetts); Mark J. Mescher (West Newton, Massachusetts); Erin E. Pararas (Swampscott, Massachusetts); Jeffrey T. Borenstein (Newton, Massachusetts); William F. Sewell (Sherborn, Massachusetts); Sharon G. Kujawa (Bedford, Massachusetts); Michael J. McKenna (Southborough, Massachusetts); Ernest S. Kim (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An implantable drug delivery apparatus for delivering a drug into a bodily fluid in a bodily cavity of a patient over a period of time includes a drug supply reservoir to supply drug into a delivery channel and an actuator for delivering the drug to a predetermined location in the bodily cavity of the patient, such as, for example, a cochlea of a human ear. The drug is loaded into the delivery channel while producing substantially negligible flow at an outlet of the delivery channel. |
| FILED | Monday, November 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/531808 |
| ART UNIT | 3763 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 5/14276 (20130101) A61M 31/002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61M 2210/0668 (20130101) |
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| US 09764134 | McClure et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kelly H. McClure (Simi Valley, California); Arup Roy (Santa Clarita, California); Sumit Yadav (Los Angeles, California); Richard Agustin Castro (Pasadena, California); Susan McCord (Santa Monica, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kelly H. McClure (Simi Valley, California); Arup Roy (Santa Clarita, California); Sumit Yadav (Los Angeles, California); Richard Agustin Castro (Pasadena, California); Susan McCord (Santa Monica, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A visual prosthesis apparatus and a method for providing artificial vision are disclosed in the present disclosure. The visual prosthesis apparatus comprises a camera for capturing a video image, a video processing unit configured to convert the video image to stimulation patterns, and a retinal stimulation system configured stimulate neural tissue in a subjects eye based on the stimulation patterns. An artificial vision may be provided by capturing a video image, converting the video image to stimulation patterns, and stimulating neural tissue in a subjects eye based on the stimulation patterns. |
| FILED | Friday, July 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/881433 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0543 (20130101) A61N 1/3787 (20130101) A61N 1/36046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09764136 | McIntyre et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cameron McIntyre (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Reuben R. SHamir (Cleveland, Ohio); Benjamin L. Walter (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Example apparatus and methods concern a next generation clinical decision support system (ngCDSS) for the management of neurological conditions (e.g., advanced Parkinson's disease (PD)). Conventional coupled adjustment of pharmacologic therapy and stimulation parameter settings is a time-consuming process that sometimes yields sub-optimal outcomes. Example ngCDSS use a machine learning trained function that relates deep brain stimulation (DBS) parameters, medication dosages, and patient-specific pre and post operative clinical data with actual treatment outcomes for a population of previously treated patients. Example ngCDSS incorporate image-based patient-specific computer models of the estimated stimulation volume of tissue stimulated by DBS in a multi-linear regression analysis to produce a predictor function that is highly correlated with actual outcomes. Example ngCDSS facilitate predicting the outcomes of a combined pharmacologic-DBS therapy, which in turn facilitate optimizing patient-specific treatment for improved benefits with minimal adverse effects. |
| FILED | Friday, May 29, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/725484 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0534 (20130101) A61N 1/36064 (20130101) A61N 1/36067 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/36096 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/345 (20130101) G06F 19/3443 (20130101) |
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| US 09764325 | Davidowitz |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BioTillion, LLC (Skillman, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BioTillion, LLC (Skillman, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hananel Davidowitz (Skillman, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A storage system for storing samples, such as frozen biological samples in RFID-tagged vials. The storage system has a plurality of lowest-level containers, such as sample boxes; a plurality of mid-level containers, such as shelves and racks; and a highest-level container, such as a mechanical freezer. Each lowest-level container receives a plurality of samples in a corresponding plurality of storage locations, each mid-level container receives two or more lowest-level containers, and the highest-level container receives the two or more mid-level containers. Each mid-level container and each lowest-level container has a corresponding indicator device. A controller sub-system tracks the locations of samples stored in the storage system. When a desired sample is to be retrieved from the storage system, the controller sub-system activates (a) the indicator device corresponding to the mid-level container containing the desired sample and (b) the indicator device corresponding to the lowest-level container containing the desired sample. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/462618 |
| ART UNIT | 2685 — Selective Communication |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/508 (20130101) B01L 3/545 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 2300/022 (20130101) |
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| US 09764953 | Zuckermann 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) | Ronald N. Zuckermann (El Cerrito, California); James J. De Yoreo (Clayton, California); Chun-Long Chen (Albany, California); Yung-Ching Chien (Foster City, California); Grayson W. Marshall (Larkspur, California); Sally J. Marshall (Larkspur, California); Kuniko Saeki (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a bio-mimetic polymer capable of catalyzing or mineralizing calcium ion and phosphate ions into an apatite. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/221179 |
| 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 38/00 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/227 (20130101) A61L 2430/02 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 25/32 (20130101) C01B 25/455 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 5/0827 (20130101) C07K 5/1027 (20130101) C07K 7/06 (20130101) C07K 7/08 (20130101) C07K 14/001 (20130101) |
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| US 09765019 | Hedstrom et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lizbeth K. Hedstrom (Newton, Massachusetts); Marcus Long (Somerville, Massachusetts); Deviprasad R. Gollapalli (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lizbeth K. Hedstrom (Newton, Massachusetts); Marcus Long (Somerville, Massachusetts); Deviprasad R. Gollapalli (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain aspects of the invention relate to compounds, compositions and methods that are useful for treating or preventing a disease in a subject by enhancing the degradation of a protein. In other aspects, said compounds can be useful research tools for investigating protein degradation. In other aspects, said compounds are useful research tools for investigating protein function. In certain embodiments, the degraded protein is implicated in a disease or disorder whose pathology is related at least in part to the excessive expression of the protein or the expression of a mutant form of the protein. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/805508 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/505 (20130101) A61K 31/4184 (20130101) A61K 47/48023 (20130101) A61K 47/48038 (20130101) A61K 47/48061 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 65/40 (20130101) C07C 211/12 (20130101) C07C 279/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 239/49 (20130101) C07D 271/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09765027 | Vardanyan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizaona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ruben S. Vardanyan (Tucson, Arizona); Victor J. Hruby (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compounds that bind with high affinities to the μ-, δ- and κ-opioid receptors and α2-adrenoreceptor. In addition to providing these compounds with novel pharmacological binding properties, the invention also describes detailed novel methods for the preparation of representative compounds and a scheme for the synthesis of related compounds that bind to the opioid receptors and/or α2-adrenoreceptor. |
| FILED | Monday, August 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/834185 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 211/58 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09765031 | Kunos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Kunos (Bethesda, Maryland); Malliga Iyer (Germantown, Maryland); Resat Cinar (Bethesda, Maryland); Kenner C. Rice (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof, comprising (i) a CB1 receptor mediating scaffold conjugated to (ii) a second therapeutic scaffold. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/442383 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 231/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 401/12 (20130101) C07D 403/12 (20130101) C07D 409/12 (20130101) C07D 417/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09765037 | Van Voorhis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wesley C. Van Voorhis (Seattle, Washington); Wilhelmus G. J. Hol (Kenmore, Washington); Eric T. Larson (Bethel, Connecticut); Dustin James Maly (Seattle, Washington); Ethan Merritt (Seattle, Washington); Kayode K. Ojo (Federal Way, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington Through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wesley C. Van Voorhis (Seattle, Washington); Wilhelmus G. J. Hol (Kenmore, Washington); Eric T. Larson (Bethel, Connecticut); Dustin James Maly (Seattle, Washington); Ethan Merritt (Seattle, Washington); Kayode K. Ojo (Federal Way, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for the treatment of toxoplasmosis, caused by the infectious eukaryotic parasite Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) and for the treatment of cryptosporidiosis, caused by the infectious eukaryotic parasites Cryptosporidium parvum (C. parvum) and Cryptosporidium hominus (C. hominus) are described. In particular, the present disclosure is directed to compositions and methods for inhibiting either T. gondii calcium dependent protein kinases (TgCDPKs) or C. parvum and C. hominus calcium dependent protein kinases (CpCDPKs) using pyrazolopyrimidine and/or imidazo[1,5-a]pyrazine inhibitors, of the formula, wherein the variables X, Y, Z, L, R1, and R3 are defined herein. |
| FILED | Monday, July 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/561896 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 235/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 235/32 (20130101) C07D 401/12 (20130101) C07D 403/12 (20130101) C07D 487/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09765055 | 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 | Compounds and related compositions and methods as can be used to selectively inhibit neuronal nitric oxide synthase and as can be employed in the treatment of various neurodegenerative diseases. |
| FILED | Monday, January 05, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/589690 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 401/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 405/14 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/99 (20130101) |
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| US 09765061 | Kravchenko et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir Kravchenko (San Diego, California); Richard J. Ulevitch (La Jolla, California); Kim D. Janda (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to methods of inducing apoptosis, arresting cell cycle, or inhibiting cellular proliferation, or any combination thereof, in a tumor cell, by administration of an effective amount of an N-acyl homoserine lactone analog (AHL), optionally in conjunction with a tumor modulating agent such tumor necrosis factor (TNF) related apoptosis inducing ligand (TRAIL) to the patient. Novel bioactive analogs of an N-acyl homoserine lactone are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/389073 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/336 (20130101) A61K 38/1761 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 405/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09765063 | Littman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dan Littman (New York, New York); Jun R. Huh (New York, New York); Ruili Huang (Rockville, Maryland); Wenwei Huang (Rockville, Maryland); Erika E. Englund (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York); The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan Littman (New York, New York); Jun R. Huh (New York, New York); Ruili Huang (Rockville, Maryland); Wenwei Huang (Rockville, Maryland); Erika E. Englund (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | Amido compounds are disclosed that have a formula represented by the following: and wherein Cy1, Cy2, n1, n2, R1a, R1b, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 are as described herein. The compounds may be prepared as pharmaceutical compositions, and may be used for the prevention and treatment of a variety of conditions in mammals including humans, including by way of non-limiting example, inflammatory conditions, autoimmune disorders, cancer, and graft-versus-host disease. |
| FILED | Monday, September 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/343410 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/40 (20130101) A61K 31/445 (20130101) A61K 31/495 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/4025 (20130101) A61K 31/4709 (20130101) A61K 31/5375 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/44 (20130101) C07D 211/14 (20130101) C07D 213/58 (20130101) C07D 333/24 (20130101) C07D 401/06 (20130101) C07D 405/14 (20130101) C07D 409/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09765103 | Bierbach et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Ulrich Bierbach (Winston Salem, North Carolina); Song Ding (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to using a versatile synthetic approach to generate a new class of ester, amido, or carbamate prodrugs of highly potent, but systemically too toxic, platinum-acridine anticancer agents. The new hybrids contain a hydroxyl group, which has been masked with a cleavable lipophilic acyl moiety. Both butanoic (butyric) and bulkier 2-propanepentanoic (valproic) esters were introduced to these compounds. The goal of this design was to improve the drug-like properties of the pharmacophore (e. g., log D) without compromising its DNA-mediated cell kill potential. Two distinct pathways by which the target compounds undergo effective ester hydrolysis, the proposed activating step, have been confirmed: platinum-mediated, self-immolative ester cleavage in a low-chloride environment (LC-ESMS, NMR spectroscopy) and enzymatic cleavage by human carboxylesterase-2 (hCES-2) (LC-ESMS). Several of the new compounds show excellent stability, reduced systemic toxicity, and favorable activation profiles while maintaining submicromolar cytotoxicity in various cancers, such as lung adenocarcinoma cell lines (A549, NCI-H1435). The results suggest that the novel dual-mode prodrug concept may have the potential to hasten the preclinical development of platinum-acridines. |
| FILED | Monday, June 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 15/321578 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 15/0093 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09765106 | Schoenhofen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | National Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, Canada); University of Massachusetts Medical School (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ian Schoenhofen (Stittsville, Canada); Dennis M. Whitfield (Ottawa, Canada); Sanjay Ram (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | N. gonorrhoeae has become resistant to almost every conventional antibiotic. Described herein is the use of CMP-nonulosonate analogs to counter gonococcal complement evasion. The nonulosonate sugar is incorporated into the lipooligosaccharide of the N. gonorrhoeae which in turn reduces the serum resistance of the bacteria. This provides a novel therapeutic strategy against the global threat of multi-drug resistant gonorrhea. |
| FILED | Friday, February 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/627396 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7068 (20130101) Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 19/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/18 (20130101) |
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| US 09765110 | Covey |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas F. Covey (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure is generally directed to neuroactive 19-alkoxy-17(20)-Z-vinylcyano-substituted steroids as referenced herein, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, for use as, for example, an anesthetic, and/or in the treatment of disorders relating to GABA function and activity. The present disclosure is further directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds. |
| FILED | Friday, October 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/434057 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Steroids C07J 1/0011 (20130101) C07J 21/008 (20130101) C07J 41/0094 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09765115 | Shah |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Girish V. Shah (West Monroe, Louisiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University acting on behalf of the University of Louisiana at Monroe (Monroe, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Girish V. Shah (West Monroe, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The chain of events that explains calcitonin receptor (CTR)-stimulated invasion and metastasis of prostate cancer cells was identified. The CTR-stimulated events depend on the interaction of CTR with the PDZ3 domain of ZO-1. Small peptides and small molecules were identified that inhibit this interaction. The small inhibitory peptides were synthesized and can be used to attenuate or inhibit metastasis in solid cancer tumors. |
| FILED | Friday, March 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/007683 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/4166 (20130101) A61K 38/1796 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 233/76 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/723 (20130101) C07K 16/28 (20130101) C07K 16/2869 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1055 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5011 (20130101) G01N 33/5032 (20130101) |
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| US 09765123 | Pastan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ira H. Pastan (Potomac, Maryland); Ronit Mazor (Rockville, Maryland); Masanori Onda (Rockville, Maryland); Aaron Vassall (Shelton, Washington); Richard Beers (Rockville, Maryland); Jaime Eberle (Delmar, New York); Wenhai Liu (Plantsville, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a Pseudomonas exotoxin A (PE) comprising an amino acid sequence having a substitution of one or more B-cell and/or T-cell epitopes. The invention further provides related chimeric molecules, as well as related nucleic acids, recombinant expression vectors, host cells, populations of cells, and pharmaceutical compositions. Methods of treating or preventing cancer in a mammal, methods of inhibiting the growth of a target cell, methods of producing the PE, and methods of producing the chimeric molecule are further provided by the invention. |
| FILED | Monday, April 11, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/095470 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/21 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/2896 (20130101) C07K 2319/33 (20130101) C07K 2319/55 (20130101) |
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| US 09765125 | Flechtner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Genocea Biosciences, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Genocea Biosciences, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jessica Flechtner (Sudbury, Massachusetts); Richard Malley (Beverly, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major health concern, especially in very young, elderly, or immunocompromised patients. The present disclosure provides, inter alia, certain highly effective vaccines and pharmaceutical compositions in Streptococcus pneumoniae that contain fusion proteins. The antigens may be used therapeutically or prophylactically. |
| FILED | Friday, January 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/373179 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/39 (20130101) A61K 39/092 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/3156 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2319/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09765142 | Dimitrov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); BioMed Valley Discoveries, Inc. (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Biomed Valley Discoveries, Inc. (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dimiter Dimitrov (Frederick, Maryland); Zhongyu Zhu (Frederick, Maryland); Brad St. Croix (Frederick, Maryland); Enrique Zudaire (Germantown, Maryland); Saurabh Saha (Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts); Xiaoyan Michelle Zhang (Lexington, Massachusetts); Gary Decrescenzo (Parkville, Missouri); Dean Welsch (Parkville, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Antibodies that specifically bind TEM8 protein, conjugates thereof, and their use, are disclosed herein. In some examples the conjugates and antibodies are useful for methods of detecting and treating pathogenic angiogenesis. In other examples the conjugates and antibodies are useful for methods of detecting and treating cancer. In additional examples, the conjugates and antibodies are useful for methods of decreasing binding of Anthrax protective antigen to a cell. |
| FILED | Monday, October 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 15/028337 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 39/39558 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 47/48384 (20130101) A61K 47/48561 (20130101) A61K 47/48569 (20130101) A61K 49/16 (20130101) A61K 2039/54 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/7051 (20130101) C07K 16/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/30 (20130101) C07K 16/3046 (20130101) C07K 2317/21 (20130101) C07K 2317/54 (20130101) C07K 2317/55 (20130101) C07K 2317/56 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) C07K 2317/565 (20130101) C07K 2317/567 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57419 (20130101) |
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| US 09765143 | Jaiswal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Siddhartha Jaiswal (San Francisco, California); Irving L. Weissman (Stanford, California); Ravindra Majeti (Palo Alto, California); Mark P. Chao (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided to manipulate phagocytosis of cells, including hematopoietic cells, e.g. circulating hematopoietic cells, bone marrow cells, acute leukemia cells, etc.; and solid tumor cells. In some embodiments of the invention the circulating cells are hematopoietic stem cells, or hematopoietic progenitor cells, particularly in a transplantation context, where protection from phagocytosis is desirable. In other embodiments the circulating cells are leukemia cells, particularly acute myeloid leukemia (AML), where increased phagocytosis is desirable. |
| FILED | Friday, March 10, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/456109 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/30 (20130101) C07K 16/2803 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/3053 (20130101) C07K 16/3061 (20130101) C07K 16/3069 (20130101) C07K 2317/73 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) |
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| US 09765154 | Muir et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tom W. Muir (Princeton, New Jersey); Jung-Min Kee (Plainsboro, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the phosphohistidine analogs of the present invention which of the formula and the hapten containing the residue of same. It also relates to the hapten conjugated to a carrier molecule and the isolated antibodies raised against the immunogens, said antibodies recognizing polypeptide containing a phosphorylated histidine or the phosphotriazole residue but it does not recognize an amino acid or polypeptide that is not phosphorylated or a polypeptide which is phosphorylated on amino acids other than histidine but not on histidine. |
| FILED | Monday, May 11, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/708677 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/675 (20130101) A61K 47/4833 (20130101) A61K 47/48061 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 249/04 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 9/4015 (20130101) C07F 9/65182 (20130101) C07F 9/65186 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/34 (20130101) |
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| US 09765155 | Wu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anna M. Wu (Sherman Oaks, California); John E. Shively (Arcadia, California); Andrew A. Raubitschek (San Marino, California); Mark A. Sherman (Pasadena, California); Tove Olafsen (Sherman Oaks, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | City of Hope (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anna M. Wu (Sherman Oaks, California); John E. Shively (Arcadia, California); Andrew A. Raubitschek (San Marino, California); Mark A. Sherman (Pasadena, California); Tove Olafsen (Sherman Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides recombinant antibody fragments which include a variable domain which has been modified by the addition of a tail sequence to its C-terminal end. The tail sequence comprises a terminal cysteine residue and an amino acid spacer and does not substantially affect the fragment's target-binding affinity. The present invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the described antibody fragments and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and methods of delivering an agent to cells of interest in a subject using the fragments as delivery vehicles. The invention further provides compositions comprising the described antibody fragments for the in vitro detection and measurement of target molecules which bind to the fragments and method of determining the presence or amount of such targets in a biological sample by contacting the sample with such compositions. |
| FILED | Friday, July 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/554306 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/39558 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/00 (20130101) C07K 16/46 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/3007 (20130101) C07K 2317/64 (20130101) C07K 2317/90 (20130101) C07K 2317/626 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09765291 | Allbritton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nancy Allbritton (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Christopher Sims (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Yuli Wang (Cary, North Carolina); Pavak Kirit Shah (Carrboro, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for collecting or culturing cells or cell colonies includes: a common substrate formed from a flexible resilient polymeric material and having a plurality of wells formed therein; and a plurality of rigid cell carriers releasably connected to said common substrate, with said carriers arranged in the form of an array, and with each of the carriers resiliently received in one of the wells. A method of collecting or culturing cells or cell colonies with such an apparatus is carried out by depositing a liquid media carrying cells on the apparatus so that said cells settle on or adhere to said the carriers; and then (c) releasing at least one selected carrier having said cells thereon by gradual application of release energy to each carrier from the cavity in which it is received (e.g., by pushing with a probe). |
| FILED | Monday, May 18, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/714620 |
| ART UNIT | 1798 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/0046 (20130101) B01J 2219/00452 (20130101) B01J 2219/00743 (20130101) Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 23/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12M 23/20 (20130101) C12M 23/22 (20130101) C12M 25/04 (20130101) C12M 25/16 (20130101) C12M 47/02 (20130101) C12M 47/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09765297 | Przedborski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Serge Przedborski (New York, New York); Hynek Wichterle (New York, New York); Makiko Nagai (Okayama, Japan); Thomas M. Jessell (Bronx, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Serge Przedborski (New York, New York); Hynek Wichterle (New York, New York); Makiko Nagai (Okayama, Japan); Thomas M. Jessell (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to culture systems comprising differentiated stem cells, that may be used for identifying agents useful in treating degenerative nervous system disorders and are suitable for high-throughput screening applications. It is based, at least in part, on the discovery that co-cultures of (i) astrocytes expressing a mutated SODI gene and (ii) stem-cell derived motor neurons manifested cell death via a Bax-dependent mechanism, and modeled motor neuron death in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/450830 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — 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 2502/08 (20130101) C12N 2506/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09765299 | Palecek et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sean Paul Palecek (Verona, Wisconsin); Xiaojun Lian (Madison, Wisconsin); Xiaoping Bao (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for generating high-yield, high-purity cardiomyocyte progenitors or cardiomyocytes from pluripotent cells are described. Wnt/β-catenin signaling is first activated in pluripotent cells, by, for example, inhibiting Gsk-3 to obtain a first population of cells. Wnt/β-catenin signaling is then inhibited in the first cell population to induce cardiogenesis. One or more of these steps is performed under defined, albumin-free culture conditions. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/850451 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0657 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2500/05 (20130101) C12N 2500/46 (20130101) C12N 2500/92 (20130101) C12N 2501/392 (20130101) C12N 2501/415 (20130101) C12N 2506/02 (20130101) C12N 2506/45 (20130101) |
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| US 09765325 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tza-Huei Wang (Timonium, Maryland); Yi Zhang (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a novel method to fabricate silica nanostructures on thin polymer films based on silica deposition and self-wrinkling induced by thermal shrinkage. These micro- and nano-scale structures have vastly enlarged the specific area of silica, thus the silica nanomembranes can be used for solid phase extraction of nucleic acids. The inventive silica nanomembranes are suitable for nucleic acid purification and isolation and demonstrated better performance than commercial particles in terms of DNA recovery yield and integrity. In addition, the silica nanomembranes have extremely high nucleic acid capacity due to its significantly enlarged specific surface area of silica. Methods of use and devices comprising the silica nanomembranes are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, July 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/341957 |
| 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 | Separation B01D 67/0069 (20130101) B01D 67/0072 (20130101) B01D 67/0083 (20130101) B01D 69/06 (20130101) B01D 71/027 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/103 (20130101) B01J 20/261 (20130101) B01J 20/321 (20130101) B01J 20/3225 (20130101) B01J 20/3234 (20130101) B01J 20/3297 (20130101) B01J 20/28035 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1006 (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) 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 14/10 (20130101) C23C 14/221 (20130101) C23C 16/44 (20130101) C23C 18/1212 (20130101) Processes for the Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Production of Coatings; Electroforming; Apparatus Therefor C25D 1/006 (20130101) C25D 13/02 (20130101) C25D 13/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09765327 | Slukvin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor Slukvin (Verona, Wisconsin); Irina Elcheva (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are methods and related compositions for inducing differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) into hemogenic endothelium with pan-myeloid potential or restricted potential, by forced expression in the hPSCs of a combination of transcription factors as described herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 15, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/183191 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0647 (20130101) C12N 15/00 (20130101) C12N 15/11 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/66 (20130101) C12N 2501/60 (20130101) C12N 2501/998 (20130101) C12N 2506/02 (20130101) C12N 2506/45 (20130101) C12N 2510/00 (20130101) C12N 2740/16043 (20130101) |
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| US 09765333 | Bedoya et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | PROTIVA BIOTHERAPEUTICS, INC. (Burnaby, Canada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PROTIVA BIOTHERAPEUTICS, INC. (Burnaby, BC, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raul J. Ursic Bedoya (Burnaby, Canada); Ian MacLachlan (Mission, Canada); Marjorie Ann Robbins (Vancouver, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions comprising siRNA molecules that target Marburg virus (MARV) gene expression, lipid particles comprising one or more (e.g., a combination) of the siRNA molecules, and methods of delivering and/or administering the lipid particles, for the purposes of treating MARV infection. |
| FILED | Friday, August 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/832633 |
| 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 31/712 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1131 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/321 (20130101) C12N 2310/321 (20130101) C12N 2310/3521 (20130101) C12N 2320/31 (20130101) C12N 2320/32 (20130101) |
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| US 09765337 | Ruggero 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) | Davide Ruggero (San Francisco, California); John Thomas Cunningham (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of selectively killing a cell, comprising contacting the cell with an agent that inhibits phospho-ribosyl pyrophophosphate synthetase 2 (PRPS2). The present invention also provides methods of identifying a candidate agent that selectively kills neoplastic cells that are Myc-hyperactivated via inhibition of PRPS2. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/760690 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1137 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/531 (20130101) C12N 2320/30 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5011 (20130101) G01N 2333/91142 (20130101) |
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| US 09765338 | Bennett et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Carlsbad, California); University Of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | C. Frank Bennett (Carlsbad, California); Susan M. Freier (San Diego, California); Robert A. MacLeod (San Diego, California); Sanjay K. Pandey (Encinitas, California); Charles A. Thornton (Rochester, New York); Thurman Wheeler (Rochester, New York); Seng H. Cheng (Natick, Massachusetts); Andrew Leger (Boston, Massachusetts); Bruce M. Wentworth (Northborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods, compounds, and compositions for reducing expression of a DMPK mRNA and protein in an animal. Also provided herein are methods, compounds, and compositions for preferentially reducing CUGexp DMPK RNA, reducing myotonia or reducing spliceopathy in an animal. Such methods, compounds, and compositions are useful to treat, prevent, delay, or ameliorate type 1 myotonic dystrophy, or a symptom thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/814174 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 15/1137 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/11 (20130101) C12N 2310/315 (20130101) C12N 2310/321 (20130101) C12N 2310/321 (20130101) C12N 2310/321 (20130101) C12N 2310/322 (20130101) C12N 2310/341 (20130101) C12N 2310/346 (20130101) C12N 2310/3181 (20130101) C12N 2310/3231 (20130101) C12N 2310/3341 (20130101) C12N 2310/3525 (20130101) C12N 2310/3527 (20130101) C12N 2310/3533 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 207/11 (20130101) |
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| US 09765342 | Kochenderfer |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Noble Kochenderfer (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides an isolated and purified nucleic acid sequence encoding a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) directed against B-cell Maturation Antigen (BCMA). The invention also provides host cells, such as T-cells or natural killer (NK) cells, expressing the CAR and methods for destroying multiple myeloma cells. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/389677 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 48/00 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/7051 (20130101) C07K 14/70503 (20130101) C07K 14/70517 (20130101) C07K 14/70521 (20130101) C07K 14/70578 (20130101) C07K 16/18 (20130101) C07K 16/2878 (20130101) C07K 2317/73 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/03 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/62 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09765343 | Godiska et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lucigen Corporation (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | LUCIGEN CORPORATION (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Godiska (Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin); David A. Mead (Middleton, Wisconsin); Nikolai V. Ravin (Moscow, Russian Federation) |
| ABSTRACT | Linear vectors derived from bacteriophage of E. coli and host cells suitable for cloning are provided. The linear vectors include a left arm comprising a left telomere and a first selectable marker, a right arm comprising a right telomere and a second selectable marker and a cloning region located between the left arm and the right arm. Optional further components of the vector include transcriptional termination sequences, multiple cloning sites and reporter stuffer regions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/681591 |
| 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 9/90 (20130101) C12N 15/70 (20130101) C12N 15/73 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/34 (20130101) |
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| US 09765390 | Zhou |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF UTAH RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Luming Zhou (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and kits are provided for nucleic acid analysis. In an illustrative method, Snapback-ARMS primers are used to amplify preferentially a target nucleic acid that is present in a low allele fraction. In another embodiment, tailed primers are used to identify the preferentially amplified allele. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/308561 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/686 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6853 (20130101) C12Q 1/6853 (20130101) C12Q 1/6858 (20130101) C12Q 1/6858 (20130101) C12Q 2535/137 (20130101) C12Q 2535/137 (20130101) |
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| US 09765393 | Langaee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Taimour Langaee (Gainesville, Florida); Peter W. Stacpoole (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Taimour Langaee (Gainesville, Florida); Peter W. Stacpoole (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for methods, assays, and kits for predicting dosing for subjects. In addition, embodiments of the present disclosure include methods, assays, and kits, of determining if a patient can effectively metabolize one or both of phenylalanine and tryrosine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/703990 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) C12Q 2600/106 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) C12Q 2600/172 (20130101) |
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| US 09765398 | Sanford et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeremy Sanford (Santa Cruz, California); Timothy Steme-Weiler (Santa Cruz, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeremy Sanford (Santa Cruz, California); Timothy Steme-Weiler (Santa Cruz, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds and methods for regulation of exonic splicing enhancers and exonic splicing silencers. Compounds include polynucleotides targeted to aberrant exonic splicing enhancers and exonic splicing silencers. Compounds and methods for the diagnosis of diseases and conditions associated with aberrant exonic splicing enhancers and exonic splicing silencers. Methods for identifying splicing-sensitive disease mutations, and functional RNA elements as targets for amelioration of aberrant pre-mRNA splicing. |
| FILED | Friday, July 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/235476 |
| 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 | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/11 (20130101) C12N 2320/33 (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 |
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| US 09765401 | Gujral et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Taranjit S. Gujral (Brookline, Massachusetts); Gavin Macbeath (Wakefield, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods of treating cancer in a subject, and methods for inhibiting growth, migration and/or invasion of a cancer cell in the subject, comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of an antibody or antigen binding fragment thereof that downmodulates Fzd2. The antibody may specifically bind Fzd2, and may promote internalization of the Fzd2 receptor by the cancer cells and/or prevent ligand binding to Fzd2. Specific antibodies, and also specific portions of the Fzd2 molecule for antibody binding are disclosed. In one embodiment the antibody specifically binds to the epitope HGAEQICVGQNHSEDGAPAL (SEQ ID NO: 1). Specific cancers (e.g. late stage hepatocellular carcinoma), intended for treatment are provided, and include cancers that exhibit overexpression of Fzd2, and/or Wnt5a. |
| FILED | Friday, January 08, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 14/991513 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/28 (20130101) C07K 16/30 (20130101) C07K 16/303 (20130101) C07K 16/2863 (20130101) C07K 2317/24 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) C07K 2317/73 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2317/77 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/106 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) |
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| US 09766012 | McLaren et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jami McLaren (Crystal, Minnesota); Steven J. Olson (Mahtomedi, Minnesota); Kent Larson (Woodbury, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sterilucent, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jami McLaren (Crystal, Minnesota); Steven J. Olson (Mahtomedi, Minnesota); Kent Larson (Woodbury, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The removal of moisture from an object to be sterilized is provided through at least the steps of placing the load in the chamber, reducing the pressure within the chamber to increase the rate of evaporation of moisture from the load, monitoring over a predetermined period of time the increase in the quantity of vapor within the chamber resulting from evaporation of moisture from the load, admitting gas into the chamber and repeating the steps following placing the load into the chamber. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/526872 |
| ART UNIT | 3743 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 2/24 (20130101) A61L 2/208 (20130101) A61L 2202/14 (20130101) Drying Solid Materials or Objects by Removing Liquid Therefrom F26B 5/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09766204 | Karhanek 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) | Miloslav Karhanek (Santa Cruz, California); Chris David Webb (Watsonville, California); Senkei Umehara (Tokyo, Japan); Nader Pourmand (Scotts Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods and devices for biomolecular detection, comprising a nanopipette, exemplified as a hollow inert, non-biological structure with a conical tip opening of nanoscale dimensions, suitable for holding an electrolyte solution which may contain an analyte such as a protein biomolecule to be detected as it is passed through the tip opening. Biomolecules are detected by specific reaction with peptide ligands chemically immobilized in the vicinity of the tip. Analytes which bind to the ligands cause a detectable change in ionic current. A sensitive detection circuit, using a feedback amplifier circuit, and alternating voltages is further disclosed. Detection of IL-10 at a concentration of 4 ng/ml is also disclosed, as is detection of VEGF. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/603134 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/42 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 27/4035 (20130101) G01N 33/48707 (20130101) |
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| US 09766224 | Nolan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Standford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Garry P. Nolan (Redwood City, California); Sean C. Bendall (San Mateo, California); Robert M. Angelo (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of analyzing a population of cells is disclosed. In certain embodiments, the method includes i) obtaining an array of cells on a substrate, wherein the cells are labeled with one or more mass tags and are separated from one another, ii) measuring, using secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS), the abundance of the one or more mass tags at a plurality of locations occupied by the cells, thereby generating, for each individual cell measured, a set of data, and iii) outputting the set of data for each of the cells analyzed. Also provided herein are systems that find use in performing the subject method. In some embodiments, the system is an automated system for analyzing a population of cells using SIMS. |
| FILED | Friday, March 11, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/068338 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/4833 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/14 (20130101) H01J 49/0036 (20130101) |
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| US 09766226 | Ayene |
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| APPLICANT(S) | LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lankenau Institute for Medical Research (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Iraimoudi S. Ayene (Newtown Square, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for the measuring toxicity, antioxidant capacity, and oxidative stress are provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/227890 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| 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 1/04 (20130101) C12Q 1/06 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/50 (20130101) G01N 33/5008 (20130101) G01N 33/5011 (20130101) G01N 33/5014 (20130101) G01N 33/5038 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09766240 | Kaelin, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana Farber Cancer Institute (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William G. Kaelin, Jr. (Boston, Massachusetts); Mircea Ivan (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Light-generating fusion proteins having a ligand binding site and a light-generating polypeptide moiety and their use as diagnostics, in drug screening and discovery, and as therapeutics, are disclosed. The light-generating fusion protein has a feature where the bioluminescence of the polypeptide moiety changes upon binding of a ligand at the ligand binding site. The ligand may be, for example, an enzyme present in an environment only under certain conditions, e.g., ubiquitin ligase in a hypoxic state, such that the light-generating fusion protein is “turned on” only under such conditions. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/328588 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/00 (20130101) A61K 31/70 (20130101) A61K 38/44 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (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 1/26 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 114/11002 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/573 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/90245 (20130101) G01N 2500/02 (20130101) G01N 2500/04 (20130101) G01N 2500/20 (20130101) |
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| US 09766244 | Haber et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel A. Haber (Newton, Massachusetts); Shyamala Maheswaran (Lexington, Massachusetts); David T. Miyamoto (Wellesley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are assays and methods related to determining a ratio of expression levels of PSA/PSMA or determining the expression level of PSMA in circulating tumor cells for diagnosis and/or for the purpose of monitoring treatment efficacy for prostate cancers that are likely hormone resistant. |
| FILED | Monday, July 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/412235 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/58 (20130101) A61K 31/167 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (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 2600/106 (20130101) C12Q 2600/112 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57434 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/705 (20130101) |
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| US 09766245 | Hsieh-Wilson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Linda C. Hsieh-Wilson (South Pasadena, California); Wen Yi (Hangzhou, Switzerland); Jean-Luc Chaubard (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for labeling or detecting a protein with certain glycosyl groups. The methods are particularly useful for detecting cancer cells comprising the detected glycosyl groups. The present invention further provides labeling agents and detection agents, labeled proteins and mixtures, and kits and arrays thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, January 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/147446 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 5/04 (20130101) C07H 7/02 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/18 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/533 (20130101) G01N 33/57469 (20130101) G01N 33/57492 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2400/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09766248 | Lindsay et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ACTING FOR AND ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents of behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart Lindsay (Phoenix, Arizona); Peiming Zhang (Gilbert, Arizona); Sudipta Biswas (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to recognition tunneling systems, methods and devices, and more particularly, to chemical reactions for selectively labeling proteins and peptides and placing protein and/or peptides into, or onto a nanopore formed in a solid support and threading such in and/or through the nanopore, with such nanopores, in some embodiments, including a molecular motor to pull or otherwise force the protein/peptide through the nanopore. |
| FILED | Friday, May 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/893413 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 1/107 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6818 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/48721 (20130101) |
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| US 09766255 | Church et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George M. Church (Brookline, Massachusetts); Justin Feng (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Daniel J. Mandell (Brookline, Massachusetts); David Baker (Seattle, Washington); Stanley Fields (Seattle, Washington); Benjamin Ward Jester (Seattle, Washington); Christine Elaine Tinberg (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a biosensor engineered to conditionally respond to the presence of specific small molecules, the biosensors including conditionally stable ligand-binding domains (LBDs) which respond to the presence of specific small molecules, wherein readout of binding is provided by reporter genes or transcription factors (TFs) fused to the LBDs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 12, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 14/993509 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/743 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2500/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09766551 | 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); Xing Liao (Evanston, Illinois); Keith A. Brown (Evanston, Illinois); Guoliang Liu (Evanston, Illinois); Abrin L. Schmucker (Chicago, Illinois); Shu He (Evanston, Illinois); Wooyoung Shim (Skokie, Illinois); Daniel J. Eichelsdoerfer (Evanston, Illinois); Boris Rasin (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure, a method of patterning can include dividing an image into a set of frame sections; determining a tip pattern for a respective portion of an image to be patterned by each tip of the tip array in each frame section of the set of frame sections; disposing the tip array in a patterning position in a first location of the substrate corresponding to a location of the substrate in which the first frame section in the set of frame sections is to be patterned; projecting a first pattern of radiation onto the tip array to selectively irradiate one or more tips of the tip array and pattern the substrate, wherein the first pattern of radiation corresponds to a tip pattern for the first frame section; disposing the tip array in a patterning position in a second location of the substrate corresponding to a location of the substrate in which the second frame section in the set of frame sections is to be patterned; projecting a second pattern of radiation onto the tip array to selectively irradiate tips of the tip array and pattern the substrate, wherein the second pattern of radiation corresponds to a tip pattern for the second frame section; and repeating the disposing and projecting for each frame section in the set of frame sections to pattern the image. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/439252 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 1/26 (20130101) B05D 3/06 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 13/143 (20130101) Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/0002 (20130101) G03F 7/20 (20130101) G03F 7/2049 (20130101) G03F 7/7035 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G03F 7/7045 (20130101) G03F 7/70141 (20130101) G03F 7/70325 (20130101) G03F 7/70383 (20130101) |
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| US 09767258 | Simpson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Garth J. Simpson (West Lafayette, Indiana); David Joseph Kissick (Lafayette, Indiana); Ryan Muir (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Garth J. Simpson (West Lafayette, Indiana); David Joseph Kissick (Lafayette, Indiana); Ryan Muir (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for photon, ion or particle counting described that provides seven orders of magnitude of linear dynamic range (LDR) for a single detector. By explicitly considering the log-normal probability distribution in voltage transients as a function of the number of photons, ions or particles present, the binomial distribution of observed counts for a given threshold, the mean number of photons, ions or particles can be determined well beyond the conventional limit. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/825341 |
| ART UNIT | 2853 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| 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 1/16 (20130101) G01J 1/42 (20130101) G01J 2001/442 (20130101) Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/17 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/707 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09767552 | Dobson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jon Paul Dobson (Gainesville, Florida); Mark Rogers Davidson (Florahome, Florida); Yunmei Chen (Gainesville, Florida); Keith David White (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jon Paul Dobson (Gainesville, Florida); Mark Rogers Davidson (Florahome, Florida); Yunmei Chen (Gainesville, Florida); Keith David White (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, the presence of anomalous material within tissue is detected by scanning a patient using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to obtain MRI data, identifying individual voxels of the MRI data, identifying multiple parameters of each voxel, and determining as to each voxel based upon the identified parameters the likelihood of tissue represented by the voxel containing anomalous material. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/342976 |
| ART UNIT | 2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/4088 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/50 (20130101) G01R 33/5608 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2200/04 (20130101) G06T 2207/10088 (20130101) G06T 2207/20076 (20130101) G06T 2207/30016 (20130101) |
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| US 09767573 | Miga et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael I. Miga (Franklin, Tennessee); Prashanth Dumpuri (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael I. Miga (Franklin, Tennessee); Prashanth Dumpuri (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for collecting and processing physical space data for use while performing an image-guided surgical (IGS) procedure are provided. The system and method includes obtaining a computer model of a non-rigid structure of interest in a patient and performing a rigid alignment of the computer model and surface data in a patient space associated with at least a portion of the non-rigid structure. The system and method also include computing a deformation of the computer model that provides a non-rigid alignment of the computer model and surface data, the deformation computed using a set of boundary conditions defined for each node of the computer model based on the rigid alignment and a kernel function. Additionally, the system and method can include displaying data for facilitating the IGS procedure based on the deformation. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/574624 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/00 (20130101) Analogue Computers G06G 7/60 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/33 (20170101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09768211 | Harmon |
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| APPLICANT(S) | LightSpin Technologies, Inc. (Endicott, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | LightSpin Technologies Inc. (Endicott, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Harmon (Norfolk, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A photodetector includes an array of pixels, each pixel comprising a defined doped region defined in a doped semiconductor layer. The defined doped region is defined by selected regions of ion implants to provide resistive isolation between each defined doped region. A capacitor is formed by the defined doped region and a metal layer disposed above the doped semiconductor layer. A contact metal line is disposed above the doped semiconductor layer. The capacitor metal and contact metal lines are electrically coupled together and are in electrical communication with the output of the photodetector array. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/705270 |
| ART UNIT | 2896 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/1446 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09768481 | Pollack |
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| APPLICANT(S) | 4th-Phase, Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | 4th-Phase, Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald H. Pollack (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and system for generating electrical energy from a volume of water. |
| FILED | Monday, August 22, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/242986 |
| ART UNIT | 1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Processes for the Production of Compounds or Non-metals; Apparatus Therefor C25B 1/04 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 9/04 (20130101) H01G 9/20 (20130101) H01G 9/21 (20130101) H01G 9/2004 (20130101) H01G 9/2018 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 2/1653 (20130101) H01M 14/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 2300/0002 (20130101) Generation of Electric Power by Conversion of Infra-red Radiation, Visible Light or Ultraviolet Light, e.g Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules H02S 99/00 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/366 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas Francis Quatieri (Newtonville, Massachusetts); Nicolas Malyska (Watertown, Massachusetts); Andrea Carolina Trevino (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Francis Quatieri (Newtonville, Massachusetts); Nicolas Malyska (Watertown, Massachusetts); Andrea Carolina Trevino (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and a method for assessing a condition in a subject. Phones from speech of the subject are recognized, one or more prosodic or speech-excitation-source features of the phones are extracted, and an assessment of a condition of the subject, is generated based on a correlation between the features of the phones and the condition. |
| FILED | Monday, July 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/561458 |
| ART UNIT | 2659 — Linguistics, Speech Processing and Audio Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/165 (20130101) A61B 5/4803 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/7267 (20130101) Speech Analysis or Synthesis; Speech Recognition; Speech or Voice Processing; Speech or Audio Coding or Decoding G10L 15/04 (20130101) G10L 25/06 (20130101) G10L 25/18 (20130101) G10L 25/21 (20130101) G10L 25/66 (20130101) G10L 25/90 (20130101) G10L 2015/025 (20130101) |
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| US 09763788 | Biris |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexandru S. Biris (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A biocompatible structure includes one or more base structures for regeneration of different tissues. Each base structure includes alternately stacked polymer layers and spacer layers. The polymer layer includes a polymer and tissue forming nanoparticles. The polymer includes polyurethane. The tissue forming nanoparticles includes hydroxypatites (HAP) nanoparticles, polymeric nanoparticles, or nanofibers. The spacer layer includes bone particles, polymeric nanoparticles, or nanofibers. The weight percentage of tissue forming nanoparticles to the polymer in the polymer layer in one base structure is different from that in the other base structures. A method of producing the biocompatible structure includes forming multiple base structures stacked together, coating the stacked multiple base structures, and plasma treating the coated structure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/509719 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61F 2002/2835 (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 27/38 (20130101) A61L 27/44 (20130101) A61L 27/46 (20130101) A61L 27/46 (20130101) A61L 27/46 (20130101) A61L 27/50 (20130101) A61L 27/54 (20130101) A61L 27/56 (20130101) A61L 27/58 (20130101) A61L 27/3608 (20130101) A61L 2300/64 (20130101) A61L 2300/414 (20130101) A61L 2400/12 (20130101) A61L 2430/02 (20130101) Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 37/24 (20130101) B32B 37/26 (20130101) B32B 38/0004 (20130101) B32B 2037/243 (20130101) B32B 2307/7163 (20130101) B32B 2317/00 (20130101) B32B 2323/04 (20130101) B32B 2333/04 (20130101) B32B 2375/00 (20130101) B32B 2386/00 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 5/00 (20130101) C08L 67/04 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 156/1062 (20150115) Y10T 156/1074 (20150115) |
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| US 09763992 | Walsh |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Father Flanagan's Boys' Home (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Father Flanagan's Boys' Home (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward J. Walsh (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of preventing, treating, and/or reducing noise induced hearing loss and/or noise-induced inner ear trauma. The methods include the administration of glatiramer acetate or a derivative thereof and, optionally, at least one anti-oxidant. |
| FILED | Friday, February 13, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/621978 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0046 (20130101) A61K 31/198 (20130101) A61K 31/198 (20130101) A61K 31/221 (20130101) A61K 31/221 (20130101) A61K 31/225 (20130101) A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09764170 | Alexander |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Walter E. Alexander (Pensacola, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by Secretary of the navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Walter E. Alexander (Pensacola, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A hypoxia recovery system capable of supplying breathing air with approximately 20% oxygen to a subject inside a mask off hypoxia training room without the use of a real world MD-1 aviator oxygen regulator, yet have the experience and realism of a real world MD-1 aviator oxygen regulator. The invention also teaches a method of hypoxia flight training, using said hypoxia recovery system. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/575242 |
| ART UNIT | 3711 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Transport, Personal Conveyances, or Accommodation Specially Adapted for Patients or Disabled Persons; Operating Tables or Chairs; Chairs for Dentistry; Funeral Devices A61G 10/023 (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 16/0045 (20130101) A61M 16/107 (20140204) A61M 2205/33 (20130101) A61M 2205/42 (20130101) A61M 2205/82 (20130101) Devices, Apparatus or Methods for Life-saving A62B 7/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Educational or Demonstration Appliances; Appliances for Teaching, or Communicating With, the Blind, Deaf or Mute; Models; Planetaria; Globes; Maps; Diagrams G09B 9/00 (20130101) G09B 9/165 (20130101) G09B 23/28 (20130101) |
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| US 09764418 | Schroers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jan Schroers (Hamden, Connecticut); Wen Chen (New Haven, Connecticut); Ze Liu (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of joining a bulk metallic glass to a second similar or dissimilar material in an air environment. The method includes the steps of: a) removing an oxide layer on at least a portion of a surface of a first bulk metallic glass during thermoplastic forming of the first bulk metallic glass in a supercooled liquid region, wherein the removing of the oxide layer on the at least the portion of the surface creates a fresh surface that is at least substantially free of oxides and/or contaminants; and b) joining the fresh surface of the first bulk metallic glass to a second material. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/290269 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| 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 20/12 (20130101) B23K 20/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B23K 20/24 (20130101) B23K 20/1205 (20130101) B23K 31/02 (20130101) Alloys C22C 45/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09764516 | Kang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hyun-Wook Kang (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Sang Jin Lee (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Anthony Atala (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); James J. Yoo (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making an organ or tissue comprises: (a) providing a first dispenser containing a structural support polymer and a second dispenser containing a live cell-containing composition; (b) depositing a layer on said support from said first and second dispenser, said layer comprising a structural support polymer and said cell-containing composition; and then (c) iteratively repeating said depositing step a plurality of times to form a plurality of layers one on another, with separate and discrete regions in each of said layers comprising one or the other of said support polymer or said cell-containing composition, to thereby produce provide a composite three dimensional structure containing both structural support regions and cell-containing regions. Apparatus for carrying out the method and composite products produced by the method are also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/476359 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/12 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/20 (20130101) A61L 27/20 (20130101) A61L 27/26 (20130101) A61L 27/38 (20130101) A61L 27/52 (20130101) A61L 27/222 (20130101) A61L 27/225 (20130101) Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 67/0062 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B29C 67/0088 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29B, B29C or B29D, Relating to Moulding Materials or to Materials for Reinforcements, Fillers or Preformed Parts, e.g Inserts B29K 2105/0005 (20130101) B29K 2267/04 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29C, Relating to Particular Articles B29L 2031/7532 (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 30/00 (20141201) B33Y 70/00 (20141201) B33Y 80/00 (20141201) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 5/08 (20130101) Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 21/08 (20130101) C12M 23/50 (20130101) C12M 33/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09764828 | Ulrich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Evan R. Ulrich (Manhattan Beach, California); Stewart Sutton (Irvine, California); Martin Panevsky (San Pedro, California); Christopher B Dunbar (La Mirada, California); Vishnu Jyothindran (Redondo Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A spin stabilized aircraft may include a plurality of wings that passively spin stabilize the aircraft, causing the apparatus to move in a direction opposite that of a wind source. The aircraft may also include two or more propulsive arms that actively stabilize the aircraft in absence of wind or a decrease in altitude. |
| FILED | Monday, August 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/822847 |
| ART UNIT | 3647 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 27/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B64C 39/024 (20130101) B64C 2201/024 (20130101) B64C 2201/125 (20130101) Meteorology G01W 1/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09764997 | Harvey |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin G Harvey (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for making hydrogenated cyclooctatetraene dimers including cyclo-dimerizing butadiene to form 1,5-cyclooctadiene in the presence of at least one first catalyst, dehydrogenating 1,5-cyclooctadiene to 1,3,5,7-cyclooctatetraene, dimerizing 1,3,5,7-cyclooctatetraene to a C16 multicyclic hydrocarbon cyclooctatetraene dimer, and hydrogenating multicyclic hydrocarbon cyclooctatetraene dimer to form hydrogenated cyclooctatetraene dimers. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 14, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/099214 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 1/24 (20130101) C07C 1/30 (20130101) C07C 1/0485 (20130101) C07C 2/42 (20130101) C07C 2/403 (20130101) C07C 5/03 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 5/327 (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 1/04 (20130101) C10L 2290/24 (20130101) C10L 2290/42 (20130101) |
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| US 09765121 | Demirel 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) | Melik Demirel (State College, Pennsylvania); Benjamin Allen (State College, Pennsylvania); Huihun Jung (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is a supramolecular polypeptide comprising alternating repeats of crystallite-forming subsequences and amorphous subsequences. The crystallite-forming subsequences form crystallites comprising stacks of one or more β-sheets and the amorphous subsequences form a network of hydrogen bonds. The supramolecular polypeptides are capable of exhibiting self-healing behavior. |
| FILED | Monday, April 25, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/137999 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/43504 (20130101) |
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| US 09765155 | Wu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anna M. Wu (Sherman Oaks, California); John E. Shively (Arcadia, California); Andrew A. Raubitschek (San Marino, California); Mark A. Sherman (Pasadena, California); Tove Olafsen (Sherman Oaks, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | City of Hope (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anna M. Wu (Sherman Oaks, California); John E. Shively (Arcadia, California); Andrew A. Raubitschek (San Marino, California); Mark A. Sherman (Pasadena, California); Tove Olafsen (Sherman Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides recombinant antibody fragments which include a variable domain which has been modified by the addition of a tail sequence to its C-terminal end. The tail sequence comprises a terminal cysteine residue and an amino acid spacer and does not substantially affect the fragment's target-binding affinity. The present invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the described antibody fragments and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and methods of delivering an agent to cells of interest in a subject using the fragments as delivery vehicles. The invention further provides compositions comprising the described antibody fragments for the in vitro detection and measurement of target molecules which bind to the fragments and method of determining the presence or amount of such targets in a biological sample by contacting the sample with such compositions. |
| FILED | Friday, July 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/554306 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/39558 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/00 (20130101) C07K 16/46 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/3007 (20130101) C07K 2317/64 (20130101) C07K 2317/90 (20130101) C07K 2317/626 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09765169 | Das et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Subha Ranjan Das (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Saadyah Averick (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Sourav K. Dey (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Krzysztof Matyjaszewski (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of synthesizing a polynucleotide composition includes attaching a compound including at least one initiator or at least one transfer agent for a reversible deactivation radical polymerization to an end of a nucleotide chain assembly immobilized upon a solid phase support during a solid phase synthesis of a polynucleotide so that the initiator or the transfer agent is attacked to the end of a nucleotide chain assembly in a manner which is stable under conditions of deprotection of the polynucleotide, and growing a polymer from the initiator of from a site of the chain transfer agent via the reversible deactivation radical polymerization to form the polynucleotide composition. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/785334 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 1/00 (20130101) C07H 21/00 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 251/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09765255 | Guenthner 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); Nano Hydrophobics, Inc. (San Francisco, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Guenthner (Lancaster, California); Jeffrey Alston (Palmdale, California); Peter H. Boyd (San Francisco, California); Joseph M. Mabry (Lancaster, California); Timothy W. Rost (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In some aspects, the present invention relates generally to self-release compositions and methods useful for the removal or prevention of mineral scaling and, more particularly, to surface coatings and surface treatments that resist, prevent, or aid in removal of mineral scaling. In some aspects, the self-release coating includes a polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane and a thermoplastic or an additive. |
| FILED | Friday, June 05, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/732652 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 77/24 (20130101) C08G 77/045 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 25/06 (20130101) C08L 33/08 (20130101) C08L 33/12 (20130101) C08L 33/12 (20130101) C08L 33/20 (20130101) C08L 81/06 (20130101) C08L 83/00 (20130101) C08L 83/08 (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 5/00 (20130101) C09D 7/001 (20130101) C09D 133/12 (20130101) C09D 133/12 (20130101) C09D 183/08 (20130101) C09D 183/08 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 8/52 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09765297 | Przedborski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Serge Przedborski (New York, New York); Hynek Wichterle (New York, New York); Makiko Nagai (Okayama, Japan); Thomas M. Jessell (Bronx, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Serge Przedborski (New York, New York); Hynek Wichterle (New York, New York); Makiko Nagai (Okayama, Japan); Thomas M. Jessell (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to culture systems comprising differentiated stem cells, that may be used for identifying agents useful in treating degenerative nervous system disorders and are suitable for high-throughput screening applications. It is based, at least in part, on the discovery that co-cultures of (i) astrocytes expressing a mutated SODI gene and (ii) stem-cell derived motor neurons manifested cell death via a Bax-dependent mechanism, and modeled motor neuron death in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/450830 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — 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 2502/08 (20130101) C12N 2506/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09765643 | Stutz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert C. Stutz (Dobbs Ferry, New York); Enzo DiBenedetto (Kensington, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A bi-directional auxiliary lubrication system which allows lubricant to be supplied to moving engine components after a loss of lubricant pressure from a main lubricant tank is disclosed. In a gas turbine engine, the lubrication system may siphon compressed air from a compressor to draw lubricant from a reserve lubricant tank and deliver that lubricant to the engine components. The same conduits used by the lubrication during normal operations are utilized in an opposite direction to provide the flow of lubricant from the reserve lubricant tank during such auxiliary or low-lubricant-pressure operations. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/719688 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 25/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Lubricating of Machines or Engines in General; Lubricating Internal Combustion Engines; Crankcase Ventilating F01M 2005/028 (20130101) Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 7/06 (20130101) Lubricating F16N 7/30 (20130101) F16N 29/02 (20130101) F16N 2260/00 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/671 (20130101) |
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| US 09765837 | Dastoor et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanjay K Dastoor (Redwood City, California); Mark R Cutkosky (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A variable stiffness spring is provided that includes a dielectric diaphragm having a biaxially pre-strained film, where the dielectric diaphragm includes an out-of-plane stiffness at zero voltage, a first electrode disposed on a first side of the dielectric diaphragm and a second electrode disposed on a second side of the dielectric diaphragm, where the out-of-plain stiffness is relaxed by an applied voltage between the first electrode and the second electrode. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/391047 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Springs; Shock-absorbers; Means for Damping Vibration F16F 1/3615 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09765964 | Haugstetter |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christoph Haugstetter (West Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UTC FIRE and SECURITY CORPORATION (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christoph Haugstetter (West Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for boiler control is provided. The system includes supply units to provide supplies of combustion materials for combustion thereof, a vessel coupled to the supply units in which the combustion materials are combusted, a carbon monoxide (CO) sensor disposed at an outlet of the vessel to sense a quantity of exhaust CO output from the vessel as a product of combustion therein and a control unit. The control unit is coupled to the supply units and the sensor and configured to issue a main servo command and a pulse servo command to one or more of the supply units to control operations of the one or more supply units in accordance with the sensed quantity of the exhaust CO. |
| FILED | Monday, May 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 14/119504 |
| ART UNIT | 1798 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods of Steam Generation; Steam Boilers F22B 35/00 (20130101) Methods or apparatus for combustion using fluid fuel or Solid Fuel Suspended In Air F23C 2205/10 (20130101) Regulating or Controlling Combustion F23N 1/002 (20130101) F23N 5/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F23N 5/003 (20130101) F23N 2041/04 (20130101) Fluid Heaters, e.g Water or Air Heaters, Having Heat Generating Means, in General F24H 9/20 (20130101) |
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| US 09766012 | McLaren et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jami McLaren (Crystal, Minnesota); Steven J. Olson (Mahtomedi, Minnesota); Kent Larson (Woodbury, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sterilucent, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jami McLaren (Crystal, Minnesota); Steven J. Olson (Mahtomedi, Minnesota); Kent Larson (Woodbury, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The removal of moisture from an object to be sterilized is provided through at least the steps of placing the load in the chamber, reducing the pressure within the chamber to increase the rate of evaporation of moisture from the load, monitoring over a predetermined period of time the increase in the quantity of vapor within the chamber resulting from evaporation of moisture from the load, admitting gas into the chamber and repeating the steps following placing the load into the chamber. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/526872 |
| ART UNIT | 3743 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 2/24 (20130101) A61L 2/208 (20130101) A61L 2202/14 (20130101) Drying Solid Materials or Objects by Removing Liquid Therefrom F26B 5/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09766127 | Bushmaker |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (ElSegundo, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam Wayne Bushmaker (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A terahertz detection assembly generally has a light generating apparatus configured to generate at least one illuminating light pattern and a substrate member positioned proximate to the light generating apparatus. The substrate member includes a semiconductive portion configured to receive at least a portion of the illuminating light pattern such that a conductive path is defined within the semiconductive portion. At least one waveguide is coupled to the semiconductive portion such that the waveguide is adjacent to the conductive path. The waveguide is configured to receive at least a portion of the illuminating light pattern such that the pattern is moving along the waveguide. The waveguide is further configured to receive a plurality of terahertz electromagnetic waves that are transmitted within the waveguide in the same direction as the motion of the illuminating light pattern to facilitate the detection and characterization of the terahertz electromagnetic waves. |
| FILED | Monday, July 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/942656 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/42 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/3581 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 23/17 (20130101) |
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| US 09766166 | Beebe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Beebe (Monona, Wisconsin); Ben P. Casavant (Madison, Wisconsin); David J. Guckenberger (Oconomowoc, Wisconsin); Scott M. Berry (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and a method for isolating a target from a biological sample are provided. The target is bound to solid phase substrate to form target bound solid phase substrate. The device includes a lower plate with an upper surface having a plurality of regions. The biological sample is receivable on a first of the regions. An upper plate has a lower surface directed to the upper surface of the lower plate. A force is positioned adjacent the upper plate and attracts the target bound solid phase substrate toward the lower surface of the upper plate. At least one of the upper plate and the lower plate is movable from a first position wherein the target bound solid phase substrate in the biological sample are drawn to the lower surface of the upper plate and a second position wherein the target bound solid phase substrate are isolated from the biological sample. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/737448 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/5088 (20130101) B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 3/502792 (20130101) B01L 2200/0668 (20130101) B01L 2300/045 (20130101) B01L 2300/0803 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2400/043 (20130101) B01L 2400/065 (20130101) B01L 2400/0644 (20130101) Magnetic or Electrostatic Separation of Solid Materials From Solid Materials or Fluids; Separation by High-voltage Electric Fields B03C 1/00 (20130101) B03C 1/02 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1006 (20130101) C12N 15/1013 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09766224 | Nolan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Standford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Garry P. Nolan (Redwood City, California); Sean C. Bendall (San Mateo, California); Robert M. Angelo (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of analyzing a population of cells is disclosed. In certain embodiments, the method includes i) obtaining an array of cells on a substrate, wherein the cells are labeled with one or more mass tags and are separated from one another, ii) measuring, using secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS), the abundance of the one or more mass tags at a plurality of locations occupied by the cells, thereby generating, for each individual cell measured, a set of data, and iii) outputting the set of data for each of the cells analyzed. Also provided herein are systems that find use in performing the subject method. In some embodiments, the system is an automated system for analyzing a population of cells using SIMS. |
| FILED | Friday, March 11, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/068338 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/4833 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/14 (20130101) H01J 49/0036 (20130101) |
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| US 09766255 | Church et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George M. Church (Brookline, Massachusetts); Justin Feng (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Daniel J. Mandell (Brookline, Massachusetts); David Baker (Seattle, Washington); Stanley Fields (Seattle, Washington); Benjamin Ward Jester (Seattle, Washington); Christine Elaine Tinberg (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a biosensor engineered to conditionally respond to the presence of specific small molecules, the biosensors including conditionally stable ligand-binding domains (LBDs) which respond to the presence of specific small molecules, wherein readout of binding is provided by reporter genes or transcription factors (TFs) fused to the LBDs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 12, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 14/993509 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/743 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2500/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09766402 | Yang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lan Yang (St. Louis, Missouri); Sahin Kaya Ozdemir (St. Louis, Missouri); Faraz Monifi (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | An add-drop filter for transmitting at least one signal is provided. The add-drop filter includes at least two optical waveguides capable of carrying the at least one signal, and at least one active resonator coupled between the optical waveguides, wherein the at least one active resonator provides gain that counteracts losses for the at least one signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/897863 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/12007 (20130101) G02B 6/29338 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/29383 (20130101) G02B 6/29395 (20130101) Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/176 (20130101) H01S 3/0627 (20130101) H01S 3/1608 (20130101) H01S 3/1618 (20130101) |
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| US 09766404 | Luo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Oracle International Corporation (Redwood Shores, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ying Luo (San Diego, California); Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California); Jin Yao (San Diego, California); Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated circuit that includes a wavelength-filter layer stack (which may include silicon oxynitride) and an optical substrate (such as a silicon-on-insulator platform) is described. During operation, an optical signal received from an optical fiber or an optical waveguide is wavelength filtered into a set of wavelength-filter optical waveguides by an optical multiplexer/demultiplexer (such as an Echelle grating and/or an array waveguide grating) in the wavelength-filter layer stack. Then, wavelength-filtered optical signals are optically coupled to the optical substrate, where they are received using photodetectors. Alternatively, modulators in the optical substrate modulate wavelength-filtered modulated optical signals, which are then optically coupled to the set of wavelength-filter optical waveguides in the wavelength-filter layer stack. Next, the wavelength-filtered modulated optical signals are combined using the optical multiplexer/demultiplexer, and the resulting optical signal is output to the optical fiber or the optical waveguide. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 16, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/184856 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/122 (20130101) G02B 6/1228 (20130101) G02B 6/2938 (20130101) G02B 6/29361 (20130101) G02B 6/29397 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 2006/12097 (20130101) Transmission H04B 10/60 (20130101) |
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| US 09766422 | Atcheson |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul D. Atcheson (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for heating a space deployed membrane assembly are provided. The membrane assembly can include one or more framed sections. Each section can include a composite membrane having a membrane substrate and a transparent, electrically conductive resistive coating. The composite membrane is held within a frame. Electrically conductive bus bars are provided and are placed in intimate electrical contact with the resistive coating. The electrically conductive bus bars are generally arranged, on opposite sides of the perimeter of the membrane. A controller passes current between selected bus bars, with different bus bars operative to pass current between them at different times. The magnitude of the voltage applied to the bus bars, the location of the bus bars, the operational sequence of powering the bus bars, and the time over which current is passed between a selected pair of bus bars, are selected to provide substantially uniform time averaged heating of the membrane. |
| FILED | Friday, November 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/542207 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/1842 (20130101) G02B 7/008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Heating; Electric Lighting Not Otherwise Provided for H05B 3/22 (20130101) H05B 3/84 (20130101) |
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| US 09766551 | 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); Xing Liao (Evanston, Illinois); Keith A. Brown (Evanston, Illinois); Guoliang Liu (Evanston, Illinois); Abrin L. Schmucker (Chicago, Illinois); Shu He (Evanston, Illinois); Wooyoung Shim (Skokie, Illinois); Daniel J. Eichelsdoerfer (Evanston, Illinois); Boris Rasin (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure, a method of patterning can include dividing an image into a set of frame sections; determining a tip pattern for a respective portion of an image to be patterned by each tip of the tip array in each frame section of the set of frame sections; disposing the tip array in a patterning position in a first location of the substrate corresponding to a location of the substrate in which the first frame section in the set of frame sections is to be patterned; projecting a first pattern of radiation onto the tip array to selectively irradiate one or more tips of the tip array and pattern the substrate, wherein the first pattern of radiation corresponds to a tip pattern for the first frame section; disposing the tip array in a patterning position in a second location of the substrate corresponding to a location of the substrate in which the second frame section in the set of frame sections is to be patterned; projecting a second pattern of radiation onto the tip array to selectively irradiate tips of the tip array and pattern the substrate, wherein the second pattern of radiation corresponds to a tip pattern for the second frame section; and repeating the disposing and projecting for each frame section in the set of frame sections to pattern the image. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/439252 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 1/26 (20130101) B05D 3/06 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 13/143 (20130101) Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/0002 (20130101) G03F 7/20 (20130101) G03F 7/2049 (20130101) G03F 7/7035 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G03F 7/7045 (20130101) G03F 7/70141 (20130101) G03F 7/70325 (20130101) G03F 7/70383 (20130101) |
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| US 09766950 | Michael 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) | Maged M. Michael (Danbury, Connecticut); Vijay Anand Saraswat (Mahopac, New York); Martin Vechev (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | There are provided methods for single-owner multi-consumer work queues for repeatable tasks. A method includes permitting a single owner thread of a single owner, multi-consumer, work queue to access the work queue using atomic instructions limited to only a single access and using non-atomic operations. The method further includes restricting the single owner thread from accessing the work queue using atomic instructions involving more than one access. The method also includes synchronizing amongst other threads with respect to their respective accesses to the work queue. |
| FILED | Friday, September 11, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/852116 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/52 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 9/526 (20130101) G06F 2209/521 (20130101) |
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| US 09766986 | Brueckner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Architecture Technology Corporation (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Architecture Technology Corporation (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen K. Brueckner (Ithaca, New York); Robert A. Joyce (Ithaca, New York); Carl Manson (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Hajime Inoue (Ithaca, New York); Kenneth J. Thurber (Hopkins, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A server system receives messages from client computing devices. Each of the messages corresponds to a transaction. The server system assigns each respective transaction to a respective fresh virtual machine. Furthermore, the server system performs, as part of a respective virtual machine processing a respective transaction, a modification associated with the respective transaction to a shared database. The shared database is persisted independently of the plurality of virtual machines. In response to determining that processing of the respective transaction is complete, the server system discards the respective virtual machine. In response to determining that the respective transaction is associated with a cyber-attack, the server system uses checkpoint data associated with the respective transaction to roll back the modifications associated with the respective transaction to the shared database. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/011642 |
| ART UNIT | 2435 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/466 (20130101) G06F 9/45533 (20130101) G06F 11/1469 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 21/606 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/145 (20130101) |
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| US 09766993 | Agrawal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dakshi Agrawal (Monsey, New York); Chatschik Bisdikian (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dakshi Agrawal (Monsey, New York); Chatschik Bisdikian (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Quality of information (QoI) assessment in dynamic sensor networks that includes evaluating, by a computer, a first value reflective of available reports from sensors that are dynamically associated with the computer. A second value reflective of reports expected to have been available for evaluation about the observed phenomena is estimated. A QoI of the available reports is assessed. The assessing is based on the first value reflective of the available reports and the second value reflective of reports expected to have been available for evaluation. A third value, based on the assessing is output. |
| FILED | Friday, May 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/474887 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 67/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09767094 | Beller 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) | Charles E. Beller (Baltimore, Maryland); Edward G. Katz (Washington, District of Columbia); Alexander C. Tonetti (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A mechanism is provided in a data processing system having a processor and a memory storing a store of semantic types and instructions for implementing a natural language processing engine for generating a question/answer pair list with semantically equivalent variants. The mechanism generates a user interface for generating a question/answer pair list. The mechanism receives user input in the user interface specifying a question and an answer term and specifying an answer type from a list of previously created answer types. The input term comprises the answer term. The natural language processing engine executing on the data processing system identifies a semantic type of the answer term based on the store of semantic types. The natural language processing engine performs a type-specific series of rule-based expansions of the answer term based on the identified semantic type of the answer term of the answer term. The natural language processing engine adds at least one semantically equivalent variant from the set of semantically equivalent variants of the answer term in association with the specified question to the question/answer pair list to form an expanded question/answer pair list. The natural language processing engine trains a question answering machine learning model for a question answering cognitive system using the expanded question/answer pair list as ground truth. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 07, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/204109 |
| ART UNIT | 2657 — Linguistics, Speech Processing and Audio Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/0482 (20130101) G06F 3/04842 (20130101) G06F 17/243 (20130101) G06F 17/2785 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 99/005 (20130101) |
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| US 09767226 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Desai Chen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Pitchaya Sitthi-Amorn (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David I. W. Levin (Boston, Massachusetts); Piotr Didyk (Swiebodzice, Poland); Wojciech Matusik (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | According to some aspects, a method of designing an object based on a three-dimensional model representing a shape of the object is provided. The object may be fabricated from a plurality of materials having one or more known physical properties, wherein the object is designed to exhibit one or more target properties. The method may comprise determining a first composition of the object by providing the three-dimensional model as input to a reducer tree, determining one or more physical properties of the object with the first composition by simulating the object with the first composition, comparing the determined one or more physical properties with the one or more target properties, and determining a second composition of the object based on a result of comparing the determined one or more physical properties with the one or more target properties. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 26, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/316333 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | 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 70/00 (20141201) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 17/5009 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 17/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09767574 | Menozzi |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Applied Research Associates, Inc. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Research Associates, Inc. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alberico Menozzi (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The described technology regards an augmented reality system and method for estimating a position of a location of interest relative to the position and orientation of a display, including a retroactive update to a previously rendered estimate of the position of the orientation of the display stored in a rewind buffer. Systems of the described technology include including a plurality of sensors, a processing module or other computation means, and a database. Methods of the described technology use data from the sensor package useful to accurately render graphical user interface information on a display. |
| FILED | Friday, August 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/832450 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 21/165 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 27/017 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 1/163 (20130101) G06F 3/011 (20130101) G06F 3/04817 (20130101) G06F 11/00 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 5/20 (20130101) G06T 7/33 (20170101) Original (OR) Class G06T 11/00 (20130101) G06T 19/006 (20130101) G06T 2200/24 (20130101) |
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| US 09767575 | Menozzi |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Applied Research Associates, Inc. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Research Associates, Inc. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alberico Menozzi (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The described technology regards an augmented reality system and method for estimating a position of a location of interest relative to the position and orientation of a display, using a forward buffer to store current and predicted position estimates calculated by the methods of the present invention. Systems of the described technology include including a plurality of sensors, a processing module or other computation means, and a database. Methods of the described technology use data from the sensor package useful to accurately render graphical user interface information on a display. |
| FILED | Friday, August 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/832468 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 21/165 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 27/017 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 1/163 (20130101) G06F 3/011 (20130101) G06F 3/04817 (20130101) G06F 11/00 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 5/20 (20130101) G06T 7/33 (20170101) Original (OR) Class G06T 11/00 (20130101) G06T 19/006 (20130101) G06T 2200/24 (20130101) |
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| US 09767576 | Menozzi |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Applied Research Associates, Inc. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Research Associates, Inc. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alberico Menozzi (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The described technology regards an augmented reality system and method for estimating a position of a location of interest relative to the position and orientation of a display, including receiving and selectively filtering a plurality of measurement vectors from a rate-gyroscope. Systems of the described technology include including a plurality of sensors, a processing module or other computation means, and a database. Methods of the described technology use data from the sensor package useful to accurately render graphical user interface information on a display. |
| FILED | Friday, August 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/832492 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 21/165 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 27/017 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 1/163 (20130101) G06F 3/011 (20130101) G06F 3/04817 (20130101) G06F 11/00 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 5/20 (20130101) G06T 7/33 (20170101) Original (OR) Class G06T 11/00 (20130101) G06T 19/006 (20130101) G06T 2200/24 (20130101) |
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| US 09767577 | Menozzi |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Applied Research Associates, Inc. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Research Associates, Inc. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alberico Menozzi (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The described technology regards an augmented reality system and method for estimating a position of a location of interest relative to the position and orientation of a display based upon a retroactive adjustment of a previously rendered position and orientation of the display, by means of an adjust-update-predict (AUP) cycle, and calculating the location of interest relative to the position and orientation of the display. Systems of the described technology include including a plurality of sensors, a processing module or other computation means, and a database. Methods of the described technology use data from the sensor package useful to accurately render graphical user interface information on a display. |
| FILED | Friday, August 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/832509 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 21/165 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 27/017 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 1/163 (20130101) G06F 3/011 (20130101) G06F 3/04817 (20130101) G06F 11/00 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 5/20 (20130101) G06T 7/33 (20170101) Original (OR) Class G06T 11/00 (20130101) G06T 19/006 (20130101) G06T 2200/24 (20130101) |
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| US 09767917 | Drake 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) | Alan J. Drake (Round Rock, Texas); Rajiv V. Joshi (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An system and method are configured to degrade a memory cell PFET voltage based on a sensor reading of a current operating point. This will enable additional control over the SRAM device, particularly during a write operation. In one embodiment, a system of SRAM memory devices is configured as a smart sensor with real-time corrective circuit action. The system and method samples write and read timing operations and is adaptable by performing real-time corrective action. The degrading of PFET voltage to reduce it strength and improve write characteristics include an implementation that includes a charge pump controllable for altering by decreasing a voltage applied to the PFET of a selected memory cell. In a further embodiment, an edge detector is built into the circuit that real-time assesses the strength of the memory write operation. In a further implementation, control logic functions as a Finite State Machine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 13, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/881718 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 11/418 (20130101) G11C 11/419 (20130101) G11C 29/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G11C 29/76 (20130101) |
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| US 09768086 | 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 | 15/084211 |
| 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 21/322 (20130101) H01L 21/02521 (20130101) H01L 21/02603 (20130101) H01L 21/02628 (20130101) H01L 21/6835 (20130101) H01L 23/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 09768107 | Howard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Emmett Howard (Tempe, Arizona); Nicholas Munizza (Gilbert, Arizona); Paul Yee (Chandler, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS, A BODY CORPORATE OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA, ACTING FOR AND ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Emmett Howard (Tempe, Arizona); Nicholas Munizza (Gilbert, Arizona); Paul Yee (Chandler, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Some embodiments include a method. The method can include providing a carrier substrate, providing a release layer over the carrier substrate, and providing a device substrate over the carrier substrate and the release layer. Providing the device substrate can include bonding the device substrate to the carrier substrate, and bonding the device substrate to the release layer. Further, providing the release layer can include bonding the release layer to the carrier substrate. Meanwhile, the release layer can include polymethylmethacrylate, and the device substrate can be bonded to the carrier substrate with a first adhesion strength, the device substrate can be bonded to the release layer with a second adhesion strength less than the first adhesion strength, and the release layer can be bonded to the carrier substrate with a third adhesion strength greater than the second adhesion strength. Other embodiments of related methods and devices are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, July 22, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/217405 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/52 (20130101) H01L 21/2007 (20130101) H01L 21/4853 (20130101) H01L 21/6835 (20130101) H01L 23/4985 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/0097 (20130101) H01L 2221/6835 (20130101) H01L 2221/68318 (20130101) H01L 2221/68381 (20130101) H01L 2221/68386 (20130101) |
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| US 09768288 | Chu 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) | Jack O. Chu (Manhasset Hills, New York); Christos D. Dimitrakopoulos (Baldwin Place, New York); Alfred Grill (White Plains, New York); Timothy J. McArdle (Mahopac, New York); Dirk Pfeiffer (Croton on Hudson, New York); Katherine L. Saenger (Ossining, New York); Robert L. Wisnieff (Ridgefield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Hall effect devices and field effect transistors are formed incorporating a carbon-based nanostructure layer such as carbon nanotubes and/or graphene with a sacrificial metal layer formed there over to protect the carbon-based nanostructure layer during processing. |
| FILED | Monday, August 15, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/237350 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/02 (20130101) H01L 21/30 (20130101) H01L 29/66 (20130101) H01L 29/775 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09768330 | Meade et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. (Boise, Idaho); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roy Meade (Boise, Idaho); Karan Mehta (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Efraim Megged (Mata, Israel); Jason Orcutt (Katonah, New York); Milos Popovic (Boulder, Colorado); Rajeev Ram (Arlington, Massachusetts); Jeffrey Shainline (Boulder, Colorado); Zvi Sternberg (Metar, Israel); Vladimir Stojanovic (Berkeley, California); Ofer Tehar-Zahav (Hadera, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and structural embodiments are described which provide an integrated structure using polysilicon material having different optical properties in different regions of the structure. |
| FILED | Monday, August 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/467449 |
| ART UNIT | 2898 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/1443 (20130101) H01L 31/1804 (20130101) H01L 31/02327 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/03682 (20130101) |
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| US 09768337 | de Ceglia et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Domenico de Ceglia (Huntsville, Alabama); Maria Antonietta Vincenti (Huntsville, Alabama); Michael Scalora (Huntsville, Alabama); Mirko Giuseppe Cappeddu (Catania, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | A photonic bandgap structure having multiple stacked layers has a thickness from the top of its top layer to the bottom of its bottom layer of less than one micron. Metal conducting layers having negative real dielectric constants are positioned between semiconductor layers having positive dielectric constants. The layers are arranged and stacked, and the thicknesses and materials for the semiconductor layers and conductive layers are selected to realize desired absorption, transmission, and reflection characteristics. |
| FILED | Monday, March 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/673370 |
| ART UNIT | 1758 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/056 (20141201) H01L 31/0687 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/0693 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/52 (20130101) Y02E 10/544 (20130101) |
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| US 09768402 | Forrest et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen R. Forrest (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim, California); Guodan Wei (San Jose, California); Siyi Wang (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California); The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen R. Forrest (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim, California); Guodan Wei (San Jose, California); Siyi Wang (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of preparing a bulk heterojunction organic photovoltaic cell through combinations of thermal and solvent vapor annealing are described. Bulk heterojunction films may prepared by known methods such as spin coating, and then exposed to one or more vaporized solvents and thermally annealed in an effort to enhance the crystalline nature of the photoactive materials. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/080759 |
| ART UNIT | 2896 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0028 (20130101) H01L 51/4253 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/4273 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) |
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| US 09768459 | Thampan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tony M. Thampan (Bear, Delaware); Jonathan Novoa (North East, Maryland); Terrill B. Atwater (Bel Air, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A hydrogen fuel cell cartridge is provided. Furthermore, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium is provided, which is configured to store a program for controlling a hydrogen fuel cell cartridge of a fuel cell. In addition, a hydrogen fuel cell system is provided, which includes a plurality of cartridge segments and a control unit. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/451988 |
| ART UNIT | 1729 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/065 (20130101) H01M 8/0606 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/04208 (20130101) H01M 8/04216 (20130101) |
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| US 09768462 | Angell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | C. Austen Angell (Mesa, Arizona); Younes Ansari (Medford, Massachusetts); Telpriore Greg Tucker (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS, A BODY CORPORATE OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA ACTING FOR AND ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | C. Austen Angell (Mesa, Arizona); Younes Ansari (Medford, Massachusetts); Telpriore Greg Tucker (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A liquid electrolyte formed by reacting phosphoric acid (H3PO4) in the liquid state with silicon tetrachloride (SiCl4), thereby forming a fluid suspension. The fluid suspension is heated to yield a liquid electrolyte including phosphoric acid (H3PO4), pyrophosphoric acid (H4P2O7), and a particulate solid comprising a silicophosphoric acid, wherein the silicophosphoric acid is an acidic molecular compound including silicon and phosphorus. A concentrated silicophosphoric acid composition prepared by removing most of the liquid from the liquid electrolyte is dissolved in water to yield a homogeneous solution. The homogeneous solution is dried to yield a solid electrolyte. In some cases, the homogenous solution is dried on a substrate to coat at least a portion of the substrate with a proton conductive solid electrolyte. A fuel cell may include the liquid electrolyte, the solid electrolyte, or the coated substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 04, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/587107 |
| 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 8/086 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 2300/0008 (20130101) |
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| US 09768481 | Pollack |
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| APPLICANT(S) | 4th-Phase, Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | 4th-Phase, Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald H. Pollack (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and system for generating electrical energy from a volume of water. |
| FILED | Monday, August 22, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/242986 |
| ART UNIT | 1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Processes for the Production of Compounds or Non-metals; Apparatus Therefor C25B 1/04 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 9/04 (20130101) H01G 9/20 (20130101) H01G 9/21 (20130101) H01G 9/2004 (20130101) H01G 9/2018 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 2/1653 (20130101) H01M 14/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 2300/0002 (20130101) Generation of Electric Power by Conversion of Infra-red Radiation, Visible Light or Ultraviolet Light, e.g Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules H02S 99/00 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/366 (20130101) |
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| US 09768515 | Rumpf et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond C. Rumpf (El Paso, Texas); Cesar R. Garcia (Lancaster, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention are directed to a device having one or more electromagnetic components embedded in an anisotropic metamaterial (AM) comprising an array of asymmetric unit cells comprising a substrate forming a plurality of channels or spaces having at least one material with different electromagnetic properties included in the channels or spaces in the first material forming an anisotropic metamaterial. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 23, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/747914 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 1/243 (20130101) H01Q 1/245 (20130101) H01Q 1/526 (20130101) H01Q 3/44 (20130101) H01Q 3/46 (20130101) H01Q 9/26 (20130101) H01Q 15/08 (20130101) H01Q 15/0086 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01Q 19/062 (20130101) |
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| US 09768587 | Zheng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Oracle International Corporation (Redwood Shores, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California); Jin Yao (San Diego, California); Ying Luo (San Diego, California); Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosed embodiments provide a tunable laser that includes a set of M reflective silicon optical amplifiers (RSOAs) and a set of N narrow-band reflectors. It also includes a silicon-photonic optical switch, having M amplifier ports, which are coupled through a set of M optical waveguides to the set of M RSOAs, and N reflector ports, which are coupled to the set of N narrow-band reflectors. The tunable laser also includes a switching mechanism that facilitates coupling at least one selected amplifier port from the M amplifier ports with a selected reflector port from the N reflector ports, thereby causing an RSOA coupled to the selected amplifier port to form a lasing cavity with a narrow-band reflector coupled to the selected reflector port. The tunable laser also includes a laser output, which is optically coupled to the lasing cavity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 02, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/341691 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 5/125 (20130101) H01S 5/141 (20130101) H01S 5/187 (20130101) H01S 5/0608 (20130101) H01S 5/1028 (20130101) H01S 5/1092 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 5/3013 (20130101) H01S 5/5027 (20130101) |
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| US 09768785 | Schultz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth I. Schultz (Lexington, Massachusetts); Brian Tyrrell (Brookline, New Hampshire); Michael W. Kelly (North Reading, Massachusetts); Curtis B. Colonero (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Lawrence M. Candell (Arlington, Massachusetts); Daniel Mooney (Dracut, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Digital focal plane arrays (DFPAs) with multiple counters per unit cell can be used to convert analog signals to digital data and to filter the digital data. Exemplary DFPAs include two-dimensional arrays of unit cells, where each unit cell is coupled to a corresponding photodetector in a photodetector array. Each unit cell converts photocurrent from its photodetector to a digital pulse train that is coupled to multiple counters in the unit cell. Each counter in each unit cell can be independently controlled to filter the pulse train by counting up or down and/or by transferring data as desired. For example, a unit cell may perform in-phase/quadrature filtering of homodyne- or heterodyne-detected photocurrent with two counters: a first counter toggled between increment and decrement modes with an in-phase signal and a second counter toggled between increment and decrement modes with a quadrature signal. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/850067 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 19/00 (20130101) Pulse Technique H03K 21/023 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03K 23/548 (20130101) Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 1/001 (20130101) H03M 1/004 (20130101) H03M 1/60 (20130101) H03M 1/123 (20130101) |
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| US 09768797 | Jabbour et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chadi Jabbour (Berkeley, California); Seyed Majid Homayouni (Berkeley, California); Sudhir Aggarwal (Fremont, California); Vason P. Srini (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for receivers. In one aspect there is provided an apparatus. The apparatus may include an in-phase sigma delta receiver coupled to a radio frequency input port providing at least a first carrier aggregation signal and a second carrier aggregation signal; and a quadrature phase sigma delta receiver coupled to the radio frequency input port providing at least the first carrier aggregation signal and the second aggregation signal, wherein the in-phase sigma delta receiver and the quadrature phase sigma delta receiver each include a resonator stage circuitry including at least one variable capacitor that varies notch frequencies to provide passbands for the first carrier aggregation signal and the second carrier aggregation signal. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 03, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/931665 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 3/406 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03M 3/462 (20130101) |
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| US 09768876 | Hutchinson 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 Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Meredith N. Hutchinson (Washington, District of Columbia); Nicholas Frigo (Silver Spring, Maryland); Vincent J. Urick (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of suppressing polarization-dependent loss in a signal. A constant-intensity, analog, optical signal with modulating polarization is transmitted through an optical communications link. The constant-intensity, analog, optical signal with modulating polarization includes an analog radio frequency signal impressed upon a polarization-modulated, laser signal. A polarization-dependent loss of the communications link is determined, the polarization-dependent loss inducing an induced phase shift in the constant-intensity, analog, optical signal with modulating polarization. The constant-intensity, analog, optical signal with modulating polarization is re-oriented using a polarization transformer so as to suppress the induced phase shift. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 27, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/220502 |
| ART UNIT | 2636 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 10/532 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 10/2572 (20130101) H04B 10/2575 (20130101) H04B 10/25133 (20130101) |
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| US 09768881 | Georgas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Stephen Georgas (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jason Scott Orcutt (Somerville, Massachusetts); Vladimir Marko Stojanovic (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices and techniques for integrated optical data communication. An optical receiver may include a photodetector and a differential amplifier. The photodetector is coupled to an optical waveguide. The optical waveguide is configured to provide an optical signal encoding data. A first terminal of the differential amplifier is coupled to receive a photodetection signal from the photodetector. A second terminal of the differential amplifier is coupled to receive, from a noise measurement unit, a reference signal representing a noise component of the photodetection signal. The differential amplifier is configured to provide an amplifier signal encoding at least some of the data. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/648002 |
| ART UNIT | 2637 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 10/60 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 10/697 (20130101) H04B 10/2504 (20130101) |
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| US 09768909 | Huang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hao Huang (Los Angeles, California); Yang Yue (Los Angeles, California); Nisar Ahmed (Los Angeles, California); Moshe J. Willner (Los Angeles, California); Yan Yan (Los Angeles, California); Yongxiong Ren (Los Angeles, California); Moshe Tur (Tel Aviv, Israel); Alan E. Willner (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hao Huang (Los Angeles, California); Yang Yue (Los Angeles, California); Nisar Ahmed (Los Angeles, California); Moshe J. Willner (Los Angeles, California); Yan Yan (Los Angeles, California); Yongxiong Ren (Los Angeles, California); Moshe Tur (Tel Aviv, Israel); Alan E. Willner (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In at least one aspect, a device for Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) based optical communication includes a first spatial light modulator configured to down-convert a first plurality of higher-order OAM modes from a communication signal to a second plurality of higher-order OAM modes and a first Gaussian mode, a second spatial light modulator configured to drop the first Gaussian mode and add a second Gaussian mode to the second plurality of higher-order OAM modes, and a third spatial light modulator configured to up-convert the second plurality of higher-order OAM modes and the second Gaussian mode to a third plurality of higher-order OAM modes for further communications. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 19, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/663392 |
| ART UNIT | 2637 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex Communication H04J 14/00 (20130101) H04J 14/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09769131 | Hartley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Architecture Technology Corporation (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Architecture Technology Corporation (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy Hartley (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Ranga Ramanujan (Medina, Minnesota); Jafar Al-Gharaibeh (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An example method includes receiving an indication of a selection of a first application environment that includes a first virtual environment associated with a first security domain and is configured to isolate execution of software applications within the first application environment, suspending execution of a second application environment that includes a second virtual environment associated with a second security domain different from the first security domain, initiating execution of the first application environment, identifying information associated with the first security domain and provided by the first application environment that is to be sent to an external computing device associated with the first security domain, selecting communication network(s) from one or more communication networks that are each available to the mobile computing device for data communication, encrypting, based on the first security domain and network(s), the information, and sending, to the external computing device via the network(s), the encrypted information. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 02, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/226515 |
| ART UNIT | 2497 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/74 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/105 (20130101) H04L 63/0428 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 67/34 (20130101) |
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| US 09769902 | Cain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anthony M. Cain (Beavercreek, Ohio); Danny J. Hugh (Fairborn, Ohio); Donald R. Thomas (Beavercreek, Ohio); Shawn R. Davidson (Xenia, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony M. Cain (Beavercreek, Ohio); Danny J. Hugh (Fairborn, Ohio); Donald R. Thomas (Beavercreek, Ohio); Shawn R. Davidson (Xenia, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser sensor stimulator integrates laser units, an inertial measurement unit, a control unit, and ergonomic, modular design with GPS data feeds into a portable system that can be used to test energy sensors and warning devices and includes a user interface facilitates tracking and acquisition of items of interest by the laser sensor stimulator. |
| FILED | Monday, May 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/103440 |
| ART UNIT | 3647 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Functional Features or Details of Lighting Devices or Systems Thereof; Structural Combinations of Lighting Devices With Other Articles, Not Otherwise Provided for F21V 21/00 (20130101) F21V 33/00 (20130101) Weapon Sights; Aiming F41G 1/00 (20130101) F41G 1/32 (20130101) Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 21/00 (20130101) Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 3/08 (20130101) Electric Heating; Electric Lighting Not Otherwise Provided for H05B 37/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ismet Handzic (Lutz, Florida); Kyle B. Reed (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ismet Handzic (Lutz, Florida); Kyle B. Reed (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a walking assistance device includes a support member adapted to support a user of the device and a curved tip mounted to the support member, the curved tip including a curved outer surface adapted to contact the ground or a floor surface during use of the device, the curved outer surface having a non-constant radius that changes as a function of angular position along the curved outer surface. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 16, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/801776 |
| ART UNIT | 3636 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Walking Sticks; Umbrellas; Ladies\' or Like Fans A45B 9/04 (20130101) Physical Therapy Apparatus, e.g Devices for Locating or Stimulating Reflex Points in the Body; Artificial Respiration; Massage; Bathing Devices for Special Therapeutic or Hygienic Purposes or Specific Parts of the Body A61H 3/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61H 3/0288 (20130101) A61H 2003/0211 (20130101) |
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| US 09764305 | Guo |
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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) | Ting Guo (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A principle is established to show that nanoscale energy deposition in water by X-rays can be greatly enhanced via the geometry of nanostructures. The calculated results show that enhancement over background water can reach over 60 times for a single nanoshell made of gold. Other geometries and nanostructures are investigated, and it is found that a shell of gold nanoparticles can generate similar enhancement. The concepts of composition, matrix, and satellite effects are established and studied, all of which can further increase the enhancement of the effect of X-rays. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/391003 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 41/0028 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 13/22 (20130101) B01J 19/125 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 2219/1203 (20130101) Organic Dyes or Closely-related Compounds for Producing Dyes; Mordants; Lakes C09B 11/24 (20130101) C09B 67/0097 (20130101) |
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| US 09764378 | Peters et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Peters (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Neri Oxman (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In exemplary implementations of this invention, an actuated fabricator deposits structural elements (e.g., tensile structural elements) in a 3D pattern over large displacements. The fabricator is supported by at least three elongated support members. It includes onboard actuators that translate the fabricator relative to the ends of the support members. The fabricator is configured, by actuating different translations along different support members, to translate itself throughout a 3D volume. In some implementations, each of the actuators use fusible material to fuse metal tapes together, edge-to-edge, to form a hollow structure that can be shortened or lengthened. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/856698 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Casting of Metals; Casting of Other Substances by the Same Processes or Devices B22D 11/01 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B22D 11/14 (20130101) B22D 11/1206 (20130101) Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 67/0055 (20130101) B29C 67/0074 (20130101) B29C 70/52 (20130101) Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 37/12 (20130101) B32B 38/10 (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 30/00 (20141201) B33Y 40/00 (20141201) |
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| US 09764469 | Sun et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yu Sun (Tampa, Florida); Yuongqiang Huang (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu Sun (Tampa, Florida); Yuongqiang Huang (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Aspects of the generation of new robotic motion trajectories are described. In one embodiment, a new robot motion trajectory may be generated by gathering demonstrated motion trajectories, adapting the demonstrated motion trajectories into robot-reachable motion trajectories based on a joint space of a robot model, for example, and generating motion harmonics with reference to the motion trajectories. Further, one or more constraints may be specified for a new goal. The weights of the motion harmonics may then be searched to identify or generate a new motion trajectory for a robot, where the new motion minimizes discrepancy from the demonstrated motion trajectories and error due to the at least one constraint. In the new motion trajectory, the degree to which the constraints are satisfied may be tuned using a weight. According to the embodiments, new motion variants may be generated without the need to learn or review new demonstrated trajectories. |
| FILED | Friday, December 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/568755 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 9/1664 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09764515 | Yost et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MUSC Foundation for Research Development (Charleston, South Carolina); Izumi International, Inc. (Greenville, South Carolina); Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MUSC Foundation for Research Development (Charleston, South Carolina); Izumi International, Inc. (Greenville, South Carolina); Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Yost (Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina); Thomas Trusk (Summerville, South Carolina); Ying Mei (Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina); Michael Chappell (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Walter Boylan (Liberty, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are systems, compositions, and methods for three-dimensional (3D) printing. An example system includes a plurality dispensers configured to deposit materials from their tips and a printing surface for receiving the materials. The system includes a position sensing detector configured to detect positions of the tips of the dispensers and the location and dimensions of the printing surface. The system includes a robotic positioning device configured to drive the dispensers. The system also includes a control unit configured to receive and map in a 3D space the positions of the tips of the dispensers and the position and dimensions of the printing surface. The control unit is further configured to control the robotic positioning device to drive the dispensers relative to the printing surface in the 3D space, and to independently deposit materials on the printing surface, or on material deposited on the printing surface. |
| FILED | Friday, May 01, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/702112 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 67/0059 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B29C 67/0088 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29B, B29C or B29D, Relating to Moulding Materials or to Materials for Reinforcements, Fillers or Preformed Parts, e.g Inserts B29K 2005/00 (20130101) B29K 2089/00 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29C, Relating to Particular Articles B29L 2031/7532 (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 30/00 (20141201) B33Y 50/02 (20141201) |
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| US 09764985 | Dabrowski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bogdan Dabrowski (Bolingbrook, Illinois); Steven Remsen (Hillsboro, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bogdan Dabrowski (Bolingbrook, Illinois); Steven Remsen (Hillsboro, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A manganese oxide contains M1, optionally M2, Mn and O. M1 is selected from the group consisting of In, Sc, Y, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb and Lu. M2 is different from M1, and M2 is selected from the group consisting of Bi, In, Sc, Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb and Lu. These ceramic materials are hexagonal in structure, and provide superior materials for gas separation and oxygen storage. |
| FILED | Friday, March 13, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/657263 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/02 (20130101) B01D 53/228 (20130101) B01D 69/10 (20130101) B01D 71/024 (20130101) B01D 2253/1124 (20130101) B01D 2255/206 (20130101) B01D 2255/2061 (20130101) B01D 2255/2073 (20130101) B01D 2257/104 (20130101) B01D 2325/12 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 13/0244 (20130101) C01B 2210/0007 (20130101) Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 45/1221 (20130101) C01G 45/1264 (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 2002/88 (20130101) Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/016 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C04B 2235/79 (20130101) C04B 2235/652 (20130101) C04B 2235/656 (20130101) C04B 2235/658 (20130101) C04B 2235/663 (20130101) C04B 2235/761 (20130101) C04B 2235/767 (20130101) C04B 2235/768 (20130101) C04B 2235/3224 (20130101) C04B 2235/3225 (20130101) C04B 2235/3227 (20130101) C04B 2235/3229 (20130101) C04B 2235/3267 (20130101) C04B 2235/3286 (20130101) C04B 2235/3298 (20130101) C04B 2235/6565 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/129 (20151101) |
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| US 09764995 | Toutov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anton Toutov (Pasadena, California); Wenbo Liu (Pasadena, California); Brian M. Stoltz (San Marino, California); Robert H. Grubbs (South Pasadena, California); Kerry Betz (Boulder, Colorado); David P. Schuman (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes chemical systems and methods for silylating heteroaromatic organic substrates using at least alkoxide base, preferably a potassium alkoxide base and at least one organodisilane and (b) at least one alkoxide base. Both methods and compositions for affecting these transformations are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, December 12, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/375747 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | General Methods of Organic Chemistry; Apparatus Therefor C07B 47/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 7/0827 (20130101) |
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| US 09765094 | Bigioni et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of Toledo (Toledo, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Toledo (Toledo, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terry Bigioni (Toledo, Ohio); Anil Desireddy (Toledo, Ohio); Brian Conn (Toledo, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Ultrastable silver nanoparticles, methods of making the same, and methods of using the same, are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/773027 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 8/19 (20130101) A61K 8/46 (20130101) A61K 8/58 (20130101) A61K 33/38 (20130101) A61K 47/48023 (20130101) A61K 49/0052 (20130101) A61K 2800/10 (20130101) A61K 2800/58 (20130101) A61K 2800/652 (20130101) Specific Use of Cosmetics or Similar Toilet Preparations A61Q 19/00 (20130101) Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 1/0018 (20130101) B22F 1/0062 (20130101) B22F 9/24 (20130101) Nanostructures Formed by Manipulation of Individual Atoms, Molecules, or Limited Collections of Atoms or Molecules as Discrete Units; Manufacture or Treatment Thereof B82B 1/00 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 1/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07F 9/5045 (20130101) Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 23/00 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 9/2059 (20130101) |
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| US 09765102 | Veige et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam Steven Veige (Gainesville, Florida); Matthew O'Reilly (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention are directed to ONO pincer ligands that can be in a trianionic, protonated or protonated equivalent form. The ONO pincer ligand can be combined with a metal comprising compound to form an ONO pincer ligand comprising transition metal complex. By choice of the ONO pincer ligand structure, the steric and electronic properties of the metal complexes therefrom can be controlled. The ONO pincer ligands comprise a central nitrogen atom that is disubstituted with a pair of three atom comprising bridges where the three atoms are a pair of sp2 hybridized carbons and an sp3 hybridized carbon. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 06, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/286780 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 213/02 (20130101) C07C 215/50 (20130101) C07C 215/68 (20130101) C07C 215/82 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 9/5456 (20130101) C07F 11/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07F 11/005 (20130101) |
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| US 09765120 | Saito et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Woods Hole, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wood 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 | 14/958293 |
| 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 09765122 | Catalano et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington Through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlos Enrique Catalano (Seattle, Washington); Jenny Ren-Jye Chang (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides viral-based nanoparticles for therapeutic and diagnostic use, and methods for making and using the nanoparticles. Specifically, such nanoparticles comprise decoration-competent viral particles shells such as expanded capsids of phages, stabilized with engineered decoration proteins that have been linked to one or more compounds not naturally occurring on a wild type viral capsid. |
| FILED | Monday, January 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/652645 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/177 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2319/735 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2795/10023 (20130101) C12N 2795/10042 (20130101) |
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| US 09765169 | Das et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Subha Ranjan Das (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Saadyah Averick (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Sourav K. Dey (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Krzysztof Matyjaszewski (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of synthesizing a polynucleotide composition includes attaching a compound including at least one initiator or at least one transfer agent for a reversible deactivation radical polymerization to an end of a nucleotide chain assembly immobilized upon a solid phase support during a solid phase synthesis of a polynucleotide so that the initiator or the transfer agent is attacked to the end of a nucleotide chain assembly in a manner which is stable under conditions of deprotection of the polynucleotide, and growing a polymer from the initiator of from a site of the chain transfer agent via the reversible deactivation radical polymerization to form the polynucleotide composition. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/785334 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 1/00 (20130101) C07H 21/00 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 251/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09765233 | Webster et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dean C. Webster (Fargo, North Dakota); Arvin Yu (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a polyfunctional bio-based oligomer which is the reaction product of a) at least one epoxidized sucrose fatty acid ester resin; b) at least one ethylenically unsaturated acid selected from methacrylic acid, acrylic acid, crotonic acid, and mixtures thereof; c) at least one acid anhydride selected from acetic acid anhydride, acrylic acid anhydride, methacrylic acid anhydride, crotonic acid anhydride, and mixtures thereof; d) optionally, at least one catalyst; and e) optionally, at least one inhibitor. In a polyfunctional bio-based oligomer of the invention, the ratio of ethylenically unsaturated acid to acid anhydride ranges from 90:1 to 1:90; at least one epoxide group of the at least one epoxidized sucrose fatty acid ester resin is esterified by at least one ethylenically unsaturated acid; and at least one epoxide group of the at least one epoxidized sucrose fatty acid ester resin is esterified by at least one acid anhydride. Other embodiments of the invention relate to methods of making the polyfunctional bio-based oligomers of the invention and to curable coating compositions containing them. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 21, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/135144 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 69/67 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 67/00 (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 133/06 (20130101) C09D 133/08 (20130101) C09D 133/08 (20130101) C09D 133/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09765328 | Chaput |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Chaput (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Chaput (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides stable, nuclease-resistant TNA and TNA-DNA oligonucleotides, wherein the oligonucleotides are completely resistant to enzymatic degradation for at least 24-72 hours. Methods of synthesis and use in diagnostic and therapeutic applications are also provided. Specifically, in one embodiment, we describe the chemical and biological stability of TNA and mixed-backbone (mosaic) TNA-DNA oligonucleotides under a variety of conditions and sequence contexts. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/950946 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 1/00 (20130101) C07H 21/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/111 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/32 (20130101) C12N 2310/323 (20130101) C12N 2320/51 (20130101) |
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| US 09765402 | Mayer-Blackwell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell (Stanford, California); Alfred M. Spormann (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Combinations of reductive dehalogenase (rdh) genes are a distinguishing genomic feature of closely-related organohalogen-respiring bacteria. This feature can be used to deconvolute the population structure of organohalogen-respiring bacteria in complex environments and to identify relevant subpopulations, which is important for tracking interspecies dynamics needed for successful site remediation. The present disclosure encompasses embodiments of a nanoliter qPCR platform to identify organohalogen-respiring bacteria by quantitatively identifying major orthologous reductive dehalogenase gene groups. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 18, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/661050 |
| 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 |
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| US 09766074 | Roumeliotis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stergios I. Roumeliotis (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Anastasios I. Mourikis (Riverside, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stergios I. Roumeliotis (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Anastasios I. Mourikis (Riverside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This document discloses, among other things, a system and method for implementing an algorithm to determine pose, velocity, acceleration or other navigation information using feature tracking data. The algorithm has computational complexity that is linear with the number of features tracked. |
| FILED | Monday, March 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/383371 |
| ART UNIT | 3626 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 21/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09766123 | Brueck et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven R. J. Brueck (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Alexander Neumann (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Payman Zarkesh-Ha (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A 2-D sensor array includes a semiconductor substrate and a plurality of pixels disposed on the semiconductor substrate. Each pixel includes a coupling region and a junction region, and a slab waveguide structure disposed on the semiconductor substrate and extending from the coupling region to the region. The slab waveguide includes a confinement layer disposed between a first cladding layer and a second cladding layer. The first cladding and the second cladding each have a refractive index that is lower than a refractive index of the confinement layer. Each pixel also includes a coupling structure disposed in the coupling region and within the slab waveguide. The coupling structure includes two materials having different indices of refraction arranged as a grating defined by a grating period. The junction region comprises a p-n junction in communication with electrical contacts for biasing and collection of carriers resulting from absorption of incident radiation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 09, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 15/317592 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 1/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01J 1/44 (20130101) G01J 3/18 (20130101) G01J 3/2803 (20130101) G01J 2001/448 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/122 (20130101) G02B 6/124 (20130101) G02B 6/12004 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/1446 (20130101) H01L 31/103 (20130101) H01L 31/02019 (20130101) H01L 31/02164 (20130101) H01L 31/02327 (20130101) |
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| US 09766204 | Karhanek 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) | Miloslav Karhanek (Santa Cruz, California); Chris David Webb (Watsonville, California); Senkei Umehara (Tokyo, Japan); Nader Pourmand (Scotts Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods and devices for biomolecular detection, comprising a nanopipette, exemplified as a hollow inert, non-biological structure with a conical tip opening of nanoscale dimensions, suitable for holding an electrolyte solution which may contain an analyte such as a protein biomolecule to be detected as it is passed through the tip opening. Biomolecules are detected by specific reaction with peptide ligands chemically immobilized in the vicinity of the tip. Analytes which bind to the ligands cause a detectable change in ionic current. A sensitive detection circuit, using a feedback amplifier circuit, and alternating voltages is further disclosed. Detection of IL-10 at a concentration of 4 ng/ml is also disclosed, as is detection of VEGF. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/603134 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/42 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 27/4035 (20130101) G01N 33/48707 (20130101) |
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| US 09766551 | 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); Xing Liao (Evanston, Illinois); Keith A. Brown (Evanston, Illinois); Guoliang Liu (Evanston, Illinois); Abrin L. Schmucker (Chicago, Illinois); Shu He (Evanston, Illinois); Wooyoung Shim (Skokie, Illinois); Daniel J. Eichelsdoerfer (Evanston, Illinois); Boris Rasin (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure, a method of patterning can include dividing an image into a set of frame sections; determining a tip pattern for a respective portion of an image to be patterned by each tip of the tip array in each frame section of the set of frame sections; disposing the tip array in a patterning position in a first location of the substrate corresponding to a location of the substrate in which the first frame section in the set of frame sections is to be patterned; projecting a first pattern of radiation onto the tip array to selectively irradiate one or more tips of the tip array and pattern the substrate, wherein the first pattern of radiation corresponds to a tip pattern for the first frame section; disposing the tip array in a patterning position in a second location of the substrate corresponding to a location of the substrate in which the second frame section in the set of frame sections is to be patterned; projecting a second pattern of radiation onto the tip array to selectively irradiate tips of the tip array and pattern the substrate, wherein the second pattern of radiation corresponds to a tip pattern for the second frame section; and repeating the disposing and projecting for each frame section in the set of frame sections to pattern the image. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/439252 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 1/26 (20130101) B05D 3/06 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 13/143 (20130101) Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/0002 (20130101) G03F 7/20 (20130101) G03F 7/2049 (20130101) G03F 7/7035 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G03F 7/7045 (20130101) G03F 7/70141 (20130101) G03F 7/70325 (20130101) G03F 7/70383 (20130101) |
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| US 09766931 | Shah et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Julie Ann Shah (Boston, Massachusetts); Matthew Craig Gombolay (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of determining schedulability of tasks for uniprocessor execution includes defining a well-formed, non-preemptive task set having a plurality of tasks, each task having at least one subtask. A determination of whether the task set is schedulable is made, such that a near-optimal amount of temporal resources required to execute the task set is estimated. Further, a method of determining schedulability of a subtask for uniprocessor execution includes defining a well-formed, non-preemptive task set having a plurality of tasks, each task having at least one subtask. A determination of whether a subtask in the task set is schedulable at a specific time is made in polynomial time. Systems for implementing such methods are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/873541 |
| ART UNIT | 2195 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/4887 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09767226 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Desai Chen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Pitchaya Sitthi-Amorn (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David I. W. Levin (Boston, Massachusetts); Piotr Didyk (Swiebodzice, Poland); Wojciech Matusik (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | According to some aspects, a method of designing an object based on a three-dimensional model representing a shape of the object is provided. The object may be fabricated from a plurality of materials having one or more known physical properties, wherein the object is designed to exhibit one or more target properties. The method may comprise determining a first composition of the object by providing the three-dimensional model as input to a reducer tree, determining one or more physical properties of the object with the first composition by simulating the object with the first composition, comparing the determined one or more physical properties with the one or more target properties, and determining a second composition of the object based on a result of comparing the determined one or more physical properties with the one or more target properties. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 26, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/316333 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | 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 70/00 (20141201) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 17/5009 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 17/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09767659 | Provancher et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William R. Provancher (Fremont, California); Markus N. Montandon (Alpine, Utah); Andrew J. Doxon (Urbandale, Iowa); Nathan A. Caswell (Salt Lake City, Utah); Landon T. Gwilliam (Taylorsville, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present disclosure relate devices, systems, methods, and for displaying information about the direction and magnitude of position, movement, and/or resistive force experienced for an object. The present disclosure also provides a shear display device that can generate skin shear with one or more tactors. The movement of the tactors can represent to a user various information about an object. |
| FILED | Friday, February 12, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/043140 |
| ART UNIT | 2684 — Telemetry and Code Generation Vehicles and System Alarms |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/016 (20130101) Signalling or Calling Systems; Order Telegraphs; Alarm Systems G08B 6/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09767876 | Khitun |
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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) | Alexander Khitun (Riverside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic device using an array of magnetic wave guides is shown. In one example a memory device is shown that utilizes spin waves and a magnet storage element that interacts with the spin waves. In one example, an electronic device is shown that utilizes both a complementary metal oxide device and a magnonic device coupled together. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 27, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/924575 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 11/1673 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G11C 11/1675 (20130101) G11C 11/5607 (20130101) |
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| US 09767943 | Crawford et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas M. Crawford (Irmo, South Carolina); Longfei Ye (Columbia, South Carolina); Tanner G. Pearson (Lyman, South Carolina); O. Thompson Mefford (Clemson, South Carolina); Yves Cordeau (Pauline, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina); Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas M. Crawford (Irmo, South Carolina); Longfei Ye (Columbia, South Carolina); Tanner G. Pearson (Lyman, South Carolina); O. Thompson Mefford (Clemson, South Carolina); Yves Cordeau (Pauline, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for forming a nanoparticle assembly are generally provided. The method can comprise applying a colloidal fluid to a surface of a magnetic media, wherein the colloidal fluid comprises magnetic nanoparticles, a surfactant, a trigger salt, and a carrier medium; and assembling the magnetic nanoparticles into a pattern through a magnetic force arising from the surface of the magnetic media. |
| FILED | Friday, November 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/535996 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Information Storage Based on Relative Movement Between Record Carrier and Transducer G11B 5/845 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 1/009 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01F 1/0054 (20130101) |
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| US 09768338 | Lavrova et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Olga A. Lavrova (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Christos G. Christodoulou (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Sang M. Han (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Ganesh Balakrishnan (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is an energy harvesting device, including a solar cell including at least one active layer for receiving a first range of electromagnetic frequencies, at least one layer including antenna structures for receiving RF energy and formed on a first side of the solar cell, and at least one semiconductor for absorbing IR energy, and formed on a second side of the solar cell opposite the first side. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/373687 |
| ART UNIT | 1757 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/043 (20141201) H01L 31/0725 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/0735 (20130101) H01L 31/0745 (20130101) H01L 31/1085 (20130101) H01L 31/1804 (20130101) Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 1/248 (20130101) H01Q 9/27 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 17/00 (20130101) Generation of Electric Power by Conversion of Infra-red Radiation, Visible Light or Ultraviolet Light, e.g Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules H02S 10/30 (20141201) 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) |
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| US 09768349 | Shur et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc. (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc. (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Shur (Latham, New York); Alexander Dobrinsky (Loudonville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A superlattice layer including a plurality of periods, each of which is formed from a plurality of sub-layers is provided. Each sub-layer comprises a different composition than the adjacent sub-layer(s) and comprises a polarization that is opposite a polarization of the adjacent sub-layer(s). In this manner, the polarizations of the respective adjacent sub-layers compensate for one another. Furthermore, the superlattice layer can be configured to be at least partially transparent to radiation, such as ultraviolet radiation. |
| FILED | Monday, August 08, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/231062 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 33/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 33/14 (20130101) H01L 33/18 (20130101) H01L 33/32 (20130101) H01L 33/38 (20130101) H01L 33/40 (20130101) H01L 33/0045 (20130101) |
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| US 09768355 | El-Shall et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | M. Samy El-Shall (Richmond, Virginia); Victor Abdelsayed (Morgantown, West Virginia); Saud I. Al-Resayes (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia); Zeid Abdullah M. Alothman (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | M. Samy El-Shall (Richmond, Virginia); Victor Abdelsayed (Morgantown, West Virginia); Saud I. Al-Resayes (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia); Zeid Abdullah M. Alothman (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatuses to produce graphene and nanoparticle catalysts supported on graphene without the use of reducing agents, and with the concomitant production of heat, are provided. The methods and apparatuses employ radiant energy to reduce (deoxygenate) graphite oxide (GO) to graphene, or to reduce a mixture of GO plus one or more metals to produce nanoparticle catalysts supported on graphene. Methods and systems to generate and utilize heat that is produced by irradiating GO, graphene and their metal and semiconductor nanocomposites with visible, infrared and/or ultraviolet radiation, e.g. using sunlight, lasers, etc. are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, December 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/514671 |
| ART UNIT | 3769 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 18/20 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 41/0052 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 5/062 (20130101) A61N 2005/067 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 21/185 (20130101) B01J 23/8913 (20130101) B01J 35/0013 (20130101) B01J 37/16 (20130101) B01J 37/349 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 3/40 (20130101) C01B 31/0476 (20130101) C01B 2203/1041 (20130101) C01B 2203/1064 (20130101) C01B 2203/1082 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/02527 (20130101) H01L 21/02628 (20130101) H01L 21/02656 (20130101) H01L 29/66742 (20130101) H01L 29/78684 (20130101) H01L 33/0054 (20130101) H01L 33/343 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/52 (20151101) |
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| US 09768881 | Georgas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Stephen Georgas (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jason Scott Orcutt (Somerville, Massachusetts); Vladimir Marko Stojanovic (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices and techniques for integrated optical data communication. An optical receiver may include a photodetector and a differential amplifier. The photodetector is coupled to an optical waveguide. The optical waveguide is configured to provide an optical signal encoding data. A first terminal of the differential amplifier is coupled to receive a photodetection signal from the photodetector. A second terminal of the differential amplifier is coupled to receive, from a noise measurement unit, a reference signal representing a noise component of the photodetection signal. The differential amplifier is configured to provide an amplifier signal encoding at least some of the data. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/648002 |
| ART UNIT | 2637 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 10/60 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 10/697 (20130101) H04B 10/2504 (20130101) |
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| US 09768992 | Khattab et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ahmed Khattab (Houston, Texas); Ashutosh Sabharwal (Houston, Texas); Edward W. Knightly (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ahmed Khattab (Houston, Texas); Ashutosh Sabharwal (Houston, Texas); Edward W. Knightly (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for simultaneous and asynchronous transmissions in multi-antenna multi-hop networks. The system and method employ randomized and non-greedy resource allocation to counter starvation. The system and method define a class of asynchronous random access protocols subsuming MIMO systems via two components. Residual Capacity Estimation and Randomized Resource Allocation. The system and method realize the first asynchronous MIMO MAC protocol that counters flow starvation in multi-hop networks. Randomized and non-greedy antenna allocation coupled with local residual capacity estimation results in previously-starving nodes capturing a fair share of system resources while simultaneously exploiting throughput gains available to multi-antenna systems. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/132927 |
| ART UNIT | 2633 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 7/0413 (20130101) H04B 7/0691 (20130101) H04B 7/0874 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 27/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09764274 | Spiry et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Irina Pavlovna Spiry (Gloversville, New York); Benjamin Rue Wood (Niskayuna, New York); Surinder Prabhjot Singh (Niskayuna, New York); Robert James Perry (Niskayuna, New York); John Brian McDermott (Rexford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for treatment of a flue gas involves feeding the flue gas and a lean solvent to an absorber. The method further involves reacting the flue gas with the lean solvent within the absorber to generate a clean flue gas and a rich solvent. The method also involves feeding the clean flue gas from the absorber and water from a source, to a wash tower to separate a stripped portion of the lean solvent from the clean flue gas to generate a washed clean flue gas and a mixture of the water and the stripped portion of the lean solvent. The method further involves treating at least a portion of the mixture of the water and the stripped portion of the lean solvent via a separation system to separate the water from the stripped portion of the lean solvent. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/567319 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/62 (20130101) B01D 53/96 (20130101) B01D 53/1425 (20130101) B01D 53/1475 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 2252/2026 (20130101) B01D 2252/2053 (20130101) B01D 2252/20489 (20130101) B01D 2257/504 (20130101) B01D 2258/0283 (20130101) Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 10/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09764279 | Jin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of Wyoming Research Corporation (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Wyoming Research Corporation (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Song Jin (Fort Collins, Colorado); Paul Fallgren (Westminster, Colorado); Jeffrey M. Morris (Arvada, Colorado); Alan E. Bland (Laramie, Wyoming); Patrick Richards (Seattle, Washington); Jesse D. Newcomer (Laramie, Wyoming); Patricia Colberg (Laramie, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems to achieve clean fuel processing systems in which carbon dioxide emissions (1) from sources (2) may be processed in at least one processing reactor (4) containing a plurality of chemoautotrophic bacteria (5) which can convert the carbon dioxide emissions into biomass (6) which may then be used for various products (21) such as biofuels, fertilizer, feedstock, or the like. Sulfate reducing bacteria (13) may be used to supply sulfur containing compounds to the chemoautotrophic bacteria (5). |
| FILED | Sunday, March 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/792144 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/62 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 53/84 (20130101) B01D 2251/95 (20130101) B01D 2257/504 (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 2300/405 (20130101) C10G 2300/1011 (20130101) C10G 2300/4043 (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 1/026 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/20 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/649 (20130101) Removal or Treatment of Combustion Products or Combustion Residues; Flues F23J 15/02 (20130101) F23J 2215/50 (20130101) Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 10/02 (20130101) Y02C 10/04 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 20/326 (20130101) Y02E 50/13 (20130101) Y02E 50/17 (20130101) Y02E 50/343 (20130101) Y02E 50/346 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/59 (20151101) Y02P 20/152 (20151101) Y02P 30/10 (20151101) Y02P 30/20 (20151101) Y02P 30/446 (20151101) |
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| US 09764953 | Zuckermann 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) | Ronald N. Zuckermann (El Cerrito, California); James J. De Yoreo (Clayton, California); Chun-Long Chen (Albany, California); Yung-Ching Chien (Foster City, California); Grayson W. Marshall (Larkspur, California); Sally J. Marshall (Larkspur, California); Kuniko Saeki (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a bio-mimetic polymer capable of catalyzing or mineralizing calcium ion and phosphate ions into an apatite. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/221179 |
| 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 38/00 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/227 (20130101) A61L 2430/02 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 25/32 (20130101) C01B 25/455 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 5/0827 (20130101) C07K 5/1027 (20130101) C07K 7/06 (20130101) C07K 7/08 (20130101) C07K 14/001 (20130101) |
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| US 09765044 | Socha et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California); SANDIA CORPORATION (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aaron Socha (New York, New York); Seema Singh (Fremont, California); Blake A. Simmons (San Francisco, California); Maxime Bergeron (Quebec, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are provided for synthesizing ionic liquids from lignin derived compounds comprising: contacting a starting material comprising lignin with a depolymerization agent to depolymerize the lignin and form a mixture of aldehyde containing compounds; contacting the mixture of aldehyde containing compounds with an amine under conditions suitable to convert the mixture of aldehyde containing compounds to a mixture of amine containing compounds; and contacting the mixture of amine containing compounds with an acid under conditions suitable to form an ammonium salt, thereby preparing the ionic liquid. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/776454 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 209/00 (20130101) C07C 209/00 (20130101) C07C 209/04 (20130101) C07C 209/28 (20130101) C07C 209/28 (20130101) C07C 209/28 (20130101) C07C 211/27 (20130101) C07C 211/28 (20130101) C07C 211/63 (20130101) C07C 211/63 (20130101) C07C 213/02 (20130101) C07C 213/02 (20130101) C07C 213/02 (20130101) C07C 213/08 (20130101) C07C 213/08 (20130101) C07C 213/08 (20130101) C07C 215/50 (20130101) C07C 215/66 (20130101) C07C 215/66 (20130101) C07C 217/58 (20130101) C07C 217/58 (20130101) C07C 217/58 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 295/03 (20130101) C07D 307/52 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Derivatives of Natural Macromolecular Compounds C08H 8/00 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 3/00 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/02 (20130101) C12P 19/14 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 10/0569 (20130101) H01M 2300/0037 (20130101) H01M 2300/0045 (20130101) |
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| US 09765186 | Chisholm et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bret Ja Chisholm (West Fargo, North Dakota); Satyabrata Samanta (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bret Ja Chisholm (West Fargo, North Dakota); Satyabrata Samanta (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | Polyamide copolymers, and methods of making and using polyamide copolymers, having 2,5-furan dicarboxamide units are disclosed herein. Such polymers can be useful for engineering thermoplastics having advantageous physical and/or chemical properties. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/900402 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — 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 43/003 (20130101) B29C 45/0001 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29B, B29C or B29D, Relating to Moulding Materials or to Materials for Reinforcements, Fillers or Preformed Parts, e.g Inserts B29K 2077/00 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 63/181 (20130101) C08G 69/26 (20130101) C08G 69/28 (20130101) C08G 69/265 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 77/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09765251 | Dhau et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jaspreet Dhau (Tampa, Florida); Dharendra Goswami (Tampa, Florida); Chand K. Jotshi (Tampa, Florida); Elias K. Stefanakos (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a phase change material is encapsulated by forming a phase change material pellet, coating the pellet with flexible material, heating the coated pellet to melt the phase change material, wherein the phase change materials expands and air within the pellet diffuses out through the flexible material, and cooling the coated pellet to solidify the phase change material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/425415 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 5/00 (20130101) C09K 5/063 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 18/31 (20130101) C23C 18/165 (20130101) C23C 18/1641 (20130101) Processes for the Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Production of Coatings; Electroforming; Apparatus Therefor C25D 7/00 (20130101) Heat-exchange Apparatus, Not Provided for in Another Subclass, in Which the Heat-exchange Media Do Not Come into Direct Contact F28D 20/023 (20130101) Details of Heat-exchange and Heat-transfer Apparatus, of General Application F28F 21/06 (20130101) F28F 2225/00 (20130101) F28F 2255/06 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/145 (20130101) |
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| US 09765362 | Oyler |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James R. Oyler (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Genifuel Corporation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Oyler (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Processes, systems, and methods for producing combustible gas from wet biomass are provided. In one aspect, for example, a process for generating a combustible gas from a wet biomass in a closed system is provided. Such a process may include growing a wet biomass in a growth chamber, moving at least a portion of the wet biomass to a reactor, heating the portion of the wet biomass under high pressure in the reactor to gasify the wet biomass into a total gas component, separating the gasified component into a liquid component, a non-combustible gas component, and a combustible gas component, and introducing the liquid component and non-combustible gas component containing carbon dioxide into the growth chamber to stimulate new wet biomass growth. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/135379 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 3/50 (20130101) C01B 2203/0465 (20130101) C01B 2203/0475 (20130101) Production of Producer Gas, Water-gas, Synthesis Gas From Solid Carbonaceous Material, or Mixtures Containing These Gases; Carburetting Air or Other Gases C10J 2300/0916 (20130101) C10J 2300/0986 (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 3/06 (20130101) C10L 3/08 (20130101) C10L 5/44 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/12 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 3/00 (20130101) C12P 5/023 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/10 (20130101) Y02E 50/30 (20130101) Y02E 50/343 (20130101) |
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| US 09765372 | Tang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark); Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark); Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lan Tang (Beijing, China PRC); Ye Liu (Beijing, China PRC); Junxin Duan (Beijing, China PRC); Wenping Wu (Beijing, China PRC); Randall Kramer (Lincoln, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides. |
| FILED | Monday, October 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/518896 |
| ART UNIT | 1663 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/37 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/2437 (20130101) C12N 15/8246 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/14 (20130101) C12P 19/02 (20130101) C12P 19/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09765604 | Buscheck |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livemore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas A. Buscheck (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for extracting geothermal energy from a geothermal reservoir formation. A production well is used to extract brine from the reservoir formation. At least one of nitrogen (N2) and carbon dioxide (CO2) may be used to form a supplemental working fluid which may be injected into a supplemental working fluid injection well. The supplemental working fluid may be used to augment a pressure of the reservoir formation, to thus drive a flow of the brine out from the reservoir formation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/167375 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Earth Drilling, e.g Deep Drilling; Obtaining Oil, Gas, Water, Soluble or Meltable Materials or a Slurry of Minerals From Wells E21B 43/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class E21B 43/168 (20130101) Spring, Weight, Inertia or Like Motors; Mechanical-power Producing Devices or Mechanisms, Not Otherwise Provided for or Using Energy Sources Not Otherwise Provided for F03G 7/04 (20130101) Producing or Use of Heat Not Otherwise Provided For F24J 3/085 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09765658 | Knauf et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael B. Knauf (Rochester, New York); Mark C. Sellnau (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | DELPHI TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael B. Knauf (Rochester, New York); Mark C. Sellnau (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A valve train system for an internal combustion engine includes an exhaust valve moveable between an exhaust closed position and an exhaust open position. A camshaft includes a main exhaust lobe for moving the exhaust valve between the exhaust closed position and the exhaust open position for expelling exhaust constituents from the combustion chamber and an exhaust rebreath lobe for moving the exhaust valve between the exhaust closed position and the exhaust open position for allowing exhaust constituents into the combustion chamber. A two-step device is provided for transmitting motion from the camshaft to the exhaust valve and is switchable between a motion transmitting position and a motion preventing position such that the motion transmitting position allows motion to be transmitted from the exhaust rebreath lobe to the exhaust valve and the motion preventing position prevents motion from being transmitted from the exhaust rebreath lobe to the exhaust valve. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/038418 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Cyclically Operating Valves for Machines or Engines F01L 1/185 (20130101) F01L 1/267 (20130101) F01L 13/0021 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F01L 13/0036 (20130101) F01L 2800/10 (20130101) Controlling Combustion Engines F02D 13/0211 (20130101) F02D 13/0219 (20130101) F02D 13/0242 (20130101) F02D 13/0257 (20130101) F02D 13/0273 (20130101) Supplying Combustion Engines in General With Combustible Mixtures or Constituents Thereof F02M 26/01 (20160201) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/18 (20130101) |
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| US 09765934 | Rogers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Hoon-Sik Kim (Champaign, Illinois); Yonggang Huang (Glencoe, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Illinois); NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Hoon-Sik Kim (Champaign, Illinois); Yonggang Huang (Glencoe, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are electronic devices including arrays of printable light emitting diodes (LEDs) having device geometries and dimensions providing enhanced thermal management and control relative to conventional LED-based lighting systems. The systems and methods described provide large area, transparent, and/or flexible LED arrays useful for a range of applications in microelectronics, including display and lightning technology. Methods are also provided for assembling and using electronic devices including thermally managed arrays of printable light emitting diodes (LEDs). |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/472165 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-electric Light Sources Using Luminescence; Light Sources Using Electrochemiluminescence; Light Sources Using Charges of Combustible Material; Light Sources Using Semiconductor Devices as Light-generating Elements; Light Sources Not Otherwise Provided for F21K 9/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Functional Features or Details of Lighting Devices or Systems Thereof; Structural Combinations of Lighting Devices With Other Articles, Not Otherwise Provided for F21V 29/70 (20150115) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21K, F21L, F21S and F21V, Relating to the Form or the Kind of the Light Sources or of the Colour of the Light Emitted F21Y 2105/10 (20160801) F21Y 2105/12 (20160801) F21Y 2115/10 (20160801) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/568 (20130101) H01L 24/24 (20130101) H01L 24/82 (20130101) H01L 25/0753 (20130101) H01L 33/647 (20130101) H01L 2224/24137 (20130101) H01L 2224/73267 (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 2924/181 (20130101) H01L 2924/181 (20130101) H01L 2924/351 (20130101) H01L 2924/351 (20130101) H01L 2924/1461 (20130101) H01L 2924/1461 (20130101) H01L 2924/12041 (20130101) H01L 2924/12041 (20130101) H01L 2924/12042 (20130101) H01L 2924/12042 (20130101) H01L 2924/12043 (20130101) H01L 2924/12043 (20130101) H01L 2924/13063 (20130101) H01L 2924/13063 (20130101) H01L 2924/13091 (20130101) H01L 2924/13091 (20130101) H01L 2924/15788 (20130101) H01L 2924/15788 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 1/16 (20130101) H05K 1/0201 (20130101) |
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| US 09766011 | Baxter et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude (Paris, France) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NEWVISTAS CAPITAL, LLC (Provo, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry Baxter (Orem, Utah); Paul Terrien (Baltimore, Maryland); Pascal Tessier (Wilmington, Delaware); Christopher Hoeger (Provo, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a process for removing carbon dioxide from a compressed gas stream including cooling the compressed gas in a first heat exchanger, introducing the cooled gas into a de-sublimating heat exchanger, thereby producing a first solid carbon dioxide stream and a first carbon dioxide poor gas stream, expanding the carbon dioxide poor gas stream, thereby producing a second solid carbon dioxide stream and a second carbon dioxide poor gas stream, combining the first solid carbon dioxide stream and the second solid carbon dioxide stream, thereby producing a combined solid carbon dioxide stream, and indirectly exchanging heat between the combined solid carbon dioxide stream and the compressed gas in the first heat exchanger. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 14, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/182494 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/002 (20130101) B01D 2257/504 (20130101) B01D 2258/0283 (20130101) B01D 2259/65 (20130101) Liquefaction, Solidification or Separation of Gases or Gaseous Mixtures by Pressure and Cold Treatment F25J 3/067 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F25J 2205/20 (20130101) F25J 2210/70 (20130101) F25J 2220/82 (20130101) F25J 2240/02 (20130101) F25J 2270/12 (20130101) F25J 2270/90 (20130101) F25J 2280/40 (20130101) F25J 2290/12 (20130101) Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 10/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09766230 | Koh 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) | Chung-Yan Koh (Dublin, California); Matthew E. Piccini (Belmont, California); Anup K. Singh (Danville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Examples are described including measurement systems for conducting competition assays. A first chamber of an assay device may be loaded with a sample containing a target antigen. The target antigen in the sample may be allowed to bind to antibody-coated beads in the first chamber. A control layer separating the first chamber from a second chamber may then be opened to allow a labeling agent loaded in a first portion of the second chamber to bind to any unoccupied sites on the antibodies. A centrifugal force may then be applied to transport the beads through a density media to a detection region for measurement by a detection unit. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 07, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/616740 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/50273 (20130101) B01L 3/502738 (20130101) B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 2200/0652 (20130101) B01L 2300/069 (20130101) B01L 2300/087 (20130101) B01L 2300/0672 (20130101) B01L 2300/0803 (20130101) B01L 2400/0409 (20130101) B01L 2400/0683 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/54306 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/54366 (20130101) |
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| US 09766255 | Church et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George M. Church (Brookline, Massachusetts); Justin Feng (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Daniel J. Mandell (Brookline, Massachusetts); David Baker (Seattle, Washington); Stanley Fields (Seattle, Washington); Benjamin Ward Jester (Seattle, Washington); Christine Elaine Tinberg (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a biosensor engineered to conditionally respond to the presence of specific small molecules, the biosensors including conditionally stable ligand-binding domains (LBDs) which respond to the presence of specific small molecules, wherein readout of binding is provided by reporter genes or transcription factors (TFs) fused to the LBDs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 12, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 14/993509 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/743 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2500/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09767028 | Cheng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Y. Cheng (Austin, Texas); David A. Roberts (Santa Cruz, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, apparatuses, and methods for moving the interconnect protocol configuration registers into the main memory space of a node. The region of memory used for storing the interconnect protocol configuration registers may also be made cacheable to reduce the latency of accesses to the interconnect protocol configuration registers. Interconnect protocol configuration registers which are used during a startup routine may be prefetched into the host's cache to make the startup routine more efficient. The interconnect protocol configuration registers for various interconnect protocols may include one or more of device capability tables, memory-side statistics (e.g., to support two-level memory data mapping decisions), advanced memory and interconnect features such as repair resources and routing tables, prefetching hints, error correcting code (ECC) bits, lists of device capabilities, set and store base address, capability, device ID, status, configuration, capabilities, and other settings. |
| FILED | Friday, October 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/928981 |
| ART UNIT | 2135 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 12/0862 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 13/42 (20130101) G06F 2212/45 (20130101) |
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| US 09767107 | Bent et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | EMC IP Holding Company LLC (Hopkinton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | EMC IP Holding Company LLC (Hopkinton, Massachusetts); Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. Bent (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Sorin Faibish (Newton, Massachusetts); Gary Grider (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Aaron Torres (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved techniques are provided for storing metadata associated with a plurality of sub-files associated with a single shared file in a parallel file system. The shared file is generated by a plurality of applications executing on a plurality of compute nodes. A compute node implements a Parallel Log Structured File System (PLFS) library to store at least one portion of the shared file generated by an application executing on the compute node and metadata for the at least one portion of the shared file on one or more object storage servers. The compute node is also configured to implement a partitioned data store for storing a partition of the metadata for the shared file, wherein the partitioned data store communicates with partitioned data stores on other compute nodes using a message passing interface. The partitioned data store can be implemented, for example, using Multidimensional Data Hashing Indexing Middleware (MDHIM). |
| FILED | Saturday, June 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/931832 |
| ART UNIT | 2164 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30094 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09768005 | He et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MSP Corporation (Shoreview, Minnesota); Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MSP Corporation (Shoreview, Minnesota); Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Siqin He (Qianjiang, China PRC); Chris Hogan (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Lin Li (Arden Hills, Minnesota); Benjamin Y. H. Liu (North Oaks, Minnesota); Amir Naqwi (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Francisco Romay (Vadnais Heights, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and method are disclosed to apply ESI-based mass spectroscopy to submicrometer and nanometer scale aerosol particles. Unipolar ionization is utilized to charge the particles in order to collect them electrostatically on the tip of a tungsten rod. Subsequently, the species composing the collected particles are dissolved by making a liquid flow over the tungsten rod. This liquid with dissolved aerosol contents is formed into highly charged droplets, which release unfragmented ions for mass spectroscopy, such as time-of-flight mass spectroscopy. The device is configured to operate in a switching mode, wherein aerosol deposition occurs while solvent delivery is turned off and vice versa. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 21, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/135132 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/40 (20130101) H01J 49/165 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 49/167 (20130101) |
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| US 09768015 | Mansfield et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lorelle Mansfield (Northglenn, Colorado); Kannan Ramanathan (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for forming CIGS films are provided. According to an aspect of the invention, a method of forming a CIGS film includes a precursor step, which includes simultaneously evaporating Cu, In, Ga, Se, and Sb onto a substrate. The Se is incident on the substrate at a rate of at least 20 Å/s. The method also includes a selenization step, which includes evaporating Se over the substrate after the precursor step. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 01, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/170480 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/02568 (20130101) H01L 21/02614 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/02631 (20130101) H01L 31/0322 (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 09768086 | 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 | 15/084211 |
| 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 21/322 (20130101) H01L 21/02521 (20130101) H01L 21/02603 (20130101) H01L 21/02628 (20130101) H01L 21/6835 (20130101) H01L 23/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 09768333 | Phelps et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tommy J. Phelps (Knoxville, Tennessee); Robert J. Lauf (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Ji-Won Moon (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Adam Justin Rondinone (Knoxville, Tennessee); Lonnie J. Love (Knoxville, Tennessee); Chad Edward Duty (Knoxville, Tennessee); Andrew Stephen Madden (Norman, Oklahoma); Yiliang Li (Discovery Bay, China Hong Kong); Ilia N. Ivanov (Knoxville, Tennessee); Claudia Jeanette Rawn (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to a method for producing non-oxide semiconductor nanoparticles, the method comprising: (a) subjecting a combination of reaction components to conditions conducive to microbially-mediated formation of non-oxide semiconductor nanoparticles, wherein said combination of reaction components comprises i) anaerobic microbes, ii) a culture medium suitable for sustaining said anaerobic microbes, iii) a metal component comprising at least one type of metal ion, iv) a non-metal component comprising at least one non-metal selected from the group consisting of S, Se, Te, and As, and v) one or more electron donors that provide donatable electrons to said anaerobic microbes during consumption of the electron donor by said anaerobic microbes; and (b) isolating said non-oxide semiconductor nanoparticles, which contain at least one of said metal ions and at least one of said non-metals. The invention is also directed to non-oxide semiconductor nanoparticle compositions produced as above and having distinctive properties. |
| FILED | Monday, April 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/246632 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 17/20 (20130101) C01B 19/007 (20130101) Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 9/08 (20130101) C01G 11/02 (20130101) C01G 15/006 (20130101) C01G 19/006 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/72 (20130101) C01P 2002/82 (20130101) C01P 2002/84 (20130101) C01P 2004/04 (20130101) C01P 2006/40 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 3/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/0326 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/035218 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2982 (20150115) |
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| US 09768402 | Forrest et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen R. Forrest (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim, California); Guodan Wei (San Jose, California); Siyi Wang (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California); The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen R. Forrest (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim, California); Guodan Wei (San Jose, California); Siyi Wang (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of preparing a bulk heterojunction organic photovoltaic cell through combinations of thermal and solvent vapor annealing are described. Bulk heterojunction films may prepared by known methods such as spin coating, and then exposed to one or more vaporized solvents and thermally annealed in an effort to enhance the crystalline nature of the photoactive materials. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/080759 |
| ART UNIT | 2896 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0028 (20130101) H01L 51/4253 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/4273 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) |
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| US 09768472 | Friesen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Fluidic, Inc. (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | FLUIDIC, INC. (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cody A. Friesen (Fort McDowell, Arizona); Derek Wolfe (Scottsdale, Arizona); Paul Bryan Johnson (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of preparing hetero ionic complexes, and ionic liquids from bisulfate salts of heteroatomic compounds using dialkylcarbonates as a primary quaternizing reactant are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of making electrochemical cells comprising the ionic liquids, and an electrochemical cell comprising an alkaline electrolyte and a hetero ionic complex additive. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 06, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/371028 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 2/162 (20130101) H01M 4/38 (20130101) H01M 4/244 (20130101) H01M 10/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 2004/021 (20130101) H01M 2004/023 (20130101) H01M 2300/0014 (20130101) |
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| US 09768584 | Bandhauer 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) | Todd Bandhauer (Livermore, California); Robert J. Deri (Pleasanton, California); John W. Elmer (Danville, California); Jack Kotovsky (Alameda, California); Susant Patra (Brentwood, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser diode package includes a heat pipe having a fluid chamber enclosed in part by a heat exchange wall for containing a fluid. Wicking channels in the fluid chamber is adapted to wick a liquid phase of the fluid from a condensing section of the heat pipe to an evaporating section of the heat exchanger, and a laser diode is connected to the heat exchange wall at the evaporating section of the heat exchanger so that heat produced by the laser diode is removed isothermally from the evaporating section to the condensing section by a liquid-to-vapor phase change of the fluid. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 24, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/080507 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 5/024 (20130101) H01S 5/02423 (20130101) H01S 5/02469 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 5/4025 (20130101) |
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| US 09768857 | 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); Jerry Delapp (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Michael Proicou (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Daniel Seitz (Los Alamos, New Mexico); John Michel (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Donald Enemark (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A field unit and ground station may use commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components and share a common architecture, where differences in functionality are governed by software. The field units and ground stations may be easy to deploy, relatively inexpensive, and be relatively easy to operate. A novel file system may be used where datagrams of a file may be stored across multiple drives and/or devices. The datagrams may be received out of order and reassembled at the receiving device. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 13, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/292384 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 3/02 (20130101) Transmission H04B 7/155 (20130101) H04B 7/1851 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bing Qi (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and a system for pilot-aided feedforward data recovery are provided. The method and system include a receiver including a strong local oscillator operating in a free running mode independent of a signal light source. The phase relation between the signal light source and the local oscillator source is determined based on quadrature measurements on pilot pulses from the signal light source. Using the above phase relation, information encoded in an incoming signal can be recovered, optionally for use in communication with classical coherent communication protocols and quantum communication protocols. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/849675 |
| ART UNIT | 2636 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 10/63 (20130101) H04B 10/64 (20130101) H04B 10/0795 (20130101) H04B 10/6165 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 7/0008 (20130101) H04L 7/0075 (20130101) |
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| US 09769060 | Dearien et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (Pullman, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (Pullman, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason A. Dearien (Moscow, Idaho); Marc Ryan Berner (Monroe, Washington); Josh Powers (Pullman, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure pertains to systems and methods for simulating data packet routing within a software defined network (“SDN”), visualizing the results of the simulation, and permitting a user to search the resulting simulation. In one specified embodiment, a system may receive from a user a simulation parameter associated with a packet to be simulated in the SDN. A packet based on the at least one simulation parameter may be generated. A response of the SDN to the packet may be simulated by identifying applicable traffic routing rules and identifying a subsequent destination based on the applicable traffic routing rules. A record of the subsequent destination may be added to the simulation result, and the process may continue until a terminating condition is satisfied. |
| FILED | Monday, July 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/803733 |
| ART UNIT | 2416 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 41/12 (20130101) H04L 41/22 (20130101) H04L 41/145 (20130101) H04L 41/0663 (20130101) H04L 43/045 (20130101) H04L 45/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher James Brown (Camarillo, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PRATT and WHITNEY ROCKETDYNE, INC. (Canoga Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher James Brown (Camarillo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a liquid-gas mixer including a central passageway provided about an injector axis, and first and second gas passageways. The first gas passageway is radially outward of the central passageway and radially inward of the second gas passageway. A turbulator is provided between the first and second gas passageways, and includes a plurality of first disturbance generators and a plurality of second disturbance generators. The first and second disturbance generators are provided about the turbulator in an alternating arrangement. |
| FILED | Monday, May 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/476386 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Mixing, e.g Dissolving, Emulsifying, Dispersing B01F 3/04056 (20130101) B01F 3/04439 (20130101) B01F 3/04737 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01F 5/0616 (20130101) B01F 2005/0017 (20130101) B01F 2005/0639 (20130101) B01F 2015/0221 (20130101) Burners F23D 11/38 (20130101) F23D 11/102 (20130101) |
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| US 09764386 | Brice |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig A. Brice (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices are disclosed for creating a multiple alloy composite structure by forming a three-dimensional arrangement of a first alloy composition in which the three-dimensional arrangement has a substantially open and continuous porosity. The three-dimensional arrangement of the first alloy composition is infused with at least a second alloy composition, where the second alloy composition comprises a shape memory alloy. The three-dimensional arrangement is consolidated into a fully dense solid structure, and the original shape of the second alloy composition is set for reversible transformation. Strain is applied to the fully dense solid structure, which is treated with heat so that the shape memory alloy composition becomes memory activated to recover the original shape. An interwoven composite of the first alloy composition and the memory-activated second alloy composition is thereby formed in the multiple alloy composite structure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/463836 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 3/15 (20130101) B22F 3/15 (20130101) B22F 3/18 (20130101) B22F 3/18 (20130101) B22F 3/26 (20130101) B22F 3/125 (20130101) B22F 3/125 (20130101) B22F 3/1055 (20130101) B22F 3/1055 (20130101) B22F 7/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B22F 2003/247 (20130101) B22F 2003/248 (20130101) B22F 2003/248 (20130101) B22F 2998/10 (20130101) B22F 2998/10 (20130101) B22F 2998/10 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 10/295 (20151101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/12042 (20150115) |
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| US 09764415 | Seufzer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S.A. as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Seufzer (Yorktown, Virginia); Robert A. Hafley (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of controlling a height of an electron beam gun and wire feeder during an electron freeform fabrication process includes utilizing a camera to generate an image of the molten pool of material. The image generated by the camera is utilized to determine a measured height of the electron beam gun relative to the surface of the molten pool. The method further includes ensuring that the measured height is within the range of acceptable heights of the electron beam gun relative to the surface of the molten pool. The present invention also provides for measuring a height of a solid metal deposit formed upon cooling of a molten pool. The height of a single point can be measured, or a plurality of points can be measured to provide 2D or 3D surface height measurements. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/834294 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| 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 15/0013 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B23K 15/0086 (20130101) |
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| US 09764819 | Kendall et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | AeroVironment Inc. (Monrovia, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | AeroVironment, Inc. (Simi Valley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Greg T. Kendall (Glendale, California); Derek L. Lisoski (Simi Valley, California); Walter R. Morgan (Simi Valley, California); John A. Griecci (Encino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A span-loaded, highly flexible flying wing, having horizontal control surfaces mounted aft of the wing on extended beams to form local pitch-control devices. Each of five spanwise wing segments of the wing has one or more motors and photovoltaic arrays, and produces its own lift independent of the other wing segments, to minimize inter-segment loads. Wing dihedral is controlled by separately controlling the local pitch-control devices consisting of a control surface on a boom, such that inboard and outboard wing segment pitch changes relative to each other, and thus relative inboard and outboard lift is varied. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 27, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/838297 |
| ART UNIT | 3647 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 3/38 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B64C 3/42 (20130101) B64C 3/52 (20130101) B64C 15/02 (20130101) B64C 17/00 (20130101) B64C 39/10 (20130101) B64C 39/024 (20130101) B64C 2201/028 (20130101) B64C 2201/042 (20130101) B64C 2201/102 (20130101) B64C 2201/122 (20130101) B64C 2201/126 (20130101) B64C 2201/127 (20130101) B64C 2201/146 (20130101) B64C 2201/165 (20130101) Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 27/24 (20130101) B64D 31/06 (20130101) B64D 2211/00 (20130101) Transmission H04B 7/18504 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/12 (20130101) Y02T 50/44 (20130101) Y02T 50/69 (20130101) Y02T 50/145 (20130101) |
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| US 09766053 | Okojie |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Okojie (Strongsville, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of NASA (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Okojie (Strongsville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for determining a change in a thickness and temperature of a surface of a material are disclosed herein. The system and the method are usable in a thermal protection system of a space vehicle, such as an aeroshell of a space vehicle. The system and method may incorporate micro electric sensors arranged in a ladder network and capacitor strip sensors. Corrosion or ablation causes a change in an electrical property of the sensors. An amount of or rate of the corrosion or the ablation and a temperature of the material is determined based on the change of the electrical property of the sensors. |
| FILED | Monday, November 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/301249 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 7/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01B 7/044 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 3/56 (20130101) G01N 17/04 (20130101) G01N 27/20 (20130101) G01N 27/24 (20130101) |
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| US 09766074 | Roumeliotis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stergios I. Roumeliotis (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Anastasios I. Mourikis (Riverside, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stergios I. Roumeliotis (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Anastasios I. Mourikis (Riverside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This document discloses, among other things, a system and method for implementing an algorithm to determine pose, velocity, acceleration or other navigation information using feature tracking data. The algorithm has computational complexity that is linear with the number of features tracked. |
| FILED | Monday, March 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/383371 |
| ART UNIT | 3626 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 21/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09766181 | Englund et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dirk Robert Englund (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Matthew Edwin Trusheim (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dirk Robert Englund (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Matthew Edwin Trusheim (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Nitrogen vacancies in bulk diamonds and nanodiamonds can be used to sense temperature, pressure, electromagnetic fields, and pH. Unfortunately, conventional sensing techniques use gated detection and confocal imaging, limiting the measurement sensitivity and precluding wide-field imaging. Conversely, the present sensing techniques do not require gated detection or confocal imaging and can therefore be used to image temperature, pressure, electromagnetic fields, and pH over wide fields of view. In some cases, wide-field imaging supports spatial localization of the NVs to precisions at or below the diffraction limit. Moreover, the measurement range can extend over extremely wide dynamic range at very high sensitivity. |
| FILED | Friday, June 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/317534 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6458 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/6486 (20130101) G01N 21/6489 (20130101) G01N 2021/6421 (20130101) |
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| US 09766593 | Burt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric A. Burt (La Canada Flintridge, California); Robert L. Hamell (Pasadena, California); Blake C. Tucker (Pasadena, California); Kameron Larsen (La Canada Flintridge, California); Robert L. Tjoelker (La Crescenta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An atomic clock including an ion trap assembly, a C-field coil positioned for generating a first magnetic field in the interrogation region of the ion trap assembly, a compensation coil positioned for generating a second magnetic field in the interrogation region, wherein the combination of the first and second magnetic fields produces an ion number-dependent second order Zeeman shift (Zeeman shift) in the resonance frequency that is opposite in sign to an ion number-dependent second order Doppler shift (Doppler shift) in the resonance frequency, the C-field coil has a radius selected using data indicating how changes in the radius affect an ion-number-dependent shift in the resonance frequency, such that a difference in magnitude between the Doppler shift and the Zeeman shift is controlled or reduced, and the resonance frequency, including the adjustment by the Zeeman shift, is used to obtain the frequency standard. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 19, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/626814 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Time-interval Measuring G04F 5/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 1/06 (20130101) Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation, or Stabilisation of Generators of Electronic Oscillations or Pulses H03L 7/26 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49016 (20150115) Y10T 29/49018 (20150115) |
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| US 09767224 | Chou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of The University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of The University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Alabama); The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuag-Shan Chou (Tuscaloosa, Alabama); Kenneth Cooper (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are provided for designing and fabricating contact-free support structures for overhang geometries of parts fabricated using electron beam additive manufacturing. One or more layers of un-melted metallic powder are disposed in an elongate gap between an upper horizontal surface of the support structure and a lower surface of the overhang geometry. The powder conducts heat from the overhang geometry to the support structure. The support structure acts as a heat sink to enhance heat transfer and reduce the temperature and severe thermal gradients due to poor thermal conductivity of metallic powders underneath the overhang. Because the support structure is not connected to the part, the support structure can be removed freely without any post-processing step. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/276345 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 3/1055 (20130101) B22F 2003/1058 (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) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 10/295 (20151101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24479 (20150115) |
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| US 09769075 | 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 interference cognizant network scheduling are provided. In certain embodiments, a method of scheduling communications in a network comprises identifying a bin of a global timeline for scheduling an unscheduled virtual link, wherein a bin is a segment of the timeline; identifying a pre-scheduled virtual link in the bin; and determining if the pre-scheduled and unscheduled virtual links share a port. In certain embodiments, if the unscheduled and pre-scheduled virtual links don't share a port, scheduling transmission of the unscheduled virtual link to overlap with the scheduled transmission of the pre-scheduled virtual link; and if the unscheduled and pre-scheduled virtual links share a port: determining a start time delay for the unscheduled virtual link based on the port; and scheduling transmission of the unscheduled virtual link in the bin based on the start time delay to overlap part of the scheduled transmission of the pre-scheduled virtual link. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 01, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/676464 |
| ART UNIT | 2473 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 12/64 (20130101) H04L 12/4015 (20130101) H04L 12/6418 (20130101) H04L 47/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 47/28 (20130101) H04L 47/50 (20130101) H04L 2012/4028 (20130101) H04L 2012/6451 (20130101) H04L 2012/6454 (20130101) |
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| US 09769082 | 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 network bandwidth, buffers and timing management using hybrid scheduling of traffic with different priorities and guarantees are provided. In certain embodiments, a method of managing network scheduling and configuration comprises, for each transmitting end station, reserving one exclusive buffer for each virtual link to be transmitted from the transmitting end station; for each receiving end station, reserving exclusive buffers for each virtual link to be received at the receiving end station; and for each switch, reserving a exclusive buffer for each virtual link to be received at an input port of the switch. The method further comprises determining if each respective transmitting end station, receiving end station, and switch has sufficient capability to support the reserved buffers; and reporting buffer infeasibility if each respective transmitting end station, receiving end station, and switch does not have sufficient capability to support the reserved buffers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 01, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/676474 |
| ART UNIT | 2473 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 41/0869 (20130101) H04L 43/0817 (20130101) H04L 47/621 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 47/722 (20130101) |
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Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 09763444 | Meepagala et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kumudini M. Meepagala (Oxford, Mississippi); Ulrich R. Bernier (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Chromene derivatives based on a chromene amide isolated from Amyris texana. Also disclosed are compositions containing chromene derivatives (synthetic or natural) based on a chromene amide isolated from Amyris texana. Also methods for repelling blood-sucking and biting insects, ticks and mites involving treating (or exposing) an object (e.g., mammals such as humans) or area (e.g., a surface such as human skin) with a blood-sucking and biting insects, ticks and mites repelling effective amount of at least one compound selected from chromene derivatives (synthetic or natural) based on a chromene amide isolated from Amyris texana. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 23, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/051168 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — 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 43/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 311/58 (20130101) |
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| US 09765084 | Moyers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles Guthrie Moyers (Charleston, West Virginia); James Kermit Withrow (Charleston, West Virginia); John Leonard Stephens (Hurricane, West Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa Corn Promotion Board (Johnston, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Guthrie Moyers (Charleston, West Virginia); James Kermit Withrow (Charleston, West Virginia); John Leonard Stephens (Hurricane, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for the production of a refined dianhydrosugar-containing product is disclosed. The process includes controlled continuous crystallization of the dianhydrosugar-containing product to produce a solution saturated with the dianhydrosugar. The saturated solution is mechanically separated, for example by centrifugation, and the crystalline product is washed. The only solvent used is water. The dianhydrosugar-containing product is upgraded to at least 99.8% purity and recovery is 95% or greater. Recrystallization of the dianhydrosugar of 99.8% purity results in an ultra pure product containing at least 99.99% dianhydrosugar. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/421245 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 493/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 1/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09765182 | Liu |
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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) | Zengshe Liu (Morton, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is an elastomer synthesized by a reacting epoxidized vegetable oil with carboxylic acid to form the elastomer compound. More specifically, disclosed herein is an elastomer compound having a polyester component. The method for making the elastomer comprises mixing a polybasic acid with an alcohol solvent to form a solution, reacting said solution having carboxylic groups with epoxidized vegetable oil, and heating the solution at a range of approximately 50° C. to 80° C., wherein an amorphous polyester elastomer is formed. Also disclosed is an elastomer foam product formed by a reacting epoxidized vegetable oil with carboxylic acid. |
| FILED | Friday, September 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/478185 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 63/42 (20130101) C08G 63/81 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 9/286 (20130101) C08J 2201/0502 (20130101) C08J 2367/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09765377 | 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 | 15/194156 |
| 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 09765405 | Hyldig-Nielsen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | APPLIED BIOSYSTEMS, LLC (Carlsbad, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Biosystems, LLC (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jens J. Hyldig-Nielsen (Hillerod, Denmark); Henrik Stender (Gentofte, Denmark); Kenneth M. Oliveira (Newton, Massachusetts); Susan Rigby (Acton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is related to novel PNA probes, probe sets, methods and kits pertaining to the detection of one or more species of Candida yeast. Non-limiting examples of probing nucleobase sequences that can be used for the probes of this invention can be selected from the group consisting of: AGA-GAG-CAG-CAT-GCA (Seq. Id. No. 1), AGA-GAG-CAA-CAT-GCA (Seq. Id. No. 2), ACA-GCA-GAA-GCC-GTG (Seq. Id. No. 3), CAT-AAA-TGG-CTA-CCA-GA (Seq. Id. No. 4), CAT-AAA-TGG-CTA-CCC-AG (Seq. Id. No. 5), ACT-TGG-AGT-CGA-TAG (Seq. Id. No. 6), CCA-AGG-CTT-ATA-CTC-GC (Seq. Id. No. 7), CCC-CTG-AAT-CGG-GAT (Seq. Id. No. 8), GAC-GCC-AAA-GAC-GCC (Seq. Id. No. 9), ATC-GTC-AGA-GGC-TAT-AA (Seq. Id. No. 10), TAG-CCA-GAA-GAA-AGG (Seq. Id. No. 11), CAT-AAA-TGG-CTA-GCC-AG (Seq. Id. No. 12), CTC-CGA-TGT-GAC-TGC-G (Seq. Id. No. 13), TCC-CAG-ACT-GCT-CGG (Seq. Id. No. 14), TCC-AAG-AGG-TCG-AGA (Seq. Id. No. 15), GCC-AAG-CCA-CAA-GGA (Seq. Id. No. 16), GCC-GCC-AAG-CCA-CA (Seq. Id. No. 17), GGA-CTT-GGG-GTT-AG (Seq. Id. No. 18), CCG-GGT-GCA-TTC-CA (Seq. Id. No. 19), ATG-TAG-AAC-GGA-ACT-A (Seq. Id. No. 20), GAT-TCT-CGG-CCC-CAT-G (Seq. Id. No. 21), CTG-GTT-CGC-CAA-AAA-G (Seq. Id. No. 22) and AGT-ACG-CAT-CAG-AAA (Seq. Id. No. 23). |
| FILED | Monday, December 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/571080 |
| 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 | Peptides C07K 14/003 (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) C12Q 1/6895 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2525/107 (20130101) |
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| US 09766239 | Gupta et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nidhi Gupta (Phoenix, Arizona); Chris Diehnelt (Chandler, Arizona); Charles Arntzen (Gold Canyon, Arizona); Stephen Johnston (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nidhi Gupta (Phoenix, Arizona); Chris Diehnelt (Chandler, Arizona); Charles Arntzen (Gold Canyon, Arizona); Stephen Johnston (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Synbodies specific for Norovirus and coupled with a substrate provide Norovirus binding and detection platforms (FIG. 1). A Norovirus capturing platform, comprising one or more synbodies selected from the group consisting of synbodies 6-6, 92-92, 93-93, and 94-94 coupled to a substrate, has been found to found to bind with either GII.4 Minerva or both GII.4 Minerva and GII.4 Sydney# strains of norovirus. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/776434 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/001 (20130101) C07K 16/08 (20130101) C07K 2318/20 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56983 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/08 (20130101) G01N 2469/10 (20130101) G01N 2800/26 (20130101) |
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| US PP28408 | 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 ‘UCONNBD603’, 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 white-colored flowers; and good garden performance. |
| FILED | Saturday, June 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/545688 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/242 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US PP28409 | 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 ‘UCONNBD599’, 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 lavender pink-colored flowers; and good garden performance. |
| FILED | Saturday, June 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/545687 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/242 |
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Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09763569 | Fingler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (Los Angeles, California); CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (Los Angeles, California); CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey P. Fingler (Orange, California); Scott E. Fraser (Glendale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates to the field of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT). This disclosure particularly relates to an OCT system with improved motion contrast. This disclosure particularly relates to motion contrast methods for such OCT systems. The OCT system of this disclosure may have a configuration that scans a physical object, which has a surface and a depth, with a beam of light that has a beam width and a direction; acquires OCT signals from the scan; forms at least one A-scan using the acquired OCT signals; forms at least one B-scan cluster set using the acquired OCT signals that includes at least two B-scan clusters that each include at least two B-scans. The B-scans within each B-scan cluster set are parallel to one another and parallel to the direction of the beam of light. The OCT system may have a configuration that calculates OCT motion contrast using the at least one B-scan cluster set. This OCT system may form and display an image of the physical object. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 04, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 15/104491 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 3/0025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 3/0041 (20130101) A61B 3/102 (20130101) A61B 3/1233 (20130101) A61B 5/7203 (20130101) Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 9/02076 (20130101) G01B 9/02091 (20130101) G01B 2290/65 (20130101) |
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| US 09763570 | Fingler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (Los Angeles, California); CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (Los Angeles, California); CALIFRONIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey P. Fingler (Orange, California); Scott E. Fraser (Glendale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates to the field of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT). This disclosure particularly relates to an OCT system having a configuration that uses a phase sensitive B-scan registration method. In this disclosure, an OCT system may have a configuration that scans a physical object, acquires OCT signals to form B-scans, uses these B-scans to determine an optimal shift in an axial direction by using total phase error between B-scans, and align B-scans, thereby minimizing effects of motion that may occur during scanning of the physical object. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 04, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 15/106910 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 3/10 (20130101) A61B 3/0025 (20130101) A61B 3/102 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 3/1233 (20130101) Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 9/02091 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/4795 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/0005 (20130101) |
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| US 09766012 | McLaren et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jami McLaren (Crystal, Minnesota); Steven J. Olson (Mahtomedi, Minnesota); Kent Larson (Woodbury, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sterilucent, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jami McLaren (Crystal, Minnesota); Steven J. Olson (Mahtomedi, Minnesota); Kent Larson (Woodbury, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The removal of moisture from an object to be sterilized is provided through at least the steps of placing the load in the chamber, reducing the pressure within the chamber to increase the rate of evaporation of moisture from the load, monitoring over a predetermined period of time the increase in the quantity of vapor within the chamber resulting from evaporation of moisture from the load, admitting gas into the chamber and repeating the steps following placing the load into the chamber. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/526872 |
| ART UNIT | 3743 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 2/24 (20130101) A61L 2/208 (20130101) A61L 2202/14 (20130101) Drying Solid Materials or Objects by Removing Liquid Therefrom F26B 5/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09768211 | Harmon |
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| APPLICANT(S) | LightSpin Technologies, Inc. (Endicott, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | LightSpin Technologies Inc. (Endicott, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Harmon (Norfolk, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A photodetector includes an array of pixels, each pixel comprising a defined doped region defined in a doped semiconductor layer. The defined doped region is defined by selected regions of ion implants to provide resistive isolation between each defined doped region. A capacitor is formed by the defined doped region and a metal layer disposed above the doped semiconductor layer. A contact metal line is disposed above the doped semiconductor layer. The capacitor metal and contact metal lines are electrically coupled together and are in electrical communication with the output of the photodetector array. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/705270 |
| ART UNIT | 2896 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/1446 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/00 (20130101) |
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Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 09765261 | Qiao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Virent, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virent, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ming Qiao (Pewaukee, Wisconsin); Elizabeth Woods (Middleton, Wisconsin); Paul Myren (Madison, Wisconsin); Randy Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin); Sean Connolly (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides processes for deconstructing biomass to produce aqueous and organic products using a solvent produced in a bioreforming reaction. |
| FILED | Friday, January 27, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/418372 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Derivatives of Natural Macromolecular Compounds C08H 6/00 (20130101) C08H 8/00 (20130101) Cracking Hydrocarbon Oils; Production of Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g by Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation; Recovery of Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, or Gases; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting of Hydrocarbons; Reforming of Naphtha; Mineral Waxes C10G 1/065 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10G 2300/44 (20130101) C10G 2300/1014 (20130101) Saccharides Obtained From Natural Sources or by Hydrolysis of Naturally Occurring Disaccharides, Oligosaccharides or Polysaccharides C13K 1/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09767551 | Lang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ImaTx, Inc. (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ImaTx, Inc. (Billerica, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philipp Lang (Lexington, Massachusetts); Daniel Steines (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and devices for analyzing x-ray images. In particular, devices, methods and algorithms are provided that allow for the accurate and reliable evaluation of bone structure from x-ray images. |
| FILED | Monday, January 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/148393 |
| ART UNIT | 2667 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 6/14 (20130101) A61B 6/505 (20130101) A61B 6/508 (20130101) A61B 6/583 (20130101) A61B 6/4423 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2207/30008 (20130101) |
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| US 09767940 | van der Laan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Cornelis van der Laan (Longmont, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Superconducting cables employ one or more superconducting tapes wound around a former. A compact superconducting cable is configured using a former having a small diameter, e.g., less than 10 millimeters. A flexible superconducting cable is configured with a former made of a flexible material. Superconducting tape conductors are wound around the former, with the superconducting layer in compression on the inside of the wind turns of the wind, to prevent irreversible damage to the superconductor. A layer of solder is on the superconducting tape(s) or solder sheaths are wound between tape conductors in each layer. The one or more solder layers or sheaths are melted to cause the solder to flow within the structure, to bond some or all of the superconducting tape conductors together and form a mechanically strong cable with an enhanced level of electrical connectivity between tapes in the cable. |
| FILED | Monday, December 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/580103 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 12/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 39/18 (20130101) H01L 39/143 (20130101) H01L 39/248 (20130101) H01L 39/2419 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49014 (20150115) |
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Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 09764748 | Brooks et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James D. Brooks (Schenectady, New York); Hullas Sehgal (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system includes a locator device, a communication circuit, and one or more processors, all disposed onboard a trailing vehicle system that travels along a route behind a leading vehicle system. The locator device determines a location of the trailing vehicle system. The communication circuit periodically receives a location of the leading vehicle system in a message. The processors monitor a trailing distance between the trailing vehicle system and the leading vehicle system based on the respective locations of the leading and trailing vehicle systems. Responsive to the trailing distance being less than a first proximity distance relative to the leading vehicle system, the processors set an upper permitted power output limit for the trailing vehicle system that is less than an upper power output limit of the trailing vehicle system to reduce an effective power-to-weight ratio of the trailing vehicle system. |
| FILED | Friday, March 04, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/061212 |
| ART UNIT | 3668 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Guiding Railway Traffic; Ensuring the Safety of Railway Traffic B61L 3/008 (20130101) B61L 3/16 (20130101) B61L 15/0009 (20130101) B61L 23/007 (20130101) B61L 23/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09765324 | Corgie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephane C. Corgie (Ithaca, New York); Xiaonan Duan (Ithaca, New York); Emmanuel Giannelis (Ithaca, New York); Daniel Aneshansley (Ithaca, New York); Larry P. Walker (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A hierarchical catalyst composition comprising a continuous or particulate macroporous scaffold in which is incorporated mesoporous aggregates of magnetic nanoparticles, wherein an enzyme is embedded in mesopores of the mesoporous aggregates of magnetic nanoparticles. Methods for synthesizing the hierarchical catalyst composition are also described. Also described are processes that use the recoverable hierarchical catalyst composition for depolymerizing lignin, remediation of water contaminated with aromatic substances, polymerizing monomers by a free-radical mechanism, epoxidation of alkenes, halogenation of phenols, inhibiting growth and function of microorganisms in a solution, and carbon dioxide conversion to methanol. Further described are methods for increasing the space time yield and/or total turnover number of a liquid-phase chemical reaction that includes magnetic particles to facilitate the chemical reaction, the method comprising subjecting the chemical reaction to a plurality of magnetic fields of selected magnetic strength, relative position in the chemical reaction, and relative motion. |
| FILED | Friday, October 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/433242 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical Means for Extinguishing Fires or for Combating or Protecting Against Harmful Chemical Agents; Chemical Materials for Use in Breathing Apparatus A62D 3/02 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 8/00 (20130101) B01J 19/12 (20130101) B01J 31/02 (20130101) B01J 31/003 (20130101) B01J 35/04 (20130101) B01J 35/0033 (20130101) B01J 35/1061 (20130101) B01J 35/1066 (20130101) B01J 37/02 (20130101) B01J 2208/00805 (20130101) B01J 2219/0854 (20130101) B01J 2219/0862 (20130101) Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/484 (20130101) C02F 3/00 (20130101) C02F 3/342 (20130101) C02F 2101/327 (20130101) C02F 2209/006 (20130101) C02F 2303/04 (20130101) C02F 2305/08 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 1/12 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 301/22 (20130101) Compounds of Unknown Constitution C07G 1/00 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 14/00 (20130101) C08F 18/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/0004 (20130101) C12N 9/0006 (20130101) C12N 9/0061 (20130101) C12N 9/0065 (20130101) C12N 11/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 11/08 (20130101) C12N 11/14 (20130101) C12N 13/00 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/04 (20130101) C12P 7/22 (20130101) C12P 17/02 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 101/03004 (20130101) C12Y 111/01 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/588 (20151101) |
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| US 09766065 | Garcia et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Exelis Inc. (McLean, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Exelis Inc. (McLean, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Garcia (Herndon, Virginia); Robert Mueller (Herndon, Virginia); Eric Innis (Herndon, Virginia); Boris Veytsman (Herndon, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique for reducing altitude error involves determining a corrected altitude for an aircraft using forecast atmospheric pressure data available, for example, from a weather forecasting service. The forecast atmospheric pressure data includes, for a number of points in time and for a number of geographic locations, a set of pressure levels and corresponding altitude values. Altitude correction data is periodically calculated from the forecast atmospheric pressure data for each of a number of geographic grid points. Upon receiving aircraft position information and an aircraft altitude measurement for an aircraft, one or more of the geographic grid points corresponding to the aircraft position are identified, and a corrected altitude of the aircraft is determined based on the altitude correction data of the one or more geographic grid points. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/840050 |
| ART UNIT | 2864 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 21/045 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 5/06 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 09768107 | Howard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Emmett Howard (Tempe, Arizona); Nicholas Munizza (Gilbert, Arizona); Paul Yee (Chandler, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS, A BODY CORPORATE OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA, ACTING FOR AND ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Emmett Howard (Tempe, Arizona); Nicholas Munizza (Gilbert, Arizona); Paul Yee (Chandler, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Some embodiments include a method. The method can include providing a carrier substrate, providing a release layer over the carrier substrate, and providing a device substrate over the carrier substrate and the release layer. Providing the device substrate can include bonding the device substrate to the carrier substrate, and bonding the device substrate to the release layer. Further, providing the release layer can include bonding the release layer to the carrier substrate. Meanwhile, the release layer can include polymethylmethacrylate, and the device substrate can be bonded to the carrier substrate with a first adhesion strength, the device substrate can be bonded to the release layer with a second adhesion strength less than the first adhesion strength, and the release layer can be bonded to the carrier substrate with a third adhesion strength greater than the second adhesion strength. Other embodiments of related methods and devices are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, July 22, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/217405 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/52 (20130101) H01L 21/2007 (20130101) H01L 21/4853 (20130101) H01L 21/6835 (20130101) H01L 23/4985 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/0097 (20130101) H01L 2221/6835 (20130101) H01L 2221/68318 (20130101) H01L 2221/68381 (20130101) H01L 2221/68386 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09768462 | Angell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | C. Austen Angell (Mesa, Arizona); Younes Ansari (Medford, Massachusetts); Telpriore Greg Tucker (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS, A BODY CORPORATE OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA ACTING FOR AND ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | C. Austen Angell (Mesa, Arizona); Younes Ansari (Medford, Massachusetts); Telpriore Greg Tucker (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A liquid electrolyte formed by reacting phosphoric acid (H3PO4) in the liquid state with silicon tetrachloride (SiCl4), thereby forming a fluid suspension. The fluid suspension is heated to yield a liquid electrolyte including phosphoric acid (H3PO4), pyrophosphoric acid (H4P2O7), and a particulate solid comprising a silicophosphoric acid, wherein the silicophosphoric acid is an acidic molecular compound including silicon and phosphorus. A concentrated silicophosphoric acid composition prepared by removing most of the liquid from the liquid electrolyte is dissolved in water to yield a homogeneous solution. The homogeneous solution is dried to yield a solid electrolyte. In some cases, the homogenous solution is dried on a substrate to coat at least a portion of the substrate with a proton conductive solid electrolyte. A fuel cell may include the liquid electrolyte, the solid electrolyte, or the coated substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 04, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/587107 |
| 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 8/086 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 2300/0008 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 09767496 | Amato |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael J. Amato (Reston, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Amato (Reston, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system is provided for notifying an addressee about a mail piece having an address. The system captures an image of the mail piece and determines a communication channel for the addressee using the address from the mail piece. The system provides the addressee with the image via the communication channel. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/426391 |
| ART UNIT | 3628 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 30/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06Q 30/0283 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09767678 | Mendonca et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pat Mendonca (Damascus, Maryland); Jonathan C. Pruett (Arlington, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes systems, methods, and software applications for centrally maintaining information and automatically distributing relevant portions of the information to remote users. In one embodiment, a central server stores the information, which is maintained on the central server. Periodically, or each time the server information is updated, the server identifies the portion of the information that is relevant to each user and downloads the relevant portion of information to each user, for example to a mobile device such as a Blackberry™. The invention may be used to maintain and timely distribute information related to emergency response procedures, sales or servicing schedules, and delivery schedules, among other things. |
| FILED | Friday, March 18, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/075065 |
| ART UNIT | 2445 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/107 (20130101) G06Q 10/1095 (20130101) G06Q 40/04 (20130101) Signalling or Calling Systems; Order Telegraphs; Alarm Systems G08B 27/00 (20130101) G08B 27/006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 12/58 (20130101) H04L 67/025 (20130101) H04L 67/34 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 4/02 (20130101) H04W 4/22 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 09765400 | Kavlick et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Federal Bureau of Investigation (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Dept. of Justice (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Francis Kavlick (King George, Virginia); Bruce Budowle (North Richland Hills, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A real-time quantitative PCR assay that utilizes a duplex, synthetic DNA standard to ensure optimal quality assurance and quality control. One embodiment of the invention facilitates amplification of mtDNA by focusing on a 105-base pair target sequence that is minimally homologous to non-human mtDNA. The present invention can also be used to identify the presence of PCR inhibitors and thus indicate the need for sample repurification. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 03, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/729387 |
| 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 1/6851 (20130101) C12Q 1/6851 (20130101) C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2531/113 (20130101) C12Q 2545/101 (20130101) C12Q 2545/101 (20130101) C12Q 2561/113 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 09763899 | Nicolls et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California); The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California); The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark R. Nicolls (Palo Alto, California); Xinguo Jiang (Palo Alto, California); Geoffrey C. Gurtner (Woodside, California); Gregg L. Semenza (Reisertown, Maryland); Jayakumar Rajadas (Cupertino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Formulations and methods are provided for improving the function, i.e. clinical outcome, of solid organ transplants. Lung transplantation is of particular interest. In the methods of the invention, a nanoparticle formulation comprising an effective dose of an iron chelator active agent in nanoparticle form, including without limitation, deferoxamine (DFO), deferasirox (DFX), and deferiprone (DFP), etc. is topically applied to the surface of tissues during episodes of graft rejection. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/653245 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/12 (20130101) A61K 9/0073 (20130101) A61K 9/145 (20130101) A61K 9/146 (20130101) A61K 31/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/4196 (20130101) A61K 31/4412 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
| US 09768326 | Stan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SolAero Technologies Corp. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SolAero Technologies Corp. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Stan (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Chelsea Mackos (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jeff Steinfeldt (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a solar cell comprising: providing a semiconductor growth substrate; depositing on said growth substrate a sequence of layers of semiconductor material forming a solar cell; applying a metal contact layer over said sequence of layers; and affixing the surface of a permanent supporting substrate composed of a carbon fiber reinforced polymer utilizing a conductive polyimide binding resin directly over said metal contact layer and permanently bonding it thereto by a thermocompressive technique. |
| FILED | Friday, November 13, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/940555 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/048 (20130101) H01L 31/0725 (20130101) H01L 31/02008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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