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Patent Details for Tuesday, September 26, 2017

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09770186 — Systems and methods for magnetic resonance imaging

US 09770186	Jeong et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
APPLICANT(S)	Eun-Kee Jeong (North Salt Lake, Utah); Dennis L Parker (Centerville, Utah); Kim Seong-Eun Choi (Salt Lake City, Utah); Evgueni G Kholmovski (Salt Lake City, Utah)
ASSIGNEE(S)	National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (DHHS), The United States of America NIH Division of Extramural Inventions and Technology Resources (DEITR) (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Eun-Kee Jeong (North Salt Lake, Utah); Dennis L Parker (Centerville, Utah); Kim Seong-Eun Choi (Salt Lake City, Utah); Evgueni G Kholmovski (Salt Lake City, Utah)
ABSTRACT	Methods and apparatus for operating an MRI system is provided. The disclosure provides a diffusion-prepared driven-equilibrium preparation for an imaging volume and acquiring 3-dimensional k-space data from said prepared volume by a plurality of echoplanar readouts of stimulated echoes. An excitation radio-frequency signal and first and second inversion RF signals are provided to define a field-of-view (FOV).
FILED	Tuesday, February 19, 2013
APPL NO	13/769917
ART UNIT	3737 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/055 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/4806 (20130101) G01R 33/5615 (20130101) G01R 33/5616 (20130101) G01R 33/5676 (20130101) G01R 33/56341 (20130101) G01R 33/56509 (20130101) G01R 33/56536 (20130101)
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09770222 — Apparatus and method for X-ray-based breast imaging

US 09770222	Vedantham et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Srinivasan Vedantham (Holden, Massachusetts); Andrew Karellas (Grafton, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides x-ray-based breast imaging systems and related methods that are, for example, applicable to contrast enhanced digital mammography and contrast enhanced digital breast tomosynthesis and allow fast, cost-effective and accurate x-ray imaging.
FILED	Friday, March 17, 2017
APPL NO	15/462745
ART UNIT	2884 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 6/025 (20130101) A61B 6/54 (20130101) A61B 6/0435 (20130101) A61B 6/461 (20130101) A61B 6/481 (20130101) A61B 6/485 (20130101) A61B 6/502 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 6/4007 (20130101) A61B 6/4435 (20130101) A61B 6/4452 (20130101) A61B 6/5211 (20130101)
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09770223 — System and method for accelerated, time-resolved imaging

US 09770223	Samsonov et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
APPLICANT(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Alexey A. Samsonov (Madison, Wisconsin); Julia V. Velikina (Madison, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	A system and method for reconstructing a series of images of a subject includes acquiring medical image data from the subject with a medical imaging system and reconstructing a series of images of the subject from the acquired medical image data set. The reconstructing includes enforcing general adherence to a non-patient-specific signal model that describes a dependency of image intensity values on at least one variable that is associated with a physical or physiological property by constraining reconstruction of individual images in the series of images using the non-patient-specific model. The reconstructing also includes preserving information in the series of images that deviate from the non-patient-specific model by controlling a requirement of consistency with the non-patient-specific model.
FILED	Tuesday, September 09, 2014
APPL NO	14/481790
ART UNIT	3768 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/055 (20130101) A61B 6/032 (20130101) A61B 6/504 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/5601 (20130101) G01R 33/5611 (20130101) G01R 33/5635 (20130101) G01R 33/56308 (20130101) G01R 33/56366 (20130101) G01R 33/56509 (20130101)
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09770423 — Modulation sAPP, sAAPα and BDNF levels in individuals diagnosed with FXS and ASD

US 09770423	Erickson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) National Institute on Aging (NIA)
APPLICANT(S)	Indiana University Research and Technology Corp. (Indianapolis, Indiana)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana)
INVENTOR(S)	Craig A. Erickson (Carmel, Indiana); Debomoy K. Lahiri (Brownsburg, Indiana)
ABSTRACT	A method of treating and monitoring patient diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum disorder or Fragile X syndrome comprising measuring plasma biomarker levels of BDNF, sAPP, and sAPP alpha and adjusting the amount of a therapeutic compound according to the plasma levels of BDNF, sAPP and sAPPs. In one embodiment, the therapeutic compound is acamprosate.
FILED	Monday, July 22, 2013
APPL NO	14/415978
ART UNIT	1626 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/185 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6896 (20130101) G01N 2333/48 (20130101) G01N 2333/475 (20130101) G01N 2333/4709 (20130101) G01N 2800/2814 (20130101)
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09770426 — CYP450 lipid metabolites reduce inflammation and angiogenesis

US 09770426	Connor et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Eye Institute (NEI)
APPLICANT(S)	Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (Boston, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Kip M. Connor (Newton, Massachusetts); Ryoji Yanai (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Methods for reducing angiogenesis, inflammation, and vascular permeability in a subject by administering an epoxymetabolite of Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), e.g., as listed in Table A, e.g., one or both of 17,18-epoxyeicosatetraenoic acid (EEQ) and 19,20-epoxydocosapentaenoic acid (EDP), e.g., for the treatment of conditions associated with inflammation or excess angiogenesis or neovascularization, including age-related macular degeneration, cancer, stroke, and arthritis.
FILED	Thursday, January 09, 2014
APPL NO	14/758724
ART UNIT	1627 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0048 (20130101) A61K 31/202 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/336 (20130101)
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09770433 — Composition and method for treating tinnitus

US 09770433	Miller et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
APPLICANT(S)	The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
ASSIGNEE(S)	THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Josef M. Miller (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Glenn E. Green (Dexter, Michigan); Barry Sheldon Seifer (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	A method of treating tinnitus includes the step administering a composition to the mammal, wherein the composition consists essentially of a biologically effective amount of vitamin A, vitamin E, vitamin C, a vasodilator comprising magnesium, and, optionally, a withanolide, and/or resveratrol.
FILED	Tuesday, September 08, 2015
APPL NO	14/847178
ART UNIT	1627 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/05 (20130101) A61K 31/07 (20130101) A61K 31/58 (20130101) A61K 31/355 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/375 (20130101) A61K 33/06 (20130101)
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09770461 — Tailored glycopolymers as anticoagulant heparin mimetics

US 09770461	Oh et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Young In Oh (Berkeley, California); Linda C. Hsieh-Wilson (South Pasadena, California)
ABSTRACT	The present disclosure provides for methods and compositions comprising a series of synthetic glycopolymers. The disclosure also relates to a kit which is suitable for carrying out the inventive methods.
FILED	Friday, August 01, 2014
APPL NO	14/450196
ART UNIT	1673 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7028 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 61/08 (20130101) C08G 2261/90 (20130101) C08G 2261/418 (20130101) C08G 2261/1424 (20130101) C08G 2261/3324 (20130101)
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09770471 — Conversion of somatic cells into functional spinal motor neurons, and methods and uses thereof

US 09770471	Eggan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
APPLICANT(S)	Kevin Carl Eggan (Boston, Massachusetts); Clifford J. Woolf (Newton, Massachusetts); Brian J. Wainger (Brookline, Massachusetts); Justin K. Ichida (Los Angeles, California); Esther Yesde Son (Palo Alto, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (Cambridge, Massachusetts); CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Kevin Carl Eggan (Boston, Massachusetts); Clifford J. Woolf (Newton, Massachusetts); Brian J. Wainger (Brookline, Massachusetts); Justin K. Ichida (Los Angeles, California); Esther Yesde Son (Palo Alto, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides methods of transdifferentiation of somatic cells, for example, directly converting a somatic cell of a first cell type, e.g., a fibroblast into a somatic cell of a second cell type, are described herein. In particular, the present invention generally relates to methods for converting a somatic cell, e.g., a fibroblast into a motor neuron, e.g., an induced motor neuron (iMN) with characteristics of a typical motor neuron. The present invention also relates to an isolated population comprising induced motor neurons (iMNs), compositions and their use in the treatment of motor neuron diseases such as ALS and SMA. In particular, the present invention relates to direct conversion of a somatic cell to an induced motor neuron (iMN) having motor neuron characteristics by increasing the protein expression of at least three motor-neuron inducing (MN-inducing) factors selected from Lhx3, Ascl1, Brn2, Myt1l, Isl1, Hb9, Ngn2 or NeuroD1 in a somatic cell, e.g., a fibroblast to convert the fibroblast to an induced motor neuron (iMN) which exhibits at least two characteristics of an endogenous motor neuron.
FILED	Friday, August 17, 2012
APPL NO	14/238682
ART UNIT	1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 48/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0619 (20130101) C12N 2501/60 (20130101) C12N 2506/13 (20130101) C12N 2506/1307 (20130101) C12N 2510/00 (20130101)
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09770481 — Inhibitors of NOX1

US 09770481	Ranayhossaini et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
APPLICANT(S)	UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Daniel J. Ranayhossaini (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Patrick Joseph Pagano (Sewickley, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to inhibitors of Nox1-dependent reactive oxygen species production and their use in the treatment of disorders associated with reactive oxygen species, such as hypertension and cancer.
FILED	Friday, October 09, 2015
APPL NO	14/879843
ART UNIT	1676 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/005 (20130101) A61K 38/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) C07K 16/2803 (20130101)
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09770483 — BPI and its congeners as radiation mitigators and radiation protectors

US 09770483	Guinan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)	Eva Guinan (Newton, Massachusetts); Ofer Levy (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Eva Guinan (Newton, Massachusetts); Ofer Levy (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Described herein is a method of mitigating, in a subject (individual), tissue injury resulting from exposure to radiation (accidental/unintentional or intentional, such as therapeutic), chemoradiotherapy, disease, toxin, or drug or biologic mediated therapy.
FILED	Thursday, April 05, 2012
APPL NO	14/009201
ART UNIT	1675 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/4709 (20130101) A61K 31/4709 (20130101) A61K 31/5383 (20130101) A61K 31/5383 (20130101) A61K 38/1751 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/1751 (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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09770484 — BPI and its congeners as radiation mitigators and radiation protectors

US 09770484	Guinan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Eva Guinan (Newton, Massachusetts); Ofer Levy (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Described herein is a method of mitigating, in a subject (individual), tissue injury resulting from exposure to radiation (accidental/unintentional or intentional, such as therapeutic), chemoradiotherapy, disease, toxin, or drug or biologic mediated therapy.
FILED	Wednesday, June 01, 2016
APPL NO	15/169969
ART UNIT	1675 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/4709 (20130101) A61K 31/4709 (20130101) A61K 31/5383 (20130101) A61K 31/5383 (20130101) A61K 38/1751 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/1751 (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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09770486 — Methods of neuroprotection involving macrophage colony stimulating factor receptor agonists

US 09770486	Luo et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California); The United States of America 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)
INVENTOR(S)	Jian Luo (Palo Alto, California); Anton Wyss-Coray (Palo Alto, California)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed are novel methods for preventing or attenuating neuronal damage or stimulating neuronal repair, prior to or following central nervous system injury associated with acute or chronic nervous system injury. Macrophage colony stimulating factor receptor agonists including macrophage colony stimulating factor (M-CSF or CSF-1), interleukin-34 (IL-34), proteins or biologically active fragments thereof, peptides or biologically active fragments thereof, peptidomimetics, or small molecules, and the like are effective for prevention or treatment of acute nervous system injury or chronic nervous system injury involving Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Huntington's disease, and the like.
FILED	Wednesday, September 09, 2015
APPL NO	14/849176
ART UNIT	1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/193 (20130101)
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09770491 — AAV-mediated gene therapy for RPGR X-linked retinal degeneration

US 09770491	Beltran et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Eye Institute (NEI)
APPLICANT(S)	The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Univeristy of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated (Gainesville, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	William A Beltran (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Gustavo D Aguirre (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Samuel G Jacobson (Penn Valley, Pennsylvania); Artur V Cideciyan (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Alfred S Lewin (Gainesville, Florida); Sanford L Boye (Gainesville, Florida); William W Hauswirth (Gainesville, Florida); Wen-Tao Deng (Gainesville, Florida)
ABSTRACT	Described herein are methods of preventing, arresting progression of or ameliorating vision loss and other conditions associated with retinitis pigmentosa and x-linked retinitis pigmentosa in a subject. The methods include administering to a subject an effective concentration of a composition comprising a recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV) carrying a nucleic acid sequence encoding a normal retinitis pigmentosa GTPase regulator (RPGR gene), or fragment thereof, under the control of regulatory sequences which express the product of the gene in the photoreceptor cells of the subject, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
FILED	Wednesday, January 23, 2013
APPL NO	14/413884
ART UNIT	1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/46 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/185 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 48/00 (20130101) A61K 48/005 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/4702 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 2750/14143 (20130101) C12N 2830/008 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 306/05 (20130101)
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09770496 — Method for treating amyloid disease

US 09770496	Wisniewski et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Aging (NIA) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
APPLICANT(S)	NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (New York, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	New York University (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Thomas Wisniewski (Staten Island, New York); Fernando Goni (New York, New York)
ABSTRACT	The invention relates to methods for treating human amyloid disease by administration of modified Aβ peptide immunogens.
FILED	Monday, March 21, 2016
APPL NO	15/076122
ART UNIT	1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/18 (20130101) A61K 39/0005 (20130101) A61K 39/0007 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 39/39 (20130101) A61K 2039/55 (20130101) A61K 2039/58 (20130101) A61K 2039/542 (20130101) A61K 2039/555 (20130101) A61K 2039/575 (20130101) A61K 2039/55516 (20130101) A61K 2039/55544 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/4711 (20130101)
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09770500 — S-nitrosylation of glucosylating toxins and uses therefor

US 09770500	Savidge et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
APPLICANT(S)	Tor C. Savidge (League City, Texas); Jonathan Stamler (Shaker Heights, Ohio)
ASSIGNEE(S)	THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas); CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Austin, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Tor C. Savidge (League City, Texas); Jonathan Stamler (Shaker Heights, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	Provided herein are methods for ameliorating the pathophysiology cysteine protease exotoxin comprising the step of administering to said individual an effective dose of an S-nitrosylating agent and an inositol phosphate or analog thereof.
FILED	Thursday, May 31, 2012
APPL NO	13/485801
ART UNIT	1621 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/21 (20130101) A61K 31/21 (20130101) A61K 31/198 (20130101) A61K 31/198 (20130101) A61K 31/6615 (20130101) A61K 31/6615 (20130101) A61K 38/063 (20130101) A61K 38/063 (20130101) A61K 39/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101)
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09770504 — Generating peptoid vaccines

US 09770504	Vitetta
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)	The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Ellen S. Vitetta (Dallas, Texas)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides for methods of identifying peptoid mimetics that will mimic B cell epitopes when delivered as vaccine compositions. One aspects of the invention is the use of monoclonal antibody that is broadly protective to select the mimetics, thereby identifying an epitope from a pathogen or other disease-causing agent that will be common among most or all variants of that pathogen or agent.
FILED	Friday, May 02, 2014
APPL NO	14/888297
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	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 39/385 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/572 (20130101) A61K 2039/6081 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/16 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/577 (20130101) G01N 33/6818 (20130101) G01N 33/6845 (20130101) G01N 33/6878 (20130101)
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09770513 — Method of developing a vaccine using peptide-poly IC complexes

US 09770513	Celis
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc. (Tampa, Florida)
ASSIGNEE(S)	H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc. (Tampa, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Esteban Celis (Tampa, Florida)
ABSTRACT	The invention describes the development of more potent peptide vaccines to prevent or treat infections or cancer. Small synthetic peptides from the known sequences of viral, bacterial, parasitic or tumor antigens are modified so they can spontaneously form complexes with a synthetic nucleic acid, such as Poly IC, that functions as an immunological adjuvant. The peptide-nucleic acid complexes are dramatically more immunogenic as compared to the separate components. The procedure for developing the vaccine involves the conjugation of a synthetic peptide containing a C residue to poly-K using a bi-functional cross-linking reagent (SMCC). The peptide/poly-K complex was then formulated with CMC and poly-IC to produce a self-adjuvant vaccine that was 36-fold more effective as compared to the same peptide administered mixed with the same adjuvant (but not complexed to it).
FILED	Tuesday, October 08, 2013
APPL NO	14/048714
ART UNIT	1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0011 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 47/481 (20130101) A61K 47/4823 (20130101) A61K 47/48092 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/48315 (20130101) A61K 2039/57 (20130101) A61K 2039/627 (20130101) A61K 2039/55561 (20130101)
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09770533 — Fabrication of bone regeneration scaffolds and bone filler material using a perfusion flow system

US 09770533	Ling et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
APPLICANT(S)	Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE (San Antonio, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Jian Ling (Spring Branch, Texas); Ben Antebi (Helotes, Texas); Xingguo Cheng (San Antonio, Texas); Jeffrey N. Harris (San Antonio, Texas); Xiao-Dong Chen (San Antonio, Texas)
ABSTRACT	The present disclosure is directed at a process to form bone grafting material. One may provide a porous collagen scaffold and insert the scaffold into a perfusion chamber of a perfusion flow system. This may then be followed by continuously providing a mineralization perfusion fluid flow through the scaffold at a flow rate to provide dynamic intrafibrillar mineralization of the scaffold and form a collagen/hydroxyapatite composite scaffold. One may optionally provide the scaffold with bone tissue forming cells and then deliver a perfusion fluid including oxygen and one or more nutrients through the collagen/hydroxyapatite composite scaffold and to the bone tissue forming cells at a flow rate such that the bone tissue forming cells remodel the collagen/hydroxyapatite composite scaffold and form a bone tissue extracellular matrix. The bone tissue extracellular matrix may then be decellularized to form an acellular bone repair scaffold.
FILED	Tuesday, June 02, 2015
APPL NO	14/728336
ART UNIT	1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/46 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 27/46 (20130101) A61L 27/54 (20130101) A61L 27/56 (20130101) A61L 27/3821 (20130101) A61L 2300/412 (20130101) A61L 2430/02 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 89/06 (20130101)
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09770711 — General catalyst for C-H functionalization

US 09770711	White et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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)	M. Christina White (Champaign, Illinois); Shauna M. Paradine (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jennifer R. Griffin (Champaign, Illinois); Jinpeng Zhao (Champaign, Illinois); Aaron L. Petronico (Champaign, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides novel manganese catalysts such as [Mn(^tBuPc)], which are general for the amination of all types of C(sp³)-H bonds (aliphatic, allylic, propargylic, benzylic, ethereal), including strong 1^oaliphatic C—H bonds, while achieving excellent chemoselectivity, stereospecificity, and high functional group tolerance. We demonstrate the late-stage diversification of bioactive complex molecules that encompass the range of C(sp³)-H bond types, such as selective 1^oC—H aminations of betulinic acid and pleuromutilin derivatives. The catalysts' unprecedented balance of reactivity and selectivity is in part attributed to its mechanism of C—H amination that lies between stepwise and concerted.
FILED	Monday, March 21, 2016
APPL NO	15/076434
ART UNIT	1624 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 31/183 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 2231/44 (20130101) B01J 2531/72 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 291/06 (20130101) C07D 515/06 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 13/005 (20130101) Steroids C07J 41/005 (20130101) C07J 41/0055 (20130101) C07J 63/008 (20130101) C07J 71/0094 (20130101)
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09770828 — Teleoperative-cooperative robotic system

US 09770828	Taylor et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC)
APPLICANT(S)	The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Russell H. Taylor (Severna Park, Maryland); Marcin A. Balicki (Baltimore, Maryland); Peter Kazanzides (Baltimore, Maryland); Xia Tian (Baltimore, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A combined teleoperative-cooperative controllable robotic system includes a robotic actuator assembly, a control system adapted to communicate with the robotic actuator assembly, and a teleoperation unit adapted to communicate with the control system. The control system is configured to control at least a first portion of the robotic actuator assembly in response to at least one of a force or a torque applied to at least a second portion of the robotic actuator assembly by a first user for cooperative control. The control system is further configured to control at least a third portion of the robotic actuator assembly in response to input by a second user from the teleoperation unit for teleoperative control.
FILED	Friday, September 28, 2012
APPL NO	13/631035
ART UNIT	3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
CURRENT CPC	Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 34/30 (20160201) A61B 34/35 (20160201) A61B 34/76 (20160201) A61B 90/20 (20160201) A61B 2017/00115 (20130101) Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 3/04 (20130101) B25J 9/1689 (20130101) B25J 13/006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B25J 19/04 (20130101)
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09771321 — Small molecules that covalently modify transthyretin

US 09771321	Kelly et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
APPLICANT(S)	Jeffery W Kelly (LaJolla, California); Sungwook Choi (Yuseong-gu Drejeon, South Korea)
ASSIGNEE(S)	THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (La Jolla, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Jeffery W Kelly (LaJolla, California); Sungwook Choi (Yuseong-gu Drejeon, South Korea)
ABSTRACT	A family of covalent kinetic stabilizer compounds that selectively and covalently react with the prominent plasma protein transthyretin in preference to more than 4000 other human plasma proteins is disclosed. A contemplated compound corresponds in structure to Formula I, below, where the various substituents are defined within, and reacts chemoselectively with one or two of four Lys-15 ε-amino groups within the transthyretin tetramer. The crystal structure confirms the binding orientation of the compound substructure and the conjugating amide bond. A covalent transthyretin kinetic stabilizer exhibits superior amyloid inhibition potency, compared to a non-covalent counterpart, and inhibits cytotoxicity associated with amyloidogenesis.
FILED	Monday, April 14, 2014
APPL NO	14/252251
ART UNIT	1628 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/136 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 39/21 (20130101) C07C 65/19 (20130101) C07C 69/94 (20130101) C07C 205/43 (20130101) C07C 229/64 (20130101) C07C 237/30 (20130101) C07C 245/08 (20130101) C07C 327/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Organic Dyes or Closely-related Compounds for Producing Dyes; Mordants; Lakes C09B 23/14 (20130101) C09B 23/145 (20130101) C09B 23/146 (20130101) C09B 23/148 (20130101) C09B 29/0007 (20130101) C09B 29/10 (20130101) C09B 29/12 (20130101) C09B 29/0014 (20130101) C09B 29/0029 (20130101) C09B 29/0048 (20130101) C09B 29/0051 (20130101) C09B 29/0055 (20130101) C09B 29/0059 (20130101) C09B 29/0066 (20130101) C09B 29/0085 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/74 (20130101) G01N 33/6896 (20130101) G01N 2333/4709 (20130101) G01N 2500/04 (20130101)
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09771330 — Pyrimidine compounds for the treatment of cancer

US 09771330	Wang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (FNLCR) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc. (LBRI) at Frederick, MD
APPLICANT(S)	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Xiaodong Wang (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Weihe Zhang (Vestavia, Alabama); Stephen V. Frye (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Dmitri Kireev (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Andrew Louis McIver (Durham, North Carolina); Jing Liu (Carrboro, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	Compounds of Formula I or II: are described, along with pharmaceutical compositions containing the same and methods of using such compounds for the treatment of cancer.
FILED	Friday, November 22, 2013
APPL NO	14/647733
ART UNIT	1625 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 239/48 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 487/06 (20130101) C07D 487/08 (20130101)
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09771345 — Coferons and methods of making and using them

US 09771345	Barany et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS)
APPLICANT(S)	Francis Barany (New York, New York); Maneesh Pingle (New York, New York); Sarah Filippa Giardina (New York, New York); Donald Bergstrom (West Lafayette, Indiana); Lee Daniel Arnold (Mt. Sinai, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Cornell University (Ithaca, New York); Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana); BlinkBio, Inc. (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Francis Barany (New York, New York); Maneesh Pingle (New York, New York); Sarah Filippa Giardina (New York, New York); Donald Bergstrom (West Lafayette, Indiana); Lee Daniel Arnold (Mt. Sinai, New York)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is directed to a monomer useful in preparing therapeutic compounds. The monomer includes one or more pharmacophores which potentially binds to a target molecule with a dissociation constant of less than 300 μM and a linker element connected to the pharmacophore. The linker element has a molecular weight less than 500 daltons, is connected, directly or indirectly through a connector, to the pharmacophore.
FILED	Thursday, October 07, 2010
APPL NO	13/500857
ART UNIT	1629 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/12 (20130101) C07D 207/24 (20130101) C07D 209/52 (20130101) C07D 239/42 (20130101) C07D 239/54 (20130101) C07D 241/36 (20130101) C07D 263/20 (20130101) C07D 295/18 (20130101) C07D 307/80 (20130101) C07D 317/10 (20130101) C07D 317/44 (20130101) C07D 319/12 (20130101) C07D 319/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 403/06 (20130101) C07D 403/14 (20130101) C07D 405/14 (20130101) C07D 413/06 (20130101) C07D 471/14 (20130101) C07D 491/04 (20130101) C07D 491/10 (20130101) C07D 491/14 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/025 (20130101) Combinatorial Chemistry; Libraries, e.g Chemical Libraries C40B 30/04 (20130101)
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09771377 — Synthesis of FR901464 and analogs with antitumor activity

US 09771377	Koide et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Kazunori Koide (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Sami Saif Eldin Ali Osman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides novel analogs of FR901464, as well as an improved methodology for preparing FR901464 and its analogs. These compounds display an anti-cancer activity and are candidates for therapies against a number of disease states associated with dysfunctional RNA splicing.
FILED	Thursday, December 19, 2013
APPL NO	14/654305
ART UNIT	1625 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 49/603 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 309/30 (20130101) C07D 407/06 (20130101) C07D 413/12 (20130101) C07D 413/14 (20130101) C07D 493/04 (20130101) C07D 493/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09771382 — Beta-lactamase inhibitors

US 09771382	Burns et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)	VenatoRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Malvern, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	VENATORX PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (Malvern, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Christopher J. Burns (Malvern, Pennsylvania); Denis Daigle (Street, Maryland); Bin Liu (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Daniel McGarry (Malvern, Pennsylvania); Daniel C. Pevear (Downingtown, Pennsylvania); Robert E. Lee Trout (Collegeville, Pennsylvania); Randy W. Jackson (Livingston, Montana)
ABSTRACT	Described herein are compounds and compositions that modulate the activity of beta-lactamases. In some embodiments, the compounds described herein inhibit beta-lactamase. In certain embodiments, the compounds described herein are useful in the treatment of bacterial infections.
FILED	Monday, June 27, 2016
APPL NO	15/194433
ART UNIT	1625 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/69 (20130101) A61K 31/407 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/546 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09771386 — Z-selective ring-closing metathesis reactions

US 09771386	Hoveyda et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Amir H. Hoveyda (Lincoln, Massachusetts); Miao Yu (West Roxbury, Massachusetts); Chenbo Wang (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Richard R. Schrock (Winchester, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates generally to olefin metathesis. In some embodiments, the present invention provides methods for Z-selective ring-closing metathesis.
FILED	Friday, August 05, 2016
APPL NO	15/230127
ART UNIT	1671 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 31/2265 (20130101) B01J 31/2278 (20130101) B01J 2231/543 (20130101) B01J 2531/64 (20130101) B01J 2531/66 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 225/02 (20130101) C07D 267/00 (20130101) C07D 313/00 (20130101) C07D 417/06 (20130101) C07D 491/22 (20130101) C07D 493/04 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 11/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09771395 — Enhanced influenza hemagglutinin binders

US 09771395	Koday et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)	UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON (Seattle, Washington)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Washington (Seattle, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Merika Treants Koday (Seattle, Washington); Deborah L. Fuller (Seattle, Washington); Aaron Chevalier (Seattle, Washington); Jorgen Nelson (Seattle, Washington); David Baker (Seattle, Washington)
ABSTRACT	Designed polypeptides having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NQ: 1 are described that bind with high affinity and selectivity to the influenza hemagglutinin protein, and which can be used for treating and/or limiting an influenza infection, as well as diagnosing an influenza infection and identifying candidate compounds for treating an influenza infection.
FILED	Friday, March 20, 2015
APPL NO	15/120071
ART UNIT	1675 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0043 (20130101) A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56983 (20130101) G01N 2333/11 (20130101) G01N 2500/04 (20130101)
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09771396 — Phase transition biopolymers and methods of use

US 09771396	Chilkoti et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	Duke University (Durham, North Carolina)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Duke University (Durham, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Ashutosh Chilkoti (Durham, North Carolina); Felipe Garcia Quiroz (Durham, North Carolina); Miriam Amiram (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	The present disclosure describes environmentally responsive polypeptides capable of displaying stimuli-triggered conformational changes in a reversible or irreversible manner that may be accompanied by aggregation. Polypeptides include a number of repeated motifs and may be elastomeric or non-elastomeric. The polypeptides may be used to deliver therapeutics to a biological site and to develop bioactive polypeptides that are environmentally responsive.
FILED	Tuesday, December 16, 2014
APPL NO	14/572391
ART UNIT	1676 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 8/11 (20130101) A61K 8/64 (20130101) A61K 9/5123 (20130101) A61K 9/5169 (20130101) A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 47/42 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/001 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/78 (20130101) C07K 19/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/21 (20130101)
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09771404 — Multi-level specific targeting of cancer cells

US 09771404	Debinski et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, North Carolina)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Waldemar Debinski (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Hetal Pandya (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Denise Gibo (Winston-Salem, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	A compound comprising, in combination: a cell surface binding ligand or internalizing factor, such as an IL-13Rα2 binding ligand; at least one effector molecule (e.g., one, two, three or more effector molecules); optionally but preferably, a cytosol localization element covalently coupled between said binding ligand and said at least one effector molecule; and a subcellular compartment localization signal element covalently coupled between said binding ligand and said at least one effector molecule (and preferably with said cytosol localization element between said binding ligand and said subcellular compartment localization signal element). Methods of using such compounds and formulations containing the same are also described.
FILED	Wednesday, April 08, 2015
APPL NO	14/681355
ART UNIT	1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 47/48269 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 14/21 (20130101) C07K 14/34 (20130101) C07K 14/195 (20130101) C07K 14/5437 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 19/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/01 (20130101) C07K 2319/09 (20130101) C07K 2319/74 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/532 (20130101) G01N 33/5008 (20130101) G01N 33/5091 (20130101) G01N 33/6869 (20130101) G01N 2333/025 (20130101) G01N 2333/195 (20130101) G01N 2333/5437 (20130101)
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09771405 — Nucleic acids encoding for chimeric natriuretic polypeptides with unique pharmacologic profiles

US 09771405	Burnett, Jr. et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
APPLICANT(S)	Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota)
INVENTOR(S)	John C. Burnett, Jr. (Rochester, Minnesota); Candace Y. W. Lee (Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Canada)
ABSTRACT	This document provides natriuretic polypeptides. For example, this document provides polypeptides having a natriuretic activity. In some cases, a polypeptide provided herein can have natriuretic activities without inducing excessive hypotension. This document also provides methods and materials for inducing natriuretic activities within a mammal.
FILED	Friday, May 13, 2016
APPL NO	15/153955
ART UNIT	1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/58 (20130101) C07K 14/575 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2319/00 (20130101)
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09771412 — Engineered intein for improved production of protein-intein fusions

US 09771412	Shusta et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Eric V. Shusta (Madison, Wisconsin); Carrie J. Marshall (Madison, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	The invention discloses engineered non-self-cleaving inteins derived from Mxe GyrA inteins and methods of using such inteins to chemically modify proteins.
FILED	Thursday, October 29, 2015
APPL NO	14/926665
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Peptides C07K 14/35 (20130101) C07K 16/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/14 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101) C07K 2319/92 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 21/02 (20130101)
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09771428 — CD47 targeted therapies for the treatment of infectious disease

US 09771428	Weiskopf et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)	The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Kipp Andrew Weiskopf (Menlo Park, California); Kim J. Hasenkrug (Victor, Montana); Cheryl A. Stoddart (Pacifica, California); Joseph M. McCune (San Francisco, California); Irving L. Weissman (Stanford, California)
ABSTRACT	Methods are provided for treating a subject with for an intracellular pathogen infection, by administering an agent that reduces the binding of CD47 on a infected cell to SIRPα on a host phagocytic cell, in an effective dose for increasing the phagocytosis of infected cells.
FILED	Wednesday, February 05, 2014
APPL NO	14/763758
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/1774 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/2803 (20130101) C07K 16/2896 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/24 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101)
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09771430 — Method of treating a metabolic disorder induced by obesity in a subject in need thereof by administering MK2/3 inhibitors

US 09771430	Tabas et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
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)	Ira Tabas (New City, New York); Lale Ozcan (Edgewater, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to methods of treating or preventing a metabolic disorder in a subject, methods of treating or preventing coronary artery disease in a subject with a metabolic disorder, as well as methods of reducing hepatic glucose production in a subject. Such methods include, but are not limited to, the administration to the subject of inhibitors or activators of CaMKII, IP3Rs, calcineurin, p38, MK2/3, HDAC4, Dach1, Dach2, or any combination thereof. The invention also provides methods of identifying a compound that inhibits the activity of CaMKII, IP3Rs, calcineurin, p38, MK2/3, HDAC4, Dach1 or Dach2, or reduces the activity and/or activation of CaMKII, IP3Rs, calcineurin, p38, MK2/3, HDAC4, Dach1 or Dach, or activates CaMKII, IP3Rs, calcineurin, p38, MK2/3, HDAC4, Dach1 or Dach2.
FILED	Tuesday, March 04, 2014
APPL NO	14/197173
ART UNIT	1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 67/0275 (20130101) A01K 2207/05 (20130101) A01K 2207/25 (20130101) A01K 2217/15 (20130101) A01K 2217/075 (20130101) A01K 2227/105 (20130101) A01K 2267/0362 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/47 (20130101) A61K 31/472 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/705 (20130101) C07K 16/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/1205 (20130101) C12N 15/1137 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5023 (20130101) G01N 2333/91215 (20130101) G01N 2500/10 (20130101) G01N 2800/04 (20130101)
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09771554 — Device and method for engineering living tissues

US 09771554	Morgan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)	Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island); Rhode Island Hospital (Providence, Rhode Island)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island); Rhode Island Hospital (Providence, Rhode Island)
INVENTOR(S)	Jeffrey R. Morgan (Providence, Rhode Island); Andrew Blakely (Providence, Rhode Island); John Murphy (Providence, Rhode Island); Anubhav Tripathi (Providence, Rhode Island); William Patterson (Providence, Rhode Island)
ABSTRACT	A device for assembling aggregations of adherent cells includes a gripper moveable within an assembly vessel that fixes aggregations of adherent cells at a membrane of the gripper and, by movement of the gripper, assembles aggregations of cells on a separate membrane within the vessel, thereby creating a three-dimensional assembly of aggregations of cells that fuse and can be employed in surgical procedures as a unitary tissue of adherent cells. The aggregations of cells, as assembled, can assume three-dimensional configurations distinct from any one of the component aggregations of cells assembled.
FILED	Friday, July 11, 2014
APPL NO	14/328956
ART UNIT	1799 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 21/08 (20130101) C12M 25/02 (20130101) C12M 29/10 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0062 (20130101) C12N 5/0068 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2513/00 (20130101) C12N 2533/76 (20130101)
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09771556 — Vitronectin-derived cell culture substrate for maintaining human pluripotent stem cells in a substantially undifferentiated state

US 09771556	Thomson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	James A. Thomson (Madison, Wisconsin); Zhonggang Hou (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Guokai Chen (Madison, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	Vitronectin-derived cell culture substrates and methods of using the same for culturing pluripotent stem cells are presented. Also provided herein are defined culture systems for maintaining human pluripotent stem cells in a substantially undifferentiated state, where the defined culture system comprises human pluripotent stem cells, a defined culture medium, and at least one polypeptide selected from the group consisting of residues 43 to 378 of SEQ ID NO:1 and residues 45 to 378 of SEQ ID NO:1, and where the defined culture medium comprises insulin, selenium, transferrin, L-ascorbic acid, FGF2, DMEM/F12, NaHCO₃, and one of TGFβ and NODAL.
FILED	Wednesday, August 05, 2015
APPL NO	14/818779
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	Peptides C07K 14/78 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0606 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 5/0696 (20130101) C12N 2500/02 (20130101) C12N 2500/05 (20130101) C12N 2500/25 (20130101) C12N 2500/38 (20130101) C12N 2501/15 (20130101) C12N 2501/33 (20130101) C12N 2501/115 (20130101) C12N 2501/727 (20130101) C12N 2533/50 (20130101) C12N 2533/52 (20130101)
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09771560 — High-throughput image-based chemical screening in zebrafish blastomere cell culture

US 09771560	Zon et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) NIH Office of the Director (NIHOD)
APPLICANT(S)	CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION (Boston, Massachusetts); PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (Cambridge, Massachusetts); JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC. (Boston, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION (Boston, Massachusetts); PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (Cambridge, Massachusetts); JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC. (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Leonard I. Zon (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Cong Xu (Boston, Massachusetts); Amy J. Wagers (Cambridge, Massachusetts); C. Ronald Kahn (Newton, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed are methods of inducing differentiation of stem into myogenic cells without gene manipulation and for inducing proliferation of satellite cells. The cells can be used as a source of cells for transplantation in a subject in need thereof. Also disclosed is a screening assay for screening test compounds using blastomere cultures.
FILED	Thursday, March 14, 2013
APPL NO	14/384514
ART UNIT	1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/545 (20130101) A61K 38/28 (20130101) A61K 38/28 (20130101) A61K 38/30 (20130101) A61K 38/30 (20130101) A61K 38/1808 (20130101) A61K 38/1808 (20130101) A61K 38/1825 (20130101) A61K 38/1825 (20130101) A61K 38/1841 (20130101) A61K 38/1841 (20130101) A61K 38/1858 (20130101) A61K 38/1858 (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) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0658 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2501/01 (20130101) C12N 2501/16 (20130101) C12N 2501/115 (20130101) C12N 2501/999 (20130101) C12N 2506/02 (20130101) C12N 2506/45 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5044 (20130101) G01N 33/56983 (20130101)
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09771561 — Method of making primate cells expressing apelin receptor that have mesangioblast potential

US 09771561	Vodyanyk et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
APPLICANT(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Maksym A. Vodyanyk (Madison, Wisconsin); Igor I. Slukvin (Verona, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	Methods for obtaining multipotent Apelin receptor-positive lateral plate mesoderm cells, mesenchymal stem cells, and mesangioblasts under serum-free conditions are disclosed.
FILED	Friday, December 12, 2014
APPL NO	14/569130
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 5/069 (20130101) C12N 5/0647 (20130101) C12N 5/0662 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 5/0692 (20130101) C12N 2500/38 (20130101) C12N 2500/44 (20130101) C12N 2500/90 (20130101) C12N 2501/23 (20130101) C12N 2501/115 (20130101) C12N 2501/125 (20130101) C12N 2501/135 (20130101) C12N 2501/145 (20130101) C12N 2501/155 (20130101) C12N 2501/165 (20130101) C12N 2502/1394 (20130101) C12N 2506/02 (20130101) C12N 2506/45 (20130101) C12N 2533/54 (20130101) C12N 2533/70 (20130101) C12N 2533/78 (20130101)
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09771562 — Method for culture of human and mouse prostate organoids and uses thereof

US 09771562	Shen et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
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)	Michael M. Shen (New York, New York); Chee Wai Chua (New York, New York); Ming Lei (New York, New York)
ABSTRACT	The invention discloses a methodology for the culture of prostate tissue organoids from mouse and human prostate.
FILED	Tuesday, May 26, 2015
APPL NO	14/722065
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 5/0683 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 5/0693 (20130101) C12N 2501/11 (20130101) C12N 2501/392 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5011 (20130101) G01N 33/57434 (20130101)
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09771574 — Apparatus for continuous directed evolution of proteins and nucleic acids

US 09771574	Liu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)	President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Kevin Michael Esvelt (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Aspects of the disclosure relate to an apparatus for continuous directed evolution of a gene of interest. In some embodiments, the apparatus comprises a cellstat and a turbidostat. In some embodiments, the apparatus is useful in methods of passing a nucleic acid from cell to cell in a desired function-dependent manner.
FILED	Tuesday, May 05, 2015
APPL NO	14/704226
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 15/1024 (20130101) C12N 15/1037 (20130101) C12N 15/1058 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09771587 — Compositions and methods to promote erythropoiesis

US 09771587	Bresnick et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
APPLICANT(S)	WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin)
ASSIGNEE(S)	WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Emery H. Bresnick (Middleton, Wisconsin); Yoon A. Kang (San Francisco, California); Skye McIver (Madison, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	Described herein are compositions and methods for enhancing erythropoiesis in an individual in need thereof. Specifically agents that decrease the expression of Exosc8, Exosc9, Dis3, Dis3L or Exosc10, such as inhibitory nucleic acid molecules, produce an increase in red blood cell production in the individual.
FILED	Thursday, October 27, 2016
APPL NO	15/335529
ART UNIT	1674 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/1137 (20130101) C12N 2310/11 (20130101) C12N 2310/12 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/15 (20130101) C12N 2310/531 (20130101) C12N 2320/30 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 301/13 (20130101)
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09771592 — Methods and compositions for treating or preventing pruritis

US 09771592	Dong et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
APPLICANT(S)	The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland); California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland); California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Xinzhong Dong (Clarksville, Maryland); Qin Liu (Baltimore, Maryland); David J. Anderson (Altadena, California)
ABSTRACT	The invention features therapeutic compositions comprising agents useful for the treatment or prevention of pruritis, and methods useful for identifying such agents.
FILED	Friday, January 24, 2014
APPL NO	14/163370
ART UNIT	1625 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/46 (20130101) A61K 31/46 (20130101) A61K 31/56 (20130101) A61K 31/56 (20130101) A61K 31/439 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/705 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1138 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5023 (20130101) G01N 33/5041 (20130101)
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09771620 — Biomarkers of high-grade serous ovarian carcinomas

US 09771620	Reihani et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	Duke University (Durham, North Carolina)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Duke University (Durham, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Sharareh Reihani (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Angeles Alvarez Secord (Durham, North Carolina); Mark Dewhirst (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Chen Jiang (Durham, North Carolina); Kouros Owzar (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	The present disclosure provides biomarkers useful for determining the prognosis of conditions such as ovarian cancer. The presently disclosed subject matter provides angiogenic biomarkers and methods and compositions for predicting overall survival (OS) in women with high-grade serous carcinomas (HGSCs). The presently disclosed subject matter provides compositions and methods that enable rationally directed therapies to improve outcome in women with HGSC.
FILED	Tuesday, May 20, 2014
APPL NO	14/282603
ART UNIT	1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/118 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101)
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09771625 — Monoamine oxidase inhibitors and methods for treatment and diagnosis of prostate cancer

US 09771625	Shih et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	Jean C. Shih (Beverly Hills, California); Leland Chung (Los Angeles, California); Haiyen E. Zhau (Los Angeles, California); Boyang Jason Wu (Los Angeles, California); Bogdan Z. Olenyuk (Sierra Madre, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (Los Angeles, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Jean C. Shih (Beverly Hills, California); Leland Chung (Los Angeles, California); Haiyen E. Zhau (Los Angeles, California); Boyang Jason Wu (Los Angeles, California); Bogdan Z. Olenyuk (Sierra Madre, California)
ABSTRACT	A mechanism of monoamine oxidases (MAOs) driven epithelium-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for treating cancer by inhibiting or suppressing MAOs in cancer cells. Novel MAOs inhibitors, such as small molecules, siRNA, shRNA, antisense oligonucleotides, aptamers, decoys, and pharmaceutical compositions useful for treating cancer by disrupting the workings of MAOs are provided. In particular, a class of conjugates formed by covalently conjugating near infrared dye 783, IR-780, and MHI-148 to a MAO inhibitor, such as clorgyline, with and without encapsulation it in a nanoparticle is provided. Other aspects of the invention include methods for forming the nano-conjugates, method for monitoring treatment progress in a cancer patient by monitoring the changes in MAO activity, methods for screening patients who are at risk of cancer or differentiating different forms of cancer by assaying the level and location of MAO activity.
FILED	Thursday, July 26, 2012
APPL NO	13/559431
ART UNIT	1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/352 (20130101) A61K 31/357 (20130101) A61K 31/366 (20130101) A61K 31/381 (20130101) A61K 31/405 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 31/5375 (20130101) A61K 47/48061 (20130101) A61K 49/0032 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1137 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/531 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 104/03004 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09772280 — Portable broadband diffuse optical spectroscopic imaging (DOSI) device for noninvasive tissue characterization

US 09772280	Cerussi et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)
APPLICANT(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Albert Cerussi (Rancho Santa Margarita, California); Bruce Tromberg (Irvine, California); Keun-sik No (Irvine, California); Brian Hill (Irvine, California); Pai Chou (Irvine, California)
ABSTRACT	A diffuse optical spectroscopic imaging (DOSI) apparatus for tissue spectroscopy measures absorption and scattering properties of tissue using multi-frequency frequency domain photon migration in a modular or networkable platform to provide full broadband information content. The apparatus includes: a broadband signal generator; a driver having an input coupled to the signal generator; a light source coupled to the driver, the light source for exposing the tissue to broadband modulated light at a plurality of wavelengths; an optical detector for receiving returned light from the tissue; an amplitude detection circuit communicated to the optical detector; a phase detection circuit communicated to the optical detector; and a plurality of filters and amplifiers, wherein the optical detector, amplitude detection circuit and phase detection circuit are interconnected with each other by corresponding ones of the plurality of filters and amplifiers to isolate signals and increase signal-to-noise ratio.
FILED	Monday, January 13, 2014
APPL NO	14/760817
ART UNIT	3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion
CURRENT CPC	Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0075 (20130101) A61B 5/0084 (20130101) A61B 5/0091 (20130101) A61B 5/7225 (20130101) Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/0264 (20130101) G01J 3/0272 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/47 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/49 (20130101) G01N 21/3103 (20130101) G01N 21/4795 (20130101) G01N 2021/4735 (20130101) G01N 2021/4797 (20130101)
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09772334 — Inflammatory bowel disease markers and therapies for colitis-associated intestinal fibrosis

US 09772334	Koon et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California); Avinoam Dukler (Newbury Park, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Hon Wai Koon (Los Angeles, California); Charalabos Pothoulakis (Los Angeles, California); Avinoam Dukler (Newbury Park, California)
ABSTRACT	Method of diagnosing and treating inflammatory bowel disease are disclosed herein. Inflammatory bowel disease can be treated and diagnosed using cathelicidin peptides and detection agents thereof. Specifically, method of treating and diagnosing Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are disclosed herein.
FILED	Thursday, June 18, 2015
APPL NO	14/743909
ART UNIT	1675 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6893 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/4721 (20130101) G01N 2333/4737 (20130101) G01N 2800/065 (20130101)
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09774166 — Widely tunable swept source

US 09774166	Jayaraman et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) National Eye Institute (NEI)
APPLICANT(S)	Praevium Research, Inc. (Santa Barbara, California); Thorlabs, Inc. (Newton, New Jersey)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Praevium Research, Inc. (Sanata Barbara, California); Thorlabs, Inc. (Newton, New Jersey)
INVENTOR(S)	Vijaysekhar Jayaraman (Goleta, California); Christopher Burgner (Santa Barbara, California); Demis John (Goleta, California); Peter Heim (Jessup, Maryland); Alex Ezra Cable (Newton, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	A high-speed, single-mode, high power, reliable and manufacturable wavelength-tunable light source operative to emit wavelength tunable radiation over a wavelength range contained in a wavelength span between about 950 nm and about 1150 nm, including a vertical cavity laser (VCL), the VCL having a gain region with at least one compressively strained quantum well containing Indium, Gallium, and Arsenic.
FILED	Friday, March 14, 2014
APPL NO	14/214201
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 5/2059 (20130101) H01S 5/3095 (20130101) H01S 5/18308 (20130101) H01S 5/18311 (20130101) H01S 5/18341 (20130101) H01S 5/18366 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 5/18369 (20130101) H01S 5/18372 (20130101) H01S 5/18377 (20130101)
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Department of Defense (DOD)

09770305 — Robotic surgical devices, systems, and related methods

US 09770305	Farritor et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC)
APPLICANT(S)	Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska)
INVENTOR(S)	Shane Farritor (Lincoln, Nebraska); Erik Mumm (Longmont, Colorado); Philip Chu (Friendswood, Texas); Nishant Kumar (Bergenfield, New Jersey); Jason Dumpert (Omaha, Nebraska); Yutaka Tsutano (Lincoln, Nebraska)
ABSTRACT	The embodiments disclosed herein relate to various medical device components, including components that can be incorporated into robotic and/or in vivo medical devices. Certain embodiments include various modular medical devices for in vivo medical procedures.
FILED	Tuesday, October 09, 2012
APPL NO	13/573849
ART UNIT	3731 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting
CURRENT CPC	Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 17/29 (20130101) A61B 17/00234 (20130101) A61B 34/00 (20160201) A61B 34/30 (20160201) Original (OR) Class A61B 34/37 (20160201) A61B 90/30 (20160201) A61B 90/361 (20160201) A61B 2017/2906 (20130101) A61B 2034/302 (20160201) A61B 2217/005 (20130101) A61B 2217/007 (20130101)
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09770415 — Delivery substrates from aligned polymer biomaterials for tissue repair

US 09770415	Cheng
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC)
APPLICANT(S)	Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE (San Antonio, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Xingguo Cheng (San Antonio, Texas)
ABSTRACT	An aligned polymer article including substrates, wherein the substrates are not covalently bonded to the aligned collagen and a method of forming such articles wherein substrates are mixed with a polymer in solution to form a polymer-substrate mixture. The mixture is placed in an electrochemical cell and a voltage is applied to the cell generating a pH gradient, wherein the polymer aligns in the cell and migrates to the isoelectric plane of the polymer solution.
FILED	Friday, November 08, 2013
APPL NO	14/075564
ART UNIT	1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/127 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 9/1271 (20130101) A61K 9/5153 (20130101) A61K 38/39 (20130101) A61K 38/1858 (20130101)
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09770482 — Targeting the EGFR-SGLT1 interaction for cancer therapy

US 09770482	Weihua
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD)
APPLICANT(S)	The University of Houston System (Houston, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The University of Houston System (Houston, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Zhang Weihua (Houston, Texas)
ABSTRACT	A compound can destabilize an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) protein and a sodium/glucose co-transporter 1 (SGLT 1) protein. In one embodiment, the compound is a peptide derived from the interacting domain of EGFR. In another embodiment, the peptide is administered to a patient to treat cancer.
FILED	Tuesday, April 26, 2016
APPL NO	15/139066
ART UNIT	1675 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/70 (20130101) A61K 31/422 (20130101) A61K 31/517 (20130101) A61K 31/517 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) A61K 31/7034 (20130101) A61K 31/7034 (20130101) A61K 31/7042 (20130101) A61K 31/7042 (20130101) A61K 38/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/179 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/08 (20130101)
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09770483 — BPI and its congeners as radiation mitigators and radiation protectors

US 09770483	Guinan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)	Eva Guinan (Newton, Massachusetts); Ofer Levy (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Eva Guinan (Newton, Massachusetts); Ofer Levy (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Described herein is a method of mitigating, in a subject (individual), tissue injury resulting from exposure to radiation (accidental/unintentional or intentional, such as therapeutic), chemoradiotherapy, disease, toxin, or drug or biologic mediated therapy.
FILED	Thursday, April 05, 2012
APPL NO	14/009201
ART UNIT	1675 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/4709 (20130101) A61K 31/4709 (20130101) A61K 31/5383 (20130101) A61K 31/5383 (20130101) A61K 38/1751 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/1751 (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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09770484 — BPI and its congeners as radiation mitigators and radiation protectors

US 09770484	Guinan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Eva Guinan (Newton, Massachusetts); Ofer Levy (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Described herein is a method of mitigating, in a subject (individual), tissue injury resulting from exposure to radiation (accidental/unintentional or intentional, such as therapeutic), chemoradiotherapy, disease, toxin, or drug or biologic mediated therapy.
FILED	Wednesday, June 01, 2016
APPL NO	15/169969
ART UNIT	1675 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/4709 (20130101) A61K 31/4709 (20130101) A61K 31/5383 (20130101) A61K 31/5383 (20130101) A61K 38/1751 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/1751 (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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09770528 — Biomaterial compositions

US 09770528	Kilway et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC)
APPLICANT(S)	Kathleen V. Kilway (Kansas City, Missouri); Lynda F. Bonewald (Kansas City, Missouri); Thomas P. Schuman (Rolla, Missouri)
ASSIGNEE(S)	CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI (Columbia, Missouri)
INVENTOR(S)	Kathleen V. Kilway (Kansas City, Missouri); Lynda F. Bonewald (Kansas City, Missouri); Thomas P. Schuman (Rolla, Missouri)
ABSTRACT	Biomaterial compositions comprising organosilicon monomers (such as silorane monomers) and chemical curing systems or dual chemical/light curing systems, in conjunction with optional tetraoxaspiro[5.5]undecanes (“TOSUs”) and/or fillers.
FILED	Wednesday, November 11, 2015
APPL NO	14/937923
ART UNIT	1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 6/0052 (20130101) A61K 6/0067 (20130101) A61K 6/093 (20130101) A61K 6/093 (20130101) A61K 38/18 (20130101) A61K 38/1841 (20130101) A61K 38/1875 (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 24/0015 (20130101) A61L 24/046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 24/046 (20130101) A61L 27/18 (20130101) A61L 27/18 (20130101) A61L 2300/252 (20130101) A61L 2430/02 (20130101) A61L 2430/06 (20130101) A61L 2430/12 (20130101) A61L 2430/24 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 2/50 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 77/50 (20130101) C08G 77/60 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 83/06 (20130101) C08L 83/06 (20130101) C08L 83/16 (20130101)
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09770703 — Magnetic materials for sensing and decontaminating toxic chemicals

US 09770703	Soliz et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)	U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical and Biological Center (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as Reprensented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Jennifer R Soliz (Baltimore, Maryland); Christopher J Karwacki (Churchville, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A method and composition of matter for detecting and decontaminating hazardous chemicals, the composition of matter including: a magnetic material for any of chemisorbing, molecularly dissociating, or decomposing a hazardous chemical, wherein the magnetic material changes its magnetic moment upon any of chemisorption, decomposition, and molecular dissociation of the hazardous chemical and the change in magnetic moment is used to detect the presence of the hazardous chemical, and wherein the hazardous chemical includes any of toxic industrial chemicals, chemical warfare agents, and chemical warfare agent related compounds.
FILED	Friday, June 10, 2016
APPL NO	15/179076
ART UNIT	1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Chemical Means for Extinguishing Fires or for Combating or Protecting Against Harmful Chemical Agents; Chemical Materials for Use in Breathing Apparatus A62D 3/33 (20130101) A62D 2101/02 (20130101) Separation B01D 53/04 (20130101) B01D 2253/1124 (20130101) B01D 2257/70 (20130101) B01D 2257/204 (20130101) B01D 2257/302 (20130101) B01D 2257/304 (20130101) B01D 2257/306 (20130101) B01D 2257/2064 (20130101) B01D 2257/2066 (20130101) B01D 2259/4583 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/06 (20130101) B01J 20/28009 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 49/0054 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2006/42 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/33 (20130101) G01N 21/35 (20130101) G01N 21/65 (20130101) G01N 27/72 (20130101)
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09770823 — Auto-reach method and system for a remote vehicle

US 09770823	Huang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Contracting Command (ACC) U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM)
APPLICANT(S)	iRobot Corporation (Bedford, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	IROBOT DEFENSE HOLDINGS, INC. (Bedford, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Wesley Hanan Huang (Burlington, Massachusetts); Emilie A. Phillips (Mason, New Hampshire)
ABSTRACT	The present teachings provide a method of controlling a remote vehicle having an end effector and an image sensing device. The method includes obtaining an image of an object with the image sensing device, determining a ray from a focal point of the image to the object based on the obtained image, positioning the end effector of the remote vehicle to align with the determined ray, and moving the end effector along the determined ray to approach the object.
FILED	Thursday, April 09, 2015
APPL NO	14/682428
ART UNIT	3652 — Material and Article Handling
CURRENT CPC	Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 5/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B25J 9/162 (20130101) B25J 9/1697 (20130101) B25J 11/002 (20130101) B25J 19/023 (20130101) Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 2219/39391 (20130101) G05B 2219/40003 (20130101) G05B 2219/40062 (20130101) Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 1/0038 (20130101) G05D 2201/0207 (20130101) G05D 2201/0209 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 901/09 (20130101) Y10S 901/47 (20130101)
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09771159 — Multi-ring mechanical release with side activation

US 09771159	Grenga
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
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)	Todd Grenga (Cumberland, Rhode Island)
ABSTRACT	A canopy release assembly includes a base plate member and a pin assembly movably coupled to the base plate member. The pin assembly is configured to move to and from a locked state and an unlocked state. A cover is pivotally coupled to the base plate member and is configured to move to and from a closed state to an open state. A first release member has a first end coupled to the pin assembly and is configured to move the pin assembly to the unlocked state in the open state of the cover. A second release member is coupled to the cover and configured to engage the pin assembly in the closed state of the cover to move the pin assembly to the unlocked state.
FILED	Thursday, November 19, 2015
APPL NO	14/945809
ART UNIT	3677 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware
CURRENT CPC	Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 17/52 (20130101) B64D 17/70 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 24/36 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 24/4501 (20150115) Y10T 24/45675 (20150115) Y10T 24/45686 (20150115)
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09771258 — Wafer level MEMS package including dual seal ring

US 09771258	Diep et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	RAYTHEON COMPANY (Waltham, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Buu Q. Diep (Murphy, Texas); Adam M. Kennedy (Santa Barbara, California); Thomas Allan Kocian (Dallas, Texas); Mark Lamb (Goleta, California)
ABSTRACT	A microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) package includes a substrate extending between a first pair of outer edges to define a length and a second pair of outer edges to define a width. A seal ring assembly is disposed on the substrate and includes at least one seal ring creating a first boundary point adjacent to at least one MEMS device and a second boundary point adjacent at least one of the outer edges. The package further includes a window lid on the seal ring assembly to define a seal gap containing the at least one MEMS device. The seal ring assembly anchors the window lid to the substrate at the second boundary point such that deflection of the window lid into the seal gap is reduced.
FILED	Wednesday, June 24, 2015
APPL NO	14/748482
ART UNIT	2822 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Microstructural Devices or Systems, e.g Micromechanical Devices B81B 7/0041 (20130101) B81B 7/0058 (20130101) B81B 2201/04 (20130101) B81B 2201/0207 (20130101) Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00269 (20130101) B81C 1/00317 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B81C 2203/019 (20130101) B81C 2203/0109 (20130101) B81C 2203/0118 (20130101) B81C 2203/0145 (20130101)
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09771380 — Gold nanoparticles and methods of making and using gold nanoparticles

US 09771380	Hutchison et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE)
APPLICANT(S)	University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon)
INVENTOR(S)	James E. Hutchison (Eugene, Oregon); Edward W. Elliott, III (Eugene, Oregon); Zachary Kennedy (Eugene, Oregon); Patrick Haben (Eugene, Oregon)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed herein are embodiments of gold nanoparticles and methods of making and using the gold nanoparticles. The disclosed gold nanoparticles have core sizes and polydispersities controlled by the methods of making the gold nanoparticles. In some embodiments, the methods of making the gold nanoparticles can concern using flow reactors and reaction conditions controlled to make gold nanoparticles having a desired core size. The gold nanoparticles disclosed herein also comprise various ligands that can be used to facilitate the use of the gold nanoparticles in a variety of applications.
FILED	Friday, February 27, 2015
APPL NO	14/634676
ART UNIT	1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 1/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07F 5/003 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/0227 (20130101) G01N 23/201 (20130101) G01N 33/551 (20130101) G01N 33/587 (20130101) G01N 33/54346 (20130101) G01N 33/54353 (20130101)
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09771395 — Enhanced influenza hemagglutinin binders

US 09771395	Koday et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)	UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON (Seattle, Washington)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Washington (Seattle, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Merika Treants Koday (Seattle, Washington); Deborah L. Fuller (Seattle, Washington); Aaron Chevalier (Seattle, Washington); Jorgen Nelson (Seattle, Washington); David Baker (Seattle, Washington)
ABSTRACT	Designed polypeptides having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NQ: 1 are described that bind with high affinity and selectivity to the influenza hemagglutinin protein, and which can be used for treating and/or limiting an influenza infection, as well as diagnosing an influenza infection and identifying candidate compounds for treating an influenza infection.
FILED	Friday, March 20, 2015
APPL NO	15/120071
ART UNIT	1675 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0043 (20130101) A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56983 (20130101) G01N 2333/11 (20130101) G01N 2500/04 (20130101)
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09771490 — Inks for 3D printing gradient refractive index (GRIN) optical components

US 09771490	Weber et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
APPLICANT(S)	Vadient Optics, LLC. (Beaverton, Oregon)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Vadient Optics, LLC (Beaverton, Oregon)
INVENTOR(S)	Christopher D Weber (Eugene, Oregon); Charles G. Dupuy (Corvallis, Oregon); John Paul Harmon (Albany, Oregon); David M. Schut (Philomath, Oregon)
ABSTRACT	Optical inks suitable for 3D printing fabrication of gradient refractive index (GRIN) optical components are composed a monomer matrix material doped with ligand-functionalized nanoparticles, wherein the monomer has a viscosity less than 20 cPoise and is UV curable to form a solid polymer. The matrix material doped with the ligand-functionalized nanoparticles has a transmittance of at least 90% in a predetermined optical wavelength range, wherein the ligand functionalized nanoparticles have a size less than 100 nm, are loaded in the monomer matrix material at a volume percent of at least 2%, and alter an index of refraction of the monomer matrix by at least 0.02. The ligand-functionalized nanoparticles have a plurality of ligands attached to a nanoparticle core surface with an anchor functional group and terminated with a buoy functional group that are reactive, non-reactive, or combinations thereof. In some embodiments the ligands have a length less than 1.2 nm measured radially from the nanoparticle core surface.
FILED	Thursday, August 18, 2016
APPL NO	15/240263
ART UNIT	1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
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) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 11/38 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C09D 11/101 (20130101)
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09771605 — Enzyme directed oil biosynthesis in microalgae

US 09771605	Benning et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
APPLICANT(S)	Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Christoph Benning (East Lansing, Michigan); Rachel Miller (Murrells Inlet, South Carolina); Eric R. Moellering (East Lansing, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is related to biosynthetic oil compositions and methods of making thereof. In some embodiments, the invention relates to the use of endogenous enzymes in plants capable of synthesizing oil. In preferred embodiments, said plants are algae. In further embodiments, said algae are from the family Chlamydomonas, Nannochloropsis, Dunaliella, Chiarella and Scenedesmus. In still further embodiments, said endogenous enzymes are diacylglycerol acyltransferases.
FILED	Monday, June 22, 2015
APPL NO	14/746680
ART UNIT	1663 — Plants
CURRENT CPC	Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/1029 (20130101) C12N 15/79 (20130101) C12N 15/8247 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/6409 (20130101) C12P 7/6463 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Enzymes C12Y 203/0102 (20130101)
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09771669 — Use, stabilization and carbonization of polyacrylonitrile/carbon composite fibers

US 09771669	Kumar et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL)
APPLICANT(S)	Satish Kumar (Atlanta, Georgia); An-Ting Chien (Atlanta, Georgia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia)
INVENTOR(S)	Satish Kumar (Atlanta, Georgia); An-Ting Chien (Atlanta, Georgia)
ABSTRACT	In a method of making a carbon fiber, carbon nanotubes (CNT) are mixed into a solution including polyacrylonitrile (PAN) so as to form a CNT/PAN mixture. At least one PAN/CNT fiber is formed from the mixture. A first predetermined electrical current is applied to the PAN/CNT fiber until the PAN/CNT fiber is a stabilized PAN/CNT fiber. A heatable fabric that includes a plurality of fibers that each have an axis. Each of the plurality of fibers includes polyacrylonitrile and carbon nanotubes dispersed in the polyacrylonitrile in a predetermined weight percent thereof and aligned along the axes of the plurality of fibers. The plurality of fibers are woven into a fabric. A current source is configured to apply an electrical current through the plurality of fibers, thereby causing the fibers to generate heat.
FILED	Wednesday, October 08, 2014
APPL NO	14/509313
ART UNIT	3742 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
CURRENT CPC	Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 47/0014 (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 2001/00 (20130101) B29K 2033/20 (20130101) Mechanical Methods or Apparatus in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons D01D 5/06 (20130101) Chemical Features in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons; Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture of Carbon Filaments D01F 1/02 (20130101) D01F 1/10 (20130101) D01F 6/18 (20130101) D01F 6/54 (20130101) D01F 9/225 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses of Section D, Relating to Textiles D10B 2505/20 (20130101) Electric Heating; Electric Lighting Not Otherwise Provided for H05B 3/14 (20130101) H05B 3/347 (20130101) H05B 2203/017 (20130101) H05B 2214/04 (20130101)
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09771814 — Tolerance resistance coverplates

US 09771814	Spangler et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
APPLICANT(S)	United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut)
ASSIGNEE(S)	United Technologies Corporation (Farmington, Connecticut)
INVENTOR(S)	Brandon W. Spangler (Vernon, Connecticut); Ky H. Vu (East Hartford, Connecticut); Jeffrey J. DeGray (Hampden, Massachusetts); Ryan Alan Waite (South Windsor, Connecticut); Gina Cavallo (Watertown, Connecticut); Thomas P. Dziuba (Northford, Connecticut)
ABSTRACT	A gas turbine engine component assembly comprises a first component and a second component circumferentially spaced from the first component relative to an engine center axis. A first baffle is associated with the first component. A second baffle is associated with the second component. Each of the first and second baffles includes at least one radial baffle tab. A gap is between the first and second baffles to define a cooling air inlet. A first coverplate is associated with the first baffle to cover a first portion of the gap. A second coverplate is associated with the second baffle to cover a second portion of the gap. The first and second coverplates are separate from each other, and include at least one coverplate radial tab that cooperates with an associated at least one baffle radial tab to prevent leakage gaps between the first and second baffle plates and the first and second coverplates.
FILED	Monday, March 09, 2015
APPL NO	14/641470
ART UNIT	3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/02 (20130101) F01D 5/189 (20130101) F01D 9/041 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F01D 25/12 (20130101) Non-positive-displacement Pumps F04D 29/321 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2220/32 (20130101) F05D 2230/21 (20130101) F05D 2230/642 (20130101) F05D 2240/80 (20130101) F05D 2240/126 (20130101) F05D 2260/20 (20130101) F05D 2260/30 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/676 (20130101)
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09772149 — Method for improving wall heat transfer in a chemical reactor

US 09772149	Yang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)	IntraMicron, Inc. (Auburn, Alabama)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Intramicron, Inc. (Auburn, Alabama)
INVENTOR(S)	Hongyun Yang (Auburn, Alabama); Paul S. Dimick (Waverly, Alabama); Bruce J. Tatarchuk (Auburn, Alabama)
ABSTRACT	Methods for improving heat transfer at the interface between the internal reactor wall and mesh media containing microfibrous entrapped catalysts (MFECs) and/or microfibrous entrapped sorbents (MFESs) are described herein. Improved (e.g., more rapid) heat transfer can be achieved using a variety of approaches including increasing the contacting area of the interface between the mesh media and the reactor wall so that more contacting points are formed, enhancing the contacting efficiency at the contacting points between the mesh media and the reactor wall, increasing the number of contact points between the mesh media and the reactor wall using fine fibers, and combinations thereof.
FILED	Wednesday, March 13, 2013
APPL NO	14/413995
ART UNIT	1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/32 (20130101) B01J 19/2495 (20130101) B01J 35/06 (20130101) Soldering or Unsoldering; Welding; Cladding or Plating by Soldering or Welding; Cutting by Applying Heat Locally, e.g Flame Cutting; Working by Laser Beam B23K 1/0012 (20130101) B23K 31/02 (20130101) Heat-exchange Apparatus, Not Provided for in Another Subclass, in Which the Heat-exchange Media Do Not Come into Direct Contact F28D 2021/0022 (20130101) Details of Heat-exchange and Heat-transfer Apparatus, of General Application F28F 1/405 (20130101) F28F 13/00 (20130101) F28F 13/185 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F28F 2013/001 (20130101) F28F 2013/005 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49352 (20150115)
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09772175 — Phase control for dual atom interferometers

US 09772175	Black et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)	AOSense, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	AOSense, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Adam T. Black (Mountain View, California); Todd L. Gustavson (Sunnyvale, California); Brenton C. Young (Menlo Park, California)
ABSTRACT	A system for controlling a phase measurement in an atom interferometer comprising one or more lasers, a processor, and a memory. The one or more lasers are for providing interrogating beams. A first cloud of atoms and a second cloud of atoms traverse an interrogating region of the atom interferometer in substantially opposite directions. The interrogating beams interact substantially simultaneously with both atoms in the first cloud and atoms in the second cloud. The first cloud of atoms and the second cloud of atoms interact with each of the interrogating beams in a different order. The processor is configured to determine a phase adjustment offset of at least one interrogating beam based at least in part on one or more past interactions of one or more interrogating beams with either the first cloud of atoms or the second cloud of atoms.
FILED	Tuesday, February 24, 2015
APPL NO	14/629918
ART UNIT	2877 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 9/02 (20130101) G01B 9/02001 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01B 9/02041 (20130101) G01B 2290/55 (20130101) Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 19/64 (20130101)
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09772189 — Systems and methods for resonance switching resonator fiber optic gyroscopes (RFOGs) with feed-forward processing

US 09772189	Strandjord et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Honeywell International Inc. (Morris Plains, New Jersey)
INVENTOR(S)	Lee K. Strandjord (Tonka Bay, Minnesota); Glen A. Sanders (Scottsdale, Arizona); Waymon Ho (Glendale, Arizona)
ABSTRACT	Systems and methods for resonance switching RFOGs with feed-forward processing are provided. In one embodiment, a system comprises: a fiber optic resonator; first and second laser sources coupled to the resonator, wherein the first source launches a first beam into the resonator and the second source launches a second beam into the resonator in an opposite direction; a first servo loop that locks the first beam to a first resonant mode of the resonator during a first state and to a second resonant mode of the resonator during a second state; a second servo loop that locks the second beam to the second resonant mode during the first state and to the first resonant mode during the second state; a feed-forward rate processor coupled to the servo loops that calculates a FSR average across a prior resonance switching cycle of resonant frequency measurements and applies the average to current measurements.
FILED	Monday, May 11, 2015
APPL NO	14/708928
ART UNIT	2877 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 19/662 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01C 19/727 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/2934 (20130101)
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09772237 — System for identifying the magnitude and position of a load within a weight area of a beam

US 09772237	Bednarz et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
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)	Edward Bednarz (Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania); Weidong Zhu (Ellicott City, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A load can be applied to a beam and a property of the load can be calculated. In one example, a first shear gauge can be configured for positioning on a neutral axis of a beam on one side of a force that the beam is subjected to. Similarly, a second shear gauge can be configured for positioning on the neutral axis of the beam on an opposite side of the force to the first shear gauge. A calculator can be configured to identify a characteristic of the force through use of an output of the first shear gauge and through use of an output of the second shear gauge.
FILED	Wednesday, September 25, 2013
APPL NO	14/036026
ART UNIT	2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 1/04 (20130101) G01L 1/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01L 25/00 (20130101)
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09772288 — Autonomous biobuoy systems and methods

US 09772288	Lapota et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR)
APPLICANT(S)	SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific (San Diego, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	David Lapota (, None); Gregory W. Anderson (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	An autonomous biobuoy system and methods for detecting characteristics of a marine environment, the system involving: a light source comprising a blue light emitting diode; a detector assembly for detecting the at least one characteristic of the marine environment, the detector assembly having a single photodiode configured to detect stimulated bioluminescence and transmissivity in response to the light source, the detector assembly configured to generate at least one detector assembly output signal responsive to at least one detected characteristic; and a transmitter coupled with the detector assembly for transmitting the at least one detector assembly output signal.
FILED	Wednesday, December 21, 2016
APPL NO	15/386117
ART UNIT	2884 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/645 (20130101) G01N 21/6486 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2021/6482 (20130101) G01N 2201/069 (20130101) G01N 2201/0221 (20130101)
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09772402 — Multiplatform GMTI radar with adaptive clutter suppression

US 09772402	Schuman et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
APPLICANT(S)	SRC, Inc. (North Syracuse, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	SRC, INC. (North Syracuse, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Harvey K. Schuman (Fayetteville, New York); Ping G. Li (Elmhurst, New York)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is directed to a ground moving target (GMTI) radar that can detect targets, including dismounts, with very small minimum detectable velocities by combining signals from antennas on different spatially separated platforms in a main beam clutter-suppressing spatially adaptive process without requiring that the relative positions of the antenna phase centers be accurately tracked. The clutter nulling is in addition to that provided by the Doppler filters. The spatial displacement provides a narrow main beam clutter null reducing undesired target suppression. The clutter-suppressing spatially adaptive structure is used in both the sum and delta channels of the monopulse processor so that the beam distortion caused by the spatial nulling is compensated for, and the monopulse look-up process is preserved to maintain angle accuracy. Noncoherent integration is employed to recover signal to noise loss resulting from the uncertain relative locations of the platforms.
FILED	Monday, June 09, 2014
APPL NO	14/299399
ART UNIT	3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 7/288 (20130101) G01S 13/003 (20130101) G01S 13/87 (20130101) G01S 13/5244 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09772451 — High power optical switch

US 09772451	Smith et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF)
APPLICANT(S)	Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Irl W. Smith (Concord, Massachusetts); Terry A. Dorschner (Marlborough, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	An optical system capable of routing primary and secondary high power lasers through a blocking switch is described.
FILED	Thursday, May 12, 2016
APPL NO	15/152592
ART UNIT	2874 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/3016 (20130101) G02B 5/3083 (20130101) G02B 6/272 (20130101) G02B 6/3542 (20130101) G02B 6/3544 (20130101) G02B 6/3546 (20130101) G02B 6/3548 (20130101) G02B 6/3562 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/3588 (20130101) G02B 27/283 (20130101) Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/31 (20130101) G02F 1/292 (20130101) G02F 1/1393 (20130101) G02F 1/3137 (20130101) G02F 1/133385 (20130101) G02F 1/133528 (20130101) G02F 2001/13355 (20130101) G02F 2001/133302 (20130101) G02F 2201/38 (20130101) G02F 2202/10 (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 3/091 (20130101) Selecting H04Q 11/0005 (20130101) H04Q 2011/0026 (20130101) H04Q 2011/0035 (20130101)
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09772466 — Optical element switching system using a Halbach array

US 09772466	Harrell et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD)
APPLICANT(S)	Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	John P. Harrell (Mission Viejo, California); Michael L. Menendez (Corona, California); Geoffrey A. Long (Torrance, California)
ABSTRACT	Various embodiments provide a system for moving optical elements. The system includes a first rotor and a second rotor configured to rotate in opposite directions. The system further includes a first plurality of paddles coupled to the first rotor, each of the plurality of paddles having an aperture configured to receive a first optical element, and a second plurality of paddles coupled to the second rotor, each of the plurality of paddles having an aperture configured to receive a second optical element. The first rotor and the second rotor are configured to move the first optical element between a retracted position and a desired position and to move the second optical element between the desired position and a retracted position substantially simultaneously such that a reaction torque of the first rotor cancels a reaction torque of the second rotor.
FILED	Wednesday, September 03, 2014
APPL NO	14/476444
ART UNIT	2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Shafts; Flexible Shafts; Elements or Crankshaft Mechanisms; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing Elements; Bearings F16C 39/063 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 7/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 7/006 (20130101) G02B 26/00 (20130101) G02B 26/008 (20130101) Dynamo-electric Machines H02K 1/278 (20130101) H02K 7/106 (20130101) H02K 21/14 (20130101) H02K 21/029 (20130101) H02K 49/10 (20130101) H02K 49/106 (20130101)
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09772818 — Event detection system having multiple sensor systems in cooperation with an impact detection system

US 09772818	Soles et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC)
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)	Alexander M. Soles (Bloomington, Indiana); Matthew R. Walsh (Westfield, Indiana); Eric B. Scott (Heltonville, Indiana)
ABSTRACT	A damage detection and remediation system includes a sensing device for detecting damage events related to a structure of interest. Such damage events may include impact from a ballistic object, a tamper event, a physical impact, or other events that may affect structural integrity or cause failure. Illustratively, the sensing device is in communication with a measurement system to determine damage criteria, and a processing system which is configured to use the damage criteria to determine, for example, a direction of the initiation point of a ballistic causing the damage event.
FILED	Monday, March 31, 2014
APPL NO	14/230230
ART UNIT	2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Functional Features or Details Common to Both Smallarms and Ordnance, e.g Cannons; Mountings for Smallarms or Ordnance F41A 23/56 (20130101) Armour; Armoured Turrets; Armoured or Armed Vehicles; Means of Attack or Defence, e.g Camouflage, in General F41H 5/007 (20130101) F41H 5/24 (20130101) F41H 7/02 (20130101) Targets; Target Ranges; Bullet Catchers F41J 5/04 (20130101) F41J 5/041 (20130101) Testing Static or Dynamic Balance of Machines or Structures; Testing of Structures or Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G01M 5/0033 (20130101) G01M 5/0066 (20130101) G01M 5/0091 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/20 (20130101) G01N 29/04 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 7/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0004 (20130101) Time or Attendance Registers; Registering or Indicating the Working of Machines; Generating Random Numbers; Voting or Lottery Apparatus; Arrangements, Systems or Apparatus for Checking Not Provided for Elsewhere G07C 5/00 (20130101) Signalling or Calling Systems; Order Telegraphs; Alarm Systems G08B 13/126 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 7/18 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 13/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49117 (20150115)
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09772903 — Resilient register file circuit for dynamic variation tolerance and method of operating the same

US 09772903	Kulkarni et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	INTEL CORPORATION (Santa Clara, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	INTEL CORPORATION (Santa Clara, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Jaydeep P. Kulkarni (Portland, Oregon); Keith A. Bowman (Hillsboro, Oregon); James W. Tschanz (Portland, Oregon); Vivek K. De (Beaverton, Oregon)
ABSTRACT	The disclosed system and method detect and correct register file read path errors that may occur as a result of reducing or eliminating supply voltage guardbands and/or frequency guardbands for a CPU, thereby increasing overall energy efficiency of the system.
FILED	Monday, March 28, 2016
APPL NO	15/083122
ART UNIT	2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/3861 (20130101) G06F 9/30141 (20130101) G06F 11/0751 (20130101) G06F 11/1008 (20130101) G06F 11/1068 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Static Stores G11C 7/18 (20130101) G11C 29/42 (20130101) G11C 29/52 (20130101)
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09772984 — Visualization interface for information object system

US 09772984	Pak
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)	Systemic Management Science Corporation (Charlottesville, Virginia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Systemic Management Science Corporation (Charlottesville, Virginia)
INVENTOR(S)	Jae W. Pak (Charlottesville, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed are various embodiments for presenting an interface for visualizing information objects. A user interface is generated on a client computing device. Then a collaboration server may be queried for an information object to be rendered within the user interface on behalf of a user in response to a request to render the information object. Subsequently, form data may be retrieved from the information object received from the collaboration server. Then the information object may be rendered within the user interface based at least in part on the form data of the information object.
FILED	Thursday, March 13, 2014
APPL NO	14/208346
ART UNIT	2171 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/0482 (20130101) G06F 3/04883 (20130101) G06F 9/4443 (20130101) G06F 17/2288 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 17/30994 (20130101) G06F 17/30997 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 67/1097 (20130101)
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09773088 — Method of modeling the temperature profile of an IC transistor junction

US 09773088	Chen
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	TELEDYNE SCIENTIFIC and IMAGING, LLC (Thousand Oaks, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	TELEDYNE SCIENTIFIC and IMAGING, LLC (Thousand Oaks, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Bing-Chung Chen (Newbury Park, California)
ABSTRACT	A method of modeling the temperature profile of an IC transistor junction employs an efficient thermal simulation algorithm to implement a design tool for IC design applications. The junction area of a transistor is divided into an odd number of sub-sections of equal size. Each sub-section is modeled as an equivalent circular heat source having an area equal to that of a sub-section. Temperature profiles are determined for each of the equivalent circular heat sources, which are superimposed to provide a total thermal profile for the junction. The method is preferably employed with rectangular-shaped junction areas, and performed with a software-controlled microprocessor. The method may be integrated with an electronic circuit simulation program such as SPICE. The results of the modeling may be used to iteratively modify the component layout on an IC to improve its temperature performance and/or its component density.
FILED	Tuesday, November 17, 2015
APPL NO	14/943832
ART UNIT	2851 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/5036 (20130101) G06F 17/5081 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 2217/80 (20130101)
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09773183 — Morphological automatic Landolt C orientation detection

US 09773183	Pinkus et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF)
APPLICANT(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Alan R Pinkus (Bellbrook, Ohio); David W Dommett (Beavercreek, Ohio); Harry Lee Task (Tucson, Arizona)
ABSTRACT	A method and apparatus are provided for automatically assessing a resolution of an optical sensor. An image is obtained from the sensor. The obtained image is thresholded to generate a binary image of black and white pixels using a first threshold value. A target area is selected from the binary image. The first threshold value is increased to generate a second threshold value. The target is thresholded using the second threshold value. At least one pixel is tagged at a center of the target area. Pixels surrounding a tagged pixel are processed, tagging white pixels. If a tagged pixel is at an edge of the target area, an orientation of an object in the target area is determined based on that edge. And, if no pixel is tagged at the edge of the target area, the second threshold value is decreased and the thresholding, tagging, and processing steps are repeated.
FILED	Thursday, May 05, 2016
APPL NO	15/147175
ART UNIT	2422 — Cable and Television
CURRENT CPC	Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/38 (20130101) G06K 9/40 (20130101) G06K 9/52 (20130101) G06K 9/209 (20130101) G06K 9/342 (20130101) G06K 9/2081 (20130101) G06K 9/3208 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/3241 (20130101) G06K 9/4604 (20130101) G06K 9/4652 (20130101) G06K 9/6201 (20130101) G06K 2009/4666 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/60 (20130101) G06T 2207/20021 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 17/002 (20130101)
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09773621 — High surface area nano fibers for supercapacitor devices

US 09773621	Lai et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
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)	William W. Lai (Ridgecrest, California); Alfred J. Baca (China Lake, California); John D. Stenger-Smith (China Lake, California); Heather Meylemans (China Lake, California)
ABSTRACT	An apparatus and method for the uniform dispersion of nano scaled redox particles in a conductive fiber including, combining at least one nano sized redox capable material having metal oxides and/or metals, at least one conductive binder, and at least one solvent to form electrically conductive metal imbedded fiber(s) by fiber spinning and the conductive polymeric binder having a molecular weight greater than 20,000 Daltons, and coating a substrate with the electrically conductive fiber(s) to form an active layer substrate complex having a conductivity greater than 0.05 S/cm.
FILED	Tuesday, January 24, 2017
APPL NO	15/413830
ART UNIT	1729 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 11/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01G 11/46 (20130101) H01G 11/60 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/48 (20130101) H01M 4/70 (20130101)
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09773666 — Plasma-assisted atomic layer epitaxy of cubic and hexagonal InN and its alloys with AIN at low temperatures

US 09773666	Nepal et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Neeraj Nepal (Woodbridge, Virginia); Charles R. Eddy, Jr. (Columbia, Maryland); Nadeemmullah A. Mahadik (Springfield, Virginia); Syed B Qadri (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Michael J. Mehl (Davidsonville, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Neeraj Nepal (Woodbridge, Virginia); Charles R. Eddy, Jr. (Columbia, Maryland); Nadeemmullah A. Mahadik (Springfield, Virginia); Syed B Qadri (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Michael J. Mehl (Davidsonville, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	Described herein is a method for growing indium nitride (InN) materials by growing hexagonal and/or cubic InN using a pulsed growth method at a temperature lower than 300° C. Also described is a material comprising InN in a face-centered cubic lattice crystalline structure having an NaCl type phase.
FILED	Thursday, June 13, 2013
APPL NO	13/916724
ART UNIT	1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
CURRENT CPC	Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 25/02 (20130101) C30B 25/205 (20130101) C30B 29/38 (20130101) C30B 29/40 (20130101) C30B 29/403 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0242 (20130101) H01L 21/0254 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/0262 (20130101) H01L 21/02381 (20130101) H01L 21/02433 (20130101) H01L 21/02458 (20130101) H01L 21/02661 (20130101) H01L 29/2003 (20130101)
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09774182 — Intelligent solid-state integrated crowbar/circuit breaker

US 09774182	Phillips
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR)
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 Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	David Burns Phillips (La Mesa, California)
ABSTRACT	An apparatus comprising: a solid-state series switch positioned between a transmitter's high-voltage, direct current (DC) bus and a high-voltage DC power source, wherein the series switch is configured to establish an open circuit between the transmitter and the power source upon receiving a first trip signal; a solid-state shunt switch operatively coupled in shunt between the transmitter high voltage DC bus and a ground, wherein the shunt switch is configured to provide a short-circuit path from the transmitter to ground upon receiving a second trip signal; and a controller electrically coupled to the series and shunt switches, wherein the controller is configured to generate the first and second trip signals in the event that the controller receives a trouble signal from the transmitter, and wherein the first trip signal is sent to the series switch before the second trip signal is sent to the shunt switch.
FILED	Tuesday, June 09, 2015
APPL NO	14/734557
ART UNIT	2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements H02H 3/202 (20130101) H02H 9/041 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09774946 — Wireless earplug with improved sensitivity and form factor

US 09774946	Parkins
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)	Red Tail Hawk Corporation (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Red Tail Hawk Corporation (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	John W. Parkins (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	An improved wireless communications earplug for use with a magnetic field transmitter. The wireless earplug has a receiver made of a coil of wire on a magnetic bobbin, mounted in close proximity or in contact with a magnetic case of a speaker. The magnetic case of the speaker serves to increase the magnetic flux through the receiver and improves the efficiency of the earplug. The speaker is acoustically coupled to an eartip, and the earplug may be molded into a custom earplug body.
FILED	Wednesday, October 26, 2016
APPL NO	15/334497
ART UNIT	2654 — Audio Signals
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 11/08 (20130101) A61F 11/14 (20130101) Telephonic Communication H04M 1/05 (20130101) H04M 1/215 (20130101) H04M 1/6066 (20130101) Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups or Like Acoustic Electromechanical Transducers; Deaf-aid Sets; Public Address Systems H04R 1/1016 (20130101) H04R 1/1041 (20130101) H04R 1/1075 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04R 1/1091 (20130101) H04R 3/08 (20130101) H04R 2209/041 (20130101) H04R 2420/07 (20130101)
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09775196 — Self-heating concrete using carbon nanofiber paper

US 09775196	Song et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Department of Education (ED) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI)
APPLICANT(S)	Gangbing Song (Pearland, Texas); Christiana Chang (Houston, Texas); Yi Lung Mo (Pearland, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON (Houston, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Gangbing Song (Pearland, Texas); Christiana Chang (Houston, Texas); Yi Lung Mo (Pearland, Texas)
ABSTRACT	Electric, self-heating concrete systems that uses embedded carbon macrofiber or nanofibers paper as electric resistance heating elements are disclose. The self-heating concrete systems may utilize the conductive properties of carbon macrofiber or nanofiber materials to heat a surface overlay of concrete with various admixtures to improve the concrete's thermal conductivity. The self-heating concrete systems allow concrete roadways or the like to be heated to above freezing temperatures in a freezing environment in a reasonable amount of time.
FILED	Wednesday, July 20, 2011
APPL NO	13/186770
ART UNIT	3742 — Audio Signals
CURRENT CPC	Electric Heating; Electric Lighting Not Otherwise Provided for H05B 3/0004 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05B 3/283 (20130101) H05B 2214/02 (20130101)
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Department of Energy (DOE)

09770673 — Apparatus for diffusion-gap thermal desalination

US 09770673	Lowenstein
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Andrew Lowenstein (Hopewell, New Jersey)
ASSIGNEE(S)	AIL RESEARCH INC. (Hopewell, New Jersey)
INVENTOR(S)	Andrew Lowenstein (Hopewell, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	A thermal distillation apparatus including evaporation surfaces that are wetted with a solution, and from which at least some of the volatile solvent contained in the solution evaporates, condensers having an external surface in close proximity to, but not touching, a corresponding one of the one or more evaporation surfaces, and on which vapors of the solvent condense, releasing thermal energy that heats a flow of the solution moving upward within the condensers, spacers that prevent contact between the evaporating surfaces and the condensers, wherein spaces between the evaporating surfaces and the condensers are filled with a gaseous mixture composed of solvent vapor and one or more non-condensable gases, and except for diffusion of the solvent vapor relative to the non-condensable gases, the gaseous mixture is stationary.
FILED	Friday, June 08, 2012
APPL NO	14/125062
ART UNIT	1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Separation B01D 1/08 (20130101) B01D 1/221 (20130101) B01D 3/007 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 5/006 (20130101) B01D 5/0015 (20130101) Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/08 (20130101)
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09770780 — Pulse joining cartridges

US 09770780	Golovashchenko et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
APPLICANT(S)	Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Dearborn, Michigan)
ASSIGNEE(S)	FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC (Dearborn, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Sergey Fedorovich Golovashchenko (Beverly Hills, Michigan); John Joseph Francis Bonnen (Milford, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	A pulsed joining tool includes a tool body that defines a cavity that receives an inner tubular member and an outer tubular member and a pulse joining cartridge. The tubular members are nested together with the cartridge being disposed around the outer tubular member. The cartridge includes a conductor, such as a wire or foil, that extends around the outer tubular member and is insulated to separate a supply segment from a return segment. A source of stored electrical energy is discharged through the conductor to join the tubular members with an electromagnetic force pulse.
FILED	Wednesday, June 01, 2016
APPL NO	15/170056
ART UNIT	1735 — 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 20/002 (20130101) B23K 20/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B23K 20/22 (20130101) B23K 2201/06 (20130101) B23K 2203/08 (20130101) B23K 2203/10 (20130101) B23K 2203/15 (20151001) B23K 2203/18 (20130101) B23K 2203/20 (20130101) B23K 2203/172 (20151001)
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09770991 — Systems and methods for initializing a charging system

US 09770991	Perisic et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit, Michigan)
ASSIGNEE(S)	GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Milun Perisic (Cypress, California); Ray M. Ransonm (Big Bear City, California); Lateef A. Kojouke (San Pedro, California)
ABSTRACT	Systems and methods are provided for charging a battery. The system, for example, includes, but is not limited to a first interface configured to receive a voltage from an AC voltage source, a matrix conversion module comprising a plurality of switches electrically connected to the first interface and configured to provide a charging voltage to the battery, and a controller communicatively connected to the matrix conversion module, wherein the controller is configured to: determine a voltage of the battery, determine an angle of the AC voltage source to initiate charging of the battery based upon the voltage of the battery, and control the plurality of switches to provide the charging voltage to the battery between the determined angle of the AC voltage source and a subsequent zero-crossing of the AC voltage source.
FILED	Friday, May 31, 2013
APPL NO	13/907703
ART UNIT	2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Propulsion of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Supplying Electric Power for Auxiliary Equipment of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Electrodynamic Brake Systems for Vehicles in General; Magnetic Suspension or Levitation for Vehicles; Monitoring Operating Variables of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Electric Safety Devices for Electrically-propelled Vehicles B60L 11/005 (20130101) B60L 11/1803 (20130101) B60L 11/1816 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B60L 11/1887 (20130101) B60L 15/007 (20130101) B60L 2210/12 (20130101) B60L 2210/14 (20130101) B60L 2210/30 (20130101) B60L 2210/42 (20130101) B60L 2210/44 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/645 (20130101) Y02T 10/7022 (20130101) Y02T 10/7072 (20130101) Y02T 10/7225 (20130101) Y02T 10/7233 (20130101) Y02T 10/7241 (20130101) Y02T 90/14 (20130101) Y02T 90/16 (20130101) Y02T 90/34 (20130101) Y02T 90/127 (20130101)
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09771388 — Metal complexes

US 09771388	Job et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM)
APPLICANT(S)	Novomer, Inc. (Ithaca, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Saudi Aramco Technologies Company (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia)
INVENTOR(S)	Gabriel Job (Ithaca, New York); Scott D. Allen (Ithaca, New York); Christopher Simoneau (Ithaca, New York); Ronald Valente (Ithaca, New York); Jay J. Farmer (Ithaca, New York)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides novel metal complexes, methods of making, and methods of using the same.
FILED	Thursday, August 22, 2013
APPL NO	14/422780
ART UNIT	1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 31/2217 (20130101) B01J 2231/14 (20130101) B01J 2531/845 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 15/065 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 64/0208 (20130101)
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09771533 — Systems and processes for conversion of ethylene feedstocks to hydrocarbon fuels

US 09771533	Lilga et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Battelle Memorial Institute (BMI) at Richland, WA
APPLICANT(S)	BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Richland, Washington)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael A. Lilga (Richland, Washington); Richard T. Hallen (Richland, Washington); Karl O. Albrecht (Richland, Washington); Alan R. Cooper (Richland, Washington); John G. Frye (Richland, Washington); Karthikeyan Kallupalayam Ramasamy (West Richland, Washington)
ABSTRACT	Systems, processes, and catalysts are disclosed for obtaining fuels and fuel blends containing selected ratios of open-chain and closed-chain fuel-range hydrocarbons suitable for production of alternate fuels including gasolines, jet fuels, and diesel fuels. Fuel-range hydrocarbons may be derived from ethylene-containing feedstocks and ethanol-containing feedstocks.
FILED	Thursday, October 30, 2014
APPL NO	14/528185
ART UNIT	1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 2/12 (20130101) C07C 2/24 (20130101) C07C 2/66 (20130101) C07C 5/03 (20130101) C07C 2521/04 (20130101) C07C 2521/12 (20130101) C07C 2523/42 (20130101) C07C 2523/755 (20130101) C07C 2529/06 (20130101) C07C 2529/40 (20130101) C07C 2529/70 (20130101) C07C 2529/76 (20130101) Cracking Hydrocarbon Oils; Production of Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g by Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation; Recovery of Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, or Gases; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting of Hydrocarbons; Reforming of Naphtha; Mineral Waxes C10G 3/00 (20130101) C10G 29/205 (20130101) C10G 45/00 (20130101) C10G 50/00 (20130101) C10G 69/123 (20130101) C10G 69/126 (20130101) C10G 2300/1081 (20130101) C10G 2300/1092 (20130101) C10G 2300/1096 (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) Original (OR) Class C10L 2200/0469 (20130101) C10L 2270/02 (20130101) C10L 2270/04 (20130101) C10L 2290/24 (20130101) C10L 2290/543 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 30/42 (20151101)
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09771568 — Polypeptides having beta-glucosidase activity and polynucleotides encoding same

US 09771568	Liu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Novozymes Inc. (Davis, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Ye Liu (Beijing, China PRC); Junxin Duan (Beijing, China PRC); Yu Zhang (Beijing, China PRC); Lan Tang (Beijing, China PRC)
ABSTRACT	Provided are isolated polypeptides having beta-glucosidase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. Also provided are nucleic acid constructs, vectors and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
FILED	Wednesday, December 19, 2012
APPL NO	14/358865
ART UNIT	1663 — Plants
CURRENT CPC	Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/2445 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/1137 (20130101) C12N 15/8246 (20130101) C12N 15/8257 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/02 (20130101) C12P 19/14 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 302/01021 (20130101)
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09771569 — Polypeptides having xylanase activity and polynucleotides encoding same

US 09771569	Lopez de Leon et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (ASE) at Golden, CO
APPLICANT(S)	Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark)
ASSIGNEE(S)	NOVOZYMES A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark)
INVENTOR(S)	Alfredo Lopez de Leon (Davis, California); Michael Rey (Davis, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having xylanase 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	Wednesday, May 04, 2016
APPL NO	15/146162
ART UNIT	1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/248 (20130101) C12N 9/2402 (20130101) C12N 9/2482 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/8245 (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 19/02 (20130101) C12P 19/14 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 302/01008 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/52 (20151101)
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09771656 — Superhydrophobic films and methods for making superhydrophobic films

US 09771656	Aytug et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by UT-Battelle, LLC (UTB) at Oak Ridge, TN
APPLICANT(S)	Tolga Aytug (Knoxville, Tennessee); Mariappan Parans Paranthaman (Knoxville, Tennessee); John T. Simpson (Clinton, Tennessee); Daniela Florentina Bogorin (Knoxville, Tennessee)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
INVENTOR(S)	Tolga Aytug (Knoxville, Tennessee); Mariappan Parans Paranthaman (Knoxville, Tennessee); John T. Simpson (Clinton, Tennessee); Daniela Florentina Bogorin (Knoxville, Tennessee)
ABSTRACT	This disclosure relates to methods that include depositing a first component and a second component to form a film including a plurality of nanostructures, and coating the nanostructures with a hydrophobic layer to render the film superhydrophobic. The first component and the second component can be immiscible and phase-separated during the depositing step. The first component and the second component can be independently selected from the group consisting of a metal oxide, a metal nitride, a metal oxynitride, a metal, and combinations thereof. The films can have a thickness greater than or equal to 5 nm; an average surface roughness (Ra) of from 90 to 120 nm, as measured on a 5 μm×5 μm area; a surface area of at least 20 m²/g; a contact angle with a drop of water of at least 120 degrees; and can maintain the contact angle when exposed to harsh conditions.
FILED	Tuesday, August 28, 2012
APPL NO	13/596792
ART UNIT	1756 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 33/00 (20130101) B32B 2307/73 (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 14/08 (20130101) C23C 30/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/25 (20150115) Y10T 428/24355 (20150115) Y10T 428/24364 (20150115)
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09771666 — Defect reduction in seeded aluminum nitride crystal growth

US 09771666	Bondokov et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Commerce (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Crystal IS, Inc. (Green Island, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	CRYSTAL IS, INC. (Green Island, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert T. Bondokov (Watervliet, New York); Leo J. Schowalter (Latham, New York); Kenneth Morgan (Castleton, New York); Glen A. Slack (Scotia, New York); Shailaja P. Rao (Albany, New York); Shawn Robert Gibb (Clifton Park, New York)
ABSTRACT	Bulk single crystal of aluminum nitride (AlN) having an areal planar defect density≦100 cm⁻². Methods for growing single crystal aluminum nitride include melting an aluminum foil to uniformly wet a foundation with a layer of aluminum, the foundation forming a portion of an AlN seed holder, for an AlN seed to be used for the AlN growth. The holder may consist essentially of a substantially impervious backing plate.
FILED	Monday, April 13, 2015
APPL NO	14/684754
ART UNIT	1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
CURRENT CPC	Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 23/00 (20130101) C30B 23/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C30B 29/403 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2982 (20150115)
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09771802 — Thermal shields for gas turbine rotor

US 09771802	Ross et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida)
ASSIGNEE(S)	SIEMENS ENERGY, INC. (Orlando, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Christopher W. Ross (Oviedo, Florida); Bulent Acar (Ankara, Turkey)
ABSTRACT	A turbomachine including a rotor having an axis and a plurality of disks positioned adjacent to each other in the axial direction, each disk including opposing axially facing surfaces and a circumferentially extending radially facing surface located between the axially facing surfaces. At least one row of blades is positioned on each of the disks, and the blades include an airfoil extending radially outward from the disk A non-segmented circumferentially continuous ring structure includes an outer rim defining a thermal barrier extending axially in overlapping relation over a portion of the radially facing surface of at least one disk, and extending to a location adjacent to a blade on the disk A compliant element is located between a radially inner circumferential portion of the ring structure and a flange structure that extends axially from an axially facing surface of the disk.
FILED	Tuesday, February 25, 2014
APPL NO	14/189147
ART UNIT	3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units
CURRENT CPC	Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/06 (20130101) F01D 5/082 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F01D 5/085 (20130101) F01D 11/006 (20130101) F01D 25/12 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2240/24 (20130101) F05D 2250/75 (20130101)
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09771811 — Continuous fiber reinforced mesh bond coat for environmental barrier coating system

US 09771811	Zhang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	James Zhang (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Rupak Das (Greenville, South Carolina); Herbert Chidsey Roberts, III (Simpsonville, South Carolina); John McConnell Delvaux (Fountain Inn, South Carolina)
ASSIGNEE(S)	General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	James Zhang (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Rupak Das (Greenville, South Carolina); Herbert Chidsey Roberts, III (Simpsonville, South Carolina); John McConnell Delvaux (Fountain Inn, South Carolina)
ABSTRACT	A gas turbine blade may have a bond coat applied to its surface. A porous substrate may be applied to the bond layer and one or more protective layers may be applied to the bond layer such that the fiber mesh is embedded between the bond layer and the protective layer to prevent creep.
FILED	Wednesday, January 11, 2012
APPL NO	13/348212
ART UNIT	1786 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material
CURRENT CPC	Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 14/46 (20130101) C04B 35/80 (20130101) C04B 41/009 (20130101) C04B 41/009 (20130101) C04B 41/52 (20130101) C04B 41/52 (20130101) C04B 41/52 (20130101) C04B 41/52 (20130101) C04B 41/89 (20130101) C04B 41/4501 (20130101) C04B 41/5024 (20130101) C04B 41/5096 (20130101) Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/288 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2230/90 (20130101) F05D 2300/20 (20130101) F05D 2300/614 (20130101) F05D 2300/6034 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/672 (20130101)
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09771813 — Converging flow joint insert system at an intersection between adjacent transitions extending between a combustor and a turbine assembly in a gas turbine engine

US 09771813	Brooks
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida)
ASSIGNEE(S)	SIEMENS ENERGY, INC. (Orlando, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert T. Brooks (Chuluota, Florida)
ABSTRACT	A transition duct system (100) for routing a gas flow from a combustor (102) to the first stage (104) of a turbine section (106) in a combustion turbine engine (108), wherein the transition duct system (100) includes one or more converging flow joint inserts (120) forming a trailing edge (122) at an intersection (124) between adjacent transition ducts (126, 128) is disclosed. The transition duct system (100) may include a transition duct (126, 128) having an internal passage (130) extending between an inlet (132, 184) to an outlet (134, 186) and may expel gases into the first stage turbine (104) with a tangential component. The converging flow joint insert (120) may be contained within a converging flow joint insert receiver (136) and disconnected from the transition duct bodies (126, 128) by which the converging flow joint insert (120) is positioned. Being disconnected eliminates stress formation within the converging flow joint insert (120), thereby enhancing the life of the insert. The converging flow joint insert (120) may be removable such that the insert (120) can be replaced once worn beyond design limits.
FILED	Thursday, June 26, 2014
APPL NO	15/318781
ART UNIT	3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 9/023 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 3/14 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2250/25 (20130101) F05D 2250/37 (20130101) F05D 2250/38 (20130101) Generating Combustion Products of High Pressure or High Velocity, e.g Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers F23R 3/60 (20130101) F23R 3/425 (20130101)
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09771821 — Turbine interstage seal with self-balancing capability

US 09771821	Mills et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC)
APPLICANT(S)	Jacob A Mills (Jupiter, Florida); Russell B Jones (North Palm Beach, Florida); Thomas D Sexton (Tequesta, Florida)
ASSIGNEE(S)	FLORIDA TURBINE TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Jupiter, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Jacob A Mills (Jupiter, Florida); Russell B Jones (North Palm Beach, Florida); Thomas D Sexton (Tequesta, Florida)
ABSTRACT	An interstage seal for a turbine of a gas turbine engine, the interstage seal having a seal carrier with an axial extending seal tooth movable with a stator of the engine, and a rotor with a seal surface that forms the interstage seal with the seal tooth, where a magnetic force produced by two magnets and a gas force produced by a gas pressure acting on the seal carrier forms a balancing force to maintain a close clearance of the seal without the seal tooth contacting the rotor seal surfaces during engine operation. In other embodiments, two pairs of magnets produce first and second magnetic forces that balance the seal in the engine.
FILED	Monday, June 15, 2015
APPL NO	14/739536
ART UNIT	3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing
CURRENT CPC	Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 1/02 (20130101) F01D 11/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09772423 — Method of imaging the electrical conductivity distribution of a subsurface

US 09772423	Johnson
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Battelle Memorial Institute (BMI) at Richland, WA
APPLICANT(S)	Timothy C. Johnson (Richland, Washington)
ASSIGNEE(S)	BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Richland, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Timothy C. Johnson (Richland, Washington)
ABSTRACT	A method of imaging electrical conductivity distribution of a subsurface containing metallic structures with known locations and dimensions is disclosed. Current is injected into the subsurface to measure electrical potentials using multiple sets of electrodes, thus generating electrical resistivity tomography measurements. A numeric code is applied to simulate the measured potentials in the presence of the metallic structures. An inversion code is applied that utilizes the electrical resistivity tomography measurements and the simulated measured potentials to image the subsurface electrical conductivity distribution and remove effects of the subsurface metallic structures with known locations and dimensions.
FILED	Wednesday, July 30, 2014
APPL NO	14/447443
ART UNIT	2852 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Earth Drilling, e.g Deep Drilling; Obtaining Oil, Gas, Water, Soluble or Meltable Materials or a Slurry of Minerals From Wells E21B 47/00 (20130101) Geophysics; Gravitational Measurements; Detecting Masses or Objects; Tags G01V 3/02 (20130101) G01V 3/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09772824 — Program structure-based blocking

US 09772824	Bertolli et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Carlo Bertolli (Dobbs Ferry, New York); Alexandre E. Eichenberger (Chappaqua, New York); John K. O'Brien (South Salem, New York); Zehra N. Sura (Yorktown Heights, New York)
ABSTRACT	Embodiments relate to program structure-based blocking. An aspect includes receiving source code corresponding to a computer program by a compiler of a computer system. Another aspect includes determining a prefetching section in the source code by a marking module of the compiler. Yet another aspect includes performing, by a blocking module of the compiler, blocking of instructions located in the prefetching section into instruction blocks, such that the instruction blocks of the prefetching section only contain instructions that are located in the prefetching section.
FILED	Wednesday, March 25, 2015
APPL NO	14/668108
ART UNIT	2192 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 8/41 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 8/443 (20130101) G06F 9/30 (20130101) G06F 12/0875 (20130101) G06F 2212/452 (20130101)
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09772825 — Program structure-based blocking

US 09772825	Bertolli et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Carlo Bertolli (Dobbs Ferry, New York); Alexandre E. Eichenberger (Chappaqua, New York); John K. O'Brien (South Salem, New York); Zehra N. Sura (Yorktown Heights, New York)
ABSTRACT	Embodiments relate to program structure-based blocking. An aspect includes receiving source code corresponding to a computer program by a compiler of a computer system. Another aspect includes determining a prefetching section in the source code by a marking module of the compiler. Yet another aspect includes performing, by a blocking module of the compiler, blocking of instructions located in the prefetching section into instruction blocks, such that the instruction blocks of the prefetching section only contain instructions that are located in the prefetching section.
FILED	Wednesday, June 17, 2015
APPL NO	14/741995
ART UNIT	2192 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 8/41 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 8/443 (20130101) G06F 9/30 (20130101) G06F 12/0875 (20130101) G06F 2212/452 (20130101)
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09773363 — Transient asset management systems and methods

US 09773363	Robinson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (Pullman, Washington)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (Pullman, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Kylan T. Robinson (Colton, Washington); Rhett Smith (Kuna, Idaho); George W. Masters (Moscow, Idaho); Ryan Bradetich (Pullman, Washington)
ABSTRACT	Systems and methods are disclosed that provide for managing transient assets used in connection with an access-controlled area of a distribution site of an electric power delivery system. In some embodiments, one or more users entering and access-controlled area may be identified via physical access control credentials provided to an associated access control system. Transient assets brought within an access-controlled area may be detected via one or more wired and/or wireless communication channels and may be associated with the one or more identified users located within the access-controlled area.
FILED	Tuesday, August 11, 2015
APPL NO	14/823189
ART UNIT	2688 — Dynamic Storage Systems; Mechanical parts of Disk Drives
CURRENT CPC	Time or Attendance Registers; Registering or Indicating the Working of Machines; Generating Random Numbers; Voting or Lottery Apparatus; Arrangements, Systems or Apparatus for Checking Not Provided for Elsewhere G07C 9/0069 (20130101) G07C 9/00134 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G07C 9/00174 (20130101) G07C 9/00571 (20130101) G07C 9/00896 (20130101) G07C 2209/04 (20130101)
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09773531 — Accessing memory

US 09773531	Yoon et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC)
APPLICANT(S)	Doe Hyun Yoon (San Jose, California); Naveen Muralimanohar (Santa Clara, California); Jichuan Chang (Sunnyvale, California); Parthasarathy Ranganthan (San Jose, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Houston, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Doe Hyun Yoon (San Jose, California); Naveen Muralimanohar (Santa Clara, California); Jichuan Chang (Sunnyvale, California); Parthasarathy Ranganthan (San Jose, California)
ABSTRACT	A disclosed example method involves performing simultaneous data accesses on at least first and second independently selectable logical sub-ranks to access first data via a wide internal data bus in a memory device. The memory device includes a translation buffer chip, memory chips in independently selectable logical sub-ranks, a narrow external data bus to connect the translation buffer chip to a memory controller, and the wide internal data bus between the translation buffer chip and the memory chips. A data access is performed on only the first independently selectable logical sub-rank to access second data via the wide internal data bus. The example method also involves locating a first portion of the first data, a second portion of the first data, and the second data on the narrow external data bus during separate data transfers.
FILED	Friday, June 08, 2012
APPL NO	14/405904
ART UNIT	2135 — Memory Access and Control
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 13/1663 (20130101) Static Stores G11C 5/04 (20130101) G11C 7/1072 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G11C 2207/108 (20130101) G11C 2207/2209 (20130101) G11C 2207/2281 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 60/1228 (20130101)
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09773540 — Skyrmion based universal memory operated by electric current

US 09773540	Zang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Jiadong Zang (New Market, New Hampshire); Chia-Ling Chien (Cockeysville, Maryland); Yufan Li (Baltimore, Maryland); Roger K. Lake (Riverside, California); Gen Yin (Riverside, California)
ABSTRACT	A method for generating a skyrmion, comprising: depositing a vertical metallic nanopillar electrode on a first side of a helimagnetic thin film, the helimagnetic thin film having a contact on a second side to provide a current drain; injecting a current through the vertical metallic nanopillar electrode to generate a rotating field; and applying a static upward magnetic field perpendicular to the helimagnetic thin film to maintain an FM phase background.
FILED	Monday, July 18, 2016
APPL NO	15/213019
ART UNIT	2824 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Static Stores G11C 11/161 (20130101) G11C 11/1673 (20130101) G11C 11/1675 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G11C 19/08 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/222 (20130101) H01L 43/00 (20130101) H01L 43/08 (20130101) H01L 43/10 (20130101) H01L 43/12 (20130101)
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09773574 — Systems and methods for enhancing isolation of high-temperature reactor containments

US 09773574	Peterson
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE) Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (BEA) at Idaho Falls, ID
APPLICANT(S)	THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Per F. Peterson (Berkeley, California)
ABSTRACT	A high-temperature containment-isolation system for transferring heat from a nuclear reactor containment to a high-pressure heat exchanger is presented. The system uses a high-temperature, low-volatility liquid coolant such as a molten salt or a liquid metal, where the coolant flow path provides liquid free surfaces a short distance from the containment penetrations for the reactor hot-leg and the cold-leg, where these liquid free surfaces have a cover gas maintained at a nearly constant pressure and thus prevent high-pressures from being transmitted into the reactor containment, and where the reactor vessel is suspended within a reactor cavity with a plurality of refractory insulator blocks disposed between an actively cooled inner cavity liner and the reactor vessel.
FILED	Tuesday, November 04, 2014
APPL NO	14/533055
ART UNIT	3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Nuclear Reactors G21C 11/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G21C 13/02 (20130101) G21C 13/10 (20130101) G21C 15/12 (20130101) G21C 15/18 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 30/35 (20130101)
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09773575 — Passive filtration of air egressing from nuclear containment

US 09773575	Malloy, III
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE)
APPLICANT(S)	Babcock and Wilcox mPower, Inc. (Charlotte, North Carolina)
ASSIGNEE(S)	BWXT MPower, Inc. (Charlotte, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	John D Malloy, III (Goode, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	A nuclear reactor includes a reactor core comprising fissile material disposed in a reactor pressure vessel. A radiological containment contains the nuclear reactor. A containment compartment contains the radiological containment. A heat sink includes a chimney configured to develop an upward-flowing draft in response to heated fluid flowing into a lower portion of the chimney. A fluid conduit is arranged to receive fluid from the containment compartment and to discharge into the chimney. A filter may be provided, with the fluid conduit including a first fluid conduit arranged to receive fluid from the containment compartment and to discharge into an inlet of the filter, and a second fluid conduit arranged to receive fluid from an outlet of the filter and to discharge into the chimney. As the draft is developed passively, there is no need for a blower or pump configured to move fluid through the fluid conduit.
FILED	Monday, June 09, 2014
APPL NO	14/299156
ART UNIT	3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Nuclear Reactors G21C 13/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G21C 15/12 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 30/40 (20130101)
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09773594 — Non-rare earth magnetic nanoparticles

US 09773594	Carpenter et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
APPLICANT(S)	Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, Virginia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY (Richmond, Virginia)
INVENTOR(S)	Everett E. Carpenter (Richmond, Virginia); Zachary J. Huba (Glen Allen, Virginia); Kyler J. Carroll (San Diego, California); Ahmed Farghaly (Richmond, Virginia); Shiv N. Khanna (Richmond, Virginia); Meichun Qian (Richmond, Virginia); Massimo Bertino (Richmond, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	Continuous flow synthetic methods are used to make single phase magnetic metal alloy nanoparticles that do not contain rare earth metals. Soft and hard magnets made from the magnetic nanoparticles are used for a variety of purposes, e.g. in electric motors, communication devices, etc.
FILED	Friday, January 04, 2013
APPL NO	14/370138
ART UNIT	1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 25/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/303 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 1/11 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01F 1/0063 (20130101)
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09773876 — Semiconductor composition containing iron, dysprosium, and terbium

US 09773876	Pooser et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by UT-Battelle, LLC (UTB) at Oak Ridge, TN
APPLICANT(S)	UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
INVENTOR(S)	Raphael C. Pooser (Knoxville, Tennessee); Benjamin J. Lawrie (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Arthur P. Baddorf (Knoxville, Tennessee); Abhinav Malasi (Knoxville, Tennessee); Humaira Taz (Knoxville, Tennessee); Annettee E. Farah (Knoxville, Tennessee); Ramakrishnan Kalyanaraman (Knoxville, Tennessee); Gerd Josef Mansfred Duscher (Knoxville, Tennessee); Maulik K. Patel (Knoxville, Tennessee)
ABSTRACT	An amorphous semiconductor composition includes 1 to 70 atomic percent iron, 15 to 65 atomic percent dysprosium, 15 to 35 atomic percent terbium, balance X, wherein X is at least one of an oxidizing element and a reducing element. The composition has an essentially amorphous microstructure, an optical transmittance of at least 50% in at least the visible spectrum and semiconductor electrical properties.
FILED	Tuesday, June 28, 2016
APPL NO	15/194715
ART UNIT	2895 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Chemical Composition of Glasses, Glazes or Vitreous Enamels; Surface Treatment of Glass; Surface Treatment of Fibres or Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals or Slags; Joining Glass to Glass or Other Materials C03C 3/12 (20130101) C03C 4/00 (20130101) C03C 17/02 (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 14/08 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/247 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/786 (20130101)
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09773934 — Hybrid Trough solar power system using photovoltaic two-stage light concentration

US 09773934	Wheelwright et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
APPLICANT(S)	Sharp Laboratories of America (SLA), Inc. (Camas, Washington)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. (Camas, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Brian Wheelwright (Tucson, Arizona); Wei Pan (Vancouver, Washington); Douglas Tweet (Camas, Washington)
ABSTRACT	A solar power method is provided using two-stage light concentration to drive concentrating photovoltaic conversion in conjunction with thermal collection. The method concentrates light rays received in a plurality of transverse planes towards a primary linear focus in an axial plane, which is orthogonal to the transverse planes. T band wavelengths of light are transmitted to the primary linear focus. R band wavelengths of light are reflected towards a secondary linear focus in the axial plane, which is parallel to the primary linear focus. The light received at the primary linear focus is translated into thermal energy. The light received at the secondary linear focus is focused by optical elements along a plurality of tertiary linear foci, which are orthogonal to the axial plane. The focused light in each tertiary primary focus is focused into a plurality of receiving areas, and translated into electrical energy.
FILED	Wednesday, October 01, 2014
APPL NO	14/503822
ART UNIT	1758 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Producing or Use of Heat Not Otherwise Provided For F24J 2/08 (20130101) F24J 2/12 (20130101) F24J 2/18 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/0543 (20141201) H01L 31/0547 (20141201) H01L 31/0549 (20141201) Original (OR) Class Generation of Electric Power by Conversion of Infra-red Radiation, Visible Light or Ultraviolet Light, e.g Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules H02S 40/22 (20141201) H02S 40/44 (20141201) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/52 (20130101) Y02E 10/60 (20130101)
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09773991 — Non-hydrolytic metal oxide films for perovskite halide overcoating and stabilization

US 09773991	Martinson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by UChicago Argonne, LLC (UCHICAGO) at Argonne, IL
APPLICANT(S)	UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Alex B. Martinson (Naperville, Illinois); In Soo Kim (Woodridge, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	A method of protecting a perovskite halide film from moisture and temperature includes positioning the perovskite halide film in a chamber. The chamber is maintained at a temperature of less than 200 degrees Celsius. An organo-metal compound is inserted into the chamber. A non-hydrolytic oxygen source is subsequently inserted into the chamber. The inserting of the organo-metal compound and subsequent inserting of the non-hydrolytic oxygen source into the chamber is repeated for a predetermined number of cycles. The non-hydrolytic oxygen source and the organo-metal compound interact in the chamber to deposit a non-hydrolytic metal oxide film on perovskite halide film. The non-hydrolytic metal oxide film protects the perovskite halide film from relative humidity of greater than 35% and a temperature of greater than 150 degrees Celsius, respectively.
FILED	Wednesday, August 05, 2015
APPL NO	14/819248
ART UNIT	2829 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/032 (20130101) H01L 31/02167 (20130101) H01L 51/448 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 2031/0344 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101)
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National Science Foundation (NSF)

09770033 — Compositions and methods for pest control management

US 09770033	Webb et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	Bruce Webb (Lexington, Kentucky); Kendra Hitz Steele (Lexington, Kentucky); Angelika Fath-Goodin (Lexington, Kentucky)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky); Lepidext (Lexington, Kentucky)
INVENTOR(S)	Bruce Webb (Lexington, Kentucky); Kendra Hitz Steele (Lexington, Kentucky); Angelika Fath-Goodin (Lexington, Kentucky)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed are genetically modified nudiviruses capable of being sexually transmitted by an insect useful for controlling pest populations. The genetically modified nudiviruses are capable of causing sterility in a target population of insects. Also disclosed are insects infected with the disclosed genetically modified nudiviruses, methods of making the genetically modified nudiviruses, and methods of using the genetically modified nudiviruses to control an insect pest population.
FILED	Friday, May 13, 2016
APPL NO	15/154069
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	Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 63/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01N 63/02 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2710/00021 (20130101) C12N 2710/00031 (20130101) C12N 2710/00071 (20130101)
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09770710 — Hydrogenation and disproportionation catalysis

US 09770710	Goldberg et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE)
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)	Karen I. Goldberg (Seattle, Washington); D. Michael Heinekey (Seattle, Washington); James M. Mayer (Seattle, Washington); Alexander J. M. Miller (Seattle, Washington); Timothy P. Brewster (Seattle, Washington)
ABSTRACT	Improved catalytic methods are disclosed. The methods include both hydrogenation and disproportionation catalysis. While the reaction conditions for hydrogenation and disproportionation differ, the catalysts disclosed herein can be used for either process. In certain aspects, the methods utilize a catalyst: CpM(N—N)L_n; wherein Cp is a substituted or unsubstituted cyclopentadienyl ligand; wherein M is selected from the group consisting of Ir and Rh; wherein N—N is a substituted or unsubstituted bidentate ligand selected from the group consisting of a bipyridine ligand and a phenanthroline ligand; wherein n is 0 or 1; and wherein when n is 1 L is selected from the group consisting of an anion and a molecule of a solvent.
FILED	Thursday, February 20, 2014
APPL NO	14/769314
ART UNIT	1671 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 31/182 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 31/183 (20130101) B01J 31/1815 (20130101) B01J 31/2295 (20130101) B01J 2231/643 (20130101) B01J 2531/822 (20130101) B01J 2531/827 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 29/149 (20130101) C07C 67/08 (20130101)
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09770721 — Continuous whole-chip 3-dimensional DEP cell sorter and related fabrication method

US 09770721	Chiou et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	The Regents Of The University Of California (Oakland, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Pei-yu E. Chiou (Los Angeles, California); Kuo-wei Huang (Hillsboro, Oregon); Yu-jui Fan (Taipei, Taiwan); Yu-chun Kung (Los Angeles, California)
ABSTRACT	A 3-dimensional PDMS cell sorter having multiple passages in a PDMS layer that follow the same path in a DEP separation region and that are in fluid communication with each other within that region. The passages may differ in width transverse to the flow direction within the passages. Flat plates may sandwich the PDMS layer; each plate may have a planar electrode used to generate a DEP field within a sample fluid flowed within the passages. The DEP field may concentrate target cells or particulates within one of the passages within the DEP separation region. The passages may diverge after the DEP-separation region, leaving one passage with a high concentration of target cells or particulates. Techniques for manufacturing such structures, as well as other micro-fluidic structures, are also provided.
FILED	Wednesday, March 27, 2013
APPL NO	14/388212
ART UNIT	1759 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 2200/0652 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0864 (20130101) B01L 2300/0867 (20130101) B01L 2400/0424 (20130101) B01L 2400/0655 (20130101) Magnetic or Electrostatic Separation of Solid Materials From Solid Materials or Fluids; Separation by High-voltage Electric Fields B03C 5/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B03C 5/026 (20130101) B03C 2201/26 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/0656 (20130101) G01N 27/44778 (20130101) G01N 2015/0065 (20130101) G01N 2015/1081 (20130101)
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09770828 — Teleoperative-cooperative robotic system

US 09770828	Taylor et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC)
APPLICANT(S)	The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Russell H. Taylor (Severna Park, Maryland); Marcin A. Balicki (Baltimore, Maryland); Peter Kazanzides (Baltimore, Maryland); Xia Tian (Baltimore, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A combined teleoperative-cooperative controllable robotic system includes a robotic actuator assembly, a control system adapted to communicate with the robotic actuator assembly, and a teleoperation unit adapted to communicate with the control system. The control system is configured to control at least a first portion of the robotic actuator assembly in response to at least one of a force or a torque applied to at least a second portion of the robotic actuator assembly by a first user for cooperative control. The control system is further configured to control at least a third portion of the robotic actuator assembly in response to input by a second user from the teleoperation unit for teleoperative control.
FILED	Friday, September 28, 2012
APPL NO	13/631035
ART UNIT	3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
CURRENT CPC	Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 34/30 (20160201) A61B 34/35 (20160201) A61B 34/76 (20160201) A61B 90/20 (20160201) A61B 2017/00115 (20130101) Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 3/04 (20130101) B25J 9/1689 (20130101) B25J 13/006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B25J 19/04 (20130101)
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09771380 — Gold nanoparticles and methods of making and using gold nanoparticles

US 09771380	Hutchison et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE)
APPLICANT(S)	University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon)
INVENTOR(S)	James E. Hutchison (Eugene, Oregon); Edward W. Elliott, III (Eugene, Oregon); Zachary Kennedy (Eugene, Oregon); Patrick Haben (Eugene, Oregon)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed herein are embodiments of gold nanoparticles and methods of making and using the gold nanoparticles. The disclosed gold nanoparticles have core sizes and polydispersities controlled by the methods of making the gold nanoparticles. In some embodiments, the methods of making the gold nanoparticles can concern using flow reactors and reaction conditions controlled to make gold nanoparticles having a desired core size. The gold nanoparticles disclosed herein also comprise various ligands that can be used to facilitate the use of the gold nanoparticles in a variety of applications.
FILED	Friday, February 27, 2015
APPL NO	14/634676
ART UNIT	1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 1/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07F 5/003 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/0227 (20130101) G01N 23/201 (20130101) G01N 33/551 (20130101) G01N 33/587 (20130101) G01N 33/54346 (20130101) G01N 33/54353 (20130101)
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09771412 — Engineered intein for improved production of protein-intein fusions

US 09771412	Shusta et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Eric V. Shusta (Madison, Wisconsin); Carrie J. Marshall (Madison, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	The invention discloses engineered non-self-cleaving inteins derived from Mxe GyrA inteins and methods of using such inteins to chemically modify proteins.
FILED	Thursday, October 29, 2015
APPL NO	14/926665
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Peptides C07K 14/35 (20130101) C07K 16/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/14 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101) C07K 2319/92 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 21/02 (20130101)
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09771795 — Microbiome based systems, apparatus and methods for the exploration and production of hydrocarbons

US 09771795	Knight et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)	Biota Technology, Inc. (San Diego, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Biota Technology, Inc. (San Diego, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Rob Knight (San Diego, California); Ajay Kshatriya (Oakland, California); John Ely (Houston, Texas); Paul Henshaw (Clayton, California); J. Gregory Caporaso (Flagstaff, Arizona); Dan Knights (St. Paul, Minnesota); Ryan Gill (Denver, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	There are provided methods, systems and processes for the utilization of microbial and related genetic information for use in the exploration, determination, production and recovery of natural resources, including energy sources, and the monitoring, control and analysis of processes and activities.
FILED	Thursday, March 31, 2016
APPL NO	15/087552
ART UNIT	2864 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 8/62 (20130101) C09K 8/582 (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 1/6874 (20130101) C12Q 1/6888 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) Earth Drilling, e.g Deep Drilling; Obtaining Oil, Gas, Water, Soluble or Meltable Materials or a Slurry of Minerals From Wells E21B 21/065 (20130101) E21B 43/00 (20130101) E21B 43/26 (20130101) E21B 43/267 (20130101) E21B 47/1015 (20130101) E21B 49/00 (20130101) E21B 49/003 (20130101) E21B 49/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class E21B 49/086 (20130101) E21B 2049/085 (20130101) Geophysics; Gravitational Measurements; Detecting Masses or Objects; Tags G01V 9/00 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/14 (20130101) G06F 19/18 (20130101) G06F 19/24 (20130101) G06F 19/26 (20130101)
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09772794 — Method and apparatus for big data cloud storage resource management

US 09772794	Li et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated (Gainesville, Florida)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated (Gainesville, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Tao Li (Gainesville, Florida); Ruijin Zhou (Sunnyvale, California)
ABSTRACT	A system and method for storage resource management using copy-on-write/read snapshots to redirect the I/O requests without moving the virtual disk is disclosed herein. The system includes storage pools, a virtualized server, and a centralized data center management server. The virtualized server includes a base disk and a virtualized disk having a copy-on-write and a copy-on-read snapshot process responsive to an I/O request that merges a previous snapshot stored on a first one of the plurality storage pools with the base disk stored on a second one of the plurality of storage pools, while it fetches a new snapshot to be stored on a third one of the plurality of storage pools from the previous snapshot or the base virtual disk. The system includes a performance model, employing an exponentially weighted moving average with an adjustable sliding window.
FILED	Monday, June 06, 2016
APPL NO	15/174657
ART UNIT	2138 — Memory Access and Control
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/065 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 3/067 (20130101) G06F 3/0617 (20130101) G06F 3/0647 (20130101) G06F 9/45533 (20130101) G06F 11/1446 (20130101) G06F 11/1448 (20130101)
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09773160 — Using relevance feedback in face recognition

US 09773160	Perlmutter et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC)
APPLICANT(S)	AOL Inc. (Dulles, Virginia); California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); Isis Innovation Limited (Oxford, United Kingdom)
ASSIGNEE(S)	AOL Inc. (Dulles, Virginia); California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); Isis Innovation Limited (Oxford, United Kingdom)
INVENTOR(S)	Keren O Perlmutter (Pacific Palisades, California); Sharon M Perlmutter (Pacific Palisades, California); Joshua Alspector (South Riding, Virginia); Mark Everingham (Oxford, United Kingdom); Alex Holub (Pasadena, California); Andrew Zisserman (Oxford, United Kingdom); Pietro Perona (Altadena, California)
ABSTRACT	Images are searched to locate faces that are the same as a query face. Images that include a face that is the same as the query face may be presented to a user as search result images. Images also may be sorted by the faces included in the images and presented to the user as sorted search result images. The user may provide explicit or implicit feedback regarding the search result images. Additional feedback may be inferred regarding the search result images based on the user-provided feedback, and the results may be updated based on the user-provided and inferred feedback.
FILED	Wednesday, October 23, 2013
APPL NO	14/061522
ART UNIT	2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30256 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00281 (20130101) G06K 9/00288 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/6261 (20130101) G06K 9/6263 (20130101) Information Storage Based on Relative Movement Between Record Carrier and Transducer G11B 27/28 (20130101) G11B 27/105 (20130101)
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09773540 — Skyrmion based universal memory operated by electric current

US 09773540	Zang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Jiadong Zang (New Market, New Hampshire); Chia-Ling Chien (Cockeysville, Maryland); Yufan Li (Baltimore, Maryland); Roger K. Lake (Riverside, California); Gen Yin (Riverside, California)
ABSTRACT	A method for generating a skyrmion, comprising: depositing a vertical metallic nanopillar electrode on a first side of a helimagnetic thin film, the helimagnetic thin film having a contact on a second side to provide a current drain; injecting a current through the vertical metallic nanopillar electrode to generate a rotating field; and applying a static upward magnetic field perpendicular to the helimagnetic thin film to maintain an FM phase background.
FILED	Monday, July 18, 2016
APPL NO	15/213019
ART UNIT	2824 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Static Stores G11C 11/161 (20130101) G11C 11/1673 (20130101) G11C 11/1675 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G11C 19/08 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/222 (20130101) H01L 43/00 (20130101) H01L 43/08 (20130101) H01L 43/10 (20130101) H01L 43/12 (20130101)
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09773715 — Multi-layer packaging scheme for implant electronics

US 09773715	Tai et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC)
APPLICANT(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Yu-Chong Tai (Pasadena, California); Han-Chieh Chang (Pasadena, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides a micropackaged device comprising: a substrate for securing a device with a corrosion barrier affixed to the substrate, wherein the corrosion barrier comprises a first thin-film layer, a metal film coating the thin-film layer and a second thin-film layer to provide a sandwich layer; and optionally at least one feedthrough disposed in the substrate to permit at least one input and or at least one output line into the micropackaged device, wherein the micropackaged device is encapsulated by the corrosion barrier. Methods of producing the micropackaged device are also disclosed.
FILED	Monday, December 28, 2015
APPL NO	14/981432
ART UNIT	2819 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 50/30 (20160201) 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 2/14 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/3758 (20130101) A61N 1/36046 (20130101) A61N 1/37211 (20130101) Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/56 (20130101) H01L 23/564 (20130101) H01L 23/3135 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101)
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09773953 — Organic phosphor-functionalized nanoparticles and compositions comprising the same

US 09773953	Li et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)	RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE (Troy, New York); UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA (Columbia, South Carolina)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Ying Li (Troy, New York); Peng Tao (Midland, Michigan); Linda S. Schadler (Niskayuna, New York); Robert F. Karlicek, Jr. (Mechanicville, New York); Richard W. Siegel (Menands, New York); Lei Wang (Columbia, South Carolina); Brian C. Benicewicz (Columbia, South Carolina)
ABSTRACT	Provided is a phosphor-functionalized nanoparticle that includes an inorganic nanoparticle core; surface polymer brushes that include a plurality of long-chain polymers bonded to the surface of the inorganic nanoparticle core, said long-chain polymers each having molecular weight greater than 500, and a plurality of short-chain polymers bonded to the surface of the inorganic nanoparticle core, said short-chain polymers each having molecular weight less than 0.5 times the average molecular weight of the long-chain polymers; and one or more organic phosphors bonded to at least one of the inorganic nanoparticle core and one or more of the plurality of short-chain polymers. Graft density of the short-chain polymers on the surface of the inorganic nanoparticle core (σ_SC) is greater than graft density of the long-chain polymers on the surface of the inorganic nanoparticle core (σ_LC). Also provided are polymer matrices, LED's, optical systems, lighting devices, and fixtures that include the inventive nanoparticle.
FILED	Tuesday, April 01, 2014
APPL NO	14/781481
ART UNIT	1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 7/10 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 79/02 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/02 (20130101) C09K 11/06 (20130101) C09K 11/025 (20130101) C09K 2211/1011 (20130101) C09K 2211/1048 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 33/56 (20130101) H01L 33/504 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09773967 — Processing method for grain-oriented lead-free piezoelectric Na_0.5Bi_0.5TiO₃—BaTiO₃ceramics exhibiting giant performance

US 09773967	Maurya et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)	Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia)
INVENTOR(S)	Deepam Maurya (Blacksburg, Virginia); Shashank Priya (Blacksburg, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	Textured ceramic compositions having improved piezoelectric characteristics as compared with their random counterparts are provided. Methods of making the compositions and devices using them are also included. More particularly, compositions comprising textured ceramic Na_0.5Bi_0.5TiO₃—BaTiO₃(NBT-BT) materials synthesized from high aspect ratio NBT seeds exhibit improved characteristics, including an increased longitudinal piezoelectric constant (d₃₃) and magnetoelectric coupling coefficient over randomly oriented NBT-BT. Additionally provided are compositions comprising of nanostructured Na_0.5B_0.5TiO₃—BaTiO₃ferroelectric whiskers having a high aspect ratio. Nanostructured whiskers can be used to improve the piezoelectric properties of the bulk ceramics. The inventive materials are useful in microelectronic devices, with some finding particular application as multilayer actuators and transducers.
FILED	Thursday, October 31, 2013
APPL NO	14/068687
ART UNIT	1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/462 (20130101) C04B 35/475 (20130101) C04B 2235/80 (20130101) C04B 2235/787 (20130101) C04B 2235/3201 (20130101) C04B 2235/3215 (20130101) C04B 2235/3234 (20130101) C04B 2235/3236 (20130101) C04B 2235/3298 (20130101) C04B 2235/5276 (20130101) C04B 2235/5296 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 41/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 41/43 (20130101) H01L 41/083 (20130101) H01L 41/187 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/325 (20150115)
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09773988 — Diindenoanthracene and diindenopentacene

US 09773988	Haley et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE)
APPLICANT(S)	University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael M. Haley (Eugene, Oregon); Gabriel Rudebusch (Eugene, Oregon)
ABSTRACT	A compound having a structure represented by formula I: wherein each R¹is independently H, alkynyl or substituted alkynyl; each R²is independently H, alkynyl or substituted alkynyl; each R³is independently alkyl or halogen; each R⁴is independently H, alkyl, or halogen; each R⁵is independently H or halogen; n is 0 or 1; and m is 0 or 1, provided that if n is 0 then m is 0, and if n is 1 then m is 1.
FILED	Wednesday, April 06, 2016
APPL NO	15/092383
ART UNIT	1671 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 7/0812 (20130101) C07F 7/0818 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0056 (20130101) H01L 51/0057 (20130101) H01L 51/0094 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/0558 (20130101) H01L 51/5056 (20130101)
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09775196 — Self-heating concrete using carbon nanofiber paper

US 09775196	Song et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Department of Education (ED) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI)
APPLICANT(S)	Gangbing Song (Pearland, Texas); Christiana Chang (Houston, Texas); Yi Lung Mo (Pearland, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON (Houston, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Gangbing Song (Pearland, Texas); Christiana Chang (Houston, Texas); Yi Lung Mo (Pearland, Texas)
ABSTRACT	Electric, self-heating concrete systems that uses embedded carbon macrofiber or nanofibers paper as electric resistance heating elements are disclose. The self-heating concrete systems may utilize the conductive properties of carbon macrofiber or nanofiber materials to heat a surface overlay of concrete with various admixtures to improve the concrete's thermal conductivity. The self-heating concrete systems allow concrete roadways or the like to be heated to above freezing temperatures in a freezing environment in a reasonable amount of time.
FILED	Wednesday, July 20, 2011
APPL NO	13/186770
ART UNIT	3742 — Audio Signals
CURRENT CPC	Electric Heating; Electric Lighting Not Otherwise Provided for H05B 3/0004 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05B 3/283 (20130101) H05B 2214/02 (20130101)
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

09770405 — Biocompatible capsules and methods of making

US 09770405	Loftus
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Association (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of NASA (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	David J. Loftus (Palo Alto, California)
ABSTRACT	Embodiments of the invention include capsules for containing medical implants and delivery systems for release of active biological substances into a host body. Delivery systems comprise a capsule comprising an interior enclosed by walls, and a source of active biological substances enclosed within the capsule interior, wherein the active biological substances are free to diffuse across the capsule walls. The capsule walls comprise a continuous mesh of biocompatible fibers and a seal region where two capsule walls overlap. The interior of the capsule is substantially isolated from the medium surrounding the capsule, except for diffusion of at least one species of molecule between the capsule interior and the ambient medium, and prevents cell migration into or out of the capsule. Methods for preparing and using the capsules and delivery systems are provided.
FILED	Thursday, October 04, 2012
APPL NO	13/645284
ART UNIT	1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09771462 — Sulfur-containing organic-inorganic hybrid gel compositions and aerogels

US 09771462	Evans et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC)
APPLICANT(S)	ASPEN AEROGELS,INC. (Northborough, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	ASPEN AEROGEL, INC (Northborough, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Owen R Evans (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Wenting Dong (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Kiranmayi Deshpande (Lake Forest, California)
ABSTRACT	Methods and materials are described for preparing organic-inorganic hybrid gel compositions where a sulfur-containing cross-linking agent covalently links the organic and inorganic components. The gel compositions are further dried to provide porous gel compositions and aerogels. The mechanical and thermal properties of the dried gel compositions are also disclosed.
FILED	Wednesday, August 05, 2015
APPL NO	14/818943
ART UNIT	1768 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 13/0065 (20130101) B01J 13/0091 (20130101) Treatment or Chemical Modification of Rubbers C08C 19/25 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 9/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08J 9/0085 (20130101) C08J 2347/00 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 5/548 (20130101) C08K 7/02 (20130101)
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09771867 — Gas turbine engine with air/fuel heat exchanger

US 09771867	Karam et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)	Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc. (Indianapolis, Indiana)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Rolls-Royce Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana); Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc. (Indianapolis, Indiana)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael Abraham Karam (Plainfield, Indiana); Eric Sean Donovan (Fishers, Indiana); Michael Stephen Krautheim (Fountaintown, Indiana); Daniel Kent Vetters (Indianapolis, Indiana); Donald G. Chouinard (Westfield, Indiana)
ABSTRACT	One embodiment of the present invention is a unique aircraft propulsion gas turbine engine. Another embodiment is a unique gas turbine engine. Another embodiment is a unique gas turbine engine. Other embodiments include apparatuses, systems, devices, hardware, methods, and combinations for gas turbine engines with heat exchange systems. Further embodiments, forms, features, aspects, benefits, and advantages of the present application will become apparent from the description and figures provided herewith.
FILED	Monday, June 30, 2014
APPL NO	14/319680
ART UNIT	3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 7/141 (20130101) F02C 7/143 (20130101) F02C 7/224 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Heat-exchange Apparatus, Not Provided for in Another Subclass, in Which the Heat-exchange Media Do Not Come into Direct Contact F28D 7/0058 (20130101) F28D 7/1653 (20130101) F28D 21/0001 (20130101) Details of Heat-exchange and Heat-transfer Apparatus, of General Application F28F 9/026 (20130101) F28F 9/26 (20130101) F28F 2009/029 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/671 (20130101) Y02T 50/675 (20130101)
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09772227 — Laser spiderweb sensor used with portable handheld devices

US 09772227	Scott et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
INVENTOR(S)	David C. Scott (Pasadena, California); Alexander Ksendzov (La Crescenta, California); Warren P. George (Valencia, California); James A. Smith (Granada Hills, California); Abdullah S. Aljabri (Pasadena, California); Joel M. Steinkraus (Azusa, California); Rudi M. Bendig (Simi Valley, California); Douglas C. Hofmann (Pasadena, California)
ABSTRACT	A portable spectrometer, including a smart phone case storing a portable spectrometer, wherein the portable spectrometer includes a cavity; a source for emitting electromagnetic radiation that is directed on a sample in the cavity, wherein the electromagnetic radiation is reflected within the cavity to form multiple passes of the electromagnetic radiation through the sample; a detector for detecting the electromagnetic radiation after the electromagnetic radiation has made the multiple passes through the sample in the cavity, the detector outputting a signal in response to the detecting; and a device for communicating the signal to a smart phone, wherein the smart phone executes an application that performs a spectral analysis of the signal.
FILED	Thursday, September 24, 2015
APPL NO	14/864613
ART UNIT	2886 — 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 3/021 (20130101) G01J 3/42 (20130101) G01J 3/0256 (20130101) G01J 3/0291 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01J 2003/423 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/00 (20130101)
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09772309 — Method and apparatus for non-destructive evaluation of materials

US 09772309	Goldfine et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC)
APPLICANT(S)	JENTEK Sensors, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	JENTEK SENSORS, INC. (Waltham, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Neil J. Goldfine (Newton, Massachusetts); Andrew P. Washabaugh (Chula Vista, California); Robert Lyons (Pelham, Massachusetts); Zachary Thomas (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Christopher Martin (Concord, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Methods and apparatus for characterizing composite materials for manufacturing quality assurance (QA), periodic inspection during the useful life, or for forensic analysis/material testing. System are provided that relate eddy-current sensor responses to the fiber layup of a composite structure, the presence of impact damage on a composite structure with or without a metal liner, volumetric stress within the composite, fiber tow density, and other NDE inspection requirements. Also provided are systems that determine electromagnetic material properties and material dimensions of composite materials from capacitive sensor inspection measurements. These properties are related to the presence of buried defects in non-conductive composite materials, moisture ingress, aging of the material due to service or environmental/thermal exposure, or changes in manufacturing quality.
FILED	Wednesday, December 10, 2014
APPL NO	14/566422
ART UNIT	2868 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/72 (20130101) G01N 27/90 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 27/9046 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/10 (20130101) G01R 33/0064 (20130101) G01R 33/093 (20130101) G01R 33/0094 (20130101)
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09772344 — Pulse generator

US 09772344	Greer
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Lawrence Greer (Avon, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	An apparatus and a computer-implemented method for generating pulses synchronized to a rising edge of a tachometer signal from rotating machinery are disclosed. For example, in one embodiment, a pulse state machine may be configured to generate a plurality of pulses, and a period state machine may be configured to determine a period for each of the plurality of pulses.
FILED	Wednesday, February 20, 2013
APPL NO	13/771920
ART UNIT	2868 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring Linear or Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, or Shock; Indicating Presence, Absence, or Direction, of Movement G01P 3/49 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09774343 — Method and apparatus for improving the resolution of digitally sampled analog data

US 09774343	Liaghati
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)
APPLICANT(S)	The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Amir L. Liaghati (Huntsville, Alabama)
ABSTRACT	A system and method is described for converting an analog signal into a digital signal. The gain and offset of an ADC is dynamically adjusted so that the N-bits of input data are assigned to a narrower channel instead of the entire input range of the ADC. This provides greater resolution in the range of interest without generating longer digital data strings.
FILED	Wednesday, July 13, 2016
APPL NO	15/209022
ART UNIT	2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 1/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03M 1/181 (20130101)
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09774395 — Space optical communications using laser beams

US 09774395	Goorjian
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of NASA (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Peter M. Goorjian (Oakland, California)
ABSTRACT	A system for communicating between an object in space and a ground station, between objects in space, or between ground stations, includes a telecentric lens. Photodetectors positioned upon a focal plane of the telecentric lens detect an inbound light beam, received from a source, that has passed through the telecentric lens to the focal plane. Lasers positioned upon the focal plane transmit light beams from the focal plane through the telecentric lens to an area that includes the source of the inbound light beam. A processor detect signals from individual photodetectors corresponding to light detected, and selectively signals individual lasers that are close to those photodetectors, resulting in a returning beam that arrives close to the source, and which carries encoded data.
FILED	Thursday, April 09, 2015
APPL NO	14/683082
ART UNIT	2636 — Optical Communications
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 1/4257 (20130101) Transmission H04B 10/118 (20130101) H04B 10/1123 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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Department of Agriculture (USDA)

09770041 — Antimicrobial wash

US 09770041	Dong et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA)
APPLICANT(S)	Nature Seal Inc. (Lincoln, Rhode Island); The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Mantrose-Haeuser Co., Inc. (Westport, Connecticut); The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Xiaoling Dong (North Attleboro, Massachusetts); Joshua Brandt Gurtler (Phoenixville, Pennsylvania); RenSun Lee (North Grafton, Massachusetts); Stephen A. Santos (Cumberland, Rhode Island)
ABSTRACT	A new antimicrobial wash for treating fresh fruits and vegetables to reduce microorganisms, especially human pathogens, comprises an aqueous solution of hydrogen peroxide and one or more fruit acids.
FILED	Thursday, May 22, 2014
APPL NO	14/284453
ART UNIT	1613 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 25/02 (20130101) A01N 25/02 (20130101) A01N 37/02 (20130101) A01N 37/04 (20130101) A01N 37/36 (20130101) A01N 37/36 (20130101) A01N 37/36 (20130101) A01N 37/36 (20130101) A01N 59/00 (20130101) A01N 59/00 (20130101) Preserving, e.g by Canning, Meat, Fish, Eggs, Fruit, Vegetables, Edible Seeds; Chemical Ripening of Fruit or Vegetables; the Preserved, Ripened, or Canned Products A23B 7/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A23B 7/157 (20130101) Foods, Foodstuffs, or Non-alcoholic Beverages, Not Covered by Subclasses A23B - A23J; Their Preparation or Treatment, e.g Cooking, Modification of Nutritive Qualities, Physical Treatment; Preservation of Foods or Foodstuffs, in General A23L 5/57 (20160801)
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09771393 — Bioactive peptides having insecticide activity

US 09771393	Choi et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA)
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)	Man-Yeon Choi (Gainesville, Florida); Robert K. Vander Meer (Newberry, Florida)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed are novel bioactive peptides derived as antagonists to a fire ant receptor for a pheromone biosynthesis-activating neuropeptide/pyrokinin (PBAN/pyrokinin) gene derived neuropeptide ligand. Also disclosed are methods of controlling fire ants with the bioactive peptides disclosed herein. Methodological approaches to screening peptide libraries for the presence of PBAN/pyrokinin ligands are also provided herein.
FILED	Friday, March 11, 2016
APPL NO	15/067522
ART UNIT	1675 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 37/46 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2333/726 (20130101) G01N 2333/43552 (20130101) G01N 2430/10 (20130101) G01N 2500/10 (20130101)
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09771608 — Fagopyritol synthase genes and uses thereof

US 09771608	Obendorf et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES)
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 analog, an insulin mediator homolog, 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 analog, an insulin mediator homolog, or an insulin mediator inhibitor.
FILED	Monday, June 27, 2016
APPL NO	15/194221
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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PP028449 — Ruellia plant named ‘R12-2-1’

US PP28449	Freyre
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Tropical and Subtropical Agricultural Research (TSTAR)
APPLICANT(S)	Florida Foundation Seed Producers, Inc. (Marianna, Florida)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Florida Foundation Seed Producers, Inc. (Marianna, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Rosanna Freyre (Gainesville, Florida)
ABSTRACT	‘R12-2-1’ is a new Ruellia cultivar distinguished by having excellent landscape performance, violet flowers, medium plant height, profuse branching, and no fruiting, as disclosed.
FILED	Tuesday, June 07, 2016
APPL NO	14/999630
ART UNIT	1661 — Plants
CURRENT CPC	Plants PLT/263.100
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Small Business Administration (SBA)

09771795 — Microbiome based systems, apparatus and methods for the exploration and production of hydrocarbons

US 09771795	Knight et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)	Biota Technology, Inc. (San Diego, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Biota Technology, Inc. (San Diego, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Rob Knight (San Diego, California); Ajay Kshatriya (Oakland, California); John Ely (Houston, Texas); Paul Henshaw (Clayton, California); J. Gregory Caporaso (Flagstaff, Arizona); Dan Knights (St. Paul, Minnesota); Ryan Gill (Denver, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	There are provided methods, systems and processes for the utilization of microbial and related genetic information for use in the exploration, determination, production and recovery of natural resources, including energy sources, and the monitoring, control and analysis of processes and activities.
FILED	Thursday, March 31, 2016
APPL NO	15/087552
ART UNIT	2864 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 8/62 (20130101) C09K 8/582 (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 1/6874 (20130101) C12Q 1/6888 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) Earth Drilling, e.g Deep Drilling; Obtaining Oil, Gas, Water, Soluble or Meltable Materials or a Slurry of Minerals From Wells E21B 21/065 (20130101) E21B 43/00 (20130101) E21B 43/26 (20130101) E21B 43/267 (20130101) E21B 47/1015 (20130101) E21B 49/00 (20130101) E21B 49/003 (20130101) E21B 49/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class E21B 49/086 (20130101) E21B 2049/085 (20130101) Geophysics; Gravitational Measurements; Detecting Masses or Objects; Tags G01V 9/00 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/14 (20130101) G06F 19/18 (20130101) G06F 19/24 (20130101) G06F 19/26 (20130101)
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09772175 — Phase control for dual atom interferometers

US 09772175	Black et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)	AOSense, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	AOSense, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Adam T. Black (Mountain View, California); Todd L. Gustavson (Sunnyvale, California); Brenton C. Young (Menlo Park, California)
ABSTRACT	A system for controlling a phase measurement in an atom interferometer comprising one or more lasers, a processor, and a memory. The one or more lasers are for providing interrogating beams. A first cloud of atoms and a second cloud of atoms traverse an interrogating region of the atom interferometer in substantially opposite directions. The interrogating beams interact substantially simultaneously with both atoms in the first cloud and atoms in the second cloud. The first cloud of atoms and the second cloud of atoms interact with each of the interrogating beams in a different order. The processor is configured to determine a phase adjustment offset of at least one interrogating beam based at least in part on one or more past interactions of one or more interrogating beams with either the first cloud of atoms or the second cloud of atoms.
FILED	Tuesday, February 24, 2015
APPL NO	14/629918
ART UNIT	2877 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 9/02 (20130101) G01B 9/02001 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01B 9/02041 (20130101) G01B 2290/55 (20130101) Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 19/64 (20130101)
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09774946 — Wireless earplug with improved sensitivity and form factor

US 09774946	Parkins
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)	Red Tail Hawk Corporation (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Red Tail Hawk Corporation (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	John W. Parkins (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	An improved wireless communications earplug for use with a magnetic field transmitter. The wireless earplug has a receiver made of a coil of wire on a magnetic bobbin, mounted in close proximity or in contact with a magnetic case of a speaker. The magnetic case of the speaker serves to increase the magnetic flux through the receiver and improves the efficiency of the earplug. The speaker is acoustically coupled to an eartip, and the earplug may be molded into a custom earplug body.
FILED	Wednesday, October 26, 2016
APPL NO	15/334497
ART UNIT	2654 — Audio Signals
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 11/08 (20130101) A61F 11/14 (20130101) Telephonic Communication H04M 1/05 (20130101) H04M 1/215 (20130101) H04M 1/6066 (20130101) Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups or Like Acoustic Electromechanical Transducers; Deaf-aid Sets; Public Address Systems H04R 1/1016 (20130101) H04R 1/1041 (20130101) H04R 1/1075 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04R 1/1091 (20130101) H04R 3/08 (20130101) H04R 2209/041 (20130101) H04R 2420/07 (20130101)
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Department of Commerce (DOC)

09771666 — Defect reduction in seeded aluminum nitride crystal growth

US 09771666	Bondokov et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Commerce (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Crystal IS, Inc. (Green Island, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	CRYSTAL IS, INC. (Green Island, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert T. Bondokov (Watervliet, New York); Leo J. Schowalter (Latham, New York); Kenneth Morgan (Castleton, New York); Glen A. Slack (Scotia, New York); Shailaja P. Rao (Albany, New York); Shawn Robert Gibb (Clifton Park, New York)
ABSTRACT	Bulk single crystal of aluminum nitride (AlN) having an areal planar defect density≦100 cm⁻². Methods for growing single crystal aluminum nitride include melting an aluminum foil to uniformly wet a foundation with a layer of aluminum, the foundation forming a portion of an AlN seed holder, for an AlN seed to be used for the AlN growth. The holder may consist essentially of a substantially impervious backing plate.
FILED	Monday, April 13, 2015
APPL NO	14/684754
ART UNIT	1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
CURRENT CPC	Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 23/00 (20130101) C30B 23/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C30B 29/403 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2982 (20150115)
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09772263 — Sampling system and process for sampling

US 09772263	Bruno
FUNDED BY	Department of Commerce (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
APPLICANT(S)	NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY (Gaithersburg, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Thomas J. Bruno (Broomfield, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	A sampling system includes an analyte sampler that includes an enclosure; a mount disposed in the enclosure; a capillary tube disposed in the mount; and a thermal member disposed in the enclosure and including a first fluid supply member to provide a fluid to an interior of the enclosure. The sampling system also includes a manifold in fluid communication with the analyte sampler. A process for sampling an analyte includes subjecting the capillary tube to a negative pressure; and controlling the temperature of the capillary tube to immobilize the analyte in the capillary tube; providing an analyte to a second end of the capillary tube; and immobilizing the analyte in the capillary tube to sample the analyte.
FILED	Monday, December 15, 2014
APPL NO	14/570068
ART UNIT	1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/44 (20130101) G01N 1/2226 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 1/4022 (20130101) G01N 2001/2229 (20130101) G01N 2030/062 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/212 (20150115) Y10T 436/218 (20150115) Y10T 436/25875 (20150115) Y10T 436/142222 (20150115) Y10T 436/173076 (20150115)
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Department of Education (ED)

09775196 — Self-heating concrete using carbon nanofiber paper

US 09775196	Song et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Department of Education (ED) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI)
APPLICANT(S)	Gangbing Song (Pearland, Texas); Christiana Chang (Houston, Texas); Yi Lung Mo (Pearland, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON (Houston, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Gangbing Song (Pearland, Texas); Christiana Chang (Houston, Texas); Yi Lung Mo (Pearland, Texas)
ABSTRACT	Electric, self-heating concrete systems that uses embedded carbon macrofiber or nanofibers paper as electric resistance heating elements are disclose. The self-heating concrete systems may utilize the conductive properties of carbon macrofiber or nanofiber materials to heat a surface overlay of concrete with various admixtures to improve the concrete's thermal conductivity. The self-heating concrete systems allow concrete roadways or the like to be heated to above freezing temperatures in a freezing environment in a reasonable amount of time.
FILED	Wednesday, July 20, 2011
APPL NO	13/186770
ART UNIT	3742 — Audio Signals
CURRENT CPC	Electric Heating; Electric Lighting Not Otherwise Provided for H05B 3/0004 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05B 3/283 (20130101) H05B 2214/02 (20130101)
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

09772407 — Photonic-channeled X-ray detector array

US 09772407	Cheng et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (DHS-ST)
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); University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona)
INVENTOR(S)	Yao-Te Cheng (New Taipei, Taiwan); Lambertus Hesselink (Atherton, California); Young-Sik Kim (Tuscon, Arizona); Yuzuru Takashima (Cupertno, California); Max Yuen (San Francisco, California)
ABSTRACT	An X-ray detector array includes a scintillator that converts input X-ray radiation to secondary optical radiation output from the scintillator, a first telecentric micro lens array that array receives the secondary optical radiation, a phase coded aperture, where the first telecentric micro lens array directs the secondary optical radiation on the phase coded aperture, a second telecentric micro lens array, where the secondary optical radiation output from the phase coded array is directed to the second telecentric micro lens array, a patterned grating mask, where the second telecentric micro lens array directs the optical beam on the patterned mask, and a photodetector array, where the patterned mask outputs the optical beam in a pattern according to the patterned mask to the photodetector array, where the photodetector array outputs a signal, where a photon fringe pattern is imaged and sampled in the wavelength domain of the radiation from the scintillator.
FILED	Friday, August 05, 2016
APPL NO	15/230199
ART UNIT	2884 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 23/04 (20130101) Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/2002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01T 1/2018 (20130101) G01T 1/2023 (20130101) Techniques for Handling Particles or Ionising Radiation Not Otherwise Provided For; Irradiation Devices; Gamma Ray or X-ray Microscopes G21K 2207/005 (20130101)
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Department of Justice (DOJ)

09773151 — System and methods for contactless biometrics-based identification

US 09773151	Mil'shtein et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Justice (DOJ)
APPLICANT(S)	University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Samson Mil'shtein (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Zachary Durkee (Fitchburg, Massachusetts); Christopher Leger (Tyngsboro, Massachusetts); Carl Buzawa (Carlisle, Massachusetts); Alex Gribov (Boston, Massachusetts); Anas Dahany (Boston, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates generally to a system and methods that facilitates the identification of an individual through the use of data. Certain more particular embodiments of the present invention facilitate the contactless acquisition and processing of biometric data for identification purposes from a biometric source. One preferred embodiment of the present invention of the system includes an apparatus by which is sized and shape to capture of one or more images of an portion of individual for processing and identification purposes. Advantageously, certain embodiments of the present invention facilitate the enrollment of one or more individuals for verification and identification purposes through the use of the data developed from the one or more captured images.
FILED	Friday, February 06, 2015
APPL NO	14/616182
ART UNIT	2669 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation
CURRENT CPC	Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00033 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/00919 (20130101)
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Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)

09770486 — Methods of neuroprotection involving macrophage colony stimulating factor receptor agonists

US 09770486	Luo et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California); The United States of America 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)
INVENTOR(S)	Jian Luo (Palo Alto, California); Anton Wyss-Coray (Palo Alto, California)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed are novel methods for preventing or attenuating neuronal damage or stimulating neuronal repair, prior to or following central nervous system injury associated with acute or chronic nervous system injury. Macrophage colony stimulating factor receptor agonists including macrophage colony stimulating factor (M-CSF or CSF-1), interleukin-34 (IL-34), proteins or biologically active fragments thereof, peptides or biologically active fragments thereof, peptidomimetics, or small molecules, and the like are effective for prevention or treatment of acute nervous system injury or chronic nervous system injury involving Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Huntington's disease, and the like.
FILED	Wednesday, September 09, 2015
APPL NO	14/849176
ART UNIT	1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/193 (20130101)
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Department of the Interior (DOI)

09772108 — Methods and systems for clean-up of hazardous spills

US 09772108	Rangwala et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of the Interior (DOI) Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE)
APPLICANT(S)	Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Ali S. Rangwala (New London, Connecticut); Xiaochuan Shi (Worcester, Massachusetts); Kemal S. Arsava (Dracut, Massachusetts); Glenn Mahnken (Newton, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Methods and systems for clean-up of hazardous spills are provided. In some aspects, there is provided a system for burning an water-oil emulsion that includes an enclosure configured to hold a water-oil emulsion; one or more conductive rods disposed throughout the enclosure, each rod of the one or more roads having a heater portion to be submerged in the water-oil emulsion and a collector portion to project above the water-oil emulsion, wherein the collector portion is longer than the heater portion; and a delivery system for supplying an water-oil emulsion to the enclosure, the delivery system is configured to maintain a constant level of the water-oil emulsion in the enclosure as the water-oil emulsion is burned. The enclosure may further include one or more adjustable air inlets.
FILED	Wednesday, October 28, 2015
APPL NO	14/925883
ART UNIT	3749 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Burners F23D 5/123 (20130101) Cremation Furnaces; Consuming Waste Products by Combustion F23G 7/05 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F23G 2900/50213 (20130101) Feeding Fuel to Combustion Apparatus F23K 5/12 (20130101)
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National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)

09770709 — Compositions comprising functionalized carbon-based nanostructures and related methods

US 09770709	Swager et al.
FUNDED BY	National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
APPLICANT(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Timothy M. Swager (Newton, Massachusetts); William R. Collins (Durango, Colorado); Wiktor Lewandowski (Warsaw, Poland); Ezequiel Schmois (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Stefanie Sydlik (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Joseph Walish (Cambridge, Massachusetts); John B. Goods (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The present invention generally relates to compositions comprising and methods for forming functionalized carbon-based nanostructures.
FILED	Thursday, March 26, 2015
APPL NO	14/670232
ART UNIT	1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Cigars; Cigarettes; Tobacco Smoke Filters; Mouthpieces for Cigars or Cigarettes; Manufacture of Tobacco Smoke Filters or Mouthpieces A24D 3/163 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 31/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0213 (20130101) C01B 31/0273 (20130101) C01B 31/0484 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 235/40 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 303/38 (20130101) C07D 493/22 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 1/08 (20130101) C07F 5/00 (20130101) C07F 5/06 (20130101) C07F 7/28 (20130101) C07F 15/02 (20130101) C07F 15/006 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 11/36 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/625 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/13 (20130101)
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U.S. State Government

09773141 — Dendritic structures and tags

US 09773141	Kozicki
FUNDED BY	U.S. State Government State of Arizona
APPLICANT(S)	ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS, a body corporate of the state of Arizona acting for and on behalf of ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Arizona)
ASSIGNEE(S)	ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS, A BODY CORPORATE OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA ACTING FOR AND ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Arizona)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael N. Kozicki (Phoenix, Arizona)
ABSTRACT	The disclosure features methods for generating a unique identifier, the methods including providing a dendritic structure, reading the dendritic structure to provide a signal, and generating a unique identifier from the signal.
FILED	Wednesday, March 12, 2014
APPL NO	14/775413
ART UNIT	2887 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/06 (20130101) G02B 21/365 (20130101) G02B 27/286 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/3028 (20130101) G06F 17/30879 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 7/1099 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/46 (20130101) G06K 9/00147 (20130101) G06K 9/00577 (20130101) G06K 9/2027 (20130101) G06K 9/4671 (20130101) G06K 9/6202 (20130101) G06K 19/086 (20130101) G06K 19/06046 (20130101) G06K 19/07749 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) G06T 7/12 (20170101) G06T 2207/10056 (20130101) G06T 2207/30024 (20130101) Ciphering or Deciphering Apparatus for Cryptographic or Other Purposes Involving the Need for Secrecy G09C 5/00 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/3278 (20130101) H04L 2209/12 (20130101)
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Government Rights Acknowledged

PP028452 — Verbena plant named ‘Balendmag’

US PP28452	Trees
FUNDED BY
APPLICANT(S)	Ball Horticultural Company (West Chicago, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Ball Horticultural Company (West Chicago, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Scott C. Trees (Arroyo Grande, California)
ABSTRACT	A new and distinct cultivar of Verbena plant named ‘Balendmag’, characterized by its dark red-purple colored flowers, dark green-colored foliage, and vigorous, spreading-trailing growth habit, is disclosed.
FILED	Thursday, April 21, 2016
APPL NO	14/999299
ART UNIT	1661 — Plants
CURRENT CPC	Plants PLT/308
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The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.

HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?

Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.

WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?

THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:

FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)

We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.

APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.

Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:

APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC

APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)

INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.

ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.

FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.

APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.

ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:

3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices

You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.

CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.

The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.

The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.

A61B 1/149 (20130101)
A61B 1/71 (20130101)
A61B 1/105 (20130101)

The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.

VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.

HOW DO I FIND A SPECIFIC PATENT ON A PAGE?

You can use the Command F or Control F to find a specific patent you are interested in.

HOW DO I GET HERE?

You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.

You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:

https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2017/fedinvent-patents-20170926.html

Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.

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