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| US 09913580 | Saito et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Tokyo, Japan); UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, Japan); University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenichi Saito (Pittsford, New York); Qiang Yang (Rochester, New York); Jie Zhang (Pittsford, New York); Koji Nozato (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus, method, and non-transitory medium for optical stabilization and digital image registration in scanning light ophthalmoscopy. Scanning an object with measurement light. Acquire an image of the object to be examined based on return light from the object. Acquire information which indicates movement of the object to be examined based on a plurality of acquired images. Control the scanning based on the information which indicates the movement of the object to be examined. Performing registration of the plurality of images. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/490449 |
| ART UNIT | 2667 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 3/12 (20130101) A61B 3/14 (20130101) A61B 3/0025 (20130101) A61B 3/1025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/246 (20170101) G06T 2207/10016 (20130101) G06T 2207/30041 (20130101) |
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| US 09913615 | Narayan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California); Topera, Inc. (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Topera, Inc. (Menlo Park, California); The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanjiv M. Narayan (La Jolla, California); Carey Robert Briggs (La Jolla, California); Ruchir Sehra (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | In a system and method for reconstructing cardiac activation information, an analysis cardiac signal and a reference cardiac signal are accessed and processed to determine a first point of change in the analysis cardiac signal at which a derivative of the analysis cardiac signal diverges with respect to a derivative of the reference cardiac signal. The signals are processed to determine a second point of change in the analysis cardiac signal at which a different derivative of the analysis cardiac signal with respect to a different derivative of the reference cardiac signal. An activation onset time is assigned in the analysis cardiac signal at a point based on a mathematical association among the first point of change and the second point of change to define cardiac activation indicating a beat in the analysis cardiac signal. |
| FILED | Friday, November 04, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/344230 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Telemetry and Code Generation Vehicles and System Alarms |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/024 (20130101) A61B 5/046 (20130101) A61B 5/0205 (20130101) A61B 5/0245 (20130101) A61B 5/0255 (20130101) A61B 5/0402 (20130101) A61B 5/0422 (20130101) A61B 5/0452 (20130101) A61B 5/0464 (20130101) A61B 5/0468 (20130101) A61B 5/0472 (20130101) A61B 5/742 (20130101) A61B 5/02405 (20130101) A61B 5/04011 (20130101) A61B 5/04012 (20130101) A61B 5/4836 (20130101) A61B 5/6852 (20130101) A61B 5/7203 (20130101) A61B 5/7207 (20130101) A61B 5/7217 (20130101) A61B 5/7239 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/7246 (20130101) A61B 5/7278 (20130101) A61B 5/7282 (20130101) A61B 2562/046 (20130101) |
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| US 09913624 | Varghese et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tomy Varghese (Madison, Wisconsin); Atul Nishikant Ingle (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | High-speed three-dimensional reconstruction of elasticity data is obtained by acquiring a sparse set of data in planes sharing a common axis line and angularly arrayed about the axis line. The axis line may be an RF ablation probe and the reconstruction may enforce a circumferential smoothness in the reconstruction about the probe, as is compatible with an ablation volume. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/780880 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Telemetry and Code Generation Vehicles and System Alarms |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 8/483 (20130101) A61B 8/485 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 8/0841 (20130101) A61B 8/4461 (20130101) A61B 8/4494 (20130101) A61B 18/1477 (20130101) A61B 2017/0011 (20130101) A61B 2018/0088 (20130101) A61B 2090/378 (20160201) 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 7/52042 (20130101) G01S 15/894 (20130101) G01S 15/8918 (20130101) G01S 15/8925 (20130101) G01S 15/8979 (20130101) G01S 15/8993 (20130101) |
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| US 09913700 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaohua Liu (Plano, Texas); Chi Ma (Dallas, Texas); Tiejun Qu (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a biomimetic matrix for providing structural support and scaffolding that allows for regeneration of dentin, pulp, and periodontal tissues. A method of making the biomimetic matrix provides the ability to select both a size of a pore or tubule formed in the biomimetic matrix and a density of pores or tubules disposed throughout the biomimetic matrix. The present invention discloses an approach of successful tubular dentin regeneration both in vitro and in vivo using the biomimetic matrix. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 13, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/881922 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Dentistry; Apparatus or Methods for Oral or Dental Hygiene A61C 8/0006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61C 8/0012 (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 26/006 (20130101) Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 69/001 (20130101) Mechanical Methods or Apparatus in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons D01D 5/003 (20130101) D01D 5/0023 (20130101) D01D 5/0038 (20130101) D01D 5/0076 (20130101) |
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| US 09913832 | Sarkar |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rajabrata Sarkar (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Rajabrata Sarkar (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel function for the p53 gene related to resolution of deep venous thrombosis is disclosed herein. Lack of the p53 gene results in impaired thrombus resolution in a clinically relevant in vivo model of deep venous thrombus resolution. It is further shown that augmentation of p53 activity with quinacrine accelerates thrombus resolution in vivo, and that this beneficial effect is completely dependent on p53. p53-based therapy is therefore provided to accelerate thrombus resolution in patients, and to prevent or ameliorate the debilitating long-term complications of deep venous thrombosis such as post-thrombotic syndrome. |
| FILED | Friday, October 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/501278 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/47 (20130101) A61K 31/473 (20130101) A61K 48/005 (20130101) |
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| US 09913834 | Roden et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard B. Roden (Severna Park, Maryland); Ravi K. Anchoori (Elkridge, Maryland); Balasubramanyam Karanam (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | We describe a bis-benzylidine piperidone, RA190, which covalently binds to the ubiquitin receptor RPN13 (ADRM1) in the 19S regulatory particle and inhibits proteasome function, triggering rapid accumulation of polyubiquitinated proteins. Multiple myeloma lines, even those resistant to bortezomib, were sensitive to RA190 via ER stress-related apoptosis. RA190 stabilized targets of human papillomavirus (HPV) E6 oncoprotein, and preferentially killed HPV-transformed cells. After p.o. or i.p. dosing of mice, RA190 distributed to plasma and major organs excepting brain, and potently inhibited proteasome function in skin and muscle. RA190 administration i.p. profoundly reduced growth of multiple myeloma and ovarian cancer xenografts, and oral RA190 treatment retarded HPV+ syngeneic mouse tumor growth, without impacting spontaneous HPV-specific CD8+ T cell responses, suggesting its therapeutic potential. The bis-benzylidine piperidone RA190 is a new orally-available proteasome inhibitor. Multiple myeloma, cervical and ovarian cancers are particularly sensitive to RA190. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/889768 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0014 (20130101) A61K 9/0053 (20130101) A61K 31/45 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/439 (20130101) A61K 31/454 (20130101) A61K 31/497 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 31/4545 (20130101) A61K 38/05 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 211/74 (20130101) C07D 213/68 (20130101) C07D 401/06 (20130101) C07D 401/12 (20130101) C07D 451/06 (20130101) C07D 471/08 (20130101) C07D 475/04 (20130101) C07D 487/04 (20130101) C07D 495/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09913854 | Gilmore et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MASSACHUSETTS EYE and EAR INFIRMARY (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael S. Gilmore (Boston, Massachusetts); Takashi Suzuki (Matsumyama, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods for inducing cell death in a gram positive bacterium and methods for reducing the proliferation of a gram positive bacterium that include contacting a gram positive bacterium with a dye (e.g., an azo dye) and a TarO inhibitor. Also provided are methods of treating a subject having a gram positive bacterial infection that include administering to a subject having a gram positive bacterial infection a dye (e.g., an azo dye) and a TarO inhibitor. Also provided are compositions containing a dye (e.g., an azo dye) and a TarO inhibitor, and kits containing at least one of these compositions. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/388685 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 33/26 (20130101) A01N 43/54 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/655 (20130101) A61K 31/655 (20130101) A61K 31/706 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/7072 (20130101) A61K 31/7072 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 405/14 (20130101) Organic Dyes or Closely-related Compounds for Producing Dyes; Mordants; Lakes C09B 23/148 (20130101) C09B 29/0014 (20130101) C09B 29/0955 (20130101) C09B 31/043 (20130101) C09B 33/16 (20130101) C09B 33/056 (20130101) C09B 67/0079 (20130101) C09B 67/0097 (20130101) |
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| US 09913862 | Collins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James J. Collins (Newton, Massachusetts); J. Ruben Morones-Ramirez (Nuevo Leon, Mexico); Jonathan Alexander Winkler (Brighton, Massachusetts); Catherine S. Spina (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods and compositions for treatment of a microbial infection or a microbial biofilm in a subject or on a surface by administering to the subject or surface determined to have or suspected of having a microbial infection/film an antimicrobial agent in combination with a silver-containing compound (e.g., a silver salt). In some embodiments, a silver-containing compound can increase activity of the antimicrobial agent. In other embodiments, addition of a silver-containing compound to an antimicrobial agent can expand the antimicrobial spectrum of the antimicrobial agent such that the antimicrobial agent originally indicated for treatment of one microbial strain (e.g., Gram-positive microbes) becomes effective for treating additional microbial strains (e.g., Gram-negative microbes). Other aspects relating to methods and compositions for delivering an agent to a microbe by increasing the membrane permeability of the microbe are also provided herein. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/354440 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 33/38 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 33/38 (20130101) A61K 38/12 (20130101) A61K 38/12 (20130101) A61K 38/14 (20130101) A61K 38/14 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09913864 | Spees |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURE COLLEGE (Burlington, Vermont) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURE COLLEGE (Burlington, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Spees (Colchester, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features compositions comprising agents having cardiac protective activity isolated from epicardial progenitor cells and derivatives thereof, and methods for the use of such compositions. |
| FILED | Friday, August 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/826613 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/30 (20130101) A61K 38/195 (20130101) A61K 38/1833 (20130101) A61K 38/1866 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/069 (20130101) C12N 5/0657 (20130101) C12N 2501/10 (20130101) C12N 2501/12 (20130101) C12N 2501/105 (20130101) C12N 2501/165 (20130101) C12N 2502/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09913878 | Cochran et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer R. Cochran (Stanford, California); Richard H. Kimura (Menlo Park, California); Aron M. Levin (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Engineered peptides that bind with high affinity (low equilibrium dissociation constant (Kd)) to the cell surface receptors of fibronectin (α5β1) or vitronectin (αvβ3 and αvβ5 integrins) are disclosed as useful as imaging tissue. These peptides are based on a molecular scaffold into which a subsequence containing the RGD integrin-binding motif has been inserted. The subsequence (RGD mimic) comprises about 9-13 amino acids, and the RGD contained within the subsequence can be flanked by a variety of amino acids, the sequence of which was determined by sequential rounds of selection (in vitro evolution). The molecular scaffold is preferably based on a knottin, e.g., EETI (Trypsin inhibitor 2 (Trypsin inhibitor II) (EETI-II) [Ecballium elaterium (Jumping cucumber)], AgRP (Agouti-related protein), and Agatoxin IVB, which peptides have a rigidly defined three-dimensional conformation. It is demonstrated that EETI tolerates mutations in other loops and that the present peptides may be used as imaging agents. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 26, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/007091 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/06 (20130101) A61K 38/08 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 49/0056 (20130101) A61K 51/082 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57492 (20130101) |
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| US 09913879 | Hunter et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher A. Hunter (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Alejandro Villarino (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The inventive subject matter relates to novel methods for modulating an immune response in an animal, which comprises administering to said animal an effective amount of an agent that increases IL-27R/WSX-1 activity. Further, the inventive subject matter relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising an effective amount of an agent that increases IL-27R/WSX-1 activity. |
| FILED | Friday, April 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/256398 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — 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 38/208 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/2866 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) |
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| US 09913889 | Cameron et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UVic Industry Partnerships Inc. (Victoria, Canada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UVic Industry Partnerships Inc. (Victoria, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Caroline E. Cameron (Victoria, Canada); Rebecca M. Hof (Victoria, Canada); Simon A. Houston (Victoria, Canada); Martin John Boulanger (Victoria, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application provides methods of stimulating an immune response, such as a protective immune response against Treponema pallidum infection. Such methods utilize fragments of the Tp0751 protein (such as any of SEQ ID NOs: 3-10, those N-terminally truncated from amino acids 1 through 77, 1 through 114, or anywhere in between, e.g., those that start at any amino acid from 78 to 115). In some examples, a Tp0751 protein fragment has a mutated HEXXH site (HEXXH is the wild-type sequence). Also provided are the isolated soluble Tp0751 protein fragments that include a wild-type or mutated HEXXH site, as well as nucleic acids encoding such proteins and kits that include such proteins. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 12, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 14/993961 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 39/0225 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/57 (20130101) A61K 2039/575 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/20 (20130101) |
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| US 09913892 | Crawford et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Gainesville, Florida); CORNELL RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Ithaca, New York); The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Washinton, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Gainesville, Florida); CORNELL RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Ithaca, New York); THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patti Cynthia Crawford (Gainesville, Florida); Paul J. Gibbs (Gainesville, Florida); Edward J. Dubovi (Ithaca, New York); Ruben Omar Donis (Atlanta, Georgia); Jacqueline Katz (Atlanta, Georgia); Alexander I. Klimov (Atlanta, Georgia); Nallakannu P. Lakshmanan (Millsboro, Delaware); Melissa Anne Lum (Millsboro, Delaware); Daniel Ghislena Emiel Goovaerts (Boxmeer, Netherlands); Mark William Mellencamp (Desoto, Kansas); Nancy J. Cox (Atlanta, Georgia); William L. Castleman (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention pertains to isolated influenza virus that is capable of infecting canids and causing respiratory disease in the canid. The subject invention also pertains to compositions and methods for inducing an immune response against an influenza virus of the present invention. The subject invention also pertains to compositions and methods for identifying a virus of the invention and diagnosing infection of an animal with a virus of the invention. |
| FILED | Monday, October 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/507332 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/145 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/552 (20130101) A61K 2039/5252 (20130101) A61K 2039/55555 (20130101) A61K 2039/55566 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 16/1018 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 2710/24043 (20130101) C12N 2760/16121 (20130101) C12N 2760/16122 (20130101) C12N 2760/16134 (20130101) C12N 2760/16151 (20130101) C12N 2760/16171 (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 1/701 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56983 (20130101) G01N 2333/11 (20130101) |
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| US 09913895 | Yamamoto |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Janet K. Yamamoto (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention concerns methods and materials for inducing an immune response in an animal or person against an immunodeficiency virus, such as HIV, SIV, or FIV. In one embodiment, a method of the invention comprises administering one or more antigens and/or immunogens to the person or animal wherein the antigen and/or immunogen comprises one or more evolutionarily conserved epitopes of immunodeficiency viruses. In one embodiment, the epitope is one that is conserved between HIV and SIV, or between HIV and FIV. In another embodiment, the epitope is one that is conserved between HIV, SIV, and FIV. |
| FILED | Monday, February 09, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/617711 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/21 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2039/57 (20130101) A61K 2039/552 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 16/1045 (20130101) C07K 2317/31 (20130101) C07K 2317/33 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2740/15034 (20130101) C12N 2740/16034 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56983 (20130101) G01N 2333/52 (20130101) G01N 2333/57 (20130101) |
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| US 09913911 | Davis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Davis (Pasadena, California); Akinleye Alabi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Carrier nanoparticles comprising a polymer containing a polyol coupled to a polymer containing a boronic acid and a linkage cleavable under reducing conditions, configured to present the polymer containing a boronic acid to an environment external to the nanoparticle and related compositions, methods and systems. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 07, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/371640 |
| 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 9/14 (20130101) A61K 9/5146 (20130101) A61K 31/337 (20130101) A61K 31/704 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 31/4745 (20130101) A61K 47/545 (20170801) A61K 47/549 (20170801) A61K 47/644 (20170801) A61K 47/6935 (20170801) A61K 47/48207 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 59/4078 (20130101) C08G 65/337 (20130101) C08G 69/40 (20130101) C08G 69/48 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/351 (20130101) |
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| US 09913915 | Walz |
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| APPLICANT(S) | OPHIDION INC. (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ophidion Inc. (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andreas Walz (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods are provided including a transporter peptide derived from the loop2 domain of the neuronally-derived lynx1 protein which can be conjugated to an effector agent to form a transporter-effector complex for transport of the therapeutic effector agent to a target that is found across the blood brain barrier. |
| FILED | Monday, November 14, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/351024 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 47/42 (20130101) A61K 47/56 (20170801) A61K 47/64 (20170801) A61K 47/48246 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 48/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/08 (20130101) C07K 14/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2320/32 (20130101) |
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| US 09913916 | DeSimone et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph M. DeSimone (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Mathew Finniss (Sussex, Canada); Mary Napier (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Ashish Pandya (Morrisville, North Carolina); Matthew Parrott (Carrboro, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Asymmetric bifunctional silyl (ABS) monomers comprising covalently linked pharmaceutical, chemical and biological agents are described. These agents can also be covalently bound via the silyl group to delivery vehicles for delivering the agents to desired targets or areas. Also described are delivery vehicles which contain ABS monomers comprising covalently linked agents and to vehicles that are covalently linked to the ABS monomers. The silyl modifications described herein can modify properties of the agents and vehicles, thereby providing desired solubility, stability, hydrophobicity and targeting. |
| FILED | Monday, October 03, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/283574 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/58 (20170801) A61K 47/60 (20170801) A61K 47/61 (20170801) A61K 47/62 (20170801) A61K 47/4883 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/6913 (20170801) A61K 47/6915 (20170801) A61K 47/6925 (20170801) A61K 47/6933 (20170801) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 7/083 (20130101) C07F 7/184 (20130101) C07F 7/1868 (20130101) Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 23/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 19/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/3515 (20130101) C12N 2320/32 (20130101) |
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| US 09913917 | Groves et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kevin Groves (Somerville, Massachusetts); Milind Rajopadhye (Westford, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | VisEn Medical, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Groves (Somerville, Massachusetts); Milind Rajopadhye (Westford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to highly fluorescent metal oxide nanoparticles to which biomolecules and other compounds can be chemically linked to form biocompatible, stable optical imaging agents for in vitro and in vivo applications. The fluorescent metal oxide nanoparticles may also be used for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), thus providing a multi modality imaging agent. |
| FILED | Friday, December 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/645111 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/0002 (20130101) A61K 49/0032 (20130101) A61K 49/0056 (20130101) A61K 49/0093 (20130101) A61K 49/186 (20130101) A61K 49/1833 (20130101) A61K 49/1866 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09913926 | Stewart et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Russell J. Stewart (Salt Lake City, Utah); Hui Shao (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Russell J. Stewart (Salt Lake City, Utah); Hui Shao (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is the synthesis of adhesive complex coacervates and their use thereof. The adhesive complex coacervates are composed of a mixture of one or more polycations and one or more polyanions. The polycations and polyanions in the adhesive complex coacervate are crosslinked with one another by covalent bonds upon curing. The adhesive complex coacervates have several desirable features when compared to conventional bioadhesives, which are effective in water-based applications. The adhesive complex coacervates described herein exhibit good interfacial tension in water when applied to a substrate (i.e., they spread over the interface rather than being beaded up). Additionally, the ability of the complex coacervate to crosslink intermolecularly increases the cohesive strength of the adhesive complex coacervate. They have numerous biological applications as bioadhesives and drug delivery devices and are particularly useful in underwater applications and situations where water is present such as, for example, physiological conditions. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/617882 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2/2846 (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 24/043 (20130101) A61L 24/0073 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 27/26 (20130101) A61L 27/54 (20130101) A61L 2300/62 (20130101) A61L 2300/602 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 8/00 (20130101) C08F 8/00 (20130101) C08F 8/06 (20130101) C08F 8/06 (20130101) C08F 8/10 (20130101) C08F 8/10 (20130101) C08F 220/54 (20130101) C08F 220/56 (20130101) C08F 230/02 (20130101) C08F 230/02 (20130101) C08F 230/02 (20130101) C08F 230/02 (20130101) C08F 2800/10 (20130101) C08F 2810/20 (20130101) C08F 2810/30 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 33/26 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 133/26 (20130101) Adhesives; Non-mechanical Aspects of Adhesive Processes in General; Adhesive Processes Not Provided for Elsewhere; Use of Materials as Adhesives C09J 133/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09913927 | Stewart |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF UTAH RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Russell J. Stewart (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are fluid complex coacervates that produce solid adhesives in situ. Oppositely charged polyelectrolytes were designed to form fluid adhesive complex coacervates at ionic strengths higher than the ionic strength of the application site, but an insoluble adhesive solid or gel at the application site. When the fluid, high ionic strength adhesive complex coacervates are introduced into the lower ionic strength application site, the fluid complex coacervate is converted to a an adhesive solid or gel as the salt concentration in the complex coacervate equilibrates to the application site salt concentration. In one embodiment, the fluid complex coacervates are designed to solidify in situ at physiological ionic strength and have numerous medical applications. In other aspects, the fluid complex coacervates can be used in aqueous environment for non-medical applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 15/325885 |
| 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 49/0043 (20130101) A61K 49/0054 (20130101) A61K 49/0073 (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 24/02 (20130101) A61L 24/0015 (20130101) A61L 24/0031 (20130101) A61L 24/0042 (20130101) A61L 24/046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 24/104 (20130101) A61L 2300/416 (20130101) A61L 2430/02 (20130101) A61L 2430/36 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 5/1668 (20130101) |
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| US 09913979 | Wheeler Moss et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christa Wheeler Moss (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Paul Hunter Peckham (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Multiple designs, systems, methods and processes for control using electrical signals recorded from clinically paralyzed muscles and nerves are presented. The discomplete neural prosthesis system and method for clinically paralyzed humans utilizes a controller. The controller is adapted to receive a volitional electrical signal generated by the human that is manifest below the lesion that causes the clinical paralysis. The controller uses at least the volitional electrical signal to generate a control signal that is output back to a plant to change the state of the plant, which in one aspect is one or more of the user's paralyzed muscles to achieve a functional result or to devices in the environment around the user that are adapted to receive commands from the controller. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 20, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/384849 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/36003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/36017 (20130101) A61N 1/36067 (20130101) A61N 1/36135 (20130101) |
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| US 09913985 | Greenberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Jay Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Kelly Hobart McClure (Simi Valley, California); James Singleton Little (Saugus, California); Rongqing Dai (Valencia, California); Arup Roy (Valencia, California); Richard Agustin Castro (Pasadena, California); John Reinhold (Tarzana, California); Kea-Tiong Tang (Temple City, California); Sumit Yadav (Los Angeles, California); Chunhong Zhou (Pasadena, California); Dao Min Zhou (Saugus, California); Pishoy Maksy (Sherman Oaks, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Jay Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Kelly Hobart McClure (Simi Valley, California); James Singleton Little (Saugus, California); Rongqing Dai (Valencia, California); Arup Roy (Valencia, California); Richard Agustin Castro (Pasadena, California); John Reinhold (Tarzana, California); Kea-Tiong Tang (Temple City, California); Sumit Yadav (Los Angeles, California); Chunhong Zhou (Pasadena, California); Dao Min Zhou (Saugus, California); Pishoy Maksy (Sherman Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In electrically stimulating neural tissue it is important to prevent over stimulation and unbalanced stimulation which would cause damage to the neural tissue, the electrode, or both. It is critical that neural tissue in not subjected to any direct current or alternating current above a safe threshold. Further, it is important to identify defective electrodes as continued use may result in neural and further electrode damage. The present invention presents system and stimulator control mechanisms to prevent damage to neural tissue. |
| FILED | Friday, April 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/413771 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0543 (20130101) A61N 1/36046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/36142 (20130101) A61N 1/36185 (20130101) |
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| US 09914709 | Jorgensen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | YALE UNIVERSITY (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | YALE UNIVERSITY (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William L. Jorgensen (Deep River, Connecticut); Karen S. Anderson (Guilford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes novel compositions useful for preventing or treating an HIV-1 infection in a subject in need thereof. The present invention further includes a novel method of preventing or treating an HIV-1 infection in a subject in need thereof, the method comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of a compound of the invention. In one embodiment, the subject is further administered at least one additional therapeutic agent. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/310564 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/53 (20130101) A61K 31/53 (20130101) A61K 31/505 (20130101) A61K 31/505 (20130101) A61K 31/536 (20130101) A61K 31/536 (20130101) A61K 31/551 (20130101) A61K 31/551 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 239/48 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 251/52 (20130101) |
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| US 09914723 | Nikolovska-Coleska et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zaneta Nikolovska-Coleska (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Naval Bajwa (Lafayette, Indiana); Chenzhong Liao (Anhui, China PRC); Lei Miao (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is in the field of medicinal chemistry. In particular, the invention relates to a new class of small-molecules having a [(1-Piperazinyl)-4-pyridinylmethyl]-Naphtho[1,2-b]furan structure which function as inhibitors of Mcl-1 protein, and their use as therapeutics for the treatment of cancer and other diseases. |
| FILED | Friday, March 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/386230 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 307/92 (20130101) C07D 405/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 405/14 (20130101) C07D 409/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09914733 | Narayan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Satya Narayan (Gainesville, Florida); Sukwon Hong (Gainesville, Florida); Aruna S. Jaiswal (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The instant invention describes biisoquinoline compounds having therapeutic activity, and methods of treating disorders such as cancer, tumors and cell proliferation related disorders, or affect cell differentiation, dedifferentiation or transdifferentiation. |
| FILED | Monday, March 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 15/301445 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 471/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09914751 | Carroll et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION (Boston, Massachusetts); President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael C. Carroll (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Francis D. Moore, Jr. (Medfield, Massachusetts); Herbert B. Hechtman (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides natural IgM antibody inhibitors that may be used to treat various inflammatory diseases or disorders. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 23, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/806924 |
| 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 38/00 (20130101) A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 2039/57 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/00 (20130101) C07K 16/18 (20130101) C07K 16/28 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) C07K 2317/52 (20130101) |
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| US 09914753 | Krishna et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eastern Virginia Medical School (Norfolk, Virginia); Children's Health Foundation, Inc. (Norfolk, Virginia); Eriko Life Sciences Ventures, LLC (Norfolk, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eastern Virginia Medical School (Norfolk, Virginia); Children's Health Foundation, Inc. (Norfolk, Virginia); Eriko Life Sciences Ventures, LLC (Norfolk, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neel K. Krishna (Norfolk, Virginia); Kenji Cunnion (Norfolk, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides peptide compounds that regulate the complement system and methods of using these compounds. The invention is an isolated, purified peptide of 30 amino acids derived from human astrovirus protein, called CP1. The invention is directed to peptide compounds that are peptide mimetics, peptide analogs and/or synthetic derivatives of CP1 having, for example, internal peptide deletions and substitutions, deletions and substitutions at the N-terminus and C-terminus, and that are able to regulate complement activation. The invention further provides pharmaceutical compositions of therapeutically effective amounts of the peptide compounds and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, diluent, or excipient for treating a disease or condition associated with complement-mediated tissue damage. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 06, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/203469 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/03 (20130101) A61K 38/162 (20130101) A61K 38/1725 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 14/08 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2770/12022 (20130101) C12N 2770/12033 (20130101) |
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| US 09914756 | Beernink |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Children's Hospital and Research Center Oakland (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL and RESEARCH CENTER AT OAKLAND (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter T. Beernink (Walnut Creek, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Non-naturally occurring factor H binding proteins derived from variant 3 fHbp that can elicit antibodies that are bactericidal for at least one strain of N. meningitidis, and methods of use of such proteins, are provided. In certain embodiments, a non-naturally occurring factor H binding protein (fHbp) derived from a naturally occurring variant 3 fHbp is disclosed. The non-naturally fHbp may include a substitution of the histidine at position 223 of the naturally occurring variant 3 fHbp with an amino acid selected from the group consisting of arginine, lysine, phenylalanine, tyrosine, or tryptophan, wherein the numbering of position 223 is based on the numbering of the mature fHbp ID 1. The non-naturally occurring fHbp may have a lower affinity for human factor H (fH) than fHbp ID 79. |
| FILED | Friday, August 01, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/907228 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/095 (20130101) A61K 2039/53 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09914761 | Teitelbaum et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Teitelbaum (St. Louis, Missouri); Daved Fremont (St. Louis, Missouri); Julia T. Warren (St. Louis, Missouri); Christopher Nelson (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for constructing efficient inhibitors of target TNF superfamily receptors, single chain target TNF superfamily ligands that inhibit of target TNF superfamily receptors while failing to engage or inhibit non-target TNF superfamily receptors, and methods of their use to treat diseases are provided. Single chain RANKL, TNF, and TRAIL ligands that effectively inhibit their target receptors while failing to inhibit non-target TNF superfamily receptors are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, July 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/796827 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/70575 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2319/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/02 (20130101) C07K 2319/21 (20130101) C07K 2319/23 (20130101) C07K 2319/30 (20130101) C07K 2319/50 (20130101) C07K 2319/74 (20130101) |
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| US 09914773 | Low et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana); The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana); THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DEPEARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip S. Low (West Lafayette, Indiana); Dimiter S. Dimitrov (Frederick, Maryland); Yang Feng (Frederick, Maryland); Jiayin Shen (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Human anti-human folate receptor beta antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof are described, as well as methods of using such antibodies and fragments to treat inflammatory disorders or cancers expressing cell surface FRβ. |
| FILED | Monday, October 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/524304 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 9/127 (20130101) A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 47/48561 (20130101) A61K 47/48823 (20130101) A61K 49/16 (20130101) A61K 49/0058 (20130101) A61K 51/1027 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/705 (20130101) C07K 16/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/21 (20130101) C07K 2317/33 (20130101) C07K 2317/54 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) C07K 2317/565 (20130101) C07K 2317/732 (20130101) |
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| US 09914774 | de Sauvage et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Genentech, Inc. (South San Francisco, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Genentech, Inc. (South San Francisco, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fred de Sauvage (Foster City, California); Christian Siebel (Berkeley, California); Brian Biehs (San Francisco, California); Hua Tian (San Francisco, California); Ophir Klein (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides Notch pathway inhibition with reduced toxicity. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 09, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/795761 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/497 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 39/3955 (20130101) A61K 39/3955 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) A61K 2039/507 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/705 (20130101) C07K 16/18 (20130101) C07K 16/22 (20130101) C07K 16/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/2863 (20130101) C07K 2317/21 (20130101) C07K 2317/31 (20130101) C07K 2317/73 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2317/524 (20130101) C07K 2319/30 (20130101) C07K 2319/32 (20130101) |
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| US 09914780 | Su |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lishan Su (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to antibodies targeted to BDCA2 that deplete plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDC) and methods of using the antibodies to treat disorders associated with pDC. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/442157 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/39541 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/2851 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/24 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) C07K 2317/56 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0081 (20130101) |
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| US 09914913 | Sackstein |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Sackstein (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Robert Sackstein (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Sackstein (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for modifying glycans (e.g., glycans expressed on the surface of live cells or cell particles) are provided herein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/487290 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/28 (20130101) A61K 35/30 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0006 (20130101) C12N 5/0623 (20130101) C12N 5/0663 (20130101) C12N 9/1051 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2500/10 (20130101) C12N 2500/14 (20130101) C12N 2500/16 (20130101) C12N 2500/22 (20130101) C12N 2500/34 (20130101) C12N 2501/58 (20130101) C12N 2501/59 (20130101) C12N 2501/70 (20130101) C12N 2506/1369 (20130101) |
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| US 09914915 | Fischetti et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vincent A. Fischetti (West Hempstead, New York); Jonathan Schmitz (New York, New York); Daniel Gilmer (New York, New York); Chad Euler (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vincent A. Fischetti (West Hempstead, New York); Jonathan Schmitz (New York, New York); Daniel Gilmer (New York, New York); Chad Euler (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods, compositions and articles of manufacture useful for the prophylactic and therapeutic amelioration and treatment of gram-positive bacteria, including Streptococcus and Staphylococcus, and related conditions. The invention provides compositions and methods incorporating and utilizing Streptococcus suis derived bacteriophage lysins, particularly PlySs2 and/or PlySs1 lytic enzymes and variants thereof, including truncations thereof. Methods for treatment of humans are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/685696 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/47 (20130101) A61K 38/50 (20130101) A61K 38/162 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/2462 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Enzymes C12Y 302/01017 (20130101) |
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| US 09914917 | Norris et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Karen A. Norris (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Heather M. Kling (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Karen A. Norris (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Heather M. Kling (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A vaccine is disclosed that promotes CD4+ T cell-independent host defense mechanisms to defend against infection by fungi such as Pneumocystis subspecies (spp.). The vaccine may be used to prevent or to treat fungal infections. The novel vaccine can provide protective immunity, even for immunocompromised individuals such as HIV patients having reduced levels of CD4+ T cells. |
| FILED | Monday, October 05, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/875421 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0002 (20130101) A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/541 (20130101) A61K 2039/543 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/58 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Enzymes C12Y 304/21061 (20130101) |
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| US 09914924 | Aronin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil Aronin (Newtonville, Massachusetts); Phillip Zamore (Northboro, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to methods and compositions for treating neurological disease, and more particularly to methods of delivering iRNA agents to neural cells for the treatment of neurological diseases. |
| FILED | Monday, January 05, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/589807 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 47/48123 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/315 (20130101) C12N 2310/321 (20130101) C12N 2310/3515 (20130101) C12N 2320/32 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) C12Q 2600/178 (20130101) |
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| US 09914926 | Sharp et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, INC. (Bronx, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Inc. (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Sharp (Scardale, New York); Rabab Charafeddine (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of treating a wound in a subject are provided comprising administering to the subject an amount of an inhibitor of Fidgetin-like 2. Compositions and pharmaceutical compositions comprising an amount of an inhibitor of Fidgetin-like 2 are also provided. Methods are also provided for identifying an inhibitor of Fidgetin-like 2. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 01, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/057480 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/06 (20130101) A61K 9/0014 (20130101) A61K 9/127 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 31/7105 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 15/1137 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2320/30 (20130101) |
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| US 09914936 | Lawrence et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeanne B. Lawrence (Mapleville, Rhode Island); Lisa L. Hall (Framingham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention features compositions and methods for introducing, into cells, nucleic acids whose expression results in chromosomal silencing. The nucleic acids are targeted to specific chromosomal regions where they subsequently reduce the expression of deleterious genes, or cause the death of deleterious cells. Where the nucleic acid sequence is a silencing sequence, it may encode an Xist RNA or other non-coding, silencing RNA. Accordingly, the present invention features, inter alia, nucleic acid constructs that include a transgene (e.g., a silencing sequence encoding an Xist RNA or other non-coding RNA that silences a segment of a chromosome); first and second sequences that direct insertion of the silencing sequence into a targeted chromosome; and, optionally, a selectable marker. |
| FILED | Friday, March 18, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/074785 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 48/00 (20130101) A61K 48/005 (20130101) Peptides C07K 2319/81 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/22 (20130101) C12N 15/85 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 15/907 (20130101) C12N 2310/11 (20130101) C12N 2320/32 (20130101) C12N 2330/10 (20130101) C12N 2750/14143 (20130101) |
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| US 09914939 | Church et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George M. Church (Brookline, Massachusetts); Luhan Yang (Somerville, Massachusetts); Marc Guell (Boston, Massachusetts); Joyce Lichi Yang (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of genome engineering in cells using a TALEN lacking repeat sequences or Cas9 is provided. |
| FILED | Friday, July 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/907605 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0696 (20130101) C12N 15/85 (20130101) C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 15/907 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2510/00 (20130101) C12N 2740/15043 (20130101) C12N 2800/90 (20130101) C12N 2830/003 (20130101) |
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| US 09914950 | Lazinski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tufts University (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tufts University (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Lazinski (Franklin, Massachusetts); Andrew Camilli (Sharon, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | According to some aspects of the invention, provided herein are methods of amplifying nucleic acids using homopolymer-mediated ligation. The methods, in some embodiments, comprise adding a first homopolymer of at least 12 nucleotides to each 3′ end of blunt-ended double-stranded nucleic acid containing a target nucleic acid, thereby producing a partially double-stranded nucleic acid. |
| FILED | Friday, August 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/423311 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 1/6855 (20130101) C12Q 1/6855 (20130101) C12Q 2525/173 (20130101) |
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| US 09914960 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeunghoon Lee (Boise, Idaho); Bernard Yurke (Boise, Idaho); Elton Graugnard (Boise, Idaho); Will Hughes (Boise, Idaho); Bert Huttanus (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Boise State University (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeunghoon Lee (Boise, Idaho); Bernard Yurke (Boise, Idaho); Elton Graugnard (Boise, Idaho); Will Hughes (Boise, Idaho); Bert Huttanus (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods for colorimetric detection schemes for detecting a variety of biomolecules. The compositions and methods employ DNA hybridization chain reaction for catalytic aggregation of gold nanoparticles. In this catalytic aggregation scheme, a single target DNA strand triggers the formation of multiple inter-particle linkages in contrast to the single linkage formed in conventional direct aggregation schemes. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/211076 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/682 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/682 (20130101) C12Q 2525/197 (20130101) C12Q 2525/301 (20130101) C12Q 2563/137 (20130101) C12Q 2563/155 (20130101) C12Q 2565/113 (20130101) |
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| US 09914967 | Church et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George M. Church (Brookline, Massachusetts); Richard C. Terry (Carlisle, Massachusetts); Frederic Vigneault (Natick, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of sequencing nucleic acids by probe hybridization and/or ligation is provided using DNA origami as a barcode for a nucleic acid probe. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 05, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/402795 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 1/6874 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2525/161 (20130101) C12Q 2533/107 (20130101) C12Q 2563/179 (20130101) C12Q 2563/185 (20130101) |
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| US 09914969 | Brenna et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Thomas Brenna (Ithaca, New York); Holly Turner Reardon (Santee, California); Sesha Durga Kumar Kothapalli (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates methods to increase the expression of fatty acid desaturases (FADS) and increase cellular and tissue levels of highly unsaturated fatty acids (HUFA) by modulating one or more of the FADS via the action of specific classes of drugs (e.g., statins and LXR agonists). The present invention also relates to methods of treating conditions (e.g., tumor and cancer) involving deficient function of FADS by administering statins and/or LXR agonists. The present invention further relates to methods of determining the need for statins or dietary LCPUFA in subjects. |
| FILED | Monday, January 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/376410 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/18 (20130101) A61K 31/22 (20130101) A61K 31/40 (20130101) A61K 31/195 (20130101) A61K 31/366 (20130101) A61K 31/404 (20130101) A61K 31/505 (20130101) A61K 31/575 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/106 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) |
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| US 09914978 | Driebe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Elizabeth Driebe (Flagstaff, Arizona); David Engelthaler (Flagstaff, Arizona); Jolene Bowers (Flagstaff, Arizona); Paul Keim (Flagstaff, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Translational Genomics Research Institute (Phoenix, Arizona); Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elizabeth Driebe (Flagstaff, Arizona); David Engelthaler (Flagstaff, Arizona); Jolene Bowers (Flagstaff, Arizona); Paul Keim (Flagstaff, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method, a kit and composition for determining MRSA and other Staphylococcus strain resistance to one or more antibiotic agents through detecting the presence of the respective antibiotic resistance gene. The methods include real-time PCR assays, and the kits and compositions include oligonucleotides used as primers and probes. |
| FILED | Friday, March 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/051780 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/689 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/16 (20130101) |
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| US 09914982 | Linnen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gen-Probe Incorporated (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GEN-PROBE INCORPORATED (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey M. Linnen (Poway, California); Daniel P. Kolk (Ramona, California); Janel M. Dockter (San Diego, California); Damon K. Getman (Poway, California); Tadashi Yoshimura (Chiba, Japan); Martha K. Ho-Sing-Loy (San Diego, California); Reinhold B. Pollner (San Diego, California); Leslie A. Stringfellow (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions, methods and kits for detecting viral nucleic acids. Targets that can be detected in accordance with the invention include HBV and/or HIV-1 and/or HCV nucleic acids. Particularly described are oligonucleotides that are useful as hybridization probes and amplification primers that facilitate detection of very low levels of HBV nucleic acids. |
| FILED | Friday, August 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/827087 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/703 (20130101) C12Q 1/706 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09915646 | Knutson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith L. Knutson (Ft. Pierce, Florida); Lynn C. Hartmann (Rochester, Minnesota); Kimberly R. Kalli (Dover, Minnesota); Christopher J. Krco (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | This document provides methods and materials related to assessing immunity to folate receptors. For example, methods and materials for assessing FRα immunity in a mammal are provided. This document also provides methods and materials related to stimulating immunity to folate receptors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 15, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/969289 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/04 (20130101) A61K 39/0011 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/08 (20130101) C07K 14/705 (20130101) C07K 14/4748 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/505 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/705 (20130101) G01N 2800/52 (20130101) |
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| US 09915647 | Yadava et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Baystate Medical Center, Inc. (Springfield, Massachusetts); UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER, INC. (Springfield, Massachusetts); UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nagendra Yadava (Longmeadow, Massachusetts); Alejandro Pablo Heuck (Amherst, Massachusetts); Chul Kim (West Springfield, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods, compositions, devices, and kits relating to the use of cholesterol-dependent cytolysins (e.g., PFOs) for measuring intracellular mitochondrial activity. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 31, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/087521 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/33 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5005 (20130101) G01N 33/5079 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/33 (20130101) |
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| US 09915651 | Bao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gang Bao (Mableton, Georgia); Sheng Tong (Atlanta, Georgia) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Gang Bao (Mableton, Georgia); Sheng Tong (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A new signal amplification method exploiting the dense atom packing in metallic nanocrystals has been developed for detecting target substances. By dissolving nanocrystals to individual ions that are stoichiometrically converted to chromophores and quantified photometrically, extremely high signal amplification can be achieved. Signal amplification is fully determined by the total number of atoms in the nanocrystals bound to a single target molecule. The disclosed nanocrystal amplification method can be implemented with a rich selection of metal/metal oxide nanocrystals and metal-reactive chromogenic substrates. The chromogenic reactions can be either solution-based or surface-based and performed in aqueous or organic phase, supporting a variety of assay formats. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/869780 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/553 (20130101) G01N 33/588 (20130101) G01N 33/54306 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09915657 | Marr et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland); Yeshiva University (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | YESHIVA UNIVERSTIY (New York, New York); THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kieren A. Marr (Baltimore, Maryland); Marta Feldmesser (New York, New York); Janet F. Staab (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Fungal infections are difficult to diagnose. The most common filamentous fungal infection, aspergillosis, carries with it a high mortality. Culture of the organism is difficult and obtaining samples, e.g., through a lung biopsy, sometimes causes morbidity. Biomarkers that indicate ‘early’ infection in it development are sought after. One such biomarker is detection of galactomannan (GM), a polysaccharide that is attached to hyphal cell walls and secreted during growth of the organism. Galactomannan is excreted in urine. Disclosed herein is a lateral flow assay comprising monoclonal antibodies that recognize specific residues of Aspergillus fumigatus for detecting GM in urine samples to provide a point-of-care detection device to allow for frequent screening and early diagnosis in patients at high risk for infection. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/546830 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 16/14 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/66 (20130101) G01N 33/569 (20130101) G01N 33/54366 (20130101) G01N 33/56961 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2400/02 (20130101) G01N 2469/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09915659 | Yu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John S. Yu (Los Angeles, California); Lincoln A. Edwards (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes methods of prognosticating patient survival based on an analysis of the ZEB1 gene or gene product. The present invention also describes methods of selecting and/or selecting various therapies based on the analysis of ZEB1, IDH1, PTEN, MGMT and/or RET. Further describes are systems for analyzing ZEB1, IDH1, PTEN, MGMT and/or RET as well as selecting and/or selecting the therapies. |
| FILED | Friday, June 17, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/186188 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/44 (20130101) A61K 31/44 (20130101) A61K 31/404 (20130101) A61K 31/404 (20130101) A61K 31/436 (20130101) A61K 31/436 (20130101) A61K 31/506 (20130101) A61K 31/506 (20130101) A61K 31/4188 (20130101) A61K 31/4188 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) C12Q 2600/106 (20130101) C12Q 2600/118 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57407 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/904 (20130101) G01N 2800/52 (20130101) |
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| US 09915668 | Sierks et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Sierks (Ft. McDowell, Arizona); Huilai Tian (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to antibodies, antibody fragments and binding agents that specifically recognize oligomeric tau but do not bind to monomeric tau, fibrillar tau or non-disease associated forms of tau. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 04, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/479110 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 16/18 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6896 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/47 (20130101) G01N 2800/2821 (20130101) G01N 2800/7047 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qiuhong He (Wexford, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods employing spin editing techniques to improve magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) and magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) are discussed. Using these spin editing techniques, magnetic resonance signals of one or more unwanted chemicals (that is, chemicals whose signals are to be filtered out or suppressed) chemicals can be suppressed, so that the signal(s) of a first set of chemicals can be obtained without signals from the one or more unwanted chemicals. Information about and differences between the molecular topologies of the first set of chemicals and the one or more unwanted chemicals can be used to design a sequence that suppresses the one or more unwanted chemicals while allowing acquisition of signal(s) from the first set of chemicals. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 02, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/013584 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/485 (20130101) G01R 33/1284 (20130101) G01R 33/4608 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 33/4828 (20130101) G01R 33/5605 (20130101) G01R 33/5607 (20130101) G01R 33/34046 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kamil Ugurbil (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kamil Ugurbil (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for acquiring image data from a plurality of slice locations in a subject with a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system is provided. The method includes directing the MRI system to perform a pulse sequence that includes performing a contrast preparation module configured to generate contrast-encoded longitudinal magnetization and an image encoding module configured to acquire image data from multiple slice locations substantially simultaneously. The contrast preparation module generally includes tipping longitudinal magnetization into the transverse plane to produce transverse magnetization, generating contrast-prepared transverse magnetization by establishing an image contrast in the transverse magnetization, and tipping the contrast-prepared magnetization back along the longitudinal axis to produce the contrast-encoded longitudinal magnetization. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/995869 |
| ART UNIT | 2852 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/561 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 33/4835 (20130101) G01R 33/5602 (20130101) |
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| US 09915819 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xingde Li (Ellicott City, Maryland); Yicong Wu (North Potomac, Maryland); Wenxuan Liang (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a fiber optic device that enables multiphoton imaging with improved signal-to-noise ratio having a single piece of double-clad fiber (DCF). The device also includes all components for focusing, scanning and signal collection within an endomicroscope probe of 2.1 mm outer diameter (OD). The unprecedented imaging capability of this miniature endomicroscope is demonstrated herein via both ex vivo and in vivo experiments. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 01, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/169917 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 1/0017 (20130101) A61B 5/0068 (20130101) A61B 5/0084 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/636 (20130101) G01N 21/6458 (20130101) G01N 33/4833 (20130101) G01N 2021/6478 (20130101) G01N 2021/6484 (20130101) G01N 2201/10 (20130101) G01N 2201/0866 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 3/0087 (20130101) G02B 21/0008 (20130101) G02B 23/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 23/243 (20130101) G02B 23/2469 (20130101) G02B 26/103 (20130101) |
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| US 09916823 | Griswold et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Griswold (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Dan Ma (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus, methods, and other embodiments associated with producing gradient waveforms derived from music are provided. A piece of encoded music (e.g., MP3 file) is converted to an encoding gradient associated with a magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) pulse sequence. The encoding gradient may be optimized with respect to maximum gradient amplitude, gradient slew rate, and other properties of a magnetic resonance (MR) apparatus that will perform the MRF pulse sequence. The MR apparatus may then be controlled to perform an MRF procedure using the encoding gradient. Performing the MRF procedure using the encoding gradient may cause the MR apparatus to reproduce the piece of encoded music. The encoding gradient may be manipulated (e.g., rotated) to encode additional lines in k-space. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/258064 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrophonic Musical Instruments G10H 3/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G10H 2220/371 (20130101) G10H 2220/461 (20130101) |
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| US 09917323 | Yan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yushan Yan (Hockessin, Delaware); Shuang Gu (Newark, Delaware); Ke Gong (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A redox flow battery is provided having a double-membrane (one cation exchange membrane and one anion exchange membrane), triple-electrolyte (one electrolyte in contact with the negative electrode, one electrolyte in contact with the positive electrode, and one electrolyte positioned between and in contact with the two membranes). The cation exchange membrane is used to separate the negative or positive electrolyte and the middle electrolyte, and the anion exchange membrane is used to separate the middle electrolyte and the positive or negative electrolyte. This design physically isolates, but ionically connects, the negative electrolyte and positive electrolyte. The physical isolation offers great freedom in choosing redox pairs in the negative electrolyte and positive electrolyte, making high voltage of redox flow batteries possible. The ionic conduction drastically reduces the overall ionic crossover between negative electrolyte and positive one, leading to high columbic efficiency. |
| FILED | Friday, June 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/918444 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 2/00 (20130101) H01M 2/40 (20130101) H01M 8/04 (20130101) H01M 8/18 (20130101) H01M 8/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/188 (20130101) H01M 8/04186 (20130101) H01M 10/4242 (20130101) H01M 2300/0082 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/528 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49108 (20150115) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); Indi Molecular, Inc. (Culver City, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); Indi Molecular, Inc. (Culver City, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Blake Farrow (Pasadena, California); James R. Heath (South Pasadena, California); Heather Dawn Agnew (Culver City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application provides stable peptide-based Botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) serotype A capture agents and methods of use as detection and diagnosis agents and in the treatment of diseases and disorders. The application further provides methods of manufacturing BoNT serotype A capture agents using iterative on-bead in situ click chemistry. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 16, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/072039 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/06 (20130101) A61K 38/08 (20130101) A61K 38/12 (20130101) A61K 47/48215 (20130101) General Methods of Organic Chemistry; Apparatus Therefor C07B 59/008 (20130101) C07B 2200/05 (20130101) Peptides C07K 5/0808 (20130101) C07K 7/06 (20130101) C07K 7/52 (20130101) C07K 2319/01 (20130101) C07K 2319/70 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/531 (20130101) G01N 2333/33 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/12 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF UTAH RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Russell J. Stewart (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are fluid complex coacervates that produce solid adhesives in situ. Oppositely charged polyelectrolytes were designed to form fluid adhesive complex coacervates at ionic strengths higher than the ionic strength of the application site, but an insoluble adhesive solid or gel at the application site. When the fluid, high ionic strength adhesive complex coacervates are introduced into the lower ionic strength application site, the fluid complex coacervate is converted to a an adhesive solid or gel as the salt concentration in the complex coacervate equilibrates to the application site salt concentration. In one embodiment, the fluid complex coacervates are designed to solidify in situ at physiological ionic strength and have numerous medical applications. In other aspects, the fluid complex coacervates can be used in aqueous environment for non-medical applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 15/325885 |
| 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 49/0043 (20130101) A61K 49/0054 (20130101) A61K 49/0073 (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 24/02 (20130101) A61L 24/0015 (20130101) A61L 24/0031 (20130101) A61L 24/0042 (20130101) A61L 24/046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 24/104 (20130101) A61L 2300/416 (20130101) A61L 2430/02 (20130101) A61L 2430/36 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 5/1668 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kate Broderick (San Diego, California); Stephen Kemmerrer (San Diego, California); Jay McCoy (S Temecula, California) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Kate Broderick (San Diego, California); Stephen Kemmerrer (San Diego, California); Jay McCoy (S Temecula, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure is directed to a device for electroporating and delivering one or more antigens and a method of electroporating and delivering one or more antigens to cells of epidermal tissues using the device. The device comprises a housing, a plurality of electrode arrays projecting from the housing, each electrode array including at least one electrode, a pulse generator electrically coupled to the electrodes, a programmable microcontroller electrically coupled to the pulse generator, and an electrical power source coupled to the pulse generator and the microcontroller. The electrode arrays define spatially separate sites. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/127639 |
| ART UNIT | 3763 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/53 (20130101) Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 2037/0007 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/327 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/0412 (20130101) A61N 1/0424 (20130101) A61N 1/0476 (20130101) Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 35/02 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/87 (20130101) |
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| US 09914182 | Mittendorf et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Don Mittendorf (Mesa, Arizona); Christopher David Gatto (Gilbert, Arizona); Leticia Lara (Phoenix, Arizona); Megan Kemp (Chandler, Arizona); Andy Szuromi (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for transient liquid phase bonding two metallic substrate segments together including the steps of forming a joined component by bringing together the two substrate segments along a bond line with a brazing alloy comprising a melting point depressant disposed between the two segments at the bond line and performing a first thermal treatment including heating the joined component at a brazing temperature of the brazing alloy for a first period of time. The method further includes performing a second thermal treatment including heating the joined component at an intermediate temperature that is above the brazing temperature but below a gamma prime solvus temperature of the substrate segments for a second period of time and performing a third thermal treatment including heating the joined component at a super-solvus temperature that is above the gamma prime solvus temperature of the two metallic substrate segments for a third period of time. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 17, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/857050 |
| 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 20/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B23K 35/3033 (20130101) B23K 2201/001 (20130101) |
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| US 09914283 | Shaw et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan L. Shaw (Springfield, Virginia); Jeremy Hanna (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A thin diamond film bonded to a diamond substrate made by the process of heating a diamond substrate inside a vacuum chamber to about 500° C., cooling the diamond substrate, coating a first surface of the diamond substrate with chromium, depositing an initial layer of palladium, heating the diamond substrate, allowing the chromium and the diamond substrate to form a chemical bond, inter-diffusing the adhesion layer of chromium and the initial layer of palladium, cooling, depositing palladium, placing a shadow mask, degassing the vacuum, depositing a tin layer, assembling the tin layer, heating the tin layer, melting the tin layer, and bonding the thin diamond film to the diamond substrate. A thin diamond film bonded to a diamond substrate comprising a thin diamond film, a layer of chromium, palladium, tin, and a diamond substrate. |
| FILED | Monday, December 07, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/961428 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| 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 1/0016 (20130101) B23K 1/19 (20130101) B23K 2203/50 (20151001) Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 9/04 (20130101) B32B 9/007 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B32B 9/041 (20130101) B32B 15/043 (20130101) B32B 37/04 (20130101) B32B 37/12 (20130101) B32B 37/24 (20130101) B32B 38/0036 (20130101) B32B 38/1858 (20130101) B32B 2037/243 (20130101) B32B 2037/246 (20130101) B32B 2038/0052 (20130101) B32B 2250/05 (20130101) B32B 2255/28 (20130101) B32B 2255/205 (20130101) B32B 2309/02 (20130101) B32B 2309/68 (20130101) B32B 2311/00 (20130101) B32B 2311/09 (20130101) B32B 2311/16 (20130101) B32B 2313/04 (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 28/023 (20130101) C23C 30/00 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 1/34 (20130101) H01J 37/073 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/12542 (20150115) |
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| US 09914671 | McPherson |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Digital Solid State Propulsion, Inc. (Reno, Nevada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Digital Solid State Propulsion LLC (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. McPherson (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application discloses an improved electrically controlled propellant wherein the electrically controlled propellant comprises at least one compound selected from the group comprising organosilanes, siloxanes, and poly(dimethylsiloxane)s. |
| FILED | Monday, March 20, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/463801 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosives or Thermic Compositions; Manufacture Thereof; Use of Single Substances as Explosives C06B 25/34 (20130101) C06B 45/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | FLORIDA AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL UNIVERSITY (FAMU) (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | FLORIDA AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL UNIVERSITY (FA (Tallahasse, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Romonia Renee Reams (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods and compositions for determining an increased likelihood of prostate cancer cells in a subject to metastasize. |
| FILED | Friday, May 27, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/167299 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/16 (20130101) C12Q 2600/118 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57434 (20130101) G01N 2333/47 (20130101) |
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| US 09914987 | Snyder et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Questek Innovations, LLC (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | QuesTek Innovations LLC (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Snyder (Des Plaines, Illinois); Jiadong Gong (Evanston, Illinois); Jason T. Sebastian (Chicago, Illinois); James A. Wright (Los Gatos, California); Herng-Jeng Jou (San Jose, California); Zechariah Feinberg (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A martensitic stainless steel alloy is strengthened by copper-nucleated nitride precipitates. The alloy includes, in combination by weight percent, about 10.0 to about 12.5 Cr, about 2.0 to about 7.5 Ni, up to about 17.0 Co, about 0.6 to about 1.5 Mo, about 0.5 to about 2.3 Cu, up to about 0.6 Mn, up to about 0.4 Si, about 0.05 to about 0.15 V, up to about 0.10 N, up to about 0.035 C, up to about 0.01 W, and the balance Fe and incidental elements and impurities. The nitride precipitates may be enriched by one or more transition metals. A case hardened, corrosion resistant variant has a reduced weight percent of Ni, enabling increased use of Cr, and decreased Co. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/574611 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Modifying the Physical Structure of Ferrous Metals; General Devices for Heat Treatment of Ferrous or Non-ferrous Metals or Alloys; Making Metal Malleable, e.g by Decarburisation or Tempering C21D 6/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C21D 6/004 (20130101) C21D 6/005 (20130101) C21D 6/007 (20130101) Alloys C22C 38/001 (20130101) C22C 38/02 (20130101) C22C 38/04 (20130101) C22C 38/20 (20130101) C22C 38/42 (20130101) C22C 38/44 (20130101) C22C 38/46 (20130101) C22C 38/52 (20130101) |
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| US 09915049 | Collinsworth et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by The Secretary of The Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by The Secretary of The Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen R Collinsworth (Fairhope, Alabama); Jeffrey A Melby (Vicksburg, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | Armor units for rubble mound structures including breakwaters, revetments, groins, jetties, and the like. Embodiments are appropriate for ocean, river, lake and reservoir structure armoring, to prevent erosion from damaging hydrodynamic forces resulting from waves and water currents, and the like. An embodiment includes a central rectangular section, three “half H-shaped” appendages, optionally, one end frusta, and a flat bottom with two extrusions, nominally smaller than other appendages and frusta. An embodiment is symmetric about two perpendicularly intersecting vertical planes extending through the centroid of the unit. The three half H-shaped members are connected to outer parts of a side defined as the top and the two longitudinal sides of the central section. The three half H-shaped members comprise four-sided frusta that taper from a base at the central rectangular section to four-sided distal ends. For select embodiments, the frusta are generally symmetric. |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/217417 |
| ART UNIT | 3678 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Hydraulic Engineering E02B 3/06 (20130101) E02B 3/14 (20130101) E02B 3/129 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09915162 | Duguay |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Duguay (Berwick, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | An active clearance control system for a gas turbine engine includes an intersegment seal engaged with each pair of a multiple of air seal segments. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/780872 |
| ART UNIT | 3675 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 11/005 (20130101) F01D 11/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F01D 11/22 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2220/32 (20130101) F05D 2240/11 (20130101) F05D 2240/55 (20130101) F05D 2240/57 (20130101) F05D 2240/307 (20130101) F05D 2250/75 (20130101) Pistons; Cylinders; Sealings F16J 15/442 (20130101) F16J 15/445 (20130101) |
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| US 09915228 | Peters et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher J. Peters (West Hartford, Connecticut); Daniel R. Bowers (Hebron, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A seal assembly for an exhaust duct section of a gas turbine engine includes a multiple of springs that axially extend from a split hoop opposite a seal surface. |
| FILED | Monday, June 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/305606 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Jet-propulsion Plants F02K 1/004 (20130101) F02K 1/80 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2220/90 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. Haddon (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments are directed to unpowered railgun field validation for safe-arm fuzing. Embodiments use a wire coil having an induced electromotive force voltage. At least one positive duration circuit measures the positive portion of the induced voltage. At least one positive peak duration circuit measures the peak value of the positive portion of the induced voltage. At least one negative duration circuit measures the duration value of the negative portion of the induced voltage. At least one negative peak detector circuit measures the peak value of the negative portion of the induced voltage. |
| FILED | Monday, April 04, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/089686 |
| ART UNIT | 2867 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition Fuzes; Arming or Safety Means Therefor F42C 21/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/82 (20130101) G01N 27/83 (20130101) G01N 27/90 (20130101) G01N 27/9013 (20130101) G01N 27/9026 (20130101) |
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| US 09915532 | Casinovi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Giorgio Casinovi (Atlanta, Georgia); Farrokh Ayazi (Atlanta, Georgia); Wang Kyung Sung (Atlanta, Georgia); Milap Jayesh Dalal (Morganville, Pennsylvania); Arashk Norouz Pour Shirazi (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A gyroscope having a resonant body utilizes a self-calibration mechanism that does not require physical rotation of the resonant body. Instead, interface circuitry applies a rotating electrostatic field to first and second drive electrodes simultaneously to excite both the drive and sense resonance modes of the gyroscope. When drive electrodes associated with both the drive and sense resonance modes of the gyroscope are excited by forces of equal amplitude but 90° phase difference, respectively, the phase shift in the gyroscope response, as measured by the current output of the sense electrodes for each resonance mode, is proportional to an equivalent gyroscope rotation rate. |
| FILED | Friday, May 20, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/160279 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 19/56 (20130101) G01C 19/5776 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01C 25/005 (20130101) |
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| US 09915563 | Yetzbacher et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael K. Yetzbacher (Burke, Virginia); Christopher W. Miller (Darnestown, Maryland); Michael J. Deprenger (Chantilly, Virginia); Andrew J. Boudreau (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of optical spectroscopy and a device for use in optical spectroscopy. The device includes a substrate, and a plurality of etalon cavities affixed to or coupled to the substrate. A signal is received from a Fabry-Perot interferometer. The signal is sampled using the device according to a generalized Nyquist-Shannon sampling criterion. The signal is sampled using the device according to a phase differential criterion for wave number resolution. An input spectrum for the signal is reconstructed based on the signal sampled according to the generalized Nyquist-Shannon sampling criterion and the signal sampled according to the phase differential criterion for wave number resolution. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 18, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/046835 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/021 (20130101) G01J 3/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01J 3/45 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/41 (20130101) G01N 21/45 (20130101) |
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| US 09915603 | Hug et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Photon Systems, Inc. (Covina, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Photon Systems, Inc. (Covina, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William F. Hug (Altadena, California); Ray D. Reid (Glendora, California); Rohit Bhartia (Pasadena, California); Arthur L. Lane (Arcadia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Spectroscopic chemical analysis methods and apparatus are disclosed which employ deep ultraviolet (e.g. in the 200 nm to 300 nm spectral range) electron beam pumped wide bandgap semiconductor lasers, incoherent wide bandgap semiconductor light emitting devices, and hollow cathode metal ion lasers to perform non-contact, non-invasive detection of unknown chemical analytes. These deep ultraviolet sources enable dramatic size, weight and power consumption reductions of chemical analysis instruments. In some embodiments, Raman spectroscopic detection methods and apparatus use ultra-narrow-band angle tuning filters, acousto-optic tuning filters, and temperature tuned filters to enable ultra-miniature analyzers for chemical identification. In some embodiments Raman analysis is conducted along with photoluminescence spectroscopy (i.e. fluorescence and/or phosphorescence spectroscopy) to provide high levels of sensitivity and specificity in the same instrument. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 14, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/432865 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/10 (20130101) G01J 3/36 (20130101) G01J 3/44 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/33 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/64 (20130101) G01N 21/65 (20130101) G01N 21/645 (20130101) G01N 27/44721 (20130101) G01N 2021/6421 (20130101) G01N 2021/6471 (20130101) G01N 2201/068 (20130101) G01N 2201/0612 (20130101) G01N 2201/06113 (20130101) |
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| US 09915654 | Raphael et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Marc P. Raphael (Washington, District of Columbia); Joseph A. Christodoulides (Alexandria, Virginia); Jeff M. Byers (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc P. Raphael (Washington, District of Columbia); Joseph A. Christodoulides (Alexandria, Virginia); Jeff M. Byers (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A chip for localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) biosensing and imaging having a glass coverslip compatible for use in a standard microscope and at least one array of functionalized plasmonic nanostructures patterned onto the glass coverslip with electron beam nanolithography. The nanostructures can be regenerated allowing the chip to be used multiple times. Also disclosed is a method for determining the fractional occupancy values for surface-bound receptors as a function of time for LSPR biosensing from the spectroscopic response of the array and modeling the photon count in each spectrometer channel, allowing for a functional relationship to be determined between the acquired spectrum and the fractional occupancy of binding sites on the array. Additionally disclosed is a method for the spatiotemporal mapping of receptor-ligand binding kinetics in LSPR imaging using the chip and projecting a magnified image of the array to a CCD camera and monitoring the binding kinetics of the array. |
| FILED | Friday, September 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/039288 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/554 (20130101) G01N 33/557 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/54346 (20130101) G01N 33/54373 (20130101) G01N 33/54386 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Twinleaf LLC (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TWINLEAF LLC (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Whitmore Kornack (Princeton, New Jersey); Elizabeth Lee Foley (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A compact, high-sensitivity magnetometer, including: an optical interface to accept a linearly polarized first light; a pump light source to produce a circularly polarized pump light; a vapor cell having a sealed vessel containing an alkali-metal gas, a first input port to receive the first light, a second input port to accept the pump light from a direction perpendicular to the first light, and an output port to produce a second light; an electromagnetic source to apply a modulated electromagnetic field to the vapor cell at a direction perpendicular to the first light and the pump light, without using a modulator external to the vapor cell; a second linear polarizer, polarized perpendicular to the first light, the second polarizer to receive the second light and to produce a third light; and a photodetector to receive the third light, to produce an intensity measurement of the third light. |
| FILED | Monday, February 20, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/437341 |
| ART UNIT | 2852 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09915733 | Fried et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dale G. Fried (Dover, Massachusetts); Jonathan Frechette (Marlborough, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dale G. Fried (Dover, Massachusetts); Jonathan Frechette (Marlborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of imaging a scene includes estimating multiple three-dimensional (3D) representations, each of which corresponds to a respective portion of the scene. Neighboring portions of the scene area are at least partially overlapping. Each 3D representation is estimated by illuminating the respective portion of the scene with a light burst including multiple light pulses, after which multiple point clouds are generated by detecting photons reflected or scattered from the respective portion of the scene using a focal plane array. Data points in the point clouds represent a distance between the focal plane array and a scene point in the respective portion of the scene. The 3D representation is then estimated based on the multiple point clouds via coincidence processing. The method then generates a 3D image of the scene based on the multiple 3D representations. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 05, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/147854 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — 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 7/481 (20130101) G01S 7/4863 (20130101) G01S 17/10 (20130101) G01S 17/023 (20130101) G01S 17/42 (20130101) G01S 17/89 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01S 17/895 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Russell A. Budd (North Salem, New York); Fuad E. Doany (Katonah, New York); Christopher V. Jahnes (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey); Benjamin G. Lee (New York, New York); Laurent Schares (Sleepy Hollow, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Aspects of the invention are directed to a method for forming an optical waveguide structure. Initially, a base film stack is received with an optical waveguide feature covered by a lower dielectric layer. An etch stop feature is then formed on the lower dielectric layer, and an upper dielectric layer is formed over the etch stop feature. Subsequently, a trench is patterned in the upper dielectric layer and the etch stop feature at least in part by utilizing the etch stop feature as an etch stop. Lastly, a waveguide coupler feature is formed in the trench, at least a portion of the waveguide coupler feature having a refractive index higher than the lower dielectric layer and the upper dielectric layer. The waveguide coupler feature is positioned over at least a portion of the optical waveguide feature but is separated from the optical waveguide feature by a portion of the lower dielectric layer. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/819531 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/12 (20130101) G02B 6/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/132 (20130101) G02B 6/136 (20130101) G02B 6/305 (20130101) G02B 6/2821 (20130101) G02B 6/12002 (20130101) G02B 6/12004 (20130101) |
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| US 09915925 | Vechart et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Peter Vechart (Plymouth, Minnesota); Darryl Busch (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Dale Frederick Enns (Roseville, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for verifying the response capabilities of a control effector include processing, in a test module, at least command data and sensor data associated with the control effector to generate control effector health data representative of control effector health. The control effector health data are processed in a reasoner to selectively indict and clear one or more faults, determine a failure is uncertain based on the one or more indicted faults, determine one or more test excitation signals to supply to the control effector to verify whether the uncertain failure is present or absent, and supply the one or more test excitation signals to a controller that is in operable communication with the control effector. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/189247 |
| ART UNIT | 2199 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 9/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G05B 23/0256 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Dinan (Hudson, Massachusetts); Mario Flajslik (Hudson, Massachusetts); Tom St. John (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Technologies for integrated thread scheduling include a computing device having a network interface controller (NIC). The NIC is configured to detect and suspend a thread that is being blocked by one or more communication operations. A thread scheduling engine of the NIC is configured to move the suspended thread from a running queue of the system thread scheduler to a pending queue of the thread scheduling engine. The thread scheduling engine is further configured to move the suspended thread from the pending queue to a ready queue of the thread scheduling engine upon determining any dependencies and/or blocking communications operations have completed. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| FILED | Friday, September 25, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/866572 |
| ART UNIT | 2199 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/46 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 9/4881 (20130101) G06F 9/5027 (20130101) G06F 9/5038 (20130101) |
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| US 09916449 | Sethumadhavan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York, New York); Lakshminarasimhan Sethumadhavan (New York, New York); Adam Waksman (Pleasantville, New York); Matthew Suozzo (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lakshminarasimhan Sethumadhavan (New York, New York); Adam Waksman (Pleasantville, New York); Matthew Suozzo (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are devices, systems, apparatus, methods, products, media, and other implementations, including a method that includes computing for one or more inputs of a circuit associated metrics representative of degree of influence that values of each of the one or more inputs have on at least one output dependent on the one or more inputs, and determining based, at least in part, on the computed metrics associated with the one or more inputs of a more inputs whether the at least one output dependent on the one or more inputs is part of a potentially malicious implementation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/773104 |
| ART UNIT | 2438 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/263 (20130101) G06F 21/56 (20130101) G06F 21/71 (20130101) G06F 21/566 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/1466 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Regents of Nevada System of Higher Education on Behalf of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (Las Vegas, Nevada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of Nevada System of Higher Education on Behalf of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (Las Vegas, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. Schill (Henderson, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | A transmission system is used in a method of transmitting a camouflaged transmission of signals by generating an underlying transmission comprising a plasma transmission discharge constituting background noise having a first amplitude and generating an embedded transmission of signals within the underlying transmission. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/908398 |
| ART UNIT | 2436 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/606 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Ciphering or Deciphering Apparatus for Cryptographic or Other Purposes Involving the Need for Secrecy G09C 1/00 (20130101) Secret Communication; Jamming of Communication H04K 1/02 (20130101) H04K 3/25 (20130101) H04K 3/43 (20130101) H04K 3/65 (20130101) H04K 3/825 (20130101) H04K 2203/32 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/001 (20130101) H04L 63/02 (20130101) H04L 63/1483 (20130101) H04L 2209/12 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Humanetics Innovative Solutions, Inc. (Plymouth, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HUMANETICS INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS, INC. (Plymouth, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph P. McInnis (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Zhenwen J. Wang (Farmington Hills, Michigan); Nicholas M. Kloppenborg (Columbus, Ohio); Joseph Q. Gibbs (Birmingham, Michigan); Leonard M. Benfant (Livonia, Michigan); Scott Lane (New Boston, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A joint assembly for a crash test dummy includes a first joint member for connection to a first member of the crash test dummy. The joint assembly also includes a first ball member received by the first joint member. The joint assembly includes a second ball member spaced from the first ball member. The joint assembly also includes a second joint member for connection to a second member of the crash test dummy. The second joint member receives the second ball member and is operatively connected to the first joint member. The joint assembly further includes an adjustable member operatively cooperating with the first ball member and the second ball member to move the first ball member and the second ball member toward and away from each other to adjust a friction tightness of the joint assembly. |
| FILED | Monday, January 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/164533 |
| ART UNIT | 3635 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Frames, Casings or Beds of Engines, Machines or Apparatus, Not Specific to Engines, Machines or Apparatus Provided for Elsewhere; Stands; Supports F16M 11/14 (20130101) Educational or Demonstration Appliances; Appliances for Teaching, or Communicating With, the Blind, Deaf or Mute; Models; Planetaria; Globes; Maps; Diagrams G09B 23/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 403/32032 (20150115) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Youngner (Maple Grove, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatuses, systems, and methods for ion traps are described herein. One apparatus includes a number of microwave (MW) rails and a number of radio frequency (RF) rails formed with substantially parallel longitudinal axes and with substantially coplanar upper surfaces. The apparatus includes two sequences of direct current (DC) electrodes with each sequence formed to extend substantially parallel to the substantially parallel longitudinal axes of the MW rails and the RF rails. The apparatus further includes a number of through-silicon vias (TSVs) formed through a substrate of the ion trap and a trench capacitor formed in the substrate around at least one TSV. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 25, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/334067 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 99/002 (20130101) Techniques for Handling Particles or Ionising Radiation Not Otherwise Provided For; Irradiation Devices; Gamma Ray or X-ray Microscopes G21K 1/00 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 3/38 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 9/14 (20130101) H01J 49/0018 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/945 (20130101) |
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| US 09917322 | Mermelstein et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOEING COMPANY (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua M. Mermelstein (Laguna Niguel, California); Sergio Espinoza (Huntington Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A Reversible Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (RSOFC) system includes a Reversible Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (RSOFC) unit, a bi-directional alternating current/direct current (AC/DC) converter, coupled to the RSOFC unit, a common bus, coupled to the bi-directional AC/DC converter and to a power grid, and a plurality of RSOFC subsystems, coupled to receive power only through the common bus. The RSOFC unit has a fuel cell mode, wherein the RSOFC unit produces electrical power from fuel, and an electrolysis mode, wherein the RSOFC unit consumes electrical power to produce the fuel. The bi-directional AC/DC converter is coupled to the RSOFC unit, and is configured to convert direct current (DC) electrical power produced by the RSOFC unit into outgoing alternating current (AC) power, and to convert incoming AC power into DC power for consumption by the RSOFC unit in electrolysis mode. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 01, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/788944 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/186 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/0494 (20130101) H01M 8/04604 (20130101) H01M 8/04671 (20130101) H01M 8/04679 (20130101) H01M 2008/1293 (20130101) H01M 2250/10 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 3/387 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 90/14 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/525 (20130101) Y02E 60/528 (20130101) |
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| US 09917328 | Peña Hueso et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Silatronix, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Silatronix, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | José Adrián Peña Hueso (Madison, Wisconsin); Jian Dong (Fort Collins, Wisconsin); Michael L. Pollina (Johnson Creek, Wisconsin); Monica L. Usrey (Madison, Wisconsin); Robert J. Hamers (Madison, Wisconsin); Robert C. West (Madison, Wisconsin); David Osmalov (Monona, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are electrolyte compositions having at least one salt and at least one compound selected from the group consisting of: wherein “a” is from 1 to 3; “b” is 1 or 2; 4≧“a”+“b”≧2; X is a halogen; R can be alkoxy or substituted alkoxy, among other moieties, and R1 is alkyl, substituted alkyl, aryl, substituted aryl, alkoxy, or substituted alkoxy. Also described are electrochemical devices that use the electrolyte composition. |
| FILED | Monday, February 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/374734 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 7/12 (20130101) C07F 7/123 (20130101) C07F 7/0852 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/131 (20130101) H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) H01M 10/0564 (20130101) H01M 10/0565 (20130101) H01M 10/0567 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 2004/028 (20130101) H01M 2300/0025 (20130101) H01M 2300/0065 (20130101) |
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| US 09917343 | Chieh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jia-Chi S. Chieh (San Diego, California); Aaron Clawson (San Diego, California); Michael Civerolo (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A coaxial to waveguide transition includes a first rigid portion comprising an inverted hollow cone, a second rigid portion comprising a hollow tube, and a third rigid portion comprising a hollow cone. The first rigid portion has a first end and a second end, and tapers inward at a first angle from its first end towards its second end. The second rigid portion has a first end and a second end, with the first end being partially disposed within the second end of the first rigid portion. The third rigid portion has a first end and a second end, with the first end of the third rigid portion being partially disposed within the second end of the second rigid portion. The third rigid portion tapers outward at a second angle from its first end towards its second end, where the second angle is less than the first angle. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 15, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/183571 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Waveguides; Resonators, Lines, or Other Devices of the Waveguide Type H01P 5/08 (20130101) H01P 5/12 (20130101) H01P 5/103 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Amplifiers H03F 3/55 (20130101) |
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| US 09917368 | Garcia et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alberto V. Garcia (Hartsdale, New York); Xiaoxiong Gu (White Plains, New York); Duixian Liu (Scarsdale, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Package structures are provided having antenna-in-packages that are integrated with semiconductor RFIC (radio frequency integrated circuit) chips to form compact integrated radio/wireless communications systems that operate in the millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency range with radiation in broadside and end-fire directions. |
| FILED | Friday, July 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/796100 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 19/077 (20130101) G06K 19/07749 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 24/13 (20130101) H01L 24/16 (20130101) H01L 24/17 (20130101) H01L 24/32 (20130101) H01L 24/33 (20130101) H01L 2224/131 (20130101) H01L 2224/131 (20130101) H01L 2224/16225 (20130101) H01L 2224/16225 (20130101) H01L 2224/16227 (20130101) H01L 2224/17517 (20130101) H01L 2224/32013 (20130101) H01L 2224/32014 (20130101) H01L 2224/32225 (20130101) H01L 2224/33181 (20130101) H01L 2224/73204 (20130101) H01L 2224/73253 (20130101) H01L 2924/00012 (20130101) H01L 2924/014 (20130101) H01L 2924/15321 (20130101) H01L 2924/15322 (20130101) Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 1/38 (20130101) H01Q 9/0407 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01Q 19/30 (20130101) H01Q 21/28 (20130101) H01Q 23/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09917411 | Tafoya et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Optical Engines, Inc. (Colorado Springs, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | OPTICAL ENGINES, INC. (Colorado Springs, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason D. Tafoya (Colorado Springs, Colorado); Daniel Scott Schulz (Colorado Springs, Colorado); Donald L. Sipes, Jr. (Colorado Springs, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | An exemplary embodiment of the disclosure provides a double fiber optic mode adapter including: a fiber core having a variable core diameter; a fiber cladding having a variable cladding size; a first input interface corresponding to a first core diameter and a first cladding size; a second input interface corresponding to a second core diameter and a second cladding size; a thermally-tapered region wherein the variable core diameter of the fiber core transitions from the first core diameter to the second core diameter and the variable cladding size of the fiber cladding transitions from the first cladding size to a third cladding size; and an etched tapered region wherein the variable core diameter of the fiber core is constant and the variable cladding size of the fiber cladding transitions from the third cladding size to the second cladding size. |
| FILED | Friday, June 24, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/191829 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/262 (20130101) G02B 6/264 (20130101) G02B 2006/12195 (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 3/06712 (20130101) H01S 3/06741 (20130101) H01S 3/06745 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 3/06783 (20130101) H01S 3/094003 (20130101) H01S 3/094053 (20130101) |
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| US 09917548 | Valdes-Garcia et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alberto Valdes-Garcia (Hartsdale, New York); Bodhisatwa Sadhu (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A voltage controlled oscillator (VCO), a method of designing a voltage controlled oscillator, and a design structure comprising a semiconductor substrate including a voltage controlled oscillator are disclosed. In one embodiment, the VCO comprises an LC tank circuit for generating an oscillator output at an oscillator frequency, and an oscillator core including cross-coupled semiconductor devices to provide feedback to the tank circuit. The VCO further comprises a supply node, a tail node, and a noise by-pass circuit connected to the supply and tail nodes, in parallel with the tank circuit and the oscillator core. The by-pass circuit forms a low-impedance path at a frequency approximately twice the oscillator frequency to at least partially immunize the oscillator core from external noise and to reduce noise contribution from the cross-coupled semiconductor devices. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 07, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/093194 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/505 (20130101) G06F 17/5045 (20130101) G06F 17/5063 (20130101) Generation of Oscillations, Directly or by Frequency-changing, by Circuits Employing Active Elements Which Operate in a Non-switching Manner; Generation of Noise by Such Circuits H03B 1/00 (20130101) H03B 5/1212 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03B 5/1215 (20130101) H03B 5/1228 (20130101) H03B 5/1243 (20130101) H03B 5/1281 (20130101) H03B 2200/009 (20130101) H03B 2200/0038 (20130101) |
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| US 09917571 | Ayazi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Farrokh Ayazi (Atlanta, Georgia); Roozbeh Tabrizian (Atlanta, Georgia); Mojtaba Hodjat-Shamami (Atlanta, Georgia); Arashk Norouzpour-Shirazi (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain implementations of the disclosed technology may include systems and methods for high-frequency resonant gyroscopes. In an example implementation, a resonator gyroscope assembly is provided. The resonator gyroscope assembly can include a square resonator body suspended adjacent to a substrate, a ground electrode attached to a side of the resonator body, a piezoelectric layer attached to a side of the ground electrode, a drive electrode in electrical communication with the piezoelectric layer, and configured to stimulate one or more vibration modes of the square resonator body; and a sense electrode in electrical communication with the piezoelectric layer, and configured to receive an output from the square or disk resonator responsive to stimulation of the one or more vibration modes. |
| FILED | Monday, June 15, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/739721 |
| ART UNIT | 2852 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 19/5684 (20130101) Tuning Resonant Circuits; Selecting Resonant Circuits H03J 1/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03J 2200/19 (20130101) |
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| US 09917739 | Levchuk et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aptima, Inc. (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aptima, Inc. (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Georgiy Levchuk (South Grafton, Massachusetts); E. Webb Stacy (Andover, Massachusetts); Charlotte Shabarekh (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Example embodiments of systems and methods for network pattern matching provide the ability to match hidden networks from noisy data sources using probabilistic multi-attribute graph matching analysis. The algorithms may map roles and patterns to observed entities. The outcome is a set of plausible network models. The pattern-matching methodology of these systems and methods may enable the solution of three challenges associated with social network analysis, namely network size and complexity, uncertain and incomplete data, and dynamic network structure. |
| FILED | Monday, December 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/379503 |
| ART UNIT | 2466 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 50/01 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 41/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 41/14 (20130101) H04L 41/142 (20130101) |
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| US 09917989 | Watnik et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Abbie T. Watnik (Washington, District of Columbia); Vincent A. Cassella (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abbie T. Watnik (Washington, District of Columbia); Vincent A. Cassella (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for simultaneous spatial light modulator beam steering and system aberration correction. The apparatus includes a spatial light modulator, a wide-field optical system, the wide-field optical system including at least one optical system aberration; and a camera. The wide-field optical system collimates a light beam toward the camera. The camera communicates with the spatial light modulator via a feedback loop that pre-corrects for the at least one optical system aberration. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/711890 |
| ART UNIT | 2482 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 26/06 (20130101) G02B 27/0025 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/217 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ian Salmon McKay (Seattle, Washington); Sungwoo Yang (Chelsea, Massachusetts); Evelyn N. Wang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Hyunho Kim (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a composite material for use in multi-modal transport includes providing three-dimensional graphene having hollow channels, enabling a polymer to wick into the hollow channels of the three-dimensional graphene, curing the polymer to form a cured three-dimensional graphene, adding an active material to the cured three-dimensional graphene to form a composite material, and removing the polymer from within the hollow channels. A composite material formed according to the method is also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/540164 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 32/186 (20170801) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 5/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/04 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24997 (20150401) Y10T 428/249967 (20150401) |
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| US 09914932 | Dai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ziyu Dai (Richland, Washington); Jon K. Magnuson (Richland, Washington); Shuang Deng (Richland, Washington); Kenneth S. Bruno (Richland, Washington); David E. Culley (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure provides Agrobacterium-mediated transformation methods for the oil-producing (oleaginous) yeast Lipomyces sp., as well as yeast produced by the method. Such methods utilize Agrobacterium sp. cells that have a T-DNA binary plasmid, wherein the T-DNA binary plasmid comprises a first nucleic acid molecule encoding a first protein and a second nucleic acid molecule encoding a selective marker that permits growth of transformed Lipomyces sp. cells in selective culture media comprising an antibiotic. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/540818 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/815 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/64 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09914947 | Yu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jianping Yu (Golden, Colorado); Bo Wang (Golden, Colorado); Troy Paddock (Wheat Ridge, Colorado); Damian Carrieri (Denver, Colorado); Pin-Ching Maness (Golden, Colorado); Michael Seibert (Lakewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of producing ethylene oxide and ethylene glycol are disclosed herein. Ethylene produced by cyanobacteria engineered to express ethylene-forming enzymes may be converted to ethylene oxide by bacteria engineered to express a monooxygenase enzyme. Ethylene oxide may be converted to ethylene glycol by exposure to an acidic solution. The methods may be performed in a bioreactor. |
| FILED | Friday, February 26, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/054868 |
| 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 1/12 (20130101) C12N 9/0069 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/18 (20130101) C12P 17/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09914998 | Srinivasan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guruvenket Srinivasan (Fargo, North Dakota); Robert A. Sailer (West Fargo, North Dakota); Justin Hoey (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and a non-vapor-pressure dependent method of chemical vapor deposition of Si based materials using direct injection of liquid hydrosilane(s) are presented. Liquid silane precursor solutions may also include metal, non-metal or metalloid dopants, nanomaterials and solvents. An illustrative apparatus has a precursor solution and carrier gas system, atomizer and deposit head with interior chamber and a hot plate supporting the substrate. Atomized liquid silane precursor solutions and carrier gas moves through a confined reaction zone that may be heated and the aerosol and vapor are deposited on a substrate to form a thin film. The substrate may be heated prior to deposition. The deposited film may be processed further with thermal or laser processing. |
| FILED | Monday, September 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/853462 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 77/60 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 183/16 (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 16/24 (20130101) C23C 16/56 (20130101) C23C 16/0209 (20130101) C23C 16/345 (20130101) C23C 16/4486 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C23C 18/02 (20130101) C23C 18/122 (20130101) C23C 18/127 (20130101) C23C 18/1204 (20130101) C23C 18/1258 (20130101) C23C 18/1291 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0259 (20130101) H01L 21/0262 (20130101) H01L 21/02118 (20130101) H01L 21/02532 (20130101) H01L 21/02592 (20130101) |
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| US 09915221 | Sczomak et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David P. Sczomak (Troy, Michigan); Robert J. Gallon (Northville, Michigan); Arun S. Solomon (Rochester Hills, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A combustion system for use with one or more cylinder bores of an internal combustion engine includes at least one cylinder head defining first and second intake ports in fluid communication with the one or more cylinder bores. A flap is adjustably connected to the at least one cylinder head. The flap includes a first flap portion cooperating with the first intake port extending from an arm and a second flap portion cooperating with the second intake port extending from the arm and disposed adjacent the first flap portion. A controller in electrical communication with an actuator monitors the condition of the engine and actuates the flap to position the first and second flap portions between first and second positions to create a first combustion condition and a second combustion condition. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 11, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/151526 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Controlling Combustion Engines F02D 9/1095 (20130101) F02D 41/0002 (20130101) F02D 41/0097 (20130101) F02D 2041/0015 (20130101) F02D 2200/101 (20130101) Cylinders, Pistons or Casings, for Combustion Engines; Arrangements of Sealings in Combustion Engines F02F 1/425 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Supplying Combustion Engines in General With Combustible Mixtures or Constituents Thereof F02M 35/1085 (20130101) |
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| US 09915562 | Leen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ABB, Inc. (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ABB, INC. (Cary, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Brian Leen (Sunnyvale, California); Nathan E. Bramall (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A cavity-enhanced absorption spectroscopy instrument has an optical cavity with two or more cavity mirrors, one mirror of which having a hole or other aperture for injecting a light beam, and the same or another mirror of which being partially transmissive to allow exit of light to a detector. A spherical-spherical configuration with at least one astigmatic mirror or a spherical-cylindrical configuration where the spherical mirror could also be astigmatic prevents a reentrant condition wherein the injected beam would prematurely exit the cavity through the aperture. This combination substantially increases the number of passes of the injected beam through a sample volume for sensitive detection of chemical species even in less than ideal conditions including low power laser or LED sources, poor mirror reflectivity or detector noise at the wavelengths of interest, or cavity alignment issues such as vibration or temperature and pressure changes. |
| FILED | Friday, August 12, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/235401 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/021 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01J 3/42 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/3504 (20130101) G01N 2201/06113 (20130101) |
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| US 09915575 | Mee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (Reston, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David K. Mee (Knoxville, Tennessee); Edward B. Ripley (Knoxville, Tennessee); Zachary C. Nienstedt (Seattle, Washington); Alex W. Nienstedt (Waynesville, North Carolina); Layton N. Howell, Jr. (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a passive, in-situ pressure sensor. The sensor includes a sensing element having a ferromagnetic metal and a tension inducing mechanism coupled to the ferromagnetic metal. The tension inducing mechanism is operable to change a tensile stress upon the ferromagnetic metal based on a change in pressure in the sensing element. Changes in pressure are detected based on changes in the magnetic switching characteristics of the ferromagnetic metal when subjected to an alternating magnetic field caused by the change in the tensile stress. The sensing element is embeddable in a closed system for detecting pressure changes without the need for any penetrations of the system for power or data acquisition by detecting changes in the magnetic switching characteristics of the ferromagnetic metal caused by the tensile stress. |
| FILED | Friday, August 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/832482 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 7/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01L 7/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09915740 | Feng |
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| APPLICANT(S) | National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick L. Feng (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An ionizing radiation detector or scintillator system includes a scintillating material comprising an organic crystalline compound selected to generate photons in response to the passage of ionizing radiation. The organic compound has a crystalline symmetry of higher order than monoclinic, for example an orthorhombic, trigonal, tetragonal, hexagonal, or cubic symmetry. A photodetector is optically coupled to the scintillating material, and configured to generate electronic signals having pulse shapes based on the photons generated in the scintillating material. A discriminator is coupled to the photon detector, and configured to discriminate between neutrons and gamma rays in the ionizing radiation based on the pulse shapes of the output signals. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 10, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/592002 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/208 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01T 1/2018 (20130101) |
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| US 09915832 | Horie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu Horie (Pasadena, California); Amir Arbabi (Pasadena, California); Andrei Faraon (La Canada Flintridge, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for controlling the phase of electromagnetic waves are disclosed. A device can consist of a guided resonance grating layer, a spacer, and a reflector. A plurality of devices, arranged in a grid pattern, can control the phase of reflected electromagnetic phase, through refractive index control. Carrier injection, temperature control, and optical beams can be applied to control the refractive index. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/282592 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/017 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02F 1/19 (20130101) G02F 1/0107 (20130101) G02F 1/292 (20130101) G02F 2001/0151 (20130101) G02F 2001/0154 (20130101) G02F 2201/307 (20130101) G02F 2203/10 (20130101) G02F 2203/12 (20130101) G02F 2203/18 (20130101) |
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| US 09916163 | Kim |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Changhoan Kim (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for synchronizing parallel processing of a plurality of functional processing units (FPU), a first FPU and a first program counter to control timing of a first stream of program instructions issued to the first FPU by advancement of the first program counter; a second FPU and a second program counter to control timing of a second stream of program instructions issued to the second FPU by advancement of the second program counter, the first FPU is in communication with a second FPU to synchronize the issuance of a first stream of program instructions to the second stream of program instructions and the second FPU is in communication with the first FPU to synchronize the issuance of the second stream program instructions to the first stream of program instructions. |
| FILED | Monday, January 09, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/401204 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/3005 (20130101) G06F 9/3009 (20130101) G06F 9/3851 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 9/3885 (20130101) |
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| US 09916919 | Xu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY (Columbus, Ohio); HYPER TECH RESEARCH, INC. (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio); Hyper Tech Research, Inc. (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xingchen Xu (Columbus, Ohio); Michael D. Sumption (Newark, Ohio); Xuan Peng (Dublin, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are superconducting wires. The superconducting wires can comprise a metallic matrix and at least one continuous subelement embedded in the matrix. Each subelement can comprise a non-superconducting core, a superconducting layer coaxially disposed around the non-superconducting core, and a barrier layer coaxially disposed around the superconducting layer. The superconducting layer can comprise a plurality of Nb3Sn grains stabilized by metal oxide particulates disposed therein. The Nb3Sn grains can have an average grain size of from 5 nm to 90 nm (for example, from 15 nm to 30 nm). The superconducting wire can have a high-field critical current density (Jc) of at least 5,000 A/mm2 at a temperature of 4.2 K in a magnetic field of 12 T. Also described are superconducting wire precursors that can be heat treated to prepare superconducting wires, as well as methods of making superconducting wires. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 18, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 15/119831 |
| ART UNIT | 2847 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 5/12 (20130101) B22F 7/04 (20130101) Alloys C22C 1/0491 (20130101) C22C 32/0031 (20130101) Changing the Physical Structure of Non-ferrous Metals and Non-ferrous Alloys C22F 1/18 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 12/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01B 13/0016 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 6/06 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 39/14 (20130101) H01L 39/2409 (20130101) |
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| US 09916958 | Bhandari et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Harish B. Bhandari (Brookline, Massachusetts); Vivek V. Nagarkar (Weston, Massachusetts); Olena E. Ovechkina (Alston, Massachusetts); Henry J. Frisch (Chicago, Illinois); Klaus Attenkofer (Riverhead, New York); John M. Smedley (Shirley, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES, INC. (Watertown, Massachusetts); THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (Chicago, Illinois); BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE ASSOCIATES, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harish B. Bhandari (Brookline, Massachusetts); Vivek V. Nagarkar (Weston, Massachusetts); Olena E. Ovechkina (Alston, Massachusetts); Henry J. Frisch (Chicago, Illinois); Klaus Attenkofer (Riverhead, New York); John M. Smedley (Shirley, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for fabricating a film, such as, for example, a photocathode, having a tailored band structure and thin-film components that can be tailored for specific applications, such as, for example photocathode having a high quantum efficiency, and simple components fabricated by those methods. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 29, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/608777 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 14/025 (20130101) C23C 14/165 (20130101) C23C 14/545 (20130101) C23C 14/3414 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/63 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 1/34 (20130101) H01J 9/12 (20130101) 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 50/15 (20141201) |
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| US 09917065 | Ward et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terence G. Ward (Waterford, Michigan); Constantin C. Stancu (Auburn Hills, Michigan); Marko Jaksic (Rochester Hills, Michigan); Brooks S. Mann (Royal Oak, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A power module assembly has a plurality of electrically conducting layers, including a first layer and a third layer. One or more electrically insulating layers are operatively connected to each of the plurality of electrically conducting layers. The electrically insulating layers include a second layer positioned between and configured to electrically isolate the first and the third layers. The first layer is configured to carry a first current flowing in a first direction. The third layer is configured to carry a second current flowing in a second direction opposite to the first direction, thereby reducing an inductance of the assembly. The electrically insulating layers may include a fourth layer positioned between and configured to electrically isolate the third layer and a fifth layer. The assembly results in a combined substrate and heat sink structure. The assembly eliminates the requirements for connections between separate substrate and heat sink structures. |
| FILED | Friday, September 09, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/260858 |
| ART UNIT | 2896 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/50 (20130101) H01L 23/66 (20130101) H01L 23/645 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 23/3735 (20130101) H01L 25/072 (20130101) H01L 2023/4087 (20130101) |
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| US 09917149 | Dickerson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeramy Ray Dickerson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jonathan Wierer, Jr. (Coopersburg, Pennsylvania); Robert Kaplar (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Andrew A. Allerman (Tijeras, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A diode includes a second semiconductor layer over a first semiconductor layer. The diode further includes a third semiconductor layer over the second semiconductor layer, where the third semiconductor layer includes a first semiconductor element over the second semiconductor layer. The third semiconductor layer additionally includes a second semiconductor element over the second semiconductor layer, wherein the second semiconductor element surrounds the first semiconductor element. Further, the third semiconductor layer includes a third semiconductor element over the second semiconductor element. Furthermore, a hole concentration of the second semiconductor element is less than a hole concentration of the first semiconductor element. |
| FILED | Friday, May 27, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/166783 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/2654 (20130101) H01L 29/0615 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/866 (20130101) H01L 29/2003 (20130101) H01L 29/66113 (20130101) |
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| US 09917221 | Boriskina et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Svetlana Boriskina (Winchester, Massachusetts); Daniel Kraemer (Providence, Rhode Island); Kenneth McEnaney (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Lee A. Weinstein (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Gang Chen (Carlisle, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Solar power conversion system. The system includes a cavity formed within an enclosure having highly specularly reflecting in the IR spectrum inside walls, the enclosure having an opening to receive solar radiation. An absorber is positioned within the cavity for receiving the solar radiation resulting in heating of the absorber structure. In a preferred embodiment, the system further contains an energy conversion and storage devices thermally-linked to the absorber by heat conduction, convection, far-field or near-field thermal radiation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/972261 |
| ART UNIT | 1758 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Producing or Use of Heat Not Otherwise Provided For F24J 2/02 (20130101) F24J 2/07 (20130101) F24J 2/48 (20130101) F24J 2002/003 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/0406 (20130101) 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 10/30 (20141201) H02S 40/44 (20141201) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/41 (20130101) Y02E 10/60 (20130101) |
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| US 09917295 | Elam et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey W. Elam (Elmhurst, Illinois); Xiangbo Meng (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for using atomic layer deposition to produce a film configured for use in an anode, cathode, or solid state electrolyte of a lithium-ion battery or a lithium-sulfur battery. The method includes repeating a cycle for a predetermined number of times in an inert atmosphere. The cycle includes exposing a substrate to a first precursor, purging the substrate with inert gas, exposing the substrate to a second precursor, and purging the substrate with inert gas. The film is a metal sulfide. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 13, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/711504 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/136 (20130101) H01M 4/0426 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/1397 (20130101) H01M 4/5815 (20130101) H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 10/058 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) H01M 10/0562 (20130101) H01M 2220/20 (20130101) H01M 2300/0068 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) |
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| US 09917323 | Yan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yushan Yan (Hockessin, Delaware); Shuang Gu (Newark, Delaware); Ke Gong (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A redox flow battery is provided having a double-membrane (one cation exchange membrane and one anion exchange membrane), triple-electrolyte (one electrolyte in contact with the negative electrode, one electrolyte in contact with the positive electrode, and one electrolyte positioned between and in contact with the two membranes). The cation exchange membrane is used to separate the negative or positive electrolyte and the middle electrolyte, and the anion exchange membrane is used to separate the middle electrolyte and the positive or negative electrolyte. This design physically isolates, but ionically connects, the negative electrolyte and positive electrolyte. The physical isolation offers great freedom in choosing redox pairs in the negative electrolyte and positive electrolyte, making high voltage of redox flow batteries possible. The ionic conduction drastically reduces the overall ionic crossover between negative electrolyte and positive one, leading to high columbic efficiency. |
| FILED | Friday, June 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/918444 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 2/00 (20130101) H01M 2/40 (20130101) H01M 8/04 (20130101) H01M 8/18 (20130101) H01M 8/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/188 (20130101) H01M 8/04186 (20130101) H01M 10/4242 (20130101) H01M 2300/0082 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/528 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49108 (20150115) |
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| US 09917356 | Jeon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jae Jeon (Livermore, California); John Chang (Danville, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jae Jeon (Livermore, California); John Chang (Danville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A band-notched spiral antenna having one or more spiral arms extending from a radially inner end to a radially outer end for transmitting or receiving electromagnetic radiation over a frequency range, and one or more resonance structures positioned adjacent one or more segments of the spiral arm associated with a notch frequency band or bands of the frequency range so as to resonate and suppress the transmission or reception of electromagnetic radiation over said notch frequency band or bands. |
| FILED | Friday, September 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/027132 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 1/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09913598 | Landau et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Igor Landau (Palo Alto, California) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Landau (Boulder, Colorado); Igor Landau (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and processes for measurement of the eyelid movements of a subject, which explores eyelids' electrical conductivity, namely the established fact that eyelids are acting as sliding electrodes moving over the cornea, is comprised of a system for generating a high frequency weak and harmless oscillating electromagnetic field in the proximity of the eyelid movement path without interference with the vision or activity of any such subject, therefore induces so-called Eddy Currents in the eyelid, which in its turn produce its own electromagnetic field with a value depended on the eyelid position; the interaction between the basic oscillating electromagnetic field and the field generated by the eyelid is changing electromagnetic field inductance, which will be measured with very high accuracy by means of resonance sensing electronics; such systems can transmit data from its detecting electronics to a remote monitor that compels no restrictions on operator activity. |
| FILED | Saturday, October 17, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/886045 |
| ART UNIT | 2683 — Telemetry and Code Generation Vehicles and System Alarms |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 3/10 (20130101) A61B 3/113 (20130101) A61B 5/1103 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/4082 (20130101) A61B 5/6803 (20130101) A61B 2562/0257 (20130101) |
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| US 09914106 | Suslick et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth S. Suslick (Champaign, Illinois); Nitin K. Neelakantan (Champaign, Illinois); Jacqueline M. Rankin (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making silicone microspheres comprises nebulizing a silicone precursor solution comprising one or more oligomeric dimethylsiloxanes, a catalyst and a solvent into an aerosol comprising a plurality of droplets. Each droplet comprises the silicone precursor solution. The droplets are entrained in a gas which is flowed through a reaction zone comprising light energy and/or heat energy. Upon exposure of the droplets to the light energy and/or the heat energy, the solvent evaporates and the one or more oligomeric dimethylsiloxanes are polymerized. Thus, silicone microspheres are formed from the droplets of the aerosol. |
| FILED | Friday, January 22, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/004016 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 13/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Organic Dyes or Closely-related Compounds for Producing Dyes; Mordants; Lakes C09B 67/0097 (20130101) |
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| US 09914152 | Beckford et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SURFTEC, LLC (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Surftec, LLC (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel George Beckford (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Min Zou (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Justin K Carter (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the present invention relates to a method of fabricating a low friction, wear resistant, polydopamine/polytetrafluoroethylene layered film. In one embodiment, the method comprises the deposition of a polydopamine film on a stainless steel substrate through an oxidative polymerization process, the deposition of a polytetrafluoroethylene nanoparticle film on top of the polydopamine film, and heat treating the layered film to remove moisture and fuse the particles together. |
| FILED | Monday, July 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/324347 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 1/18 (20130101) B05D 5/083 (20130101) B05D 7/14 (20130101) B05D 7/54 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09914787 | Smith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arrowhead Center, Inc. (Las Cruces, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arrowhead Center, Inc. (Las Cruces, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey Battle Smith (Las Cruces, New Mexico); David C. Johnson (Las Cruces, New Mexico); Shuguang Deng (Las Cruces, New Mexico); Nagamany Nirmalakhandan (Las Cruces, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A new generation elastomeric biopolymer produced by yeast belonging to the family Saccharomycetaceae, and an isolated yeast belonging to the genus Williopsis that produces and secretes the biopolymer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 27, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/391613 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 16/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 1/02 (20130101) C08L 23/12 (20130101) Adhesives; Non-mechanical Aspects of Adhesive Processes in General; Adhesive Processes Not Provided for Elsewhere; Use of Materials as Adhesives C09J 101/02 (20130101) C09J 183/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09914847 | Kawaue et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | TOKYO OHKA KOGYO CO., LTD. (Kawasaki-shi, Japan); The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TOKYO OHKA KOGYO CO., LTD. (Kawasaki-Shi, Japan); THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Akiya Kawaue (Kawasaki, Japan); Takehiro Seshimo (Kawasaki, Japan); Takaya Maehashi (Kawasaki, Japan); Tasuku Matsumiya (Kawasaki, Japan); Ken Miyagi (Kawasaki, Japan); Hitoshi Yamano (Kawasaki, Japan); Xuanxuan Chen (Heverlee, Belgium); Paul Franklin Nealey (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A resin composition for forming a phase-separated structure, including: a block copolymer, and an ion liquid containing a compound (IL) having a cation moiety and an anion moiety, the energy of the LUMO of the cation moiety being −4.5 eV or more, and the energy difference between the LUMO and the HOMO of the cation moiety being 10.0 ev or more, or the Log P value of the anion moiety being 1 to 3. |
| FILED | Friday, June 17, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/185899 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 1/005 (20130101) B05D 3/107 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 5/00 (20130101) C09D 7/1233 (20130101) C09D 153/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09916197 | Jiang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anxiao Jiang (College Station, Texas); Eyal En Gad (Pasadena, California); Jehoshua Bruck (Pasadena, California); Eitan Yaakobi (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Rank modulation has been recently proposed as a scheme for storing information in flash memories. Three improved aspects are disclosed. In one aspect the minimum push-up scheme, for storing data in flash memories is provided. It aims at minimizing the cost of changing the state of the memory. In another aspect, multi-cells, used for storing data in flash memories is provided. Each transistor is replaced with a multi-cell of mm transistors connected in parallel. In yet another aspect, multi-permutations, are provided. The paradigm of representing information with permutations is generalized to the case where the number of cells in each level is a constant greater than one. In yet another aspect, rank-modulation rewriting schemes which take advantage of polar codes, are provided for use with flash memory. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 02, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/728749 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/1016 (20130101) G06F 11/1072 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 12/0246 (20130101) Static Stores G11C 7/1006 (20130101) G11C 11/5628 (20130101) G11C 16/10 (20130101) G11C 16/349 (20130101) G11C 29/52 (20130101) G11C 2211/5649 (20130101) Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 13/13 (20130101) |
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| US 09916449 | Sethumadhavan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York, New York); Lakshminarasimhan Sethumadhavan (New York, New York); Adam Waksman (Pleasantville, New York); Matthew Suozzo (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lakshminarasimhan Sethumadhavan (New York, New York); Adam Waksman (Pleasantville, New York); Matthew Suozzo (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are devices, systems, apparatus, methods, products, media, and other implementations, including a method that includes computing for one or more inputs of a circuit associated metrics representative of degree of influence that values of each of the one or more inputs have on at least one output dependent on the one or more inputs, and determining based, at least in part, on the computed metrics associated with the one or more inputs of a more inputs whether the at least one output dependent on the one or more inputs is part of a potentially malicious implementation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/773104 |
| ART UNIT | 2438 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/263 (20130101) G06F 21/56 (20130101) G06F 21/71 (20130101) G06F 21/566 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/1466 (20130101) |
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| US 09916475 | Enck et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina); Technische Universitat Darmstadt (Darmstadt, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY (Raleigh, North Carolina); TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DARMSTADT (Darmstadt, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Harold Enck (Raleigh, North Carolina); Adwait Pravin Nadkarni (Raleigh, North Carolina); Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi (Darmstadt, Germany); Stephan Heuser (Nuremberg, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and computer readable media for extending security of an application-based computer operating system are disclosed. One system includes a memory. The system also includes an application-based operating system security module bridge implemented using the memory. The application-based operating system security module bridge is for receiving, from a reference monitor, a registration for at least one security authorization hook, for receiving a callback when a protected event occurs, for communicating with the reference monitor that registered the at least one security authorization hook corresponding to the callback, and for receiving, from the reference monitor, an access control decision associated with the protected event. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 11, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/823262 |
| ART UNIT | 2434 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/629 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 21/6218 (20130101) |
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| US 09916857 | Wu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Min Wu (Clarksville, Maryland); Adi Hajj-Ahmad (College Park, Maryland); Hui Su (College Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Various systems and methods may benefit from determination of environmental signatures in recordings. For example, such signatures may aid forensic analysis and alignment of media recordings, such as alignment of audio or video recordings. A method can include extracting electric network frequency signals from an image sequence of a video recording or an audio recording. The method can also include synchronizing the video recording or the audio recording with at least one other datum based on the electric network frequency signals. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 26, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/721776 |
| ART UNIT | 2481 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Information Storage Based on Relative Movement Between Record Carrier and Transducer G11B 20/10259 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G11B 20/10527 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/04 (20130101) H04N 5/913 (20130101) H04N 9/8205 (20130101) H04N 2005/91342 (20130101) |
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| US 09916927 | Kandel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hom Kandel (Tallahassee, Florida); Jun Lu (Tallahassee, Florida); Youri Viouchkov (Tallahassee, Florida); Scott Gundlach (Tallahassee, Florida); Adam Voran (Tallahassee, Florida); William D. Markiewicz (Monticello, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrically insulating Al2O3—SiO2 thin coatings have been deposited on long-length 316 stainless steel (SS) tape using a reel-to-reel continuous sol-gel dip coating process for co-winding insulation into YBCO pancake coils, a high temperature superconductor magnet technology. Coatings with a thickness of ˜2 μm are achieved after just one dip with a tape withdrawal speed of ˜16 mm/s (1 m/min) and a calcination at 700° C. The coatings were measured to have a room-temperature breakdown voltage of about 100 V, corresponding to a dc dielectric strength of about 50 MV/m. Consequently, this process has low cost and high throughput and produces a thin electrical insulation with excellent thermal, dielectric, and mechanical properties. A new technique has been developed in the coating process to mitigate coating buildup near the edges of the tape. |
| FILED | Friday, March 25, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/081377 |
| 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 28/24 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 6/06 (20130101) H01F 41/048 (20130101) H01F 41/127 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09916958 | Bhandari et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Harish B. Bhandari (Brookline, Massachusetts); Vivek V. Nagarkar (Weston, Massachusetts); Olena E. Ovechkina (Alston, Massachusetts); Henry J. Frisch (Chicago, Illinois); Klaus Attenkofer (Riverhead, New York); John M. Smedley (Shirley, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES, INC. (Watertown, Massachusetts); THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (Chicago, Illinois); BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE ASSOCIATES, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harish B. Bhandari (Brookline, Massachusetts); Vivek V. Nagarkar (Weston, Massachusetts); Olena E. Ovechkina (Alston, Massachusetts); Henry J. Frisch (Chicago, Illinois); Klaus Attenkofer (Riverhead, New York); John M. Smedley (Shirley, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for fabricating a film, such as, for example, a photocathode, having a tailored band structure and thin-film components that can be tailored for specific applications, such as, for example photocathode having a high quantum efficiency, and simple components fabricated by those methods. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 29, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/608777 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 14/025 (20130101) C23C 14/165 (20130101) C23C 14/545 (20130101) C23C 14/3414 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/63 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 1/34 (20130101) H01J 9/12 (20130101) 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 50/15 (20141201) |
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| US 09917244 | Rais-Zadeh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mina Rais-Zadeh (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Azadeh Ansari (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A resonant body high electron mobility transistor is described with resonance frequencies in gigahertz regime, limited by the cutoff frequency of the readout transistor. Piezoelectric materials form the resonating membrane of the device. Different modes of acoustic resonance, such as a thickness-mode, can be excited and amplified by applying an AC signal to the transducer electrode and proper biasing of all electrodes. The drain electrode reads out the acoustic resonance and amplifies it. The drain electrode is placed at or near where the piezoelectric charge pickup is maximum; whereas, the source electrode is placed at a nodal point with minimum displacement. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 17, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/741764 |
| ART UNIT | 2897 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/20 (20130101) H01L 41/18 (20130101) H01L 41/107 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Impedance Networks, e.g Resonant Circuits; Resonators H03H 3/0072 (20130101) H03H 9/02259 (20130101) H03H 9/2426 (20130101) H03H 2009/241 (20130101) H03H 2009/02314 (20130101) |
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| US 09917255 | Huang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jiaxing Huang (Wilmette, Illinois); Jaemyung Kim (Evanston, Illinois); Vincent C. Tung (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a graphene oxide based layer includes preparing a dispersion of graphene oxide and nanostructures, and spin coating the dispersion on a surface of a substrate to form a spin coated film thereon; and thermally annealing the spin coated film to form the graphene oxide based layer, where the mass ratio of the graphene oxide and the nanostructures in the graphene oxide based layer is in a range of about 1:0.01 w/w to 1:0.8 w/w. The nanostructures are functionalized with carboxylic acid. The nanostructures include carbon nanotubes, or nanofibers. The carbon nanotubes include single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) or multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs). |
| FILED | Monday, February 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/758183 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 1/005 (20130101) B05D 5/12 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (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 18/1262 (20130101) C23C 18/1295 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0003 (20130101) H01L 51/0036 (20130101) H01L 51/0048 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/0049 (20130101) H01L 51/444 (20130101) H01L 51/4213 (20130101) H01L 51/4253 (20130101) H01L 2251/308 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/521 (20151101) |
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 09915603 | Hug et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Photon Systems, Inc. (Covina, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Photon Systems, Inc. (Covina, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William F. Hug (Altadena, California); Ray D. Reid (Glendora, California); Rohit Bhartia (Pasadena, California); Arthur L. Lane (Arcadia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Spectroscopic chemical analysis methods and apparatus are disclosed which employ deep ultraviolet (e.g. in the 200 nm to 300 nm spectral range) electron beam pumped wide bandgap semiconductor lasers, incoherent wide bandgap semiconductor light emitting devices, and hollow cathode metal ion lasers to perform non-contact, non-invasive detection of unknown chemical analytes. These deep ultraviolet sources enable dramatic size, weight and power consumption reductions of chemical analysis instruments. In some embodiments, Raman spectroscopic detection methods and apparatus use ultra-narrow-band angle tuning filters, acousto-optic tuning filters, and temperature tuned filters to enable ultra-miniature analyzers for chemical identification. In some embodiments Raman analysis is conducted along with photoluminescence spectroscopy (i.e. fluorescence and/or phosphorescence spectroscopy) to provide high levels of sensitivity and specificity in the same instrument. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 14, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/432865 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/10 (20130101) G01J 3/36 (20130101) G01J 3/44 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/33 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/64 (20130101) G01N 21/65 (20130101) G01N 21/645 (20130101) G01N 27/44721 (20130101) G01N 2021/6421 (20130101) G01N 2021/6471 (20130101) G01N 2201/068 (20130101) G01N 2201/0612 (20130101) G01N 2201/06113 (20130101) |
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| US 09915832 | Horie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu Horie (Pasadena, California); Amir Arbabi (Pasadena, California); Andrei Faraon (La Canada Flintridge, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for controlling the phase of electromagnetic waves are disclosed. A device can consist of a guided resonance grating layer, a spacer, and a reflector. A plurality of devices, arranged in a grid pattern, can control the phase of reflected electromagnetic phase, through refractive index control. Carrier injection, temperature control, and optical beams can be applied to control the refractive index. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/282592 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/017 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02F 1/19 (20130101) G02F 1/0107 (20130101) G02F 1/292 (20130101) G02F 2001/0151 (20130101) G02F 2001/0154 (20130101) G02F 2201/307 (20130101) G02F 2203/10 (20130101) G02F 2203/12 (20130101) G02F 2203/18 (20130101) |
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National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 09916178 | Dinan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Dinan (Hudson, Massachusetts); Mario Flajslik (Hudson, Massachusetts); Tom St. John (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Technologies for integrated thread scheduling include a computing device having a network interface controller (NIC). The NIC is configured to detect and suspend a thread that is being blocked by one or more communication operations. A thread scheduling engine of the NIC is configured to move the suspended thread from a running queue of the system thread scheduler to a pending queue of the thread scheduling engine. The thread scheduling engine is further configured to move the suspended thread from the pending queue to a ready queue of the thread scheduling engine upon determining any dependencies and/or blocking communications operations have completed. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| FILED | Friday, September 25, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/866572 |
| ART UNIT | 2199 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/46 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 9/4881 (20130101) G06F 9/5027 (20130101) G06F 9/5038 (20130101) |
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| US 09917713 | Yu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kunzhi Yu (Palo Alto, California); Cheng Li (Palo Alto, California); Marco Fiorentino (Palo Alto, California); Raymond G. Beausoleil (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one example, an apparatus includes an offset tunable edge slicer having an input to receive a pulse amplitude modulation signal. The offset tunable edge slicer also has a plurality of possible offset settings corresponding to a plurality of different reference voltages of the offset tunable edge slicer. A multiplexer has an output coupled to the input of the offset tunable edge slicer and an input to receive a control signal that selects one of the plurality of possible offset settings for the offset tunable edge slicer. A phase detector has an input coupled to an output of the offset tunable edge slicer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 27, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/139779 |
| ART UNIT | 2632 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 25/066 (20130101) H04L 25/069 (20130101) H04L 27/223 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 27/2338 (20130101) |
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United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US D812463 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Serivce (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jim E. Lee (Washington, District of Columbia); Robert E. Dixon, Jr. (Washington, District of Columbia); Jon Goodrich (Washington, District of Columbia) |
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| FILED | Wednesday, January 04, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 29/589730 |
| ART UNIT | 2924 — Design |
| CURRENT CPC | Packages and containers for goods D9/420 |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jim E. Lee (Washington, District of Columbia) |
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| FILED | Thursday, June 16, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 29/568274 |
| ART UNIT | 2924 — Design |
| CURRENT CPC | Packages and containers for goods D9/433 |
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Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US PP29089 | Zeppa |
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| APPLICANT(S) | State of Queensland Through the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (Brisbane, Australia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STATE OF QUEENSLAND THROUGH THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES (Brisbane, Australia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aldo Zeppa (Brisbane, Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | A new and distinctive variety of a Malus domestica apple tree, named ‘RS103-110’ that is distinguished by its medium vigor tree, fruit that matures immediately after ‘Royal Gala’, fruit that is small to medium in size with an obloid to globose shape and a foreground stripe that is dark red in color over a background that is yellow-green in color, fruit stem (pedicel) that can be very short and thick at the point of attachment to the spur, and resistance to apple scab, is disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 08, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/330343 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/161 |
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Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 09916183 | He et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ting He (Piermont, New York); Kang-Won Lee (Nanuet, New York); Jian Tan (Wappingers Falls, New York); Yuting Ji (Ithica, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided a method, a system and a computer program product for improving performance and fairness in sharing a cluster of dynamically available computing resources among multiple jobs. The system collects at least one parameter associated with availability of a plurality of computing resources. The system calculates, based on the collected parameter, an effective processing time each computing resource can provide to each job. The system allocates, based on the calculated effective processing time, the computing resources to the multiple jobs, whereby the multiple jobs are completed at a same time or an approximate time. |
| FILED | Friday, September 02, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/255242 |
| ART UNIT | 2194 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/4881 (20130101) G06F 9/5066 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 09917418 | Razeghi |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manijeh Razeghi (Wilmette, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Monolithic, wavelength-tunable QCL devices are provided which comprise a substrate, an array of QCLs formed on the substrate and an optical beam combiner formed on the substrate electrically isolated from the array of QCLs. In embodiments, the QCL devices are configured to provide laser emission in the range of from about 3 μm to about 12 μm, a wavelength tuning range of at least about 500 cm−1, and a wavelength tuning step size of about 1.0 nm or less. |
| FILED | Monday, October 31, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/338753 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/39 (20130101) G01N 21/3504 (20130101) G01N 2021/399 (20130101) G01N 2021/3595 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/00 (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 5/22 (20130101) H01S 5/026 (20130101) H01S 5/028 (20130101) H01S 5/0208 (20130101) H01S 5/0287 (20130101) H01S 5/0687 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 5/1028 (20130101) H01S 5/1209 (20130101) H01S 5/3401 (20130101) H01S 5/4012 (20130101) H01S 5/4037 (20130101) H01S 5/4087 (20130101) H01S 5/06258 (20130101) H01S 5/34313 (20130101) |
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Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 09916685 | Prabhu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Utsav Prabhu (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Marios Savvides (Wexford, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for providing a fast, efficient and accurate method for recovery of depth information from a single image of a face is disclosed. The technique uses a novel thin-plate spline-based dense-correspondence method to align the face, and the representation incorporates a weighted framework, interpreting the depth recovery problem as a weighted data problem. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 28, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/140842 |
| ART UNIT | 2669 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0051 (20130101) G06T 17/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2207/10004 (20130101) G06T 2207/30201 (20130101) |
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Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 09915045 | Azizinamini |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Atorod Azizinamini (Miramar, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES (Miami, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Atorod Azizinamini (Miramar, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Folded plate girders can be connected end to end to form a cambered girder, wherein a connector system including a peripheral connecting flange secures adjacent girders in series at the desired camber arc or angle. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 08, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/806869 |
| ART UNIT | 3671 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Construction of Bridges, or Viaducts; Assembly of Bridges E01D 2/04 (20130101) E01D 19/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 09913615 | Narayan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California); Topera, Inc. (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Topera, Inc. (Menlo Park, California); The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanjiv M. Narayan (La Jolla, California); Carey Robert Briggs (La Jolla, California); Ruchir Sehra (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | In a system and method for reconstructing cardiac activation information, an analysis cardiac signal and a reference cardiac signal are accessed and processed to determine a first point of change in the analysis cardiac signal at which a derivative of the analysis cardiac signal diverges with respect to a derivative of the reference cardiac signal. The signals are processed to determine a second point of change in the analysis cardiac signal at which a different derivative of the analysis cardiac signal with respect to a different derivative of the reference cardiac signal. An activation onset time is assigned in the analysis cardiac signal at a point based on a mathematical association among the first point of change and the second point of change to define cardiac activation indicating a beat in the analysis cardiac signal. |
| FILED | Friday, November 04, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/344230 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Telemetry and Code Generation Vehicles and System Alarms |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/024 (20130101) A61B 5/046 (20130101) A61B 5/0205 (20130101) A61B 5/0245 (20130101) A61B 5/0255 (20130101) A61B 5/0402 (20130101) A61B 5/0422 (20130101) A61B 5/0452 (20130101) A61B 5/0464 (20130101) A61B 5/0468 (20130101) A61B 5/0472 (20130101) A61B 5/742 (20130101) A61B 5/02405 (20130101) A61B 5/04011 (20130101) A61B 5/04012 (20130101) A61B 5/4836 (20130101) A61B 5/6852 (20130101) A61B 5/7203 (20130101) A61B 5/7207 (20130101) A61B 5/7217 (20130101) A61B 5/7239 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/7246 (20130101) A61B 5/7278 (20130101) A61B 5/7282 (20130101) A61B 2562/046 (20130101) |
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 09914654 | Williams |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel John Williams (Fairfield, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | In the drinking water industry, pilot plants have played a big role in assisting water professionals, utilities, and engineering firms in generating information about the behavior of large full scale systems. Due to the identification of new contaminants, stringent regulations, and demand for improved water quality the demand for novel water treatment challenges across North America have significantly increased. A portable evaluation pilot skid (PEPS) accommodates all water qualities. A vent valve screen is mounted inside the contactor with holes large enough to prevent clogging. Air is introduced into the contactor prior to the screen. The screen is mounted such that it breaks the air into small bubbles creating the effect of a stone diffusor. Air flow is easily adjusted with a needle valve. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/459277 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/001 (20130101) C02F 1/74 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C02F 2201/008 (20130101) |
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Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09915562 | Leen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ABB, Inc. (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ABB, INC. (Cary, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Brian Leen (Sunnyvale, California); Nathan E. Bramall (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A cavity-enhanced absorption spectroscopy instrument has an optical cavity with two or more cavity mirrors, one mirror of which having a hole or other aperture for injecting a light beam, and the same or another mirror of which being partially transmissive to allow exit of light to a detector. A spherical-spherical configuration with at least one astigmatic mirror or a spherical-cylindrical configuration where the spherical mirror could also be astigmatic prevents a reentrant condition wherein the injected beam would prematurely exit the cavity through the aperture. This combination substantially increases the number of passes of the injected beam through a sample volume for sensitive detection of chemical species even in less than ideal conditions including low power laser or LED sources, poor mirror reflectivity or detector noise at the wavelengths of interest, or cavity alignment issues such as vibration or temperature and pressure changes. |
| FILED | Friday, August 12, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/235401 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/021 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01J 3/42 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/3504 (20130101) G01N 2201/06113 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 09913831 | Kishore et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF UTAH RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF UTAH RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bellamkonda K. Kishore (Sandy, Utah); Noel G. Carlson (Salt Lake City, Utah); Yue Zhang (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a treatment of diabetes insipidus. Methods of treating diabetes insipidus disorders associated with P2Y receptors using the compounds and compositions are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 16, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/184526 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/64 (20130101) A61K 31/64 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 31/4365 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/4365 (20130101) A61K 31/7076 (20130101) A61K 31/7076 (20130101) A61K 33/00 (20130101) A61K 33/00 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09914429 | Williams |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Glen Fowler Williams (Mount Royal, Canada) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Glen Fowler Williams (Mount Royal, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A forward-facing child restraint and a child restraint system providing superior collision protection. The restraint and the system are for use in a vehicle having a lap belt and a shoulder belt. The child restraint system comprises a restraint which may be used with a booster seat, independently of a booster seat or associated with a booster seat. |
| FILED | Friday, November 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/544061 |
| ART UNIT | 3636 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Seats Specially Adapted for Vehicles; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation Not Otherwise Provided for B60N 2/2839 (20130101) B60N 2/2866 (20130101) Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, or Vehicle Parts, Not Otherwise Provided for B60R 22/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B60R 22/105 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09914551 | Honse et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam Honse (Hermosa Beach, California); Richard A. Fowell (Rolling Hllls Estates, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments described herein provide for passive timing of asynchronous Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) attitude data using information derived from a pattern of skipped and duplicate samples of attitude data generated by the IMU. One embodiment is an attitude controller for a vehicle that generates samples of attitude data at a first frequency (f1) from an IMU of the vehicle. The IMU updates the attitude data at a second frequency (f2). Each update of the attitude data includes a time stamp. The attitude controller is processes time stamps in the samples to identify a pattern of at least one of a skipped sample of an update to the attitude data and a duplicate sample of an update to the attitude data. The attitude controller estimates lag times between updates of the attitude data and samples of the attitude data based on the pattern and a relationship between f1 and f2. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 26, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/316224 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Cosmonautics; Vehicles or Equipment Therefor B64G 1/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B64G 1/288 (20130101) B64G 1/366 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, March 13, 2018.
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.
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THE PANEL
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FUNDED BY
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Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
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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)
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ABSTRACT
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FILED
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APPL NO
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ART UNIT
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3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
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CURRENT CPC
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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.
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