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| US 09918627 | Huang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Huang (Portland, Oregon); Yan Li (Portland, Oregon); James T. Rosenbaum (Portland, Oregon); Jennifer Rose-Nussbaumer (San Francisco, California) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | David Huang (Portland, Oregon); Yan Li (Portland, Oregon); James T. Rosenbaum (Portland, Oregon); Jennifer Rose-Nussbaumer (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for determining a percentage composition of aqueous cells in an anterior chamber of an eye of a subject based on cell reflectance distributions calculated from OCT image data are disclosed. In one example approach, determining a percentage composition of detected aqueous cells may comprise calculating a percentage of the detected aqueous cells which are polymorphonuclear and calculating a percentage of detected aqueous cells which are mononuclear. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 05, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/704175 |
| ART UNIT | 2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 3/102 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 3/117 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) G06T 2207/10101 (20130101) G06T 2207/30041 (20130101) |
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| US 09918630 | Tan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ou Tan (Portland, Oregon); David Huang (Portland, Oregon) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Ou Tan (Portland, Oregon); David Huang (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for detecting glaucoma in a subject based on spatial frequency analysis of the inner limiting membrane (ILM) as obtained from optical coherence tomography (OCT) image data is disclosed. Based on the spatial frequency content of the analyzed ILM profile, a quantity called the Retinal surface contour variability (RSCV) is calculated and the presence or absence of a glaucoma condition is determined based on the RSCV magnitude. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 31, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/253597 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 3/0025 (20130101) A61B 3/102 (20130101) A61B 3/1225 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 2207/30041 (20130101) |
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| US 09918656 | Cima et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael J. Cima (Winchester, Massachusetts); Paul Huang (Boston, Massachusetts); Yibo Ling (Brooklyn, New York); Terrence Pong (San Francisco, California); Christophoros C. Vassiliou (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Cima (Winchester, Massachusetts); Paul Huang (Boston, Massachusetts); Yibo Ling (Brooklyn, New York); Terrence Pong (San Francisco, California); Christophoros C. Vassiliou (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An implantable magnetic relaxation sensor is provided that comprises superparamagnetic nanoparticies functionalized with one or more agents that bond with a biomarker of interest. The sensor is configured for minimally-invasive implantation into a human or animal, and is configured to indicate the implanted sensor's cumulative exposure to the biomarker of interest by analysis using magnetic resonance relaxometry. |
| FILED | Monday, June 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/806348 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0031 (20130101) A61B 5/055 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/14546 (20130101) A61B 2562/0285 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/50 (20130101) G01R 33/302 (20130101) G01R 33/5601 (20130101) |
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| US 09918672 | Kennedy |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel L. M. Kennedy (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Daniel L.M. Kennedy (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William R. Kennedy (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Various methods may apply iodine on a test area of a subject and allow the applied iodine to dry. Sweating may be triggered in the test area. Triggering sweating may include introducing acetylcholine (ACh) using iontophoresis into dermis within an iontophoresis area. An indirect response to introduction of the ACh may be monitored. Monitoring the indirect response may include applying starch tape over the iodine-painted test area to monitor sweat production from individual sweat glands (SGs) outside of the iontophoresis area, wherein sweat production for each functional SG results in a sweat spot on the starch tape, and taking a series of digital images, using a digital camera, of the starch tape when the individual SGs are producing sweat and causing sweat spots on the starch tape. The digital images of sweat spots may be analyzed to analyze sweat production from the individual SGs. |
| FILED | Friday, May 13, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/153940 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0077 (20130101) A61B 5/4266 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/30 (20130101) |
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| US 09918698 | Urban 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) | Matthew W. Urban (Rochester, Minnesota); James F. Greenleaf (Rochester, Minnesota); Bo Qiang (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Described here are systems and methods for ultrasound processes using shear wave attenuation and velocity derived from k-space analysis by analyzing spatial frequency domain data. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 23, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/440279 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 8/485 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 8/5207 (20130101) A61B 8/5223 (20130101) 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) |
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| US 09918959 | Boger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (LaJolla, California); Board of Regents of the University of Texas System, Austin (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas); The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dale Boger (LaJolla, California); Bruce Beutler (Irving, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A TLR-independent adjuvant compound that corresponds in structure to Formula I, below, or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt is disclosed in which X, Y, Z, n, R1, R2, R3, R4 and W are defined within. Also disclosed are a method of its preparation and use, as well as a pharmaceutical composition containing the same. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 05, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 15/502117 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/167 (20130101) A61K 31/343 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/381 (20130101) A61K 31/404 (20130101) A61K 31/498 (20130101) A61K 31/506 (20130101) A61K 31/4439 (20130101) A61K 39/39 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 237/44 (20130101) C07C 2601/14 (20170501) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/42 (20130101) C07D 307/85 (20130101) C07D 401/12 (20130101) C07D 403/12 (20130101) C07D 405/12 (20130101) C07D 409/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09918964 | Collman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James P. Collman (Stanford, California); Paul Clifford Herrmann (Loma Linda, California); David Alvin Tyvoll (La Jolla, California); Richard Decreau (Cedex, France); Brian Stanley Bull (Loma Linda, California); Christopher Jeffrey Barile (San Carlos, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James P. Collman (Stanford, California); Paul Clifford Herrmann (Loma Linda, California); David Alvin Tyvoll (La Jolla, California); Richard Decreau (Cedex, France); Brian Stanley Bull (Loma Linda, California); Christopher Jeffrey Barile (San Carlos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | It has been discovered that inhibiting mitochondrial respiration in platelets reduces platelet activation or platelet aggregation. Certain heterocyclic compounds significantly reduced one or more platelet functions including clumping, sticking or platelet-stimulated clotting. Thus diseases or disorders mediated by inappropriately high levels of platelet activation or platelet aggregation can be treated by administering a therapeutically effective amount of a heterocyclic compound or nonheterocyclic mitochondrial inhibitor that significantly reduces one or more platelet functions including clumping, sticking or platelet-stimulated clotting, preferably in a reversible manner. |
| FILED | Monday, April 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/093825 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/41 (20130101) A61K 31/385 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/404 (20130101) A61K 31/426 (20130101) A61K 31/505 (20130101) A61K 31/4164 (20130101) A61K 31/4192 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 9/6539 (20130101) |
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| US 09918966 | Robertson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gavin P. Robertson (Hummelstown, Pennsylvania); Chandagalu D. Raghavendra Gowda (Hershey, Pennsylvania); Dhimant H. Desai (Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania); Shantu G. Amin (Union City, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and pharmaceutical compositions including one or more selenium-containing COX-2 inhibitors are provided according to aspects of the present invention. Methods of treating a subject having or suspected of having cancer are provided according to aspects of the present invention which include administering a therapeutically effective amount of a pharmaceutical composition including a selenium-containing COX-2 inhibitor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 23, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/244671 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0014 (20130101) A61K 9/127 (20130101) A61K 9/1271 (20130101) A61K 31/095 (20130101) A61K 31/415 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/415 (20130101) A61K 38/063 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 231/10 (20130101) C07D 231/12 (20130101) C07D 231/42 (20130101) |
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| US 09918972 | Civin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE (Baltimore, Maryland); THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Curt Civin (Baltimore, Maryland); Xiaochun Chen (Timonium, Maryland); Jennifer Fox (Falls Church, Virginia); Gary Posner (Baltimore, Maryland); Michelle Rudek (Fulton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of treating cancer, such as leukemia, via administration of therapeutically effective amounts of artemisinins and second agents are detailed herein. The artemisinins include artesunate, dihydroartemisinin, artemether, arteether, artelinate, and ART-838. The second agents include BCL-2 inhibitors such as ABT-199, ABT-263, and ABT-737; kinase inhibitors such as lestaurtinib, midostaurin, and sorafenib; and anti-neoplastic agents such as cytarabine, doxorubicin, etoposide, cyclophosphamide, triplotide, vinorelbine, cisplatin, and rituximab. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 23, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/757433 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/44 (20130101) A61K 31/282 (20130101) A61K 31/282 (20130101) A61K 31/357 (20130101) A61K 31/357 (20130101) A61K 31/475 (20130101) A61K 31/475 (20130101) A61K 31/675 (20130101) A61K 31/675 (20130101) A61K 31/704 (20130101) A61K 31/704 (20130101) A61K 31/7048 (20130101) A61K 31/7048 (20130101) A61K 31/7068 (20130101) A61K 31/7068 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09918983 | Zhang |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION on behalf of THE UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS (Las Vegas, Nevada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS (Las Vegas, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hui Zhang (Las Vegas, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are inhibitors of lysine-specific demethylase I (LSD1); synthetic methods for making the compounds; pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds; and methods of treating cancers characterized by the presence of Sox2 using the compounds and compositions Also disclosed are methods of treating cancers characterized by the presence of Sox2 using inhibitors of LSD1 and/or histone deacetylation I (HDAC1). This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention. |
| FILED | Friday, May 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/894893 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/15 (20130101) A61K 31/15 (20130101) A61K 31/19 (20130101) A61K 31/20 (20130101) A61K 31/27 (20130101) A61K 31/40 (20130101) A61K 31/135 (20130101) A61K 31/135 (20130101) A61K 31/137 (20130101) A61K 31/137 (20130101) A61K 31/165 (20130101) A61K 31/167 (20130101) A61K 31/185 (20130101) A61K 31/325 (20130101) A61K 31/495 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/785 (20130101) A61K 31/785 (20130101) A61K 31/4406 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 217/74 (20130101) C07C 271/24 (20130101) C07C 2101/02 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/14 (20130101) C07D 295/13 (20130101) |
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| US 09918989 | Luckhart et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents Of The University Of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shirley Luckhart (Davis, California); Cecilia Giulivi (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides methods for treating or preventing malaria by administration of a protein kinase inhibitor and optionally one or both of a further protein kinase inhibitor and an antimalarial drug to a mammalian subject infected with or at risk of exposure to Plasmodium sp. In some aspects, the therapeutic and prophylactic regimens of the present disclosure are effective in reducing parasite development in mosquitoes feeding on recipients of the regimens. Additionally, the present disclosure provides methods for screening candidate antimalarial agents. |
| FILED | Friday, July 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/904673 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/52 (20130101) A61K 31/404 (20130101) A61K 31/407 (20130101) A61K 31/416 (20130101) A61K 31/473 (20130101) A61K 31/541 (20130101) A61K 31/4035 (20130101) A61K 31/4162 (20130101) A61K 31/4168 (20130101) A61K 31/4178 (20130101) A61K 31/4439 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 49/0008 (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 1/485 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/573 (20130101) G01N 33/5008 (20130101) G01N 33/5014 (20130101) G01N 33/56905 (20130101) G01N 2333/445 (20130101) G01N 2333/912 (20130101) G01N 2440/14 (20130101) G01N 2500/04 (20130101) G01N 2500/10 (20130101) G01N 2500/20 (20130101) |
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| US 09918994 | Blau 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) | Helen M. Blau (Stanford, California); Andrew Tri Van Ho (Stanford, California); Adelaida R. Palla (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are compositions, methods, and kits for proliferating muscle cells by exposing the muscle cells to a prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) compound or compound that activates PGE2 signaling. Also provided are methods for regenerating muscle in a subject suffering from muscular atrophy, dystrophy, and/or injury by administering a PGE2 compound alone or in combination with isolated muscle cells. The PGE2 compound in combination with the isolated muscle cells can be administered prophylactically to prevent a muscle disease or condition. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 26, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/498293 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/5575 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 35/34 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0658 (20130101) C12N 2501/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09919008 | Miller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Instituto de Investigación en Discapacidades Neurológicas-IDINE (Albacete, Spain) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Josef M. Miller (Ann Arbor, Michigan); José M. Juiz Gómez (Albacete, Spain); Juan C. Alvarado-Romero (Albacete, Spain); Verónica Fuentes-Santamaría (Albacete, Spain) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for treating age-related hearing loss (ARHL) includes the step administering a composition to the mammal, wherein the composition consists essentially of a biologically effective amount of vitamin A, vitamin E, vitamin C, a vasodilator comprising magnesium, and, optionally, a withanolide, and/or resveratrol. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 22, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/272981 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0056 (20130101) A61K 31/05 (20130101) A61K 31/07 (20130101) A61K 31/58 (20130101) A61K 31/341 (20130101) A61K 31/355 (20130101) A61K 31/355 (20130101) A61K 31/375 (20130101) A61K 31/375 (20130101) A61K 31/585 (20130101) A61K 31/585 (20130101) A61K 33/00 (20130101) A61K 33/00 (20130101) A61K 33/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 33/06 (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) |
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| US 09919009 | Murphy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Boston Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION (Boston, Massachusetts); TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George J. Murphy (Boston, Massachusetts); David H. Sherr (West Roxbury, Massachusetts); Sarah S. Rozelle (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Brenden W. Smith (Warwick, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure provides methods of making a megakaryocyte-erythroid progenitor cell (MEP), comprising differentiating a stem cell into a MEP in culture in the presence of an aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) agonist. In some embodiments the stem cell is a pluripotent stem cell. In some embodiments the MEP co-expresses CD41 and CD235. In some embodiments the number of MEPs produced in the culture increases exponentially. Methods of making a red blood cell (RBC) by culturing a MEP in the presence of an AhR agonist are also provided. Methods of making a megakaryocyte and/or a platelet, comprising culturing a MEP in the presence of an AhR modulator are also provided. In some embodiments the AhR modulator is an AhR antagonist. This disclosure also provides compositions comprising at least 1 million MEPs per ml and compositions in which at least 50% of the cells are MEPs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 02, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/729004 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/404 (20130101) A61K 31/655 (20130101) A61K 35/18 (20130101) A61K 35/19 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2035/124 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0641 (20130101) C12N 5/0644 (20130101) C12N 5/0647 (20130101) C12N 2501/60 (20130101) C12N 2501/999 (20130101) C12N 2506/03 (20130101) C12N 2506/45 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5044 (20130101) G01N 2500/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09919037 | Scheinberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Scheinberg (New York, New York); Tao Dao (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides peptides, immunogenic compositions and vaccines, and methods of treating, reducing the incidence of, and inducing immune responses to a WT1-expressing cancer, comprising heteroclitic peptides derived from the WT-1 protein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/760997 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0011 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/572 (20130101) A61K 2039/5154 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) C07K 7/08 (20130101) C07K 14/4748 (20130101) |
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| US 09919038 | Seavey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Catherine Sewell (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Seavey (Secane, Pennsylvania); Yvonne Paterson (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Paulo Maciag (Long Grove, Illinois); Duane Sewell (Cheltenham, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides recombinant Listeria strains comprising an angiogenic factor, recombinant polypeptides comprising an angiogenic factor operatively linked to a polypeptide comprising a PEST-like sequence, recombinant nucleotide molecules encoding same, related vaccines, and immunogenic and therapeutic methods utilizing same. |
| FILED | Friday, January 15, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 14/996746 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0011 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/57 (20130101) A61K 2039/522 (20130101) A61K 2039/523 (20130101) A61K 2039/585 (20130101) A61K 2039/6037 (20130101) A61K 2039/6068 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/71 (20130101) C07K 14/195 (20130101) C07K 14/4748 (20130101) C07K 2319/55 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/74 (20130101) |
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| US 09919054 | Burdick 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) | Jason Alan Burdick (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Robert C. Gorman (Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania); Joseph H. Gorman, III (Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania); Brendan Patrick Purcell (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to compositions comprising (i) biocompatible hydrogel and (ii) one or more therapeutic agents contained within said hydrogel; wherein the hydrogel is cross-linked utilizing a cross-linker comprising a peptide sequence that is capable of being degraded by an enzyme; the therapeutic agent being effective as a treatment of a condition related to the presence of the enzyme. |
| FILED | Monday, May 22, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/601085 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/06 (20130101) A61K 38/10 (20130101) A61K 38/57 (20130101) A61K 38/1866 (20130101) A61K 47/24 (20130101) A61K 47/42 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09919055 | Hecht et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sidney Hecht (Phoenix, Arizona); Rakesh Paul (Baltimore, Maryland); Chenhong Tang (Tempe, Arizona); Manikandadas Mathilakathu Madathil (Tempe, Arizona); Chandrabali Bhattacharya (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sidney Hecht (Phoenix, Arizona); Rakesh Paul (Baltimore, Maryland); Chenhong Tang (Tempe, Arizona); Manikandadas Mathilakathu Madathil (Tempe, Arizona); Chandrabali Bhattacharya (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to sugar-linker-drug conjugates, of the formula [A-B-]n-L-D, wherein A is a saccharide; B is a spacer, n is an integer selected from 1 to 3; L is a linker group and D is a drug having a chemically reactive functional group selected from the group consisting of a primary or secondary amine, hydroxyl, sulfhydryl, carboxyl, aldehyde and ketone. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising the conjugates and methods of using them are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/776396 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 31/4745 (20130101) A61K 31/7042 (20130101) A61K 47/48092 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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09919058 — Polyketal particles including a CpG oligodeoxynucleotide for the treatment of lung cancer
| US 09919058 | Klinman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, as represented by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis M. Klinman (Potomac, Maryland); Takashi Sato (Yokohama, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are disclosed herein for treating a subject with a lung cancer. The lung cancer can be small cell carcinoma of the lung or non-small cell carcinoma of the lung. The methods include locally administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of the polyketal particle comprising a CpG oligodexoynucleotide. Optionally, the polyketal particle can include an imidazoquinoline compound. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 15/326387 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/475 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 47/48907 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09919059 | Wong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cliff R. Wong (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Dai Fukumura (Newton, Massachusetts); Rakesh K. Jain (Wellesley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanoparticles for a selective, two stage delivery to tumors have been developed. The nanoparticles are initially sized so that they preferentially accumulate in the tumor tissue as a result of leakage through the defective vascular in the solid tumors. Once in the tumor tissue, the nanoparticles are cleaved hydrolytically and/or by enzymatic cleavage over time to release smaller nanoparticles carrying therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic agents into the necrotic interior of the tumors. This provides a simple, elegant and highly effective means of delivery drug selectively not just to tumors generally, but, more importantly, into the poorly vascularized necrotic interiors which drugs are normally unable to penetrate. The nanoparticles have a number of advantages: less toxicity due to selective accumulation only in the tumors; access into the poorly vascularized necrotic interiors of the tumor; and sustained release over a period of time within the tumor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/102118 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/50 (20170801) A61K 47/55 (20170801) A61K 47/56 (20170801) A61K 47/62 (20170801) A61K 47/64 (20170801) A61K 47/641 (20170801) A61K 47/48338 (20130101) A61K 47/48892 (20130101) A61K 47/48915 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09919065 | Goodman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Murray Goodman (La Jolla, California); Sandra Blaj Moore (London, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are therapeutic and diagnostic somatostatin analogs including radiotherapeutic and radiodiagnostic reagents, and methods of making and use thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, November 23, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/949473 |
| 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 38/08 (20130101) A61K 51/08 (20130101) A61K 51/083 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 14/6555 (20130101) |
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| US 09919072 | Stasko et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nathan Stasko (Durham, North Carolina); Susanne Bauman (Durham, North Carolina); Pranav R. Joshi (Karnataka, India) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novan, Inc. (Morrisville, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan Stasko (Durham, North Carolina); Susanne Bauman (Durham, North Carolina); Pranav R. Joshi (Karnataka, India) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided according to some embodiments of the invention are wound dressings that include a polymer matrix and nitric oxide-releasing polysiloxane macromolecules within and/or on the polymer matrix. Also provided are wound dressing kits and methods of using and forming such wound dressings. |
| FILED | Friday, August 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/256925 |
| ART UNIT | 3778 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 15/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 15/225 (20130101) A61L 15/225 (20130101) A61L 15/225 (20130101) A61L 15/425 (20130101) A61L 2300/45 (20130101) A61L 2300/114 (20130101) A61L 2300/602 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 75/04 (20130101) C08L 83/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09919156 | McClure et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (San Fernando, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kelly H McClure (Simi Valley, California); Richard A Castro (Santa Monica, California); Arup Roy (Valencia, California); Scott Loftin (Rosamond, California); Rongqing Dai (Valencia, California); Robert J Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Sumit Yadav (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a wireless transmission system for a prosthetic apparatus including a mounting system to be worn on a body, a wound wire transmission coil mounted to the mounting system and sending a stimulation signal, an implantable receiving coil receiving the stimulation signal and connected to a hermetic electronics package, an implantable telemetry transmitting coil connected to the hermetic electronics package, and a telemetry receiving coil printed on a printed circuit board, mounted to the mounting system and receiving the telemetry signal. |
| FILED | Monday, November 21, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/357909 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — 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 9/08 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/36046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/37229 (20130101) A61N 1/37252 (20130101) |
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| US 09919261 | Westendorf et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tiffany Elizabeth Pinard Westendorf (Troy, New York); Benjamin Rue Wood (Niskayuna, New York); Sarah Elizabeth Genovese (Delmar, New York); John Brian McDermott (Rexford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for separating carbon dioxide (CO2) from a gas stream is provided. The method includes reacting at least a portion of CO2 in the gas stream with a plurality of liquid sorbent particles to form a plurality of solid adduct particles and a first CO2-lean gas stream; the solid adduct particles entrained in the first CO2-lean gas stream to form an entrained gas stream. The method includes separating at least a portion of the plurality of solid adduct particles from the entrained gas stream in a separation unit to form an adduct stream and a second CO2-lean gas stream. The method further includes heating at least a portion of the adduct stream in a desorption unit to form a CO2 stream and a regenerated liquid sorbent stream. A system for separating CO2 from a gas stream is also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, April 01, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/088877 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/62 (20130101) B01D 53/77 (20130101) B01D 53/96 (20130101) B01D 53/1425 (20130101) B01D 53/1475 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 53/1493 (20130101) B01D 2252/40 (20130101) B01D 2252/204 (20130101) B01D 2252/2053 (20130101) B01D 2257/504 (20130101) B01D 2259/124 (20130101) Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 10/04 (20130101) Y02C 10/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09919311 | Puntambekar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aniruddha Puntambekar (Mason, Ohio); Junhai Kai (Loveland, Ohio); Se Hwan Lee (Cincinnati, Ohio); Chong Ahn (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SILOAM BIOSCIENCES, INC. (Forest Park, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aniruddha Puntambekar (Mason, Ohio); Junhai Kai (Loveland, Ohio); Se Hwan Lee (Cincinnati, Ohio); Chong Ahn (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention discloses novel improvements to conventional microtiter plates, involving integrating microfluidic channels with such microtiter plates to simplify the assay operation, Increase operational speed and reduce reagent consumption. The present invention can be used in place of a conventional microliter plate and can be easily substituted without any changes to the existing instrumentation systems designed for microtiter plates. The invention also discloses a microfluidic device integrated with sample loading wells wherein the entire flow process is capillary driven. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/384963 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/5025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 3/5085 (20130101) B01L 3/50273 (20130101) B01L 2300/069 (20130101) B01L 2300/088 (20130101) B01L 2300/161 (20130101) B01L 2300/0829 (20130101) B01L 2300/0851 (20130101) B01L 2300/0861 (20130101) B01L 2300/0883 (20130101) B01L 2400/0406 (20130101) |
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| US 09919998 | Ebright et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard H. Ebright (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Yon W. Ebright (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Soma Mandal (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Richard Wilde (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Shengjian Li (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compounds having activity as bacterial RNA polymerase inhibitors and antibacterial agents, as well as compositions comprising the compounds and methods for their use. Specifically, phenylalanineamide and tyrosinamide compounds are disclosed that have inhibitory activity toward mycobacterium tuberculosis RNA polymerase. Use of these compounds in the treatment or prevention of M. tuberculosis infections in a mammal, is disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, February 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 15/116787 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 37/22 (20130101) A01N 37/24 (20130101) A01N 43/10 (20130101) A01N 43/30 (20130101) A01N 43/32 (20130101) A01N 43/36 (20130101) A01N 43/38 (20130101) A01N 43/40 (20130101) A01N 43/48 (20130101) A01N 43/50 (20130101) A01N 43/52 (20130101) A01N 43/56 (20130101) A01N 43/60 (20130101) A01N 43/62 (20130101) A01N 43/78 (20130101) A01N 43/84 (20130101) A01N 43/90 (20130101) A01N 43/647 (20130101) A01N 43/653 (20130101) A01N 43/713 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/167 (20130101) A61K 31/341 (20130101) A61K 31/4402 (20130101) A61K 31/4409 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 233/88 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 237/20 (20130101) C07C 2602/08 (20170501) C07C 2602/10 (20170501) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/14 (20130101) C07D 209/08 (20130101) C07D 209/40 (20130101) C07D 209/42 (20130101) C07D 211/58 (20130101) C07D 213/75 (20130101) C07D 213/81 (20130101) C07D 213/82 (20130101) C07D 215/38 (20130101) C07D 215/40 (20130101) C07D 217/22 (20130101) C07D 231/56 (20130101) C07D 235/06 (20130101) C07D 237/30 (20130101) C07D 241/04 (20130101) C07D 249/06 (20130101) C07D 249/08 (20130101) C07D 249/18 (20130101) C07D 257/04 (20130101) C07D 265/30 (20130101) C07D 277/62 (20130101) C07D 295/135 (20130101) C07D 295/155 (20130101) C07D 295/185 (20130101) C07D 295/205 (20130101) C07D 307/82 (20130101) C07D 317/66 (20130101) C07D 319/18 (20130101) C07D 333/38 (20130101) C07D 333/54 (20130101) C07D 333/66 (20130101) C07D 401/12 (20130101) C07D 405/12 (20130101) C07D 409/12 (20130101) C07D 471/04 (20130101) C07D 487/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09920014 | Ranjan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL BOARD OF TRUSTEES MODESTO A. MAIDIQUE CAMPUS (Miami, Florida); CLEMSON UNIVERSITY (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES (Miami, Florida); CLEMSON UNIVERSITY (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nihar Ranjan (Clemson, South Carolina); Dev P. Arya (Greenville, South Carolina); Fenfei Leng (Palmetto Bay, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel bisbenzimidazole compounds and methods of using the compounds as antibacterial agents. |
| FILED | Friday, September 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 15/022868 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/497 (20130101) A61K 31/497 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 235/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09920058 | Srinivasan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bharath Srinivasan (Atlanta, Georgia); Jeffrey Skolnick (Atlanta, Georgia); Hongyi Zhou (Marietta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | 7-(substituted) derivatives of 7H-pyrrolo[3,2-f]-quinazoline-1,3-diamines, derivative thereof, and methods of using them are provided. The pharmaceutical formulations prepared from the compounds can be used to treat a variety of conditions, which include, but are not limited to bacterial and fungal infections. The compounds can also be used as a sterilizing or disinfecting agent. |
| FILED | Monday, May 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/269495 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 487/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09920062 | Xu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xiaoming Xu (Kenner, Louisiana); Stephen Costin (Natchitoches, Louisiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaoming Xu (Kenner, Louisiana); Stephen Costin (Natchitoches, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Antimicrobial compounds are provided that are polymerizable. The compounds include monomers with antimicrobial properties. The compounds have cross-linking properties and are hydrolytically stable. The compounds may be utilized in dental and/or medical applications, including dental composites, dentures, bonding agents, sealants, resins and medical devices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/782936 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 6/0047 (20130101) A61K 6/083 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 229/14 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 487/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 33/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09920063 | Bommagani et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas); The Regents of the University of Colorado (Aurora, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BIOVENTURES, LLC (Little Rock, Arkansas); THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shobanbabu Bommagani (Little Rock, Arkansas); Peter Crooks (Little Rock, Arkansas); Narsimha Reddy Penthala (Little Rock, Arkansas); Venumadhav Janganati (Little Rock, Arkansas); Craig T. Jordan (Aurora, Colorado); Jessica Ponder (Aurora, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides derivatives of melampomagnolide B (MMB), including carbonates, carbamates, thiocarbamates, ester and amide derivatives of MMB. These derivatives are useful for treating cancer in humans. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 30, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/251889 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 493/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09920069 | Hergenrother 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) | Paul J. Hergenrother (Champaign, Illinois); Elizabeth I. Parkinson (Champaign, Illinois); Joseph S. Bair (Millica Hill, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds that specifically kill fluoroquinolone (FQ) resistant bacteria have been developed and are described herein. The FQs are the most commonly prescribed antibiotics to adults in the U.S. and thus are extremely important drugs. However, bacterial resistant to these drugs is now ubiquitous in some of the most common and deadly Gram-positive pathogens, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). Indeed, FQs are no longer indicated for treatment of MRSA and VRE infections because of such resistance. The compounds have specific and potent activity versus MRSA and VRE. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 17, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 15/126786 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/06 (20130101) A61K 9/12 (20130101) A61K 9/0014 (20130101) A61K 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 9/20 (20130101) A61K 9/48 (20130101) A61K 31/4745 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 498/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09920073 | Cocklin |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Simon Cocklin (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| 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 certain embodiments, the subject is further administered at least one additional therapeutic agent. |
| FILED | Friday, October 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 15/025429 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/407 (20130101) A61K 31/437 (20130101) A61K 31/437 (20130101) A61K 31/444 (20130101) A61K 31/444 (20130101) A61K 31/495 (20130101) A61K 31/495 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/506 (20130101) A61K 31/506 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 31/541 (20130101) A61K 31/541 (20130101) A61K 31/4545 (20130101) A61K 31/4545 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 239/38 (20130101) C07D 295/16 (20130101) C07D 471/04 (20130101) C07D 487/04 (20130101) C07D 495/04 (20130101) C07D 519/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09920097 | Zhong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Li Zhong (Gainesville, Florida); Sergei Zolotukhin (Gainesville, Florida); Lakshmanan Govindasamy (Gainesville, Florida); Mavis Agbandje-McKenna (Gainesville, Florida); Arun Srivastava (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are capsid-modified rAAV expression vectors, as well as infectious virions, compositions, and pharmaceutical formulations that include them. Also disclosed are methods of preparing and using novel capsid-protein-mutated rAAV vector constructs in a variety of diagnostic and therapeutic applications including, inter alia, as delivery agents for diagnosis, treatment, or amelioration of one or more symptoms of disease or abnormal conditions via in situ and/or ex vivo mammalian gene therapy methods. Also disclosed are large-scale production methods for capsid-modified rAAV expression vectors, viral particles, and infectious virions having improved transduction efficiencies over those of the corresponding, un-modified, rAAV vectors, as well as use of the disclosed compositions in the manufacture of medicaments for a variety of in vitro and/or in vivo applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/899481 |
| 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 | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 48/0008 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 2750/14122 (20130101) C12N 2750/14145 (20130101) C12N 2750/14171 (20130101) C12N 2810/6027 (20130101) |
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| US 09920111 | Chan-Hui et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THERACLONE SCIENCES, INC. (Seattle, Washington); INTERNATIONAL AIDS VACCINE INITIATIVE (New York, New York); THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Theraclone Sciences, Inc. (Seattle, Washington); International Aids Vaccine Initiative (New York, New York); The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Po-Ying Chan-Hui (Bellevue, Washington); Steven Frey (Redmond, Washington); Ole Olsen (Everett, Washington); Jennifer Mitcham (Redmond, Washington); Matthew Moyle (Redmond, Washington); Sanjay K. Phogat (Frederick, Maryland); Dennis R. Burton (La Jolla, California); Laura Marjorie Walker (San Diego, California); Pascal Raymond Georges Poignard (San Diego, California); Wayne Koff (Stony Brook, New York); Melissa Danielle De Jean De St. Marcel Simek-Lemos (Brooklyn, New York); Stephen Kaminsky (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for obtaining a broadly neutralizing antibody (bNab), including screening memory B cell cultures from a donor PBMC sample for neutralization activity against a plurality of HIV-1 species, cloning a memory B cell that exhibits broad neutralization activity; and rescuing a monoclonal antibody from that memory B cell culture. The resultant monoclonal antibodies are characterized by their ability to selectively bind epitopes from the Env proteins in native or monomeric form, as well as to inhibit infection of HIV-1 species from a plurality of clades. Compositions containing human monoclonal anti-HIV antibodies used for prophylaxis, diagnosis and treatment of HIV infection are provided. Methods for generating such antibodies by immunization using epitopes from conserved regions within the variable loops of gp120 are provided. Immunogens for generating anti-HIV1 bNAbs are also provided. Furthermore, methods for vaccination using suitable epitopes are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/692483 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/1045 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/1063 (20130101) C07K 2317/56 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2317/565 (20130101) |
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| US 09920188 | Vogt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Vogt (Washington, District of Columbia); Thomas Joshua Pfefer (Greenbelt, Maryland); Congxian Jia (Silver Spring, Maryland); Keith Wear (Rockville, Maryland); Brian Garra (Adelphi, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel phantoms are provided herein that can accurately mimic the optical and/or acoustic properties of living tissue. The disclosed phantoms are constructed of one or more polyvinyl chloride plastisol (PVCP) gels comprising a PVC and a binary plasticizer. The phantoms can be used, for example, to calibrate or test an optical and/or acoustic detection system, such as a photoacoustic imaging system or an ultrasound imaging system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 02, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/341983 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0095 (20130101) A61B 8/00 (20130101) A61B 8/587 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 3/22 (20130101) C08K 3/22 (20130101) C08K 5/11 (20130101) C08K 5/11 (20130101) C08K 5/12 (20130101) C08K 5/12 (20130101) C08K 7/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08K 7/20 (20130101) C08K 2003/2241 (20130101) C08K 2201/003 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 27/06 (20130101) C08L 27/06 (20130101) C08L 27/06 (20130101) C08L 27/06 (20130101) C08L 2203/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/1702 (20130101) Educational or Demonstration Appliances; Appliances for Teaching, or Communicating With, the Blind, Deaf or Mute; Models; Planetaria; Globes; Maps; Diagrams G09B 23/30 (20130101) |
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| US 09920295 | Discher 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) | Dennis E. Discher (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Jae-Won Shin (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a bioreactor apparatus, and methods of use, for the isolation of rare blood cells, including hematopoietic stem cells and megakaryocytes. The apparatus includes a soft substrate and an anti-contractility agent, thereby providing a soft microenvironment to cultured cells. The apparatus of the invention is permissive for the survival of non-dividing cells while dividing cells are eliminated. This unique property allows for the simple isolation of rare blood cells without the use of costly equipment and antibodies. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/772750 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/19 (20130101) A61K 35/28 (20130101) Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 47/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0644 (20130101) C12N 5/0647 (20130101) C12N 2501/998 (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 1/6881 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/10 (20130101) G01N 33/56972 (20130101) |
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09920296 — Paenibacillus alvei strain TS-15 and its use in controlling pathogenic organisms on crops
| US 09920296 | Brown et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Servic (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric W. Brown (Taneytown, Maryland); Jie Zheng (Columbia, Maryland); Alexander Enurah (Richmond, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a newly isolated bacterial strain of Paenibacillus, designated Paenibacillus alvei strain TS-15 for use as a biocontrol agent in the inhibition and/or elimination of a human foodborne pathogen, e.g., Salmonella, on a plant or plant organ, e.g., a tomato or tomato plant. Strain TS-15 or mutants thereof may also be used in the control of plant pathogens. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/085508 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Horticulture; Cultivation of Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops or Seaweed; Forestry; Watering A01G 7/00 (20130101) Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 63/00 (20130101) Preserving, e.g by Canning, Meat, Fish, Eggs, Fruit, Vegetables, Edible Seeds; Chemical Ripening of Fruit or Vegetables; the Preserved, Ripened, or Canned Products A23B 7/155 (20130101) Foods, Foodstuffs, or Non-alcoholic Beverages, Not Covered by Subclasses A23B - A23J; Their Preparation or Treatment, e.g Cooking, Modification of Nutritive Qualities, Physical Treatment; Preservation of Foods or Foodstuffs, in General A23L 33/135 (20160801) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/74 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/195 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/01 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses C12C - C12Q, Relating to Microorganisms C12R 1/01 (20130101) |
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| US 09920300 | Kee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Keh Kooi Kee (Beijing, China PRC); Renee A. Reijo Pera (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keh Kooi Kee (Beijing, China PRC); Renee A. Reijo Pera (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are provided for promoting germ cell differentiation from pluripotent cells, and for identifying agents that modulate germ cell differentiation. |
| FILED | Friday, October 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/501998 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/061 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 5/0609 (20130101) C12N 2501/65 (20130101) C12N 2501/155 (20130101) C12N 2506/02 (20130101) C12N 2506/45 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5073 (20130101) |
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| US 09920314 | Higgins 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) | Darren E. Higgins (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Michael N. Starnbach (Needham, Massachusetts); Todd Gierahn (Brookline, Massachusetts); Nadia R. Roan (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Replicable libraries having discrete members in defined locations for screening for antigens to a pathogenic organism are provided. Also provided are methods for using such libraries as well as a specific antigen, CT788, which induces T-cell activation during a Chlamydia infection. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/705815 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 39/0011 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/295 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1034 (20130101) C12N 15/1037 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/1072 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/68 (20130101) C12Q 1/70 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5047 (20130101) |
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| US 09920315 | Kartalov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California); UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (Los Angeles, California); CURATE BIOSCIENCES LLC (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California); UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (Los Angeles, California); CURATE BIOSCIENCES LLC (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Emil P. Kartalov (Pasadena, California); Cheng-Chung Lee (Irvine, California); Paul Predki (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are devices and methods for the micro-isolation of biological cellular material. A micro-isolation device described can comprise a photomask that protects regions of interest against DNA-destroying illumination. The micro-isolation device can further comprise photosensitive material defining access wells following illumination and subsequent developing of the photosensitive material. The micro-isolation device can further comprise a chambered microfluidic device comprising channels providing access to wells defined in photosensitive material. The micro-isolation device can comprise a chambered microfluidic device without access wells defined in photosensitive material where valves control the flow of gases or liquids through the channels of the microfluidic device. Also included are methods for selectively isolating cellular material using the devices described herein, as are methods for biochemical analysis of individual regions of interest of cellular material using the devices described herein. Further included are methods of making masking arrays useful for the methods described herein. The micro-isolation devices can comprise a unique combination of barcodes in each microfluidics well, allowing two-dimensional mapping of genetic information. |
| FILED | Friday, January 15, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 14/996613 |
| 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 | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502707 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0887 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1093 (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 1/686 (20130101) C12Q 1/6874 (20130101) |
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| US 09920317 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeannie T. Lee (Boston, Massachusetts); Jing Zhao (San Diego, California); Kavitha Sarma (Waltham, Massachusetts); Mark Borowsky (Needham, Massachusetts); Toshiro Kendrick Ohsumi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to polycomb-associated long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), libraries and fragments of those ncRNAs, inhibitory nucleic acids and methods and compositions for targeting lncRNAs. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/921738 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/11 (20130101) C12N 2310/113 (20130101) |
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| US 09920320 | Russell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Russell (Davis, California); Christopher J. Murphy (Davis, California); Sara M. Thomasy (Sacramento, California); Vijay Krishna Raghunathan (Davis, California); Joshua T. Morgan (Davis, California); Joshua Wood (Vacaville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to method, system, and composition for modulating the compliance of the trabecular meshwork, which may provide treatment to glaucoma. |
| FILED | Friday, December 04, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/960310 |
| 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 9/0048 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 493/06 (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 2310/141 (20130101) C12N 2310/531 (20130101) |
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| US 09920333 | Pulst 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) | Stefan M. Pulst (Salt Lake City, Utah); Sharan Paul (Salt Lake City, Utah); Warunee Dansithong (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, constructs, and methods for reprogramming cells are provided. In one aspect, for example, a transformation construct for generating iPS cells can include an expression vector having a plurality of reprogramming factors, each reprogramming factor being under control of a separate promoter. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/984861 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0619 (20130101) C12N 5/0696 (20130101) C12N 15/85 (20130101) C12N 15/86 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2501/602 (20130101) C12N 2501/603 (20130101) C12N 2501/604 (20130101) C12N 2501/606 (20130101) C12N 2510/00 (20130101) C12N 2710/10043 (20130101) C12N 2710/10343 (20130101) |
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| US 09920367 | Bhargava et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vipul Bhargava (La Jolla, California); Pang Ko (La Jolla, California); Shankar Subramaniam (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and systems for analyzing mammalian transcriptomes, particularly, for low abundant transcripts, and with the use of high throughput technologies. Heptamer primers and sequence tags generated by the iterative randomized algorithm, as well as the sequencing-library generation system for amplifying and synthesis-based sequencing low abundant transcripts using the heptamer primers are also provided. The present invention further provides the use of the invention system and method for identifying key embryological lineage specific transcripts that anticipate differentiation of specific cell types. |
| FILED | Friday, December 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/105704 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | 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 1/6874 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2525/179 (20130101) C12Q 2537/157 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/22 (20130101) |
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| US 09920370 | Wang 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) | Chunlin Wang (Palo Alto, California); Michael N. Mindrinos (Palo Alto, California); Mark M. Davis (Atherton, California); Ronald W. Davis (Stanford, California); Sujatha Krishnakumar (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided to determine the entire genomic region of a particular HLA locus including both intron and exons. The resultant consensus sequences provides linkage information between different exons, and produces the unique sequence from each of the two genes from the individual sample being typed. The sequence information in intron regions along with the exon sequences provides an accurate HLA haplotype. |
| FILED | Friday, April 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/696278 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6881 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/118 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) C12Q 2600/172 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/18 (20130101) G06F 19/22 (20130101) |
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| US 09920374 | Brody et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerome S. Brody (Boston, Massachusetts); Avrum Spira (Newton, Massachusetts); Jennifer E. Beane-Ebel (Fort Collins, Colorado); Marc E. Lenburg (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for diagnosis and prognosis of lung cancer using expression analysis of one or more groups of genes, and a combination of expression analysis with bronchoscopy. The methods of the invention provide far superior detection accuracy for lung cancer when compared to any other currently available method for lung cancer diagnostic or prognosis. The invention also provides methods of diagnosis and prognosis of other lung diseases, particularly in individuals who are exposed to air pollutants, such as cigarette or cigar smoke, smog, asbestos and the like air contaminants or pollutants. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 03, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/613210 |
| 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 2600/158 (20130101) |
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| US 09920377 | Kashani-Sabet et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sutter West Bay Hospitals (San Francisco, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SUTTER WEST BAY HOSPITALS (San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohammed Kashani-Sabet (San Francisco, California); Altaf A. Dar (San Bruno, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides methods for predicting and/or determining whether a subject has cancer based on the level of expression of BPTF. The disclosure also provides methods for determining whether a cancer in a subject is progressing or regressing based upon the change of expression levels of BPTF between two time points. The disclosure further provides methods to treat a subject with a cancer by administering a polynucleotide comprising an inhibitory BPTF nucleic acid and/or an agent that inhibits the expression or activity of BPTF. |
| FILED | Saturday, March 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/775665 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7105 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 48/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/11 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/118 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5743 (20130101) G01N 33/6872 (20130101) G01N 33/57407 (20130101) |
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| US 09920378 | Hilton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UBIVAC, LLC (Portland, Oregon); PROVIDENCE HEALTH and SERVICES-OREGON (Portland, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UbiVac, LLC (Portland, Oregon); Providence Health and Services-Oregon (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Traci Hilton (Portland, Oregon); Sandra Aung (Solana Beach, California); Rieneke van de Ven (Den Haang, Netherlands); Christopher Paustian (Portland, Oregon); Tarsem Moudgil (Beaverton, Oregon); Christopher Dubay (Portland, Oregon); Christopher Twitty (Solana Beach, California); Hong-Ming Hu (Portland, Oregon); Bernard A. Fox (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is presented for screening cells that produce allogeneic autophagosome enriched compositions able to induce expression of a selective marker on a subpopulation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells, the method comprising contacting a cell with a proteasome inhibitor, contacting the cell with a lysosome inhibitor, harvesting the resulting autophagosomes, determining a molecular signature of the harvested autophagosomes, and selecting cells that divert one or more Toll-like receptor agonist and/or one or more molecular chaperones to the harvested autophagosomes. By screening for cells that divert one or more Toll-like receptor agonist and/or one or more molecular chaperones to the harvested autophagosomes, enriched populations of autophagosomes may be generated which may illicit a specific immune response against numerous cancer types. In this way, an allogeneic, off-the-shelf cancer vaccine may be produced and made available to be administered in order to stimulate a targeted immune response in patients bearing different tumor types. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 25, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/952802 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0011 (20130101) A61K 39/39 (20130101) A61K 2039/55522 (20130101) A61K 2039/55561 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/505 (20130101) G01N 33/5023 (20130101) G01N 33/5047 (20130101) G01N 2500/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09920385 | Pham et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cau Dinh Pham (Moorpark, California); Shawn Robert Lockhart (Lilburm, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Probes and primers are disclosed for detecting a C. glabrata resistant to an echinocandin in a sample. Method are also disclosed that utilize these probes and primers, wherein the methods can be used to detect a C. glabrata resistant to an echinocandin in a sample. |
| FILED | Monday, October 05, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/875599 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6895 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) |
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| US 09921156 | Kumar |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anand T. N. Kumar (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anand T. N. Kumar (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for determining fluorescence decay in a biological sample is provided. The method includes acquiring optical signal data from at least a part of a biological sample undergoing fluorescence, assembling the optical signal data into a set of spatial time-series data, and converting the set of spatial time-series data into a set of spatial frequency time-series data. The method also includes applying a spatial filter to the set of spatial frequency time-series data to yield a set of filtered frequency-series data, the spatial filter configured to separate, from the set of frequency-series data, fluorescence signals consistent with a non-diffuse component and converting the set of filtered frequency-series data into a set of filtered time-series data. The method further includes determining, using the filtered time-series data, a fluorescence signature consistent with fluorescence decay of at least one fluorophore, and generating a report indicative of the fluorescence signature of the biological sample. |
| FILED | Friday, January 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/765690 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6408 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/4833 (20130101) G01N 2021/6439 (20130101) G01N 2201/12 (20130101) G01N 2201/06113 (20130101) |
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| US 09921165 | Bailey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ryan C. Bailey (Urbana, Illinois); Abraham J. Qavi (Champaign, Illinois); Jared T. Kindt (Champaign, Illinois); Ji-Yeon Byeon (Daejeon, South Korea); Matthew S. Luchansky (Champaign, Illinois); Melinda S. McClellan (Champaign, Illinois); Adam L. Washburn (Savoy, Illinois); Tate Owen (Del Mar, California); Martin Anthony Gleeson (San Diego, California); Lawrence C. Gunn, III (Encinitas, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Genalyte, Inc. (San Diego, California); The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan C. Bailey (Urbana, Illinois); Abraham J. Qavi (Champaign, Illinois); Jared T. Kindt (Champaign, Illinois); Ji-Yeon Byeon (Daejeon, South Korea); Matthew S. Luchansky (Champaign, Illinois); Melinda S. McClellan (Champaign, Illinois); Adam L. Washburn (Savoy, Illinois); Tate Owen (Del Mar, California); Martin Anthony Gleeson (San Diego, California); Lawrence C. Gunn, III (Encinitas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments are drawn to systems and methods for detecting an analyte of interest in a sample including an optical sensor, a capture probe attached to a surface of the optical sensor wherein the capture probe is capable of binding to the analyte to form a duplex or complex, and an antibody capable of binding to the analyte, duplex, or complex. In several embodiments, systems and methods further include a particle attached to the antibody or capable of binding to the antibody. In several embodiments, systems and methods for analyte detection feature one or more of the following: high detection sensitivity and specificity, scalability and multiplex capacity, ability to analyze large analytes, and ability to detect or measure multiple individual binding events in real-time. |
| FILED | Friday, November 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/883280 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| 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 1/6804 (20130101) C12Q 1/6804 (20130101) C12Q 1/6825 (20130101) C12Q 1/6825 (20130101) C12Q 2563/131 (20130101) C12Q 2563/131 (20130101) C12Q 2565/607 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/75 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/7746 (20130101) G01N 33/54373 (20130101) G01N 2021/7789 (20130101) |
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| US 09921211 | Hager et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United Stated of America, as Represented by The Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gordon L. Hager (Garrett Park, Maryland); Diana A. Stavreva (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are compositions, methods, a system, and kits for detection of endocrine disruptor chemicals (EDCs) in samples, such as samples of water including but not limited to waste water treatment plant effluent, using a live-cell fluorescence-based nuclear translocation reporter system. Upon binding of a ligand to a fluorescent-labeled reporter protein, the protein (and therefore the fluorescence) is translocated in a ligand level-dependent manner from the cytoplasm to the nucleus of live mammalian cells; this translocation is detectable as diffuse (cytoplasmic) fluorescence converting to localized, brightly fluorescent nuclei. The described kits can be used to reliably detect very low levels of EDC contamination, including in high throughput analysis systems as described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/693511 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/435 (20130101) C07K 14/705 (20130101) C07K 2319/60 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6486 (20130101) G01N 33/68 (20130101) G01N 33/743 (20130101) G01N 33/5014 (20130101) G01N 33/5035 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2520/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09921216 | Fahmy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tarek M. Fahmy (New Haven, Connecticut); Eric D. Stern (New Haven, Connecticut); Mark A. Reed (Monroe, Connecticut); Aleksandar Vacic (New Haven, Connecticut); James F. Klemic (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a device and method for determining the presence of a specific compound in solution. The device includes a nanosensor having an electrically conducting pathway between at least a first and second contact. The device also includes a first receptor, suitable for binding a specific compound in the solution, attached to the nanosensor, and a second receptor also suitable for binding the specific compound while the specific compound is bound to the first receptor. The second receptor is attached to an enzyme added to the solution. When the solution having the second receptor is added to the device, and a second compound that is a substrate for the enzyme is subsequently added to the solution, a measured difference in an electrical property in the device before and after the application of the second compound is indicative of the presence of the specific compound in the solution. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/755615 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6863 (20130101) G01N 33/6866 (20130101) G01N 33/6869 (20130101) G01N 33/54366 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/54373 (20130101) G01N 2333/54 (20130101) G01N 2333/98 (20130101) G01N 2333/555 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joslin Diabetes Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Joslin Diabetes Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George L. King (Dover, Massachusetts); Hillary A. Keenan (Watertown, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for diagnosing, predicting risk of and/or treating diabetic nephropathy (DN). |
| FILED | Friday, July 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/417023 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/45 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1137 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/122 (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 2600/158 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 207/0104 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/573 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/91215 (20130101) G01N 2800/042 (20130101) G01N 2800/52 (20130101) G01N 2800/56 (20130101) G01N 2800/347 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randolph S. Watnick (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods for identifying a subject with cancer for treatment with a Psap peptides. The subject is identified based on a level of CD36. Also provided herein are compositions and methods for treatment of a subject with cancer based on a level of CD36. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/773596 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/18 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 47/6811 (20170801) Peptides C07K 5/12 (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 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57492 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/70596 (20130101) G01N 2800/52 (20130101) |
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| US 09921225 | Thompson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul R. Thompson (Jupiter, Florida); Kevin L. Bicker (Jupiter, Florida); Venkataraman Subramanian (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel phenyl-glyoxal based anti-citrulline probes and methods of synthesis are provided. Methods of use, such as, the development of methods for monitoring substrate citrullination over time; for identifying citrullinated proteins from cells are described. |
| FILED | Friday, May 20, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/160079 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | General Methods of Organic Chemistry; Apparatus Therefor C07B 59/00 (20130101) C07B 2200/05 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 45/61 (20130101) C07C 49/86 (20130101) C07C 247/04 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 311/86 (20130101) C07D 311/90 (20130101) C07D 493/10 (20130101) C07D 495/04 (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 1/34 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/68 (20130101) G01N 33/92 (20130101) G01N 33/532 (20130101) G01N 33/581 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/582 (20130101) G01N 33/583 (20130101) G01N 33/6803 (20130101) G01N 33/6893 (20130101) G01N 2333/775 (20130101) G01N 2333/978 (20130101) G01N 2440/18 (20130101) G01N 2458/15 (20130101) G01N 2500/00 (20130101) G01N 2570/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09921233 | Cooks et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Graham Cooks (West Lafayette, Indiana); Livia Schiavinato Eberlin (Lafayette, Indiana); Christina Ramires Ferreira (West Lafayette, Indiana); Allison Lisa Dill (Indianapolis, Indiana); Demian R. Ifa (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally relates to mass spectral analysis. In certain embodiments, methods of the invention involve analyzing a lipid containing sample using a mass spectrometry technique, in which the technique utilizes a liquid phase that does not destroy native tissue morphology during analysis. |
| FILED | Monday, October 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/880623 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/92 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/0004 (20130101) H01J 49/0036 (20130101) H01J 49/142 (20130101) H01J 49/165 (20130101) |
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| US 09921283 | Mazer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aviv Mazer (Stanford, California); Brian Wandell (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods to detect degenerative processes and abnormalities in soft tissues at high spatial resolution, high signal-to-noise ratio and short scanning times, based on quantitative tissue properties. These methods might provide a useful tool to detect and assess abnormalities in soft tissues and to monitor disease progression. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/516439 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0042 (20130101) A61B 5/055 (20130101) A61B 5/1073 (20130101) A61B 5/4064 (20130101) A61B 5/4076 (20130101) A61B 2576/026 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/50 (20130101) G01R 33/4828 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09921406 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas D. Wang (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Katsuo Kurabayashi (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Kenn Oldham (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Zhen Qiu (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas D. Wang (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Katsuo Kurabayashi (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Kenn Oldham (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Zhen Qiu (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical device is described that may be used as a microscope system for real-time, three-dimensional optical imaging. The device includes a miniature, fiber optic, intra-vital probe microscope that uses a dual-axes confocal architecture to allow for vertical scanning perpendicular to a surface of the sample (e.g., a tissue surface). The optical device can use off-axis illumination and collection of light to achieve sub-cellular resolution with deep tissue penetration. The optical device may be used as part of an integrated molecular imaging strategy using fluorescence-labeled peptides to detect cell surface targets that are up-regulated by the epithelium and/or endothelium of colon and breast tumors in small animal models of cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, October 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/916159 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0068 (20130101) A61B 5/0073 (20130101) A61B 5/4255 (20130101) A61B 2503/40 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6458 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/0028 (20130101) G02B 21/0036 (20130101) G02B 21/0076 (20130101) G02B 26/101 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 26/0841 (20130101) |
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| US 09922168 | Traughber et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ELOQUENCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC. (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eloquence Communications, Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryan James Traughber (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Lance S. Patak (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A patient communication device for advanced patient communication and methods for making and using same. According to one embodiment, a patient communication device comprises a selection input mechanism for generating a message on a display, the message reflecting a patient request and an urgency level associated with the patient request. The selection input mechanism includes one or more of a button, keyboard and a touch screen. Further, the patient communication device includes a transmitter for transmitting the message to a central processing server and a status indicator on the display, the status indicator representing a transmission status associated with the message. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 18, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/158031 |
| ART UNIT | 2689 — Signal Processing and Control Processing in Disk Drives |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0002 (20130101) A61B 5/0022 (20130101) A61B 5/7282 (20130101) A61B 5/7475 (20130101) A61B 2560/045 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/322 (20130101) G06F 19/3406 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 19/3487 (20130101) Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 50/22 (20130101) Signalling or Calling Systems; Order Telegraphs; Alarm Systems G08B 5/222 (20130101) G08B 21/0211 (20130101) G08B 21/0277 (20130101) G08B 25/10 (20130101) G08B 25/016 (20130101) Telephonic Communication H04M 1/72527 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA (Edmond, Oklahoma) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Oklahoma (Edmond, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jicheng Fu (Edmond, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for providing personalized configuration of physical supports for the human body, comprising accepting input including an individual's demographic information, neurological attributes, physical history, operational environment, and outcome or use objectives, processing user input employing an artificial intelligence engine, and then returning guidance and/or control parameters directed to seating adjustment and positioning, including incline angles for wheelchair tilt and recline. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 26, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/632198 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Transport, Personal Conveyances, or Accommodation Specially Adapted for Patients or Disabled Persons; Operating Tables or Chairs; Chairs for Dentistry; Funeral Devices A61G 5/1056 (20130101) A61G 5/1067 (20130101) A61G 5/1075 (20130101) A61G 7/057 (20130101) A61G 2203/10 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/5009 (20130101) G06F 19/345 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/10 (20130101) G06N 99/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09922746 | Kotov 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) | Nicholas A. Kotov (Ypsilanti, Michigan); Yoonseob Kim (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jian Zhu (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Matthew Di Prima (Bowie, Maryland); Bongjun Yeom (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | New stretchable electrically conductive composite materials comprising at least one polymer and a plurality of nanoparticles are provided, which exhibit high conductivity even at high strain levels. The composite may comprise polyurethane as the polymer and spherical gold nanoparticles. Such materials have conductivity levels as high as 11,000 Scm−1 at 0% strain and 2,400 Scm−1 at 110% strain. Furthermore, certain embodiments of the composite have a maximum tensile strain of 480% while still exhibiting conductivity of 35 Scm−1. The inventive materials are highly flexible, highly conductive and suitable for a variety of applications, especially for advanced medical devices, implants, and flexible electronics. The disclosure also provides methods of making such stretchable electrically conductive nanocomposites, including formation by layer-by-layer and vacuum assisted flocculation. In certain embodiments, stretchable chiral plasmonic composite materials for use as optic devices and methods for making them are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, February 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/193837 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 18/1492 (20130101) A61B 2018/0022 (20130101) A61B 2018/00577 (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 29/14 (20130101) A61L 29/126 (20130101) A61L 29/126 (20130101) A61L 31/14 (20130101) A61L 31/125 (20130101) A61L 31/128 (20130101) A61L 31/128 (20130101) A61L 2400/12 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 75/04 (20130101) C08L 75/04 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24628 (20150115) Y10T 428/31554 (20150401) |
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| US 09923669 | Yao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongyi Yao (Pasadena, California); Tracey C. Ho (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-based distributed error correction scheme with an efficient decoding algorithm is disclosed. The efficiency of the corresponding decoding algorithm, based on standard single source Reed-Solomon error correcting codes, makes the practical employment of the DECC feasible. Various implementation examples are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 26, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/836755 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/10 (20130101) Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 13/05 (20130101) H03M 13/27 (20130101) H03M 13/151 (20130101) H03M 13/1515 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 1/0041 (20130101) H04L 1/0057 (20130101) H04L 1/0076 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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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) | Sheetij Dutta (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel nucleotide sequence and other constructs used for expression of novel recombinant P. falciparum circumsporozoite proteins in bacterial cells such as E. coli. Processes are provided for producing a soluble recombinant P. falciparum CSP from E. coli. Methods to produce a human-grade, highly immunogenic anti-malaria vaccine based on CSP are shown. The novel recombinant P. falciparum circumsporozoite protein by itself or in combination with other malaria antigens or adjuvants can form the basis of an effective malaria vaccine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/798975 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/015 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/55566 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/445 (20130101) |
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| US 09919059 | Wong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cliff R. Wong (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Dai Fukumura (Newton, Massachusetts); Rakesh K. Jain (Wellesley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanoparticles for a selective, two stage delivery to tumors have been developed. The nanoparticles are initially sized so that they preferentially accumulate in the tumor tissue as a result of leakage through the defective vascular in the solid tumors. Once in the tumor tissue, the nanoparticles are cleaved hydrolytically and/or by enzymatic cleavage over time to release smaller nanoparticles carrying therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic agents into the necrotic interior of the tumors. This provides a simple, elegant and highly effective means of delivery drug selectively not just to tumors generally, but, more importantly, into the poorly vascularized necrotic interiors which drugs are normally unable to penetrate. The nanoparticles have a number of advantages: less toxicity due to selective accumulation only in the tumors; access into the poorly vascularized necrotic interiors of the tumor; and sustained release over a period of time within the tumor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/102118 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/50 (20170801) A61K 47/55 (20170801) A61K 47/56 (20170801) A61K 47/62 (20170801) A61K 47/64 (20170801) A61K 47/641 (20170801) A61K 47/48338 (20130101) A61K 47/48892 (20130101) A61K 47/48915 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09919117 | Hoekman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Impel NeuroPharma Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | IMPEL NEUROPHARMA INC. (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John D. Hoekman (Seattle, Washington); Michael Hite (Normandy Park, Washington); Alan Brunelle (Woodinville, Washington); Joel Relethford (Everett, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A nozzle for use in delivering a mixture of aerosol propellant and drug formulation. The nozzle includes a drug product inlet configured to receive a mixture of aerosolized propellant and an intranasal dosage form. The inlet is disposed at the proximal end. A nozzle body is secured to the drug product inlet. Two or more channels are disposed within the body. Two or more orifice apertures are disposed at the distal end of the nozzle. |
| FILED | Friday, November 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/075126 |
| ART UNIT | 3778 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 15/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61M 15/0021 (20140204) A61M 16/127 (20140204) A61M 16/208 (20130101) A61M 2202/064 (20130101) A61M 2210/0612 (20130101) A61M 2210/0618 (20130101) A61M 2210/1067 (20130101) A61M 2210/1475 (20130101) Spraying Apparatus; Atomising Apparatus; Nozzles B05B 1/14 (20130101) B05B 7/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09919375 | Taylor et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Energetic Materials and Products, Inc. (Round Rock, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Energetic Materials and Products, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aaron M. Taylor (Pflugerville, Texas); John J. Granier (Round Rock, Texas); Dennis E. Wilson (Cedar Park, Texas); Darrel R. Barnette (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | One example of an attachment clip includes a base portion, a retracting portion, and a biasing element. A first end of the base portion is configured to attach to a thermal breaching device. A first void of the base portion runs through the base portion and is configured to admit a nozzle of the thermal breaching device. A first end of the retracting portion is configured to retractably seat onto the second end of the base portion. A second void of the retracting portion is configured to admit a portion of the nozzle that extends through the base portion. The second void runs through the retracting portion. The retracting portion comprises a slot dimensioned for receiving at least one of a plurality of target objects. The biasing element is configured to draw the first end of the retracting portion toward the second end of the base portion. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 31, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/986609 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Soldering or Unsoldering; Welding; Cladding or Plating by Soldering or Welding; Cutting by Applying Heat Locally, e.g Flame Cutting; Working by Laser Beam B23K 7/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Devices for Fastening or Securing Constructional Elements or Machine Parts Together, e.g Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips, Wedges, Joints or Jointing F16B 2/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09919792 | Zondervan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE AEROSPACE CORPORATION (El Segundo, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin L Zondervan (Alexandria, Virginia); Jerome K Fuller (Van Nuys, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Attitude and/or attitude rate of a vehicle may be controlled using jet paddles and/or movable masses. Thrust direction generally may also be controlled using jet paddles. The jet paddles may be moved into and/or sufficiently close to the exhaust flow, and out of the exhaust flow, to change the thrust direction. Movable masses may also be used in addition to, or in lieu of, jet paddles. Movement of the movable masses alters a center-of-mass of the vehicle, generating torque that changes vehicle attitude. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/322752 |
| ART UNIT | 3647 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 15/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B64C 17/00 (20130101) B64C 19/00 (20130101) Jet-propulsion Plants F02K 1/002 (20130101) F02K 9/80 (20130101) F02K 9/90 (20130101) |
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| US 09919813 | Healy |
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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) | Liam M. Healy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A spacecraft control system and method for determining the necessary delta-V and timing for impulsive maneuvers to change the plane of an orbit or the size of the orbit of a secondary spacecraft that is in an orbit around a primary spacecraft. The system and method uses an apocentral coordinate system for the relative orbital motion and geometric relative orbital elements to determine the required impulsive velocity change and time to maneuver, for relative orbital changes in which only one of slant or colatitude of the sinilaterating node changes. |
| FILED | Friday, April 15, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/130567 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Cosmonautics; Vehicles or Equipment Therefor B64G 1/36 (20130101) B64G 1/242 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09919921 | Bright et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado); DRS Network and Imaging Systems, LLC (Dallas, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado); DRS Network and Imaging Systems, LLC (Dallas, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor M. Bright (Boulder, Colorado); Steven George (Boulder, Colorado); Joseph J. Brown (Boulder, Colorado); Nathan T. Eigenfeld (Boulder, Colorado); Jason M. Gray (Hillsboro, Oregon); George Dee Skidmore (Richardson, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel nano- and micro-electromechanical devices and novel methods of preparing them. In one aspect, the invention includes methods of preparing a nanodevice. In certain embodiments, the methods comprise coating a polymer layer with a first at least one thin solid material layer using atomic layer deposition (ALD), thus forming an ALD-generated layer. In other embodiments, the methods comprise patterning the first at least one thin solid material layer to form a nanodevice. In yet other embodiments, the methods comprise releasing the nanodevice from the polymer layer. |
| FILED | Monday, January 26, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/604896 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 3/145 (20130101) B05D 7/24 (20130101) Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/0019 (20130101) B81C 1/00492 (20130101) Nanostructures Formed by Manipulation of Individual Atoms, Molecules, or Limited Collections of Atoms or Molecules as Discrete Units; Manufacture or Treatment Thereof B82B 1/005 (20130101) B82B 3/008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (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 16/01 (20130101) C23C 16/14 (20130101) C23C 16/56 (20130101) C23C 16/0245 (20130101) C23C 16/403 (20130101) C23C 16/45525 (20130101) C23C 16/45553 (20130101) C23C 16/45555 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) |
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| US 09919927 | Tour et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Ruquan Ye (Houston, Texas); Changsheng Xiang (Houston, Texas); Jian Lin (Houston, Texas); Zhiwei Peng (Houston, Texas); Gabriel Ceriotti (Montevideo, Uruguay) |
| ABSTRACT | In some embodiments, the present disclosure pertains to methods of making graphene quantum dots from a carbon source (e.g., coal, coke, and combinations thereof) by exposing the carbon source to an oxidant. In some embodiments, the methods of the present disclosure further comprise a step of separating the formed graphene quantum dots from the oxidant. In some embodiments, the methods of the present disclosure further comprise a step of reducing the formed graphene quantum dots. In some embodiments, the methods of the present disclosure further comprise a step of enhancing a quantum yield of the graphene quantum dots. In further embodiments, the methods of the present disclosure also include a step of controlling the diameter of the formed graphene quantum dots by selecting the carbon source. In some embodiments, the formed graphene quantum dots comprise oxygen addends or amorphous carbon addends on their edges. |
| FILED | Friday, May 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/888301 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0446 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C01B 32/182 (20170801) C01B 32/184 (20170801) C01B 32/192 (20170801) C01B 32/194 (20170801) C01B 2204/02 (20130101) C01B 2204/04 (20130101) C01B 2204/32 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/774 (20130101) |
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09920147 — Polymeric materials having active cross-linkers, methods for making them, and use thereof
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| APPLICANT(S) | BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ye Zhang (Waltham, Massachusetts); Bing Xu (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present technology relates to a polymeric material including a plurality of polymer subunits and an active cross-linker, wherein the active cross-linker is covalently linked to the plurality of polymer subunits. The active cross-linker offers a key building block for constructing novel molecular architecture in chemomechanical soft materials and illustrates a new approach to tailor material properties. |
| FILED | Monday, September 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 15/021394 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 15/0053 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 220/54 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08F 226/02 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 5/20 (20130101) C08K 5/0025 (20130101) C08K 5/0091 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 33/26 (20130101) |
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| US 09920165 | Laskoski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Government of the United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Laskoski (Springfield, Virginia); Teddy M. Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making an organic salt comprising: reacting a polyphenol with a base and optionally a dihaloaromatic compound. The polyphenol is resveratrol; dihydroresveratrol; 4,4′-(but-2-ene-1,4-diyl)bis-2-methoxyphenol; 4,4′-(1,4-butane-diyl)bis-2-methoxyphenol; 1-ethyl-2-methyl-3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-5-hydroxyindane; 4,4′-(ethane-1,1-diyl)diphenol; 5,5′-methylenebis(2-methoxy-4-methylphenol); 4,4′-methylenebis(5-isopropyl-2-methylphenol); 4,4′-(1-ethyl-2-methyl-1,3-propanediyl)bisphenol; or 5,5′-(ethane-1,1-diyl)bis(2-methoxy-4-methylphenol. The dihaloaromatic compound if present comprises a carbonyl group, a sulfonyl group, a sulfinyl group, or a phosphoryl group. There is a molar excess of the hydroxy groups of the polyphenol relative to halo groups of the dihaloaromatic compound if present. The corresponding phthalonitrile monomers and thermosets made from the organic salts are disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 30, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/084760 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 37/66 (20130101) C07C 37/66 (20130101) C07C 37/66 (20130101) C07C 39/16 (20130101) C07C 39/16 (20130101) C07C 39/17 (20130101) C07C 39/235 (20130101) C07C 39/235 (20130101) C07C 41/26 (20130101) C07C 41/26 (20130101) C07C 43/295 (20130101) C07C 43/295 (20130101) C07C 45/64 (20130101) C07C 45/64 (20130101) C07C 49/84 (20130101) C07C 49/84 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 65/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 65/48 (20130101) C08G 73/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09920220 | Bernier et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Binghamton, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Binghamton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William E. Bernier (Endwell, New York); Nicholas A. Ravvin (Brooklyn, New York); Wayne E. Jones, Jr. (Vestal, New York); Kenneth H. Skorenko (Binghamton, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of films and material layers comprising PEDOT. These embodiments are the result of methods that utilize polymerization processes including vapor phase polymerization (VPP) to form the conductive film comprising PEDOT. In one embodiment, the film can result from a method that includes steps for depositing a coating solution onto a substrate, exposing the substrate to a monomer source, and cleaning the substrate after polymerization. The coating solution can comprise an initiating oxidant, which facilitates growth of PEDOT from 3,4 ethylenedioxythiophene (EDOT), as well as a quenching agent that neutralizes acid that results from polymerization. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/212559 |
| ART UNIT | 1783 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | 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 181/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24942 (20150115) |
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| US 09920280 | Arafat |
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| APPLICANT(S) | El Sayad Arafat (Leonardtown, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | El Sayad Arafat (Leonardtown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to non aqueous non-volatile alkylated siloxane compositions having low VOC and vapor pressure of about 31 millimeters of mercury at 20° C. consisting essentially of a mixture of a linear or open-chain methyl alkylated siloxane having two silicon atoms and a siloxane having three silicon atoms alkylated with methyl groups. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 25, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/053477 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Detergent Compositions; Use of Single Substances as Detergents; Soap or Soap-making; Resin Soaps; Recovery of Glycerol C11D 3/43 (20130101) C11D 3/162 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09920370 | Wang 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) | Chunlin Wang (Palo Alto, California); Michael N. Mindrinos (Palo Alto, California); Mark M. Davis (Atherton, California); Ronald W. Davis (Stanford, California); Sujatha Krishnakumar (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided to determine the entire genomic region of a particular HLA locus including both intron and exons. The resultant consensus sequences provides linkage information between different exons, and produces the unique sequence from each of the two genes from the individual sample being typed. The sequence information in intron regions along with the exon sequences provides an accurate HLA haplotype. |
| FILED | Friday, April 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/696278 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6881 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/118 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) C12Q 2600/172 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/18 (20130101) G06F 19/22 (20130101) |
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| US 09920627 | Snyder et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel A. Snyder (Manchester, Connecticut); Christopher Corcoran (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An assembly for a gas turbine that engine includes a fan section. A turbine section is configured to drive the fan section. The turbine section includes a rotor hub with a rotor lug. A heat shield engages the rotor lug. The heat shield and the rotor lug define a cooling passage. |
| FILED | Friday, May 15, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/712988 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/081 (20130101) F01D 5/082 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F01D 11/008 (20130101) F01D 17/105 (20130101) Non-positive-displacement Pumps F04D 19/002 (20130101) F04D 25/045 (20130101) F04D 27/009 (20130101) F04D 29/325 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2220/32 (20130101) F05D 2260/231 (20130101) F05D 2260/2212 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/676 (20130101) |
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| US 09920637 | Snyder |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel A. Snyder (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An exemplary gas turbine engine assembly includes a damping device having a first side and a second side facing away from the first side. The first side is configured to hold a seal when the second side engages an extension from a gas turbine engine component. The first side is further configured to engage the extension when the second side holds the seal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 07, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/680139 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F01D 5/3007 (20130101) F01D 11/006 (20130101) F01D 25/06 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2220/32 (20130101) F05D 2240/80 (20130101) |
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| US 09920869 | Davis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy M Davis (Kennebunk, Maine); Jeremy Drake (South Berwick, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | A transfer tube includes a conduit with an inlet and an opposed outlet. The transfer tube also includes a retention tab extending from the inlet and a locking spring tab extending from the outlet. The locking spring tab includes a claw portion extending radially from the locking spring tab of the transfer tube. |
| FILED | Monday, May 11, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/708825 |
| ART UNIT | 3679 — 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 9/065 (20130101) F01D 25/24 (20130101) Pipes; Joints or Fittings for Pipes; Supports for Pipes, Cables or Protective Tubing; Means for Thermal Insulation in General F16L 21/02 (20130101) F16L 37/086 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09921004 | Lewis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | KELVIN THERMAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | KELVIN THERMAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan John Lewis (Boulder, Colorado); Yung-Cheng Lee (Boulder, Colorado); Li-Anne Liew (Westminster, Colorado); Yunda Wang (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments described herein relate to the concept and designs of a polymer-based thermal ground plane. In accordance with one embodiment, a polymer is utilized as the material to fabricate the thermal ground plane. Other embodiments include am optimized wicking structure design utilizing two arrays of micropillars, use of lithography-based microfabrication of the TGP using copper/polymer processing, micro-posts, throttled releasing holes embedded in the micro-posts, atomic layer deposition (ALD) hydrophilic coating, throttled fluid charging structure and sealing method, defect-free ALD hermetic coating, and compliant structural design. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 28, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/925787 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal-working Not Otherwise Provided For; Combined Operations; Universal Machine Tools B23P 15/26 (20130101) Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00388 (20130101) B81C 2201/0108 (20130101) Non-mechanical Removal of Metallic Material From Surface; Inhibiting Corrosion of Metallic Material or Incrustation in General; Multi-step Processes for Surface Treatment of Metallic Material Involving at Least One Process Provided for in Class C23 and at Least One Process Covered by Subclass C21D or C22F or Class C25 C23F 4/00 (20130101) Heat-exchange Apparatus, Not Provided for in Another Subclass, in Which the Heat-exchange Media Do Not Come into Direct Contact F28D 15/046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F28D 15/0233 (20130101) Details of Heat-exchange and Heat-transfer Apparatus, of General Application F28F 13/187 (20130101) |
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| US 09921037 | Wadley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Haydn N. G. Wadley (Keswick, Virginia); Yellapu V. Murty (Charlottesville, Virginia); Tyrone Jones (Bel Air, Maryland); Rahul Gupta (Wilmington, Delaware); Matthew Burkins (Forest Hill, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Haydn N. G. Wadley (Keswick, Virginia); Yellapu V. Murty (Charlottesville, Virginia); Tyrone Jones (Bel Air, Maryland); Rahul Gupta (Wilmington, Delaware); Matthew Burkins (Forest Hill, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Structures based upon periodic cellular materials that provide a potential for defeating combinations of both air blast loading and ballistic attack either sequentially or simultaneously, or combination of both. The cellular structures may also be configured to meet the stiffness and strength support requirements of particular vehicle or other applications, systems or structures. The armor is therefore potentially able to support normal service loads and defeat blast and ballistic threats when necessary. The structure provides for using efficient load support capabilities of the material (without a high armor protection level) in low threat conditions, as well as the ability to modify the system to increase its level protection to a desired or required level. This would reduce the weight of the protection system in normal (low threat) conditions which reduces vehicle wear and tear, as well as cost savings in fabrication of applicable structures or systems. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/673418 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 3/12 (20130101) B32B 5/02 (20130101) B32B 15/04 (20130101) Armour; Armoured Turrets; Armoured or Armed Vehicles; Means of Attack or Defence, e.g Camouflage, in General F41H 5/023 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F41H 5/0414 (20130101) F41H 5/0442 (20130101) F41H 5/0471 (20130101) |
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| US 09921041 | Hoang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Department 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) | Thinh Hoang (Beltsville, Maryland); Khoa Nguyen (Waldorf, Maryland); Cuong Nguyen (Alexandria, Virginia); Troy Caruso (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An initiator system includes a firing pin and a piezoelectric-based energy harvester that generates and stores electric energy when impacted by the firing pin. The electric energy is independently available at a first output and second output of the energy harvester. An electronic time delay is coupled to the second output for generation of an electric trigger signal using the electric energy available at the second output. The electric trigger signal is generated at a selected period of time after the electric energy is available at the second output. An initiation-energy generator is coupled to the first output for the storage of electric energy available thereof. The initiation-energy generator is also coupled to the electronic time delay to receive the electric trigger signal, and uses stored electric energy to generate an initiation explosion when the electric trigger signal is received. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 29, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/756649 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition Fuzes; Arming or Safety Means Therefor F42C 11/02 (20130101) F42C 11/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Blasting F42D 1/05 (20130101) F42D 1/055 (20130101) |
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| US 09921107 | Hargreaves et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thermo Scientific Portable Analytical Instruments Inc. (Tewksbury, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Thermo Scientific Portable Analytical Instruments Inc. (Tewksbury, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Derek Hargreaves (Burlington, Massachusetts); Timothy M. Pastore (Wakefield, Mississippi); Gregory H. Vander Rhodes (Melrose, Massachusetts); Brendon D. Tower (Weymouth, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A spectrometer system comprising a housing configured as a handheld device with a screen; a source of narrow band illumination; a sensor that detects Raman scattering signals; a source of wide band illumination; an optical element that detect Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) signals; a memory device comprising a library of information with Raman scattering reference information and FTIR reference information; and a processor configured to execute software instructions, wherein the software instructions are configured to: direct the narrow band illumination to the sample; detect the Raman scattering signals; direct the wide band illumination to the sample; detect the FTIR signals; determine a composition of the sample from a similarity between the Raman scattering spectral information and the Raman scattering reference information, and from a similarity between the FTIR spectral information and the FTIR reference information; and display the composition of the sample on the screen. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 29, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/363186 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/28 (20130101) G01J 3/44 (20130101) G01J 3/45 (20130101) G01J 3/0264 (20130101) G01J 3/0272 (20130101) G01J 3/0283 (20130101) G01J 3/0286 (20130101) G01J 3/0291 (20130101) G01J 3/453 (20130101) G01J 3/4412 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01J 2003/2833 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/35 (20130101) G01N 21/65 (20130101) G01N 2021/3595 (20130101) G01N 2201/0221 (20130101) |
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| US 09921216 | Fahmy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tarek M. Fahmy (New Haven, Connecticut); Eric D. Stern (New Haven, Connecticut); Mark A. Reed (Monroe, Connecticut); Aleksandar Vacic (New Haven, Connecticut); James F. Klemic (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a device and method for determining the presence of a specific compound in solution. The device includes a nanosensor having an electrically conducting pathway between at least a first and second contact. The device also includes a first receptor, suitable for binding a specific compound in the solution, attached to the nanosensor, and a second receptor also suitable for binding the specific compound while the specific compound is bound to the first receptor. The second receptor is attached to an enzyme added to the solution. When the solution having the second receptor is added to the device, and a second compound that is a substrate for the enzyme is subsequently added to the solution, a measured difference in an electrical property in the device before and after the application of the second compound is indicative of the presence of the specific compound in the solution. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/755615 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6863 (20130101) G01N 33/6866 (20130101) G01N 33/6869 (20130101) G01N 33/54366 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/54373 (20130101) G01N 2333/54 (20130101) G01N 2333/98 (20130101) G01N 2333/555 (20130101) |
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| US 09921255 | Bowers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Bowers (Duarte, California); Amirreza Safaripour Tabbalvandani (Pasadena, California); Seyed Ali Hajimiri (La Canada, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensing structure includes an integrated circuit substrate, and a first sensor formed on or above the integrated circuit substrate adapted to detect a first part of an electromagnetic field in the integrated circuit substrate. A sensing structure includes a dielectric substrate and a first sensor formed on or above the dielectric substrate adapted to detect a first part of an electromagnetic field in the integrated circuit substrate. A sensing structure includes an integrated circuit substrate and a multitude of sensors formed on or above the integrated circuit substrate adapted to detect a multitude of parts of an electromagnetic field in the integrated circuit substrate. A method for sensing a first part of an electromagnetic field includes providing an integrated circuit substrate, forming a first sensor on or above the integrated circuit substrate, and detecting the first part of the electromagnetic field in the integrated circuit substrate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/766667 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 29/0878 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 31/308 (20130101) Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 1/38 (20130101) H01Q 13/10 (20130101) H01Q 21/24 (20130101) H01Q 21/28 (20130101) H01Q 21/061 (20130101) |
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| US 09921471 | Meade et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roy E. Meade (Boise, Idaho); Gurtej S. Sandhu (Boise, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a photonic device structure comprises forming a photoresist over a photonic material over a substrate. The photoresist is exposed to radiation through a gray-tone mask to form at least one photoexposed region and at least one non-photoexposed region of the photoresist. The at least one photoexposed region of the photoresist or the at least one non-photoexposed region of the photoresist is removed to form photoresist features. The photoresist features and unprotected portions of the photonic material are removed to form photonic features. Other methods of forming a photonic device structure, and a method of forming an electronic device are also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/495278 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/00 (20130101) Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/0005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G03F 7/70283 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gerhard W. Thielman (Fredericksburg, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerhard W. Thielman (Fredericksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A spherical weight-shifting integral free-rolling tumbler (SWIFT) is provided for rolling along a surface in a command direction. The SWIFT includes a spherical shell, a cubic box within the shell held by spars, and a controller. The box has six panels, and each panel connects to a weight-shifter. Each weight-shifter includes an actuator and a movable mass. The controller for selectively activates the weight-shifter among the panels to translate the mass from the default position to the active position. The controller operates a first switch that corresponds to panels facing away from the surface, and in combination operates a second switch that corresponds to a weight-shifter approximately facing the command direction to roll the shell accordingly. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 27, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/661466 |
| ART UNIT | 3668 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Motor Vehicles; Trailers B62D 57/00 (20130101) Spring, Weight, Inertia or Like Motors; Mechanical-power Producing Devices or Mechanisms, Not Otherwise Provided for or Using Energy Sources Not Otherwise Provided for F03G 3/00 (20130101) F03G 3/08 (20130101) Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 1/0011 (20130101) G05D 1/0891 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 901/01 (20130101) |
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| US 09922266 | Andreopoulos 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) | Alexander Andreopoulos (San Jose, California); Steven K. Esser (San Jose, California); Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention provide a method of visual saliency estimation comprising receiving an input sequence of image frames. Each image frame has one or more channels, and each channel has one or more pixels. The method further comprises, for each channel of each image frame, generating corresponding neural spiking data based on a pixel intensity of each pixel of the channel, generating a corresponding multi-scale data structure based on the corresponding neural spiking data, and extracting a corresponding map of features from the corresponding multi-scale data structure. The multi-scale data structure comprises one or more data layers, wherein each data layer represents a spike representation of pixel intensities of a channel at a corresponding scale. The method further comprises encoding each map of features extracted as neural spikes. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 31, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/087945 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/66 (20130101) G06K 9/00744 (20130101) G06K 9/4671 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09922638 | Calvo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David C. Calvo (Alexandria, Virginia); Abel L. Thangawng (Alexandria, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Calvo (Alexandria, Virginia); Abel L. Thangawng (Alexandria, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus in a surrounding liquid and methods of using same. The apparatus includes an acoustic Fresnel zone plate comprising a compliant frame, a substrate connected to the frame, and an acoustic diffraction grating connected to the substrate. The acoustic diffraction grating includes a plurality of concentric rings or a plurality of concentric islands. The substrate is acoustic-impedance-mismatched with the acoustic diffraction grating. The acoustic Fresnel zone plate includes at least one acoustic focal spot. The substrate is acoustic-impedance-mismatched with the surrounding liquid and the acoustic diffraction grating is acoustic-impedance-matched with the surrounding liquid, or the substrate is acoustic-impedance-matched with the surrounding liquid and the acoustic diffraction grating is acoustic-impedance-mismatched with the surrounding liquid. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 29, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/926055 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Sound-producing Devices; Methods or Devices for Protecting Against, or for Damping, Noise or Other Acoustic Waves in General; Acoustics Not Otherwise Provided for G10K 11/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G10K 2200/11 (20130101) |
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| US 09922776 | Marsh 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) | Charles P. Marsh (Urbana, Illinois); Meredith C. K. Sellers (Newark, California); Niels P. Zussblatt (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a polymer supercapacitor and method for making such a supercapacitor. The supercapacitor is formed by loading a flexible electrode plate of a high surface area material with metal oxide particles, then encasing the electrode plate in a coating of a polymer electrolyte. The electrode plate is then folded in half and flexible plates attached to the upper and lower surfaces to form the supercapacitor. |
| FILED | Monday, March 21, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/076551 |
| ART UNIT | 2848 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 11/04 (20130101) H01G 11/24 (20130101) H01G 11/46 (20130101) H01G 11/56 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01G 11/86 (20130101) |
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| US 09922791 | Koeck 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) | Franz A. M. Koeck (Tempe, Arizona); Robert J. Nemanich (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus includes an emitter electrode including a phosphorus doped diamond layer with low work function. The apparatus further includes a collector electrode and a vacuum gap disposed between the emitter and the collector. The collector has a work function of 0.84 eV or less. |
| FILED | Friday, May 05, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/588362 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 25/16 (20130101) C30B 25/20 (20130101) C30B 25/186 (20130101) C30B 29/04 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 9/04 (20130101) H01J 9/14 (20130101) H01J 19/06 (20130101) H01J 19/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 45/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09923267 | Pala et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nezih Pala (Fort Lauderdale, Florida); Burak Gerislioglu (Miami, Florida); Arash Ahmadivand (Miami, Florida); Mustafa Karabiyik (Miami, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Florida International University Board of Trustees (Miami, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nezih Pala (Fort Lauderdale, Florida); Burak Gerislioglu (Miami, Florida); Arash Ahmadivand (Miami, Florida); Mustafa Karabiyik (Miami, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatuses and methods for making configurable antennas are provided. An apparatus can include a phase change material (PCM) having a conductive phase and an insulating phase. The PCM can be activated to the conductive phase to produce an antenna structure. Different antenna shapes can be created by selectively inducing regions in the PCM to be conductive. Different antenna shapes can be produced having specific resonance frequencies and radiation patterns to suit the application. The PCM phase change can be induced using selective heat application. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 19, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/653804 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 3/01 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01Q 9/0407 (20130101) |
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| US 09923335 | Bovington et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Oracle International Corporation (Redwood Shores, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle International Corporation (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jock T. Bovington (La Jolla, California); Stevan S. Djordjevic (San Diego, California); Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California); Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser includes a reflective gain medium (RGM) comprising an optical gain material coupled with an associated reflector. The RGM is coupled to a spot-size converter (SSC), which optically couples the RGM to an optical reflector through a silicon waveguide. The SSC converts an optical mode-field size of the RGM to an optical mode-field size of the silicon waveguide. A negative thermo-optic coefficient (NTOC) waveguide is fabricated on top of the SSC. In this way, an optical signal, which originates from the RGM, passes into the SSC, is coupled into the NTOC waveguide, passes through the NTOC waveguide, and is coupled back into the SSC before passing into the silicon waveguide. During operation, the RGM, the spot-size converter, the NTOC waveguide, the silicon waveguide and the silicon mirror collectively form a lasing cavity for the athermal laser. Finally, a laser output is optically coupled to the lasing cavity. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 12, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/405209 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 5/22 (20130101) H01S 5/068 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 5/3013 (20130101) |
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| US 09923338 | Meyer 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) | Jerry R. Meyer (Catonsville, Maryland); Igor Vurgaftman (Severna Park, Maryland); Chadwick Lawrence Canedy (Washington, District of Columbia); William W. Bewley (Falls Church, Virginia); Chul Soo Kim (Springfield, Virginia); Mijin Kim (Springfield, Virginia); Charles D. Merritt (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A DFB laser having a reduced fill factor and reduced loss. A plurality of spaced-apart contact openings are etched into a dielectric layer situated on top of a laser ridge having a DFB grating layer so that electrical contact between the metal top contact layer and the DFB gratings is made only in the etched openings, since all other areas of the top surface of the DFB-grated laser ridge are insulated from the metal contact layer by the dielectric. The size and shape of contact openings and their spacing are configured so that the ratio of the total area of the openings to the total area of the laser ridge provides a fill factor of less than 100%. |
| FILED | Friday, June 03, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/172338 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 5/22 (20130101) H01S 5/0424 (20130101) H01S 5/0425 (20130101) H01S 5/1231 (20130101) H01S 5/1234 (20130101) H01S 5/3402 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 2301/176 (20130101) |
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| US 09923549 | Kultran et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RAYTHEON COMPANY (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Denpol Kultran (Hawthorne, California); Richard T. Hennegan (Torrance, California); Harry B. Marr (Manhattan Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided a finite impulse response (FIR) filter for filtering an input voltage signal to generate an output current signal, the FIR filter including a plurality of sample and hold (SH) circuits configured to simultaneously receive the input voltage signal, to sample the input voltage signal at successive sample times according to a sample clock, and to generate a plurality of sampled voltage signals, and a plurality of programmable analog multipliers coupled to the plurality of SH circuits and configured to multiply the plurality of sampled voltage signals by a plurality of binary multiplication factors to generate the output current signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 09, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/849524 |
| ART UNIT | 2182 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Impedance Networks, e.g Resonant Circuits; Resonators H03H 15/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03H 19/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09923555 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chengcheng Wang (San Jose, California); Dejan Markovic (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for power gating in logic and/or computing circuitry in accordance with embodiments of the inventions are disclosed. In one embodiment, a multiplexer for fine-grain power gating includes a first supply voltage and a second supply voltage, a plurality of inputs, a plurality of selection inputs, a selection circuitry configured to select one of the plurality of inputs, where one of the plurality of inputs is the first supply voltage and one of the selection inputs is a power gating enable input, an output inverter stage including a PMOS transistor and an NMOS transistor, where at least one input to the inverter stage is provided to the gates of the PMOS and NMOS transistors and selection of the power gating enable signal applies the first supply voltage to the gate of the PMOS transistor and places the PMOS transistor in a cutoff mode of operation. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/777473 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse Technique H03K 17/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03K 19/0016 (20130101) H03K 19/1737 (20130101) H03K 19/09429 (20130101) H03K 19/17772 (20130101) H03K 19/018528 (20130101) |
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| US 09923598 | Dafesh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip Dafesh (Manhattan Beach, California); Phillip Brian Hess (Venice, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Under one aspect, a method is provided for processing a received signal, the received signal including a desired signal and an interference signal that spectrally overlaps the desired signal. The method can include obtaining an amplitude of the received signal. The method also can include obtaining an average amplitude of the received signal based on at least one prior amplitude of the received signal. The method also can include subtracting the amplitude from the average amplitude to obtain an amplitude residual. The method also can include, based upon an absolute value of the amplitude residual being less than or equal to a first threshold, inputting the received signal into an interference suppression algorithm so as to generate a first output including the desired signal with reduced contribution from the interference signal. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 16, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/461252 |
| ART UNIT | 2632 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 1/719 (20130101) H04B 1/7107 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joe S. Philip (Hurst, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a system for analyzing optical networks includes a network analyzer optically coupled to a fiber optic network. The network analyzer may transmit a test signal to the fiber optic network, receive a reflected signal in response to transmitting the test signal, wherein the reflected signal is generated in response to the test signal interacting with a defect of the fiber optic network. The analyzer may then analyze a power of the reflected signal, wherein the power of the reflected signal corresponds to the defect in the fiber optic network, calculate a transmit time of the reflected signal, wherein the transmit time corresponds a location of the defect in the fiber optic network, identify a component of the fiber optic network corresponding to the defect and the location of the defect in the fiber optic network, and generate a maintenance report based on the analyzed reflected signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 20, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/133574 |
| ART UNIT | 2637 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 10/071 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 10/0771 (20130101) H04B 10/0775 (20130101) |
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| US 09923631 | Moilanen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | EOSpace Inc. (Redmond, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | EOSpace Inc. (Redmond, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Emil Moilanen (Bellevue, Washington); Matthew Allen Hall (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention introduces a new RF test and measurement methodology based on optical signal processing that has the capability to measure all of the RF parameters (both amplitude and phase) of an electronic component or system including transmission (S21) and reflection (S11). It can also be applied to measuring the electro-optic properties of electro-optic modulators, both phase modulators and intensity modulators. The basis of the invention is to use the RF information encoded in the optical sidebands generated by an electro-optic modulator to determine all of the relevant parameters of an electronic or electro-optic device. Optical carrier suppression techniques are used to isolate the information carrying optical sidebands from the dominant optical carrier. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 31, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/674885 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 10/541 (20130101) H04B 10/0795 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 10/07955 (20130101) |
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| US 09923669 | Yao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongyi Yao (Pasadena, California); Tracey C. Ho (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-based distributed error correction scheme with an efficient decoding algorithm is disclosed. The efficiency of the corresponding decoding algorithm, based on standard single source Reed-Solomon error correcting codes, makes the practical employment of the DECC feasible. Various implementation examples are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 26, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/836755 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/10 (20130101) Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 13/05 (20130101) H03M 13/27 (20130101) H03M 13/151 (20130101) H03M 13/1515 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 1/0041 (20130101) H04L 1/0057 (20130101) H04L 1/0076 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09923700 | Gormley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | EDEN ROCK COMMUNICATIONS, LLC (Bothell, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SPECTRUM EFFECT, INC. (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eamonn Gormley (Bothell, Washington); Rekha Menon (Bothell, Washington); Jungnam Yun (Bothell, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for sharing spectrum between a primary user and a secondary user includes receiving a signal transmitted by the primary user at a first network equipment of the secondary user, determining a first attenuation coefficient for the first network equipment, estimating interference from the first network equipment at a receiver of the primary user, and adjusting parameters of the first network equipment. |
| FILED | Friday, August 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/455797 |
| ART UNIT | 2413 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 5/006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Wireless Communication Networks H04W 16/14 (20130101) H04W 24/02 (20130101) H04W 36/20 (20130101) H04W 52/243 (20130101) |
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| US 09923714 | Lima et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Universidade Do Porto (Oporto, Portugal); Telefonica, S.A. (Madrid, Spain) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Luisa Lima (Oporto, Portugal); Steluta Gheorghiu (Corbera de Llobregat, Spain); Joao Barros (Oporto, Portugal); Muriel Medard (Belmont, Massachusetts); Alberto Lopez Toledo (Brooklyn, New York); Joao Vilela (Coimbra, Portugal) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is a method and system for hierarchical wireless video with network coding which limits encryption operations to a critical set of network coding coefficients in combination with multi-resolution video coding. Such a method and system achieves hierarchical fidelity levels, robustness against wireless packet loss and efficient security by exploiting the algebraic structure of network coding. |
| FILED | Monday, August 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/822115 |
| ART UNIT | 2433 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 1/1812 (20130101) H04L 9/0819 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 63/0428 (20130101) H04L 2001/0097 (20130101) H04L 2209/24 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 7/167 (20130101) H04N 21/2347 (20130101) H04N 21/2662 (20130101) H04N 21/6131 (20130101) H04N 21/6377 (20130101) H04N 21/26613 (20130101) H04N 21/64792 (20130101) H04N 21/234327 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 12/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09923741 | Civerolo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael P. Civerolo (San Diego, California); Nicholas T. Johnson (San Diego, California); Nicholas A. Lumsden (Escondido, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A signal detection method that allows characterization of a modulated signal to be efficiently determined. The method comprises the steps of receiving a data signal, processing the data signal to determine its value squaring the value of the signal; filtering the squared signal value to remove DC content; evaluating the resulting signal to determine if a single sinusoidal value remains; and determining that the presence of a single sinusoidal value as the resulting signal from the squaring and filtering steps indicates that the received data signal is a phase-shift key signal or conversely that the absence of such after a given number of cycle of squaring and filtering indicates a different modulation technique is present in the signal. |
| FILED | Friday, March 24, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/468168 |
| ART UNIT | 2633 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 27/0012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 27/2334 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Red Tail Hawk Corporation (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Red Tail Hawk Corporation (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. Parkins (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A hearing protection system with talk-through having a pair of rigid earcups enclosing a microphone, amplifier and speaker. A concha simulator, having a volume simulating that of the concha of a human ear, is acoustically coupled to the microphone, and also to the outside through an opening in the earcup. By coupling the microphone to the concha simulator, instead of directly to the outside, the acoustic response of the talk-through more accurately represents the hearing of a user. |
| FILED | Friday, September 09, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/260889 |
| ART UNIT | 2655 — Digital Audio Data Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 11/12 (20130101) A61F 11/14 (20130101) A61F 2011/145 (20130101) Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups or Like Acoustic Electromechanical Transducers; Deaf-aid Sets; Public Address Systems H04R 1/08 (20130101) H04R 1/1008 (20130101) H04R 1/1016 (20130101) H04R 1/1058 (20130101) H04R 1/1083 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04R 2201/023 (20130101) |
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| US 09924372 | Melodia et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tommaso Melodia (Newton, Massachusetts); Zhangyu Guan (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A coexistence scheme enables spectrally-efficient and fair spectrum sharing between a first wireless network and a coexisting wireless network in the same frequency bands. The spectrum sharing problem is modeled as a fairness constrained mixed integer nonlinear optimization problem, by jointly determining dynamic channel selection, carrier aggregation and fractional spectrum access for the first wireless networks, while guaranteeing fair spectrum access for the coexisting wireless network based on a cross-technology fairness criterion. An algorithm based on a combination of branch and bound and successive convex relation techniques is provided to optimally solve the problem, i.e., maximize the utility of the first wireless network with guaranteed optimality precision that can be set arbitrarily at the expense of computational complexity. The coexistence scheme requires no signaling exchange between the first wireless network and the coexisting wireless network, and does not require any changes to the communication protocol stack of the coexisting wireless network. |
| FILED | Friday, February 10, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/429377 |
| ART UNIT | 2646 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Wireless Communication Networks H04W 16/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04W 24/02 (20130101) H04W 72/082 (20130101) |
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| US 09924490 | Alvarez Icaza Rivera 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) | Rodrigo Alvarez Icaza Rivera (San Jose, California); John V. Arthur (Mountain View, California); Andrew S. Cassidy (San Jose, California); Bryan L. Jackson (Fremont, California); Paul A. Merolla (Palo Alto, California); Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, California); Jun Sawada (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention provide a system for scaling multi-core neurosynaptic networks. The system comprises multiple network circuits. Each network circuit comprises a plurality of neurosynaptic core circuits. Each core circuit comprises multiple electronic neurons interconnected with multiple electronic axons via a plurality of electronic synapse devices. An interconnect fabric couples the network circuits. Each network circuit has at least one network interface. Each network interface for each network circuit enables data exchange between the network circuit and another network circuit by tagging each data packet from the network circuit with corresponding routing information. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/050072 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/049 (20130101) G06N 3/063 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 64/00 (20130101) H04W 68/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09924586 | Curry |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Randy D. Curry (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randy D. Curry (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates to methods and devices for generating electron dense air plasmas at atmospheric pressures. In particular, this disclosure relate to self-contained toroidal air plasmas. Methods and apparatuses have been developed for generating atmospheric toroidal air plasmas. The air plasmas are self-confining, can be projected, and do not require additional support equipment once formed. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 05, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/147713 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Plasma Technique; Production of Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles or of Neutrons; Production or Acceleration of Neutral Molecular or Atomic Beams H05H 1/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05H 1/52 (20130101) H05H 1/54 (20130101) H05H 2001/4682 (20130101) H05H 2240/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09924609 | Dane et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Transtector Systems, Inc. (Hayden, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Transtector Systems, Inc. (Hayden, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kelly A. Dane (Athol, Idaho); William K. Magee (Rathdrum, Idaho); Peter R. Bokma (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | An enclosure having a rear base defining a cavity for holding one or more electronic devices. The enclosure includes a front cover coupled to the rear base and movable between an open position and a closed position. The enclosure includes a chassis mounted within the cavity of the rear base and a drawer chest having a multiple drawers within the cavity of the rear base. The drawer chest is connected to the chassis, and the multiple drawers are configured to receive the one or more electronic devices. The enclosure includes one or more connectors that are exposed outward and provide a connection to a host electronic device. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 21, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/216537 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 7/1458 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tiffany Elizabeth Pinard Westendorf (Troy, New York); Benjamin Rue Wood (Niskayuna, New York); Sarah Elizabeth Genovese (Delmar, New York); John Brian McDermott (Rexford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for separating carbon dioxide (CO2) from a gas stream is provided. The method includes reacting at least a portion of CO2 in the gas stream with a plurality of liquid sorbent particles to form a plurality of solid adduct particles and a first CO2-lean gas stream; the solid adduct particles entrained in the first CO2-lean gas stream to form an entrained gas stream. The method includes separating at least a portion of the plurality of solid adduct particles from the entrained gas stream in a separation unit to form an adduct stream and a second CO2-lean gas stream. The method further includes heating at least a portion of the adduct stream in a desorption unit to form a CO2 stream and a regenerated liquid sorbent stream. A system for separating CO2 from a gas stream is also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, April 01, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/088877 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/62 (20130101) B01D 53/77 (20130101) B01D 53/96 (20130101) B01D 53/1425 (20130101) B01D 53/1475 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 53/1493 (20130101) B01D 2252/40 (20130101) B01D 2252/204 (20130101) B01D 2252/2053 (20130101) B01D 2257/504 (20130101) B01D 2259/124 (20130101) Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 10/04 (20130101) Y02C 10/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09919263 | O'Brien et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Joseph O'Brien (Town of Halfmoon, New York); Rachel Lizabeth Farnum (Rensselaer, New York); Robert James Perry (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An amino-siloxane composition is presented. The amino-siloxane composition includes structure (I): wherein R1 is independently at each occurrence a C1-C5 aliphatic radical; R2 is a C3-C4 aliphatic radical; R3 is a C1-C5 aliphatic radical or R4, wherein R4 comprises structure (II): and X is an electron donating group. Methods of reducing an amount of carbon dioxide in a process stream using the amino-siloxane composition are also presented. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 04, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/145824 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/1475 (20130101) B01D 53/1493 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 2252/2041 (20130101) B01D 2252/2053 (20130101) B01D 2252/20415 (20130101) B01D 2252/20426 (20130101) B01D 2252/20431 (20130101) B01D 2252/20452 (20130101) B01D 2258/0283 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 7/0854 (20130101) Purifying or Modifying the Chemical Composition of Combustible Gases Containing Carbon Monoxide C10K 1/005 (20130101) C10K 1/128 (20130101) Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 10/06 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/152 (20151101) |
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| US 09919264 | Shin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yongsoon Shin (Richland, Washington); David W. Gotthold (Richland, Washington); Leonard S. Fifield (Richland, Washington); Wei Liu (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for making a graphene oxide membrane and a resulting free-standing graphene oxide membrane that provides desired qualities of water permeability and selectivity at larger sizes, thinner cross sections, and with increased ruggedness as compared to existing membranes and processes. |
| FILED | Monday, June 20, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/187305 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/228 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 53/268 (20130101) B01D 67/0048 (20130101) B01D 67/0093 (20130101) B01D 69/02 (20130101) B01D 71/021 (20130101) B01D 2323/48 (20130101) B01D 2325/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09920104 | Culiat |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cymbeline T. Culiat (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for promoting wound healing and treating muscle atrophy in a mammal in need. The method comprises administering to the mammal a Nell1 protein or a Nell1 nucleic acid molecule. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/495942 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/70 (20130101) A61K 35/28 (20130101) A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/486 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Somerset Coal International (Warrendale, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Somerset Coal International (Vandergrift, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Troiano (Vandergrift, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Herein disclosed is a method for producing liquid hydrocarbon product, the method comprising disintegrating a hydrocarbon source; pretreating the disintegrated hydrocarbon source; solubilizing the disintegrated hydrocarbon source to form a slurry comprising a reactant molecule of the hydrocarbon source; admixing a biochemical liquor into the slurry, wherein the biochemical liquor comprises at least one conversion enzyme configured to facilitate bond selective photo-fragmentation of said reactant molecule of the hydrocarbon source, to form liquid hydrocarbons via enzyme assisted bond selective photo-fragmentation, wherein said conversion enzyme comprises reactive sites configured to restrict said reactant molecule such that photo-fragmentation favorably targets a preselected internal bond of said reactant molecule; separating the liquid hydrocarbons from the slurry, wherein contaminants remain in the slurry; and enriching the liquid hydrocarbons to form a liquid hydrocarbon product. Various aspects of such method/process are also discussed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/133449 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Cracking Hydrocarbon Oils; Production of Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g by Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation; Recovery of Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, or Gases; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting of Hydrocarbons; Reforming of Naphtha; Mineral Waxes C10G 1/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10G 1/002 (20130101) C10G 1/02 (20130101) C10G 32/00 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 5/00 (20130101) Earth Drilling, e.g Deep Drilling; Obtaining Oil, Gas, Water, Soluble or Meltable Materials or a Slurry of Minerals From Wells E21B 43/29 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/582 (20151101) |
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| US 09920312 | Froehlich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | LALLEMAND HUNGARY LIQUIDITY MANAGEMENT LLC (Budapest, Hungary) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lallemand Hungary Liquidity Management LLC (Budapest, Hungary) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allan Froehlich (Hartland, Vermont); Brooks Henningsen (Lebanon, New Hampshire); Sean Covalla (Thetford Center, Vermont); Rintze M. Zelle (Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided an engineered host cells comprising (a) one or more mutations in one or more endogenous genes encoding a protein associated with iron metabolism; and (b) at least one gene encoding a polypeptide having xylose isomerase activity, and methods of their use thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, August 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/821955 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/395 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/92 (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 7/06 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 503/01005 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/17 (20130101) |
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| US 09920327 | Pauly et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Markus Pauly (Berkeley, California); Florian J. Kraemer (Berkeley, California); Sarah Hake (Bolinas, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Markus Pauly (Berkeley, California); Florian J. Kraemer (Berkeley, California); Sarah Hake (Bolinas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to mutations in licheninase genes encoding polypeptides with decreased licheninase activity, which when expressed in plants results in elevated levels of glucan in the plants. In particular, the disclosure relates to licheninase nucleic acids and polypeptides related to glucan accumulation in plants, plants with reduced expression of a licheninase nucleic acid, and methods related to the generation of plants with increased glucan content in the cell walls of leaf tissue. |
| FILED | Friday, June 01, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/123482 |
| ART UNIT | 1663 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/415 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/01 (20130101) C12N 15/8246 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09920443 | Wiedmeyer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stanley G. Wiedmeyer (Argonne, Illinois); Laurel A. Barnes (Argonne, Illinois); Mark A. Williamson (Argonne, Illinois); James L. Willit (Argonne, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC (Wilmington, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley G. Wiedmeyer (Argonne, Illinois); Laurel A. Barnes (Argonne, Illinois); Mark A. Williamson (Argonne, Illinois); James L. Willit (Argonne, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Modular cathode assemblies are useable in electrolytic reduction systems and include a basket through which fluid electrolyte may pass and exchange charge with a material to be reduced in the basket. The basket can be divided into upper and lower sections to provide entry for the material. Example embodiment cathode assemblies may have any shape to permit modular placement at any position in reduction systems. Modular cathode assemblies include a cathode plate in the basket, to which unique and opposite electrical power may be supplied. Example embodiment modular cathode assemblies may have standardized electrical connectors. Modular cathode assemblies may be supported by a top plate of an electrolytic reduction system. Electrolytic oxide reduction systems are operated by positioning modular cathode and anode assemblies at desired positions, placing a material in the basket, and charging the modular assemblies to reduce the metal oxide. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/528146 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for the Electrolytic Production, Recovery or Refining of Metals; Apparatus Therefor C25C 3/34 (20130101) C25C 7/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C25C 7/005 (20130101) C25C 7/025 (20130101) Nuclear Reactors G21C 19/48 (20130101) Protection Against X-radiation, Gamma Radiation, Corpuscular Radiation or Particle Bombardment; Treating Radioactively Contaminated Material; Decontamination Arrangements Therefor G21F 9/30 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | DELPHI TECHNOLOGIES IP LIMITED (St. Michael, Barbados) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | DELPHI TECHNOLOGIES IP LIMITED (St. Michael, Barbados) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wayne R. Moore (Goodrich, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A control valve includes a first conduit having a first inlet and a first outlet and defining a first passage; a second conduit having a second inlet and a second outlet and defining a second passage, the second conduit extending into the first passage such that the second inlet is located within the first passage; and a valve plate disposed pivotably within the first passage, the valve plate defining a valve plate surface. Pivoting of the valve plate within the first passage varies flow from the first inlet to the first outlet and the valve plate is pivotal between a first position and a second position such that in the first position the valve plate substantially prevents fluid communication between the first passage and the second passage and such that in the second position the valve plate permits fluid communication between the first passage and the second passage. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/824239 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Valves; Taps; Cocks; Actuating-floats; Devices for Venting or Aerating F16K 11/0525 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Babcock and Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. (Barberton, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Babcock and Wilcox Company (Barberton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David T Wasyluk (Mogadore, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A solar receiver includes: water jacket panels each having a light-receiving side and a back side with a watertight sealed plenum defined in-between; light apertures passing through the watertight sealed plenums to receive light from the light-receiving sides of the water jacket panels; a heat transfer medium gap defined between the back sides of the water jacket panels and a cylindrical back plate; and light channeling tubes optically coupled with the light apertures and extending into the heat transfer medium gap. In some embodiments ends of the light apertures at the light receiving side of the water jacket panel are welded together to define at least a portion of the light-receiving side. A cylindrical solar receiver may be constructed using a plurality of such water jacket panels arranged with their light-receiving sides facing outward. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/712160 |
| ART UNIT | 3743 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Producing or Use of Heat Not Otherwise Provided For F24J 2/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F24J 2/05 (20130101) F24J 2/07 (20130101) F24J 2/10 (20130101) F24J 2/18 (20130101) F24J 2/20 (20130101) F24J 2/4625 (20130101) F24J 2/4636 (20130101) F24J 2/4649 (20130101) F24J 2002/003 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/41 (20130101) |
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| US 09920964 | Hornbostel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SRI INTERNATIONAL (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc D Hornbostel (Menlo Park, California); Gopala N. Krishnan (Sunnyvale, California); Angel Sanjurjo (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to contactors suitable for use, for example, in manufacturing and chemical refinement processes. In an aspect is a hybrid indirect/direct contactor for thermal management of counter-current processes, the contactor comprising a vertical reactor column, an array of interconnected heat transfer tubes within the reactor column, and a plurality of stream path diverters, wherein the tubes and diverters are configured to block all straight-line paths from the top to bottom ends of the reactor column. |
| FILED | Saturday, July 25, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/809206 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/08 (20130101) B01D 53/261 (20130101) B01D 53/343 (20130101) B01D 2257/80 (20130101) B01D 2259/65 (20130101) B01D 2259/4009 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 8/12 (20130101) B01J 2208/0084 (20130101) B01J 2208/00132 (20130101) B01J 2219/1921 (20130101) B01J 2219/1923 (20130101) B01J 2219/1925 (20130101) B01J 2219/1928 (20130101) Refrigeration Machines, Plants or Systems; Combined Heating and Refrigeration Systems; Heat-pump Systems F25B 15/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Heat-exchange Apparatus, Not Provided for in Another Subclass, in Which the Heat-exchange Media Come into Direct Contact Without Chemical Interaction F28C 3/14 (20130101) Heat-exchange Apparatus, Not Provided for in Another Subclass, in Which the Heat-exchange Media Do Not Come into Direct Contact F28D 13/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09921006 | Paul et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian K. Paul (Corvallis, Oregon); Samuel T. Brannon (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application relates to apparatus and methods of reducing the cost of microchannel array production and operation. In a representative embodiment, a microchannel array can comprise a first lamina having one or more flanges and a plurality of elongated bosses. The one or more flanges can extend along a perimeter of the first lamina, the plurality of elongated bosses can at least partially define a plurality of first flow paths, and the first lamina can define at least one opening. The microchannel array can also comprise a second lamina having a plurality of second flow paths, and can define at least one opening. The second lamina can be disposed above the first lamina such that the second lamina encloses the first flow paths of the first lamina and the at least one opening of the first lamina is coaxial with the at least one opening of the second lamina. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/774093 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal-working Not Otherwise Provided For; Combined Operations; Universal Machine Tools B23P 15/26 (20130101) Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 37/12 (20130101) B32B 37/18 (20130101) B32B 2311/00 (20130101) B32B 2457/00 (20130101) Microstructural Devices or Systems, e.g Micromechanical Devices B81B 2201/058 (20130101) Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 99/0095 (20130101) B81C 2201/019 (20130101) Heat-exchange Apparatus, Not Provided for in Another Subclass, in Which the Heat-exchange Media Do Not Come into Direct Contact F28D 9/0043 (20130101) Details of Heat-exchange and Heat-transfer Apparatus, of General Application F28F 3/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F28F 3/046 (20130101) F28F 9/02 (20130101) F28F 2260/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09921042 | McGrane |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shawn D. McGrane (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are embodiments of devices comprising energetic materials capable of superdetonation and methods of making and using such devices. The devices disclosed herein comprise components, dimensions, and configurations optimized to utilize superdetonation velocities produced by the energetic materials disclosed herein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/084331 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 3/00 (20130101) F42B 3/08 (20130101) Ammunition Fuzes; Arming or Safety Means Therefor F42C 19/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Blasting F42D 3/00 (20130101) F42D 5/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09921085 | Ferguson Tucker |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HONEYWELL FEDERAL MANUFACTURING and TECHNOLOGIES, LLC (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, LLC (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryand Jeremy Ferguson Tucker (Belton, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for optimizing a fiber optic sensor by properly clocking or rotationally orienting a window with a fiber optic focuser. This method may include shining light through the focuser into the window and receiving with a reflectometer a first reflection from a first surface of the window and a second reflection from a second surface of the window. Next, the method may include calculating a delta of intensities between the first and second reflections, and then rotating an orientation of the window to a next rotational orientation. The steps of rotating the orientation of the window, receiving reflections, and calculating their delta may be repeated any plurality of times to solve for a plurality of deltas. Then, the method may include the steps of determining which one of the deltas is the largest and fixing the window to the focuser at a rotational orientation associated therewith. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 03, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/845131 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Not Specially Adapted for a Specific Variable; Arrangements for Measuring Two or More Variables Not Covered in a Single Other Subclass; Tariff Metering Apparatus; Measuring or Testing Not Otherwise Provided for G01D 5/353 (20130101) G01D 18/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49004 (20150115) Y10T 29/49826 (20150115) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | RAM Photonics, LLC (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RAM PHOTONICS, LLC (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seung-Whan Bahk (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for performing optical wavefront sensing includes providing an amplitude transmission mask having a light input side, a light output side, and an optical transmission axis passing from the light input side to the light output side. The amplitude transmission mask is characterized by a checkerboard pattern having a square unit cell of size Λ. The method also includes directing an incident light field having a wavelength λ to be incident on the light input side and propagating the incident light field through the amplitude transmission mask. The method further includes producing a plurality of diffracted light fields on the light output side and detecting, at a detector disposed a distance L from the amplitude transmission mask, an interferogram associated with the plurality of diffracted light fields. The relation is satisfied, where n is an integer greater than zero. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 13, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/209535 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 9/02 (20130101) Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 9/02 (20130101) G01J 9/0215 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01J 2009/002 (20130101) Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/706 (20130101) |
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| US 09921602 | Chow et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE (Troy, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joe Hong Chow (Scotia, New York); Scott Gordon Ghiocel (Albany, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In steady-state voltage stability analysis, as load increases toward a maximum, conventional Newton-Raphson power flow Jacobian matrix becomes increasingly ill-conditioned so power flow fails to converge before reaching maximum loading. A method to directly eliminate this singularity reformulates the power flow problem by introducing an AQ bus with specified bus angle and reactive power consumption of a load bus. For steady-state voltage stability analysis, the angle separation between the swing bus and AQ bus can be varied to control power transfer to the load, rather than specifying the load power itself. For an AQ bus, the power flow formulation is only made up of a reactive power equation, thus reducing the size of the Jacobian matrix by one. This reduced Jacobian matrix is nonsingular at the critical voltage point, eliminating a major difficulty in voltage stability analysis for power system operations. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/655474 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 19/048 (20130101) G05B 2219/21155 (20130101) G05B 2219/21169 (20130101) Systems for Regulating Electric or Magnetic Variables G05F 5/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 3/06 (20130101) H02J 4/00 (20130101) H02J 13/0006 (20130101) H02J 2003/001 (20130101) H02J 2003/007 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 70/3225 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/76 (20130101) Systems Integrating Technologies Related to Power Network Operation, Communication or Information Technologies for Improving the Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management or Usage, i.e Smart Grids Y04S 20/222 (20130101) Y04S 40/22 (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) | Pradip Bose (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alper Buyuktosunoglu (White Plains, New York); Hans M. Jacobson (White Plains, New York); Augusto J. Vega (Barcelona, Spain) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments relate to clustering execution in a processing system. An aspect includes accessing a control flow graph that defines a data dependency and an execution sequence of a plurality of tasks of an application that executes on a plurality of system components. The execution sequence of the tasks in the control flow graph is modified as a clustered control flow graph that clusters active and idle phases of a system component while maintaining the data dependency. The clustered control flow graph is sent to an operating system, where the operating system utilizes the clustered control flow graph for scheduling the tasks. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 25, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/749942 |
| ART UNIT | 2116 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 1/329 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 60/32 (20130101) Y02B 60/144 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zhong Lin Wang (Atlanta, Georgia); Guang Zhu (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhong Lin Wang (Atlanta, Georgia); Guang Zhu (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A tactile sensor for sensing touch from a human finger includes a triboelectric layer and includes a material that becomes electrically charged after being in contact with the finger. The first side of a first conductive layer is in contact with the second side of triboelectric layer. The first side of a dielectric layer is in contact with the first conductive layer and the second side of the dielectric layer is in contact with a second conductive layer. When the triboelectric layer becomes electrically charged after being in contact with the finger, the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer are subjected to an electric field, which has a first field strength at the first conductive layer and a second field strength, different from the first field strength, at the second conductive layer. A plurality of tactile sensors can be arranged as a keyboard. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 05, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/818908 |
| ART UNIT | 2622 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/0414 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 2203/04102 (20130101) G06F 2203/04103 (20130101) Pulse Technique H03K 17/96 (20130101) H03K 17/964 (20130101) H03K 17/9643 (20130101) |
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| US 09921831 | Gara et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Gara (Palo Alto, California); David L. Satterfield (Yorktown Heights, New York); Robert E. Walkup (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems and computer program products are disclosed for measuring a performance of a program running on a processing unit of a processing system. In one embodiment, the method comprises informing a logic unit of each instruction in the program that is executed by the processing unit, assigning a weight to each instruction, assigning the instructions to a plurality of groups, and analyzing the plurality of groups to measure one or more metrics. In one embodiment, each instruction includes an operating code portion, and the assigning includes assigning the instructions to the groups based on the operating code portions of the instructions. In an embodiment, each type of instruction is assigned to a respective one of the plurality of groups. These groups may be combined into a plurality of sets of the groups. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 12, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/291351 |
| ART UNIT | 2864 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/3001 (20130101) G06F 9/30018 (20130101) G06F 9/30021 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 9/30145 (20130101) G06F 11/348 (20130101) G06F 11/3024 (20130101) G06F 11/3409 (20130101) G06F 15/17362 (20130101) G06F 15/17381 (20130101) G06F 15/17393 (20130101) G06F 2201/88 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 67/10 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew B. Kahng (Del Mar, California); Tuck Boon Chan (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Method for adjusting a layout used in making an integrated circuit includes one or more interconnects in the layout that are susceptible to dielectric breakdown are selected. One or more selected interconnects are adjusted to increase via to wire spacing with respect to at least one via and one wire of the one or more selected interconnects. Preferably, the selecting analyzes signal patterns of interconnects, and estimates the stress ratio based on state probability of routed signal nets in the layout. An annotated layout is provided that describes distances by which one or more via or wire segment edges are to be shifted. Adjustments can include thinning and shifting of wire segments, and rotation of vias. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/767458 |
| ART UNIT | 2851 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/5081 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 2217/12 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 90/265 (20151101) |
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| US 09922476 | Masters et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (Pullman, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (Pullman, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George W. Masters (Moscow, Idaho); Colin Gordon (Pullman, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are presented for managing physical access to an access-controlled area using a local access control system. In certain embodiments, information that may be used in access control determinations managed by a remote domain controller may be communicated to a local access control system for use in connection with local access control determinations performed by the access control system independent of the domain controller. In some embodiments, such a configuration may allow for access control determinations to be performed when communication with the domain controller is interrupted and/or otherwise limited. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 11, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/823246 |
| ART UNIT | 2688 — Dynamic Storage Systems; Mechanical parts of Disk Drives |
| CURRENT CPC | Time or Attendance Registers; Registering or Indicating the Working of Machines; Generating Random Numbers; Voting or Lottery Apparatus; Arrangements, Systems or Apparatus for Checking Not Provided for Elsewhere G07C 9/00031 (20130101) G07C 9/00103 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G07C 9/00309 (20130101) G07C 9/00571 (20130101) G07C 2209/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09922736 | Kanuch et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BWXT mPower, Inc. (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BWXT mPower, Inc. (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J Kanuch (Charlotte, North Carolina); Paul P DiFilipo (Lynchburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A nuclear reactor includes a nuclear reactor core comprising fissile material disposed in a reactor pressure vessel having vessel penetrations that exclusively carry flow into the nuclear reactor and at least one vessel penetration that carries flow out of the nuclear reactor. An integral isolation valve (IIV) system includes passive IIVs each comprising a check valve built into a forged flange and not including an actuator, and one or more active IIVs each comprising an active valve built into a forged flange and including an actuator. Each vessel penetration exclusively carrying flow into the nuclear reactor is protected by a passive IIV whose forged flange is directly connected to the vessel penetration. Each vessel penetration carrying flow out of the nuclear reactor is protected by an active IIV whose forged flange is directly connected to the vessel penetration. Each active valve may be a normally closed valve. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/337268 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Nuclear Reactors G21C 9/00 (20130101) G21C 13/02 (20130101) G21C 15/18 (20130101) G21C 15/182 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G21C 19/30 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 30/40 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE (Troy, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajendra P. Dahal (Troy, New York); Ishwara B. Bhat (Clifton Park, New York); Tat-Sing Chow (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for facilitating fabricating semiconductor structures are provided which include: providing a multilayer structure including a semiconductor layer, the semiconductor layer including a dopant and having an increased conductivity; selectively increasing, using electrochemical processing, porosity of the semiconductor layer, at least in part, the selectively increasing porosity utilizing the increased conductivity of the semiconductor layer; and removing, at least in part, the semiconductor layer with the selectively increased porosity from the multilayer structure. By way of example, the selectively increasing porosity may include selectively, anodically oxidizing, at least in part, the semiconductor layer of the multilayer structure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 15/116041 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/465 (20130101) H01L 21/3063 (20130101) H01L 21/3228 (20130101) H01L 21/30635 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09922900 | Schultz 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) | Mark D. Schultz (Ossining, New York); Todd E. Takken (Brewster, New York); Shurong Tian (Mount Kisco, New York); Yuan Yao (Tarrytown, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A heat source (single semiconductor chip or group of closely spaced semiconductor chips of similar height) is provided on a first side of a substrate, which substrate has on said first side a support member comprising a compressible material. A heat removal component, oriented at an angle to said heat source, is brought into proximity of said heat source such that said heat removal component contacts said support member prior to contacting said heat source. Said heat removal component is assembled to said heat source such that said support member at least partially absorbs global inequality of force that would otherwise be applied to said heat source, absent said support member comprising said compressible material. |
| FILED | Monday, January 23, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/412379 |
| ART UNIT | 2897 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/10 (20130101) H01L 23/3675 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 25/105 (20130101) H01L 25/0655 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (Batavia, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (Batavia, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Grzegorz W. Deptuch (Forest Park, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A monolithic active pixel radiation detector including a method of fabricating thereof. The disclosed radiation detector can include a substrate comprising a silicon layer upon which electronics are configured. A plurality of channels can be formed on the silicon layer, wherein the plurality of channels are connected to sources of signals located in a bulk part of the substrate, and wherein the signals flow through electrically conducting vias established in an isolation oxide on the substrate. One or more nested wells can be configured from the substrate, wherein the nested wells assist in collecting charge carriers released in interaction with radiation and wherein the nested wells further separate the electronics from the sensing portion of the detector substrate. The detector can also be configured according to a thick SOA method of fabrication. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 31, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/168578 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/1463 (20130101) H01L 27/14612 (20130101) H01L 27/14623 (20130101) H01L 27/14636 (20130101) H01L 27/14658 (20130101) H01L 27/14659 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 27/14685 (20130101) H01L 27/14689 (20130101) H01L 31/18 (20130101) H01L 31/115 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/378 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shanhui Fan (Stanford, California); Aaswath Pattabhi Raman (Menlo Park, California); Linxiao Zhu (Stanford, California); Eden Rephaeli (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to providing and/or controlling electromagnetic radiation. As may be implemented in accordance with one or more embodiments, an apparatus includes a first structure that contains an object, and a second structure that is transparent at solar wavelengths and emissive in the atmospheric electromagnetic radiation transparency window. The second structure operates with the first structure to pass light into the first structure for illuminating the object, and to radiatively cool the object while preserving the object's color. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/540935 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 1/005 (20130101) G02B 5/208 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/052 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/02167 (20130101) H01L 31/02366 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09923201 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Amprius, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Amprius, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Weijie Wang (Sunnyvale, California); Zuqin Liu (Sunnyvale, California); Song Han (Foster City, California); Jonathan Bornstein (Cupertino, California); Constantin Ionel Stefan (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are nanostructures for lithium ion battery electrodes and methods of fabrication. In some embodiments, a nanostructure template coated with a silicon coating is provided. The silicon coating may include a non-conformal, more porous layer and a conformal, denser layer on the non-conformal, more porous layer. In some embodiments, two different deposition processes, e.g., a PECVD layer to deposit the non-conformal layer and a thermal CVD process to deposit the conformal layer, are used. Anodes including the nanostructures have longer cycle lifetimes than anodes made using either a PECVD or thermal CVD method alone. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/710103 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/134 (20130101) H01M 4/366 (20130101) H01M 4/386 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/0428 (20130101) H01M 4/1395 (20130101) H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) H01M 2004/027 (20130101) |
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| US 09923284 | Loui 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) | Hung Loui (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Bernd H. Strassner, II (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The various embodiments presented herein relate to extraordinary electromagnetic transmission (EEMT) to enable multiple inefficient (un-matched) but coupled radiators and/or apertures to radiate and/or pass electromagnetic waves efficiently. EEMT can be utilized such that signal transmission from a plurality of antennas and/or apertures occurs at a transmission frequency different to transmission frequencies of the individual antennas and/or aperture elements. The plurality of antennas/apertures can comprise first antenna/aperture having a first radiating area and material(s) and second antenna/aperture having a second radiating area and material(s), whereby the first radiating/aperture area and second radiating/aperture area can be co-located in a periodic compound unit cell. Owing to mutual coupling between the respective antennas/apertures in their arrayed configuration, the transmission frequency of the array can be shifted from the transmission frequencies of the individual elements. EEMT can be utilized for an array of evanescent of inefficient radiators connected to a transmission line(s). |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 28, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/925045 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 23/00 (20130101) Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 21/0006 (20130101) H01Q 21/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09923723 | Akyol et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bora A. Akyol (Richland, Washington); Jereme Nathan Haack (West Richland, Washington); Philip Allen Craig, Jr. (West Richland, Washington); Cody William Tews (Richland, Washington); Anand V. Kulkarni (Richland, Washington); Brandon J. Carpenter (Kennewick, Washington); Wendy M. Maiden (Pasco, Washington); Selim Ciraci (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed below are representative embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems for monitoring and using data in an electric power grid. For example, one disclosed embodiment comprises a sensor for measuring an electrical characteristic of a power line, electrical generator, or electrical device; a network interface; a processor; and one or more computer-readable storage media storing computer-executable instructions. In this embodiment, the computer-executable instructions include instructions for implementing an authorization and authentication module for validating a software agent received at the network interface; instructions for implementing one or more agent execution environments for executing agent code that is included with the software agent and that causes data from the sensor to be collected; and instructions for implementing an agent packaging and instantiation module for storing the collected data in a data container of the software agent and for transmitting the software agent, along with the stored data, to a next destination. |
| FILED | Monday, June 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/746577 |
| ART UNIT | 2491 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 19/2513 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/44 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/3247 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 63/08 (20130101) H04L 63/123 (20130101) H04L 63/126 (20130101) Systems Integrating Technologies Related to Power Network Operation, Communication or Information Technologies for Improving the Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management or Usage, i.e Smart Grids Y04S 40/24 (20130101) |
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| US 09923779 | Berner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (Pullman, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (Pullman, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc Ryan Berner (Monroe, Washington); Rhett Smith (Kuna, Idaho); Jason A. Dearien (Moscow, Idaho); Josh Powers (Pullman, Washington); Grant O. Boomer (Moscow, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure pertains to systems and method for configuration of communication flows in a software defined network (“SDN”). In one embodiment, a system is operable to configure a communication flow between a first host and a second host. A mode selection subsystem is configured to cause a plurality of network devices in a network connecting the first communication host and the second communication host to transition between an open mode and an SDN operating mode. In the open mode, the network devices may discover a communication path between the first host and the second host. An analysis subsystem may receive information from the plurality of network devices information about the discovered path, and a topology discovery subsystem may be configured to create a communication flow corresponding to the discovered path. The communication flow may allow communication between the first host and the second host in the SDN operating mode. |
| FILED | Monday, July 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/803786 |
| ART UNIT | 2474 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 41/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 41/0883 (20130101) H04L 45/02 (20130101) H04L 45/42 (20130101) H04L 47/2483 (20130101) Systems Integrating Technologies Related to Power Network Operation, Communication or Information Technologies for Improving the Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management or Usage, i.e Smart Grids Y04S 40/162 (20130101) Y04S 40/164 (20130101) |
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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) | Joseph Schlenoff (Tallahassee, Florida); Qifeng Wang (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Polyelectrolyte complex microcapsules are prepared by a novel template- and surfactant-free method. The microcapsules are produced spontaneously by ultrasonically spraying a solution of complex into a hot water reservoir which enhances diffusion and relaxation of polymer. The size and wall thickness of microcapsules are precisely controlled. Encapsulation of polymers and nanoparticles by mixing them with polyelectrolyte solutions is demonstrated. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 03, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/930784 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/5026 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 13/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 13/10 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
09920147 — Polymeric materials having active cross-linkers, methods for making them, and use thereof
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| APPLICANT(S) | BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ye Zhang (Waltham, Massachusetts); Bing Xu (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present technology relates to a polymeric material including a plurality of polymer subunits and an active cross-linker, wherein the active cross-linker is covalently linked to the plurality of polymer subunits. The active cross-linker offers a key building block for constructing novel molecular architecture in chemomechanical soft materials and illustrates a new approach to tailor material properties. |
| FILED | Monday, September 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 15/021394 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 15/0053 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 220/54 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08F 226/02 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 5/20 (20130101) C08K 5/0025 (20130101) C08K 5/0091 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 33/26 (20130101) |
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| US 09920353 | Santore et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maria Santore (Sunderland, Massachusetts); Bing Fang (Amherst, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided a renewable sensor for sensing or selectively capturing a targeted bacteria in a fluid. The renewable sensor includes a surface, the surface includes a substrate, a biologically or bacterially non-adhesive feature disposed on or in functional proximity to at least a portion of the substrate; and an adhesive elements disposed on or in functional proximity to the non-adhesive feature, a flow channel in operative contact with the surface; and a detector configured to detect the targeted cell type captured on the surface. Also provided are method for using the sensor and the surface. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/501503 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 2/238 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/54346 (20130101) |
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| US 09920775 | Barth et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric J. Barth (Nashville, Tennessee); John M. Tucker (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a distributed piston elastomeric accumulator which stores energy when its elastomeric member stretches from its original length in response to the flow of a pressurized fluid. The stored energy is returned when the fluid flow is reversed and the accumulator discharges the fluid as its elastomeric member returns to its original length and moves the piston to its initial position. At least one part of the novelty of the invention is that the accumulator is not subject to radial strain gradients and the accumulator allows for precise pressure and linear position measurements. Accordingly, the invention allows for optimization of the energy strain storage capacity of a given elastomer. |
| FILED | Monday, February 01, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/012837 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Vehicle Brake Control Systems or Parts Thereof; Brake Control Systems or Parts Thereof, in General; Arrangement of Braking Elements on Vehicles in General; Portable Devices for Preventing Unwanted Movement of Vehicles; Vehicle Modifications to Facilitate Cooling of Brakes B60T 1/10 (20130101) B60T 7/042 (20130101) B60T 8/42 (20130101) Systems Acting by Means of Fluids in General; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g Servomotors; Details of Fluid-pressure Systems, Not Otherwise Provided for F15B 1/04 (20130101) F15B 1/165 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F15B 2201/20 (20130101) F15B 2201/21 (20130101) F15B 2201/31 (20130101) F15B 2201/405 (20130101) Couplings for Transmitting Rotation; Clutches; Brakes F16D 61/00 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/15 (20130101) |
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| US 09921170 | Pate et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brooks Hart Pate (Charlottesville, Virginia); Amanda Steber (Charlottesville, Virginia); Brent Harris (Charlottesville, Virginia); Kevin K. Lehmann (Crozet, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Examples herein include apparatus and techniques that can be used to perform rotational spectroscopy on gas-phase samples. Such techniques can include using a spectrometer providing frequency synthesis and pulse modulation to provide excitation (e.g., pump or probe pulses) of a gas-phase sample at mm-wave frequencies. Synthesis of such mm-wave frequencies can include use of a frequency multiplier, such as an active multiplier chain (AMC). A free induction decay (FID) elicited by the excitation or other time-domain information can be obtained from the sample, such as down-converted and digitized. A frequency domain representation of the digitized information, such as a Fourier transformed representation, can be used to provide a rotational spectrum. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/898077 |
| 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 3/453 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/3586 (20130101) G01N 22/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09921216 | Fahmy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tarek M. Fahmy (New Haven, Connecticut); Eric D. Stern (New Haven, Connecticut); Mark A. Reed (Monroe, Connecticut); Aleksandar Vacic (New Haven, Connecticut); James F. Klemic (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a device and method for determining the presence of a specific compound in solution. The device includes a nanosensor having an electrically conducting pathway between at least a first and second contact. The device also includes a first receptor, suitable for binding a specific compound in the solution, attached to the nanosensor, and a second receptor also suitable for binding the specific compound while the specific compound is bound to the first receptor. The second receptor is attached to an enzyme added to the solution. When the solution having the second receptor is added to the device, and a second compound that is a substrate for the enzyme is subsequently added to the solution, a measured difference in an electrical property in the device before and after the application of the second compound is indicative of the presence of the specific compound in the solution. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/755615 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6863 (20130101) G01N 33/6866 (20130101) G01N 33/6869 (20130101) G01N 33/54366 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/54373 (20130101) G01N 2333/54 (20130101) G01N 2333/98 (20130101) G01N 2333/555 (20130101) |
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| US 09921602 | Chow et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE (Troy, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joe Hong Chow (Scotia, New York); Scott Gordon Ghiocel (Albany, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In steady-state voltage stability analysis, as load increases toward a maximum, conventional Newton-Raphson power flow Jacobian matrix becomes increasingly ill-conditioned so power flow fails to converge before reaching maximum loading. A method to directly eliminate this singularity reformulates the power flow problem by introducing an AQ bus with specified bus angle and reactive power consumption of a load bus. For steady-state voltage stability analysis, the angle separation between the swing bus and AQ bus can be varied to control power transfer to the load, rather than specifying the load power itself. For an AQ bus, the power flow formulation is only made up of a reactive power equation, thus reducing the size of the Jacobian matrix by one. This reduced Jacobian matrix is nonsingular at the critical voltage point, eliminating a major difficulty in voltage stability analysis for power system operations. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/655474 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 19/048 (20130101) G05B 2219/21155 (20130101) G05B 2219/21169 (20130101) Systems for Regulating Electric or Magnetic Variables G05F 5/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 3/06 (20130101) H02J 4/00 (20130101) H02J 13/0006 (20130101) H02J 2003/001 (20130101) H02J 2003/007 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 70/3225 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/76 (20130101) Systems Integrating Technologies Related to Power Network Operation, Communication or Information Technologies for Improving the Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management or Usage, i.e Smart Grids Y04S 20/222 (20130101) Y04S 40/22 (20130101) |
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| US 09921859 | Mars 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) | Jason Mars (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Michael Laurenzano (Dexter, Michigan); Lingjia Tang (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is provided for monitoring, regenerating and replacing the code of running applications with semantically equivalent, specialized code versions that reflect the demands of the execution environment. The system includes a co-designed compiler and runtime system that virtualizes a selected set of edges in a host program, where these edges provide hooks through which the runtime system may redirect execution into an intermediate representation utilized to optimize introspective and extrospective processes. |
| FILED | Friday, December 11, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/966965 |
| ART UNIT | 2197 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 8/443 (20130101) G06F 9/4552 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09922256 | Savvides et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andreas Savvides (Holliston, Massachusetts); Thiago Teixeira (San Francisco, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | YALE UNIVERSITY (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andreas Savvides (Holliston, Massachusetts); Thiago Teixeira (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A multimodal sensor network is designed to extract a plurality of fundamental properties associated with subject sensing. In one aspect, such network can combine cameras distributed in an environment with inertial sensors available in subjects' wearable devices. The network can permit anonymous detection, counting, and localization of one or more subjects utilizing the cameras. In one aspect, by fusing such information with positional data from the inertial sensors contained or coupled to wearable devices associated with the one or more subjects, the network can track and can identify each subject carrying a wearable device functionally coupled to inertial sensor(s). In one aspect, the problem of subject sensing can be divided into two parts: (1) a detection, counting, and localization (DCL) layer and (2) a tracking and identification (TI) layer, wherein such layers can be implemented via simulations and a real sensor network deployment. |
| FILED | Monday, July 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/130298 |
| ART UNIT | 2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00771 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/6277 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 4/021 (20130101) H04W 4/206 (20130101) |
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| US 09922261 | Isler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Volkan Isler (St. Paul, Minnesota); Pratap Rajkumar Tokekar (Blacksburg, Virginia); Nikolaos Stefas (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Pravakar Roy (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of machine vision includes identifying contours of fruits in a first image and a second image and performing two-way matching of contours to identify pairs of matched contours, each pair comprising a respective first contour in the first image that matches a respective second contour in the second image. For each pair of matched contours, a respective affine transformation that transforms points in the respective second contour to points in the respective first contour is identified. The second image is mapped to the first image using the affine transformations to form a composite image and the number of fruits in the composite image is counted. |
| FILED | Monday, April 18, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/131745 |
| ART UNIT | 2669 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00664 (20130101) G06K 9/3216 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/4604 (20130101) G06K 9/6204 (20130101) G06K 2209/17 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 3/0075 (20130101) G06T 7/11 (20170101) G06T 7/33 (20170101) G06T 7/62 (20170101) G06T 2207/10021 (20130101) G06T 2207/10024 (20130101) G06T 2207/10032 (20130101) G06T 2207/30128 (20130101) G06T 2207/30188 (20130101) G06T 2207/30242 (20130101) |
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| US 09922746 | Kotov 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) | Nicholas A. Kotov (Ypsilanti, Michigan); Yoonseob Kim (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jian Zhu (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Matthew Di Prima (Bowie, Maryland); Bongjun Yeom (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | New stretchable electrically conductive composite materials comprising at least one polymer and a plurality of nanoparticles are provided, which exhibit high conductivity even at high strain levels. The composite may comprise polyurethane as the polymer and spherical gold nanoparticles. Such materials have conductivity levels as high as 11,000 Scm−1 at 0% strain and 2,400 Scm−1 at 110% strain. Furthermore, certain embodiments of the composite have a maximum tensile strain of 480% while still exhibiting conductivity of 35 Scm−1. The inventive materials are highly flexible, highly conductive and suitable for a variety of applications, especially for advanced medical devices, implants, and flexible electronics. The disclosure also provides methods of making such stretchable electrically conductive nanocomposites, including formation by layer-by-layer and vacuum assisted flocculation. In certain embodiments, stretchable chiral plasmonic composite materials for use as optic devices and methods for making them are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, February 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/193837 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 18/1492 (20130101) A61B 2018/0022 (20130101) A61B 2018/00577 (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 29/14 (20130101) A61L 29/126 (20130101) A61L 29/126 (20130101) A61L 31/14 (20130101) A61L 31/125 (20130101) A61L 31/128 (20130101) A61L 31/128 (20130101) A61L 2400/12 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 75/04 (20130101) C08L 75/04 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24628 (20150115) Y10T 428/31554 (20150401) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Associated Universities, Inc. (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Associated Universities, Inc. (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Alexander Morgan (Earlysville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Reflectionless transmission line filters, as well as a method for designing such filters is disclosed. These filters preferably function by absorbing the stop-band portion of the spectrum rather than reflecting it back to the source, which has significant advantages in many different applications. The insertion of additional transmission line sections that change the phase response of the circuit without altering the amplitude response preferably allows follow-up transmission line identities to be applied in order to arrive at a more easily manufacturable filter topology. This facilitates their application over a higher frequency range the solely lumped-element circuits. |
| FILED | Friday, October 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/927881 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Impedance Networks, e.g Resonant Circuits; Resonators H03H 7/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03H 7/0123 (20130101) |
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| US 09923650 | Weller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas McCrea Weller (Lutz, Florida); Ibrahim Turki Nassar (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas McCrea Weller (Lutz, Florida); Ibrahim Turki Nassar (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a method for monitoring a structure includes associating a passive sensor with the structure, the sensor being configured to measure a physical parameter of the structure that is indicative of the structure's condition, associating a dual-channel transceiver with the structure, the transceiver having a sensing repeater that operates on a first channel and a reference repeater that operates on a second channel, wherein the sensing repeater is connected to the passive sensor, receiving with a receive antenna of the reference repeater an interrogation signal transmitted from an interrogation device, multiplying a frequency of the received interrogation signal with the reference repeater to generate a reference response signal having a multiplied frequency, and transmitting the reference response signal with the reference repeater to the interrogation device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 27, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/277329 |
| ART UNIT | 2649 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 1/40 (20130101) H04B 17/40 (20150115) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09923669 | Yao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongyi Yao (Pasadena, California); Tracey C. Ho (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-based distributed error correction scheme with an efficient decoding algorithm is disclosed. The efficiency of the corresponding decoding algorithm, based on standard single source Reed-Solomon error correcting codes, makes the practical employment of the DECC feasible. Various implementation examples are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 26, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/836755 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/10 (20130101) Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 13/05 (20130101) H03M 13/27 (20130101) H03M 13/151 (20130101) H03M 13/1515 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 1/0041 (20130101) H04L 1/0057 (20130101) H04L 1/0076 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09924196 | Nguyen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Truong Nguyen (San Diego, California); Ho Chan (La Jolla, California); Jason Juang (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for real-time disparity estimation of stereo video data receives sequence of frames of stereo video data. Image-based disparity estimation is initially conducted to produce initial disparity estimates, and the disparity estimates are refined in a space-time volume. The algorithm produces disparity via multi-thread process in which an output is independent of the input for each step of the process. |
| FILED | Monday, May 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/389870 |
| ART UNIT | 2482 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/97 (20170101) G06T 2207/10021 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 19/62 (20141101) H04N 19/597 (20141101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09924522 | Gulati et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nikhil Gulati (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); David Gonzalez (Annandale, New Jersey); Kapil R. Dandekar (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for selecting the state of a reconfigurable antenna installed at either the receiver or transmitter of a communication system is provided. The proposed method uses online learning algorithm based on the theory of multi-armed bandit to perform antenna state selection. The selection technique utilizes the Post-Processing Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PPSNR) as a reward metric and maximizes the long-term average reward over time. The performance of the learning based selection technique is empirically evaluated using wireless channel data. The data is collected in an indoor environment using a 2×2 MIMO OFDM system employing highly directional metamaterial Reconfigurable Leaky Wave Antennas. The learning based selection technique shows performance improvements in terms of average PPSNR and regret over conventional heuristic policies. |
| FILED | Monday, September 28, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/867801 |
| ART UNIT | 2649 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 1/007 (20130101) H01Q 13/20 (20130101) Transmission H04B 1/44 (20130101) H04B 7/0417 (20130101) H04B 7/0626 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 24/02 (20130101) H04W 72/082 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04W 72/085 (20130101) |
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 09920693 | Hanson |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Russell B. Hanson (Jupiter, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel injector component includes a body, an elongate void and a plurality of bores. The body has a first surface and a second surface. The elongate void is enclosed by the body and is integrally formed between portions of the body defining the first surface and the second surface. The plurality of bores extends into the second surface to intersect the elongate void. A process for making a fuel injector component includes building an injector component body having a void and a plurality of ports connected to the void using an additive manufacturing process that utilizes a powdered building material, and removing residual powdered building material from void through the plurality of ports. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/769386 |
| ART UNIT | 3752 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Additive Manufacturing, i.e Manufacturing of Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects by Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration or Additive Layering, e.g by 3-d Printing, Stereolithography or Selective Laser Sintering B33Y 10/00 (20141201) B33Y 80/00 (20141201) Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 7/24 (20130101) F02C 7/222 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2230/22 (20130101) F05D 2230/53 (20130101) Generating Combustion Products of High Pressure or High Velocity, e.g Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers F23R 3/14 (20130101) F23R 3/50 (20130101) F23R 3/283 (20130101) F23R 3/286 (20130101) F23R 2900/00018 (20130101) |
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| US 09920932 | Dai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhongtao Dai (Manchester, Connecticut); Jeffrey M. Cohen (Hebron, Connecticut); Catalin G. Fotache (West Hartford, Connecticut); Lance L. Smith (West Hartford, Connecticut); Donald J. Hautman (Marlborough, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A mixer assembly for a gas turbine engine is provided, including a main mixer with fuel injection holes located between at least one radial swirler and at least one axial swirler, wherein the fuel injected into the main mixer is atomized and dispersed by the air flowing through the radial swirler and the axial swirler. |
| FILED | Friday, January 09, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/593877 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or apparatus for combustion using fluid fuel or Solid Fuel Suspended In Air F23C 7/004 (20130101) Generating Combustion Products of High Pressure or High Velocity, e.g Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers F23R 3/14 (20130101) F23R 3/286 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F23R 2900/03343 (20130101) |
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| US 09921099 | Davila et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph M. Davila (West Friendship, Maryland); Douglas M. Rabin (Arnold, Maryland); Nelson Reginald (Bryans Road, Maryland); Qian Gong (Columbia, Maryland); Neerav Shah (Columbia, Maryland); Phillip C. Chamberlin (Gambrills, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a space-based instrument which provides continuous coronal electron temperature and velocity images, for a predetermined period of time, thereby improving the understanding of coronal evolution and how the solar wind and Coronal Mass Ejection transients evolve from the low solar atmosphere through the heliosphere for an entire solar rotation. Specifically, the present invention relates to using a 6U spherical occulter coronagraph CubeSat, and a relative navigational system (RNS) that controls the position of the spacecraft relative to the occulting sphere. The present invention innovatively deploys a free-flying spherical occulter, and after deployment, the actively controlled CubeSat will provide an inertial formation flying with the spherical occulter and Sun. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 01, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/254323 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Cosmonautics; Vehicles or Equipment Therefor B64G 1/26 (20130101) B64G 1/105 (20130101) B64G 1/406 (20130101) Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 1/44 (20130101) G01J 1/0266 (20130101) G01J 1/0271 (20130101) G01J 1/0437 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01J 1/4228 (20130101) G01J 2001/446 (20130101) G01J 2001/4266 (20130101) 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 3/7861 (20130101) |
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| US 09922813 | Cooks et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Graham Cooks (West Lafayette, Indiana); Dalton Snyder (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally relates to systems and methods for ejection of ions from an ion trap. In certain embodiments, systems and methods of the invention sum two different frequency signals into a single summed signal that is applied to an ion trap. In other embodiments, an amplitude of a single frequency signal is modulated as the single frequency signal is being applied to the ion trap. In other embodiments, a first alternating current (AC) signal is applied to an ion trap that varies as a function of time, while a constant radio frequency (RF) signal is applied to the ion trap. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 01, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/421934 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/0013 (20130101) H01J 49/4225 (20130101) H01J 49/4285 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09919072 | Stasko et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nathan Stasko (Durham, North Carolina); Susanne Bauman (Durham, North Carolina); Pranav R. Joshi (Karnataka, India) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novan, Inc. (Morrisville, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan Stasko (Durham, North Carolina); Susanne Bauman (Durham, North Carolina); Pranav R. Joshi (Karnataka, India) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided according to some embodiments of the invention are wound dressings that include a polymer matrix and nitric oxide-releasing polysiloxane macromolecules within and/or on the polymer matrix. Also provided are wound dressing kits and methods of using and forming such wound dressings. |
| FILED | Friday, August 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/256925 |
| ART UNIT | 3778 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 15/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 15/225 (20130101) A61L 15/225 (20130101) A61L 15/225 (20130101) A61L 15/425 (20130101) A61L 2300/45 (20130101) A61L 2300/114 (20130101) A61L 2300/602 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 75/04 (20130101) C08L 83/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09919117 | Hoekman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Impel NeuroPharma Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | IMPEL NEUROPHARMA INC. (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John D. Hoekman (Seattle, Washington); Michael Hite (Normandy Park, Washington); Alan Brunelle (Woodinville, Washington); Joel Relethford (Everett, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A nozzle for use in delivering a mixture of aerosol propellant and drug formulation. The nozzle includes a drug product inlet configured to receive a mixture of aerosolized propellant and an intranasal dosage form. The inlet is disposed at the proximal end. A nozzle body is secured to the drug product inlet. Two or more channels are disposed within the body. Two or more orifice apertures are disposed at the distal end of the nozzle. |
| FILED | Friday, November 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/075126 |
| ART UNIT | 3778 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 15/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61M 15/0021 (20140204) A61M 16/127 (20140204) A61M 16/208 (20130101) A61M 2202/064 (20130101) A61M 2210/0612 (20130101) A61M 2210/0618 (20130101) A61M 2210/1067 (20130101) A61M 2210/1475 (20130101) Spraying Apparatus; Atomising Apparatus; Nozzles B05B 1/14 (20130101) B05B 7/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09924261 | Parkins |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Red Tail Hawk Corporation (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Red Tail Hawk Corporation (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. Parkins (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A hearing protection system with talk-through having a pair of rigid earcups enclosing a microphone, amplifier and speaker. A concha simulator, having a volume simulating that of the concha of a human ear, is acoustically coupled to the microphone, and also to the outside through an opening in the earcup. By coupling the microphone to the concha simulator, instead of directly to the outside, the acoustic response of the talk-through more accurately represents the hearing of a user. |
| FILED | Friday, September 09, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/260889 |
| ART UNIT | 2655 — Digital Audio Data Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 11/12 (20130101) A61F 11/14 (20130101) A61F 2011/145 (20130101) Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups or Like Acoustic Electromechanical Transducers; Deaf-aid Sets; Public Address Systems H04R 1/08 (20130101) H04R 1/1008 (20130101) H04R 1/1016 (20130101) H04R 1/1058 (20130101) H04R 1/1083 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04R 2201/023 (20130101) |
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Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 09921174 | Kasianowicz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | National Institute of Standards and Technology (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE (Washington, District of Columbia); THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J. Kasianowicz (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Joseph E. Reiner (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Arvind K. Balijepalli, III (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Joseph W. Robertson (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Daniel L. Burden (Weathon, Illinois); Lisa Burden (Weathon, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for controlling the temperature of small volumes such as yoctoliter volumes, are described. The systems include one or more plasmonic nanostructures attached at or near a nanopore. Upon excitation of the plasmonic nanostructures, such as for example by exposure to laser light, the nanoparticles are rapidly heated thereby causing a change in the ionic conductance along the nanopore. The temperature change is determined from the ionic conductance. These temperature changes can be used to control rapid thermodynamic changes in molecular analytes as they interact with the nanopore. |
| FILED | Monday, September 26, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/275984 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Temperature; Measuring Quantity of Heat; Thermally-sensitive Elements Not Otherwise Provided for G01K 7/16 (20130101) G01K 2211/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 25/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09921187 | Cao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yinghong Cao (Malden, Massachusetts); Ming Wang (Melrose, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yinghong Cao (Malden, Massachusetts); Ming Wang (Melrose, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-contact testing system and method using acoustic sensors and a mobile sensing system using this system and method is disclosed. The leaky surface wave is recorded with directional microphones. A fast inversion analysis algorithm is introduced to estimate the shear velocity profile and elastic modulus for the subsurface layers of pavement structures, using the dispersion curves obtained from the acoustic signals. An electrical hammer is used to produce impact impulses automatically. A mobile sensing system is integrated on a mobile cart to perform the mobile subsurface sensing for pavement structures. |
| FILED | Friday, January 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/980013 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Construction Of, or Surfaces For, Roads, Sports Grounds, or the Like; Machines or Auxiliary Tools for Construction or Repair E01C 23/01 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 29/11 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2291/044 (20130101) Geophysics; Gravitational Measurements; Detecting Masses or Objects; Tags G01V 1/303 (20130101) |
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 09921216 | Fahmy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tarek M. Fahmy (New Haven, Connecticut); Eric D. Stern (New Haven, Connecticut); Mark A. Reed (Monroe, Connecticut); Aleksandar Vacic (New Haven, Connecticut); James F. Klemic (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a device and method for determining the presence of a specific compound in solution. The device includes a nanosensor having an electrically conducting pathway between at least a first and second contact. The device also includes a first receptor, suitable for binding a specific compound in the solution, attached to the nanosensor, and a second receptor also suitable for binding the specific compound while the specific compound is bound to the first receptor. The second receptor is attached to an enzyme added to the solution. When the solution having the second receptor is added to the device, and a second compound that is a substrate for the enzyme is subsequently added to the solution, a measured difference in an electrical property in the device before and after the application of the second compound is indicative of the presence of the specific compound in the solution. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/755615 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6863 (20130101) G01N 33/6866 (20130101) G01N 33/6869 (20130101) G01N 33/54366 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/54373 (20130101) G01N 2333/54 (20130101) G01N 2333/98 (20130101) G01N 2333/555 (20130101) |
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| US 09923115 | Cauffiel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lithium Innovations Company, LLC (Toledo, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lithium Innovations Company, LLC (Toledo, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ford B. Cauffiel (Holland, Ohio); Alvin D. Compaan (Holland, Ohio); Victor V. Plotnikov (Toledo, Ohio); Ambalanath Shan (Toledo, Ohio); Anthony J. Matthews (Toledo, Ohio); Robert D. Fisher (Toledo, Ohio); Song Cheng (Flat Rock, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A particle detector includes a support member. A front electrode layer is disposed over the support member. A semiconductor heterojunction is disposed over the front electrode layer. The semiconductor heterojunction has at least a polycrystalline n-type layer and at least a polycrystalline p-type layer. A back electrode layer is disposed over the semiconductor heterojunction. The back electrode includes at least one removed portion that separates a first portion of the back electrode layer from a second portion of the back electrode layer. The particle detector also includes a first body of electrically insulating material which separates a first portion of the semiconductor heterojunction from a second portion of the semiconductor heterojunction. The first body of electrically insulating material also separates a first portion of the front electrode layer from a second portion of the front electrode layer. |
| FILED | Friday, October 28, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/337798 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 3/08 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/115 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/0296 (20130101) H01L 31/0368 (20130101) H01L 31/02161 (20130101) H01L 31/03529 (20130101) H01L 31/022408 (20130101) |
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Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 09923212 | O'Neill et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonathan Daniel O'Neill (Manchester, Connecticut); Christopher John Carnevale (South Windsor, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Audi AG (Ingolstadt, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Daniel O'Neill (Manchester, Connecticut); Christopher John Carnevale (South Windsor, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An exemplary flow field includes a plurality of flow channel portions. There are n inlet portions configured for introducing a fluid into the flow field. A plurality of first pass portions direct fluid flow in a first direction. A plurality of second pass portions direct fluid flow in a second direction that is generally parallel to and opposite to the first direction. A plurality of third pass portions direct fluid flow in the first direction. n outlet portions are configured to allow fluid to exit the flow field. n is an integer and a number of the portions in at least one plurality of pass portions is a non-integer multiple of n. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/423684 |
| ART UNIT | 1729 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/026 (20130101) H01M 8/0258 (20130101) H01M 8/0263 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/0265 (20130101) H01M 8/0267 (20130101) |
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| US 09923229 | Carnevale |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Audi AG (Ingolstadt, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Audi AG (Ingolstadt, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher John Carnevale (Vernon, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | According to an embodiment, an assembly for use in a fuel cell includes a manifold having at least one inlet and at least one surface configured to facilitate fluid flow from the inlet along a direction in the manifold. A baffle is situated generally parallel to the direction of flow. The baffle has a first portion, a second portion and a third portion. The first portion is closer to the inlet than the second portion. The second portion is closer to the inlet than the third portion. The first portion has a first width situated generally perpendicular to the flow direction. The second portion has a second width situated generally perpendicular to the flow direction. The second width is less than the first width. The third portion has a third width situated generally perpendicular to the flow direction. The third width is greater than the second width. |
| FILED | Monday, September 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 15/025199 |
| ART UNIT | 1729 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/026 (20130101) H01M 8/2415 (20130101) H01M 8/2484 (20160201) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/04089 (20130101) H01M 8/04201 (20130101) |
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Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 09919345 | Lu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by The secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Renfu Lu (Okemos, Michigan); Anand Kumar Pothula (Okemos, Michigan); Akira Mizushima (West Des Moines, Iowa); Mario Vandyke (Conklin, Michigan); Zhao Zhang (Okemos, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | As fruit (preferably apples) are harvested, the fruit is placed on a conveyor that conveys the fruit to a fruit singulating section. In the singulating section, the fruit is directed into slots in a lane formed by two cooperating helical drives. The helical drives rotate the fruit and convey the fruit into an imaging chamber where a camera acquires an image of the fruit. The fruit image is evaluated by a processor in communication with the camera. The fruit is then directed into a rotary sorter which sorts the fruit based on the image evaluation by the processor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 06, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/256931 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Postal Sorting; Sorting Individual Articles, or Bulk Material Fit to be Sorted Piece-meal, e.g by Picking B07C 1/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B07C 5/02 (20130101) B07C 5/10 (20130101) B07C 5/342 (20130101) B07C 2501/009 (20130101) Transport or Storage Devices, e.g Conveyors for Loading or Tipping, shop Conveyor Systems Or pneumatic Tube Conveyors B65G 33/06 (20130101) |
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Department of the Interior (DOI)
| US 09921139 | Blouin |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Marc A. Blouin (Safety Harbor, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Department of the Interior (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc A. Blouin (Safety Harbor, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A portable, hand-held sampler for collection of aquatic biotic samples. A pump with an exhaust tube and a water intake tube is attached to a frame. A battery is attached to the frame and electrically connected to the pump. A handle is attached to the bottom of the frame for an operator to hold the sampler in one hand. A switch is electrically connected to the pump and to the battery and attached to the frame near the handle for the operator to control activation of the pump with the same single hand. A venturi tube assembly with a sample intake tube is attached to the exhaust tube. The pump draws water into the water intake tube and sample material into the sample intake tube and the venturi tube diverts the sample material away from the pump and into a sample collection reservoir to prevent damage to the sample material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 05, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/071968 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 09922416 | Mian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Electronic Machines Corporation (Troy, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Electronic Machines Corp. (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zahid F. Mian (Loudonville, New York); Ryk E. Spoor (Troy, New York); Ronald W. Gamache (East Greenbush, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A solution including a noncontact electronic measurement device is provided. The measurement device includes one or more imaging devices configured to acquire image data of a surface of an object located in a measurement region relative to the measurement device and one or more projected pattern generators configured to generate divergent pattern(s) of structured light, which impact the surface of the object within a field of view of the imaging device when the object is located in the measurement region. Using image data acquired by the imaging device(s), a computer system can measure a set of attributes of the surface of the object and/or automatically determine whether the measurement device is within the measurement region. An embodiment is configured to be held by a human user during operation. |
| FILED | Monday, February 13, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/431732 |
| ART UNIT | 2486 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Auxiliary Equipment Specially Adapted for Railways, Not Otherwise Provided for B61K 9/12 (20130101) Testing Static or Dynamic Balance of Machines or Structures; Testing of Structures or Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G01M 17/10 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/001 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 7/60 (20130101) G06T 7/70 (20170101) G06T 2207/30244 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/247 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 09922467 | Bentley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Mark Bentley (Washington, District of Columbia); Nii-Kwashie Aryeetey (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for processing distribution items having unique identifiers affixed thereon. The unique identifiers can include computer readable codes and written alphanumeric strings generated by a user. A system receives the unique identifier and requests payment information from a user, and stores an association between the unique identifier and the payment information, and processes the item according to the payment information. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/597103 |
| ART UNIT | 2667 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Postal Sorting; Sorting Individual Articles, or Bulk Material Fit to be Sorted Piece-meal, e.g by Picking B07C 3/14 (20130101) B07C 3/18 (20130101) Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/08 (20130101) G06Q 20/042 (20130101) Ticket-issuing Apparatus; Fare-registering Apparatus; Franking Apparatus G07B 17/00661 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 09921628 | Doering 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) | Andreas C. Doering (Zufikon, Switzerland); Rihards Dziedatajs (Kilchberg, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | A power converter for a computer device having a processing unit and a memory device is suggested. The power converter is connectable to the computer device by a coupling circuitry, wherein the computer device requires an actual input voltage. The power converter comprises a voltage regulator, a measuring entity, and a determining entity. The voltage regulator is configured to control an actual output voltage for the coupling circuitry based on a determined reference output voltage. The measuring entity is configured to measure an actual output current of the voltage regulator output to the coupling circuitry. The determining entity is configured to determine the determined reference output voltage such that the determined reference output voltage equals a sum of the actual input voltage of the computer device and the product of the measured actual output current and a resistance of the coupling circuitry. |
| FILED | Monday, August 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/461772 |
| ART UNIT | 2115 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 1/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Apparatus for Conversion Between AC and AC, Between AC and DC, or Between DC and DC, and for Use With Mains or Similar Power Supply Systems; Conversion of DC or AC Input Power into Surge Output Power; Control or Regulation Thereof H02M 3/156 (20130101) H02M 2001/0025 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, March 20, 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.
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FUNDED BY
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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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3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
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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)
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