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| US 09962436 | Mond et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE HENRY M. JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE, INC. (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James J Mond (Silver Spring, Maryland); Clifford M. Snapper (Potomac, Maryland); Xinle Cui (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides fusion proteins that incorporate unique mechanisms for multimerizmg antigens to enhance their immunogenicity. The fusion proteins comprise at least two antigens, or other vaccine related proteins, separated by a linker sequence and an oligomerization domain. When expressed, the fusion protein forms a muKimeric protein complex, This approach can be used to muHimeri?.e a single antigen/protein or to create multimers comprising two or more different antigens/proteins. Also provided are nucleic acids encoding the fusion proteins, Yet another aspect is directed to methods of inducing or suppressing an immune response in a subject by administering to the subject a vaccine composition comprising a fusion protein or nucleic acid encoding the fusion protein, optionally without using an adjuvant. |
| FILED | Friday, July 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/416780 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/21 (20130101) A61K 39/245 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/57 (20130101) A61K 2039/70 (20130101) A61K 2039/55505 (20130101) A61K 2039/55561 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2710/16234 (20130101) C12N 2740/15022 (20130101) C12N 2740/15034 (20130101) |
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| US 09962466 | Atala et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony Atala (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); James Yoo (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); In Kap Ko (Clemmons, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to methods and compositions for obtaining uniform sized muscle fiber fragments for transplantation. These muscle fiber fragments are able to reconstitute into long fibers that are oriented along native muscle. The implanted muscle cells integrate with native vascular and neural network, as confirmed by histology and immunohistochemistry. This invention is particularly advantageous because autologous muscle can be harvested from a donor site, processed and injected into target sites in the operating room. The fragmented muscle fibers can be readily integrated within the host. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 19, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/159219 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0034 (20130101) A61K 35/34 (20130101) A61K 38/18 (20130101) A61K 38/18 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 47/34 (20130101) A61K 47/42 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/18 (20130101) A61L 27/18 (20130101) A61L 27/24 (20130101) A61L 27/54 (20130101) A61L 27/3604 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 27/3683 (20130101) A61L 27/3687 (20130101) A61L 27/3834 (20130101) A61L 2300/414 (20130101) A61L 2400/06 (20130101) A61L 2430/30 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 67/04 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0062 (20130101) C12N 5/0659 (20130101) C12N 2513/00 (20130101) C12N 2533/30 (20130101) C12N 2533/54 (20130101) |
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| US 09962676 | North et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stella H. North (Alexandria, Virginia); Evgeniya H. Lock (Alexandria, Virginia); Scott G. Walton (Fairfax, Virginia); Chris Rowe Taitt (White Plains, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stella H. North (Alexandria, Virginia); Evgeniya H. Lock (Alexandria, Virginia); Scott G. Walton (Fairfax, Virginia); Chris Rowe Taitt (White Plains, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a method of: treating an organic polymer with an electron beam-generated plasma; exposing the treated polymer to air or an oxygen- and hydrogen-containing gas, generating hydroxyl groups on the surface of the polymer; reacting the surface with an organosilane compound having a chloro, fluoro, or alkoxy group and a functional or reactive group that is less reactive with the surface than the chloro, fluoro, or alkoxy group; and covalently immobilizing a biomolecule to the functional or reactive group or a reaction product thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 31, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/674183 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/0046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 2219/00587 (20130101) B01J 2219/00596 (20130101) B01J 2219/00711 (20130101) B01J 2219/00725 (20130101) Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 59/14 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 7/16 (20130101) C08J 7/123 (20130101) C08J 2325/06 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/54353 (20130101) |
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| US 09962698 | Ingber 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) | Donald E. Ingber (Boston, Massachusetts); Geraldine A. Hamilton (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Daniel Levner (Boston, Massachusetts); Christopher Hinojosa (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Daniel Patterson (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidic system includes a microfluidic device connected to a bubble trap device whereby fluid flowing to the microfluidic device passes through the bubble trap device to remove gas bubbles prior to entering the microfluidic device. The bubble trap can include a separation chamber and an exhaust chamber separated by a hydrophobic porous membrane and gas bubbles in the fluid entering the separation chamber pass through the hydrophobic porous membrane into the exhaust chamber while the fluid remains in the separation chamber. The bubble trap can be formed by bonding a first body portion to a first side of the hydrophobic porous membrane and bonding a second body portion to a second side of the hydrophobic porous membrane. The exhaust chamber can be connected to an elongated exhaust channel that limits the evaporation losses of the fluid through the hydrophobic porous membrane. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/424195 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 17/085 (20130101) B01D 19/0031 (20130101) B01D 63/088 (20130101) B01D 71/36 (20130101) B01D 2325/38 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502715 (20130101) B01L 3/502723 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 2200/0684 (20130101) B01L 2300/06 (20130101) B01L 2300/087 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0864 (20130101) B01L 2300/0874 (20130101) B01L 2300/0877 (20130101) B01L 2300/0887 (20130101) Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 23/16 (20130101) C12M 23/24 (20130101) C12M 23/36 (20130101) |
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| US 09962832 | Kwok 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) | Sen Wai Kwok (Watertown, Massachusetts); Stephen A. Morin (Lincoln, Nebraska); Bobak Mosadegh (New York, New York); Ju-Hee So (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Robert F. Shepherd (Brooktondale, New York); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Reconfigurable soft robotic actuators with hard components are described. Magnetic attraction is used to couple flexible molded bodies capable of actuation upon pressurization with other flexible molded bodies and/or with hard components (e.g., frames and connectors) to form a seal for fluidic communication and cooperative actuation. Pneumatic de-coupling chambers built into the hard components to de-couple the hard components from the magnetically-coupled soft molded bodies are described. The use of magnetic self-alignment coupling and pneumatic de-coupling allows for the remote assembly and disassembly of complex structures involving hard and soft components. The magnetic coupling allows for rapid, reversible reconfiguration of hybrid soft-hard robots for repair, testing new designs, and carrying out new tasks. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/768389 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Toys, e.g Tops, Dolls, Hoops or Building Blocks A63H 3/46 (20130101) Metal-working Not Otherwise Provided For; Combined Operations; Universal Machine Tools B23P 19/04 (20130101) Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 9/08 (20130101) B25J 9/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B25J 9/142 (20130101) B25J 15/12 (20130101) B25J 15/0023 (20130101) B25J 15/0608 (20130101) Motor Vehicles; Trailers B62D 57/032 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 901/27 (20130101) Y10S 901/37 (20130101) Y10S 901/39 (20130101) |
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| US 09963215 | Sidki et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Leidos, Inc. (Reston, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Leidos, Inc. (Reston, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nahid Sidki (Great Falls, Virginia); Weicheng Shen (Vienna, Virginia); Suk Lee (Alexandria, Virginia); Andrew Genduso (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system of modular components can be used with existing sensor suites to fuse data and determine the operating environment (surface contacts/tracks) for an autonomous marine vehicle and feed an autonomy decision engine to improve the vessel arbitration process in deciding which way to turn, how fast to go, obstacle avoidance, and mission monitoring. The system includes the ability to obey the set of navigation rules published by the International Maritime Organization, generally referred to as COLREGS (collision regulations). |
| FILED | Monday, December 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/968161 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships or Other Waterborne Vessels; Equipment for Shipping B63B 35/00 (20130101) B63B 2035/007 (20130101) Marine Propulsion or Steering B63H 25/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 1/0088 (20130101) G05D 1/0206 (20130101) Traffic Control Systems G08G 3/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09963242 | Lockhart et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mary Lockhart (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Thomas Wallace (Arlington, Virginia); Randal Brumbaugh (Altadena, California); Malcolm Robbie (Stow, Ohio); Brian Patterson (Centennial, Colorado); Donna Blake (Oakton, Virginia); Andreas Goroch (Salinas, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Blue Storm Associates, Inc. (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mary Lockhart (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Thomas Wallace (Arlington, Virginia); Randal Brumbaugh (Altadena, California); Malcolm Robbie (Stow, Ohio); Brian Patterson (Centennial, Colorado); Donna Blake (Oakton, Virginia); Andreas Goroch (Salinas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor system runs real-time software on the processor to receive and log temperature and humidity data from the sensors. A processor processes the data, reformats, if necessary, the data packaged with GPS information provided by the centralized sensor control system, transmits the packaged data (including error checking) to a designated receiver, and provides a diagnostic interface for displaying logged data and status information. This data is time stamped and transmitted to the centralized sensor control system across the external control/data interface. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/264266 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 43/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring Temperature; Measuring Quantity of Heat; Thermally-sensitive Elements Not Otherwise Provided for G01K 13/00 (20130101) Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 7/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 25/56 (20130101) |
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| US 09963251 | Dimpfl |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE AEROSPACE CORPORATION (El Segundo, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William L. Dimpfl (San Pedro, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A parameter of an actual spacecraft can be estimated based on a spectroscopic image of an emission from an atomic or molecular product of an interaction between an atmospheric gas and an atomic or molecular species in a plume from the actual spacecraft. The actual spacecraft can be characterized by a set of values of at least N parameters. An N-dimensional lookup table can store information about a plurality of simulated emissions, each being from the atomic or molecular product of a simulated interaction between the atmospheric gas and the atomic or molecular species in a plume from a simulated spacecraft characterized by a corresponding set of values of the N parameters. A simulated emission can be selected based on comparisons between the information about the simulated emissions and the spectroscopic image. A value of at least one of the N parameters of the actual spacecraft can be estimated based on the selected simulated emission. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 27, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/723193 |
| ART UNIT | 2669 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Cosmonautics; Vehicles or Equipment Therefor B64G 1/14 (20130101) B64G 1/66 (20130101) B64G 3/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09963405 | Harvey |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin G Harvey (Ridgecresst, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to generate cyclic hydrocarbons from farnesene to increase both the density and net heat of combustion of the product fuels. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 12, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/291419 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 31/10 (20130101) B01J 31/2273 (20130101) B01J 31/2278 (20130101) B01J 2231/543 (20130101) B01J 2231/645 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 2/52 (20130101) C07C 5/10 (20130101) C07C 5/31 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 6/04 (20130101) C07C 2523/42 (20130101) C07C 2531/22 (20130101) Fuels Not Otherwise Provided for; Natural Gas; Synthetic Natural Gas Obtained by Processes Not Covered by Subclasses C10G, C10K; Liquefied Petroleum Gas; Adding Materials to Fuels or Fires to Reduce Smoke or Undesirable Deposits or to Facilitate Soot Removal; Firelighters C10L 1/04 (20130101) C10L 2290/06 (20130101) C10L 2290/543 (20130101) |
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| US 09963433 | Qin |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhihui Qin (Mundelein, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel class of drugs for treating androgen receptor (AR) positive cancer including prostate cancer and breast cancer are described. The drugs include the chemical scaffolds of a high affinity androgen receptor ligand and a histone deacetylase inhibitor. Also described are compositions including the novel drugs and methods of treating AR positive cancer using the compositions. |
| FILED | Friday, January 27, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/417860 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/4166 (20130101) A61K 31/4178 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 233/86 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 401/12 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 9/65061 (20130101) |
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| US 09963492 | Seifried et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brian M. Seifried (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Bradley D. Olsen (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian M. Seifried (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Bradley D. Olsen (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are protein brushes that mimic mucin in physical and functional characteristics. The protein brushes have a variable number of tandem repeats similar to natural mucin and are modified at a number of their tyrosine residues to introduce brush substituents that mimic the hydrogel nature of mucin. |
| FILED | Monday, May 16, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/155933 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 1/107 (20130101) C07K 1/113 (20130101) C07K 14/47 (20130101) C07K 14/4727 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09963495 | Liu 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) | Cassie J. Liu (Stanford, California); Jennifer R. Cochran (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Polypeptides comprising a VEGF scaffold modified to bind to PSMA are provided, and bifunctional derivatives thereof that also bind to VEGFR. The polypeptides are useful in cancer imaging, cancer diagnosis, monitoring and treatment. |
| FILED | Friday, October 21, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/299889 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 51/08 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/515 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2318/20 (20130101) C07K 2319/74 (20130101) |
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| US 09963597 | Aizenberg 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) | Joanna Aizenberg (Boston, Massachusetts); Michael Aizenberg (Boston, Massachusetts); Jiaxi Cui (Somerville, Massachusetts); Stuart Dunn (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Benjamin Hatton (Toronto, Canada); Caitlin Howell (Somerville, Massachusetts); Philseok Kim (Arlington, Massachusetts); Tak Sing Wong (State College, Pennsylvania); Xi Yao (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure describes a strategy to create self-healing, slippery self-lubricating polymers. Lubricating liquids with affinities to polymers can be utilized to get absorbed within the polymer and form a lubricant layer (of the lubricating liquid) on the polymer. The lubricant layer can repel a wide range of materials, including simple and complex fluids (water, hydrocarbons, crude oil and bodily fluids), restore liquid-repellency after physical damage, and resist ice, microorganisms and insects adhesion. Some exemplary applications where self-lubricating polymers will be useful include energy-efficient, friction-reduction fluid handling and transportation, medical devices, anti-icing, optical sensing, and as self-cleaning, and anti-fouling materials operating in extreme environments. |
| FILED | Friday, July 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/414291 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| 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 29/14 (20130101) A61L 29/085 (20130101) A61L 29/085 (20130101) A61L 31/04 (20130101) A61L 31/06 (20130101) A61L 31/06 (20130101) A61L 31/14 (20130101) A61L 31/049 (20130101) A61L 2400/10 (20130101) Separation B01D 65/08 (20130101) B01D 2321/00 (20130101) Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 5/08 (20130101) Cleaning in General; Prevention of Fouling in General B08B 17/025 (20130101) B08B 17/065 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 2300/00 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 83/04 (20130101) C08L 83/04 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 5/1637 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C09D 5/1675 (20130101) C09D 5/1693 (20130101) C09D 201/005 (20130101) Lubricating Compositions; Use of Chemical Substances Either Alone or as Lubricating Ingredients in a Lubricating Composition C10M 105/76 (20130101) C10M 171/00 (20130101) C10M 2203/1006 (20130101) C10M 2229/025 (20130101) C10M 2229/0515 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass C10M Relating to Lubricating Compositions C10N 2250/18 (20130101) C10N 2270/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09963623 | Garrett et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | LUNA INNOVATIONS INCORPORATED (Roanoke, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | LUNA INNOVATIONS INCORPORATED (Roanoke, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Thomas Garrett (Gordonsville, Virginia); Robert James Klein (Lebanon, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A reactive hot melt (RHM) composition is provided as a mixture of a urethane prepolymer which is a reaction product of at least one crystallizable polyol, a perfluoropolyether polyol, and at least one isocyanate, a filler material, and a teachable plasticizer consisting of an aliphatic ester of a carboxylic acid. |
| FILED | Friday, October 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 15/026743 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 18/12 (20130101) C08G 18/42 (20130101) C08G 18/724 (20130101) C08G 18/792 (20130101) C08G 18/4018 (20130101) C08G 18/5015 (20130101) C08G 18/7671 (20130101) C08G 2170/20 (20130101) C08G 2190/00 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 3/0033 (20130101) C08K 3/0033 (20130101) C08K 3/0033 (20130101) C08K 5/10 (20130101) C08K 5/10 (20130101) C08K 5/10 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 75/04 (20130101) C08L 75/04 (20130101) Adhesives; Non-mechanical Aspects of Adhesive Processes in General; Adhesive Processes Not Provided for Elsewhere; Use of Materials as Adhesives C09J 7/02 (20130101) C09J 11/04 (20130101) C09J 175/04 (20130101) C09J 175/04 (20130101) C09J 175/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09963651 | Harvey |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin G Harvey (Ridgecresst, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to generate cyclic hydrocarbons from farnesene to increase both the density and net heat of combustion of the product fuels. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 12, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/291615 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 2/52 (20130101) C07C 5/03 (20130101) C07C 5/27 (20130101) C07C 6/04 (20130101) Fuels Not Otherwise Provided for; Natural Gas; Synthetic Natural Gas Obtained by Processes Not Covered by Subclasses C10G, C10K; Liquefied Petroleum Gas; Adding Materials to Fuels or Fires to Reduce Smoke or Undesirable Deposits or to Facilitate Soot Removal; Firelighters C10L 1/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10L 2200/0469 (20130101) |
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| US 09963652 | Harvey |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin G Harvey (Ridgecresst, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to generate cyclic hydrocarbons from farnesene to increase both the density and net heat of combustion of the product fuels. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 12, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/291707 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 2/52 (20130101) C07C 5/03 (20130101) C07C 5/2702 (20130101) C07C 6/04 (20130101) Fuels Not Otherwise Provided for; Natural Gas; Synthetic Natural Gas Obtained by Processes Not Covered by Subclasses C10G, C10K; Liquefied Petroleum Gas; Adding Materials to Fuels or Fires to Reduce Smoke or Undesirable Deposits or to Facilitate Soot Removal; Firelighters C10L 1/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10L 2290/543 (20130101) |
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| US 09963720 | Arnold et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frances Arnold (Pasadena, California); Peter Meinhold (Pasadena, California); Matthew W. Peters (Pasadena, California); Rudi Fasan (Brea, California); Mike M. Y. Chen (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to modified hydroxylases. The invention further relates to cells expressing such modified hydroxylases and methods of producing hydroxylated alkanes by contacting a suitable substrate with such cells. |
| FILED | Monday, August 01, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/224900 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/0042 (20130101) C12N 9/0071 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 7/06 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 106/02004 (20130101) C12Y 114/14001 (20130101) |
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| US 09963805 | Haynie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida); University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida); University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald T. Haynie (Tampa, Florida); Lei Zhai (Oviedo, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrospun nanofibrils and methods of preparing the same are provided. The electrospun nanofibrils comprise at least one polypeptide. A polypeptide can be dissolved in a solution, and the solution can be electrospun into a nanofibril. The solution can be added to a syringe or syringe pump, and an electric field can be applied to electrospin the at least one polypeptide. |
| FILED | Monday, August 22, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/243423 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 69/10 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 77/04 (20130101) Mechanical Methods or Apparatus in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons D01D 5/003 (20130101) D01D 5/0007 (20130101) D01D 5/0038 (20130101) Chemical Features in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons; Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture of Carbon Filaments D01F 6/68 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Making Textile Fabrics, e.g From Fibres or Filamentary Material; Fabrics Made by Such Processes or Apparatus, e.g Felts, Non-woven Fabrics; Cotton-wool; Wadding D04H 1/728 (20130101) D04H 3/016 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/298 (20150115) |
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| US 09963975 | King et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher King (Bristol, Connecticut); Edward F. Pietraszkiewicz (Southington, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A structure for creating a core for a gas turbine engine component comprises a body with a curved surface defining a turn passage. A plurality of protrusions are formed within a wall surface of the turn passage. A plurality of protrusions are configured to extend transversely relative to the curved surface. A gas turbine engine component is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, February 09, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/616999 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/08 (20130101) F01D 5/18 (20130101) F01D 5/186 (20130101) F01D 5/187 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F01D 5/188 (20130101) F01D 9/065 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2230/30 (20130101) F05D 2260/2212 (20130101) F05D 2260/2214 (20130101) F05D 2260/22141 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/676 (20130101) |
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| US 09964037 | Snyder et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan K. Snyder (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Michael R. Thomas (Bloomfield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine bypass flow arrangement comprises an outer housing and an inner housing, an outer bypass duct defined between the outer housing and the inner housing and an inner bypass duct defined inwardly of the inner housing. A first heat exchanger is positioned at an upstream location within the outer bypass duct and a second heat exchanger is positioned within the inner bypass duct at an upstream location. A downstream heat exchanger is positioned to be in the path of air downstream of the second heat exchanger in the inner bypass duct. Air flowing across the downstream heat exchanger passes from the inner bypass duct into the outer bypass duct. A gas turbine engine is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 27, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/606076 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 6/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F02C 7/185 (20130101) Jet-propulsion Plants F02K 3/075 (20130101) F02K 3/077 (20130101) F02K 3/115 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2260/213 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/675 (20130101) |
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| US 09964214 | Burd et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven W. Burd (Cheshire, Connecticut); Roger W. Bursey (Jupiter, Florida); Gonzalo F. Martinez (Stuart, Florida); Meggan H. Harria-Miller (Colchester, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven W. Burd (Cheshire, Connecticut); Roger W. Bursey (Jupiter, Florida); Gonzalo F. Martinez (Stuart, Florida); Meggan H. Harria-Miller (Colchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A seal for use between a first duct and a second duct and, the ducts having relative motion therebetween, includes a first plurality of fingers for attachment to the first duct to be disposed about one of the first duct and the second duct, a seal land attaching to about an other of the first duct and the second duct, and a seal attaching to the seal land and in contact with the plurality of fingers wherein one of the plurality of fingers and the seal is metallic and an other of the seal land or the plurality of fingers is non-metallic. |
| FILED | Monday, April 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/437513 |
| ART UNIT | 3675 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 15/12 (20130101) Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 3/067 (20130101) F02C 7/36 (20130101) Jet-propulsion Plants F02K 3/072 (20130101) Pistons; Cylinders; Sealings F16J 15/0887 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/672 (20130101) |
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| US 09964355 | Yang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | IntraMicron, Inc. (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | IntraMicron, Inc. (Auburn, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongyun Yang (Auburn, Alabama); Paul S. Dimick (Waverly, Alabama); Troy J. Barron (Auburn, Alabama); Bruce J. Tatarchuk (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved methods for preparing highly porous mesh media and loading functional particles into the media are described herein. The highly porous media can be used as supports for catalyst materials for a variety of applications, such as desulfurization. Pre-manufactured catalyst can be loaded into the sintered open media. Thus, the contamination issues associated wetlay paper making and pre-oxidation, the deactivation issues associated with the sintering and pre-oxidation steps, and the corrosion issues associated with the catalyst formation step can be avoided. The methods described herein result in the formation of highly porous media with functional particles immobilized inside. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/413882 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/30 (20130101) B01J 20/3042 (20130101) B01J 20/3064 (20130101) B01J 20/3078 (20130101) B01J 20/3085 (20130101) B01J 20/28004 (20130101) B01J 20/28023 (20130101) B01J 20/28028 (20130101) B01J 20/28078 (20130101) B01J 23/72 (20130101) B01J 35/06 (20130101) B01J 2220/42 (20130101) Drying Solid Materials or Objects by Removing Liquid Therefrom F26B 1/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09964385 | Genson |
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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) | Kevin Genson (Waldorf, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A shock mitigation casing includes a monolithic body made from a solid material. The monolithic body includes a first wall, a second wall spaced apart from the first wall, and axial end walls contiguous with the first wall and the second wall. A chamber is defined between the walls. A powder fills the chamber. The powder is a powdered form of the solid material. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/330510 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 12/20 (20130101) F42B 12/22 (20130101) F42B 12/76 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09964387 | Fink et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kenneth Fink (Elk River, Minnesota); David A. Smith (St. Paul, Minnesota); Craig F. Borchard (Mendota Heights, Minnesota); David J. Fehr (Rogers, Minnesota); Scott V. Hanson (Excelsior, Minnesota); Mark J. Shireman (Minnetonka, Minnesota); Robert J. Stanek (Champlin, Minnesota); John S. Koshuba (Fridley, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ORBITAL ATK, INC. (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth Fink (Elk River, Minnesota); David A. Smith (St. Paul, Minnesota); Craig F. Borchard (Mendota Heights, Minnesota); David J. Fehr (Rogers, Minnesota); Scott V. Hanson (Excelsior, Minnesota); Mark J. Shireman (Minnetonka, Minnesota); Robert J. Stanek (Champlin, Minnesota); John S. Koshuba (Fridley, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A venting system for ordnance or rocket motors comprising a casing having at least one hole and a plug, the plug being formed from a plug slug swaged into the at least one hole. A method to fill a vent hole in a casing comprising transforming a plug slug positioned within the vent hole into a plug. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/543938 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal-working Not Otherwise Provided For; Combined Operations; Universal Machine Tools B23P 11/00 (20130101) Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 39/14 (20130101) F42B 39/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49826 (20150115) |
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| US 09964443 | Mitchell |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wavefront Research, Inc. (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WAVEFRONT RESEARCH, INC. (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas A. Mitchell (Nazareth, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A spectrometer having substantially increased spectral and spatial fields. |
| FILED | Friday, June 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/738061 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/04 (20130101) G01J 3/0208 (20130101) G01J 3/2823 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01J 2003/2826 (20130101) |
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| US 09964449 | Durfee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Colorado School of Mines (Golden, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado School of Mines (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles G. Durfee (Eldorado Springs, Colorado); Amanda K. Meier (Longmont, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Spectral interferometric systems and methods to characterize lateral and angular spatial chirp to optimize intensity localization in spatio-temporally focused ultrafast beams are described. Interference between two spatially sheared beams in an interferometer leads to straight fringes if the wavefronts are curved. To produce reference fringes, one arm relative to another is delayed in order to measure fringe rotation in the spatially resolved spectral interferogram. Utilizing Fourier analysis, frequency-resolved divergence is obtained. In another arrangement, one beam relative to the other is spatially flipped, which allows the frequency-dependent beamlet direction (angular spatial chirp) to be measured. Blocking one beam shows the spatial variation of the beamlet position with frequency (i.e., the lateral spatial chirp). |
| FILED | Monday, October 19, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/887114 |
| 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 3/45 (20130101) G01J 11/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/122 (20130101) G02B 27/149 (20130101) |
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| US 09964464 | Ahadian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ULTRA COMMUNICATIONS, INC. (Vista, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ultra Communications, Inc. (Vista, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph F. Ahadian (San Marcos, California); Kris Kusumoto (Lemon grove, California); Charles B. Kuznia (Encinitas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) system with an integrated high speed optical modulator is capable of operating at a speed similar to the OTDR pulse width to improve the measurement resolution and reduce the time required to acquire a high dynamic range OTDR measurement over existing approaches. ASICs can be used to control the modulator and generation of pulses. The high-speed optical modulator enables high resolution single-photon OTDR measurement by blocking out all return light except from the region of fiber under examination. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/391700 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Testing Static or Dynamic Balance of Machines or Structures; Testing of Structures or Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G01M 11/3109 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01M 11/3145 (20130101) |
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| US 09964466 | Nicholson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian D Nicholson (Dayton, Ohio); Jeremy T Nickell (Troy, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for measuring axial load on a thrust bearing in an engine having an shaft inside a fixed structure comprises: stability platform in contact with the fixed structure and prevented from motion in an axial direction; at least one load tab adjacent to and supported by the stability platform, the at least one load tab oriented perpendicularly to the axial direction, each load tab having a free end opposite the end supported by the stability platform, the free end adjacent the shaft; and deflection sensor attached to the at least one load tab and responsive to the axial load, wherein the axial load is applied to the free end of the at least one load tab. An offset body may be attached between the at least one load tab and the stabilizing body, and plurality of load tabs may be arranged symmetrically on the stability platform. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 10, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/347940 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 5/0019 (20130101) Testing Static or Dynamic Balance of Machines or Structures; Testing of Structures or Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G01M 13/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09964482 | Sun et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Research Laboratory ATTN: RDRL-LOC-I (Adelphi, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wenbo Sun (Yorktown, Virginia); Gorden Videen (Silver Spring, Maryland); Michael I. Mishchenko (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel methodology for detecting cloud particles is disclosed herein. This methodology exploits the optical glory phenomenon. According to one embodiment, a method for detecting clouds includes receiving data from a sensor which is configured to measure polarization of scattered light in a direction substantially opposite to the direction of incident light, and identifying, from the received sensor data, a cloud based on the polarization of the scattered light. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 26, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/006752 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/21 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/538 (20130101) G01N 2021/4792 (20130101) G01N 2201/0616 (20130101) Meteorology G01W 1/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09964658 | Hull et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Research Laboratory ATTN: RDRL-LOC-I (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Hull (Adelphi, Maryland); Ross N. Adelman (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention relate to power line detection, and more particularly, to methods and systems for autonomous power line detection, avoidance, navigation, and inspection. They may be implemented using aerial crafts, but do not have to. According to an embodiment, a method for detecting energized power lines in ambient space in the vicinity of an aerial craft is presented. The method includes measuring, with sensors located on the aerial craft, electric and magnetic fields in the space; and with a power line detection controller, detecting an energized power line in the space in the vicinity of the aerial craft using the sensor data; and determining the orientation of the detected energized power line in the space based on the electric and magnetic field measurements. Similar methods and systems are also presented. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/875927 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 13/10 (20130101) B64C 13/18 (20130101) Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 23/00 (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 1/00 (20130101) Geophysics; Gravitational Measurements; Detecting Masses or Objects; Tags G01V 3/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 1/0094 (20130101) Traffic Control Systems G08G 5/0021 (20130101) G08G 5/0086 (20130101) |
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| US 09964663 | Ewing et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kenneth J. Ewing (Edgewood, Maryland); Jasbinder S. Sanghera (Ashburn, Virginia); Kevin J. Major (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia); The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth J. Ewing (Edgewood, Maryland); Jasbinder S. Sanghera (Ashburn, Virginia); Kevin J. Major (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus having: one or more infrared imagers capable of detecting light having wavelengths of 8-10 microns and 20-22 microns and a window transparent to light having wavelengths of 8-10 microns and 20-22 microns. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/830826 |
| 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 5/0803 (20130101) G01J 2005/0077 (20130101) Geophysics; Gravitational Measurements; Detecting Masses or Objects; Tags G01V 8/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09964702 | Luo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Oracle International Corporation (Redwood Shores, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle International Corporation (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ying Luo (San Diego, California); Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California); Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosed embodiments provide a system that implements an optical interface. The system includes a semiconductor chip with a silicon layer, which includes a silicon waveguide, and an interface layer (which can be comprised of SiON) disposed over the silicon layer, wherein the interface layer includes an interface waveguide. The system also includes an optical coupler that couples an optical signal from the silicon waveguide in the silicon layer to the interface waveguide in the interface layer, wherein the interface waveguide channels the optical signal in a direction parallel to a top surface of the semiconductor chip. The system additionally includes a mirror, which is oriented to reflect the optical signal from the interface waveguide in a surface-normal direction so that the optical signal exits the top surface of the semiconductor chip. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 13, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/292501 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/132 (20130101) G02B 6/136 (20130101) G02B 6/12002 (20130101) G02B 6/12004 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 2006/12104 (20130101) G02B 2006/12147 (20130101) Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 5/026 (20130101) H01S 5/1014 (20130101) H01S 5/3013 (20130101) |
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| US 09964716 | Veitch et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Randall C. Veitch (Nazareth, Pennsylvania); Thomas W. Stone (Hellertown, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WAVEFRONT RESEARCH, INC. (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall C. Veitch (Nazareth, Pennsylvania); Thomas W. Stone (Hellertown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Compact ASIC, chip-on-board, flip-chip, interposer, and related packaging techniques are incorporated to minimize the footprint of optoelectronic interconnect devices, including the Optical Data Pipe. In addition, ruggedized packaging techniques are incorporated to increase the durability and application space for optoelectronic interconnect devices, including an Optical Data Pipe. |
| FILED | Friday, September 11, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/851052 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/4212 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/4239 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/02327 (20130101) |
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| US 09964723 | Stone |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas W. Stone (Hellertown, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WAVEFRONT RESEARCH, INC. (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas W. Stone (Hellertown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for optical interconnection. |
| FILED | Monday, December 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/968186 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/06 (20130101) G02B 6/423 (20130101) G02B 6/4249 (20130101) G02B 6/4292 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09964960 | Fegely et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cody Fegely (Milford, Connecticut); Stephen Kubik (Shelton, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft is provided and includes a fuselage, wings extending outwardly from the fuselage to define a wing plane and a prop-rotor operably disposed to generate thrust, a flight computer and controllable surfaces disposed on at least one of the fuselage, the wings and the prop-rotor. The controllable surfaces are controllable by the flight computer to position the wing plane in accordance with a predominant local wind direction. |
| FILED | Friday, June 17, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/185809 |
| ART UNIT | 3669 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 13/18 (20130101) B64C 29/02 (20130101) Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 1/0623 (20130101) G05D 1/0676 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G05D 1/0858 (20130101) |
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| US 09964961 | Carter |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan E Carter (Crestview, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus are presented for guiding a store, represented by a dynamic system having transitory nonlinear characteristics, between release from a platform and an activation of a mission autopilot along an optimal path. A nominal reference trajectory is determined that optimizes a desired performance index for the dynamic system using optimal control theory. A feedback control system is implemented that optimizes an original performance index to second order in a presence of disturbances along the optimal path using neighboring optimal control. The feedback control system converges to a linear time invariant regulator approaching the desired operating condition along the optimal path. Finally, control of the store is transitioned to the mission autopilot. |
| FILED | Friday, April 21, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/493180 |
| ART UNIT | 3668 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 1/107 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09965248 | Satpathy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sudhir K. Satpathy (Hillsboro, Oregon); Sanu K. Mathew (Hillsboro, Oregon); Ram K. Krishnamurthy (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | In an embodiment, a processor includes a compression domain threshold filter coupled to a plurality of cores. The compression domain threshold filter is to: receive a sample vector of compressed data to be filtered; calculate, based at least on a first subset of the elements of the sample vector, an estimated upper bound value of a dot product of the sample vector and a steering vector; determine whether the estimated upper bound value of the dot product satisfies a filter threshold value; and in response to a determination that the estimated upper bound value of the dot product does not satisfy the filter threshold value, discard the sample vector without completion of a calculation of the dot product of the sample vector and the steering vector. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 18, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/296139 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 7/24 (20130101) G06F 7/533 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 7/5443 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/74 (20170101) G06T 7/97 (20170101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 19/48 (20141101) H04N 19/85 (20141101) |
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| US 09965586 | Schuller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ivan K. Schuller (San Diego, California); Massimiliano Di Ventra (Carlsbad, California); Alexander Balatsky (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for processing macromolecule sequencing data with substantial noise reduction. In one aspect, a method for reducing noise in a sequential measurement of a macromolecule comprising serial subunits includes cross-correlating multiple measured signals of a physical property of subunits of interest of the macromolecule, the multiple measured signals including the time data associated with the measurement of the signal, to remove or at least reduce signal noise that is not in the same frequency and in phase with the systematic signal contribution of the measured signals. |
| FILED | Friday, March 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/664738 |
| 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 | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09965718 | Arthur 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) | John V. Arthur (Mountian View, California); John E. Barth, Jr. (Williston, Vermont); Paul A. Merolla (Palo Alto, California); Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention relate to providing transposable access to a synapse array using a recursive array layout. One embodiment comprises maintaining synaptic weights for multiple synapses connecting multiple axons and multiple neurons, wherein the synaptic weights are maintained based on a recursive array layout. The recursive array layout facilitates transposable access to the synaptic weights. A neuronal spike event between an axon and a neuron is communicated via a corresponding connecting synapse by accessing the synaptic weight of the corresponding connecting synapse in the recursive array layout. |
| FILED | Friday, September 04, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/846259 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/04 (20130101) G06N 3/08 (20130101) G06N 3/049 (20130101) G06N 3/063 (20130101) G06N 3/0635 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anthony J. Romano (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) | Anthony J. Romano (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | System and method for diagnosing brain conditions including evaluating fiber pathways of white matter tracts using a diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) process, tracking the propagation of waves traveling at specific angles to the fiber pathways by performing a 3D magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) process at the same spatial resolution and voxel position as the DTI, analyzing the viscoelastic properties using an inversion having at least nine elastic coefficients, determining the curvature along the pathways, differentiating the spatial-spectral filter twice with respect to arc length along the pathways, and diagnosing a brain condition based on the viscoelastic properties. |
| FILED | Friday, April 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/250606 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/055 (20130101) A61B 5/725 (20130101) A61B 5/4064 (20130101) A61B 5/4082 (20130101) A61B 5/4519 (20130101) A61B 5/7253 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2207/10088 (20130101) G06T 2207/10092 (20130101) G06T 2207/30016 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09966064 | Biadsy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Fadi Biadsy (New York, New York); Lidia Mangu (New York, New York); Hagen Soltau (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fadi Biadsy (New York, New York); Lidia Mangu (New York, New York); Hagen Soltau (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for automatic speech recognition and methods and systems for training acoustic language models are disclosed. In accordance with one automatic speech recognition method, an acoustic input data set is analyzed to identify portions of the input data set that conform to a general language and to identify portions of the input data set that conform to at least one dialect of the general language. In addition, a general language model and at least one dialect language model is applied to the input data set to perform speech recognition by dynamically selecting between the models in accordance with each of the identified portions. Further, speech recognition results obtained in accordance with the application of the models is output. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/552401 |
| ART UNIT | 2658 — Linguistics, Speech Processing and Audio Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Speech Analysis or Synthesis; Speech Recognition; Speech or Voice Processing; Speech or Audio Coding or Decoding G10L 15/005 (20130101) G10L 15/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G10L 15/063 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09966195 | Bag et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Santanu Bag (Beavercreek, Ohio); Michael F. Durstock (West Chester, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A layered perovskite structure comprising a substrate having an upper surface and a lower surface; and a layer of a perovskite film on the upper surface. A passivating layer may be applied to the upper surface of the substrate to which the perovskite film is attached. The passivating layer comprises at least one a chalcogenide-containing species with the general chemical formula (E3E4)N(E1E2)N′C═X where any one of E1, E2, E3 and E4 is independently selected from C1-C15 organic substituents comprising from 0 to 15 heteroatoms or hydrogen, and X is S, Se or Te, thiourea, thioacetamide, selenoacetamide, selenourea, H2S, H2Se, H2Te, or LXH wherein L is a Cn organic substituent comprising heteroatoms and X═S, Se, or Te. The substrate comprises PEDOT:PSS, and may further comprise a layered glass/ITO/PEDOT:PSS structure. A passivating layer is applied to the PEDOT:PSS layer, and a top electrode may be applied over the perovskite film. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 07, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/697664 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 9/0029 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01G 9/2013 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/072 (20130101) H01L 51/0028 (20130101) H01L 51/42 (20130101) H01L 51/0077 (20130101) H01L 51/4213 (20130101) H01L 2031/0344 (20130101) |
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| US 09966356 | Mathews et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Goverment 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) | Scott A. Mathews (Takoma Park, Maryland); Iyoel Beniam (Washington, District of Columbia); Alberto Piqué (Crofton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming and transferring shaped metallic interconnects, comprising providing a donor substrate comprising an array of metallic interconnects, using a laser system to prepare the metallic interconnects, forming shaped metallic interconnects, and transferring the shaped metallic interconnect to an electrical device. An electronic device made from the method of providing a donor ribbon, wherein the donor ribbon comprises an array of metal structures and a release layer on a donor substrate, providing a stencil to the metal structures on the donor substrate, applying a laser pulse through the donor substrate to the metal structures, and directing the metal structures to an electronic device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 18, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/489958 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/4828 (20130101) H01L 21/76885 (20130101) H01L 24/05 (20130101) H01L 24/43 (20130101) H01L 24/48 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 24/85 (20130101) H01L 2224/435 (20130101) H01L 2224/04042 (20130101) H01L 2224/4805 (20130101) H01L 2224/4814 (20130101) H01L 2224/8585 (20130101) H01L 2224/29147 (20130101) H01L 2224/45014 (20130101) H01L 2224/48101 (20130101) H01L 2224/48472 (20130101) |
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| US 09966483 | Cao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Linyou Cao (Cary, North Carolina); Pengyu Fan (Stanford, California); Alok Vasudev (Stanford, California); Jon A. Schuller (San Diego, California); Mark L. Brongersma (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Patterning planar photo-absorbing materials into arrays of nanowires is demonstrated as a method for increasing the total photon absorption in a given thickness of absorbing material. Such a method can provide faster, cheaper, and more efficient photo-detectors and solar cells. A thin nanowire can absorb many more photons than expected from the size of the nanowire. The reason for this effect is that such nanowires support cylindrical particle resonances which can collect photons from an area larger than the physical cross-section of the wire. These resonances are sometimes referred to as Mie resonances or Leaky Mode Resonances (LMRs). The nanowires can have various cross section shapes, such as square, circle, rectangle, triangle, etc. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/717768 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/127 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/068 (20130101) H01L 31/0543 (20141201) H01L 31/02327 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/035227 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/52 (20130101) |
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| US 09966491 | Chandrashekhar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | MVS Chandrashekhar (Columbia, South Carolina); Tangali S. Sudarshan (Columbia, South Carolina); Sabih U. Omar (West Columbia, South Carolina); Gabriel Brown (Lexington, South Carolina); Shamaita S. Shetu (West Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A bi-polar device is provided, along with methods of making the same. The bi-polar device can include a semiconductor substrate doped with a first dopant, a semiconductor layer on the first surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a Schottky barrier layer on the semiconductor layer. The method of forming a bi-polar device can include: forming a semiconductor layer on a first surface of a semiconductor substrate, where the semiconductor substrate comprises a first dopant and where the semiconductor layer comprises a second dopant that has an opposite polarity than the first dopant; and forming a Schottky barrier layer on a first portion of the semiconductor layer while leaving a second portion of the semiconductor layer exposed. |
| FILED | Monday, February 22, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/049743 |
| ART UNIT | 2899 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/028 (20130101) H01L 31/1105 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/1804 (20130101) H01L 31/022408 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/547 (20130101) |
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| US 09966647 | Swanson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul David Swanson (Santee, California); Sam Chieh (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul David Swanson (Santee, California); Sam Chieh (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A software defined antenna can include a light source and a photoconductive surface. The photoconductive surface can be two-dimensional or three-dimensional. A plurality of electrically isolated pixels can be embedded in the photoconductive surface. The antenna can further include a processor with computer software incorporated to manipulate the light source to selectively illuminate the surface matrix in a predetermined pattern. As the surface matrix becomes illuminated, the illuminated portion of the matrix surface electrically connects the pixels, resulting in the desired radiation pattern. The software can be manipulated to further manipulate the light source to change antenna frequency, gain and bandwidth parameters, as desired by the user. Similarly, the pixels can be selectively illuminated to cause a desired radiation pattern, such as circular, sector scan or raster patterns. |
| FILED | Monday, June 20, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/186812 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 1/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01Q 3/2676 (20130101) H01Q 21/061 (20130101) |
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| US 09966722 | Goodno et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory D. Goodno (Los Angeles, California); James G. Ho (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An internally switched fiber laser amplifier is disclosed and claimed. The switch is integrated directly into the fiber amplifier, so that the output power from each fiber amplifier can be switched between N selectable output fibers with minimal (approx. 1%) loss. The switch may be a close coupled pump switch, a spherical mirror or a planar mirror. The fiber laser amplifier may switch both pump and source lights, or may switch only the pump light then combine it with the source light before sending it to a gain amplifier. |
| FILED | Monday, June 19, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/626328 |
| 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 3/2383 (20130101) H01S 3/06754 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 3/094003 (20130101) H01S 3/094038 (20130101) |
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| US 09967038 | Li 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) | Mo Li (Plymouth, Minnesota); Jian-Ping Wang (Shoreview, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are described for data transfer in spin-based systems where digital bit values are represented by magnetization states of magnetoresistive devices rather than voltages or currents. For data transmission, a spin-based signal is converted to an optical signal and transmitted via an optical transport. For data reception, the optical signal is received via the optical transport and converted back to a spin-based signal. Such data transfer may not require an intervening conversion of the spin-based signal to charge-based signal that relies on voltages or currents to represent digital bit values. In addition, techniques are described to use magnetoresistive devices to control the amount of current or voltage that is delivered, where the magnetization state of the magnetoresistive device is set by an optical signal. |
| FILED | Friday, May 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/279990 |
| ART UNIT | 2637 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 10/532 (20130101) H04B 10/671 (20130101) H04B 10/801 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09967049 | Zheng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Oracle International Corporation (Redwood Shores, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle International Corporation (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California); Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A transceiver separates wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) components into two groups, one of which is more sensitive to temperature than the other group. The temperature-sensitive group of optical components is implemented on a first substrate in the transceiver that has a lower thermo-optic coefficient than a second substrate in the transceiver, which contains the group of optical components that is less temperature sensitive. In particular, the first substrate, which may be glass, may include WDM components that convey optical signals having multiple carrier wavelengths. Moreover, the second substrate, such as a silicon substrate (e.g., a silicon-on-insulator platform), may include multiple parallel optical paths with optical components, in which a given optical path conveys an optical signal having a given carrier wavelength. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 28, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/141452 |
| ART UNIT | 2633 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/102 (20130101) G02B 6/2773 (20130101) G02B 6/12009 (20130101) Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/0147 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/1013 (20130101) Multiplex Communication H04J 14/06 (20130101) H04J 14/0204 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09967115 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Linxiao Zhang (New York, New York); Harish Krishnaswamy (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Linxiao Zhang (New York, New York); Harish Krishnaswamy (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A circuit for spatial equalization, comprising: circuit elements each comprising four variable transconductors, in each of the circuit elements: an input of a first variable transconductor (VT) is connected to an input I and an output of the first VT is connected to an output I; an input of the second VT is connected to an input Q and an output of the second VT is connected to output I; an input of the third VT is connected to input I and an output of the third VT is connected to the output Q; and an input of the fourth VT is connected to input Q and an output of the fourth VT is connected to output Q; the input I of each of the first plurality of circuit elements are connected together; and the input Q of each of the first plurality of circuit elements are connected together. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 08, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/617828 |
| ART UNIT | 2632 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Demodulation or Transference of Modulation From One Carrier to Another H03D 7/1466 (20130101) Amplifiers H03F 3/19 (20130101) H03F 2200/294 (20130101) H03F 2200/451 (20130101) Transmission H04B 7/0413 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 25/03891 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09967141 | Narain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vencore Labs, Inc. (Basking Ridge, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vencore Labs, Inc. (Basking Ridege, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanjai Narain (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); Samuel Gordon (Basking Ridge, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | In a method, computer system, and computer program product include for re-configuring a network, program code identifies relationships between nodes on a network, where each relationship of the relationships includes a first node running a routing protocol and a second node running the routing protocol, where the first node and the second node are physically connected, and where the nodes include at least one controller and a plurality of routers. The program code performs, starting at the at least one controller a reverse breadth search of the relationships to determine for each router, a number of relationships comprising a path from the controller to the router. The program code, for example, program code that is executed on the at least one controller, reconfigures the routers in descending order of magnitude of the number of relationships comprising the path from each router of the plurality of routers to the controller. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 30, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/199242 |
| ART UNIT | 2444 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 41/12 (20130101) H04L 41/0813 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09967234 | Crane 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) | Bradford James Crane (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Kevin Dee Shepherd (Stafford, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a device, system and method for providing a more secure full motion video with metadata streaming product. More specifically, the invention is capable of ensuring a more secure video transfer from a less secure input data network to a more secure data receiving network through the use of a firewall on the less secure input network interface, which is used for separating video and discarding other unwanted data, and an Air Gap that physically separates the input and output networks. This physical separation ensures a secure transfer of the “cleaned” input data from the less secure input source to the more secure data receiving network. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 27, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/139783 |
| ART UNIT | 2431 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/3236 (20130101) H04L 63/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 63/04 (20130101) H04L 63/0428 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/225 (20130101) H04N 19/40 (20141101) H04N 19/46 (20141101) |
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| US 09967321 | Sandell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nils F. Sandell (Somerville, Massachusetts); Nicholas J. Pioch (Woburn, Massachusetts); Eric K. Jones (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SYSTEMS and TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH, LLC (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nils F. Sandell (Somerville, Massachusetts); Nicholas J. Pioch (Woburn, Massachusetts); Eric K. Jones (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for discovering internet memes from a social media stream includes a meme detector for grouping together incoming posts that contain a common set of anomalous terms, the meme detector comparing the frequency of use of the anomalous terms against normalcy models to ensure that the use of the anomalous terms is non-recurring. The system additionally includes a meme tracker for classifying each cluster of related posts as a particular meme and, in turn, associating new related posts from the media stream with the classified cluster. In this manner, the particular set of anomalous terms used to classify each meme can be augmented to include other discriminating terms. Accordingly, the parameters, or features, associated with each meme are continuously monitored and refined, as needed, to ensure that the most comprehensive and reflective cluster of posts for each meme is collected from the social media stream in an efficient fashion. |
| FILED | Friday, April 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/683990 |
| ART UNIT | 2457 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 67/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Wireless Communication Networks H04W 4/08 (20130101) H04W 4/206 (20130101) |
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| US 09967373 | Wolfson 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) | Scott C Wolfson (Harvest, Alabama); Jeremiah W. Langston (Huntsville, Alabama); Adam W Turnbull (Owens Cross Roads, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a specialized integrated circuit for a Test and Training Enabling Architecture (TENA) gateway. The specialized integrated circuit comprises a packet parser, a TCP packet handler, generic TENA packet generator(s), and object model specific TENA packet generator(s). The packet parser parses an incoming MAC layer packet and conditionally provides a TCP packet to the TCP packet handier, depending on header(s) in the MAC layer packet. The TCP packet handler parses the TCP packet to reveal a TENA message, and determines whether the TENA message involves object model specific data and selectively provides the TENA message to the generic TENA packet generator(s) or to the object model specific TENA packet generator(s). The selection is based on the object model specific data determination. The selected TENA packet generator constructs an outgoing TENA message in response to the provided TENA message. |
| FILED | Friday, October 07, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/288542 |
| ART UNIT | 2469 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse Technique H03K 19/17724 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 69/22 (20130101) H04L 69/324 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09967659 | Silva et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RAYTHEON COMPANY (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sarah J. Silva (Dartmouth, Massachusetts); Thomas J. Peirce, III (Westport, Massachusetts); Amir W. Habboosh (Somerset, Massachusetts); James Sturges (Tiverton, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A shielded electronic array is provided and includes a main plate having opposing first and second major surfaces, first and second electronic devices disposed on respective first portions of the first and second major surfaces, respectively, a noise-shielding plate disposed on a second portion of the second major surface, an insulated eyelet, which is press-fittable into the main and noise-shielding plates and first and second wiring components. The first wiring component extends along a main plate plane from the second electronic device. The second wiring component extends from the first wiring component to the first electronic device and has an exposed first portion and a second portion extending through the insulated eyelet. |
| FILED | Friday, July 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/808141 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups or Like Acoustic Electromechanical Transducers; Deaf-aid Sets; Public Address Systems H04R 1/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04R 3/007 (20130101) H04R 29/005 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); Opticent INC (Deerfield, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ji Yi (Evanston, Illinois); Wenzhong Liu (Evanston, Illinois); Vadim Backman (Chicago, Illinois); Hao F. Zhang (Deerfield, Illinois); Kieren J. Patel (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides systems and methods for the determining a rate of change of one or more analyte concentrations in a target using non invasive non contact imaging techniques such as OCT. Generally, OCT data is acquired and optical information is extracted from OCT scans to quantitatively determine both a flow rate of fluid in the target and a concentration of one or more analytes. Both calculations can provide a means to determine a change in rate of an analyte over time. Example methods and systems of the disclosure may be used in assessing metabolism of a tissue, where oxygen is the analyte detected, or other functional states, and be generally used for the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of disease. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 21, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/465285 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 1/04 (20130101) A61B 3/102 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 3/1233 (20130101) A61B 5/0066 (20130101) A61B 5/0205 (20130101) A61B 5/0261 (20130101) A61B 5/14507 (20130101) A61B 5/14517 (20130101) A61B 5/14532 (20130101) A61B 5/14535 (20130101) A61B 5/14542 (20130101) A61B 5/14551 (20130101) Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 9/02091 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/13 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0014 (20130101) G06T 2207/10028 (20130101) G06T 2207/10101 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09962084 | Ziaie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Babak Ziaie (West Lafayette, Indiana); Marcus Anthony Brown (Chicago, Illinois); Teimour Maleki-Jafarabadi (Thousand Oaks, California); Seung Hyun Song (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | An implantable pressure sensor arrangement is disclosed. The arrangement includes a substrate, a coil positioned on the substrate, a flexible membrane positioned proximate to the coil and configured to be moveable with respect to the coil, thereby forming a fluid chamber, fluidly sealed from outside of the implantable pressure sensor arrangement, a porous membrane positioned on the flexible membrane and configured to transfer pressure from outside of the implantable pressure sensor arrangement onto the flexible membrane wherein a differential pressure is generated on the two sides of the flexible membrane thereby causing the flexible membrane to deflect towards and away from the coil, and an electrode coupled to the flexible membrane. |
| FILED | Monday, June 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/305907 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0031 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/036 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09962090 | DiMaio et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SPECTRAL MD, INC. (Dallas, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Spectral MD, Inc. (Dallas, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Michael DiMaio (Dallas, Texas); Wensheng Fan (Dallas, Texas); Jeffrey E. Thatcher (Dallas, Texas); Weizhi Li (Dallas, Texas); Weirong Mo (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain aspects relate to apparatuses and techniques for non-invasive optical imaging that acquires a plurality of images corresponding to both different times and different frequencies. Additionally, alternatives described herein are used with a variety of tissue classification applications, including assessing the presence and severity of tissue conditions, such as burns and other wounds. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 11, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/646683 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0064 (20130101) A61B 5/0075 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/0261 (20130101) A61B 5/0295 (20130101) A61B 5/445 (20130101) |
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| US 09962136 | Pratx |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guillem Pratx (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of reconstructing time-varying position of individual radioactive point sources directly from Positron Emission Tomography (PET) measurements is provided that includes using a PET scanner to acquire list-mode coincidence events of a moving radioactive point source, using an appropriately programmed computer to model a trajectory of the moving radioactive point source as a 3D function of a temporal variable, then apply an optimization procedure to find the trajectory that minimizes a distance between the trajectory and the recorded list-mode coincidence events, and using the PET scanner to output a real time position of the radioactive point source. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 13, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/711396 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 6/037 (20130101) A61B 6/486 (20130101) A61B 6/508 (20130101) A61B 6/5264 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09962339 | Karp et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey M. Karp (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Nitin Joshi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Nikken Wiradharma (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Kai Vincent Slaughter (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-covalently assembled hydrogel or organo-gel composition with serum stability is described. Low molecular weight (<2,500 Da), generally regarded as safe (GRAS), materials assemble in the presence of a stabilizing agent at an appropriate molar percentage, forming hydrogel or organo-gel with nanostructures that resist disassembly or destabilization in serum for an extended period of time. The composition is used to deliver one or more therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic agents, allowing for controlled release in response to biological stimuli such as enzymes and a greatly improved dosing efficacy. |
| FILED | Friday, October 07, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/288816 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 9/5123 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/337 (20130101) A61K 49/0093 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09962348 | Tavazoie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sohail F. Tavazoie (New York, New York); Nora Pencheva (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses novel agents and methods for diagnosis and treatment of melanoma. Also disclosed are related arrays, kits, and screening methods. |
| FILED | Friday, July 14, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/650480 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/18 (20130101) A61K 31/47 (20130101) A61K 31/136 (20130101) A61K 31/195 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/265 (20130101) A61K 31/415 (20130101) A61K 31/416 (20130101) A61K 31/675 (20130101) A61K 31/4155 (20130101) A61K 31/4164 (20130101) A61K 31/4174 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) A61K 38/177 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 217/54 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 233/64 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 9/65061 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) C12Q 2600/118 (20130101) C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) C12Q 2600/178 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5743 (20130101) G01N 2500/10 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rashmi Hegde (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Inhibitors of EYA tyrosine phosphatase are provided herein, as well as pharmaceutical compositions and methods relating thereto. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/787677 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/343 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/381 (20130101) |
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| US 09962368 | McKnight et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven L. McKnight (Dallas, Texas); Andrew A. Pieper (Plano, Texas); Joseph M. Ready (Carrollton, Texas); Jef K. De Brabander (Flower Mound, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven L. McKnight (Dallas, Texas); Andrew A. Pieper (Plano, Texas); Joseph M. Ready (Carrollton, Texas); Jef K. De Brabander (Flower Mound, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | This technology relates generally to compounds and methods for stimulating neurogenesis (e.g., post-natal neurogenesis, including post-natal hippocampal and hypothalamic neurogenesis) and/or protecting neuronal cell from cell death. Various compounds are disclosed herein. In vivo activity tests suggest that these compounds may have therapeutic benefits in neuropsychiatric and/or neurodegenerative diseases such as schizophrenia, major depression, bipolar disorder, normal aging, epilepsy, traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, Down syndrome, spinocerebellar ataxia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Huntington's disease, stroke, radiation therapy, chronic stress, abuse of a neuro-active drug, retinal degeneration, spinal cord injury, peripheral nerve injury, physiological weight loss associated with various conditions, as well as cognitive decline associated with normal aging, chemotherapy, and the like. |
| FILED | Friday, August 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/594223 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/403 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/4439 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/08 (20130101) C07D 209/56 (20130101) C07D 209/86 (20130101) C07D 209/88 (20130101) C07D 401/06 (20130101) C07D 401/12 (20130101) C07D 403/06 (20130101) C07D 403/12 (20130101) C07D 405/12 (20130101) C07D 413/06 (20130101) C07D 471/04 (20130101) C07D 487/04 (20130101) C07D 495/04 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/022 (20130101) |
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| US 09962380 | Zhao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Xinyu Zhao (Madison, Wisconsin); Yue Li (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods of treating a cognitive deficit, including cognitive deficits associated with a Fmr1 genetic defect. More particularly, provided herein are methods in which an effective amount of a MDM2-p53 pathway inhibitor is administered to a subject afflicted with at least one cognitive deficit, whereby administration of the inhibitor improves, enhances, or rescues at least one cognitive deficit in the subject. |
| FILED | Friday, September 23, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/274983 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/404 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09962383 | Movassaghi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Board of Trustees of the University of Illionois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohammad Movassaghi (Arlington, Massachusetts); Paul J. Hergenrother (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention, among other things, provides compounds, compositions and methods for treatment of cancer. In some embodiments, the present invention provides methods for treating blood cancer using agelastatin alkaloids. |
| FILED | Friday, September 02, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/255224 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/4985 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09962401 | Yeo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yoon Yeo (West Lafayette, Indiana); Gaurav Bajaj (West Lafayette, Indiana); Peisheng Xu (Lafayette, Indiana); Karen Liu (Lafayette, Indiana); Eun Jung Cho (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides a polymer comprising a derivative of chitosan, wherein the derivative is zwitterionic, as well as methods of using the polymer. In addition, the present disclosure provides a nanoparticle structure comprising a derivative of chitosan and a dendrimer, as well as methods of utilizing the nanoparticle structure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 08, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/345870 |
| ART UNIT | 1611 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 9/19 (20130101) A61K 31/722 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 37/003 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 3/16 (20130101) C08J 2300/202 (20130101) C08J 2405/08 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 5/08 (20130101) C08L 5/08 (20130101) C08L 5/08 (20130101) C08L 5/08 (20130101) C08L 5/08 (20130101) C08L 79/02 (20130101) C08L 79/02 (20130101) C08L 79/02 (20130101) C08L 101/005 (20130101) C08L 101/005 (20130101) C08L 101/005 (20130101) C08L 2205/18 (20130101) |
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| US 09962411 | Tilly et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Lee Tilly (Windham, New Hampshire); Joshua Johnson (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to female germline stem cells and their progenitors, methods of isolation thereof, and methods of use thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/315220 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 67/0271 (20130101) A01K 67/0275 (20130101) A01K 2217/05 (20130101) A01K 2227/105 (20130101) A01K 2267/0393 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/54 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0607 (20130101) C12N 5/0611 (20130101) C12N 15/8775 (20130101) |
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| US 09962426 | Weeber et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edwin Weeber (Apollo Beach, Florida); Lisa Zhao (Alhambra, California); Melinda Peters (Riverview, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida); Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edwin Weeber (Apollo Beach, Florida); Lisa Zhao (Alhambra, California); Melinda Peters (Riverview, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods of influencing, and enhancing, cognitive function by increasing, and/or preventing interference with, Reelin levels as well as Reelin signaling. Cognitive function is improved, in a subject in need thereof, by administering a therapeutically effective amount of Reelin, a Reelin-specific modulator or an agonist of a lipoprotein receptor to the subject. The lipoprotein receptor can be selected from candidates such as ApoER2 and VLDLR. As disclosed herein, agonists of the lipoprotein receptor for use with the inventive method include APC, Sep and Fc-RAP. In addition to administering exogenous Reelin, a Reelin-specific modulator, such as a recombinant Reelin fragment, can be used to increase Reelin levels and/or signaling. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 15, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/969959 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/53 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09962436 | Mond et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE HENRY M. JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE, INC. (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James J Mond (Silver Spring, Maryland); Clifford M. Snapper (Potomac, Maryland); Xinle Cui (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides fusion proteins that incorporate unique mechanisms for multimerizmg antigens to enhance their immunogenicity. The fusion proteins comprise at least two antigens, or other vaccine related proteins, separated by a linker sequence and an oligomerization domain. When expressed, the fusion protein forms a muKimeric protein complex, This approach can be used to muHimeri?.e a single antigen/protein or to create multimers comprising two or more different antigens/proteins. Also provided are nucleic acids encoding the fusion proteins, Yet another aspect is directed to methods of inducing or suppressing an immune response in a subject by administering to the subject a vaccine composition comprising a fusion protein or nucleic acid encoding the fusion protein, optionally without using an adjuvant. |
| FILED | Friday, July 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/416780 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/21 (20130101) A61K 39/245 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/57 (20130101) A61K 2039/70 (20130101) A61K 2039/55505 (20130101) A61K 2039/55561 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2710/16234 (20130101) C12N 2740/15022 (20130101) C12N 2740/15034 (20130101) |
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| US 09962440 | Kuchroo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC. (Boston, Massachusetts); DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vijay K. Kuchroo (Newton Center, Massachusetts); Sumone Chakravarti (Victoria, Australia); Catherine A. Sabatos-Peyton (West Newton, Massachusetts); Gordon J. Freeman (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods useful for promoting or reducing T-cell trafficking to a target tissue. Also provided are compositions and methods useful for promoting or inhibiting antigen-presenting cell (APC) activation. The invention is related to discovery of functional characteristics of TIM-3, a molecule that is preferentially expressed on the surface of Th1 cells. The methods are useful for treating disorders including cancer, infectious disease, allergy, asthma, and autoimmune disease. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/464455 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 39/3955 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/18 (20130101) C07K 16/28 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) C07K 2317/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09962462 | Lavik |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erin Lavik (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides for dry spray compositions comprising co-polymers comprising a core, water-soluble polymer and a peptide. |
| FILED | Monday, June 13, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/180889 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — 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 26/0019 (20130101) A61L 26/0019 (20130101) A61L 26/0047 (20130101) A61L 26/0066 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 26/0076 (20130101) A61L 2300/222 (20130101) A61L 2300/252 (20130101) A61L 2300/418 (20130101) A61L 2300/624 (20130101) A61L 2400/04 (20130101) A61L 2400/12 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 81/00 (20130101) C08G 2650/02 (20130101) C08G 2650/38 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 71/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09962465 | Moradian-Oldak et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Janet Moradian-Oldak (Los Angeles, California); Qichao Ruan (Alhambra, California); Kaushik Mukherjee (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to regrow a protective layer over exposed/demineralized dentin that includes a step of identifying a subject having exposed/demineralized dentin. The demineralized dentin is contacted with a remineralization composition that includes an amelogenin and derived peptides, a chitosan, water, and a sufficient amount of a pH adjusting component such that the composition has a pH greater than about 6.0 such that dentinal tubules are occluded with apatite crystals and enamel is regrown on the dentinal tubules. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 06, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/202882 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — 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 27/46 (20130101) A61L 27/46 (20130101) A61L 27/52 (20130101) A61L 27/227 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 27/446 (20130101) A61L 27/446 (20130101) A61L 2430/12 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 5/08 (20130101) C08L 5/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09963439 | Diaz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington Through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington); UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA (Missoula, Montana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington Through Its Center For Commercialization (Seattle, Washington); University of Montana (Missoula, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philippe Diaz (Missoula, Montana); Nina Isoherranen (Seattle, Washington); Brian Buttrick (Seattle, Washington); Nicolas Guilloteau (Missoula, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure is generally directed to compositions and methods for treating diseases that are ameliorated by the inhibition of CYP26 mediated retinoic acid metabolism. The compositions comprise compounds of formula (I). A repreid50000060307390 IB/345 nullsents aryl optionally substituted with one, two, three, or four groups that are each independently halogen, cyano, nitro, C1-6 alkyl, C1-6 haloalkyl, —NH2, —NH(C1-C6 alkyl), —N(C1-C6 alkyl)2, —OH, C1-C6 alkoxy, and C1-C6 haloalkoxy; X is a bond, —CH2—, —CHR5—, —C═CHR4—, —NR4—, —N═O—R4—, —O—, —S—, —SO—, —SO2—, —C(O)—, or —C(NR4)—, or X is of formula (a), (b) or (c), wherein each n is independently 1, 2, or 3; each R4 is independently hydrogen or C1-6 alkyl; R5 is independently hydrogen, C1-6 alkyl, or —OR6, where R6 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, C1-6 alkyl, C2-6 alkenyl, C2-6 alkynyL C3-12 cycloalkyl, heterocyclyl, aryl, arylC1-6 alkyl, heteroaryl, or heteroarylC1-6 alkyl; Y is C1-6 alkylene, C2-6 alkenylene, or C2-6 alkylylene moiety. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/912479 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 57/50 (20130101) C07C 59/54 (20130101) C07C 59/72 (20130101) C07C 59/86 (20130101) C07C 69/73 (20130101) C07C 69/616 (20130101) C07C 69/734 (20130101) C07C 69/738 (20130101) C07C 229/42 (20130101) C07C 229/44 (20130101) C07C 317/44 (20130101) C07C 323/62 (20130101) C07C 323/65 (20130101) C07C 2602/10 (20170501) C07C 2602/28 (20170501) C07C 2603/74 (20170501) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 317/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 339/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09963444 | Malamas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Malamas (Boston, Massachusetts); Alexandros Makriyannis (Boston, Massachusetts); Kumara Vadivel Subramanian (Boston, Massachusetts); Kyle M. Whitten (Boston, Massachusetts); Nikolai M. Zvonok (Boston, Massachusetts); Jay Matthew West (Boston, Massachusetts); Michael Mccormack (Boston, Massachusetts); Spiro Pavlopoulos (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound is represented as Formula I, a tautomer thereof, a stereoisomer thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Compounds of Formula I are inhibitors of N-acylethanolamine hydrolyzing acid amidase (NAAA). The present technology is directed to compounds, compositions, and methods to inhibit N-acylethanolamine hydrolyzing acid amidase and to treat N-acylethanolamine hydrolyzing acid amidase mediated conditions in a subject. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 13, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 15/311817 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | General Methods of Organic Chemistry; Apparatus Therefor C07B 2200/07 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 255/46 (20130101) C07C 331/20 (20130101) C07C 331/24 (20130101) C07C 331/26 (20130101) C07C 2601/04 (20170501) C07C 2601/08 (20170501) C07C 2601/14 (20170501) C07C 2602/08 (20170501) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 205/04 (20130101) C07D 207/12 (20130101) C07D 211/10 (20130101) C07D 211/26 (20130101) C07D 211/46 (20130101) C07D 213/30 (20130101) C07D 213/36 (20130101) C07D 213/46 (20130101) C07D 213/64 (20130101) C07D 231/12 (20130101) C07D 239/26 (20130101) C07D 239/28 (20130101) C07D 241/18 (20130101) C07D 261/08 (20130101) C07D 295/13 (20130101) C07D 295/135 (20130101) C07D 317/54 (20130101) C07D 317/58 (20130101) C07D 319/18 (20130101) C07D 401/12 (20130101) C07D 403/12 (20130101) C07D 405/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 413/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09963450 | Jacobson 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); Saint Louis University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Saint Louis University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth A. Jacobson (Silver Spring, Maryland); Dilip K. Tosh (Rockville, Maryland); Daniela Salvemini (Chesterfield, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compounds of the formula (I) and (II) which are A3 adenosine receptor agonists, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, and a method of use of these compounds, wherein X, Y, Z, R2-R6, and R103-R106 are as defined in the specification. These compounds are selective to the A3 receptor, and are contemplated for use in the treatment or prevention of a number of diseases or conditions, for example, neuropathic pain. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 15/039778 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 473/00 (20130101) C07D 473/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 15/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09963466 | Hamm et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Heidi E. Hamm (Nashville, Tennessee); Shaun R. Stauffer (Nashville, Tennessee); Craig W. Lindsley (Brentwood, Tennessee); Matthew T. Duvernay (Nashville, Tennessee); Kayla J. Temple (Spring Hill, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention include compounds and compositions thereof to inhibit protease activated receptor-4. Also described are methods of preparation of compositions and methods for treating diseases related to thrombotic disorders by administration of the composition. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 07, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/452686 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 513/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09963481 | Micalizio et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Glenn C. Micalizio (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida); Thomas Kodadek (Jupiter, Florida); Mohosin Sarkar (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glenn C. Micalizio (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida); Thomas Kodadek (Jupiter, Florida); Mohosin Sarkar (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Chiral oligomeric pentenoate amides are bio-oligomer mimetics possessing a high degree of conformation rigidity. Conformational rigidity is desirable in the design of molecules with high affinities for biological receptors and enzymes. Libraries of such oligomeric mimetics, such as of chiral oligomeric pentenoate amides can be used to probe biological systems. The present invention provides a method for preparation of chiral oligomeric pentanoate amides comprising conversion of a chiral oxazolidinone (4) to a chiral monomer of formula (1) which can be oligomerized to a chiral compound of formula (12) and so forth. |
| FILED | Friday, September 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/343426 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/19 (20130101) A61K 31/192 (20130101) A61K 38/06 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) General Methods of Organic Chemistry; Apparatus Therefor C07B 53/00 (20130101) C07B 2200/07 (20130101) C07B 2200/11 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 51/00 (20130101) C07C 57/52 (20130101) C07C 57/54 (20130101) C07C 57/60 (20130101) C07C 57/64 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 405/10 (20130101) C07D 405/14 (20130101) Peptides C07K 5/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 5/0205 (20130101) C07K 5/0804 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5008 (20130101) G01N 2800/7028 (20130101) |
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| US 09963486 | Jois et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Seetharama D. Jois (West Monroe, Louisiana); Shanthi Kanthala (Monroe, Louisiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisors for the University of Louisiana System (Monroe, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seetharama D. Jois (West Monroe, Louisiana); Shanthi Kanthala (Monroe, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel peptidomimetic compounds are disclosed, compounds that inhibit protein-protein interactions (PPI) of epidermal growth factor receptors (EGFR), also called human epidermal growth factor receptors (HERs), and that block signaling for cell growth in HER2-overexpressed cancers. The novel peptidomimetics specifically bind the HER2 protein, and thereby inhibit dimerization. The peptidomimetics disrupt both HER2-HER3 and EGFR-HER2 heterodimer formation. The peptidomimetics can be used in the treatment of various types of HER2-overexpressed cancers, including lung, breast, and ovarian cancers. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 07, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 15/310238 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/03 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/64 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09963498 | Rapraeger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan C. Rapraeger (Stoughton, Wisconsin); DeannaLee M. Beauvais (Monona, Wisconsin); Oisun Jung (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A fusion peptides with sequences derived from the extracellular domain of syndecan-1 that inhibits VLA-4 and IGF-1R signaling are disclosed. The fusion peptides include an IGF-1R-binding segment having the amino acid sequence LPAGEGPKEGEAVVLPEVEPGLTAREQ (SEQ ID NO:1) and a VLA-4-binding segment having the amino acid sequence sequence DFTFETSGENTA (SEQ ID NO:2). |
| FILED | Friday, August 18, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/680423 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/177 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/70596 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2319/74 (20130101) |
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| US 09963501 | Haynes et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Tarrytown, New York); Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (Tarrytown, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barton Haynes (Durham, North Carolina); Garnett Kelsoe (Durham, North Carolina); Israel Lowy (Dobbs Ferry, New York); Aris I. Baras (Mount Kisco, New York); Lynn MacDonald (White Plains, New York); John McWhirter (Tarrytown, New York); Cagan Gurer (Valhalla, New York); Karolina A. Meagher (Tarrytown, New York); Andrew J. Murphy (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); George D. Yancopoulos (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Non-human animals with humanized immunoglobulin loci and methods of using them in vaccine design are described, as well as methods for making broadly neutralizing antibodies against infectious agents and pathogens are provided. Non-human animals with humanized immunoglobulin loci used in B-cell-lineage immunogen design in vaccine development are provided, as are methods of carrying out such design. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/174563 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 67/0278 (20130101) A01K 2217/072 (20130101) A01K 2227/105 (20130101) A01K 2267/01 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/10 (20130101) C07K 16/1018 (20130101) C07K 16/1045 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2500/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09963505 | Low et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana); THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip S. Low (West Lafayette, Indiana); Dimiter S. Dimitrov (Frederick, Maryland); Yang Feng (Frederick, Maryland); Jiayin Shen (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Human anti-human folate receptor beta antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof are described, as well as methods of using such antibodies and fragments to treat inflammatory disorders or cancers expressing cell surface FRβ. |
| FILED | Friday, April 08, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/094211 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 9/127 (20130101) A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 47/48561 (20130101) A61K 47/48823 (20130101) A61K 49/16 (20130101) A61K 49/0058 (20130101) A61K 51/1027 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/705 (20130101) C07K 16/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/21 (20130101) C07K 2317/33 (20130101) C07K 2317/54 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) C07K 2317/565 (20130101) C07K 2317/732 (20130101) |
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| US 09963666 | Allbritton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nancy Allbritton (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Christopher Sims (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Yuli Wang (Cary, North Carolina); Pavak Kirit Shah (Carrboro, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for collecting or culturing cells or cell colonies includes: a common substrate formed from a flexible resilient polymeric material and having a plurality of wells formed therein; and a plurality of rigid cell carriers releasably connected to said common substrate, with said carriers arranged in the form of an array, and with each of the carriers resiliently received in one of the wells. A method of collecting or culturing cells or cell colonies with such an apparatus is carried out by depositing a liquid media carrying cells on the apparatus so that said cells settle on or adhere to said the carriers; and then (c) releasing at least one selected carrier having said cells thereon by gradual application of release energy to each carrier from the cavity in which it is received (e.g., by pushing with a probe). |
| FILED | Monday, May 18, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/714597 |
| ART UNIT | 1799 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/0046 (20130101) B01J 2219/00452 (20130101) B01J 2219/00743 (20130101) Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 23/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12M 23/20 (20130101) C12M 23/22 (20130101) C12M 25/04 (20130101) C12M 25/16 (20130101) C12M 47/02 (20130101) C12M 47/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09963677 | Leen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ann M. Leen (Bellaire, Texas); Ulrike Gerdemann (Houston, Texas); Cliona M. Rooney (Bellaire, Texas); Juan Vera (Bellaire, Texas); John R. Wilson (New Brighton, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas); Wilson Wolf Manufacturing (New Brighton, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ann M. Leen (Bellaire, Texas); Ulrike Gerdemann (Houston, Texas); Cliona M. Rooney (Bellaire, Texas); Juan Vera (Bellaire, Texas); John R. Wilson (New Brighton, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention encompasses methods and compositions for the generation and use of cytotoxic T lymphocytes that target multiple viruses or that are specific for multiple tumor antigens. In specific embodiments, the generation methods employ use of certain cytokines to promote proliferation and reduce cell death in an activated T cell population and/or that employ a particular bioreactor having a gas permeable membrane. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/862409 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0011 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/155 (20130101) A61K 39/245 (20130101) A61K 2039/54 (20130101) A61K 2039/572 (20130101) A61K 2039/5158 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0636 (20130101) C12N 5/0638 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2501/23 (20130101) C12N 2501/2302 (20130101) C12N 2501/2306 (20130101) C12N 2501/2307 (20130101) C12N 2501/2312 (20130101) C12N 2501/2315 (20130101) C12N 2502/11 (20130101) |
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| US 09963679 | Taylor et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael J. Taylor (Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina); Simona C. Baicu (Charleston, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | LIFELINE SCIENTIFIC, INC. (Itasca, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Taylor (Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina); Simona C. Baicu (Charleston, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of preparing pancreatic islets that may comprise pancreatites are provided. The methods may involve subjecting a pancreas and/or pieces thereof to disruption, such as, for example, an enzyme digest, and seeding the recovered cellular product comprising islets in a culture medium comprising at least a detectable amount of endocrine tissue and/or exocrine tissue. |
| FILED | Friday, October 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/278492 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0677 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2500/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09963717 | Lois-Caballe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlos Lois-Caballe (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David Baltimore (Pasadena, California); Xiao-Feng Qin (Sugarland, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and compositions for the expression of small RNA molecules within a cell using a lentiviral vector. The methods can be used to express doubles stranded RNA complexes. Small interfering RNA (siRNA) can be expressed using the methods of the invention within a cell, which is capable of down regulating the expression of a target gene through RNA interference. A variety of cells can be treated according to the methods of the invention including embryos, embryogenic stem cells, allowing for the generation of transgenic animals or animals constituted partly by the transduced cells that have a specific gene or a group of genes down regulated. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 27, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/391189 |
| 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 7/00 (20130101) C12N 15/86 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2740/15043 (20130101) |
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| US 09963742 | Hsu 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) | Katharine Hsu (New York, New York); Jeanette Boudreau (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) characteristic of functional subgroups of KIR3DL1. Also disclosed herein are methods for classifying KIR3DL1 alleles by using a series of oligonucleotide primers and PCR reaction conditions uniquely designed to identify group-specific SNPs from genomic DNA. The compositions and methods disclosed herein are useful in clinical settings and research laboratories, and enable prospective assessment of prognoses of various diseases and selection of most appropriate donors for HCT. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/776581 |
| 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 1/6881 (20130101) C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/16 (20130101) C12Q 2600/112 (20130101) C12Q 2600/118 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) |
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| US 09963751 | Hu |
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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) | Jianming Hu (Hummelstown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are compositions and methods for identifying test agents as candidate for use in reducing hepatitis B virus (HBV). The methods involve a) introducing at least one test agent into mammalian cells, the cells having one or more plasmids that encode an HBV genome, wherein the genome includes a segment encoding a mutated HBV core (HBc), wherein the HBc mutation is L60A, I126A, K96A or a combination thereof. The test agent is allowed to be in contact with the mammalian cells for a period of time. Subsequently, amounts of HBV cccDNA in the mammalian cells are determined. The method can be performed in vitro or in vivo. A reduction in cccDNA relative to a control indicates the test agent in the test container is a candidate for reducing HBV in an individual. Cell cultures divided into reaction containers that each contain a distinct test agent are also included. |
| FILED | Friday, November 18, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/355643 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — 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 1/70 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/706 (20130101) C12Q 1/6816 (20130101) C12Q 1/6816 (20130101) C12Q 2525/307 (20130101) |
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| US 09964531 | Haley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael M. Haley (Eugene, Oregon); Darren W. Johnson (Eugene, Oregon); Jeff Engle (Eugene, Oregon); Calden Carroll (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are host or receptor compounds that bind targets of interest. In one embodiment the compounds bind ions, such as metal ions. A compound, or a protonate or salt thereof, having the formula of: Formula IIa wherein R6 is an aminoalkoxy, alkylamino, nitro or —NH2; n is 1 or 2; each R2 is independently selected from an optionally substituted alkyl, halogen, optionally substituted alkoxy, optionally substituted carboxyl, or amide; a is 0 to 4. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/760696 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/335 (20130101) C07D 213/36 (20130101) C07D 213/40 (20130101) C07D 213/56 (20130101) C07D 213/68 (20130101) C07D 213/74 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 31/22 (20130101) G01N 33/182 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/193333 (20150115) |
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| US 09964540 | Kwok et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Benaroya Research Institute (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Benaroya Research Institute (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William W. Kwok (Bellevue, Washington); Erik Wambre (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods of detecting and/or monitoring the presence or severity of an immune disorder in a subject, including detecting a frequency of a Th2a subset of CD4+ T cells in a biological sample of the subject. In some embodiments, the detecting includes: (a) detecting a frequency of CD4+ T cells in a biological sample of said subject; (b) detecting a frequency of a Th2a subset of the CD4+ T cells in the biological sample; and (c) comparing the frequency of the Th2a subset with the frequency of the CD4+ T cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 18, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/652560 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/35 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6893 (20130101) G01N 33/56972 (20130101) G01N 33/56977 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/726 (20130101) G01N 2333/70514 (20130101) G01N 2333/70596 (20130101) G01N 2800/24 (20130101) |
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| US 09964608 | Diamond et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Solomon G. Diamond (Hanover, New Hampshire); Bradley W. Ficko (West Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic nanoparticle imaging system has driving coils driven at multiple frequencies, the driving coils positioned to provide magnetic fields and field gradients to an imaging zone, and a static bias field magnet positioned to provide a static magnetic field and/or field gradient to the imaging zone. Magnetic sensors are positioned to sense magnetic fields from the imaging zone, and a signal processor processes signals from the sensors to find at least signal magnitude and phase at harmonics and/or intermodulation products of the multiple frequencies. In embodiments, the signal processing apparatus also determines signal magnitudes and phase of at least second and third harmonics of the first frequency, and maps location of nanoparticles in the imaging zone based upon the magnitudes of harmonics and magnitudes of the intermodulation products. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 15/309201 |
| ART UNIT | 2867 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0515 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/403 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/1276 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09964616 | Cauley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio); The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio); The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Cauley (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Mark Griswold (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Kawin Setsompop (Charlestown, Massachusetts); Lawrence Wald (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, apparatus, and other embodiments associated with producing a quantitative parameter map using magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) are described. One example apparatus includes a data store that stores a grouped set of MRF signal evolutions, including a group representative signal and a low-rank representative, a set of logics that collects a received signal evolution from a tissue experiencing nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in response to an MRF excitation, a correlation logic that computes a correlation between a portion of the received signal evolution and a portion of a group representative signal, a pruning logic that generates a pruned grouped set, and a matching logic that determines matching quantitative parameters based on the received signal evolution and the low-rank representative. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/711815 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 33/4828 (20130101) |
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| US 09965586 | Schuller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ivan K. Schuller (San Diego, California); Massimiliano Di Ventra (Carlsbad, California); Alexander Balatsky (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for processing macromolecule sequencing data with substantial noise reduction. In one aspect, a method for reducing noise in a sequential measurement of a macromolecule comprising serial subunits includes cross-correlating multiple measured signals of a physical property of subunits of interest of the macromolecule, the multiple measured signals including the time data associated with the measurement of the signal, to remove or at least reduce signal noise that is not in the same frequency and in phase with the systematic signal contribution of the measured signals. |
| FILED | Friday, March 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/664738 |
| 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 | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09965862 | Jensen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jens Jensen (Scarsdale, New York); Joseph Helpern (Cornwall, New York); Ali Tabesh (New York, New York); Els Fieremans (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Exemplary method, system, and computer-accessible medium can be provided for determining a measure of diffusional kurtosis by receiving data relating to at least one diffusion weighted image, and determining a measure of a diffusional kurtosis as a function of the received data using a closed form solution procedure. In accordance with certain exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, provided herein are computer-accessible medium, systems and methods for, e.g., imaging in an MRI system, and, more particularly for facilitating estimation of tensors and tensor-derived measures in diffusional kurtosis imaging (DKI). For example, DKI can facilitate a characterization of non-Gaussian diffusion of water molecules in biological tissues. The diffusion and kurtosis tensors parameterizing the DKI model can typically be estimated via unconstrained least squares (LS) methods. In the presence of noise, motion, and imaging artifacts, these methods can be prone to producing physically and/or biologically implausible tensor estimates. The exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure can address at least this deficiency by formulating an exemplary estimation problem, e.g., as linearly constrained linear LS, where the constraints can ensure acceptable tensor estimates. |
| FILED | Monday, August 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/462215 |
| ART UNIT | 2667 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/4088 (20130101) A61B 2576/026 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/5608 (20130101) G01R 33/56341 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/11 (20170101) G06T 7/0012 (20130101) G06T 7/0081 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2207/10088 (20130101) G06T 2207/10092 (20130101) G06T 2207/30016 (20130101) |
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09966167 — Superconducting joint for high-temperature superconducting Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x (Bi-2212) wire
| US 09966167 | Trociewitz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ulf Peter Trociewitz (Crawfordville, Florida); Peng Chen (Tallahassee, Florida); David K. Hilton (Tallahassee, Florida); Dmytro V. Abraimov (Tallahassee, Florida); William L. Starch (Crawfordville, Florida); David C. Larbalestier (Tallahassee, Florida); Jianyi Jiang (Tallahassee, Florida); Eric E. Hellstrom (Tallahassee, Florida); Ernesto S. Bosque (Tallahassee, Florida); Maxime Matras (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a system and method for producing superconducting joints between superconductive segments of a Bi-2212 high-temperature superconducting (HTS) conductor, thereby eliminating the heat generating resistive joints that are commonly known in the art for connecting two or more smaller Bi-2212 conductive segments to create an Bi-2212 conductor of adequate length. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 24, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/052276 |
| ART UNIT | 2847 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 12/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01B 13/0036 (20130101) Installation of Electric Cables or Lines, or of Combined Optical and Electric Cables or Lines H02G 15/34 (20130101) |
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| US 09966244 | Anderson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gordon A. Anderson (Benton City, Washington); Erin M. Baker (West Richland, Washington); Richard D. Smith (Richland, Washington); Yehia M. Ibrahim (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An ion manipulation method and device is disclosed. The device includes a pair of substantially parallel surfaces. An array of inner electrodes is contained within, and extends substantially along the length of, each parallel surface. The device includes a first outer array of electrodes and a second outer array of electrodes. Each outer array of electrodes is positioned on either side of the inner electrodes, and is contained within and extends substantially along the length of each parallel surface. A DC voltage is applied to the first and second outer array of electrodes. A RF voltage, with a superimposed electric field, is applied to the inner electrodes by applying the DC voltages to each electrode. Ions either move between the parallel surfaces within an ion confinement area or along paths in the direction of the electric field, or can be trapped in the ion confinement area. |
| FILED | Monday, October 23, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/790701 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/062 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09961909 | Dunn-Coleman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Danisco US Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | DANISCO US INC. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nigel Dunn-Coleman (El Sauzal, Spain); Michael Ward (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a novel β-glucosidase nucleic acid sequence, designated bgl6, and the corresponding BGL6 amino acid sequence. The invention also provides expression vectors and host cells comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding BGL6, recombinant BGL6 proteins and methods for producing the same. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 09, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/795152 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Treatment, e.g Preservation, of Flour or Dough, e.g by Addition of Materials; Baking; Bakery Products; Preservation Thereof A21D 8/042 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Detergent Compositions; Use of Single Substances as Detergents; Soap or Soap-making; Resin Soaps; Recovery of Glycerol C11D 3/38645 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/244 (20130101) C12N 9/2437 (20130101) C12N 9/2445 (20130101) C12N 15/1137 (20130101) C12N 2310/11 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/14 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 302/01021 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/17 (20130101) |
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| US 09962905 | Duoss et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eric Duoss (Dublin, California); James M. Frank (Lewisville, Texas); Joshua Kuntz (Livermore, California); Robert S. Maxwell (Danville, California); Thomas R. Metz (Tracy, California); Christopher Spadaccini (Oakland, California); Thomas S. Wilson (San Leandro, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Duoss (Dublin, California); James M. Frank (Lewisville, Texas); Joshua Kuntz (Livermore, California); Robert S. Maxwell (Danville, California); Thomas R. Metz (Tracy, California); Christopher Spadaccini (Oakland, California); Thomas S. Wilson (San Leandro, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A three-dimensionally patterned energy absorptive material and fabrication method having multiple layers of patterned filaments extrusion-formed from a curable pre-cursor material and stacked and cured in a three-dimensionally patterned architecture so that the energy absorptive material produced thereby has an engineered bulk property associated with the three-dimensionally patterned architecture. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/905056 |
| ART UNIT | 1781 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 67/20 (20130101) Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 5/12 (20130101) B32B 5/18 (20130101) B32B 5/26 (20130101) B32B 5/245 (20130101) B32B 7/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B32B 37/153 (20130101) B32B 2266/06 (20130101) B32B 2266/08 (20130101) B32B 2307/56 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24628 (20150115) Y10T 428/24744 (20150115) Y10T 428/24851 (20150115) |
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| US 09963344 | Monson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Enrique J. Lavernia (Laguna Beach, California); Baolong Zheng (Woodland, California); Yizhang Zhou (Irvine, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Technology and Engineering Solution of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd Monson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Enrique J. Lavernia (Laguna Beach, California); Baolong Zheng (Woodland, California); Yizhang Zhou (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Bulk iron nitride can be synthesized from iron nitride powder by spark plasma sintering. The iron nitride can be spark plasma sintered at a temperature of less than 600° C. and a pressure of less than 600 MPa, with 400 MPa or less most often being sufficient. High pressure SPS can consolidate dense iron nitrides at a lower temperature to avoid decomposition. The higher pressure and lower temperature of spark discharge sintering avoids decomposition and limits grain growth, enabling enhanced magnetic properties. The method can further comprise synthesis of nanocrystalline iron nitride powders using two-step reactive milling prior to high-pressure spark discharge sintering. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 20, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/002220 |
| ART UNIT | 1741 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 21/0622 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2004/62 (20130101) C01P 2004/64 (20130101) Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/645 (20130101) C04B 35/6264 (20130101) C04B 35/58042 (20130101) C04B 35/62615 (20130101) C04B 2235/77 (20130101) C04B 2235/81 (20130101) C04B 2235/405 (20130101) C04B 2235/656 (20130101) C04B 2235/666 (20130101) C04B 2235/3852 (20130101) C04B 2235/5436 (20130101) C04B 2235/5454 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 1/086 (20130101) |
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| US 09963356 | Bourret-Courchesne et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edith Bourret-Courchesne (Berkeley, California); Stephen E. Derenzo (Pinole, California); Scott Edward Taylor (Pleasant Hill, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edith Bourret-Courchesne (Berkeley, California); Stephen E. Derenzo (Pinole, California); Scott Edward Taylor (Pleasant Hill, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a composition comprising an inorganic scintillator comprising an alkali metal hafnate, optionally cerium-doped, having the formula A2HfO3:Ce; wherein A is an alkali metal having a valence of 1, such as Li or Na; and the molar percent of cerium is 0% to 100%. The alkali metal hafnate are scintillators and produce a bright luminescence upon irradiation by a suitable radiation. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/262112 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 27/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/52 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/671 (20130101) C09K 11/7715 (20130101) C09K 11/7716 (20130101) Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/2023 (20130101) Techniques for Handling Particles or Ionising Radiation Not Otherwise Provided For; Irradiation Devices; Gamma Ray or X-ray Microscopes G21K 4/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09963394 | Brown-Shaklee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harlan James Brown-Shaklee (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jon Ihlefeld (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Erik David Spoerke (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mia Angelica Blea-Kirby (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to produce high density, uniform lithium lanthanum tantalate lithium-ion conducting ceramics uses small particles that are sintered in a pressureless crucible that limits loss of Li2O. |
| FILED | Friday, January 29, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/010875 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/64 (20130101) C04B 35/495 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C04B 35/6261 (20130101) C04B 35/62645 (20130101) C04B 2235/77 (20130101) C04B 2235/80 (20130101) C04B 2235/81 (20130101) C04B 2235/443 (20130101) C04B 2235/449 (20130101) C04B 2235/668 (20130101) C04B 2235/3203 (20130101) C04B 2235/3227 (20130101) C04B 2235/5436 (20130101) C04B 2235/6567 (20130101) |
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| US 09963597 | Aizenberg 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) | Joanna Aizenberg (Boston, Massachusetts); Michael Aizenberg (Boston, Massachusetts); Jiaxi Cui (Somerville, Massachusetts); Stuart Dunn (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Benjamin Hatton (Toronto, Canada); Caitlin Howell (Somerville, Massachusetts); Philseok Kim (Arlington, Massachusetts); Tak Sing Wong (State College, Pennsylvania); Xi Yao (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure describes a strategy to create self-healing, slippery self-lubricating polymers. Lubricating liquids with affinities to polymers can be utilized to get absorbed within the polymer and form a lubricant layer (of the lubricating liquid) on the polymer. The lubricant layer can repel a wide range of materials, including simple and complex fluids (water, hydrocarbons, crude oil and bodily fluids), restore liquid-repellency after physical damage, and resist ice, microorganisms and insects adhesion. Some exemplary applications where self-lubricating polymers will be useful include energy-efficient, friction-reduction fluid handling and transportation, medical devices, anti-icing, optical sensing, and as self-cleaning, and anti-fouling materials operating in extreme environments. |
| FILED | Friday, July 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/414291 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| 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 29/14 (20130101) A61L 29/085 (20130101) A61L 29/085 (20130101) A61L 31/04 (20130101) A61L 31/06 (20130101) A61L 31/06 (20130101) A61L 31/14 (20130101) A61L 31/049 (20130101) A61L 2400/10 (20130101) Separation B01D 65/08 (20130101) B01D 2321/00 (20130101) Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 5/08 (20130101) Cleaning in General; Prevention of Fouling in General B08B 17/025 (20130101) B08B 17/065 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 2300/00 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 83/04 (20130101) C08L 83/04 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 5/1637 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C09D 5/1675 (20130101) C09D 5/1693 (20130101) C09D 201/005 (20130101) Lubricating Compositions; Use of Chemical Substances Either Alone or as Lubricating Ingredients in a Lubricating Composition C10M 105/76 (20130101) C10M 171/00 (20130101) C10M 2203/1006 (20130101) C10M 2229/025 (20130101) C10M 2229/0515 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass C10M Relating to Lubricating Compositions C10N 2250/18 (20130101) C10N 2270/00 (20130101) |
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09963709 — Transformable Rhodobacter strains, method for producing transformable Rhodobacter strains
| US 09963709 | Laible et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Philip D. Laible (Villa Park, Illinois); Deborah K. Hanson (Villa Park, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip D. Laible (Villa Park, Illinois); Deborah K. Hanson (Villa Park, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides an organism for expressing foreign DNA, the organism engineered to accept standard DNA carriers. The genome of the organism codes for intracytoplasmic membranes and features an interruption in at least one of the genes coding for restriction enzymes. Further provided is a system for producing biological materials comprising: selecting a vehicle to carry DNA which codes for the biological materials; determining sites on the vehicle's DNA sequence susceptible to restriction enzyme cleavage; choosing an organism to accept the vehicle based on that organism not acting upon at least one of said vehicle's sites; engineering said vehicle to contain said DNA; thereby creating a synthetic vector; and causing the synthetic vector to enter the organism so as cause expression of said DNA. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/619406 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/22 (20130101) C12N 15/74 (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 21/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09963770 | Rios et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Eck Industries, Inc. (Manitowoc, Wisconsin); Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Industrial Partnership Office (Livermore, California); Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Orlando Rios (Knoxville, Tennessee); Alexander H. King (Ames, Iowa); Scott K. McCall (Livermore, California); Michael A. McGuire (Knoxville, Tennessee); Zachary C. Sims (Knoxville, Tennessee); Cori Thorne (Manitowoc, Wisconsin); David Weiss (Manitowoc, Wisconsin); Gerard M. Ludtka (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A cast alloy includes aluminum and from about 5 to about 30 weight percent of at least one material selected from the group consisting of cerium, lanthanum, and mischmetal. The cast alloy has a strengthening Al11X3 intermetallic phase in an amount in the range of from about 5 to about 30 weight percent, wherein X is at least one of cerium, lanthanum, and mischmetal. The Al11X3 intermetallic phase has a microstructure that includes at least one of lath features and rod morphological features. The morphological features have an average thickness of no more than 700 um and an average spacing of no more than 10 um, the microstructure further comprising an eutectic microconstituent that comprises more than about 10 volume percent of the microstructure. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 07, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/204169 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Casting of Metals; Casting of Other Substances by the Same Processes or Devices B22D 21/007 (20130101) Alloys C22C 1/026 (20130101) C22C 21/06 (20130101) Changing the Physical Structure of Non-ferrous Metals and Non-ferrous Alloys C22F 1/047 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09964431 | Moore 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) | Sean Moore (Los Angeles, California); Daniel B. S. Soh (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The various technologies presented herein relate to extracting a portion of each pulse in a series of pulses reflected from a target to facilitate determination of a Doppler-shifted frequency for each pulse and, subsequently, a vibration frequency for the series of pulses. Each pulse can have a square-wave configuration, whereby each pulse can be time-gated to facilitate discarding the leading edge and the trailing edge (and associated non-linear effects) of each pulse and accordingly, capture of the central portion of the pulse from which the Doppler-shifted frequency, and ultimately, the vibration frequency of the target can be determined. Determination of the vibration velocity facilitates identification of the target being in a state of motion. The plurality of pulses can be formed from a laser beam (e.g., a continuous wave), the laser beam having a narrow bandwidth. |
| FILED | Friday, November 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/541609 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 9/02007 (20130101) G01B 9/02084 (20130101) Measurement of Mechanical Vibrations or Ultrasonic, Sonic or Infrasonic Waves G01H 9/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09964489 | Levenson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Levenson (Davis, California); Stavros Demos (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed for analyzing a thin tissue sample and adapted to be supported on a slide. The tissue sample may be placed on a slide and exposed to one or more different exogenous fluorophores excitable in a range of about 300 nm-200 nm, and having a useful emission band from about 350 nm-900 nm, and including one or more fluorescent dyes or fluorescently labeled molecular probes that accumulate in tissue or cellular components. The fluorophores may be excited with a first wavelength of UV light between about 200 nm-290 nm. An optical system collects emissions from the fluorophores at a second wavelength, different from the first wavelength, which are generated in response to the first wavelength of UV light, to produce an image for analysis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 22, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/466195 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6428 (20130101) G01N 21/6458 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/52 (20130101) |
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| US 09964494 | Poole et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zsolt Poole (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Paul R. Ohodnicki (Allison Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor using thermally emissive materials for chemical spectroscopy analysis includes an emissive material, wherein the emissive material includes the thermally emissive materials which emit electromagnetic radiation, wherein the electromagnetic radiation is modified due to chemical composition in an environment; and a detector adapted to detect the electromagnetic radiation, wherein the electromagnetic radiation is indicative of the chemical interaction changes and hence chemical composition and/or chemical composition changes of the environment. The emissive material can be utilized with an optical fiber sensor, with the optical fiber sensor operating without the emissive material probed with a light source external to the material. |
| FILED | Friday, May 20, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/160389 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/71 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09964651 | Friedman |
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| APPLICANT(S) | INTEGRATED SENSORS, LLC (Ottawa Hills, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Integrated Sensors, LLC (Ottawa Hills, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter S. Friedman (Ottawa Hills, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultra-thin radiation detector includes a radiation detector gas chamber having at least one ultra-thin chamber window and an ultra-thin first substrate contained within the gas chamber. The detector further includes a second substrate generally parallel to and coupled to the first substrate and defining a gas gap between the first substrate and the second substrate. The detector further includes a discharge gas between the substrates and contained within the gas chamber, where the discharge gas is free to circulate within the gas chamber and between the first and second substrates at a given gas pressure. The detector further includes a first electrode coupled to one of the substrates and a second electrode electrically coupled to the first electrode. The detector further includes a first discharge event detector coupled to at least one of the electrodes for detecting a gas discharge counting event in the electrode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 18, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/652358 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/18 (20130101) G01T 1/185 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01T 1/2935 (20130101) |
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| US 09964846 | Geohegan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David B. Geohegan (Knoxville, Tennessee); Christopher M. Rouleau (Knoxville, Tennessee); Kai Wang (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Kai Xiao (Knoxville, Tennessee); Ming-Wei Lin (Guilderland, New York); Alexander A. Puretzky (Knoxville, Tennessee); Masoud Mahjouri-Samani (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, articles of manufacture and systems for creating new nanoscale two dimensional materials comprising designed arrays of lateral or vertical heterojunctions may be fabricated by first lithographically masking a 2D material. Exposed, or unmasked, regions of the 2D material may be converted to a different composition of matter to form lateral or vertical heterojunctions according to the patterned mask. PLD and high kinetic energy impingement of atoms may replace or add atoms in the exposed regions, and a plurality of the exposed regions may be converted concurrently. The process may be repeated one or more times on either side of the same 2D material to form any suitable combination of lateral heterojunctions and/or vertical heterojunctions, comprising semiconductors, metals or insulators or any suitable combination thereof. Furthermore, the resulting 2D material may comprise p-n, n-n, p-p, n-p-n and p-n-p junctions, or any suitable combination thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 20, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/215389 |
| ART UNIT | 2898 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | 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 1/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0332 (20130101) H01L 21/02568 (20130101) H01L 21/02664 (20130101) H01L 29/24 (20130101) H01L 29/0661 (20130101) H01L 29/735 (20130101) H01L 29/778 (20130101) H01L 29/1606 (20130101) |
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| US 09965187 | Gokhale et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maya Gokhale (Livermore, California); G. Scott Lloyd (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A memory subsystem package is provided that has processing logic for data reorganization within the memory subsystem package. The processing logic is adapted to reorganize data stored within the memory subsystem package. In some embodiments, the memory subsystem package includes memory units, a memory interconnect, and a data reorganization engine (“DRE”). The data reorganization engine includes a stream interconnect and DRE units including a control processor and a load-store unit. The control processor is adapted to execute instructions to control a data reorganization. The load-store unit is adapted to process data move commands received from the control processor via the stream interconnect for loading data from a load memory address of a memory unit and storing data to a store memory address of a memory unit. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 18, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/047173 |
| ART UNIT | 2139 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/0605 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 3/0626 (20130101) G06F 3/0647 (20130101) G06F 3/0658 (20130101) G06F 3/0673 (20130101) |
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| US 09965586 | Schuller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ivan K. Schuller (San Diego, California); Massimiliano Di Ventra (Carlsbad, California); Alexander Balatsky (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for processing macromolecule sequencing data with substantial noise reduction. In one aspect, a method for reducing noise in a sequential measurement of a macromolecule comprising serial subunits includes cross-correlating multiple measured signals of a physical property of subunits of interest of the macromolecule, the multiple measured signals including the time data associated with the measurement of the signal, to remove or at least reduce signal noise that is not in the same frequency and in phase with the systematic signal contribution of the measured signals. |
| FILED | Friday, March 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/664738 |
| 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 | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09966161 | Shu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Deming Shu (Darien, Illinois); Yury Shvydko (Lisle, Illinois); Stanislav Stoupin (Willowbrook, Illinois); Kwang-Je Kim (Burr Ridge, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and mechanical design for a thin-film diamond crystal mounting apparatus for coherence preservation x-ray optics with optimized thermal contact and minimized crystal strain are provided. The novel thin-film diamond crystal mounting apparatus mounts a thin-film diamond crystal supported by a thick chemical vapor deposition (CVD) diamond film spacer with a thickness slightly thicker than the thin-film diamond crystal, and two groups of thin film thermal conductors, such as thin CVD diamond film thermal conductor groups separated by the thick CVD diamond spacer. The two groups of thin CVD film thermal conductors provide thermal conducting interface media with the thin-film diamond crystal. A piezoelectric actuator is integrated into a flexural clamping mechanism generating clamping force from zero to an optimal level. |
| FILED | Monday, September 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/859697 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Techniques for Handling Particles or Ionising Radiation Not Otherwise Provided For; Irradiation Devices; Gamma Ray or X-ray Microscopes G21K 1/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class X-ray Technique H05G 1/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09966171 | Klausner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James F. Klausner (Gainesville, Florida); Renwei Mei (Gainesville, Florida); Ayyoub Mehdizadeh Momen (Gainesville, Florida); Kyle Allen (Winter Garden, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James F. Klausner (Gainesville, Florida); Renwei Mei (Gainesville, Florida); Ayyoub Mehdizadeh Momen (Gainesville, Florida); Kyle Allen (Winter Garden, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a method comprising disposing a first particle in a reactor; the first particle being a magnetic particle or a particle that can be influenced by a magnetic field, an electric field or a combination of an electrical field and a magnetic field; fluidizing the first particle in the reactor; applying a uniform magnetic field, a uniform electrical field or a combination of a uniform magnetic field and a uniform electrical field to the reactor; elevating the temperature of the reactor; and fusing the first particles to form a monolithic solid. |
| FILED | Friday, July 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/131357 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 23/745 (20130101) B01J 37/0009 (20130101) B01J 37/0221 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 32/50 (20170801) Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/01 (20130101) C04B 35/515 (20130101) C04B 38/0038 (20130101) C04B 38/0038 (20130101) C04B 38/0038 (20130101) C04B 38/0096 (20130101) C04B 38/0096 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 1/01 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01F 41/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09966198 | Kanatzidis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mercouri G. Kanatzidis (Wilmette, Illinois); Robert P. H. Chang (Glenview, Illinois); Konstantinos Stoumpos (Chicago, Illinois); Byunghong Lee (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Solar cells are provided which comprise an electron transporting layer and a light sensitizing layer of perovskite disposed over the surface of the electron transporting layer. The perovskite may have a formula selected from the group consisting of A2MX6, Z2MX6 or YMX6, wherein A is an alkali metal, M is a metal or a metalloid, X is a halide, Z is selected from the group consisting of a primary ammonium, an iminium, a secondary ammonium, a tertiary ammonium, and a quaternary ammonium, and Y has formula Mb(L)3, wherein Mb is a transition metal in the 2+ oxidation state L is an N—N neutral chelating ligand. Methods of making the solar cells are also provided, including methods based on electrospray deposition. |
| FILED | Friday, April 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/695273 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 9/0029 (20130101) H01G 9/2027 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01G 9/2059 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/032 (20130101) H01L 51/4226 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) |
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| US 09966224 | Agrawal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ScienceTomorrow LLC (Lexington, Kentucky) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Jyoti Agrawal (Lexington, Kentucky); David C. Joy (Knoxville, Tennessee); Subuhadarshi Nayak (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | Quantitative Secondary Electron Detection (QSED) using the array of solid state devices (SSD) based electron-counters enable critical dimension metrology measurements in materials such as semiconductors, nanomaterials, and biological samples (FIG. 3). Methods and devices effect a quantitative detection of secondary electrons with the array of solid state detectors comprising a number of solid state detectors. An array senses the number of secondary electrons with a plurality of solid state detectors, counting the number of secondary electrons with a time to digital converter circuit in counter mode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/918560 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 37/28 (20130101) H01J 37/244 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 37/285 (20130101) H01J 2237/2441 (20130101) |
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| US 09966244 | Anderson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gordon A. Anderson (Benton City, Washington); Erin M. Baker (West Richland, Washington); Richard D. Smith (Richland, Washington); Yehia M. Ibrahim (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An ion manipulation method and device is disclosed. The device includes a pair of substantially parallel surfaces. An array of inner electrodes is contained within, and extends substantially along the length of, each parallel surface. The device includes a first outer array of electrodes and a second outer array of electrodes. Each outer array of electrodes is positioned on either side of the inner electrodes, and is contained within and extends substantially along the length of each parallel surface. A DC voltage is applied to the first and second outer array of electrodes. A RF voltage, with a superimposed electric field, is applied to the inner electrodes by applying the DC voltages to each electrode. Ions either move between the parallel surfaces within an ion confinement area or along paths in the direction of the electric field, or can be trapped in the ion confinement area. |
| FILED | Monday, October 23, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/790701 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/062 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09966491 | Chandrashekhar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | MVS Chandrashekhar (Columbia, South Carolina); Tangali S. Sudarshan (Columbia, South Carolina); Sabih U. Omar (West Columbia, South Carolina); Gabriel Brown (Lexington, South Carolina); Shamaita S. Shetu (West Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A bi-polar device is provided, along with methods of making the same. The bi-polar device can include a semiconductor substrate doped with a first dopant, a semiconductor layer on the first surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a Schottky barrier layer on the semiconductor layer. The method of forming a bi-polar device can include: forming a semiconductor layer on a first surface of a semiconductor substrate, where the semiconductor substrate comprises a first dopant and where the semiconductor layer comprises a second dopant that has an opposite polarity than the first dopant; and forming a Schottky barrier layer on a first portion of the semiconductor layer while leaving a second portion of the semiconductor layer exposed. |
| FILED | Monday, February 22, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/049743 |
| ART UNIT | 2899 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/028 (20130101) H01L 31/1105 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/1804 (20130101) H01L 31/022408 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/547 (20130101) |
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| US 09966598 | Cui 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) | Yi Cui (Stanford, California); Jie Zhao (Stanford, California); Zhenda Lu (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described here is a method for making an anode of a rechargeable battery, comprising incorporating a composition comprising LixM into the anode, wherein M is a Group 14 element. Also described here is an anode comprising a composition comprising LixM, wherein M is a Group 14 element, and a rechargeable battery comprising the anode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 29, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/869800 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/38 (20130101) H01M 4/364 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/386 (20130101) H01M 4/387 (20130101) H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) H01M 2004/027 (20130101) H01M 2220/10 (20130101) H01M 2220/20 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/7011 (20130101) |
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| US 09966602 | Lu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. (Camas, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. (Camas, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuhao Lu (Vancouver, Washington); Long Wang (Vancouver, Washington); Sean Vail (Vancouver, Washington); Jong-Jan Lee (Camas, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are presented for synthesizing metal cyanometallate (MCM). A first method provides a first solution of AXM2Y(CN)Z, to which a second solution including M1 is dropwise added. As a result, a precipitate is formed of ANM1PM2Q (CN)R.FH2O, where N is in the range of 1 to 4. A second method for synthesizing MCM provides a first solution of M2C(CN)B, which is dropwise added to a second solution including M1. As a result, a precipitate is formed of M1[M2S(CN)G]1/T.DH2O, where S/T is greater than or equal to 0.8. Low vacancy MCM materials are also presented. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 29, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/279588 |
| ART UNIT | 1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammonia; Cyanogen; Compounds Thereof C01C 3/11 (20130101) C01C 3/12 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/50 (20130101) C01P 2006/40 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/58 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09966622 | Huskinson 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) | Brian Huskinson (Flower Mound, Texas); Michael Marshak (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Michael J. Aziz (Concord, Massachusetts); Roy G. Gordon (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Theodore A. Betley (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Alan Aspuru-Guzik (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Suleyman Er (Katwijk, Netherlands); Changwon Suh (Centreville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides an electrochemical cell based on a new chemistry for a flow battery for large scale, e.g., gridscale, electrical energy storage. Electrical energy is stored chemically at an electrochemical electrode by the protonation of small organic molecules called quinones to hydroquinones. The proton is provided by a complementary electrochemical reaction at the other electrode. These reactions are reversed to deliver electrical energy. A flow battery based on this concept can operate as a closed system. The flow battery architecture has scaling advantages over solid electrode batteries for large scale energy storage. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 11, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/823546 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/60 (20130101) H01M 4/9008 (20130101) H01M 8/20 (20130101) H01M 8/083 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/188 (20130101) H01M 8/04186 (20130101) H01M 8/04201 (20130101) H01M 2300/0014 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/528 (20130101) |
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| US 09966625 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Argonne, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lu Zhang (Lisle, Illinois); Jinhua Huang (Willowbrook, Illinois); Anthony Burrell (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a non-aqueous redox flow battery comprising a negative electrode immersed in a non-aqueous liquid negative electrolyte, a positive electrode immersed in a non-aqueous liquid positive electrolyte, and a cation-permeable separator (e.g., a porous membrane, film, sheet, or panel) between the negative electrolyte from the positive electrolyte. During charging and discharging, the electrolytes are circulated over their respective electrodes. The electrolytes each comprise an electrolyte salt (e.g., a lithium or sodium salt), a transition-metal free redox reactant, and optionally an electrochemically stable organic solvent. Each redox reactant is selected from an organic compound comprising a conjugated unsaturated moiety, a boron cluster compound, and a combination thereof. The organic redox reactant of the positive electrolyte comprises a tetrafluorohydroquinone ether compound or a tetrafluorocatechol ether compound. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/476202 |
| 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 4/9008 (20130101) H01M 8/20 (20130101) H01M 8/188 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 2300/0028 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/528 (20130101) |
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| US 09966897 | Reddy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patel Bhageerath Reddy (Niskayuna, New York); Ayman Mohamed Fawzi El-Refaie (Niskayuna, New York); Kum-Kang Huh (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for heating ferrite permanent magnets in an electrical machine is disclosed. The permanent magnet machine includes a stator assembly and a rotor assembly, with a plurality of ferrite permanent magnets disposed within the stator assembly or the rotor assembly to generate a magnetic field that interacts with a stator magnetic field to produce a torque. A controller of the electrical machine is programmed to cause a primary field current to be applied to the stator windings to generate the stator magnetic field, so as to cause the rotor assembly to rotate relative to the stator assembly. The controller is further programmed to cause a secondary current to be applied to the stator windings to selectively generate a secondary magnetic field, the secondary magnetic field inducing eddy currents in at least one of the stator assembly and the rotor assembly to heat the ferrite permanent magnets. |
| FILED | Friday, May 05, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/588044 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamo-electric Machines H02K 1/17 (20130101) H02K 1/246 (20130101) H02K 11/25 (20160101) Control or Regulation of Electric Motors, Electric Generators or Dynamo-electric Converters; Controlling Transformers, Reactors or Choke Coils H02P 29/60 (20160201) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09966966 | Czaplewski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Czaplewski (Naperville, Illinois); Omar Lopez (Chicago, Illinois); Jeffrey R. Guest (Northbrook, Illinois); Dario Antonio (Rio Negro, Argentina); Sebastian I. Arroyo (Buenos Aries, Argentina); Damian H. Zanette (Rio Negro, Argentina) |
| ABSTRACT | An autonomous oscillator synchronizes to an external harmonic force only when the forcing frequency lies within a certain interval, known as the synchronization range, around the oscillator's natural frequency. Under ordinary conditions, the width of the synchronization range decreases when the oscillation amplitude grows, which constrains synchronized motion of micro- and nano-mechanical resonators to narrow frequency and amplitude bounds. The present invention shows that nonlinearity in the oscillator can be exploited to manifest a regime where the synchronization range increases with an increasing oscillation amplitude. The present invention shows that nonlinearities in specific configurations of oscillator systems, as described herein, are the key determinants of the effect. The present invention presents a new configuration and operation regime that enhances the synchronization of micro- and nano-mechanical oscillators by capitalizing on their intrinsic nonlinear dynamics. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 20, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/001740 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 19/5776 (20130101) Generation of Oscillations, Directly or by Frequency-changing, by Circuits Employing Active Elements Which Operate in a Non-switching Manner; Generation of Noise by Such Circuits H03B 5/30 (20130101) H03B 5/124 (20130101) H03B 5/1215 (20130101) H03B 5/1218 (20130101) H03B 5/1228 (20130101) Pulse Technique H03K 5/003 (20130101) H03K 5/13 (20130101) H03K 2005/00286 (20130101) Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation, or Stabilisation of Generators of Electronic Oscillations or Pulses H03L 5/00 (20130101) H03L 7/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 09962075 | Yi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); Opticent INC (Deerfield, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ji Yi (Evanston, Illinois); Wenzhong Liu (Evanston, Illinois); Vadim Backman (Chicago, Illinois); Hao F. Zhang (Deerfield, Illinois); Kieren J. Patel (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides systems and methods for the determining a rate of change of one or more analyte concentrations in a target using non invasive non contact imaging techniques such as OCT. Generally, OCT data is acquired and optical information is extracted from OCT scans to quantitatively determine both a flow rate of fluid in the target and a concentration of one or more analytes. Both calculations can provide a means to determine a change in rate of an analyte over time. Example methods and systems of the disclosure may be used in assessing metabolism of a tissue, where oxygen is the analyte detected, or other functional states, and be generally used for the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of disease. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 21, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/465285 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 1/04 (20130101) A61B 3/102 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 3/1233 (20130101) A61B 5/0066 (20130101) A61B 5/0205 (20130101) A61B 5/0261 (20130101) A61B 5/14507 (20130101) A61B 5/14517 (20130101) A61B 5/14532 (20130101) A61B 5/14535 (20130101) A61B 5/14542 (20130101) A61B 5/14551 (20130101) Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 9/02091 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/13 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0014 (20130101) G06T 2207/10028 (20130101) G06T 2207/10101 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09963570 | Zhai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lei Zhai (Oviedo, Florida); Jianhua Zou (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming aerogels includes mixing a plurality of polymers or aromatic molecules, a solvent, and a plurality of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) or graphene including structures to form a mixture, where the polymers or aromatic molecules have at least one crosslinkable structure. A solid gel is formed including a plurality of supramolecular structures from the mixture. The plurality of supramolecular structures include a plurality of the polymers or aromatic molecules secured by π-π bonds to the outer surface of the CNTs or graphene including structures. The solid gel includes a portion of the solvent trapped therein. The plurality of supramolecular structures are crosslinked and then dried to remove the solvent trapped therein to form the aerogel. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 27, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/606709 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 13/0091 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 230/08 (20130101) C08F 2438/03 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 9/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08J 9/0061 (20130101) C08J 9/0071 (20130101) C08J 2201/04 (20130101) C08J 2205/026 (20130101) C08J 2383/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24149 (20150115) |
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| US 09963674 | Studer 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) | Lorenz Studer (New York, New York); Justine D. Miller (Albany, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are age-modified cells and method for making age modified cells using progerin or a progerin-like protein. The aging and/or maturation process can be accelerated and controlled for young and/or immature cells, such as a somatic cell, a stem cell, a stem cell-derived somatic cell, including an induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cell, by contacting with progerin or a progerin-like protein. Methods described by the present disclosure can produce age-appropriate cells from a somatic cell or a stem cell, such as an old cell and/or a mature cell. Such age-modified cells constitute model systems for the study of late-onset diseases and/or disorders. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 15, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/884503 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0618 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 5/0696 (20130101) C12N 2501/40 (20130101) C12N 2501/998 (20130101) C12N 2503/02 (20130101) C12N 2506/1307 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/502 (20130101) G01N 33/5023 (20130101) G01N 33/5058 (20130101) G01N 33/5073 (20130101) |
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| US 09963720 | Arnold et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frances Arnold (Pasadena, California); Peter Meinhold (Pasadena, California); Matthew W. Peters (Pasadena, California); Rudi Fasan (Brea, California); Mike M. Y. Chen (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to modified hydroxylases. The invention further relates to cells expressing such modified hydroxylases and methods of producing hydroxylated alkanes by contacting a suitable substrate with such cells. |
| FILED | Monday, August 01, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/224900 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/0042 (20130101) C12N 9/0071 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 7/06 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 106/02004 (20130101) C12Y 114/14001 (20130101) |
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| US 09963790 | Silver et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthew Silver (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Justin Buck (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Patrick Kiely (Gatineau, Canada); Juan J. Guzman (Ithaca, New York) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Silver (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Justin Buck (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Patrick Kiely (Gatineau, Canada); Juan J. Guzman (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides bio-electrochemical systems having various configurations for the treatment of water, wastewater, gases, and other biodegradable matter. In one aspect, the invention provides bio-electrochemical systems configured for treating wastewater while generating multiple outputs. In another aspect, the invention provides bio-electrochemical systems configured for improving the efficiency of electrodialysis removal systems. In yet another aspect, the invention provides bio-electro-chemical systems configured for use in banks and basins. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/880401 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/4693 (20130101) C02F 3/005 (20130101) C02F 3/006 (20130101) C02F 3/34 (20130101) C02F 3/301 (20130101) C02F 2103/002 (20130101) C02F 2103/005 (20130101) C02F 2201/46115 (20130101) C02F 2201/46125 (20130101) C02F 2201/46145 (20130101) C02F 2201/46165 (20130101) C02F 2203/008 (20130101) C02F 2209/001 (20130101) C02F 2209/003 (20130101) C02F 2209/03 (20130101) C02F 2209/006 (20130101) C02F 2209/38 (20130101) C02F 2209/40 (20130101) C02F 2209/42 (20130101) Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Processes for the Production of Compounds or Non-metals; Apparatus Therefor C25B 1/00 (20130101) C25B 1/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C25B 3/00 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/16 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/343 (20130101) Y02E 60/527 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Wastewater Treatment or Waste Management Y02W 10/37 (20150501) |
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| US 09964444 | Rolland et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jannick P. Rolland (Pittsford, New York); Jacob Reimers (Homestead, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jannick P. Rolland (Pittsford, New York); Jacob Reimers (Homestead, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A full-field display for spectrally dispersive imaging optics, particularly as a design tool for evaluating optical designs including designs with freeform optical surfaces, includes a ray tracing module arranged for modeling local aberrations throughout the image field of the spectrometer and a display module that converts values of the modeled local aberrations throughout the image field into representative symbols. The spectrometer field has a first spatial dimension corresponding to a length dimension of an input and a second spectral dimension corresponding to the dispersion of the input. The representative symbols are plotted in an array having a first axis corresponding to the first spatial dimension of the image field and a second axis corresponding to the second spectral dimension of the image field. |
| FILED | Saturday, May 28, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/168015 |
| ART UNIT | 2614 — 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 3/2823 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09964495 | Marshall et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND (College Park, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andre W. Marshall (University Park, Maryland); Ning Ren (Norwood, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Near-field spray characteristics are established from local measurements which are acquired by data acquisition sub-system capable of complete scanning of the area (volume) of interest in the spray which uses different laser-based probes (shadowgraphy, PIV, diffraction) to obtain drops related measurements. A mechanical patternator measures volume flux distribution of the spray under study. The measurement data are post-processed to obtain spatially-resolved spray characteristics which are mapped in a spherical coordinate system consistent with the kinematics of the spray. A data compression scheme is used to generate compact analytical functions describing the nozzle spray based on the measurement data. These analytical functions may be useful for initiating the nozzle spray in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) based spray dispersion and fire suppression modeling. |
| FILED | Monday, November 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/070674 |
| ART UNIT | 2486 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Spraying Apparatus; Atomising Apparatus; Nozzles B05B 12/082 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/85 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/20 (20130101) |
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| US 09964541 | Hong 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) | Seungpyo Hong (Naperville, Illinois); Ja Hye Myung (Daejeon, South Korea); David Eddington (Wheaton, Illinois); Cari Launiere (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of capturing a Circulating Tumor Cell (CTC) from a sample includes introducing a sample into a microfluidic device having a cell capture surface and a flow modification surface under conditions that allow a CTC to bind to a cell rolling-inducing agent and a capturing agent disposed on the cell capture surface. The flow modification surface induces a rotational flow within the sample as it flows through the microfluidic device. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 04, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/016005 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/574 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09964680 | Patrick et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Western Washington University (Bellingham, Washington); University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Western Washington University (Bellingham, Washington); University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Patrick (Bellingham, Washington); John Gilbertson (Bellingham, Washington); Stephen McDowall (Bellingham, Washington); Christian Erickson (Bellingham, Washington); Daniel R. Gamelin (Seattle, Washington); Liam Bradshaw (Seattle, Washington); Emily Jane McLaurin (Seattle, Washington); Kathryn E. Knowles (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure describes luminescent solar concentrators that include photoluminescent nanoparticles. The photoluminescent nanoparticles include a semiconductor nanocrystal that sensitizes the luminescence of a defect. The defect can include, for example, an atom, a cluster of atoms, or a lattice vacancy. The defect can be incorporated into the semiconductor nanocrystal, adsorbed onto, or otherwise associated with the surface of the semiconductor nanocrystal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 01, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/902113 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/025 (20130101) C09K 11/565 (20130101) C09K 11/584 (20130101) C09K 11/883 (20130101) C09K 11/7706 (20130101) C09K 11/7773 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/0003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 19/0019 (20130101) G02B 19/0042 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/055 (20130101) H01L 31/02322 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/52 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/95 (20130101) Y10S 977/774 (20130101) Y10S 977/896 (20130101) Y10S 977/948 (20130101) |
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| US 09964948 | Ullrich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Oliver Ullrich (Miami, Florida); Naphtali Rishe (Miami Beach, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Florida International University Board of Trustees (Miami, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oliver Ullrich (Miami, Florida); Naphtali Rishe (Miami Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for assisting autonomous vehicles are provided. The methods and systems can help increase safety and consumer satisfaction with autonomous vehicles and help bridge the gap towards completely autonomy. A method for assisting autonomous vehicles can include providing an autonomous vehicle having sensory inputs and providing a remote control center having two-way communication with the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle can send its sensory input information to the control center and the control center can send control information to the autonomous vehicle. |
| FILED | Friday, February 10, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/429261 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 1/0027 (20130101) G05D 1/0038 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G05D 1/0061 (20130101) G05D 1/0088 (20130101) G05D 1/0244 (20130101) G05D 1/0297 (20130101) G05D 2201/0212 (20130101) |
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| US 09965592 | Kakadiaris et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of Houston System (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNIVERSITY of HOUSTON SYSTEM (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ioannis A. Kakadiaris (Houston, Texas); Morteza Naghavi (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A new cardiac risk factors are disclosed along with method for deriving the components of the factors, for developing the factors and for using the factors. Methods for computing pericardial fat and abdominal fat are also disclosed as well as methods for motion compensation. |
| FILED | Monday, July 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/444445 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/345 (20130101) G06F 19/3431 (20130101) G06F 19/3437 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09965802 | Powell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Warren B. Powell (Princeton, New Jersey); Daniel R. Jiang (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Warren B. Powell (Princeton, New Jersey); Daniel R. Jiang (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for generating bids for a look-ahead, e.g. hour-ahead, energy market is disclosed. The method includes providing a processor configured to generate a lookup table approximating a value function having four dimensions including: state of the storage system, price of electricity, prior low bid and prior high bid. The processor is configured to observe an initial numeric value for a first set of dimensions and exploiting monotonicity to update a first region of the lookup table. The processor is configured to iteratively observe subsequent numeric values for a next set of dimensions and update subsequent regions of the lookup table while exploiting monotonicity to generate the lookup table. The value function is configured with numeric values for all possible sets of dimensions, the numeric values being usable to compute optimal bids. |
| FILED | Friday, February 27, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/633974 |
| ART UNIT | 3684 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30952 (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 30/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09965972 | King 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) | Gary King (Brookline, Massachusetts); Brian Lukoff (Boston, Massachusetts); Eric Mazur (Concord, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Participatory activity carried out using electronic devices is enhanced by occupying the attention of participants who complete a task before a set completion time. For example, a request or question having an expected response time less than the remaining answer time may be provided to early-finishing participants. |
| FILED | Friday, April 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/871641 |
| ART UNIT | 3715 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Educational or Demonstration Appliances; Appliances for Teaching, or Communicating With, the Blind, Deaf or Mute; Models; Planetaria; Globes; Maps; Diagrams G09B 7/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
09966167 — Superconducting joint for high-temperature superconducting Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x (Bi-2212) wire
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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) | Ulf Peter Trociewitz (Crawfordville, Florida); Peng Chen (Tallahassee, Florida); David K. Hilton (Tallahassee, Florida); Dmytro V. Abraimov (Tallahassee, Florida); William L. Starch (Crawfordville, Florida); David C. Larbalestier (Tallahassee, Florida); Jianyi Jiang (Tallahassee, Florida); Eric E. Hellstrom (Tallahassee, Florida); Ernesto S. Bosque (Tallahassee, Florida); Maxime Matras (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a system and method for producing superconducting joints between superconductive segments of a Bi-2212 high-temperature superconducting (HTS) conductor, thereby eliminating the heat generating resistive joints that are commonly known in the art for connecting two or more smaller Bi-2212 conductive segments to create an Bi-2212 conductor of adequate length. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 24, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/052276 |
| ART UNIT | 2847 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 12/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01B 13/0036 (20130101) Installation of Electric Cables or Lines, or of Combined Optical and Electric Cables or Lines H02G 15/34 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09966491 | Chandrashekhar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | MVS Chandrashekhar (Columbia, South Carolina); Tangali S. Sudarshan (Columbia, South Carolina); Sabih U. Omar (West Columbia, South Carolina); Gabriel Brown (Lexington, South Carolina); Shamaita S. Shetu (West Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A bi-polar device is provided, along with methods of making the same. The bi-polar device can include a semiconductor substrate doped with a first dopant, a semiconductor layer on the first surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a Schottky barrier layer on the semiconductor layer. The method of forming a bi-polar device can include: forming a semiconductor layer on a first surface of a semiconductor substrate, where the semiconductor substrate comprises a first dopant and where the semiconductor layer comprises a second dopant that has an opposite polarity than the first dopant; and forming a Schottky barrier layer on a first portion of the semiconductor layer while leaving a second portion of the semiconductor layer exposed. |
| FILED | Monday, February 22, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/049743 |
| ART UNIT | 2899 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/028 (20130101) H01L 31/1105 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/1804 (20130101) H01L 31/022408 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/547 (20130101) |
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| US 09966533 | Nalwa et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kanwar Singh Nalwa (Hillsboro, Oregon); Sumit Chaudhary (Ames, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kanwar Singh Nalwa (Hillsboro, Oregon); Sumit Chaudhary (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating an organic photovoltaic device. The method includes providing a first electrode which by applying a layer of conductive material onto a transparent substrate. The conductive material forms the first electrode. The method also includes placing an active layer of organic photovoltaic material on top of the first electrode. The active layer is configured to convert photonic energy into electrical energy. Placing an active layer of organic photovoltaic material includes placing an active layer of organic photovoltaic material having ferroelectric dipoles dispersed therein. The method further includes applying a second electrode on top of the active layer of organic photovoltaic material. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/780697 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0035 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/0036 (20130101) H01L 51/0037 (20130101) H01L 51/424 (20130101) H01L 51/4293 (20130101) H01L 2251/308 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) |
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| US 09966549 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Byunghong Lee (Evanston, Illinois); Donald B. Buchholz (Woodridge, Illinois); Robert P. H. Chang (Glenview, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanostructured carbon electrode usable for electrochemical devices and methods of fabricating the same. The method of fabricating a nanostructured carbon electrode includes providing a carbon material of polyaromatic hydrocarbon (PAH), mixing the carbon material of PAH with a surfactant in a solution to form a suspension thereof; depositing the suspension onto a substrate to form a layered structure; and sintering the layered structure at a temperature for a period of time to form a nanostructured carbon electrode having a film of PAH. |
| FILED | Monday, November 28, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/362227 |
| ART UNIT | 1727 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 9/2022 (20130101) H01G 9/2031 (20130101) H01G 9/2059 (20130101) H01G 11/26 (20130101) H01G 11/36 (20130101) H01G 11/46 (20130101) H01G 11/50 (20130101) H01G 11/86 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/1884 (20130101) H01L 31/022475 (20130101) H01L 51/442 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 2031/0344 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/96 (20130101) H01M 4/133 (20130101) H01M 4/0471 (20130101) H01M 4/587 (20130101) H01M 4/1393 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) H01M 12/06 (20130101) H01M 2004/021 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/542 (20130101) Y02E 60/13 (20130101) Y02E 60/122 (20130101) |
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| US 09967463 | Mourikis 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) | Anastasios Mourikis (Riverside, California); Mingyang Li (Riverside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A motion estimation and correction system and methods are shown comprising: an image acquisition device configured to acquire an image via scanning an image frame over a period of time, an inertial measurement unit configured to measure at least one of a position, an orientation, and a movement of the image acquisition device during the period of time and output an indication of the movement as detected; and a state estimation module, operatively coupled to the inertial measurement unit and the image acquisition device, configured to estimate a state related to at least one of position and orientation of the image acquisition device based on the at least one of the position, the orientation, and the movement. In one example, systems and methods include using an inertial measurement unit along with an image acquisition device. In one example, the image acquisition device includes a rolling-shutter camera. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/906869 |
| ART UNIT | 2663 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/2329 (20130101) H04N 5/23258 (20130101) H04N 5/23267 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04N 5/23293 (20130101) |
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| US 09967538 | Didyk et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachussetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Piotr Krzysztof Didyk (Swiebodzice, Poland); Song-Pei Du (Beijing, China PRC); Frederic Durand (Somerville, Massachusetts); Wojciech Matusik (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Automultiscopic displays enable glasses-free 3D viewing by providing both binocular and motion parallax. Within the display field of view, different images are observed depending on the viewing direction. When moving outside the field of view, the observed images may repeat. Light fields produced by lenticular and parallax-barrier automultiscopic displays may have repetitive structure with significant discontinuities between the fields of view. This repetitive structure induces visual artifacts in the form of view discontinuities, depth reversals, and extensive disparities. To overcome this problem, a method modifies the presented light field image content and makes it more repetitive. In the method, a light field is refined using global and local shearing and then the repeating fragments are stitched. The method reduces the discontinuities in the displayed light field and leads to visual quality improvements. Benefits of the method are shown using an automultiscopic display with a parallax barrier and lenticular prints. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 04, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/613924 |
| ART UNIT | 2619 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 13/0018 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04N 13/0402 (20130101) H04N 13/0445 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 09963345 | Hales 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 NASA (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen J. Hales (Poquoson, Virginia); Joel A. Alexa (Hampton, Virginia); Brian J. Jensen (Williamsburg, Virginia); Roberto J. Cano (Yorktown, Virginia); Peter T. Lillehei (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating a composite material includes utilizing a radio frequency plasma process to form a plasma plume comprising nanoparticles. The nanoparticles may comprise boron nitride nanoparticles, silicon carbide nanoparticles, beryllium oxide nanoparticles, or carbon nanoparticles. The nanoparticles may comprise nanotubes or other particles depending on the requirements of a particular application. The nanoparticles are deposited on a substrate by directing a plasma plume towards the substrate. The nanoparticles are formed in the plasma plume immediately prior to being deposited on the substrate. The nanoparticles may form a mechanical bond with the fibers in addition to a chemical bond in the absence of a catalyst. The substrate may comprise a fiber fabric that may optionally be coated with a thin layer of metal. Alternatively, the substrate may comprise a solid material such as a metal sheet or plate. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/211508 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 21/064 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2004/13 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09963781 | Schmidt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Howard K. Schmidt (Cypress, Texas); Robert H. Hauge (Houston, Texas); Cary L. Pint (Houston, Texas); Sean T. Pheasant (Houston, Texas); Kent E. Coulter (Fair Oaks Ranch, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE (San Antonio, Texas); WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Howard K. Schmidt (Cypress, Texas); Robert H. Hauge (Houston, Texas); Cary L. Pint (Houston, Texas); Sean T. Pheasant (Houston, Texas); Kent E. Coulter (Fair Oaks Ranch, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Carbon nanotubes grown on nanostructured flake substrates are disclosed. The nanostructured flake substrates include a catalyst support layer and at least one catalyst layer. Carbon nanotubes grown on the nanostructured flake substrates can have very high aspect ratios. Further, the carbon nanotubes can be aligned on the nanostructured flake substrates. Through routine optimization, the nanostructured flake substrates may be used to produce single-wall, double-wall, or multi-wall carbon nanotubes of various lengths and diameters. The nanostructured flake substrates produce very high yields of carbon nanotubes per unit weight of substrate. Methods for making the nanostructured flake substrates and for using the nanostructured flake substrates in carbon nanotube synthesis are disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/260561 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 32/162 (20170801) C01B 2202/02 (20130101) C01B 2202/04 (20130101) C01B 2202/08 (20130101) C01B 2202/34 (20130101) C01B 2202/36 (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 16/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C23C 16/4417 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24612 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09963939 | Hogan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stone Aerospace, Inc. (Del Valle, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Stone Aerospace, Inc. (Del Valle, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bartholomew P. Hogan (Rockville, Maryland); William C. Stone (Del Valle, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An optically powered system for rapid, focused heating and melting of water ice. The optical wavelength is chosen to fall in a range where transmissivity through liquid water is higher than through ice. An alternative embodiment of the invention further comprises a length of fiber optic tether between source and output to allow for motion of the melt head. A further embodiment includes probing the ice using various sensing modalities exploiting the presence of the fiber in the ice, searching for biomarkers and characterizing the radiation/light environment for subsurface habitability, including photosynthetic potential and radiation environment as a source for energy. |
| FILED | Monday, April 24, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/495916 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Earth Drilling, e.g Deep Drilling; Obtaining Oil, Gas, Water, Soluble or Meltable Materials or a Slurry of Minerals From Wells E21B 7/15 (20130101) Original (OR) Class E21B 49/00 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/4296 (20130101) G02B 7/02 (20130101) G02B 23/26 (20130101) G02B 23/2469 (20130101) G02B 23/2492 (20130101) G02B 27/30 (20130101) G02B 27/0955 (20130101) |
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| US 09964073 | Pinera et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alejandro Pinera (Jupiter, Florida); Timothy J Miller (Jupiter, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc. (Jupiter, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alejandro Pinera (Jupiter, Florida); Timothy J Miller (Jupiter, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A nuclear thermal rocket with a superconducting electric motor driven boost pump submerged within a tank of liquid hydrogen, where the boost pump is driven by both an electric motor and a turbine. The boost pump can be submerged in liquid hydrogen so that the electric motor operates as a superconducting motor. Also, a turbopump for a rocket engine can include both a turbine and an electric motor to drive the liquid oxidizer and liquid fuel pumps of the turbopump. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/548598 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Jet-propulsion Plants F02K 9/46 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Non-positive-displacement Pumps F04D 7/00 (20130101) F04D 13/086 (20130101) |
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| US 09964482 | Sun et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Research Laboratory ATTN: RDRL-LOC-I (Adelphi, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wenbo Sun (Yorktown, Virginia); Gorden Videen (Silver Spring, Maryland); Michael I. Mishchenko (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel methodology for detecting cloud particles is disclosed herein. This methodology exploits the optical glory phenomenon. According to one embodiment, a method for detecting clouds includes receiving data from a sensor which is configured to measure polarization of scattered light in a direction substantially opposite to the direction of incident light, and identifying, from the received sensor data, a cloud based on the polarization of the scattered light. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 26, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/006752 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/21 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/538 (20130101) G01N 2021/4792 (20130101) G01N 2201/0616 (20130101) Meteorology G01W 1/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09964699 | Chen 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 Administraion (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey R. Chen (Clarksville, Maryland); Kenji Numata (Laurel, Maryland); Stewart T. Wu (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are systems and methods related to use of hollow core photonic crystal fibers. A system includes a tube and a collimating lens configured in a first end of the tube, wherein a single mode fiber is coupled to a first end of the collimating lens. A second lens is supported by a structure at a second end of the tube, the second lens receiving a first signal from a second end of the collimating lens and outputting a second signal that is coupled into a first end of a hollow core photonic crystal fiber. A first gas tube is configured to introduce gas through the structure into a chamber and a sealant seals at least one of the collimating lens and the structure within the tube. An output signal is received at a detector that catches the entire beam to suppress multiple-mode beating noise. |
| FILED | Monday, September 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/859863 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/0208 (20130101) G01J 3/0218 (20130101) G01J 2003/421 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/32 (20130101) G02B 6/262 (20130101) G02B 6/02328 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09964651 | Friedman |
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| APPLICANT(S) | INTEGRATED SENSORS, LLC (Ottawa Hills, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Integrated Sensors, LLC (Ottawa Hills, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter S. Friedman (Ottawa Hills, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultra-thin radiation detector includes a radiation detector gas chamber having at least one ultra-thin chamber window and an ultra-thin first substrate contained within the gas chamber. The detector further includes a second substrate generally parallel to and coupled to the first substrate and defining a gas gap between the first substrate and the second substrate. The detector further includes a discharge gas between the substrates and contained within the gas chamber, where the discharge gas is free to circulate within the gas chamber and between the first and second substrates at a given gas pressure. The detector further includes a first electrode coupled to one of the substrates and a second electrode electrically coupled to the first electrode. The detector further includes a first discharge event detector coupled to at least one of the electrodes for detecting a gas discharge counting event in the electrode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 18, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/652358 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/18 (20130101) G01T 1/185 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01T 1/2935 (20130101) |
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| US 09966991 | Terry |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John David Terry (Annandale, Virginia) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | John David Terry (Annandale, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention teaches a system and method for secure network access and group membership in a cooperative network of digital chaos transmissions. The invention involves sensing generated digital chaos sequences as spreading sequences at a transmit side and determining the availability of open channels at a receive side. Further, a broadcast “request to join” frame from a node on an open channel is transmitted to network manager or coordinator. A network manager or coordinator sends an association/authentication packet, comprised of the reserved digital chaos associated to the unique device id, in response to the “request to join” frame from a node with a valid identification. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 20, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/270318 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 1/69 (20130101) H04B 1/7136 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 7/0413 (20130101) H04B 2201/71323 (20130101) Multiplex Communication H04J 13/0018 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 27/001 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 12/04 (20130101) H04W 12/06 (20130101) H04W 48/10 (20130101) |
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Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 09961926 | Tang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY (Pullman, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY (Pullman, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juming Tang (Pullman, Washington); Fang Liu (Pullman, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments of processing systems and components for sterilization or pasteurization and associated methods of operation are described herein. For example, a method of sterilization or pasteurization includes immersing an item in an immersion fluid, and the immersed item is subject to a hydrostatic pressure of the immersion fluid. The method also includes applying microwave energy to the item while the item is immersed in the immersion fluid and subject to the hydrostatic pressure of the immersion fluid. The hydrostatic pressure of the immersion fluid prevents the water content of the item from causing steam explosion in the item while the microwave energy is applied. The method further includes heating the item immersed in the immersion fluid to a target temperature with the applied microwave energy, the target temperature being sufficient to achieve sterilization or pasteurization of the item. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/883153 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | 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 3/01 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A23L 29/272 (20160801) Indexing Scheme Relating to Foods, Foodstuffs or Non-alcoholic Beverages A23V 2002/00 (20130101) Electric Heating; Electric Lighting Not Otherwise Provided for H05B 6/705 (20130101) H05B 6/707 (20130101) H05B 6/782 (20130101) H05B 6/802 (20130101) H05B 2206/044 (20130101) H05B 2206/045 (20130101) |
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 09963356 | Bourret-Courchesne et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edith Bourret-Courchesne (Berkeley, California); Stephen E. Derenzo (Pinole, California); Scott Edward Taylor (Pleasant Hill, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edith Bourret-Courchesne (Berkeley, California); Stephen E. Derenzo (Pinole, California); Scott Edward Taylor (Pleasant Hill, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a composition comprising an inorganic scintillator comprising an alkali metal hafnate, optionally cerium-doped, having the formula A2HfO3:Ce; wherein A is an alkali metal having a valence of 1, such as Li or Na; and the molar percent of cerium is 0% to 100%. The alkali metal hafnate are scintillators and produce a bright luminescence upon irradiation by a suitable radiation. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/262112 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 27/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/52 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/671 (20130101) C09K 11/7715 (20130101) C09K 11/7716 (20130101) Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/2023 (20130101) Techniques for Handling Particles or Ionising Radiation Not Otherwise Provided For; Irradiation Devices; Gamma Ray or X-ray Microscopes G21K 4/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 09966790 | Bridgelall et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of North Dakota (Grand Forks, North Dakota); NDSU Research Foundation (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of North Dakota (Grand Forks, North Dakota); NDSU Research Foundation (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raj Bridgelall (Planno, Texas); Michael Corcoran (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | A vehicle system includes a plurality of capacitors each forming a portion of a vehicle structure, and a parallel electrical link between a pair of the plurality of capacitors, such that the pair of capacitors act as an aggregate capacitor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/457662 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Propulsion of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Supplying Electric Power for Auxiliary Equipment of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Electrodynamic Brake Systems for Vehicles in General; Magnetic Suspension or Levitation for Vehicles; Monitoring Operating Variables of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Electric Safety Devices for Electrically-propelled Vehicles B60L 11/005 (20130101) B60L 11/1816 (20130101) B60L 11/1861 (20130101) B60L 11/1868 (20130101) B60L 2200/10 (20130101) B60L 2240/36 (20130101) B60L 2240/662 (20130101) Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 1/00 (20130101) Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 2221/00 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 11/10 (20130101) H01G 11/76 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 7/345 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/13 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/7005 (20130101) Y02T 10/7022 (20130101) Y02T 10/7044 (20130101) Y02T 10/7066 (20130101) Y02T 10/7072 (20130101) Y02T 10/7291 (20130101) Y02T 90/14 (20130101) Y02T 90/16 (20130101) |
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Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 09962379 | Sabbagh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonathan Jacob Sabbagh (Tampa, Florida); Chad Dickey (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA (Tampa, Florida); THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Jacob Sabbagh (Tampa, Florida); Chad Dickey (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention concerns materials and methods for treating depression, stress disorders, such as PTSD, anxiety disorders, and/or a neurodegenerative disease or condition in a person or animal. In one embodiment, a person or animal in need of treatment is administered one or more compounds or drugs, or a composition comprising the one or more compounds or drugs, that inhibit FKBP51 activity or function. The subject invention also concerns a method for inhibiting activity of the FKBP51 protein in a cell. The subject invention also concerns methods of screening for compounds or drugs that inhibit the FKBP51 protein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 13, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/209594 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/15 (20130101) A61K 31/15 (20130101) A61K 31/36 (20130101) A61K 31/36 (20130101) A61K 31/42 (20130101) A61K 31/42 (20130101) A61K 31/46 (20130101) A61K 31/46 (20130101) A61K 31/135 (20130101) A61K 31/135 (20130101) A61K 31/137 (20130101) A61K 31/137 (20130101) A61K 31/138 (20130101) A61K 31/138 (20130101) A61K 31/454 (20130101) A61K 31/454 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/4168 (20130101) A61K 31/4168 (20130101) A61K 31/5415 (20130101) A61K 31/5415 (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) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/533 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2333/99 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 09963371 | Suidan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pegasus Technical Services, Inc. (Cincinnati, Ohio); The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Makram T. Suidan (Cincinnati, Ohio); Richard C. Brenner (Cincinnati, Ohio); Edith L. Holder (Cincinnati, Ohio); Robert J. Grosser (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for treatment of municipal wastewater plant sludge to the criteria of Class A biosolids. The process uses hydrogen peroxide and thermo-oxidation to reduce volatile suspended solids to meet the criteria. On a batch basis, waste activated sludge is introduced into a reactor; the concentration of the waste activated sludge is adjusted to about 1.5% total suspended solids with secondary effluent, if necessary; the reactor is mixed; the reactor is pre-heated to an operating temperature in a range of about 65° C. to about 90° C.; subsequently, a 50% solution of laboratory grade hydrogen peroxide is introduced into the bottom of the reactor; and the contents are heated for at least 4 hours. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 13, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/711288 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/722 (20130101) C02F 3/12 (20130101) C02F 11/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C02F 11/18 (20130101) C02F 2203/00 (20130101) C02F 2209/02 (20130101) C02F 2209/06 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 09962585 | Friesen |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS, A BODY CORPORATE OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA, ACTING FOR AND ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cody Friesen (Fort McDowell, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A constrained frequency resonator is incorporated into the shaft of a striking implement for transferring and, advantageously, amplifying momentum from a striking end to a gripped end of the striking implement, thereby amplifying the sensation of a strike felt at the gripped end. The resonator has a substantially hourglass shape, with wide ends and a narrow waist, and is made of stainless steel or another very hard material. The shape of the resonator causes it to act as a vibration frequency filter that transfers and, preferably, amplifies a certain frequency or band of frequencies. The striking implement may be a golf club, pool cue, or other implement in which frequency transfer to a gripping section is desired. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 15/104927 |
| ART UNIT | 3711 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus for Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, or Fencing; Ball Games; Training Equipment A63B 53/007 (20130101) A63B 53/08 (20130101) A63B 53/12 (20130101) A63B 60/00 (20151001) Original (OR) Class A63B 2060/002 (20151001) A63B 2209/00 (20130101) A63B 2243/002 (20130101) Bowling Games, e.g Skittles, Bocce or Bowls; Installations Therefor; Bagatelle or Similar Games; Billiards A63D 15/083 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 09962743 | Bombaugh 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) | Scott R. Bombaugh (Burke, Virginia); Tuan A. Le (Fairfax, Virginia); Charles P. McLellan (Sterling, Virginia); Christopher M. Stratton (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A high throughput sorting device is disclosed. The device includes a first sorter and a second sorter, each of the first and second sorters having a plurality of cells each configured to support, carry, and deposit an item. The device can also include at least one shared chute extending below a portion of the first sorter and a portion of the second sorter. The at least one chute can be configured to receive an item deposited by each of the plurality of cells and transport the item to an endpoint. The device can also include a base configured to support the at least one shared chute and the first and second sorters. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 11, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/403693 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Postal Sorting; Sorting Individual Articles, or Bulk Material Fit to be Sorted Piece-meal, e.g by Picking B07C 3/02 (20130101) B07C 3/008 (20130101) B07C 3/08 (20130101) B07C 3/18 (20130101) B07C 5/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 09964640 | Lucas |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Morrison R. Lucas (Lawndale, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RAYTHEON COMPANY (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Morrison R. Lucas (Lawndale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, executed by one or more computers, for unwrapping phase wrapped data including a plurality of nodes. The method includes: selecting a root node from the plurality of nodes to start unwrapping (102); selecting next nodes to be unwrapped, from the neighbor nodes of the root node; dynamically calculating a confidence factor for each node being unwrapped (104); when a closed loop wherein one node can be unwrapped from either of two previously unwrapped nodes is encountered and an unwrapped value predicted by each of the prior nodes of the two nodes are different during unwrapping, comparing calculated confidence factors for the two previously unwrapped nodes (106); using the compared confidence factors of the two previously unwrapped nodes to determine which one of the two nodes is an erroneous node (108); and reprocessing the erroneous node to correct a previous unwrapping error (112). |
| FILED | Monday, November 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/304945 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 13/90 (20130101) G01S 13/9035 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, May 08, 2018.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
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FUNDED BY
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APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
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Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
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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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