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Patent Details for Tuesday, August 13, 2019
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| US 10376253 | Lederman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Lederman (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Ozgur Kocaturk (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Transcatheter methods are disclosed for introducing a large transcatheter implant or other device into an artery from an adjacent vein, for example from the inferior vena cava into the abdominal aorta. Such an access route can be formed by direct puncture through the adjoining vessels. In addition, methods and devices are also disclosed for closing arteriovenous fistulas or other cardiovascular passageways. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/901980 |
| ART UNIT | 3771 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 17/11 (20130101) A61B 17/0057 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 17/3468 (20130101) A61B 17/12168 (20130101) A61B 17/12181 (20130101) A61B 2017/00606 (20130101) A61B 2017/00641 (20130101) A61B 2017/1107 (20130101) A61B 2017/1139 (20130101) |
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| US 10376323 | Farritor et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shane Farritor (Lincoln, Nebraska); Amy Lehman (York, Nebraska); Mark Rentschler (Boulder, Colorado); Nathan Wood (Lincoln, Nebraska); Jason Dumpert (Omaha, Nebraska); Dmitry Oleynikov (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | The various embodiments disclosed herein relate to modular medical devices, including various devices with detachable modular components and various devices with pivotally attached modular components. Additional embodiments relate to procedures in which various of the devices are used cooperatively. Certain embodiments of the medical devices are robotic in vivo devices. |
| FILED | Monday, February 05, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 15/888723 |
| ART UNIT | 3792 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 34/30 (20160201) Original (OR) Class A61B 90/30 (20160201) A61B 90/37 (20160201) A61B 90/361 (20160201) A61B 2017/00283 (20130101) Additive Manufacturing, i.e Manufacturing of Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects by Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration or Additive Layering, e.g by 3-d Printing, Stereolithography or Selective Laser Sintering B33Y 80/00 (20141201) |
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| US 10376412 | Brienza et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David M. Brienza (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Patricia E. Karg (South Park, Pennsylvania); Andrew J. Malkiewicz (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Brienza (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Patricia E. Karg (South Park, Pennsylvania); Andrew J. Malkiewicz (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A cushioning surface for cooling tissue that reaches a predefined level of immersion into the cushioning surface, comprising: a segmented fluid cushion comprising a plurality of cells interconnected to allow fluid to flow from each cell to at least one of the other plurality of cells; and wherein one or more of the plurality of cells contains a heat exchange material. The cushioning surface may further comprise a cooling element associated with and for removing heat from the one or more cells containing a heat exchange material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/943772 |
| ART UNIT | 3794 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 7/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61F 2007/0056 (20130101) A61F 2007/0076 (20130101) A61F 2007/0219 (20130101) A61F 2007/0268 (20130101) |
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| US 10376486 | Jiang 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) | Guochun Jiang (Davis, California); Satya Dandekar (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions comprising ingenol-3-angelate (PEP005) and one or more additional latency reactivation agents. The present invention also provides methods for reactivating a latent virus in a subject infected with the virus, the method comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of ingenol-3-angelate (PEP005) alone or in combination with one or more additional latency reactivation agents. In particular embodiments, the combination of compounds advantageously provides a synergistic effect at inducing reactivation of a latent virus such as HIV. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 07, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/426437 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/22 (20130101) A61K 31/167 (20130101) A61K 31/167 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/551 (20130101) A61K 31/551 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 10376489 | Martins-Green 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) | Manuela Martins-Green (Riverside, California); Sandeep Dhall (Elkridge, Maryland); Danh Do (Baltimore, Maryland); Neal Schiller (Riverside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of treating a chronic wound in a subject in need of such treatment is provided. The method includes administering to the subject at least one antioxidant agent in an amount effective to treat the wound. In some versions, the antioxidant agent is α-tocopherol or N-acetyl cysteine, or a combination of these compounds. In other versions, a method of preparing a chronic wound animal model is provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 20, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/492649 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/198 (20130101) A61K 31/198 (20130101) A61K 31/355 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/355 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (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 15/44 (20130101) A61L 26/0066 (20130101) A61L 2300/412 (20130101) |
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| US 10376508 | Gonda et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ARADIGM CORPORATION (Hayward, California); OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ARADIGM CORPORATION (Hayward, California); OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY (Corvallis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor Gonda (San Francisco, California); James Blanchard (El Granada, California); David C. Cipolla (San Ramon, California); Luiz Eduardo Moreira Bermudez (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of treatment of NTM lung infections using formulations of liposomal ciprofloxacin. Specific liposome formulations and delivery of such for treatment of respiratory tract infections and other medical conditions, and devices and formulations used in connection with such are described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 22, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/821193 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/12 (20130101) A61K 9/0073 (20130101) A61K 9/0078 (20130101) A61K 9/127 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) Technologies for Adaptation to Climate Change Y02A 50/404 (20180101) |
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| US 10376519 | Strum et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | G1 Therapeutics, Inc. (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | G1 Therapeutics, Inc. (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay Copeland Strum (Hillsborough, North Carolina); John Emerson Bisi (Apex, North Carolina); Patrick Joseph Roberts (Durham, North Carolina); Ricky D. Gaston (Kalamazoo, Michigan); Robert C. Gadwood (Portage, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is in the area of tricyclic lactam compounds for and methods of treating selected Rb-positive cancers and other Rb-positive abnormal cellular proliferative disorders while minimizing the deleterious effects on healthy cells, for example healthy Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Progenitor Cells (HSPCs), associated with current treatment modalities. In one aspect, treatment of select Rb-positive cancers is disclosed using specific compounds disclosed herein. In certain embodiments, the compounds described herein act as selective cyclin-dependent kinase 4/6 (CDK 4/6) inhibitors when administered to subjects. |
| FILED | Monday, July 31, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/665071 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 31/527 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 471/20 (20130101) C07D 487/14 (20130101) C07D 487/20 (20130101) |
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| US 10376522 | Arbiser |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Emory University (Atlatna, Georgia); U.S. Government as Represented by The Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia); U.S. Government as Represented by the Dept. of VA (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jack L. Arbiser (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds, pharmaceutical compositions including the compounds, and methods of preparation and use thereof are disclosed. The compounds are triphenyl methane analogs. The compounds and compositions can be used to treat and/or prevent a wide variety of cancers, including drug resistant cancers, inflammatory, degenerative and vascular diseases, including various ocular diseases, and parasitic infections. Representative triphenyl methane analogs include triphenyl methane analogs of various dyes, hormones, sugars, peptides, oligonucleotides, amino acids, nucleotides, nucleosides, and polyols. The compounds are believed to function by inhibiting tNOX expression, the effects of ROS, and/or the production of HIF2. Thus, the compounds are novel therapeutic agents for a variety of cancers and other diseases. |
| FILED | Monday, June 06, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/173946 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/127 (20130101) A61K 31/14 (20130101) A61K 31/47 (20130101) A61K 31/54 (20130101) A61K 31/55 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/136 (20130101) A61K 31/353 (20130101) A61K 31/404 (20130101) A61K 31/422 (20130101) A61K 31/428 (20130101) A61K 31/553 (20130101) A61K 31/662 (20130101) A61K 31/4706 (20130101) A61K 31/4709 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 215/26 (20130101) C07D 215/46 (20130101) C07D 223/26 (20130101) C07D 223/28 (20130101) C07D 263/32 (20130101) C07D 275/06 (20130101) C07D 279/28 (20130101) C07D 311/36 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 9/4056 (20130101) C07F 9/4059 (20130101) |
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| US 10376549 | Shayakhmetov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dmitry M. Shayakhmetov (Snellville, Georgia); Nelson C. Di Paolo (Avondale Estates, Georgia); ADCURE BIOTECHNOLOGIES, LLC. (Snellville, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ADCURE BIOTECHNOLOGIES, LLC. (Snellville, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dmitry M. Shayakhmetov (Snellville, Georgia); Nelson C. Di Paolo (Avondale Estates, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure describes the generation and the use of Ad variants (Ad) possessing any combination of mutations in genes that code for the hexon, penton, fiber, and non-structural proteins, where simultaneous modification of hexon and penton are made to avoid the trapping of Ad in the liver and to reduce toxicity after intravascular virus administration. Such liver de-targeted Ad can be useful tool for selective and specific gene delivery to extra-hepatic tissues and cells, including disseminated metastatic cancer cells. |
| FILED | Sunday, January 17, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/537392 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/76 (20130101) A61K 35/761 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 48/00 (20130101) Specific Therapeutic Activity of Chemical Compounds or Medicinal Preparations A61P 43/00 (20180101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 14/075 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 7/06 (20130101) C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 15/8616 (20130101) C12N 2710/00043 (20130101) C12N 2710/00061 (20130101) C12N 2710/10021 (20130101) C12N 2710/10322 (20130101) C12N 2710/10332 (20130101) C12N 2710/10333 (20130101) C12N 2710/10334 (20130101) C12N 2710/10345 (20130101) C12N 2810/405 (20130101) |
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| US 10376556 | Laskin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeffrey D. Laskin (Piscataway, New Jersey); Ron Udasin (East Brunswick, New Jersey); Lauren Aleksunes (Bridgewater, New Jersey) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey D. Laskin (Piscataway, New Jersey); Ron Udasin (East Brunswick, New Jersey); Lauren Aleksunes (Bridgewater, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and pharmaceutical compositions for inhibiting or decreasing transport of a drug by a transporter of multidrug resistance-associated protein comprising a compound of Formula (IV) wherein R1 and R2 are small peptides or modified peptides, are provided. The methods and compositions are useful in enhancing efficacy of drugs such as anti-inflammatory agents, neurological agents, thyroid agents, ocular agents, cancer chemotherapeutics, antibiotics, antimicrobials, antivirals and protease inhibitors to treat human immunodeficiency virus. |
| FILED | Monday, December 18, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/845017 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/03 (20130101) A61K 38/05 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/063 (20130101) Peptides C07K 5/0215 (20130101) |
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| US 10376561 | Espino et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ana M. Espino (San Juan, Puerto Rico); Ivelisse Martin (San Juan, Puerto Rico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Puerto Rico (San Juan, Puerto Rico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ana M. Espino (San Juan, Puerto Rico); Ivelisse Martin (San Juan, Puerto Rico) |
| ABSTRACT | Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4), the innate immunity receptor for bacterial endotoxins, plays a pivotal role in the induction of inflammatory responses. There is a need to develop molecules that block either activation through TLR4 or the downstream signaling pathways to inhibit the storm of inflammation typically elicited by bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS), which is a major cause of the high mortality associated with bacterial sepsis. The present invention provides that a single intraperitoneal injection of 15 μg Fasciola hepatica fatty acid binding protein (Fh12) 1 hour before exposure to LPS suppressed significantly the expression of serum inflammatory cytokines in a model of septic shock using C57BL/6 mice. Whereas Fh12 alone did not induce cytokine expression, it significantly suppressed the expression of IL12, TNFα, IL6 and IL1β cytokines as well as iNOS2 in bmMΦs, and also impaired the phagocytic capacity of bmMΦs. One mechanism used by Fh12 to exert its anti-inflammatory effect is binding to the CD14 co-receptor. Moreover, it suppresses phosphorylation of ERK, p38 and JNK. |
| FILED | Monday, May 16, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/156284 |
| ART UNIT | 1658 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 10376563 | Van Pijkeren et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jan Peter Van Pijkeren (Madison, Wisconsin); Alan Attie (Madison, Wisconsin); Mark Keller (McFarland, Wisconsin); Jee-Hwan Oh (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and microorganisms for systemically introducing a polypeptide in the bloodstream of a subject. The methods of the invention include administering into the gastrointestinal tract of a subject a bacterium configured to express and produce and release the polypeptide. The bacterium is administered in an amount effective to introduce the polypeptide in the bloodstream of the subject, preferably in a detectable amount. The microorganisms of the invention include lactic acid bacteria, such as Lactobacillus reuteri, that comprise a recombinant gene configured to express a polypeptide to be systemically introduced. |
| FILED | Monday, February 13, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/431373 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0053 (20130101) A61K 35/747 (20130101) A61K 38/02 (20130101) A61K 38/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2035/11 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/54 (20130101) |
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| US 10376574 | Huber et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | South Dakota Board of Regents (Pierre, South Dakota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | South Dakota Board of Regents (Pierre, South Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor Huber (Dakota Dunes, South Dakota); Ying Fang (Manhattan, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are compositions and methods useful for immunizing a subject against disease caused by influenza A. Disclosed methods comprise administering to the subject an immunoprotective dose of an immunogenic composition. In certain aspects, the immunogenic composition is a vaccine comprised of a recombinant chimeric hemagglutinin polypeptide. In certain aspects, the subject is a mammal. In further aspects, the mammal is a pig. In still further aspects, the mammal is a human. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 29, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 15/991794 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/145 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/55 (20130101) A61K 2039/552 (20130101) A61K 2039/575 (20130101) A61K 2039/5254 (20130101) A61K 2039/5256 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2760/16121 (20130101) C12N 2760/16122 (20130101) C12N 2760/16134 (20130101) C12N 2760/16141 (20130101) |
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| US 10376575 | Diamond et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CITY OF HOPE (Duarte, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CITY OF HOPE (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Don J. Diamond (Glendora, California); Felix Wussow (Duarte, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, an expression system for expressing a UL128 complex is provided herein. The expression system may include a bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) construct, wherein the BAC construct comprises a viral vector inserted with a set of DNA sequences that encode a UL128 complex. In another embodiment, a vaccine composition for preventing HCMV infection is provided. The vaccine composition may include a viral or bacterial vector capable of expressing a UL128 complex and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, adjuvant, additive or combination thereof or additional vector expressing a protein adjuvant. The viral vector may be an MVA and the UL128 complex includes five HCMV proteins or antigenic fragments thereof: UL128, UL130, UL131A, gL, and gH. In some embodiments, the viral vector is further inserted with one or more additional DNA sequences that encode one or more additional HCMVHCMV proteins or antigenic fragments thereof such as pp65, gB or both, or such as gM/gN or gO. |
| FILED | Monday, March 12, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 15/919110 |
| 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 39/245 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/70 (20130101) A61K 2039/5254 (20130101) A61K 2039/5256 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2710/16122 (20130101) C12N 2710/16134 (20130101) C12N 2710/24143 (20130101) C12N 2799/023 (20130101) C12N 2800/204 (20130101) |
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| US 10376583 | Barouch |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan H. Barouch (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to antibody therapies for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). In particular, the invention provides methods of curing subjects infected with HIV and blocking HIV infections in subjects at risk of HIV transmission using a N332 glycan-dependent antibody (e.g., PGT121). |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 15/025961 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/42 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 39/3955 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) A61K 2039/507 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/1045 (20130101) C07K 16/1063 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2317/94 (20130101) C07K 2317/565 (20130101) |
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| US 10376591 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Song Li (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Yixian Huang (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Xiaolan Zhang (Foster City, California); Xiang Gao (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A formulation includes a carrier agent formed by conjugating at least one biologically active hydrophobic compound with at least one hydrophilic compound, the at least one biologically active hydrophobic compound selected from the group of farnesylthiosalicylic acid and a derivative of farnesylthiosalicylic acid which is biologically active as an RAS antagonist, wherein a plurality of the carrier agents are adapted to assemble into a structure and the at least one biologically active hydrophobic compound is conjugated with the at least one hydrophilic compound via a linkage which is labile in vivo, and a biologically active compound associated with the carrier agent. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 13, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/703110 |
| ART UNIT | 1613 — 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 9/1075 (20130101) A61K 31/235 (20130101) A61K 31/337 (20130101) A61K 31/704 (20130101) A61K 47/60 (20170801) Original (OR) Class Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 65/331 (20130101) C08G 65/334 (20130101) C08G 65/3311 (20130101) C08G 65/3344 (20130101) C08G 65/33306 (20130101) C08G 65/33396 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 2203/02 (20130101) |
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| US 10376596 | Markham et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Markham (Columbia, Maryland); Eileen Geoghegan (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides heavy chain immunoglobulins of the VHH type or fragment thereof having affinity for a target antigen of interest, including glycoprotein D2 (gD2) of HSV-2 or antigen thereof, and for envelope proteins of HIV-1 or an antigen thereof linked to Pseudomonas exotoxin A or functional fragments thereof. Also included are multimeric forms of the immunoglobulins and their use in the prevention and/or treatment of HSV2 and/or HIV-1. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 13, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/007052 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/6813 (20170801) A61K 47/6829 (20170801) A61K 47/6839 (20170801) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/70 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/21 (20130101) C07K 16/087 (20130101) C07K 2317/35 (20130101) C07K 2317/51 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2317/569 (20130101) C07K 2319/55 (20130101) |
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| US 10376602 | Pease et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF UTAH RESEARCH FOUNDATION (, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonard F. Pease (Bountiful, Utah); Hedieh Saffari (Salt Lake City, Utah); Gerald J. Gleich (Salt Lake City, Utah); Kristin M. Leiferman (Salt Lake City, Utah); Kathryn A. Peterson (Salt Lake City, Utah); Russell Morris Condie (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods for diagnosing eosinophilic esophagitis in a subject. Also disclosed are methods for monitoring the course of eosinophilic esophagitis in a subject before, during, and after treatment. In another aspect, disclosed is a method of diagnosing eosinophilic esophagitis or eosinophilic diseases in a subject, comprising detecting an eosinophil granule protein in the mucosal tissue of the esophagitis or other organs in a subject. |
| FILED | Friday, September 29, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/719827 |
| 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 51/08 (20130101) A61K 51/0491 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 10376603 | Montclare 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) | Jin Kim Montclare (New York, New York); Joseph A. Frezzo (Brooklyn, New York); Cynthia Xu (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Youssef Zaim Wadghiri (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are protein polymers providing the dual functionality of delivery and imaging. The protein polymers comprise a coiled-coil domain of the cartilage oligomeric matrix protein and repeats of elastic like peptides. The coiled-coil domain allows delivery of molecules, the elastin-like peptide domain provides thermo-responsive functionality, and a plurality of leucine residues, which can be fluorinated, provide imaging functionality. |
| FILED | Monday, July 18, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/212599 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/5169 (20130101) A61K 31/704 (20130101) A61K 47/42 (20130101) A61K 47/6435 (20170801) A61K 49/14 (20130101) A61K 51/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 14/78 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) |
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| US 10376625 | Bluvshtein et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MINNETRONIX, INC. (Saint Paul, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Minnetronix, Inc. (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vlad Bluvshtein (Plymouth, Minnesota); Lori Lucke (Rosemount, Minnesota); William Weiss (Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are systems and methods for measuring and calculating parameters to control and monitor a power transfer in an implanted medical device, including operating the device in a plurality of scalable power modes and/or coupling modes. The system may shift between or among power and/or coupling modes based on input such as data received over system communication lines, programmable timers, or electrical loading information. The system may also shift between or among power and/or coupling modes based on calculated amounts of coupling, levels of detected heat flux, and/or amounts of estimated temperature changes. |
| FILED | Friday, December 29, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/858971 |
| ART UNIT | 3792 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 1/12 (20130101) A61M 1/101 (20130101) A61M 1/122 (20140204) A61M 1/127 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61M 1/1086 (20130101) A61M 2205/3368 (20130101) A61M 2205/8243 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 38/14 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 7/025 (20130101) H02J 50/12 (20160201) |
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| US 10376890 | Berthier et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stacks to the Future LLC (Monona, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Stacks to the Future LLC (Monona, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erwin Berthier (Seattle, Washington); Theodorus de Groot (Madison, Wisconsin); Jiaquan Yu (Madison, Wisconsin); Ashleigh Theberge (Seattle, Washington); David Beebe (Monona, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosed apparatus, systems and methods relate to a modular microfluidic device, the component comprising a channel comprising an apex opening, wherein the apex opening that is at least partially surrounded by a collar configured to pin a liquid within the channel. The modular microfluidic device may also have a structural tip in or near the apex opening which is configured to allow for the flow of the liquid into the channel from a second component for a modular microfluidic device when the component is engaged with the second component. |
| FILED | Monday, February 06, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/425720 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/5023 (20130101) B01L 3/5027 (20130101) B01L 3/5635 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 3/50273 (20130101) B01L 3/50857 (20130101) B01L 3/502715 (20130101) B01L 3/502738 (20130101) B01L 2200/027 (20130101) B01L 2200/028 (20130101) B01L 2200/0621 (20130101) B01L 2200/0684 (20130101) B01L 2300/161 (20130101) B01L 2300/0861 (20130101) B01L 2300/0867 (20130101) B01L 2400/0406 (20130101) Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 23/16 (20130101) |
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| US 10377695 | Dhanya et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raveendra Panickar Dhanya (La Jolla, California); Douglas J. Sheffler (La Jolla, California); Nicholas D. P. Cosford (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are small molecule active metabotropic glutamate subtype-2 and -3 receptor positive allosteric modulators (PAMS), compositions comprising the compounds, and methods of using the compounds and compositions comprising the compounds. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 21, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/820194 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 49/84 (20130101) C07C 59/90 (20130101) C07C 65/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 69/92 (20130101) C07C 235/46 (20130101) C07C 235/54 (20130101) C07C 251/48 (20130101) C07C 255/56 (20130101) C07C 259/10 (20130101) C07C 311/51 (20130101) C07C 2601/02 (20170501) C07C 2601/08 (20170501) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/50 (20130101) C07D 213/55 (20130101) C07D 213/64 (20130101) C07D 213/68 (20130101) C07D 213/70 (20130101) C07D 213/79 (20130101) C07D 213/80 (20130101) C07D 239/26 (20130101) C07D 241/12 (20130101) C07D 241/24 (20130101) C07D 257/04 (20130101) C07D 271/06 (20130101) C07D 271/07 (20130101) C07D 277/24 (20130101) C07D 285/08 (20130101) C07D 285/12 (20130101) C07D 295/16 (20130101) C07D 295/26 (20130101) C07D 295/108 (20130101) C07D 307/42 (20130101) C07D 307/54 (20130101) C07D 307/68 (20130101) C07D 311/16 (20130101) C07D 333/24 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/04 (20130101) C07F 5/025 (20130101) C07F 7/025 (20130101) |
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| US 10377716 | Kull et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | F. Jon Kull (Enfield, New Hampshire); Ronald K. Taylor (Lebanon, New Hampshire); Gordon W. Gribble (Lebanon, New Hampshire); Evans O. Onyango (Hanover, New Hampshire); Anne R. Kelley (Campton, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Bicyclic compounds for decreasing the expression of bacterial virulence factors thereby preventing, mitigating, or treating bacterial infection are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, October 16, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/785193 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| 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 33/10 (20160801) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/12 (20130101) C07D 215/14 (20130101) C07D 217/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 10377733 | Demers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Danielle H. Demers (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Bill J. Baker (Temple Terrace, Florida); Ala Azhari (Tampa, Florida); Renee M. Fleeman (Austin, Texas); Dennis E. Kyle (Athens, Georgia); Lindsey Neil Shaw (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida); King Abdulaziz University (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Danielle H. Demers (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Bill J. Baker (Temple Terrace, Florida); Ala Azhari (Tampa, Florida); Renee M. Fleeman (Austin, Texas); Dennis E. Kyle (Athens, Georgia); Lindsey Neil Shaw (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel antimicrobial compounds against drug targets such as Eskape pathogens, Leishmania donovani, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Clostridium difficile, Naegleria fowleri, and cancer are presented herein. |
| FILED | Friday, June 29, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/023602 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 49/757 (20130101) C07C 65/19 (20130101) C07C 65/40 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 311/58 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Steroids C07J 1/00 (20130101) |
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| US 10377735 | Thatcher 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) | Gregory R. Thatcher (Urbana, Illinois); Rui Xiong (Urbana, Illinois); Jiong Zhao (Urbana, Illinois); Debra A. Tonetti (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is benzothiophene-based estrogen receptor downregulators and their compositions and uses to treat estrogen-related medical disorders. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 24, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/169812 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Therapeutic Activity of Chemical Compounds or Medicinal Preparations A61P 19/10 (20180101) A61P 35/00 (20180101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 333/64 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 409/06 (20130101) C07D 409/12 (20130101) |
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| US 10377744 | Hammock et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eicosis, LLC (Davis, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eicosis, LLC (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce D. Hammock (Davis, California); Kin Sing Stephen Lee (Davis, California); Ahmet Bora Inceoglu (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention discloses a new series of inhibitors of soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH) with improved physical properties that enhance their druglikeness to treat sEH associated diseases such as chronic diabetic neuropathic pain. |
| FILED | Friday, March 27, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 15/128933 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 211/58 (20130101) C07D 401/06 (20130101) C07D 405/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 10377780 | Gunning et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Governing Council of the University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada); UTI Limited Partnership (Calgary, Canada); Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Governing Council of the University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada); UTI Limited Partnership (Calgary, Canada); Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick Thomas Gunning (Streetsville, Canada); Sina Haftchenary (Thornhill, Canada); Brent David George Page (Hamilton, Canada); Samuel Weiss (Calgary, Canada); Hema Artee Luchman (Calgary, Canada); Melissa L. Fishel (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel compounds, compositions containing same and methods for inhibiting STAT3 and/or STAT5 activity or for the treatment of a STAT3 or STAT5-dependent cancer using said compounds; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate or prodrug thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 30, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/475108 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 311/19 (20130101) C07C 311/21 (20130101) C07C 2601/14 (20170501) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 215/36 (20130101) C07D 233/84 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 9/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07F 9/3882 (20130101) |
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| US 10377784 | Bierbach et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ulrich Bierbach (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Amanda J. Pickard (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the compounds of formula (I), pharmaceutically acceptable salts, and solvates thereof, wherein the various substituents are as defined herein. The compounds, solvates and salts thereof of Formula (I) are effective as anti-cancer compounds. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 12, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/033940 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/545 (20170801) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 15/0093 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 10377798 | Khurana et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as rerpresented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Surender Khurana (Clarksburg, Maryland); Hana Golding (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods useful for producing an immune response in a subject specific for the RSV G protein are described herein. The new methods and compositions described herein are made possible by the development of a new recombinant RSV G protein fragment, which has been engineered for in vitro production and is antigenically similar to the native RSV G protein. The recombinant RSV G protein fragment is capable of inducing the production of RSV G-specific antibodies when injected into a subject. These antibodies can recognize both RSV A and RSV B strains and inhibit infection of both viruses. Accordingly, the compositions and methods described herein may be useful in protecting subjects from RSV infection via immunization, raising antibodies specific for RSV, which can in turn be used to treat RSV infection. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 15/100914 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/155 (20130101) A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/525 (20130101) A61K 2039/575 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/05 (20130101) C07K 16/1027 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2319/21 (20130101) C07K 2319/50 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2760/18522 (20130101) C12N 2760/18534 (20130101) C12N 2760/18571 (20130101) |
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| US 10377801 | Martin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aline C. Martin (Chicago, Illinois); Nicolae V. David (Chicago, Illinois); Myles S. Wolf (Winnetak, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are compositions and methods for the treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and/or the amelioration or prevention of symptoms, conditions and diseases associated therewith. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 03, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/342678 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/50 (20130101) C07K 14/473 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 10377807 | Van Horn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wade Dale Van Horn (Mesa, Arizona); Minjoo Kim (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wade Dale Van Horn (Mesa, Arizona); Minjoo Kim (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A region of the TRPV1 protein that functions as a temperature switch (FIG. 1) has been identified, and can be expressed, purified and applied in combination with other proteins. The function of the switch is maintained even when the region or domain is isolated from the entire protein. As the protein domain is a temperature switch, it can be used to control other proteins and signaling pathways in vitro and in vivo; and TRPV1 is a therapeutic target that is being pursued primarily for intervention in pain (neuropathic and inflammatory) and cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, June 24, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/191902 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/705 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2319/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6872 (20130101) G01N 2500/04 (20130101) G01N 2500/10 (20130101) |
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| US 10377810 | Ostrand-Rosenberg |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE COUNTY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE COUNTY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Suzanne Ostrand-Rosenberg (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a therapeutic cancer treatment using a soluble CD80 fusion protein that binds to PDL1 and inhibits PDL1-PD1 interactions thereby overcoming PDL1-induced immune suppression and restoring T cell activation. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 20, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/492535 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 39/395 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/00 (20130101) C07K 14/70532 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/00 (20130101) C07K 16/2827 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/30 (20130101) |
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| US 10377815 | Chandran et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE (Bronx, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kartik Chandran (Brooklyn, New York); Anna Z. Wec (Bronx, New York); Elisabeth K. Nyakatura (New York, New York); Jonathan R. Lai (Dobbs Ferry, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are bispecific antibodies and bispecific fusion constructs that bind to Niemann-Pick CI (NPC1) receptor for treating or preventing filovirus infections, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the bispecific antibodies, and therapeutic methods using the bispecific antibodies. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 04, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/571512 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 39/395 (20130101) Specific Therapeutic Activity of Chemical Compounds or Medicinal Preparations A61P 31/14 (20180101) Peptides C07K 16/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/28 (20130101) C07K 2317/31 (20130101) C07K 2317/56 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/01 (20130101) |
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| US 10377818 | Monje-Deisseroth 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) | Michelle Monje-Deisseroth (Stanford, California); Humsa S. Venkatesh (Milpitas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of treating glioma are provided. Aspects of the invention include administering a therapeutically-effective amount of an agent that inhibits the activity of one or more neuronal activity-regulated proteins selected from: neuroligin-3, brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), or brevican, to a patient with a glioma. In certain embodiments, the subject methods involve treating a neurological dysfunction, reducing invasion of a glioma cell into brain tissue, and/or reducing the growth rate of a glioma in the patient. Also provided herein are methods for identifying an agent that modulates the mitotic index of a glial cell, and methods for stimulating the proliferation of a glial cell. Kits that find use in practicing the subject methods are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, January 29, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/011260 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/12 (20130101) A61K 31/44 (20130101) A61K 31/55 (20130101) A61K 31/366 (20130101) A61K 31/436 (20130101) A61K 31/437 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/515 (20130101) A61K 31/541 (20130101) A61K 31/4985 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) A61K 38/12 (20130101) A61K 38/13 (20130101) A61K 38/16 (20130101) A61K 38/177 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/28 (20130101) C07K 16/2863 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5058 (20130101) |
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| US 10377819 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Genzyme Corporation (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GENZYME CORPORATION (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brendan Lee (Houston, Texas); Kuber T. Sampath (Holliston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for treating and improving the symptoms of osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) in a subject by administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a binding agent that binds to transforming growth factor beta (TGFβ). |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 08, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/427920 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 33/42 (20130101) A61K 39/3955 (20130101) A61K 39/39533 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/21 (20130101) C07K 2317/51 (20130101) C07K 2317/52 (20130101) C07K 2317/56 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2317/515 (20130101) C07K 2317/565 (20130101) |
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| US 10377985 | Bitar |
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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) | Khalil Bitar (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Differentiation and stability of neural stem cells can be enhanced by in vitro or in vivo culturing with one or more extracellular matrix (ECM) compositions, such as collagen I, IV, laminin and/or a heparan sulfate proteoglycan. In one aspect of the invention, adult mammalian enteric neuronal progenitor cells can be induced to differentiate on various substrates derived from components or combinations of neural ECM compositions. Collagen I and IV supported neuronal differentiation and extensive glial differentiation individually and in combination. Addition of laminin or heparan sulfate to collagen substrates unexpectedly improved neuronal differentiation, increasing neuron number, branching of neuronal processes, and initiation of neuronal network formation. In another aspect, neuronal subtype differentiation was affected by varying ECM compositions in hydrogels overlaid on intestinal smooth muscle sheets. The matrix compositions of the present invention can be used to tissue engineer transplantable innervated GI smooth muscle constructs to remedy aganglionic disorders. |
| FILED | Friday, January 19, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 15/875717 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/30 (20130101) A61K 35/34 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0619 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 5/0622 (20130101) C12N 2502/1347 (20130101) C12N 2533/52 (20130101) C12N 2533/54 (20130101) C12N 2533/90 (20130101) |
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| US 10377988 | Rubinstein et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MUSC FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT (Charleston, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MUSC FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT (Charleston, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Rubinstein (James Island, South Carolina); David Cole (Mount Pleasant, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Cells, such a T-cells, are provided that comprise cytokine receptors having increased activity in response to their ligand. For example, cell can comprise IL-2 and/or IL-15 receptors having increased surface expression or signaling activity. Cells of the embodiments have a significant growth advantage in the presence of cytokines and can be used, e.g., for enhanced adoptive cell transfer therapies. |
| FILED | Friday, January 22, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/533103 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/17 (20130101) A61K 38/20 (20130101) A61K 38/20 (20130101) A61K 38/1793 (20130101) A61K 38/2013 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/705 (20130101) C07K 14/715 (20130101) C07K 14/7155 (20130101) C07K 14/70521 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0638 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/85 (20130101) C12N 2510/00 (20130101) |
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| US 10377998 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Broad Institute, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Broad Institute, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Feng Zhang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Bernd Zetsche (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides for systems, methods, and compositions for altering expression of target gene sequences and related gene products. Provided are structural information on the Cas protein of the CRISPR-Cas system, use of this information in generating modified components of the CRISPR complex, vectors and vector systems which encode one or more components or modified components of a CRISPR complex, as well as methods for the design and use of such vectors and components. Also provided are methods of directing CRISPR complex formation in eukaryotic cells and methods for utilizing the CRISPR-Cas system. In particular the present invention comprehends the engineering of optimized modular CRISPR-Cas enzyme systems. |
| FILED | Friday, June 10, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/179353 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 2319/09 (20130101) C07K 2319/20 (20130101) C07K 2319/70 (20130101) C07K 2319/095 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/10 (20130101) C12N 15/63 (20130101) C12N 15/79 (20130101) C12N 15/90 (20130101) C12N 2310/20 (20170501) C12N 2310/3519 (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 2521/101 (20130101) C12Q 2522/101 (20130101) |
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| US 10378006 | Sagar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vidya Sagar (Miami, Florida); Madhavan Nair (Coral Gables, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Florida International University Board of Trustees (Miami, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vidya Sagar (Miami, Florida); Madhavan Nair (Coral Gables, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and methods of using the same for conducting photonic and optical treatments on biological samples with additional functions including temperature monitoring and real-time microscopic imaging are provided. The photonic and optical treatments can be conducted using light with wavelengths in the near-infrared region (NIR) on biological samples, including in-vitro brain cell cultures, in-vivo central nervous system (CNS) and peripheral nervous system (PNS) tissue samples, and other body tissues. The apparatus and methods can be combined with magnetic nanoparticles treatment to accomplish non-invasive, on-demand drug targeting, brain cell specific gene delivery, and magnetized photo-biomodulation for treating various CNS disorders. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 19, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/491137 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — 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 13/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/1468 (20130101) G01N 2015/1006 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/06 (20130101) G02B 21/26 (20130101) G02B 21/0076 (20130101) G02B 21/367 (20130101) |
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| US 10378016 | Lieberman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Judy Lieberman (Brookline, Massachusetts); Lee Adam Wheeler (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Judy Lieberman (Brookline, Massachusetts); Lee Adam Wheeler (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides aptamer-gene modulator conjugates, where the aptamer and the gene modulator are linked together. The invention further provides a method for cell-specific delivery of gene modulators to hard to transfect cells such as CD4+ cell. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/991980 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 15/1132 (20130101) C12N 15/1138 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/16 (20130101) C12N 2310/3183 (20130101) C12N 2310/3519 (20130101) |
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| US 10378017 | Krauss |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Isaac J. Krauss (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to an oligonucleotide including one or more modified nucleoside bases having the structure -B-L-A wherein for each of the modified nucleosides A is independently a monosaccharide or oligosaccharide, L is a linker molecule, and B is independently a pyrimidine or pyridine base linked to the sugar-phosphate backbone of the oligonucleotide; and wherein the oligonucleotide binds specifically to a carbohydrate-binding monoclonal antibody with an affinity of less than 100 nM. Immunogenic conjugates that include the oligonucleotide, and pharmaceutical compositions that include the oligonucleotide or the immunogenic conjugate are also disclosed. Various method of using the oligonucleotides, immunogenic conjugates, and pharmaceutical compositions are disclosed, including inducing an immune response, inhibiting viral or bacterial infection, treating a cancerous condition, and detecting a neutralizing antibody. A method is also disclosed for selecting the oligonucleotides using an alternative Selection of Modified Aptamers (SELMA). |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 15/101292 |
| 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 | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/21 (20130101) A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/545 (20130101) A61K 2039/572 (20130101) A61K 2039/585 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/117 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/1058 (20130101) C12N 2310/16 (20130101) C12N 2310/17 (20130101) C12N 2310/351 (20130101) C12N 2310/531 (20130101) C12N 2320/30 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/34 (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 2600/136 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5308 (20130101) G01N 33/6854 (20130101) G01N 33/57415 (20130101) G01N 33/57419 (20130101) G01N 33/57423 (20130101) G01N 33/57434 (20130101) G01N 2333/162 (20130101) G01N 2333/9121 (20130101) |
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| US 10378018 | Guo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peixuan Guo (Lexington, Kentucky); Hui Li (Lexington, Kentucky); Emil Khisamutdinov (Lexington, Kentucky); Daniel Jasinski (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed towards an artificial RNA nanostructure comprising multiple external strands of RNA, each external strand comprising about 40-50 nucleotides; one internal strand of RNA comprising more than about 50 nucleotides; the internal strands and external strands assembled to form a triangle nanostructure, a square nanostructure, or a polygon nanostructure and a pRNA three-way junction (3WJ) motif at each vertex of the nanostructure. Such nanostructure can be provided in a composition together with an adjuvant for use in inducing the production of high affinity neutralizing antibodies or inhibitory antibodies, inducing the production of cytokines, inducing an immune response in a subject, or a combination thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, December 19, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/383575 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/39 (20130101) A61K 2039/64 (20130101) A61K 2039/6025 (20130101) A61K 2039/55561 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/117 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/17 (20130101) C12N 2310/52 (20130101) C12N 2310/3519 (20130101) |
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| US 10378021 | Schroeder 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) | Julian I. Schroeder (La Jolla, California); Maria Israelsson-Nordstrom (Taby, Sweden); Josef M. Kuhn (Schifferstadt, Germany); Yingzhen Yang (Geneva, New York); Honghong Hu (San Diego, California); Aurelien Boisson-Dernier (Paris, France) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions and methods for manipulating the exchange of water and/or carbon dioxide (CO2) through plant stomata by controlling CO2 sensor genes. The invention provides compositions and methods for enhancing or optimizing biomass accumulation in a plant. The invention provides compositions and methods for 10 opening or closing a stomatal pore on a guard cell in the epidermis of a plant. The invention provides compositions and methods for increasing or decreasing oxygenation efficiency and/or carbon fixation in a guard cell in the epidermis of a plant by manipulating expression of a ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase. The invention provides promoters for regulating expression of a nucleic acid in a plant guard cell. |
| FILED | Monday, October 17, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/295603 |
| ART UNIT | 1662 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/415 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/88 (20130101) C12N 15/8218 (20130101) C12N 15/8225 (20130101) C12N 15/8261 (20130101) C12N 15/8273 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Enzymes C12Y 402/01001 (20130101) Technologies for Adaptation to Climate Change Y02A 40/146 (20180101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 60/247 (20151101) |
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| US 10378027 | Joung et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Keith Joung (Winchester, Massachusetts); Morgan Maeder (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and constructs for RNA-guided targeting of heterologous functional domains such as transcriptional activators to specific genomic loci. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/775869 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 14/195 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/01 (20130101) C07K 2319/80 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/16 (20130101) C12N 9/22 (20130101) C12N 9/0071 (20130101) C12N 9/96 (20130101) C12N 9/1007 (20130101) C12N 15/01 (20130101) C12N 15/11 (20130101) C12N 15/63 (20130101) C12N 15/85 (20130101) C12N 15/102 (20130101) C12N 15/907 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/1031 (20130101) C12N 2310/20 (20170501) C12N 2710/00033 (20130101) C12N 2770/00033 (20130101) C12N 2800/80 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 114/11 (20130101) C12Y 201/01 (20130101) C12Y 301/00 (20130101) C12Y 301/21004 (20130101) |
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| US 10378056 | Kertai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Miklos D. Kertai (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Mihai V. Podgoreanu (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Joseph P. Mathew (Durham, North Carolina); Yi-Ju Li (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of identifying a human subject as having an increased risk of altered effectiveness of beta blocker therapy, comprising detecting in the subject one or more single nucleotide polymorphism associated with increased risk of altered effectiveness of beta blocker therapy. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 30, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/198473 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/106 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) C12Q 2600/172 (20130101) |
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| US 10378060 | DePinho et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald A. DePinho (Houston, Texas); Ji-Hye Paik (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is based on the identification of novel biomarkers predictive of response to anti-cancer therapies. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/350164 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/4184 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 5/10 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/106 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57496 (20130101) |
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| US 10378119 | Zhou |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dao Min Zhou (Saugus, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dao Min Zhou (Saugus, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrode surface coating and method for manufacturing the electrode surface coating comprising a conductive substrate; a surface coating of platinum having a rough configuration and an increase in the surface area of 5 times to 500 times of the corresponding surface area resulting from the basic geometric shape of the electrode. A method for electroplating an electrode surface with platinum coating having a rough surface, comprising electroplating the surface of a conductive substrate at a rate such that the metal particles form on the conductive substrate faster than necessary to form shiny platinum and slower than necessary to form platinum black. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/506618 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/05 (20130101) Processes for the Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Production of Coatings; Electroforming; Apparatus Therefor C25D 3/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 10379102 | Lindsay et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS on behalf of ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart Lindsay (Phoenix, Arizona); Peiming Zhang (Gilbert, Arizona); Yanan Zhao (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A single molecule sensing or detecting device includes a first electrode and a second electrode separated from the first electrode by a gap. The first electrode and the second electrode have an opening formed therethrough. At least one of the first electrode and the second electrode is functionalized with a recognition molecule. The recognition molecule has an effective length L1 and is configured to selectively bind to a target molecule having an effective length L2. The size of the gap is configured to be greater than L2, but less than or equal to the sum of L1 and L2. |
| FILED | Monday, December 12, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/375901 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/48721 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 10379109 | Yuan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Baohong Yuan (Arlington, Texas); Bingbing Cheng (Dallas, Texas); Mingyuan Wei (Arlington, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, methods of imaging are described herein. In some embodiments, a method of imaging described herein comprises disposing an ultrasound-switchable fluorophore in an environment; exposing the environment to an ultrasound beam to create an activation region within the environment; disposing the fluorophore within the activation region to switch the fluorophore from an off state to an on state; exposing the environment to a beam of electromagnetic radiation, thereby exciting the fluorophore; detecting a photoluminescence signal at a first location within the environment, the photoluminescence signal comprising at least one of an ultrasound fluorescence signal emitted by the fluorophore and a background signal; correlating the photoluminescence signal with a reference signal to generate a correlation coefficient for the first location; and multiplying the photoluminescence signal by the correlation coefficient for the first location to generate a modified photoluminescence signal for the first location. |
| FILED | Friday, February 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/615993 |
| ART UNIT | 3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0071 (20130101) A61B 8/481 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 41/0028 (20130101) A61K 49/0034 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6428 (20130101) G01N 33/542 (20130101) G01N 33/5091 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2201/06113 (20130101) |
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| US 10379112 | Sista et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Advanced Liquid Logic, Inc. (San Diego, California); Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Liquid Logic, Inc. (San Diego, California); Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramakrishna Sista (Cary, North Carolina); Vamsee K. Pamula (Cary, North Carolina); Michael G. Pollack (Durham, North Carolina); Vijay Srinivasan (Cary, North Carolina); Allen E. Eckhardt (San Diego, California); Richard B. Fair (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of providing a droplet in contact with a magnetically responsive bead and having a reduced quantity of a substance. The method generally includes the steps of (a) providing a droplet actuator comprising: (i) a substrate comprising electrodes arranged for conducting droplet operations on a surface; (ii) a starting droplet comprising: (1) one or more magnetically responsive beads; (2) a starting quantity of the substance; and (3) a starting volume; (b) magnetically immobilizing the one or more magnetically responsive beads at a location which is at a distance from a target droplet splitting zone; (c) conducting one or more droplet operations comprising droplet dividing operations selected to divide the combined droplet to yield a set of droplets comprising: (i) a droplet comprising substantially all of the one or more magnetically responsive beads and having a decreased quantity of the substance relative to the starting concentration; and (ii) a droplet substantially lacking the magnetically responsive beads. |
| FILED | Friday, May 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/719731 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/50273 (20130101) B01L 3/502715 (20130101) B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 3/502784 (20130101) B01L 2200/025 (20130101) B01L 2200/028 (20130101) B01L 2200/141 (20130101) B01L 2200/0647 (20130101) B01L 2200/0673 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0864 (20130101) B01L 2300/0867 (20130101) B01L 2400/043 (20130101) B01L 2400/0427 (20130101) Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 25/01 (20130101) C12M 25/16 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/44717 (20130101) G01N 27/44786 (20130101) G01N 33/54326 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/54386 (20130101) G01N 35/0098 (20130101) G01N 2035/1046 (20130101) |
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| US 10379189 | Gulani et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vikas Gulani (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Mark Griswold (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Dan Ma (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Katherine Wright (Macedonia, Ohio); Nicole Seiberlich (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments associated with combined magnetic resonance angiography and perfusion (MRAP) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) fingerprinting are described. One example apparatus repetitively and variably samples a (k, t, E) space associated with an object to acquire a set of NMR signals that are associated with different points in the (k, t, E) space. Sampling is performed with t and/or E varying in a non-constant way. The apparatus includes a signal logic that produces an NMR signal evolution from the NMR signals and a characterization logic that characterizes a resonant species in the object as a result of comparing acquired signals to reference signals. The apparatus includes an MRAP logic that simultaneously performs MR angiography and produces quantitative perfusion maps. A multi-factor MR bio-imaging panel is produced from a combination of the data provided by the MRAP and NMR fingerprinting. Diagnoses may be made from the multi-factor MR bio-imaging panel. |
| FILED | Monday, July 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/444737 |
| ART UNIT | 3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0035 (20130101) A61B 5/055 (20130101) A61B 5/4064 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/448 (20130101) G01R 33/5635 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 33/56366 (20130101) |
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| US 10379234 | Wei et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Maryland); Mirion Technologies, Inc. (Meriden, Connecticut); Mirion Technologies (Canberra UK) Limited (Didcot, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Silver Spring, Maryland); Mirion Technologies, Inc. (Meriden, Connecticut); Mirion Technologies (Canberra UK) Limited (Oxfordshire, United Kingdom) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cong Wei (Rockville, Maryland); Kelly M. Garnick (Rockville, Maryland); Thomas A. Scott (Rockville, Maryland); Elon M. Malkin (Rockville, Maryland); Jennifer T. Szymanski (Rockville, Maryland); Steve Laskos (Meriden, Connecticut); James Cocks (Meriden, Connecticut); Jeffrey Raimondi (Meriden, Connecticut); Richard Mowry (Meriden, Connecticut); Hiram Gonzalez (Meriden, Connecticut); Ronald White (Meriden, Connecticut); Wilhelm Mueller (Meriden, Connecticut); Robert Fournier (Meriden, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A gamma-ray analysis system is described for analyzing gamma-ray emitting radionuclides. The gamma-ray analysis system includes an analytical apparatus having a gamma-ray detector in operative communication with a modular and scalable shield assembly that encases a sample container having a sample to be tested. The detector communicates data to an electronic interface device that converts the data from an analog format to a digital format before a controller transmits the data to a central laboratory for further data processing, analysis and conclusion by qualified laboratory analysts. The controller runs an application software package on a graphic user interface that allows simple steps for conducting testing and data acquisition by the end user, while permitting real time data transmission between the field site and the central location. Functions were implemented for ensuring laboratory quality results while removing knowledge and experience requirements of an end user. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 08, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/756667 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/167 (20130101) G01T 7/00 (20130101) G01T 7/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 10380726 | Du et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND (College Park, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ruofei Du (Greenbelt, Maryland); Amitabh Varshney (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are systems, devices, and methods for creating a rendering of real-world locations with embedded multimedia elements. An exemplary method includes receiving image data of a real-world location, identifying geographic coordinates of the real-world location and/or a point of view from which the image data was acquired, acquiring multimedia elements relevant to the real-world location based on the geographic coordinates and/or the point of view, and creating a rendering of the image data with the multimedia elements embedded therein. |
| FILED | Monday, March 21, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/559955 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/14 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 5/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 11/60 (20130101) G06T 2200/24 (20130101) G06T 2207/20221 (20130101) Arrangements or Circuits for Control of Indicating Devices Using Static Means to Present Variable Information G09G 2340/12 (20130101) Information Storage Based on Relative Movement Between Record Carrier and Transducer G11B 27/105 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 67/10 (20130101) H04L 67/18 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | OHIO STATE INNOVATION FOUNDATION (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | OHIO STATE INNOVATION FOUNDATION (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aleix Martinez (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The innovation describes and discloses systems and methods related to deep neural networks employing machine learning to detect item 2D landmark points from a single image, such as those of an image of a face, and to estimate their 3D coordinates and shape rapidly and accurately. The system also provides for mapping by a feed-forward neural network that defines two criteria, one to learn to detect important shape landmark points on the image and another to recover their depth information. An aspect of the innovation may utilize camera models in a data augmentation approach that aids machine learning of a complex, non-linear mapping function. Other augmentation approaches are also considered. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 12, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/782433 |
| ART UNIT | 2663 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00281 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/08 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 3/4046 (20130101) G06T 7/55 (20170101) G06T 15/205 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 10381209 | Ouyang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana); Zheng Ouyang (West Lafayette, Indiana); Yue Ren (West Lafayette, Indiana); Xiao Wang (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zheng Ouyang (West Lafayette, Indiana); Yue Ren (West Lafayette, Indiana); Xiao Wang (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally relates to probes, systems, cartridges, and methods of use thereof. In certain embodiments, the invention provides a probe including a porous material and a hollow member coupled to a distal portion of the porous material. |
| FILED | Monday, February 08, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/548275 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/167 (20130101) H01J 49/0409 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 49/0445 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Loyola University of Chicago (Maywood, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Loyola University Chicago (Maywood, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam Driks (Maywood, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methodologies, formulations, and kits suitable for decontaminating environments containing bacterial spores by degrading the spores. Formulations contain papain and at least one germinant. Methods for killing bacterial spores include contacting the spores with the formulation for a duration sufficient to initiate germination of the bacterial spores. The spores are then killed with the papain in the formulation, or are rendered by the papain susceptible to being killed by a reagent. |
| FILED | Monday, September 18, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/707372 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 31/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01N 37/44 (20130101) A01N 37/44 (20130101) A01N 43/90 (20130101) A01N 43/90 (20130101) A01N 63/02 (20130101) A01N 63/02 (20130101) A01N 63/02 (20130101) A01N 65/08 (20130101) A01N 65/08 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/00 (20130101) C12N 9/94 (20130101) |
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| US 10376244 | Cancelos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Silvina Cancelos (Rincon, Puerto Rico); Carlos Javier Marin (Rincon, Puerto Rico); Andrés Saavedra (Mayaguez, Puerto Rico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Puerto Rico (San Juan, Puerto Rico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Silvina Cancelos (Rincon, Puerto Rico); Carlos Javier Marin (Rincon, Puerto Rico); Andrés Saavedra (Mayaguez, Puerto Rico) |
| ABSTRACT | Decompression sickness (DCS) occurs when divers rise to the surface exposing the body to sudden changes in pressure, generating nitrogen bubbles in tissues, causing serious bodily injury and even death. Therefore, the present invention allows prevention of DCS with a method that detects the presence of bubbles in real time. The invention proposes a new method for bubble detection with a piezoelectric ring (PZT) and pill microphones (PM) placed around a divers thigh. The electrical signals from the piezoelectric ring (PZT) and microphones (PM) are the inputs to a pattern recognition algorithm used for determining the presence, amount and size of bubbles. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/862093 |
| ART UNIT | 3649 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 7/04 (20130101) A61B 8/4494 (20130101) A61B 8/5223 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00523 (20130101) G06K 9/00536 (20130101) G06K 9/6223 (20130101) G06K 9/6232 (20130101) G06K 9/6267 (20130101) G06K 9/6269 (20130101) |
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| US 10376322 | Frederick et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tom Frederick (Omaha, Nebraska); Eric Markvicka (Ravenna, Nebraska); Shane Farritor (Lincoln, Nebraska); Dmitry Oleynikov (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | The embodiments disclosed herein relate to various robotic and/or in vivo medical devices having compact joint configurations. Other embodiments relate to various medical device components, including forearms having grasper or cautery end effectors, that can be incorporated into certain robotic and/or in vivo medical devices. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 11, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/938667 |
| ART UNIT | 3794 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 18/14 (20130101) A61B 18/082 (20130101) A61B 18/1445 (20130101) A61B 34/30 (20160201) Original (OR) Class A61B 2017/00398 (20130101) A61B 2017/00407 (20130101) A61B 2017/00477 (20130101) A61B 2018/00595 (20130101) A61B 2018/1253 (20130101) A61B 2018/1422 (20130101) A61B 2034/305 (20160201) A61B 2217/005 (20130101) A61B 2217/007 (20130101) A61B 2218/002 (20130101) A61B 2218/007 (20130101) |
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| US 10376502 | Du et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Baruch S. Blumberg Institute (Doylestown, Pennsylvania); Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Institute for Hepatitis and Virus Research (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yanming Du (Cheshire, Connecticut); Xiaodong Xu (Doylestown, Pennsylvania); Hong Ye (Lansdale, Pennsylvania); Jinhong Chang (Chalfont, Pennsylvania); Timothy M. Block (Doylestown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Pharmaceutical compositions of the invention comprise alkylated imino sugars derivatives having a disease-modifying action in the treatment of diseases associated with glucosidase activity that include Viral hemorrhagic fevers, and any other diseases involving glucosidase activity. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/813931 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/45 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/4015 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/12 (20130101) C07D 211/44 (20130101) C07D 211/46 (20130101) C07D 413/06 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 9/59 (20130101) |
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| US 10377496 | Le et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Boeing Company (Seal Beach, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOEING COMPANY (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Luong Hoang Le (Bothell, Washington); George Bates, III (Bothell, Washington); Myles Edward Brown (Bothell, Washington); Brian P. Berryessa (Seattle, Washington); Ryan S. Perham (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An airflow control system for use in a vehicle is provided. The airflow control system includes a manifold and a recirculation duct in flow communication with the manifold. The recirculation duct includes a fan and a recirculation valve. The system additionally includes a ventilation duct coupled in flow communication with the recirculation duct between the fan and the recirculation valve. The ventilation duct is in flow communication with an ambient environment surrounding the vehicle and includes at least one ventilation valve. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/954352 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 13/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B64D 2013/0618 (20130101) B64D 2013/0688 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/56 (20130101) |
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| US 10378027 | Joung et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Keith Joung (Winchester, Massachusetts); Morgan Maeder (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and constructs for RNA-guided targeting of heterologous functional domains such as transcriptional activators to specific genomic loci. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/775869 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 14/195 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/01 (20130101) C07K 2319/80 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/16 (20130101) C12N 9/22 (20130101) C12N 9/0071 (20130101) C12N 9/96 (20130101) C12N 9/1007 (20130101) C12N 15/01 (20130101) C12N 15/11 (20130101) C12N 15/63 (20130101) C12N 15/85 (20130101) C12N 15/102 (20130101) C12N 15/907 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/1031 (20130101) C12N 2310/20 (20170501) C12N 2710/00033 (20130101) C12N 2770/00033 (20130101) C12N 2800/80 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 114/11 (20130101) C12Y 201/01 (20130101) C12Y 301/00 (20130101) C12Y 301/21004 (20130101) |
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| US 10378045 | Connolly et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Integrated Nano-Technologies, LLC (Henrietta, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Integrated Nano-Technologies, LLC (Henrietta, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis M. Connolly (Rochester, New York); Tara Holz (Henrietta, New York); Vera Tannous (Penfield, New York); Christopher Kilcoin (Boulder Creek, California); Konstantin Aptekarev (Santa Cruz, California); David B. Bailey (Webster, New York); Richard S. Murante (Henrietta, New York); Nathaniel E. Wescott (West Henrietta, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A disposable cartridge for preparing a nucleic acid sample including a stationary cartridge body and a cylindrical rotor rotationally mounted to the cartridge body. The cartridge body includes: (i) a cylindrical surface defining a fixed port and (ii) a syringe barrel defining a bore in fluid communication with the fixed port. When the disposable cartridge is disposed in combination with an assay system, syringe barrel is configured to receive a moveable plunger, i.e., to stroke the plunger into and out of the barrel. The rotor is seated within a cavity of the cartridge body such that a mating surface thereof slideably engages a cylindrical surface of the cavity. The rotor comprises a plurality of chambers fluidly connecting to a plurality of ports along the mating surface at different radial positions such that at least one of the chambers is fluidly connected to one of the ports by a connecting channel. Rotation of the rotor aligns one of the rotor ports with the fixed port such that fluid may be moved into and out of the chambers in response to axial displacement of the moveable plunger. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 04, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/586841 |
| ART UNIT | 1798 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502 (20130101) B01L 2200/0631 (20130101) B01L 2300/0681 (20130101) Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 47/06 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/066 (20130101) C12N 15/10 (20130101) C12N 15/1013 (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 1/02 (20130101) C12Q 1/6806 (20130101) C12Q 1/6825 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2531/113 (20130101) C12Q 2563/107 (20130101) C12Q 2563/143 (20130101) C12Q 2565/629 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/286 (20130101) G01N 2001/2866 (20130101) |
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| US 10378058 | Yu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dihua Yu (Houston, Texas); Xiaoyan Zhou (Shanghai, China PRC); Yoichi Nagata (Tosu, Japan); Francisco J. Esteva (Bellaire, Texas); Aysegul A. Sahin (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dihua Yu (Houston, Texas); Xiaoyan Zhou (Shanghai, China PRC); Yoichi Nagata (Tosu, Japan); Francisco J. Esteva (Bellaire, Texas); Aysegul A. Sahin (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Patients with ErbB2-overexpressing cancers can be given an ErbB2 targeting agent as a therapeutic regimen but not all patients are responsive. The present invention concerns the diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic methods and compositions for evaluating potential efficacy of an ErbB2 targeting agent in an ErbB2-overexpressing cancers by evaluating PTEN expression, which is predictive of responsiveness or resistance to ErbB2 targeting agents such as trastuzumab. Low PTEN expression is predictive of a patient who will respond poorly to trastuzumab. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/943644 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — 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 1/42 (20130101) C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/106 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/573 (20130101) G01N 33/5011 (20130101) G01N 33/57415 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/25 (20150115) |
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| US 10378364 | Spangler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brandon W. Spangler (Vernon, Connecticut); Edwin Otero (Southington, Connecticut); David R. Pack (Ellington, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An airfoil for use with a gas turbine engine includes a pressure side wall. The airfoil further includes a suction side wall configured to be exposed to less pressure than the pressure side wall during operation of the gas turbine engine. The airfoil also includes a plurality of ribs defining multiple air passages including at least one triangular air passage partially defined by at least one of the pressure side wall or the suction side wall, and at least one internal air passage bordered on at least three sides by at least two of the plurality of ribs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 07, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/806224 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/187 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 7/18 (20130101) Non-positive-displacement Pumps F04D 29/324 (20130101) F04D 29/542 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2220/323 (20130101) F05D 2240/126 (20130101) F05D 2240/301 (20130101) F05D 2250/11 (20130101) F05D 2250/131 (20130101) F05D 2260/22141 (20130101) |
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| US 10378381 | Hagan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin F. Hagan (Manchester, Connecticut); Ryan Alan Waite (South Windsor, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine engine component has an airfoil extending radially inwardly of an outer platform to an inner platform. A central passage is formed within the airfoil and has an inlet end for receiving cooling air. An outlet end in the inner platform delivers cooling air to a downstream use. The airfoil has a suction wall and a pressure wall, and extends in an axial direction from a leading edge to a trailing edge. A suction skin core is between the central passage and the suction wall. A pressure skin core is between the central passage and the pressure wall. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 15/022943 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/187 (20130101) F01D 9/041 (20130101) F01D 9/065 (20130101) F01D 25/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Non-positive-displacement Pumps F04D 29/542 (20130101) F04D 29/5846 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2220/32 (20130101) F05D 2240/81 (20130101) F05D 2260/202 (20130101) F05D 2260/204 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/676 (20130101) |
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| US 10378764 | Haugstetter |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UTC FIRE and SECURITY CORPORATION (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UTC FIRE and SECURITY CORPORATION (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christoph Haugstetter (West Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for boiler control is provided. The system includes supply units to provide supplies of combustion materials for combustion thereof, a vessel coupled to the supply units in which the combustion materials are combusted, a carbon monoxide (CO) sensor disposed at an outlet of the vessel to sense a quantity of exhaust CO output from the vessel as a product of combustion therein and a control unit. The control unit is coupled to the supply units and the sensor and configured to issue a main servo command and a pulse servo command to one or more of the supply units to control operations of the one or more supply units in accordance with the sensed quantity of the exhaust CO. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 05, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/642079 |
| ART UNIT | 1798 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods of Steam Generation; Steam Boilers F22B 35/00 (20130101) Methods or apparatus for combustion using fluid fuel or Solid Fuel Suspended In Air F23C 2205/10 (20130101) Regulating or Controlling Combustion F23N 1/002 (20130101) F23N 5/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F23N 5/003 (20130101) F23N 2041/04 (20130101) Fluid Heaters, e.g Water or Air Heaters, Having Heat Generating Means, in General F24H 9/20 (20130101) |
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| US 10378771 | Hannwacker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Andrew Hannwacker (Torrance, California); Stephen John Howell (West Newbury, Massachusetts); John Carl Jacobson (Melrose, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A combustor assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a combustor dome and a combustion chamber liner attached to or formed integrally with the combustor dome. The combustion chamber liner extends between a forward end and an aft end, and together with the combustor dome at least partially defines a combustion chamber. The combustor assembly additionally includes a mounting assembly attached to the liner proximate the forward end of the liner for supporting the combustor dome and combustion chamber liner within the gas turbine engine relative to a structural component of the gas turbine engine. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 25, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/053484 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 7/20 (20130101) Generating Combustion Products of High Pressure or High Velocity, e.g Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers F23R 3/007 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F23R 3/50 (20130101) F23R 3/60 (20130101) |
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| US 10378861 | Wadley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Haydn N. G. Wadley (Keswick, Virginia); Vikram Deshpande (Cambridge, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | An impulse mitigation system configured to mitigate blast impulse directed to a surface (or structure or target). The system includes a substrate in communication with the surface (or structure or target), wherein the substrate is configured to receive an impulse directed to the surface (or structure or target) and then relocate from the surface (or structure or target) in response to received impulse. |
| FILED | Friday, September 04, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 15/508509 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Armour; Armoured Turrets; Armoured or Armed Vehicles; Means of Attack or Defence, e.g Camouflage, in General F41H 5/007 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F41H 7/042 (20130101) |
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| US 10378870 | Wu 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) | Thomas Wu (New Hyde Park, New York); Shana Groeschler (Highland Park, New Jersey); Keith Fulton (Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania); Leon Moy (Montclair, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A meltable fuze plug for a munition has an upper flange ringed by a specially corrugated steel washer to absorb impacts of various strength levels from various directions, and against falls, to protect the ogive and munition. The meltable fuze plug renders the munition insensitive. It is formed of a meltable plastic for facilitating venting of the munition's interior areas during unexpected fires or explosions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 30, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 15/992668 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Pistons; Cylinders; Sealings F16J 15/32 (20130101) Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 39/14 (20130101) Ammunition Fuzes; Arming or Safety Means Therefor F42C 19/02 (20130101) F42C 19/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 10378876 | Gong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shaoqin Gong (Middleton, Wisconsin); Zhenqiang Ma (Middleton, Wisconsin); Yunming Wang (Madison, Wisconsin); Hongyi Mi (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Piezoresistive composite materials comprising electrically conductive particles in a polymeric phase change material are provided. Also provided are strain sensors incorporating the composites and methods for detecting mechanical strain using the composites. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 02, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/171990 |
| ART UNIT | 2852 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 18/4854 (20130101) C08G 18/7664 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 3/08 (20130101) C08K 3/08 (20130101) C08K 3/041 (20170501) C08K 3/041 (20170501) C08K 3/042 (20170501) C08K 3/042 (20170501) C08K 2201/001 (20130101) C08K 2201/011 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 71/02 (20130101) C08L 71/02 (20130101) C08L 71/02 (20130101) Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 1/00 (20130101) G01B 7/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 10378884 | Nguyen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | iSenseCloud, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | iSenseCloud, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | An-Dien Nguyen (Fremont, California); An H. Nguyen (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber optic voltage conditioner, and method therefor, generally relate to voltage conditioning. In such a fiber optic voltage conditioner, there is a laser, and an optical circulator is coupled to receive a light signal from the laser. A controller is coupled to the laser and is configured to generate first control information for wavelength-drift control of the laser. A data acquisition module is coupled to the controller and is configured to generate second control information for the controller for adjustment of the first control information. A photodetector is coupled to the optical circulator to receive a returned optical signal and is coupled to the data acquisition module to provide an analog output signal thereto. The photodetector is configured to generate the analog output signal responsive to the returned optical signal. The data acquisition module is configured to generate the second control information using the analog output signal. |
| FILED | Monday, June 25, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/017737 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 11/165 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 5/0612 (20130101) H01S 5/0622 (20130101) H01S 5/0687 (20130101) H01S 5/06837 (20130101) |
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| US 10378892 | Delaune et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael J. Delaune (Fort Worth, Texas); William B. Buchanan (Arlington, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Delaune (Fort Worth, Texas); William B. Buchanan (Arlington, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system includes one or more memory devices operable to store surface profile data and a processor operable to execute logic. The processor accesses the surface profile data for a first surface of a first component and a second surface of a second component, and determines, based at least in part on the surface profile data for the first and second surfaces, a best-fit between the first and second surfaces. The processor determines a first distance from a first edge-of-part point on the first surface to the best-fit, and a second distance from a second edge-of-part point on the second surface to the best-fit. The processor determines a flushness between the first surface and the second surface based at least in part on the first and second distances. |
| FILED | Monday, April 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/257416 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 21/16 (20130101) G01B 21/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 10378903 | Mansur et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sabrina M. Mansur (Somerville, Massachusetts); Trevor C. Savage (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of identifying operational modes experienced by a user during a jump from an aircraft may comprise estimating a user altitude and a user descent rate, based on a set of navigation state data vectors. The method may further comprise determining that the user is ready to transition from a flight mode to a descent mode when the user altitude is above a jump altitude threshold, and a variation of the user altitude is below a predetermined altitude variation threshold. After determining that the user is ready to transition from the flight mode to the descent mode, the method further comprises determining that the user has transitioned from a flight mode to a descent mode when a user ground speed is below a ground speed threshold, and one or both of (i) a GNSS position error estimate, and (ii) the user descent rate estimate, indicates a jump signature. |
| FILED | Friday, January 27, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/417798 |
| ART UNIT | 3668 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 17/00 (20130101) Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 21/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 19/19 (20130101) G01S 19/20 (20130101) G01S 19/39 (20130101) |
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| US 10378954 | Dal Negro et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Luca Dal Negro (Brookline, Massachusetts); Ren Wang (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An electromagnetic radiation sorting device comprises an image sensor having an imaging plane; a substrate layer positioned adjacent to and spaced a distance from the imaging plane of the image sensor such that the imaging plane of the image sensor is in the Fresnel near field; and a functional layer coupled to the substrate layer, the functional layer having a structure that is configured to sort incoming electromagnetic radiation according to frequency by imparting orbital angular momentum and linear momentum on the incoming electromagnetic radiation. |
| FILED | Friday, April 20, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 15/959156 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 1/0437 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/188 (20130101) |
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| US 10378959 | Stone |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wavefront Research, Inc. (Northampton, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wavefront Research, Inc. (Northampton, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas W. Stone (Hellertown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems that enable observing celestial bodies during daylight or in under cloudy conditions. |
| FILED | Monday, July 02, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/025185 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Cosmonautics; Vehicles or Equipment Therefor B64G 3/00 (20130101) Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 1/0488 (20130101) G01J 1/4228 (20130101) G01J 5/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01J 5/0862 (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 1/70 (20130101) G01S 3/78 (20130101) G01S 3/7867 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/208 (20130101) G02B 23/00 (20130101) |
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| US 10379122 | Satterly et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army on behalf of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army on behalf of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neal G. Satterly (Lawrenceville, Georgia); Randal J. Schoepp (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein methods, compositions, and kits for obtaining a normalized measured amount of a target in a sample by measuring the amount of the target in the sample by contacting the sample with a detection reagent, measuring the amount of a ligand known to be absent in the sample being tested by contacting the sample with a control reagent, and obtaining the normalized measured amount of the target by calculating the ratio of the measured amount of the target to the measured amount of the ligand. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 09, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/232540 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/553 (20130101) G01N 33/582 (20130101) G01N 33/56983 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 10379126 | Zhu |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Haojie Zhu (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are compositions and methods for proteomic analysis. In particular, provided herein are compositions and methods for performing mass spectrometry-based protein quantitation analysis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 26, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/334902 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Containers for Storage or Transport of Articles or Materials, e.g Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding Containers; Accessories, Closures, or Fittings Therefor; Packaging Elements; Packages B65D 19/0038 (20130101) B65D 19/44 (20130101) B65D 2519/00024 (20130101) B65D 2519/00029 (20130101) B65D 2519/00034 (20130101) B65D 2519/00059 (20130101) B65D 2519/00064 (20130101) B65D 2519/00069 (20130101) B65D 2519/00268 (20130101) B65D 2519/00815 (20130101) B65D 2519/00835 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 304/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6827 (20130101) G01N 33/6848 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2570/00 (20130101) |
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| US 10379135 | Maryfield et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cubic Corporation (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cubic Corporation (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tony Maryfield (Poway, California); Mahyar Dadkhah (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are disclosed for enabling a wind-sensing optical scope to communicate with external components to provide for a ballistic solution. Techniques may further incorporate cost saving features such as the utilization of a photo diode and/or other features. The wind-sensing optical scope may include various sensors to collect data for the ballistic solution, and/or data from external sensors may be used. Techniques may further incorporate range finding in the wind-sensing optical scope, depending on desired functionality. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 09, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/065724 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Weapon Sights; Aiming F41G 1/36 (20130101) F41G 1/38 (20130101) F41G 3/06 (20130101) F41G 3/08 (20130101) F41G 3/065 (20130101) F41G 3/145 (20130101) Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 1/44 (20130101) G01J 2001/446 (20130101) G01J 2001/4406 (20130101) Measuring Linear or Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, or Shock; Indicating Presence, Absence, or Direction, of Movement G01P 5/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 7/486 (20130101) G01S 7/4816 (20130101) G01S 17/023 (20130101) G01S 17/88 (20130101) G01S 17/95 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 13/14 (20130101) G02B 23/18 (20130101) G02B 23/105 (20130101) G02B 27/20 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 5/003 (20130101) G06T 5/20 (20130101) G06T 5/50 (20130101) G06T 7/20 (20130101) G06T 7/33 (20170101) G06T 7/73 (20170101) G06T 11/60 (20130101) G06T 2207/10012 (20130101) G06T 2207/10016 (20130101) G06T 2207/10048 (20130101) G06T 2207/20224 (20130101) G06T 2207/30212 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/105 (20130101) H01L 31/0203 (20130101) H01L 31/02005 (20130101) H01L 31/02019 (20130101) H01L 31/03046 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/33 (20130101) H04N 5/23222 (20130101) H04N 13/204 (20180501) |
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| US 10379152 | Robertazzi 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) | Raphael P. Robertazzi (Ossining, New York); Peilin Song (Lagrangeville, New York); Franco Stellari (Waldwick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for characterizing an integrated circuit that includes ramping the supply voltage to an integrated circuit as a function of time for each of the transistors in the integrated circuit, and measuring a power supply current for the integrated circuit during the ramping of the power supply voltage. The measured peaks in the power supply current are a current pulse that identifies an operation state in which each of the transistors are in an on state. The peaks in the power supply current are compared to the reference peaks for the power supply current for a reference circuit having a same functionality as the integrated circuit to determine the integrated circuit's fitness. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 07, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/093190 |
| ART UNIT | 2867 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 31/275 (20130101) G01R 31/311 (20130101) G01R 31/2607 (20130101) G01R 31/2621 (20130101) G01R 31/2642 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 31/2855 (20130101) G01R 31/3004 (20130101) |
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| US 10379195 | Jungwirth et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Edward Lewis Jungwirth (Golden Valley, Minnesota); Wesley J. Hawkinson (Chanhassen, Minnesota); Sorin Mosor (Peoria, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical system comprises a pair of Risley prisms positioned along an optical axis to receive a light beam from a field of view, wherein at least one of the Risley prisms is rotatable, transverse to the optical axis, with respect to the other of the Risley prisms. At least one lens is positioned along the optical axis to receive the light beam from the pair of Risley prisms, with the at least one lens configured to focus the light beam. An optical detector array is positioned along the optical axis at an image plane, wherein the optical detector array receives the focused light beam on the image plane from the at least one lens. The optical system can be implemented as a light beam steering mechanism in a star tracker or celestial aided inertial navigation unit. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 24, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/604501 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| 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 3/781 (20130101) G01S 3/7867 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/04 (20130101) G02B 26/0891 (20130101) |
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| US 10379501 | Emerson |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Crane, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R Emerson (Ellettsville, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for controlling lab equipment such as transmitters are provided that includes a mini automation controller (MAC). The system provides a control system, user interface, and interfaces, including network interfaces usable for interfacing equipment, MAC, and user interfaces over a network, which provide a variety of functions including automation and monitoring of transmission sequences and receiver events. An exemplary MAC may include an Ethernet controller capable of converting an Ethernet signal to a serial signal. The MAC may also include a receiver monitor section comprising a fiber optic receiver input, a copper cable receiver input, and a monostable multivibrator. In addition to the receiver monitor section, the MAC may have a transmitter control section including a transmitter control pulse and a power output. An exemplary MAC may have a microcontroller coupled to the Ethernet controller, the receiver monitor section, and the transmitter control section. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 11, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/484608 |
| ART UNIT | 2119 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 11/01 (20130101) G05B 11/012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G05B 11/26 (20130101) G05B 15/02 (20130101) G05B 19/4185 (20130101) G05B 2219/1214 (20130101) G05B 2219/31233 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 69/08 (20130101) |
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| US 10379544 | Wulff |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ole Wulff (Ansonia, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A rotary wing aircraft includes an airframe including an extending tail. The airframe includes a longitudinal axis that extends through the extending tail. The rotary wing aircraft also includes a main rotor assembly including at least one rotor hub supporting a plurality of rotor blades configured and disposed to rotate about a main rotor axis, at least one elevator arranged at the extending tail, and a control system operably connected to the main rotor assembly and the at least one elevator. The control system is configured and disposed to adjust each of a pitch rate and an attitude of the airframe by selectively adjusting a position of the at least one elevator. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 15/526038 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 13/16 (20130101) B64C 27/10 (20130101) B64C 27/57 (20130101) B64C 27/82 (20130101) B64C 2027/8236 (20130101) B64C 2027/8272 (20130101) B64C 2027/8281 (20130101) Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 1/0858 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 10379570 | Mesadri et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xilinx, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | XILINX, INC. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Conrado K. Mesadri (San Jose, California); Bob W. Verbruggen (Dublin, Ireland) |
| ABSTRACT | A clock divider circuit receives an input clock signal having a first frequency (f) and generates an output signal having a frequency equal to f/N, where N is an odd integer. The clock divider circuit includes an edge counter to count a number of consecutive edges of the input clock signal having a first plurality, and to assert a control signal when a threshold number (N) of consecutive edges has been counted. The clock divider circuit also includes a frequency multiplier to generate an intermediate clock signal having a frequency equal to 2f/N by doubling the frequency of the control signal based at least in part on transitions of the input clock signal, and a frequency divider to generate an output clock signal having a frequency equal to f/N by halving the frequency of the intermediate clock signal. |
| FILED | Friday, May 25, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 15/989619 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 1/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 1/10 (20130101) Pulse Technique H03K 5/15013 (20130101) |
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| US 10379855 | Hasenplaugh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William C. Hasenplaugh (Boston, Massachusetts); Chris J. Newburn (South Beloit, Illinois); Simon C. Steely, Jr. (Hudson, New Hampshire); Samantika S. Sury (Westford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A processor of an aspect includes a plurality of packed data registers, and a decode unit to decode an instruction. The instruction is to indicate a packed data register of the plurality of packed data registers that is to store a source packed memory address information. The source packed memory address information is to include a plurality of memory address information data elements. An execution unit is coupled with the decode unit and the plurality of packed data registers, the execution unit, in response to the instruction, is to load a plurality of data elements from a plurality of memory addresses that are each to correspond to a different one of the plurality of memory address information data elements, and store the plurality of loaded data elements in a destination storage location. The destination storage location does not include a register of the plurality of packed data registers. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/283259 |
| ART UNIT | 2182 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/3004 (20130101) G06F 9/3013 (20130101) G06F 9/3016 (20130101) G06F 9/30032 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 9/30036 (20130101) G06F 9/30043 (20130101) G06F 12/126 (20130101) G06F 12/0886 (20130101) G06F 12/0897 (20130101) G06F 12/1027 (20130101) G06F 12/1054 (20130101) G06F 2212/681 (20130101) G06F 2212/1024 (20130101) G06F 2212/1028 (20130101) |
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| US 10380063 | Tang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jinjie Tang (Acton, Massachusetts); Kermin E. Fleming (Hudson, Massachusetts); Simon C. Steely (Hudson, New Hampshire); Kent D. Glossop (Merrimack, New Hampshire); Jim Sukha (Marlborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to a sequencer dataflow operator of a configurable spatial accelerator are described. In one embodiment, an interconnect network between a plurality of processing elements receives an input of a dataflow graph comprising a plurality of nodes forming a loop construct, wherein the dataflow graph is overlaid into the interconnect network and the plurality of processing elements with each node represented as a dataflow operator in the plurality of processing elements and at least one dataflow operator controlled by a sequencer dataflow operator of the plurality of processing elements, and the plurality of processing elements is to perform an operation when an incoming operand set arrives at the plurality of processing elements and the sequencer dataflow operator generates control signals for the at least one dataflow operator in the plurality of processing elements. |
| FILED | Saturday, September 30, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/721802 |
| ART UNIT | 2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/38 (20130101) G06F 9/3001 (20130101) G06F 9/3004 (20130101) G06F 9/3802 (20130101) G06F 9/30036 (20130101) G06F 9/30076 (20130101) G06F 9/30145 (20130101) G06F 15/7892 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 10380105 | Calo 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) | Seraphin Bernard Calo (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Douglas M Freimuth (New York, New York); Raghu Kiran Ganti (Elmsford, New York); James J. Fan (Mountain Lakes, New Jersey); Fan Ye (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A common infrastructure collects data from a plurality of mobile devices and traditional sensors at Internet scale to respond to natural language queries received at different applications. The infrastructure includes a semantic interpreter to translate the natural language query to a data request specification that is processed by the data collection system. The data collection system includes a phenomenon layer that expresses data and information needs in a declarative fashion and coordinates data collection and processing for queries. An edge layer manages devices, receives collection requirements from the backend layer, configures and instructs devices for data collection, and conducts aggregation and primitive processing of data. This layer contains network edge nodes, such as base stations in a cellular network. Each node manages a set of local data generating networked devices. The device agent data layer using common agents on the networked devices receives data collection instructions and performs data collection. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/912058 |
| ART UNIT | 2169 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 16/243 (20190101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 10380131 | Lee |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Adrian Lee (Stockbridge, United Kingdom) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adrian Lee (Stockbridge, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A determination is made as to whether a data type associated with a received logical table definition associated with a database query within a distributed database system differs from a data type associated with a local logical table definition. A data conversion is performed on data retrieved from a locally-stored physical table referenced by the local logical table definition in response to determining that the data types differ. Local data conversion information is created identifying the data conversion performed on the retrieved data in response to performing the data conversion. At least one of the retrieved data and the converted data with the created local data conversion information is forwarded to at least one of a distributed database node and an application-level module. |
| FILED | Friday, August 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/594157 |
| ART UNIT | 2166 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 16/258 (20190101) G06F 16/2471 (20190101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 10380302 | Levine 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) | Neal Levine (Davis, California); Aman Gahoonia (Rocklin, California); Jon Lloyd (Elk Grove, California); David W. Pentrack (Granite Bay, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated circuit includes a plurality of vertically-stacked layers including a front end of line (FEOL) layer and a back end of line (BEOL) layer. The FEOL layer includes individual transistors that are not interconnected. The BEOL layer includes transistor interconnections and no transistors. The transistors are electrically connected to the transistor interconnections by vias within the FEOL ad BEOL layers. The FEOL and BEOL layers each have contact pads on the top and bottom surfaces thereof that are each in alignment with vias, are arranged in a checkerboard pattern, and occupy about fifty percent of the surface area of the FEOL and BEOL layers. The contact pads on a top surface of the FEOL layer are in electrical communication with contact pads on a bottom surface of the BEOL layer to facilitate vertical current flow between the transistors and the transistor interconnections through the vias. |
| FILED | Friday, February 23, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 15/903377 |
| ART UNIT | 2851 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/5036 (20130101) G06F 17/5045 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 10380751 | Jones |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jacob A. Jones (Chesapeake, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A robot vision system for generating a 3D point cloud of a surrounding environment through comparison of unfiltered and filtered images of the surrounding environment. A filtered image is captured using a camera filter which tends to pass certain wavelength bandwidths while mitigating the passage of other bandwidths. A processor receives the unfiltered and filtered images, pixel matches the unfiltered and filtered images, and determines an image distance for each pixel based on comparing the color coordinates determined for that pixel in the unfiltered and filtered image. The image distances determined provides a relative distance from the digital camera to an object or object portion captured by each pixel, and the relative magnitude of all image distances determined for all pixels in the unfiltered and filtered images allows generation of a 3D point cloud representing the object captured in the unfiltered and filtered images. |
| FILED | Friday, March 02, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 15/910145 |
| ART UNIT | 2482 — Recording and Compression |
| 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 3/50 (20130101) Measuring Temperature; Measuring Quantity of Heat; Thermally-sensitive Elements Not Otherwise Provided for G01K 13/02 (20130101) G01K 2013/026 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/18 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/55 (20170101) Original (OR) Class G06T 7/90 (20170101) G06T 2207/10024 (20130101) G06T 2207/10028 (20130101) G06T 2207/30252 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 9/097 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 10380919 | Savitsky et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SonoSim, Inc. (Santa Monica, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SONOSIM, INC. (Santa Monica, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Savitsky (Malibu, California); Gabriele Nataneli (Los Angeles, California); Dan Katz (Encino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for extended spectrum ultrasound training using tags placed on animate and/or inanimate objects. The system combines the use of tags, a reader, and a 3-DOF motion tracker to train a user in finding image windows and optimal image views in an ultrasound simulation environment. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/548210 |
| 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 23/286 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 10381224 | Howard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Emmett Howard (Tempe, Arizona); Nicholas Munizza (Gilbert, Arizona); Paul Yee (Chandler, Arizona); Zachary Hartke (Chandler, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Some embodiments include a method. The method can include: providing a carrier substrate; providing a first bond promoting layer over the carrier substrate; providing a second bond promoting layer over the carrier substrate; and depositing a first device substrate over the carrier substrate, the first bond promoting layer, and the second bond promoting layer. The first device substrate can be configured to bond to the carrier substrate with a first device substrate-carrier substrate adhesion strength. Meanwhile, depositing the first device substrate can include: bonding the first device substrate to the first bond promoting layer, the first device substrate bonding to the first bond promoting layer with a first device substrate-first bond promoting layer adhesion strength greater than the first device substrate-carrier substrate adhesion strength; and coupling the first device substrate to the carrier substrate. Other embodiments of related methods and devices are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, December 04, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/831175 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/2007 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/02381 (20130101) H01L 21/02565 (20130101) H01L 21/4857 (20130101) H01L 21/6835 (20130101) H01L 51/003 (20130101) H01L 51/0097 (20130101) H01L 2221/6835 (20130101) H01L 2221/68345 (20130101) H01L 2221/68381 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 10381501 | Lin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SolAero Technologies Corp. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SolAero Technologies Corp. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yong Lin (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Paul R. Sharps (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Arthur Cornfeld (Sandy Springs, Georgia); Pravin Patel (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mark A. Stan (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Benjamin Cho (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure describes multi-junction solar cell structures that include two or more graded interlayers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 15, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/433641 |
| ART UNIT | 1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/078 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/0687 (20130101) H01L 31/0725 (20130101) H01L 31/0735 (20130101) H01L 31/1844 (20130101) H01L 31/1892 (20130101) H01L 31/03046 (20130101) H01L 31/06875 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/544 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/521 (20151101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 10381505 | Patel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SolAero Technologies Corp. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SolAero Technologies Corp. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pravin Patel (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Arthur Cornfeld (Sandy Springs, Georgia); John Spann (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mark A. Stan (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Benjamin Cho (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Paul R. Sharps (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Daniel J. Aiken (Cedar Crest, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A multijunction solar cell includes an upper first solar subcell having a first band gap, a second solar subcell having a second band gap smaller than the first band gap, and a first graded interlayer composed of (InxGa1-x)yAl1-yAs adjacent to the second solar subcell. The first graded interlayer has a third band gap greater than the second band gap subject to the constraints of having the in-plane lattice parameter greater or equal to that of the second subcell and less than or equal to that of the third subcell, wherein 0<x<1 and 0<y<1, and x and y are selected such that the band gap of the first graded interlayer remains constant throughout its thickness at 1.5 eV. A third solar subcell is adjacent to the first graded interlayer and has a fourth band gap smaller than the second band gap such that the third subcell is lattice mismatched with respect to the second subcell. A second graded interlayer composed of (InxGa1-x)yAl1-yAs is adjacent to the third solar subcell and has a fifth band gap greater than the fourth band gap subject to the constraints of having the in-plane lattice parameter greater or equal to that of the third subcell and less than or equal to that of the bottom fourth subcell, wherein 0<x<1 and 0<y<1, and x and y are selected such that the band gap of the second graded interlayer remains constant throughout its thickness at 1.1 eV. A lower fourth solar subcell is adjacent to the second graded interlayer and has a sixth band gap smaller than the fourth band gap. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 19, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/214315 |
| ART UNIT | 1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/078 (20130101) H01L 31/1844 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/1892 (20130101) H01L 31/03046 (20130101) H01L 31/06875 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/544 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/521 (20151101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 10381506 | Torres, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlos M. Torres, Jr. (San Diego, California); James R. Adleman (San Diego, California); Ryan P. Lu (San Diego, California); Ayax D. Ramirez (Chula Vista, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optoelectronic device is provided that includes a doped substrate, a tunneling barrier, a direct bandgap two dimensional semiconductor material, a hot electron emitter, a gate electrode, and a voltage bias. The hot electron emitter injects hot electrons from the underlying substrate into the conduction band of the direct bandgap two dimensional semiconductor material via quantum tunneling. The gate electrode is operable to provide the voltage bias in a direction normal to the X-Y plane of the direct bandgap two dimensional semiconductor material so as to generate an electric field perpendicular to the direct bandgap two dimensional semiconductor material. The voltage bias provided by the gate is operable to change an optical bandgap of the direct bandgap two dimensional semiconductor material continuously from the visible to the mid-infrared spectral regime via an electric dipole layer enhanced Giant Stark Effect for electrically-tunable hot electron luminescence applications. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 23, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 15/987479 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/032 (20130101) H01L 31/112 (20130101) H01L 33/26 (20130101) H01L 33/0041 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 10381541 | Das et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rabindra N. Das (Lexington, Massachusetts); Eric A. Dauler (Acton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A cryogenic electronic package includes a first superconducting multi-chip module (SMCM), a superconducting interposer, a second SMCM and a superconducting semiconductor structure. The interposer is disposed over and coupled to the first SMCM, the second SMCM is disposed over and coupled to the interposer, and the superconducting semiconductor structure is disposed over and coupled to the second SMCM. The second SMCM and the superconducting semiconductor structure are electrically coupled to the first SMCM through the interposer. A method of fabricating a cryogenic electronic package is also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 23, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/684337 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 10/00 (20190101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/5386 (20130101) H01L 23/49811 (20130101) H01L 23/49827 (20130101) H01L 23/49888 (20130101) H01L 24/06 (20130101) H01L 24/13 (20130101) H01L 24/14 (20130101) H01L 24/16 (20130101) H01L 24/32 (20130101) H01L 24/48 (20130101) H01L 24/73 (20130101) H01L 24/83 (20130101) H01L 24/97 (20130101) H01L 25/50 (20130101) H01L 25/167 (20130101) H01L 25/0652 (20130101) H01L 27/18 (20130101) H01L 39/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 39/12 (20130101) H01L 39/025 (20130101) H01L 39/045 (20130101) H01L 39/223 (20130101) H01L 39/2416 (20130101) H01L 39/2493 (20130101) H01L 2224/10 (20130101) H01L 2224/13109 (20130101) H01L 2224/16145 (20130101) H01L 2224/32225 (20130101) H01L 2224/48091 (20130101) H01L 2224/48106 (20130101) H01L 2224/48225 (20130101) H01L 2224/73207 (20130101) H01L 2224/73265 (20130101) H01L 2225/0651 (20130101) H01L 2225/06513 (20130101) H01L 2225/06548 (20130101) H01L 2225/06589 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/13055 (20130101) H01L 2924/13055 (20130101) Waveguides; Resonators, Lines, or Other Devices of the Waveguide Type H01P 7/086 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 10381542 | Chang 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) | Josephine B. Chang (Bedford Hills, New York); Gerald W. Gibson (Danbury, Connecticut); Mark B. Ketchen (Hadley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique relates to a trilayer Josephson junction structure. A dielectric layer is on a base electrode layer that is on a substrate. A counter electrode layer is on the dielectric layer. First and second counter electrodes are formed from the counter electrode layer. First and second dielectric layers are formed from the dielectric layer. First and second base electrodes are formed from base electrode layer. The first counter electrode, first dielectric layer, and first base electrode form a first stack. The second counter electrode, second dielectric layer, and second base electrode form a second stack. A shunting capacitor is between first and second base electrodes. An ILD layer is deposited on the substrate, the first and second counter electrodes, and the first and second base electrodes. A contact bridge connects the first and second counter electrodes. An air gap is formed underneath the contact bridge by removing ILD. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/700741 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/18 (20130101) H01L 28/40 (20130101) H01L 39/025 (20130101) H01L 39/223 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 39/2493 (20130101) |
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| US 10381544 | Han et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CTG Advanced Materials, LLC (Bolingbrook, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CTS Corporation (Lisle, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pengdi Han (New Castle, Washington); Jian Tian (Naperville, Illinois); Stephen Dynan (Naperville, Illinois); Brandon Stone (Elgin, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method provides a piezoelectric stack arrangement for reduced driving voltage while maintaining a driving level for active piezoelectric materials. A stack arrangement of d36 shear mode <011>single crystals of both air X-cut and Y-cut ±1:45° (±20°) arrangement are bonded with discrete conductive pillars to form a shear crystal stack. The bonding area between the neighboring crystal parts is minimized. The bonding pillars are positioned at less than a total surface are of the single crystal forming the stack. The stack fabrication is facilitated with a precision assembly system, where crystal parts are placed to desired locations on an assembly fixture for alignment following the preset operation steps. With the reduced clamping effect from bonding due to lower surface coverage of the discrete conductive pillars, such a piezoelectric d36 shear crystal stack exhibits a reduced driving voltage while maintaining a driving level and substantial and surprisingly improved performance. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 15/308819 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 11/001 (20130101) C30B 11/08 (20130101) C30B 29/22 (20130101) C30B 35/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 41/18 (20130101) H01L 41/083 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 41/277 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 117/10 (20150115) Y10T 117/108 (20150115) Y10T 117/1008 (20150115) Y10T 117/1024 (20150115) Y10T 117/1076 (20150115) Y10T 117/1092 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 10381742 | Vella 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) | Jarrett H Vella (New Carlisle, Ohio); John S Derov (Beavercreek, Ohio); Mohammad I Vakil (Beavercreek, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna array is provided including a substrate, a metal ground plane proximate the substrate, and a dielectric layer proximate the metal ground plane. A first plurality of antenna elements including polaronic organic transducer elements is proximate the dielectric layer and connected in series. A second plurality of antenna elements including polaronic organic transducer elements is proximate the dielectric layer and also connected in series. The first and second plurality of antenna elements are electrically isolated. The antenna elements of the first plurality of antenna elements are configured to detect a first wavelength, while the antenna elements of the second plurality of antenna elements are configured to detect a second wavelength, different from the first wavelength. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 02, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/422497 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/00 (20130101) Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 21/065 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark B Johnson (Potomac, Maryland) |
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| ABSTRACT | A process is disclosed for using microsensors elements embedded in or on articles for detecting target chemical and/or target environmental conditions of interest, including materials hazardous to human health and/or associated with illegal activity. The microsensor elements can be fabricated on a single semiconductor chip, and can be made indetectable to facilitate secure surveillance of potentially illegal activities. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 20, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/196654 |
| ART UNIT | 2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse Technique H03K 19/017581 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission H04B 1/40 (20130101) H04B 5/0062 (20130101) |
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| US 10382448 | Nguyen-Tuong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anh Nguyen-Tuong (Charlottesville, Virginia); Jack W. Davidson (Barboursville, Virginia); Michele Co (Charlottesville, Virginia); Jason D. Hiser (Charlottesville, Virginia); John C. Knight (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems are described for detecting command injection attacks. A positive, taint inference method includes receiving signature fragments on one hand, converting command injection instructions into command fragments on another hand, thus identifying potential attacks upon the condition that a command injection instruction includes critical untrusted parts by using signature fragments. A system detects command injection attacks using this kind of method, and remediates and rejects potential attacks. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 20, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/492264 |
| ART UNIT | 2438 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/241 (20130101) G06F 21/51 (20130101) G06F 21/57 (20130101) G06F 21/554 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/105 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 63/1416 (20130101) H04L 63/1466 (20130101) |
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| US 10382662 | Salmeron-Medrano et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Javier Salmeron-Medrano (Marina, California); Roger Kevin Wood (Monterey, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for the operation of, or the arrangement and operation of, a surveillance system comprising a plurality of camera towers, each of which comprises a plurality of cameras tasked with surveilling a plurality of points-of-interest (POIs). In its most general setting, given limited camera towers, the system (a) determines which locations should install towers, (b) evaluates surveillance requirements ƒ that specify the probability that each camera should surveil each POI at any point in time, and (c) generates a set of camera configurations and frequency-of-utilization vector α for those configurations that creates a surveillance schedule to meet requirements ƒ over T. By applying α, the apparatus and method directs each camera to orient at successive time points to surveil in a manner that is relatively unpredictable to adversaries and which meets requirements ƒ. In specialized embodiments, surveillance requirements and/or fixed placements of camera towers are pre-specified. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 28, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/115316 |
| ART UNIT | 2482 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/247 (20130101) H04N 5/23203 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04N 5/23225 (20130101) H04N 5/23299 (20180801) H04N 7/181 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BTS Software Solutions, LLC (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BTS Software Software Solutions, LLC (Columbia, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dunling Li (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for transmitting data is disclosed. The method may include receiving data from two or more data sources. The method may also include selectively classifying the data into at least two input data streams, the at least two data streams including a one dimensional data stream, called an encoded data stream, and an imagery data stream, which can include still images or video or both. The method may also include separately compressing the one-dimensional data stream into a first compressed bit-stream and the imagery data stream into a second compressed bit-stream and combining the first compressed bit-stream and the second compressed bit-stream into a packetized bit-stream. The method may also include encrypting the packetized bit-stream to generate encrypted data packets prepared for transmission. |
| FILED | Friday, October 05, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/153305 |
| ART UNIT | 2669 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 9/00 (20130101) G06T 9/001 (20130101) Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 7/30 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 19/12 (20141101) H04N 19/20 (20141101) H04N 19/46 (20141101) H04N 19/50 (20141101) H04N 19/88 (20141101) H04N 19/119 (20141101) H04N 19/174 (20141101) Selecting H04Q 9/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US RE47570 | Limb et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott J. H. Limb (Palo Alto, California); Gregory L. Whiting (Boulder, Colorado); Sean R. Garner (Redwood City, California); JengPing Lu (Fremont, California); Dirk De Bruyker (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A stressed substrate for transient electronic systems (i.e., electronic systems that visually disappear when triggered to do so) that includes one or more stress-engineered layers that store potential energy in the form of a significant internal stress. An associated trigger mechanism is also provided that, when triggered, causes an initial fracture in the stressed substrate, whereby the fracture energy nearly instantaneously travels throughout the stressed substrate, causing the stressed substrate to shatter into multiple small (e.g., micron-sized) pieces that are difficult to detect. The internal stress is incorporated into the stressed substrate through strategies similar to glass tempering (for example through heat or chemical treatment), or by depositing thin-film layers with large amounts of stress. Patterned fracture features are optionally provided to control the final fractured particle size. Electronic systems built on the substrate are entirely destroyed and dispersed during the transience event. |
| FILED | Friday, October 06, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/726944 |
| ART UNIT | 3991 — Central Reexamination Unit (Chemical) |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/64 (20130101) H01L 21/71 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 27/00 (20130101) Pulse Technique H03K 19/17768 (20130101) |
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| US 10376837 | Wawrousek et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of Wyoming Research Corporation (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Wyoming Research Corporation (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karen E. Wawrousek (Laramie, Wyoming); Patrick Richards (Seattle, Washington); Tengyan Zhang (Bellevue, Washington); Alan E. Bland (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems to achieve clean fuel processing systems in which carbon dioxide emissions (1) from sources (2) may be processed in at least one processing reactor (4) containing a plurality of chemoautotrophic bacteria (5) which can convert the carbon dioxide emissions into biomass (6) which may then be used for various products (21) such as biofuels, fertilizer, feedstock, or the like. Bacteria that reduce oxidized nitrogenous species (13) may be used to supply reduced nitrogenous compounds to the chemoautotrophic bacteria (5). |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/776611 |
| ART UNIT | 1799 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/62 (20130101) B01D 53/84 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 2251/95 (20130101) B01D 2257/504 (20130101) B01D 2258/0283 (20130101) Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 21/02 (20130101) C12M 43/06 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/20 (20130101) Technologies for Adaptation to Climate Change Y02A 50/2358 (20180101) Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 10/02 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/59 (20151101) |
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| US 10376846 | Ding et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude (Paris, France) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | POROGEN CORPORATION (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yong Ding (Wayland, Massachusetts); Benjamin Bikson (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Composite porous hydrophobic membranes are prepared by forming a perfluorohydrocarbon layer on the surface of a preformed porous polymeric substrate. The substrate can be formed from poly(aryl ether ketone) and a perfluorohydrocarbon layer can be chemically grafted to the surface of the substrate. The membranes can be utilized for a broad range of fluid separations, such as microfiltration, nanofiltration, ultrafiltration as membrane contactors for membrane distillation and for degassing and dewatering of fluids. The membranes can further contain a dense ultra-thin perfluorohydrocarbon layer superimposed on the porous poly(aryl ether ketone) substrate and can be utilized as membrane contactors or as gas separation membranes for natural gas treatment and gas dehydration. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 04, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/478923 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 69/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 71/32 (20130101) B01D 71/38 (20130101) B01D 71/78 (20130101) B01D 2323/18 (20130101) B01D 2325/34 (20130101) Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 67/202 (20130101) B29C 71/02 (20130101) B29C 2071/022 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29B, B29C or B29D, Relating to Moulding Materials or to Materials for Reinforcements, Fillers or Preformed Parts, e.g Inserts B29K 2071/00 (20130101) B29K 2105/041 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29C, Relating to Particular Articles B29L 2031/755 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/132 (20151101) |
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| US 10376907 | Baxter et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Larry Baxter (Orem, Utah); Aaron Sayre (Spanish Fork, Utah); David Frankman (Provo, Utah); Nathan Davis (Bountiful, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sustainable Energy Solutions, LLC (Orem, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry Baxter (Orem, Utah); Aaron Sayre (Spanish Fork, Utah); David Frankman (Provo, Utah); Nathan Davis (Bountiful, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for producing droplets is disclosed. A disk assembly comprising a first disk mounted to a second disk is provided. The first disk comprises first openings. The second disk comprises second openings. The first openings and the second openings alternately align with one another such that, as a liquid passes through the first openings and the second openings, the liquid falls as a droplet as the first openings and the second openings skew apart. |
| FILED | Friday, September 01, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/694147 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 47/16 (20130101) Mixing, e.g Dissolving, Emulsifying, Dispersing B01F 3/04028 (20130101) B01F 3/04078 (20130101) B01F 3/04468 (20130101) Spraying Apparatus; Atomising Apparatus; Nozzles B05B 1/02 (20130101) B05B 3/0422 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 10376961 | Klecka et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Klecka (Coventry, Connecticut); Ying She (East Hartford, Connecticut); Tahany Ibrahim El-Wardany (Bloomfield, Connecticut); Aaron T. Nardi (East Granby, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment includes a powder spheroidizing method. The method includes loading a powder into a fluidized bed assembly, fluidizing at least some of the powder in the fluidized bed assembly using an inert gas, and heating the powder while fluidized in the fluidized bed assembly. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 15/021575 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 2/16 (20130101) B01J 8/1836 (20130101) B01J 2208/0053 (20130101) B01J 2208/00061 (20130101) B01J 2208/00504 (20130101) Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 1/0048 (20130101) B22F 1/0048 (20130101) B22F 1/0085 (20130101) B22F 1/0085 (20130101) B22F 3/003 (20130101) B22F 9/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B22F 2201/02 (20130101) B22F 2201/10 (20130101) B22F 2201/11 (20130101) B22F 2999/00 (20130101) B22F 2999/00 (20130101) B22F 2999/00 (20130101) Additive Manufacturing, i.e Manufacturing of Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects by Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration or Additive Layering, e.g by 3-d Printing, Stereolithography or Selective Laser Sintering B33Y 10/00 (20141201) B33Y 70/00 (20141201) |
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| US 10376987 | DeMuth 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) | James A. DeMuth (Livermore, California); Andrew J. Bayramian (Manteca, California); Eric B. Duoss (Dublin, California); Joshua D. Kuntz (Livermore, California); Christopher M. Spadaccini (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for additive manufacturing uses a pulsed laser beam with one or more low flux components on the order of kW/cm2, and one or more high flux components on the order of MW/cm2 during the duration of the pulse. The pulsed laser beam is directed onto the powder particles on the substrate thereby melting the powder particles and melting the substrate at the interface layer between the powder and the substrate such that the powder particles bond to the substrate. This is accomplished by using low power (and low cost) lasers to do the majority of the energy transfer, and using high power (and higher cost) lasers to complete the melting process, overcoming the kinetics of powder agglomeration through surface tension forces by partially melting the powder-substrate interface layer before surface tension can take effect on the molten powder particles. |
| FILED | Friday, January 29, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/010107 |
| ART UNIT | 3761 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 3/1055 (20130101) B22F 2003/1056 (20130101) Soldering or Unsoldering; Welding; Cladding or Plating by Soldering or Welding; Cutting by Applying Heat Locally, e.g Flame Cutting; Working by Laser Beam B23K 26/066 (20151001) Original (OR) Class B23K 26/342 (20151001) B23K 26/0622 (20151001) 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 64/20 (20170801) B29C 64/153 (20170801) Additive Manufacturing, i.e Manufacturing of Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects by Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration or Additive Layering, e.g by 3-d Printing, Stereolithography or Selective Laser Sintering B33Y 10/00 (20141201) B33Y 30/00 (20141201) B33Y 50/02 (20141201) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 10/295 (20151101) |
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| US 10377090 | Sullivan 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) | Kyle Sullivan (Pleasanton, California); John M. Densmore (Livermore, California); Eric Duoss (Dublin, California); Alexander E. Gash (Brentwood, California); Joshua Kuntz (Livermore, California); John Vericella (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a material includes a plurality of particles, a solvent system and one or more stabilizing agents; the particles are configured to complete a self-propagating and/or self-sustaining reaction upon initiation thereof. In another embodiment, a method includes dispersing a plurality of particles in solution to form a dispersion and adding a stabilizing agent to the dispersion in an amount sufficient to cause the dispersion to exhibit one or more predetermined rheological properties; again, the particles in the dispersion are configured to complete a self-propagating and/or self-sustaining reaction upon initiation thereof. In still another embodiment, a method includes depositing a material on a substrate; the material includes a plurality of particles configured to complete a self-propagating and/or self-sustaining reaction upon initiation thereof, a solvent system and one or more stabilizing agents. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/049141 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| 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 64/106 (20170801) B29C 67/0055 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 11/02 (20130101) C09D 11/03 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24893 (20150115) |
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| US 10377792 | Fernando et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sandun D. Fernando (College Station, Texas); Varun M. Gejji (Pune, India) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is in the field of micro-organism and algal cell processing. The invention relates to a method of maximizing migration of micro-organism and/or algal cells to a solvent fraction while simultaneously displacing water in a separate fraction and subsequent extraction of hydrophobic products from the organisms. The invention further relates to a method of sequestration of protein from an aqueous phase to an organic solvent. |
| FILED | Monday, March 13, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/457650 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 11/02 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 39/20 (20130101) B01J 41/14 (20130101) B01J 43/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 1/145 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/405 (20130101) Producing, e.g by Pressing Raw Materials or by Extraction From Waste Materials, Refining or Preserving Fats, Fatty Substances, e.g Lanolin, Fatty Oils or Waxes; Essential Oils; Perfumes C11B 1/10 (20130101) C11B 1/108 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/64 (20130101) |
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| US 10377954 | Coronella et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles J. Coronella (Reno, Nevada); Wei Yan (Memphis, Tennessee); Mohammad Toufiqur Reza (Reno, Nevada); Victor R. Vasquez (Reno, Nevada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on behalf of the University of Nevada, Reno (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles J. Coronella (Reno, Nevada); Wei Yan (Memphis, Tennessee); Mohammad Toufiqur Reza (Reno, Nevada); Victor R. Vasquez (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for increasing the energy density of a biomass, which includes establishing a temperature and pressure within a reaction chamber that includes water and is at or above a desired reaction condition wherein the desired reaction condition is sufficient to increase the energy density of a reacted biomass; introducing a biomass into the reaction chamber such that the desired reaction condition is maintained or equilibrates thereto; and subjecting the biomass to the desired reaction condition for an amount of time effective to increase the energy density of the reacted biomass relative to the biomass prior to reaction. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/223562 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Cracking Hydrocarbon Oils; Production of Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g by Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation; Recovery of Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, or Gases; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting of Hydrocarbons; Reforming of Naphtha; Mineral Waxes C10G 1/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10G 2300/1011 (20130101) Production of Producer Gas, Water-gas, Synthesis Gas From Solid Carbonaceous Material, or Mixtures Containing These Gases; Carburetting Air or Other Gases C10J 2300/0909 (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 1/02 (20130101) C10L 5/143 (20130101) C10L 5/363 (20130101) C10L 9/083 (20130101) C10L 9/086 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/15 (20130101) Y02E 50/30 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 30/20 (20151101) |
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| US 10378000 | Gladden et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Gladden (Alameda, California); Joshua Park (Emeryville, California); Steven Singer (Berkeley, California); Blake Simmons (San Francisco, California); Ken Sale (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides ionic liquid-tolerant cellulases and method of producing and using such cellulases. The cellulases of the invention are useful in saccharification reactions using ionic liquid treated biomass. |
| FILED | Monday, October 30, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/798351 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — 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 9/2437 (20130101) C12N 9/2445 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/02 (20130101) C12P 19/14 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 302/01004 (20130101) C12Y 302/01021 (20130101) |
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| US 10378024 | Stover et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eddie W Stover (Fort Pierce, Florida); Goutam Gupta (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Guixia Hao (Fort Pierce, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Two small proteins with anti-bacterial activity are generated and called optimized thionin and optimized pro-thionin. Optimized pro-thionin contains a signal sequence for intracellular trafficking of the protein and is cleaved off to yield optimized thionin. Genetically altered plants and their progeny expressing a polynucleotide encoding optimized pro-thionin or optimized thionin resist diseases caused by bacteria. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 29, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/637660 |
| ART UNIT | 1662 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 7/08 (20130101) C07K 14/415 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/8281 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 10378081 | Lister et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tedd E. Lister (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Jacob A. Parkman (Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina); Luis A. Diaz Aldana (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Gemma Clark (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Eric J. Dufek (Ammon, Idaho); Philip Keller (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of recovering metals from electronic waste comprises providing a powder comprising electronic waste in at least a first reactor and a second reactor and providing an electrolyte comprising at least ferric ions in an electrochemical cell in fluid communication with the first reactor and the second reactor. The method further includes contacting the powders within the first reactor and the second reactor with the electrolyte to dissolve at least one base metal from each reactor into the electrolyte and reduce at least some of the ferric ions to ferrous ions. The ferrous ions are oxidized at an anode of the electrochemical cell to regenerate the ferric ions. The powder within the second reactor comprises a higher weight percent of the at least one base metal than the powder in the first reactor. Additional methods of recovering metals from electronic waste are also described, as well as an apparatus of recovering metals from electronic waste. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 30, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/690717 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Production and Refining of Metals; Pretreatment of Raw Materials C22B 3/08 (20130101) C22B 3/10 (20130101) C22B 3/44 (20130101) C22B 11/046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Processes for the Electrolytic Production, Recovery or Refining of Metals; Apparatus Therefor C25C 1/06 (20130101) C25C 1/08 (20130101) C25C 1/12 (20130101) C25C 1/14 (20130101) C25C 1/16 (20130101) C25C 1/18 (20130101) C25C 1/20 (20130101) C25C 1/22 (20130101) C25C 7/02 (20130101) C25C 7/06 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 10/214 (20151101) Y02P 10/234 (20151101) |
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| US 10378094 | Choi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jung-Pyung Choi (Richland, Washington); Jeffrey W. Stevenson (Richland, Washington); Kenneth Scott Weil (Perrysburg, Ohio); Yeong-Shyung Matt Chou (Richland, Washington); Jens T. Darsell (West Richland, Washington); Vineet V. Joshi (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Reactive coating processes are provided that can include providing a coating material, reacting the coating material to form a shell about the coating material, contacting the shelled coating material with a substrate to be coated, depositing the coating material from within the shelled coating material on the substrate, and removing the shells from the substrate. Coating materials may be deposited upon a substrate to be coated and reacted to form a shell about the coating material. The coating materials can be particles and a shell can be formed about each of the individual particles. |
| FILED | Friday, July 01, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/200790 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 10/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C23C 10/30 (20130101) C23C 10/60 (20130101) |
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| US 10378684 | Leslie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Advanced Composite Products and Technology, Inc. (Huntington Beach, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ADVANCED COMPOSITE PRODUCTS and TECHNOLOGY, INC. (Huntington Beach, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James C. Leslie (Fountain Valley, California); James C. Leslie, II (Mission Viejo, California); James Heard (Huntington Beach, California); Liem V. Truong (Anaheim, California); Marvin Josephson (Huntington Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A metal to composite tube joint including selecting an elongated interior fitting constructed with an exterior barrel, reduced in exterior diameter to form a distally facing annular shoulder and then projecting still further distally to form an interior sleeve having a radially outwardly facing bonding surface. A metal outer sleeve formed proximally with a collar constructed for receipt over the barrel and increased in interior diameter and projecting distally to form an exterior sleeve having a radially inwardly facing bonding surface cooperating with the first bonding surface to form an annulus receiving an extremity of a composite tube and a bond bonding the extremity of the tube to the bonding surfaces. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 18, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/599359 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Earth Drilling, e.g Deep Drilling; Obtaining Oil, Gas, Water, Soluble or Meltable Materials or a Slurry of Minerals From Wells E21B 17/02 (20130101) E21B 17/003 (20130101) E21B 17/20 (20130101) E21B 17/028 (20130101) E21B 17/206 (20130101) Pipes; Joints or Fittings for Pipes; Supports for Pipes, Cables or Protective Tubing; Means for Thermal Insulation in General F16L 13/103 (20130101) F16L 15/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F16L 25/0018 (20130101) F16L 31/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49826 (20150115) |
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| US 10378763 | Singh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Surinder Prabhjot Singh (Niskayuna, New York); Dan Hancu (Clifton Park, New York); Benjamin Rue Wood (Niskayuna, New York); Wei Chen (Clifton Park, New York); Dwayne David McDuffie (Niskayuna, New York); Mark David Kehmna (Glenville, New York); Irina Pavlovna Spiry (Glenville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A power generation system includes a power generation plant portion including a feedwater heating system configured to channel a feedwater stream and a carbon dioxide capture portion coupled in flow communication with the power generation plant portion. The carbon dioxide capture portion includes a solvent circuit configured to channel a solvent stream through at least a portion of the carbon dioxide capture portion. The carbon dioxide capture portion also includes a heat recovery system coupled in flow communication with the solvent circuit and the feedwater heating system. The heat recovery system is configured to transfer heat energy from the solvent stream to the feedwater stream and to channel the heated feedwater from the heat recovery system to the feedwater heating system. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 03, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/957738 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods of Steam Generation; Steam Boilers F22B 1/16 (20130101) Preheating, or Accumulating Preheated, Feed-water for Steam Generation; Feed-water Supply for Steam Generation; Controlling Water Level for Steam Generation; Auxiliary Devices for Promoting Water Circulation Within Steam Boilers F22D 1/003 (20130101) Removal or Treatment of Combustion Products or Combustion Residues; Flues F23J 15/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F23J 2215/50 (20130101) |
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| US 10378805 | Jin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xin Jin (Lakewood, Colorado); Jeff Maguire (Boulder, Colorado); Dane Christensen (Lakewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Model predictive control methods are disclosed which provide, among other things, efficient strategies for controlling heat-transfer to a fluid. |
| FILED | Monday, March 09, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/642581 |
| ART UNIT | 3763 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration Machines, Plants or Systems; Combined Heating and Refrigeration Systems; Heat-pump Systems F25B 49/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F25B 2500/19 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
10379168 — Apparatuses and methods for testing electrochemical cells by measuring frequency response
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| APPLICANT(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jon P. Christophersen (Idaho Falls, Idaho); John L. Morrison (Butte, Montana); William H. Morrison (Butte, Montana); Patrick A. Bald (Moscow, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Real-time battery impedance spectra are acquired by stimulating a battery or battery system with a signal generated as a sum of sine signals at related frequencies. An impedance measurement device can be used to interface between the battery system and a host computer for generating the signals. The impedance measurement device may be calibrated to adapt the response signal to more closely match other impedance measurement techniques. The impedance measurement device may be adapted to operate at mid-range voltages of about 50 volts and high-range voltages up to about 300 volts. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/296321 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 31/389 (20190101) G01R 31/392 (20190101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 10379223 | Bennett 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) | Corey V Bennett (Livermore, California); Natalie B Kostinski (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A state-of-the-art class of photonic Doppler velocimetry (PDV) diagnostic and novel methods to stabilize any class of PDV signal has been developed. The former brings velocimetry to new extremes in maximum velocity and fast time resolution, while maintaining precision velocity resolution, long record length capability, and the ability to record multiple velocities simultaneously. The latter compensates for large changes in signal intensity common in many experiments. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 20, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/299402 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 7/4865 (20130101) G01S 17/32 (20130101) G01S 17/58 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01S 17/88 (20130101) |
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| US 10379439 | Worsley 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) | Marcus A. Worsley (Hayward, California); Patrick G. Campbell (Oakland, California); Eric B. Duoss (Dublin, California); James S. Oakdale (Castro Valley, California); Christopher M. Spadaccini (Oakland, California); Ryan Hensleigh (Colstrip, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed here is a method for making an architected three-dimensional aerogel, comprising providing a photoresin comprising a solvent, a photoinitiator, a crosslinkable polymer precursor, and a precursor for graphene, metal oxide or metal chalcogenide; curing the photoresin using projection microstereolithography layer-by-layer to produce a wet gel having a pre-designed three dimensional structure; drying the wet gel to produce a dry gel; and pyrolyzing the dry gel to produce an architected three-dimensional aerogel. Also disclosure is a photoresin for projection microstereolithography, comprising a solvent, a photoinitiator, a crosslinkable polymer precursor, and graphene oxide. |
| FILED | Friday, January 06, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/400790 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 13/0091 (20130101) B01J 13/0095 (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 35/0805 (20130101) B29C 64/129 (20170801) B29C 2035/0827 (20130101) Additive Manufacturing, i.e Manufacturing of Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects by Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration or Additive Layering, e.g by 3-d Printing, Stereolithography or Selective Laser Sintering B33Y 10/00 (20141201) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 32/382 (20170801) Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/0037 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G03F 7/0047 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 10379944 | Kalamatianos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Kalamatianos (Boxborough, Massachusetts); Shrikanth Ganapathy (Mountain View, California); Steven Raasch (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A computing device having a cache memory (or “cache”) is described, as is a method for operating the cache. The method for operating the cache includes maintaining, in a history record, a representation of a number of bit errors detected in a portion of the cache. When the history record indicates that no bit errors or a single-bit bit error was detected in the portion of the cache memory, the method includes selecting, based on the history record, an error protection to be used for the portion of the cache memory. When the history record indicates that a multi-bit bit error was detected in the portion of the cache memory, the method includes disabling the portion of the cache memory. |
| FILED | Monday, April 17, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/489438 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/1064 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Static Stores G11C 29/42 (20130101) Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 13/19 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 10380421 | Santos-Villalobos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hector J. Santos-Villalobos (Knoxville, Tennessee); Chris Bensing Boehnen (Knoxville, Tennessee); David S. Bolme (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Iris recognition can be accomplished for a wide variety of eye images by using plenoptic imaging. Using plenoptic technology, it is possible to correct focus after image acquisition. One example technology reconstructs images having different focus depths and stitches them together, resulting in a fully focused image, even in an off-angle gaze scenario. Another example technology determines three-dimensional data for an eye and incorporates it into an eye model used for iris recognition processing. Another example technology detects contact lenses. Application of the technologies can result in improved iris recognition under a wide variety of scenarios. |
| FILED | Friday, September 29, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/721427 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/0061 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/00604 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 5/003 (20130101) G06T 5/50 (20130101) G06T 2200/21 (20130101) G06T 2207/10052 (20130101) G06T 2207/30041 (20130101) |
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| US 10380815 | Robinson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (Pullman, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (Pullman, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kylan T. Robinson (Colton, Washington); Rhett Smith (Kuna, Idaho); George W. Masters (Moscow, Idaho); Ryan Bradetich (Pullman, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are disclosed that provide for managing transient assets used in connection with an access-controlled area of a distribution site of an electric power delivery system. In some embodiments, one or more users entering and access-controlled area may be identified via physical access control credentials provided to an associated access control system. Transient assets brought within an access-controlled area may be detected via one or more wired and/or wireless communication channels and may be associated with the one or more identified users located within the access-controlled area. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 19, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/491508 |
| ART UNIT | 2688 — Dynamic Storage Systems; Mechanical parts of Disk Drives |
| CURRENT CPC | Time or Attendance Registers; Registering or Indicating the Working of Machines; Generating Random Numbers; Voting or Lottery Apparatus; Arrangements, Systems or Apparatus for Checking Not Provided for Elsewhere G07C 9/0069 (20130101) G07C 9/00134 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G07C 9/00174 (20130101) G07C 9/00571 (20130101) G07C 9/00896 (20130101) G07C 2209/04 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/083 (20130101) H04L 63/102 (20130101) H04L 63/107 (20130101) H04L 63/0853 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SAVANNAH RIVER NUCLEAR SOLUTIONS, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xin Xiao (Augusta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems directed to the separation of tritium from an aqueous stream are described. The separation method is a multi-stage method that includes a first stage during which tritium of a tritium-contaminated aqueous stream is adsorbed onto a separation phase, a second stage during which the adsorbed tritium is exchanged with hydrogen in a gaseous stream to provide a gaseous stream with a high tritium concentration, and a third stage during which the tritium of the gaseous stream is separated from the gaseous stream as a gaseous tritium product. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 15/034611 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 15/26 (20130101) B01D 53/0423 (20130101) B01D 53/0462 (20130101) B01D 59/26 (20130101) B01D 59/28 (20130101) B01D 2253/1122 (20130101) B01D 2257/108 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 4/00 (20130101) Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/281 (20130101) C02F 1/285 (20130101) C02F 2101/006 (20130101) Protection Against X-radiation, Gamma Radiation, Corpuscular Radiation or Particle Bombardment; Treating Radioactively Contaminated Material; Decontamination Arrangements Therefor G21F 9/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G21F 9/301 (20130101) |
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| US 10381187 | Moody et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Triad National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan Andrew Moody (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Mark Arles Hoffbauer (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A photocathode for use in vacuum electronic devices has a bandgap gradient across the thickness (or depth) of the photocathode between the emitting surface and the opposing surface. This bandgap gradient compensates for depth-dependent variations in transport energetics. When the bandgap energy EBG(z) is increased for electrons with shorter path lengths to the emitting surface and decreased for electrons with longer path lengths to the emitting surface, such that the sum of EBG(z) and the scattering energy is substantially constant or similar for electrons photoexcited at all locations within the photocathode, the energies of the emitted electrons may be more similar (have less variability), and the emittance of the electron beam may be desirably decreased. The photocathode may be formed of a III-V semiconductor such as InGaN or an oxide semiconductor such as GaInO. |
| FILED | Friday, August 11, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/675607 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 9/12 (20130101) H01J 29/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 29/89 (20130101) H01J 2229/8926 (20130101) |
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| US 10381623 | Carlson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | OPTODOT CORPORATION (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Optodot Corporation (Devens, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven A. Carlson (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Benjamin Sloan (Exeter, New Hampshire); David W. Avison (Boxborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is a lithium battery, wherein the battery comprises an anode, a cathode, wherein the cathode comprises one or more transition metals, an electrolyte, and a porous separator interposed between the cathode and anode, wherein the separator comprises an anionic compound. Also provided are methods of manufacturing such batteries. |
| FILED | Monday, July 11, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/207370 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 11/20 (20130101) H01G 11/50 (20130101) H01G 11/52 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 2/166 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 2/1673 (20130101) H01M 4/505 (20130101) H01M 4/525 (20130101) H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) H01M 10/0585 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/13 (20130101) |
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| US 10381645 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BETTERGY CORP. (Peekskill, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BETTERGY CORP. (Peekskill, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lin-Feng Li (Croton-On-Hudson, New York); Min Chen (Millwood, New York); Quan Fan (Mohegan Lake, New York); Xueliang Dong (Peeksill, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Low-cost electrochemical energy storage devices having electrochemical cells containing zinc electrodes in aqueous electrolytes, which exhibit superior cycle performance, preferably comprise the following elements: (a) a cathode formed of manganese dioxide particles, preferably doped with at least one of magnesium, strontium, barium, calcium, and lanthanum, wherein the manganese dioxide particles preferably form at least one of (1) a delta manganese dioxide structure and (2) a todokorite manganese dioxide structure; (b) an anode formed of particles comprising zinc, wherein the particles are preferably treated with at least one of bismuth, indium, gallium, antimony, and tin; (c) a mixed ion electrolyte solution with a pH greater than or equal to three and less than or equal to seven, wherein the solution preferably comprises at least one monovalent salt and at least one divalent salt; and (d) a mesh as cathode current collector comprising at least one of titanium, stainless steel, tantalum, and niobium, wherein the mesh is preferably coated by an electrically conductive and yet oxidation resistant material comprising but not limited to carbon. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 14, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/378200 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/50 (20130101) H01M 4/74 (20130101) H01M 4/75 (20130101) H01M 4/505 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/661 (20130101) H01M 4/663 (20130101) H01M 2004/028 (20130101) |
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| US 10381656 | Papandrew et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander B. Papandrew (Knoxville, Tennessee); Ramez A. Elgammal (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrode includes a proton conducting electrolyte phase, an electronic conducting phase, and a metal or metal alloy catalyst in contact with each of the phases. The electronic conducting phase is infiltrated with the proton conducting electrolyte phase such that the phases form a solid nanocomposite with bulk electronic conductivity. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 19, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/946031 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — 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 4/92 (20130101) H01M 4/926 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/8663 (20130101) H01M 4/8673 (20130101) H01M 2008/1095 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edwin C. Thomsen (Pasco, Washington); David M. Reed (Richland, Washington); Brian J. Koeppel (Richland, Washington); Kurtis P. Recknagle (West Richland, Washington); Vilayanur V. Viswanathan (Richland, Washington); Alasdair J. Crawford (Richland, Washington); Zimin Nie (Richland, Washington); Wei Wang (Kennewick, Washington); Vincent L. Sprenkle (Richland, Washington); Bin Li (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A redox flow battery stack cell frame comprising a support frame and a monolithic bipolar plate integrated within the support frame is disclosed. The bipolar plate comprises a plurality of interdigitated flow channels on at least one surface. The support frame comprises an inlet manifold formed into a facing surface of the first side of the frame, the inlet manifold comprising fluid inlet distribution channels in a serpentine arrangement, each fluid inlet distribution channel aligned with a single inlet flow channel of the bipolar plate; and an outlet manifold formed into the facing surface of the opposing side of the frame, the outlet manifold comprising fluid outlet distribution channels in a serpentine arrangement, each fluid outlet distribution channel aligned with a single outlet flow channel of the bipolar plate. Redox flow battery stack cells and stacks comprising the stack cell frame are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 29, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/473401 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/188 (20130101) H01M 8/0213 (20130101) H01M 8/0226 (20130101) H01M 8/0258 (20130101) H01M 8/0273 (20130101) H01M 8/2483 (20160201) H01M 8/04276 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/528 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Fraunhofer USA, Inc. (Plymouth, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fraunhofer USA, Inc. (Plymouth, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christian Hoepfner (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Dirk E. Mahling (Bainbridge Island, Washington); Matthew Alan Kromer (Arlington, Massachusetts); James R. Perkinson (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Photovoltaic systems and related techniques are provided. A method for commissioning a photovoltaic (PV) system may include obtaining data describing an arrangement of two or more components of the PV system; performing a test of the PV system, wherein performing the test includes determining whether the PV system complies with at least one PV system criterion based, at least in part, on at least a portion of the data describing the arrangement of the two or more components of the PV system; and in response to determining that the PV system complies with the at least one PV system criterion, activating the PV system and/or notifying a user of the PV system that the PV system complies with the at least one PV system criterion. The method may further include sending information associated with the PV system to a regulatory entity and/or an operator of an electrical grid. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/799325 |
| ART UNIT | 2899 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 15/02 (20130101) G05B 17/00 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 3/383 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Generation of Electric Power by Conversion of Infra-red Radiation, Visible Light or Ultraviolet Light, e.g Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules H02S 10/00 (20130101) H02S 40/34 (20141201) H02S 40/36 (20141201) H02S 40/38 (20141201) H02S 50/00 (20130101) H02S 50/10 (20141201) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 10/12 (20130101) Y02B 10/14 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/563 (20130101) |
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| US 10381871 | Ludois et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Colin Ludois (Madison, Wisconsin); Jiejian Dai (Middleton, Wisconsin); Skyler Hagen (Markesan, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for power transfer to a movable platform makes use of a capacitive interface in moving elements of load-supporting bearings for power transfer. Tank circuits associated with each bearing increase power transfer by reducing effective impedance of the small bearing capacitances. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 29, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/637830 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Shafts; Flexible Shafts; Elements or Crankshaft Mechanisms; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing Elements; Bearings F16C 19/54 (20130101) F16C 41/002 (20130101) F16C 2202/32 (20130101) F16C 2380/26 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 50/05 (20160201) Original (OR) Class Dynamo-electric Machines H02K 7/08 (20130101) |
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| US 10381929 | Ferencz 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) | Andrew Ferencz (Southborough, Massachusetts); Todd E. Takken (Brewster, New York); Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown, New York); Xin Zhang (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A power-delivery system may comprise a load device and a direct-current converter configured to deliver current to the load device when the direct-current converter is in an on state. The power-deliver system may comprise a voltage-measurement system configured to measure, at a beginning of each measurement cycle in a cyclic measurement pattern, a voltage at the load device. The power-deliver system may comprise a power controller configure to receive, at the beginning of each measurement cycle, the measurement of the voltage, and to perform, at the beginning of a control cycle in a cyclic control pattern, a voltage-control decision in response to a change in the measurement of the voltage being below a voltage-change threshold. The voltage-control decision may comprise whether to switch the state of the first direct-current converter. The cyclic control pattern may operate at a first frequency, and the measurement pattern may operate at a second frequency. |
| FILED | Friday, August 24, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/111350 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus for Conversion Between AC and AC, Between AC and DC, or Between DC and DC, and for Use With Mains or Similar Power Supply Systems; Conversion of DC or AC Input Power into Surge Output Power; Control or Regulation Thereof H02M 1/08 (20130101) H02M 1/36 (20130101) H02M 3/158 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H02M 2001/0003 (20130101) Control or Regulation of Electric Motors, Electric Generators or Dynamo-electric Converters; Controlling Transformers, Reactors or Choke Coils H02P 9/30 (20130101) |
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| US 10382527 | Davis 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) | Kristan D. Davis (Rochester, Minnesota); Daniel A. Faraj (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | In a parallel computer, performing optimized collective operations in an irregular subcommunicator of compute nodes may be carried out by: identifying, within the irregular subcommunicator, regular neighborhoods of compute nodes; selecting, for each neighborhood from the compute nodes of the neighborhood, a local root node; assigning each local root node to a node of a neighborhood-wide tree topology; mapping, for each neighborhood, the compute nodes of the neighborhood to a local tree topology having, at its root, the local root node of the neighborhood; and performing a one way, rooted collective operation within the subcommunicator including: performing, in one phase, the collective operation within each neighborhood; and performing, in another phase, the collective operation amongst the local root nodes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/055402 |
| ART UNIT | 2443 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/5066 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 67/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 10383205 | Lal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amit Lal (Ithaca, New York); Thomas Schenkel (San Francisco, California); Arun Persaud (El Cerrito, California); Qing Ji (Albany, California); Peter Seidl (Oakland, California); Will Waldron (Berkeley, California); Serhan Ardanuc (Ithaca, New York); Vinaya Kumar Kadayra Basavarajappa (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A wafer-based charged particle accelerator includes a charged particle source and at least one RF charged particle accelerator wafer sub-assembly and a power supply coupled to the at least one RF charged particle accelerator wafer sub-assembly. The wafer-based charged particle accelerator may further include a beam current-sensor. The wafer-based charged particle accelerator may further include at least a second RF charged particle accelerator wafer sub-assembly and at least one ESQ charged particle focusing wafer. Fabrication methods are disclosed for RF charged particle accelerator wafer sub-assemblies, ESQ charged particle focusing wafers, and the wafer-based charged particle accelerator. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 04, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 16/098537 |
| ART UNIT | 2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Plasma Technique; Production of Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles or of Neutrons; Production or Acceleration of Neutral Molecular or Atomic Beams H05H 7/02 (20130101) H05H 7/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05H 9/04 (20130101) H05H 2007/025 (20130101) |
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| US 10376322 | Frederick et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tom Frederick (Omaha, Nebraska); Eric Markvicka (Ravenna, Nebraska); Shane Farritor (Lincoln, Nebraska); Dmitry Oleynikov (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | The embodiments disclosed herein relate to various robotic and/or in vivo medical devices having compact joint configurations. Other embodiments relate to various medical device components, including forearms having grasper or cautery end effectors, that can be incorporated into certain robotic and/or in vivo medical devices. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 11, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/938667 |
| ART UNIT | 3794 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 18/14 (20130101) A61B 18/082 (20130101) A61B 18/1445 (20130101) A61B 34/30 (20160201) Original (OR) Class A61B 2017/00398 (20130101) A61B 2017/00407 (20130101) A61B 2017/00477 (20130101) A61B 2018/00595 (20130101) A61B 2018/1253 (20130101) A61B 2018/1422 (20130101) A61B 2034/305 (20160201) A61B 2217/005 (20130101) A61B 2217/007 (20130101) A61B 2218/002 (20130101) A61B 2218/007 (20130101) |
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| US 10376599 | Bossmann et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kansas State University Research Foundation (Manhattan, Kansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kansas State University Research Foundation (Manhattan, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stefan H. Bossmann (Manhattan, Kansas); Deryl L. Troyer (Manhattan, Kansas); Aruni P. Malalasekera (Manhattan, Kansas); Hongwang Wang (Manhattan, Kansas); Sebastian O. Wendel (Manhattan, Kansas); Gaohong Zhu (Yunnan, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanoplatform assembly for detection of arginase, indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1, and/or tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase. The nanoplatform comprises an oligopeptide, which is used as a linker between two particles. More preferably, the linker is comprised of an oligopeptide containing a substrate for the target enzyme, where the substrate is chemically or physically modified by the target enzyme (but not cleaved). A central particle with a plurality of oligopeptide-tethered detectable particles and a plurality of directly attached detectable particles is described. Posttranslational modification of the oligopeptide leads to changes in the detectable signals from the first and/or second particles in the nanoplatform, which can be correlated to enzyme activity and concentration. |
| FILED | Friday, March 18, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/559543 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/0032 (20130101) A61K 49/0036 (20130101) A61K 49/0056 (20130101) A61K 49/0093 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/26 (20130101) C12Q 1/34 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 113/11011 (20130101) C12Y 113/11052 (20130101) C12Y 305/03001 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/573 (20130101) |
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| US 10376602 | Pease et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF UTAH RESEARCH FOUNDATION (, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonard F. Pease (Bountiful, Utah); Hedieh Saffari (Salt Lake City, Utah); Gerald J. Gleich (Salt Lake City, Utah); Kristin M. Leiferman (Salt Lake City, Utah); Kathryn A. Peterson (Salt Lake City, Utah); Russell Morris Condie (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods for diagnosing eosinophilic esophagitis in a subject. Also disclosed are methods for monitoring the course of eosinophilic esophagitis in a subject before, during, and after treatment. In another aspect, disclosed is a method of diagnosing eosinophilic esophagitis or eosinophilic diseases in a subject, comprising detecting an eosinophil granule protein in the mucosal tissue of the esophagitis or other organs in a subject. |
| FILED | Friday, September 29, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/719827 |
| 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 51/08 (20130101) A61K 51/0491 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 10376603 | Montclare 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) | Jin Kim Montclare (New York, New York); Joseph A. Frezzo (Brooklyn, New York); Cynthia Xu (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Youssef Zaim Wadghiri (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are protein polymers providing the dual functionality of delivery and imaging. The protein polymers comprise a coiled-coil domain of the cartilage oligomeric matrix protein and repeats of elastic like peptides. The coiled-coil domain allows delivery of molecules, the elastin-like peptide domain provides thermo-responsive functionality, and a plurality of leucine residues, which can be fluorinated, provide imaging functionality. |
| FILED | Monday, July 18, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/212599 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/5169 (20130101) A61K 31/704 (20130101) A61K 47/42 (20130101) A61K 47/6435 (20170801) A61K 49/14 (20130101) A61K 51/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 14/78 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) |
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| US 10376997 | Handwerker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carol A. Handwerker (West Lafayette, Indiana); John Ryan Holaday (Yorktown, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Processes of joining substrates via transient liquid phase bonding (TLPB). The processes include providing an interlayer of a low melting temperature phase (LTP) that includes Sn and Bi between and in contact with at least two substrates, and heating the substrates and the interlayer therebetween at a processing temperature equal to or above 200° C. such that the interlayer liquefies and the LTP interacts with high melting temperature phases (HTPs) of the substrates to yield isothermal solidification of the interlayer. The processing temperature is maintained for a duration sufficient for the interlayer to be completely consumed and a solid bond is formed between the substrates. Also provided are assemblies formed by the above noted processes. |
| FILED | Friday, June 23, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/631894 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Soldering or Unsoldering; Welding; Cladding or Plating by Soldering or Welding; Cutting by Applying Heat Locally, e.g Flame Cutting; Working by Laser Beam B23K 1/203 (20130101) B23K 20/16 (20130101) B23K 35/264 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 24/00 (20130101) H01L 2224/83 (20130101) |
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| US 10377850 | Coates et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey Coates (Lansing, New York); Julie Whitehead (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions comprising stereocomplexes of enantiomeric polymer chains having individual repeat units formed from the reaction of an epoxide and cyclic anhydride. The compositions can be made by mixing two types of enantiomeric polymer chains having opposite absolute stereochemistry. The compositions can be used in applications such as biomedical applications and drug delivery applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 13, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 15/502234 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/34 (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 15/26 (20130101) A61L 15/26 (20130101) A61L 27/18 (20130101) A61L 27/18 (20130101) A61L 29/06 (20130101) A61L 29/06 (20130101) A61L 31/06 (20130101) A61L 31/06 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 63/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 63/16 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 67/02 (20130101) C08L 67/02 (20130101) C08L 67/02 (20130101) C08L 67/02 (20130101) C08L 67/02 (20130101) C08L 67/02 (20130101) C08L 67/02 (20130101) |
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| US 10377922 | Kim 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) | Seok Kim (Champaign, Illinois); Jeffrey D. Eisenhaure (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite dry adhesive includes (a) an adhesive layer comprising a shape memory polymer and (b) a resistive heating layer comprising a shape memory polymer composite on the adhesive layer. The shape memory polymer composite includes conductive particles dispersed in a shape memory polymer matrix, where the conductive particles have a concentration sufficient to form a conductive path through the resistive heating layer. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/831058 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesives; Non-mechanical Aspects of Adhesive Processes in General; Adhesive Processes Not Provided for Elsewhere; Use of Materials as Adhesives C09J 7/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C09J 7/20 (20180101) C09J 9/02 (20130101) C09J 11/08 (20130101) C09J 2431/00 (20130101) C09J 2463/00 (20130101) C09J 2475/00 (20130101) Electric Heating; Electric Lighting Not Otherwise Provided for H05B 3/06 (20130101) H05B 3/38 (20130101) H05B 3/145 (20130101) H05B 3/267 (20130101) H05B 2203/013 (20130101) H05B 2214/04 (20130101) |
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| US 10378021 | Schroeder 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) | Julian I. Schroeder (La Jolla, California); Maria Israelsson-Nordstrom (Taby, Sweden); Josef M. Kuhn (Schifferstadt, Germany); Yingzhen Yang (Geneva, New York); Honghong Hu (San Diego, California); Aurelien Boisson-Dernier (Paris, France) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions and methods for manipulating the exchange of water and/or carbon dioxide (CO2) through plant stomata by controlling CO2 sensor genes. The invention provides compositions and methods for enhancing or optimizing biomass accumulation in a plant. The invention provides compositions and methods for 10 opening or closing a stomatal pore on a guard cell in the epidermis of a plant. The invention provides compositions and methods for increasing or decreasing oxygenation efficiency and/or carbon fixation in a guard cell in the epidermis of a plant by manipulating expression of a ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase. The invention provides promoters for regulating expression of a nucleic acid in a plant guard cell. |
| FILED | Monday, October 17, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/295603 |
| ART UNIT | 1662 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/415 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/88 (20130101) C12N 15/8218 (20130101) C12N 15/8225 (20130101) C12N 15/8261 (20130101) C12N 15/8273 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Enzymes C12Y 402/01001 (20130101) Technologies for Adaptation to Climate Change Y02A 40/146 (20180101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 60/247 (20151101) |
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| US 10378045 | Connolly et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Integrated Nano-Technologies, LLC (Henrietta, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Integrated Nano-Technologies, LLC (Henrietta, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis M. Connolly (Rochester, New York); Tara Holz (Henrietta, New York); Vera Tannous (Penfield, New York); Christopher Kilcoin (Boulder Creek, California); Konstantin Aptekarev (Santa Cruz, California); David B. Bailey (Webster, New York); Richard S. Murante (Henrietta, New York); Nathaniel E. Wescott (West Henrietta, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A disposable cartridge for preparing a nucleic acid sample including a stationary cartridge body and a cylindrical rotor rotationally mounted to the cartridge body. The cartridge body includes: (i) a cylindrical surface defining a fixed port and (ii) a syringe barrel defining a bore in fluid communication with the fixed port. When the disposable cartridge is disposed in combination with an assay system, syringe barrel is configured to receive a moveable plunger, i.e., to stroke the plunger into and out of the barrel. The rotor is seated within a cavity of the cartridge body such that a mating surface thereof slideably engages a cylindrical surface of the cavity. The rotor comprises a plurality of chambers fluidly connecting to a plurality of ports along the mating surface at different radial positions such that at least one of the chambers is fluidly connected to one of the ports by a connecting channel. Rotation of the rotor aligns one of the rotor ports with the fixed port such that fluid may be moved into and out of the chambers in response to axial displacement of the moveable plunger. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 04, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/586841 |
| ART UNIT | 1798 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502 (20130101) B01L 2200/0631 (20130101) B01L 2300/0681 (20130101) Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 47/06 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/066 (20130101) C12N 15/10 (20130101) C12N 15/1013 (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 1/02 (20130101) C12Q 1/6806 (20130101) C12Q 1/6825 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2531/113 (20130101) C12Q 2563/107 (20130101) C12Q 2563/143 (20130101) C12Q 2565/629 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/286 (20130101) G01N 2001/2866 (20130101) |
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| US 10378970 | Diehn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Prasidiux, LLC (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Prasidiux, LLC (Arlington, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin K. Diehn (Towson, Maryland); Bani H. Cipriano (Rockville, Maryland); Rel S. Ambrozy (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A new and useful thermochromic liquid crystal Indicator is disclosed that provides an indication of the temperature of the Object to which the Indicator is attached, and is an improvement over the existing art for at least the fact that the impact of ambient air circulating around the Indicator and circulating the Object is reduced by several means, such as i) the use of a novel cap or housing to isolate the liquid crystal Structure from ambient air and from touching or ii) using a novel liquid crystal formulation that reduces the reaction time of the thermochromic liquid crystal contained in the Indicator to changing temperatures conveyed by the ambient air. The new and useful liquid crystal Indicator can also employ either a template or a colored filter as a mask that narrows the colors and narrows the range of temperatures indicated by the Indicator. Further, the new and useful Indicator can also employ a new manner in which to indicate that a predetermined temperature or predetermined temperature range has been reached in that it eliminates the confusion arising from the use of multiple temperature indicating panels that were present in the prior art devices. |
| FILED | Monday, October 05, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/875517 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Temperature; Measuring Quantity of Heat; Thermally-sensitive Elements Not Otherwise Provided for G01K 1/08 (20130101) G01K 11/165 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 10379024 | Hayman |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Hayman (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for determining a distribution of events, a method for determining a distribution of particle sizes in a sample of air, and an apparatus for performing the same are provided. The method includes obtaining a measured ensemble property distribution function for one or more events, generating one or more theoretical ensemble property distribution functions based on Poisson statistics using one or more model parameters, and determining an event parameter property distribution function by fitting one or more of the theoretical ensemble property distribution functions to the measured ensemble property distribution function using a forward inversion algorithm. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 18, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/661781 |
| ART UNIT | 2897 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/0205 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2015/0046 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/18 (20130101) |
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| US 10379109 | Yuan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Baohong Yuan (Arlington, Texas); Bingbing Cheng (Dallas, Texas); Mingyuan Wei (Arlington, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, methods of imaging are described herein. In some embodiments, a method of imaging described herein comprises disposing an ultrasound-switchable fluorophore in an environment; exposing the environment to an ultrasound beam to create an activation region within the environment; disposing the fluorophore within the activation region to switch the fluorophore from an off state to an on state; exposing the environment to a beam of electromagnetic radiation, thereby exciting the fluorophore; detecting a photoluminescence signal at a first location within the environment, the photoluminescence signal comprising at least one of an ultrasound fluorescence signal emitted by the fluorophore and a background signal; correlating the photoluminescence signal with a reference signal to generate a correlation coefficient for the first location; and multiplying the photoluminescence signal by the correlation coefficient for the first location to generate a modified photoluminescence signal for the first location. |
| FILED | Friday, February 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/615993 |
| ART UNIT | 3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0071 (20130101) A61B 8/481 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 41/0028 (20130101) A61K 49/0034 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6428 (20130101) G01N 33/542 (20130101) G01N 33/5091 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2201/06113 (20130101) |
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| US 10379616 | Peshkin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tanvas, Inc. (Chicago, Illinois); Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); Tanvas, Inc. (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Peshkin (Evanston, Illinois); James E. Colgate (Evanston, Illinois); Michael F. D. Olley (Lake Zurich, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Touch interface devices and methods for producing multi-point haptics utilizing simultaneous sensing and actuation are disclosed. In one configuration, one or more electrodes connected to a front surface of a substrate are arranged in a pattern and connected to an electronic controller configured to produce a haptic effect by applying one or more voltages to the electrodes, and measure the locations of one or more touch points by applying one or more voltages to the electrodes. In another configuration the electronic controller is configured to produce a haptic effect by applying positive and/or negative voltages to the electrodes, and measure the locations of one or more touch points by applying positive and/or negative voltages to the electrodes. Also disclosed is a method for using a single set of electrodes on a substrate of a touch interface to simultaneously produce haptic effects on the substrate and measure finger locations relative to the substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, February 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 15/117128 |
| ART UNIT | 2625 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/016 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 3/044 (20130101) G06F 3/0416 (20130101) |
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| US 10379655 | Colgate et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Edward Colgate (Evanston, Illinois); Michael A. Peshkin (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A touch interface device comprising a touch surface, a first electrode coupled with the touch surface, a second electrode coupled with the touch surface, where when an appendage of an operator touches the touch surface above both the first electrode and the second electrode a first actuation electrical potential from the first electrode and a second actuation electric potential from the second electrode establish electric fields that pass from one of the first and second electrodes directly through the outermost layer of the appendage and return to the other of the first and second electrodes via the outermost layer of the appendage. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 20, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/655650 |
| ART UNIT | 2693 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/016 (20130101) G06F 3/041 (20130101) G06F 3/044 (20130101) G06F 3/045 (20130101) G06F 3/046 (20130101) G06F 3/0412 (20130101) G06F 3/0414 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 3/0416 (20130101) G06F 2203/04101 (20130101) G06F 2203/04105 (20130101) G06F 2203/04112 (20130101) G06F 2203/04113 (20130101) |
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| US 10379925 | Hu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu Charlie Hu (West Lafayette, Indiana); Abhilash Jindal (West Lafayette, Indiana); Samuel Midkiff (West Lafayette, Indiana); Abhinav Pathak (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and methods for detecting power bugs. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for analyzing a computer code includes generating a control flow graph for at least a portion of the computer code at a processor. The method further includes identifying power bugs by traversing the control flow graph if the control flow graph exits without performing a function call to deactivate power to any component of a device configured to execute computer executable instructions based on the compute code after performing a function call to activate power. |
| FILED | Monday, November 21, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/357473 |
| ART UNIT | 2191 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 1/28 (20130101) G06F 1/3296 (20130101) G06F 8/20 (20130101) G06F 8/433 (20130101) G06F 11/079 (20130101) G06F 11/0742 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 11/0751 (20130101) G06F 11/0793 (20130101) G06F 11/3466 (20130101) G06F 11/3604 (20130101) G06F 11/3608 (20130101) G06F 11/3636 (20130101) G06F 11/3664 (20130101) |
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| US 10379945 | En Gad et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, New Jersey); New Mexico State University Technology Transfer Corporation (Las Cruces, New Mexico); The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (Amherst, New York); The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California); THE TEXAS A and M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eyal En Gad (Pasadena, California); Yue Li (Pasadena, California); Joerg Kliewer (Newark, New Jersey); Michael Langberg (Clarence, New York); Anxiao Jiang (College Station, Texas); Jehoshua Bruck (La Canada, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are disclosed for generating codes for representation of data in memory devices that may avoid the block erasure operation in changing data values. Data values comprising binary digits (bits) can be encoded and decoded using the generated codes, referred to as codewords, such that the codewords may comprise a block erasure-avoiding code, in which the binary digits of a data message m can be encoded such that the encoded data message can be stored into multiple memory cells of a data device and, once a memory cell value is changed from a first logic value to a second logic value, the value of the memory cell may remain at the second logic value, regardless of subsequently received messages, until a block erasure operation on the memory cell. Similarly, a received data message comprising an input codeword, in which source data values of multiple binary digits have been encoded with the disclosed block erasure-avoiding code, can be decoded in the data device to recover an estimated source data message. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 15/112156 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/1012 (20130101) G06F 11/1068 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Static Stores G11C 29/52 (20130101) Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 13/13 (20130101) H03M 13/154 (20130101) |
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| US 10380726 | Du et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND (College Park, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ruofei Du (Greenbelt, Maryland); Amitabh Varshney (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are systems, devices, and methods for creating a rendering of real-world locations with embedded multimedia elements. An exemplary method includes receiving image data of a real-world location, identifying geographic coordinates of the real-world location and/or a point of view from which the image data was acquired, acquiring multimedia elements relevant to the real-world location based on the geographic coordinates and/or the point of view, and creating a rendering of the image data with the multimedia elements embedded therein. |
| FILED | Monday, March 21, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/559955 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/14 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 5/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 11/60 (20130101) G06T 2200/24 (20130101) G06T 2207/20221 (20130101) Arrangements or Circuits for Control of Indicating Devices Using Static Means to Present Variable Information G09G 2340/12 (20130101) Information Storage Based on Relative Movement Between Record Carrier and Transducer G11B 27/105 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 67/10 (20130101) H04L 67/18 (20130101) |
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| US 10381025 | Espy-Wilson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carol Espy-Wilson (Washington, District of Columbia); Srikanth Vishnubhotla (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus includes a function module, a strength module, and a filter module. The function module compares an input signal, which has a component, to a first delayed version of the input signal and a second delayed version of the input signal to produce a multi-dimensional model. The strength module calculates a strength of each extremum from a plurality of extrema of the multi-dimensional model based on a value of at least one opposite extremum of the multi-dimensional model. The strength module then identifies a first extremum from the plurality of extrema, which is associated with a pitch of the component of the input signal, that has the strength greater than the strength of the remaining extrema. The filter module extracts the pitch of the component from the input signal based on the strength of the first extremum. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 02, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/584648 |
| ART UNIT | 2657 — 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 15/14 (20130101) G10L 15/063 (20130101) G10L 25/90 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 10381227 | George et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, A BODY CORPORATE (Denver, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven M. George (Boulder, Colorado); Younghee Lee (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes a method of promoting atomic layer etching (ALE) of a surface. In certain embodiments, the method comprises sequential reactions with a metal precursor and a halogen-containing gas. The invention provides a solid substrate obtained according to any of the methods of the invention. The invention further provides a porous substrate obtained according to any of the methods of the invention. The invention further provides a patterned solid substrate obtained according to any of the methods of the invention. |
| FILED | Friday, December 18, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 15/534215 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-mechanical Removal of Metallic Material From Surface; Inhibiting Corrosion of Metallic Material or Incrustation in General; Multi-step Processes for Surface Treatment of Metallic Material Involving at Least One Process Provided for in Class C23 and at Least One Process Covered by Subclass C21D or C22F or Class C25 C23F 1/12 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/465 (20130101) H01L 21/28185 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/30621 (20130101) H01L 21/31122 (20130101) H01L 21/32135 (20130101) H01L 21/67069 (20130101) H01L 21/67253 (20130101) H01L 29/517 (20130101) |
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| US 10381466 | Khizroev et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sakhrat Khizroev (Miami, Florida); Rakesh Guduru (Miami, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Florida International University Board of Trustees (Miami, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sakhrat Khizroev (Miami, Florida); Rakesh Guduru (Miami, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A spintronic device can include a bottom contact layer, a bottom magnetic layer disposed on the bottom contact layer, a nanoparticle layer disposed on the bottom magnetic layer, a top magnetic layer disposed on the nanoparticle layer, and a top contact layer disposed on the top magnetic layer. The spintronic device can include a bottom insulation layer disposed between the bottom magnetic layer and the nanoparticle layer, and a top insulation layer disposed between the nanoparticle layer and the top magnetic layer. |
| FILED | Friday, October 12, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/158596 |
| ART UNIT | 2899 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/66984 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 43/02 (20130101) H01L 43/08 (20130101) |
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| US 10381684 | Zdilla et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Temple University Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TEMPLE UNIVERSITY OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Zdilla (Wallingford, Pennsylvania); Stephanie L. Wunder (Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania); Parameswara Rao Chinnam (Ambler, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions comprising ionic compounds surrounded by organic matrices, and methods for producing such compositions. In various embodiments, the compositions of the present invention are co-crystals of an organic compound and a salt. The organic compound forms matrices with channel structures, wherein the organic matrices interact relatively poorly with the salt, thus allowing for excellent ion mobility through the channel structures. In one embodiment, the compositions are soft-solid electrolytes, comprising ions such as lithium or sodium, which can be used in batteries or other electrochemical devices. The electrolyte compositions of the present invention exhibit relatively high ionic conductivities with a negligible activation barrier for ion migration, i.e., the compositions exhibit barrierless ion conduction. In addition, the compositions exhibit good conductivities at very low temperatures, making them useful in a variety of low temperature applications. In one embodiment, the present invention further relates to free-standing films comprising the co-crystals of the present invention, and methods for preparing such films. |
| FILED | Friday, March 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 15/129342 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/02 (20130101) H01M 6/14 (20130101) H01M 6/16 (20130101) H01M 6/36 (20130101) H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 10/056 (20130101) H01M 10/0565 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 2300/0017 (20130101) H01M 2300/0085 (20130101) |
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| US 10382789 | Metzler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard E. L. Metzler (San Antonio, Texas); Sos S. Agaian (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Adaptive methods and apparatuses include compressing, recompressing, decompressing, and transmitting/storing digitized media data, such as text, audio, image, and video. Methods may include partitioning data; transforming partitioned data; analyzing partitioned data; organizing partitioned data, predicting partitioned data; partially or fully encoding partitioned data partially or fully decoding partitioned data, and partially or fully restructuring the original data. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/773023 |
| ART UNIT | 2481 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/262 (20170101) G06T 9/40 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 19/40 (20141101) H04N 19/48 (20141101) H04N 19/61 (20141101) H04N 19/96 (20141101) H04N 19/625 (20141101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 10383002 | Striegel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Notre Dame du Lac (Notre Dame, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Notre Dame du Lac (Notre Dame, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aaron Striegel (Granger, Indiana); Lixing Song (Notre Dame, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for determining an available bandwidth in a WiFi link using frame aggregation. One system includes an electronic processor configured to send a request for a probe sequence from a server to an electronic communication device. The electronic processor is configured to receive a probe sequence via the WiFi link and determine an aggregation intensity parameter, the aggregation intensity parameter associated with a number of packets assembled in an aggregated frame for the WiFi link. In response to the aggregation intensity parameter being above a threshold, the electronic processor determines an available bandwidth of the WiFi link is less than a probe rate. |
| FILED | Monday, April 30, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 15/967532 |
| ART UNIT | 2461 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 43/16 (20130101) H04L 43/045 (20130101) H04L 43/50 (20130101) H04L 43/0882 (20130101) H04L 43/0894 (20130101) H04L 47/115 (20130101) H04L 65/80 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 24/02 (20130101) H04W 28/065 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 10383126 | Gollakota et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shyamnath Gollakota (Seattle, Washington); Vamsi Talla (Seattle, Washington); Bryce Kellogg (Seattle, Washington); Ben Ransford (Seattle, Washington); Saman Naderiparizi (Seattle, Washington); Joshua R. Smith (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Examples described herein include wireless transmitters configured for power transmission. Example wireless transmitters may insert power packets into wireless communications such that power harvesting circuitry may harvest sufficiently continuous power from the wireless communication signals. Example power harvesting circuitry is configured to harvest power across multiple wireless communication channels. Example chargers are described which may harvest power from wireless communication signals (e.g. Wi-Fi signals). |
| FILED | Friday, September 04, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 15/508873 |
| ART UNIT | 2476 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 7/025 (20130101) H02J 50/20 (20160201) H02J 50/80 (20160201) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 12/10 (20130101) H04L 47/6255 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 24/08 (20130101) H04W 28/0221 (20130101) H04W 72/0473 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04W 84/12 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tom Frederick (Omaha, Nebraska); Eric Markvicka (Ravenna, Nebraska); Shane Farritor (Lincoln, Nebraska); Dmitry Oleynikov (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | The embodiments disclosed herein relate to various robotic and/or in vivo medical devices having compact joint configurations. Other embodiments relate to various medical device components, including forearms having grasper or cautery end effectors, that can be incorporated into certain robotic and/or in vivo medical devices. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 11, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/938667 |
| ART UNIT | 3794 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 18/14 (20130101) A61B 18/082 (20130101) A61B 18/1445 (20130101) A61B 34/30 (20160201) Original (OR) Class A61B 2017/00398 (20130101) A61B 2017/00407 (20130101) A61B 2017/00477 (20130101) A61B 2018/00595 (20130101) A61B 2018/1253 (20130101) A61B 2018/1422 (20130101) A61B 2034/305 (20160201) A61B 2217/005 (20130101) A61B 2217/007 (20130101) A61B 2218/002 (20130101) A61B 2218/007 (20130101) |
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| US 10377645 | Cabrera et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carlos R. Cabrera (San Juan, Puerto Rico); Eduardo Nicolau (Toa Alta, Puerto Rico); Michael Flynn (Corte Madera, California); Kai Griebenow (Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Puerto Rico (San Juan, Puerto Rico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlos R. Cabrera (San Juan, Puerto Rico); Eduardo Nicolau (Toa Alta, Puerto Rico); Michael Flynn (Corte Madera, California); Kai Griebenow (Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention presents a urea bio-electrochemical (UBE) system to achieve resource recovery from water recycling systems. A GAC-urease bioreactor was used to recover urea from wastewater stream, and converted to ammonia. Then, the ammonia produced was used to feed an electrochemical cell to gather electrical energy. The invention shows the feasibility of using the UBE system in combination with a forward osmosis subsystem for water reclamation. |
| FILED | Friday, August 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/602092 |
| ART UNIT | 1779 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C02F 1/66 (20130101) C02F 1/441 (20130101) C02F 1/445 (20130101) C02F 3/005 (20130101) C02F 3/106 (20130101) C02F 3/342 (20130101) C02F 9/00 (20130101) C02F 2201/001 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Wastewater Treatment or Waste Management Y02W 10/15 (20150501) Y02W 10/30 (20150501) |
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| US 10377916 | Wohl, Jr. 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) | United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher J. Wohl, Jr. (Portsmouth, Virginia); Joseph G. Smith, Jr. (Smithfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments provide ice adhesion mitigating surface coatings and methods for generating the same. Embodiments may provide anti-icing coating with at least one monomeric species exhibiting molecular flexibility. The molecular flexibility in the monomeric species may be imparted through an aliphatic or heteroaliphatic chain that may exist as a portion of the monomer backbone, as a pendant group, or as both the portion of the monomer backbone and the pendant group. In various embodiments epoxy coatings including an epoxy resin and an amine-terminated hardener may be generated. At least a portion of the amine-terminated hardener may include at least a monomeric species that exhibits molecular flexibility arising from an aliphatic chain or heteroaliphatic chain that may be within the polymer backbone and/or may persist as a pendant group. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 01, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/254354 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 59/50 (20130101) C08G 59/5033 (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 163/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of American as Represented by the Administrator of NASA (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William C West (South Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microthruster system may include a substrate and a source film. The substrate may include a plurality of emitter tips, and a source film deposited on the substrate. The source film may include silver. The microthruster system may also include a solid electrolyte film, which may include chalcogenide film, deposited over the source film. The solid electrolyte film may cause ions of the source film to move to the plurality of emitter tips. |
| FILED | Monday, May 16, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/155574 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Cosmonautics; Vehicles or Equipment Therefor B64G 1/405 (20130101) Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 14/14 (20130101) C23C 14/0623 (20130101) C23C 14/5846 (20130101) Producing a Reactive Propulsive Thrust, Not Otherwise Provided for F03H 1/0012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 10378986 | Scardelletti |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maximilian C. Scardelletti (Brunswick, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Pressure sensors are disclosed that may perform health monitoring in-situ in harsh operating environments. The pressure sensors may be based on a Clapp-type oscillator that includes one or more resistors, one or more inductors, capacitors, a sensor, and a transistor. Such pressure sensors may be particularly well-suited various applications, such as gas turbine engines, oil and gas extraction, vehicle engines, and exhaust monitoring. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 11, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/484240 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 5/0095 (20130101) G01L 9/007 (20130101) G01L 9/0072 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01L 9/0089 (20130101) G01L 9/0094 (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 5/1228 (20130101) H03B 2200/0006 (20130101) |
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| US 10380061 | Suarez et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Suarez (Columbia, Maryland); Jeffrey J. Dumonthier (Ashburn, Virginia); George E. Winkert (Highland, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A digital serial communication system includes a first serial communication circuit configured to exchange information utilizing a first communication protocol, a second serial communication circuit configured to exchange information utilizing a second communication protocol, and a common bus interface configured to couple the first serial communication circuit to a first serial communication bus implementing the first communication protocol, and configured to couple the second serial communication circuit to a second serial communication bus implementing the second communication protocol. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 26, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/854505 |
| ART UNIT | 2184 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/30098 (20130101) G06F 13/36 (20130101) G06F 13/385 (20130101) G06F 13/4004 (20130101) G06F 13/4282 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 10381455 | Okojie |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Okojie (Strongsville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A diffusion barrier system may prevent migration of gold, oxygen, or both on a plurality of ohmic contacts. The diffusion barrier system may include a first barrier system or a second barrier system. Each barrier system may include a first metallization layer, a second metallization layer, and a third metallization layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 31, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/253154 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/53252 (20130101) H01L 28/75 (20130101) H01L 29/4941 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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Department of Commerce (DOC)
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| APPLICANT(S) | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Woods Hole, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Woods Hole, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Partan (Woods Hole, Massachusetts); Keenan Ball (Woods Hole, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A retrieval system and methods of preparing and using same to retrieve underwater objects from a selected depth, including a flotation device having at least a selected amount of buoyancy, a release mechanism that is capable of releasably engaging an anchor, and a controller to actuate the release mechanism when a selected condition is achieved. The system further includes a spool assembly having a frame for carrying (i) the floatation device, (ii) the release mechanism, (iii) the controller and (iv) in combination with the flotation device, a quantity of pre-wound line having a length greater than the selected depth. |
| FILED | Monday, May 22, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/601441 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 69/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01K 69/10 (20130101) Ships or Other Waterborne Vessels; Equipment for Shipping B63B 21/60 (20130101) B63B 22/06 (20130101) |
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| US 10378092 | Lass et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric A. Lass (Montgomery Village, Maryland); Mark R. Stoudt (Germantown, Maryland); Carelyn Campbell (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A coinage alloy for coinage includes nickel present in an amount from 4 wt. % to 11 wt. %, based on a total weight of the coinage alloy; zinc present in an amount from 20 wt. % to 35 wt. %, based on the total weight of the coinage alloy; manganese present in an amount from 3 wt. % to 6 wt. %, based on a total weight of the coinage alloy; copper; an electrical conductivity from 5% International Annealed Copper Standard (IACS) to 6% IACS measured in accordance with ASTM E1004-09 (2009); and a color comprising a yellowness vector b* that is from 6 to 11, based on a CIE L*a*b* color space and determined in accordance with ASTM Standard E308-15 (2015). |
| FILED | Monday, October 17, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/295233 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Casting of Metals; Casting of Other Substances by the Same Processes or Devices B22D 21/005 (20130101) Alloys C22C 1/02 (20130101) C22C 9/04 (20130101) Changing the Physical Structure of Non-ferrous Metals and Non-ferrous Alloys C22F 1/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 10379038 | Stavis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel Martin Stavis (North Potomac, Maryland); Craig Robert Copeland (Laurel, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for measuring a size distribution of a plurality of nucleic acid molecules, the process comprising: labeling the nucleic acid molecules with a fluorescent dye comprising a plurality of fluorescent dye molecules to form labeled nucleic acid molecules, such that a number of fluorescent dyes molecules attached to each nucleic acid molecule is reliably proportional to the number of base pairs in the nucleic acid molecule, the fluorescent dye molecules having a first florescence spectrum; producing, by the labeled nucleic acid molecules, the first florescence spectrum in response to irradiating the labeled nucleic acid molecules at the first wavelength; and detecting the first florescence spectrum to measure the size distribution of the plurality of nucleic acid molecules. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 26, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/715761 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1006 (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 1/6825 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/30 (20130101) G01N 21/314 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/6428 (20130101) G01N 21/6458 (20130101) G01N 21/8903 (20130101) G01N 2021/174 (20130101) G01N 2021/556 (20130101) G01N 2021/558 (20130101) G01N 2021/3129 (20130101) G01N 2021/3196 (20130101) G01N 2021/6419 (20130101) G01N 2021/6441 (20130101) G01N 2021/6491 (20130101) G01N 2021/7756 (20130101) G01N 2021/8883 (20130101) G01N 2201/1247 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/361 (20130101) G02B 21/367 (20130101) |
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| US 10381107 | Smolyanitsky |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Commerce (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alex Smolyanitsky (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A nucleic acid sequencer includes: an atomically thin membrane; a solid electrode spaced apart from the atomically thin membrane and arranged in a capacitive configuration with the atomically thin membrane; a spacer member; a complementary base covalently disposed on the atomically thin membrane and arranged to base pair with a nitrogenous base of the single stranded nucleic acid; a power source in electrical communication with the solid electrode and that provides electrical power to the solid electrode; and a resistor in electrical communication with the power source and that receives electric current from the power source and that also is in electrical communication with the atomically thin membrane such that an amount of the electric current changes in response to a change in the selected distance between the atomically thin membrane and the solid electrode. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 18, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/599076 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/5027 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/34 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/689 (20130101) C12Q 1/6806 (20130101) C12Q 1/6825 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/48721 (20130101) Bioinformatics, i.e Information and Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted for Genetic or Protein-related Data Processing in Computational Molecular Biology G16B 30/00 (20190201) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 10382141 | Polyakov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Commerce (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sergey V. Polyakov (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Ivan Burenkov (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A communication linker includes: a classical encoder; an optical transmitter; a receiver; a local oscillator in communication with the receiver and that: receives a feedback signal; and produces a displacement frequency, based on the feedback signal; a single photon detector in communication with the receiver and that: receives an optical signal from the receiver; and produces a single photon detector signal, based on the optical signal; a signal processor in communication with the single photon detector and that: receives the single photon detector signal from the single photon detector; produces the feedback signal, based on the single photon detector signal; and produces a decoded signal, based on the single photon detector signal, the decoded signal comprising a frequency of the feedback signal. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 12, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/033799 |
| ART UNIT | 2637 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 10/60 (20130101) H04B 10/70 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 10/503 (20130101) |
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National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 10379855 | Hasenplaugh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William C. Hasenplaugh (Boston, Massachusetts); Chris J. Newburn (South Beloit, Illinois); Simon C. Steely, Jr. (Hudson, New Hampshire); Samantika S. Sury (Westford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A processor of an aspect includes a plurality of packed data registers, and a decode unit to decode an instruction. The instruction is to indicate a packed data register of the plurality of packed data registers that is to store a source packed memory address information. The source packed memory address information is to include a plurality of memory address information data elements. An execution unit is coupled with the decode unit and the plurality of packed data registers, the execution unit, in response to the instruction, is to load a plurality of data elements from a plurality of memory addresses that are each to correspond to a different one of the plurality of memory address information data elements, and store the plurality of loaded data elements in a destination storage location. The destination storage location does not include a register of the plurality of packed data registers. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/283259 |
| ART UNIT | 2182 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/3004 (20130101) G06F 9/3013 (20130101) G06F 9/3016 (20130101) G06F 9/30032 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 9/30036 (20130101) G06F 9/30043 (20130101) G06F 12/126 (20130101) G06F 12/0886 (20130101) G06F 12/0897 (20130101) G06F 12/1027 (20130101) G06F 12/1054 (20130101) G06F 2212/681 (20130101) G06F 2212/1024 (20130101) G06F 2212/1028 (20130101) |
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| US 10380063 | Tang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jinjie Tang (Acton, Massachusetts); Kermin E. Fleming (Hudson, Massachusetts); Simon C. Steely (Hudson, New Hampshire); Kent D. Glossop (Merrimack, New Hampshire); Jim Sukha (Marlborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to a sequencer dataflow operator of a configurable spatial accelerator are described. In one embodiment, an interconnect network between a plurality of processing elements receives an input of a dataflow graph comprising a plurality of nodes forming a loop construct, wherein the dataflow graph is overlaid into the interconnect network and the plurality of processing elements with each node represented as a dataflow operator in the plurality of processing elements and at least one dataflow operator controlled by a sequencer dataflow operator of the plurality of processing elements, and the plurality of processing elements is to perform an operation when an incoming operand set arrives at the plurality of processing elements and the sequencer dataflow operator generates control signals for the at least one dataflow operator in the plurality of processing elements. |
| FILED | Saturday, September 30, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/721802 |
| ART UNIT | 2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/38 (20130101) G06F 9/3001 (20130101) G06F 9/3004 (20130101) G06F 9/3802 (20130101) G06F 9/30036 (20130101) G06F 9/30076 (20130101) G06F 9/30145 (20130101) G06F 15/7892 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 10380494 | Abraham 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) | David W. Abraham (Croton, New York); Josephine B. Chang (Ellicott City, Maryland); Jay M. Gambetta (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique relates to a superconducting qubit. A Josephson junction includes a first superconductor and a second superconductor formed on a non-superconducting metal. A capacitor is coupled in parallel with the Josephson junction. |
| FILED | Friday, August 04, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/669139 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 10/00 (20190101) Original (OR) Class Static Stores G11C 11/44 (20130101) G11C 16/02 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/18 (20130101) H01L 39/22 (20130101) H01L 39/025 (20130101) H01L 39/045 (20130101) H01L 39/223 (20130101) H01L 39/2493 (20130101) Pulse Technique H03K 19/1952 (20130101) |
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| US 10381542 | Chang 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) | Josephine B. Chang (Bedford Hills, New York); Gerald W. Gibson (Danbury, Connecticut); Mark B. Ketchen (Hadley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique relates to a trilayer Josephson junction structure. A dielectric layer is on a base electrode layer that is on a substrate. A counter electrode layer is on the dielectric layer. First and second counter electrodes are formed from the counter electrode layer. First and second dielectric layers are formed from the dielectric layer. First and second base electrodes are formed from base electrode layer. The first counter electrode, first dielectric layer, and first base electrode form a first stack. The second counter electrode, second dielectric layer, and second base electrode form a second stack. A shunting capacitor is between first and second base electrodes. An ILD layer is deposited on the substrate, the first and second counter electrodes, and the first and second base electrodes. A contact bridge connects the first and second counter electrodes. An air gap is formed underneath the contact bridge by removing ILD. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/700741 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/18 (20130101) H01L 28/40 (20130101) H01L 39/025 (20130101) H01L 39/223 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 39/2493 (20130101) |
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Department of Transportation (USDOT)
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| APPLICANT(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeff M. Carrico (Middletown, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbomachine includes an endwall with a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart, radially extending blades extending from the endwall. A first one of the blades defines a pressure surface of a flow channel, a second one of the blades defines a suction surface of the flow channel, and the endwall defines an inner surface of the flow channel. The endwall includes a radially raised portion that is raised proximate the suction surface, and a radially depressed portion downstream of the raised portion. |
| FILED | Friday, August 01, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 15/022836 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/143 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F01D 5/145 (20130101) Non-positive-displacement Pumps F04D 29/321 (20130101) F04D 29/329 (20130101) F04D 29/681 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2220/36 (20130101) F05D 2240/80 (20130101) F05D 2240/306 (20130101) F05D 2250/70 (20130101) |
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| US 10378363 | Whitfield et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Whitfield (Manchester, Connecticut); Carey Clum (East Hartford, Connecticut); Mark Borja (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An airfoil for a gas turbine engine includes pressure and suction side walls joined to one another at leading and trailing edges and extending in a radial direction. A serpentine cooling passage is provided between the pressure and suction side walls. A passageway adjoins a passage wall and is fluidly interconnected to an upstream turn that has radially spaced apart innermost and outermost contours. The innermost contour is provided at the wall. A resupply hole is configured to exit downstream from the innermost contour. |
| FILED | Monday, April 10, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/483003 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/187 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 3/04 (20130101) F02C 7/12 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2220/32 (20130101) F05D 2220/3212 (20130101) F05D 2230/211 (20130101) F05D 2240/301 (20130101) F05D 2250/185 (20130101) F05D 2260/221 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/676 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sridhar Adibhatla (Glendale, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for adjusting an operating parameter of a machine based on an operating state of a component of the machine are provided. A method may be implemented by an electronic control unit (ECU) of the machine and includes determining that a performance of the machine has degraded. The method further includes selecting a predetermined adjustment to the operating parameter, wherein the selected predetermined adjustment reduces an effect of the operating state of the component on the performance of the machine, and operating the machine using the selected predetermined adjustment to the operating parameter. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 04, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/478949 |
| ART UNIT | 3667 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 21/003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F01D 21/14 (20130101) F01D 25/12 (20130101) Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 9/00 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2220/323 (20130101) F05D 2260/80 (20130101) F05D 2270/11 (20130101) F05D 2270/112 (20130101) F05D 2270/3032 (20130101) |
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Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 10376388 | Hansen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States Government as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew H. Hansen (Apple Valley, Minnesota); Eric A. Nickel (Brooklyn Park, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An ankle-foot prosthesis includes a foot plate, an ankle frame attached to the foot plate, a yoke pivotally connected to the ankle frame and including a member for attaching to a leg, a damper having a first end connected to the yoke and a second end connected to the ankle frame, and a control mechanism for switching the damper between low and high settings. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 16, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/434533 |
| ART UNIT | 3774 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2/6607 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61F 2002/745 (20130101) A61F 2002/748 (20130101) A61F 2002/5006 (20130101) A61F 2002/6614 (20130101) A61F 2002/6642 (20130101) |
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| US 10376495 | Sanchez-Ramos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA (Tampa, Florida); THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (Washington, District of Columbia); H. LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTRITUTE INC. (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida); The United States Government as Represented by the Department of Veterans (Washington, District of Columbia); H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and research Institute Inc. (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juan Sanchez-Ramos (Plant City, Florida); Vasyl Sava (Wesley Chapel, Florida); Shijie Song (Tampa, Florida); Said Sebti (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are compound for the modulation of the G-CSF receptor. The compounds may act as agonists, antagonists, and/or mixed or partial agonists/antagonists of G-CSF. Further provided herein are methods of treating a condition, including, for example, a neurodegenerative disease, by administering a compound as detailed herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 22, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/821634 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/53 (20130101) A61K 31/4174 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/193 (20130101) Specific Therapeutic Activity of Chemical Compounds or Medicinal Preparations A61P 25/28 (20180101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 233/60 (20130101) |
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| US 10376522 | Arbiser |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Emory University (Atlatna, Georgia); U.S. Government as Represented by The Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia); U.S. Government as Represented by the Dept. of VA (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jack L. Arbiser (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds, pharmaceutical compositions including the compounds, and methods of preparation and use thereof are disclosed. The compounds are triphenyl methane analogs. The compounds and compositions can be used to treat and/or prevent a wide variety of cancers, including drug resistant cancers, inflammatory, degenerative and vascular diseases, including various ocular diseases, and parasitic infections. Representative triphenyl methane analogs include triphenyl methane analogs of various dyes, hormones, sugars, peptides, oligonucleotides, amino acids, nucleotides, nucleosides, and polyols. The compounds are believed to function by inhibiting tNOX expression, the effects of ROS, and/or the production of HIF2. Thus, the compounds are novel therapeutic agents for a variety of cancers and other diseases. |
| FILED | Monday, June 06, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/173946 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/127 (20130101) A61K 31/14 (20130101) A61K 31/47 (20130101) A61K 31/54 (20130101) A61K 31/55 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/136 (20130101) A61K 31/353 (20130101) A61K 31/404 (20130101) A61K 31/422 (20130101) A61K 31/428 (20130101) A61K 31/553 (20130101) A61K 31/662 (20130101) A61K 31/4706 (20130101) A61K 31/4709 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 215/26 (20130101) C07D 215/46 (20130101) C07D 223/26 (20130101) C07D 223/28 (20130101) C07D 263/32 (20130101) C07D 275/06 (20130101) C07D 279/28 (20130101) C07D 311/36 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 9/4056 (20130101) C07F 9/4059 (20130101) |
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Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 10376625 | Bluvshtein et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MINNETRONIX, INC. (Saint Paul, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Minnetronix, Inc. (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vlad Bluvshtein (Plymouth, Minnesota); Lori Lucke (Rosemount, Minnesota); William Weiss (Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are systems and methods for measuring and calculating parameters to control and monitor a power transfer in an implanted medical device, including operating the device in a plurality of scalable power modes and/or coupling modes. The system may shift between or among power and/or coupling modes based on input such as data received over system communication lines, programmable timers, or electrical loading information. The system may also shift between or among power and/or coupling modes based on calculated amounts of coupling, levels of detected heat flux, and/or amounts of estimated temperature changes. |
| FILED | Friday, December 29, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/858971 |
| ART UNIT | 3792 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 1/12 (20130101) A61M 1/101 (20130101) A61M 1/122 (20140204) A61M 1/127 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61M 1/1086 (20130101) A61M 2205/3368 (20130101) A61M 2205/8243 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 38/14 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 7/025 (20130101) H02J 50/12 (20160201) |
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| US 10378884 | Nguyen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | iSenseCloud, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | iSenseCloud, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | An-Dien Nguyen (Fremont, California); An H. Nguyen (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber optic voltage conditioner, and method therefor, generally relate to voltage conditioning. In such a fiber optic voltage conditioner, there is a laser, and an optical circulator is coupled to receive a light signal from the laser. A controller is coupled to the laser and is configured to generate first control information for wavelength-drift control of the laser. A data acquisition module is coupled to the controller and is configured to generate second control information for the controller for adjustment of the first control information. A photodetector is coupled to the optical circulator to receive a returned optical signal and is coupled to the data acquisition module to provide an analog output signal thereto. The photodetector is configured to generate the analog output signal responsive to the returned optical signal. The data acquisition module is configured to generate the second control information using the analog output signal. |
| FILED | Monday, June 25, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/017737 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 11/165 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 5/0612 (20130101) H01S 5/0622 (20130101) H01S 5/0687 (20130101) H01S 5/06837 (20130101) |
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| US 10378970 | Diehn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Prasidiux, LLC (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Prasidiux, LLC (Arlington, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin K. Diehn (Towson, Maryland); Bani H. Cipriano (Rockville, Maryland); Rel S. Ambrozy (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A new and useful thermochromic liquid crystal Indicator is disclosed that provides an indication of the temperature of the Object to which the Indicator is attached, and is an improvement over the existing art for at least the fact that the impact of ambient air circulating around the Indicator and circulating the Object is reduced by several means, such as i) the use of a novel cap or housing to isolate the liquid crystal Structure from ambient air and from touching or ii) using a novel liquid crystal formulation that reduces the reaction time of the thermochromic liquid crystal contained in the Indicator to changing temperatures conveyed by the ambient air. The new and useful liquid crystal Indicator can also employ either a template or a colored filter as a mask that narrows the colors and narrows the range of temperatures indicated by the Indicator. Further, the new and useful Indicator can also employ a new manner in which to indicate that a predetermined temperature or predetermined temperature range has been reached in that it eliminates the confusion arising from the use of multiple temperature indicating panels that were present in the prior art devices. |
| FILED | Monday, October 05, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/875517 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Temperature; Measuring Quantity of Heat; Thermally-sensitive Elements Not Otherwise Provided for G01K 1/08 (20130101) G01K 11/165 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 10378042 | Ensor et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina); AEROSOL DYNAMICS INC. (Berkeley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Triangle Institute, Inc. (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David S. Ensor (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Howard Jerome Walls (Apex, North Carolina); Karin K. Foarde (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Susanne Vera Hering (Berkeley, California); Steven Russel Spielman (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An aerosol collection system and method. The system includes a bio-aerosol delivery device configured to supply bioparticles in a gas stream, a moisture exchange device including a partition member coupled to the gas stream and configured to humidify or dehumidify the bioparticles in the gas stream, and an aerosol collection medium downstream from the moisture exchange device and configured to collect the bioparticles. The method includes delivering bioparticles in a gas stream, humidifying or dehumidifying the bioparticles in the gas stream by transport of water across a partition member and into a vapor phase of the gas stream, and collecting the bioparticles by a collection medium. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/378768 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| 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 1/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 10379230 | 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); Peng L. Wang (Evanston, Illinois); Bruce W. Wessels (Wilmette, Illinois); Zhifu Liu (Wilmette, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for detecting incident radiation, such as incident x-rays or gamma-rays, are provided. The methods and devices use high purity, high quality single-crystals of inorganic semiconductor compounds having the formula A2P2X6, where A represents Pb or Sn and X represents S or Se, as photoelectric materials. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 01, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/578852 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01T 7/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/032 (20130101) H01L 31/115 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 10379109 | Yuan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Baohong Yuan (Arlington, Texas); Bingbing Cheng (Dallas, Texas); Mingyuan Wei (Arlington, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, methods of imaging are described herein. In some embodiments, a method of imaging described herein comprises disposing an ultrasound-switchable fluorophore in an environment; exposing the environment to an ultrasound beam to create an activation region within the environment; disposing the fluorophore within the activation region to switch the fluorophore from an off state to an on state; exposing the environment to a beam of electromagnetic radiation, thereby exciting the fluorophore; detecting a photoluminescence signal at a first location within the environment, the photoluminescence signal comprising at least one of an ultrasound fluorescence signal emitted by the fluorophore and a background signal; correlating the photoluminescence signal with a reference signal to generate a correlation coefficient for the first location; and multiplying the photoluminescence signal by the correlation coefficient for the first location to generate a modified photoluminescence signal for the first location. |
| FILED | Friday, February 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/615993 |
| ART UNIT | 3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0071 (20130101) A61B 8/481 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 41/0028 (20130101) A61K 49/0034 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6428 (20130101) G01N 33/542 (20130101) G01N 33/5091 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2201/06113 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 10381539 | Hiller |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nathan D. Hiller (Riverside, California) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan D. Hiller (Riverside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of a method for producing a plurality of nanostructures embedded in a host comprising the steps of: assembling a first preform, drawing said first preform into a first fiber, cutting said first fiber into a plurality of pieces, assembling said pieces of said first fiber into a second preform, and drawing said second preform into a second fiber. The host is made of a low thermal conductivity material such as a polymer or combination of polymers. The host can assume the form of a plurality of nanotubes which further reduces the host's thermal conductivity due to enhanced phonon scattering. The host can exhibit anisotropic thermal conductivity which reduces its thermal conductivity perpendicular to the direction in which it was drawn. The nanostructure-host composite can be cut into pieces and assembled into efficient thermoelectric devices for use in cooling or electric power generation applications. Other embodiments are described and shown. |
| FILED | Monday, February 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/187328 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — 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 2071/022 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 35/14 (20130101) H01L 35/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 35/32 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 10378024 | Stover et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eddie W Stover (Fort Pierce, Florida); Goutam Gupta (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Guixia Hao (Fort Pierce, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Two small proteins with anti-bacterial activity are generated and called optimized thionin and optimized pro-thionin. Optimized pro-thionin contains a signal sequence for intracellular trafficking of the protein and is cleaved off to yield optimized thionin. Genetically altered plants and their progeny expressing a polynucleotide encoding optimized pro-thionin or optimized thionin resist diseases caused by bacteria. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 29, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/637660 |
| ART UNIT | 1662 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 7/08 (20130101) C07K 14/415 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/8281 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Education (ED)
| US 10376412 | Brienza et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David M. Brienza (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Patricia E. Karg (South Park, Pennsylvania); Andrew J. Malkiewicz (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Brienza (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Patricia E. Karg (South Park, Pennsylvania); Andrew J. Malkiewicz (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A cushioning surface for cooling tissue that reaches a predefined level of immersion into the cushioning surface, comprising: a segmented fluid cushion comprising a plurality of cells interconnected to allow fluid to flow from each cell to at least one of the other plurality of cells; and wherein one or more of the plurality of cells contains a heat exchange material. The cushioning surface may further comprise a cooling element associated with and for removing heat from the one or more cells containing a heat exchange material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/943772 |
| ART UNIT | 3794 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 7/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61F 2007/0056 (20130101) A61F 2007/0076 (20130101) A61F 2007/0219 (20130101) A61F 2007/0268 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Federal Reserve Bank (FED)
| US 10382445 | Mantel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Mantel (Naperville, Illinois); Ronald Gafron (Hoffman Estates, Illinois); Devin Cassidy (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An intelligent messaging server (herein ‘messaging server’) that is communicably coupled to trusted directory nodes receives, from a first user computing device, an electronic request that includes at least a unique identifier of a second user. Using the unique identifier, the messaging server determines that the second user is a registered user of the messaging server. Responsive to a negative determination that the second user is a registered user, the messaging server generates and transmits an electronic registration message to the second user. The electronic registration message includes a link to a secure web page that prompts the second user to temporarily register with the messaging server. Responsive to a temporary registration of the second user, the messaging server generates a record that includes at least an account identifier of the temporarily registered second user's account, providing enhanced security to the second user's data via the trusted directory nodes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 11, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/152075 |
| ART UNIT | 3692 — Business Methods - Finance/Banking/ Insurance |
| CURRENT CPC | Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 20/405 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 51/12 (20130101) H04L 63/102 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 10376545 | Agulnick et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ViaCyte, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ViaCyte, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan D. Agulnick (San Diego, California); Kevin Allen D'Amour (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A human immature endocrine cell population and methods for making an immature endocrine cell population are provided. Specifically, immature beta cells and methods for production of immature beta cells are described. Immature beta cells co-express INS and NKX6.1 and are uni-potent and thereby develop into mature beta cells when implanted in vivo. The mature beta cells in vivo are capable of producing insulin in response to glucose stimulation. |
| FILED | Monday, April 03, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/478094 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/39 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 35/545 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0676 (20130101) C12N 5/0676 (20130101) C12N 5/0676 (20130101) C12N 5/0678 (20130101) C12N 2500/25 (20130101) C12N 2501/15 (20130101) C12N 2501/16 (20130101) C12N 2501/115 (20130101) C12N 2501/117 (20130101) C12N 2501/119 (20130101) C12N 2501/155 (20130101) C12N 2501/195 (20130101) C12N 2501/385 (20130101) C12N 2501/415 (20130101) C12N 2501/727 (20130101) C12N 2501/998 (20130101) C12N 2501/999 (20130101) C12N 2506/02 (20130101) C12N 2506/02 (20130101) C12N 2506/45 (20130101) C12N 2506/45 (20130101) C12N 2533/90 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
| US 10380386 | Strachan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Paul Strachan (San Carlos, California); Catherine Graves (Palo Alto, California); Suhas Kumar (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A crossbar array includes a number of memory elements. A vector input register has N voltage inputs to the crossbar array. A vector output register has M voltage outputs from the crossbar array. An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is electronically coupled to the vector output register. A digital-to-analog converter (DAC) is electronically coupled to the vector input register. A clustering processor is electronically coupled to the ADC and to the DAC. The clustering processor is configured to program columns of the crossbar array with a set of k cluster center values; apply voltages to rows of the crossbar array where the applied voltages represent a set of data values; and determine a minimum distance of each data value to each k cluster center values based on the voltage output from the output register of each of the plurality of the programmed columns. |
| FILED | Monday, April 30, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 15/966600 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 16/35 (20190101) Analogue Computers G06G 7/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Static Stores G11C 13/00 (20130101) Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 1/001 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 10380598 | Gullo 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) | John Gullo (Cheektowaga, New York); Jason Hugo (Alexandria, Virginia); Shea R. Felix (Falls Church, Virginia); Mark J. Briganti (Point Roberts, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for tracking the status of a label. The system can include a memory with a database. The database can include an indicator of the label status. The system can additionally include a processor that operates in accordance with instructions stored in the memory. The processor can receive a request to generate a label, update the first database with an identifier that indicates the existence of the label, receive a signal indicating that a service requested by the label has been provided, and update the identifier in the first database to indicate that the requested service has been provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 27, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/662011 |
| ART UNIT | 2169 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 16/235 (20190101) G06F 16/2358 (20190101) Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/0833 (20130101) G06Q 30/01 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 10379311 | Krywicki 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) | Jason Krywicki (Glen Burnie, Maryland); Gregg A. Robertson (Linthicum Heights, Maryland); Stephen E. Krug (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An over-molded multi-optical ribbon fiber assembly comprises a housing over-mold including a middle section having first and second ends that branch into first legs and second legs, respectively. The assembly further comprises multiple sets of optical fibers. The optical fibers of all of the sets extend through the middle section as individual optical fibers in a non-ribbon fiber, stacked configuration. The optical fibers of each set further: extend through a respective first leg and a respective second leg of the housing; extend past a free-end of the respective first leg, and transition to a respective first ribbon fiber outside of the housing; and extend past a free-end of the respective second leg, and transition to a respective second ribbon fiber outside of the housing. The assembly further comprises multiple optical fiber connectors each terminating a respective one of the first and second ribbon fibers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 04, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 15/944911 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/443 (20130101) G02B 6/3608 (20130101) G02B 6/3676 (20130101) G02B 6/4472 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/4478 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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