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Patent Details for Tuesday, November 09, 2021
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| US 11166632 | Grossman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Elemind Technologies, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Elemind Technologies, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nir Grossman (Lorrach, Germany); David Wang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Edward Boyden (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A neuromodulator accurately measures—in real time and over a range of frequencies—the instantaneous phase and amplitude of a natural signal. For example, the natural signal may be an electrical signal produced by neural tissue, or a motion such as a muscle tremor. The neuromodulator generates signals that are precisely timed relative to the phase of the natural signal. For example, the neuromodulator may generate an exogenous signal that is phase-locked with the natural signal. Or, for example, the neuromodulator may generate an exogenous signal that comprises short bursts which occur only during a narrow phase range of each period of an oscillating natural signal. The neuromodulator corrects distortions due to Gibbs phenomenon. In some cases, the neuromodulator does so by applying a causal filter to a discrete Fourier transform in the frequency domain, prior to taking an inverse discrete Fourier transform. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 30, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 16/943491 |
| ART UNIT | 3715 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/24 (20210101) A61B 5/0036 (20180801) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/369 (20210101) A61B 5/1101 (20130101) A61B 5/7253 (20130101) A61B 5/7257 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 5/0622 (20130101) A61N 7/00 (20130101) A61N 2005/063 (20130101) A61N 2007/0021 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/14 (20130101) |
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| US 11166846 | Grubbs et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); United States Government represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); United States Government represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert H. Grubbs (South Pasadena, California); Marshall L. Stoller (San Francisco, California); Ying Han (Burlingame, California); Frank L. Brodie (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A surgical method of cataract fragmentation and extraction via microbubble cavitation is described. In particular, gas-filled microbubbles are injected into a lens capsule of a subject's eye, and cavitation of the microbubbles is activated by applied ultrasound energy. The ultrasound energy can be applied from an external device. The cavitation fragments cataract tissues without damaging other tissue, such as the lens capsule. Fragmented lens material is then aspirated from the lens capsule. The method can be used alone or in conjunction with other methods, such as phacoemulsification. |
| FILED | Friday, January 03, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 16/733918 |
| ART UNIT | 3771 — 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 9/00745 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 11166927 | Chandraratna et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Io Therapeutics, Inc. (Houston, Texas); Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Io Therapeutics, Inc. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roshantha A. Chandraratna (San Juan Capistrano, California); Ethan Dmitrovsky (Hanover, New Hampshire); Elizabeth Nowak (West Lebanon, New Hampshire); Randolph Noelle (Plainfield, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The present specification provides RXR agonist compounds, compositions comprising such RXR agonists, and methods using such compounds and compositions to treat an autoimmune disorder, inflammation associated with an autoimmune disorder and/or a transplant rejection as well as use of such RXR agonists to manufacture a medicament and use of such compounds and compositions to treat an autoimmune disorder, inflammation associated with an autoimmune disorder and/or a transplant rejection. |
| FILED | Friday, December 18, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 17/126714 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0073 (20130101) A61K 31/47 (20130101) A61K 31/192 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/201 (20130101) A61K 31/216 (20130101) A61K 31/343 (20130101) A61K 31/353 (20130101) A61K 31/4704 (20130101) Technologies for Adaptation to Climate Change Y02A 50/30 (20180101) |
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| US 11166949 | Olson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric N. Olson (University Park, Texas); Rhonda Bassel-Duby (Dallas, Texas); Leonela Amoasii (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to the identification of Nurr1 as a key regulator of metabolism, and the use of Nurr1 agonist to treat metabolic disorders such as diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome and hepatic steatosis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 26, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 16/096536 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/47 (20130101) A61K 31/437 (20130101) A61K 31/4706 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/28 (20130101) A61K 38/28 (20130101) A61K 38/2264 (20130101) A61K 38/2264 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Specific Therapeutic Activity of Chemical Compounds or Medicinal Preparations A61P 1/16 (20180101) A61P 3/04 (20180101) |
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| US 11166953 | Wu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | YALE UNIVERSITY (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dianqing Wu (Cheshire, Connecticut); Qianying Yuan (New Haven, Connecticut); Abdul Basit (Cincinnati, Ohio); Wenwen Tang (North Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes methods of preventing or treating acute lung injury using a MAP3K2/MAP3K3 inhibitor. The invention further comprises compositions, and kits comprising compositions useful within the invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 17, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/605371 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0043 (20130101) A61K 9/0073 (20130101) A61K 31/506 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) Specific Therapeutic Activity of Chemical Compounds or Medicinal Preparations A61P 11/00 (20180101) |
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| US 11166957 | Gendelman 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) | Howard Gendelman (Omaha, Nebraska); Benson Edagwa (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides prodrugs and methods of use thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, May 24, 2021 |
| APPL NO | 17/303228 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 9/1641 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 31/5365 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Specific Therapeutic Activity of Chemical Compounds or Medicinal Preparations A61P 31/18 (20180101) |
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| US 11166962 | Slaga et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J. Slaga (San Antonio, Texas); Jacob Junco (San Antonio, Texas); Huiyun Liang (San Antonio, Texas); Sara Reyna (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain embodiments are directed to methods and compositions for treating obesity, diabetes, and/or cancer with a combination of ursolic acid and resveratrol. |
| FILED | Monday, March 09, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 16/813017 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0053 (20130101) A61K 31/05 (20130101) A61K 31/05 (20130101) A61K 31/19 (20130101) A61K 31/19 (20130101) A61K 31/56 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Specific Therapeutic Activity of Chemical Compounds or Medicinal Preparations A61P 3/04 (20180101) A61P 3/10 (20180101) |
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| US 11167010 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy C. Wang (New York, New York); Jan K. Kitajewski (Ridgewood, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides for methods for treating an inflammatory disease of the digestive system in a subject by administering a trefoil family molecule. The invention provides for methods for treating a digestive system cancer in a subject by administering a trefoil family molecule. The invention provides for methods for cell proliferation in a subject by administering a trefoil family molecule. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 13, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/189868 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/22 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57419 (20130101) G01N 33/57446 (20130101) G01N 2333/4704 (20130101) |
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| US 11167012 | Ackerman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois); The USA, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Jules Ackerman (Naperville, Illinois); Fan Gao Laffey (Chicago, Illinois); Ben Hitchinson (Chicago, Illinois); Boris Garnier (Chatanay-malabry, France); Vadim Gaponenko (Naperville, Illinois); Nadya Tarasova (Frederick, Maryland); Hazem Abdelkarim (Worth, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A C—C chemokine receptor 3 (CCR3) peptide analog that exhibits biased antagonism by binding to and inhibiting ligand-mediated signaling and chemotaxis while promoting the internalization and degradation of CCR3 is provided as is a method of using the peptide analog to treat, prevent, or ameliorate one or more symptoms of an eosinophil- or CCR3-mediated disease or condition. |
| FILED | Monday, July 29, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/525056 |
| ART UNIT | 1658 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/008 (20130101) A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/195 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/10 (20130101) A61K 47/6813 (20170801) Specific Therapeutic Activity of Chemical Compounds or Medicinal Preparations A61P 11/06 (20180101) A61P 37/08 (20180101) Peptides C07K 14/521 (20130101) C07K 14/4703 (20130101) C07K 14/7158 (20130101) |
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| US 11167019 | Sun |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Albany Medical College (Albany, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albany Medical College (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Sun (Glenmont, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A vaccine platform using a Yersinia pestis mutant synthesizing an adjuvant form lipid A (monophosphoryl lipid A, MPLA) for the increased biogenesis of bacterial outer membrane vesicles (OMVs). To enhance the immunogenicity of the OMVs, an Asd-based balanced-lethal host-vector system was constructed to oversynthesize the LcrV antigen of Y. pestis, raise the amounts of LcrV enclosed in OMVs by Type II secretion system, and eliminate harmful factors like plasminogen activator (Pla) and murine toxin from the OMVs. Vaccination with OMVs containing MPLA and increased amounts of LcrV with diminished toxicity afforded complete protection in mice against subcutaneous challenge and intranasal challenge and was significantly superior to that resulting from vaccination with LcrV/alhydrogel. Additionally, the Yersinia OMV can be used as a platform to deliver the heterologous antigens of Bacillus anthraces. Vaccination with multiantigenic self-adjuvanting bionanoparticles from Pseudomonas was also successfully tested in connection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 10, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 17/117417 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/104 (20130101) A61K 39/0291 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/55594 (20130101) Specific Therapeutic Activity of Chemical Compounds or Medicinal Preparations A61P 31/04 (20180101) |
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| US 11167025 | Pavlakis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (Rockville, Maryland); UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON THROUGH ITS CENTER FOR COMMERCIALIZATION (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (Rockville, Maryland); UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON THROUGH ITS CENTER FOR COMMERCIALIZATION (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Pavlakis (Rockville, Maryland); Barbara Felber (Rockville, Maryland); James Mullins (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and compositions for eliciting broad immune responses. The methods employ nucleic acid vaccines that encodes highly conserved elements from a virus. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 28, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/554133 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/21 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/545 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/327 (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 2740/16222 (20130101) C12N 2740/16234 (20130101) C12N 2740/16271 (20130101) |
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| US 11167044 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gong Chen (State College, Pennsylvania); Lei Zhang (State College, Pennsylvania); Zheng Wu (State College, Pennsylvania); Yuchen Chen (State College, Pennsylvania); Fan Wang (State College, Pennsylvania); Ziyuan Guo (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for producing new neurons in the brain in vivo are provided according to aspects of the present invention which include introducing NeuroD1 into a glial cell, particularly into a reactive astrocyte or NG2 cell, thereby “converting” the reactive glial cell to a neuron. Methods of producing a neuronal phenotype in a glial cell are provided according to aspects of the present invention which include expressing exogenous NeuroD1 in the glial cell, wherein expressing exogenous NeuroD1 includes delivering an expression vector, such as a viral expression vector, including a nucleic acid encoding the exogenous NeuroD1 to the glial cell. |
| FILED | Friday, December 21, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/230364 |
| 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 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 48/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/86 (20130101) |
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| US 11167047 | Steinmetz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicole F. Steinmetz (San Diego, California); Michael Bruckman (Cleveland, Ohio); Lauren Randolph (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An imaging nanoparticle comprising a plant virus particle having an interior surface and an exterior surface, an imaging agent that is linked to the interior and/or exterior surface, and a layer of biocompatible mineral such as silica coated over the exterior surface, is described. The imaging nanoparticle can be used in method of generating an image of a tissue region of a subject, by administering to the subject a diagnostically effective amount of an imaging nanoparticle and generating an image of the tissue region of the subject to which the imaging nanoparticle has been distributed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 19, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/279482 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/085 (20130101) A61K 49/108 (20130101) A61K 49/1896 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 11167277 | Zeng |
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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) | Dexing Zeng (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A Cu(I)-Catalyzed Azide-Alkyne Cycloadditions (CuAAC) ligand comprising: a catalytic core; a fluorous tag; and a linker binding the fluorous tag to the catalytic core. A method for carrying out a Cu(I)-Catalyzed Azide-Alkyne Cycloaddition reaction, comprising: combining in a solution an alkyne-tagged component, an azide-tagged component and a Cu(I)-Catalyzed Azide-Alkyne Cycloadditions (CuAAC) ligand comprising: a catalytic core; a fluorous tag; and a linker binding the fluorous tag to the catalytic core; filtering the solution through a solid phase extraction filter to remove Cu(I)-ligand catalyst and/or excess ligand. |
| FILED | Monday, August 31, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 17/008136 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/0032 (20130101) A61K 49/0039 (20130101) A61K 49/0056 (20130101) A61K 51/088 (20130101) A61K 51/1096 (20130101) Separation B01D 11/0288 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 31/1815 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 2231/34 (20130101) B01J 2531/16 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 249/04 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/582 (20130101) |
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| US 11167286 | Santore et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maria M. Santore (Sunderland, Massachusetts); Kathleen Arcaro (Leverett, Massachusetts); Surachate Kalasin (Chicopee, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor for selectively capturing a targeted cell type in a fluid includes an engineered surface. The engineered surface includes a substrate, a non-adhesive element disposed on at least a portion of a substrate, and an adhesive element disposed on the substrate. The sensor also includes a flow channel in operative contact with the engineered surface; and a detector configured to detect the targeted cell type captured on the engineered surface. Also described is a method for selectively capturing target cell types using the engineered surface. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 03, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/844834 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502761 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 2200/0668 (20130101) B01L 2300/16 (20130101) B01L 2300/0627 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/10 (20130101) G01N 33/54366 (20130101) G01N 2015/008 (20130101) G01N 2015/0065 (20130101) G01N 2015/1006 (20130101) |
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| US 11168062 | Chang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Notre Dame du Lac (South Bend, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Notre Dame du Lac (South Bend, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mayland Chang (Granger, Indiana); Shahriar Mobashery (Granger, Indiana); Derong Ding (South Bend, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is a public health threat that results in 14,000 annual deaths in the United States. Challenges involve the production of CDI spores that can remain dormant for years and the production of toxins that damage the gut. Current therapies for CDI include vancomycin and metronidazole, but neither inhibits spore or toxin production. Thus, recurrence of infection occurs in 25% of patients and there are no antibiotics that are effective for multiple recurrences. We describe oxadiazoles with activity against C. difficile, including the highly virulent NAP1/027 strain with increased production of toxins A and B, as well as the additional binary toxin. Oxadiazole 2 is poorly absorbed, thus advantageously achieving high concentrations in the gut. The compound targets peptidoglycan synthesis and inhibits vegetative cells, spores, and toxin production. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 12, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 16/332311 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/12 (20130101) A61K 9/0014 (20130101) A61K 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 9/2027 (20130101) A61K 9/2059 (20130101) A61K 9/4866 (20130101) Specific Therapeutic Activity of Chemical Compounds or Medicinal Preparations A61P 31/04 (20180101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 271/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 413/04 (20130101) C07D 413/10 (20130101) C07D 413/12 (20130101) |
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| US 11168077 | VanNieuwenhze et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael VanNieuwenhze (Bloomington, Indiana); Yves Brun (Montreal, Canada); Erkin Kuru (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Edward Hall (Hanover, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are compositions for assessing peptidoglycan (PG) biosynthesis in bacteria using modified D-amino acids covalently attached to a molecular rotor and visualizing the labeled PG in bacteria based upon the enhanced fluorescence of the molecular rotor incorporated in the PG. The resultant, labeled peptidoglycan structures are amenable for identification by microscopic visualization, flow cytometry or other suitable methods. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 07, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/967874 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 409/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 11168097 | Yoon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tehshik Peter Yoon (Madison, Wisconsin); Spencer Owen Scholz (Madison, Wisconsin); Rowan Mark Littlefield (Madison, Wisconsin); Niecia Elizabeth Flikweert (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present technology relates generally cyclobutane boronates, including methods of preparation by exposing a mixture of a compound of Formula I in a solvent and a catalytic amount of a visible light sensitizer to provide a compound of Formula II, stereoisomers thereof, and/or salts of any of the foregoing. The cyclobutane boronate compounds are useful intermediates in the preparation of pharmaceutically active compounds as well as other useful compounds. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 18, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 16/822817 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/127 (20130101) B01J 2219/0892 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07F 5/025 (20130101) |
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| US 11168112 | Diamond |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH (Manhasset, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH (Manhasset, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Betty A. Diamond (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Fusion proteins of C1q peptides and HMBG1 A-box or HMBG1 B-box, or C1q peptides and DWESY peptide are provided, and methods of use thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 31, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/263389 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Specific Therapeutic Activity of Chemical Compounds or Medicinal Preparations A61P 37/06 (20180101) Peptides C07K 7/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/472 (20130101) C07K 14/4702 (20130101) C07K 16/46 (20130101) C07K 16/2803 (20130101) C07K 2317/31 (20130101) C07K 2317/72 (20130101) C07K 2317/94 (20130101) C07K 2317/732 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/30 (20130101) |
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| US 11168115 | Heath et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Heath (South Pasadena, California); Rosemary Dyane Rohde (Pasadena, California); Arundhati Nag (Pasadena, California); Samir Das (Pasadena, California); Aiko Umeda (North Hollywood, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Peptides having activity as protein binding agents are disclosed. The peptides have the following structure (I): including stereoisomers, pharmaceutically acceptable salts and prodrugs thereof, wherein R, R1, L1, L2, G, M, Y1 Y2 and SEQ are as defined herein. Methods associated with preparation and use of such peptides, as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising such peptides, are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/310201 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/0032 (20130101) A61K 49/0041 (20130101) A61K 49/0043 (20130101) A61K 51/08 (20130101) A61K 51/088 (20130101) Peptides C07K 1/047 (20130101) C07K 5/06 (20130101) C07K 5/08 (20130101) C07K 5/10 (20130101) C07K 7/56 (20130101) C07K 7/64 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/001 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/573 (20130101) G01N 33/6842 (20130101) G01N 2333/912 (20130101) |
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| US 11168120 | Hageman |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory S. Hageman (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to Factor H gene polymorphisms and haplotypes associated with an elevated or a reduced risk of AMD. The invention provides methods and reagents for diagnosis and treatment of AMD. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 06, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/676145 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0048 (20130101) A61K 48/00 (20130101) A61K 48/005 (20130101) A61K 48/0058 (20130101) Specific Therapeutic Activity of Chemical Compounds or Medicinal Preparations A61P 25/00 (20180101) A61P 27/00 (20180101) A61P 27/02 (20180101) Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/435 (20130101) C07K 14/472 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/00 (20130101) C12N 15/63 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) C12Q 2600/172 (20130101) |
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| US 11168129 | Kobie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James J. Kobie (Rochester, New York); Michael Piepenbrink (Rochester, New York); Michael Keefer (Rochester, New York); Luis Martinez-Sobrido (Rochester, New York); Aitor Nogales (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to broadly neutralizing anti-influenza monoclonal antibodies or antigen-binding fragments thereof. The present invention further relates to therapeutic uses of the isolated antibody or the antigen-binding fragment thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 10, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/611399 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/505 (20130101) A61K 2039/545 (20130101) Specific Therapeutic Activity of Chemical Compounds or Medicinal Preparations A61P 31/16 (20180101) Peptides C07K 16/1018 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/33 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) |
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| US 11168142 | Georgiou 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) | George Georgiou (Austin, Texas); Everett Stone (Austin, Texas); Nicholas Marshall (Austin, Texas); John Blazeck (Austin, Texas); Wei-Cheng Lu (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions related to the use of a protein with kynureninase activity are described. For example, in certain aspects there may be disclosed a modified kynureninase capable of degrading kynurenine. Furthermore, certain aspects of the invention provide compositions and methods for the treatment of cancer with kynurenine depletion using the disclosed proteins or nucleic acids. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 25, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 15/961968 |
| 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 38/00 (20130101) A61K 39/3955 (20130101) A61K 47/60 (20170801) Peptides C07K 16/2818 (20130101) C07K 16/2827 (20130101) C07K 16/2887 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/2896 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101) C07K 2319/01 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/14 (20130101) C12N 9/96 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 307/01003 (20130101) |
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| US 11168148 | Tsimikas 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) | Sotirios Tsimikas (San Diego, California); Joseph Witztum (San Diego, California); Xuchu Que (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides for single chain variable fragments to MAA-oxidized specific epitopes (OSEs). The disclosure also provides single chain virable fragments that bind to MDA-OSEs or MAA-OSEs on oxidized phospholipids and methods of use thereof, including the production of transgenic animal models and the use of the fragments as therapeutic agents. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 07, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 16/330760 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Therapeutic Activity of Chemical Compounds or Medicinal Preparations A61P 1/16 (20180101) A61P 9/10 (20180101) Peptides C07K 16/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/21 (20130101) C07K 2317/24 (20130101) C07K 2317/565 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5308 (20130101) G01N 2800/085 (20130101) |
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| US 11168150 | Cheung et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York, New York); Eureka Therapeutics, Inc. (Emeryville, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York, New York); Eureka Therapeutics, Inc. (Emeryville, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nai-Kong V. Cheung (New York, New York); Mahiuddin Ahmed (Verona, New Jersey); Andres Lopez-Albaitero (New York, New York); Cheng Liu (Emeryville, California); Su Yan (State College, Pennsylvania); Jingyi Xiang (Walnut Creek, California); Hong Liu (El Sobrante, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are antibodies, fragments thereof and multi-specific binding agents that bind an Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) latent membrane protein 2 (LMP2) peptide presented by HLA class I molecules, in particular, HLA-A02. Also provided herein are methods of using the same or compositions thereof for the detection, prevention and/or therapeutic treatment of diseases characterized by expression of an EBV-LMP2 peptide presented by HLA-A02, in particular, Burkit's lymphoma, Hodgkin's lymphoma and nasopharyngeal carcinoma. |
| FILED | Monday, October 28, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/665708 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/505 (20130101) A61K 2039/572 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/085 (20130101) C07K 16/468 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/2809 (20130101) C07K 2317/21 (20130101) C07K 2317/31 (20130101) C07K 2317/32 (20130101) C07K 2317/33 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) C07K 2317/40 (20130101) C07K 2317/41 (20130101) C07K 2317/56 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) C07K 2317/565 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101) C07K 2317/732 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6854 (20130101) |
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| US 11168306 | Weiss 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) | Gregory A. Weiss (Irvine, California); Kritika Mohan (Irvine, California); Lindsay Kindra (Irvine, California); Reginald M. Penner (Newport Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein, inter alia, are compositions and methods useful for improving detection of analytes. The compositions and methods provided include polymer-wrapped viral particles useful, inter alia, for the detection of PSMA. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 25, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 15/121153 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 403/06 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2795/14131 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/026 (20130101) G01N 27/416 (20130101) G01N 33/574 (20130101) G01N 33/56911 (20130101) G01N 33/56916 (20130101) G01N 33/57434 (20130101) |
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| US 11168313 | 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); Benjamin Kleinstiver (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Engineered CRISPR from Prevotella and Francisella 1 (Cpf1) nucleases with altered and improved target specificity and their use in genomic engineering, epigenomic engineering, genome targeting, genome editing, and in vitro diagnostics. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 25, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/659499 |
| ART UNIT | 1699 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/39 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/80 (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 9/0071 (20130101) C12N 15/11 (20130101) C12N 15/907 (20130101) C12N 2310/20 (20170501) Enzymes C12Y 114/11 (20130101) C12Y 301/21004 (20130101) |
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| US 11168338 | 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 | Thursday, August 08, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/535199 |
| 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 11168345 | Mikkelsen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tarjei Mikkelsen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Benjamin Levine Ebert (Boston, Massachusetts); Quinlan Sievers (Boston, Massachusetts); THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (Cambridge, Massachusetts); THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (Cambridge, Massachusetts); THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tarjei Mikkelsen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Benjamin Levine Ebert (Boston, Massachusetts); Quinlan Sievers (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the invention features a method for identifying a drug-modulated polypeptide substrate of cereblon (CRBN). In another aspect, the invention features a method of identifying a polypeptide target of a modulator of CRBN. In yet another aspect, the invention provides methods of monitoring or characterizing the sensitivity of a subject to a modulator of CRBN. |
| FILED | Friday, September 09, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/759168 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/454 (20130101) A61K 31/4035 (20130101) Specific Therapeutic Activity of Chemical Compounds or Medicinal Preparations A61P 35/00 (20180101) Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101) C07K 19/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/95 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/06 (20130101) C12N 5/0635 (20130101) C12N 5/0694 (20130101) C12N 15/62 (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 1/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/68 (20130101) C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) C12Q 2600/106 (20130101) C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/68 (20130101) |
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| US 11168347 | Ismagilov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rustem F. Ismagilov (Altadena, California); Nathan G. Schoepp (Pasadena, California); Travis S. Schlappi (Pasadena, California); Matthew S. Curtis (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods and devices for using digital isothermal amplification to detect subtle responses to environmental stimuli, such as detecting antibiotic susceptibility using digital quantification of DNA replication and/or chromosome segregation. |
| FILED | Monday, September 25, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/715086 |
| ART UNIT | 1699 — 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 1/10 (20130101) C12Q 1/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6851 (20130101) C12Q 1/6851 (20130101) C12Q 2527/101 (20130101) C12Q 2537/165 (20130101) C12Q 2561/113 (20130101) |
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| US 11168350 | Nolan 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) | Garry P. Nolan (Redwood City, California); Nikolay Samusik (Mountain View, California); Julia Kennedy-Darling (Stanford, California); Yury Goltsev (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein is a method and system for analyzing a sample. In some embodiments the method makes use of a plurality of capture agents that are each linked to a different oligonucleotide and a corresponding plurality of labeled nucleic acid probes, wherein each of the labeled nucleic acid probes specifically hybridizes with only one of the oligonucleotides. The sample is labeled with the capture agents en masse, and sub-sets of the capture agents are detected using iterative cycles using corresponding subsets of the labeled nucleic acid probes. |
| FILED | Friday, June 14, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/442349 |
| 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 1/6804 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6804 (20130101) C12Q 1/6813 (20130101) C12Q 1/6813 (20130101) C12Q 2525/205 (20130101) C12Q 2525/205 (20130101) C12Q 2563/131 (20130101) C12Q 2563/131 (20130101) C12Q 2565/531 (20130101) C12Q 2565/531 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/30 (20130101) G01N 33/554 (20130101) G01N 33/5308 (20130101) G01N 33/54306 (20130101) G01N 2001/302 (20130101) G01N 2458/10 (20130101) |
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| US 11168355 | Seelig et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Georg Seelig (Seattle, Washington); Richard Muscat (London, United Kingdom); Alexander B. Rosenberg (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of uniquely labeling or barcoding molecules within a cell, a plurality of cells, and/or a tissue are provided. Kits for uniquely labeling or barcoding molecules within a cell, a plurality of cells, and/or a tissue are also provided. The molecules to be labeled may include, but are not limited to, RNAs, cDNAs, DNAs, proteins, peptides, and/or antigens. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 25, 2021 |
| APPL NO | 17/249257 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6806 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6855 (20130101) C12Q 1/6855 (20130101) C12Q 2563/179 (20130101) |
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| US 11168359 | Cawthon |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard M. Cawthon (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for determining the copy number of a first target nucleic acid as compared to the copy number of a second target nucleic acid in a single well with a single detection label. For example, disclosed herein are methods and compositions for determining the copy number of a first target nucleic acid as compared to the copy number of a second target nucleic acid by a monochrome multiplex quantitative PCR (MMQPCR) in a single well with a single detection label. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 10, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/566536 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/686 (20130101) C12Q 1/686 (20130101) C12Q 1/6851 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6851 (20130101) C12Q 2525/155 (20130101) C12Q 2527/107 (20130101) C12Q 2537/143 (20130101) C12Q 2545/101 (20130101) C12Q 2563/173 (20130101) C12Q 2563/173 (20130101) |
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| US 11169142 | Chapman |
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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) | Michael P. Chapman (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | In some embodiments, the invention provides a method for identifying a patient suffering from or suspected of suffering in from a disease associated with the cardiovascular system that is having a subnormal response to the treatment for the disease comprising: subjecting a blood sample from a patient being treated for a disease to a viscoelastic analysis in the presence of a known amount of a thrombolytic agent, to obtain a coagulation characteristic value of the patient; and comparing the coagulation characteristic value of the patient to a coagulation characteristic value of a healthy individual, wherein a difference in the coagulation characteristic value of the patient as compared to the coagulation characteristic value of the healthy individual identifies the patient as a patient having a subnormal response to treatment. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 11, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 16/300491 |
| ART UNIT | 1699 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| 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 2/01 (20130101) A61F 2/82 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/4439 (20130101) Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 1/3655 (20130101) A61M 25/104 (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 1/56 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 11/14 (20130101) G01N 33/48 (20130101) G01N 33/86 (20130101) G01N 33/4905 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 11169145 | Zayed et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mohamed Zayed (St. Louis, Missouri); Clay Semenkovich (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohamed Zayed (St. Louis, Missouri); Clay Semenkovich (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Among the various aspects of the present disclosure is the provision of a method of detection, treatment, and monitoring of cardiovascular disease or a foot wound by detection of a novel biomarker, Fatty Acid Synthase (FAS). Briefly, therefore, the present disclosure is directed to methods that allow for improved, noninvasive, and reliable diagnosis of these conditions, particularly in subjects suffering from Type 2 Diabetes (T2D). |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 01, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 15/967719 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/444 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 203/01085 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/92 (20130101) G01N 33/492 (20130101) G01N 33/573 (20130101) G01N 33/5091 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/6893 (20130101) G01N 2333/32 (20130101) G01N 2333/91057 (20130101) G01N 2800/042 (20130101) G01N 2800/52 (20130101) G01N 2800/56 (20130101) G01N 2800/324 (20130101) G01N 2800/325 (20130101) G01N 2800/326 (20130101) G01N 2800/327 (20130101) G01N 2800/328 (20130101) |
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11169154 — Phosphocofilin: cofilin co-localization intensity as a predictor of metastatic recurrence
| US 11169154 | Condeelis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLGE OF MEDICINE (Bronx, New York); KING'S COLLEGE LONDON (London, United Kingdom) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE (Bronx, New York); KING'S COLLEGE LONDON (London, United Kingdom) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Condeelis (Bronx, New York); Tony Tsz-Cheong Ng (London, United Kingdom); Gregory Weitsman (London, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and products are provided for determining if a subject having a tumor is at risk of metastasis of the tumor. Specifically, the methods comprise detecting phosphorylated cofilin, and both phosphorylated and non-phosphorylated cofilin; quantifying the phosphorylated cofilin, and the total of phosphorylated and nonphosphorylated cofilin; and determining if a subject having the tumor is likely to experience metastasis of the tumor, based on the ratio of the amount of detected phosphorylated cofilin:total amount of phosphorylated and non-phosphorylated cofilin detected. Further disclosed are the types of tumor metastases that can be determined using the methods provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 24, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/043525 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 16/2896 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57415 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/57496 (20130101) G01N 2440/14 (20130101) G01N 2800/56 (20130101) |
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| US 11169156 | Miller 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) | Evan W. Miller (Kensington, California); Yi-Lin Huang (Taipei, Taiwan); Alison S. Walker (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides for provides for water-soluble near-infra red (NIR) emissive compounds, processes of making the compounds thereof, and use of the compounds therein. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 28, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/745044 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 7/0816 (20130101) Organic Dyes or Closely-related Compounds for Producing Dyes; Mordants; Lakes C09B 69/06 (20130101) C09B 69/008 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/1475 (20130101) G01N 33/582 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/48728 (20130101) G01N 2015/1006 (20130101) |
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| US 11169157 | Gunderson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Encodia, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ENCODIA, INC. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin L. Gunderson (San Diego, California); Norihito Muranaka (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to methods and kits for forming a stable complex comprising a binding agent and a target (e.g., a macromolecule). In some embodiments, the target comprises a peptide, a polypeptide, or a protein to be analyzed. In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to formation of a stable complex comprising a binding agent and a target (e.g., a macromolecule) to be analyzed in a method which employs barcoding and nucleic acid encoding of molecular recognition events, and/or detectable labels. Provided herein is also a programmable system for information transfer comprising one or more adaptor molecules. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 14, 2021 |
| APPL NO | 17/149324 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/68 (20130101) G01N 33/582 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/5308 (20130101) |
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| US 11169265 | Pang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | FUJIFILM SonoSite, Inc. (Bothell, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | FUJIFILM SonoSite, Inc. (Bothell, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guofeng Pang (Ajax, Canada); Oleg Ivanytskyy (Toronto, Canada); Hossein Amini (Toronto, Canada); Robert Kolaja (Toronto, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A dual frequency ultrasound transducer includes a high frequency (HF) transducer and a low frequency (LF) transducer that is positioned behind the high frequency transducer. An intermediate layer is positioned between the low frequency transducer and the high frequency transducer to absorb high frequency ultrasound signals. An alignment feature on the low frequency transducer is positioned with respect to a fiducial that is marked at a known position with respect to high frequency transducer elements of the HF transducer to align low frequency transducer elements of the LF transducer with the HF transducer elements. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 31, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/051060 |
| 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 15/8915 (20130101) G01S 15/8952 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01S 15/8956 (20130101) G01S 15/8979 (20130101) |
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| US 11169268 | Schaefer |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Philip Raymond Schaefer (Weaverville, North Carolina) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Philip Raymond Schaefer (Weaverville, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A system shines a series of light stripes across an area. A target object passes through the area and light is reflected to the system from the light stripes as it passes through. Based on the timing of the received light from each of the light stripes, the system calculates the position and velocity of the target object. |
| FILED | Monday, December 10, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/214587 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Linear or Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, or Shock; Indicating Presence, Absence, or Direction, of Movement G01P 3/68 (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 17/58 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 11170480 | Ishikawa 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) | Hiroshi Ishikawa (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Chieh-Li Chen (Seattle, Washington); Joel Steven Schuman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Chaim-Gadi Wollstein (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to systems and methods for generating virtually averaged optical coherence tomography (Oct.) images. An illustrative method can include receiving an image, identifying a first voxel of the image, and selecting a plurality of local voxels of the image. Each of the plurality of local voxels is within a defined region of the first voxel. The values of the plurality of local voxels can indicate an appearance of the local voxels in the image. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 28, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/568398 |
| ART UNIT | 2664 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 3/102 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 5/002 (20130101) G06T 5/20 (20130101) G06T 5/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2207/10101 (20130101) G06T 2207/20216 (20130101) G06T 2207/30041 (20130101) |
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| US 11170543 | Cole 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) | Elizabeth K. Cole (Stanford, California); Shreyas S. Vasanawala (Stanford, California); Frank Ong (Los Altos, California); John M. Pauly (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of magnetic resonance imaging acquires undersampled MRI data and generates by an adversarially trained generative neural network MRI data having higher quality without using any fully-sampled data as a ground truth. The generative neural network is adversarially trained using a discriminative neural network that distinguishes between undersampled MRI training data and candidate undersampled MRI training data produced by applying an MRI measurement function containing an undersampling mask to generated MRI training data produced by the generative neural network from the undersampled MRI training data. |
| FILED | Monday, January 13, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 16/740655 |
| ART UNIT | 2667 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/08 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 5/10 (20130101) G06T 11/006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2207/10088 (20130101) G06T 2207/20081 (20130101) G06T 2207/20084 (20130101) G06T 2210/41 (20130101) |
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Department of Defense (DOD)
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| APPLICANT(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis C. Liotta (Atlanta, Georgia); George R. Painter (Atlanta, Georgia); Gregory R. Bluemling (Lithonia, Georgia); Abel de la Rosa (Alpharetta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates to nucleotide and nucleoside therapeutic compositions and uses in treating viral infections, where the base of the nucleotide or nucleoside contains at least one thiol, thione or thioether. The nucleotide or nucleoside is defined by Formula Ia below: |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 21, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/198240 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/127 (20130101) A61K 31/7068 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/7068 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 19/06 (20130101) C07H 19/10 (20130101) Technologies for Adaptation to Climate Change Y02A 50/30 (20180101) |
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| US 11167287 | Roper et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher S. Roper (Oak Park, California); Adam F. Gross (Santa Monica, California); Shanying Cui (Calabasas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Some variations provide a device for assembling a plurality of particles into particle assemblies, comprising: (a) a microfluidic droplet-generating region; (b) a first inlet to the droplet-generating region, configured to feed a first fluid containing particles and a solvent for the particles; (c) a second inlet to the droplet-generating region, configured to feed a second fluid that is not fully miscible with the first fluid; (d) a droplet outlet from the droplet-generating region, configured to withdraw droplets of the first fluid dispersed in the second fluid; and (e) a droplet-dissolving region configured to remove solvent from the droplets, thereby forming particle assemblies. Some variations also provide an assembly of nanoparticles, wherein the assembly has a volume from 1 μm3 to 1 mm3, a packing fraction from 20% to 100%, and/or an average relative surface roughness less than 1%, wherein the assembly is not disposed on a substrate. |
| FILED | Monday, May 13, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/411058 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Mixing, e.g Dissolving, Emulsifying, Dispersing B01F 3/0807 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502761 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 2200/0652 (20130101) B01L 2300/0861 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) |
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| US 11167999 | Kotov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas A. Kotov (Ypsilanti, Michigan); Bongjun Yeom (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides a biomimetic composite that includes a plurality of nanostructures each having at least one axial geometry region comprising an inorganic material. The nanostructures may be a plurality of substantially aligned (e.g., in a vertical orientation) axial geometry nanowires comprising zinc oxide or alternatively hedgehog-shaped nanoparticles with needles comprising zinc oxide. A polymeric matrix disposed in void regions defined between respective nanostructures of the plurality of nanostructures. The biomimetic composite exhibits a viscoelastic figure of merit (VFOM) of greater than or equal to about 0.001 up to about 0.6 or greater. Methods of making such biomimetic composites are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, February 22, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/283231 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 9/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2004/16 (20130101) C01P 2006/40 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 33/08 (20130101) C08L 61/06 (20130101) C08L 63/00 (20130101) C08L 75/04 (20130101) C08L 101/12 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/20 (20130101) |
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| US 11168115 | Heath et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Heath (South Pasadena, California); Rosemary Dyane Rohde (Pasadena, California); Arundhati Nag (Pasadena, California); Samir Das (Pasadena, California); Aiko Umeda (North Hollywood, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Peptides having activity as protein binding agents are disclosed. The peptides have the following structure (I): including stereoisomers, pharmaceutically acceptable salts and prodrugs thereof, wherein R, R1, L1, L2, G, M, Y1 Y2 and SEQ are as defined herein. Methods associated with preparation and use of such peptides, as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising such peptides, are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/310201 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/0032 (20130101) A61K 49/0041 (20130101) A61K 49/0043 (20130101) A61K 51/08 (20130101) A61K 51/088 (20130101) Peptides C07K 1/047 (20130101) C07K 5/06 (20130101) C07K 5/08 (20130101) C07K 5/10 (20130101) C07K 7/56 (20130101) C07K 7/64 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/001 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/573 (20130101) G01N 33/6842 (20130101) G01N 2333/912 (20130101) |
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| US 11168248 | Sherburne |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Government of the United States, as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. Sherburne (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to devices for detecting radiation by the excitation of colloidal nanocrystals within a porous article and methods of using same. The aforementioned device is inexpensive and can be fabricated quickly in order to detect radiation. Due to the use of colloidal nanocrystals which have been known to have a decay constant of under 100 ps when energetic electrons produced by an incident x-ray excite the nanocrystals, this device can be used in fast radiation detection of x-rays. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 25, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 17/001724 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/02 (20130101) C09K 11/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C09K 11/565 (20130101) C09K 11/623 (20130101) C09K 11/703 (20130101) C09K 11/0883 (20130101) C09K 11/883 (20130101) Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/2023 (20130101) |
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| US 11168338 | 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 | Thursday, August 08, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/535199 |
| 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 11168347 | Ismagilov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rustem F. Ismagilov (Altadena, California); Nathan G. Schoepp (Pasadena, California); Travis S. Schlappi (Pasadena, California); Matthew S. Curtis (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods and devices for using digital isothermal amplification to detect subtle responses to environmental stimuli, such as detecting antibiotic susceptibility using digital quantification of DNA replication and/or chromosome segregation. |
| FILED | Monday, September 25, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/715086 |
| ART UNIT | 1699 — 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 1/10 (20130101) C12Q 1/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6851 (20130101) C12Q 1/6851 (20130101) C12Q 2527/101 (20130101) C12Q 2537/165 (20130101) C12Q 2561/113 (20130101) |
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| US 11168702 | Roberge |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary D. Roberge (Tolland, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A fan blade for a gas turbine engine according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, an airfoil section that has a pressure sidewall and a suction sidewall that meet together at both a leading edge and a trailing edge, and extends radially between a root portion and a tip portion. A tip pocket is defined by collapsible external walls of the tip portion, and has a pocket opening at a radially outer face of the tip portion. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 10, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/673635 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/20 (20130101) F01D 5/147 (20130101) F01D 21/045 (20130101) Jet-propulsion Plants F02K 3/06 (20130101) Non-positive-displacement Pumps F04D 25/045 (20130101) F04D 29/324 (20130101) F04D 29/325 (20130101) F04D 29/382 (20130101) F04D 29/384 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F04D 29/526 (20130101) F04D 29/668 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2220/32 (20130101) F05D 2220/36 (20130101) F05D 2240/307 (20130101) F05D 2250/70 (20130101) F05D 2300/501 (20130101) |
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| US 11168718 | Guest et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The John Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Kevin Guest (Lutherville-Timonium, Maryland); Stefan Szyniszewski (Guildford, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to three dimensional (3D) woven lattices for drag and turbulence reduction. 3D woven lattice material can serve as a surface layer that regularizes the flow around a bluff body with beneficial effects on: 1) drag reduction, 2) decrease in turbulence intensity, 3) attenuation of flow-induced vibrations, and 4) aerodynamic noise cancellation. 3-D woven lattice architectures allows for passive flow control (without the need for external energy supply) around bluff bodies with restricted geometry/shape due to their functional requirements such as wind turbine towers, cargo trucks, train cars, etc. The woven material can be easily shaped to fit on various geometries and incorporated in existing manufacturing processes (from composites to metallic plates). Metallic foam and randomly porous materials have been identified in the literature as a promising solution for passive flow control over bluff bodies. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 05, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/479453 |
| ART UNIT | 1783 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Motor Vehicles; Trailers B62D 35/001 (20130101) Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 21/10 (20130101) Construction of Bridges, or Viaducts; Assembly of Bridges E01D 19/00 (20130101) Finishing Work on Buildings, e.g Stairs, Floors E04F 13/002 (20130101) Buildings or Like Structures for Particular Purposes; Swimming or Splash Baths or Pools; Masts; Fencing; Tents or Canopies, in General E04H 12/00 (20130101) Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/147 (20130101) Wind Motors F03D 1/0675 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Wind, Spring, Weight, Inertia or Like Motors, to Machines or Engines for Liquids Covered by Subclasses F03B, F03D and F03G F05B 2240/30 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2240/30 (20130101) F05D 2250/60 (20130101) Fluid Dynamics, i.e Methods or Means for Influencing the Flow of Gases or Liquids F15D 1/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/72 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/50 (20151101) |
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| US 11168728 | Rice et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kineticure, LLC (Miamisburg, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kineticure, LLC (Miamisburg, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason P. Rice (Dayton, Ohio); Mark C. Cridge (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of systems and methods for adhering hardware to a substrate, wherein the method comprises coupling the hardware with a rigid tube or an elastomeric tube, applying adhesive onto a bonding surface of the hardware, inserting the rigid tube or the elastomeric tube through an aperture of the substrate until a surface of the substrate contacts the bonding surface having adhesive applied thereon, and adhering the hardware to the substrate by applying localized heat through a heating component disposed within the rigid tube or the elastomeric tube. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 02, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/460115 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Fastening or Securing Constructional Elements or Machine Parts Together, e.g Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips, Wedges, Joints or Jointing F16B 11/006 (20130101) F16B 37/048 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F16B 39/225 (20130101) |
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| US 11169050 | Guthrie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | FreEnt Technologies Inc. (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | FreEnt Technologies, Inc. (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Guthrie (Huntsville, Alabama); Herbert U. Fluhler (Huntsville, Alabama); Michael C. Zari (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus for detecting high speed hits on a target is disclosed. A first set of detection lines are would in one direction around a target, and a second set of detection lines is wound orthogonal or diagonal to the first set of lines around a target. Where the detection lines are light-transmissive fibers, cutting of a fiber by a high-speed projectile or fragment causes a flash of photons that are detected by a detector attached to that line. Materials the lines are embedded in may also cause bursts of photons when pierced that is detected by detectors. The lines may be laid in prefabricated panels, or attached to an exterior or interior skin of a target. Moldings may be used to ensure that a bend radius of the light-transmissive fibers is not exceeded. |
| FILED | Monday, May 29, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/607663 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Testing Static or Dynamic Balance of Machines or Structures; Testing of Structures or Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G01M 5/0033 (20130101) G01M 5/0091 (20130101) G01M 11/085 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 11169062 | Chattopadhyay et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aditya Chattopadhyay (Chicago, Illinois); Melissa Garner (Chicago, Illinois); Calvin Brown (Chicago, Illinois); Christine Sauerbrunn (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An example method for identifying an internal flaw in a part produced using additive manufacturing includes calculating a proof load of a part, in which the proof load is a load that when applied to the part will cause the part to fail based on presence of an internal flaw in the part, determining whether the part can withstand the proof load based on a geometry of the part and static strength data, and based on a determination that the part can withstand the proof load, applying the proof load to the part during a compliance test of the part. The proof load causes the part to fracture, when applied to the part, based on presence of the internal flaw in the part that is of a threshold size at which the internal flaw would cause cracking and potential part failure when the part is placed under the operational load. |
| FILED | Saturday, September 08, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/125670 |
| ART UNIT | 2865 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 3/08 (20130101) G01N 3/066 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 11169078 | Di Carlo 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) | Dino Di Carlo (Los Angeles, California); Daniel R. Gossett (Los Angeles, California); Henry T. K. Tse (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is disclosed that enables the automated measurement of cellular mechanical parameters at high throughputs. The microfluidic device uses intersecting flows to create an extensional flow region where the cells undergo controlled stretching. Cells are focused into streamlines prior to entering the extensional flow region. In the extensional region, each cell's deformation is measured with an imaging device. Automated image analysis extracts a range of independent biomechanical parameters from the images. These may include cell size, deformability, and circularity. The single cell data that is obtained may then be used to in a variety of ways. Scatter density plots of deformability and circularity may be developed and displayed for the user. Mechanical parameters such as deformability and circularity may be gated or thresholded to identify certain cells of interest or sub-populations of interest. Similarly, the mechanical data obtained using the device may be used as cell signatures. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 11, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 15/868025 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/50273 (20130101) B01L 3/502715 (20130101) B01L 3/502776 (20130101) B01L 2200/0605 (20130101) B01L 2200/0647 (20130101) B01L 2200/0652 (20130101) B01L 2300/0654 (20130101) B01L 2300/0864 (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) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/1404 (20130101) G01N 15/1459 (20130101) G01N 15/1463 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 15/1484 (20130101) G01N 33/487 (20130101) G01N 33/574 (20130101) G01N 2015/0065 (20130101) G01N 2015/149 (20130101) G01N 2015/1006 (20130101) G01N 2015/1415 (20130101) G01N 2015/1495 (20130101) G01N 2015/1497 (20130101) G01N 2800/7028 (20130101) Bioinformatics, i.e Information and Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted for Genetic or Protein-related Data Processing in Computational Molecular Biology G16B 99/00 (20190201) |
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| US 11169142 | Chapman |
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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) | Michael P. Chapman (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | In some embodiments, the invention provides a method for identifying a patient suffering from or suspected of suffering in from a disease associated with the cardiovascular system that is having a subnormal response to the treatment for the disease comprising: subjecting a blood sample from a patient being treated for a disease to a viscoelastic analysis in the presence of a known amount of a thrombolytic agent, to obtain a coagulation characteristic value of the patient; and comparing the coagulation characteristic value of the patient to a coagulation characteristic value of a healthy individual, wherein a difference in the coagulation characteristic value of the patient as compared to the coagulation characteristic value of the healthy individual identifies the patient as a patient having a subnormal response to treatment. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 11, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 16/300491 |
| ART UNIT | 1699 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| 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 2/01 (20130101) A61F 2/82 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/4439 (20130101) Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 1/3655 (20130101) A61M 25/104 (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 1/56 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 11/14 (20130101) G01N 33/48 (20130101) G01N 33/86 (20130101) G01N 33/4905 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 11169192 | Underwood |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Government of the United States, as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Government of the United States, as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brandon Underwood (Brick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | In various embodiments, a graphical plotter can create a transformation circle. An identification component can identify a center point, a radius from the center point, and a circular outer point set extended from the center point by the radius. A creation component can create a plot based, at least in part, on the center point, the radius, and the circular outer point set. An output component can cause the plot to be outputted, where the circular outer point set is dependent on trigonometry of an angle set from an x-axis pertaining to the center point and the radius. |
| FILED | Monday, April 22, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/390030 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 27/06 (20130101) G01R 27/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/11 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 11/206 (20130101) |
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| US 11169200 | 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, August 01, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/529398 |
| 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 11169222 | Taylor et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Taylor (San Diego, California); Thomas Sheffield (San Diego, California); Daniel Hallman (San Diego, California); Susan Anne Elizabeth Berggren (San Diego, California); Anna Leese de Escobar (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is provided for detecting a radio frequency signal. The system includes a dielectric platform, a first SQUID array, a second array of SQUIDs and a processing component. The dielectric platform has a first planar surface and a second planar surface that is disposed at an angle relative to the first planar surface. The first array of SQUIDs is disposed on the first planar surface and can output a first detection signal based on the radio frequency signal. The second array of SQUIDs is disposed on the second planar surface and can output a second detection signal based on the radio frequency signal. The processing component can determine a first plane from which the radio frequency signal is transmitting based on the first detection signal and the second detection signal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 01, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/589830 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/0082 (20130101) G01R 33/0094 (20130101) G01R 33/0352 (20130101) G01R 33/0354 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/3877 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 10/00 (20190101) |
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| US 11169311 | Rubin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Noah A. Rubin (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Federico Capasso (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides an optical component, which may be a metasurface grating, including (a) a substrate; and (b) an array of subwavelength-spaced phase-shifting elements, which are tessellated on the substrate to produce, when illuminated with a polarized incident light, a diffracted light beam with a distinct polarization state for each of a finite number of diffraction orders, wherein the finite number is 2 or more. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 24, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/964058 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 4/04 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/3025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 11169711 | O et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea); SNU R and D FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea); WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seong-Il O (Suwon-si, South Korea); Nam Sung Kim (Champaign, Illinois); Young-Hoon Son (Suwon-si, South Korea); Chan-Kyung Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea); Ho-Young Song (Hwaseong-si, South Korea); Jung Ho Ahn (Seoul, South Korea); Sang-Joon Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | A memory module includes a memory device, a command/address buffering device, and a processing data buffer. The memory device includes a memory cell array, a first set of input/output terminals, each terminal configured to receive first command/address bits, and a second set of input/output terminals, each terminal configured to receive both data bits and second command/address bits. The command/address buffering device is configured to output the first command/address bits to the first set of input/output terminals. The processing data buffer is configured to output the data bits and second command/address bits to the second set of input/output terminals. The memory device is configured such that the first command/address bits, second command/address bits, and data bits are all used to access the memory cell array. |
| FILED | Monday, July 29, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/524749 |
| ART UNIT | 2139 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/0611 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 3/0656 (20130101) G06F 3/0659 (20130101) G06F 3/0683 (20130101) G06F 13/1673 (20130101) |
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| US 11169848 | Jacob 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) | Philip Jacob (Congers, New York); James P. Coghlan (Wappingers Falls, New York); Michael Grassi (Shokan, New York); Kirk Pospesel (Clinton Corners, New York); Marcel Schaal (Stuttgart, Germany); Douglas J. Joseph (Danbury, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer implemented method and system for managing power in a 3D chip stack formed of multiple memory layers each having a plurality memory banks and a plurality of Through-Silicon-Vias (TSVs) connecting the memory banks. The TSVs are arranged in a plurality of subsets, each subset of TSVs connecting a corresponding vertical stack of memory banks aligned across a plurality of memory layers. The method includes determining a power delivery budget for each subset of TSVs connecting the corresponding vertical stack of memory banks based on memory requests, keeping track of memory requests to the memory banks of each vertical stack of memory banks and scheduling the memory requests to the memory banks of each vertical stack of memory banks based on the power budget. The memory controller is configured with a scorecard scheduler to manage the memory requests based on the power budget. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 14, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 16/741854 |
| ART UNIT | 2196 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/48 (20130101) G06F 9/50 (20130101) G06F 9/4806 (20130101) G06F 9/4843 (20130101) G06F 9/4881 (20130101) G06F 9/4893 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 9/5094 (20130101) |
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| US 11170263 | Dennison et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NVIDIA Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NVIDIA Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry Robert Dennison (Mendon, Massachusetts); Benjamin Klenk (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique utilizing speculative execution and rollback for performing data parallel training of a neural network model is disclosed. Activations for a layer of the neural network model are normalized during a speculative normalization operation using estimated normalization parameters associated with a partial population of a set of training data allocated to a particular processor. Normalization parameters associated with the total population of the set of training data are generated by a distributed reduce operation in parallel with the speculative normalization operation. An optional rollback operation can revert the activations to a pre-normalization state if the estimated normalization parameters for the partial population are subsequently determined to be inaccurate compared to the normalization parameters for the population of the set of training data distributed across a plurality of processors. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 31, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/669979 |
| ART UNIT | 2661 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 7/483 (20130101) G06F 9/3885 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/6257 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/6265 (20130101) G06K 9/6298 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/08 (20130101) G06N 3/0481 (20130101) |
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| US 11170303 | Ocal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mustafa Ocal (Miami, Florida); Mark Finlayson (North Bay Village, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES (Miami, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mustafa Ocal (Miami, Florida); Mark Finlayson (North Bay Village, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for quantifying temporal indeterminacy of timelines are provided. Systems and methods can rely on solving temporal constraint problems to extract timelines and can calculate the temporal relation loss during timeline transformation and then identify the temporal indeterminate sections of extracted timelines from both timelines and temporal graphs to measure the total temporal information loss. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 28, 2021 |
| APPL NO | 17/160606 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 5/003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06N 20/00 (20190101) |
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| US 11170317 | Chow 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) | Jerry M. Chow (Yorktown Heights, New York); Jay M. Gambetta (Yorktown Heights, New York); Easwar Magesan (Yorktown Heights, New York); Sarah E. Sheldon (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In a system including a cross-resonance gate having a superconducting control qubit and having a superconducting target qubit coupled through a bus resonator, echo pulses are generated at a first frequency and directed to the control qubit, wherein the first frequency is on resonance with the control qubit. Cross-resonance pulses are generated at a second frequency on resonance with the target qubit and applied to the control qubit, wherein the generating and applying the cross-resonance pulses induce rotations on the target qubit through an interaction that is mediated by the bus resonator. Cancellation pulses are generated at the second frequency and applied to the target qubit. Sets of Hamiltonian tomographies may be measured to determine appropriate amplitudes and phases of the cross-resonance and cancellation pulses. |
| FILED | Friday, March 10, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/455470 |
| ART UNIT | 2125 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 10/00 (20190101) Original (OR) Class Pulse Technique H03K 19/1958 (20130101) |
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| US 11170542 | Pineros |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lickenbrock Technologies LLC (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | LICKENBROCK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Miguel Pineros (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for removing artifacts from an image reconstructed from scanner data according to embodiments includes: performing a forward projection p to update an estimated object image; determining a transfer function fθ that represents the effect of scatter and beam hardening; modifying the forward projection p using the transfer function fθ to provide a modified forward projection p′; and performing an iterative image reconstruction process using the modified forward projection p′ to generate a reconstructed image. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 09, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/596862 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 11/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 11/006 (20130101) |
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| US 11170549 | Gupta et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohit Gupta (Madison, Wisconsin); Sizhuo Ma (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with some embodiments, systems, methods and media for high dynamic range quanta burst imaging are provided. In some embodiments, the system comprises: an image sensor comprising single photon detectors in an array; a processor programmed to: generate a sequence of binary images representing a scene; divide the sequence of binary images into blocks; generate block-sum images from the blocks; determine alignments between the block-sum images and a reference block-sum image; warp the sequence of binary images based on the alignments; generate warped block-sum images using warped binary images; merge the warped block-sum images; display a final image of the scene based on the merged warped block-sum images. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 09, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 16/844899 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 3/0093 (20130101) G06T 5/009 (20130101) G06T 5/20 (20130101) G06T 7/30 (20170101) G06T 11/60 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2207/20208 (20130101) G06T 2207/20221 (20130101) |
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| US 11170660 | Beller 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) | Charles E. Beller (Baltimore, Maryland); William G. Dubyak (Severna Park, Maryland); Palani Sakthi (Palatine, Illinois); Kristen M. Summers (Takoma Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments can provide a computer implemented method for harvesting training data for a training set for use by a system capable of answering questions, the system comprising a processor and a memory comprising instructions executed by the processor, the method comprising receiving, from a user, an input question; processing the input question and returning, to the user, a result set comprising one or more ranked hypotheses and one or more ranked evidence passages corresponding to the one or more ranked hypotheses; receiving, from the user, an indication that one of the one or more ranked hypotheses is to be designated a watched hypothesis; adding the input question and the watched hypothesis to a to-be-vetted question/answer (QA) pair set comprising one or more to-be-vetted QA pairs; vetting each of the one or more to-be-vetted QA pairs in the to-be-vetted QA pair set through a first-pass automatic vetting procedure; if a vetted QA pair passes the first-pass automatic vetting procedure, adding the vetted QA pair to the training set; and retraining one or more ranking models based upon the training set. |
| FILED | Friday, September 29, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/721097 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 16/215 (20190101) G06F 16/288 (20190101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 20/00 (20190101) Educational or Demonstration Appliances; Appliances for Teaching, or Communicating With, the Blind, Deaf or Mute; Models; Planetaria; Globes; Maps; Diagrams G09B 7/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 11171055 | Mahadik et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Government of the United State of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nadeemullah A. Mahadik (Springfield, Virginia); Robert E. Stahlbush (Silver Spring, Maryland); Marko J. Tadjer (Springfield, Virginia); Karl D. Hobart (Alexandria, Virginia); Francis J. Kub (Arnold, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of cleaving includes providing a substrate. Optionally, the substrate includes β-gallium oxide, hexagonal zinc sulfide, or magnesium selenide. The substrate includes at least one natural cleave plane and a crystallinity. The substrate is cleaved along a first natural cleave plane of the at least one natural cleave plane. The cleaving the substrate along the first natural cleave plane includes the following. A micro-crack is generated in the substrate while maintaining the crystallinity adjacent to the micro-crack by generating a plurality of phonons in the substrate, the micro-crack comprising a micro-crack direction along the first natural cleave plane. The micro-crack is propagated along the first natural cleave plane while maintaining the crystallinity adjacent to the micro-crack. Optionally, generating a micro-crack in the substrate by generating a plurality of phonons in the substrate includes generating the plurality of phonons by electron-hole recombination. Optionally, the electron-hole recombination includes non-radiative electron-hole recombination. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 30, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 16/776851 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Working Stone or Stone-like Materials B28D 5/0005 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/78 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/268 (20130101) H01L 21/02035 (20130101) H01L 22/12 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NVIDIA Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NVIDIA Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Klenk (San Jose, California); Nan Jiang (Santa Clara, California); Larry Robert Dennison (Menden, Massachusetts); Gregory M. Thorson (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A network device configured to perform scalable, in-network computations is described. The network device is configured to process pull requests and/or push requests from a plurality of endpoints connected to the network. A collective communication primitive from a particular endpoint can be received at a network device. The collective communication primitive is associated with a multicast region of a shared global address space and is mapped to a plurality of participating endpoints. The network device is configured to perform an in-network computation based on information received from the participating endpoints before forwarding a response to the collective communication primitive back to one or more of the participating endpoints. The endpoints can inject pull requests (e.g., load commands) and/or push requests (e.g., store commands) into the network. A multicast capability enables tasks, such as a reduction operation, to be offloaded to hardware in the network device. |
| FILED | Friday, July 24, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 16/938097 |
| ART UNIT | 2448 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/5083 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 12/18 (20130101) H04L 12/1886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 45/74 (20130101) H04L 47/20 (20130101) H04L 47/39 (20130101) H04L 47/806 (20130101) H04L 67/26 (20130101) H04L 67/2842 (20130101) |
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| US 11172225 | Lin 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) | Chung-Ching Lin (White Plains, New York); Sharathchandra U. Pankanti (Darien, Connecticut); John R. Smith (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented method for finding objects in a collection of images or video, the method comprising: assessing a similarity between two subgraphs; detecting the objects in the collection; assessing a relationship between the objects; finding attributes of the objects; constructing a collection graph for the collection where each of the objects is the vertices and nodes of the collection graph and their relationships with other objects and attributes are edges of the collection graphs; recursively identifying coherent subgraphs and turning the coherent subgraphs into new meta-nodes of the collection graph; identification of the stable graph reducing the collection graph into zero or more distinct stories; assigning a similarity score for each pair of the stories based on a similarity between the corresponding stories; linking the stories into inlier stories based on the similarity score being greater than a first pre-determined threshold level. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 26, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/285400 |
| ART UNIT | 2486 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/6211 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 9/004 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/265 (20130101) H04N 5/23238 (20130101) H04N 19/60 (20141101) Original (OR) Class H04N 19/85 (20141101) |
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| US 11172584 | Cole et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cree Fayetteville, Inc. (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree Fayetteville, Inc. (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zachary Cole (Summers, Arkansas); Brandon Passmore (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A power module includes a number of sub-modules connected via removable jumpers. The removable jumpers allow the connections between one or more power semiconductor die in the sub-modules to be reconfigured, such that when the removable jumpers are provided, the power module has a first function, and when the removable jumpers are removed, the power module has a second function. The removable jumpers may also allow for independent testing of the sub-modules. The power module may also include a multi-layer printed circuit board (PCB), which is used to connect one or more contacts of the power semiconductor die. The multi-layer PCB reduces stray inductance between the contacts and therefore improves the performance of the power module. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 23, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 16/936552 |
| ART UNIT | 2847 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/4093 (20130101) H01L 23/5382 (20130101) H01L 25/072 (20130101) H01L 25/115 (20130101) H01L 25/162 (20130101) H01L 29/78 (20130101) H01L 29/1608 (20130101) H01L 2224/49111 (20130101) 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 1/088 (20130101) H02M 7/003 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 1/0298 (20130101) H05K 5/0065 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05K 5/0069 (20130101) H05K 2201/10166 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ION ENGINEERING, LLC (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ION Clean Energy, Inc. (Broomfield, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Panaccione (Boulder, Colorado); Erik Everhardus Bernardus Meuleman (Boulder, Colorado); Gregory Allan Staab (Arvada, Colorado); Nathan R. Brown (Oslo, Norway) |
| ABSTRACT | A carbon dioxide capture system, fluid contactor and method are disclosed. In embodiments, a gas-liquid contactor unit is disposed along a process fluid flow axis and includes a contactor network of flow diversion barriers with flow voids for movement of process fluids therebetween. A plurality of heat exchange channels are provided in the flow diversion barriers to transport a heat exchange fluid through the contactor network. A heat exchange feed channel is provided to deliver feed of the heat exchange fluid to the heat exchange channels at multiple feed locations spaced along the flow axis. At least one heat exchange bypass channel may extend beyond the multiple feed locations to deliver a portion of the feed of the heat exchange fluid to additional heat exchange channels located downstream from the multiple feed locations for the heat exchange channels. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 18, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/478356 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 47/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 53/18 (20130101) B01D 53/62 (20130101) B01D 53/78 (20130101) B01D 53/1475 (20130101) B01D 2252/204 (20130101) B01D 2257/504 (20130101) |
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| US 11167250 | Hibbs et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Hibbs (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Laura Biedermann (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Kevin R. Zavadil (Bernalillo, New Mexico); David R. Wheeler (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A membrane assembly is provided. The membrane assembly includes a non-metallic, porous substrate. A graphene oxide membrane is formed over the non-metallic, porous substrate. A chemical linker interface covalently binds the graphene oxide membrane to the non-metallic, porous substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 19, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/576426 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 67/0076 (20130101) B01D 67/0088 (20130101) B01D 67/0093 (20130101) B01D 69/10 (20130101) B01D 69/12 (20130101) B01D 71/021 (20130101) B01D 71/024 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 32/198 (20170801) |
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| US 11167281 | Vardon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado); Colorado School of Mines (Golden, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado); Colorado School of Mines (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Derek Richard Vardon (Lakewood, Colorado); Steven T. Christensen (Wheat Ridge, Colorado); Katherine E. Hurst (Golden, Colorado); Amy Elizabeth Maurer (Littleton, Colorado); Michael Brandon Griffin (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to a composition that includes a core in the shape of a particle having a characteristic length between about one micron and about one millimeter, an active material that includes a noble metal deposited on a surface of the core, and a coating that includes a first metal-oxide, where the active material is positioned between the core and the coating, the active material has a diameter between about one nanometer and about 20 nanometers, and the coating has a thickness between greater than zero nanometers and about 20 nanometers. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 08, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/535674 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 21/02 (20130101) B01J 21/063 (20130101) B01J 23/42 (20130101) B01J 23/44 (20130101) B01J 35/023 (20130101) B01J 37/0215 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 11167288 | Gach et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip Gach (Kensington, California); Manasi Raje (Emeryville, California); Anup Singh (Danville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to digital microfluidic systems. Particularly, aspects are directed to a digital microfluidic system that includes a droplet chip having a substrate, a plurality of electrodes and corresponding plurality of conducting vias or embedded conductive posts formed in the substrate, and a dielectric layer formed over the plurality of electrodes; and a control chip having a substrate, a plurality of transistors and corresponding wiring layers formed in the substrate, and a plurality of contacts formed over the plurality of transistors. Each of the plurality of contacts is electrically connected to a corresponding transistor of the plurality of transistors, and one or more of the plurality of contacts is removably connected to one or more of the plurality of conducting vias or embedded conductive posts such that one or more of the plurality of transistors are electrically connected to one or more of the plurality of electrodes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/177133 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/50273 (20130101) B01L 3/502707 (20130101) B01L 3/502715 (20130101) B01L 3/502784 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 3/502792 (20130101) B01L 2200/0673 (20130101) B01L 2300/165 (20130101) B01L 2300/0645 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0887 (20130101) B01L 2400/0427 (20130101) Microstructural Devices or Systems, e.g Micromechanical Devices B81B 2201/05 (20130101) B81B 2203/04 (20130101) |
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| US 11167363 | Nicholas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY (East Lansing, Michigan); DELPHI TECHNOLOGIES, LLC (Troy, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY (East Lansing, Michigan); DELPHI TECHNOLOGIES, LLC (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason Dale Nicholas (Okemos, Michigan); Quan Zhou (Farmington Hills, Michigan); Thomas Rector Bieler (East Lansing, Michigan); Rick Daniel Kerr (Fenton, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure relates to a brazing method for joining substrates, in particular where one of the substrates is difficult to wet with molten braze material. The method includes formation of a porous metal layer on a first substrate to assist wetting of the first substrate with a molten braze metal, which in turn permits joining of the first substrate with a second substrate via a braze metal later in an assembled brazed joint. Ceramic substrates can be particularly difficult to wet with molten braze metals, and the disclosed method can be used to join a ceramic substrate to another substrate. The brazed joint can be incorporated into a solid-oxide fuel cell, for example as a stack component thereof, in particular when the first substrate is a ceramic substrate and the joined substrate is a metallic substrate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 09, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 15/975318 |
| 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 1/008 (20130101) B23K 1/0016 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B23K 1/19 (20130101) B23K 1/20 (20130101) B23K 2101/36 (20180801) B23K 2101/42 (20180801) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/0232 (20130101) H01M 8/0236 (20130101) H01M 8/0245 (20130101) H01M 8/0282 (20130101) H01M 8/1246 (20130101) H01M 2008/1293 (20130101) |
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| US 11167759 | Zhao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Junfeng Zhao (Troy, Michigan); Yiran Hu (Shelby Township, Michigan); Dongxu Li (Troy, Michigan); Steven E. Muldoon (Royal Oak, Michigan); Chen-Fang Chang (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Operating a subject vehicle equipped with an adaptive cruise control system includes setting initial states for control parameters, including setting a desired vehicle speed and determining a desired following gap range, wherein the desired following gap range is associated with a lead vehicle. Operation is controlled via the adaptive cruise control system based upon the initial states for the control parameters. Operation also includes monitoring for presence of the lead vehicle. Upon detecting presence of the lead vehicle, an actual following gap is determined between the subject vehicle and the lead vehicle, and the initial states of the control parameters associated with the adaptive cruise control system are adjusted based upon the actual following gap between the subject vehicle and the lead vehicle, and the desired following gap range. Operation is controlled via the adaptive cruise control system based upon the adjusted initial states of the control parameters. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 10, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/380275 |
| ART UNIT | 3667 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Conjoint Control of Vehicle Sub-units of Different Type or Different Function; Control Systems Specially Adapted for Hybrid Vehicles; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems for Purposes Not Related to the Control of a Particular Sub-unit B60W 10/04 (20130101) B60W 10/18 (20130101) B60W 30/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B60W 2552/15 (20200201) B60W 2554/801 (20200201) B60W 2554/804 (20200201) B60W 2556/50 (20200201) B60W 2556/65 (20200201) B60W 2720/10 (20130101) B60W 2754/30 (20200201) |
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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) | Hunter McDaniel (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Victor I. Klimov (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are embodiments of a composition comprising a polymer or sol-gel and one or more nanocrystals. The composition is useful as a luminescent solar concentrator. The nanocrystals are dispersed in the polymer or sol-gel matrix so as to reduce or substantially prevent nanocrystal-to-nanocrystal energy transfer and a subsequent reduction in the emission efficiency of the composition. In some embodiments, the polymer matrix comprises an acrylate polymer. Also disclosed herein is a method for making the composition. Devices comprising the composition are disclosed. In some cases the polymer is the waveguide, in others the polymer is applied as a coating on a waveguide. In some examples, the device is a window. |
| FILED | Friday, July 27, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/047652 |
| ART UNIT | 1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Chemical Composition of Glasses, Glazes or Vitreous Enamels; Surface Treatment of Glass; Surface Treatment of Fibres or Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals or Slags; Joining Glass to Glass or Other Materials C03C 17/009 (20130101) C03C 2217/48 (20130101) C03C 2217/445 (20130101) C03C 2217/475 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 3/013 (20180101) C08K 3/013 (20180101) C08K 9/10 (20130101) C08K 2201/001 (20130101) C08K 2201/011 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 33/10 (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 7/62 (20180101) Original (OR) Class Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/025 (20130101) C09K 11/621 (20130101) C09K 11/881 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/055 (20130101) H01L 31/0468 (20141201) H01L 31/0547 (20141201) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/52 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/774 (20130101) Y10S 977/783 (20130101) Y10S 977/948 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. Bays (West Richland, Washington); Katarzyna Grubel (Richland, Washington); David J. Heldebrant (Richland, Washington); John C. Linehan (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for separation of oxygenates or other chemical components from fuels using chemical processes and separations including, but not limited to, onboard applications in vehicles. These separations may take place using a variety of materials and substances whereby a target material of interest is captured, held, and then released at a desired location and under desired conditions. In one set of experiments we demonstrated an enhancement in the separation of diaromatics by >38 times over gasoline and aromatics by >3.5 times over gasoline. This would give an advantage to reducing cold-start emissions, or emissions during transient conditions, in either gasoline or diesel. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 17, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/655743 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 11/0492 (20130101) B01D 15/203 (20130101) Cracking Hydrocarbon Oils; Production of Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g by Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation; Recovery of Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, or Gases; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting of Hydrocarbons; Reforming of Naphtha; Mineral Waxes C10G 17/02 (20130101) C10G 17/10 (20130101) C10G 25/12 (20130101) C10G 29/00 (20130101) C10G 2300/104 (20130101) C10G 2300/201 (20130101) C10G 2300/202 (20130101) C10G 2300/1044 (20130101) C10G 2300/1055 (20130101) C10G 2400/02 (20130101) C10G 2400/04 (20130101) Fuels Not Otherwise Provided for; Natural Gas; Synthetic Natural Gas Obtained by Processes Not Covered by Subclasses C10G, C10K; Liquefied Petroleum Gas; Adding Materials to Fuels or Fires to Reduce Smoke or Undesirable Deposits or to Facilitate Soot Removal; Firelighters C10L 1/06 (20130101) C10L 1/08 (20130101) C10L 10/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10L 2200/0254 (20130101) C10L 2200/0415 (20130101) C10L 2200/0423 (20130101) C10L 2200/0446 (20130101) C10L 2270/023 (20130101) C10L 2270/026 (20130101) C10L 2290/541 (20130101) C10L 2290/542 (20130101) C10L 2290/544 (20130101) Supplying Combustion Engines in General With Combustible Mixtures or Constituents Thereof F02M 25/14 (20130101) F02M 37/22 (20130101) F02M 37/0088 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Curtis J. Larimer (Richland, Washington); Raymond S. Addleman (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and processes are disclosed for forming hydrophobic coatings and lubricant-infused surface coatings. Coatings may be applied to various substrates without prior chemical or temperature treatment of the substrates and over large and irregular surfaces. Coatings are self-healing, antifouling, and have enhanced lifetimes. |
| FILED | Friday, December 01, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/829636 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 1/02 (20130101) A01K 1/015 (20130101) Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 1/02 (20130101) B05D 1/28 (20130101) B05D 3/0254 (20130101) B05D 5/08 (20130101) B05D 2350/63 (20130101) B05D 2350/65 (20130101) B05D 2518/12 (20130101) B05D 2601/22 (20130101) Cleaning in General; Prevention of Fouling in General B08B 17/065 (20130101) Ships or Other Waterborne Vessels; Equipment for Shipping B63B 59/04 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 3/08 (20130101) C08K 3/36 (20130101) C08K 7/26 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 5/00 (20130101) C09D 5/1681 (20130101) C09D 7/40 (20180101) C09D 183/04 (20130101) Lubricating Compositions; Use of Chemical Substances Either Alone or as Lubricating Ingredients in a Lubricating Composition C10M 105/76 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10M 107/38 (20130101) C10M 107/50 (20130101) C10M 2201/105 (20130101) C10M 2207/021 (20130101) C10M 2213/003 (20130101) C10M 2227/003 (20130101) C10M 2229/041 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass C10M Relating to Lubricating Compositions C10N 2030/12 (20130101) C10N 2030/16 (20130101) C10N 2030/26 (20200501) C10N 2040/50 (20200501) C10N 2050/14 (20200501) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (St. Louis, Missouri); The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (St. Louis, Missouri); The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xuemin Wang (St. Louis, Missouri); Maoyin Li (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are plants that express, or overexpress, a pPLAIIIδ protein. Constitutive or seed-specific expression of pPLAIIIδ protein in Arabidopsis increases seed oil content, the amount of C20 and C22 fatty acids, and the amount of C56, C58, and C60 triacylglycerols, effectively resulting in significantly higher oil yield per plant. Use of pPLAIIIδ is therefore an effective biotechnological tool to significantly increase plant yield, including oil, and the amount of high value long chain fatty acids in agricultural and horticultural crops, especially oilseed crops. |
| FILED | Friday, March 22, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/362346 |
| ART UNIT | 1662 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 69/604 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/20 (20130101) C12N 15/8247 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/6463 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 301/01 (20130101) |
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| US 11168403 | Cui et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi Cui (Stanford, California); Zhiyi Lu (Sunnyvale, California); Guangxu Chen (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved electrochemical production of hydrogen peroxide is provided with a surface-oxidized carbon catalyst. The carbon can be, for example, carbon black or carbon nanotubes. The oxidation of the carbon can be performed, for example, by heating the carbon in nitric acid, or by heating the carbon in a base. The resulting carbon catalyst can have a distinctive oxygen is peak in its X-ray photoelectron spectrum. |
| FILED | Friday, December 14, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/221122 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 21/185 (20130101) B01J 35/0033 (20130101) B01J 37/12 (20130101) Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Processes for the Production of Compounds or Non-metals; Apparatus Therefor C25B 1/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C25B 9/65 (20210101) C25B 11/075 (20210101) |
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| US 11168915 | Zeifman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Fraunhofer USA, Inc. (Plymouth, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | FRAUNHOFER USA, INC. (Plymouth, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Zeifman (Sharon, Massachusetts); Amine Lazrak (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for characterization of retrofit opportunities are described. The methods may comprise computing, using at least one computing device disposed remote from a building and based at least in part on heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) runtime data associated with the building, one or more thermal characteristics of the building. In some embodiments, a model-predicted indoor temperature may be fitted against thermal data measured by a thermostat at the building. The thermal characteristic of the building may comprise a thermal insulation, an air leakage rate and/or an HVAC efficiency. The method may be used to determine, using the at least one computing device, suitability of the building for a retrofit opportunity to improve energy efficiency of the building. Determining the suitability may comprise evaluating the one or more thermal characteristics. The HVAC runtime data may be computed based on data received from a thermostat or a meter, such as an electric or a gas meter. |
| FILED | Friday, August 18, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/681299 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Air-conditioning; Air-humidification; Ventilation; Use of Air Currents for Screening F24F 11/63 (20180101) Original (OR) Class F24F 2110/10 (20180101) F24F 2140/60 (20180101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 21/006 (20130101) Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 19/042 (20130101) G05B 2219/2614 (20130101) Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 23/1917 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 30/13 (20200101) G06F 2119/06 (20200101) 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 10/063 (20130101) G06Q 50/06 (20130101) |
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| US 11169152 | Wright et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aaron T. Wright (Richland, Washington); Susan Ramos-Hunter (Richland, Washington); Natalie C. Sadler (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Probe embodiments for identifying analytes involved in biofuel or bioenergy production, bioremediation, or nutrient cycling as well as methods of making and use are described herein. In some embodiments, probes identifying cellulose degradation and/or sugar transport, lignin or chitin degradation, or peptide or toxin metabolism are included. In some embodiments, probes for identifying analytes in a soil sample are included in the compositions and methods disclosed herein. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/132266 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 15/203 (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 1/54 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/573 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/56911 (20130101) G01N 2333/908 (20130101) G01N 2333/924 (20130101) G01N 2400/00 (20130101) |
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| US 11169188 | Bernstein 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) | Andrey Bernstein (Golden, Colorado); Yingchen Zhang (Golden, Colorado); Andreas Joachim Schmitt (Vancouver, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An example device includes at least one processor configured to receive electrical parameter values corresponding to at least one first location within a power network. The at least one processor is further configured to determine, using matrix completion and based on the at least one electrical parameter value, an estimated value of at least one unknown electrical parameter. The at least one unknown electrical parameter corresponds to a second location within the power network. The at least one processor is also configured to cause at least one device within the power network to modify operation based on the estimated value of the at least one unknown electrical parameter. |
| FILED | Monday, January 14, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/246998 |
| ART UNIT | 2116 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 21/1331 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/3834 (20130101) G02B 6/3861 (20130101) G02B 6/3862 (20130101) G02B 6/3885 (20130101) Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 15/02 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 3/00 (20130101) H02J 13/0006 (20130101) H02J 2203/20 (20200101) Transmission H04B 3/542 (20130101) |
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| US 11169214 | Crawford et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alasdair James Crawford (Richland, Washington); Vilayanur Venkataraman Viswanathan (Richland, Washington); Patrick Joseph Balducci (West Linn, Oregon); Trevor D. Hardy (Richland, Washington); Di Wu (Richland, Washington); Michael C. W. Kintner-Meyer (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods, and computer media for battery system management and non-linear estimation of battery state of charge are provided herein. Battery data is received for a time period over which a battery system has operated. The battery data represents the actual performance of the battery system over the time period. Sub-periods of charging or discharging can be identified in the time period. For the sub-periods of time, a curve can be fit to the battery data. Using the curves for the battery data for the sub-periods of time, an expected performance of the battery system, over a range of states-of-charge, can be determined. Operating instructions for the battery system can be provided based on the expected performance. |
| FILED | Friday, December 13, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/714500 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 31/36 (20130101) G01R 31/367 (20190101) Original (OR) Class G01R 31/367 (20190101) G01R 31/382 (20190101) G01R 31/382 (20190101) G01R 31/3647 (20190101) Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 19/05 (20130101) G05B 23/0294 (20130101) G05B 2219/1137 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 10/4257 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 7/0029 (20130101) H02J 7/00036 (20200101) H02J 7/0048 (20200101) |
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| US 11169288 | Johnson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Triad National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Triad National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Allan Johnson (Nambe, New Mexico); Claudia L. Hulbert (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Bertrand Rouet-Leduc (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Machine-learning methods and apparatus are disclosed to determine frictional state or other parameters in an earthquake zone or other failing medium, using acoustic emission, seismic waves, or other detectable indicators of microscopic processes. Predictions of future failures are demonstrated in different regimes. A classifier is trained using time series of acoustic emission data along with historic data of frictional state or failure events. In disclosed examples, random forests and gradient boost trees are used, and grid-search or EGO procedures are used for hyperparameter tuning. Once trained, the classifier can be applied to testing or live data in order to assess a frictional state, assess seismic hazard, or make predictions regarding a future failure event. The technology has been developed in a double direct shear apparatus, but can be widely applied to seismic faults, other terrestrial failures, or failures in man-made structures. Variations are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 06, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/212448 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Geophysics; Gravitational Measurements; Detecting Masses or Objects; Tags G01V 1/008 (20130101) G01V 1/288 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01V 1/306 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 5/04 (20130101) G06N 20/10 (20190101) |
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| US 11169341 | Patra 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) | Susant Patra (Brentwood, California); Razi-Ul Muhammad Haque (San Francisco, California); Komal Kampasi (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to an electro-optical modulator system having a source laser which generates an input optical signal. The input optical signal is received by an electro-optical module. The electro-optical module is implantable into an anatomy and includes a plurality of pixels. Each pixel has associated therewith an electrode and an optical modulator subsystem. The electrode receives electrical signals from the anatomy. The optical modulator subsystem receives the input optical signal and modulates the input optical signal to generate modulated optical output signals in relation to the received electrical signals. A detector subsystem may be used to receive and collect the modulated optical output signals. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 03, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/591792 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/12 (20130101) G02B 6/43 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/4292 (20130101) G02B 2006/1215 (20130101) Transmission H04B 10/40 (20130101) |
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| US 11170219 | Griffel 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) | Lloyd M. Griffel (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Damon S. Hartley (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Matthew R. Kunz (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed here are systems, methods, apparatus, and/or non-transitory computer-readable storage comprising machine-readable code for the development and application of high-resolution crop yield models. The disclosed yield models may be captured yield data and corresponding remote sensing data covering relatively limited areas. Embodiments of the disclosed yield models may be capable of estimating spatial yield characteristics in areas for which accurate yield data are not available (and/or not practical to acquire), thereby enabling more widespread application of integrated land management techniques. |
| FILED | Friday, August 23, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/550081 |
| ART UNIT | 2662 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Soil Working in Agriculture or Forestry; Parts, Details, or Accessories of Agricultural Machines or Implements, in General A01B 79/005 (20130101) Planting; Sowing; Fertilising A01C 21/007 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00657 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/6256 (20130101) G06K 2009/00644 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 20/00 (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 50/02 (20130101) |
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| US 11170750 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Evelyn N. Wang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Gang Chen (Carlisle, Massachusetts); Xuanhe Zhao (Allston, Massachusetts); Elise M. Strobach (Clear Lake, Wisconsin); Bikramjit S. Bhatia (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Lin Zhao (Revere, Massachusetts); Sungwoo Yang (Chattanooga, Tennessee); Lee A. Weinstein (Somerville, Massachusetts); Thomas A. Cooper (Boston, Massachusetts); Shaoting Lin (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are window retrofits including a monolithic silica aerogel slab having (i) an average haze value of <5% as calculated in accordance with ASTM standard D1003-13 and (ii) a U-factor of <0.5 BTU/sf/hr/° F., and a transparent polymer envelope sealed at an internal pressure of ≤1 atmosphere, wherein the monolithic silica aerogel slab is encapsulated in the transparent polymer envelope. The monolithic aerogel slab can have a transmittance >94% at 8 mm thickness. The window retrofit can be bonded to a glass sheet. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 25, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/394447 |
| ART UNIT | 1785 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 7/12 (20130101) B32B 7/027 (20190101) B32B 9/045 (20130101) B32B 2255/10 (20130101) B32B 2255/20 (20130101) B32B 2305/026 (20130101) B32B 2307/54 (20130101) B32B 2307/72 (20130101) B32B 2307/102 (20130101) B32B 2307/304 (20130101) B32B 2307/412 (20130101) B32B 2307/546 (20130101) Fixed or Movable Closures for Openings in Buildings, Vehicles, Fences or Like Enclosures in General, e.g Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates E06B 9/24 (20130101) E06B 2009/2417 (20130101) Sound-producing Devices; Methods or Devices for Protecting Against, or for Damping, Noise or Other Acoustic Waves in General; Acoustics Not Otherwise Provided for G10K 11/168 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 11170919 | Cui et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jun Cui (Ames, Iowa); Gaoyuang Ouyang (Ames, Iowa); Brandt Jensen (Ames, Iowa); Kevin W. Dennis (Ames, Iowa); Baozhi Cui (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention involves producing discontinuous, flake-shaped particles of a soft magnetic material, coating the flake-shaped particles with an electrically insulating coating, and consolidating the coated flaked-shaped particles to form a soft magnetic bulk shape. The consolidated bulk shape can comprise a layer or a simple or complex 3D magnet part shape, which has a consolidated layered microstructure that includes laminated soft magnetic regions that are substantially encapsulated by an electrical insulating layer to increase the resistivity of soft magnetic material, especially when used in silicon iron magnet parts. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 27, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/501332 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 1/02 (20130101) B22F 1/0055 (20130101) B22F 3/14 (20130101) B22F 2301/35 (20130101) B22F 2302/25 (20130101) B22F 2302/45 (20130101) B22F 2304/15 (20130101) Alloys C22C 38/02 (20130101) C22C 2202/02 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 1/1475 (20130101) H01F 1/14783 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 11170984 | Schwede et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Spark Thermionics, Inc. (Berkeley, California); The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Spark Thermionics, Inc. (Emeryville, California); The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jared William Schwede (Berkeley, California); Igor Bargatin (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Samuel M. Nicaise (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Chen Lin (Santa Clara, California); John Provine (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A small-gap device system, preferably including two or more electrodes and one or more spacers maintaining a gap between two or more of the electrodes. A spacer for a small-gap device system, preferably including a plurality of legs defining a mesh structure. A method of spacer and/or small-gap device fabrication, preferably including: defining lateral features, depositing spacer material, selectively removing spacer material, separating the spacer from a fabrication substrate, and/or assembling the small-gap device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 24, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/044215 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 45/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 11170986 | Ahern et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C Ahern (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Paul R Ohodnicki, Jr. (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); John P Baltrus (Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania); Jacob Lorenzi Poole (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure relates to an apparatus, method and process for detecting rare earth elements. The system includes an LED powered by a first power source and a focusing lens in optical communication with the LED. A shortpass filter is in optical communication with the focusing lens; and a fiber bifurcated cable in optical communication with the shortpass filter. The system includes a probe tip in optical communication with the fiber bifurcated cable and a sample; a first aspheric lens in optical communication with the fiber bifurcated cable. A longpass filter is in optical communication with the first aspheric lens and a second aspheric lens in optical communication with the longpass filter. The system includes a spectrometer connected to a power source, where the spectrometer is in optical communication with the second aspheric lens. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 17, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/785634 |
| ART UNIT | 3667 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| 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 3/12 (20130101) G01J 3/0218 (20130101) G01J 3/0237 (20130101) G01J 3/4406 (20130101) G01J 2003/1213 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6428 (20130101) G01N 2021/6484 (20130101) G01N 2021/8528 (20130101) G01N 2201/062 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/0459 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 11171297 | Ke et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Weijun Ke (Evanston, Illinois); Konstantinos Stoumpos (Chicago, Illinois); Ioannis Spanopoulos (Evanston, Illinois); Mercouri G. Kanatzidis (Wilmette, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Photoactive materials comprising organic-inorganic hybrid halide perovskite compounds are provided. Photovoltaic cells and light-emitting devices incorporating the photoactive materials into their light-absorbing and light-emitting layers, respectively, are also provided. The halide perovskites have an amAMX3 perovskite crystal structure, wherein am is an alkyl diamine cation, an aromatic diamine cation, an aromatic azole cation, a cyclic alkyl diamine cation or a hydrazinediium cation; A is a monovalent alkylammonium cation or an alkali metal cation; X is a halide ion or a combination of halide ions; and M is an octahedrally coordinated bivalent metal atom. |
| FILED | Monday, June 25, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/623873 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 7/24 (20130101) C07F 7/2284 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/44 (20130101) H01L 51/4213 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 2251/306 (20130101) |
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| US 11171364 | Visco et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | PolyPlus Battery Company (Berkeley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PolyPlus Battery Company (Berkeley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven J. Visco (Berkeley, California); Vitaliy Nimon (San Francisco, California); Ian Wogan (Oakland, California); Yevgeniy S. Nimon (Danville, California); Lutgard C. De Jonghe (Lafayette, California); Bruce D. Katz (Moraga, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Solid-state laminate electrode assemblies and various methods for making the solid-state laminate electrode assemblies involve a lithium metal layer reactively bonded to a lithium ion conducting sulfide glass layer. During manufacture, highly reactive surfaces of the lithium metal layer and the lithium ion conducting sulfide glass layer are maintained in its substantially unpassivated state until they have been reactively bonded. |
| FILED | Friday, May 29, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 15/929959 |
| 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 4/382 (20130101) H01M 4/0407 (20130101) H01M 4/1395 (20130101) H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) H01M 10/0562 (20130101) H01M 10/0585 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 2300/0068 (20130101) |
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| US 11171511 | Afridi 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) | Khurram K. Afridi (Boulder, Colorado); Brandon Regensburger (Lafayette, Colorado); Sreyam Sinha (Boulder, Colorado); Ashish Kumar (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Capacitive wireless power transfer systems are provided. In one embodiment, for example, the system comprises two pair of coupled conducting plates; a first matching network coupled to the first pair of conducting plates; and a second matching network coupled to the second pair of conducting plates. At least one of the first and second matching networks comprises an inductor having inductance value selected based on at least one parasitic capacitance value of the capacitive wireless power transfer system. In another embodiment, a method of designing a capacitive wireless power transfer system is provided comprising determining a parasitic capacitance value of a capacitive wireless power transfer system and determining an inductance value of an inductor of at least one of the first and second matching network having a value selected based on at least one parasitic capacitance value of the capacitive wireless power transfer system. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 03, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/239420 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Propulsion of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Supplying Electric Power for Auxiliary Equipment of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Electrodynamic Brake Systems for Vehicles in General; Magnetic Suspension or Levitation for Vehicles; Monitoring Operating Variables of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Electric Safety Devices for Electrically-propelled Vehicles B60L 53/10 (20190201) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 50/05 (20160201) Original (OR) Class H02J 50/40 (20160201) H02J 50/70 (20160201) Transmission H04B 5/0012 (20130101) H04B 5/0037 (20130101) |
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| US 11171604 | Branch et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darren W. Branch (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Kurt Wessendorf (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Bryan Carson (Tijeras, New Mexico); DeAnna Marie Campbell (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to an active shunt capacitance cancelling oscillator circuit. Such systems can be used in resonator-based methods, while avoiding impedance distortion and phase shift anomalies. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 03, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 17/088228 |
| ART UNIT | 2849 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | 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 5/326 (20130101) H03B 5/364 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03B 5/366 (20130101) H03B 2200/0022 (20130101) H03B 2200/0038 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Auburn University (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Auburn University (Auburn, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elizabeth A. Lipke (Auburn, Alabama); Wen Jun Seeto (Auburn, Alabama); Yuan Tian (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The devices, methods, and compositions disclosed herein accomplish robust cell encapsulation in polymer microparticles using a vertically oriented microfluidic device. A hydrophilic polymer precursor solution is flowed into a first inlet channel, which extends inward from an upper surface of the device housing. A hydrophobic fluid is flowed into a second inlet channel, which extends inward from a lower surface of the device housing. The two inlet channels meet at a junction, and an outlet channel extends away from the two inlet channels. When the two inwardly flowing streams meet at the junction, the polymer precursor solution disperses into the hydrophobic fluid. The dispersed precursor droplets are photopolymerized into microparticles as they travel through the outlet channel. The resulting microparticles are highly uniform, and are larger than conventionally formed microparticles. Cells of varying types can be encapsulated with high viability and spatial uniformity. |
| FILED | Friday, October 05, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/153095 |
| ART UNIT | 1799 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/06 (20130101) A61K 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 9/5052 (20130101) A61K 9/5089 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 35/34 (20130101) A61K 35/44 (20130101) A61K 35/545 (20130101) Specific Therapeutic Activity of Chemical Compounds or Medicinal Preparations A61P 9/00 (20180101) Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 3/065 (20130101) C12M 23/34 (20130101) C12M 25/10 (20130101) C12M 25/16 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0012 (20130101) C12N 5/069 (20130101) C12N 5/0696 (20130101) |
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| US 11167047 | Steinmetz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicole F. Steinmetz (San Diego, California); Michael Bruckman (Cleveland, Ohio); Lauren Randolph (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An imaging nanoparticle comprising a plant virus particle having an interior surface and an exterior surface, an imaging agent that is linked to the interior and/or exterior surface, and a layer of biocompatible mineral such as silica coated over the exterior surface, is described. The imaging nanoparticle can be used in method of generating an image of a tissue region of a subject, by administering to the subject a diagnostically effective amount of an imaging nanoparticle and generating an image of the tissue region of the subject to which the imaging nanoparticle has been distributed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 19, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/279482 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/085 (20130101) A61K 49/108 (20130101) A61K 49/1896 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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11167132 — System for stimulating bone growth, tissue healing and/or pain control, and method of use
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| APPLICANT(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Claude Leuthardt (St. Louis, Missouri); Daniel W. Moran (St. Louis, Missouri); Matthew R. MacEwan (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A system to deliver current to an area of interest of a subject is described that includes a power source, a controller electrically coupled to the power source, at least one first electrode electrically coupled to the controller, and at least one second electrode electrically coupled to one of the power source and the controller, with the area of interest positioned between the at least one first electrode and the at least one second electrode. A method of stimulating at least one of bone growth, tissue healing and pain control within an area of interest of a patient is described that includes inserting first and second electrode spaced at a predetermined distance, and further includes directing an electric current between the first and second electrodes so that at least a portion of the electric current passes through the area of interest positioned between the first electrode and the second electrode. |
| FILED | Monday, May 13, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/410684 |
| ART UNIT | 3792 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 17/56 (20130101) A61B 17/7061 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/05 (20130101) A61N 1/205 (20130101) A61N 1/326 (20130101) A61N 1/0551 (20130101) A61N 1/0558 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/36071 (20130101) A61N 1/36103 (20130101) |
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| US 11167350 | Santana et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua S. Santana (Bloomington, Indiana); Sara E. Skrabalak (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Different Au—Pd nanoparticles, ranging from sharp-branched octopods to core@shell octahedra, can be achieved by inline manipulation of reagent flowrates in a microreactor for seeded growth. Significantly, these structures represent different kinetic products, demonstrating an inline control strategy toward kinetic nanoparticle products that should be generally applicable. |
| FILED | Monday, April 22, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/390439 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/0093 (20130101) B01J 2219/0086 (20130101) B01J 2219/00813 (20130101) B01J 2219/00826 (20130101) B01J 2219/00833 (20130101) B01J 2219/00862 (20130101) B01J 2219/00873 (20130101) B01J 2219/00894 (20130101) Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 9/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B22F 2301/255 (20130101) B22F 2304/05 (20130101) |
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| US 11167999 | Kotov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas A. Kotov (Ypsilanti, Michigan); Bongjun Yeom (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides a biomimetic composite that includes a plurality of nanostructures each having at least one axial geometry region comprising an inorganic material. The nanostructures may be a plurality of substantially aligned (e.g., in a vertical orientation) axial geometry nanowires comprising zinc oxide or alternatively hedgehog-shaped nanoparticles with needles comprising zinc oxide. A polymeric matrix disposed in void regions defined between respective nanostructures of the plurality of nanostructures. The biomimetic composite exhibits a viscoelastic figure of merit (VFOM) of greater than or equal to about 0.001 up to about 0.6 or greater. Methods of making such biomimetic composites are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, February 22, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/283231 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 9/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2004/16 (20130101) C01P 2006/40 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 33/08 (20130101) C08L 61/06 (20130101) C08L 63/00 (20130101) C08L 75/04 (20130101) C08L 101/12 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/20 (20130101) |
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| US 11168001 | Kaner 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) | Richard Barry Kaner (Pacific Palisades, California); Georgiy Akopov (Ames, Iowa); Michael Tyrone Yeung (Los Angeles, California); Christopher Lawrence Turner (Lancaster, California); Zachary C. Sobell (Menlo Park, California); Cheng-Wei Lin (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein, in certain embodiments, are compounds, methods, tools, and abrasive materials comprising mixed transition metal dodecaborides. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 05, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/122522 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 35/04 (20130101) Compounds of the Metals Beryllium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium, Thorium, or of the Rare-earth Metals C01F 17/30 (20200101) Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 25/006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/30 (20130101) C01P 2002/52 (20130101) C01P 2002/72 (20130101) C01P 2002/88 (20130101) C01P 2004/03 (20130101) C01P 2006/10 (20130101) |
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| US 11168329 | Ducat et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Christopher Ducat (Lansing, Michigan); Katherine Osteryoung (Williamston, Michigan); Joshua Scott MacCready (Lansing, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are mutant cyanobacterial cell populations that have a smaller mean cell length than wild type cyanobacterial cell populations of the same species. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 06, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 16/783380 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/195 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/74 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 11168331 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (St. Louis, Missouri); The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (St. Louis, Missouri); The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xuemin Wang (St. Louis, Missouri); Maoyin Li (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are plants that express, or overexpress, a pPLAIIIδ protein. Constitutive or seed-specific expression of pPLAIIIδ protein in Arabidopsis increases seed oil content, the amount of C20 and C22 fatty acids, and the amount of C56, C58, and C60 triacylglycerols, effectively resulting in significantly higher oil yield per plant. Use of pPLAIIIδ is therefore an effective biotechnological tool to significantly increase plant yield, including oil, and the amount of high value long chain fatty acids in agricultural and horticultural crops, especially oilseed crops. |
| FILED | Friday, March 22, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/362346 |
| ART UNIT | 1662 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 69/604 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/20 (20130101) C12N 15/8247 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/6463 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 301/01 (20130101) |
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| US 11168340 | Jeffries et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xylome Corporation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xylome Corporation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas W. Jeffries (Madison, Wisconsin); David Z. Mokry (Madison, Wisconsin); Christopher H. Calvey (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Lipogenic yeasts bioengineered to overexpress genes for lipid production, and methods of use thereof. The yeasts are modified to express, constitutively express, or overexpress an acetyl-CoA carboxylase, an alpha-amylase, an ATP citrate lyase, a diacylglycerol acyltransferase, a fatty acid synthase, a glycerol kinase, a 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase, a glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, a malic enzyme, a fatty acyl-CoA reductase, a delta-9 acyl-CoA desaturase, a glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase, a lysophosphatidate acyltransferase, a glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, a beta-glucosidase, a hexose transporter, a glycerol transporter, a glycoside hydrolase enzyme, an auxiliary activity family 9 enzyme, or combinations thereof. The yeasts in some cases are also modified to reduce or ablate activity of certain proteins. The methods include cultivating the yeast to convert low value soluble organic stillage byproducts into lipids suitable for biodiesel production and other higher value uses. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 21, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 16/854468 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/16 (20130101) C12N 15/81 (20130101) C12N 15/1096 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/06 (20130101) C12P 7/649 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 7/6463 (20130101) C12P 21/00 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/40 (20130101) C12Q 1/48 (20130101) C12Q 1/527 (20130101) |
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| US 11168355 | Seelig et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Georg Seelig (Seattle, Washington); Richard Muscat (London, United Kingdom); Alexander B. Rosenberg (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of uniquely labeling or barcoding molecules within a cell, a plurality of cells, and/or a tissue are provided. Kits for uniquely labeling or barcoding molecules within a cell, a plurality of cells, and/or a tissue are also provided. The molecules to be labeled may include, but are not limited to, RNAs, cDNAs, DNAs, proteins, peptides, and/or antigens. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 25, 2021 |
| APPL NO | 17/249257 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6806 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6855 (20130101) C12Q 1/6855 (20130101) C12Q 2563/179 (20130101) |
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| US 11168377 | Kustas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Benjamin Kustas (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Dinakur Sagapuram (Bryan, Texas); Kevin Paul Trumble (West Lafayette, Indiana); Srinivasan Chandrasekar (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Processes for producing continuous bulk forms of iron-silicon alloys and bulk forms produced thereby. Such a bulk form is continuous in a longitudinal direction thereof and has a continuous cross-sectional form transverse to the longitudinal direction. The bulk form is formed of an Fe—Si alloy and has a crystallographic texture that comprises <111> and {110} fibers that are inclined relative to the longitudinal direction. The bulk form may be produced by a process that includes deforming a solid body formed of an Fe—Si alloy with a cutting tool in a single step to continuously produce a continuous bulk form from material obtained from the solid body. |
| FILED | Monday, July 29, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/525473 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Modifying the Physical Structure of Ferrous Metals; General Devices for Heat Treatment of Ferrous or Non-ferrous Metals or Alloys; Making Metal Malleable, e.g by Decarburisation or Tempering C21D 6/008 (20130101) C21D 8/02 (20130101) C21D 8/0226 (20130101) C21D 8/0273 (20130101) C21D 9/46 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Alloys C22C 38/002 (20130101) C22C 38/02 (20130101) C22C 38/04 (20130101) C22C 38/06 (20130101) |
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| US 11169001 | Watson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amanda Watson (Williamsburg, Virginia); Andrew Lyubovsky (Williamsburg, Virginia); Gang Zhou (Williamsburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for monitoring relative positions of two objects sharing a common joint during motion between the two objects. An electromagnet is positioned on a first object and a magnetic sensor is positioned on a second object. The electromagnet's power or polarity is cycled during a monitoring session in accordance with a periodic schedule of alternating power-on/power-off periods or alternating-polarity periods, respectively. The magnetic sensor's output during one or more of the power-off periods or the alternating-polarity periods is used to remove environmental magnetic interference to dynamically determine the distance between the electromagnet and the magnetic sensor where the determined distance and the north pole orientation of the electromagnet are indicative of relative positions of the first object and the second object. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 15, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 16/743502 |
| ART UNIT | 2852 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/1126 (20130101) A61B 2562/0223 (20130101) Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 7/30 (20130101) Measuring Not Specially Adapted for a Specific Variable; Arrangements for Measuring Two or More Variables Not Covered in a Single Other Subclass; Tariff Metering Apparatus; Measuring or Testing Not Otherwise Provided for G01D 5/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 11169029 | Magel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Waviks, Inc. (Dallas, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Waviks, Inc. (Dallas, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory A. Magel (Dallas, Texas); Thomas M. Moore (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical pyrometer having a coaxial light guide delivers laser radiation through optics to heat a localized area on a sample, and simultaneously collects optical radiation from the sample to perform temperature measurement of the heated area. Inner and outer light guides can comprise the core and inner cladding, respectively, of a double-clad fiber (DCF), or can be formed using a combination of optical fibers in one or more coaxial bundles. Coaxial construction and shared optics facilitate alignment of the centers of the heated and observed areas on the sample. The heated area can be on the order of micrometers when using a single-mode optical fiber core as the inner light guide. The system can be configured to heat small samples within a vacuum system of charged-particle beam microscopes such as electron microscopes. A method for using the invention in a microscope is also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, August 26, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/550680 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 5/10 (20130101) G01J 5/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01J 5/0806 (20130101) G01J 5/0815 (20130101) G01J 5/0821 (20130101) G01J 5/0896 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/036 (20130101) G02B 6/4246 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 37/26 (20130101) H01J 37/226 (20130101) H01J 2237/24585 (20130101) |
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| US 11169078 | Di Carlo 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) | Dino Di Carlo (Los Angeles, California); Daniel R. Gossett (Los Angeles, California); Henry T. K. Tse (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is disclosed that enables the automated measurement of cellular mechanical parameters at high throughputs. The microfluidic device uses intersecting flows to create an extensional flow region where the cells undergo controlled stretching. Cells are focused into streamlines prior to entering the extensional flow region. In the extensional region, each cell's deformation is measured with an imaging device. Automated image analysis extracts a range of independent biomechanical parameters from the images. These may include cell size, deformability, and circularity. The single cell data that is obtained may then be used to in a variety of ways. Scatter density plots of deformability and circularity may be developed and displayed for the user. Mechanical parameters such as deformability and circularity may be gated or thresholded to identify certain cells of interest or sub-populations of interest. Similarly, the mechanical data obtained using the device may be used as cell signatures. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 11, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 15/868025 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/50273 (20130101) B01L 3/502715 (20130101) B01L 3/502776 (20130101) B01L 2200/0605 (20130101) B01L 2200/0647 (20130101) B01L 2200/0652 (20130101) B01L 2300/0654 (20130101) B01L 2300/0864 (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) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/1404 (20130101) G01N 15/1459 (20130101) G01N 15/1463 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 15/1484 (20130101) G01N 33/487 (20130101) G01N 33/574 (20130101) G01N 2015/0065 (20130101) G01N 2015/149 (20130101) G01N 2015/1006 (20130101) G01N 2015/1415 (20130101) G01N 2015/1495 (20130101) G01N 2015/1497 (20130101) G01N 2800/7028 (20130101) Bioinformatics, i.e Information and Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted for Genetic or Protein-related Data Processing in Computational Molecular Biology G16B 99/00 (20190201) |
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| US 11169149 | Lin 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) | Sophia Lin (Irvine, California); Michelle Khine (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure relates to methods and devices for measuring samples, such as biological samples, especially those at low abundance, with high sensitivity and at low cost. A sample is disposed on a shrinkable scaffold and the shrinkable scaffold is shrunk, reducing the area where the sample is distributed, so as to effectively concentrate the sample on the surface of the scaffold. In the event that a biological sample is covalently attached to a scaffold having a silica structure, the increase in signal enhancement is also due to optical effects stemming from covalent linkage of the biological sample onto the silica structure of the scaffold. Silica (SiO2) may be deposited onto a surface of a polymer film by functionalizing the surface of the polymer film to bind silica from a sol-gel solution, and coating the film with a sol-gel solution containing silica precursors, wherein solid silica from the sol-gel solution is deposited onto the surface of the polymer film. Also disclosed is an immunoassay platform comprising a silica-encapsulated first detection agent deposited on a polymer substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, December 11, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/967145 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| 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 18/04 (20130101) C23C 18/06 (20130101) C23C 18/127 (20130101) C23C 18/1212 (20130101) C23C 18/1233 (20130101) C23C 18/1254 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/552 (20130101) G01N 33/5436 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/54353 (20130101) |
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| US 11169311 | Rubin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Noah A. Rubin (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Federico Capasso (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides an optical component, which may be a metasurface grating, including (a) a substrate; and (b) an array of subwavelength-spaced phase-shifting elements, which are tessellated on the substrate to produce, when illuminated with a polarized incident light, a diffracted light beam with a distinct polarization state for each of a finite number of diffraction orders, wherein the finite number is 2 or more. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 24, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/964058 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 4/04 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/3025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 11169711 | O et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea); SNU R and D FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea); WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seong-Il O (Suwon-si, South Korea); Nam Sung Kim (Champaign, Illinois); Young-Hoon Son (Suwon-si, South Korea); Chan-Kyung Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea); Ho-Young Song (Hwaseong-si, South Korea); Jung Ho Ahn (Seoul, South Korea); Sang-Joon Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | A memory module includes a memory device, a command/address buffering device, and a processing data buffer. The memory device includes a memory cell array, a first set of input/output terminals, each terminal configured to receive first command/address bits, and a second set of input/output terminals, each terminal configured to receive both data bits and second command/address bits. The command/address buffering device is configured to output the first command/address bits to the first set of input/output terminals. The processing data buffer is configured to output the data bits and second command/address bits to the second set of input/output terminals. The memory device is configured such that the first command/address bits, second command/address bits, and data bits are all used to access the memory cell array. |
| FILED | Monday, July 29, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/524749 |
| ART UNIT | 2139 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/0611 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 3/0656 (20130101) G06F 3/0659 (20130101) G06F 3/0683 (20130101) G06F 13/1673 (20130101) |
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| US 11170199 | Ramella-Roman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jessica Claudia Ramella-Roman (Miami, Florida); Camilo Roa (Miami, Florida); Vinh Du Le (Miami, Florida); Ilyas Saytashev (Miami, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES (Miami, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jessica Claudia Ramella-Roman (Miami, Florida); Camilo Roa (Miami, Florida); Vinh Du Le (Miami, Florida); Ilyas Saytashev (Miami, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for visualizing, and/or determining the amount of, collagen and elastin in tissue are provided. Training data can be generated using Mueller matrix polarimetry microscopy data, combined with second harmonic generation (SHG) and/or two photon excitation fluorescence (TPEF) microscopy data as ground truth. The SHG and/or TPEF data can be used to train a neural network for feature extraction, and classification can be performed. The components and decompositions of the Mueller matrix data can be arranged as individual channels of information, forming one voxel per sample. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 08, 2021 |
| APPL NO | 17/342054 |
| ART UNIT | 2664 — 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 9/0014 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/00147 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/08 (20130101) Healthcare Informatics, i.e Information and Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted for the Handling or Processing of Medical or Healthcare Data G16H 30/40 (20180101) |
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| US 11170909 | Alshami et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Dakota (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Dakota (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ali Saleh Alshami (Grand Forks, North Dakota); Sima Noghanian (Poway, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A dielectric substrate made from sunflower seed shells has good moldabiltiy and low water adsorption for use in creating antenna or other devices. The dielectric substrate is made by pyrolizing sunflower seed shells or husks and collecting the resulting tar to create the substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/353363 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 3/04 (20130101) Destructive Distillation of Carbonageous Materials for Production of Gas, Coke, Tar, or Similar Materials C10B 53/02 (20130101) C10B 57/08 (20130101) C10B 57/10 (20130101) Working-up Pitch, Asphalt, Bitumen, Tar; Pyroligneous Acid C10C 1/02 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 3/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 1/38 (20130101) H01Q 9/30 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 11171400 | Friedman |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Amherst College (Amherst, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Amherst College (Amherst, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan R. Friedman (Amherst, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved loop-gap resonators applicable to Electron-Spin Resonance spectroscopy and to quantum computing employ interdigitated capacitor structures to dramatically increase the capacitance of the resonator, along with corresponding decreases in loop size to enable measurements of small-volume samples or individual quantum bits (qubits). The interdigitated-capacitor structures are designed to minimize parasitic inductance. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 06, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/123029 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/60 (20130101) G01R 33/343 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 10/00 (20190101) Waveguides; Resonators, Lines, or Other Devices of the Waveguide Type H01P 7/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01P 7/08 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 11171467 | Gopinath 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) | Juliet T Gopinath (Boulder, Colorado); Robert D. Niederriter (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A compact diode laser achieves high-power, short duration output pulses by separating the lasing action from the pulse-generating mechanism. A diode seed source is configured for gain-switching via a variable RF source. A time lens element includes an intensity modulation device, a phase modulation device, and a pulse compressor. The intensity modulation device carves shorter pulses from the long gain-switched seed pulses, the phase modulation device adds chirp, and the pulse compressor compensates for the chirp while producing high-power short-duration output pulses. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 14, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/412361 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6458 (20130101) Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/11 (20130101) H01S 3/0057 (20130101) H01S 3/0078 (20130101) H01S 3/107 (20130101) H01S 3/0912 (20130101) H01S 3/0941 (20130101) H01S 3/1003 (20130101) H01S 3/1024 (20130101) H01S 3/1618 (20130101) H01S 3/2316 (20130101) H01S 3/2375 (20130101) H01S 3/06758 (20130101) H01S 3/10084 (20130101) H01S 3/10092 (20130101) H01S 5/0057 (20130101) H01S 5/0064 (20130101) H01S 5/065 (20130101) H01S 5/0085 (20130101) H01S 5/06216 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 5/06246 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 11171694 | Yeste Ojeda et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Associated Universities, Inc. (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Associated Universities, Inc. (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Omar Artemi Yeste Ojeda (Gordonsville, Virginia); Stephen Daniel Wunduke (Beaverdam, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A general-purpose integrated circuit capable of scaling to meet the requirements of a beamforming system for a wide range of applications and benefit from economies of scale is disclosed. The integrated circuit includes a delay and phase correcting engine in order to reference the incoming data to a common array center and steering direction. It also includes a frequency channelization engine to perform phase-shift beamforming tasks effectively and/or frequency channelize the output data stream. A flexible reconfigurable routing logic can be included, which allows a multiplicity of operation modes, and generates a multiplicity of linear combinations of the input and internally generated data streams. |
| FILED | Monday, July 13, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 16/926911 |
| ART UNIT | 2649 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 7/01 (20130101) H04B 7/005 (20130101) H04B 7/043 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 7/066 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 11171869 | Koral et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | AT and T Intellectual Property I, L.P. (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | AT and T Intellectual Property I, L.P. (Atlanta, Georgia); The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yaron Koral (Cherry Hill, New Jersey); Simon Tse (Holmdel, New Jersey); Steven A. Monetti (Mountain Lakes, New Jersey); Tzuu-Yi Wang (Newtown, Pennsylvania); Jennifer Rexford (Princeton, New Jersey); Xiaoqi Chen (Princeton, New Jersey); Shir Landau Feibish (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods, and apparatuses provide a scalable framework for analyzing queuing and transient congestion in network switches. The system reports which flows contributed to the queue buildup and enables direct per-packet action in the data plane to prevent transient congestion. The system may be configured to analyze queuing in legacy network switches. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 10, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/380287 |
| ART UNIT | 2473 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 43/16 (20130101) H04L 43/062 (20130101) H04L 47/11 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 47/32 (20130101) H04L 47/125 (20130101) H04L 47/2483 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE48811 | Bazan 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) | Guillermo C. Bazan (Santa Barbara, California); Brent S. Gaylord (San Diego, California); Shu Wang (Beijing, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods compositions and articles of manufacture for assaying a sample for a target polynucleotide are provided. A sample suspected of containing the target polynucleotide is contacted with a polycationic multichromophore and a sensor polynucleotide complementary to the target polynucleotide. The sensor polynucleotide comprises a signaling chromophore to receive energy from the excited multichromophore and increase emission in the presence of the target polynucleotide. The methods can be used in multiplex form. Kits comprising reagents for performing such methods are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 07, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 16/736563 |
| ART UNIT | 3991 — Central Reexamination Unit (Chemical) |
| 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 1/6813 (20130101) C12Q 1/6818 (20130101) C12Q 1/6818 (20130101) C12Q 1/6825 (20130101) C12Q 1/6834 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2523/313 (20130101) C12Q 2563/107 (20130101) C12Q 2565/107 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/143333 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 11168013 | Finger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paragon Space Development Corporation (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Paragon Space Development Corporation (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barry Wynns Finger (Santa Fe, Texas); Laura Katrina Kelsey (Tucson, Arizona); Chad E. Bower (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure provides an integrated system and method for producing purified water, hydrogen, and oxygen from contaminated water. The contaminated water may be derived from regolith-based resources on the moon, Mars, near-Earth asteroids, or other destination in outer space. The integrated system and method utilize a cold trap to receive the contaminated water in a vapor phase and selectively freeze out water from one or more volatiles. A heat source increases temperature in the cold trap to vaporize the frozen contaminated water to produce a gas stream of water vapor and volatiles. A chemical scrubber may remove one or more volatiles. The integrated system and method utilize ionomer membrane technology to separate the water vapor from remaining volatiles. The water vapor is delivered for crew use or delivered to an electrolyzer to produce hydrogen and oxygen. |
| FILED | Monday, May 13, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/410198 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 5/006 (20130101) B01D 8/00 (20130101) B01D 19/0031 (20130101) B01D 53/58 (20130101) B01D 53/229 (20130101) B01D 71/00 (20130101) B01D 2251/506 (20130101) B01D 2257/302 (20130101) B01D 2257/304 (20130101) B01D 2257/406 (20130101) Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/02 (20130101) C02F 1/22 (20130101) C02F 1/447 (20130101) C02F 1/448 (20130101) C02F 9/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C02F 2101/16 (20130101) C02F 2101/101 (20130101) C02F 2103/06 (20130101) C02F 2201/001 (20130101) C02F 2201/008 (20130101) C02F 2209/02 (20130101) C02F 2209/03 (20130101) C02F 2301/063 (20130101) Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Processes for the Production of Compounds or Non-metals; Apparatus Therefor C25B 1/04 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 11168188 | Denis et al. |
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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 NASA (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin L. Denis (Crofton, Maryland); Edward J. Wollack (Clarksville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The process to fabricate a polymer film includes baking a cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) and a silicon wafer at a predefined temperature. The process also includes attaching a plastic tape frame to the silicon wafer and submerging the COC and the plastic tape frame within water allowing one or more ultra-thin sheets of COC film to be peeled off. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/352948 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 5/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08J 2345/00 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 45/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/02282 (20130101) H01L 21/02318 (20130101) H01L 21/6836 (20130101) H01L 2221/68386 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 11168776 | Hofmann et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas C. Hofmann (Altadena, California); Brian H. Wilcox (La Canada, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention implement tailored metallic glass-based strain wave gears and strain wave gear components. In one embodiment, a method of fabricating a flexspline of a strain wave gear includes: forming a MG-based composition into a flexspline using one of a thermoplastic forming technique and a casting technique; where the forming of the MG-based composition results in a formed MG-based material; where the formed flexspline is characterized by: a minimum thickness of greater than approximately 1 mm and a major diameter of less than approximately 4 inches. |
| FILED | Monday, June 22, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 16/908489 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Casting of Metals; Casting of Other Substances by the Same Processes or Devices B22D 19/0036 (20130101) Alloys C22C 45/10 (20130101) Gearing F16H 49/001 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F16H 2049/003 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/4948 (20150115) Y10T 29/49462 (20150115) |
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| US 11170500 | Jones et al. |
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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 NASA (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Justin Jones (Greenbelt, Maryland); Antonio Moreno (Greenbelt, Maryland); Olivia Landgrover (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A three-dimensional image quality indicator suitable for assessing the quality of a CT scan includes a pyramidal structure having a base, an apex, and a plurality of triangular faces extending from the base to the apex; at least two grooves in each triangular face, each groove tapering from a wide end at the base to a narrow end at the apex; and a land between each pair of adjacent grooves in each triangular face, each land tapering from the base to the apex. When a two-dimensional slice is taken in a plane parallel to the base of the pyramidal structure, the grooves are observable at the edges of the structure. The smallest observable groove width provides a measure of CT resolution. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 26, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/583336 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/17 (20130101) G01T 7/005 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2207/10081 (20130101) G06T 2207/30168 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 11169848 | Jacob 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) | Philip Jacob (Congers, New York); James P. Coghlan (Wappingers Falls, New York); Michael Grassi (Shokan, New York); Kirk Pospesel (Clinton Corners, New York); Marcel Schaal (Stuttgart, Germany); Douglas J. Joseph (Danbury, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer implemented method and system for managing power in a 3D chip stack formed of multiple memory layers each having a plurality memory banks and a plurality of Through-Silicon-Vias (TSVs) connecting the memory banks. The TSVs are arranged in a plurality of subsets, each subset of TSVs connecting a corresponding vertical stack of memory banks aligned across a plurality of memory layers. The method includes determining a power delivery budget for each subset of TSVs connecting the corresponding vertical stack of memory banks based on memory requests, keeping track of memory requests to the memory banks of each vertical stack of memory banks and scheduling the memory requests to the memory banks of each vertical stack of memory banks based on the power budget. The memory controller is configured with a scorecard scheduler to manage the memory requests based on the power budget. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 14, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 16/741854 |
| ART UNIT | 2196 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/48 (20130101) G06F 9/50 (20130101) G06F 9/4806 (20130101) G06F 9/4843 (20130101) G06F 9/4881 (20130101) G06F 9/4893 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 9/5094 (20130101) |
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| US 11170263 | Dennison et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NVIDIA Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NVIDIA Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry Robert Dennison (Mendon, Massachusetts); Benjamin Klenk (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique utilizing speculative execution and rollback for performing data parallel training of a neural network model is disclosed. Activations for a layer of the neural network model are normalized during a speculative normalization operation using estimated normalization parameters associated with a partial population of a set of training data allocated to a particular processor. Normalization parameters associated with the total population of the set of training data are generated by a distributed reduce operation in parallel with the speculative normalization operation. An optional rollback operation can revert the activations to a pre-normalization state if the estimated normalization parameters for the partial population are subsequently determined to be inaccurate compared to the normalization parameters for the population of the set of training data distributed across a plurality of processors. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 31, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/669979 |
| ART UNIT | 2661 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 7/483 (20130101) G06F 9/3885 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/6257 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/6265 (20130101) G06K 9/6298 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/08 (20130101) G06N 3/0481 (20130101) |
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| US 11171798 | Klenk et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NVIDIA Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NVIDIA Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Klenk (San Jose, California); Nan Jiang (Santa Clara, California); Larry Robert Dennison (Menden, Massachusetts); Gregory M. Thorson (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A network device configured to perform scalable, in-network computations is described. The network device is configured to process pull requests and/or push requests from a plurality of endpoints connected to the network. A collective communication primitive from a particular endpoint can be received at a network device. The collective communication primitive is associated with a multicast region of a shared global address space and is mapped to a plurality of participating endpoints. The network device is configured to perform an in-network computation based on information received from the participating endpoints before forwarding a response to the collective communication primitive back to one or more of the participating endpoints. The endpoints can inject pull requests (e.g., load commands) and/or push requests (e.g., store commands) into the network. A multicast capability enables tasks, such as a reduction operation, to be offloaded to hardware in the network device. |
| FILED | Friday, July 24, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 16/938097 |
| ART UNIT | 2448 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/5083 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 12/18 (20130101) H04L 12/1886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 45/74 (20130101) H04L 47/20 (20130101) H04L 47/39 (20130101) H04L 47/806 (20130101) H04L 67/26 (20130101) H04L 67/2842 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); METHOD PRODUCTS, PBC (San Francisco, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); METHOD PRODUCTS, PBC (San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William M. Hart-Cooper (Berkeley, California); William J. Orts (Burlingame, California); Kaj Johnson (Sausalito, California); Lauren E. Lynn (Glen Gardner, New Jersey); Diana M. Franqui-Villanueva (Concord, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A self-assembled active agent may be formed by a process including covalently bonding at least a first component molecule and a second component molecule, the two component molecules displaying synergy such that the effective amount of the self-assembled active agent is lower than the sum of the effective amounts of the first component molecule and the second component molecule. The component molecules may be chosen such that the covalent bonding is reversible, for example through a hydrazone bond between an amine and an aldehyde. The active agent may thus have controllable activity such as an antimicrobial agent, a biocide, an antiviral agent, a preservative, an antifouling agent, a disinfectant, or a sensor agent, such as for a particular molecule or for pH. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 01, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 15/909421 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 31/00 (20130101) A01N 47/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01N 49/00 (20130101) A01N 55/08 (20130101) A01N 2300/00 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 279/18 (20130101) C07C 281/16 (20130101) C07C 281/18 (20130101) |
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| US 11167512 | Fragoso et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonathan C. Fragoso (Commerce City, Colorado); Jacob P. Brown (Boulder, Colorado); William G. Coon (Longmont, Colorado); Nicholas R. Jentzsch (Lafayette, Colorado); Michael C. Messaros (Erie, Colorado); Shane K. Vogt (Lafayette, Colorado) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan C. Fragoso (Commerce City, Colorado); Jacob P. Brown (Boulder, Colorado); William G. Coon (Longmont, Colorado); Nicholas R. Jentzsch (Lafayette, Colorado); Michael C. Messaros (Erie, Colorado); Shane K. Vogt (Lafayette, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A manufacturing apparatus for assembling a container including a sleeve, a bowl cover with a cavity, a closed state clamshell with a hinge having a mating protrusion, and a flexible strip having a primary and secondary end portions that are affixed with adhesive between the cover and clamshell. The manufacturing apparatus includes a base, a spindle, with primary and secondary radially extending platforms, respectively supporting primary and secondary cradles with the bowl and clamshell disposed therebetween the cradles that are rotated. The manufacturing apparatus also includes a guide slidably engaged to the base, wherein the guide directs the strip to be helically wound about the clamshell and cover with a base slide mounted adhesive nozzle that affixes the primary and secondary end portions of the strip to the cover and clamshell with a head that cuts and holds the strip with the head slidably engaged to the base. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 25, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 16/800226 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Catching, Trapping or Scaring of Animals; Apparatus for the Destruction of Noxious Animals or Noxious Plants A01M 25/002 (20130101) A01M 25/006 (20130101) Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 15/08 (20130101) Producing Particular Articles From Plastics or From Substances in a Plastic State B29D 22/003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29C, Relating to Particular Articles B29L 2031/712 (20130101) 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 3/04 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 11170645 | Kamrani et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Finland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohsen Kamrani (Lutz, Florida); Sisinnio Concas (Temple Terrace, Florida); Achilleas Kourtellis (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are described herein to automatically detect objects and other debris located in the road. The lateral movement of a vehicle is monitored to detect lane changes. When a lane change is detected, information about the lane change including geographic coordinates of the lane change are collected. The information collected from various vehicles is correlated to identify possible locations of debris and other objects in the road. The identified locations may be provided to other vehicles for use in one or more navigation or collision detection systems or provided to one or more authorities who may use the information to address the identified objects or debris. |
| FILED | Friday, April 10, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 16/845128 |
| ART UNIT | 2683 — Telemetry and Code Generation Vehicles and System Alarms |
| CURRENT CPC | Traffic Control Systems G08G 1/096791 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 11171484 | Frolik et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College (Burlington, Vermont) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Vermont and State Agricultural College (Burlington, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeff Frolik (Essex Junction, Vermont); Paul Hines (Burlington, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for distributing electric energy in discrete power packets of finite duration are presented. Systems may include an aggregator for providing power packets to one or more nodes. An aggregator may receive requests for power packets from nodes. In other embodiments, an aggregator may transmit status broadcasts and nodes may receive power packets based on the status broadcasts. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/352223 |
| ART UNIT | 2116 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 3/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 12/6418 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 11166846 | Grubbs et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); United States Government represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); United States Government represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert H. Grubbs (South Pasadena, California); Marshall L. Stoller (San Francisco, California); Ying Han (Burlingame, California); Frank L. Brodie (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A surgical method of cataract fragmentation and extraction via microbubble cavitation is described. In particular, gas-filled microbubbles are injected into a lens capsule of a subject's eye, and cavitation of the microbubbles is activated by applied ultrasound energy. The ultrasound energy can be applied from an external device. The cavitation fragments cataract tissues without damaging other tissue, such as the lens capsule. Fragmented lens material is then aspirated from the lens capsule. The method can be used alone or in conjunction with other methods, such as phacoemulsification. |
| FILED | Friday, January 03, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 16/733918 |
| ART UNIT | 3771 — 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 9/00745 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 11167048 | Smith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Jeffrey Smith (Columbia, Missouri); Rajendra Prasad Bandari (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods relating to prostate cancer. In particular, disclosed are bivalent targeting ligands that specifically bind prostate specific membrane antigen and gastrin-releasing peptide receptor. Bivalent binding agents disclosed herein can be used to image a tissue in a subject in need thereof and to diagnose prostate cancer in a subject in need thereof. Bivalent binding agents disclosed herein can be used to treat prostate cancer in a subject in need thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, December 13, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/713468 |
| 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 51/0482 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Specific Therapeutic Activity of Chemical Compounds or Medicinal Preparations A61P 35/00 (20180101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 11169050 | Guthrie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | FreEnt Technologies Inc. (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | FreEnt Technologies, Inc. (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Guthrie (Huntsville, Alabama); Herbert U. Fluhler (Huntsville, Alabama); Michael C. Zari (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus for detecting high speed hits on a target is disclosed. A first set of detection lines are would in one direction around a target, and a second set of detection lines is wound orthogonal or diagonal to the first set of lines around a target. Where the detection lines are light-transmissive fibers, cutting of a fiber by a high-speed projectile or fragment causes a flash of photons that are detected by a detector attached to that line. Materials the lines are embedded in may also cause bursts of photons when pierced that is detected by detectors. The lines may be laid in prefabricated panels, or attached to an exterior or interior skin of a target. Moldings may be used to ensure that a bend radius of the light-transmissive fibers is not exceeded. |
| FILED | Monday, May 29, 2017 |
| APPL NO | 15/607663 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Testing Static or Dynamic Balance of Machines or Structures; Testing of Structures or Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G01M 5/0033 (20130101) G01M 5/0091 (20130101) G01M 11/085 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 11169268 | Schaefer |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Philip Raymond Schaefer (Weaverville, North Carolina) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Philip Raymond Schaefer (Weaverville, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A system shines a series of light stripes across an area. A target object passes through the area and light is reflected to the system from the light stripes as it passes through. Based on the timing of the received light from each of the light stripes, the system calculates the position and velocity of the target object. |
| FILED | Monday, December 10, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/214587 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Linear or Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, or Shock; Indicating Presence, Absence, or Direction, of Movement G01P 3/68 (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 17/58 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 11168331 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (St. Louis, Missouri); The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (St. Louis, Missouri); The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xuemin Wang (St. Louis, Missouri); Maoyin Li (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are plants that express, or overexpress, a pPLAIIIδ protein. Constitutive or seed-specific expression of pPLAIIIδ protein in Arabidopsis increases seed oil content, the amount of C20 and C22 fatty acids, and the amount of C56, C58, and C60 triacylglycerols, effectively resulting in significantly higher oil yield per plant. Use of pPLAIIIδ is therefore an effective biotechnological tool to significantly increase plant yield, including oil, and the amount of high value long chain fatty acids in agricultural and horticultural crops, especially oilseed crops. |
| FILED | Friday, March 22, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/362346 |
| ART UNIT | 1662 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 69/604 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/20 (20130101) C12N 15/8247 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/6463 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 301/01 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 11170190 | Kozicki |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael N. Kozicki (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS, A BODY CORPORATE OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA ACTING FOR AND ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael N. Kozicki (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure features dendritic tags, and methods and systems for fabricating and using such tags. The methods can include obtaining at least one image of a dendritic tag attached to an article, analyzing the at least one image to identify a set of features associated with the dendritic tag, and comparing the set of features to stored information to identify the article. |
| FILED | Friday, November 01, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/672015 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/06 (20130101) G02B 21/365 (20130101) G02B 27/286 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 16/51 (20190101) G06F 16/9554 (20190101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 7/1099 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/46 (20130101) G06K 9/00147 (20130101) G06K 9/00577 (20130101) G06K 9/2027 (20130101) G06K 9/4671 (20130101) G06K 9/6202 (20130101) G06K 19/086 (20130101) G06K 19/06046 (20130101) G06K 19/07749 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) G06T 7/12 (20170101) G06T 2207/10056 (20130101) G06T 2207/30024 (20130101) Ciphering or Deciphering Apparatus for Cryptographic or Other Purposes Involving the Need for Secrecy G09C 5/00 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/3278 (20130101) H04L 2209/12 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 83/901 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 11167319 | Bombaugh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott R. Bombaugh (Burke, Virginia); Tuan A. Le (Fairfax, Virginia); Charles P. McLellan (Fairfax, Virginia); Christopher M. Stratton (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A high throughput sorting device is disclosed. The device includes a first sorter and a second sorter, each of the first and second sorters having a plurality of cells each configured to support, carry, and deposit an item. The device can also include at least one shared chute extending below a portion of the first sorter and a portion of the second sorter. The at least one chute can be configured to receive an item deposited by each of the plurality of cells and transport the item to an endpoint. The device can also include a base configured to support the at least one shared chute and the first and second sorters. |
| FILED | Friday, April 10, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 16/846157 |
| ART UNIT | 3655 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Postal Sorting; Sorting Individual Articles, or Bulk Material Fit to be Sorted Piece-meal, e.g by Picking B07C 3/02 (20130101) B07C 3/008 (20130101) B07C 3/08 (20130101) B07C 3/18 (20130101) B07C 5/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transport or Storage Devices, e.g Conveyors for Loading or Tipping, shop Conveyor Systems Or pneumatic Tube Conveyors B65G 47/38 (20130101) B65G 47/44 (20130101) B65G 47/967 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 11167606 | Shiu 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) | Leung Man Shiu (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Edward F. Houston (Bristow, Virginia); Anthony B. Taylor (Stafford, Virginia); Scott R. Bombaugh (Burke, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates to systems and methods of towing, hitching, and connecting devices. In particular, this disclosure relates to tow devices, hitches, and connections for towing item containers behind vehicles, both autonomous and manually guided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 26, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 16/883132 |
| ART UNIT | 3611 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Vehicle Connections B60D 1/54 (20130101) B60D 1/141 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B60D 1/1675 (20130101) B60D 2001/006 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 11168575 | Chuong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Technologies Corporation (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Conway Chuong (Manchester, Connecticut); Joey Wong (Enfield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A seal ring for a non-contact seal may comprise an annular body comprising a first side surface, a second side surface, an outer surface, and an inner surface, and a plurality of window openings disposed in the annular body. The plurality of window openings may be configured to provide access to the seal for installation of a melting member to secure the seal shoes in an outboard direction during installation. |
| FILED | Monday, November 19, 2018 |
| APPL NO | 16/195626 |
| ART UNIT | 3675 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 11/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 7/28 (20130101) Non-positive-displacement Pumps F04D 29/122 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2220/32 (20130101) F05D 2240/55 (20130101) F05D 2260/30 (20130101) Pistons; Cylinders; Sealings F16J 15/442 (20130101) F16J 15/445 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 11168615 | Pratt |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raytheon Technologies Corporation (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Technologies Corporation (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William S. Pratt (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A double ring axial seal for a disk and blade; the disk including an array of blade slots at a perimeter of the disk configured to receive a root portion of the blade, the blade includes a platform located between the root portion and an airfoil extending from the platform opposite the root portion, the platform including a receiver with an overhang proximate the root portion and the platform including a hook opposite the receiver proximate the root portion; a disk slot formed on a first side of the disk proximate the array of blade slots; a first axial seal ring coupled with the disk slot and the receiver; the first axial seal ring having a cutout proximate an outer perimeter of the first axial seal ring, the cutout sized to receive the overhang of the blade platform. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 25, 2020 |
| APPL NO | 17/001981 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/3007 (20130101) F01D 11/08 (20130101) Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 7/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2220/32 (20130101) F05D 2240/55 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 11169055 | Therkorn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer Therkorn (Milltown, New Jersey); Gediminas Mainelis (North Brunswick, New Jersey); Jerry I. Scheinbeim (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A passive and active sampler for airborne particulate sampling (especially particles of biological origin) and a method of using same are disclosed. The sampler includes a sampler base portion of variable size and shape having a longitudinal body and an inner surface. The sampler base portion is configured with a plurality of air channels having variable air channel spacing therethrough the longitudinal body. A plurality of layers of ferroelectric film have a first side and a second side polarized by application of an external electric field such that the first side produces a negative electric field at a first surface and the second side produces a positive electric field at a second surface. The plurality of layers of polarized, ferroelectric film are disposed thereon the longitudinal body with their opposite polarization directions facing each other across a fixed air gap to collect both charged and uncharged particles. The use of such technology as an electrostatic precipitator for active sampling of airborne particulates and a method of using same are further disclosed. This electrostatic precipitator technology can be used for bioaerosol or general particle filtration, as in HVAC systems. |
| FILED | Friday, September 23, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 15/762851 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Magnetic or Electrostatic Separation of Solid Materials From Solid Materials or Fluids; Separation by High-voltage Electric Fields B03C 3/017 (20130101) B03C 3/28 (20130101) B03C 3/32 (20130101) B03C 2201/24 (20130101) Removal or Treatment of Combustion Products or Combustion Residues; Flues F23J 15/02 (20130101) F23J 2217/102 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/26 (20130101) G01N 1/2202 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 1/2273 (20130101) G01N 2001/2223 (20130101) G01N 2001/2276 (20130101) G01N 2001/4038 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 11170010 | Ackermann 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) | Christopher Ackermann (Fairfax, Virginia); Charles Beller (Baltimore, Maryland); Edward Katz (Herndon, Virginia); Michael Drzewucki (Woodbridge, Virginia); Kristen Summers (Takoma Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Identifying alternative names of entities includes receiving a query associated with a name of an entity and a corpus. References to the name of the entity within the corpus are identified. The references to the name of the entity within the corpus are analyzed to determine at least one first alternative name of the entity. References to the determined at least one first alternative name of the entity within the corpus are identified. The references to the determined at least one first alternative name of the entity within the corpus are analyzed to determine at least one second alternative name of the entity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 05, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/432480 |
| ART UNIT | 2169 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 16/93 (20190101) G06F 16/243 (20190101) G06F 16/288 (20190101) G06F 16/2458 (20190101) Original (OR) Class G06F 40/00 (20200101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 11170181 | Beller 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) | Charles E. Beller (Baltimore, Maryland); William G. Dubyak (Boerne, Texas); Palani Sakthi (Palatine, Illinois); Robert A. Sheets (Herndon, Virginia); Kristen M. Summers (Takoma Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Dynamic semantic processing of text in a word processing application with engagement of question-answering system. A user provides a text stream to a computer system via an input source. The input text stream includes a first natural language statement. The system determines that the first natural language statement includes a fact-based component expressed in natural language form. The system identifies an initial span and an alternative span of the first natural language component, based on the determining. The system engages a question-answering (QA) system by providing the initial span and the alternative span of the first natural language component to the QA system, and by receiving, in response to the providing, a set of natural language results from the QA system. The system evaluates the initial span and the alternative span of the first natural language component based on the received natural language results. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 27, 2019 |
| APPL NO | 16/454421 |
| ART UNIT | 2658 — Linguistics, Speech Processing and Audio Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 40/30 (20200101) G06F 40/35 (20200101) G06F 40/40 (20200101) Original (OR) Class G06F 40/51 (20200101) G06F 40/247 (20200101) G06F 40/268 (20200101) G06F 40/284 (20200101) G06F 40/289 (20200101) Educational or Demonstration Appliances; Appliances for Teaching, or Communicating With, the Blind, Deaf or Mute; Models; Planetaria; Globes; Maps; Diagrams G09B 5/02 (20130101) G09B 7/02 (20130101) G09B 19/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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