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New Taxpayer Funded Patents for Tuesday, August 30, 2022 

This page was updated on Wednesday, August 31, 2022 at 05:37 AM GMT

FedInvent analyzed 128 taxpayer-funded patents this week.

On Tuesday, August 30, 2022, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued 7,262 patents. One hundred twenty-eight (128) of these patents benefitted from taxpayer funding. Here is how they break down .

  • One hundred twenty-five (125) patents have Government Interest Statements.
  • A federal department is an assignee or applicant on 17 patents.
  • A federal department is the only assignee on 9 patents.
  • The 128 new patents have 141 department-level funding citations.
  • These patents are the work of 452 inventors.
  • The 432 American inventors come from 30 states.
  • The 20 foreign inventors come from ten (10) countries.  There are three (3) inventors from the People's Republic of China (PRC).
  • There are 76 patents (59%) where at least one assignee is a college or university, the HERD.
  • Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) received six (6) patents.
  • Three (3) patent were assigned Y CPC symbols indicating that the invention may be useful in mitigating the impact of climate change. (The details are in the Emerging Technology panel on the left.)
  • There are two (2) Bayh-Dole scofflaw patents this week. Both are defense contractors.

The Big Three States

This week's top three states are:

  1. California has 26 first-named inventors and 103 total inventors.
  2. Massachusetts has 15 first-named inventors and 43 total inventors.
  3. Maryland has 10 first-named inventors and 37 total inventors.

This week five states — California, Massachusetts, Maryland, New York, Texas — to account for more than half of the American inventors granted patents this week. The top three states accounted for 42% of the inventors.

Learn More About Taxpayer Funded Patents Here

The List of This Week's Patents

Just a list — patent number with a link and the title, for those patentistas who like to browse.

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Patent Title
001 11425870
 
Macroalgae farming including attaching seaweed to a line 
002 11426069
 
Enhanced neuropsychological assessment with eye tracking 
003 11426073
 
Imaging nerve function and pathologies using diffusion basis spectrum imaging 
004 11426076
 
Contactless system and method for assessing and/or determining hemodynamic parameters and/or vital signs 
005 11426080
 
Real-time imaging system for monitoring and control of thermal therapy treatments 
006 11426094
 
Methods for iterative reconstruction of medical images using primal-dual optimization with stochastic dual variable updating 
007 11426129
 
Coherent hemodynamics spectroscopy and model based characterization of physiological systems 
008 11426197
 
Steerable surgical needle 
009 11426250
 
Force measuring apparatus 
010 11426308
 
Capsulotomy device 
011 11426345
 
Hypotonic hydrogel formulations for enhanced transport of active agents at mucosal surfaces 
012 11426360
 
Pimarane diterpenoids for use in wound healing and angiogenesis 
013 11426368
 
Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) inhibitor and method of use 
014 11426371
 
Compositions and methods for treating cancer 
015 11426385
 
Methods of improving cancer chemotherapy 
016 11426389
 
Compositions and methods for promoting hematopoietic stem cell regeneration 
017 11426400
 
Methods of increasing satellite cell proliferation with vorinostat or bosutinib 
018 11426402
 
IRE1 activating compounds for use in therapy 
019 11426405
 
Inhibition of JAK-STAT signaling inhibits formation of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) 
020 11426415
 
Treatment for Wolfram syndrome and other endoplasmic reticulum stress disorders 
021 11426420
 
Inhibitors of short-chain dehydrogenase activity for treating coronary disorders 
022 11426422
 
SHP2 inhibitors and methods of use thereof 
023 11426423
 
Methods relating to lung cancer 
024 11426448
 
Methods for treatment of erectile dysfunction with sonic hedgehog compounds 
025 11426450
 
Shear-thinning compositions as an intravascular embolic agent 
026 11426460
 
Use of inactivated nonreplicating modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA) as monoimmunotherapy or in combination with immune checkpoint blocking agents for solid tumors 
027 11426462
 
Monovalent anti-CD3 adjuvants 
028 11426464
 
Engineered primate cystine/cysteine degrading enzymes as antineogenic agents 
029 11426471
 
Targeted protein contrast agents, methods of making, and uses thereof 
030 11426476
 
Internal ultraviolet LED antifouling 
031 11426490
 
Mixture of polymers, lubricating fluid and porous materials comprising said mixture, and surface bearing said mixture 
032 11426610
 
Neuromodulation techniques for perturbation of physiological systems 
033 11426717
 
Catalyst, structures, reactors, and methods of forming same 
034 11426729
 
Systems and methods for whole cell analysis 
035 11427345
 
Assisted boom actuator 
036 11427352
 
Rotorcraft service fixtures 
037 11427467
 
Iron based catalysts for production of carbon and hydrogen from decomposition of methane 
038 11427468
 
Integrated hydrogen generator and compressor with related method 
039 11427474
 
Dendritic materials with hierarchical porosity 
040 11427480
 
Conversion of uranium hexafluoride and recovery of uranium from ionic liquids 
041 11427536
 
Photocatalyst-free, light-induced carbon-sulfur cross-coupling methods 
042 11427542
 
Compounds for treatment of cardiac arrhythmias and heart failure 
043 11427543
 
Compounds for targeting cancer stem cells 
044 11427552
 
Heterocyclic compounds useful in the treatment of disease 
045 11427569
 
Benzoimidazole indolyl methanes and methods of using them to inhibit PCKS9 and PCKS9-mediated ailments 
046 11427582
 
Ligands selective to alpha 6 subunit-containing GABAA receptors and their methods of use 
047 11427588
 
Compositions and methods for treating neurodegenerative diseases and cardiomyopathy 
048 11427590
 
Small molecule inhibitors of neutral sphingomyelinase 2 (nSMase2) for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases 
049 11427595
 
Compositions and methods for inhibiting viral infection 
050 11427612
 
Epimerization-free N to C solid-phase peptide synthesis 
051 11427617
 
Compositions and methods for treatment of fungal infections 
052 11427625
 
Expression of NKG2D activating ligand proteins for sensitizing cancer cells to attack by cytotoxic immune cells 
053 11427757
 
Perovskite materials and methods of making the same 
054 11427801
 
Scatter labeled imaging of microvasculature in excised tissue (SLIME) 
055 11427814
 
Modified cleavases, uses thereof and related kits 
056 11427815
 
Nucleic acid purification system using a single wash and elution buffer solution 
057 11427816
 
Cancer treatment through RLIP76 partial depletion 
058 11427817
 
Compositions and methods of improving specificity in genomic engineering using RNA-guided endonucleases 
059 11427819
 
Coexpression of CAS9 and TREX2 for targeted mutagenesis 
060 11427852
 
Methods for diagnosing and treating inflammatory bowel disease 
061 11427856
 
Methods and kits for labeling cellular molecules 
062 11427857
 
Methods and systems for performing digital assays using polydisperse droplets 
063 11427859
 
Nanopore platform for DNA/RNA oligo detection using an osmium tagged complementary probe 
064 11427865
 
Absolute quantification of nucleic acids and related methods and systems 
065 11427869
 
T cell balance gene expression, compositions of matters and methods of use thereof 
066 11427876
 
Cell-free nucleic acids for the analysis of the human microbiome and components thereof 
067 11427887
 
Extraction of selected platinum-group metals from supported catalyst 
068 11427918
 
Electrochemical and photoelectrochemical reduction of furfurals 
069 11427936
 
Methods for producing a nanofiber or microfiber structure 
070 11428163
 
Two tier lubrication system 
071 11428174
 
System and method for control of compression in internal combustion engine via compression ratio and elastic piston 
072 11428348
 
Methods of fabricating conduits for transporting fluids 
073 11428368
 
Method of making a fiber reinforced energetic composite 
074 11428413
 
Fuel injection module for segmented annular combustion system 
075 11428440
 
Method for making porphyrin covalent organic framework-based interface 
076 11428475
 
Additively manufactured structures for thermal and/or mechanical systems, and methods for manufacturing the structures 
077 11428485
 
Firearm with field-replaceable blank-fire chamber preventing chambering of live rounds 
078 11428487
 
Cartridge extraction with dummy extractor for a cased telescoped ammunition firearm 
079 11428572
 
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for accurate measurement of health relevant UV exposure from sunlight 
080 11428588
 
Fully-passive pressure sensors and methods for their use 
081 11428623
 
High temperature corrosion sensor 
082 11428626
 
Polarization enhanced interferometric imaging 
083 11428628
 
Method and apparatus for multi-color discrete frequency infrared spectroscopic imaging 
084 11428632
 
Systems and methods for three-dimensional fluorescence polarization via multiview imaging 
085 11428636
 
Time-resolved laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy systems and uses thereof 
086 11428657
 
Method for contactless electrochemical impedance measurement 
087 11428675
 
Liquid chromatography analyte reaction and analysis system 
088 11428681
 
Gas sensors based upon metal carbon complexes 
089 11428690
 
Portable plasmonic system for disease detection 
090 11428697
 
Compositions and methods for treating age-related diabetes and related disorders 
091 11428763
 
Planar inverse anapole microresonator and performing inductive-detection electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy 
092 11428768
 
Chemical exchange saturation transfer magnetic resonance imaging with gating synchronized acquisition 
093 11428802
 
Localization using particle filtering and image registration of radar against elevation datasets 
094 11428820
 
Method to determine airborne lidar installation angles using ground returns and INS/GPS data 
095 11428831
 
Time-gated fast neutron transmission radiography system and method 
096 11428832
 
Crowd-sourced hardware calibration 
097 11428929
 
Focusing device comprising a plurality of scatterers and beam scanner and scope device 
098 11429021
 
DNA nanostructure patterned templates 
099 11429105
 
Motion planning for autonomous vehicles and reconfigurable motion planning processors 
100 11429118
 
Control of multi-drone fleets with temporal logic objectives 
101 11429273
 
Touch-based tracking system and method 
102 11429480
 
Method of demand scrubbing by placing corrected data in memory-side cache 
103 11429812
 
Detecting digital image manipulations 
104 11429862
 
Dynamic adaptation of deep neural networks 
105 11429865
 
Optimizing neural networks 
106 11429887
 
Tunable current-mirror qubit system 
107 11430171
 
Explainable artificial intelligence 
108 11430210
 
Methods and system for estimation of lambertian equivalent reflectance for reflective band imagery 
109 11430243
 
Systems and methods of processing undeliverable delivery items 
110 11430279
 
Functionalized microfluidic device and method 
111 11430577
 
Asymmetric capsule for inertial confinement fusion 
112 11430644
 
System and method for thermionic energy conversion 
113 11430711
 
Carbon nanotube enhanced silver paste thermal interface material 
114 11430900
 
Wavelength-selective specularly reflecting photovoltaic module and manufacture thereof 
115 11430939
 
Linear magnetostrictive actuator 
116 11430974
 
System for roll-to-roll electrocoating of battery electrode coatings onto a foil substrate 
117 11430984
 
Electrodes including a passivation layer 
118 11430994
 
Protective coatings for lithium metal electrodes 
119 11430998
 
Fuel cell interconnect assembly 
120 11431016
 
Binder for electrolyte matrix for molten carbonate fuel cells 
121 11431040
 
Arrangement for lithium-ion battery thermal events prediction, prevention, and control 
122 11431144
 
Suppression of higher-order lasing in a Brillouin laser using nested ring resonators 
123 11431208
 
Electric component including custom metal grain orientation 
124 11431322
 
Capacitively-driven tunable coupling 
125 11431368
 
Noise recycling 
126 11431421
 
Caustic expander and local waveguide to improve acoustic communications 
127 11431548
 
High-assurance multi-domain network switch 
128 11431780
 
Method and apparatus for estimating quality of experience from network data 

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Patent Count By Department

This is the count of taxpayer-funded patents granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) this week. These patents contain a Government Interest Statement in the body of the patent document or are patents where the government is an assignee. Agency numbers are aggregated by the agency named in the Government Interests Statement and the contract number cited in the government interest section of the patent.

Department This Week This Year
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) 53 1817
Department of Defense (DOD) 40 1282
Department of Energy (DOE) 20 791
National Science Foundation (NSF) 17 748
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) 2 60
Department of Commerce (DOC) 1 31
Department of Transportation (USDOT) 1 23
General Services Administration (GSA) 1 1
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 1 149
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) 1 2
Small Business Administration (SBA) 1 62
United States Postal Service (USPS) 1 32
Government Rights Acknowledged 2 55

Patents By Funding Agency

FedInvent Patents are patents funded by US taxpayers. Taxpayer-funded patents have Government Interest Statements in the body of the patent or are patents where an agency of the US federal government has retained the title to the patent and is listed as an assignee. The presence of a government interest statement, as required by the Bayh-Dole Act, indicates the holder of a federal contract, grant, or cooperative research agreement has elected to retain the title of inventions conceived and reduced to practice during that contract.

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Click the Panel to See The Patents for Each Agency

Take Me To The Details
Patent Title
001 11426073
 
Imaging nerve function and pathologies using diffusion basis spectrum imaging 
002 11426129
 
Coherent hemodynamics spectroscopy and model based characterization of physiological systems 
003 11426197
 
Steerable surgical needle 
004 11426308
 
Capsulotomy device 
005 11426345
 
Hypotonic hydrogel formulations for enhanced transport of active agents at mucosal surfaces 
006 11426368
 
Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) inhibitor and method of use 
007 11426371
 
Compositions and methods for treating cancer 
008 11426385
 
Methods of improving cancer chemotherapy 
009 11426389
 
Compositions and methods for promoting hematopoietic stem cell regeneration 
010 11426400
 
Methods of increasing satellite cell proliferation with vorinostat or bosutinib 
011 11426402
 
IRE1 activating compounds for use in therapy 
012 11426405
 
Inhibition of JAK-STAT signaling inhibits formation of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) 
013 11426415
 
Treatment for Wolfram syndrome and other endoplasmic reticulum stress disorders 
014 11426420
 
Inhibitors of short-chain dehydrogenase activity for treating coronary disorders 
015 11426422
 
SHP2 inhibitors and methods of use thereof 
016 11426423
 
Methods relating to lung cancer 
017 11426448
 
Methods for treatment of erectile dysfunction with sonic hedgehog compounds 
018 11426450
 
Shear-thinning compositions as an intravascular embolic agent 
019 11426460
 
Use of inactivated nonreplicating modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA) as monoimmunotherapy or in combination with immune checkpoint blocking agents for solid tumors 
020 11426462
 
Monovalent anti-CD3 adjuvants 
021 11426464
 
Engineered primate cystine/cysteine degrading enzymes as antineogenic agents 
022 11426471
 
Targeted protein contrast agents, methods of making, and uses thereof 
023 11427542
 
Compounds for treatment of cardiac arrhythmias and heart failure 
024 11427543
 
Compounds for targeting cancer stem cells 
025 11427552
 
Heterocyclic compounds useful in the treatment of disease 
026 11427569
 
Benzoimidazole indolyl methanes and methods of using them to inhibit PCKS9 and PCKS9-mediated ailments 
027 11427582
 
Ligands selective to alpha 6 subunit-containing GABAA receptors and their methods of use 
028 11427588
 
Compositions and methods for treating neurodegenerative diseases and cardiomyopathy 
029 11427590
 
Small molecule inhibitors of neutral sphingomyelinase 2 (nSMase2) for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases 
030 11427595
 
Compositions and methods for inhibiting viral infection 
031 11427612
 
Epimerization-free N to C solid-phase peptide synthesis 
032 11427617
 
Compositions and methods for treatment of fungal infections 
033 11427625
 
Expression of NKG2D activating ligand proteins for sensitizing cancer cells to attack by cytotoxic immune cells 
034 11427801
 
Scatter labeled imaging of microvasculature in excised tissue (SLIME) 
035 11427814
 
Modified cleavases, uses thereof and related kits 
036 11427816
 
Cancer treatment through RLIP76 partial depletion 
037 11427817
 
Compositions and methods of improving specificity in genomic engineering using RNA-guided endonucleases 
038 11427819
 
Coexpression of CAS9 and TREX2 for targeted mutagenesis 
039 11427852
 
Methods for diagnosing and treating inflammatory bowel disease 
040 11427856
 
Methods and kits for labeling cellular molecules 
041 11427857
 
Methods and systems for performing digital assays using polydisperse droplets 
042 11427859
 
Nanopore platform for DNA/RNA oligo detection using an osmium tagged complementary probe 
043 11427865
 
Absolute quantification of nucleic acids and related methods and systems 
044 11427869
 
T cell balance gene expression, compositions of matters and methods of use thereof 
045 11427876
 
Cell-free nucleic acids for the analysis of the human microbiome and components thereof 
046 11427936
 
Methods for producing a nanofiber or microfiber structure 
047 11428626
 
Polarization enhanced interferometric imaging 
048 11428628
 
Method and apparatus for multi-color discrete frequency infrared spectroscopic imaging 
049 11428632
 
Systems and methods for three-dimensional fluorescence polarization via multiview imaging 
050 11428636
 
Time-resolved laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy systems and uses thereof 
051 11428697
 
Compositions and methods for treating age-related diabetes and related disorders 
052 11428768
 
Chemical exchange saturation transfer magnetic resonance imaging with gating synchronized acquisition 
053 11430279
 
Functionalized microfluidic device and method 

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Take Me To The Details

Department of Defense (DOD) Agencies

Patent Title
001 11426080
 
Real-time imaging system for monitoring and control of thermal therapy treatments 
002 11426610
 
Neuromodulation techniques for perturbation of physiological systems 
003 11427345
 
Assisted boom actuator 
004 11427352
 
Rotorcraft service fixtures 
005 11427543
 
Compounds for targeting cancer stem cells 
006 11427815
 
Nucleic acid purification system using a single wash and elution buffer solution 
007 11428348
 
Methods of fabricating conduits for transporting fluids 
008 11429105
 
Motion planning for autonomous vehicles and reconfigurable motion planning processors 
009 11429480
 
Method of demand scrubbing by placing corrected data in memory-side cache 
010 11431368
 
Noise recycling 

Department of the ARMY (DOA)

Patent Title
001 11426076
 
Contactless system and method for assessing and/or determining hemodynamic parameters and/or vital signs 
002 11426080
 
Real-time imaging system for monitoring and control of thermal therapy treatments 
003 11426389
 
Compositions and methods for promoting hematopoietic stem cell regeneration 
004 11426450
 
Shear-thinning compositions as an intravascular embolic agent 
005 11426729
 
Systems and methods for whole cell analysis 
006 11427352
 
Rotorcraft service fixtures 
007 11427543
 
Compounds for targeting cancer stem cells 
008 11427865
 
Absolute quantification of nucleic acids and related methods and systems 
009 11428485
 
Firearm with field-replaceable blank-fire chamber preventing chambering of live rounds 
010 11428487
 
Cartridge extraction with dummy extractor for a cased telescoped ammunition firearm 
011 11428681
 
Gas sensors based upon metal carbon complexes 
012 11428929
 
Focusing device comprising a plurality of scatterers and beam scanner and scope device 
013 11429887
 
Tunable current-mirror qubit system 
014 11430171
 
Explainable artificial intelligence 
015 11430644
 
System and method for thermionic energy conversion 

Department of the Navy (DON) | United States Marine Corps (USMC)

Patent Title
001 11426476
 
Internal ultraviolet LED antifouling 
002 11428475
 
Additively manufactured structures for thermal and/or mechanical systems, and methods for manufacturing the structures 
003 11428802
 
Localization using particle filtering and image registration of radar against elevation datasets 
004 11429021
 
DNA nanostructure patterned templates 
005 11429862
 
Dynamic adaptation of deep neural networks 
006 11430939
 
Linear magnetostrictive actuator 
007 11430984
 
Electrodes including a passivation layer 
008 11431040
 
Arrangement for lithium-ion battery thermal events prediction, prevention, and control 
009 11431144
 
Suppression of higher-order lasing in a Brillouin laser using nested ring resonators 
010 11431421
 
Caustic expander and local waveguide to improve acoustic communications 

Department of the Air Force (DAF)| United States Space Force (USSF)

Patent Title
001 11427345
 
Assisted boom actuator 
002 11429273
 
Touch-based tracking system and method 
003 11429812
 
Detecting digital image manipulations 
004 11430171
 
Explainable artificial intelligence 
005 11430711
 
Carbon nanotube enhanced silver paste thermal interface material 
006 11431548
 
High-assurance multi-domain network switch 

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Take Me To The Details
Patent Title
001 11425870
 
Macroalgae farming including attaching seaweed to a line 
002 11426717
 
Catalyst, structures, reactors, and methods of forming same 
003 11427467
 
Iron based catalysts for production of carbon and hydrogen from decomposition of methane 
004 11427468
 
Integrated hydrogen generator and compressor with related method 
005 11427480
 
Conversion of uranium hexafluoride and recovery of uranium from ionic liquids 
006 11427536
 
Photocatalyst-free, light-induced carbon-sulfur cross-coupling methods 
007 11427757
 
Perovskite materials and methods of making the same 
008 11427918
 
Electrochemical and photoelectrochemical reduction of furfurals 
009 11428174
 
System and method for control of compression in internal combustion engine via compression ratio and elastic piston 
010 11428413
 
Fuel injection module for segmented annular combustion system 
011 11428440
 
Method for making porphyrin covalent organic framework-based interface 
012 11428623
 
High temperature corrosion sensor 
013 11428831
 
Time-gated fast neutron transmission radiography system and method 
014 11429865
 
Optimizing neural networks 
015 11430577
 
Asymmetric capsule for inertial confinement fusion 
016 11430900
 
Wavelength-selective specularly reflecting photovoltaic module and manufacture thereof 
017 11430974
 
System for roll-to-roll electrocoating of battery electrode coatings onto a foil substrate 
018 11430994
 
Protective coatings for lithium metal electrodes 
019 11431016
 
Binder for electrolyte matrix for molten carbonate fuel cells 
020 11431208
 
Electric component including custom metal grain orientation 

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Take Me To The Details
Patent Title
001 11426094
 
Methods for iterative reconstruction of medical images using primal-dual optimization with stochastic dual variable updating 
002 11426197
 
Steerable surgical needle 
003 11426360
 
Pimarane diterpenoids for use in wound healing and angiogenesis 
004 11426450
 
Shear-thinning compositions as an intravascular embolic agent 
005 11426490
 
Mixture of polymers, lubricating fluid and porous materials comprising said mixture, and surface bearing said mixture 
006 11427474
 
Dendritic materials with hierarchical porosity 
007 11427817
 
Compositions and methods of improving specificity in genomic engineering using RNA-guided endonucleases 
008 11427856
 
Methods and kits for labeling cellular molecules 
009 11427865
 
Absolute quantification of nucleic acids and related methods and systems 
010 11427887
 
Extraction of selected platinum-group metals from supported catalyst 
011 11428572
 
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for accurate measurement of health relevant UV exposure from sunlight 
012 11428588
 
Fully-passive pressure sensors and methods for their use 
013 11428657
 
Method for contactless electrochemical impedance measurement 
014 11428675
 
Liquid chromatography analyte reaction and analysis system 
015 11428690
 
Portable plasmonic system for disease detection 
016 11429862
 
Dynamic adaptation of deep neural networks 
017 11431780
 
Method and apparatus for estimating quality of experience from network data 

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Emerging Technology

Emerging Climate Change Technologies

Patents containing 'Y" CPC symbols indicate emerging climate change and clean technology inventions.

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Class
Y02E Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution
11430900  Wavelength-selective specularly reflecting photovoltaic module and manufacture thereof      
11431016  Binder for electrolyte matrix for molten carbonate fuel cells      
Y02P Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods
11427918  Electrochemical and photoelectrochemical reduction of furfurals      

About Y Emerging Technology Symbols

Patent documents that contain a Y02 or Y04 CPC symbol are already classified elsewhere. USPTO adds the Y symbols to the classification data to monitor new technological developments covering clean technology and inventions impacting climate change, important American science and technology interests.

Y02 — Green House Gas Mitigation

Y02 covers selected technologies, that control, reduce, or prevent anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG), in the framework of the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement, and technologies that allow adapting to the adverse effects of climate change. Y02A covers technologies for adaptation to climate change, — technologies that allow adapting to the adverse effects of climate change in human, industrial (including agriculture and livestock), and economic activities. Y02P covers climate change mitigation technologies in any kind of industrial processing or production activity, including the agroalimentary industry (relating to agriculture and food), agriculture, fishing, ranching and the like.

Y04 — Enabling Technologies

Y04 is focused on the information and communications inventions that facilitate climate change technology. Y04S covers systems integrating technologies related to power network operation, communication, or information technologies for improving electrical power generation, transmission, distribution, management, or usage. Examples of the art covered here are technologies related to smart grids, home appliances, and systems supporting the interoperability of electric or hybrid vehicles.

The Health Complex

This section contains the count of patents funded by The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) organized by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) institute; and HHS subagencies including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Center for Disease Control (CDC), and others. These agencies together are called the Health Complex.

Department | Agency This Week This Year
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) 53 1817
National Institutes of Health (NIH) 52 1731
National Cancer Institute (NCI) 15 408
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) 10 232
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) 10 260
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) 8 129
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) 7 208
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) 6 173
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) 5 169
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) 3 67
NIH Office of the Director (NIHOD) 2 46
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) 2 36
National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) 2 64
National Eye Institute (NEI) 2 61
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) 2 40
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) 1 7
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) 1 21
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) 1 37
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) 1 46
National Institute on Aging (NIA) 1 74
National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) 1 27
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 1 7

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Higher Education Research and Development (HERD)

FedInvent follows the HERD the Higher Education Research and Development institutions — the colleges and universities; research institutions, and medical schools that benefit from federal funding and rely on it to make important discoveries that drive American innovation. Taxpayer-funded patents coming from American and sometimes foreign universities are an important indicia of the vitality of the American innovation ecosphere.

MEMBERS OF THE HERD

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Survey is the primary source of information on R&D expenditures at 916 US colleges and universities that expended at least $150,000 in separately accounted for R&D in the fiscal year. We use the NSF list to keep track of which colleges and universities are receiving taxpayer-funded patents and filing patent applications.

WATCH This SPACE

We're working on our data analytics and will be reporting taxpayer-funded patents and patent applications shortly. In the meantime, FedInvent will post interesting information about the HERD Innovation Ecosphere here.

Top Ten Universities By R&D Expenditures
  1. Johns Hopkins University
  2. University of Michigan
  3. University of Washington
  4. University of California, San Diego
  5. University of California, San Francisco
  6. Columbia University in the City of New York
  7. Stanford University
  8. University Pittsburgh
  9. University Pennsylvania
  10. Duke University

Count By Tech Center

Patents organized by count and Technology Center where the patent was examined.

Tech Center Count
1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry 44
1700 Chemical and Materials Engineering 25
2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components 21
3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, Gaming and Medical Devices/Processes 15
3600 Transportation, Electronic Commerce, Construction, Agriculture, Licensing and Review 11
2100 Computer Architecture Software and Information Security 5
2600 Communications 5
2400 Computer Networks, Multiplex, Cable and Cryptography/Security 2

For more information on the types of inventions examined in each Technology Center, see the About Tech Centers section of this page.

Patents By Scientific Domain.

This section contains the number of patents by high level scientific and technical domain. The data is arranged by the first Cooperative Patent Classification System (CPC) patent symbol assigned to the patent. This indicates the scope and nature of the invention for a patent or a patent application.

Global patent offices use patent classification as their lingua franca — the common language — for exchanging information about inventions and what scientific and technical art a patent contains. The classifications assigned to a patent are used by patent examiners to find prior art and to determine if a particular patent's claims are novel. Patent classifications are also used for global enforcement of patent rights, treaties, and agreements.

Class Class Definition First
(Original)
Inventive
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CPC A61 Medical or Veterinary Science; Hygiene 31 222
CPC G01 Measuring; Testing 18 85
CPC C07 Organic Chemistry 12 85
CPC C12 Biochemistry; Beer; Spirits; Wine; Vinegar; Microbiology; Enzymology; Mutation or Genetic Engineering 13 70
CPC G06 Computing; Calculating; Counting 9 67
CPC H01 Basic Electric Elements 11 60
CPC B01 Physical or Chemical Processes or Apparatus in General 2 40
CPC C01 Inorganic Chemistry 4 31
CPC G02 Optics 1 17
CPC C08 Organic Macromolecular Compounds; Their Preparation or Chemical Working-up; Compositions Based Thereon 0 17
CPC H04 Electric Communication Technique 4 9
CPC C25 Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Processes; Apparatus Therefor 1 10
CPC G16 Information and Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted for Specific Application Fields 0 10
CPC D01 Edible products 2 7
CPC G05 Controlling; Regulating 2 7
CPC C22 Metallurgy; Ferrous or Non-ferrous Alloys; Treatment of Alloys or Non-ferrous Metals 1 8
CPC F02 Combustion Engines; Hot-gas or Combustion-product Engine Plants 2 5
CPC B64 Aircraft; Aviation; Cosmonautics 2 3
CPC F41 Weapons 2 3
CPC F17 Storing or Distributing Gases or Liquids 1 4
CPC F24 Heating; Ranges; Ventilating 1 4
CPC H03 Basic Electronic Circuitry 1 4
CPC F23 Combustion Apparatus; Combustion Processes 1 3
CPC Y02 Technologies or Applications for Mitigation or Adaptation Against Climate Change 0 4
CPC C09 Dyes; Paints; Polishes; Natural Resins; Adhesives; Compositions Not Otherwise Provided For; Applications of Materials Not Otherwise Provided for 1 2
CPC F16 Engineering Elements and Units; General Measures for Producing and Maintaining Effective Functioning of Machines or Installations; Thermal Insulation in General 1 2
CPC G07 Checking-devices 1 2
CPC H02 Generation; Conversion or Distribution of Electric Power 1 2
CPC A01 Agriculture; Forestry; Animal Husbandry; Hunting; Trapping; Fishing 1 1
CPC F28 Heat Exchange in General 1 1
CPC G21 Nuclear Physics; Nuclear Engineering 1 1
CPC G03 Photography; Cinematography; Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical Waves; Electrography; Holography 1 0

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Count of Inventors by Country and U.S. State

Patent count by country and state based on the location information of first named inventors and of all inventors on the patent.

Country First Named Inventors All Inventors
United States of America 126 432
Canada 1 3
Netherlands 1 2
Spain 0 4
China PRC 0 3
Czech Republic 0 3
Australia 0 1
France 0 1
United Kingdom 0 1
Ireland 0 1
South Korea 0 1
U.S. State First Named Inventors All Inventors
California 26 103
Massachusetts 15 43
Maryland 10 37
New York 7 18
Texas 6 16
Arizona 4 15
Illinois 4 15
Connecticut 4 14
Wisconsin 4 14
Michigan 4 13
Colorado 4 10
Minnesota 4 10
North Carolina 4 10
Ohio 3 13
Tennessee 3 11
Virginia 3 11
Washington 3 11
Florida 3 7
Pennsylvania 2 13
New Jersey 2 9
Missouri 2 8
South Carolina 2 4
West Virginia 2 4
Georgia 1 8
Indiana 1 4
Oregon 1 4
Nevada 1 3
Nebraska 1 1
Rhode Island 0 2
Alabama 0 1

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Count of Assignees and Applicants by Country and U.S. State

Patent count by country and state based on location information of Assignees and Applicants.

Country Assignees Applicants
United States of America 142 161
Canada 2 2
Spain 2 2
Czech Republic 1 1
Ireland 1 1
Netherlands 1 1
South Korea 1 1
U.S. State Assignees Applicants
California 25 32
Massachusetts 19 20
Illinois 11 12
Maryland 10 13
District of Columbia 7 3
New York 6 6
Ohio 6 6
North Carolina 5 6
Michigan 5 5
Texas 5 5
Pennsylvania 4 4
Georgia 4 3
Wisconsin 3 7
Minnesota 3 4
Colorado 3 3
Connecticut 3 3
Virginia 3 3
Missouri 2 6
Arizona 2 4
Tennessee 2 3
Nevada 2 2
Oregon 2 2
Washington 2 2
Rhode Island 2 1
South Carolina 2 1
Florida 1 1
Idaho 1 1
Indiana 1 1
Nebraska 1 1
West Virginia 0 1

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Technology Center Explainer

How Tech Centers and Art Units Are Organized And Why It Matters

Patents travel from Technology Center to Art Unit to Group Art Unit to Patent Examiner.

The USPTO's patent corps is organized into Technology Centers (TCs), groups of patent examiners with specific scientific and technical domain expertise. Technology Centers are further divided into Art Units (AUs) organized by major types of inventive art within a scientific or technical domain. Art Units are organized into Group Art Units, even more specialized and granular teams of examiners.

Group Art Units (GAUs) are where patent examiners prosecute patent applications. Patent applications are docketed to examiners based on specific subject matter classifications of a particular GAU.

Understanding Technology Centers, Art Units, and Group Art Units helps you understand what type of inventions are being prosecuted within each scientific and technical domain, how long it takes from the date a patent application is filed to the time a final decision on the patentability of the invention is made.

Technology Centers and Art Units

Click or touch the accordion panel to open it and see the way different types of inventions are grouped together within Art Units.

Patents examined here cover:

Art Unit Technical & Scientific Domains
1610 Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
1620 Organic Chemistry
1630 Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
1640 Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
1650 Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzyme
1660 Plants

About Plant Patents

Plant Patents are granted to an inventor who has invented, or discovered and asexually reproduced a distinct and new variety of plant, other than a tuber propagated plant or a plant found in an uncultivated state. If you've ever eaten a pluot, you've enjoyed the fruit of a plant patent.

Plant patent numbers begin with a "PP" followed by a five digit number. The first Plant Patent was issued in 1931. Plant patents are valid for 20 years from the filing date.

Patents examined here cover:

Art Unit Technical & Scientific Domains
1710 Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
1720 Fuel Cells, Batteries, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Composition
1730 Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalysts, Electrophotography, Photolithography
1740 Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding
1760 Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
1770 Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
1780 Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material, Adhesive Composition, Fabrics
1790 Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry

Patents examined here cover:

Art Unit Technical & Scientific Domains
2110 Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
2120 Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material, Adhesive Composition, Fabrics
2130 Fuel Cells, Batteries, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Composition
2140/2170 Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalysts, Electrophotography, Photolithography
2150/2160 Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding
2180 Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
2190 Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus

Patents examined here cover:

Art Unit Technical & Scientific Domains
2410/2460/2470 Multiplex, VoIP
2420 Cable and Television
2430/2490 Cryptography and Security
2440/2450 Computer Networks
2480 Recording and Compression

Patents examined here cover:

Art Unit Technical & Scientific Domains
2610 Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory
2620 Selective Visual Display Systems
2630 Digital and Optical Communications
2640 Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details
2650 Videophones and Telephonic Communications; Audio Signals; Digital Audio Data Processing; Linguistics, Speech Processing and Audio Compression
2660 Digital Cameras; Image Analysis; Applications; pattern Recognition; Color and Compression; Enhancement and Transformation
2670 Facsimile; Printer; Color; halftone; Scanner; Computer Graphic Processing; 3-D Animation; Display Color; Attributes; Object Processing; Hardware and Memory
2680 Telemetry and Code Generation; Vehicles and System Alarms; Selective Communication; Dynamic Storage Systems; Mechanical parts of Disk Drives; Signal Processing and Control Processing in Disk Drives
2690 Selective Visual Display Systems

More broadly TC 2800 Art Units cover Semiconductors/Memory, Circuits/Measuring and Testing, Optics/Photocopying, Printing/Measuring and Testing.

Patents examined here cover:

Art Unit Technical & Scientific Domains
2810/2820/2890 Semiconductors/Memory
2830/2840 Electrical Circuits and Systems
2850/2860 Printing/Measuring and Testing
2870/2880 Optics

About Design Patents

The design FOR an article. Not to the design OF an article.

Patents examined here cover Design patents cover the appearance of an article. The design for an article consists of the visual characteristics embodied in or applied to an article. Since a design is manifested in appearance, the subject matter of a design patent application may relate to the configuration or shape of an article, to the surface ornamentation applied to an article, or to the combination of configuration and surface ornamentation.

Design is inseparable from the article to which it is applied and cannot exist alone merely as a scheme of surface ornamentation. It must be a definite, preconceived thing, capable of reproduction and not merely the chance result of a method.

Design patent numbers begin with a "D" followed by a six digit number. The first Design Patent was issued in 1843. The term of a design patent is 15 years measured from the date of grant, if the design application was filed on or after May 13, 2015 (or 14 years if filed before May 13, 2015).

Patents examined here cover:

Art Unit Technical & Scientific Domains
3610 Surface Transportation
3620 Business Methods — Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing
3630 Static Structures, Supports and Furniture
3640 Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
3650 Material and Article Handling
3660 Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
3670 Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware
3680 Business Methods — Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation
3690 Business Methods — Finance/Banking/ Insurance

Patents examined here cover:

Art Unit Technical & Scientific Domains
3710 Amusement and Education Devices
3720 Manufacturing Devices and Processes, Machine Tools and Hand Tools
3730 Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting
3740 Thermal and Combustion Technology, Motive and Fluid Power Systems
3750 Fluid Handling and Dispensing
3760 Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion
3770 Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies
3780 Body Treatment, Kinestherapy, and Exercising

Patents examined here cover:

Art Unit Technical & Scientific Domains
3970 Express Abandonments
3990 Central Reexamination Unit

FedInvent Patents

Each week FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding from the US federal government. We assemble a weekly patent catalog and analyze the inventions, the inventors, and the entities who received the patents. We map the patents back to the agency that funded the R&D that led to the new invention. FedInvent uses the funding opportunity descriptions, the grants, and the contracts that define the research areas of interest, and the R&D policies and priorities of that drove and are driving the funding to organize each week's patents.

ABOUT OUR DATA

The weekly patent catalog includes patents with government interest statements indicating federal funding; and patents where the assignee, the owner of the invention, is the federal government. This includes work on federal grants, work on federal contracts, innovation by Federal Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) funded by Federal Departments and University Affiliated Research Centers funded by DoD.

Not every inventor is a government contractor. There are many inventions conceived and patented by scientists and engineers working for the federal government or serving in the military.

THE NUMBERS MAY NOT MATCH THE NUMBER OF PATENTS WE ANALYZE EACH WEEK

The numbers in the tables presented on this page will not add up to the number of patents granted each week because patents are counted by each agency that funded the creation of the invention. Patents and funding have a many-to-many relationship. One patent may have more than one funding grant or contract associated with it. A grant or contract may lead to more than one patent. More than one agency may have funded the inventors or the contract. More than one university or business may have worked together on an invention. When we report the numbers here, we associate a patent with all of the entities and funding that are reflected on the patent and report them to you. This approach presents a more complete picture of what's going on in the federal innovation ecosphere. Put another way, the numbers in the tables presented on this page may not always add up to the number of patents each week because patents are counted by each agency that funded the creation of the invention.

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