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New Taxpayer Funded Patents for Tuesday, December 20, 2022 

This page was updated on Wednesday, December 21, 2022 at 06:11 AM GMT

FedInvent analyzed 125 taxpayer-funded patents this week.

On Tuesday, December 20, 2022, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) granted 125 taxpayer-funded patents; including 120 patents containing government interest statements and 24 patents where federal government agencies were an assignee or applicant. Together, 125 patents granted this week are the result of US government-funded research & development.

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The List of This Week's Patents

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Patent Title
001 11528988
 
Separation systems, devices and methods 
002 11529054
 
Method and system for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) diagnosis using magnetic resonance spectroscopy 
003 11529108
 
Methods and apparatus for improving the image resolution and sensitivity of whole-body positron emission tomography (PET) imaging 
004 11529122
 
Methods and apparatuses for measuring tissue stiffness changes using ultrasound elasticity imaging 
005 11529131
 
Surgical retractor 
006 11529201
 
Single site robotic device and related systems and methods 
007 11529205
 
Precision injector/extractor for robot-assisted minimally-invasive surgery 
008 11529290
 
Mobile medical drug management systems and methods 
009 11529291
 
Instrumented infant feeding bottle 
010 11529307
 
Insoluble and dispersible protein and dye-containing particles for use as colorants 
011 11529312
 
Francisella lipids as broad anti-inflammatory therapeutics and associated methods of use 
012 11529314
 
Lipid-based nanoparticles for encapsulation and sustained release of therapeutic agents 
013 11529315
 
Modified guanidine-containing polymers for biologic delivery 
014 11529318
 
Devices and methods for local delivery of tacrolimus 
015 11529323
 
Methods and compositions for the treatment of cancer cachexia 
016 11529324
 
Use of Kv11.1 channel inhibitors for treatment of pulmonary hypertension 
017 11529335
 
Compositions and methods for treating cancer 
018 11529338
 
Compositions and methods for treating cancer 
019 11529340
 
Combination for treating pain 
020 11529349
 
Aldose reductase inhibitors and uses thereof 
021 11529358
 
Treatment of conditions associated with myotonic dystrophy 
022 11529366
 
Hydroxypropyl beta-cyclodextrin compositions and methods 
023 11529388
 
Peptide-polynucleotide-hyaluronic acid nanoparticles and methods for polynucleotide transfection 
024 11529391
 
Reversing deficient hedgehog signaling restores deficient skeletal regeneration 
025 11529397
 
Method of treating mucopolysaccharidosis type IVA 
026 11529404
 
Doubly attenuated late liver stage malaria parasites and related compositions and methods 
027 11529408
 
Methods and compositions for producing an adenovirus vector for use with multiple vaccinations 
028 11529426
 
Methods and compositions for targeting tissue lesions 
029 11529430
 
Polydopamine decorated tobacco mosaic theranostic virus nanoparticles 
030 11529447
 
Method for peritoneal removal of electrolytes and inflammatory mediators 
031 11529519
 
Technique to improve deep brain stimulation targeting during intraoperative microelectrode recordings 
032 11529587
 
Materials and methods for producing blood products 
033 11529661
 
Sheet transitioning in spiral formed structures 
034 11529674
 
Refractory metal core finishing technique 
035 11529771
 
Tool assembly for composite part fabrication 
036 11530017
 
Scuttle module for field configurable vehicle 
037 11530019
 
Propulsion system for field configurable vehicle 
038 11530026
 
Energy subsystems integrated into structural components of an aircraft 
039 11530167
 
Silicon oxycarbide environmental barrier coating 
040 11530180
 
Alpha-5 beta-1 inhibitors 
041 11530181
 
IL-6 inhibitors and methods of treatment 
042 11530189
 
Carbamate compounds and methods of making and using same 
043 11530203
 
Tetrazole azasydnone 
044 11530204
 
Biocatalytic synthesis of cryptophycin anticancer agents 
045 11530219
 
Ligands to cereblon (CRBN) 
046 11530232
 
Reversibly soluble bases for lignin oxidative depolymerization 
047 11530235
 
Compounds and methods used in assessing mono-PARP activity 
048 11530240
 
Catheter injectable cyclic peptide pro-gelators for myocardial tissue engineering 
049 11530245
 
Split intein mediated polymerization and production of mussel foot adhesive protein materials 
050 11530246
 
Regulated synthetic gene expression systems 
051 11530252
 
Methods and compositions relating to chimeric antigen receptors 
052 11530257
 
Chimeric antibodies for treatment of amyloid deposition diseases 
053 11530259
 
Therapies and methods to treat TLR2-mediated diseases and disorders 
054 11530278
 
Dynamic control of colocalization of proteins 
055 11530288
 
Anhydrous routes to highly processable covalent network polymers and blends 
056 11530291
 
Post polymerization cure shape memory polymers 
057 11530328
 
Coating compositions exhibiting corrosion resistance properties and related coated substrates 
058 11530378
 
Nanostraw well insert devices for improved cell transfection and viability 
059 11530381
 
Oxygen gradient hydrogel drug screening 
060 11530385
 
Hormone responsive tissue culture system and uses thereof 
061 11530388
 
Methods of engineering human induced pluripotent stem cells to produce liver tissue 
062 11530404
 
Enzyme immobilization in hierarchical metal-organic frameworks 
063 11530419
 
Pathogen resistance in plants 
064 11530421
 
Self-inactivating endonuclease-encoding nucleic acids and methods of using the same 
065 11530424
 
Efficient CRISPR/HDR-mediated knock-in system and method of use 
066 11530425
 
Systems, methods, and compositions for correction of frameshift mutations 
067 11530432
 
Compositions and methods for rapid in vitro synthesis of bioconjugate vaccines in vitro via production and N-glycosylation of protein carriers in detoxified prokaryotic cell lysates 
068 11530433
 
Artificial secretion peptides for heterologous protein production 
069 11530435
 
Compositions and methods for improved RNA capture 
070 11530436
 
Multiplex end-tagging amplification of nucleic acids 
071 11530438
 
Highly specific circular proximity ligation assay 
072 11530440
 
Methods for quantitating DNA using digital multiple displacement amplification 
073 11530441
 
Methods for the amplification of bisulfite-treated DNA 
074 11530458
 
Methods of using multi-ligand metal complexes to perform oxidative catalytic pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass 
075 11530468
 
High-entropy alloys with high strength 
076 11530616
 
Finger seal assembly for gas turbine engine and method of making 
077 11530644
 
Ericsson cycle turbine engine 
078 11530703
 
Orbiting scroll device lubrication 
079 11530714
 
Connector for non-cylindrical composite tubing 
080 11530863
 
Thermo-chemical recuperation systems, devices, and methods 
081 11530902
 
Composite enclosure for explosive reactive armor and methods of manufacturing the same 
082 11530907
 
Direct impingement cook-off mechanism and system 
083 11530945
 
Dimensional measuring system 
084 11530979
 
Multifocal photoacoustic microscopy through an ergodic relay 
085 11531005
 
High-throughput label-free enzymatic bioassays using DESI-MS 
086 11531011
 
Imaging device with gated integrator 
087 11531025
 
Formation and use of embedded solutions in nanoscale materials 
088 11531027
 
Low cost disposable medical sensor fabricated on glass, paper or plastics 
089 11531029
 
Methods and compositions for the detection of flavivirus infections 
090 11531099
 
System and method for detection and reporting of targets with data links 
091 11531117
 
Jitter tracking anti-spoofing algorithm 
092 11531124
 
Inorganic ternary halide semiconductors for hard radiation detection 
093 11531126
 
Calibration method and system for photon or particle counting detectors 
094 11531207
 
Devices, apparatus and method for providing photostimulation and imaging of structures 
095 11531737
 
Biometric identity disambiguation 
096 11531844
 
Using machine learning and/or neural networks to validate stem cells and their derivatives (2-D cells and 3-D tissues) for use in cell therapy and tissue engineered products 
097 11531851
 
Sequential minimal optimization algorithm for learning using partially available privileged information 
098 11531920
 
System and process for verifying powder bed fusion additive manufacturing operation as being defect free 
099 11532150
 
Method for determining a histogram of variable sample rate waveforms 
100 11532158
 
Methods and systems for customized image and video analysis 
101 11532241
 
Simulation based training system for measurement of cognitive load to automatically customize simulation content 
102 11532296
 
Broadband acoustic absorbers 
103 11532355
 
Non-volatile multi-level cell memory using a ferroelectric superlattice and related systems 
104 11532381
 
Distinguishing protein aggregation mechanisms 
105 11532421
 
Magnetic cores with high reluctance differences in flux paths 
106 11532433
 
Method of manufacturing electroplated cobalt-platinum films on substrates 
107 11532471
 
Instrument for separating ions including an interface for transporting generated ions thereto 
108 11532478
 
GaN devices with ion implanted ohmic contacts and method of fabricating devices incorporating the same 
109 11532770
 
Mining unexplored chemistries for phosphors for high-color-quality whitelight-emitting diodes 
110 11532778
 
Fast-rate thermoelectric device 
111 11532806
 
Electrode materials that include an active composition of the formula MgzMxOy for group II cation-based batteries 
112 11532818
 
Solvents and slurries comprising a poly(carboxylic acid) binder for silicon electrode manufacture 
113 11532830
 
Inexpensive metal-free organic redox flow battery (ORBAT) for grid-scale storage 
114 11532832
 
All-vanadium sulfate acid redox flow battery system 
115 11532942
 
Battery safety management system 
116 11533042
 
Distributed-mode beam and frame resonators for high frequency timing circuits 
117 11533062
 
Non-uniform sampling photonic analog-to-digital converter 
118 11533067
 
Self-contained in-phase and quadrature (IQ) image rejection calibration on heterodyne transceivers in millimeter-wave phase array system 
119 11533096
 
Reconfigurable, bi-directional, multi-band front end for a hybrid beamforming transceiver 
120 11533106
 
Automated system for link health assessment in fiber optic networks 
121 11533177
 
Methods and systems for data authentication services 
122 11533178
 
Methods and systems for data authentication services 
123 11533220
 
Network-assisted consensus protocol 
124 11533593
 
System method and computer-accessible medium for blockchain-based distributed ledger for analyzing and tracking environmental targets 
125 11533818
 
Sensor assemblies and methods for emulating interaction of entities within water systems 

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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) 48 2611
Department of Defense (DOD) 35 1936
National Science Foundation (NSF) 24 1110
Department of Energy (DOE) 15 1197
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 3 232
United States Postal Service (USPS) 3 55
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) 2 72
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) 2 87
Department of Agriculture (USDA) 1 95
Department of Commerce (DOC) 1 54
Department of Transportation (USDOT) 1 35
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) 1 7
National Security Agency (NSA) 1 28
Small Business Administration (SBA) 1 99
Government Rights Acknowledged 1 88

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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Patent Title
001 11529108
 
Methods and apparatus for improving the image resolution and sensitivity of whole-body positron emission tomography (PET) imaging 
002 11529122
 
Methods and apparatuses for measuring tissue stiffness changes using ultrasound elasticity imaging 
003 11529291
 
Instrumented infant feeding bottle 
004 11529312
 
Francisella lipids as broad anti-inflammatory therapeutics and associated methods of use 
005 11529314
 
Lipid-based nanoparticles for encapsulation and sustained release of therapeutic agents 
006 11529323
 
Methods and compositions for the treatment of cancer cachexia 
007 11529324
 
Use of Kv11.1 channel inhibitors for treatment of pulmonary hypertension 
008 11529335
 
Compositions and methods for treating cancer 
009 11529338
 
Compositions and methods for treating cancer 
010 11529340
 
Combination for treating pain 
011 11529349
 
Aldose reductase inhibitors and uses thereof 
012 11529358
 
Treatment of conditions associated with myotonic dystrophy 
013 11529366
 
Hydroxypropyl beta-cyclodextrin compositions and methods 
014 11529388
 
Peptide-polynucleotide-hyaluronic acid nanoparticles and methods for polynucleotide transfection 
015 11529391
 
Reversing deficient hedgehog signaling restores deficient skeletal regeneration 
016 11529397
 
Method of treating mucopolysaccharidosis type IVA 
017 11529404
 
Doubly attenuated late liver stage malaria parasites and related compositions and methods 
018 11529408
 
Methods and compositions for producing an adenovirus vector for use with multiple vaccinations 
019 11529426
 
Methods and compositions for targeting tissue lesions 
020 11529430
 
Polydopamine decorated tobacco mosaic theranostic virus nanoparticles 
021 11529519
 
Technique to improve deep brain stimulation targeting during intraoperative microelectrode recordings 
022 11529587
 
Materials and methods for producing blood products 
023 11530180
 
Alpha-5 beta-1 inhibitors 
024 11530181
 
IL-6 inhibitors and methods of treatment 
025 11530189
 
Carbamate compounds and methods of making and using same 
026 11530204
 
Biocatalytic synthesis of cryptophycin anticancer agents 
027 11530219
 
Ligands to cereblon (CRBN) 
028 11530235
 
Compounds and methods used in assessing mono-PARP activity 
029 11530240
 
Catheter injectable cyclic peptide pro-gelators for myocardial tissue engineering 
030 11530252
 
Methods and compositions relating to chimeric antigen receptors 
031 11530257
 
Chimeric antibodies for treatment of amyloid deposition diseases 
032 11530259
 
Therapies and methods to treat TLR2-mediated diseases and disorders 
033 11530291
 
Post polymerization cure shape memory polymers 
034 11530381
 
Oxygen gradient hydrogel drug screening 
035 11530385
 
Hormone responsive tissue culture system and uses thereof 
036 11530388
 
Methods of engineering human induced pluripotent stem cells to produce liver tissue 
037 11530421
 
Self-inactivating endonuclease-encoding nucleic acids and methods of using the same 
038 11530425
 
Systems, methods, and compositions for correction of frameshift mutations 
039 11530435
 
Compositions and methods for improved RNA capture 
040 11530436
 
Multiplex end-tagging amplification of nucleic acids 
041 11530438
 
Highly specific circular proximity ligation assay 
042 11530440
 
Methods for quantitating DNA using digital multiple displacement amplification 
043 11530441
 
Methods for the amplification of bisulfite-treated DNA 
044 11530979
 
Multifocal photoacoustic microscopy through an ergodic relay 
045 11531029
 
Methods and compositions for the detection of flavivirus infections 
046 11531126
 
Calibration method and system for photon or particle counting detectors 
047 11531207
 
Devices, apparatus and method for providing photostimulation and imaging of structures 
048 11531844
 
Using machine learning and/or neural networks to validate stem cells and their derivatives (2-D cells and 3-D tissues) for use in cell therapy and tissue engineered products 

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Department of Defense (DOD) Agencies

Patent Title
001 11529054
 
Method and system for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) diagnosis using magnetic resonance spectroscopy 
002 11529338
 
Compositions and methods for treating cancer 
003 11529771
 
Tool assembly for composite part fabrication 
004 11530026
 
Energy subsystems integrated into structural components of an aircraft 
005 11530432
 
Compositions and methods for rapid in vitro synthesis of bioconjugate vaccines in vitro via production and N-glycosylation of protein carriers in detoxified prokaryotic cell lysates 
006 11532355
 
Non-volatile multi-level cell memory using a ferroelectric superlattice and related systems 
007 11532421
 
Magnetic cores with high reluctance differences in flux paths 
008 11533220
 
Network-assisted consensus protocol 

Department of the ARMY (DOA)

Patent Title
001 11529054
 
Method and system for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) diagnosis using magnetic resonance spectroscopy 
002 11529201
 
Single site robotic device and related systems and methods 
003 11529290
 
Mobile medical drug management systems and methods 
004 11529318
 
Devices and methods for local delivery of tacrolimus 
005 11529338
 
Compositions and methods for treating cancer 
006 11530203
 
Tetrazole azasydnone 
007 11530902
 
Composite enclosure for explosive reactive armor and methods of manufacturing the same 
008 11531005
 
High-throughput label-free enzymatic bioassays using DESI-MS 
009 11532241
 
Simulation based training system for measurement of cognitive load to automatically customize simulation content 

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

Patent Title
001 11529674
 
Refractory metal core finishing technique 
002 11530017
 
Scuttle module for field configurable vehicle 
003 11530019
 
Propulsion system for field configurable vehicle 
004 11530167
 
Silicon oxycarbide environmental barrier coating 
005 11530245
 
Split intein mediated polymerization and production of mussel foot adhesive protein materials 
006 11530644
 
Ericsson cycle turbine engine 
007 11530714
 
Connector for non-cylindrical composite tubing 
008 11530907
 
Direct impingement cook-off mechanism and system 
009 11532478
 
GaN devices with ion implanted ohmic contacts and method of fabricating devices incorporating the same 
010 11533042
 
Distributed-mode beam and frame resonators for high frequency timing circuits 

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

Patent Title
001 11529131
 
Surgical retractor 
002 11529447
 
Method for peritoneal removal of electrolytes and inflammatory mediators 
003 11529771
 
Tool assembly for composite part fabrication 
004 11530026
 
Energy subsystems integrated into structural components of an aircraft 
005 11530328
 
Coating compositions exhibiting corrosion resistance properties and related coated substrates 
006 11530404
 
Enzyme immobilization in hierarchical metal-organic frameworks 
007 11531920
 
System and process for verifying powder bed fusion additive manufacturing operation as being defect free 
008 11533067
 
Self-contained in-phase and quadrature (IQ) image rejection calibration on heterodyne transceivers in millimeter-wave phase array system 
009 11533106
 
Automated system for link health assessment in fiber optic networks 

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Take Me To The Details
Patent Title
001 11528988
 
Separation systems, devices and methods 
002 11529201
 
Single site robotic device and related systems and methods 
003 11529205
 
Precision injector/extractor for robot-assisted minimally-invasive surgery 
004 11529315
 
Modified guanidine-containing polymers for biologic delivery 
005 11529661
 
Sheet transitioning in spiral formed structures 
006 11530240
 
Catheter injectable cyclic peptide pro-gelators for myocardial tissue engineering 
007 11530246
 
Regulated synthetic gene expression systems 
008 11530278
 
Dynamic control of colocalization of proteins 
009 11530288
 
Anhydrous routes to highly processable covalent network polymers and blends 
010 11530378
 
Nanostraw well insert devices for improved cell transfection and viability 
011 11530381
 
Oxygen gradient hydrogel drug screening 
012 11530419
 
Pathogen resistance in plants 
013 11530432
 
Compositions and methods for rapid in vitro synthesis of bioconjugate vaccines in vitro via production and N-glycosylation of protein carriers in detoxified prokaryotic cell lysates 
014 11530863
 
Thermo-chemical recuperation systems, devices, and methods 
015 11531025
 
Formation and use of embedded solutions in nanoscale materials 
016 11531027
 
Low cost disposable medical sensor fabricated on glass, paper or plastics 
017 11531851
 
Sequential minimal optimization algorithm for learning using partially available privileged information 
018 11532381
 
Distinguishing protein aggregation mechanisms 
019 11532433
 
Method of manufacturing electroplated cobalt-platinum films on substrates 
020 11532471
 
Instrument for separating ions including an interface for transporting generated ions thereto 
021 11532770
 
Mining unexplored chemistries for phosphors for high-color-quality whitelight-emitting diodes 
022 11533096
 
Reconfigurable, bi-directional, multi-band front end for a hybrid beamforming transceiver 
023 11533220
 
Network-assisted consensus protocol 
024 11533593
 
System method and computer-accessible medium for blockchain-based distributed ledger for analyzing and tracking environmental targets 

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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
Y02B Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications
11532830  Inexpensive metal-free organic redox flow battery (ORBAT) for grid-scale storage      
Y02E Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution
11529661  Sheet transitioning in spiral formed structures      
11532832  All-vanadium sulfate acid redox flow battery system      
Y02T Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation
11529674  Refractory metal core finishing technique      

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)482611
National Institutes of Health (NIH)462494
National Cancer Institute (NCI)15588
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)5258
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)5303
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)4175
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)4345
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)3341
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)3241
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)371
National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)390
National Eye Institute (NEI)387
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)254
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)264
NIH Office of the Director (NIHOD)170
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)152
National Institute on Aging (NIA)196
National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)143
Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR)119
Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)117

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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.

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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 50
1700 Chemical and Materials Engineering 19
2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components 19
3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, Gaming and Medical Devices/Processes 14
3600 Transportation, Electronic Commerce, Construction, Agriculture, Licensing and Review 13
2600 Communications 8
2100 Computer Architecture Software and Information 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
(CrossRef)
CPC A61 Medical or Veterinary Science; Hygiene 30 184
CPC C07 Organic Chemistry 15 110
CPC C12 Biochemistry; Beer; Spirits; Wine; Vinegar; Microbiology; Enzymology; Mutation or Genetic Engineering 16 97
CPC H01 Basic Electric Elements 10 61
CPC G01 Measuring; Testing 11 45
CPC G06 Computing; Calculating; Counting 6 35
CPC C08 Organic Macromolecular Compounds; Their Preparation or Chemical Working-up; Compositions Based Thereon 2 35
CPC H04 Electric Communication Technique 7 14
CPC B01 Physical or Chemical Processes or Apparatus in General 1 19
CPC B29 Working of Plastics; Working of Substances in a Plastic State in General 1 19
CPC F05 Indexing Schemes Relating to Engines or Pumps in Various Subclasses of Classes F01-F04 0 15
CPC C09 Dyes; Paints; Polishes; Natural Resins; Adhesives; Compositions Not Otherwise Provided For; Applications of Materials Not Otherwise Provided for 1 11
CPC C01 Inorganic Chemistry 0 12
CPC H03 Basic Electronic Circuitry 2 8
CPC F04 Positive - Displacement Machines for Liquids; Pumps for Liquids or Elastic Fluids 1 7
CPC B63 Ships or Other Waterborne Vessels; Related Equipment 2 5
CPC F01 Machines or Engines in General; Engine Plants in General; Steam Engines 1 6
CPC F16 Engineering Elements and Units; General Measures for Producing and Maintaining Effective Functioning of Machines or Installations; Thermal Insulation in General 1 5
CPC G16 Information and Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted for Specific Application Fields 1 5
CPC C04 Cements; Concrete; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories 1 4
CPC H02 Generation; Conversion or Distribution of Electric Power 1 4
CPC Y02 Technologies or Applications for Mitigation or Adaptation Against Climate Change 0 5
CPC A46 Brushware 1 3
CPC B64 Aircraft; Aviation; Cosmonautics 1 3
CPC F42 Ammunition; Blasting 1 3
CPC B22 Casting; Powder Metallurgy 1 2
CPC F41 Weapons 1 2
CPC G02 Optics 1 2
CPC G09 Education; Cryptography; Display; Advertising; Seals 1 2
CPC G11 Information Storage 1 2
CPC C13 Sugar Industry 1 1
CPC C22 Metallurgy; Ferrous or Non-ferrous Alloys; Treatment of Alloys or Non-ferrous Metals 1 1
CPC F02 Combustion Engines; Hot-gas or Combustion-product Engine Plants 1 1
CPC F25 Refrigeration or Cooling; Combined Heating and Refrigeration Systems; Heat Pump Systems; Manufacture or Storage of Ice; Liquefaction Solidification of Gases 1 1
CPC H05 Electric Techniques Not Otherwise Provided for 1 1
CPC B21 Mechanical Metal-working Without Essentially Removing Material; Punching Metal 1 0
CPC G10 Musical Instruments; Acoustics 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 124 412
United Kingdom 1 3
Colombia 0 2
China PRC 0 1
China Hong Kong 0 1
Japan 0 1
Mexico 0 1
Singapore 0 1
U.S. State First Named Inventors All Inventors
California 21 72
Massachusetts 8 30
Florida 8 18
Virginia 7 17
Pennsylvania 6 24
Illinois 6 21
Washington 6 21
Missouri 6 14
Maryland 5 26
Connecticut 5 19
Colorado 5 17
New York 5 17
Michigan 4 16
Ohio 3 16
Indiana 3 9
Georgia 3 7
Minnesota 2 8
New Jersey 2 7
Texas 2 7
Oregon 2 6
District of Columbia 2 5
New Hampshire 2 3
Nevada 1 5
Tennessee 1 4
Alabama 1 3
Delaware 1 3
Iowa 1 3
Arizona 1 2
Louisiana 1 2
Montana 1 2
North Carolina 1 2
Wisconsin 1 2
New Mexico 1 1
Nebraska 0 2
Kansas 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 138158
Denmark 11
Colombia 02
U.S. State Assignees Applicants
California 2121
District of Columbia 149
Massachusetts 1212
Illinois 77
Florida 610
New York 67
Ohio 66
Pennsylvania 66
Washington 64
Connecticut 56
Colorado 55
Maryland 55
Missouri 411
Georgia 44
Indiana 44
Michigan 44
Tennessee 44
Minnesota 27
Alabama 22
Iowa 22
Louisiana 22
Texas 22
Delaware 13
Arizona 11
Nebraska 11
Nevada 11
New Hampshire 11
New Jersey 11
New Mexico 11
Oregon 11
Wisconsin 11
Virginia 07

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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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