Patents Assigned to FORCE-A
  • Camelidae single-domain antibodies against and methods of use
    Patent number: 12030932
    Abstract: Single-domain antibodies (SAbs) against three Yersinia pestis surface proteins (LcrV, YscF, and F1), nucleic acid sequences encoding the SAbs, and polypeptides comprising two or more SAbs capable of recognizing two or more epitopes and/or antigens. The present invention further includes methods for preventing or treating Y. pestis infections in a patient; methods for detecting and/or diagnosing Y. pestis infections; and devices and methods for identifying and/or detecting Y. pestis on a surface and/or in an environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Camilla A Mauzy, Serge Victor Marie Muyldermans
  • Article comprising bonded substrate comprising nanocrystals and method of making and using same
    Patent number: 12031074
    Abstract: The present invention relates to devices for measuring property changes via in-situ micro-viscometry and methods of using same. The aforementioned device is inexpensive and can be used to quickly and accurately measure numerous physical and chemical property changes, including but not limited to the rate of chemical cure, change in tack, and rate of mass loss, for example, rate of moisture, solvent and/or plasticizer change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventor: Michael D. Sherburne
  • PROJECTION USING LIQUID CRYSTAL POLARIZATION GRATINGS TO MODULATE LIGHT
    Publication number: 20240219794
    Abstract: A projector includes a beam homogenizer receiving light from a light source and creating a predetermined illumination, and a spatial light modulator including grating stages to receive the predetermined illumination. Each grating stage may include a plurality of pixels where corresponding pixels in the grating stages are aligned with one another. Each of the pixels may include a liquid crystal layer disposed between two substrates, where a pixel is switchable by applying a voltage thereto, with a grating period of the pixel selected such that, when the voltage is applied to the pixel and light is passed therethrough, optical energy from the light in plus and minus first orders is deflected toward sides of the pixel and optical energy from a zero order of the light is allowed to pass through the pixel, with a polarization state of the light maintained through the pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2024
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: Government of the United States as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventor: Joshua Lentz
  • Bis(aniline) compounds containing multiple substituents with carbon-carbon triple-bonded groups
    Patent number: 12024481
    Abstract: The invention relates to bis(aniline) compounds containing multiple arylethynyl, alkylethynyl, ethynyl groups or their combinations, processes of making such compounds and materials comprising such compounds. Such, bis(aniline) compounds preferably comprise multiple phenylethynyl (PE) groups, i.e. 2-4 PE moieties. Such compounds are useful monomers for the preparation of polyimides, polyamides and poly(amide-imides) whose post-fabrication crosslinking chemistry (i.e. reaction temperature) can be controlled by the number of PE per repeat unit as well as finding utility in thermosetting matrix resins, 3D printable resins, and as high-carbon-content precursors to carbon-carbon composites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Loon-Seng Tan, Zhenning Yu
  • Grenade pouch lid
    Patent number: 12025417
    Abstract: A grenade pouch lid has a rim engagement feature, and the rim engagement feature is operable to secure the planar body to an object having a disc-shaped rim when the rim engagement feature is urged against the rim. The rim engagement feature may include at least two spaced apart elements defining a space therebetween for receiving the rim. The planar body may include a slot, the slot being operable to receive one end of a strap. The planar body may include a wedge shaped portion, the wedge-shaped portion being opposed to the rim engagement feature. The rim engagement feature and the rim may have the same radius. The planar body may cover the center of the rim when the planar body is secured to the object. The object having a disc-shaped rim may be a 40 mm grenade. A grenade pouch is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Blue Force Gear, Inc.
    Inventors: Ashley A. Burnsed, Jr., Stephen G. Hilliard
  • System and method improving satellite capability through power sharing
    Patent number: 12024316
    Abstract: In accordance with various embodiments of the disclosed subject matter, a system and method is configured for scheduling and invoking power sharing among satellites within a constellation of satellites such that energy storage systems at a target satellite may by charged prior to the use of electric propulsion thrust activation or other high electricity demand operations (or such operations contemporaneously augmented) by power beams transmitted from other (source) satellites within the constellation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Paul E. Hausgen, David M. Wilt
  • Remotely operable cover for aircraft refueling boom
    Patent number: 12024311
    Abstract: A boom cover for covering a refueling boom, particularly a flying boom, of a refueling aircraft. The boom has a closure which has a shield sized to cover the open end of the refueling boom, to prevent intrusion of debris, animals, etc. The closure has a hoop for circumscribing the boom and drawing the shield taut for remaining on the boom and flaccid for attachment to and removal from the boom. The closure may be attached to and removed from the boom by a longitudinally rotatable handle which is manipulated by a ground operator. Optionally the handle may be removable from the closure for use on subsequent aircraft or storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventor: Jacob Helzer
  • SELECTIVE CHEMICAL SENSOR
    Publication number: 20240210350
    Abstract: Disclosed is a selective chemical sensor, methods of production, and methods of use, where the sensor utilizes an electrochemical sensor element protected by a semi-selective polymeric matrix in conjunction with a selecting compound doped into the matrix along with an acid or base. The polymeric matrix serves as an analyte capture matrix, while the selecting compound reacts with the analyte, further improving the selectivity of the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2024
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: Government of the United States as Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Steve S Kim, Rajesh Naik, Claude C Grigsby, Jennifer A. Martin, Michael Brothers, Yen H Ngo
  • All-aromatic liquid-crystalline homo-polyimides with aromatic endgroups and crosslinked products therefrom
    Patent number: 12017972
    Abstract: A family of low-molecular-weight, main-chain thermotropic liquid-crystalline polyimides (TLC-PI) that are crosslinkable is disclosed. These all-aromatic TLC-PI are derived from (i) wholly aromatic and flexible diamine monomers, in which the linkage between the two aniline-ends contains a relatively high heat-tolerant but flexible chain constituted by two or more units of 1,4-phenoxy or 1,3-phenoxy or in combinations of both. Processes of making and using such all-aromatic TLC-PI is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: The Government of the United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Loon-Seng Tan, Zhenning Yu
  • Disk engine with circumferential swirl radial combustor
    Patent number: 12018613
    Abstract: A disk engine and system configured to provide high power at a reduced axial length is disclosed herein. The disk engine includes a radial compressor, a compressor discharge manifold positioned circumferentially about compressor, a combustion chamber positioned within the discharge manifold and a radial turbine positioned radially inward of the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Brian Bohan, Marc Polanka, Bennett Staton
  • SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR MESSAGE-BASED CONTROL AND MONITORING OF A BUSINESS PROCESS
    Publication number: 20240202615
    Abstract: A system for monitoring and controlling a business process involving a plurality of workstations or/and computerized services, the system comprising apparatus for receiving messages exchanged between the plurality of workstations or computerized services and having content, and for deriving from the content of the messages, monitoring information regarding the single business process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2024
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: CONTROLS FORCE LTD.
    Inventors: Boris SHAPIRA, Vladimir FORFUTDINOV
  • Toy gun having embedded magazine
    Patent number: 12013206
    Abstract: A toy gun having embedded magazine includes: a gun body having a bullet feeding slot; a top magazine cover pivotally connected at a top end of the gun body and having an accommodating slot and a first latching structure disposed on one side facing the gun body, the first latching structure is located at one lateral side of the accommodating slot; and a magazine assembly detachably disposed in the accommodating slot and having a main body, the main body has a bullet discharging funnel and a second latching structure, the second latching structure is correspondingly latched with the first latching structure; when the top magazine cover pivotally rotates from top to down to cover on top of the gun body, the bullet discharging funnel is correspondingly disposed in the bullet feeding slot. Accordingly, the magazine is embedded and hidden in the top magazine cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: VEGA FORCE INTERNATIONAL CORP.
    Inventors: Shih-Che Kung, Wei-Hung Chung
  • Electrowetting assisted selective printing
    Patent number: 12011759
    Abstract: An extrusion printing process for conductive materials and a conductive material extrusion system. The process includes attaching a counter-electrode to a first side of a substrate. A drive voltage is applied to the counter-electrode and to a conductive material to be extruded onto a second side of the substrate, opposite the first side. The conductive material is extruded onto the second side of the substrate while the drive voltage is being applied to the counter-electrode and conductive material. The conductive material is selected from a metal having a melting point ranging from about ?20° C. to about 150° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Christopher E Tabor, Alexander M Watson, Alexander B Cook
  • Turbine cooling system with energy separation
    Patent number: 12012895
    Abstract: A method and system for cooling an engine and/or vehicle using energy separation is disclosed herein. An energy separation device is operable for separating a compressed gaseous coolant stream into a first relatively cooler coolant flow stream and a second relatively hotter coolant flow stream. The relative cooler coolant flow stream is directed to a first region requiring increased cooling and the relative hotter coolant flow stream is directed to a second region requiring lower cooling than the first region in the engine or vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: James Rutledge, Matthew Fuqua, Carol Bryant
  • Application of Inhibitors Targeting CD226 Molecules in Anti-Tumor Metastasis
    Publication number: 20240189383
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of biotechnology, and in particular to an application of inhibitors targeting CD226 molecules in anti-tumor metastasis. In view of the important role of platelets in mediating tumor metastasis, the present disclosure develops small-molecule inhibitors with blocking effects by targeting CD226 molecules, an important target. It can destroy the interaction between platelets and tumor cells, and inhibit the metastasis of tumor cells, and it is important for research and development of new methods to control tumor metastasis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: AIR FORCE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ran Zhuang, Yuan Zhang, Yong Ding, Yitian Liu
  • Temperature and pressure sensors and methods
    Patent number: 12007252
    Abstract: Temperature sensors, pressure sensors, methods of making the same, and methods of detecting pressures and temperatures using the same are provided. In an embodiment, the temperature sensor includes a ceramic coil inductor having a first end plate and a second end plate, wherein the ceramic coil inductor is formed of a ceramic composite that comprises carbon nanotubes or, carbon nanofibers, or a combination of carbon nanotubes and carbon nanofibers thereof dispersed in a ceramic matrix; and a thin film polymer-derived ceramic (PDC) nanocomposite disposed between the first and the second end plates, wherein the thin film PDC nanocomposite has a dielectric constant that increases monotonically with temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignees: The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc., Government of the United States as Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Chengying Xu, Amanda Schrand, Reamonn Soto
  • Weapon control system with integrated manual and assisted targeting
    Patent number: 12007203
    Abstract: The devices, systems, and methods described herein are directed to a manual and assisted targeting system integrated into a weapon control system that includes dual triggers. One trigger is fully manual and is always operational. The second trigger is electronically controlled and is linked to aiming sensors, targeting sensors, and a controller comprising firing control logic. The firing control logic calculates an aim goal, based at least partially on location information pertaining to the target, and determines when the difference between the aimpoint of the weapon and the aim goal is below a threshold. In response to this determination, a control signal is sent to a trigger actuator to fire the weapon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Flex Force Enterprises Inc.
    Inventors: Cynthia Louise Archer, Jacob Ryan Sullivan, John Holbrook Vance, II
  • Deployable radiator panel system
    Patent number: 12006071
    Abstract: A deployable radiator panel system for a small spacecraft includes fusible metal thermal hinge having a hinge leaf affixed to a spacecraft fixed radiator panel and the corresponding hinge leaf affixed to a deployable radiator panel with fusible metal filling the interstices between knuckles of each leaf to provide a conductive heat transfer path from the spacecraft fixed radiator panel through its leaf to the intervening fusible metal and then to the deployable radiator panel leaf and finally to the deployable radiator panel. A method is provided to heat and melt the fusible metal, release the deployable radiator panel from a stowed position, apply torque to open the fusible thermal metal hinge and latch the deployable radiator panel in a deployed position, and cool and solidify fusible metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Government of the United States as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventor: Jonathan Allison
  • Toy gun structure and pneumatic valve mechanism thereof
    Patent number: 12007194
    Abstract: A pneumatic valve mechanism disposed in a toy gun includes a trigger with an action bar, a driving assembly and a firing assembly. The driving assembly is disposed pivotally on the toy gun and linked with a shaft to pivot by the action bar. The firing assembly has a pushing portion and a triggering portion disposed oppositely to the pushing portion. The triggering portion makes the firing assembly reciprocate by an elastic member. The shaft is disposed with a pushing surface. The pushing surface pushes the triggering portion of the firing assembly when the shaft rotates pivotally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: VEGA FORCE INTERNATIONAL CORP.
    Inventors: Shih-Che Kung, Wei-Hung Chung
  • Methods and systems for enabling and scheduling 3D printing-based fabrication
    Patent number: 12007746
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes a three-dimensional design and integrated fabrication system that includes a data system in a computing environment. The system includes a manufacturing section including a pre-processing section and a post-processing section. The system also includes a material selection system and a control system that integrates the data system, manufacturing section, and material selection system with an intelligence system that includes artificial intelligence in the computing environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: STRONG FORCE VCN PORTFOLIO 2019, LLC
    Inventors: Teymour El-Tahry, Charles Cella