Patents Assigned to Government of the United States as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
  • CAMELIDAE SINGLE-DOMAIN ANTIBODIES AGAINST YERSINIA PESTIS AND METHODS OF USE
    Publication number: 20210147515
    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: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: Government of the United States as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Camilla A Mauzy, Serge Victor Marie Muyldermans
  • CAMELIDAE SINGLE-DOMAIN ANTIBODIES AGAINST YERSINIA PESTIS AND METHODS OF USE
    Publication number: 20210147516
    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: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: Government of the United States as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Camilla A Mauzy, Serge Victor Marie Muyldermans
  • CAMELIDAE SINGLE-DOMAIN ANTIBODIES AGAINST YERSINIA PESTIS AND METHODS OF USE
    Publication number: 20210147517
    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: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: Government of the United States as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Camilla A Mauzy, Serge Victor Marie Muyldermans
  • CAMELIDAE SINGLE-DOMAIN ANTIBODIES AGAINST YERSINIA PESTIS AND METHODS OF USE
    Publication number: 20210147518
    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: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: Government of the United States as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Camilla A Mauzy, Serge Victor Marie Muyldermans
  • FOCUSING AGENTS AND CALIBRATION TRANSPORTABILITY
    Publication number: 20210140933
    Abstract: A thermal desorption tube for chromatography and mass spectrometry analysis. The thermal desorption tube includes a sorbent and a plurality of focusing agents loaded at known, relative amounts onto the sorbent. Each focusing agent is a compound that chromatographically elutes within a retention time similar to a retention time of a target analyte and has a mass spectrum similar to a mass spectrum of the target analyte. The thermal desorption tube is configured to be further loaded with a sample having the target analyte.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: Government of the United States as Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: H. Mitchell Rubenstein, Anthony Qualley
  • CAMELIDAE SINGLE-DOMAIN ANTIBODIES AGAINST YERSINIA PESTIS AND METHODS OF USE
    Publication number: 20210139566
    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: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: Government of the United States as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Camilla A. Mauzy, Serge Victor Marie Muyldermans
  • CAMELIDAE SINGLE-DOMAIN ANTIBODIES AGAINST YERSINIA PESTIS AND METHODS OF USE
    Publication number: 20210139565
    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: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: Government of the United States as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Camilla A. Mauzy, Serge Victor Marie Muyldermans
  • Levitated charged nanoparticles as a radio frequency transducer
    Patent number: 10983139
    Abstract: A system includes a vacuum chamber to receive a laser beam and a charged nanoparticle. The nanoparticle oscillates at a trapping frequency in a focus of the laser beam. Resonant oscillation of the nanoparticle is driven by a presence of an ambient electric field adjacent to the vacuum chamber. The system also includes a controller to tune the trapping frequency of an oscillating nanoparticle to be in resonance with the ambient electric field causing on-resonant enhancement of the system; a detector to detect positional changes of the oscillating nanoparticle; and a processor to calculate an electromagnetic force of the ambient electric field based on the positional changes of the oscillating nanoparticle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignees: Government of the United States, as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force, Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory
    Inventors: Sean Krzyzewski, Maxwell D. Gregoire, Brian L. Kasch
  • SURGICAl SCOPE WITH REMOVABLE LUMEN
    Publication number: 20210093160
    Abstract: A disposable insert for an endoscope. The disposable insert includes a flexible shaft and a cap. The flexible shaft has a distal end, a proximal end, and a lumen extending therebetween and is configured to be inserted into a lumen of an endoscope. The cap is operably coupled to the distal end of the flexible shaft and is configured to form a fluid-tight seal and secure the flexible shaft to a distal end of the endoscope. The cap also has a lumen extending therethrough that is coaxial to the lumen of the flexible shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: Government of the United States, as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventor: Matthew Alan Eastwood
  • OPTICAL PHASE CONTROL ELEMENTS BASED ON PANCHARATNAM PHASE
    Publication number: 20210011353
    Abstract: Optical phase control elements are based on the Pancharatnam phase. Tunable liquid crystal devices containing the optical phase control elements may include a liquid crystal cell between a pair of substrates, a first plurality of electrodes, and a second plurality of electrodes. Each individual phase control element is defined by one electrode from the first plurality and one electrode from the second plurality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicants: Kent State University, Government of the United States as Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Comrun Yousefzadeh, Philip Bos, Andre Van Rynbach
  • Heterogeneous structure on an integrated photonics platform
    Patent number: 10877300
    Abstract: There is set forth herein an integrated photonics structure having a waveguide disposed within a dielectric stack of the integrated photonics structure, wherein the integrated photonics structure further includes a field generating electrically conductive structure disposed within the dielectric stack; and a heterogenous structure attached to the integrated photonics structure, the heterogenous structure having field sensitive material that is sensitive to a field generated by the field generating electrically conductive structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignees: THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE, MORTON PHOTONICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Douglas Coolbaugh, Douglas La Tulipe, Paul A. Morton, Nicholas G. Usechak
  • METHOD FOR LOCATING ELEMENTS ON A FLEXIBLE ULTRASOUND PHASED ARRAY
    Publication number: 20200391244
    Abstract: A method for locating a plurality of elements comprising a flexible ultrasound phased array. The method includes constructing a matrix of traveltimes by iteratively transmitting a signal from one element of the plurality and receiving the signal at each of the other elements of the plurality. Traveltimes are derived from each received signal and arrayed in a matrix. Relative positions of the first element of the plurality and the last element of the plurality are established and the locations of the remaining elements of the plurality are iteratively modeled to fit the matrix of traveltimes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicant: Government of the United States as Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Carson L. Willey, Abigail T. Juhl
  • METHODS OF DETECTING AND TYPING PATHOGENIC STRAINS OF FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS
    Publication number: 20200332345
    Abstract: A method of detecting a presence of Francisella tularensis (F. tularensis). The method includes amplifying a first nucleic acid from said specimen using a first plurality of primers, said first plurality of primers comprising SEQ ID NO 4 and SEQ ID NO 5. When the first nucleic acid is detected, then the presence of F. tularensis is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: Government of the United States as Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Marilynn A. Larson, James C. Baldwin, Michael P. Dempsey
  • Systems and methods for determining efficiency of friction welding processes
    Patent number: 10799979
    Abstract: Systems and methods for calculating efficiency of a rotary friction welding process are described herein. An example method can include measuring kinetic energy transferred from a welding machine to an interface of a welded joint, and calculating an efficiency of a rotary friction welding process based on the measured kinetic energy. For example, a workpiece torque experienced by a sample can be measured, and an energy associated with the workpiece torque can be calculated. The efficiency of the rotary friction welding process can then be calculated using the energy associated with the workpiece torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignees: Ohio State Innovation Foundation, Government of the United States as Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Wei Zhang, David Mahaffey, Sheldon Semiatin, Oleg Senkov, Daniel Tung
  • SURFACE COATINGS, TREATMENTS, AND METHODS FOR REMOVAL OF MINERAL SCALE BY SELF-RELEASE
    Publication number: 20200317989
    Abstract: In some aspects, the present invention relates generally to self-release compositions and methods useful for the removal or prevention of mineral scaling and, more particularly, to surface coatings and surface treatments that resist, prevent, or aid in removal of mineral scaling. In some aspects, the self-release coating includes a polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane and a thermoplastic or an additive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicants: Government of the United States as Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force, Nano Hydrophobics, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Guenthner, Jeffrey Alston, Peter H. Boyd, Joseph M. Mabry, Timothy W. Rost
  • BENDABLE, CREASABLE, AND PRINTABLE BATTERIES WITH ENHANCED SAFETY AND HIGH TEMPERTURE STABILITY - METHODS OF FABRICATION, AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20200313182
    Abstract: A composite electrode. The composite electrode including an active material, a conductive additive, a binder, and a solvent. The composite electrode may be cast or printed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Government of the United States as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Michael F. Durstock, Ryan R. Kohlmeyer, Aaron J. Blake
  • BENDABLE, CREASABLE, AND PRINTABLE BATTERIES WITH ENHANCED SAFETY AND HIGH TEMPERTURE STABILITY - METHODS OF FABRICATION, AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20200313184
    Abstract: A method of applying a separator ink onto a dried electrode of a lithium ion battery. The method includes preparing a separator ink suspension, applying the separator ink suspension onto the dried electrode, and drying the applied separator ink suspension.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Government of the United States as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Michael F. Durstock, Ryan R. Kohlmeyer, Aaron J. Blake
  • HETEROGENEOUS DATA FUSION
    Publication number: 20200293837
    Abstract: Various deficiencies in the prior art are addressed by systems, methods, architectures, mechanisms and/or apparatus configured to fuse data received from a plurality of sensor sources on a network. The fusing data includes forming an empirical distribution for each of the sensor sources, reformatting the data from each of the sensor sources into pre-rotational alpha-trimmed depth regions, applying an affine transformation rotation to each of the reformatted data to form post-rotational pre-rotational alpha-trimmed depth regions, and reformatting each affine transformation into a new data fusion operator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: Government of the United States, as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventor: James Browning
  • FOCUSING AGENTS AND METHODS OF USING SAME
    Publication number: 20200292513
    Abstract: A method for reducing the variability, as measured by relative standard deviation (RSD), of an analytical testing technique is provided. This improvement in RSD improves the confidence in the values obtained during field testing. The method includes incorporating a focusing agent into the sampling media, which permits providing sampling media such as thermal desorption tubes preloaded with the focusing agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: Government of the United States as Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventor: H. Mitchell Rubenstein
  • POLY PHASED, TIME INTERLEAVED RF DAC FOR MULTI FUNCTION FREQUENCY AGILE, TUNABLE TRANSMITTER
    Publication number: 20200266842
    Abstract: In accordance with various embodiments of the disclosed subject matter, a system, apparatus and method is configured to provide a poly-phased, time-interleaved radio frequency (RF) digital-to-analog converter (DAC) suitable for use in radar, radio, mobile and other RF systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: Government of the United States as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Vipul J. Patel, John M Emmert, Waleed Khalil