Patents Assigned to GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY
  • Publication number: 20250043462
    Abstract: An insect repellent material made from recycled polyethylene terephthalate and an insect repellent or from polyethylene terephthalate, N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide, and picaridin. The material may be in the form of a fiber spun from a solution of the recycled polyethylene terephthalate and the insect repellent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Jeffrey G. Lundin, Ashley C. Fulton, Matthew D. Thum, James E. Cilek
  • Patent number: 12213739
    Abstract: A system to estimate consequences of an explosion includes a scenario generator to generate a scenario based on user input and scenario parameters; an explosive device model generator to generate an explosive device model based on the user input and explosive device parameters; a propagation of hazards modeler to model propagation of hazards into the scenario based on the user input and hazard parameters; an injury modeler to model injuries corresponding to modeling propagation of hazards into the scenario based on injury parameters; and an iteration and output generator to iterate by using additional iterative subsets of the parameters to generate the scenario, generate the explosive device model, model propagation of hazards, and model injuries, until parameter spaces of the parameters are covered. The iteration and output generator generates an injury record based injury outcomes from the modeling of injuries corresponding to the iterating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security
    Inventors: Rachel Gooding, Alexander Dolan, David Bradley, Kevin Wegman, Patrick Wilson, Brian Hawkins, Timothy Davis, Thomas Kirsch
  • Publication number: 20250036982
    Abstract: A method that includes receiving user input associated with identifying a threshold point associated with a classification task, identifying, a machine learning model, in the first set of visual data, a machine placement candidate point associated with identifying the threshold point, and identifying, based on the machine placement candidate point, a set of baseline confidence values via a baseline uncertainty model. The method includes training the machine learning model based on a determined state space by identifying, subsequent sets of visual data additional threshold points, receiving user feedback indicating an accuracy, comparing the baseline confidence values with locations associated with the additional threshold points, generating reward values based on an identified amount of error, and configuring the machine learning model based on the reward values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Zachary A. Bishof, Jaelle P. Scheuerman, Christopher J. Michael
  • Publication number: 20250036983
    Abstract: A method of reducing uncertainty in a machine learning model that may include providing a first set of visual data, and receiving user input associated with identifying a threshold point in the first set of visual data. The method may include identifying via a machine learning model, in the first set of visual data, a machine placement candidate point associated with identifying the threshold point, and training, by the processing device, baseline and cognitive uncertainty models. The method may include identifying via the trained baseline uncertainty model, one or more confidence values associated with a machine placement candidate point for a visual feature in a second set of visual data, and identifying via the trained cognitive uncertainty model, one or more confidence values associated with a machine placement candidate point for a visual feature in a second set of visual data, the visual feature being associated with the classification task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Jaelle P. Scheuerman, Zachary A. Bishof, Christopher J. Michael
  • Patent number: 12209912
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to an optical detector system capable of detecting in the infrared and terahertz regions of the electromagnetic spectrum with increased sensitivity and simplicity. It includes microbolometers in an array, a waveguide for receiving readout light input from an optical light source, waveguide splitters for splitting the waveguide to output waveguides such that each microbolometer in the array is optically coupled to an output waveguide. The output waveguide is coupled to an optical resonator of the microbolometer at a resonance frequency to generate a readout light output having a characteristic based on a change in a characteristic of the optical resonator. The system further includes a detector for receiving the readout light output from each of the output waveguides to convert the readout light output to an electrical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE
    Inventors: Nathan Andrew Tomlin, Christopher Shing-Yu Yung
  • Patent number: 12208449
    Abstract: This disclosure, and the exemplary embodiments provided herein, include AM processed Ti-MMCs reinforced with either aluminum oxide or tantalum pentoxide. According to an exemplary embodiment, composite feedstock powders of Ti-6Al-4V (Ti64) with 1% and 3% (by volume) reinforcements of either nano-Al2O3 or Ta2O5 are prepared by high energy ball milling and then 3-D printed using SLM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Andy Nieto, Andrew James Reinhart, Troy Y Ansell, Walter Smith
  • Publication number: 20250024835
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a composition having an insect repellent compound and a polymer that is miscible in the insect repellent compound at 23° C. Also disclosed herein is a method of: providing an insect repellent compound, providing a polymer that is miscible in the insect repellent compound at 23° C., and dissolving the polymer in the insect repellent compound to form a composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Jeffrey G. Lundin, Javier Jimenez, Matthew D. Thum, James E. Cilek
  • Patent number: 12201986
    Abstract: A media holder can be used for preparing samples. The media holder can comprise a base, a pair of walls extending upwardly from the base, and a plurality of transverse members positioned on and coupled to a respective upper end of each of the walls. Each of the transverse members can define a receiving slot for receiving at least a portion of a media therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security
    Inventors: Joseph A. DiCicco, Andrew Horan, John Brady
  • Patent number: 12206033
    Abstract: An infrared detector and a method for forming it are provided. The detector includes absorber, barrier, and contact regions. The absorber region includes a first semiconductor material, with a first lattice constant, that produces charge carriers in response to infrared light. The barrier region is disposed on the absorber region and comprises a superlatice that includes (i) first barrier region layers comprising the first semiconductor material, and (ii) second barrier region layers comprising a second semiconductor material, different from, but lattice matched to, the first semiconductor material. The first and second barrier region layers are alternatingly arranged. The contact region is disposed on the barrier region and comprises a superlattice that includes (i) first contact region layers comprising the first semiconductor material, and (ii) second contact region layers comprising the second semiconductor material layer. The first and second contact region layers are alternatingly arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Edward H. Aifer, Jerry R. Meyer, Chadwick Lawrence Canedy, Igor Vurgaftman, Jill A. Nolde
  • Publication number: 20250023865
    Abstract: Embodiments include a method to provide access to services, including receiving, by an information sharing platform, a user at a landing page of the information sharing platform for selectively accessing services through the information sharing platform. The information sharing platform can use an application programming interface (API) to access an Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) component to authenticate the user based on user credentials of the user. The information sharing platform stores and retrieves profile attributes for the user, which is uses to customize the information sharing platform content presented to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security
    Inventors: Courtney Winship, Michael Weissman
  • Publication number: 20250020552
    Abstract: Methods of collecting liquid samples are disclosed. According to some embodiments, a portion of a sample collection film is unrolled from a first reel to a position adjacent a sample dispenser. A liquid sample is dispensed from the sample dispenser onto the portion of the sample collection film. After dispensing the liquid sample onto the portion of the sample collection film, the portion of the sample collection film is rolled onto a second reel. Related sample collection devices, films, and reels are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Eric O. McGhee, Alexander J. McGhee
  • Patent number: 12196879
    Abstract: A method for generating ultrawideband pulsed microwave signals from optical field ionization of a gas with an ultrashort laser pulse, where the amplitude and frequency of the signals can be controlled via the characteristics of the laser pulse and/or the gas. The center frequency of the spectrum of the microwave signal can be controlled by changing the laser pulse energy. The amplitude of the microwave signal can be controlled by changing the wavelength of the laser pulses. The amplitude and frequency of the microwave signal can be tuned by controlling the pressure of the gas medium. The location at which the microwave signal is generated can be controlled by controlling the location at which the laser pulse creates a plasma. Interference among microwave signals resulting from multiple laser-produced plasmas can be used to construct an ultrawideband microwave signal having a predetermined amplitude and frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Alexander C. Englesbe, Jennifer A. Elle, Andreas Schmitt-Sody, Travis M. Garrett
  • Patent number: 12195787
    Abstract: A biomarker signal amplifier amplifies chemical analyte binding and includes: a surface strand disposed on an analysis substrate and including an exchange region; a particle strand hybridized to the surface strand in an absence of a chemical analyte that preferentially hybridizes to the exchange region as compared with the particle strand, and the particle strand is dissociated from the surface strand when the surface strand is in a presence of the chemical analyte; and a reporter particle attached to the particle strand and disposed proximate to the analysis substrate when the particle strand is hybridized to the surface strand in absence of the chemical analyte and that changes the electrical potential of the analysis substrate depending on whether the particle strand is hybridized to the surface strand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE
    Inventors: Arvind Kumar Balijepalli, Jacob Michael Majikes
  • Patent number: 12196951
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for a mechanical actuator based on a fiber optic platform. A material that is configured to be activated by light is incorporated into an optical fiber that serves as both an actuator and a power delivery network. This platform is adaptable to different materials, types of motions, and length scales and allows for precise delivery of photons to the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignees: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Jason D. Myers, Jesse A. Frantz, Jasbinder S. Sanghera, Daniel Rhonehouse, Christopher Bardeen, Colin Baker, Geoffrey Chin, Peter Alexander Morrison
  • Publication number: 20250012968
    Abstract: A method of making chalcogenide based polymeric materials and converting those materials into optical fiber preforms and polymeric optical fibers. The preforms and fibers comprise chalcogenide elements and crosslinking moieties. These fibers can be used as optical waveguides at infrared wavelengths where other polymer fibers do not operate. The optical waveguides are ideally suitable for applications requiring the transmission of low-power infrared light, but may also be useful for transmitting high-power light at visible or infrared wavelengths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Darryl A. Boyd, Vinh Q. Nguyen, Daniel L. Rhonehouse, Geoffrey D. Chin, Frederic H. Kung, Kenneth J. Ewing, Daniel J. Gibson, Woohong Kim, Jasbinder S. Sanghera
  • Publication number: 20250010951
    Abstract: An example is directed to a mooring apparatus for mooring a vessel via a mooring buoy to an anchor under weather conditions from a light weather condition up to a preset maximum weather condition. A single-bouncer mooring apparatus includes a bouncer connected via an anchor line to the anchor having an anchor weight, the bouncer having a bouncer weight; and a catenary section line connected between the mooring buoy and the bouncer, the catenary section line having a catenary section length and a catenary section weight. The bouncer weight, the catenary section length, and the catenary section weight are selected to place the bouncer just touching the bottom of the body of water in the preset maximum weather condition for the vessel having the vessel length and the vessel weight. A multiple-bouncer mooring apparatus includes two or more bouncers connected in series via respective catenary section lines to the mooring buoy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security
    Inventors: Jianjun Qi, Timothy McAllister, Michael Bollinger, Jacob Carawan
  • Patent number: 12188900
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a system and method for performing temperature-dependent measurements of a magnetic nanoparticle sample. The system includes high frequency coils and sample temperature tunable assembly to determine the specific relaxation process for magnetic nanoparticle sample using both time and frequency domain techniques. During the temperature-dependent measurements of a magnetic nanoparticle sample, system in accordance with embodiments of the present invention resolve the nanoparticle dynamics using a temperature-tunable dual mode, AC susceptibility and magnetic relaxometry, to cover a broad range of frequencies and time scales. Other operational modes of the invention can drive the nanoparticles with arbitrary waveforms (sinusoidal, sum of sinusoids, or repeated pulses) to elicit and measure tailored response behavior from the magnetic nanoparticle sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE
    Inventors: Thinh Quoc Bui, Solomon Isaac Woods, Weston Leo Tew, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12188969
    Abstract: A photonic Rydberg atom radio frequency receiver includes: an integrated photonic chip; an atomic vapor cell; and a receiver member including: a photonic emitter; probe light reflectors disposed on the atomic vapor cell; and coupling light reflectors disposed on the atomic vapor cell such that the pair of coupling light reflectors is optically opposed across the interior vapor space and receives and reflects the coupling laser light so that the coupling laser light is reflected between the coupling light reflectors multiple times in the interior vapor space of the atomic vapor cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE
    Inventors: Vladimir Anatolyevich Aksyuk, Christopher Lee Holloway, Matthew Thomas Simons, Alexandra Brea Artusio-Glimpse
  • Patent number: 12186363
    Abstract: Embodiments herein report compositions, uses and manufacturing of dengue virus constructs and live attenuated dengue viruses. Some embodiments concern a composition that includes, but is not limited to, a tetravalent dengue virus composition. In certain embodiments, compositions can include constructs of one or more serotypes of dengue virus, such as dengue-1 (DEN-1) virus, dengue-2 (DEN-2) virus, dengue-3 (DEN-3) or dengue-4 (DEN-4) virus constructs. In other embodiments, constructs disclosed herein can be combined in a composition to generate a vaccine against more one or more dengue virus constructs that may or may not be subsequently passaged in mammalian cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: Takeda Vaccines, Inc., The Government of the United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventors: Dan T. Stinchcomb, Claire Kinney, Richard M. Kinney, Jill A. Livengood
  • Patent number: 12186458
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed towards a device and method relating to heating a sample. For example, a device includes a housing to support a sample including a trace of an explosive. A power supply is coupled to the housing to provide power to a heating element coupled to the housing. The heating element is configured to heat the sample to generate a vapor of at least one ingredient of the trace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security
    Inventor: Inho Cho