Patents Assigned to The United States Government as represented by the Secretary of the Army
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Publication number: 20170096968Abstract: A solid rocket propellant grain having rocket propellant and a membrane in contact with the rocket propellant. The membrane includes a highly heat conductive pattern which affects the propellant burning rate through localized conductive heat transfer from the combustion zone and into the uncombusted propellant. Different geometries for the thermally conductive pattern produce different combustion results.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2015Publication date: April 6, 2017Applicant: UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMYInventors: Andrew William McBain, Zachary Keith Wingard
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Publication number: 20170066706Abstract: Provided is a high pressure polymorph of croconic acid. The high pressure polymorph of croconic acid has an unexpectedly high energy release and is suitable for use in detonable compositions. The high pressure polymorph of croconic acid is recoverable to ambient conditions and exhibits only a modest increase in density but a greatly improved energy release.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2015Publication date: March 9, 2017Applicant: THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMYInventors: TIMOTHY A. JENKINS, JENNIFER A.M. CIEZAK-JENKINS, JENNIFER L. GOTTFRIED, ROSE A. PESCE-RODRIGUEZ
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Publication number: 20170057883Abstract: Provided herein is a symmetric amino triazine for use as a fuel and ignition source in chemically initiated illuminates or igniters. 3-amino-1,2,4-triazine act as a fuel and generates enough heat on exposure to as little as one drop of one hundred percent nitric acid to spontaneously ignite.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMYInventors: WILLIAM MATTHEW SHERRILL, JOSEPH ERIK BANNING, ERIC JAMES BUKOWSKI
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Publication number: 20170057884Abstract: Provided is a melt-castable binder useful for stabilizing high energy explosive materials. A melt-castable nitramine binder has high energy in its own right yet is very insensitive to accidental detonation such as by shock or friction. The melt-castable nitramine binder is optionally combined with one or more high energy materials in the formation of an explosive composition with improved energy yield and safety and handling parameters relative to the high energy material alone.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMYInventors: JOSEPH ERIK BANNING, WILLIAM MATTHEW SHERRILL
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Publication number: 20170058004Abstract: Provided are compositions are methods for discovery of new materials and interactions under extreme environmental conditions such as elevated temperatures at or in excess of 60° C. A synthetic thermostable protein is provided that is linked to a target peptide. A library of target peptides may be linked to a plurality of the thermostable proteins for expression on the cell surface of a thermophilic organism. The composition employs a modified form of the T. thermophilus TtoA protein that has a non-naturally occurring N-terminus for associating with a target peptide thereby expressing the target peptide on the outer cell membrane where the thermophilic protein is stable at high temperatures for discovery of materials useful in extreme environments or for us in study conditions that require or suffer under elevated temperatures.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMYInventors: Dimitra Nikolaos Stratis-Cullum, Bryn Lauren Adams, MARGARET MARY HURLEY
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Publication number: 20170051392Abstract: A method and an apparatus for producing metal and ceramic coatings on a fluidized bed of particles or fibers are described. The method utilizes a unique apparatus to transfer vibratory motion through a wall of a deposition chamber in order to produce a fluidized bed of particle or fluidized bed of fibers inside the chamber. The method and apparatus are versatile, allowing particles of different shapes, sizes, materials and masses to be fluidized and coated. The fluidization process allows uniform and conformal coatings on particles and fibers. Coatings of pure metals, alloys, or ceramic materials can be produced.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2016Publication date: February 23, 2017Applicant: THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMYInventors: Daniel M. Baechle, Eric D. Wetzel
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Publication number: 20170045323Abstract: A rocket extraction device and method is disclosed. In one embodiment, the device comprises an upper and a lower casing; an interior cutout in each of the upper and lower casings, the interior cutouts having contours matching exterior surface contours of a rocket fuze; an upper fuze clamp and a lower fuze clamp disposed respectively within the upper and lower casings, each upper and lower fuze clamp having interior surface contours matching exterior surface contours of the rocket fuze; a clamp adjustment screw onto which the upper fuze clamp is mountable; an adjustment wheel mountable at the exterior end of the clamp adjustment screw by which the clamp adjustment screw and the upper fuse clamp are movable to secure the upper and lower fuze clamps to the fuze and force the fuze into the contours of the lower fuze clamp and the interior cutout of the lower casing to lock the fuze into the rocket extraction device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2015Publication date: February 16, 2017Applicant: United States Government, as Represented by the Secretary of the ArmyInventor: Michael Harvey Gainer
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Publication number: 20160232282Abstract: A total forensic DNA casework management system and method for the deconvolution of mixed DNA samples using a novel, 3-rule algorithm to determine the proportional allele sharing of the sample's contributors. The process is fully document, can assess and process DNA anomalies and artifacts, and transforms raw STR data to produce final DNA profile types, peak height ratios, proportions, fitting criteria and associated graphs.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2015Publication date: August 11, 2016Applicant: United States Government as represented by the Secretary of the ArmyInventor: Thomas L. Overson
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Publication number: 20160222149Abstract: Anhydrosugar-based monomers prepared from isosorbide, isomannide, and isoidide and resin systems containing these anhydrosugar-based monomers that are partially to fully bio-based, which may produce materials having properties that meet or exceed the properties of similar petroleum derived vinyl ester resins.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2016Publication date: August 4, 2016Applicants: Drexel University, United States Government as represented by the Secretary of the ArmyInventors: Giuseppe R. Palmese, John Joseph La Scala, Joshua Matthew Sadler, Anh-Phuong Thy Lam
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Publication number: 20140308521Abstract: A method and an apparatus for producing metal and ceramic coatings on a fluidized bed of particles or fibers are described. The method utilizes a unique apparatus to transfer vibratory motion through a wall of a deposition chamber in order to produce a fluidized bed of particle or fluidized bed of fibers inside the chamber. The method and apparatus are versatile, allowing particles of different shapes, sizes, materials and masses to be fluidized and coated. The fluidization process allows uniform and conformal coatings on particles and fibers. Coatings of pure metals, alloys, or ceramic materials can be produced.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2013Publication date: October 16, 2014Applicant: The United States Government as Represented by the Secretary of the ArmyInventors: DANIEL MURPHY BAECHLE, Eric D. Wetzel
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Publication number: 20140305329Abstract: A sabot petal having an axis parallel to or coinciding with the launch axis. The sabot petal is formed from a plurality of stacked sheets of composite material consisting of a fiber reinforcement and a polymer resin matrix. Each composite sheet is in a plane rotationally offset from the meridional plane which is defined by the launch axis and radial axis of the sabot petal's cylindrical coordinate system.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2014Publication date: October 16, 2014Applicant: THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMYInventor: Michael A. MINNICINO
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Publication number: 20140249285Abstract: Anhydrosugar-based monomers prepared from isosorbide, isomannide, and isoidide and resin systems containing these anhydrosugar-based monomers that are partially to fully bio-based, which may produce materials having properties that meet or exceed the properties of similar petroleum derived vinyl ester resins.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2012Publication date: September 4, 2014Applicants: United States Government as represented by the Secretary of the Army, DREXEL UNIVERSITYInventors: Giuseppe R. Palmese, John Joseph La Scala, Joshua Matthew Sadler, Anh-Phuong Thy Lam
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Publication number: 20140227339Abstract: A graft containing a scaffold that includes a matrix in which are positioned mesenchymal progenitor cells (MPCs) has the capacity to substantially improve wound healing, including wounds resulting from injury to nerve, bone and vascular tissue. MPCs can be harvested from debrided muscle tissue following orthopaedic trauma. The traumatized muscle-derived progenitor cells are a readily available autologous cell source that can be utilized to effect or improve wound healing in a variety of therapeutic settings and vehicles.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2014Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicants: THE HENRY M. JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE, INC., THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF, THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY, U.S.A.Inventors: Wesley M. Jackson, Leon J. Nesti, Rocky S. Tuan
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Publication number: 20140155818Abstract: A system for operating a semi-closed loop and/or a closed loop resuscitation of a burn patient in view of patient information and other physiological data gathered by the system. The system in at least one embodiment includes an urine sensor, an infusion pump and a processor that controls the operation of the infusion pump at least in part from a signal received from the urine sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2013Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicants: Board of Regents of the University of Texas System, United States Government, as represented by the Secretary of the ArmyInventors: Jose Salinas, George C. Kramer, Guy A. Drew
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Publication number: 20140142539Abstract: A method for providing decision-assist to medical staff resuscitating a burn patient includes receiving patient information, calculating an infusion rate, outputting the infusion rate, obtaining a urinary output, calculating a new infusion rate using infusion rate model based constants, and outputting the new infusion rate. In some embodiments, the method includes notifying medical staff when problems arise, displaying information regarding the resuscitation, and setting limits regarding the infusion rates.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2013Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicants: Board of Regents of the University of Texas System, United States Government, as represented by the Secretary of the ArmyInventors: Jose Salinas, George C. Kramer, Leopoldo C. Cancio, Kevin Chung, Elizabeth Mann, Steven E. Wolf, Drew A. Guy
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Publication number: 20140073499Abstract: A catalytic composition is particularly well suited for hydrocarbon conversion to synthesis gas at a temperature of between 800 and 1000° Celsius. The catalytic composition includes a noble metal cluster having an X-Y-Z axial mean linear dimension of between 2 and 15 Angstroms and a super cage structure surrounding the noble metal cluster. The super cage structure stabilizes the noble metal cluster against aggregation at temperatures of 1000° Celsius. A process for reforming hydrocarbon feedstock to hydrogen and carbon monoxide is also provided that conversion to greater than 80% of theoretical yield.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2008Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: United States Government as represented by the Secretary of the ArmyInventor: Ivan Chihang Lee
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Publication number: 20140049879Abstract: A structural electrochemical capacitor that includes at least one pair of electrodes and a solid electrolytic material disposed between the electrodes which, taken collectively, have sufficient mechanical strength to allow the electrochemical capacitor to be used as a structural component of an article of manufacture is described. The present invention also describes a method of capacitively storing electrical energy and conserving mass and/or volume in a device that includes the steps of: fabricating portions of the structure of a device with high-strength structural electrochemical capacitor that includes at least one pair of electrodes and a body of solid electrolytic material disposed between said electrodes wherein the body of solid electrolytic material accounts for a majority of the mass of a structural element or a majority of the volume of a structural element in the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2013Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMYInventors: James F. SNYDER, Eric D. WETZEL
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Publication number: 20130334358Abstract: A system and method of trajectory correction includes a voice coil coupled to the projectile and providing a linear force; a linkage assembly coupled to the voice coil and comprising: a linkage shaft; a slot coupled to the linkage shaft; and a pin loosely coupled to the slot to form a first pivot point, wherein the linkage assembly converts the linear force to a torque force through the first pivot point; and a canard assembly coupled to the linkage assembly and including a canard shaft coupled to the linkage shaft to form a second pivot point; and at least one canard coupled to the canard shaft, wherein the torque force is transmitted to canard shaft by the linkage shaft, and wherein the canard shaft transmits the torque force to the canard to correct the trajectory of the projectile.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2010Publication date: December 19, 2013Applicant: UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMYInventor: Ilmars Celmins
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Publication number: 20130303712Abstract: Toughened polymeric materials and methods of forming toughened polymeric materials are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method of forming toughened polymeric materials may include preparing a branched polymeric additive; mixing the branched polymeric additive with a polymer to form a polymeric mixture, wherein the branched polymeric molecule either mixes and/or bonds with the polymer to reduce mobility in the polymer; and curing the polymeric mixture. In some embodiments, a toughened polymeric material comprises a polymer network; and a branched polymeric molecule bonded to the polymer network.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2013Publication date: November 14, 2013Applicant: The United States Government as Represented by the Secretary of the ArmyInventors: RANDY A. MROZEK, Joseph L. Lenhart, Robert H. Lambeth, Jan W. Andzelm
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Publication number: 20130066045Abstract: Methods for microfabricating composite materials and composite materials prepared there from are described herein. The sacrificial material can be etched or patterned to create a two-dimensional and/or three-dimensional sacrificial material structure. The resulting sacrificial material structure can be embedded in one or more embedding materials. The sacrificial material(s) are materials whose solubility can be altered by application of a stimulus typically pH, and/or temperature, light, pH, pressure, presence of absence of ions, and combinations thereof. The embedding materials can contain one or more additives that modify one or more properties of the embedding materials, such as degradation properties, porosity, mechanical properties, viscosity, conductive properties, and combinations thereof. The composite materials can be used in tissue engineering, drug screening, toxin detection, drug delivery, filtrations, bioseparations, and as microfluidic devices for fluid mixing and structural repair.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2012Publication date: March 14, 2013Applicants: The United States Government as Represented by the Secretary of the ArmyInventors: Leon M. Bellan, Robert S. Langer, Donald M. Cropek