Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130207090 | Organic Photovotaics - The present disclosure is for improved organic semiconductors and improved organic photovoltaics. Liquid crystalline bent-core molecules in the B4 subphase of the present disclosure may be incorporated into improved organic semiconductors. Liquid crystalline bent-core molecules in the B4 subphase of the present disclosure may be incorporated into improved organic photovoltaics that may have improved quantum efficiencies over pre-existing organic photovoltaics. | 08-15-2013 |
20130225545 | PORPHYRIN TREATMENT OF NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES - Compositions and methods of treating a neurodegenerative disorder are disclosed herein. | 08-29-2013 |
20130245397 | Statistical, Noninvasive Measurement of Intracranial Pressure - Tools and techniques for the rapid, continuous, invasive and/or noninvasive measurement, estimation, and/or prediction of a patient's intracranial pressure. In an aspect, some tools and techniques can predict the onset of conditions such as herniation and/or can recommend (and, in some cases, administer) a therapeutic treatment for the patient's condition. In another aspect, some techniques employ high speed software technology that enables active, long term learning from extremely large, continually changing datasets. In some cases, this technology utilizes feature extraction, state-of-the-art machine learning and/or statistical methods to autonomously build and apply relevant models in real-time. | 09-19-2013 |
20130252178 | Liquid Deposition Photolithography - Systems and methods for liquid deposition photolithography are described. In particular, some embodiments relate to systems and methods for using photolithography to control the 2D structure of a thin layer of material (e.g., photopolymer) using various masks, projection optics and materials. In one or more embodiments, this thin layer can be manipulated by micro-fluidic techniques such that it can be formed, patterned and post-processed in a liquid environment, vastly simplifying the creation of multi-layer structures. Multiple layers are rapidly built up to create thick structures of possibly multiple materials that are currently challenging to fabricate by existing methods. | 09-26-2013 |
20130266502 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR GAS-PHASE REDUCTION/OXIDATION PROCESSES - A method and apparatus for gas-phase reduction/oxidation is disclosed. The apparatus includes a reactor including at least one reactor tube or containment vessel with active redox material within the reactor tube or containment vessel, a first reactant gas or vacuum for reducing the active redox material, and a second reactant gas for oxidizing the active redox material. The method may be run under substantially isothermal conditions and/or energy supplied to the apparatus may include solar energy, which may be concentrated. | 10-10-2013 |
20130315787 | NANOCRYSTALS AND METHODS AND USES THEREOF - Disclosed herein are (Ga | 11-28-2013 |
20140042815 | BALANCING, FILTERING AND/OR CONTROLLING SERIES-CONNECTED CELLS - A balancing circuit for a plurality of series connected cells or substrings of cells is provided. In one implementation, the balancing circuit includes a plurality of primary ports; an isolated secondary port; and one or more DC-DC converters connected between the primary ports and the isolated secondary port. Each DC-DC converter includes at least one power switch. The DC-DC converters are configured to adjust a primary port current received at one or more of the plurality of primary ports based upon a difference between a voltage at the one of the primary ports and a reference voltage. Also provided are an electrical power system including such as balancing circuit and a method of balancing a plurality of electric cell substrings using such a balancing circuit. | 02-13-2014 |
20140192166 | Engineered Point Spread Function for Simultaneous Extended Depth of Field and 3D Ranging - Optical systems utilize waveplates to simultaneously encode information for increasing image depth of field and for providing a depth map of the imaged object or sample. These waveplates are configured to result in a focus-invariant point spread function in one focal region, and to result in point spread functions that vary as a function of range within the imaged object in a different focal region. For example, a basic compound microscope might have a specially shaped waveplate inserted at the back aperture plane of the microscope objective to manipulate the phase of the wavefront. An image formed on one side of the plane of best focus is focus invariant, and is brought into focus by a restoring algorithm. An image formed on the other side of the plane of best focus captures point spread functions comprising rings that vary with depth within the imaged object. | 07-10-2014 |