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Last updated: April 19, 2026

Northwestern University

102 pending office actions

Portfolio Summary

102
Total Pending OAs
32
Final Rejections
70
Non-Final OAs

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatusFiled
19259540 SLIDING BIOACTIVE PEPTIDES FOR THERAPEUTIC DELIVERY ALLEN, MARIANNE P 1647 Non-Final OA Jul 03, 2025
19122087 Systems and Methods to Identify Commercialization and Partnership Potential for Research Institutions SCHNEIDER, JOSHUA D 3626 Non-Final OA Apr 17, 2025
19049835 OPERATIVE VAGINAL SCOPE MATTHEWS, TESSA M 3773 Non-Final OA Feb 10, 2025
18876553 METHODS OF FORMING STABLE CONDUCTIVE SURFACES CHEN, BRET P 1718 Non-Final OA Dec 18, 2024
18865562 Anatomic Imaging Derived 4D Hemodynamics Using Deep Learning JASANI, ASHISH SHIRISH 3798 Non-Final OA Nov 13, 2024
18941862 BIOACTIVE AND ANTIOXIDANT SUPRAMOLECULAR POLYMER HYDROGELS FOR NEURAL CELL CULTURE ZHU, JIANJIAN 1631 Non-Final OA Nov 08, 2024
18914929 KERNEL-BASED ERGODIC SEARCH KARWAN, SIHAR A 3658 Non-Final OA Oct 14, 2024
18780061 MACHINE LEARNING-BASED RISK-CLASSIFICATION OF ENDOMERIAL CANCER PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL 3685 Non-Final OA Jul 22, 2024
18633768 WIRELESS AND NONINVASIVE EPIDERMAL ELECTRONICS XU, JUSTIN 3791 Non-Final OA Apr 12, 2024
18632760 MASS HEMOPTYSIS SIMULATOR FRISBY, KESHA 3715 Non-Final OA Apr 11, 2024
18694853 NANOPARTICULATE MONOBENZONE FOR TREATING MELANOMA ROSENTHAL, ANDREW S 1613 Non-Final OA Mar 22, 2024
18683135 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR LIMB MOVEMENT DETECTION MILO, MICHAEL 3786 Final Rejection Feb 12, 2024
18424059 FROST-RESISTANT SURFACES WITH MACRO-TEXTURED PERIODIC LATTICE STRUCTURES OMORI, MARY I 1784 Non-Final OA Jan 26, 2024
18572345 MULTIPLEXED ANTIGEN-BASED DETECTION OF SARS-COV-2 AND OTHER DISEASES USING NANOMECHANICAL SENSORS MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN 3791 Non-Final OA Dec 20, 2023
18501243 GRAPHENE OXIDE AS A BARRIER MATERIAL FOR FOOD PACKAGING KHATRI, PRASHANT J 1783 Non-Final OA Nov 03, 2023
18382322 Simultaneous Estimation of Cochlear and Efferent Activity MALAMUD, DEBORAH LESLIE 3792 Final Rejection Oct 20, 2023
18380350 WATER-SOLUBLE SALT PARTICLE CONTAINING COMPOSITIONS AND POROUS MATERIALS MADE THEREFROM TCHERKASSKAYA, OLGA V 1615 Final Rejection Oct 16, 2023
18554265 (S)-3-AMINO-4-(DIFLUOROMETHYLENE)CYCLOHEXENE AND CYCLOHEXANE CARBOXYLIC ACID AND USES THEREOF AS SELECTIVE INACTIVATORS OF HUMAN ORNITHINE AMINOTRANSFERASE (hOAT) HABTE, KAHSAY 1624 Non-Final OA Oct 06, 2023
18468432 METHODS FOR ENHANCING CYTOTOXIC CANCER THERAPY THROUGH MODULATION OF PURINE BIOSYNTHESIS PATHWAYS SHIAO, YIH-HORNG 1691 Final Rejection Sep 15, 2023
18467698 NEDDYLATION INHIBITION FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS (HIV) INFECTION FOWLER, ALAN JEROME 1691 Non-Final OA Sep 14, 2023
18464127 SURFACE COATING PPSU NANOPARTICLES FOR THERAPEUTIC MODULATION OF MAST CELLS PEEBLES, KATHERINE 1617 Non-Final OA Sep 08, 2023
18548784 (S)-3-AMINO-4,4-DIHALOCYCLOPENT-1-ENECARBOXYLIC ACID AS SELECTIVE INACTIVATORS OF HUMAN ORNITHINE AMINOTRANSFERASE CHICKS, ASHLI ARIANA 1626 Non-Final OA Sep 01, 2023
18240201 DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF PRIMARY GRAFT DYSFUNCTION FOLLOWING LUNG TRANSPLANT BUCCINI, MICHELLE CALLAHAN 1675 Non-Final OA Aug 30, 2023
18455206 SUBSTITUTED HETEROCYCLES FOR TREATING CANCER FETTEROLF, BRANDON J 1626 Non-Final OA Aug 24, 2023
18278068 DYNAMIC BIOACTIVE SCAFFOLDS AND THERAPEUTIC USES THEREOF AFTER CNS INJURY WANG, CHANG YU 1675 Non-Final OA Aug 21, 2023
18546592 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESOPHAGEAL HYDROMETRY DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK 3791 Final Rejection Aug 15, 2023
18361528 DEVICES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS OF FUNCTIONAL OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY SCHNASE, PAUL DANIEL 2877 Non-Final OA Jul 28, 2023
18274019 FABRICATION OF PIXELATED RADIATION DETECTORS VIA LASER CUTTING KERR, ELIZABETH M 3761 Non-Final OA Jul 25, 2023
18272735 WAVELENGTH CONVERTING NATURAL VISION SYSTEM LE, UYEN CHAU N 2874 Final Rejection Jul 17, 2023
18270891 OHMIC-CONTACT-GATED CARBON NANOTUBE TRANSISTORS, FABRICATING METHODS AND APPLICATIONS OF SAME KIELIN, ERIK J 2814 Final Rejection Jul 05, 2023
18347541 METHODS FOR TREATING HIGH RISK MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES LOCKARD, JON MCCLELLAND 1647 Non-Final OA Jul 05, 2023
18215701 Methods and Materials for Matching Chemistry of Individuals and Human Melanin JARRETT, LORE RAMILLANO 1797 Non-Final OA Jun 28, 2023
18257221 DEVICES AND SYSTEMS FOR PREVENTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRESSURE ULCERS BROUGHTON, SHAWN CURTIS 3791 Final Rejection Jun 13, 2023
18334135 TRANS-INTERFACIAL MAGNETIC SEPARATION MARCSISIN, ELLEN JEAN 1677 Non-Final OA Jun 13, 2023
18330874 INHIBITORS OF THE INTERACTION BETWEEN TRIP8B AND HCN CHANNELS AND USES THEREOF FOR TREATING NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES AND DISORDERS SAWYER, JENNIFER C 1691 Non-Final OA Jun 07, 2023
18265513 Systems and Methods for Knowledge Distillation Using Artificial Intelligence SHAW, PETER C 2493 Non-Final OA Jun 06, 2023
18327725 ELECTRICAL WRITE/READ OF HIGH-INFORMATION-DENSITY MAGNETIC THIN FILM SMET, UYEN TRAN 2824 Non-Final OA Jun 01, 2023
18254956 Single Reactor Chain Shuttling Reactions for Ethylene/Vinylarene Multiblock Interpolymers BOYLE, ROBERT C 1764 Non-Final OA May 30, 2023
18200932 IN VIVO DETECTION OF SURGICAL MATERIALS RAYMOND, LINNAE ELIZABETH 3781 Non-Final OA May 23, 2023
18035876 ION-BASED METHODS FOR STABILIZING AND IMPROVING POROUS METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORK (MOF) MATERIALS FOR WATER HARVESTING FROM AIR AND RELATED APPLICATIONS HOU, FRANK S 1692 Non-Final OA May 08, 2023
18144632 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL SCANNING OF ARBITRARY SCENES SINHA, SNIGDHA 2619 Final Rejection May 08, 2023
18251596 METHODS FOR FULL-LENGTH REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION PCR OF LONG RNAs CONTAINING MODIFIED RIBONUCLEOSIDES USING A THERMOSTABLE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE GREENE, CAROLYN LEE 1681 Non-Final OA May 03, 2023
18308349 METHODS FOR IMPROVING COVID VACCINE IMMUNOGENICITY TANG, JIANMING 1671 Non-Final OA Apr 27, 2023
18134603 CERAMIC-CONTAINING BIOACTIVE INKS AND PRINTING METHODS FOR TISSUE ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS LIU, TRACY 1614 Final Rejection Apr 14, 2023
18249057 USE OF REELIN FOR TREATING CARDIAC DISEASES BUTTICE, AUDREY L 1647 Non-Final OA Apr 13, 2023
18028934 INTEGRATION OF ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY MAPPING SYSTEMS WITH ELECTROPORATION SYNCHRONIZED WITH PACING GEDEON, BRIAN T 3796 Non-Final OA Mar 28, 2023
18246197 HETEROSTRUCTURE IONOGEL ELECTROLYTES, FABRICATING METHODS AND APPLICATIONS OF SAME LI, AIQUN 1766 Non-Final OA Mar 22, 2023
18245324 CLASSIFICATION OF FUNCTIONAL LUMEN IMAGING PROBE DATA HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN 3791 Non-Final OA Mar 14, 2023
18026160 DETERMINATION OF THE PRESENCE OF SARS-COV-2 OR OTHER RESPIRATORY PATHOGEN IN A PERSON WINAKUR, ERIC FRANK 3791 Non-Final OA Mar 14, 2023
18021687 B-CELL BASED IMMUNOTHERAPY FOR THE TREATMENT OF GLIOBLASTOMA AND OTHER CANCERS JUEDES, AMY E 1644 Non-Final OA Feb 16, 2023
18021429 GRAPHENE-FUNCTIONALIZED COMPOSITES FOR BATTERY ANODES, FORMING METHODS AND APPLICATIONS OF SAME YOON, KEVIN E 1735 Final Rejection Feb 15, 2023
18006120 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RAPIDLY SCREENING FOR SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF DISORDERS EDOUARD, JONATHAN CHRISTOPHER 3683 Non-Final OA Jan 19, 2023
18004104 HUMAN RECOMBINANT ACE2-FC MUTANTS THAT DECOUPLE ANTI-SARS-COV-2 ACTIVITY FROM CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECTS NIEBAUER, RONALD T 1658 Non-Final OA Jan 03, 2023
18002457 PROCESS FOR DIRECT READOUT OF IMMUNOGLOBULINS XU, XIAOYUN 1797 Final Rejection Dec 19, 2022
18080067 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CAR T-CELL SCREENING WASHINGTON, BRITNEY NICOLE 1797 Final Rejection Dec 13, 2022
18001580 ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF LARGE-AREA COVALENT ORGANIC FRAMEWORK THIN FILMS HERNANDEZ-KENNEY, JOSE 1717 Final Rejection Dec 12, 2022
18009384 HYDRATION SENSOR FOR MONITORING AND DIAGNOSIS OF SKIN DISEASES IN ANY ENVIRONMENT AND APPLICATION OF SAME PARK, EVELYN GRACE 3791 Non-Final OA Dec 09, 2022
18072223 COMBINATION CANCER THERAPY WITH PENTAAZA MACROCYCLIC RING COMPLEX AND HORMONE THERAPY AGENT WILLIS, DOUGLAS M 1624 Non-Final OA Nov 30, 2022
18071724 COMBINATION CANCER THERAPY WITH PENTAAZA MACROCYCLIC RING COMPLEX AND HORMONE THERAPY AGENT JEAN-LOUIS, SAMIRA JM 1642 Non-Final OA Nov 30, 2022
17999670 Daisy Chain Polymers Synthesized Employing an Energy Ratchet Mechanism REDDY, KARUNA P 1764 Final Rejection Nov 22, 2022
18054527 Small Molecule Inhibitors Targeting the Sodium Channel Tamoxifen Receptor and Uses Thereof BRAUN, MADELINE E 1624 Non-Final OA Nov 10, 2022
17997013 Small Molecule Inhibitors That Block the Budding of Enveloped Viruses MCDOWELL, BRIAN E 1624 Non-Final OA Oct 24, 2022
17968180 SCREEN-PRINTABLE IONOGEL ELECTROLYTES AND APPLICATIONS OF SAME ODOM, LILIAN ALICE 1722 Non-Final OA Oct 18, 2022
17995784 METHODS FOR ASSEMBLING PEPTIDES INTO PEPTIDE AMPHIPHILE NANOFIBERS PARKIN, JEFFREY S 1671 Non-Final OA Oct 07, 2022
17936208 Carbohydrate-Modified Particles and Particulate Formulations for Modulating an Immune Response BASQUILL, SEAN M 1614 Non-Final OA Sep 28, 2022
17908809 FIT-FLARES FOR DETECTION OF INTRACELLULAR ANALYTES IN LIVE CELLS DAUNER, JOSEPH G 1682 Non-Final OA Sep 01, 2022
17894009 ROOM TEMPERATURE LASING FROM SEMICONDUCTING SINGLE WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS 2828 Final Rejection Aug 23, 2022
17873546 INK COMPOSITIONS FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTING AND METHODS OF FORMING OBJECTS USING THE INK COMPOSITIONS LEE, DORIS L 1764 Non-Final OA Jul 26, 2022
17838428 MODULATION OF UBIQUITIN CARBOXY-TERMINAL HYDROLASE LIGASE 1 (UCHL1) EXPRESSION FOR TREATING NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE, DISORDERS, AND INJURIES ASSOCIATED WITH UPPER MOTOR NEURONS CORDAS, EMILY ANN 1632 Final Rejection Jun 13, 2022
17752407 ENCODING HIERARCHICAL ASSEMBLY PATHWAYS OF PROTEINS WITH DNA BUNNER, BRIDGET E 1647 Non-Final OA May 24, 2022
17749977 SYNERGISTIC IMMUNOSTIMULATION THROUGH THE DUAL ACTIVATION OF TLR3/9 WITH SPHERICAL NUCLEIC ACIDS MCCOLLUM, ANDREA K 1674 Final Rejection May 20, 2022
17778340 FLUID MECHANICS-BASED ANALYSIS TOOL TO ESTIMATE FLOW DATA FROM PLANIMETRY CATHETER DATA ROBERTS, ANNA L 3791 Non-Final OA May 19, 2022
17743422 TUNABLE ANCHOR FOR LIPOSOMAL SPHERICAL NUCLEIC ACID ASSEMBLY TRAN, CHRISTINA L 1637 Non-Final OA May 12, 2022
17775187 MACHINE LEARNING TOOLS AND A PROCESS TO DISCOVER NEW NATURAL PRODUCTS BY LINKING GENOMES AND METABOLOMES IN FUNGI SANFORD, DIANA PATRICIA 1687 Non-Final OA May 06, 2022
17703015 ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS USING MAGNETORESISTIVE RANDOM-ACCESS MEMORY-BASED STOCHASTIC COMPUTING UNITS ZECHER, CORDELIA P K 2100 Non-Final OA Mar 24, 2022
17760990 HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN-LIKE NANOPARTICLES AS INDUCERS OF FERROPTOSIS IN CANCER FAY, ZOHREH ALEMZADEH 1617 Non-Final OA Mar 16, 2022
17642374 BIOMARKERS FOR AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS (ALS) AND MOTOR NEURON DISEASES DUNN, MCKENZIE A 1678 Final Rejection Mar 11, 2022
17688654 COMPILER-BASED NEURON-AWARE DEEP NEURAL NETWORK ENSEMBLE TRAINING WELCH, JENNIFER N 2143 Final Rejection Mar 07, 2022
17687276 SINGLE-CELL LEVEL CONNECTOMICS USING A DNA-SYNTHESIS BASED BARCODING SYSTEM AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME VANN-OJUEKAIYE, KENDRA RAYCHELL 1682 Final Rejection Mar 04, 2022
17637410 BLOOD GENE BIOMARKERS TO DIAGNOSE AND PREDICT ACUTE REJECTION IN LIVER TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS MYERS, CARLA J 1682 Final Rejection Feb 22, 2022
17634908 CONTROLLING THE DNA HYBRIDIZATION CHAIN REACTION CASH, KAILEY ELIZABETH 1683 Final Rejection Feb 11, 2022
17630212 CO2-NEUTRAL OR NEGATIVE TRANSPORTATION ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS ROSENBAUM, AMANDA R 1752 Final Rejection Jan 26, 2022
17625023 METHODS OF USING MODIFIED CYTOTOXINS TO TREAT CANCER KUCKLA, ANNA GRACE 1626 Non-Final OA Jan 05, 2022
17621908 ARTIFICIAL MELANIN NANOPARTICLES AND METHODS INCLUDING POROUS MELANIN MATERIALS KAHN, RACHEL 1766 Non-Final OA Dec 22, 2021
17621088 FORCED INTERCALATION (FIT)-APTAMERS: PROBES BASED ON FORCED INTERCALATION CHUNDURU, SURYAPRABHA 1681 Non-Final OA Dec 20, 2021
17536244 MULTI-TIME STEPPING INTEGRATION METHOD WITH DIRICHLET-ROBIN INTERFACE COUPLING AND APPLICATIONS OF SAME KIM, EUNHEE 2188 Final Rejection Nov 29, 2021
17503057 ANTI-POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL (PEG) ANTIBODY MOUSE MODEL FOR RIGOROUS ASSESSMENT OF PEG-BASED THERAPIES: ADJUVANT-FREE INDUCTION MODEL WEHBE, ANNE MARIE SABRINA 1634 Final Rejection Oct 15, 2021
17594119 MARKERS OF EFFICACY OF TOPOISOMERASE POISONS KENNEDY, SARAH JANE 1682 Non-Final OA Oct 04, 2021
17445285 ENHANCING SUBCUTANEOUS INJECTION AND TARGET TISSUE ACCUMULATION OF NANOPARTICLES VIA CO-ADMINISTRATION WITH MACROPINOCYTOSIS INHIBITORY NANOPARTICLES (MINP) WESTERBERG, NISSA M 1618 Non-Final OA Aug 17, 2021
17310191 PLATFORM FOR PRODUCING GLYCOPROTEINS, IDENTIFYING GLYCOSYLATION PATHWAYS STEADMAN, DAVID J 1656 Non-Final OA Jul 23, 2021
17421677 RAPID REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION GIAMMONA, FRANCESCA FILIPPA 1681 Final Rejection Jul 08, 2021
17309246 NONINVASIVE QUANTITATIVE FLOW MAPPING USING A VIRTUAL CATHETER VOLUME COOK, CHRISTOPHER L 3797 Final Rejection May 11, 2021
17292265 SELF-ASSEMBLING VEGF NANOPARTICLES STEELE, AMBER D 1658 Non-Final OA May 07, 2021
17287668 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS OF MAMMAL SUBJECT AND APPLICATIONS OF SAME HADDAD, MOUSSA MAHER 3796 Non-Final OA Apr 22, 2021
16972386 TRACELESS IMMOBILIZATION OF ANALYTES FOR SAMDI MASS SPECTROMETRY SIEFKE, SAMUEL P 1758 Final Rejection Dec 04, 2020
17054441 SELF-MANAGEABLE ABNORMAL SCAR TREATMENT WITH SPHERICAL NUCLEIC ACID (SNA) TECHNOLOGY NGUYEN, JOHN P 1619 Final Rejection Nov 10, 2020
17076607 SPHERICAL NUCLEIC ACIDS WITH DENDRITIC LIGANDS SHIN, DANA H 1635 Non-Final OA Oct 21, 2020
17074343 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UNTARGETED METABOLOMIC SCREENING PLAYER, ROBERT AUSTIN 1686 Non-Final OA Oct 19, 2020
17046482 ADDRESSING NANOMEDICINE COMPLEXITY THROUGH NOVEL HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING AND MACHINE LEARNING BEIL, RANDI LYNN 1684 Final Rejection Oct 09, 2020
16975987 NANOPATTERNING FOR CONTROLLING CELL CYTOSKELETON STAVROU, CONSTANTINA E 1632 Final Rejection Aug 26, 2020
16611548 CONJUGATION OF PEPTIDES TO SPHERICAL NUCLEIC ACIDS (SNAS) USING TRACELESS LINKERS VYAS, KEYUR ANILKUMAR 1637 Non-Final OA Nov 07, 2019
16312973 BIO-ELECTRIC NOSE LEVIN, JOEL D 1633 Non-Final OA Dec 21, 2018

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