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Patent Details for Tuesday, January 04, 2005
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| US 06838080 | Compans et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard W. Compans (Atlanta, Georgia); Zhiyi Sha (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides methods and compositions for inducing an immune response to an antigen, especially in an immunogenic composition comprising sialic acid where the antigen comprises sialic acid and wherein the immunogenic composition further comprises a sialic acid binding component, e.g., an inactivated or attenuated paramyxovirus or orthomyxovirus such as an influenza virus comprising a sialic acid binding component, e.g., a neuraminidase. The compositions comprising sialic acid and a sialic acid binding component effectively induce a humoral immune response even in a human or animal which is deficient in CD4+ T cells, due to a disease such as ARC or AIDS, and there is also an immunoglobulin class switching even in the absence of CD4+ T cells. |
| FILED | Friday, December 08, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/733166 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.100 |
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| US 06838090 | Tabibi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | S. Esmail Tabibi (Rockville, Maryland); Emmanuel I. Ezennia (Baltimore, Maryland); B. Rao Vishnuvajjala (Rockville, Maryland); Shanker Gupta (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a drug delivery system comprising a water-insoluble drug, a water-miscible organic solvent for the water-insoluble drug, a surfactant, and water, as well as a process for preparing the same. This invention further provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and such a drug delivery system. In addition, the present invention provides a method of delivering a drug to a host by administering to the host the drug delivery system of the present invention. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/455295 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/450 |
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| US 06838237 | Fields et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Howard A. Fields (Marietta, Georgia); Yury E. Khudyakov (Duluth, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Antigenically reactive regions of the Hepatitis A virus polyprotein are provided. These antigenically reactive regions, and polypeptides and proteins comprising these antigenically reactive regions, provide a sensitive and specific immunological hepatitis A virus detection assay. The specific use of regions derived from the nonstructural regions of the polypeptide provides the basis for determining immunity derived from prior or present infection by the Hepatitis A virus and allows one to distinguish between an immunological response derived from infection and that derived from immunization. |
| FILED | Friday, April 18, 1997 |
| APPL NO | 09/171432 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
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| US 06838239 | Zyskind |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | San Diego State University Foundation (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Judith W. Zyskind (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to reporter gene constructs encoding a cytoplasmic form of chitobiase (N,N′-diacetylchitobiase) and methods of using these reporter gene constructs. The use of a cytoplasmic form of chitobiase as a reporter enzyme is generally applicable to the study of gene expression in organisms which do not contain N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 02, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/630931 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 06838240 | Ellis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York Blood Center, Inc. (New York, New York); University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan Ellis (New York, New York); James German (New York, New York); Joanna Groden (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for diagnosing Bloom's syndrome (BS) as well as determining whether a subject is a carrier of a mutated BLM gene. The present invention also provides one or more single-stranded nucleic acid probes and antibodies which may be formulated in kits, and used for diagnosing BS or determining whether a human subject is a carrier of a mutated BLM gene. In addition, the present invention provides a method for treating or preventing the onset of BS in a subject in need of such treatment or prevention, as well as vectors and stem cells useful for such treatment or prevention. The present invention also provides a purified and isolated nucleic acid encoding an enzymatically active BLM protein, a vector comprising this nucleic acid, a cell stably transformed with this vector, as well as a method for producing recombinant, enzymatically active BLM protein. A purified, enzymatically active BLM protein is also provided by the present invention. Finally, the present invention provides a vector, an embryonic stem cell, and a non-human, transgenic animal, each of which comprises a mutated BLM gene, as well as a method for producing the non-human, transgenic animal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 02, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/753143 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 06838265 | Santi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kosan Biosciences, Inc. (Hayward, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Santi (San Francisco, California); Robert McDaniel (Palo Alto, California); Li Tang (Foster City, California); Chaitan Khosla (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Generic overproduction host cells can be used to produce any polyketide and obviate the need for performing conventional strain improvement. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 01, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/847526 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/76 |
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| US 06838279 | Wechsler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven L. Wechsler (Westlake Village, California); Anthony B. Nesburn (Malibu, California); Guey-Chuen Perng (Alhambra, California); John S. Yu (Los Angeles, California); Keith L. Black (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is an HSV-1-derived vector containing a DNA having a functional LAT promoter, or operative fragment thereof, a deletion in both copies of the HSV-1 LAT gene, and a deletion in both copies of the HSV-1 ICP34.5 gene. The HSV-1-derived vectors are non-neurovirulent and do not spontaneously reactivate from latency, and they optionally contain a functional HSV thymidine kinase gene, which can enhance the effectiveness against cancer of drug treatment with gancyclovir or acyclovir. Alternatively, the HSV-1-derived vectors contain at least one transcriptional unit of a LAT promoter sequence operatively linked to a nucleic acid encoding a preselected protein. In some embodiments, the preselected protein is a nucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide toxic for cells expressing the vector, for example, human interferon-γ. Also, disclosed are kits for expressing in a mammalian cell a gene encoding a preselected protein, and mammalian cells containing the HSV-derived vectors. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/046491 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
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| US 06838428 | Whitsett |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnatti, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey A. Whitsett (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Surfactant protein D (SP-D) is a 43-kDa member of the collectin family of collagenous lectin domain-containing proteins that is expressed in epithelial cells of the lung. The SP-D gene was targeted by homologous recombination in embryonic stem cells that were used to produce SP-D (−/−) mice. The SP-D (−/−) deficiency caused inflammation, increased oxidant production by isolated alveolar macrophages, abnormal surfactant structure and levels, and decreased SP-A expression. Therefore, disclosed is the SP-D (−/−) mouse as an excellent model for emphysema. Also included are models for testing emphysema therapies in the mouse model, methods for using SP-D protein or DNA as a treatment for emphysema and pulmonary infections, and diagnosis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 26, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/558576 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 06838430 | Arbeit |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jefferey M. Arbeit (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns the use of stable HIF-1α variants to accelerate wound healing. More particularly, the present invention provides a method of accelerating wound healing in a mammal comprising administering a stable variant of an HIF-1α polypeptide comprising an oxygen-dependent degradation domain. The stable HIF-1α variant preferably comprises an insertion, deletion or substitution in the oxygen-dependent degradation domain. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/967388 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 06838432 | Taylor, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma); McMaster University (Hamilton, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fletcher B. Taylor, Jr. (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma); Laszlo Bajzar (Stoney Creek, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for inhibiting and for reversing the dysfunctional response of vascular endothelial cells to an inflammatory stimulus in a subject in need of such therapy has been developed in which an effective amount of a pharmaceutical composition comprising thrombin-activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor (TAFI) combined with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and optionally other treatments is administered to the subject. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/246662 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 06838437 | Kaufman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randal J. Kaufman (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Steven W. Pipe (Ypsilanti, Michigan); Kagehiro Amano (Tokyo, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel purified and isolated nucleic acid sequences encoding procoagulant-active FVIII proteins. The nucleic acid sequences of the present invention encode amino acid sequences corresponding to known human FVIII sequences, wherein residue Phe3O9 is mutated. The nucleic acid sequences of the present invention also encode amino acid sequences corresponding to known human FVIII sequences, wherein the APC cleavage sites, Arg336 and Ile562, are mutated. The nucleic acid sequences of the present invention further encode amino acid sequences corresponding to known human FVIII sequences, wherein the B-domain is deleted, the von Willebrand factor binding site is deleted, a thrombin cleavage site is mutated and an amino acid sequence spacer is inserted between the A2- and A3-domains. Methods of producing the FVIII proteins of the invention, nucleotide sequences encoding such proteins, pharmaceutical compositions containing the nucleotide sequences or proteins, as well as methods of treating patients suffering from hemophilia, are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 11, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/819098 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
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| US 06838484 | Steiner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mitchell S. Steiner (Germantown, Tennessee); Karen A. Veverka (Cordova, Tennessee); James T. Dalton (Columbus, Ohio); Duane D. Miller (Germantown, Tennessee); Yali He (Florence, South Carolina); Donghua Yin (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions and formulations comprising a novel class of androgen receptor targeting agents (ARTA) which demonstrate androgenic and anabolic activity of a nonsteroidal ligand for the androgen receptor. The agents define a new subclass of compounds which are selective androgen receptor modulators (SARM) which are useful for a) male contraception; b) treatment of a variety of hormone-related conditions, for example conditions associated with Androgen Decline in Aging Male (ADAM), such as fatigue, depression, decreased libido, sexual dysfunction, erectile dysfunction, hypogonadism, osteoporosis, hair loss, anemia, obesity, sarcopenia, osteopenia,osteoporosis, benign prostate hyperplasia, alterations in mood and cognition and prostate cancer; c) treatment of conditions associated with Androgen Decline in Female (ADIF), such as sexual dysfunction, decreased sexual libido, hypogonadism, sarcopenia, osteopenia, osteoporosis, alterations in cognition and mood, depression, anemia, hair loss, obesity, endometriosis, breast cancer, uterine cancer and ovarian cancer; d) treatment and/or prevention of chronic muscular wasting; and/or e) decreasing the incidence of, halting or causing a regression of prostate cancer. The present invention provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the selective androgen receptor modulator compounds, together with pharmaceutically acceptable excipients. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/270232 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/616 |
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| US 06838549 | Welte et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl Welte (New York, New York); Erich Platzer (Spardorf, Germany); Janice L. Gabrilove (New York, New York); Roland Mertelsmann (Mainz, Germany); Malcolm A. S. Moore (Larchmont, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Highly purified Pluripotent hematopoietic colony-stimulating factor (pluripotent CSF), a glycoprotein (MW 19,600) constitutively produced by human tumor cells has been highly purified from low serum-containing conditioned medium to apparant homogeneity. Pluripotent CSF supports the growth of human mixed colonies (CFU-GEMM), granulocyte-macrophage colonies (CFU-GM), early erythroid colonies (BFU-E) and induces differentiation of human leukemic cells. The specific activity of the purified pluripotent CSF in the CFU-GM assay is 1.5×108 U/mg protein. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 04, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/117423 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 06838592 | Nixon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research (Orangeburg, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph A. Nixon (Tarrytown, New York); Anne M. Cataldo (Nanuet, New York); Paul M. Mathews (Irvington, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features methods for identifying compounds useful for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. |
| FILED | Friday, April 28, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/560124 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/3 |
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| US 06838663 | Coon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua J. Coon (Charlottesville, Virginia); Willard W. Harrison (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention pertains to a methods and devices for ionizing a sample material. The subject invention also relates to an ionization source and to a method of sampling gas-phase ions from a sample. An ionization source in accordance with the subject invention can be used in conjunction with mass spectrometry or other sampling techniques. The subject invention can utilize a means for desorbing gas-phase ions and neutral molecules from a sample and a means to generate reagent ions where the reagent ions ionize the desorbed neutral molecules so as to increase the population of gas-phase ions. The subject invention can incorporate laser radiation for desorbing gas-phase ions and neutral molecules from a sample. In a specific embodiment, the subject invention provides an ionization source that uses a pulsed laser for desorption, so as to produce a population of desorbed neutral molecules from a sample, as well as a number of gas-phase sample ions. In a further specific embodiment, the pulsed laser radiation can be adjusted such that neutral molecules are desorbed without the production of gas-phase sample ions by the laser radiation. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/448182 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
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| US 06839408 | Tang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Creatv Micro Tech, Inc. (Potomac, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cha-Mei Tang (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A grid, for use with electromagnetic energy emitting devices, includes at least metal layer, which is formed, for example, by electroplating. The metal layer includes top and bottom surfaces, and a plurality of solid integrated walls. Each of the solid integrated walls extends from the top to bottom surface and having a plurality of side surfaces. The side surfaces of the solid integrated walls are arranged to define a plurality of openings extending entirely through the layer. At least some of the walls also can include projections extending into the respective openings formed by the walls. The projections can be of various shapes and sizes, and are arranged so that a total amount of wall material intersected by a line propagating in a direction along an edge of the grid is substantially the same as another total amount of wall material intersected by another line propagating in another direction substantially parallel to the edge of the grid at any distance from the edge. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 13, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/734761 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/154 |
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| US 06839586 | Webb |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Watt W. Webb (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method of applying radiation through an optical fiber for detecting disease within a plant or animal or imaging a particular tissue of a plant or animal. In addition, fluorescence can be detected and localized within a subject by such application of radiation through an optical fiber. The radiation is effective to promote simultaneous multiphoton excitation. The optical fibers are used alone to examine internal regions of tissue, in conjunction with an optical biopsy needle to evaluate sub-surface tissue, or with an endoscope to evaluate tissue within body cavities. |
| FILED | Monday, May 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/429392 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/478 |
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| US 06839588 | Rudy |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yoram Rudy (Shaker Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A system (10) for determining electrical potentials on an endocardial surface of a heart is provided. The system includes a non-contact, non-expandable, miniature, multi-electrode catheter probe (12), a plurality of electrodes (32) disposed on an end portion (30) thereof, means for determining endocardial potentials (14) based on electrical potentials measured by the catheter probe, a matrix of coefficients that is generated based on a geometric relationship between the probe surface, and the endocardial surface. A method is also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 29, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/463427 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/523 |
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| US 06839661 | Costa et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MediSpectra, Inc. (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter J. Costa (Hudson, Massachusetts); Kwong Hui (Woburn, Massachusetts); Robert J. Nordstrom (Hanover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for normalizing optical spectra using a non-uniform segment normalization. A spectrum is obtained and is represented as a function of wavelength as an amplitude at each of a plurality of wavelengths. At least one segment of the spectrum is selected, each selected segment being bounded by an upper wavelength and a lower wavelength. A normalization factor is computed as the sum of the areas for each of the selected segments. The spectrum is normalized by dividing at least one amplitude of the spectrum by the normalization factor. Segments can be selected with different wavelength ranges, that is, segments can be non-uniform. Test specimens can be categorized based on an analysis of normalized spectra. In particular, the specimen to be tested can be human cervical tissue, and the state of health of the tissue can be determined. |
| FILED | Friday, December 15, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/738612 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/189 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Midwest Research Institute, Inc. (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas C. Stewart (Mission, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A low-power gas chromatograph is provided including an optional air sampler module, an injector, an analytical column, a pulsed-flame photometric detector, and a computer system. The gas chromatograph of the present invention is designed for portable use such that the sensitive components of the system are mounted in a way that they are at least partially insulated against shock applied to the instrument. A rugged housing is provided such that the instrument can be used during field operations without destruction of sensitive components due to dropping and the like. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/248493 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/23.350 |
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| US 06837121 | Sternberger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Waynle I. Sternberger (Highland, Maryland); Stuart A. Goemmer (Bel Air, Maryland); Alexander E. Dence (Panama City, Florida); Stanley G. Reach (Panama City, Florida); Cheryl S. Schein (Frederick, Maryland); Micah A. Carlson (Baltimore, Maryland); William R. Allmon (Yardley, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention comprises a material sampling interface that includes one or more inlet manifolds and one or more outlet manifolds and piping running to and from the manifolds. There are rungs connecting the inlet manifold to the outlet manifold. In addition, a bypass rung is positioned between the inlet manifold and the outlet manifold, with a bypass valve positioned on the bypass. Each of the rungs has piping connected to the inlet and outlet manifolds and a removable reservoir connected to the piping. The reservoir includes an internal removable sampler adapted to sample the material. There is an inlet valve connected to the piping between the reservoir and the inlet manifold and an outlet valve connected to the piping between the reservoir and the outlet manifold. The invention is capable of sampling any flowable material including fluids, gases, particles, etc. |
| FILED | Monday, April 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/419525 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/864.710 |
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| US 06837164 | Khanna et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vishwa Khanna (Randolph, New Jersey); Richard C Dzury (Dover, New Jersey); Kenneth Milano (Bayonne, New Jersey); Tapan Chatterjee (Succasunna, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A protector for propelling charge increments on a mortar shell includes a semi-cylindrical body, the semi-cylindrical body arranged around a bottom and sides of the charge increments; two generally horseshoe shaped end plates attached to a front and a rear of the semi-cylindrical body, the end plates defining openings therein, the tail tube of the mortar fitting in the opening in each end plate, the charge increments being disposed between the two end plates; a wedge-shaped boom attached to the rear end plate, the wedge-shaped boom fitting between two fins on the fin portion of the mortar shell; a stop tab attached to a rear end of the wedge-shaped boom, the stop tab extending substantially perpendicular to a narrow side of the wedge-shaped boom to contact an end of the fin portion thereby minimizing longitudinal motion of the charge increments; and a nose cone attached at the front of the semi-cylindrical body, the nose cone defining an opening at its front end, the middle portion of the mortar shell fitting in the opening. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/248974 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/373 |
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| US 06837175 | Gieseke |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J. Gieseke (Newport, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | An asymmetric towing system for towing multiple linear arrays includes a tow platform and a single composite tow cable extending from the tow platform and having the multiple linear arrays connected both mechanically and electrically thereto. The composite tow cable is shaped by a hard streamlined casing and houses a load bearing cable for mechanical connection to each array and plural individual array connections for establishing electrical communication between each array and the tow platform. A single depressor is connected to a distal end of the composite cable for spreading the composite cable in a substantially lateral direction from and to one side of the tow platform. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/627103 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/242 |
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| US 06837240 | Olstad et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Olstad (Panama City, Florida); Dennis Gallagher (Panama City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A full face mask has a body frame having a continuous, closed sidewall extending and compliantly resting on bony contours around facial features of a wearer, and a lateral partition extending and resting on bony contours of a wearer's face from one side to another side of the sidewall between the areas of the nose and upper lip. The lateral partition separates the frame into a lower mask section having a lower cavity with a pod opening and an upper mask section having an upper cavity. Lenses supported by the frame define a forward field of view and integrated in the frame are components including a radio frequency antenna receiving dive information signals, a display in a peripheral area outside of the forward field of view, a controller coupled for processing the signals to generate outputs, and a control that passes outputs for display at the visual display. |
| FILED | Monday, June 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/457694 |
| ART UNIT | 3743 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 128/201.270 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06837456 | Shih et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida State University Research Foundation (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chiang Shih (Tallahassee, Florida); Farrukh S. Alvi (Tallahassee, Florida); Anjaneyulu Krothapalli (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A microjet based control system helps control the feedback loop that is created by an impinging jet of a STOVL aircraft. A plurality of microjets circumferentially encompass the outer periphery of the impinging jet and each issues a jet flow toward the jet flow created by the impinging jet. A control system is connected to the microjets for adaptively controlling the microjets based on various operating parameters collected by various input devices. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/044196 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/12.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06837465 | Lisy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Orbital Research Inc (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick J. Lisy (Euclid, Ohio); Mohammed Modarreszadah (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Mehul P. Patel (Streetsboro, Ohio); Jack M. DiCocco (Broadview Heights, Ohio); Reed Carver (Aurora, Ohio); Robert N. Schmidt (Cleveland, Ohio); Troy Prince (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a flow control device and more particularly to reactive modular flow control device with deployable flow effectors. The present invention further relates to a method of operating the flow control device. One embodiment of the present invention includes a method of controlling air flow across a surface of an aircraft under certain flight conditions comprising the steps of sensing fluid separation from the surface by measuring the pressure on the surface; determining a standard deviation of the pressure measurements over a period of time; and deploying a flow of effector in response to the standard deviation of the pressure measurements exceeding a predetermined threshold number. |
| FILED | Friday, January 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/336114 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/199 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06837496 | Larson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven L. Larson (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Charles A. Weiss (Clinton, Mississippi); Joe G. Tom (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Philip G. Malone (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Edward J. Fransen (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A backstop for decelerating and trapping projectiles generally includes a support structure having an inclined surface and a projectile trapping medium disposed on the inclined surface. The projectile trapping medium may be either a resilient granular ballistic medium or a combination of a ballistic medium with a hydrated super absorbent polymer (SAP) gel. Preferably, the support structure is made of a shock absorbing, foamed, fiber-reinforced concrete, such as SACON®. In embodiments, the support structure also includes an enclosure. Additives may also be mixed into the projectile trapping medium to control alkalinity and prevent leaching of heavy metals. |
| FILED | Monday, December 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/307427 |
| ART UNIT | 3711 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Amusement devices: Games 273/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06838277 | Elashvili |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ilya Elashvili (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of enzymatic degradation of hydrolyzed nerve agents GB, GD, GF, VX and O-isobutyl S-(diethyl-aminoethyl) methylphosphonothioate into biodegradable methylphosphonate products using enzymes from bacteria that can use for growth as the sole phosphorus source, low concentrations of ethyl-isopropyl-, and pinacolyl methylphosphonates (EMPn, IMPn, and PMPn-alkali treatment products of VX, GB, and GD, respectively). |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/131946 |
| ART UNIT | 1744 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/262.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06838292 | Rajan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alion Science and Technology Corporation (McLean, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Krishnaswamy S. Rajan (Elmhurst, Illinois); Stephen S. Mainer (Crest Hill, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices are provided for the detection of bacterial agents such agents as Bacillus anthracis and Clostridium botulinum with high sensitivity and selectivity. More specifically, methods and devices are based on a phosphorescence-emission detection system using chelate-stabilized lanthanides (e.g, Eu(III), Tb(III), and Sm(III)) to detect various spore-specific small organic molecules (e.g., dipicolinic acid, diaminopimelic acid, n-acetlymuramic acid, and the like). By careful selection of the chelating agent or ligand coordinated to the lanthanide, both high specificity and selectivity can be obtained. Examples of suitable and preferred sensor systems include N-(2-hydroxyethyl)ethylenediaminetriacetic acid (HEDTA) and N-(2-hydroxyethyl)iminodiacetic acid (HEIDA) combined with europium (III) and/or terbium (III). The chelate-stabilized lanthanides react with the spore-specific “target” molecules to form a characteristically phosphorescent product which can then be detected. |
| FILED | Friday, April 14, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/549353 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/518 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06838815 | Raina |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kanwal K. Raina (Boise, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a conductive aluminum film and method of forming the same, wherein a non-conductive impurity is incorporated into the aluminum film. In one embodiment, the introduction of nitrogen creates an aluminum nitride subphase which pins down hillocks in the aluminum film to maintain a substantially smooth surface. The film remains substantially hillock-free even after subsequent thermal processing. The aluminum nitride subphase causes only a nominal increase in resistivity (resistivities remain below about 12 μΩ-cm), thereby making the film suitable as an electrically conductive layer for integrated circuit or display devices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 29, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/060842 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/496 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06838835 | Kim |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Won-Joo Kim (Boise, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of operating field emission displays are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for operating a field emission display includes applying a voltage to an extraction grid with respect to an emitter in proximity to the extraction grid to extract electrons from the emitter, regulating a supply of electrons from the emitter in response to a control signal, and accelerating the electrons from the emitter towards a faceplate with an accelerating voltage that also reverse biases a semiconductor diode extending from a baseplate that includes the extraction grid and the emitter to the faceplate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 06, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/011825 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/169.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06839371 | Martinelli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sarnoff Corporation (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramon Ubaldo Martinelli (Hightstown, New Jersey); Alan Richard Sugg (Langhorne, Pennsylvania); Raymond Joseph Menna (Newtown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor laser device includes a substrate having on a surface thereof a semiconductor diode laser portion and a linear amplifier portion. Each of the laser portion and amplifier portion has a waveguide layer with the waveguide layers being in alignment. The laser portion is of a structure which permits it to generate radiation and emit the radiation from one end. The amplifier has an end that receives the radiation from the laser portion, and another end with emits the radiation after the radiation is amplified. The device emits FM radiation but not IM radiation. |
| FILED | Monday, May 01, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/562407 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06839489 | Switzer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | AdvR, Inc. (Bozeman, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Greggory Switzer (Bozeman, Montana); Rand Swanson (Bozeman, Montana); Philip Battle (Bozeman, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of attaching electrodes to optical substrates with embedded waveguides includes applying the electrode pattern to a separate superstrate from the electro-optic material containing the waveguide. This allows for the change of the index of refraction and/or the dipole moment of an electro-optic material using low voltages. In0 addition, the electrode superstrate can be detached from the waveguide substrate and repositioned and aligned to different waveguides. Removable electrodes add flexibility and increase yield by allowing the electrodes to be re-aligned to the waveguides when improper alignment occurs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/388314 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06839491 | Painter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xponent Photonics Inc (Monrovia, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oskar J. Painter (Pasadena, California); David W. Vernooy (Sierra Madre, California); Kerry J. Vahala (San Gabriel, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-layer laterally-confined dispersion-engineered optical waveguide may include one multi-layer reflector stack for guiding an optical mode along a surface thereof, or may include two multi-layer reflector stacks with a core therebetween for guiding an optical mode along the core. Dispersive properties of such multi-layer waveguides enable modal-index-matching between low-index optical fibers and/or waveguides and high-index integrated optical components and efficient transfer of optical signal power therebetween. Integrated optical devices incorporating such multi-layer waveguides may therefore exhibit low (<3 dB) insertion losses. Incorporation of an active layer (electro-optic, electro-absorptive, non-linear-optical) into such waveguides enables active control of optical loss and/or modal index with relatively low-voltage/low-intensity control signals. Integrated optical devices incorporating such waveguides may therefore exhibit relatively low drive signal requirements. |
| FILED | Friday, December 21, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/037966 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06839521 | Davis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard L. Davis (Redondo Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A photonic arbitrary waveform modem utilizes a bipolar coding scheme. The bipolar coding scheme includes an arbitrary waveform modem which includes a plurality of tapped delay lines and is implemented by partitioning each optical frequency chip into positive and negative segments. Signals are decoded by effectively multiplying the transmit and receive code vectors and individually summing the positive and negative tap weights. The positive and negative tap weights are differenced to recreate the transmitted signal. The bipolar coding scheme allows for the use of truly orthogonal codes which decreases the interference and reduces the probability of detection. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 10, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/852556 |
| ART UNIT | 2633 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
06837982 — Maintaining molten salt electrolyte concentration in aluminum-producing electrolytic cell
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwest Aluminum Technologies (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Barnett (Goldendale, Washington); Michael B. Mezner (Sandy, Oregon); Donald R Bradford (Underwood, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of maintaining molten salt concentration in a low temperature electrolytic cell used for production of aluminum from alumina dissolved in a molten salt electrolyte contained in a cell free of frozen crust wherein volatile material is vented from the cell and contacted and captured on alumina being added to the cell. The captured volatile material is returned with alumina to cell to maintain the concentration of the molten salt. |
| FILED | Friday, January 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/055153 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/391 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06838004 | Yang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Industrial Science and Technology Network, Inc. (York, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur Jing-Min Yang (Lancaster, Pennsylvania); Yuehua Zhang (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanoporous reactive adsorbent incorporates a relatively small number of relatively larger reactant, e.g., metal, enzyme, etc., particles (10) forming a discontinuous or continuous phase interspersed among and surrounded by a continuous phase of smaller adsorbent particles (12) and connected interstitial pores (14) therebetween. The reactive adsorbent can effectively remove inorganic or organic impurities in a liquid by causing the liquid to flow through the adsorbent. For example, silver ions may be adsorbed by the adsorbent particles (12) and reduced to metallic silver by reducing metal, such as ions, as the reactant particles (10). The column can be regenerated by backwashing with the liquid effluent containing, for example, acetic acid. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 07, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/110270 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/660 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06838005 | Tepper et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick Tepper (Sanford, Florida); Leonid Kaledin (Port Orange, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Aluminum hydroxide fibers approximately 2 nanometers in diameter and with surface areas ranging from 200 to 650 m2/g have been fount to be highly electropositive. When dispersed in water they are able to attach to and retain electronegative particles. When combined into a composite filter with other fibers or particles they can filter bacteria and nano size particulates such as viruses and colloidal particles at high flux through the filter. Such filters can be used for purification and sterilization of water, biological, medical and pharmaceutical fluids, and as a collector/concentrator for detection and assay of mirobes and viruses. The alumina fibers are also capable of filtering sub-micron inorganic and metallic particles to produce ultra pure water. The fibers are suitable as a substrate for growth of cells. Macromolicules such as proteins may be separated from each other based on their electronegative charges. |
| FILED | Friday, June 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/177709 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/660 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06838072 | Kong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter C. Kong (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Robert J. Pink (Pocatello, Idaho); Lee O. Nelson (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a process for preparing lithium intercalation compounds by plasma reaction comprising the steps of: forming a feed solution by mixing lithium nitrate or lithium hydroxide or lithium oxide and the required metal nitrate or metal hydroxide or metal oxide and between 10-50% alcohol by weight; mixing the feed solution with O2 gas wherein the O2 gas atomizes the feed solution into fine reactant droplets, inserting the atomized feed solution into a plasma reactor to form an intercalation powder; and if desired, heating the resulting powder to from a very pure single phase product. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/261675 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/594.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06838404 | Hentges et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick J. Hentges (Urbana, Illinois); Laura H. Greene (Urbana, Illinois); Margaret Mary Pafford (Yardley, Pennsylvania); Glenn Westwood (Urbana, Illinois); Walter G. Klemperer (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a superconducting structure includes depositing a metal alkoxide on a surface of a metal and hydrolyzing the metal alkoxide on the surface to form a pinhole-free film. The metal is a superconductor. The metal alkoxide may be a compound of formula (I): M4(OPrn)16 (I); where M is zirconium or hafnium, and the purity of the compound is at least 97% as measured by NMR spectroscopy. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/044831 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Ceramic 51/152 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06838632 | Via et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Utron Inc. (Manassas, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lester C. Via (Springfield, Virginia); F. Douglas Witherspoon (Fairfax Station, Virginia); John M. Ryan (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A high voltage switch contact structure capable of interrupting high voltage, high current AC and DC circuits. The contact structure confines the arc created when contacts open to the thin area between two insulating surfaces in intimate contact. This forces the arc into the shape of a thin sheet which loses heat energy far more rapidly than an arc column having a circular cross-section. These high heat losses require a dramatic increase in the voltage required to maintain the arc, thus extinguishing it when the required voltage exceeds the available voltage. The arc extinguishing process with this invention is not dependent on the occurrence of a current zero crossing and, consequently, is capable of rapidly interrupting both AC and DC circuits. The contact structure achieves its high performance without the use of sulfur hexafluoride. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/420717 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | High-voltage switches with arc preventing or extinguishing devices 218/147 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06839655 | Gross et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth C. Gross (LaJolla, California); Stephan W. Wegerich (Glendale Heights, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved system for monitoring non-coincident, non-stationary, process signals. The mean, variance, and length of a reference signal is defined by an automated system, followed by the identification of the leading and falling edges of a monitored signal and the length of the monitored signal. The monitored signal is compared to the reference signal, and the monitored signal is resampled in accordance with the reference signal. The reference signal is then correlated with the resampled monitored signal such that the reference signal and the resampled monitored signal are coincident in time with each other. The resampled monitored signal is then compared to the reference signal to determine whether the resampled monitored signal is within a set of predesignated operating conditions. |
| FILED | Friday, May 25, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/865953 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/179 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06839861 | Hoke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Michael Hoke (Millerton, New York); Frank D. Ferraiolo (Essex, Vermont); Tin-Chee Lo (Fishkill, New York); John Michael Yarolin (Williston, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | An exemplary embodiment of the present invention is a method for transmitting data among processors over a plurality of parallel data lines and a clock signal line. A receiver processor receives both data and a clock signal from a sender processor. At the receiver processor a bit of the data is phased aligned with the transmitted clock signal. The phase aligning includes selecting a data phase from a plurality of data phases in a delay chain and then adjusting the selected data phase to compensate for a round-off error. Additional embodiments include a system and storage medium for transmitting data among processors over a plurality of parallel data lines and a clock signal line. |
| FILED | Monday, July 30, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/918081 |
| ART UNIT | 2115 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/401 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Admistrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sai V. Raj (Strongsville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming an environmental resistant thermal barrier coating on a copper alloy is disclosed. The steps include cleansing a surface of a copper alloy, depositing a bond coat on the cleansed surface of the copper alloy, depositing a NiAl top coat on the bond coat and consolidating the bond coat and the NiAl top coat to form the thermal barrier coating. The bond coat may be a nickel layer or a layer composed of at least one of copper and chromium-copper alloy and either the bond coat or the NiAl top coat or both may be deposited using a low pressure or vacuum plasma spray. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/441028 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/675 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06838205 | Cisar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lynntech, Inc. (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Cisar (Cypress, Texas); Oliver J. Murphy (Bryan, Texas); Eric Clarke (Bryan, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to an oxygen electrode for a unitized regenerative hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell and the unitized regenerative fuel cell having the oxygen electrode. The oxygen electrode contains components electrocatalytically active for the evolution of oxygen from water and the reduction of oxygen to water, and has a structure that supports the flow of both water and gases between the catalytically active surface and a flow field or electrode chamber for bulk flow of the fluids. The electrode has an electrocatalyst layer and a diffusion backing layer interspersed with hydrophilic and hydrophobic regions. The diffusion backing layer consists of a metal core having gas diffusion structures bonded to the metal core. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 10, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/974190 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06838301 | Zheng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xinyu Zheng (Monterey Park, California); Bedabrata Pain (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Active pixel sensors for a high quality imager are fabricated using a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) process by integrating the photodetectors on the SOI substrate and forming pixel readout transistors on the SOI thin-film. The technique can include forming silicon islands on a buried insulator layer disposed on a silicon substrate and selectively etching away the buried insulator layer over a region of the substrate to define a photodetector area. Dopants of a first conductivity type are implanted to form a signal node in the photodetector area and to form simultaneously drain/source regions for a first transistor in at least a first one of the silicon islands. Dopants of a second conductivity type are implanted to form drain/source regions for a second transistor in at least a second one of the silicon islands. Isolation rings around the photodetector also can be formed when dopants of the second conductivity type are implanted. Interconnections among the transistors and the photodetector are provided to allow signals sensed by the photodetector to be read out via the transistors formed on the silicon islands. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/136794 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/48 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06838669 | Goebel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John H. Goebel (Foster City, California); Robert E. McMurray, Jr. (Alameda, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Bolometer system and method for detecting, at BLIP levels, presence of radiation over a broad range of wavelengths in an infrared spectrum and in a temperature range from 20 K to as high as room temperature. The radiation is received by a Si crystal having a region that is doped with one or more of In, Ga, S, Se, Te, B, Al, P, As and Sb in a concentration ratio in a range such as 5×10−11 to 5×10−6. Change in electrical resistance ΔR due to receipt of the radiation is measured through a change in voltage difference or current within the crystal, and the quantity ΔR is converted to an estimate of the amount of radiation received. Optionally, incident radiation having an energy high enough to promote photoconductivity is removed before detection. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/135014 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/338.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06838829 | Ives |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Calabatas Creek Research, Inc. (Saratoga, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | R. Lawrence Ives (Saratoga, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A depressed collector for recovery of spent beam energy from electromagnetic sources emitting sheet or large aspect ration annular electron beams operating aver a broad range of beam voltages and currents. The collector incorporates a trap for capturing and preventing the return of reflected and secondary electrons. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/038016 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/5.380 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06838995 | Yost et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William T. Yost (Newport News, Virginia); K. Elliott Cramer (Newport News, Virginia); Daniel F. Perey (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Passive and active methods for anticipating problems with electrical wiring are provided. An insulative material in contact with an electrical conductor has at least one impurity that is impregnated in the insulative material and/or disposed thereon. An environment around the electrical conductor is monitored for the presence or the level of the impurity(ies) emanating from the insulative material in the form of a gaseous effluent. An alarm signal is generated when a predetermined level of the gaseous effluent is detected. |
| FILED | Monday, April 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/421409 |
| ART UNIT | 2636 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/632 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06839452 | Yang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guang Yang (West Covina, California); Bedabrata Pain (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A vision system is disclosed. The system includes a pixel array, at least one multi-resolution window operation circuit, and a pixel averaging circuit. The pixel array has an array of pixels configured to receive light signals from an image having at least one tracking target. The multi-resolution window operation circuits are configured to process the image. Each of the multi-resolution window operation circuits processes each tracking target within a particular multi-resolution window. The pixel averaging circuit is configured to sample and average pixels within the particular multi-resolution window. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 22, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/722249 |
| ART UNIT | 2621 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 06838239 | Zyskind |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | San Diego State University Foundation (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Judith W. Zyskind (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to reporter gene constructs encoding a cytoplasmic form of chitobiase (N,N′-diacetylchitobiase) and methods of using these reporter gene constructs. The use of a cytoplasmic form of chitobiase as a reporter enzyme is generally applicable to the study of gene expression in organisms which do not contain N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 02, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/630931 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06838640 | Wise et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kensall D. Wise (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Richard Sacks (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Katharine T. Beach (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Joseph A. Potkay (Bay Village, Ohio); Masoud Agah (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A high-sensitivity, separation microcolumn assembly for a microgas chromatograph and the like is provided. The assembly has an ultra-low mass complete with integrated heaters. The assembly uses multiple zones for temperature control, and microstructures that permit very rapid heating and cooling of the microcolumn. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/437101 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06839586 | Webb |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Watt W. Webb (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method of applying radiation through an optical fiber for detecting disease within a plant or animal or imaging a particular tissue of a plant or animal. In addition, fluorescence can be detected and localized within a subject by such application of radiation through an optical fiber. The radiation is effective to promote simultaneous multiphoton excitation. The optical fibers are used alone to examine internal regions of tissue, in conjunction with an optical biopsy needle to evaluate sub-surface tissue, or with an endoscope to evaluate tissue within body cavities. |
| FILED | Monday, May 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/429392 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/478 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 06837293 | Mok et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Swee M. Mok (Schaumburg, Illinois); Janice M. Danvir (Arlington Heights, Illinois); Chi-haur Wu (Skokie, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An interface block (300) carries a removable electrical connection (310, 312) that can be quickly connected and removed from a high speed machine for picking and placing electronic components. The interface block is attached to a vacuum ported tool changer (200) which further couples to a heated end effector (100) to create a removable heated nozzle assembly (50). The entire assembly can be easily plugged into and removed from a high speed placement machine. |
| FILED | Monday, June 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/462160 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/571 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06837766 | Costello |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intevac, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth A. Costello (Alameda County, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A housing for microelectronic devices requiring an internal vacuum for operation, e.g., an image detector, is formed by tape casting and incorporates leads between interior and exterior of the housing where the leads are disposed on a facing surface of green tape layers. Adjacent green tape layers having corresponding apertures therein are stacked on a first closure member to form a resulting cavity and increased electrical isolation or channel sub-structures are achievable by forming adjacent layers with aperture dimension which vary non-monotonically. After assembly of the device within the cavity, a second closure member is sealed against an open face of the package in a vacuum environment to produce a vacuum sealed device. |
| FILED | Friday, January 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/340386 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp or space discharge component or device manufacturing 445/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 06837001 | Amburgey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mississippi State University (, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terry L. Amburgey (Sturgis, Mississippi); Michael G. Sanders (Sturgis, Mississippi); Craig D. Bell (Eupora, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel method of positively directing termite activity by the use of radio waves. Also provided is a method of protecting a natural or man-made structure from termite infestation based on termite attractancy of specific radio waves. |
| FILED | Friday, July 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/193107 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying 043/132.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 06838443 | Cichewicz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert H. Cichewicz (Santa Cruz, California); Muraleedharan G. Nair (Okemos, Michigan); James H. McKerrow (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Anthraquinones are described which are antihelminthic and in particular, are useful in compositions for inhibiting Schistosoma sp. in vitro or in vivo. The preferred anthraquinones have the formula: wherein R1, R2, R3, and R4 are each hydrogen, hydroxy, halogen, alkyl, substituted alkyl, alkene, substituted alkene, alkyne, aryl, substituted aryl, cyclic, substituted cyclic, acid group, carbohydrate, or combination thereof, R is a group containing 1 to 12 carbons such as methyl, alkyl, substituted alkyl, aldehyde, hydroxy, hydroxymethyl, acid group, carbohydrate, or combination thereof, and the halogen is I, F, Br, or Cl. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/723672 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/33 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 06836968 | Walker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary R. Walker (Fort Wayne, Indiana); Robert A. Hookman (Fort Wayne, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A linear translation device includes a frame, a carriage pivotally coupled to the frame, a drive arm body coupled to the carriage and rotatably coupled to the frame, and an actuator coupled to the drive arm body and the frame to effect rotation of the drive arm body about a pivot point. The device effects linear motion to the carriage by rotating the drive arm body by the actuator about the pivot point. An object, such as an optical component, is secured to the carriage such that linear motion of the carriage conveys linear motion to the object. Each of the frame, carriage and drive arm body are preferably coupled to each other with flexures to facilitate substantially frictionless linear translation of motion to the carriage and object secured to the carriage when the drive arm body is rotated by the actuator. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/603087 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Geometrical instruments 033/1.M00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06837854 | Moore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas L. Moore (Livermore, California); Robert Henry Barter (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system of examining tissue are provided in which a field, including at least a portion of the tissue and one or more registration fiducials, is insonified. Scattered acoustic information, including both transmitted and reflected waves, is received from the field. A representation of the field, including both the tissue and the registration fiducials, is then derived from the received acoustic radiation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/323866 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06838204 | Brudnicki |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hybrid Power Generation Systems, LLC (Torrance, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Myron J. Brudnicki (San Pedro, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for fuel cell packaging are embodied in a pair of complementary fuel cell receptacles within which a stack of fuel cells are housed in a staggered or spiral configuration. The fuel cells are provided with ports positioned in their corner portions. The fuel cell receptacles include a plurality of port interfacing surfaces over which the corners of the fuel cells are positioned, thereby providing direct fluidic interfaces between the flow field areas of the fuel cells and the receptacles. In a preferred embodiment, o-rings are employed at the fluidic interfaces between the fuel cells and the receptacles. The fuel cell receptacles also include manifolds and a plurality of conduits between the port interfacing surfaces and the manifolds. In a preferred embodiment, the manifolds vary in depth along the receptacles such that the conduits are substantially equal in length. The fuel cell receptacles are detachably secured together and facilitate the employment of a mechanism for pressing the stack of fuel cells together to ensure good electrical contacts between adjacent fuel cells of the stack. |
| FILED | Friday, October 08, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/415467 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06838274 | Vale, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Development Foundation (Carson City, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wylie W. Vale, Jr. (La Jolla, California); Teresa M. Reyes (Encinitas, California); Paul E. Sawchenko (Carlsbad, California); Jean E. Rivier (La Jolla, California); Kathy A. Lewis (San Diego, California); John B. Hogenesch (Encinitas, California); Joan M. Vaughan (San Diego, California); Marilyn H. Perrin (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A human urocortin-related peptide with significant sequence homology to the CRF neuropeptide family was identified. A mouse cDNA was isolated from whole brain poly (A+) RNA that encodes a predicted 38 amino acid peptide protein designated herein as urocortin II. Both human URP and mouse Ucn II are structurally related to the other known mammalian family members, CRF and urocortin (Ucn). These peptides are involved in the regulation of the hypothalamic-pituituary-adrenal axis under basal and stress conditions, suggesting a similar role for URP and Ucn II. Synthesized Ucn-II and URP peptide binds with higher affinity to CRF-R2 than to CRF-R1 Ucn II and human URP appear to be involved in the regulation of body temperature and appetite and may play a role in other stress related phenomenon. These findings identify Ucn II and human URP as a new members of the CRF family of neuropeptides, which are expressed centrally and bind to CRF-R2. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 31, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/919473 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06838444 | Zoghbi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Huda Y. Zoghbi (Houston, Texas); Hugo J. Bellen (Houston, Texas); Nessan A. Bermingham (Houston, Texas); Bassem Hassan (Houston, Texas); Nissim Ben-Arie (Mevaseret Zion, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods are disclosed for the therapeutic use of an atonal-associated nucleic acid or amino acid sequence. Also, an animal heterozygous for an atonal-associated gene inactivation is also disclosed having at least one atonal-associated nucleic acid sequence replaced by insertion of a heterologous nucleic acid sequence used to detect expression driven by an atonal-associated promoter sequence, wherein the inactivation of the atonal-associated nucleic acid sequence prevents expression of the atonal-associated gene. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 01, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/585645 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06838636 | Zehavi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Integrated Materials, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raanan Y. Zehavi (Sunnyvale, California); Robert L. Davis (Belmont, California); David B. Ackard (San Jose, California); James W. Govorko (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of welding two silicon workpieces (20, 22) together into one member without the formation of cracks along the weld. A first method passes current (34, 36) through one or both of the workpieces to heat them to between 600 and 900° C. Then an electric, laser, or plasma welder (38, 40) passes along the seam (24) between the workpieces to weld them together. A second method passing current (34) through a plate (60), preferably formed of silicon, which either supports the workpieces or is brought into contact with at least one of them, whereby the workpieces are preheated prior to the welding operation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/464594 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/121.460 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06839158 | Albert et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | E Ink Corporation (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan D. Albert (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Glen Crossley (Belmont, Massachusetts); Katharine Geramita (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Karl R. Amundson (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Michael L. Steiner (Methuen, Massachusetts); Paul Drzaic (Lexington, Massachusetts); Andrew Loxley (Allston, Massachusetts); Barrett Comiskey (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Peter J. Valianatos (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An encapsulated electrophoretic display having a plurality of non-spherical capsules disposed substantially in a single layer on a substrate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 06, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/413444 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/296 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06839649 | Kreider |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas R. Kreider (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for programmically communicating with a hardware device under test enables a user to develop flexible and customizable test and simulation programs for hardware devices connected to an industry standard bus. Input test commands are interpreted via a project specific support code component written in a scripting language such as Tcl. An extended scripting language tool provides communications capabilities to the industry standard bus and therefore enables test commands to be transmitted over the industry standard bus subsequent to the communications capabilities being provided to the industry standard bus via the extended scripting language tool. The hardware device is then driven based on the project specific test commands interpreted through the extended scripting language tool and transmitted over the industry standard bus. |
| FILED | Friday, July 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/199183 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/122 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06839698 | Nguyen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Duong Nguyen (Denver, Colorado); Scott A. Imhoff (Highlands Ranch, Colorado); Susan R. Kent (Centennial, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for deriving a near-optimal fuzzy automaton for a given separation problem. The method includes the steps of: forming a first generation population (24) of fuzzy automata, where the first generation population of fuzzy automata includes a plurality of fuzzy automata; performing a mutation operation (28) on each fuzzy automaton in the first generation population of fuzzy automata; reproducing the first generation population of fuzzy automata using a survival of the fittest operation (30, 32, 34); and applying a cross-over operator (36) to the reproduced first generation population of fuzzy automata, thereby yielding a next-generation population of fuzzy automata. A near-optimal fuzzy automaton is identified by evaluating the performance (38) of each fuzzy automaton in the next-generation population; otherwise the methodology is repeated until a near-optimal fuzzy automaton is derived for the given separation problem. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 09, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/925866 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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