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Patent Details for Tuesday, February 15, 2005
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| US 06854279 | Digiovanni 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) | Anthony J. Digiovanni (Sewell, New Jersey); Denis J. Colahan (Morton, Pennsylvania); Donald T. Knauss (Severna Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes methods and apparatus for controlling the humidity of air supplied to cooling coils on a gas turbine powered ship through a dynamic desiccation system. The system passes supply air through a desiccant wheel, which dries and concomitantly heats the supply air. This supply air stream is then passed through a rotatable thermal wheel, wherein heat is transferred from the dry supply air to an exhaust-air mixture, thereby conditioning the supply air for delivery and circulation to a plurality of cooling-coil units in a plurality of compartments. The exhaust air from the compartments is first mixed with some of the treated supply air to lower the absolute humidity to a value needed for effective regeneration of the desiccant wheel. An evaporative cooler then conditions the exhaust-air mixture for effective cooling of the supply air in the thermal rotor, which also serves as an air preheater for desiccant regeneration. The exhaust-air mixture is then heated to the desiccant regeneration temperature by passing the preheated exhaust air through a heat exchanger supplied with gas-turbine waste heat. After this heated exhaust-air mixture regenerates the desiccant wheel by fully drying out the desiccant on the wheel, it is expelled from the fan room. |
| FILED | Monday, June 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/457701 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/94 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06854394 | Henry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems, Inc. (St. Petersburg, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guy H. Henry (Mount Vernon, Illinois); Donald E. Dillard (Murphysboro, Illinois); Rao Yalamanchili (Flanders, New Jersey); Dennis J. Conway (East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania); Rick D. Wright (Herrin, Illinois); Gary C. Fleming (Budd Lake, New Jersey); Alan N. Cohen (Wharton, New Jersey); Roger E. Joinson (Boonton, New Jersey); Gene Venable (Sparta, New Jersey); Thomas Doris (Sparta, New Jersey); Albert S. Tatka, Jr. (Wantage, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Tracer visibility of APFSDS projectiles can be enhanced through a combination of increased steady state spin rate, reduced muzzle obscuration, and optimized airflow over the stabilizing fin geometry of the sub-projectile. The preferred means to increase steady state spin rates of the sub-projectile is to incline or deflect the fin blade tip portion, creating a larger, hotter burning, tracer plume. |
| FILED | Friday, August 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/641727 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/521 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06854406 | Cardoza et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Miguel A. Cardoza (Round Rock, Texas); Sarah Benedict (Austin, Texas); Anne Mayoral (Austin, Texas); Matthew Bennett (Austin, Texas); J. Clark Hughes (Austin, Texas); Donald Tucker (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An autonomous surface watercraft is disclosed. The watercraft may include a control module, a communications module, a power management module, a differential thrust propulsion system, and a navigation module. One or more sensors may be provided internal to the watercraft and/or coupled to a sensor module coupling point on the watercraft. An operator may provide the watercraft with mission parameters such as but not limited to station point(s), a sensing location or area, a sensing duration, and/or a sensing time. The watercraft may determine a course heading to reach a station point or sensing area. The control module may control the propulsion system to reach the station point and for station keeping. The watercraft may gather sensor data. The sensor data may be analyzed, filtered, stored in memory and/or transmitted to a control center. The control center may receive real-time data from a plurality of such watercraft. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/411071 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/144.RE0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06854409 | Galliano |
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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) | Carlos E. Galliano (North Kingstown, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | An underwater launch system includes a launch tube frangibly sealed at its forward end. At launch time, pressure equalization means introduces water at depth pressure into the launch tube between its frangibly sealed ends. A rotary electromagnetic pump coupled to the launch tube receives water at depth and expels the water at a higher pressure. The higher pressure water is coupled to the aft end of the launch tube. |
| FILED | Friday, June 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/456140 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06854410 | King 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) | Russell King (Panama City, Florida); Brian Coppola (Lynn Haven, Florida); Don Tibbetts (Lynn Haven, Florida); Chris Richburg (Panama City, Florida); Chris Cook (Lynn Haven, Florida); Don Hobden (Lynn Haven, Florida); Mike Conn (Panama City, Florida); Spencer Harris (Panama City, Florida); Wells Parker (Panama City, Florida); Brooke Parker (Panama City, Florida); David Emery (Panama City, Florida); Sally Lankamer (Panama City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An unmanned system for investigating underwater regions utilizes an unmanned mothership and a plurality of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs). The mothership transports the UUVs to and from the vicinity of an underwater region, releases the UUVs into the water, and facilitates recovery of the UUVs from the water. Each UUV can traverse an underwater region, generate sonar and image data associated with the underwater region, and transmit the sonar and image data through the water for receipt and re-transmission by the mothership. A docking system mounted partially onboard the mothership and partially onboard each UUV couples each UUV to the mothership and selectively releases each UUV into the underwater region. A guidance system mounted partially onboard the mothership and partially onboard each UUV guides each UUV back to the docking system from positions in the water. The mothership and UUVs can also be equipped with a non-contact electrical energy transfer system so that each UUV can return to the mothership and re-charge onboard batteries while underwater. |
| FILED | Monday, November 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/719854 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/244 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06854412 | Courson 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) | Billy Courson (Panama City Beach, Florida); John Shelburne (Lynn Haven, Florida); John Mittleman (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A suction device includes a suction cell formed to include a cup having an open end and a stem extending from a side of the cup opposite from the open end. A control system is connected to the stem and arranged to form a partial vacuum in the cup such that the cup is attached to the substrate. The control system may include an actuator and a strain sensor connected to the stem. The actuator preferably includes a length of a material that includes a shape memory alloy. |
| FILED | Friday, May 31, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/161992 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/296 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06854509 | Mitchell |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew P. Mitchell (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In a regenerator for a regenerative cycle machine, regenerator foil is grooved on both sides, with intersections of grooves on opposite side forming holes at which separate flows of fluid interact to induce flows ancillary to the overall direction of flow in the regenerator, thereby enhancing heat transfer to and from the material of the regenerator and improving thermodynamic performance of the gas cycle machine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 10, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/903302 |
| ART UNIT | 3743 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat exchange 165/10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06854879 | Pavlidis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ioannis Pavlidis (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Thermal image data of at least a region of a face of a person is provided. The thermal image data is transformed to blood flow rate data and may be used to determine whether the person is deceptive or non-deceptive based on the blood flow rate data, e.g., deceptive with respect to an elicited response from the person. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 13, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/008392 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Thermal measuring and testing 374/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855114 | Drukker et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Karen Drukker (Chicago, Illinois); Maryellen L. Giger (Elmhurst, Illinois); Karla Horsch (Lombard, Illinois); Carl J. Vyborny (Riverside, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of detecting a candidate abnormality in a sonographic medical image, based on determining a radial gradient index (RGI) at plural pixels, producing an RGI image, thresholding the RGI image, determining a candidate abnormality based on the thresholding step, and locating a center point of the candidate abnormality. The candidate abnormality may be classified by segmenting the candidate abnormality, including determining average radial gradients (ARDs) in the sonographic medical image based on the center point, extracting plural features from the segmented candidate abnormality, and determining a likelihood of the candidate abnormality being an actual abnormality based on the extracted plural features. |
| FILED | Monday, April 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/126523 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/443 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855139 | Ahle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Providence Health System-Oregon (Portland, Oregon); Kenton W. Gregory (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karen Marie Ahle (Quantico, Virginia); Brooke C. Basinger (Scottsdale, Arizona); Jason De Camp (El Paso, Texas); Kenton W. Gregory (Portland, Oregon); Elizabeth Whitney Johansen (Littleton, Colorado); Benjamin Charles Martin (Los Gatos, California); Cyndia A. Sweet (Hillsboro, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | An automated energy irradiator guidance system is disclosed which reduces the potential for human error and improves the consistency and repeatability of tissue welding techniques. The system includes a mapper, a patternizer, an energy director and can additionally include an energy regulator. An interface is included, allowing pattern creation, selection and editing by a user. The system further provides control of energy irradiator parameters for use in tissue welding. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/132079 |
| ART UNIT | 3739 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 66/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855274 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Milko E. van der Boom (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The preparation of robust, thin film materials with large second-order optical nonlinearities through the covalent self-assembly of chromophoric compositions and innovative use of silyl chemistry. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 22, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/815951 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/582 |
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| US 06855301 | Rich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph William Rich (Worthington, Ohio); Vish V. Subramaniam (Powell, Ohio); Elke Christina Plonjes (Columbus, Ohio); Walter Reuben Lempert (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes carbon synthesis devices and systems. The invention also includes machines and instruments using those aspects of the invention. The present invention also includes methods of carbon synthesis. The present invention includes an array of carbon nanotubes, each nanotube having a longitudinal axis. The nanotubes are placed into an array such that the longitudinal axes of all nanotubes in the array are substantially parallel. The array may be a two-dimensional array or a three-dimensional array. The present invention also includes methods of preparing such carbon molecular clusters and arrays thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, April 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/116966 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/1 |
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| US 06855322 | Lyon 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) | Jeffrey A. Lyon (Silver Spring, Maryland); Evelina Angov (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This application is the expression and purification of a recombinant Plasmodium falciparum (3D7) MSP-142. The method of the present invention produces a highly purified protein which retains folding and disulfide bridging of the native molecule. The recombinant MSP-142 is useful as a diagnostic reagent, for use in antibody production, and as a vaccine. |
| FILED | Friday, January 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/057531 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/268.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855331 | Vook 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) | Noelle Christine Vook (Schaumburg, Illinois); Elliott Jacob (Silver Spring, Maryland); Jean A. Setterstrom (Alpharetta, Georgia); John van Hamont (West Point, New York); William Vaughan (Silver Spring, Maryland); Ha Duong (Montclair, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A controlled release microcapsulate pharmaceutical formulation for burst-free, sustained, programmable release of hydrophobic bioactive agent over a duration from 24 hours to 100 days comprising: and a blend of end-capped uncapped biocompatible, biodegradable poly(lactide/glycolide). |
| FILED | Monday, June 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/165975 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/422 |
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| US 06855521 | Callahan 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) | Johnny Dale Callahan (Severn, Maryland); Joseph John Temenak (Takoma Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Five fluorogenic probe hydrolysis reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) (TaqMan™) assays are described for serotype-specific detection of dengue 1-4 and group-specific detection of dengue viruses. Type- and group-specific oligonucleotide primers and fluorogenic probes were designed against conserved regions of the dengue genome. The invention provides TaqMan PCR assays, which are rapid, sensitive, and specific screening and serotyping tools for the epidemiological study of dengue infections. |
| FILED | Friday, December 01, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/726345 |
| 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 435/91.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855720 | Yang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Pacific Medical Center (San Francisco, California); Catholic Healthcare West (S.F., California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Li-Xi Yang (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | (20S) esters of camptothecin analogs are provided. The compounds are (20S) esters of an aminoalkanoic acid or an imidoalkanoic acid and camptothecin, which is optionally substituted at the 7, 9, 10, 11, and 12 positions of the camptothecin ring. The compounds are useful for treating cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, June 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/172211 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/283 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855773 | Jensen 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) | Robert E. Jensen (Newark, Delaware); Matthew S. Bratcher (Aberdeen, Maryland); Steven H. McKnight (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for modifying a polymer are disclosed herein. A solution is generally provided having a surface thereof, wherein the solution comprises a plurality of highly branched polymers. The plurality of highly branched polymers can be chemically bound to a plurality of surfactants or order to modify the surface and produce a polymeric material thereof. The surface is tailored with a plurality of functional groups that self-assemble and are deliverable to the surface of the solution, including interfaces thereof, thereby permitting a high-density assembly of functional groups to operate in concert with one another in order to generate a modified surface thereof. The polymeric material produced thereof can be reversibly adaptable to environmental conditions through a blooming of varying surface functional group to the surface of the solution. |
| FILED | Friday, December 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/318300 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/276 |
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| US 06855963 | Chu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jack O. Chu (Manhasset Hills, New York); Qiqing C. Ouyang (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A silicon and silicon germanium based semiconductor MODFET device design and method of manufacture. The MODFET design includes a high-mobility layer structure capable of ultra high-speed, low-noise for a variety of communication applications including RF, microwave, sub-millimeter-wave and millimeter-wave. The epitaxial field effect transistor layer structure includes critical (vertical and lateral) device scaling and layer structure design for a high mobility strained n-channel and p-channel transistor incorporating silicon and silicon germanium layers to form the optimum modulation-doped heterostructure on an ultra thin SOI or SGOI substrate capable of achieving greatly improved RF performance. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/652400 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/103 |
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| US 06855971 | Basceri et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cem Basceri (Boise, Idaho); Gurtej Sandhu (Boise, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is a method for producing a haze-free (Ba, Sr)TiO3 (BST) film, and devices incorporating the same. In one embodiment, the BST film is made haze-free by depositing the film with a substantially uniform desired crystal orientation, for example, (100), preferably by forming the film by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition at a temperature greater than about 580° C. at a rate of less than about 80 Å/min, to result in a film having about 50 to 53.5 atomic percent titanium. In another embodiment, where the BST film serves as a capacitor for a DRAM memory cell, a desired {100} orientation is induced by depositing the bottom electrode over a nucleation layer of NiO, which gives the bottom electrode a preferential {100} orientation. BST is then grown over the {100} oriented bottom electrode also with a {100} orientation. A nucleation layer of materials such as Ti, Nb and Mn can also be provided over the bottom electrode and beneath the BST film to induce smooth, haze-free BST growth. Haze-free BST film can also be favored by forming the bottom electrode at high temperatures close to those used for BST deposition, and without a vacuum break between the bottom electrode and BST deposition. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 04, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/971955 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06856080 | Shiffler, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald A. Shiffler, Jr. (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Michael D. Haworth (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A vacuum tube having its anode/collector coated with carbonized resin plus pyrocarbon material to reduce out-gassing and secondary electron emission and the method of coating the anode/collector. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 28, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/682388 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/355 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06856136 | Harman |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theodore C. Harman (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A test structure for testing a thick film thermoelectric device is presented. The test structure is able to test the thermoelectric device in the device's three modes of operation, namely as a cooling device, as a heat pump, and as a power generator. The test structure includes a pair of current electrode blocks for supporting and supplying power from a power supply to the thick film thermoelectric device being tested. Thermocouples are attached to different portions of the thick film thermoelectric device to indicate the temperature change across the device as it is being tested. Additionally, a heat source is provided when the device is being tested in an electrical generation mode. The test structure is able to compensate for the expansion and contraction of the thick film thermoelectric device during the testing. By way of the disclosed test structure, the thick film thermoelectric devices can be tested and characterized. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/152754 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/451 |
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| US 06856159 | Tolk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Norman H. Tolk (Brentwood, Tennessee); Gunter Leupke (Williamsburg, Virginia); Wei Wang (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and/or device (285) for determining first and second band offsets (100, 110) at a semiconductor/dielectric heterointerface (115), which includes the semiconductor/dielectric heterointerface (115) exposed to incident photons (205) from a light source (200); a detector (275, 280) for generating a signal by detecting emitted photons (260, 265) from the semiconductor/dielectric heterointerface (115); and an element (310) for changing the energy of incident photons (205) to monitor the first and second band offsets (100, 110). |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 15, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/363347 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/765 |
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| US 06856216 | Trosa et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Harris Corporation (Melbourne, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph Trosa (Indialantic, Florida); Robert W. Perry (Indialantic, Florida); Neville Glyn Maycock, Jr. (Palm Bay, Florida); Joseph A. Elam (Palm Bay, Florida); James M. Freebourn (Indian Harbour Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A phase shift control voltage distribution scheme for a phased array utilizing voltage-proportional phase shift devices employs a digital-to-analog converter that supplies respectively different analog voltages to a sample-and-hold switch network coupled to analog voltage control inputs of the plurality of voltage-proportional phase shift devices. In order to impart a phase shift control voltage to one or more phase shift elements of the array, a control unit supplies a prescribed combination of a digital control code to the digital-to-analog converter and a switch control code to sample-and-hold switches of the switch network. |
| FILED | Monday, October 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/679767 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/156 |
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| US 06856217 | Clark et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Clark (Novi, Michigan); Clark T.-C. Nguyen (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A micromechanical resonator device and a micromechanical device utilizing same are disclosed based upon a radially or laterally vibrating disk structure and capable of vibrating at frequencies well past the GHz range. The center of the disk is a nodal point, so when the disk resonator is supported at its center, anchor dissipation to the substrate is minimized, allowing this design to retain high-Q at high frequency. In addition, this design retains high stiffness at high frequencies and so maximizes dynamic range. Furthermore, the sidewall surface area of this disk resonator is often larger than that attainable in previous flexural-mode resonator designs, allowing this disk design to achieve a smaller series motional resistance than its counterparts when using capacitive (or electrostatic) transduction at a given frequency. Capacitive detection is not required in this design, and piezoelectric, magnetostrictive, etc. detection are also possible. The frequency and dynamic range attainable by this resonator makes it applicable to high-Q RF filtering and oscillator applications in a wide variety of communication systems. Its size also makes it particularly suited for portable, wireless applications, where, if used in large numbers, such a resonator can greatly lower the power consumption, increase robustness, and extend the range of application of high performance wireless transceivers. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/660332 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/186 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06856224 | Leupold |
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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) | Herbert A. Leupold (Eatontown, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A compact permanent magnet structure is provided to produce a uniform magnetic biasing field confined to an internal cavity of a cylindrical magnetic flux source which eliminates the drawbacks, shortcomings, limitations and difficulties associated with an elongated magic ring. The compact permanent magnet structure is composed of a cylindrical magnetic flux source with a cylindrical axis, a hollow central cavity, an inner diameter and a remanence perpendicular to said cylindrical axis. The ends of the cylindrical magnetic flux source are capped by a first magnetic flux source and a second magnetic flux source. The compact permanent magnet structure produces a uniform biasing field by capping the end of the cylindrical magnetic flux source with a hemispheric section of a magic sphere having a cavity diameter and shell axis equivalent to the magic ring. The cylindrical magnetic flux source can be a magic ring and the caps can either be geometric or parametric. A method for producing the uniform magnetic biasing field in a compact permanent magnet structure is also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/914781 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets 335/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
06856290 — Reduced size TM cylindrical shaped microstrip antenna array having a GPS band stop filter
| US 06856290 | Ryken 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) | Marvin L. Ryken (Oxnard, California); Albert F. Davis (Ventura, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A TM cylindrical shaped microstrip antenna array which transmits telemetry data and which is adapted for use on weapons systems such as a missile or smart bomb. The microstrip antenna operates at a TM frequency band of 2200-2300, resulting in a band width for the antenna of 100 MHz. The microstrip antenna includes a GPS band-stop filter which isolates the telmetry data from the GPS L-Band carrier signals with a minimum band-stop rejection of −60 decibels. |
| FILED | Friday, September 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/664614 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/700.MS0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06856301 | Walker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Malibu Research Associates (Camarillo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel F. Walker (Malibu, California); Daniel G. Gonzalez (Topanga, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A phased array antenna includes phase shifting elements, drivers, and antenna elements. The phase shifting elements are operatively coupled to first signals and second signals, and include at least one plasma electrode. The drivers selectively energize the plasma electrode and the phase shifting elements provide a phase shift between the first and second signals in response to the plasma electrode being energized. The antenna elements are operatively coupled to the phase shifting elements. A method of phase shifting an array antenna includes the steps of providing phase shifting elements operatively coupled to first signals and second signals, and incorporating at least one plasma electrode in the phase shifting elements. The method also includes the steps of selectively energizing the plasma electrode, shifting the phase between the first signals and second signals in response to the plasma electrode being energized, and operatively coupling antenna elements to the second signals. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/427705 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/853 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06856342 | Raposa 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) | John R. Raposa (Warren, Rhode Island); Daniel P. Thivierge (Warren, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for controlling a video camera in underwater high speed photography in a first aspect includes a plurality of spaced break screen or sense coil members, a projectile for launch through the series of break screen or sense coil members, a video camera operated to video at a predetermined timing upon release of the projectile, and a source of illumination to aid in the video photography. A trigger device such as a break screen or sense coil is positioned immediately up-range of the video camera. With a time delay programmed into a Programmable Array Logic (PAL), a control circuitry receives the trigger information and creates a timed signal to control the operation of the video camera. In accordance with another aspect of this invention, the control circuitry includes discrete logic devices programmed such that gating of the video camera is controlled by the control circuitry at the time the projectile passes the lens of the camera. |
| FILED | Friday, April 28, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/565237 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/81 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06856520 | Neilson 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) | John M. Neilson (Norristown, Pennsylvania); Francis J. Kub (Arnold, Maryland); Karl D. Hobart (Upper Marboro, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A double-side IGBT (DIGBT) phase leg architecture that uses the DIGBT as a substitute for a free wheeling diode to achieve reduced turn-on loss and reduced reverse recovery peak current during turn-on is described and characterized. Approximately a 50% reduction in reverse recovery peak current and an 80% reduction in recovery charge are achieved. In addition, low power dissipation (≈1 A current level) protection circuitry is described that can be incorporated into the DIGBT phase leg architecture to allow the flow of reverse current even if the gate driver circuit is disabled so that conventional high current free wheeling diodes are not required to provide protection. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/441033 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric power conversion systems 363/16 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06856579 | Benjamin 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) | Kim C. Benjamin (Portsmouth, Rhode Island); Kenneth M. Walsh (Middletown, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A modular sub-array assembly of a composite towed array includes a multi-chamber support structure with plural discrete chambers, an acoustically absorptive hub formed at a central axis of the multi-chamber support structure, and a sensor element in each of the chambers of the multi-chamber support structure. The multi-chamber support structure is an integrally formed viscoelastic cylindrical housing with an array of radially oriented chambers. Each sensor element is secured within the selected chamber of the multi-chamber support structure and to an outer radial surface of the acoustically absorptive hub by a structural adhesive. Plural sub-array modules may be assembled together to form a single towed array. |
| FILED | Monday, September 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/672964 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06856641 | Ksendzov |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Ksendzov (La Crescenta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method and apparatus for using ring resonators to produce narrow linewidth hybrid semiconductor lasers. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the narrow linewidths are produced by combining the semiconductor gain chip with a narrow pass band external feedback element. The semi conductor laser is produced using a ring resonator which, combined with a Bragg grating, acts as the external feedback element. According to another embodiment of the present invention, the proposed integrated optics ring resonator is based on plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) SiO2/SiON/SiO2 waveguide technology. |
| FILED | Friday, January 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/057427 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/108 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06856746 | Burrows et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lee J. Burrows (Pasadena, California); William B. Bridges (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating titanium-indiffusion waveguides in optical modulators and other optical waveguide devices includes disposing titanium, strips in a waveguide pattern on the surface of a crystalline substrate, such as lithium niobate or lithium tantalate, and indiffusing the titanium atoms into the crystalline substrate by creating a flowing, wet deuterium oxide (D2O) environment, raising the temperature in the D2O environment to a temperature within the range of 900 degrees Celsius and 1100 degrees Celsius and maintaining the temperature for a period of time that will allow for the necessary indiffusion of titanium to occur within the crystal substrate. The Ti-indiffusion waveguides that result from performing the Ti-indiffusion process in a flowing, wet D2O environment include crystalline substrates, such as lithium niobate or lithium tantalate, titanium strips disposed in a waveguide pattern on the crystalline substrate and a diffusion region resulting from high temperature processing in a flowing, wet D2O environment. |
| FILED | Friday, March 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/402486 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/132 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06856856 | Kolavennu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Soumitri N. Kolavennu (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Anoop K. Mathur (Shoreview, Minnesota); Sanjay Parthasarathy (Edina, Minnesota); Wendy Foslien Graber (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Hai D. Pham (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Suresh Advani (Newark, Delaware); Karl Steiner (Newark, Delaware); Roderic Don (Newark, Delaware); Simon Bickerton (Waihcke Island, New Zealand); Ercument Murat Sozer (Istanbul, Turkey) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor placement algorithm uses process data to determine the optimal distribution of sensors in a distributed parameter manufacturing system. An automatic classification procedure maps any problems in the process to a predetermined set of process disturbances. A control procedure uses process data to determine the best control action that will ensure good system response. Methods for sensor placement, automatic decision tree classification, corrective action control and the apparatus to effectuate these respective methods are integrated into a design methodology. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 13, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/549220 |
| ART UNIT | 2125 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/197 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
| US 06855114 | Drukker et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Karen Drukker (Chicago, Illinois); Maryellen L. Giger (Elmhurst, Illinois); Karla Horsch (Lombard, Illinois); Carl J. Vyborny (Riverside, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of detecting a candidate abnormality in a sonographic medical image, based on determining a radial gradient index (RGI) at plural pixels, producing an RGI image, thresholding the RGI image, determining a candidate abnormality based on the thresholding step, and locating a center point of the candidate abnormality. The candidate abnormality may be classified by segmenting the candidate abnormality, including determining average radial gradients (ARDs) in the sonographic medical image based on the center point, extracting plural features from the segmented candidate abnormality, and determining a likelihood of the candidate abnormality being an actual abnormality based on the extracted plural features. |
| FILED | Monday, April 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/126523 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/443 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855314 | Chiorini 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); University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Chiorini (Kensington, Maryland); Robert M. Kotin (Bethesda, Maryland); Beverly Davidson (North Liberty, Iowa); Joseph Zabner (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of delivering nucleic acids to specific regions, tissues and cell types of the CNS. More particularly the invention provides methods of delivering nucleic acids to cells of the CNS such as cerebellar cells and ependymal cells. The invention also provides methods of delivering nucleic acids to cells of the lung such as alveolar cells using AAV5 vectors and particles. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 22, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/533427 |
| 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 | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855317 | Koelle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Koelle (Seattle, Washington); Lawrence Corey (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides HSV antigens that are useful for the prevention and treatment of HSV infection. Disclosed herein are antigens and/or their constituent epitopes confirmed to be recognized by T-cells derived from herpetic lesions or from uterine cervix. T-cells having specificity for antigens of the invention have demonstrated cytotoxic activity against cells loaded with virally-encoded peptide epitopes, and in many cases, against cells infected with HSV. The identification of immunogenic antigens responsible for T-cell specificity provides improved anti-viral therapeutic and prophylactic strategies. Compositions containing antigens or polynucleotides encoding antigens of the invention provide effectively targeted vaccines for prevention and treatment of HSV infection. |
| FILED | Monday, February 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/073834 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/186.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855320 | Paterson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yvonne Paterson (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for enhancing the immunogenicity of an antigen via fusion to a non-hemolytic truncated form of listeriolysin O are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 29, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/537642 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/192.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855323 | Scherf 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) | Artur Scherf (Paris, France); Louis H. Miller (Bethesda, Maryland); Benoit Gamain (Washington, District of Columbia); Dror I. Baruch (Rockville, Maryland); Pierre Buffet (Paris, France); Christine Scheidig (Savigny le Temple, France); Jurg Gysin (St. Zacharie, France); Bruno Pouvelle (Saint Maximin la Sainte Baume, France); Nobutaka Fujii (Kyoto, Japan); Joseph Smith (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the discovery of a var gene and corresponding protein that modulates adhesion of parasitized red blood cells to chondroitin sulfate A. Novel biological tools, prophylactics, therapeutics, diagnostics, and methods of use of the foregoing are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/087013 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/272.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855490 | Sompuram et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Medical Discovery Partners LLC (Sharon, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seshi R. Sompuram (Brighton, Massachusetts); Halasya Ramanathan (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention describes a method for attaching biological molecules, such as proteins, nucleic acids, and carbohydrates to a glass surface. In particular, a covalent attachment method is described wherein a glass surface is first activated with a water-stable form of an isocyanate, termed a protected isocyanate. The protecting group of the isocyanate moiety is displaced by amines, hydroxyl, or carboxyl groups of biological molecules, leading to covalent attachment to the glass surface. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 12, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/834240 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855497 | Ashizawa et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tetsuo Ashizawa (Houston, Texas); Tohru Matsuura (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Included is a method for detecting spinocerebellar ataxia type 10 (SCA10) by measuring the presence or absence of a DNA expansion in a gene locus associated with spinocerebellar ataxia type 10. The method employs extracting DNA from a sample to be tested, amplifying the extracted DNA; and identifying the presence or absence of a DNA expansion in the amplified extension products. Also included in the present invention are a kit for diagnosis of SCA10 and non-human transgenic eukaryotes that are not expressing or overexpressing SCA10. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 29, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/942336 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — 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 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855502 | Weigel et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Paul H. Weigel (League City, Texas); Paul L. DeAngelis (Galveston, Texas); John Papaconstantinou (Galveston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are DNA sequences encoding hyaluronic acid synthase that are employed to construct recombinant cells useful in the production of hyaluronate synthase and hyaluronic acid (HA). In preferred aspects, chromosomal DNA encoding the HA synthase gene, hasA, was cloned from a Streptococcus pyogenes genomic library. These vectors were used to transform host cells such as E. coli and acapsular Streptococci to produce hyaluronic acid. Resultant transformants were screened to identify colonies which have incorporated HA synthase DNA in a form that is being actively transcribed into the corresponding HA synthase enzyme. These colonies were selected and employed in the production of hyaluronic acid. |
| FILED | Monday, April 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/124222 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855510 | Kaelin, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William G. Kaelin, Jr. (Boston, Massachusetts); Mircea Ivan (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Light-generating fusion proteins having a ligand binding site and a light-generating polypeptide moiety and their use as diagnostics, in drug screening and discovery, and as therapeutics, are disclosed. The light-generating fusion protein has a feature where the bioluminescence of the polypeptide moiety changes upon binding of a ligand at the ligand binding site. Tie ligand may be, for example, an enzyme present in an environment only under certain conditions, e.g., ubiquitin ligase in a hypoxic state, such that the light-generating fusion protein is “turned on” only under such conditions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/101812 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855513 | Whiteley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa); Vertex Pharmaceuticals (San Diego) LLC (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marvin Whiteley (Coralville, Iowa); Kimberly M. Lee (Iowa City, Iowa); E. Peter Greenberg (Iowa City, Iowa); Ute Muh (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for identifying a modulator of quorum sensing signaling in bacteria, and for identifying a quorum sensing controlled gene in bacteria. In addition, the invention provides quorum sensing controlled genetic loci in Pseudomas aeruginosa. Novel indicator strains and vectors for engineering the strains for use in the method of the invention are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, September 01, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/653730 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855550 | King et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Klim King (Durham, North Carolina); Henrik G. Dohlman (Berkeley, California); Marc G. Caron (Durham, North Carolina); Robert J. Lefkowitz (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a transformed yeast cell containing a first heterologous DNA sequence which codes for a mammalian G protean coupled receptor and a second heterologous DNA sequence which codes for a mammalian G protein α subunit (mammalian Gα). The first and second heterologous DNA sequences are capable of expression in the cell, but the cell is incapable of expressing an endogenous G protein α-subunit (yeast Gα). The cells are useful for screening compounds which affect the rate of dissociation of Gα from Gβτ in a cell. Also disclosed is a novel DNA expression vector useful for making cells as described above. The vector contains a first segment comprising at least a fragment of the extreme amino-terminal coding sequence of a yeast G protein coupled receptor. A second segment is positioned downstream from the first segment (and in correct reading frame therewith), with the second segment comprising a DNA sequence encoding a heterologous G protein coupled receptor. |
| FILED | Friday, December 29, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/752145 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/483 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855686 | Fisher |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul B. Fisher (Scarsdale, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a method for reversing the cancerous phenotype of a cancer cell by introducing a nucleic acid having the melanoma differentiation associated gene (mda-7) into the cell under conditions that permit the expression of the gene so as to thereby reverse the cancerous phenotype of the cell. This invention also provides a method for reversing the cancerous phenotype of a cancer cell by introducing the gene product of the above-described gene into the cancerous cell so as to thereby reverse the cancerous phenotype of the cell. This invention also provides a pharmaceutical composition having the melanoma differentiation associated gene (mda-7) or the gene product of the melanoma differentiation associated gene (mda-7) effective to reverse the cancerous phenotype of a cancer cell and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 21, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/991452 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — 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 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855687 | Carney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darrell H. Carney (Dickinson, Texas); Roger S. Crowther (League City, Texas); Janet Stiernberg (Paris, Texas); John Bergmann (Galveston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of stimulating cartilage growth, repair or regeneration at a site in a subject in need of such growth, repair or regeneration. The method comprises the step of administering a therapeutically effective amount of an agonist of the non-proteolytically activated thrombin receptor to the site. Also disclosed is a method of stimulating the proliferation and expansion of chrondrocytes in vitro. The method comprises culturing chrondrocytes in the presence of a stimulating amount of an NPAR agonist. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/050688 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855691 | Stamler |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan S. Stamler (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Nitric oxide (NO) interacts with hemoglobin (Hb) at its metal centers, whereas S-nitrosothiols (RSNOs) can donate the NO group to β93 cysteine residues, thereby shielding the NO functionality from heme inactivation. S-nitrosylation of Hb is under the allosteric control of oxygen and the oxidation state of heme. NO group release from S-nitrosohemoglobin (SNO-Hb) is further facilitated by intracellular low molecular weight thiols, forming RSNOs which can be exported from the erythrocyte to regulate blood pressure. Hence, a dynamic cycle is established in which S-nitrosylation of Hb is initiated in the lung following oxygenation of red blood cells and is completed by SNO-Hb metabolism during arterial-venous transit. SNO-Hb can be formed by reaction of Hb with S-nitrosothiol. This procedure avoids oxidation of the heme. SNO-Hb in its various forms and combinations thereof (oxy, deoxy, met; S-nitrosylated to various extents) can be administered to a mammal in a method of therapy where it is desired to oxygenate, to scavenge free radicals, or to release NO groups to tissues. Thiols can also be administered to enhance the transfer of NO groups. Examples of conditions to be treated by SNO-Hb therapy include ischaemic injury, hypertension, angina, reperfusion injury and inflammations. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 1996 |
| APPL NO | 08/616371 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — 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 514/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855693 | Mochly-Rosen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daria Mochly-Rosen (Menlo Park, California); Leon E. Chen (Cupertino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Peptides able to inhibit or activate the translocation or function of δPKC are identified. Administration of the peptides for protection or enhancement of cell damage due to ischemia is described. Therapeutic methods to reduce damage to cells or to enhance damage to cells due to ischemia are also described, as well as methods for screening test compounds for δPKC-selective agonists and antagonists. |
| FILED | Friday, November 09, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/007761 |
| 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 06855695 | Lin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xu Lin (Brandford, Connecticut); Terrence W. Doyle (Killingworth, Connecticut); Ivan King (North Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compounds according to the structure (I): Where R is —CH3 or —CH2CH2Cl; R′ is C1-C7 alkyl or —CH2CH2Cl; R2 or R4 is OPO3H2, NO2, OCO(Glu-OH), NHCO(Glu-OH), NHR7 and unassigned groups of R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are, independently H, F, Cl, Br, I, OH, OPO3H2, OCH3, CF3, OCF3, NO2, CN, SO2CH3, SO2CF3, COCH3, COOCH3, SCH3, SF5, NH2, NHR7, N(CH3)2, OPO3H2, or a C1-C7 alkyl group with the proviso that when any two of unassigned groups of R2, R3, R4, R5 or R6 are other than H, the other two of unassigned groups of R2, R3, R4, R5 or R6 are H. R7 is H or polyglutamyl as described. Phosphoric acid and glutamic acid can be a free acid or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, June 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/461282 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855801 | San Antonio et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James D. San Antonio (Media, Pennsylvania); Angela Verrecchio (Brighton, Massachusetts); Barbara P. Schick (Merion Station, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention involves peptides of various sequences and sizes and methods of using said peptides with a strong affinity for glycosaminoglycans and proteoglycans, wherein said peptides interact strongly with heparin, other glycosaminoglycans, or proteoglycans (PGs). |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 02, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/496391 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
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| US 06855804 | Paul et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sudhir Paul (Missouri City, Texas); Yasuhiro Nishiyama (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved methods for the production, selection and inhibition of catalytic antibodies are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, April 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/114716 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/324 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855805 | Olivera et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah); Cognetix, Inc. (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Baldomero M. Olivera (Salt Lake City, Utah); Richard T. Layer (Sandy, Utah); J. Michael McIntosh (Salt Lake City, Utah); Jacob Scott Nielsen (Brigham City, Utah); Robert M. Jones (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to relatively short peptides (termed α-conotoxins herein), about 10-25 residues in length, which are naturally available in minute amounts in the venom of the cone snails or analogous to the naturally available peptides, and which preferably include two disulfide bonds. The α-conotoxins, as described herein, are useful for as neuromuscular blocking agents, such as muscle relaxants. |
| FILED | Friday, July 20, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/908741 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855807 | Devi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lakshmi Arehole Devi (New Rochelle, New York); Bryen Alexander Jordan (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Opioid receptors form functional heterodimers with each other and with other G-protein coupled receptors, such as dopamine receptors, adrenergic receptors, or chemokine receptors. These receptors can be exploited for high throughput screening of compounds to identify heterodimer opioid receptor modulators (agonists and antagonists). The invention also relates to identification of novel heterodimer receptor ligands and synergistic compositions, which can provide strategies for analgesia, narcotic addiction, hypertension, HIV infection, and immune system function. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 15, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/018200 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — 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 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855810 | Mostov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the university of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith E. Mostov (San Francisco, California); Steven J. Chapin (San Diego, California); Janice Richman-Eisenstat (Winnepeg, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions and methods for specific binding to a region of the polymeric immunoglobulin receptor (pIgR) of a cell with the provisos that the ligand does not substantially bind to the most abundant form of the secretory component (SC) of pIgR present in an organ of interest of an animal of interest under physiological conditions, and does not bind to the pIgR stalk. In some embodiments, the ligand decreases cleavage of SC from the stalk by at least one-third. The ligands and methods of the invention can be used with both birds and mammals. In more preferred embodiments, the animal is a mammal. In the most preferred embodiment, the animal is a human. The ligand may be targeted into the cell or may undergo retrograde transcytosis and release at the basolateral side of the cell, and may comprise a biologically active composition. |
| FILED | Monday, March 26, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/818247 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855814 | Blattner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick R. Blattner (Madison, Wisconsin); Valerie Burland (Cross Plains, Wisconsin); Nicole T. Perna (Madison, Wisconsin); Guy Plunkett (Madison, Wisconsin); Rod Welch (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The entire genome of pathogenic E. coli strain 0157:H7 has been sequenced. All of the genomic DNA sequences present in 0157 and absent in the previously sequenced laboratory strain K12 are presented here. |
| FILED | Monday, April 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/114170 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06856134 | Reeder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of The Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott B. Reeder (Menlo Park, California); Norbert J. Pelc (Los Altos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A generalized multi-point fat-water separation process is combined with steady-state free precession (SSFP) to obtain high quality images of articular cartilage with reduced imaging time. |
| FILED | Friday, May 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/445180 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06856834 | Treppo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Treppo (Richmond Hill, Canada); Alan J. Grodzinsky (Lexington, Massachusetts); Emerson Quan (San Francisco, California); Eliot Frank (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David Bombard (San Francisco, California); David Breslau (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The change in tissue impedance due to the change in the extracellular matrix that results from the degradation of cartilage is utilized to detect degradation of articular cartilage. A probe comprising electrodes is applies a current to the articular cartilage which results in a current distribution and electric field within the cartilage, along with an associated voltage drop across the electrodes. The amplitude of this voltage drop is then measured and divided by the current applied to determine the tissue impedance. By measuring the impedance of patient tissue and comparing the detected patient impedance to a normal value for the tissue from clinically normal tissue, a determination of whether the patient tissue is degraded and the extent of degradation is possible. Preferably, the impedance is measured using a probe with interdigitated electrodes. By changing which electrodes are utilized, the wavelength of the current distribution changes, allowing the probe to image depth dependent focal lesions. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/600918 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/547 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 06854276 | Yuan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SuperPower, Inc (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xing Yuan (Albany, New York); Susumu Mine (Schenectady, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for providing cryogenic cooling to HTS devices, in particular those that are used in high-voltage electric power applications. The method involves pressurizing liquid cryogen to above one atmospheric pressure to improve its dielectric strength, while sub-cooling the liquid cryogen to below its saturation temperature in order to improve the performance of the HTS components of the device. An apparatus utilizing such a cooling method consists of a vessel that contains a pressurized gaseous cryogen region and a sub-cooled liquid cryogen bath, a liquid cryogen heating coupled with a gaseous cryogen venting scheme to maintain the pressure of the cryogen to a value in a range that corresponds to optimum dielectric strength of the liquid cryogen, and a cooling system that maintains the liquid cryogen at a temperature below its boiling point to improve the performance of HTS materials used in the device. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/465089 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/51.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06854788 | Graham |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Freight Wing Inc. (Sammamish, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sean C. Graham (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for a vehicle with a pair of swinging rear doors, which converts flat sheets of pliable material hinged to the sides of the vehicle adjacent the rear thereof into effective curved airfoils that reduce the aerodynamic resistance of the vehicle, when the doors are closed by hand, utilizing a plurality of stiffeners disposed generally parallel to the doors and affixed to the sheets and a plurality of collapsible tension bearings struts attached to each stiffener and the adjacent door. |
| FILED | Monday, November 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/698998 |
| ART UNIT | 3612 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Land vehicles: Bodies and tops 296/180.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855202 | Alivisatos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | A. Paul Alivisatos (Oakland, California); Erik C. Scher (Menlo Park, California); Liberato Manna (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Shaped nanocrystal particles and methods for making shaped nanocrystal particles are disclosed. One embodiment includes a method for forming a branched, nanocrystal particle. It includes (a) forming a core having a first crystal structure in a solution, (b) forming a first arm extending from the core having a second crystal structure in the solution, and (c) forming a second arm extending from the core having the second crystal structure in the solution. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/301510 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/68 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855303 | Mowery-Evans et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Deborah L. Mowery-Evans (Broomfield, Colorado); Timothy J. Gardner (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Linda I. McLaughlin (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for catalytically reducing nitrogen oxide compounds (NOx, defined as nitric oxide, NO, +nitrogen dioxide, NO2) in a gas by a material comprising a base metal consisting essentially of CuO and Mn, and oxides of Mn, on an activated metal hydrous metal oxide support, such as HMO:Si. A promoter, such as tungsten oxide or molybdenum oxide, can be added and has been shown to increase conversion efficiency. This method provides good conversion of NOx to N2, good selectivity, good durability, resistance to SO2 aging and low toxicity compared with methods utilizing vanadia-based catalysts. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/601255 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/239.100 |
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| US 06855460 | Vaughey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. Vaughey (Elmhurst, Illinois); Linda M. L. Fransson (Uppsala, Sweden); Michael M. Thackeray (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A negative electrode is disclosed for a non-aqueous electrochemical cell. The electrode has an intermetallic compound as its basic structural unit with the formula M2M′ in which M and M′ are selected from two or more metal elements including Si, and the M2M′ structure is a Cu2Sb-type structure. Preferably M is Cu, Mn and/or Li, and M′ is Sb. Also disclosed is a non-aqueous electrochemical cell having a negative electrode of the type described, an electrolyte and a positive electrode. A plurality of cells may be arranged to form a battery. |
| FILED | Monday, February 04, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/068230 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/218.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855744 | Klett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James W. Klett (Knoxville, Tennessee); Mark A. Janney (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses a method for molding complex and intricately shaped high density monolithic carbon, carbon-carbon, graphite, and thermoplastic composites using gelcasting technology. The method comprising a polymeric carbon precursor, a solvent, a dispersant, an anti-foaming agent, a monomer system, and an initiator system. The components are combined to form a suspension which is poured into a mold and heat-treated to form a thermoplastic part. The thermoplastic part can then be further densified and heat-treated to produce a high density carbon or graphite composite. The present invention also discloses the products derived from this method. |
| FILED | Friday, May 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/428716 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 521/151 |
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| US 06855864 | Chiang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Control of Michigan Technological University (Houghton, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vincent Lee C. Chiang (Hancock, Michigan); Laigeng Li (Houghton, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method of concurrently introducing multiple genes into plants and trees is provided. The method includes simultaneous transformation of plants with multiple genes from the phenylpropanoid pathways including 4CL, CAld5H, AldOMT, SAD and CAD genes and combinations thereof to produce various lines of transgenic plants displaying altered agronomic traits. The agronomic traits of the plants are regulated by the orientation of the specific genes and the selected gene combinations, which are incorporated into the plant genome. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 05, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/947027 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/278 |
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| US 06855866 | Weterings et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Koen Weterings (Nijmegen, Netherlands); Nestor R. Apuya (Culver City, California); Robert B. Goldberg (Topanga, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides polynucleotides for expression of genes in suspensor cells in plants and methods for using such polynucleotides. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 28, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/724857 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/287 |
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| US 06856753 | Biscardi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cyrus Biscardi (Bellport, New York); Calvin Brewster (North Patchoque, New York); Leonard DeSanto (Patchoque, New York); James T. Veligdan (Manorville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultrathin optical panel, and a method of producing an ultrathin optical panel, are disclosed, including stacking a plurality of glass sheets, which sheets may be coated with a transparent cladding substance or may be uncoated, fastening together the plurality of stacked coated glass sheets using an epoxy or ultraviolet adhesive, applying uniform pressure to the stack, curing the stack, sawing the stack to form an inlet face on a side of the stack and an outlet face on an opposed side of the stack, bonding a coupler to the inlet face of the stack, and fastening the stack, having the coupler bonded thereto, within a rectangular housing having an open front which is aligned with the outlet face, the rectangular housing having therein a light generator which is optically aligned with the coupler. The light generator is preferably placed parallel to and proximate with the inlet face, thereby allowing for a reduction in the depth of the housing. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/746916 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/147 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 06854317 | Porter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents Acting for Arizona State University (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy L. Porter (Flagstaff, Arizona); Michael P. Eastman (McAllen, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for sensing chemical and/or biological analytes includes a deflectable arm of a microcantilever at least partially embedded within a sensing element. A gaseous or liquid medium which may include the analyte being detected is introduced to the sensing element. The sensing element undergoes volumetric expansion or contraction in the presence of the analyte sought to be detected, typically by adsorbing the analyte. The volumetric change of the sensing element causes the deflectable arm to deflect. The deflectable arm includes at least one measurable physical property which changes when the arm deflects. Detecting means are provided to measure the change in the physical property to determine the presence and amount of analyte present. An array of microcantilevers in which each microcantilever is dedicated to detecting a particular analyte which may be included in the medium, is also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/454346 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/31.50 |
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| US 06855274 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Milko E. van der Boom (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The preparation of robust, thin film materials with large second-order optical nonlinearities through the covalent self-assembly of chromophoric compositions and innovative use of silyl chemistry. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 22, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/815951 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/582 |
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| US 06855513 | Whiteley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa); Vertex Pharmaceuticals (San Diego) LLC (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marvin Whiteley (Coralville, Iowa); Kimberly M. Lee (Iowa City, Iowa); E. Peter Greenberg (Iowa City, Iowa); Ute Muh (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for identifying a modulator of quorum sensing signaling in bacteria, and for identifying a quorum sensing controlled gene in bacteria. In addition, the invention provides quorum sensing controlled genetic loci in Pseudomas aeruginosa. Novel indicator strains and vectors for engineering the strains for use in the method of the invention are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, September 01, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/653730 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/34 |
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| US 06855536 | Loh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Corp., Inc. (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. Loh (Knoxville, Tennessee); Gary Stacey (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention relates to compounds and compositions which induce transcripts of the nolA gene in nitrogen-fixing bacteria, such as Bradyrhizobium japonicum. Novel bacterial strains which are insensitive too NolA, soil inoculants comprising NolA insensitive bacteria and/or nolA inducers, and methods of increasing nitrogen fixation in legumes are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, July 20, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/909735 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855551 | Bawendi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Moungi G. Bawendi (Boston, Massachusetts); Vikram C. Sundar (Stoneham, Massachusetts); Frederic V. Mikulec (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a composition comprising fluorescent semiconductor nanocrystals associated to a compound, wherein the nanocrystals have a characteristic spectral emission, wherein said spectral emission is tunable to a desired wavelength by controlling the size of the nanocrystal, and wherein said emission provides information about a biological state or event. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 12, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/832959 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/6 |
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| US 06855950 | McCreery |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard L. McCreery (Worthington, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes a chemical monolayer construction that comprises: a substrate having a contact surface, and a monolayer of a plurality of substantially parallel molecular units attached to the contact surface of the substrate. The molecular units are strongly coupled electronically to the substrate. The contact surface of the substrate has a roughness value less than or equal to the average length of the molecular units. The molecular units comprise a chemical structure that is capable of being changed from a relatively non-conductive state to a relatively conductive state by the application of a stimulus. The present invention also includes electronic circuit components and devices including chemical monolayer constructions. |
| FILED | Friday, February 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/376865 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
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| US 06856145 | Pelz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan P. Pelz (Columbus, Ohio); David T. Lee (Dublin, Ohio); Bharat Bhushan (Powell, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for measuring capacitance between a probe and a semiconductor sample, which may be useful in the field of scanning capacitance microscopy (SCM). The present invention also includes a method for analyzing measured capacitance data by subtracting any changes in capacitance that are due to changes in long-range stray capacitance that occur when the probe assembly is scanned. |
| FILED | Friday, December 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/313431 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/663 |
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| US 06856830 | He |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Bin He (River Forest, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An instrument and method for imaging and localizing of electrical activities in a biological system, comprising a plurality of sensors for detecting signals over a part of a surface of the biological system, a data acquisition unit for collecting the signals, a positioning device for determining positions of the sensors, a procedure for determining geometry information of the biological system, an electrical source model incorporating physical and physiological properties of the biological system, an estimator for determining the parameters of the electrical source model, and a unit for displaying the reconstructed excitation sequence and/or electrical source distribution in the three dimension space of the biological system and over time. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 19, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/909338 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/513 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for metabolic cooling and insulation of a user in a cold environment. In its preferred embodiment the apparatus is a highly flexible composite material having a flexible matrix containing a phase change thermal storage material. The apparatus can be made to heat or cool the body or to act as a thermal buffer to protect the wearer from changing environmental conditions. The apparatus may also include an external thermal insulation layer and/or an internal thermal control layer to regulate the rate of heat exchange between the composite and the skin of the wearer. Other embodiments of the apparatus also provide 1) a path for evaporation or direct absorption of perspiration from the skin of the wearer for improved comfort and thermal control, 2) heat conductive pathways within the material for thermal equalization, 3) surface treatments for improved absorption or rejection of heat by the material, and 4) means for quickly regenerating the thermal storage capacity for reuse of the material. Applications of the composite materials are also described which take advantage of the composite's thermal characteristics. The examples described include a diver's wet suit, ski boot liners, thermal socks, gloves and a face mask for cold weather activities, and a metabolic heating or cooling blanket useful for treating hypothermia or fever patients in a medical setting and therapeutic heating or cooling orthopedic joint supports. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 20, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/989913 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/311.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855433 | Meador 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) | Mary Ann B. Meador (Strongsville, Ohio); James D. Kinder (Canfield, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is a series of mechanically resilient polymeric films, comprising rod-coil block polyimide copolymers, which are doped with a lithium compound providing lithium ion conductivity, that are easy to fabricate into mechanically resilient films with acceptable ionic or protonic conductivity at a variety of temperatures. The copolymers consists of short-rigid polyimide rod segments alternating with polyether coil segments. The rods and coil segments can be linear, branched or mixtures of linear and branched segments. The highly incompatible rods and coil segments phase separate, providing nanoscale channels for ion conduction. The polyimide segments provide dimensional and mechanical stability and can be functionalized in a number of ways to provide specialized functions for a given application. These rod-coil black polyimide copolymers are particularly useful in the preparation of ion conductive membranes for use in the manufacture of fuel cells and lithium based polymer batteries. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/874008 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/473.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06856073 | Bryant 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) | Robert G. Bryant (Lightfoot, Virginia); Dennis C. Working (Norfolk, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A fluid-control electro-active device includes a piezo-diaphragm made from a ferroelectric material sandwiched by first and second electrode patterns configured to introduce an electric field into the ferroelectric material when voltage is applied thereto. The electric field originates at a region of the ferroelectric material between the first and second electrode patterns, and extends radially outward from this region of the ferroelectric material and substantially parallel to the plane of the ferroelectric material. The piezo-diaphragm deflects symmetrically about this region in a direction substantially perpendicular to the electric field. An annular region coupled to and extending radially outward from the piezo-diaphragm perimetrically borders the piezo-diaphragm. A housing is connected to the annular region and defines at least one fluid flow path therethrough with the piezo-diaphragm disposed therein. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/390675 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/324 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06856403 | Welch 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) | Christopher S. Welch (Gloucester, Virginia); Daniel F. Perey (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for performing quality inspections on a test surface based on optically stimulated emission of electrons. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a device for producing optical radiation having a plurality of different spectrum lines, selecting at least one of the spectrum lines, and directing the selected spectrum line to the test surface, and circuitry for detecting a current of photoelectrons emitted from the test surface, generating a signal indicative of photoelectron current, and for indicating a condition of quality based on the generated signal indicative of the photoelectron current. In one embodiment, the method comprises producing optical radiation having a plurality of different spectrum lines, selecting at least one of the spectrum lines and directing the selected spectrum line to the test surface, detecting a current of photoelectrons emitted from the test surface and generating a signal indicative of photoelectron current, and indicating a condition of quality based on the generated signal indicative of the photoelectron current. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/662161 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/492 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06856641 | Ksendzov |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Ksendzov (La Crescenta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method and apparatus for using ring resonators to produce narrow linewidth hybrid semiconductor lasers. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the narrow linewidths are produced by combining the semiconductor gain chip with a narrow pass band external feedback element. The semi conductor laser is produced using a ring resonator which, combined with a Bragg grating, acts as the external feedback element. According to another embodiment of the present invention, the proposed integrated optics ring resonator is based on plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) SiO2/SiON/SiO2 waveguide technology. |
| FILED | Friday, January 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/057427 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/108 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06856864 | Gibbs et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Gibbs (Phoenix, Arizona); Debi Van Omen (Scottsdale, Arizona); Michael B. Adams (Scottsdale, Arizona); Karl L. Chase (Glendale, Arizona); Daniel E. Lewis (Glendale, Arizona); Daniel E. McCrobie (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides systems, apparatus and methods for entering data into a flight plan entry field which facilitates the display and editing of aircraft flight-plan data. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method for entering multiple waypoint and procedure identifiers at once within a single a flight plan entry field. In another embodiment, the present invention provides for the partial entry of any waypoint or procedure identifiers, and thereafter relating the identifiers with an aircraft's flight management system to anticipate the complete text entry for display. In yet another embodiment, the present invention discloses a method to automatically provide the aircraft operator with selectable prioritized arrival and approach routing identifiers by a single manual selection. In another embodiment, the present invention is a method for providing the aircraft operator with selectable alternate patterns to a new runway. |
| FILED | Friday, November 17, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/715308 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 06855526 | Saha |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Badal C. Saha (Peoria, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Mannitol is produced in a highly efficient fermentative method using Lactobacillus intermedius NRRL B-30560, or in a biochemical method using mannitol dehydrogenase isolated from this strain. Fructose serves as the primary carbon substrate in both the fermentative and biochemical conversions, but important secondary carbon sources include glucose, maltose, mannose and galactose. Mannitol is useful in the food, pharmaceutical, and medicine industries as a sweet-tasting bodying and texturing agent. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/146616 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/158 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855838 | Haas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Haas (Oreland, Pennsylvania); Karen M. Scott (Ambler, Pennsylvania); Paul J. Michalski (Horsham, Pennsylvania); Stan Runyon (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method for producing fatty acid alkyl esters, involving esterifying a material containing free fatty acids (FFA) with an alcohol and an inorganic acid catalyst to form a product containing fatty acid alkyl esters, wherein (i) the material contains at least about 40% FFA and is produced by reacting a feedstock with steam and sulfuric acid at a pH of about 1-about 2 or (ii) the material contains at least about 80% FFA and is produced by reacting a feedstock with steam and alkali at a pH of about 11-about 13 and further reacting the feedstock with steam and sulfuric acid at a pH of about 1-about 2. The feedstock may be selected from the oils or soapstocks of soy, coconut, corn, cotton, flax, palm, rapeseed/canola, safflower, sunflower; animal fats; waste greases; and mixtures thereof; or other fully or partially hydrolyzed preparations of such feedstocks. The present invention also relates to a method for producing a lipid rich composition containing at least about 80% FFA, the method involving reacting a feedstock with steam and alkali at a pH of about 11-about 13 and further reacting the feedstock with steam and sulfuric acid at a pH of about 1-about 2. The feedstock may be selected from soy, coconut, corn, cotton, flax, palm, rapeseed/canola, safflower, sunflower, animal fats, waste greases, and mixtures thereof. The feedstock may be selected from the oils or soapstocks of soy, coconut, corn, cotton, flax, palm, rapeseed/canola, safflower, sunflower; animal fats; waste greases; and mixtures thereof; or other fully or partially hydrolyzed preparations of such feedstocks. Furthermore, the present invention concerns a lipid rich composition containing at least about 80% FFA. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/337604 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 554/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855864 | Chiang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Control of Michigan Technological University (Houghton, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vincent Lee C. Chiang (Hancock, Michigan); Laigeng Li (Houghton, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method of concurrently introducing multiple genes into plants and trees is provided. The method includes simultaneous transformation of plants with multiple genes from the phenylpropanoid pathways including 4CL, CAld5H, AldOMT, SAD and CAD genes and combinations thereof to produce various lines of transgenic plants displaying altered agronomic traits. The agronomic traits of the plants are regulated by the orientation of the specific genes and the selected gene combinations, which are incorporated into the plant genome. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 05, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/947027 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855866 | Weterings et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Koen Weterings (Nijmegen, Netherlands); Nestor R. Apuya (Culver City, California); Robert B. Goldberg (Topanga, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides polynucleotides for expression of genes in suspensor cells in plants and methods for using such polynucleotides. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 28, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/724857 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/287 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 06855204 | Kauzlarich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Evergreen Solar Inc. (Marlborough, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan M. Kauzlarich (Davis, California); Richard K. Baldwin (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Silicon nanocrystals with chemically accessible surfaces are produced in solution in high yield. Silicon tetrahalide such as silicon tetrachloride (SiCl4) can be reduced in organic solvents, such as 1,2-dimethoxyethane (glyme), with soluble reducing agents, such as sodium naphthalenide, to give halide-terminated (e.g., chloride-terminated) silicon nanocrystals, which can then be easily functionalized with alkyl lithium, Grignard or other reagents to give easily processed silicon nanocrystals with an air and moisture stable surface. The synthesis can be used to prepare alkyl-terminated nanocrystals at ambient temperature and pressure in high yield. The two-step process allows a wide range of surface functionality. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/247757 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/89 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855917 | Matsen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc R. Matsen (Seattle, Washington); Ronald W. Brown (Des Moines, Washington); John R. Fischer (Seattle, Washington); Brad L. Kirkwood (Kent, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A die liner for use in a die having a die body wherein the die body is configured to form a workpiece. The die liner is a discrete structure that is configured to be used in conjunction with the die body. The die liner defines a forming surface for forming the workpiece and is configured to have at least one characteristic that is different than a corresponding characteristic of the die body such that the die liner increases the durability of the die. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 06, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/011090 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/659 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 06855498 | Hester et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffery Dean Hester (Cincinnati, Ohio); H. D. Alan Lindquist (Cincinnati, Ohio); Frank W. Schaefer, III (Sharonville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides in situ hybridization probes which include a marker and a nucleic acid molecule able to hybridize exclusively with only one species of Encephalitozoon. The nucleic acid molecule may be, for example, complimentary to segment 878-896 of 16S rRNA of Encephalitozoon hellem spores. Specifically disclosed probes are those including the following nucleotides: (1) 5′-ACT CTC ACA CTC ACT TCA G-3′ (Seq. I.D. No. 1) which is species specific for Encephalitozoon hellem, (2) 5′-CAG ACC ACT ATC TGC A-3′ (Seq. I.D. No. 2) which is species specific for Encephalitozoon cuniculi and (3) 5′-GTT CTC CTG CCC GCT TCA G-3′ (Seq. I.D. No. 3) which is species specific for Encephalitozoon intestinalis. The assay of the present invention utilizes a sample such as surface, ground or drinking water, suspected of containing one of the aforementioned species as a target organism. The microorganisms contained in the sample are fixed in a conventional manner and the probe is then introduced wherein it specifically binds with the target microorganism, if present. The sample is then washed to remove the unbound probe and the bound probe is detected in a conventional manner appropriate for the marker molecule of the probe. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 18, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/954225 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — 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 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theodore C. Harman (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A test structure for testing a thick film thermoelectric device is presented. The test structure is able to test the thermoelectric device in the device's three modes of operation, namely as a cooling device, as a heat pump, and as a power generator. The test structure includes a pair of current electrode blocks for supporting and supplying power from a power supply to the thick film thermoelectric device being tested. Thermocouples are attached to different portions of the thick film thermoelectric device to indicate the temperature change across the device as it is being tested. Additionally, a heat source is provided when the device is being tested in an electrical generation mode. The test structure is able to compensate for the expansion and contraction of the thick film thermoelectric device during the testing. By way of the disclosed test structure, the thick film thermoelectric devices can be tested and characterized. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/152754 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/451 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 06855805 | Olivera et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah); Cognetix, Inc. (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Baldomero M. Olivera (Salt Lake City, Utah); Richard T. Layer (Sandy, Utah); J. Michael McIntosh (Salt Lake City, Utah); Jacob Scott Nielsen (Brigham City, Utah); Robert M. Jones (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to relatively short peptides (termed α-conotoxins herein), about 10-25 residues in length, which are naturally available in minute amounts in the venom of the cone snails or analogous to the naturally available peptides, and which preferably include two disulfide bonds. The α-conotoxins, as described herein, are useful for as neuromuscular blocking agents, such as muscle relaxants. |
| FILED | Friday, July 20, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/908741 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 06854321 | Amlin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of California, Bureau of Automotive Repair (Sacramento, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Amlin (Sacramento, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the leak testing of a motor vehicle fuel tank and associated evaporative emissions control system is provided. Nitrogen, compressed air or other gases are used to pressurize the system. The time required for pressurization is used to determine the tank headspace volume. The system pressure is then monitored for 120 seconds. The pressure drop in this period is then compared with a pass-fail value cutpoint from a look-up table stored in a computer attached to the testing apparatus. A pass-fail determination is then made. The pass-fail value cutpoint is pre-determined for a specified vapor volume and estimated liquid fuel temperature, as well as time of year, so that systems with leaks larger than a specified diameter consistently fail the test, while systems with leaks smaller than this value consistently pass the test. The test pass-fail criterion is thus compensated for the conditions (tank fill level and fuel temperature, and seasonal variations in fuel volatility) experienced the actual test. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/608840 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/49.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
06854337 — Apparatus and method for measuring the mass of vegetation or fruit supported on a trellis
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); Washington State University Research Foundation (Pullman, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Julie M. Tarara (Prosser, Washington); John C. Ferguson (Grandview, Washington); Francis J. Pierce (Prosser, Washington); Marvin J. Pitts (Genesee, Idaho); Gary M. Hyde (Pullman, Washington); Robert L. Wample (Clovis, California); Andre L. Baritelle (Napa, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure concerns apparatus and methods useful in estimating crop yields of plants that are supported on a trellis. According to one aspect, a method for measuring the mass of trellised plant structures includes measuring the tension of a support wire of the trellis structure on which the plant structures are supported, such as with a load cell placed in-line with the support wire. The tension of the support wire is converted into the mass of new plant growth supported on the support wire, using, for example, an empirically derived algorithm specific to the trellis structure. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/635978 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/826 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855250 | Nixdorf |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Industrial Ceramics Solutions (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard D. Nixdorf (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A filtration system (10) operable at elevated temperatures and regenerateable in situ employing microwave energy (99). In one embodiment, the system includes multiple channels (35) with means for selectively placing individual ones of the channels on-line for filtration and off-line for regeneration. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/437342 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/180 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855316 | Chang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Hawaii (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sandra P. Chang (Honolulu, Hawaii); Kenton J. Kramer (Kaneohe, Hawaii); William L. Gosnell (Honolulu, Hawaii); Tani Nishimura (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods are provided for the induction of a protective immunize response in primates against lethal challenge of Plasmodium. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 08, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/500376 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/185.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855378 | Narang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Subhash Narang (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are disclosed for printing (2-7) multilayer electronic components, and circuits on a surface (2), where at least one of the layers is formed by a redox reaction (6) occurring in a deposited solution (4, 5). Electronic components may comprise semiconductors such as in transistors or diode, or metal oxide or electrolyte such as in batteries or fuel cells, or are capacitors, inductors, and resistors. Preferably, the oxidizer of the redox reaction is a strong oxidizer, and the reducer is a strong reducer (3). Reactions are preferably sufficiently exothermic that they can be initiated (6), rather than driven to completion, by microwave or other suitable energy sources, and may yield substantially pure metal or metal oxide layers. The solution being deposited (5) may have either high concentrations of particulates, such as 60-80 wt. % of dry weight, or low concentrations of particulates, such as ≦5 wt. % or ≦2 wt. %. Low particulate content provides printing of structures having lateral resolution of ≦10 μm, ≦5 μm, or ≦1 μm. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 24, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/762881 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/553 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06855515 | Rosen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Merck and Co., Inc. (Rahway, New Jersey); Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony Rosen (Columbia, Maryland); Livia Casciola-Rosen (Columbia, Maryland); Donald W. Nicholson (Montreal, Canada); Felipe A. Andrade (Baltimore, Maryland); Sophie Roy (Montreal, Canada); Nancy A. Thornberry (Westfield, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of producing autoantigens, compositions comprising autoantigenic fragments and methods of using autoantigenic fragments in the treatment of a condition associated with an autoimmune response. Also provided are assays for the detection or assessment of an autoimmune response. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 22, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/296662 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/68.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
HOW DO I FIND A SPECIFIC PATENT ON A PAGE?
You can use the Command F or Control F to find a specific patent you are interested in.
HOW DO I GET HERE?
You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.
You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2005/fedinvent-patents-20050215.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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