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Patent Details for Tuesday, February 22, 2005
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| US 06857136 | Bradley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Simula, Inc. (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Furman Bradley (Hendersonville, North Carolina); Carroll Leon Rhodes (Hendersonville, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A support collar having a bladder and a shell. The bladder is adapted to be inflated by a fluid. The shell is adapted to be attached to a harness. When inflated, the bladder is shaped by the shell to form an air chamber. The air chamber is characterized by a cross-section having a center of gravity and a dimension through the center of gravity. The dimension is larger at an open end than at the close end. |
| FILED | Friday, September 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/256016 |
| ART UNIT | 3765 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparel 02/468 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06857269 | Baker |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl William Baker (Centreville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A two-phase thermodynamic power system includes a capillary device, an inline turbine, and a condenser for generating output power as a generator or receiving input power as a refrigerator. The capillary device, such as a heat loop pipe or a capillary pumped loop, is coupled to the inline turbine for generating output power for power generation or for receiving input power for powered refrigeration. The capillary device receives input heat that is used to change phase of liquid received from the condenser into vapor for driving the turbine. The power system is well suited for space applications using a radioisotope heat source, using waste heat from a radioisotope power system as a heat source, waste heat from spacecraft components such as electronics as a heat source or solar energy as a heat source. The heat source is useful for driving the capillary wick as well as a superheater for increased power efficiency and lifetime operation. The power system is well suited for space receiving heat from a heat source to produce useful mechanical energy. The refrigeration system is well suited for receiving input mechanical power to the turbine for removing waste heat from a spacecraft at a low temperature and rejecting that heat into space at a higher temperature. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/431826 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/653 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06857276 | Finn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Photon-X, LLC (Malvern, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Finn (North Wales, Pennsylvania); Renfeng Gao (Phoenixville, Pennsylvania); Renyuan Gao (Wayne, Pennsylvania); Joseph Chang (North Wales, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A temperature controller module for electronically controlling the temperature of a device, such as a pump laser or laser diode, controls the device temperature based on low heat dissipation inductors and current sources. The temperature controller module shuts off the thermoelectric cooler when the temperature of the laser exceeds a predetermined amount. Further, the temperature controller module is integrated in a compact, self-contained modular form to allow use in space critical applications. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/337902 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/3.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06857371 | Lagrange 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) | Donald Lagrange (Washington, Indiana); Douglas Shulte (Bloomfield, Indiana); Robert Barker (Linton, Indiana); Charles Howard (Washington, Indiana); Richard Hall (Huron, Indiana); David Dillard (New Castle, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | The two-payload decoy device has a square outer case, containing a manifold/delay body assembly, a round payload assembly, and a square payload assembly. The square outer case is closed with an end cap. The manifold/delay body assembly is attached to the round payload assembly, which rests against the square payload assembly. Firing a standard impulse cartridge ignites a booster pellet and delay element in the manifold/delay body assembly. Gases flow through openings in the manifold/delay body assembly and down the corner cavities between the round payload assembly and the square case, pushing the square piston against the square payload, which separates the end cap from the case and ejects the square payload. The delay element burns for a specific time, and then ignites a round payload expulsion charge, which creates gases that push the round piston against the round payload, which dislodges a retaining ring, and ejects the round payload. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/621019 |
| 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 12/489 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06857501 | Han 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) | Cheol-Hyun Han (Fremont, California); Eun Sok Kim (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A micromachined acoustic transducer comprising a parylene diaphragm piezoelectric transducer. The parylene diaphragm has far lower stiffness than the silicon nitride. The method for fabricating the parylene diaphragm acoustic transducer utilizes a prestructured disphragm layer utilizing silicon nitride which is compatible with high temperature semiconductor process. A silicon nitride layer is patterned and partially removed after forming the parylene diaphragm layer in order to enhance the structural qualities of the parylene diaphragm. The diaphragm may be flat or dome-shaped. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 21, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/089008 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Acoustics 181/158 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06857535 | Zuckerman |
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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) | Edward S. Zuckerman (Denville, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An interlocking device for use with rectangular containers, such as metal ammunition containers having a top lid, is shown. The interlocking device comprises a substantially flat plate, coextensive with the top lid of the containers, and having a set of locking tabs to attach to the top lid. The device also has a set of positioning tabs to engage the bottom of another container, when such containers are stacked. The device is attached to similar devices by a set of interconnection mechanisms, which may be male-female connectors located along each edge of the device, such that the interlocking mechanisms on the front and rear edges of the device are of opposite interlocking design and the locking mechanism on the front edge of one device will demountably interlock with the locking mechanism on the rear edge of another device. In addition, the interlocking mechanism on each lateral side edge of the device are of opposite interlocking design and the locking mechanism on one lateral edge of one device will demountably interlock with the interlocking mechanism on the opposite side of another device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/605220 |
| ART UNIT | 3727 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Receptacles 220/23.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06858173 | Zhan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guodong Zhan (Davis, California); Amiya K. Mukherjee (Davis, California); Joshua D. Kuntz (Lafayette, California); Julin Wan (Schenectady, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Composites of ceramic materials, notably alumina or metal oxides in general, with single-wall carbon nanotubes are consolidated by electric field-assisted sintering to achieve a fully dense material that has an unusually high fracture toughness compared to the ceramic alone, and also when compared to composites that contain multi-wall rather than single-wall carbon nanotubes, and when compared to composites that are sintered by methods that do not include exposure to an electric field. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/356729 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/430 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06858179 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Research Associates, Inc. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lixiong Li (Panama City, Florida); Jean J. Renard (Panama City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | By treating potable water at a temperature of at least 230° C. (446° F.) and at a pressure at least equal to the pressure of saturated steam at said temperature, can produce pyrogen-free water using treatment times of 0.05 to 5 seconds or less. The addition of an oxidant, in the form of a gas, a liquid, or a solid, further decreases the required treatment time to less than 0.05 second. The reduction n equipment size achieved with this rapid treatment time allows the utilization of treatment units small enough to be easily transported to remote locations or installed in the restricted space environment existing in ships and submarines. |
| FILED | Monday, March 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/376312 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06858289 | Pong 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) | Richard G. S. Pong (Silver Spring, Maryland); Steven R. Flom (Temple Hills, Maryland); James S. Shirk (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides an optical filter comprising: a. an organic, solar blind filter dye; and b. a UV-transparent, non-scattering and chemically stable substrate. The substrate may be a UV-transparent nanoporous silica glass solid having pores that are substantially filled with a UV-transparent solvent, which has been selected to dissolve said dye and also to match the refractive index of the nanoporous silica glass solid. Alternatively, the substrate may be a UV-transparent inorganic salt compressed to form a solid body. The invention also provides for methods of making these embodiments and an optical device comprising such an optical filter. The filter provides an efficient solar blind filter that is chemically and dimensionally stable. |
| FILED | Friday, February 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/068506 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/304.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06858334 | Gorman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Daniel Gorman (West Chester, Ohio); Irene Spitsberg (Loveland, Ohio); Brett Allen Boutwell (Liberty Township, Ohio); Ramgopal Darolia (West Chester, Ohio); Robert William Bruce (Loveland, Ohio); Venkat Subramanian Venkataramani (Clifton Park, New York); Anthony Mark Thompson (Niskayuna, New York); Antonio Mogro-Campera (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Zirconia-containing ceramic compositions having a c/a ratio of the zirconia lattice in the range of from about 1.005 to about 1.016. These compositions comprise a stabilizing amount up to about 10 mole % of the composition of a stabilizer component which comprises: (1) a first metal oxide selected from the group consisting of yttria, calcia, ceria, scandia, magnesia, india and mixtures thereof in an amount of from about 1.5 to about 6 mole % of the composition of; (2) a second metal oxide selected from the group consisting of lanthana, neodymia and mixtures thereof in an amount of from about 0.5 to about 4 mole % of the composition; and (3) optionally ytterbia in an amount of from about 0.5 to about 4 mole % of the composition. These compositions further comprise hafnia in an amount of from about 0.5 to about 15 mole % of the composition; and optionally tantala in an amount of from about 0.5 to about 1.5 mole % of the composition. These compositions are useful in preparing thermal barrier coatings having a balance of reduced thermal conductivity with good producibility, spallation resistance and erosion/impact resistance for an underlying substrate of articles that operate at, or are exposed to, high temperatures. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/748516 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/701 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06858372 | Whitlock 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) | Robert R. Whitlock (Washington, District of Columbia); Arthur Snow (Alexandria, Virginia); Charles M. Dozier (Jacksonville, Florida); Samuel G. Lambrakos (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A resist composition with enhanced X-ray and electron sensitivity includes a plurality of chemically inert nanoparticles dispersed throughout a base resist material. The nanoparticles have a higher atomic number than the base resist material and each of the nanoparticles is formed by a nanoparticle core, e.g., of a noble metal, coated with an organic capping layer or shell. The latter renders the core dispersible and chemically compatible with the resist material surrounding the nanoparticle. A method of making a resist composition with enhanced X-ray and electron sensitivity is to provide a resist material and disperse chemically inert nanoparticles throughout the resist. The nanoparticles have a higher atomic number than the resist and a have core/shell structure. A resist composition with enhanced X-ray and electron sensitivity can be made by having a nanoparticle core, with a higher atomic number than the resist, that is coated with an organic capping layer. The nanoparticle with the core/shell structure is then dispersed throughout the resist material. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/394240 |
| ART UNIT | 1752 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/270.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06858455 | Guillom et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Guillom (Knoxville, Tennessee); Michael L. Simpson (Knoxville, Tennessee); Vladimir I. Merkulov (Knoxville, Tennessee); Anatoli V. Melechko (Knoxville, Tennessee); Douglas H. Lowndes (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Gated field emission devices and systems and methods for their fabrication are described. A method includes growing a substantially vertically aligned carbon nanostructure, the substantially vertically aligned carbon nanostructure coupled to a substrate; covering at least a portion of the substantially vertically aligned carbon nanostructure with a dielectric; forming a gate, the gate coupled to the dielectric; and releasing the substantially vertically aligned carbon nanostructure by forming an aperture in the gate and removing a portion of the dielectric. |
| FILED | Friday, May 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/155841 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06858507 | Ahmad et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aftab Ahmad (Boise, Idaho); Charles Dennison (Boise, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for grading the junctions of a lightly doped drain (LDD) N-channel MOSFET by performing a low dosage phosphorous implant after low and high dosage arsenic implants have been performed during the creation of the N-LDD regions and N+ source and drain electrodes. The phosphorous implant is driven to diffuse across both the electrode/LDD junctions and the LDD/channel junctions. |
| FILED | Friday, July 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/198941 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/303 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06858659 | White et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustess of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott R. White (Champaign, Illinois); Nancy R. Sottos (Champaign, Illinois); Philippe H. Geubelle (Champaign, Illinois); Jeffrey S. Moore (Savoy, Illinois); Suresh R. Sriram (Urbana, Illinois); Michael R. Kessler (Urbana, Illinois); Eric N. Brown (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite material, contains a polymer, a polymerizer, a corresponding catalyst for the polymerizer, and a plurality of capsules. The polymerizer is in the capsules. The composite material is self-healing. |
| FILED | Friday, October 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/280644 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 523/200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06858825 | Ruffa |
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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 A. Ruffa (Hope Valley, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A safety device for reducing the likelihood of superheating a liquid includes a transducer disposed on a support surface proximate to a placed container containing a liquid. The transducer generates a vibrational force in the container and onto the liquid that creates nucleation within the liquid. The nucleation allows the liquid to boil, thus preventing the liquid from becoming superheated. |
| FILED | Monday, December 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/730186 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/706 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06858988 | Laroussi |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Old Dominion University Research Foundation (Norfolk, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mounir Laroussi (Virginia Beach, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrodeless excimer UV lamp, comprising an enclosed chamber with a gas sealed within the enclosed chamber, wherein the gas is capable of being used to generate a plasma discharge, a first electrode wrapped around the outer surface of the chamber at a first location, a second electrode wrapped around the outer surface of the chamber at second location, and a power supply configured to apply a voltage to the first electrode and the second electrode. During operation of the UV lamp, a plasma discharge is generated by applying a voltage to the electrodes wrapped around the outer surface of the chamber to ignite the gas or gas mixture inside the chamber and generate a plasma discharge within the chamber, such that a specific wavelength of UV radiation will be generated by the particular gas within the chamber. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/284113 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/111.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06859111 | Drach 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) | William C. Drach (West Long Branch, New Jersey); Mark Bates (Doylestown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Burnout resistance ferroelectric material is used in the feedback path of a microwave oscillator as a frequency control element. The ferractor has rapid broadband frequency tuning capabilities limited only by the speed of an external DC source. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/456165 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/96 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06859119 | Eliacin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Motorola, Inc. (Schaumburg, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manes Eliacin (Buffalo Grove, Illinois); Tomasz Klosowiak (Glenview, Illinois); Robert Lempkowski (Elk Grove, Illinois); Ke Lian (Palatine, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A mesoscale microelectromechanical system (MEMS) package for a micro-machine. The mesoscale micro-machine is formed on a printed circuit board (10) at the same time and of the same materials as the mesoscale micro-machine package. Both the micro-machine and the package have a first metal layer (12, 16), an insulating member (22, 26) formed on the first metal layer, and a second metal layer (32, 36) situated on the insulating layer. The package consists of a perimeter wall surrounding the micro-machine and a low-flow capping adhesive layer (40). The first metal layers of both the micro-machine and the package are formed in the same process sequence, and the insulating layers of both the micro-machine and the package are formed in the same process sequence, and the second metal layers of both the micro-machine and the package are formed in the same process sequence. The low-flow capping adhesive secures an optional cover (46) on the package to provide an environmental seal. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/329907 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/262 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06859160 | Gounalis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony J. Gounalis (Endicott, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system estimates the utilization of an electromagnetic signal receiver. The system includes a detection module and a processing module. The detection module receives electromagnetic signals from a surrounding environment. The electromagnetic signals are chronologically segregated into a plurality of dwells each with an elapsed time. The processing module controls the scanning of the surrounding environment. The processing module receives data about the signals from the detection module. The processing module computes a plurality of utilizations by dividing each individual elapsed time by a predetermined sample interval. The processing module further determines a total utilization by adding the plurality of utilizations. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/658500 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06859161 | Bricker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey K. Bricker (Apalachin, New York); Anthony J. Gounalis (Endicott, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system time thresholds dwells executed by an electromagnetic signal receiver. The system includes a detection module and a processing module. The detection module receives electromagnetic signals from a surrounding environment. The electromagnetic signals are chronologically segregated into a plurality of dwells each with a dwell time. The processing module controls the scanning of the surrounding environment. The processing module sets dwell parameters and determines whether to skip the execution of particular dwells. The processing module receives data about the signals from the detection module. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/658502 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06859178 | 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 2210 MHz+/−2.5 MHz. The microstrip antenna is a Linear Polarized microstrip antenna with wrap around capability for a five inch diameter projectile and is constrained to a width of 1.5 inches. The microstrip antenna includes a six aligned copper antenna elements, and a copper etched feed network which provides for transmitted signals which are in phase and have equal amplitudes. |
| FILED | Friday, September 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/666830 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/700.MS0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06859180 | Rivera |
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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) | David F. Rivera (Westerly, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna including a feed tube with radial fins and circular plates at the ends of the tube and fins thereby forming a boundary for a plurality of resonant cavities. Curved plates, connected to the tube by switches of a switching system, partially encompass and subtend to the length of the tube. Interior to the tube, a transmission line from an end plate terminus conducts radio-frequency energy from the terminus to a hub and onto a switch of the switching system in which the switch is mechanically reactive to and actuated by a righting action of the curved plates when the curved plates encounter a sea state. When actuated, energy from the switch distributes to a proximate resonant cavity and curved plate to form a radiation pattern based on the difference in phase of the resonant cavity and curved plate. |
| FILED | Monday, September 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/663059 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/709 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06859189 | Ramirez 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) | Ayax D. Ramirez (Chula Vista, California); Stephen D. Russell (San Diego, California); Mark W. Roberts (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The fast switching multifunction antenna of the present invention is a variable length antenna that may be switched to provide the equivalent function of a broadband antenna. The variable length antenna quasi-continuously transmits or receives signals at a plurality of frequencies by changing the effective length of the antenna using a variety of switching mechanisms. The present invention may comprise a plurality of antenna segments, a plurality of selectively actuable switches for interconnecting the antenna segments, and a switching mechanism operably coupled to the plurality of selectively actuable switches for switching them at a switching rate that is greater than twice the highest frequency to be transmitted or received. The switching rate will be fast enough to allow the antenna to sample the highest frequency and all of the required lower frequencies within the desired frequency range without the loss of information at any frequency. However, the switching rate is slow enough to allow sampling of the frequency at each antenna length before the next antenna length is activated. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/086042 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/815 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06859359 | Young 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) | Stuart Young (Burke, Virginia); Richard R. Gregory, Jr. (Mount Airy, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Robot and remote controlled devices have been utilized for information gathering purposes. However these robotic vehicles lack efficiency because they are not capable of operating out of doors or where the sensors and apparatus located on the robots are subject to harsh environments. The present invention provides a new and unique manner of overcoming these problems by providing a platform system that is placed upon existing robots without requiring adjustments to these devices. The platform effectuates easy installation of a plurality of sensors and apparatus on its top surface while providing internal housing for its wires and components, thereby providing a water, dirt and dust resistant environment which leads to better equipment function and ease of maintenance and repair. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/058325 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/683 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06859419 | Blackmon 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) | Fletcher A. Blackmon (Forestdale, Massachusetts); Lynn T. Antonelli (Cranston, Rhode Island); Lee E. Estes (Mattapoisett, Massachusetts); Gilbert Fain (East Freetown, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for enabling acousto-optic communication comprising an in-water platform comprising means for emitting an acoustic signal to an acousto-optic interaction zone, an in-air platform comprising the ability for transmitting a first optical interrogation beam, the ability for receiving a portion of the first interrogation beam and a second laser beam formed from the reflection of the first interrogation beam off of the acousto-optic interaction zone, the ability for measuring and outputting a plurality of optical interferences between the portion of the first interrogation beam and the second reflected beam, and a signal converter receiving as input the plurality of optical interferences and outputting an electrical signal representing the received acoustic telemetry signal at the interrogation point at the air-water interface. |
| FILED | Monday, August 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/644574 |
| 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 367/134 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06859537 | Houlberg 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) | Christian L. Houlberg (Ventura, California); Gary S. Borgen (Camarillo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A Non-Volatile Memory circuit operating as an interface between a key loader and an encryption device. The Non-Volatile Memory circuit includes a microcontroller which stores a crypto key and checkword and a backup crypto key and checkword. The microcontroller is connected to the telemeter transmitter for a missile allowing the micrcontroller to turn off the transmitter during a key load which prevents transmission of the crypto key and checkword. When the microcontroller completes a load of the crypto key to the encryption device and upon a launch of the missile, software within the microcontroller erases the crypto key and checkword from an internal EEPROM. This prevents an enemy force from retrieving the crypto key and its corresponding checkword from the missile after launch. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 17, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/505830 |
| ART UNIT | 2135 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/277 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | James N. Caron (Silver Springs, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Norbert Caron (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A signal processing algorithm has been developed in which a filter function is extracted from degraded data through mathematical operations. The filter function can then be used to restore much of the degraded content of the data through use of any deconvolution algorithm. This process can be performed without prior knowledge of the detection system, a technique known as blind deconvolution. The extraction process, designated Self-deconvolving Data Reconstruction Algorithm (SeDDaRA), has been used successfully to restore digitized photographs, digitized acoustic waveforms, and other forms of data. The process is non-iterative, computationally efficient, and requires little user input. Implementation is straight-forward, allowing inclusion into all types of signal processing software and hardware. The novelty of the invention is the application of a power law and smoothing function to the degraded data in frequency space. Two methods for determining the value of the power law are discussed. The first method is by educated guess where the value is deemed a constant of frequency that ranges between zero and one. This approach requires no knowledge of the original data or the degradation and is quite effective. The second method compares the frequency spectrum of the degraded data to the spectrum of a signal with the desired frequency response. This approach produces a superior result, but requires additional processing. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 15, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/783075 |
| ART UNIT | 2625 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/264 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06859570 | Walt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College, Tufts University (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Walt (Lexington, Massachusetts); Karri L. Michael (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A microsphere-based analytic chemistry system and method for making the same is disclosed in which microspheres or particles carrying bioactive agents may be combined randomly or in ordered fashion and dispersed on a substrate to form an array while maintaining the ability to identify the location of bioactive agents and particles within the array using an optically interrogatable, optical signature encoding scheme. A wide variety of modified substrates may be employed which provide either discrete or non-discrete sites for accommodating the microspheres in either random or patterned distributions. The substrates may be constructed from a variety of materials to form either two-dimensional or three-dimensional configurations. In a preferred embodiment, a modified fiber optic bundle or array is employed as a substrate to produce a high density array. The disclosed system and method have utility for detecting target analytes and screening large libraries of bioactive agents. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 08, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/925292 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06859582 | Cai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ming Cai (Newark, California); Kerry J. Vahala (San Gabriel, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A hybrid and tapered waveguide coupler that has two different single-mode waveguide sections for light at two different wavelengths to couple light at the two different wavelengths into or out of an optical device located in a reach of an evanescent field of the guided optical energy in the waveguide coupler. |
| FILED | Friday, November 09, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/007630 |
| ART UNIT | 2871 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06859751 | Cardarelli |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Milli Sensor Systems and Actuators, Inc. (West Newton, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donato Cardarelli (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Inertial Measurement Units based on integrated designs to reduce alignment and assembly costs. Integration also leads to performance improvement, increased miniaturization and simplification as well as reduced cost. Also disclosed are gyroscopes and accelerometers that are identical, yet by their mechanization, can be made to act as separate sensors. Miniaturization and simplification is improved by combining instruments that can share a common member. Savings in space and complexity are also possible in the electronics when elements are shared. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/321774 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/141 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06859764 | Castellane 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) | Raymond M. Castellane (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Falih H. Ahmad (Cornelius, North Carolina); Bartley P. Durst (Clinton, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | Minute amounts of material, such as a contaminant, are detected, identified and located using a single procedure that eliminates the need for using complex and sometimes redundant instrumentation setups, multiple (and sometimes overlapping) analytic processes, or both. In a preferred embodiment, a series of processing steps enables one to detect, identify, and localize minute amounts of particular elements, e.g., contaminants, in material being tested. Data sets, suitable for characterizing components of samples at least spectrally and spatially, are collected from at least one uncontaminated sample of material (the “baseline” or “control”) and a sample of material under test (MUT) that may contain contaminants. Comparison of these data sets, using the procedures of the present invention, enables ready identification of minute amounts of material in any sample. The use of existing conventional procedures may require that multiple sets of data be taken or multiple processes be applied. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/406159 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/189 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06859861 | Rhodes |
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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) | David L. Rhodes (Brick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Cache memory structures are arranged to further alleviate the continually increasing memory latency or delay problem caused by the ever increasing speed of computer processors. In these memory structures, a plurality of separate and independent memory branches are extended from a common bus that passes from a hierarchical level immediately above the processor. Each memory branch is initiated with a cache memory unit and ascends hierarchically to the main memory. Other intermediate cache memory units may be disposed in the branches between the initial cache memory unit and the main memory thereof. Memory space division may be applied to the intermediate cache memory units or the relative information storage capacities thereof may be sized to alleviate the memory latency or delay problem still further. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 14, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/231041 |
| ART UNIT | 2186 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/119 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel A. Hartman (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Vivek R. Dave' (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Mark J. Cola (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Robert W. Carpenter (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for determining the quality of an examined weld joint comprising the steps of providing acoustical data from the examined weld joint, and performing a neural network operation on the acoustical data determine the quality of the examined weld joint produced by a friction weld process. The neural network may be trained by the steps of providing acoustical data and observable data from at least one test weld joint, and training the neural network based on the acoustical data and observable data to form a trained neural network so that the trained neural network is capable of determining the quality of a examined weld joint based on acoustical data from the examined weld joint. In addition, an apparatus having a housing, acoustical sensors mounted therein, and means for mounting the housing on a friction weld device so that the acoustical sensors do not contact the weld joint. The apparatus may sample the acoustical data necessary for the neural network to determine the quality of a weld joint. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/365416 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal fusion bonding 228/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06858148 | Warner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin P. Warner (Los Alamos, New Mexico); George J. Havrilla (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Thomasin C. Miller (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Cyndi A. Wells (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The method for screening binding between a target binder and potential pharmaceutical chemicals involves sending a solution (preferably an aqueous solution) of the target binder through a conduit to a size exclusion filter, the target binder being too large to pass through the size exclusion filter, and then sending a solution of one or more potential pharmaceutical chemicals (preferably an aqueous solution) through the same conduit to the size exclusion filter after target binder has collected on the filter. The potential pharmaceutical chemicals are small enough to pass through the filter. Afterwards, x-rays are sent from an x-ray source to the size exclusion filter, and if the potential pharmaceutical chemicals form a complex with the target binder, the complex produces an x-ray fluorescence signal having an intensity that indicates that a complex has formed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/621825 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/656 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06858345 | Amine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Khalil Amine (Downers Grove, Illinois); Paul A. Nelson (Wheaton, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A high power bipolar battery, such as a high power lithium polymer battery is provided. The bipolar battery includes a plurality of multiple cell assemblies. The plurality of multiple cell assemblies is connected in series to form the high power bipolar battery. Each of the plurality of multiple cell assemblies includes a rigid core with a bipolar cell stack of multiple cells wound together around the rigid core to produce a large active cell area. The wound bipolar cell stack includes a positive battery connection and a negative battery connection. A container surrounds the bipolar cell stack. A positive terminal carried by the container is connected to the positive battery connection. A negative terminal carried by the container is spaced apart from the positive terminal and connected to the negative battery connection. A state-of-charge connector carried by the container is spaced apart from the positive and negative terminals. The state-of-charge connector include multiple conductors, each connected to a respective one of the multiple cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/118788 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/149 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06858378 | Dentinger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Dentinger (Sunol, California); Karen L. Krafick (Livermore, California); Kelby Liv Simison (Hattiesburg, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | The use of photoacid generators including an alkoxyphenylphenyliodonium salt and/or bis(t-butylphenyl)iodonium salt in a photoimageable composition helps improve resolution. Suitable photoimageable compositions includes: (a) a multifuctional polymeric epoxy resin that is dissolved in an organic solvent wherein the epoxy resin comprises oligomers of bisphenol A that is quantitatively protected by glycidyl ether and wherein the oligomers have an average functionality that ranges from about 3 to 12; and a photoacid generator comprising an alkoxyphenylphenyliodonium salt and/or bis(t-butylphenyl)iodonium salt. Preferred alkoxyphenylphenyliodonium salts include 4-octyloxyphenyl phenyliodonium hexafluoroantimonate and 4-methoxyphenyl phenyliodonium hexafluoroantimonate. The photoimageable composition is particularly suited for producing high aspect ratio microstructures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/125134 |
| ART UNIT | 1752 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/324 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06858429 | Quail et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter H. Quail (Vacaville, California); Enamul Huq (El Sobrante, California); James Tepperman (Oakland, California); Sae Sato (El Cerrito, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An artificial promoter system that can be fused upstream of any desired gene enabling reversible induction or repression of the expression of the gene at will in any suitable host cell or organisms by light is described. The design of the system is such that a molecule of the plant photoreceptor phytochrome is targeted to the specific DNA binding site in the promoter by a protein domain that is fused to the phytochrome and that specifically recognizes this binding site. This bound phytochrome, upon activation by light, recruits a second fusion protein consisting of a protein that binds to phytochrome only upon light activation and a transcriptional activation domain that activates expression of the gene downstream of the promoter. |
| FILED | Friday, August 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/227035 |
| 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 435/375 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06858462 | Zaidi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gratings, Inc. (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Saleem H. Zaidi (Albuquerque, New Mexico); James M. Gee (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Enhanced light absorption of solar cells and photodetectors by diffraction is described. Triangular, rectangular, and blazed subwavelength periodic structures are shown to improve performance of solar cells. Surface reflection can be tailored for either broadband, or narrow-band spectral absorption. Enhanced absorption is achieved by efficient optical coupling into obliquely propagating transmitted diffraction orders. Subwavelength one-dimensional structures are designed for polarization-dependent, wavelength-selective absorption in solar cells and photodetectors, while two-dimensional structures are designed for polarization-independent, wavelength-selective absorption therein. Suitable one and two-dimensional subwavelength periodic structures can also be designed for broadband spectral absorption in solar cells and photodetectors. If reactive ion etching (RIE) processes are used to form the grating, RIE-induced surface damage in subwavelength structures can be repaired by forming junctions using ion implantation methods. RIE-induced surface damage can also be removed by post RIE wet-chemical etching treatments. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 11, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/834308 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/71 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06858943 | Peterson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth A. Peterson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Stephen E. Garrett (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Cathleen A. Reber (Corrales, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A release resistant electrical interconnection comprising a gold-based electrical conductor compression bonded directly to a highly-doped polysilicon bonding pad in a MEMS, IMEMS, or MOEMS device, without using any intermediate layers of aluminum, titanium, solder, or conductive adhesive disposed in-between the conductor and polysilicon pad. After the initial compression bond has been formed, subsequent heat treatment of the joint above 363 C creates a liquid eutectic phase at the bondline comprising gold plus approximately 3 wt % silicon, which, upon re-solidification, significantly improves the bond strength by reforming and enhancing the initial bond. This type of electrical interconnection is resistant to chemical attack from acids used for releasing MEMS elements (HF, HCL), thereby enabling the use of a “package-first, release-second” sequence for fabricating MEMS devices. Likewise, the bond strength of an Au—Ge compression bond may be increased by forming a transient liquid eutectic phase comprising Au-12 wt % Ge. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/396879 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/784 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06858962 | Post |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard F. Post (Walnut Creek, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A motor/generator having its stationary portion, i.e., the stator, positioned concentrically within its rotatable element, i.e., the rotor, along its axis of rotation. The rotor includes a Halbach array. The stator windings are switched or commutated to provide a DC motor/generator much the same as in a conventional DC motor/generator. The voltage and power are automatically regulated by using centrifugal force to change the diameter of the rotor, and thereby vary the radial gap in between the stator and the rotating Halbach array, as a function of the angular velocity of the rotor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 05, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/946250 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/191 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06858998 | Shenoy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gopal Shenoy (Naperville, Illinois); John Lewellen (Plainfield, Illinois); Deming Shu (Darien, Illinois); Nikolai Vinokurov (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation) |
| ABSTRACT | A new and improved undulator design is provided that enables a variable period length for the production of synchrotron radiation from both medium-energy and high-energy storage rings. The variable period length is achieved using a staggered array of pole pieces made up of high permeability material, permanent magnet material, or an electromagnetic structure. The pole pieces are separated by a variable width space. The sum of the variable width space and the pole width would therefore define the period of the undulator. Features and advantages of the invention include broad photon energy tunability, constant power operation and constant brilliance operation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/653064 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/503 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06859120 | Sweatt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William C. Sweatt (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Todd R. Christenson (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical switch using Risley prisms and rotary microactuators to independently rotate the wedge prisms of each Risley prism pair is disclosed. The optical switch comprises an array of input Risley prism pairs that selectively redirect light beams from a plurality of input ports to an array of output Risley prism pairs that similarly direct the light beams to a plurality of output ports. Each wedge prism of each Risley prism pair can be independently rotated by a variable-reluctance stepping rotary microactuator that is fabricated by a multi-layer LIGA process. Each wedge prism can be formed integral to the annular rotor of the rotary microactuator by a DXRL process. |
| FILED | Friday, January 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/356157 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets 335/78 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06859263 | Naulleau |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | EUV LLC (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick P. Naulleau (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for generating partially coherent radiation and particularly for converting effectively coherent radiation from a synchrotron to partially coherent EUV radiation suitable for projection lithography. |
| FILED | Friday, February 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/377947 |
| ART UNIT | 2851 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Photocopying 355/67 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06859282 | Weber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas M. Weber (McLean, Virginia); Diane S. Callow (Albuquerque, New Mexico); James F. Jones (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Michael A. Kuehl (Alburquerque, New Mexico); Barry L. Spletzer (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for locating the boundary surface between a layer of fatty tissue and lean tissue in a cut of meat, such as beef, such as slabs of meat undergoing trimming and cutting in commercial meet processing facilitates. The invention exploits the fact that fatty tissue and lean tissue have significantly different responses to incident light energy. By gauging the degree to which a generated beam of light is scattered and reflected by the tissues under evaluation, the invention permits the character of the tissue to be ascertained. An incident beam of light, such as green light, is generated and transmitted to a probe tip, which tip is inserted into the cut of meat under investigation. The light beam is emitted into the meat tissues from the probe tip, and then is scattered and reflected by the tissues, whereupon some fraction of the emitted light returns to the probe tip. The returning light energy is transmitted to a detector; relative changes in the returning light transmitted to the detector permit the operator to determine when the probe tip is approaching or penetrating the fat/lean tissue interface. |
| FILED | Friday, January 04, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/040684 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/446 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06859297 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Midwest Research Institute (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Se-Hee Lee (Lakewood, Colorado); C. Edwin Tracy (Golden, Colorado); J. Roland Pitts (Lakewood, Colorado); Gary J. Jorgensen (Pine, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses an amorphous material comprising nickel oxide doped with tantalum that is an anodically coloring electrochromic material. The material of the present invention is prepared in the form of an electrode (200) having a thin film (202) of an electrochromic material of the present invention residing on a transparent conductive film (203). The material of the present invention is also incorporated into an electrochromic device (100) as a thin film (102) in conjunction with a cathodically coloring prior art electrochromic material layer (104) such that the devices contain both anodically coloring (102) and cathodically coloring (104) layers. The materials of the electrochromic layers in these devices exhibit broadband optical complimentary behavior, ionic species complimentary behavior, and coloration efficiency complimentary behavior in their operation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 07, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/480014 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/273 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06859467 | Adams et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J. Adams (Livermore, California); Chris A. Ebbers (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electro-optic device for use with a laser beam. A crystal has a first face and a second face. Means are provided for applying a voltage across the crystal to obtain a net phase retardation on the polarization of the laser beam when the laser beam is passed through the crystal. In one embodiment the crystal is composed of a compound having the chemical formula ReAe40(BO3)3 where: RE consists of one or more of the following elements La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu and two other elements Y and Sc; and where Ae is from the list of Ca, Sr, or Ba. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/137140 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06859517 | Wilson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bary W. Wilson (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida); Chester L. Shepard (W. Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are an X-ray fluorescence (SRF) spectrometer and method for on-site and in-line determination of contaminant elements in lubricating oils and in fuel oils on board a marine vessel. An XRF source block 13 contains two radionuclide sources 16, 17 (e.g. Cd 109 and Fe 55), each oriented 180 degrees from the other to excite separate targets. The Cd 109 source 16 excites sample lube oil flowing through a low molecular weight sample line 18. The Fe 55 source 17 excites fuel oil manually presented to the source beam inside a low molecular weight vial 26 or other container. Two separate detectors A and B are arranged to detect the fluorescent x-rays from the targets, photons from the analyte atoms in the lube oil for example, and sulfur identifying x-rays from bunker fuel oil for example. The system allows both automated in-line and manual on-site analysis using one set of signal processing and multi-channel analyzer electronics 34, 37 as well as one computer 39 and user interface 43. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/420460 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/47 |
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| US 06859736 | Blankenbecler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Lealand Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Blankenbecler (Stanford, California); Mattias Ohlsson (Lund, Sweden); Carsten Peterson (Lund, Sweden); Markus Ringner (Lund, Sweden) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a method for protein structure alignment. More particularly, the present invention provides a method for identification, classification and prediction of protein structures. The present invention involves two key ingredients. First, an energy or cost function formulation of the problem simultaneously in terms of binary (Potts) assignment variables and real-valued atomic coordinates. Second, a minimization of the energy or cost function by an iterative method, where in each iteration (1) a mean field method is employed for the assignment variables and (2) exact rotation and/or translation of atomic coordinates is performed, weighted with the corresponding assignment variables. |
| FILED | Monday, April 02, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/825441 |
| 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 | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06859804 | Kamath et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chandrika Kamath (Tracy, California); Erick Cantu-Paz (Oakland, California); David Littau (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for decision tree ensembles that includes a module to read the data, a module to create a histogram, a module to evaluate a potential split according to some criterion using the histogram, a module to select a split point randomly in an interval around the best split, a module to split the data, and a module to combine multiple decision trees in ensembles. The decision tree method includes the steps of reading the data; creating a histogram; evaluating a potential split according to some criterion using the histogram, selecting a split point randomly in an interval around the best split, splitting the data, and combining multiple decision trees in ensembles. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/167844 |
| ART UNIT | 2161 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan Stoianovici (Baltimore, Maryland); Keenan A. Wyrobek (Walnut Creek, California); Dumitru Mazilu (Baltimore, Maryland); Louis L. Whitcomb (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A positioning arm for positioning and holding a device within a medical imaging environment workspace has: (a) a free-end link in the form of a circular cylinder having a distal end face and an adjoining end face, with the adjoining end face forming a specified angle with the cylinder's centerline and the distal end face adapted to allow for the connection of the device to the free-end link, (b) a plurality of intermediate links, each in the form of a circular cylinder having end faces that form a specified angle with the links' centerline, and each of these intermediate links having a channel connecting their end faces, (c) a base link in the form of a circular cylinder having a base end face and an adjoining end face, with the adjoining end face forming a specified angle with the link's centerline and the base end face adapted to allow for the connection of the arm to a supporting surface, (d) a cable that passes through the link channels so that one cable end attaches to the free-end link and the other end attaches to the base link, and (e) a locking mechanism that attaches to the cable and applies tension to the cable so as to pull adjoining end faces into contact so as to lock them together by frictional, wherein these components are fabricated from MRI compatible materials (e.g., plastics, glass, ceramics, rubbers, composites, and certain non-ferrous metals such as aluminum, titanium, brass, and nitilol). |
| FILED | Friday, January 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/754779 |
| ART UNIT | 3632 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Supports 248/276.100 |
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| US 06858135 | Que et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Research and Technology Institute, Inc. (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amy H. Que (Chesterfield, Missouri); Milos V. Novotny (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Polar, monolithic CEC columns having an amine and/or cyano functional stationary phase are used to separate complex mixtures of saccharides. Using the positive-ion mode of detection for neutral saccharides, detection conditions were optimized to low-femtomole sensitivities with the use of an ion trap mass spectrometer. The described column technology provides a universal system for separating a wide range of carbohydrates: mono- and oligosaccharides with the intact reducing end, as well as saccharide alditols. |
| FILED | Monday, August 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/634058 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/198.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06858205 | Blissard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary W. Blissard (Ithaca, New York); Jodie T. Mangor (Ithaca, New York); Scott A. Monsma (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A pseudotyped baculovirus comprises a deletion, inactivation or reduction from regulation of a baculovirus envelope protein gene, and is engineered to express an envelope protein from another virus or cell, or another protein or molecule that facilitates entry of the baculovirus into a non-host cell, or provided with a heterologous envelope protein or another protein or molecule that facilitates entry of the baculovirus into a non-host cell by other suitable means. Such baculoviruses can be used to efficiently deliver genes to mammalian cells or organisms, and such genes can be expressed either from the baculovirus genome, or integrated into the mammalian cell genome, and can be used for expression of proteins such that purification of secreted or other protein products does not require removal of contaminating baculovirus particles or baculovirus envelope proteins. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/600900 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06858211 | Szu 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) | Shousun Chen Szu (Bethesda, Maryland); John B. Robbins (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Yvonne Ageyman Konadu (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to conjugates of the O-specific polysaccharide of E. coli O157 with a carrier, and compositions thereof, and to methods of using of these conjugates and/or compositions thereof for eliciting an immunogenic response in mammals, including responses which provide protection against, or reduce the severity of, bacterial infections. More particularly it relates to the use of polysaccharides containing the tetrasaccharide repeat unit: (→3)-α-D-GalpNAc-(1→2)-α-D-PerpNAc-(1→3)-α-L-Fucp-(1→4)-β-D-Glcp-(1→), and conjugates thereof, to induce serum antibodies having bactericidal (killing) activity against hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) causing E. coli, in particular E. coli O157. The conjugates, and compositions thereof, are useful as vaccines to induce serum antibodies which have bactericidal or bacteriostatic activity against against E. coli, in particular E. coli O157, and are useful to prevent and/or treat illnesses caused by E. coli O157. The invention further relates to the antibodies which immunoreact with the O-specific polysaccharide of E. coli O157 and/or the carrier, that are induced by these conjugates and/or compositions thereof. The invention also relates to methods and kits using one or more of the polysaccharides, conjugates or antibodies described above. |
| FILED | Monday, July 20, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/744289 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/193.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06858213 | Bertozzi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carolyn R. Bertozzi (Berkeley, California); Spencer J. Williams (Berkeley, California); Joseph D. Mougous (El Cerrito, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel mycobacterial sulfation pathway enzymes and polypeptides related thereto, as well as nucleic acid compositions encoding the same, are provided. The subject polypeptide and nucleic acid compositions find use in a variety of applications, including research, diagnostic, and therapeutic agent screening applications. Also provided are methods of inhibiting growth and/or virulence of a pathogenic mycobacterium, and methods of treating disease conditions associated with a pathogenic mycobacterium, particularly by administering an inhibitor of a mycobacterial sulfation pathway enzyme. |
| FILED | Friday, April 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/126279 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/248.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06858388 | Markowitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanford Markowitz (Pepper Pike, Ohio); William Grady (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for detection of cancers associated with methylation of hMLH1 promoter DNA in a subject. The method comprise assaying for the presence of methylated hMLH1 promoter DNA in a bodily fluid from a subject. In one embodiment, the method comprises reacting DNA from the sample with a chemical compound that converts non-methylated cytosine bases but not methylated cytosine bases, to a different nucleotide base. The compound-converted DNA is then amplified using a methylation-sensitive polymerase chain reaction (MSP) employing primers that amplify the compound-converted DNA template. The present invention also provides nucleotide primer sequences for use in the methylation-sensitive PCR assay. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 20, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/957661 |
| 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 06858395 | Kaufman |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen J. Kaufman (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides compositions and sequences for the diagnosis, genetic therapy of certain muscular dystrophies, especially muscular dystrophy resulting from a deficiency in dystrophin protein or a combined deficiency in dystrophin and utrophin, and methods and compositions for the identification of compounds which increase expression of the α7 integrin. Expression of the integrin αBX2 polypeptide in muscle cells results in better physical condition in a patient or an animal lacking normal levels of dystrophin or dystrophin and utrophin. The present disclosure further provides immunological and nucleic acid based methods for the diagnosis of scapuloperoneal muscular dystrophy, where there is a reduction in or absence of α7A integrin expression in muscle tissue samples and normal levels of laminin-2/4 in those same samples. The present disclosure further provides methods for identifying compositions which increase the expression of α7 integrin protein in muscle cells of dystrophy patients. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/081885 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06858397 | Prusiner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley B. Prusiner (San Francisco, California); R. Anthony Williamson (San Diego, California); Dennis R. Burton (LaJolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Antibodies are disclosed which specifically bind to native PrPSc in situ. Preferred antibodies bind only to the native PrPSc of a particular species e.g., human, cow, sheep, pig, etc. Particularly preferred antibodies bind specifically to a particular isoform of human PrPSc. Preferred antibodies of the invention are (1) produced by phage display methodology, (2) bind specifically to native PrPSc, (3) neutralizes the infectivity of prions, (4) bind to PrPSc in situ and (5) bind 50% or more of PrPSc in a liquid flowable sample. Antibodies of the invention can be bound to a substrate and used to assay a sample (which has any PrPc denatured via proteinase K) for the presence of PrPSc of a specific species which PrPSc is associated with disease. Antibodies which specifically bind to human PrPSc can be labeled and injected carrying out an in vivo diagnostic test to determine if the human is infected with prions associated with disease. The antibodies are preferably produced using phage display technology wherein the genetic material in the phage expressing the antibody is obtained from a mammal with an ablated endogenous PrP protein gene and an endogenous chimeric PrP gene which mammal had been inoculated with PrPSc to induce antibody production. |
| FILED | Friday, May 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/435602 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06858412 | Willis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas D. Willis (San Francisco, California); Paul Hardenbol (Los Altos, California); Maneesh Jain (Menlo Park, California); Viktor Stolc (Cupertino, California); Mostafa Ronaghi (Palo Alto, California); Ronald W. Davis (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to novel methods of multiplexing nucleic acid reactions, including amplification, detection and genotyping. The invention relies on the use of precircle probes that are circularized in the presence of the corresponding target nucleic acids, cleaved, and then amplified. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 24, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/999362 |
| 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 435/91.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06858429 | Quail et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter H. Quail (Vacaville, California); Enamul Huq (El Sobrante, California); James Tepperman (Oakland, California); Sae Sato (El Cerrito, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An artificial promoter system that can be fused upstream of any desired gene enabling reversible induction or repression of the expression of the gene at will in any suitable host cell or organisms by light is described. The design of the system is such that a molecule of the plant photoreceptor phytochrome is targeted to the specific DNA binding site in the promoter by a protein domain that is fused to the phytochrome and that specifically recognizes this binding site. This bound phytochrome, upon activation by light, recruits a second fusion protein consisting of a protein that binds to phytochrome only upon light activation and a transcriptional activation domain that activates expression of the gene downstream of the promoter. |
| FILED | Friday, August 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/227035 |
| 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 435/375 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06858582 | Yatvin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Sciences University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Milton B. Yatvin (Portland, Oregon); Michael HB Stowell (Fulbourn, United Kingdom); Vincent S. Gallicchio (Lexington, Kentucky); Michael J. Meredith (Lake Oswego, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and reagents are provided for specifically targeting biologically active compounds such as antiviral and antimicrobial drugs, or prodrugs containing the biologically active compound to specific sites such as specific organelles in phagocytic mammalian cells. The biologically active compound or prodrug is linked to a microparticle with a linker that is non-specifically or specifically cleaved inside a phagocytic mammalian cell. Alternatively, the biologically active compound or prodrug is impregnated into a porous microparticle or coated on a nonporous microparticle, and then coated with a coating material that is non-specifically or specifically degraded inside a phagocytic mammalian cell. The prodrug contains the biologically active compound linked to a polar lipid such as ceramide with a specific linker such as a peptide that is specifically cleaved to activate the prodrug in a phagocytic mammalian cell infected with a microorganism. A microparticle linked antimicrobial drug or prodrug may be used for killing a microorganism infecting a phagocytic mammalian cell in vivo or in vitro. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/050271 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — 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 06858586 | Horwitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory A. Horwitz (Calabasas, California); Xun Zhang (Malden, Massachusetts); Shlomo Melmed (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of inhibiting neoplastic cellular proliferation and/or transformation of mammalian cells, including cells of human origin, in vitro or in vivo. The inventive method involves the use of a composition containing a pituitary tumor transforming gene carboxy-terminal peptide (PTTG-C), which can be comprised in a chimeric protein, which has the ability to regulate endogenous pituitary tumor transforming gene (PTTG) expression and/or function in a dominant negative manner. Kits comprising the inventive compositions are also disclosed for the treatment of neoplastic cellular proliferation in vitro or in vivo. Isolated PTTG-C peptides and PTTG-C-containing chimeric proteins are described. |
| FILED | Monday, April 29, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/136082 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06858600 | Hamilton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew D. Hamilton (Guilford, Connecticut); Justin Ernst (New Heaven, Connecticut); Brendan P. Orner (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compounds and pharmaceutical compositions which are proteomimetic and to methods for inhibiting the interaction of an alpha-helical protein with another protein or binding site. Methods for treating diseases or conditions which are modulated through interactions between alpha helical proteins and their binding sites are other aspects of the invention. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/142126 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06858712 | Chang 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); Centocor, Inc. (Malvern, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nancy T. Chang (Houston, Texas); Robert C. Gallo (Bethesda, Maryland); Flossie Wong-Staal (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The determination of the nucleotide sequence of HTLV-III DNA; identification, isolation and expression of HTLV-III sequences which encode immunoreactive polypeptides by recombinant DNA methods and production of viral RNA are disclosed. Such polypeptides can be employed in immunoassays to detect HTLV-III. |
| FILED | Monday, June 05, 1995 |
| APPL NO | 08/463209 |
| 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 |
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| US 06858719 | Siegel |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald L. Siegel (Hatboro, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes Rh(D) binding proteins, including antibodies, and DNA encoding such proteins. Methods of generating such proteins and DNAs are also included. |
| FILED | Friday, May 04, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/848798 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/23.530 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06859273 | Foster et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas H. Foster (Rochester, New York); David L. Conover (Rochester, New York); Chad E. Biglow (Rochester, New York); Irene Georgakoudi (Action, Massachusetts); Andrey Mezhiba (Rochester, New York); Soumya Mitra (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for operating a confocal microscope system includes deflecting a light beam on a specimen with at least one beam deflection device. The position of the light beam is stepped with at least one beam deflection device across the specimen. A sample of emitted fluorescent light from the specimen is captured in synchronization with each of the stepped positions of the light beam. An image is obtained from the captured samples of emitted fluorescent light. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/202213 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06859311 | Williams et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Memphis Eye and Cataract Associates Ambulatory Surgery Center (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roy E. Williams (Collierville, Tennessee); Brian M. Callies (Cordova, Tennessee); David E. Thomas (Bartlett, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A UV-transmissable window assembly for a DMD device includes a UV-transmissable glass window provided in a frame. The window and frame are bonded together to preferably effect a hermetic seal therebetween. Optical coatings specific to the intended wavelength of light transmission are applied to the inner and outer surfaces of the glass window to reduce reflection and increase light transmission therethrough. The window assembly, and DMD provided with the same, is adapted for excellent transmission of ultraviolet light, even at the deep ultraviolet portion of the spectrum. The DMD window assembly has application in the medical arts, both surgery and device manufacture, in the production of integrated circuits (IC), and in other optical lithography applications, among other fields. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/395662 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/361 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Institution of Washington (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Russell J. Hemley (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Ho-kwang Mao (Washington, District of Columbia); Chih-shiue Yan (Washington, District of Columbia); Yogesh K. Vohra (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for producing diamond in a deposition chamber including a heat-sinking holder for holding a diamond and for making thermal contact with a side surface of the diamond adjacent to an edge of a growth surface of the diamond, a noncontact temperature measurement device positioned to measure temperature of the diamond across the growth surface of the diamond and a main process controller for receiving a temperature measurement from the noncontact temperature measurement device and controlling temperature of the growth surface such that all temperature gradients across the growth surface are less than 20° C. The method for producing diamond includes positioning diamond in a holder such that a thermal contact is made with a side surface of the diamond adjacent to an edge of a growth surface of the diamond, measuring temperature of the growth surface of the diamond to generate temperature measurements, controlling temperature of the growth surface based upon the temperature measurements, and growing single-crystal diamond by microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition on the growth surface, wherein a growth rate of the diamond is greater than 1 micrometer per hour. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/288499 |
| 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 06858440 | Letcher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Governors for Higher Education, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Letcher (Kingston, Rhode Island); He Cao (Breinigsville, Pennsylvania); Hazem Baqaen (Cranston, Rhode Island); A. Garth Rand (Kingston, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A waveguide probe for the detection of pathogens in a sample which comprises a laser, a first and a second tubes that converge at a point to form a proximal end. A magnet is positioned in the end to configure to focus paramagnetic microspheres attached to antigen/antibody/optically labeled antibody complexes in the field of view. The proximal end is polished to form an aperture. |
| FILED | Friday, November 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/285954 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/518 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06858774 | Spalding et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edgar P. Spalding (Madison, Wisconsin); Bosl Noh (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel plant gene is disclosed, which is a member of the mdr family of genes encoding ABC transporters. The gene is inducible by NPPB and auxin, and is preferentially expressed in roots upon induction. The gene is useful for detoxification of certain xenobiotics to protect plants from the detrimental effects of such compounds. The protein encoded by the gene is an auxin transporter. Also disclosed are plants the over-express and under-express this mdr gene. |
| FILED | Monday, March 26, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/817762 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06858833 | Curtis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer E. Curtis (Chicago, Illinois); Brian A. Koss (Chicago, Illinois); David G. Grier (New York City, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for creating large numbers of high-quality optical traps in arbitrary three-dimensional configurations and dynamically reconfiguring the traps under computer control. The method uses computer-generated diffractive optical elements to convert one or more optical tweezers into one or more optical vortices. The method involves combining the optical vortex technique with the holographic optical tweezer technique to create multiple optical vortices in arbitrary configurations. The method also involves employing the rotation induced in trapped particles by optical vortices to assemble clusters of particles into functional micromachines, to drive previously assembled micromachines, to pump fluids through microfluidics channels, to control flows of fluids through microfluidics channels, to mix fluids within microfluidics channels, to transport particles, to sort particles and to perform other related manipulations and transformations on matter over length scales. |
| FILED | Monday, May 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/847042 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/221 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06858888 | Lal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amit Lal (Ithaca, New York); Max G. Lagally (Madison, Wisconsin); Chung Hoon Lee (Ithaca, New York); Paul Powell Rugheimer (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A suspended semiconductor film is anchored to a substrate at at least two opposed anchor positions, and film segments are deposited on the semiconductor film adjacent to one or more of the anchor positions to apply either tensile or compressive stress to the semiconductor film between the film segments. A crystalline silicon film may be anchored to the substrate and have tensile stress applied thereto to reduce the lattice mismatch between the silicon and a silicon-germanium layer deposited onto the silicon film. By controlling the level of stress in the silicon film, the size, density and distribution of quantum dots formed in a high germanium content silicon-germanium film deposited on the silicon film can be controlled. |
| FILED | Friday, November 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/302777 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/276 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06858969 | Bi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Baokang Bi (Okemos, Michigan); Brage Golding (DeWitt, Michigan); Wen-Shin Huang (East Lansing, Michigan); Jes Asmussen (Okemos, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) devices with an unpolished or nominally polished nanocrystalline diamond film, metal electrodes and piezoelectric composition coatings are described. The devices are used as radio frequency and microwave filters. |
| FILED | Monday, January 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/341514 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/313.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06859321 | Kimerling et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lionel C. Kimerling (Concord, Massachusetts); Kazumi Wada (Lexington, Massachusetts); Yasha Yi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A photonic bandgap device includes a first mirror region including alternating layers of different materials. A second mirror region includes alternating layers of different materials. An air gap cavity region is positioned between the first mirror region and second region. The air gap cavity changes its thickness when a voltage is applied so that the device is tuned to a particular resonant wavelength. |
| FILED | Friday, March 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/402504 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/578 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06859547 | Mostert et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Mostert Group (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul S. Mostert (Lexington, Kentucky); Christopher O. Jaynes (Lexington, Kentucky); William B. Seales (Nicholasville, Kentucky); R. Matt Steele (Lexington, Kentucky); Stephen B. Webb (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | In a computer system, methods and computer-readable medium are disclosed for tracking motion of a subject in an activity captured by camera. The camera supplies pluralities of discrete images of the subject to a computing system environment. An event window, displayed on a monitor, has at least two cells for receiving a user input pertaining to an action of the subject in the activity. In a first of the two cells, the user indicates a specific image number corresponding to one of the plurality of discrete images and an estimate of a fractional percent thereof. In the second cell, the user indicates another specific image number and estimate of a fractional percentage thereof. Software calculates a delta between the specific image numbers and their corresponding estimated fractions. Scroll and position bars provide user-aid for navigating between discrete images. Example subjects include horses in a horse race activity while an action includes a horse stride length. |
| FILED | Saturday, January 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/351176 |
| ART UNIT | 2621 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06859839 | Zahorjan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Zahorjan (Seattle, Washington); Derek L. Eager (Saskatoon, Canada); Mary K. Vernon (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of efficiently transmitting streamed data of a program to multiple clients requesting the program at different times ranks the requests in a multilevel hierarchy, which describes merging of data streams servicing the requests. The multilevel hierarchy changes dynamically as new requests arrive or existing data streams are merged to reduce the bandwidth or other costs required to serve the requests. The hierarchy may be established by simple rules or by a modeling of the actual cost of possible hierarchies. |
| FILED | Monday, August 07, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/633217 |
| ART UNIT | 2144 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/231 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 06858197 | Delzeit |
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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) | Lance D. Delzeit (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and system for producing a selected pattern or array of at least one of a single wall nanotube and/or a multi-wall nanotube containing primarily carbon. A substrate is coated with a first layer (optional) of a first selected metal (e.g., Al and/or Ir) and with a second layer of a catalyst (e.g., Fe, Co, Ni and/or Mo), having selected first and second layer thicknesses provided by ion sputtering, arc discharge, laser ablation, evaporation or CVD. The first layer and/or the second layer may be formed in a desired non-uniform pattern, using a mask with suitable aperture(s), to promote growth of carbon nanotubes in a corresponding pattern. A selected heated feed gas (primarily CH4 or C2Hn with n=2 and/or 4) is passed over the coated substrate and forms primarily single wall nanotubes or multiple wall nanotubes, depending upon the selected feed gas and its temperature. Nanofibers, as well as single wall and multi-wall nanotubes, are produced using plasma-aided growth from the second (catalyst) layer. An overcoating of a selected metal or alloy can be deposited, over the second layer, to provide a coating for the carbon nanotubes grown in this manner. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/099247 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06858280 | Allen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Technology Applications, Inc. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark S. Allen (Lakewood, Colorado); Gary S. Willen (Boulder, Colorado); Robert A. Mohling (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A new insulation system is provided that contains microspheres. This insulation system can be used to provide insulated panels and clamshells, and to insulate annular spaces around objects used to transfer, store, or transport cryogens and other temperature-sensitive materials. This insulation system provides better performance with reduced maintenance than current insulation systems. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/377085 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/69 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06859170 | Devereux et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William S. Devereux (Glenwood, Maryland); Albert A. Chacos (Columbia, Maryland); Mark S. Asher (Ellicott City, Maryland); Dennis J. Duven (Silver Spring, Maryland); Thomas L. Kusterer (Elkridge, Maryland); Richard C. Morgan (Garrett Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An autonomous navigation system for an orbital platform incorporating a global positioning system based navigation device optimized for low-Earth orbit and medium-Earth orbit applications including a 12 channel, GPS tracking application-specific integrated circuit (15) operating in concert with a computer system (90) implementing an extended Kalman filter and orbit propagator which autonomously generates estimates of position, velocity and time to enable planning, prediction and execution of event-based commanding of mission operations. |
| FILED | Monday, December 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/331691 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/357.60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06859509 | Koudelka |
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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 David Koudelka (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A PLL circuit uses a multiple frequency range PLL in order to phase lock input signals having a wide range of frequencies. The PLL includes a VCO capable of operating in multiple different frequency ranges and a divider bank independently configurable to divide the output of the VCO. A frequency detector detects a frequency of the input signal and a frequency selector selects an appropriate frequency range for the PLL. The frequency selector automatically switches the PLL to a different frequency range as needed in response to a change in the input signal frequency. Frequency range hysteresis is implemented to avoid operating the PLL near a frequency range boundary. |
| FILED | Friday, February 04, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/500607 |
| ART UNIT | 2631 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/373 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06859690 | Asher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark S. Asher (Ellicott City, Maryland); Eric A. Olsen (Clarksville, Maryland); Patrick A. Stadter (Mt. Airy, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of correcting ionospheric delays induced in received signals by space systems is disclosed. The method takes advantage of received GPS signals and received crosslink signals among spacecraft to estimate the effect of ionospheric delays and correct for such delays in the computation of the range estimation between spacecraft. The method generates and initial estimate of the ionospheric delay by tracking pseudorandom codes on both GPS and crosslink signals at known frequencies to correct an initial relative range vector. Using the corrected range vector generated from the use of code, the method subsequently estimates a more precise correction by considering the carrier phase error as induced by ionospheric delay. This includes estimate the integer ambiguities on both the GPS signals and the crosslink signals iteratively and subsequently estimating a more precise ionospheric delay correction with is applied to the relative position vector using the carrier phase measurements. The method is also applicable to non-navigation applications including measuring dynamic ionospheric structure and variability over a wide range of scale sizes, thereby greatly improving operational models of navigation and communications, and improving interdependent models of atmospheric, ionospheric, magnetospheric, and space weather physics and prediction. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/383320 |
| 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 71/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 06858426 | Zhu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hai-Ying Zhu (Geneva, New York); Kai-Shu Ling (Geneva, New York); Dennis Gonsalves (Geneva, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to isolated proteins or polypeptides of grapevine leafroll virus (type 2). The encoding DNA molecules either alone in isolated form or in an expression system, a host cell, or a transgenic grape plant are also disclosed. Other aspects of the present invention relates to a method of imparting grapevine leafroll resistance, to grape and tobacco plants by transforming them with the DNA molecules of the present invention, a method of imparting beet yellows virus resistance to a beet plant, a method of imparting tristeza virus resistance to a citrus plant, and a method of detecting the presence of a grapevine leafroll virus, such as GRLaV-2, in a sample. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 11, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/613486 |
| 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 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06858429 | Quail et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter H. Quail (Vacaville, California); Enamul Huq (El Sobrante, California); James Tepperman (Oakland, California); Sae Sato (El Cerrito, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An artificial promoter system that can be fused upstream of any desired gene enabling reversible induction or repression of the expression of the gene at will in any suitable host cell or organisms by light is described. The design of the system is such that a molecule of the plant photoreceptor phytochrome is targeted to the specific DNA binding site in the promoter by a protein domain that is fused to the phytochrome and that specifically recognizes this binding site. This bound phytochrome, upon activation by light, recruits a second fusion protein consisting of a protein that binds to phytochrome only upon light activation and a transcriptional activation domain that activates expression of the gene downstream of the promoter. |
| FILED | Friday, August 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/227035 |
| 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 435/375 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06858440 | Letcher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Governors for Higher Education, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Letcher (Kingston, Rhode Island); He Cao (Breinigsville, Pennsylvania); Hazem Baqaen (Cranston, Rhode Island); A. Garth Rand (Kingston, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A waveguide probe for the detection of pathogens in a sample which comprises a laser, a first and a second tubes that converge at a point to form a proximal end. A magnet is positioned in the end to configure to focus paramagnetic microspheres attached to antigen/antibody/optically labeled antibody complexes in the field of view. The proximal end is polished to form an aperture. |
| FILED | Friday, November 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/285954 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/518 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 06858045 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Praxair Technology, Inc. (Danbury, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hancun Chen (Williamsville, New York); Weitung Wang (East Amherst, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of manufacturing an electrolytic cell in which an intermediate sintered form is produced that comprises a porous anode layer and an electrolyte layer having a prespecified shape of the electrolytic cell. The electrolyte layer has defects extending through the electrolyte layer. A substance by way of a pressure, a solvent, particle suspended in a solvent or particles introduced by way of thermal spray are introduced into defects within the electrolyte layer. Thereafter, a green cathode layer is applied to the electrolyte layer while the substance is in place, within the defects. The intermediate sintered form with the applied green cathode layer is then fired to produce the electrolytic cell. |
| FILED | Friday, November 29, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/306163 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/623.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06859119 | Eliacin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Motorola, Inc. (Schaumburg, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manes Eliacin (Buffalo Grove, Illinois); Tomasz Klosowiak (Glenview, Illinois); Robert Lempkowski (Elk Grove, Illinois); Ke Lian (Palatine, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A mesoscale microelectromechanical system (MEMS) package for a micro-machine. The mesoscale micro-machine is formed on a printed circuit board (10) at the same time and of the same materials as the mesoscale micro-machine package. Both the micro-machine and the package have a first metal layer (12, 16), an insulating member (22, 26) formed on the first metal layer, and a second metal layer (32, 36) situated on the insulating layer. The package consists of a perimeter wall surrounding the micro-machine and a low-flow capping adhesive layer (40). The first metal layers of both the micro-machine and the package are formed in the same process sequence, and the insulating layers of both the micro-machine and the package are formed in the same process sequence, and the second metal layers of both the micro-machine and the package are formed in the same process sequence. The low-flow capping adhesive secures an optional cover (46) on the package to provide an environmental seal. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/329907 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/262 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 06858411 | Julien et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kosan Biosciences, Inc. (Hayward, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryan Julien (Oakland, California); Leonard Katz (Hayward, California); Chaitan Khosla (Palo Alto, California); Li Tang (Foster City, California); Rainer Ziermann (San Mateo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Recombinant nucleic acids that encode all or a portion of the epothilone polyketide synthase (PKS) are used to express recombinant PKS genes in host cells for the production of epothilones, epothilone derivatives, and polyketides that are useful as cancer chemotherapeutics, fungicides, and immunosuppressants. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 28, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/724889 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/76 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 06858440 | Letcher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Governors for Higher Education, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Letcher (Kingston, Rhode Island); He Cao (Breinigsville, Pennsylvania); Hazem Baqaen (Cranston, Rhode Island); A. Garth Rand (Kingston, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A waveguide probe for the detection of pathogens in a sample which comprises a laser, a first and a second tubes that converge at a point to form a proximal end. A magnet is positioned in the end to configure to focus paramagnetic microspheres attached to antigen/antibody/optically labeled antibody complexes in the field of view. The proximal end is polished to form an aperture. |
| FILED | Friday, November 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/285954 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/518 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 06859518 | Banchieri et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | InVision Technologies, Inc. (Newark, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew J. Banchieri (Newark, California); David E. Kresse (Walnut Creek, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A nonintrusive inspection apparatus is described of the kind having a base frame, an elongated shield on the base frame, a conveyor belt passing through the shield which is used for transporting closed containers, and a rotating CT scanner subsystem which is used for scanning the container on the conveyor belt. The CT scanner subsystem is mounted through the shield to the base frame. The shield provides sufficient rigidity for the CT scanner subsystem. A cover is positioned over the CT scanner subsystem, but only over a portion of the shield, thereby allowing for a person on one side of the shield to see a person on an opposite side of the shield. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/300472 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/57 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of the Interior (DOI)
| US 06858075 | Von Fay et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kurt F. Von Fay (Morrison, Colorado); William F. Kepler (Golden, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A cement repair composition is provided for repairing thin concrete. The composition comprises, in weight percentages: fine aggregates, 50-80%; Portland cement, 10-20%; reinforcing fibers such as polyethylene, steel and fiberglass fibers, 0-5%; and a plurality of further additives. The additives preferably include a lithium admixture, an air entraining admixture and a water reducing chemical additive, and a shrinkage compensating chemical additive, in a combined weight percentage of 0.01 to 5%. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/774448 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Coating or plastic 16/737 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 06857263 | Gray, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles L. Gray, Jr. (Pinckney, Michigan); David James Haugen (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention sets forth a commercially viable diesel combustion system that meets environmentally acceptable levels of NOx emissions (i.e. 0.2 g/bhp-hr or lower across a full map of engine speeds and loads) without the need for use of NOx aftertreatments, and simultaneously maintains engine-out PM emissions relatively close (e.g. with smoke levels at or below 3 BSN) to environmentally acceptable PM post-aftertreatment levels. The invention achieves these results by operating within a unique combination of parameters. These parameters comprise: (1) charge-air oxygen concentration below 16%, preferably between 10% and 15%, more preferably between 11% and 14%, and most preferably between 12% and 13.5% for virtually all engine operating conditions (but not necessarily at no-load or low load conditions), (2) fuel injection pressures at or exceeding 1800 bar, preferably exceeding 2100 bar, more preferably exceeding 2300 bar, and most preferably exceeding 2500 bar, at most engine speeds and loads, and (3) charge-air mass/fuel mass ratio between 25:1 and 45:1 for medium and high loads. Furthermore, the system is preferably run continuously slightly lean of stoichiometry, providing just enough excess oxygen to facilitate completeness of combustion and to maintain an exhaust oxygen level sufficient for continuous trap regeneration at a balance point in operation. |
| FILED | Friday, September 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/666678 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 06859603 | Hryniewicz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, College Park (Riverdale, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Hryniewicz (Columbia, Maryland); Philippe Absil (Braine l'Alleud, Belgium); Brent Little (Greenbelt, Maryland); Oliver King (Annapolis, Maryland); Ping-Tong Ho (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A manufacturing process is provided for fabrication of vertically coupled integrated photonic devices by projection lithographic technique. A multi-layered structure is formed which includes a pair of core waveguiding layers separated by a coupling interlayer and sandwiched between cladding layers. Prior to forming optical features in the core layers, alignment marks are etched completely through the whole multi-layered structure with the alignment marks being visible on both sides of the multi-layered structure to a conventional projection stepper. After the alignment marks are formed, a “bottom level” optical features are made through the bottom cladding layer, bottom core layer, and portion of intervening coupling layer. The formed sample is then bonded by a polymer to a carrier and a “top level” optical features are defined through the top cladding, top core layer, and portion of the intervening coupling layer. |
| FILED | Monday, March 05, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/343150 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
| US 06858157 | Davidson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vnaderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jimmy L. Davidson (Brentwood, Tennessee); Dale T. Bradshaw (Chattanooga, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A heat transfer composition and methods for using same to transfer heat in a transformer. In one embodiment, a heat transfer composition has soy-based oil, an additive comprising a nano-particle size diamond powder characterized by a first mass, and a chemical agent characterized by a second mass, wherein the ratio of the second mass to the first mass is greater than one. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/417842 |
| ART UNIT | 1751 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/70 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 06858988 | Laroussi |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Old Dominion University Research Foundation (Norfolk, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mounir Laroussi (Virginia Beach, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrodeless excimer UV lamp, comprising an enclosed chamber with a gas sealed within the enclosed chamber, wherein the gas is capable of being used to generate a plasma discharge, a first electrode wrapped around the outer surface of the chamber at a first location, a second electrode wrapped around the outer surface of the chamber at second location, and a power supply configured to apply a voltage to the first electrode and the second electrode. During operation of the UV lamp, a plasma discharge is generated by applying a voltage to the electrodes wrapped around the outer surface of the chamber to ignite the gas or gas mixture inside the chamber and generate a plasma discharge within the chamber, such that a specific wavelength of UV radiation will be generated by the particular gas within the chamber. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/284113 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/111.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 06859831 | Gelvin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sensoria Corporation (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Gelvin (Escondido, California); Lewis D. Girod (Los Angeles, California); William J. Kaiser (Los Angeles, California); William M. Merrill (Los Angeles, California); Fredric Newberg (San Diego, California); Gregory J. Pottie (Los Angeles, California); Anton I. Sipos (Los Angeles, California); Sandeep Vardhan (Walnut, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The Wireless Integrated Network Sensor Next Generation (WINS NG) nodes provide distributed network and Internet access to sensors, controls, and processors that are deeply embedded in equipment, facilities, and the environment. The WINS NG network is a new monitoring and control capability for applications in transportation, manufacturing, health care, environmental monitoring, and safety and security. The WINS NG nodes combine microsensor technology, low power distributed signal processing, low power computation, and low power, low cost wireless and/or wired networking capability in a compact system. The WINS NG networks provide sensing, local control, remote reconfigurability, and embedded intelligent systems in structures, materials, and environments. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 04, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/685018 |
| ART UNIT | 2143 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/224 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
How To Use This Page
THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, February 22, 2005.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
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?
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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-20050222.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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